Transitioning is far and away the best choice I ever made. I only started three years ago and it's improved my life immeasurably. I would do it again every time.

It's never too late to start HRT. You may think it won't matter, that it won't help you, but you literally can't imagine how much it can do. The world is scary for us right now, but I promise it's still worth it.

Buy the new clothes.

Pick a new name.

Start HRT.

Anyone who tells you not to isn't worth your time.

hey nyquil driverrr get out my way get out MY WAYYY

1976 Steve Wonder Songs in the Key of Life Billboard, Times Square. (via: Barney Hurley)

Northern lights brighten the sky as hikers set out across a frozen lake.

Living forest. Arthur Heming. 1925.

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"The Earth is listening" painting by Mikhail Pyaskovsky, USSR, 1988.

Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 - 2011)

Southern Exposure - 2005

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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) — Points in the Curve  (oil on canvas, 1927)

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today!

I overuse ellipsis so much it's because of my pensive nature...

"For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to want to continue looking like girls." — Excerpt from Susan Sontag's 1978 essay The Double Standard of Aging

it's very disheartening to see people posting men they like from whatever stories they're into and being like he's like a woman to me BUT theyre not headcanoning this character as a trans woman theyre saying this character is similar to a woman in that he is bad at stuff maybe or isn't really where he wants to be in life but not in a gender sense like specifically in the sense of being pathetic and bad at things. like maybe he's in between jobs right now or maybe one time he cried. and this is womanesque behavior for a man to exhibit. and the people who say this? pronouns. sometimes even several. it really does boggle the mind.

before anyone gets silly please note that i am employing levity in the above post, and my shock at misogyny coming from people “with pronouns” is facetious. also if you recognize your own behavior in this post and are ashamed i will consider forgiving you only if you allow both members of your most cherished slash ship to transition. thank you for your consideration.

First Steps (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

the original 1858 crayon sketch by jean-françois millet on which van gogh based his version