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The Promise
“Someday there’ll be a celebration throughout Oz that’s all to do with me.” 💔
Art by "@Paiges_of_Art on Twitter
Taking a Walk
Just two wives and a Lion, taking an afternoon walk together 🫶🏻
designs based on my fic, so if you haven’t read it yet you probably should ;)
look at Lion’s little vest! he’s such a good boy 🥹And yes, he’s both Glinda’s witch familiar, as well as her medical service animal. He gives alerts for low blood sugar and fainting, anxiety, and is a an excellent body guard. Elphaba feels much better leaving Glinda alone when Lion is with her.
This shot is so romantic to me I'm sorry, ik she's jealous and everything, but the way she looks up at the balcony...their Romeo and Juliet serve yaaas
MODERN FAMILY ( 2009-2020 ) 4x05 | “Open House of Horrors”
Random lady on the street called me 'young man', genuinley can't stop smiling.
there's no way this hasn't been done yet but come on, she is the epitome of this tweet
Bewitched
gender euphoria
i’m stealth in college so no one besides the accessibility office knows i’m a trans man, like the beard and buzzcut and voice and the other ways my body has been changed by 5 years on T and top surgery make people just think that i’m a “cis” man, and i’m friends with these two girls in my quantitative reasoning class and i complimented one of their outfits and made a joke about how i would probably wear it if i didn’t wanna deal with people’s bullshit and she goes “oh you know it’s okay for guys to explore their gender? you don’t have to fit into a mold society put you in based on being born male” and i’m like thanks for the sentiment and i do need to remember this as a trans man who is still exploring his fashion sense, but trust me when i say I KNOW so like ill just be over here internally screaming (but hey at least i know she’s cool about it if i did come out)
Me when I get to the part of a fanfic that has me giggling and kicking my feet
When you're reading a fanfic and suddenly the reader has a name
When she takes you on her favourite route a little further than the compound 🏍️
Co-parented this moodboard with one of my faves, @aggieslittlebunny
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Passing tips for (masculine) trans men.
Wear men’s t-shirts, band shirts, or graphic t-shirts. For the love of god, don’t wear flannels. I’ve tried it out and trust me when I say it won’t help you pass any better. This sounds harsh but, flannels are ugly.
If you can, cut your hair shorter. Cut it yourself, hairdressers usually feminize shorter hair styles on people they assume are women. Don’t cut your hair too short, you’ll end up looking like a lesbian. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but, you’re not a woman.
Don’t smile at strangers, make yourself appear more reserved and calm. Women are more likely to show their emotions to others to seem more friendly or approachable. Don’t be an asshole though.
Walk with confidence and purpose, keep your back straight and your head up. This may be difficult if you have anxiety or are a shy person, but it helps a lot. It shows people that you are not afraid of who you are.
Try taking up as much space as you can when you’re sitting: spread your legs, don’t cross them. Don’t make yourself appear small. If you have a habit of crossing your legs, instead put your ankle on your knee.
Look people in the eyes when talking to them, If this is difficult then look between their eyebrows, it gives the illusion that you’re looking at their eyes.
Don’t dye your hair, I know that most trans people love to express themselves through their hair but dyed hair will get you clocked faster. If you want to dye your hair, then dye it a natural color.
Start working out, lifting dumbbells and doing push-ups helps a lot when gaining muscles. Don’t overdo this though, over-exercising is not good for you.
You can use makeup to contour your face in a masculine way, google should give you instructions on how to do this.
If you have thin eyebrows, don’t use makeup to make them appear bushier, instead dye your eyebrows a darker color.
Keep your voice monotonous and subdued when speaking. Even if you have a high pitched voice, it should help with passing.
Keep your speech direct and assertive. Curse more, speak more comfortably too.
Don’t let your nails grow out, cut them if you think they’re too long.
If you feel comfortable enough, don’t shave your legs/armpits/arms/etc.
Study the way cis men act, copy them and find what’s best for you.
I'm unsure if people read Pass the same way I do.
It feels like some people think of it as a Passing grade kinda thing, "you have met the bar" energy and shit on it for that.
Whereas I think of it as Passing by unnoticed, like that's why it's "going stealth" which, y'know, I'm not playing hide and seek, it's not for shits and giggles I'm trying to not be noticed.
Is that just me?
ftm passing tips !!
swift as the coursing river
force of a great typhoon
strength of a raging fire
mysterious as the dark side of the moon
hope this helps !
/j
Tips For Passing as Male I Accidentally Stumbled Upon While Minding My Own Genderfluid Business:
(Btw everyone deserves to be gendered correctly no matter how they act, these are just some tips that you may try if you would like.)
1. Keep your posture open. Feet shoulder width apart and pointing out, shoulders back, chest forward, energy all directed outward. Even though you may think openness makes your chest or stature more obvious, the energy/confidence is what people notice first, not the content.
