BinaryFoxglove

Out of work transfem programmer. Will dox myself for a well paying job. 27 DM me, trying to make some friends!

[eldritchbauble]

Getting plowed is for the country folk. Here in the city we call it being taken to pound town. And if it's a place with decent public transit, getting railed.

[wayfire-official]

Sex should have a secondary gameplay loop where you build bases, manage resources, and expand your territory

[flammableengineering]

polycule

[snowdewdreams]

Columbo: "Wow. This sure is some of the most impressive interior decoratin' I've ever seen. Real professional stuff, too. Especially those window curtains, they really tie the whole room together. You know, my wife and I were thinking of buyin' new curtains for our living room. I was thinkin' of a nice, deep blue like the night sky. But my wife? Says it's too somber for her. Reminds her of the ocean's unknowable darkness. Funny isn't it? How mere colors can influence our spirits like that? How different minds prescribe different meanings and feelins to hues? So anyway, we decided to settle on a nice light blue, like the sky on a crisp spring morning. That's something we both happen to like, so it works out like that. Now, I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to window curtains, let alone interior design, so I was wondering if you could give me a few pointers, if you don't mind. Seein as your living room is so perfect, I figured you know a thing or two about picking out curtains."

Culprit: "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE IT'S 2 AM."

[the-melancholy-man]

I woke up in a frenzy knowing there was something I needed to do

WIP, not finished yet

[our-queer-experience]

we DO grow old and happy. btw.

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

And you find love and it stays with you.

[irisbleufic]

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

[our-queer-experience]

^^^

[stayingmachine]

I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!

This is Linda, 60

Alexis, 64

Helena, 63

Kendrah, 72 (!!)

Tasha, 65

It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖

[prisonparty]

To Survive On This Shore, including photos and interviews of trans folks of all identities in their golden years

[thestorieswesay]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[b0tster]

lesbians making out video but with reduced music so u can hear them making out sloppy style. happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🔊

[themechnamedashley]

That giggle is *everything*. That joy.

[binaryfoxglove]

I need this asap

[arttla]

get beachy

[binaryfoxglove]

Goals

[dykeselfcest]

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

yeah. and you can even include "thing that reduces the barrier to doing the task" as a catalyst/enzyme

anyway. unfortunately this does not actually clarify anything for the average person. but #ToMe it works

[dxmedstudent]

Maybe it's because I'm a medic but I never stopped referring to the effort I have to put in to do something as my activation energy.

You have to put in that extra energy and motivation to start it - but once you're going, it's not so bad.

And if you can't overcome that initial step of starting then it won't happen, even if it's almost trivial to do the task itself.

[rocker-doctor]

I have 100% explained the concept of activation energy and enzymes to my adhd coach for this exact reason

[lesbianb1a1r]

i’m being so dead serious when i say i need a makeout session with grinding and dry humping rn. like, right this instance right now in this moment i need it like oxygen

[otomokatsuhiro]

KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) dir. hayao miyazaki

[binaryfoxglove]

100% aesthetic goals

[mapletreeswitch]

Fuck I really need someone to grab me by the hair and force their fingers into my mouth and make fun of me for moaning and being a desperate slut while they play with my tongue

[binaryfoxglove]

Someone should do this to me for pride month, it'd be transphobic not to.

[hb-b0011]

going to hell good bye

[kyousukebei]

x.

@truffleduster

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

NEED

[binaryfoxglove]

I want to feel a weak woman choke me, her dainty finger barely wrapping around my neck, barely able to leave a mark.

[uncahier]

[howl224tgeundying]

[binaryfoxglove]

Never obey in advance of tyranny.

