swelling has evened out almost completely now, it has also gone down a bit, and theyre completely not painful now!! i think they might be a little bruised, or the marker my piercer used to pick the placing just bled a little bit after i showered yesterday
eating is still hard but i think im getting the hang of it now!! i have been accidentally getting a little messy with it but saline spray and a q tip has been my best friend so far with getting whatever gets stuck on my jewelry
minimal crusties, not painful to remove either!!
so far ive gotten many compliments, and my bestie told me i look like a lizard lol
shes a loving hater, she keeps me humble 🫶🏻
trying really hard not to play with them while theyre healing but the urge to stim is so strong with them 😭
overall pain is a 0/10 and swelling is, i would say a 7/10 but not painful at all :)
yes i know they look a little funky, mostly because the worst of the swelling is yet to come so the bars still stick out just ever so slightly but thats okay
god i love them so much already and theyre not even in their final form yet
piercing infodump incoming in the reblogs of the post but ill leave this one here :3
jesus fucking christ growing up and finding out the people who were shitty to u are massive hypocrites is . insane
TRIGGER WARNING FOR LIKE ABUSIVE FRIENDSHIP??? this is a little bit of a ventpost about how my shitty best friend in freshman year forced his transmedicalist idea of masculinity onto me only to grow up a little bit and start dating a cis guy and fall into the trap that most of us trans guys also fall into with cis guys of “oh hes cis so i obviously need to be Girly now”
thats ur tl;dr, read on if ure interested in the juicy details below the cut
so when i was in freshman year i met a kid who was supposedly a year older than me (he wasnt) but he was also a freshman because he got held back a year (he didn’t) (he was a filthy liar)
anyways he just so happens to be a trans guy and thats not where my problem lies with this guy . i wish it was that simple .
now im also a trans guy, and i had just come out at that point when we had met, like im talking i had just freshly come out as a trans man a month before we had met. i had no idea what i was doing or how to act or dress or how to be masculine, and he was like oh let me coach u on how to be a trans man The Right Way
and his “coaching” was terrible advice that literally any trans man whos been trans for more than 5 seconds would tell u is terrible advice;
he told me to eat, sleep and shit in my binder, he told me to abandon all girly clothing and only wear HIS clothes because HIS clothes were cool and masculine and would make me pass better (they didn’t), he told me not to wear makeup unless he was the one who did it, he shamed me for not passing well enough (i was 15 and had a baby face, as well as having big ass man biddies and also being chubby) and he gave me the worlds worst first masculine haircut and dyed it an eye bleeding orange in his kitchen. he forced me to listen to his music only because my music taste was supposedly terrible and he was the one who could drive so he got to choose the playlist (spoiler alert he wasnt legally supposed to be driving without an adult over the age of 25 but that was unbeknownst to me)
basically he told me that fundamentally, i was wrong because i wasn’t him
and any ounce of femininity i dared to show and be comfortable with was also fundamentally wrong
one time while we were all hanging out at my house (him, me, my mom and her boyfriend at the time) and i was talking about how bad i wanted to get on testosterone because i just wanted to feel like a normal teenage boy.
.and get this.
he told me i was “too girly” and “not manly enough” and i “didn’t pass well enough” to go on testosterone
and he told me he thought i was faking being trans for attention and he didnt think i was actually trans because i “wasnt trying hard enough” like he was
i promise this is relevant later im not just saying this to vent
he was also a horrendously shitty person to me and everyone else at the time, and im not saying this because im still salty, no bitch i was 15 he was 15 we were both kids kids are gonna be weird and mean sometimes, but “kids being kids” is not supposed to leave u with trauma that u may never heal from . and he did that to me . but thats irrelevant
anyways, now onto the part thats kind of funny in a fucked up way
so me and his ex boyfriend are best friends now because we both survived the fucked up shit he put us both through, at the same time might i add, and we often talk about how our respective relationships with him still affect us to this day
and today we were talking about going to a concert for a band we both really like that was introduced to us by our mutual enemy, the guy this post is about
and naturally the conversation turned to what hes up to now because my bestie likes to sometimes look at his social media out of curiosity and he told me
that evil bad guy mc bad
is now in a relationship with a cis biker guy
and dresses in crop tops and mini skirts and thigh highs and wears wigs and makeup now
and good for him if he genuinely just enjoys dressing like that now, if thats all it is then im glad hes finally had some character development
but i just have a feeling thats not what this is, that hes doing this solely for the validation of his fuck ass boyfriend
and the thing is, i would feel bad if it was literally Anyone Else going through that, but he did the same thing to me, to his ex who is now my bestie, to my other friends who used to be friends with him, to anyone who’s ever known him honestly.
and i dont wish him ill anymore. i really dont, i could not care less, and this post will probably be the last time i ever think about him because i really could not care about him less at this point, but its insane to me that he used to be so like firm in his opinion that men who were feminine werent real men, and he actively enjoyed making me feel like shit for being too feminine, and now he’s doing the same thing he used to make fun of me for.
maybe im just salty because i never got a real apology from him, but at this point i dont even want an apology from him because i know that it would be more akin to colleen ballinger’s “toxic gossip train” video than a real apology
well i think ive yapped on about this enough if u read all the way here thanks lol