You have opportunity after opportunity to create something lovely for yourself or others. Every moment you choose to sit and think about horrors beyond your control, every time you make the choice to look for more and more details about just HOW bad... you are turning away from those opportunities.

this is a really good article and one that hit me very personally, thank you for writing it

transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.

i don't need to tuck. tucking is for chumps. [truck ad voice] real trannies show bulge

Jesus is the apotheosis of a pain slut. Can you imagine being publicly beaten and humiliated so hard people are still talking about it 2000 years later? And we know it was consensual, too, because he's god and all that. An all time kinkster.

possibilities:

-messenger birds
-hire someone to put your posts on flyers around town
-go to a place where other people are and use your human mouth and ears to communicate verbally

"portrait of a lady on fire set in a friday the 13th sequel" is a sequence of words that has never existed before in the history of earth

go be messy & communicate as clearly as you can. go be beautiful & human & honest. go do the work to start making besties.

i know it is scary. the friends you want to spend time with won’t judge you for feeling uncertain & embracing life anyway.

consensually experiencing pain is healing, especially when you’ve been previously forced to endure it stochastically.