it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.
Anonymous asked: Hi, I'm 25 and debating starting male-to-female HRT. However, I'm scared that HRT won't help me at all. It seems like HRT does so little after puberty, especially by the time one gets in their 20s. I'm really scared that I'll just end up being someone in a male body, but with breasts. Is there anything you can say to someone having this fear? Thank you, and sorry, I suspect this is a silly question.
Actually, the claim that HRT doesn’t do much after puberty is a myth. I started when I was 31 years old and now I’m 35. =)
It’s never too late to transition!
Yeah, anon, have you seen my timeline? I started at 29.
It’s never too late.
Seriously, I transitioned at 39 and I’m 41 now. Hormones are magic whatever your age and while some things stay, many things change and it’s been totally worth it for me.
OMG!!! I love seeing posts like this. The hope it inspires. especially in girls like me, is unprecedented. Thank you!
Hope
I felt the same way before I started transitioning and especially because I have a fair masculine build. But you know what I’ve learned from my experience so far? Fuck it! There is always hope and you could end up surprising yourself with the results.
I think results vary, I don’t see much difference between pre-hrt and 8 years on hrt
Just adding another voice to the barrage: It. Is. Never. Too. Late!
The top two pictures are from 2011, age 32. The bottom three are from this yeah, 2016, age 37, and (almost) 2 years on hrt. Hrt is magic.
Never.
Too late.
REBLOGING!!! Always! Forever!
Reblog to help someone find the courage uwu
Always reblog
Look at these amazing and brave women!!!! A reminder to all my followers, it’s not too late!! You can do it!!!!!
This is what I needed to see in my day ☺️ I’m only 23 but I think about making this change on a daily basis and it’s been 3 years since I’ve been thinking that. Hrt is in my future (:
Look at all these gorgeous women! <3
THIS is what i needed to be able to send to my struggling trans friends
I needed this
<3 Never too late <3
:0 I’M GONNA LOOK THIS FUCKING GORGEOUS!?!?!?!?!?
:D OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!
^u^ I’ve only been on my pills since September of last year at age 24, and I thought the minuscule changes I’ve had so far were all there is! But nope!
:D I’m gonna be a woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😄
This is the happiest day of my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are already a beautiful woman and I’m really happy that you are excited to feel like one because you deserve that so much, you are beautifu, good luck!!!!
;w; you’re too kind, thank you!!!!!!!!
🥲 I love that more people than just my boyfriend legitimately say that to me.
You know what? I AM beautiful! 😄 and I can’t wait to be even more so!
Originally posted in 2011 this remains my most viewed work. Looking at it now it’s so messy, but I’m still proud to have gotten the idea down and out there.
This was made to point out that every statue in the garden was potentially a living creature. The horror of which is punctuated by the statue of the three happy foals playing.
(Not gonna get into spoilers)
Ah great, Twiggi went insane again.
I remember this. Back with the whole Celestia the Tyrant thing people were joking about.
A cop killed a little boy on his bike in West Ridge by blowing through an intersection last night, and the CPD union president made sure to tell the press how traumatized he is by the event.
I’m sure the boy’s siblings, who all witnessed their brother die, are super sympathetic bro.
The frum community in West Ridge is very close knit, and kids are always playing outside. And there’s lots of pedestrian traffic, especially on Shabbat and holidays. Jewish communal leaders have pretty close partnerships with CPD, and I wonder if that will change since it appears that CPD and the union don’t want to release lots of information about this ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE tragedy to the public.
Ald. Silverstein didn’t mention that Herschel was killed by a cop when she posted about this.
Here’s the GoFundMe for Herschel, the little boy killed by a CPD officer two days ago. I also want to point out that the intersection Herschel and his siblings were crossing at- they were riding their bikes on the sidewalk, so not even in the street- has stops signs on all four corners. It was also still light outside and Herschel’s bike had reflective streamers on the handlebars and a light on the back of the seat. He would’ve been fully visible and had complete right of way in the street, regardless of how this guy tries to tell it.
This was a completely avoidable tragedy that CPD first tried to cover up and is now trying to spin as a hardship for the man who killed a little boy in front of his siblings.
Wow…. so you’re telling me you took an action that resulted in the death of one person…… to save the lives of many people…. who would have died if you did nothing??? that sounds so familiar
woke: sugar pills just happen to cure lots of things
bespoke: humans have psychic healing powers but we’re really dumb so we have to be tricked into using them
[fun fact, the “placebo effect” has been growing stronger over time. A lot of old medicines which when they were first tested they performed much better than sugar pills, now have identical performance… and it’s not because the old medicines are less effective it’s because the sugar pills are doing more]
For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesn’t matter what it’s for.
You’re saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if you’re a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out you’re twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
“What if I spend the money that day?”
Doesn’t matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy” came out? one of Rocket Racoon’s creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.
before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family.
Bill Mantlo’s brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.
That’s so utterly depressing.
disgusting
I have friends on welfare who won’t pick up a penny in the street because they’d risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.
oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let’s just add it to the list. number 63858b
My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.
Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn’t want to get anywhere near 2,000.
And here’s the funnest part of the story!
One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn’t want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.
The state IMMEDIATELY (I’m talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.
He also had to cancel his renter’s assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they’d cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it’s the stupidest shit in human history.
Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?
Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity” looks like.
There’s something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!
thank you so much for this information. i’m applying for an abled account right now
THERES A WHAT
OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS
I’ve been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this!
Just a Widowed weirdo in his 40's trying to figure out what life means for someone like me. Born and raised in Texas now I live in Washington. I neither expect nor guarantee that you will be entertained..in fact you may be offended. If so, drop me a line. You may change my so called mind.
