Life & Stuff Of A Trans Nonbinary Being

The not-so-secret transition blog for B. (Warning: there will be dicks.)

[c-bassmeow]

me: im tired 

Someone in walmart: NOT as tired as our TROOPS! 

[littlelinguaphile]

Alternatively, a mother: Just wait until you have kids :)

[c-bassmeow]

Honestly the two worst kinds of people ever oh yeah and “wait until you’re my age” the fucking three horsemen of undermining your pain

[gupdoo3]

what about the fourth horseman of “what about all those starving orphans in africa”

[zensends]

“Not as tired as our troops!”: War

“Just wait until you have kids”: Conquest

“Wait until you’re my age”: Death

“What about all the starving kids in Africa?”: Famine

[eldritchdoorman]

[kathrynroseksk]

dead

[cristinterrill]

I mean, yes, this is funny, but mostly I’m just struck by how AMAZING language and its capacity for evolution and elasticity is. This would be incomprehensible to an English-speaker living in any other time.

[tamthewriter]

Truly we live in an age of wonders.

[dimetrodone]

Sea otters and giant river otters are like if someone got two artists to design a giant otter, but ended up with two very different ideas on what they should look like cause one draws hello kitty fanart and the other was a nihilist.

[vicmorrowsghost]

Ok, but like… seriously.

[peachymean]

this looks like sea ottters reacting to the incredible violence of a river otter

[nevaehtyler]

💀💀💀

[robpilled]

do u ever just

[lolepopenon-moved]

I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS FEELING PICTURED SO PERFECTLY

[intheheatherbright]

Costume. Chitons.

[intheheatherbright]

Marjorie & C. H. B.Quennell, Everyday Things in Archaic Greece (London: B. T. Batsford, 1931).

[killerchickadee]

Wait, wait…. Is that seriously it? How their clothes go?

[treewizarded]

that genuinely is it

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

yeah hey whats up bout to put some fucking giant sheets on my body

lets bring back sheetwares

[ardatli]

When you’re carding, spinning and weaving everything from scratch, using the big squares exactly as they come off the loom must seem like a fucking brilliant idea. 90% (or more) of pre-14th century clothing is made purely on squares (and sometimes triangles cut from squares). 

[annathecrow-that-was]

How did they get the fabric so fine it draped like that? Was that something medieval europe forgot? Or do I just have a completely misguided image of historical clothing?

[ardatli]

Medieval Europe also had incredibly fine weaves, though the ancient world tended to have them beat. Linen was found in Egypt woven with a fineness that we’re still trying to replicate, and there was a kind of cotton woven in India called ‘woven wind’ that was supposedly still translucent at eight layers, and wool shawls so fine that the entire thing could be drawn through a wedding ring. 

The way they could get away with pinking and slashing doublets in the 16th century was partially because the fabrics were so tightly woven that you could simply cut a line on the bias and nothing would fray. 

Modern fabric machining sucks ass in terms of giving us any kind of quality like the kind human beings produced prior to the Industrial Revolution. 

[spazzbot]

*yells about textile history*

[tardygrading]

Reblogging because it’s fascinating.

[wulfundlied-deactivated20180618]

The Celts made very fine clothing as well. They invented plaid after all, and the same weaves that have been found at the La Tene/Halstatt salt mines in Austria were also found as far away as western China in the tombs of the Tarim mummies.

[woodsmokeandwords]

Can we talk about 18th century and regency era muslin as well because that shit is gorgeous. It’s so fine it’s more transparent than silk chiffon and oh the tiny hems you can make with it!! I have an 18th century neckerchief and the hem is about 2mm wide. Not kidding, 2mm!!! Because it didn’t fray like our stuff does now. All we can produce nowadays is a rough, scratchy, bullshit excuse for muslin and it’s horrid.

[bmwiid]

I love this because we’ve gotten so blind to what makes ‘good’ fabric now - machine lace? horrible scratchy shit mostly made from poly. Actual lace is handmade, lasts for fucking EVER and looks stunning. 

Regency gowns fucking rocked in terms of fabric quality - we use muslin as a ‘throw away’ before sewing the real fabric, back then it WAS a real fabric and it was so finely made you wouldn’t even think it was the same stuff. 

Hand hemming is still the best way to finish off anything, but harder than hell because of the shitty weave of modern fabrics. 

Satin? Silks?!

Pah. Yes, fabric is cheaper, more affordable and varied than before, but it is an area where QUALITY was sacrificed for QUANTITY. 

(I don’t want to seem like I’m shitting on how great we have it now for clothes and martials or anything, because YAY!! but also, I’d love to get my mits on a bolt of real Muslin) 

[scarimor-deactivated20180521]

archaeologists recently found some Bronze Age fabric woven on site and preserved in marsh in England. it’s fine to die for. they were exporting it and trading into Asia.

