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kanakori · 6 months

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got trans tape. tits evaporated. binder gone. lungs working. ribs intact. maybe life is worth living

#as someone who has been either binding or double binding daily for over 5 years #this is. insane #i didnt think it would work for me but bro #this looks better than a binder #lets fucking go #also i hate talking about being trans bc i got some issues to work through but this was big enough to post about #dysphoria be damned this boy can tape

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vivacia-18 · 4 months

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After many years, guess who decided to try their hand at bookbinding again?

That's right, me! And of course I chose I giant of a fic, because I am nothing if not ambitious XD. I think it's 3 inches or more thick, and came to a whopping 1088 pages! The fic is Count Your Blessings by @madmothmadame , a Founders Era Tobirama centric fic and I cannot recommend it enough <3 <3 <3

My cover fabric and end paper are pretty simple, one part because I thought it suited the story, one part because I had them on hand, and one part because I'm a raw beginner and that's about as good as I could manage XD

It took a lot of waffling on my part (graphic design is NOT a great skill of mine) but overall I ended up really happy with how the title page came out - if I had the artistic skill to paint/draw it or the supplies to transfer it, this would have gone on the cover as well. Alas, for now it shall remain inside only.

A little detail that gave me some grief, as I waffled on font style and size a bit, but ultimately I'm really pleased with it - I used a plum blossom branch as the scene break throughout the book. If you've read the fic, you probably know why I picked that particular image for this and the title page ;)

I realized after printing that some of my paper had gotten a bit aged, even though it was stored in the printer. I wasn't about to waste the paper, ink and time for a reprint though, so I left it. Since the book is for me, little things like that are no bother. I was just glad I didn't fuck up in the printing or signature sewing order X'D

I included the authors notes from the end of each chapter as a bonus section at the end, so they'd be preserved with the story but not breaking up the flow of reading the book ^_^

Final view, this time from the spine - think I left the gap a little to wide between the cover boards and spine but eh, again this is just for me and only my third binding ever (and certainly the largest! XD) so I'm still really pleased overall.

A very fun experience, and I'm looking forward to my next re-read of the story, where I'll be doing it with my very own chonky boi version held in my hands :3

#viv18art #bookbinding #naruto #tobirama #count your blessings #really glad I decided to bind this fic #it was just as fun as I remembered #except better because I have a good printer now #so I could do that at home and not have it buggered up like it was for ayem #also had the bonus of a binder kicking the bucket at work last week #so I had the opportunity to scavenge the boards #made the cover part easier for me for sure #I've kinda got the binding bug now #this project went so well imperfections and all #and SO much faster than I thought #like it took me... I dunno three weekends and a bit?#I spent more time figuring out the formatting than anything #once I was on to the physical portion the project just flew #it was great #very looking forward to the next one #and I have so many fics I'd love to bind <3 #best part is even if it takes me a bit to get stuff for the cover #I can make the text blocks whenever and just have them ready #I mean of course I like to do it all at once #but sometimes needs must #and the text block part is my fave part anyways soooo #yeah #new hobby unlocked methinks

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judicent · 4 months

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Yeah, I did fill 4 sketchbooks in 4 months so far this year. Huh? Am I gonna post even an ounce of it? Well, you see, I am allergic to my phone, so you will have to come CATCH ME

#da #nooo but I am so saddd it's so much easier to show stuff off irl 😭#if it could look even halfway decent I've considered doing flip throughs of sketchbooks on video #except I draw in pencil and cameras hate that and want me to explode #idk it is truly just better to somehow gain access to my terrible trove of sketchbooks #no but man that sounds like such an ideal hang out. get all my oc lore by sitting on my floor with me as we go through the archives #gosh I should count how many I've filled up at this point #I love that the number increases exponentially as the years go on #like I think 2018 began the precedent of 4 a year minimum which was kinda wild #another ridiculous difficult project I have given a lot of thought to: combing through every sketchbook and either redrawing #or printing off important story related bits and compiling them all into a convenient binder. maybe binding them into a book.#anyway it's pretty much all a drag no matter how you slice it #come to my HOUSE and look at my CREATURES #u don't know this bc I've learned to be silly sneaky but I have stayed up wayyyy too late AGAIN #but I've scheduled this to post at a normal time so you'll never know. unless you read the tags. but that's its own punishment isn't it #hey bonus enticement to look at my boo stuff that doesn't get on the blog. there's smut. and you KNOW I'm a coward who shan't ever post that #actually we'll be lucky if I'm not the same coward in real life too #it's only Dick and Vinny. they get rights. i don't care if anyone else has sex. I don't care if I have sex.#the one song I hope I don't have sex. I hope we both don't have sex. that's actually Vinny though.#I'm more sex favorable and sex positive than he could ever be #y'know this is a very 4am convo to have and actually how prepared am I for this to live in a pm afternoon time #welp. maybe I should stop being addicted to tags and letting loose all my secrets #I shan't grow I shan't do better and I shan't ever change. this is the da promise <3

