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  • 9th May
    2013
  • 09
alt0151:

alder-knight:

gingerhaole:


Once upon a time, I drew a mermaid and a pirate queen in love.


“I knew you’d come back,” laughed the swimming woman, flipping her tail as a school of fish passed below her. “I’ve missed you, you rogue.”The captain grinned, climbing forward to lean over the bow of her rowboat. “And I you, little one,” she answered, “though we both knew it would be like this - you follow the shad migration, I follow my fortune. But we’re at port, and my first mate has command til I return…”The mermaid grasped the wooden sides of the boat and hoisted herself up to look her lover in the face. “And when will you return?”The captain cupped the woman’s cheek in her hand, and bent close. “How about you meet me in the cove just over there, and we just take our time, shall we?” She placed a kiss on the woman’s salty lips.The mermaid sighed and leaned up into the kiss hungrily, and then, abruptly, broke it off with a laugh and splashed back into the sea, sleek as a dolphin. She raced through the calm turquoise water towards the white sand of the cove beyond, as the captain cursed, laughed, and rowed to catch up.Pulling off her boots, the captain hopped out of the boat and into the shallows, pulled the dinghy up onto the shore, and shed the rest of her clothing before wading into the warm, salty water and the open arms of her waiting lover.

You follow the shad migration, I follow my fortune.


This is fucking GOOD.

alt0151:

alder-knight:

gingerhaole:

Once upon a time, I drew a mermaid and a pirate queen in love.

“I knew you’d come back,” laughed the swimming woman, flipping her tail as a school of fish passed below her. “I’ve missed you, you rogue.”

The captain grinned, climbing forward to lean over the bow of her rowboat. “And I you, little one,” she answered, “though we both knew it would be like this - you follow the shad migration, I follow my fortune. But we’re at port, and my first mate has command til I return…”

The mermaid grasped the wooden sides of the boat and hoisted herself up to look her lover in the face. “And when will you return?”

The captain cupped the woman’s cheek in her hand, and bent close. “How about you meet me in the cove just over there, and we just take our time, shall we?” She placed a kiss on the woman’s salty lips.

The mermaid sighed and leaned up into the kiss hungrily, and then, abruptly, broke it off with a laugh and splashed back into the sea, sleek as a dolphin. She raced through the calm turquoise water towards the white sand of the cove beyond, as the captain cursed, laughed, and rowed to catch up.

Pulling off her boots, the captain hopped out of the boat and into the shallows, pulled the dinghy up onto the shore, and shed the rest of her clothing before wading into the warm, salty water and the open arms of her waiting lover.

You follow the shad migration, I follow my fortune.

This is fucking GOOD.

(via anddeathsmiled)

  • 9th May
    2013
  • 09

kanaya-maryammm-or-fmmm:

  • it’s okay to be genderfluid but usually a girl
  • it’s okay to be genderfluid but usually a boy
  • it’s okay to be agender one day and bigender the next
  • it’s okay to not identify as any specific gender
  • it’s okay to keep your gender to yourself
  • your gender is your own goddamn business

(via stopanthropomorphizingme)

  • 9th May
    2013
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  • 9th May
    2013
  • 09

elendraug:

ELENDRAUG’S TRANS*GUY GIVEAWAY

  • Mr. Fenis STP in your choice of skintone, donated by FtM Essentials—a sibling company of Early2Bed (NSFW)
  • A t-shirt in your size, donated by Saint Harridan
  • A binder of your choice from T-Kingdom (Pictured: M801), funded by my friends (love you guys <3)
  • Anthony Logistics for Men Grab + Go airline travel kit and American Crew forming cream, donated by me
  • Jamison Green’s Becoming A Visible Man, from my personal collection
  • STP device donated by NumberOne Laboratory (caramel or peach)
  • A backpack, stickers, and either a Mr. Limpy (3.5” or 5”, in vanilla or caramel) or a $10 gift certificate, donated by The Self Made Men
  • Six cologne samples, donated by Sephora

All items except the book are BRAND NEW; the book is in like-new condition.

