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Like many before me, I have an affinity with transgender as monster metaphor. I feel the Strykerean rage, the chimeric assemblage of alien…

#transgender

when i was younger

four years old...

eight...

sixteen

I wanted

to be beautiful

to feel lovely

to be one of the girls

but as my body grew

all i could feel was

repulsive

revulsion

isolation

now that i’m older

i want to be at least somewhere

inbetween

like a softer

and

more subtle Frankenstein’s monster

#poem #poetry #short poem

In a universe of desire

Beinged with unique passions

Love shines like a dewy thread of worm silk in the light of an orange morning sky

The air

Cold to your bare skin

But filled with enough energy to flatten a city

Covers you as we stand before the world

Arms stretched skyward

Welcoming in the world

#poetry #Poems #writeblr

them

who am I in safety?

at my most comfortable to be at my most vulnerable.

I am the hope before the heartbreak.

that joy, that love.

a purple thistle called, ‘them’

it is there in that sweetness

I find that I am still me despite

I’m about to disappear into the gasping void of disappointment.

I will hold onto that hope.

it gives me anchor.

that no matter what I lose or gain,

I'm still me.

#poetry #short poem #poem #nonbinary #transgirl #transgender

Check in

I’m here. Life is super busy. I’m happier in some ways, the same in others, sadder in others. I’m making more friends lately. It’s... different. Nice.

The book is still selling nicely. But even just as good, I found my poems I wrote at the beginning of my transition. I’ll share here. But mostly because someone I care about wants to read them. :)

Amazon.com: The Necrosopher’s Apprentice: Book One of the Blackweed Almanac eBook: Lilith Hope Milam: Kindle Store

It's fun to learn that your book is keeping people up at night 💜.

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Buy my book.

#booklover #bookish #amreading #wip #adventure #horrorblr #horrorstories #amwriting #fantasy #horror #fantasybooks #writeblr #epic fantasy #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookworm #booknerd

erensattacktitandick-deactivate

more fantasy gripes: i actually despise that the measure of whether or not you’re a good worldbuilder™ is based on how much irrelevant, extraneous detail you put into your books rather than whether or not your world is engaging, “believable” and immersive. i mean, so what if i don’t want to spend years of my life painstakingly detailing every past monarch’s favourite food or eye colour. why is that relevant?? why is that important?? what does this add to the story?? i think a lot of fantasy would be greatly improved if it wasn’t pages full of men wanking off about the boring minutiae of some local lord’s flag that will only ever appear once in the story and never again.

thegardener777

World building is for the author. It's fun and you can get lost in it. But it's not the story. When I edited my first draft, the first thing I took out was the unnecessary world details.

tenderwiki

reasons why people with ADHD lie

we didn't remember what was happening and our brain made something up we only later realized wasn't true.

no one believes us when we tell the truth so it's easier to lie.

we didn't realize we were lying until the words were already out.

we have a complicated relationship to truth in that we rarely know what it is until we're told/have it affirmed to us.

myadhdlife

We're embarrassed

linguisticparadox

we're gonna get yelled at for telling the truth anyway (because it involves some ADHD fuck-up or other)

transloveletter

the crushing fear of rejection we think will happen if we dont give the “correct” answer even if there is literally no wrong answer

sir-libearian

oh. Oh

thegardener777

Oh.

😞

Republicans who blocked passage for years say action is too late to change U.S. Constitution.

YES

#equal rights #va lgbtq #love will win #equal rights amendment #virginia

mioxenoblade

There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.

*slaps roof of car