One step closer to be human

Am just a trace of the traceless. Are you? :) Greetings from dear lil island of singapore

[thetypewriterdaily]

joy is often just remembering what you already have ☕️🫖💌

[perfectquote]

“I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be OK.”

— Shayne McClendon

[perfectquote]

“We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.”

— Marianne Williamson

[perfectquote]

“Three things you can’t recover in life … The moment, after it’s passed The words, after they’re spoken and The time, after it’s lost.”

— Unknown

[stillfuckingtired]

Brain fog is not an adequate descriptor, actually. Fog can be kinda nice and beautiful and ethereal and refreshing. The thing we’re describing is more like a brain BOG; everything moves slow like you’re wading through water, it’s clunky and heavy and you keep getting stuck in the mud. It’s uncomfortable and inconvenient and everything takes so much effort. You lost a shoe, probably.

[thoughtkick]

“Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you are choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”

— Mandy Hale

[thoughtkick]

“I’ve lived too long with pain. I won’t know who I am without it.”

— Orson Scott Card

[xveyra]

Some connections feel ancient, as if two souls signed a pact long before they ever met.

[koinwnika-adeksia]

Μαζί του

[perfectfeelings]

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”

— William Nicholson

[blumineck]

Archery x flower arranging

This was actually really fun!

Anyway, don’t forget I’m still raising money to test a bunch of things in a suit of armour:

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[thehopefulquotes]

“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as family and friends.”

— Unknown

[julaibib]

Eid prayer from Skardu, Baltistan

[perfectquote]

“Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.”

— Bob Schieffer

[perfectquote]

“There are different ways of loving, aren’t there?”

— Patrick White, The Vivisector

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[strifemars]

Thissss

[elierlick]

Thirty-year-old Tamara Rees shows us what trans empowerment looked like in 1954. She fought Nazis, taught parachuting, and traveled the world... but her biggest challenge came when the press learned of her identity.

1950s news coverage of Tamera Rees' transition shows a time before the trans moral panic. Most stories regarded her as brave or heroic for her openness. National newspapers even celebrated her wedding in 1955.

The New York Daily News, which now hosts daily anti-trans editorials, ran a shockingly respectful series on trans people in the 1950s. Tamara Rees's narrative was among the longest and most detailed. She thoughtfully implored the public to respect not only her identity, but also other trans people like her.

Tamara wasn't the first famous trans woman of the 1950s, nor was she the best known. However, she had a unique opportunity to share her own story. You can read Tamara's 1955 autobiography, Reborn: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female, at transreads.org/reborn 

[perfectquote]

“Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.”

— Chief Red Eagle