Stop And Smell The Roses Stop And Tell Your Story

Mid 20s, astrophysicist, actress, general dork

[ignis-aeternus]

Good evening fuckos

My blog is changing. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. So I’ve decided to make a new pinned post to make sure everyone is on the same page

anyways

Hi I’m Hestia! ❤️

I’m a 23 y/o astrophysicist, trans woman (she/her pronouns), lesbian/dyke/whatever, self described hedonist, and all around dork.

Small blog specific shit: my DM’s and asks are open so come say hi! Also I am not afraid nor will I hesitate to use the block button at my own discretion.

Particular interests of mine include Star Trek, Brandon Sanderson’s “Cosmere” books, Dungeons and Dragons, video games such as The Outer Wilds and the Horizon series, Avatar the Last Airbender, Starkid, and so so much more

As I said above, I am a trans woman. If this upsets you, keep it to yourself. Your opinion about my life is irrelevant and it will not influence my decisions or choices. If you think trans people (women, men, anything in between or outside) don’t deserve respect and dignity you are a straight up bad person and I wish you the opportunity to expand your understanding of human experience so that you can stop being a bad person

As for that hedonism bit, I will, on occasion, reblog or make posts about sex, sexuality, intimacy, consent, kink, aftercare, etc. I will also occasionally reblog things like nude artwork.

With all that being said, it’s probably best if I say

This blog is an 18+ only space

This blog is not a safe space for TERFs, Exclusionists, and/or anyone who thinks there is a right and wrong way to be queer. Labels are just words someone made up. Go make up your own!

A note on tags I use

Hestia’s Poasts - my actual posts, not just the usual reblogs

Hestia’s archive - stuff I want to save for later

Oort - art that I like

Finally some statements: I am and always will be an avid and passionate supporter of Asexuals, aromantics, anyone on the aroace spectrum, intersex folks, folks who have conflicting identity labels (MSPEC Lesbians, etc.), neopronoun users, and anyone else who has had people tell them they aren’t being queer the right way.

To all of you, the broken the beaten and the damned, the lovers and the dreamers, the human and the dancer, Have fun. Be queer. Love with all your heart

Life Before Death, Strength Before Weakness, Journey Before Destination

[sapphling]

a lot of you have mistaken unbridled and honestly vile serophobia for safe sex advocacy lol

[sapphling]

stop calling people "clean" or "dirty," stop calling people stupid for having had unsafe sex or otherwise contracted an STI, stop fearmongering and playing up your disgust for a type of illness that the majority of people will contract at some point in their life, stop acting like regular testing isn't something that many many responsible people engage in, stop treating STIs as a moral taint and not a class of overwhelmingly curable (and in other cases manageable with treatment) infections, it is beyond obvious that this is less about genuine care for others and more about keeping alive the same smug sense of self-satisfaction that's been carrying you since middle school health class

[sapphling]

i genuinely worry seeing how some of you talk about protection (which, to be clear, is great!) as the sole ward against a universally life ruining illness. if you're sexually active then it's more likely than not that at some point in your adulthood you or one of your partners will get a positive on a panel, when this happens the most likely outcome is that recent partners get phone calls and then everyone at significant risk goes into a clinic and gets a shot in the arm that kind of stings and then you don't have unprotected sex for like a week. ymmv depending on the infection and your relationship style and status. protection is cheap and a great option to reduce worry in your life but you are doing nothing to advocate its use by talking about STIs in the same fire-and-brimstone way your that your abstinence-only gym/sex ed teacher did

[mxwhore]

i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!

[aetherograph]

i love you smog tests for cars i love you clean air regulations i love you HEPA filters i love you dam removal i love you planting native gardens i love you monarch butterflies (up 64% in 2026!) i love you working for decades to bring the condors back from zero to 300+ in the wild i love you inventing little machines to pick up the plastic fishing nets and other trash in the sea i love you occupational health and safety regulations i love you environmental protection agencies i love you unions i love you social aid programs i love you food not bombs i love you sea shepherds i love you most countries stopping industrial whaling and more humpback whales now than ever before i love you saving the forests i love you little libraries i love you take what you need cupboards/fridges i love you secular food pantries i love you public bathrooms i love you all-ages playgrounds i love you museums i love you aquariums + zoos i love you restoring peregrine falcons to nyc i love you letting beavers fix the river i love you releasing wolves into the wild i love you bison recovery efforts i love you landback i love you reducing light pollution i love you freeway sound baffle walls i love you advertising bans i love you public outreach and education i love you maria montessori i love you queer clinics i love you people working really hard and succeeding at fixing the world and making it safer for all living beings!

[cutecipher]

99% of users on tumblr are some sort of gay as fuck animal

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

Or insects thank you

[cutecipher]

i think insects are animals

[ignis-aeternus]

*gameshow correct answer sound*

[parkayquarts]

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

[parkayquarts]

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

[theheroheart]

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.

[team-thickness12]

This also fixes screen sharing to other screens. It has been GODSEND

[lucarleigho]

type this in the toolbar to find this setting in firefox: about:preferences#searchResults

[mctreeleth]

ol' Zachary Zoetrope is back in business!

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[tamamita]

Charlie Kirk is awfully quiet this pride, what gives?

[bored-little-ghost]

just had to stop for the view.

yet another submission for @color-palettes monthly challenge! quick one this time, and more sketchy. still figuring out the style i want to draw in,,

the view (inspiration) under the cut!!

found during current expedition, genuinely made us stop and take a break for a little while. i live there now

[orcboxer]

tumblr won't let me post this for some reason. must be a glitch or something

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[innerchildabortionclinic]

a lot of critiques of Youth Behaviors should take into account we now live in a world where said behaviors can be recorded, posted online, and be seen all over the world, and this was not always the case. not only that, but outrage drives engagement on social media, so you're more likely to come across inflammatory content. it kind of creates an altered perception of reality

[muzzlesbian]

you have to love the tgirl but you have to let her love you back too

[muzzlesbian]

transfem affection and attraction is painted as inherently predatory to a degree that drives us to be constantly on edge. it makes us fucking paranoid. do you know how awful it is to worry if it’s safe to lean your head on your close friend’s shoulder? to be openly desired and even flirted with but never flirt back for fear of being labeled a creep? to be unable to cuddle up with your date because you’re terrified of how they might respond? do you know how much that fucks a person up?

you have to let the tgirl love you back. you have to.

[mad-dog308]

[onegiantmeep]

hey man, chill

[sunwornink]

me born in 2002 watching this

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[maidslime]

No more waiting, no more debating, go get your hrt. "I don't know if I'm really trans!" You are. Now go. "I'm scared!" We all were. Now go. "There's a long wait to be seen!" Go get your name on the list then. DIY if you need. "What if my friends don't accept me?" They weren't really your friends. Now go. "What if my spouse doesn't accept me?" Get a divorce. Now go. You do not need to continue to live in agony and depression to pretend to be someone else. Go get your hrt.

[maidslime]

The original incarnation of this post inspired SO MANY people to start hrt! I cannot help resolve every situation specifically, but most people can absolutely accomplish this step! If you want hrt GET IT

[our-queer-experience]

you all deserve BETTER

[vash-the-trans-catboy]

Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature