angels in the bodies of boys

galileo or leho || trans and pan || he/they || 24 || following from @thunderstorm-skald

[fiingerpriints]

I N 2 0 2 3

LOVE YOUR BODY

LOVE YOUR GENDER MORE

CREATE

PARTAKE

FORNICATE

TELL YOUR FRIENDS YOU LOVE THEM

TRY

TRY HARDER

TRY YOUR FUCKING HARDEST

IF ALL ELSE FAILS

RETURN TO THE EARTH

LEAVE YOUR SMUDGED FINGERPRINTS ON THE PROTECTIVE GLASS OF THE WORLD

[callizinc]

When the story has a sequence where the characters each get personally tortured with their exact personalized greatest fears and traumas

[fiingerpriints]

grief is just a side effect of loss (i don’t know what to do with my hands) and loss is just a side effect of love (i can feel the gaping maw in my stomach) and love is just a side effect of life (i hear the train every night)

and sometimes you gotta take a smoke break (hey pass me the lighter) just to get the breath back in your lungs (of course we’re not leaving you here) and sometimes you gotta stand up straight (god the ground here is gross) while you cry (get the camera) and sometimes you’re only aware of something (let’s do this again sometime) when it goes missing (did you hear?)

life is for the living (v.) life is for the living (n.) life is for the living (adj.)

yuh yuh, bad bitches only gang

(in loving memory of chloe)

jan. 29, 2023

[happyheidi]

[middleamerica]

Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland, 1935, Margaret Bourke-White

[justworm]

i made some chicken socks :]

[misforgotten2]

Plum crazy!

Sunset Magazine    July 1964

[shredsandpatches]

For reference: colors produced using dyes available in the Middle Ages. [source]

[starlightacademia]

one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

- via duckbunny

[legobatjoker]

[ID: a google doc with the italicized text: “orpheus loves eurydice.” “loves” has a blue underline under it, which is signalling that it should be autocorrected to “and.” End ID.]

literally emo over this autocorrect . like it’s right… there’s no need for “orpheus loves eurydice” as a statement. the evidence is already there: orpheus and eurydice

[aureliobooks]

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

[thatsbutterbaby]

Walter Anderson - Two Cats, circa 1940. 

[batcii]

a comic about trying to return to being a single celled organism (described in alt)

[sineating]

boy.radio for giddy up cowbows (x)

[arctic-hands]

Love that time I brought up how "transvestite" used to be a term du jur (not the only term, but a well-known term) before it fell out of favor for transexual and then transgender and was immediately given the "um actually it's always been a bad word sweaty :)" routine when like

[Image Description: the Wikipedia page for Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries". The opening paragraph says "Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay gender non-conforming street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, subculturally famous New York City drag queens of color. STAR was a radical political collective that also..." the screencap cuts off the rest of the article. End ID]

To drive the point home, it later changed its name Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries to reflect the changing terminology preferences but Jesus fucking Christ learn your damn history

(This is also why terfs and other transphobes claiming that Marsha P. Johnson was "only" a transvestite in order to de-legitimize trans involvement in queer history, activism, and liberation is such bullshit because that was the fucking term back then and had Marsha not been murdered there's good chance she'd be calling herself transgender now. Or not, there are trans elders who still call themselves transvestite and proudly so.)

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

The word was coined by the German LGBT pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910 and was used as an umbrella term for anyone who’d wear clothes that didn’t fit the gender they were assigned at birth.

He’d also issue so-called “transvestite certificates” for them that allowed them to wear those clothes in public without being arrested for public nuisance.

There was a magazine called “Das 3. Geschlecht” (The 3rd Sex) aimed at them, which was the first trans magazine in history. You can read the English translation of three of its issues here.

The lesbian magazine “Die Freundin” (The Girlfriend) also openly included transvestites and came with an insert called “Der Transvestit” at times (The Transvestite).

[timaeustumbls]

Guys this was a correct term IN MY LIFETIME. I'm only in my forties, come on. Remember your history, I'm begging.

[churrotowns]

Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.

“There seemed to be something a lot more intimate and having more to do with self-presentation. And that’s unlike anything I had seen from that period when all moving picture images of African Americans were through a white lens and are distortions, misrepresentations, or pseudo anthropological. And this is none of that.”

[lackadaisycal-art]

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