2. That said, you don’t have to hold yourself like a peacock the whole time. I’ve learned that people go off the assumption they make when first meeting you, and then don’t really look again - so if the first thing they see is a cis guy, you can relax after that, they rarely double check.
3. When it seems appropriate, offer a handshake when meeting people, especially other guys, and hold a little tighter than is strictly natural. I know it sounds stupid, but it goes far; I’ve been offered more handshakes by guys these past 2 years of somewhat masc presentation than I have all 16 previous years combined. Guys just be shakin hands w/ each other
4. Again, when it makes sense, consider “dapping up” a guy if you know each other, traditionally when you part ways. To do this, proffer your dominant hand in a loose C shape like you’re holding an invisible cup, and when they clasp theirs with yours, lift the hands a few inches in the air and then lower them and release on the way down (sometimes accompanied by opposite hand on the tricep/shoulder, I.e. bro hug. Istg the things men do 💀)
5. If you have the space and it won’t annoy anyone, manspread a bit when you sit
6. Keep your head lifted when you’re out in public - makes your jaw look broader and suggests confidence, I.e. keeping posture open
7. If you want your voice to sound lower, try humming a low note while you’re alone to see how that feels in your throat and know where that timbre comes from in your chest. It’s easier to regulate your voice on command when you experiment, find the strings to pull in yourself to bring out the low sound.
8. Consider peppering in an “as much as the next guy” in conversation. Subtle phrase, but stakes your claim clearly
9. Exude some extra anti-shyness around guys. Make a point to nod to them in greeting and make eye contact like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Little gestures of brazenness go a long way to say “we’re the same”
10. When speaking to a group of guys, try matching their vocal patterns and tone: if they say “like” and “dude” a lot for example, pepper those in too. This works in all situations actually, it will make you seem agreeable and similar to anyone, but it especially works well when you’re trying to blend in with a crowd
11. Clothes with flannel and wool are really good for disguising characteristics you might want to hide
12. Try darkening these areas (outlined in blue) of your face with eyeshadow a bit darker than your skin tone. Eyeshadow blends with skin texture better than things like foundation and it’s hard to smudge, so it’s usually unnoticeable while it adds depth and sharpness to these areas.
jegulus is the taylor swift of the marauders fandom in the sense that you either love them or hate them and for some reason neither side could ever shut up about them
expressions practice! fav is bottom middle/ bottom right, but top left colours are pretty cool. top right looks very bitchy and i vibe with that. bottom left is just because i got really mad at what a little asshole he is and took it out by drawing a really ugly picture of him.
sorry baby x
commission for @alula
What people don't get when they try and recreate a very potter musical with other films is that the purpose of AVPM wasn't solely to make fun of the harry potter films. I see other parady musicals, and whilst I don't want to suggest that people aren't putting a lot of time and effort into these, they seem to just focus on parody. But the absolute joy with AVPM is that whilst you get these incredibly stupid gags that take the piss on Harry Potter, like Quirell and Voldy back to back in this huge cloak and Dumbledore putting all the good guys in gryffindor etc. - and the whole thing is just so silly I'm amazed it's held up this long - but you also get these incredible moments of heart where it almost forgets that it's a harry potter parody musical and starts to become its own thing entirely. Like for the whole series they wrote real, incredible love songs and villain songs and flipping power ballads and there are so many moments where you're on the brink of tears. Because they really could have just made a musical where they made fun of Harry Potter in a way that didn't matter and so many of those scenes could have just been another joke but I think the fact that they didn't is what seperates Starkid from so many other parody musicals because like yeah Harry Potter is stupid and Disney movies have a lot of stupid stuff in them and yes bug puppet shows are completely ridiculous but they are so totally committed to being these proper, well constructed pieces of theatre that sometimes when I'm listening to everything ends I forget it comes right after a gag about Lily and James Potter getting divorced in Heaven and right before a load of gags about the sorting hat and a scarf of sexual preference hooking up.
what if sorty and scarfy had little sock and mitten kids. what then.
in other words the avpt hyperfixation is resurfacing
forza ferrari sempre
my favourite thing abt skulduggery pleasant is that ppl have been commenting on how hench val is since she's been like 16. and she's 25 now and ppl have been telling her she's got linebacker shoulders, abs of steel. and then my favourite part is all the illustrators consistently draw her looking normal instead of the freak of nature she is
i feel like in a lot of early ya books it’s unrealistic that a, like, eleven year old is the protag and saves the world because firstly have you met an eleven year old and secondly what adult in their right mind is completely comfortable saddling a little kid with the burden of humanity?? but skulduggery pleasant is entirely feasible because skulduggery is absolutely not in his right mind and literally everyone around him tells him so constantly. twelve year old not-even-magic stephanie is like “i want revenge” and he’s like totally understandable you can tag along
“Average person is beaten up by a 13-year-old three times a year” factoid actually just statistical error. Vaurien Scapegrace, who gets beaten up by Valkyrie Cain multiple times a week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted