Hey, YOU!

I like pretty things.

[glittering-diamonds]

Holy cow I just found my super old Tumblr blog ... times certainly have a changed. I think I was last here like a few years ago.

Will I delve back into the world of Tumblr? No probably not.

[justapplyyourself]

West Zig Zag Mtn. Trail. Rhododendron, Oregon.

[transenbyhollis]

in 2018 we stop telling bi women to be disgusted by their attraction to men and encourage bi people to embrace all their experiences as a bi person

[circlinq]

AK 3/21: “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”- David Mitchell

[cabinporn]

San Cassiano, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy 

Submitted by Tim Maides

[te5seract]

Take it Back… & Winter Memories…. by Iza and Darek

[virgoassbitch]

Don’t ever think you know the the reality of someone’s life or relationship just because you follow them on social media. People only show what they want you to see. Don’t ever convince yourself that you know for even a second what goes on behind closed doors.

[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

Remember when someone said they knew me in real life cause they follow me on snapchat

[90377]

Snow by Juha Haataja

[sepulchritude]

I hate people who reluctantly say they’re okay wth abortions but stipulate ~not late term abortions~

listen. no one spends eight months being pregnant and then wakes up one day like “nah nvm let’s kill it”

people getting late term abortions WANTED the baby! they’ve already picked out cute baby outfits! they’ve painted the nursery a cute pastel color! they’ve made lists of names!

if they’re getting an abortion at eight months it’s because they HAVE TO. because the baby is dying or killing them.

I don’t want to hear shit from y'all pro life assholes about these grieving parents.

[alone-to-dance-deactivated20240]

My Period Journey

I got my period completely unexpectedly. I hadn’t even been told a thing about it and was absolutely convinced something was wrong with me when I saw blood in my panties. I had to go, crying and scared, to my teacher. I had to sit, embarrassed and bloody, in the office and wait for my stepmom.

I was 9

The blood was thick, heavy, and I felt like I was going to throw up. My stomach rejected food, the part of my body I wasn’t even fully aware of yet was now always sticky and wet and gross and I was told it was completely and totally natural. No one told me it was okay to be afraid. No one prepared me.

“It’ll be over in a few days,” they said.

“It won’t come back until next month,” they said.

I was 10

Sleep started to elude me almost completely, and then I’d get so tired that my father had to literally drag me into a standing position so I’d start to become conscious. My stepmom didn’t explain that if my pad got full I could change it. She yelled at me because pads are expensive. I ruined almost all of my underwear because I didn’t want her to yell at me again. My dad refused to acknowledge it had happened at all. He has four daughters.

I was 11

A sharp pain gripped my side and I could barely breathe. I didn’t feel good. I begged to stay home from school. I was crying and clutching my side. Something wasn’t right.

“It’s normal,” they said.

“Don’t be so dramatic,” they said.

I passed out in science class. Woke up in the doctor’s office because my small town didn’t have a hospital and was told I’d had a ruptured ovarian cyst. I had four more cysts on my left one and at least three on my right. I needed to be on birth control and tested for PCOS.

I didn’t even know what an ovary was.

I was 12

My dad flat out refused to get me birth control. Said I didn’t need it. That there was no reason for a twelve year old to get on the pill. I’d just start having sex and who knows what else and that was that.

He’s a nurse.

I was 13

“What do you mean you’ve gone through the entire box of pads already?” my stepmother demanded, loud, shrieking. “There were 20 pads in there! How many days do you bleed?”

I didn’t know I was supposed to count.

“When does your period start? How many days between stop and start?”

I didn’t know I could count.

I started marking it all on my calendar. Some months there was nothing. Some months over half the days were filled in. I stole an entire box of pads from under the sink to hide in my room for my very own.

I was 14

New year, new calendar. I give my period tracking one to my stepmom and take her through it page by page. My periods last 10 days at the least. There is no consistent day my period begins and I show her.

“You just counted wrong,” she says.

I was 15

My legs swell. My back aches. I’ve got a headache. I puke up my dinner and shit out my breakfast five minutes after I ate it. I’ve bled all over my bed.

“You’re overreacting,” they said

“Don’t be such a baby,” they said

I was 16

I can’t eat for two straight days because if I do I will throw up. I’m not sick. I’m on my period.

It’s normal, I think.

I’m 17

I go through 40 pads this time.

It’s normal, I think.

I’m 18

I gained three pant sizes right before the blood shows up. I lay in bed all day with a heating pad across my shoulder blades, on my lower back, and one across my stomach. It doesn’t really help.

It’s normal, I think.

I’m 19

My own money. No health insurance. I moved away. Saw a doctor. I’m on birth control pills.

I’m 20

The pills have stopped working at easing my blood flow. The doctor tries a new pill. It does nothing. The doctor tries another pill. I can’t afford it. I don’t go to the doctor for four more years.

I’m 24

My girlfriend drags me to the doctor with my state health insurance. She tells the doctor about my symptoms. The doctor’s mouth opens slightly.

“That’s not normal,” she says.

I bleed for 28 days straight.

I’m diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. The doctor asks if I want an IUD. I’ve never even heard of that.

My insurance pays for it. It’s free.

“Okay,” I say.

“It’s worth a try,” I say.

I haven’t had a period in months.

I am 25

My oncologist examines my medication list. “IUD? Birth control?” he asks. “You’re married. Don’t you want kids?” No. “What about your husband.” Wife. “Oh.”

My GP is out of town. I see a new doctor. We’re discussing surgeries. Is a hysterectomy an option?

“No,” he says. “You might marry a man who wants kids.” I’m married to a woman and I don’t want kids.

My dad is a nurse. He has four daughters.

“You’re married to a woman. Why are you on birth control?”

“Because I need to be,” I say. Finally. I say. “Because I want to be.”

Because it’s my body. Period.

[will-dance-for-shoes]

My heart aches for people like this who don’t get the help they need and whose pain gets dismissed.

[cabinporn]

Sugar shack in Vermont

Submitted by Katie Tomai

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Broxbourne Woods, Hertfordshire, England, UK

[femmeghostkid-blog]

cool things to do: respecting the bi community, respecting the history of the bi community, not actively silencing the bi community, treating us with basic human respect ,

[letskeepthisgay]

more cool things to do: not pretend that “bi means two”, not actively ignoring the bi community telling you what our sexuality means, not calling bi people transphobic with no proof of that, pretending pansexuality is somehow the “better” version of bisexuality

[gahdamnpunk]

Some journalists really need to be fired

[fearlessinger]

During a talk at Oxford Union, according to the Daily Mail, McKellen applauded victims for coming forward about sexual harassment saying “it’s sometimes very difficult for victims to do that.” He added, “‘I hope we’re going through a period that will help to eradicate it altogether.”

He then went on to share his own experiences during the early ’60s. “The director of the theatre I was working at showed me some photographs he got from women who were wanting jobs,” he said. “Some of them had at the bottom of their photograph ‘DRR’ — directors’ rights respected. In other words, if you give me a job, you can have sex with me.” He pointed out how that was commonplace and said it was “madness.”

Although supportive of the victims, he went on to talk about being cautious about the accusations flooding Hollywood as of late. “‘I assume nothing but good will come out of these revelations, even though some people get wrongly accused — there’s that side of it as well,” he said.

[profanefame]

OH THANK FUCK

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My heart fucking stopped

[christmas-winter]

[nonbinarypastels]

bi erasure isn’t okay just because you mislabel a bisexual as gay or lesbian instead of straight. it’s still bi erasure, it’s still biphobic, and you’re no less of an ass for mislabeling us with one wrong term rather than another.

[winnickdaily]