Hi. I'm Boo.

Self-taught artist. Aromantic Daydreamer. You shall endulge in my madness. (They/them, she/her)

[bo0tleg]

WIP Title Game

tagged by: @blazingstar29

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Shit. Shit. Why'd you do this to me???

Here's my WIPs:

Fight

Pirate AU

[Family Game Night]

Those are the names of my files. I haven't touched them in a month. I am so sorry.

tagging: @iiceman @oneoflifessimplejoys

No pressure to respond!!

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

[puc-puggy]

Large Labia Project

Labia Library

Breast Gallery-Nonsexualized Images of real, anonymously submitted breasts

Critique My Dick Pic [tumbex archive]-real submitted dick centric nudes

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

thank you (i think?)

[puc-puggy]

why wouldn't it be thank you? you expressed interest in sexual education materials related to genital body diversity, and i keep these resources on hand for exactly that purpose.

it's natural to be curious about bodies--yours and others. the presence or lack of sexual intent motivating that curiosity is irrelevant. they're just body parts

I also found one of my favorites I couldn't find this morning: The Great Wall of Vulva and their Labia Library

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

sorry, my gratitude was real, my uncertainty was @ me ("am i sure i actually want to spend my evening looking at genitals or was i using the difficulty of knowing what to google as an excuse not to learn things") lol

do you have any resources for trans bodies, especially transmasc bodies? i am interested in better understanding what changes i might expect as someone on testosterone, but though i found references to photo projects re: bottom growth in a few places, all the links were dead

[puc-puggy]

totally, the London Transgender Clinic and Dr. Keelee MacPhee have a variety of before and after photos related to various gender affirmation procedures.

i think that r/GrowYourTDick is the best repository of images of specifically trans masculine bottom growth. I can't comment on the culture of the forum, but there is absolutely a lot of images of transmasculine genitalia and extensive discussion of physical changes.

For (relatively*) trustworthy information, Hudson's FTM Resource Guide contains a lot of information about medical side effects and Things To Generally Be Aware Of, like increased risk for yeast infections and tips for managing locker rooms/swimming. *I can't verify that this information is up to date

I'm not directly connected to any trans masc transition support networks, but i know that discord is a thriving space for transition support and information sharing. i think it would be relatively easy to find positive community there. they often compile resources and information for members as well as provide topical discussion spaces. here's the disboard listings for public trans masc oriented servers

and this is just a really beautiful series of portraits of trans masculine people.

that about taps me out on resources!

[puc-puggy]

no, I lied, I'm not done. I spent way too long looking for this photography archive documenting trans nude portraits specifically. lost to the ether. found other stuff though:

Archive of Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron, which includes images of genitalia in its "Genital Reconstruction" section, page 46. Portraits of clothed trans masculine people other than the author begin on page 34 in the "New Man Series."

A Genitoplasty Diary by Lou Sullivan (1984-1987) (no images but fascinating)

the evergreen Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

not useful at all, but an extremely cool in-browser recreation of a 90s mac in order to run a 90s trans information CD-Rom.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

thanks! sharing for the sake of anyone else interested too

yeah there's so many dead links out there it's tragic. sometimes you even get as far as the artist's website and they'll have a page for the project but then the project is gone and you just get a 404. i'm guessing the increasing hostility of internet providers and stuff towards nudity/nsfw content and also the general atmosphere for trans people has an impact on the safety and practicalities of continuing to host stuff like that :(

[kratt09]

people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

[kratt09]

thats not the word I meant to use

[coldspicyy]

None of these words are in the bible.

[godmodebeginswithlesbians]

au contraire, mon ami

[transarsonist]

dont weird pussy, that's woke stale. penis absolute.

[saintjosie]

i’m sorry cock is in the bible?

[freeformtarsier]

Matthew 26:34 KJV

Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

[saintjosie]

huh i didn’t know edging was in the bible either

[virtualgirladvance]

Of course it is, they've been waiting over two thousand years for the second coming

[synder-sync]

[bo0tleg]

As an autistic grayroace (Idk If that's a word, but it is now) who is currently experiencing their first crush, I'm starting to think that normal people actually DO experience hyperfixations, but it's always on romantic interests.

Like, the whole thing "I THINK ABOUT THIS PERSON WHENEVER I'M NOT FOCUSED ON SOMETHING" yeah, that's a hyperfixation, honey.

[handsomeamoeba]

did your high school force you to attend a presentation that included gruesome photos of real car accidents before prom or another major event

yes :(

no

hey what the fuck?

home schooled/not relevant to my culture/i'm bald/nuance

Voting ended onAug 8, 2024

please i'm trying to figure out if my high school's administration was insane or something.

[bo0tleg]

Nuance: it was not my high school or anything, it was the training school for new drivers that did it

[oneoflifessimplejoys]

we have the same thing, it’s an obligatory two-part course you need to pass before you even think about doing a theory or practical driving exam

[bo0tleg]

@oneoflifessimplejoys Hello??? That sounds so cool?

Here where I live it's basically "yeah, first day? Ok, we're sending you to the busiest part of the city, good luck!!"

