i love trans men’s version of masculinity. it’s like they curated all the really cool and good parts, amplified them and left out most of the shitty toxic parts; (those who believe the toxic parts are a necessary part of masculinity notwithstanding).
if i were a man i’d totally want to be like a trans man.
@tillybridges 👆💦👆💦
@taedryn @rooster @aprilkirby @AlwaysAutumn@mastodon.lol @SymTrkl@eldritch.cafe @NineIsntPrime@tech.lgbt @sstrickl @daisy @you_jo_girl Feel this. I’m 6,2”, and trying to own it. 🌱
@h5e Right? I feel like we sometimes focus so much on our messy relationships with others and with ourselves that we forget to talk about our messy relationships with books. 💖📚💔
I’m all about it: I’m in a polyamorous relationship with 1,000 books, and I’m not afraid to talk about anymore! 🐙
And of course, shelves and shelves and stack and stacks across several rooms of books that I have no specific intent to read, but rather something more like a generalized potentiality.
And then again, there’s my Kindle, home to a decade of regrettable choices that I will never apologize for. 🥰 Half of which are in various states of completion. Is it book half read, or book half unread? Yes.
@maddiefuzz I’ll go a little further: people don’t perceive people the same way we perceive photographs of people. Part of that is the flattening from three dimensions to two. Part of it is that people are always in motion. Part of that is just because our brains are crazy wonderful biased fruitcakes that perceive people far less literally than they do photographs.
A lot of portrait photography is working around these limitations to try and recreate a perception of a person in a photographic medium. It’s not easy.
I can take half a dozen photos of someone and make them look like half a dozen different people. They’re all ~accurate records of light striking photosensitive medium. They all have very little to do with what people see when they look at you.
@bumpus whoah, cool.
give he-man the she-ra treatment. make a show about a prince with the magical ability to transform from a twink to a butch leather daddy using his magical sword held aloft.
give me his adventures with his body diverse polycule.
make “what’s up” by four non blondes the official theme song.
@kaessa @Fawn@ohai.social 😍
@faithisleaping In some ways the flat responses are the most difficult. 💐
@bumpus In the beginning, as we come out, we need to keep track of who knows what—to maintain records of our different manifestations across social contexts—but there will be a line you will cross, eventually, where that stops, and you are just you, and everyone else has to update _their_ records of who you are, as you grow and change—all that bookkeeping delegated.
It’s going to feel really good when you get there. 🥰
@bumpus you’ll get there! Every little step counts!
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