"Lay me gently in the cold dark earth"

CJ (any pronouns) / 22/ This is mostly aesthetic but hopefully I will be posting poetry once I grow the balls to do it

[lucidloving]

THE QUESTION:

THE ANSWER:

Traci Brimhall, "Vive, Vive" // Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

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Chapter 6

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[angelicguy]

please enjoy my brother's gorgeous comic

[redlipstickresurrected]

Willy Kriegel aka Karl Hermann Willy Kriegel (German, 1901-1966, b. Dresden, Germany, d. Starnberg, Germany) - Die Nacht (The Night), c. 1943 from series Die vier Tageszeiten (The Four Times of Day), Paintings: Oil on Board

[thunderstruck9]

Willy Kriegel (German, 1901-1966), Die Nacht [The Night], c.1943, Oil on fibreboard, 60 x 49.8 cm.

[cnc-pet]

i know gender and sexuality arent exactly the same but “i could survive being with a man” is comphet. “i could survive living as a man” sounds much the same. you’re not meant to live in survival mode. it sounds like you do *need* to transition

That’s… fair

[cnc-pet]

with 2+ years of hindsight (and almost 10 months of HRT), I want to thank this anon, because I think genuinely this played a significant role in helping me to start transitioning.

I've been so much happier since then, and especially since starting HRT. Yeah, there are new struggles and anxieties and problems to adapt to, but I'm also learning how to enjoy life and find myself and love myself, and it's definitely worth it.

Over the past year I've laughed and cried and been able to look at myself in the mirror and selfies and enjoy what I look like. I've felt more comfortable with my body, and worn outfits and accessories that I've been daydreaming about for over a decade. I've felt pretty, which was not something that I thought was possible.

If you're on the fence about transitioning, please know that it's enough to chase joy. If you think you'd be happier, that's enough. You don't have to have known since you were a toddler. You don't have to be so depressed that you can't bear another day as your AGAB. You don't have to "earn" or "deserve" to transition. It's enough to want it.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Monk Meditating near a Ruin by Moonlight (1862 / edited) - Frederik Marinus Kruseman

[dionysian-mystery]

Little Beast by Richard Siken

[dionysian-mystery]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

[sweatermuppet]

yeah sorry they gave me an open wound instead of a heart that's why im like this

[beastliness]

more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography

[beastliness]

it is virtuous and necessary that you write, draw, and distribute pornography

[radfemart]

can we start with not conflating "erotic/sexual art or writing" with pornography

[beastliness]

no lmao

[37q]

"so youre saying we should just allow rapists and abusers to remain in society?" where else would they go ⁉️😭🙏 so confused can you show me this place outside of society

[37q]

people that dont wanna seem like law and order conservatives but have trouble not being a reactive arguer will allude to life prison or the death penalty but waffle on the delivery in 'progressive' spaces so theyll just advocate for exiling them to the wilderness. or something

[37q]

[transsexualfiend]

The worst part is seeing self-labeled "leftist abolitionist anarchist punks" etc say shit like this. If you advocate for mass killing or incarceration of abusers, you probably aren't a leftist, abolitionist, anarchist, punk, or whatever.

[miiilowo]

haaate when i actually find advertisements funny. makes me feel dirty . makes me feel impure

[3liza]

touching grass isn't enough we should be staging small community productions of shakespeare

[arienai]

"my fave did nothing wrong" oh yeah well MY fave fucked everything up and she's still my fave so

[serpercival]

mash + incorrect quotes (9) (oops, all traphawk edition)

[parkchanwoohoo]

I cannot trust the artistic opinions of anybody who can't frankly admit that the vast majority of whatever's produced in their chosen medium (books, film, etc) is unsalvageable pigslop. But also that dogshit amateur art is critical for said medium. AND that pigslop and amateur dogshit is different

[parkchanwoohoo]

Publishing is largely a machine cranking out entire forests' worth of garbage not worth reading. AND your unedited, barely-coherent 500k word Super Smash Bros fanfiction is vital for the soul to flourish. There is no contradiction here

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[pokkin]

I went to a taylor swift concert once and it was mostly ok but there was one standout moment where they brought a red pulsating jewel on stage. Taylor said it was called the heart of Ozymandias. She kept inviting people on stage to touch it and every time they did they would turn into sand and blow away. And people just kept going up and touching the thing.