chez Tirielle

Call me Tirielle (she/her)! I like to make things. This blog is mostly a collection of things I like, and sometimes of things I create! pfp: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2260685

[free-my-mindd]

[transcockiness]

this is your sign to start HRT

The DIY HRT Directory 2.0

The DIY HRT Directory offers transgender individuals comprehensive guidance on safely performing DIY hormone replacement therapy, including

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

[quorpiest]

no mi circo no mis feratus

[bob-artist]

Brotherhood of The Orb

[bob-artist]

[insomniac-arrest]

no offense, but what was the point of that cool older lady character in Spirited Away

except, you know, to make me question my sexuality at 12 during midnight rewatches as I looked at her weirdly pretty mouth and had Questions

[insomniac-arrest]

!!! 

me, falling in love with every woman I see whose purpose is to eat and be pretty:

[cannedviennasnausage]

#her and Ursula from Kiki’s Delivery Service#the archetype is ‘lesbian who accidentally adopted this child’

[bramblepatch]

I mean, I’m pretty sure Lin is supposed to represent what Chihiro’s future might be like if she accepted her role in the bath house and didn’t try to maintain her own identity and values. She’s not a bad person, but she’s hedonistic to exactly the extent that the bath house culture allows her to be as an employee and has no ambition beyond the system of favors, bribes, and petty intimidation between low-level workers. She’s traded her individuality and opportunity to better herself for the security of predictable exploitation and she doesn’t seem to regret it.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Lin is the only other major character who looks human throughout the movie - I’m not certain she started out human, but I suspect she may have, and may have fully traded away her humanity. I do think it’s significant that she, unlike Chihiro and Haku, doesn’t reclaim her name at the end of the story.

She doesn’t want her independence or identity back. Her purpose is to eat and look pretty.

[uovoc]

Alternate interpretation: I always thought Lin meant to be a comforting presence.

She’s the first bathhouse worker who is kind to Chihiro, helping her get her clothes and navigate her first work assignment and sneak food. One of the core themes of Spirited Away is finding your footing in a new and terrifying place, and Lin and Haku are key allies in Chihiro’s struggle to gain the skills and self-assurance she needs in order to thrive.

Lin’s human appearance helps us and Chihiro feel more sympathetic towards her . Her familiarity with the system of favors and bribes makes her appealing as a role model who can demystify Chihiro’s new environment for her. Unlike the more inhuman occupants of the bathhouse, Lin looks like someone Chihiro could become in the future, and that’s a good thing! She’s living proof that the bathhouse is not such a monstrous and scary place. Because Lin treats the bathhouse like home, Chihiro begins to see it as a home, too.

And once Chihiro starts to think of the bathhouse as her territory, she realizes that she has agency in this place as well. She uses its rules to her own advantage to free Haku and herself.

And that is the point of Chihiro’s journey in Spirited Away: it’s a metaphor for starting over in a new place and overcoming fear of the unfamiliar. After all, the frame story is Chihiro’s family moving to a new city. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro is despondent, unhappy to be leaving her old friends behind. By the end, after making it through the spirit world, she’s taking a much more active role in helping her parents settle into their new home.

TLDR: Lin is there to be Chihiro’s friend.

[aethersea]

These theories coexist really well, I think. Lin has accepted her place within this system, and that’s given her the confidence and experience to be a mentor for Chihiro. Because she knows the system, she can make things a little better for Chihiro.

Because Chihiro has a mentor and friend, she learns how to survive and even do well in the Bathhouse. It’s because of Lin that Chihiro is able to not accept her place within this system and instead fight back, and in the end to make things a little better for everyone.

There’s something there about community, and easing the path for those who come after you. Lin doesn’t regret her choices because they were the best choices she could make, and that’s okay. It’s not a tragedy. She got as far as she could get, and because she did, she’s there to help Chihiro get farther. 

And isn’t that what we’re all here for, in the end? To go as far as we can, and then give a hand up to those coming after us? It’s never a tragedy when children can go farther than their mentors ever could. That’s a triumph.

[poikaboo]

{ID 1 - 3 - Three gifs of Lin from Spirited Away, being generally cool 4 - reply from @/get-cuboned, “Her purpose is to eat and be pretty” 5 - gif from Sailor Moon of a girl with shining eyes

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[bi-accident]

Niche skill check

[dollsahoy]

Slight correction to a lot of the comments--it's not "Baking guy plays piano too," it's "Piano guy bakes too"

Young pianist with a love for yesteryear hits the right notes

Inspired by the entertainers of Bermuda’s “golden age”, composer and pianist Dylan Hollis is hard at work on what he does best — creating mu

I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?

The Rockwell Pursuit

A Large Expansive Quest Mod has the courier travelling across Post-Apocalyptic America. To reunite the Rockwell People with their Superstruc

which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.

[dollsahoy]

More people finding out his Fallout affinity thanks to this shirt

[fadedlovemp3]

rb to relieve the back pain of the person u reblogged this from

[sugarsaltreading]

BDP Press is running a Kickstarter to publish a doujinshi by Battan (Run Away With Me Girl, Fatale Game, Secondhand Sisters) in English! Kinbae aka The Golden Fly is the story of a high-class courtesan and her maid in 19th-century France. The Kickstarter is here!

[memories-of-ancients]

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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[motherfuckingnazgul]

oh this is extremely fun. i did NOT do all that well but i can see myself getting good. i will be doing this regularly.

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[kareenvorbarra]

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Not bad!

[bjurnberg]

Kneading bread dough is the most grounding thing for me. So I decided to make some rolls to relieve some stress and make something nice.