[deepspace-queer]

really love how deep space nine asks us, again and again, to consider our individual places in empire.

we do it from odo's point of view, as he finds out that his people are conquerors and have done awful things to others in the gamma quadrant. he has to decide what to do about that, whether he'll fight or join them, and then when he decides to fight them, he continues to struggle with his inherent desire to still be with his people.

we do it from garak's point of view, as he struggles between continuing to support the cardassians and cardassia as an empirical project, versus turning away from them, even when those people are his friends/family to whom he was previously loyal.

we do it from quark's point of view, when he gets turned into an arms dealer for an episode and realizes that capital is not outside of and is in fact very much part of the expansion and control of empire, and that as a ferengi who is not in starfleet and is not part of the federation, he is still in a political position.

we do it from kira's point of view, with her new position not as a freedom fighter but as a first officer on a federation space station, where she's asked to carry out orders on behalf of the federation in support and defense of cardassia, despite cardassia having been bajor's oppressors.

just continually reminding us that we, as individuals, are implicated and involved in the questions of empire, morality, and that we're personally asked to make choices about these things again and again.

[trillscienceofficer]

It's not that I disagree with this post, because I share OP's opinion that DS9 asks the audience to consider our role in empire. I confess though that I am just baffled by the examples chosen to prove the point here? These certainly are all powerful storylines, but Odo, Garak, Quark and Kira are also all aliens. They're not even citizens of the Federation. Pretty much every Star Trek show interrogates alien empires by the crucial device of making them not human and therefore other, which is a bit of a sleight of hand in order to not rock too hard the assumption the Federation is the good side. Even when Federation characters make bad calls or/are blindsided by compromised Federation officials, they still are trying to act in agreement to a code that the audience generally recognizes as superior (because it's essentially American/Western liberalism) and can feel confident will prevail in the end.

What DS9 does differently from other Trek shows in my opinion is showing with remarkable clarity that the Federation is actually just an empire among empires. Benjamin Sisko is forced over and over to choose between loyalty to the Federation and his principles and conscience, more pointedly than any other Starfleet captain before or since. His arc is one of the most effective on the show. He literally has to become the villain in order to catch Eddington. He has to live with being accessory to murder in "In The Pale Moonlight". Not mentioning of the show's main character, and all the reasons why Sisko is still an extraordinary figure in the Trek franchise, feels like a big oversight to me. Imho he's the one who truly allows the audience to reflect about our responsibilities.

[fatalism-and-villainy]

Sisko is absolutely the primary character through which the questions of empire (and generally institutional authority) are being posed. On top of "For the Uniform" and "In the Pale Moonlight" (the latter of which I'd say is relevant not because Sisko goes against Federation morality, but because it's implied that he has Starfleet's tacit approval, or at least their willingness to turn a blind eye to his activities), I think "Rapture" is another example, in which he becomes compelled to undermine the entire project of assimilating Bajor for which he was station to DS9 in the first place.

But on top of Sisko, I think Julian Bashir is also the other audience stand-in character (due to being a human from Earth) through which the show explores the implications of being a citizen of empire. (His and Sisko's relationships to the Federation and its utopianism, and to Starfleet, are both very relevant to their character arcs, and offer quite a few points of comparison and contrast with each other - look at how they're paired together in "Past Tense," or how he's the voice of morality in "In the Pale Moonlight.") Bashir has his infamous "frontier medicine" line in the pilot, and comes in as a symbol of the well-intentioned paternalism of Federation intervention; "The Quickening" demonstrates how these saviourist impulses are, while genuinely heroic, also motivated by ego. But perhaps most relevant is the Section 31 arc - Bashir is a man who likes to playact as a spy, and who's fascinated by Garak's past, and then comes to learn just how unromantic real life espionage is, culminating in being made a patsy in a plot to throw an innocent foreign ally under the bus in "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" (a plot, again, that unfolds with the knowledge of at least one higher-up in Starfleet). He is very relevant to the themes of privilege and complicity.

[binaryfoxglove]

The terms pre and post op necessarily suggest that all trans people will have bottom surgery.

Idk how to feel about this, but I do think we should normalize trans people who don't want bottom surgery.