[skywalkerbound]

things i’ve experienced because i never gave up on shifting

getting married

riding a dragon

living in a castle

living in ancient mesopotamia

living as a jaguar

living in the amazon rainforest

being a witch

befriending vampires

befriending werewolves

[strawthatberry]

scripting myself to be apart of the main cast

[vivimoss-deactivated20260415]

the night that confirmed shifting was real for me / the self-report of a black girl that woke up as a 6'3 man

ngl, i cracked myself up with the title. it's legit but it sounds so riduclous i can't help but laugh.

anyways, hi. hello. this is a storytime of one of my first grounded shifts. the only one i can still remember quite vividly even after all these years. it happened in the midst of either 2022 or 2023. don't ask me what lead up to it because i couldn't tell you. i can't recall. all i know is that i went to bed in this reality, fell asleep, and i opened my eyes in a hotel room in las vegas.

for context, the reality i shifted to was my boy band dr. the year was 2017. the month was may.

the first thing i became aware of was my body. my eyelids felt heavy. my arms were completly limp at my sides, relaxed in a way that i physically cannot manage here. i was laying on my back with my legs over the edge of my bed, dressed in outside clothes because i'd been out drinking with my band members and had only just made it back to our hotel. it was late but i didn't know exactly how late. i kept telling myself that i ought to check my phone and also put it to charge, but i couldn't be bothered to move so i didn't.

instead i — drunk, and with the vague understanding that the bbmas were the next day (or maybe that day. even though i didn't check the time i had a sneaking suspicion that it was like 1/2 am on the 21st) — fell asleep in less than five minutes. lights still on, shoes still on and phone still in hand lmao.

looking back on it, there's an irony to how seamlessly i settled into this dr because prior to this shift, i used to have a series of intrusive thoughts / worries along the lines of "what if i freak out?" "what if i feel completely out of place?" "what if i get body dysphoria?". but in that moment, none of that happened. and even when i came back, i didn't feel any belated unease. granted, i was only a man for a couple of seconds, and i didn't see my face or the full length of my body during that shift, but still. all of it felt natural because it was natural. because it was me.

i say all that to say: dw about if waking up in your dr body will be "weird". it won't be, because regardless of how different it is to the one you have here, it's still your body.

[easyboyrecliner]

me head diving into making a new dr

[camillekiss]

anyway shoutout to people who have multiple s/os in the same dr or different s/os in every dr! polyamory is real and i love u all

[bbrattywise-deactivated20260430]

my favourite shifting storytimes?? the ones where people shift after years of trying; after they had little hope left and then BOOM, they shift. they have done it. they can finally close the “havent shifted yet” chapter of their lives. they can finally hug the arms they have been longing for. its like a pirate finding a treasure chest after going on a whole quest to find it.

[kerryshifts]

shifting to be a whore and to have my freak matched and to be erotic and annoyingly pretentious about sex and let myself be free

[l22na4]

₊ ⊹ the look of the now ( a kind of part.2 of letting go )

when you say ‘I’m gonna sleep’ (yes a sleep example againnn). you know you will sleep. cause in fact you are already sleeping in a present. so even if you start crashing out tossing and screaming “I can’t sleep!!!”, you don’t mean that you won’t ever again fall asleep. no. you mean you're tired watching yourself toss and turn when you already know the ending: you're going to sleep, it's inevitable. the tossing and turning and back flipping like sportacus — that’s the illusion. but the truth never changed. you will sleep. you already are. the moment you decide ‘oh yeah I'm going to sleep’. from that intention on, you were sleeping. even if you have a white night, you still know you WILL eventually sleep. no matter what happen. despite the circumstances, despite the illusion, despite anything.

it's the same with shifting. the second you said "I'm going to shift" that was it. it’s now. the rest is just the lie, fake news “not being there yet” NONSENSE . you're only angry at a lie—and of course you would be. don’t start turning to the lie. we don’t care about it, we know we are there NOW.

so stop fighting the pillow. let go. let yourself drift in whatever direction you choose or none.

you already shifted. you are right now. time doesn't exist. now is now.