Mf I was STRESSED

There is no area designated for learning to drive. The track you have is the fucking city, GOOD LUCK MOTHER FUCKER!

Where was my simulated car crash??? I wanted that

[airlocksandaviariesarchive]

Not gonna lie this is feeling less like one of life’s simple joys and more like one of life’s complicated pains

[bo0tleg]

@oneoflifessimplejoys how do u feel about this?

[handsomeamoeba]

did your high school force you to attend a presentation that included gruesome photos of real car accidents before prom or another major event

yes :(

no

hey what the fuck?

home schooled/not relevant to my culture/i'm bald/nuance

Voting ended onAug 8, 2024

please i'm trying to figure out if my high school's administration was insane or something.

[bo0tleg]

Nuance: it was not my high school or anything, it was the training school for new drivers that did it

[chaoticrei]

I want to spam garlic bread in the ask box of every ace spec person on this app . I'm not kidding, this is my project, it's important, you can reblog, start chains under this post, do what you want, but if you're ace spec, write something in the comments or in the reblogs, so I will gift you some garlic bread. WRITE SOMETHING IN THE REBLOGS, ANYTHING, EVEN JUST "#garlic bread", otherwise I won't find you among all these notes

Let me know if you don't receive your garlic news in two days! I might miss some orders!

Btw I'm keeping a journal of my orders. I write your usernames, so I can remember the great people who supported this project

[flyingfightingfishy]

Come join me around the fire, y'all, let's talk about how absolutely kickass Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is.

I feel like people downplay the amount of work Mav put into his career because he's a Captain and Ice is a four-star and that's clearly a much higher rank, so let's discuss!

The only promotion you have to take in order to make it to twenty years time in service (retirement) is O-4 (LCDR). Anything beyond that is gravy. Which means that Mav being competitive for, selecting for, and taking promotions for both O-5 (CDR) and O-6 (CAPT) was a very active choice that he made, and something he worked hard for. Captain is not a rank you make by accident. It is not a rank that the navy hands out like candy. If you do the math, about 15-20% of officers will make Captain. And that's probably a generous estimate. You work hard, you excel, you excel at leadership specifically, and *maybe* you make Captain. I'd also like to point out that promotions happen on a set timeline, so chances are that he and Ice were on very very similar promotion timelines up until Ice made RDML!

The fact that Mav hasn't been promoted to RDML or higher shouldn't be a mark against him -- of the 54,000+ active duty officers in the navy, 223 of them are admirals of any rank. This year there are over 3,200 Captains in the navy. There are 117 one-star admirals. Being appointed an admiral is more a political question than anything else.

It's also important to note that, in addition to however hard he worked just to make Captain, to make Captain and still be *flying* is an altogether different feat, and even more impressive. For the most part, once you're screening for command (as an O-5, generally with 15 or so years time in service), as an active duty aviator you will have had at least five years where you were serving in a non-flying billet (three years as an O-3 (LT) - O-4 (LCDR) on a dissociated sea tour, and two years on a staff or Pentagon tour). There are very few flying billets available for those tours, and as you can imagine, they are INCREDIBLY competitive. Which means that if he stayed flying for most of his career, he had to have been the best of the best, absolutely excelled, and worked extremely hard in order to stay competitive for those extremely competitive billets.

And that's not even speaking to the fact that he's a test pilot (and therefore was admitted to the test pilot program, and graduated from Test Pilot School).

And the fact that he walks into the room with Cyclone and Warlock, is briefed on the mission requirements, and IMMEDIATELY gives them a viable game plan that lines up exactly with whatever their team behind the scenes had likely been working on for months.

My point is, Mav is incredibly smart, and worked VERY hard on his career. And I think that's very cool of him! He loves flying, and he loves aviation, and he loves planes, and he worked DAMN hard to promote while keeping himself in the air!

[yesornopolls]

have you ever hallucinated?

Have you ever hallucinated?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 26, 2024

[bo0tleg]

I hallucinated that I had a friend. His name was Thomas and he was just curled up beside me.

I also dreamt that he killed himself a week later.

[bo0tleg]

I just heard someone say they've fucked on a bike. Like an actual motorcycle. And I feel like that's the type of Match My Freak Maverick would be.

I don't know what to do with this thought, however.

[paper-mario-wiki]

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Notify you if a website you're on has employees that are on strike

Bypass paywalls for major news outlets like the New York Times

Change the browser theme based on the time of day

Directly install third party non-extension scripts

Save individual browser sessions to be reopened at any time

Use the TV format of YouTube in-browser

Make all chrome extensions compatible with Firefox

Turn YouTube dislikes back on

Fix Twitter and make it way less fucked up

Automatically remove trackers from URLs

And many more!

Feel free to add any other firefox extensions you think are slept on.

