This Reminds Me Of The Determination I Had To Learn If I Wanted To Heal.

This reminds me of the determination I had to learn if I wanted to heal.

I will build a home.

I will rebuild and rebuild, time and time again. Even if it's hard sometimes. And it's working.

Home with a Capital h

I will build a Home,

Where the walls aren't always listening,

Where the silence isn't born of rage and hurt and all the emotions left unsaid,

But of a peace, only those who are true to themselves can have.

I will build a Home,

With all the space my kids will need to grow into themselves,

And some to spare.

I will build a Home,

With the doors always open for you,

A cup of coffee for your worst day,

For when you can't face the world,

I'll be your shield when you have to rest and hide from your demons.

I will build a Home

With all the patience you taught me,

And all the happiness I've learned to share.

– Evyona Gray

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

from The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers

there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s

it’s really fun

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.