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Max | He/She/They/Bat | 20s

[bloodcharmer]

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

new bit, it’s called “the wrong twin died.” any time you’re talking about an alive person who you dont like, say something like “yeah he sucks. the wrong twin died.” make up a fake story about how the person used to have a twin but the twin died tragically and they were probably nicer than the one who survived.

[charmedslayer]

TJ MIKELOGAN’S HALLOWEEN HORROR 2025 EVENT DAY 13: Horror parallels

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Study of a Severed Head by Antoine Wiertz.

[printsofyesterday]

Pioneer (Leicester ) - Saturday 25 January 1908

Source: British Newspaper Archive

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[transfemme-shelterdog]

French people when you call it bukake and not "nut a la visage" and shibari instead of "corde attacher l'submissive"

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Pisse? In le pantalons???

Mon tabarnak j'vais te décâlisser la yeule, câlice!

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[stonedeadforever]

By Gerda Wegener, 1925

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[kyrasaphira]

Eye of Horus neck tattoo on the mummified remains of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,000 years ago, found in Deir el-Medina, the village of tomb builders

Smithsonian, photo by Anne Austin

[vampyrgrl]

bone rosary by vampyrgrl

[saraenpenumbra]

Vergvoktre’s art is a mirror of those days when pain is not an event, but a landscape. Figures devouring and piercing each other in eternal silence, reminding us that sometimes the only way to purge the shadow is to let it pierce us completely. There is no light without having first been ash.

[aprilthebiqueen]

Some Hygiene Ideas When It Seems Hard

You aren’t alone if the act of having a shower, or brushing your teeth seems extra daunting, draining or just outright impossible. 

There are no magic fixes, but here are some tips that might be useful to you. 

Brushing Your Teeth

Brushing your teeth may seem impossible! And that’s so valid. Here’s the thing, sometimes we can ditch the regular “rules” and do what we need. Some things that help me:

Keeping a toothbrush and toothpaste in the shower. I find it so much easier to brush my teeth while I’m already in the shower with the water running. 

Brushing for 30 seconds is better than nothing! You don’t have to do the entire two minutes. 

If you can afford it, an electric toothbrush can help. 

You can brush your teeth with water! No, really. It’s better than nothing. Dampen your toothbrush with a bit of water and brush your teeth! 

Having a Shower

I don’t know about you, but having a shower is the most daunting task there is for me. It is so exhausting to even think about. Here are some ideas to make it easier. 

Prepare for the After

For me, it’s what happens after the shower that is draining. It makes it a bit easier for me to get my clothes ready, have my towel laid out, and anything else I need. 

Have Products you Love 

Having my favourite smelling body wash and shampoo is so nice, and there’s a part of me that wants to shower just to use them. 

Don’t Focus on Washing Yourself. 

This sounds weird, but hear me out a bit. Focusing on it as a task we have to do may make it more exhausting. It might sound silly, but for me, I imagine the shower is a waterfall or rain that is “washing away” some of my bad thoughts, feelings and helping me lighten the load. I focus on turning it into a calm experience. 

You can also just focus on standing in the water, and not actually washing yourself. It’s still likely to help you feel more clean!

Tips for Both Brushing Your Teeth & Showering

Call for Company

For me, sometimes I call a friend and stay on the phone with them until I actually get in the shower. This can help in the “pre shower” ritual and make it seem less intimidating. I have also kept a friend on the phone while I brushed my teeth. 

An alternative is that sometimes I find a friend who also finds the act of showering or brushing their teeth super draining, and we make a pact to do it at the same time and then we text each other when it’s time and both go do what we need to do. We then come back and text each other and tell each other “good job!” This is kind of like an accountability buddy.

Play Some Music

I find that playing music helps, especially if it’s music that makes me feel a bit pumped up.

Focus on One Step at a Time

I find the whole idea of showering and/or brushing my teeth exhausting. There are so many steps to showering between getting undressed, getting the water on, washing my hair etc… I find that sometimes it can help to just focus on one step at a time and not the whole picture. What do I need to do first? For me, I need to turn the water on because it takes a few minutes to heat up. So I’ll focus on one thing at that moment, just turning the water on. That’s all I have to do. And then I go from there and see if I can work my way through the steps without looking at the “big” picture.

Alternatives to Help Feel Clean

Some days, we just can’t do it. And that’s okay! Here are some alternatives to help you feel clean:

Wash your face

Brush your hair

Use dry shampoo

Use body lotion

Change your clothes

Get some baby wipes or other wipes to use

Have a bath! (Use a bath bomb, bubble bath, something to make it feel pampering instead of like a task. A bath is much easier to put on an audio book, or even a show to keep you occupied).

