Man, Ina’s conversation about wasting part of your life really hits home. I’ve had alot of setbacks and have been having a harder and harder time moving forward with my plans and budgeting my energy. Part of me wants so badly to give up on things and just coast with my current situation, but I can’t let that be the case!
Nobody’s going to draw what I want to draw, or write what I want to write, and this language won’t learn itself! The longer I sit on my heels, the less time I have to accomplish my goals, and while time enjoyed isn’t always time wasted, I wouldn’t be happy with days staring at my computer if they cost me precious moments to meet the goals I set for myself.
I might fail, and I might look foolish, but I haven’t even gotten that far in the first place!
Being a Failure is a privilege of the Man in the Arena!
Right now, I can’t even consider this race started, much less lost! So no more toxic opinions, and no more wasting my time on what might turn out wrong. I’ve got a prayer in my heart and people who believe in me, and I’ll not see that faith wasted!
cis people, any kind of ‘I’m cis but….’ or ‘I don’t understand but…’ comments are completely unasked for, you can reblog posts without adding commentary.
more pressing though, this post is absolutely not the place to goof around and act cutesy. your voice is not needed here. please learn how to listen to and boost trans voices by themselves.
I wish more people…cis and trans…understood that transitioning and passing is just not possible for a lot of us and never will be. I’m so tired of the trans narrative being focused on this supposedly universal experience.
I’m extremely disabled. I will probably never be able to transition in any capacity. I am dependent on my bigoted family and on a bigoted medical system to survive. HRT could hurt my body very badly and I cannot bind because of chronic chest pain. I cannot have top surgery for those same reasons.
There’s so much more to being a man, woman, non-binary than how you can present yourself. And a lot of us are trying desperately to come to terms with that. With the idea of being closeted forever or just straight up trying to navigate our own identies among other trans people more privileged than us.
[everyone can reblog but don’t clown on this post, no t*rfs, no tr*sc*m]
It’s so fucking frustrating. And frankly I’m getting pissed off because tucking and binding are dangerous! I get so worried, especially with trans youth who could really hurt themselves 😰 being told you HAVE to conform to this presentation or you aren’t trans, pushing it as the ONLY way to feel better if you’re dysphoric is not safe! It’s not helpful!
I am talking about disability and the health and safety of real goddamn people, do not infantilize my words.
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
it indeed is western/european centric, I’m sorry for that, but for other cultures I simply don’t have so many references
ALSO note that most of the pictures show historical clothing from the upper classes or more festive clothing of the lower/working class because normal working clothes wouldn’t survive for such a long time, and the clothes were often re-used over and over again!