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usercelestial · 1 year

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what i love about aziraphale and crowley presenting as female is that they don't switch vessels to do it, there aren't other cis actresses on the side lines for the feminine presentations of these characters. when crowley presents as feminine he doesn't change his face, it's still crowley and it's still aziraphale. i just think it's nice to see gender fluidity represented in a way that doesn't require the person to become cis passing as the gender they present as in the moment

#as a genderfluid person its nice to see that crowley being played by a cismale actor doesn't have to change his entire to appearance #to appear more like a conventionally attractive cis passing woman like no crowley looks how crowley looks and presenting as a woman doesn't #require him to change that #she can still be a woman or a man or neither regardless of how he looks #idk thanks gaiman ig #good omens #gender fluidity represented in shape shifting creatures (for lack of a better term) is so frequently represented by that person changing #like physical shape and played by cis women/cis men and its nice to see a sort of representation that doesn't require that #when i identify as a man one day and a women the next i may dress different or wear a binder depending on how i feel but i do not suddenty #become a cis man or a cis woman i'm still me and i still look the way i look and that doesn't make my identity any less than what it is #does any of this make sense or am i screaming to a void of cis bitches

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chaotictomtom · 4 months

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hurlements. there's a stroker/prosthetic that is sooo cool and realistic and i really can't wait to get my pay check cos it *will* go right at it. (a wee bit nsfw talk in the tags, just talking abt that prosthetic)

#THERE'S. A RETRACTABLE FORESKIN.... AND IT'S LIKE YEAH A PRICIER OPTION BUT YOU CAN JUST.#GET IT ANOTHER TIME AND ADD TO THE “UNCUT” VERSION #sorry im stocked with how far we've come with prosthetics and toys for trans ppl #grateful that i was so poor i couldn't afford anything higher than a binder bc holy shit now there's so much better stuff #AND like thsi one is only around 70 bucks??? for such a realistic prosthetic im loosing my miiiind #there was realistic*packers* that were at like over 100 bucks back when i first looked into this #anyway i really can't wait to get oaud #*paid #im working to pay my bills (+ beat my meat with more toys)#company is mormeprosthetics and it's the stroker 2.0!!! saw a video review like yesterday or the day before #and i can't stop thinking abt anything else

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daydream-the-demon · 5 months

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Salutations!

How are you faring today my genderless fellow?

My cosmic horror self has been doing great!

Salutations back to you my fellow Al!

#i imagine this as two radio show hosts saying hi to each other over radio #also funny thing #the name i chose for myself (a long time ago) is alex #and then i took on the persona of alastor #and both start with al #i realized this and so on discord i named myself alexastor (alex + alastor)#yesterday i made myself a binder since i'm transmasc!#i live with pretty conservative parents and my mom doesn't want me getting a binder so i made one myself out of an old sports bra #it works amazingly well #like my chest is pretty much flat; it looks like i'm a little pudgy if anything #i'm making a youtube video to help others make a binder for themselves <|^_^|>#so i'm doing better than ever #what about you?

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senotsuri · 2 years

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Any ideas why Masquerade wore a breastplate? Confused me so much as a kid and no books or media ever called it out

I imagine it was used as padding, like that used in ~80s jackets that had super wide, exaggerated shoulders.

The broader shoulders are less like Alice's natural build, and is essentially a very understated but easy way to make Masquerade look even further away from, in fact, being Alice. It could, additionally, mimic a more muscular build for the same purpose.

#bakugan #masquerade #ask the tsuri #this is semi related. You know how when people think of victorian corsetting they think..#.. of tightlacing because 'their waists were so small!'? it's because they padded out the hips and chest #It's an illusion to reach the ideal shape (proportional to the person). it only made the waist look tiny in comparison. the reality was..#.. the waist wasn't tiny. That's what I'm imagining is the reason for the breastplate #either that or it's being used like a binder but. look I don't bind. or have a want to. but I can't imagine the breastplate he has is..#.. comfortable for that purpose 'v';;. thus I think it's more likely for padding. and it's not very squishy so it would mimic a shoulder #at least better than a soft pad that you could squish #do I tag for Alice???