[diadotcom]

fiancee, with 0 hesitation, took my phone to show her father my printed out photo of ice i keep in my phone case. what is wrong with her. i could die

[diadotcom]

@bo0tleg i made it into a fake polaroid like im his wife yearning for her husband to come back home from deployment

[bo0tleg]

IT'S SO GRAINY OMG I LOVE IT

[icemankazansky]

Val Kilmer’s Behind the Scenes Tour of Top Gun (1986)

from his personal archives, as shown in Val (2021)

[kafka-ohdear]

*awkward head scratch* uhm

[bo0tleg]

I'm... sorry.

This was inspired by a gif of a Screen Test between Paul Newman and James Dean joking around saying "Kiss me", with the other responding "Can't here." They were, however, not envolved romantically, and it was really just a joke. I saw that and thought of these two, and how different their reaction would be.

I can kind of see Mav trying to joke around with the pain to hide it, but Ice isn't the type to do that and for him it just... hurts.

Shout out to @iiceman for (unintentionally) pushing me to finish this piece by recommending the song Hands to Heaven by Breathe! Seriously, go listen to it. It's so Icemav coded.

[obsidian3ye]

I WISH ROMANTIC FEELINGS HAD A REAL FUCKING DEFINITION!!!!!

"Butterflies in your tummy" I get that every time I talk to anyone because I'm an anxious wreck

"Ohh you get all blushy" I blush whenever I remember literally any compliment from anyone. I blush when someone says I blink robotically. I blush when I remember that time my driving instructor said I went through a stop sign correctly.

"You get nervous when thinking about them" I'm always nervous.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!

[bo0tleg]

My biggest problem when writing romance is literally this. I kept asking people about it and they told me these exact lines and the "you really want that piece of cake" metaphor. Like, girl. You're telling me how it "works" not how it feels.

I don't know how it feels and I that's what I needed for writing and people kept giving me bullshit metaphors. Like COME ON!

Tell me in a way that ties to something I already know. Gritted teeth, red face, feeling hot chested is anger, I know how that feels. Clogged throat, burning eyes and a weight on your chest is sadness, I know how that feels.

"Butterflies in the stomach", getting blushy and nervous are all things that either a. Don't make sense If you haven't felt them or b. Can be applied to some other emotion.

I've found that demiromantics are a useful source of info because they both know how it feels and how it doesn't, and can go into debt about the difference, but they're hard to come by.

[ram-bams-blog-deactivated202501]

Some things I've found between my own writing and books... not sure how good they are in retrospect (aroace) buuuut... maybe it can help because I'm in a writing rut and haven't been able to use much of them (if anything, at least read the end paragraph)

*Love being described as a yearning so intense the protag felt their heart thumping so hard and head going so light that they felt they might pass out if they didn't get the love intersst

*A forbidden/unreciprocrated love making the protag's blood drain from their face and lungs tighten at the mere sight of the love interest

*Love being felt as pure and unadulterated, painful need. The protag seeing the love interest in another room and feeling their hands clench aimlessly around air in need of feeling the love interests skin, inhaling cold air and begging for the warm air of the other's breath, blood draining to the protag's legs when they see the love interest doing something amazing.

*Love feeling like skin burns every time the protag thinks of the love interest, feeling their muscles tense in anticipation of the affection even without actively receiving it, feeling their diaphragm raise and keeping them from breathing normally because the body is so used to gasping, panting breaths around the love interest.

*Love feeling like the protag is being ripped out of their own skin when they're away because they aren't feeling the familiar contact of their love interest. The ache in the protag's arms like they need to stretch or pop their limbs that only gets soothed by the firm hug or cuddles of their love interest.

*Love described accurately as *hell*. Burning, aching hell. Unable to stop thinking about them but more specifically unable to stop the feeling of the protag's stomach dropping the moment they realize they can't stop thinking about them. The dread that comes with falling in love so innately that the protag realizes the physical manifestations actually exist.

*The quiet love being felt only in the protag's mind. The subtle thoughts of "That's my person" when the love interest barely does a thinf and the feeling of fullness in their lungs because they Said that and they Meant that.

*The loud love where the protag actually hisses and growls in their room because that's the only way they can get that aggressive love out. They love the love interest so deeply and intensely they can feel the burning hot sensation taking control of their limbs like their blood pressure has suddenly tanked and the only way to get it out is to hiss and grow while clutching their chest as it tightens with heat

*The protag walking into the room and seeing their love interest minding their business and their shoulders instinctively relaxing as they smile

*The touched starved love of the protag's skin burning and burning until the other's skin is touching theirs, their minds becoming so overwhelmed that they can't think of anything until they can feel the touch to ease the genuine burn in their skin

But... most importantly?

The only real definition and distinction between familial love and romantic love and platonic love is... the individual themself. All of those can be applicable to any relationship, and I think that's amazing.

If you wanna write good romance, think of how you feel about seeing your friends, and call it romance. It's the *intent* that makes it difference. The *intent* is what differentiates romance from platonic or familial.

Have fun with it. Make romance casual. Make romance intense. Make it calm. Make it angry. Make it ache. Make it burn. Make it smooth. Make it easy. Subtle. Blatant.

Love is love. We say that for so many things but really... the only thing that separates the different genres of love is personal intent.