Cradle Songs of Comfort and Bones Gnawed by Teeth

I'm Sarah and I'm doing my best, god dammit. She/her/hers. Sometime artist. Sad feminist nerd video game TRASH \(• ◡ •)/ Shop: https://sarahneff.bigcartel.com Website: https://www.sarah-neff.com

[hijennyt]

Rookanis Leyendecker study for @datvcompanionweeks Lucanis week! After all, it is the Year of the Horse. Hope it's ok to use that free day prompt a little early~ Instagram inprnt

[trollkatt]

Big Jack

Pet Foolery, #93

[houndvoice]

One thing about me is I know a lot of animals

[houndvoice]

Pigeon if she was a dragon…. Drigeon, if you will….

[houndvoice]

Gouache and watercolor unicorn from a few years ago 🦄

[ghiblin]

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE ハウルの動く城 2004, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[imathers]

[shelbazoidz]

The porky pig bit has to be one of my favorite mbmbam moments. Griffin's reluctance at his own joke. The brother's silent horror. The animation captures this trainwreck/homerun of a joke so well

[sephirothhh]

You may not be able to fight like a samurai, but you can at least die like a samurai.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) dir. Quentin Tarantino

[naike24fr]

[once-a-polecat]

This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

[eyes-alight]

[sca-nerd]

This is AMAZING.

[calamitys-child]

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

[calamitys-child]

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

[shorthistorian]

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

[houndvoice]

Made a character for a D&D game and decided early on that the boob window was non-negotiable… even though the game ended up being Rime of the Frostmaiden. Aegeus of Amphail isn’t about to let a little chill keep him from his glorious destiny!

[heavensickness]

there is not a single day i don't think about this quote in relation to tragedies

[araekniarchive]

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

[readandwritesilver]

(Richard Siken, War of the Foxes)

[ikea-doona]

[image description: three text excerpts.

image 1 is a quote attributed to John Darnielle, which reads, “This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”

image 2 is an excerpt from a script. the first sentence is highlighted. Orestes says, “This was always going to happen. She’s been dead since the beginning.”

image 3 is text which reads, “Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.”

/end ID]

[wrenhavenriver]

[frigginconfused]

[sixleggedboar]

I haven’t done something like this in years. I want to doodle more and this might be a way to do it. As usual I cannot promise doing every request and I will try to keep things fast and lose, but I am grateful for any asks sent my way <3

[mintywhisker]

between the lions 📚🦁

my piece for the our turn to thank you! fan zine