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dandyshucks · 6 months

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me when i have so little connection to my physical form that i get dressed and look in the mirror and go "wrow... gender envy... i wish i could look like that..." before walking away and then realizing. hey wait. that was literally my reflection in the mirror. buddy that IS what you look like !!!!

#drawing myself has helped a bit but i still have such a hard time w this hdsgjkl #but i think drawing myself w Guz et al has helped so much w this tbh #i have a better grasp on it now than i did a year ago !!! i can actually picture myself in my brain now instead of a shadowy form!!#also in case ur curious the outfit was the most basic thing in the world but i put on a binder for funsies LOL #and i just ... looked like some guy you'd find working on fixing an old truck HFDSJKL i gotta cut my hair tbh its overgrown #but ... its kind of ... some kind of look... if i dress the right way (dress like im just Some Guy TM LOL)#dandy.cmd

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pucciverse · 1 year

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trying KT tape for binding for the first time and im gonna be real this is the most dysphoric ive felt in months

#I did it last night for a like costume party basically #so I could wear a button up but unbuttoned to like mid chest #and that was fine #decided to try it for another day since it’s good for 3-5 days #sensory wise i like it better than a binder #and maybe I just need more practice at it #but I feel so fucking uncomfortable in public at work right now #it was going okay and it looked fine (to me) but I wear an apron for work #and now it’s all over #feel a bit nauseous about it #only…..7 hours to go and I can go home and take it off #busy beez

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sanchoyo · 1 year

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interview in an hour send good vibes besties 🥺

#🧿…..#🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀….#actually a little less than an hour aaaaa I’ll leave in like 20 mins I’ve been waiting All Day impatiently #I want it to be over 💀#listen even if it doesn’t work for whatever reason. I am trying very hard to consider it practice for other interviews like even if it’s #not The Job it can be A Good Practice Run #nervous. also physically ill rn 😭 im going anyway but I feel like im gonna faint or puke can anxiety stoppp I am trying my best and I look #so cute in my little slacks. im wearing my binder too idk idk the compression feels like a comforting hug rn I need it 😭#idk what im gonna say if it’s a place that actually asks my pronouns like the only place that ever did that was walmart actually #shit place to work but their more recent inclusivity stuff is better than other local places at least #sucks they’re shit pay and shit abt unions etc etc etc #but u could put whatever the fuck u wanted on ur name tag which was awesome there was a lady called granny and no one knew her real name #and gotta say I was a huge fan of that she ruled #sanchoyorambles #on the other hand what if they don’t hire me bc of my blue hair and pronouns (my hair is actually blue so this is even better . I mean #it would suck but the jokes I could make lol)

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davinciandwilde · 1 year

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First day wearing a binder in public and like...it’s nice. It’s just nice. Being able to wear my white shirts and not worry about bumps across my chest or anything. Looking the way I feel just a little more. Just-it gets better. It gets a little better each day, a little more each time.

#butch #binders #Just feeling right you know #My little button up and vest just be looking a bit better than normal #easing into it though because this is still a very new experience #lesbian

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vulpinesaint · 2 years

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yeah. gosh. fourteen year old me would be so happy to know that we are where we are now.

#i have to dress edgier. for him #seriously though… the metamorphosis a body can undergo #my best friend was so right when they said that my face shape has changed. i grew a jaw out of Nowhere #and the things that letting your hair grow out a little will do for you…#fourteen year old me would be so happy to know that we look at ourself in the mirror and feel good.#feel right.#that we’ve gotten things correct that we’ve gotten a binder that we can see past what other people might see.#i definitely looked trans (child) then. but i look trans (hot young adult) now. and it would be such promise for them.#if they could know the kind of things i wear… oh they would lose it.#we got some fashion stuff down baby me. we got it figured out.#turns out you just have to figure out how to wear that dress shirt in a way that emphasizes the right things.#god i love you little me. you’d be so fuckin happy to see us now #and thirteen year old me… oh gosh. babe you’d be so happy to know that we finally figured out what was wrong.#we figured out why nothing meant for girls ever looked right on us.#and your future doesn’t look how maybe you thought it’d look. but it looks so fucking good #sending so much love out to past selves. kissing elementary school me on the cheek.#it’s okay not to be a tomboy. you get to be something even cooler than that when you grow up. promise.#and middle school me you WILL use tumblr and listen to mychem and dye your hair black + have long fringe that falls in your face.#don’t let the dream die. we’ll get there one day.#you don’t look Emo but you look like you. which is even better.#sentimental in this chilis tonight. everybody hold my hands so we can sing kumbaya or something #OH GOSH. MIDDLE SCHOOL ME… you wear a lot of black and children Do have to ask if you’re a boy or a girl…#you’re getting closer to those 2015 ‘i got mistaken for a boy in the grocery store’ textposts all the time. promise. the dream comes true.#all those adam lambert music videos you’re watching right now are gonna pay off one day mark my words fjskfj #valentine notes