@stealingyourbones has made some delightful food abominations, which taught me I can replace the water in bread with almost any liquid.

So I tried Miso.

The yeast loved it and frothed up super fast. Mixing miso broth with the egg and oil smelled funky. The dough didn’t rise any fluffier than usual but the texture feels good. Then I decided to roll in some black garlic and green onion. I’d add nori crumbled up but I ran out.

Now we let it bake.

[bjurnberg]

Holyshitumaioishiiii

This is amazing. It tastes like if miso soup was solid. The flavor is immaculate. It’s just missing the nori flavor. I can add that next time because I am 100% making this again.

[bjurnberg]

WAIT I HAD FURIKAKE IN THE CUPBOARD!!!!

This is what perfection tastes like.

[bjurnberg]

Yes! I love sharing recipes! @lady-jeleania

Here’s my Gma Vesta’s hamburger bun recipe:

1 Tbsp yeast

1/2 cup warm water (miso broth)

- mix together and let it froth up

1 1/2 cup warm water (miso broth)

1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 egg

1/4 cup olive oil

- mix all together, then add frothy yeast

5 1/2 - 6ish cups flour

- mix in slowly with a fork until it’s hard to stir with the fork, then stir together with hands until it stops sticking to your skin when you rub your hands together.

- knead the dough about 10min until it starts pushing back (it gets springy)

Let the dough rest for 30min.

(I make a redneck proof box by microwaving a cup of water and quickly replacing the water with the dough bowl and shutting the door to give it a warm place to nap. Do not microwave the dough itself by reflex.)

Roll out the dough and add any flavors you like. For the miso soup bread I chopped up a couple black garlics, and a handful of green onion. Roll it up like cinnamon rolls, cut into 12, and roll each into a ball shape.

Stick in a greased 9x13 casserole dish and let the dough rise to double size. (About 40min-1hr depending on how warm your kitchen is.) (the redneck proof box won’t fit my casserole dish so I stick the rolls on top of the oven while it preheats with a dish towel over it.)

Preheat the oven to 350 and when the dough looks nice and squishy bake it for 20min.

You can brush butter on top if you want. That would look pretty and help a sprinkling of furikake stick after you pull it out of the oven. If you wanna up the miso taste you can also spread a very thin layer of miso paste in before you roll it up with the other fillings. I’m gonna try that next time.

Bake! Eat! Enjoy! Knead all your frustrations into the bread then cleanse it with fire! Lemme know how yours turn out 💕🍀✨🥖

[stuckinapril]

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[scared-transmasc]

People with chronic pain and hypermobility:

How are we sleeping without excruciating pain? Is that an option?

[ennieasys]

My hypermobile pro tips:

(aka shit that actually worked that I don't usually hear about):

A Pregnancy Pillow - it's the most comfortable thing I have ever slept on. It supports so many joints at the same time without hurting others

Ace Wraps - your first instinct will be to tie that shit as tightly as possible: don't. Do it tight enough to comfortably bend the joint without cutting off circulation. (my go to is able to stick one or two fingers between you and the bandage) works best on joints you want to keep straight, if it starts to go numb, white, or purple- take it off.

KT Tape - Ace wraps are reusable and held by pins, KT tape sticks to your skin and is not reusable. Google "-joint name- kt tape" and it will show you how to apply it for that joint. Can be used for any joint of any size and left on for multiple days. Use lotion or any skin-safe oil to remove.

Heat Packs - I don't know why but it helps my joints. And the sensation makes pain less intense because you feel the heat over the discomfort. Also it's comfy

[official-impravidus]

wrist guards are my bffs - if i sleep without them, my wrists hyperextend at night

[indeedgoodman]

[rabbitindisguise]

Me, before I saw this: old timey dancing in cartoons has to be over-exaggerated for effect

Me, now: old timey dancing in cartoons had to be toned down to promote a sense of realism because they were too good at it

[scared-transmasc]

People with chronic pain and hypermobility:

How are we sleeping without excruciating pain? Is that an option?

[ennieasys]

My hypermobile pro tips:

(aka shit that actually worked that I don't usually hear about):

A Pregnancy Pillow - it's the most comfortable thing I have ever slept on. It supports so many joints at the same time without hurting others

Ace Wraps - your first instinct will be to tie that shit as tightly as possible: don't. Do it tight enough to comfortably bend the joint without cutting off circulation. (my go to is able to stick one or two fingers between you and the bandage) works best on joints you want to keep straight, if it starts to go numb, white, or purple- take it off.

KT Tape - Ace wraps are reusable and held by pins, KT tape sticks to your skin and is not reusable. Google "-joint name- kt tape" and it will show you how to apply it for that joint. Can be used for any joint of any size and left on for multiple days. Use lotion or any skin-safe oil to remove.

Heat Packs - I don't know why but it helps my joints. And the sensation makes pain less intense because you feel the heat over the discomfort. Also it's comfy

[official-impravidus]

wrist guards are my bffs - if i sleep without them, my wrists hyperextend at night

[aceinthetrap]

Dynasty Flowchart (Extended) – Nüwa Hanfu

An ultra extended flowchart for identifying dynasties! Even identifying sub-periods of each dynasty. As always, this is a general guide ther

does the makeup look sad or happy? >>> goth & sad >>> middle tang dynasty [lmao]

[gremlininho]

then & now ♡

[lauralot89]

The Veil of History

Born at random as any human who ever lived — where, when, and into what? A sourced, interactive model of the birth lottery across 117 billio