Was tracking down old Destroyed For Comfort live photos for the new website and found this one from 2007 where I’ve got past-shoulder-length hair extensions and looked all preeeeeety. Meow. :3
Me, my mom, and my bro, circa 1980? 1979? I dunno, I just love this picture. It’s all naturally sepia-tone from being out in the middle of nowhere and we look like these grimy little redneck hippies. :3
Been digging through ancient live photos for the new website and I found this doozy from 2009. JFC me from four years ago…
1) Yes, I’m really wearing nothing but a Boy Scout uniform, Super Mario Bros undies, and striped toe socks.
2) Yes, my knees and elbows are all bruised and bleeding from rolling around on a concrete floor without a fuck to give.
I’m sure you can come up with at least a half dozen other “WTF is going on here” elements of this pic, but truth is, I look at this and ask myself-
“Am… am I getting LESS weird as time goes by?” O_o
So, last weekend was 10 months HRT. So here’s a few pics with no bra and no makeup, just playing with silly hair stuff.
So, Fuck It, I Just Compiled A Whole Stack Of Literary References To The “Singular They” Pronoun.
This is by no means exhaustive (hell, it’s not even a fraction), but hopefully it’s enough to get the pedantic d-bags in your life who wanna claim “grammar” as an excuse to marginalize your identity to shut the hell up. Enjoy.
“According to the number that yee shall prepare, so shall yee doe to euery one, according to THEIR number.” - Numbers 15:12, The King James Bible
“So likewise shall my heauenly Father doe also vnto you, if yee from your hearts forgiue not euery one his brother THEIR trespasses.” - Matthew 18:35, The King James Bible
“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, THEY wol come up and offre in Goddes name, And I assoille them “ - Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Pardoners Tale
“Yf a psalme scape ony persone, or a lesson, or else yt. THEY omyt one verse or twayne.” - Wynkyn de Worde, The Pilgrims Perfection
“And every one to rest THEMSELVES betake” - Shakespeare, The Rape Of Lucrece
“‘tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes THEM partial, should o’erhear the speech” - Shakespeare, Hamlet
“Little did I think… to make a… complaint against a Person very dear to you,… but dont let THEM be so proud… as to make THEM not care how THEY affront everybody else” - Samuel Richardson, Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded
“Now, nobody does anything well that THEY cannot help doing.” - John Ruskin, The Crown Of Wild Olive
“a person can’t help THEIR birth” - W.M. Thackeray
“no man goes to battle to be killed. — But THEY do get killed “ - George Bernard Shaw
“Glancing at a lampshade in a store window, I observe it is too hideous for anyone in THEIR senses to buy” - W. H. Auden, Horae Canonicae
“She kept her head and kicked her shoes off, as everybody ought to do who falls into deep water in THEIR clothes.” - C. S. Lewis, Voyage Of The Dawn Treader
