MiniQuini's musings

Bisexual trans (she), I like stuff...... Why not see what I got. (art above by the lovely Lightsintheskye)

[miniquini]

After one and a half years on HRT I have finally realized what David Bowie said was true "if you wanna be a sex symbol, just say that you are and people will believe it"

Literally just getting punk with my makeup partly for shit posts, and partly cuz I genuinely like the look of it had gotten me some BONKERS replies on here and reddit

[miniquini]

Like I can't imagine me years ago being attractive to anyone sadly enough and part of that was the self doubt of who I am and what I could be in life, now when I post on trans subreddits and get like.... people telling me my eyes are soulful or my smile is beautiful. Tho it's very much appreciated it also is bonkers that the same person who thought growing sideburns in the senior year of highschool was a good idea is dealing with some new emotions of being attractive to people

[siddunbi]

poor alistair cant catch one break can he

[luckykittycolor]

[bonnettbee]

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 3.05 Gabrielle's hope

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

She dodged a bullet

[brenshor]

It was perfect

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

got stuck on the toilet earlier and my inner monologue started coming in cookie monster's voice for some reason

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#man cookie monster you're fighting bc the lid is closed!

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

me pretending there was artistic intent behind me bad drawing

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

ok so responses to this post have mostly been in one of three camps:

"i always think this too"

"no cookie!! the lid is down!!!" (incorrect, see above)

"reblogging from the toilet" in solidarity with cookie monster

but there is one response that i found, well, extremely jarring:

these tags from @wingstothesun put an image into my head that i now inflict upon them and the rest of you:

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

per tags from @thepandabaker i was cursed with another vision, and now so are all of you:

[grimlygroovy-deactivated2015051]

2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago

[lordoftablecloths]

hey op guess what

[lordoftablecloths]

oh nevermind you’re died

[rubykgrant]

[asmuchasidliketo]

Source

[ponett]

you just don't get shit like this with 8-episode streaming seasons

[gingerhaze]

So my brother went as Tintin for Halloween!

aaaaand later that night he texted me pictures of him making Snowy do a kegstand.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

[alinethered]

[powpowee]

I don't want to die.

[daily-spooky]

[vamillepudding]

Would be great for a children's hospital

[lorkhansdick]

We have like two jokes

[cipheramnesia]

And they're both five feet apart in the dracula hot tub, because they're not gay

[sniffanimal]

god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

[madfishmonger]

I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh

[contact-guy]

I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards

[crazy-pages]

When I attended my graduate school job fair, Raytheon (unprompted, hearing me say my degree at the next table) offered me $230,000/yr to come work for them. That was their opening offer after hearing nothing more than my degree, in a city with a very low cost of living. The only catch was that the job was working on vision systems for missiles. (i.e. those 'targeted' missiles which kill a ton of civilians as collateral or intentional damage)

I ended up taking an $85,000/yr job as an optical research scientist at Corning instead.

It is an odd feeling, having a price put on your soul. I'd be a millionaire with a house by my mid-30s if I'd accepted that. And the offer is still open, in fact I'd have an even more generous one waiting for me with the skills I have now.

In all seriousness, if you have the right skillset, you can actually sell your soul. This very week. You will live in comfort and moderate luxury for all your days. Two of my family members did that work decades ago, until they couldn't stomach it any longer, and it set up the rest of their lives.

But I promise you, it's not worth it. It's been almost 50 years for one of them and it still haunts him. He says the worst part was the way they (him included) talked about human lives as things. Numbers on a spreadsheet, sterile corporate jargon in meetings. A lifetime later and you can still see it in his eyes when he talks about it.

You can't take it back, treating humans like things.

[homoidiotic]

French trans woman Marie-Pierre Pruvot, known by her stage name Bambi

Female Mimics magazine 1965

[witchyroguecleric]

It’s worth noting too that Marie-Pierre Pruvot is still alive. She’s 87 years old. She was a showgirl and later in the 70s became a literature teacher, a quite esteemed literature teacher at that.

[rslashrats]

[shanks]

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