[countlessscreamingargonauts]

I’m not into fashion, but I love reading about the history and evolution of it.

[bramblepatch]

My favorite textile history fact is that the ancient Romans loved really sheer, floaty silks, but at the time the fashion in China, where the silk was produced, was for heavy, intricate brocades. So the Romans would import the heavier fabrics, painstakingly unravel them, and use the silk thread to weave the fabric they liked.

[obviousplant]

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[mohtz]

when you grow but the walls around you stay the same

[underthenerdhood]

a little girl who grows up thinking all doors are automatic but actually she’s haunted by a really polite ghost

[peterdrabbit]

So chivalry IS dead?!

[underthenerdhood]

you win best response to this post 

[0briel]

you come over to my house to hang out. there is absolutely no decoration in my home besides these

[memecucker]

these all look like patrick warburton’s voice

[cupsofjade-deactivated20250509]

[thedreadpirateblogger]

Can we talk about this scene for a minute? Because I tear up literally every damn time I watch it. 

After losing his son, Iroh fought tirelessly to save his nephew from Ozai’s brainwashing, no matter how hard Zuko tried to push him away. But even after years of sticking by him through every dead end and reckless gambit, Zuko still goes back to his awful father. Once again, Iroh couldn’t save his son and it just kills him. 

Then the kid shows up with team Avatar, because it turns out some of those proverbs got through to him after all.

But the part that really gets me is Zuko’s perspective.

Sitting outside that tent, he’s so damn scared. He’s so convinced Iroh hates him, he won’t even go in without a pep talk from Katara. Everyone else can see that Iroh will be proud of what his nephew has done since they last met, but Zuko can’t. When Zuko goes in to see the family he disappointed, he’s braced for yelling and fire and rage because that’s what he’s been raised to expect when he screws up. Pissing off his father got him disgraced, burned, tossed in the street, told he didn’t deserve to be alive, and shot at with lightening. A lifetime of experience says he should be scared. He doesn’t expect to be forgiven, he just wants Iroh to know he’s sorry. 

And then Iroh’s not even mad. NOT EVEN MAD. Mercy and compassion are so alien to Zuko that immediate forgiveness wasn’t even a remote possibility. He’s so utterly confused, but at the same time, so, so relieved. He hasn’t lost his only family. The only person who stayed by him all those years in exile. The only father who loved him.

They both thought they’d lost the only family they had left. Instead, they find themselves closer than they’ve ever been. And I tear up every damn time.

[carrionbeast]

i once had a dream about a black and white scribbly cartoon called Eve In Eden about Eve in the garden of Eden and she hung out with Satan and G_d who were only ever a giant snake and like assorted shapes respectively. Adam did not appear. It was kind of a slapstick thing i think? 

maybe ill make this one day

[pipistrellus]

omg helia i love it

[ghostpain-deactivated20161208]

[angelicguy]

watching steven universe is the polar opposite of eating pussy

[pixielight-dee-foxfire]

literally every kind of tumbler discourse is happening in the notes of this

[zagreus]

this post is one of the most cursed I have ever laid eyes on

[whifferdills]

what happened here

[pangur-and-grim]

an incomplete list of PANGUR SINS:

sat on my mother’s lap & then bit her, curled up beside Marmaduke & then bit him, accepted a kiss from Grim & then slapped her, filled the house w sharp screams at 3am bc she fall asleep downstairs & work up Alone, bellowed for food & then continued bellowing bc the brand was unsatisfactory, bellowed for play & then continued bellowing bc her toy was boring, developed an overwhelming phobia toward her new toy  (it squeaks when you bite it), tore a hole in the couch & then hid inside for 3 hours to escape The New Toy, woke me up by licking my cheek repeatedly til it was raw & painful, woke me up by lying across my neck & cutting off my airflow, woke me up by starting a fight w Grim on my chest, woke me up by biting through the skin of my toes,

[boyfriendofficial-deactivated20]

absolve her of all wrongdoing

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

[greatfay]

it never occurred to me that some people actually “gradually stir in” their pasta

[whatlovelybooks-deactivated2026]

Yeah?? What do you do with yours???

[greatfay]

dump it all in the pot at once like the spaghetti goblin I am

[mjalti]

i crave simple things in life like fresh sourdough bread with a shallow but ornate dipping bowl containing olive oil/balsamic/fresh herbs on a moonlit evening overlooking the sea in some fuckall, Mediterranean location where i’m left alone to eat my bread and let the iodine from the sea air heal my torn up spirit & also six hundred million dollars in unmarked duffle bags stuffed into a swiss bank account box i receive for completing a job of dubious morality