RULES:

  1. Trans* identified ONLY! If you are female-assigned-at-birth and identify as transmasculine somehow — genderqueer, genderfluid, transboi, transdude, transman, drag king, pre-op/post-op/no-op, this is for YOU and you alone! No cismen! No ciswomen! This is NOT a cosplay giveaway!
  2. Reblog as many times as you like, but please be mindful of your followers. People of all gender identities may reblog to signal boost! Thank you for your support. :D
  3. 18+ only, and you must be comfortable with me shipping these items to you! I will ship outside the United States but may ask for your help paying shipping. I would really love to include trans* teenagers, because you guys need the support, but I don’t want anyone’s parents yelling at me. (If your parent/guardian is willing to talk to me about this, I may make an exception.)
  4. You don’t need to be following me, but please check out the sponsors of this giveaway, especially those who have a tumblr presence: Saint Harridan | The Self Made Men | Number One Laboratory
  5. Giveaway ends June 15th at 12:00 noon CST. Please have your ask box open! 

Enter here — tumblr will start archiving/deleting visible notes, and to keep it fair to those who are reblogging, I’m using a Google document. The usernames entered here will be kept in strict confidence and will be deleted when the giveaway is over.

Good luck!

Oh hell yeah!

(via theselfmademen)

  • 6th May
    2013
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  • 5th May
    2013
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Roasted Cauliflower and Beluga Lentil Salad

poodforn:

tastyplan:

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I woke up with a good feeling yesterday. The Greenmarket was calling my name, and I had to answer. After several weeks of an overabundance of potatoes and onions and a scarcity of anything worth my time, I was surprised to find ramps, ramps everywhere. Because they are only available for a few weeks during the early days of spring, I like to stock up on them and use them on everything while they last. Why some consider this newly acquired obsession with ramps a fad, I am a believer: ramps are delicious, you should eat them while they last.

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  • 30th April
    2013
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  • 30th April
    2013
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If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.

When people scoff at the message that we need to teach people not to rape they make the assumption that the lesson goes: “Rape is bad. Don’t do it.” That is not what the lesson looks like. The lesson, once it is adopted, will be that every single person out there, regardless of any defining personal characteristics, is a human being of value, and with a right to make their own decisions about what bodily contact to have with others. There is nothing a person can do that makes them less deserving of that right. Violating any person’s right to control the when, what and who with of their sexual interactions is wrong. Do it and you will be punished, and you will deserve it.

N.B. While not all those who are raped are women, and not all rapists are men, much less rape apologists; rape prevention myths are always targeted at women, and this post reflects this. My language in the final paragraph is very consciously gender-neutral.

  • 29th April
    2013
  • 29

I’m not very butch. I still wear eyeliner. I like the way it makes my face look. I have long hair, and sometimes I wear heels. It does feel a little like dress-up, a tad “draggy,” but I’m doing the best with what I’ve got while trying to stay true to myself. I’m not planning on transitioning into a male body like so many other trans guys, partially due to the fact that I’m an actor and believe I’ll have more success in my field if I stay in the body I have now. I’ve also embraced this appearance as part of my role in the battle against conflating sex and gender.

Still, after figuring out that I’m transgender and not crazy, I began to feel entitled to acknowledgment of the fact that I’m a man. It had always felt right, but I hadn’t previously realized that I was entitled to that acknowledgement, looking like I do. I began to ask my girlfriend to refer to me using male pronouns every so often. “It makes me feel good,” I told her. It made me feel recognized, affirmed. I’d never related to female pronouns anyway; they always made me pause a little before responding. (So does entering women’s restrooms, and checking the “female” box on government documents or job applications.) But to this day, friends who know me as male, and even my girlfriend, have a hard time remembering to acknowledge my male identity with those very affirming pronouns that so many cisgender men take for granted. Why? Because I appear female.

This brought me to the discovery that pronouns are not based on gender but on appearance. Since realizing that, I’ve gained a little more patience with people who use female pronouns when referring to me. I realize what a visual society we are. However, I know that letting the “wrong” pronouns slide and not demanding that people refer to me as I truly am may be seen as rolling over in an extremely important battle for respect of diverse gender identities. It’s hard for me to know when I should bring it up, or when I’m being too politically correct or even hypocritical. I suppose I’m engaging in the sensitive task of trying to gradually challenge what society considers “male” and what it considers “female.” Yes, transitioning is courageous and important, but I believe that it is also important for people to begin seeing and knowing men who look like me and women who look like any Joe or John on the street.

Lauren Hennessy, Pronouns and Cons (via genderfluidity)

THIS. A million times this.

  • 29th April
    2013
  • 29

planetofthehats:

Fat girls dance with happiness when they find purple skinny jeans

Hellz to the yes! And I love her hair! And I have teal skinny jeans that I ADORE wearing purples and pinks with.

(via heyfatchick)