extra bit

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got.

Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean?

Last line is especially ominous

Jon Hayes in Sydney is more or less the domestic Will Powers when it comes to HRT. he’s quite gung-ho about levels (aims for a minimum of 1000 pmol/L and prefers pellets) but like, he IS an endocrinologist and pretty experienced in this sub-field. no medicare for telehealth though

i remember seeing ‘tnwo’ on one of these blogs and googling that to see what it meant and getting porn videos tagged instead with ‘bnwo’ which involved another masculinized-fetishized demographic!! huge times for the white woman subconscious

it’s completely cisgender analysis, i think is worth pointing out

i don’t know when this all happened but given the current age in bio i think it’s safe to say you were a kid. it’s normal to look for role models etc, and judgement and discernment require experience. everyone fucks up a bit

ok this is one point i’d like to push back on: if only people who hadn’t hurt others made art, we wouldn’t have any art. the book Monsters by Claire Dederer might provide some helpful perspective here

sweaty wasps

its still bandcamp friday for another six hours btw

Saint Elizabeth, by ella guro 10 track album

folks, it's bandcamp friday today. and i just happen to have a big brand new album out - my most ambitious musical project ever - that you should buy! ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...

yeah like, from the group chats i share with certain songwriters heheh

it’s always kind of a treat to listen to a song and be like “oh i know which gc message this is about”

oh my god HELLO

i don’t know what any of this means and i’ve PLAYED sonic games. but i’m intrigued

really admire the way you draw dicks. like precisely the right amount of eroticism

ohhh is THIS why any given pear is delicious for one hour in its whole lifespan?
they’re a beautiful fruit and sometimes they’re edible, but it’s so chancy…

Saint Elizabeth, by ella guro 10 track album

the day is today, the time is now

my album Saint Elizabeth is out now
ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...

omg ok lemme pick a good one

omg vi are you gonna put her on the cover of the next teeth dreams release

you’re very welcome! i have one or two fussy fetishist notes on latex vs vinyl that i really needn’t share unprompted but while i’m here may i say: Xe + Rb’s outfits are sick and the way you render them is very hot

my unsolicited feedback is that translucent looks more like latex where the fuller transparency of the other version reads more vinyl. but of course material science has probably come a long way by his time, it could be anything

Mechanical Christ, by Kollaps 7 track album

oh oh i saw a band a few years ago that literally had a big mounted suspension spring for one of their instruments

omg look what i just saw

no i need my cat to be famous

ok forgive me if i’m intruding on a bit but ‘this person’ is often used to plausibly deny a trans person their gender (often though not always women) and can be a sore spot for some. i believe your friend girl was playing on this

but more on the seat

one has a little less piss on the floor

hm! well now i know the experience is currently beyond my understanding i kinda wanna read a personal essay or smth about it, hah

well if you figure it out let me know, that would be good info! i know a number of transmascs who felt kind of inchoately othered by cis women growing up but i guess i’m making assumptions here even about the friends you’re discussing

ok sorry for theorizing like three replies deep, and it might be that your sisters like ‘primed’ it or smth, but i think to be in a position where you have friends who will play with your hair in that casual way indicates you might have already been ‘one of the girls’ on some level

ok actually i did just remember that when my partner saw you at a show recently they thought you were transmasc. maybe THAT’S the flavour of boy mode you’re hitting, and maybe that’s why it feels like some other form of othering?