#It's been a journey

[quillchillin]

Radiant and shining across the universe

[corishadowfang]

‘An end, and a beginning.’

[silverseaming]

once again the next post has rapidly spiralled into pose making, but i'm trying my best to have it up tomorrow 🤞🏻

[the-prince-of-professors]

At last finished Melmoth the Wanderer last night. I might need a moment to recover.

[trans-der-vampire]

Pre-HRT, I hated my voice. I avoided talking, especially to strangers, didn't say anything in classes and only really had longer conversations with close friends. I could not stand the sound that came out of me. A little bit of that discomfort stayed after my voice dropped (significantly) on T. Because to me, it still sounded too high, felt like it "gave me away" to people. For a long while, I was distraught about it and even thought maybe hormones didn't work on my body. Yeah it got better, but it wasn't good.

Then I started a new job in early childhood care two years ago. Spending 8 hours a day with children under 6 involves a lot of reading out loud to them, and even more talking. And since then, there has been consistent feedback about my voice and way of talking, by both children and adults. The words they use the most? "Soothing". "Calm". "Pleasant". Children come up to me with books all the time. When I interned in an elementary school, the kids said their favorite thing was me reading to them each day, and that they would miss it when I'm gone. Teachers and supervisors and coworkers have said they really like listening to me, that my voice alone can project so much calm and comfort.

For the first time in my entire life, I love my voice. It may still break and crack when I get excited, but it's my voice and people see it as a positive quality in me. I love my voice.

[saevus-brutalis]

2022 art summary / template by @/pinkydude

people do this with VP but i've been putting off trying to fuck around with it and yeah; maybe one day,,, so have art instead 😼

no inspirational words here, but have the comparison from last year kinda cwazy 😵‍💫

also fun lil thing – the evolution dilfication of Vincent (2020-2022)

[pom-friend]

I finally said "fuck it" and just got a new computer. Newegg had a very nice one marked down a good deal for Black Friday and I can upgrade individual parts as I need it. IT JUST SUCKS because it's been a lot of time and grief for three laptop motherboards that just didn't work out and now it's been over 2 months. :')

[wigglebox]

it took watching youtube almost nonstop since september [when i started working from home] for the algorithm to finally get to communist-lite videos. 

it’s not really propaganda to me since i’m already a socialist so he’s just making a bunch of points i already thought of and agreed with so

but it’s funny bc i distinctly remember starting in october specifically i began watching videos like, top mysteries [missing people cases in national parks] and then that dove down into nexpo [who i already loved] to scary interesting [cave diving videos specifically] mr. ballen [who i’m pretty sure makes up some of the stories or doesn’t vet them] to nick crowley to lazy masquerade to barely sociable [who i loved anyway] back to mentour pilot which led to green dot aviation and disaster breakdown which then lead to plainly difficult, brick immortar, random maritime stuff, BACK to nexpo, then Internet Historian came out with a video about Floyd Collins and Sand Cave, which had me try out Wendigoon’s videos again which turns out i loved, and then i went back to nexpo [he’s like my centering youtube account lol i love his voice] and then to barely socialable again, to folding ideas, to cold fusion [this is when i started to learn more about bitcoin], to coffeezilla, then i got into true crime interrogations so i started with JCS and Casey Anthony, and then after the JCS videos i got into Explore With Us, Stranger Crimes/Stories, Red Tree Crime, Barely Evil, and a bunch of others who some are good but some also don’t have a lot of videos.

somewhere in there i had also gotten into space videos too from various accounts like History of the Universe which is a great channel but also gave me existential crisis every time bc i’d watch them while drawing in the evening and stoned wekjflwekjfwa

and for the last couple of weeks i’ve just been bouncing around rewatching things. 

i have a particular way i need someone to talk during these videos. i call it the podcast or audiobook voice where it’s deep and monotone and kinda just goes through things lol. 

but yeah now i’m getting a channel called Second Thought constantly in my feed and with titles like 

is this the beginning of a new labor movement

myth of self made billionaires

why there’s no such thing as an ethical business under capitalism

and ‘why corporate america hates unions’ i’m like okay

i don’t know exactly how i got here, maybe it was the bitcoin exploration so i could understand it better

but i’m laughing 

took a hot second but i’m now on communist-lite YouTube wekjfaklwefjalwkej

[batbusiness-schooldropout]

My favorite thing about J. Jonah Jameson is that he just hates Spider-Man. He supports mutants and doesn't hate enhanced people. He's not racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic. He just hates Spider-Man. And I'm half convinced that he's faking for the publicity.

He'd probably get pissed if he hears someone hating on Spider-Man for being enhanced.

"Spiderman isn't a menace because he can climb walls! He's a menace because he's climbing walls without a license or safety equipment! He's setting a bad example!"

"I just want you to know that you that your identity as an enhanced person is valid. Your identity as Spiderman is trash."

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[ruporas]

dragon meat, you, and me

[royaltea000]

“A thousand generations serve to praise…”

[wonkyjaw]

Quilt update. This is split somewhere in the blues and I have to sew that together and then I have to add one more yellow row to the top. Then the quilt top is finally, finally done.

[ash-and-starlight]

sooo so happie to launch into space the art i did for this @zukkabigbang2024 for the beautiful fic

The Mercy of Magpies

written by the wonderful showstopping @ranilla-bean and betaed by the equally iconic @faux-fires. Featuring dilves, birdies, true love, war, crazy plans, dubious plastic surgery and a galaxy far, far away. Please check out the rebloggable fic post with its special cover art here (or jump directly to the fic, I can't blame you, it is That Good)

also, some extra juicy plot relevant characters pop up in later chapters and havent been included for 👀 spoiler reasons 👀 but you can already try to guess who they are who's that pokemon style <3

[doodlefox2]

good girl

[reinhartroleplays]

i’ve lost 50 pounds since february :) 189 lbs today!