*Barely Comprehensible Noises*

I'm aliveeee!!

Since Europe is absolutely suffering right now, it made me think how badly the water ghouls in the ministry would suffer during the summer overall. I bet most of them would to retreat to the bottom of the lake until it’s cooler in the evening. HOWEVER, I bet the fire ghouls are absolutely thriving.

I'm sure Dew doesn't miss summers as a water ghoul LMAO

This is a harm reduction post about DIY

I've seen some people recently using the term "bathtub estrogen" as a little joke about the production of DIY estradiols. This is fine by me as a joking term, I get that people are 1) trying to evoke a DIY punkish or prohibition moonshine sort of image and 2) communicating that we are having to turn to much less carefully prepared forms of medicine than cis people can access when we use DIY. However I recently saw a trans woman with a large platform make the joke and then when asked about it sort of waffle around the topic for a bit and then shruggingly say she does think that some estrogen is made in a bathtub in a way that made it pretty clear she doesn't actually know much about the production side of DIY. She also gestured to a global south DIY producer as being the one who was doing this, which I think is just clumsily labelling people overseas as a bit dumb and less clean.

I've been researching the production of DIY HRT for a few years as I think that the overseas supplies of DIY will be the next thing to be cracked down on by the government after all legally prescribed forms of HRT for trans people are shut down. My aim in researching it is to spread the relevant information to reduce harm for DIY users without making anyone's operations obvious to malicious parties. I can't entirely rule out the possiblity that someone very dumb and reckless is producing DIY in a place that is not sufficiently sterile, and this is part of the inherent risk of DIYing. I can however say that anyone who could afford to get the ingredients to produce DIY estradiols categorically has the money to use a professional-grade lab for it.

I would like to be clear here: bathtub estrogen does not exist

If you read the book "Come As You Are" by Emily Nagoski, PhD, chapter 6: Arousal you will see what I mean. Just because your pussy reacts to something that is sexual (getting wet) doesn't mean you are liking it. This is very important for women who have ever been sexually abused. They might feel guilty because they for sure know they didn't want this but their pussy still reacted like she did. It is just a normal reaction. Same goes for men who get hard but might not want to fuck you.

“In other words, genitals may learn to associate certain stimuli with certain psychological responses that may have no association with desire or pleasure.”

Pig tails, bracers, sticking their tongue out to concentrate, pointing their feet in, babbling at me for hours about all their favourite things

Here’s the finished Rain art from the previous post!! I’ve changed his design a teenyyy tinyyyy little bit, but oh my god I love him.

HAZE, ZEPHYR, SUNSHINE AND COWBELL DESIGNS!!

OKAY SO!!

I headcanon that Haze’s strongest elements are water and quintessence, so I gave her webbing and ram-like horns. For Sunshine I headcanon her strongest elements as air and fire. I purposefully didn’t give Zephyr a tail (due to a summoning accident perhaps), so he sits down frequently during performances due to his poor balance and relies on mobility aids. I couldn’t find anything that explained WHY some people named him ChAIR. Is it just because he sat down sometimes???

Sorry this took so long, I just wanted to draw them in their different era uniforms!!! Anyway, thankyou to those who requested these guys and feel free to request who you’d like to see next!!!

(Heres an extra Mountain magma doodle too, I keep redesigning my first ghoul designs because I’m not satisfied with some of them AT ALL. So now Mountain is more mountain-goat like!!)

A little Cirrus x Cumulus for the hungry!! 💗

Oh, and V is there too ig 🙄 (just kidding, I love him too I promise. Its been a while since I last drew him!!)

Better late than never!! Happy Pride!!

A bunch of random ships!! It honestly just started off as the ghoulettes and then became a page of other ships too.

Just wanted to post some pics of Sodo just look at him!!

When we talk about kink, a lot of the time people treat safe words as if they are exclusively an expression of an absolute limit. A firm proclamation that the scene is too rough, the pain too much, the situation too extreme, and that the entire thing needs to stop. Safeword use in such situations is obviously essential and mandatory in order to bring the scene or sensation to an end and ensure the safety of all participants. This is not, however, the only time a safeword should be used.

They can be used to express when someone is at their limit. They can mean the scene needs to end completely because the sub can't take it anymore at all. But they don't have to mean that. Safewords should be used to pause or stop the scene and break character for any reason. You can also use your safeword to pause and discuss a limit, communicate that something is or isn't working for you, ensure that everything is going to plan, take a water break, go get a toy from the other room, check with your partner about something, pause to change your laundry, or do absolutely anything else out of character related to your scene.

This is why a lot of people use green/yellow/red.

Green - continue

Yellow - pause and make a change (this can be anything from "slow down a little bit" to "I need something different but want to keep going")

Red - I need this situation to be over and for us to get right into aftercare.

What a lot of people seem to miss is that in this framework yellow is also a safeword.

All of this is ignoring the additional dimension that Dominants also need to safeword!! It's completely normal and if you're doing a lot of BDSM it should happen in your daily kink life often. Real life is not a romance novel.