Space is pretty cool

(Court mandated Davesport slop neow!)

Thank.

—A lone gelatinous fic writer

I think trans women who still look like boys are awesome

I think trans women who don't have the time or money to look more femininely are awesome

I think trans women who want to transition but are scared of what their family would think are awesome

I think trans women are awesome

Made pride wallpapers!

With pride month coming up soon, i felt that this was necessary, especially with the way the world is right now.

Anyways, feel free to use as you like. I will in fact be making more but it might have to wait till tomorrow or friday.

DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT CREDIT REBLOGS APPRECIATED

June 12th, 2016. 2:02 AM, Latin Night. This is when the horrific attack on Pulse Nightclub occurred.

Today, we remember the names of the 49 queer and trans people whose lives were tragically lost, along with the many more who were injured.

See the memorial

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

on a microbudget

I regularly aqquire pins from different events that i would never wear so every few months I'll have a session of turning them into cooler more personalised ones. this is super cheap and quick to do (+drying time)

you're gonna need

- fabric scraps

- prints, images, letter cutouts, stickers, acrylic paint

- E6000/hi-tack/modge-podge

- varnish/resin

that's it

step 1

cover the old button in fabric by spreading the glue on your fabric in a thin layer and sticking it onto the pin

make sure you take the time to press the edges inside, with thicker fabrics you might find clipping the edges to help with buckling of the fabric.

step 2

do whatever the fuck you want.

you can paint the fabric, you can collage on it, you can just glue one big sticker to it (make sure to put your strong glue on it), I reused mostly magazines, super old newspapers, some misprints, my brothers super old ID photo. make sure the paper is glued flush to the fabric. you can copy designs, you can make your own, you can do whatever the hell you want. if you need inspiration look at vintage pins they were something elseee

step 3

varnish.

put a sturdy varnish to protect them from the elements. i just had matt spray varnish so i used that, i do 2-4 coats depending on the type of paper used (more fragile ones get more coats). this might interact with the ink in prints in unpredictable ways, beware. if something got too dark just go back in with a little paint between layers.

let dry

step 4

thats' it. enjoy the second life of the useless gadget you got at a convention 7 years ago.

and now mourning is political, too.

i'm so sorry, murry foust. i keep thinking about how tired you must have been. how tired all of us are. how humiliating it is that even when we die alone, people still laugh and debate whether we deserved to live a happy, dignified life at all.

there are trans kids online right now learning your name – and the names of juniper blessing, lucas redbeard knapp, aleanna belcher, and davonta curtis – through grief. through fear. through that horrible, familiar ache of "that could've been me." and i hate that this is part of our inheritance from one another. not just chosen family and resilience and beauty – but memorials. vigils. apology letters to ghosts.