Use some mouth wash 

Remember that not being able to take care of your hygiene does not affect your worth! You are still worthy, even when you aren’t able to do the things you need/want to do. 

[aprilthebiqueen]

I’m working on turning this into a blog post with more details, but in the process of doing that, I added some sections. There’s one in particular I want to add to this post for those of us with chronic pain./other physical issues. 

If Showering is Made More Difficult By Physical Issues

Some of us find chronic pain, issues with flexibility or other physical limitations can make showering difficult. This might be because it is hard to stay standing long enough for a full shower or because you have a hard time reaching certain parts of your body, just to name two of the many possible issues you might have.

If this is the case, there are a lot of potential aids and tools that might help you. For instance, shower stools are a really great tool. Sitting may seem less painful and less draining than standing.  Long-handled shower brushes also exist and can help if you struggle with flexibility. A detachable shower head may be more accessible for you to use if you don’t have one already.

[aprilthebiqueen]

If you struggle with brushing your teeth for two minutes, anything is better than nothing! But something I’ve found helps me is counting in ten seconds intervals like for example, I’ll brush the upper left for ten seconds, then move to another section.

I’ve also found for me when I don’t brush in the shower, that pacing while I brush helps.

I ended up writing a longer, detailed blog post on this that is here if you want to check it out!

[dailyclassicart]

Viktor Schramm - "During the fitting" (1900)

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[stonedeadforever]

Read this post yesterday and I have not been able to stop thinking about it since. I am on a whole different continent than the op and it is still the same here. We are taught american queer history in school and none of our own. US queer liberation is seen as universal, even on the other side of the globe. I don't think the americans angry about this post realise that their history has culturally replaced ours and that even when doing research in our own languages we have to sift through article after article about the united states, and when finding something about our own countries it tends to just be a timeline of when things were decriminalised/legalised with little footnotes about who signed the act. Even in queer spaces the people that should be our icons are still unheard of, the people who gave us our rights are rarely written about and even when they are those texts don't reach the larger queer communities. We all need to take steps to decenter the US in our lives

[yellowtrashfreak]

Butchers in the Kowloon Walled City shot by Greg Girard 1980s

[erinsvintageemporium]

Featured Plate: 1886-06 JDD4575

Fashion plate 4575 from the Journal des Demoiselles, engraved by an unknown artist after an illustration by B. C.

Toilettes de Mme. Pelletier Vidal, 17, r. Duphot _ Modes de Mme. Boucherie, 16, r. du Vieux Colombier.

Costume d'enfant de Mme. Taskin, 2, r. de la Michodière.

Chaussures de la Mon. Kahn Poivret, 61, r. Montorgueil.

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Description from page

GRAVURE DE MODES, N° 4575.

Toilettes de madame Pelletier-Vidal, 17, rue Duphot. Costume d'enfant de madame Taskin, 2, rue de la Michodière. Chapeaux de madame Boucherie, 16, rue du Vieux-Colombier.

PREMIÈRE TOILETTE — Costume en foulard heliotrope à petit semé blanc; tunique formant une longue écaille drapée en pointe dans le bas, très relevée sur le coté et découvrant la jupe en tissu brodé écru sur transparent de foulard uni; pouf à coques étagées avec cascade de flots de ruban de côté. Corselet perlé avec pendeloques; chemisette bouffante drapée à la paysanne: noud sur l'epaule, et manche demi-longue, avec sabot de dentelle écrue. — Capote de paille à jour; bord bouiilonné en velours héliotrope, aigrette de roses the et bruyère.

DEUXIÈME TOILETTE. — Jupe plissée en toile beige clair rayée de rubis, retenue devant par de gros nœuds de rubans beige, poses sur un ruban à ploots rubis: tunique relevée en pouf droit et dégageant le tablier. Corsage ouvert sur un gilet de toile unie beige, avec col droit en toile unie fermé de coté: revers en velours rubis; dos à basque-postillon découpée, posant sur une patte de velours rubis; manche a parement de velours. — Chapeau de grosse paille bise, avec revers en velours rubis; devant. pouf élevé de fleurs de pécher, mélé de dentelle coquillée.

COSTUME D'ENFANT. — Corsage a longue basque, flottante, en étamine de laine unie tabac, ouvert sur une chemisette capotée en étamine de méme ton à rayures bretonnes, plissee en long devant; les raies sont disposées en travers derrière; pouf drapé en étamine rayée; tablier uni et col rayé; le dos du corsage est court et forme une petite pointe; manche découpée rappelant le mouvement de la basque, et posant sur un parement-manchette en etamine rayee. — Chapeau de paille à passe tuyautée, doublée de gaze de soie vieux rose; tuuffe de fleurs des champs.

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1926 c. Bride in full regalia. From Ask History, FB.