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betty-burnout · 2 years

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idk why i thought gelly roll pens would be hard to find nowadays??? i thought they were a fad in the early 00s bc that's when i was obsessed with them and i don't see them much anymore but they used to be like everywhere, i would go to the stationery store and draw on all the test pads with as many colors as i could

anyway i just ordered a bunch of the fancy metallic and pastel ones and my planner is about to be. SO cool

#still need to get some stickers to decorate the outside #the outside is a binder that looks like a composition book so.....#i sorta want to cover it in peeled candy/gum wrappers like i did in middle/high school but i'm resisting #for now. mostly because i don't eat a lot of candy or really even chew gum anymore #but also because i think i would get tired of it right away and i think the binder will stick around longer than those comp notebooks did #ANYWAY i need to get better at using it but like definitely definitely making it into something i really enjoy will make that easier

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vividgoth · 2 months

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I got a new binder that fits well and is comfortable, and I have an appointment with my hrt provider next week, and I start my new job on Thursday... Things are finally beginning to look up in Bobo World

#New binder is going to be life saving AND it looks better too. Amen #And I will have MORE THAN TWO DOLLARS IN MY BANK ACCOUNT AGAIN...#bobo.txt

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tutianne · 9 months

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just a reminder that if pjo gets all five books adapted we might get…

percy having a picture of annabeth in his binder

grover in a wedding dress

annabeth being a lil stalker

TYSON

thalia’s return

clarisse and her undead ship

blackjack

thalia, grover, percy, and annie going to retrieve nico and bianca

“If Annabeth’s mother is Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why did didn’t Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff” -Nico

Artemis and Zoe

the dam joke

“I can see the stars, m’lady”

percy and annie holding up the sky

RACHEL and her hair brush

paul blofis

annabeth’s first quest (her own)

the kiss before percy went to calypso’s island

silena and beckendorf :(

“don’t i get a kiss? it’s kind of a tradition” -percy (teehee)

all of manhattan taking a nap

sally and paul FIGHTING

nico and hades’s undead army

percy and his achilles’s spot/annabeth intercepting the blade

percabeth (my kids fr)

UNDERWATER KISS

“for once i didn’t look back”

#percabeth #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo series

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duothelingo · 6 months

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Serious post gross.

I know I have a lot of followers who are trans minors so grandpa duo wants to give some wisdom that I wish someone told me when I was a baby trans man.

You don’t have to change your name. You can keep it. It’s not a requirement.

You don’t have to have T/E to be trans.

Don’t wear your binder while doing sports. It hurts.

You don’t have to be hyper masculine or hyper feminine. Just be you.

Do not use bandages. They can cause issues.

Surgery isn’t a requirement.

Being part of the lgbtqia+ community is a new family. If yours doesn’t support you now, we do.

You don’t have to pass to be trans. You are trans anyway. You look good.

Go to a coffee shop and use your chosen name to get a feel for it. They’ll shout it.

Be proud of who you are. It’s not a weakness it’s a strength.

If it’s not safe for you to come out, I promise it will be one day. The closet sucks but it’s better than being hurt. Use that time to find other people in your situation.

Being trans isn’t glamorous. It’s tears, pain, hurt and being unsure. That’s okay.

Detransitioning is fine. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Transitioning later in life is fine. Transitioning early in life is fine.

Transitioning wont happen over night. If you take hormones, it can take up to 5 years to see big differences.

Bottom surgery isn’t a requirement.

Top surgery isn’t a requirement.

You don’t have to come out if you don’t want to.

It’s okay to be angry about not being cis.

It’s okay to mourn the person you were.

You can change your name again, you don’t have to stick with it.

Love,

Someone who was forced back into the closet at 13 and is now transitioning at nearly 26.

Please add to this if you have anything else!

#ooc

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