[physicsgoblin]

to all artists painting the same thing over and over and to all writers writing the same story over and over

[madebymaryssa]

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But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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[weltenwellen]

the overwhelming feeling of sadness sometimes when someone treats me with kindness

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[sweetbutchbait]

Ooh ooh since we're talking about a lot of trans women and transfems not fitting y'all's fantasy of the toppiest dommiest girls, if you think you'd be okay with a transfem partner in the future, please read up on techniques that bring us pleasure that don't involve a dick getting hard.

Muffing, perineum play, safe prostate play... I know I can feel like I'm silly and being too much for telling the people I have relationships with that I want to do something they have never heard of and might think it's weird or silly or a waste or a kink. I know it would mean a lot to not have to a. shatter expectations of using biostrap in a penetrative way and b. explain that way of interacting with my body from scratch. And I think I'm not alone.

[butchesanddykesandqueersohmy]

Legitimate question for anyone one willing to answer, where can someone find reliable queer focused resources on things like muffing safe prostate play etc.

[sweetbutchbait]

I actually DO know where to find that!

My two biggest sources are Girl Sex 101 by Allison Moon (TME author with TMA consultants) and Fucking Trans Women by Mira Bellwether (trans woman).

Moon's book is a chunky piece (388 pages!) about pretty much all aspects of lesbian sex (physical, social, technical...) and makes it a point to include a ton of stuff for perisex trans women and intersex people, detailing tons of anatomical facts and techniques that aren't just for perisex afab people.

Bellwether's piece is a zine so less content and nothing about intersex bodies, but it is wonderful at demystifying the transfeminine body, making our bodies ours and not for others' consumption, giving transfems ways to talk about what they want from sex without feeling like a burden for it, and providing very straight-on descriptions of the many ways and tons of techniques for fucking trans women.

Moon's book is on sale, Bellwether's zine is available for free in the provided link.

[olreid]

link to tweet: (x)

[olreid]

grandad will always be there....

[zonnesproetje]

[weareallfromearth]

This is what “beauty drawn from and in the midst of cyberpunk dystopia” looks like, Black Mirror WISHES-

[apoemaday]

To Be of Use

by Marge Piercy

The people I love best jump into work head first without dallying in the shadows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

[dubiousdisco]

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[willgrahamscock]

sorry about not replying I think I’ve gone missing

[lelif]

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

[fairycosmos]

hey idk how to articulate this part of being mentally ill but basically i feel like my life has been stolen from me in the most literal way and i can’t explain it without sounding like im making a million pathetic excuses

[kosmogrl]

margaux paul

[megthemariner]

@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / @fridayiminlovemp3 / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

[iloveyou2]

doubting myself again but I have no choice but to move forward anyways

[iloveyou2]

sometimes pushing through self-doubt or 'doing it scared' isn't liberating or a show of courage - sometimes it's a matter of duty or necessity, the currents of life totally ambivalent to your feelings or what you can handle. and maybe you're not in a good place to manage the fallout of facing your fears. maybe it drains you more than it energizes you. maybe it makes your fears worse.

sometimes, despite waves of stage fright & digging your heels you're manhandled, shoved onto stage. you stumble out from behind the red curtains and stare at the crowd before you, blinded by the set lights, before realizing the show must go on. and so you perform. even if you do a terrible job, even if it's degrading. because you're past the point of no return.

and you might only hear stories of smooth transitions, of straightforward trajectories from A to B to C. but sometimes your progress thru life is ugly. sometimes you have to do things before you're ready, unequipped and unqualified, or the growing pains are too much to bear. and all you can do is wait until the storm is over!

[havingapoemwithyou]

poem by Langston Hughes

[heartlessqueen]

do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

natalie wee, our bodies & other fine machines

[sweatermuppet]

sam sax, hydrophobia

[jumping-jackalope]

ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

[thewingedchild]

v.e. schwab, the invisible life of addie larue

[heartlessqueen]

i exist i exist i exist, flatsound

john cameron mitchell, hedwig and the angry inch

[chromaticabrasions]

placebo, without you i’m nothing

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[homunculus-argument]

Sometimes it feels like you've lived your whole life in a house that's always a little bit on fire. Like it's usually just in one room and you make sure to wet the walls around it so it doesn't spread and that usually works. You were expected to take more responsibility over fire containment when you were like seven because it's not like you can expect your parents to always be 100% on guard about making sure the whole house doesn't catch fire, and you figure that's just how things are like.

And sometimes as a kid you visit your friends' homes and some of then whisper to you - grimacing with embarrassment - about how they're not supposed to tell anyone this, but there's a whole room in their house that's currently on fire. And you're like yeah it's ok I'm not supposed to tell people about the way our house is a little bit on fire all the time, too. And then you visit some other friend's house and there's no trace of fire anywhere, and you think "wow, these people are really good at hiding their house fire."

And one day you show up to work like "hey sorry I'm late, I forgot to wet the walls before going to bed last night and my whole house burned down", and you're startled by the way people react, acting like that must be the worst thing that has ever happened to you. And you're just like "chill, it's been years since the last time this happened, and it wasn't even that bad this time", and that just makes people more shocked, acting like that's the weirdest and most concerning thing they've ever heard anyone say, which only confuses you more.

And then someone tries to explain to you that people aren't supposed to have an ongoing house fire. Most people actually never experience a house fire in their lives. Like not even once. Not even a little bit. The normal amount of having your house be currently on fire is zero.