[suckerpuuunch]

how did shifting feel for me?

if you’ve read a couple of my other posts, you’ll know i shifted three times. the first two were minishifts, and they were the types of shifts where as soon as i did it, i shifted back. as for the actual shift itself, it happened in my sleep so i didn’t feel anything.

the third and most recent time i shifted, i did it while awake. i didn’t notice the shift itself, but once i opened my eyes, i lost any sense of nonchalance i was pretending to have.

i have a lot of respect for people who just shift and can remain chill, because… the way that my jaw hit the floor. the gasp i gusped.

it was natural in the sense that i remembered what i had eaten for breakfast the morning before, and i knew exactly where i was, and i knew what i was supposed to do that day. i had all of my memories, and it wasn’t as if they were hitting me like a truck, it was more like they’d been there the whole time.

but emotionally? i was not chill.

i literally walked around my hotel room touching all the walls and sheets and carpets (in hindsight, ew), because i was in shock at how real everything felt. the week i stayed there was indistinguishable from this reality. it’s not a dream, a deep meditative state, or a delusion. it is real life.

hopefully this story motivates someone, because guys, it’s so fucking real. if i can do it - someone who doubted, who was anxious, who always felt like she was always missing something or making a mistake - you can do it too.

[gothcowgrrl-deactivated20250922]

vienna’s guide to surviving the 2000’s

i. get on paris hilton’s good side

being paris’ friend is the ultimate hack to climbing the social hierarchy of the 2000’s. don’t skip on going shopping with her, she pays for everything. just be warned: don’t get on her bad side

ii. don’t talk to paparazzi when drunk

paparazzi can be nice to you in the moment, but they’ll ultimately make a mockery out of you. their job is to get people to buy their shit; they won’t care about your feelings

iii. party! party! party!

if you don’t party, what are you doing in the 2000’s?

iv. public kissing is a no-go…

don’t kiss your on-and-off unofficial boyfriend in front of a bar in the middle of la.. paparazzi will catch you and you will be on the front page for weeks

v. get used to hangovers

with ups, there has to be downs. partying brings it’s bitchy friend in the morning: a hangover, and she’s gonna come over often

vi. let your friends couchsurf

let your asshole friend couchsurf. free dog sitter, and you can play co-op ps2 whenever. just kick him out once he gets too comfortable

vii. be iconic

kiss girls, host award shows, be mean to paparazzi. the good thing about the tabloids is that there’s always someone who thinks you’re iconic, and it’s usually wendy williams

[nottsim]

counting his moles like they’re constellations

[bandzofu]

How it feels to know about shifting and not fear death/afterlife ❤️‍🩹

[bamzies]

i am currently experiencing what every person with a fictional s/o who has a canon love interest is experiencing right now and I can't bbretahe how are you guys doing this evrryday

[vivonshifts-deactivated20251207]

here’s a little ‘what’s in my school bag?’ why is coach and prada so expensive OMGF!!!????

[hrrtshape-deactivated20250922]

　　drs i've travelled to – through the lens

 　　　　　　　　　　　 　 　 　　𝐛etter cr 　 ❜

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 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　 𝐬ex and the 𝐜ity dr　 ❜

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 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　𝐟ood 𝐜ritic dr　 ❜

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 　　　　　　 　　　　 𝐜inderella inspired 𝐰aiting 𝐫oom　 ❜

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 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　 𝐯ampire dr　 ❜

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 　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 𝐦arauders dr　 ❜

[dusttildawn]

me listening to the same song for two hours while imagining edits of myself in my dr

[gothcowgrrl-deactivated20250922]

this is why i have a waiting room where i can just consume media about myself because im self absorbed 🧘‍♀️

[chaaistained]

that’s literally all i do in my wr 🧍‍♀️ i’ve got this big ass screen that has movie versions of my drs, show versions, it’s got youtube where i can watch commentary and reactions and fmvs and theories, it’s got tiktok so i can watch all the immaculate edits

like . this is literally just for me to witness the extravagant perfection that is my drs

[songbirdivy]

'how do you shift??? 🥺' 'no, like a job' set us back 500 years

[hrrtshape-deactivated20250922]

stop that still perpetually circulates on twitter