Oh happy day

[stacis-leak.livejournal.com]

I had a fantastic weekend.

It's odd that last weekend and this weekend involved all the same people and all the same places and - to a degree- pretty much the same events.

The only difference was that this weekend wasn't in boymode at all at any point.
( Shummary )

Now some facts I didn't know before.

1) When Cathy first met me, I was in boymode having just come straight out of work and her first thought on seeing me was that I must have been incredibly brave to have pulled through cancer without letting affect my cheery outlook. To clarify, her first assumption was that I must have had a total mastectomy.

2) Apparently no one in Cathy's house actually knew I was trans until I blurted it out when I was drunk earlier this year. Additionally many of them still have a hard time believing I'm not a GG, especially Izzy who didn't even think I looked the slightest bit masculine last week when I was feeling rough and didn't bother with my ordinarily heavily bra all weekend.

This is crossposted from stacis_leak for happiness factor.

Anti cliche?

[stacis-leak.livejournal.com]

I just wanted some opinions on this...

Since watching the 10th anniversary special edition of Clerks the part of my brain that always wanted to make a movie has been flaring up again, albeit this time with more of a "They did it, why can't you?" edge.

And even though I have no experience in film making, no money as such to budget it with, no camera, no lighting, no actors, no script, no real concept for a film at all, I did have an idea for a scene.

The 'making of' film from Clerks X had the fantastic peice of advice about making movies based on what you know. Hence Clerks was based on Kevin Smiths own experiences working in a convenience store with his friends, and some of the conversations were directly lifted from real conversations in his past.

So I started thinking about making a film based around a bunch of female students from totally different courses whom happen to be friends due to fairly random factors, and it occurred to me that one scene might be quite interesting.

To base the film upon my own experiences it would require one of the characters to be trans, that's a given. But every film on Earth which has a main trans character usually has a focal scene near the start of the character dressing up. Even in Transamerica we open on scenes of makeup andnail polish being applied, just like the scenes in all the sex-change documentaries where we see girls preening themselves to maximum passability (or in the case of Boys don't cry, the scenes of Brandon looking tough in the mirror and binding), it's one of the oldest cliches of transgender filmmaking.

It thought it might be interesting if instead we enter into the 4 characters who are merely introduced exactly as they are presented and at some point during, have a de-transition scene, where the TS character is forced to undo all the good work to meet family or go to work in boymode. As far as I know there has been no film released which captures that look of disappointment I see in the mirror when I have had a whole weekend en femme and then have to go back to the old facade, dripping with water as the inks and oils drain away revealing more clearly the razor marks and darkening around follicles on the face.

I think such a scene would be a great scene, and a nice reworking of a cliche which has over time become rather tacky and cringe worthy to those of us who have seen it often enough.

What does everyone else think?

Source for dilators????

[timireznor.livejournal.com]

Several months past, someone posted an internet source for a set of 5 or 6 dilators that were quite resonably priced. I've searched back and can't find the post, so am requesting your patience and kindness. If anyone knows of a site, could you please let me know?

Thanks,
Timi

Weekend update

[wynnefox.livejournal.com]

So after my posting previously about asking advice about I should do with my upcomming cousin's wedding, some of you may be curious on how things went? This is a longish type post so I split it up some for the rest of you.

( Pre-wedding. Saturday )

Wedding day...

( Wedding it self. Sunday. the Big chunk of text. )

After the wedding...

( Post wedding. swinging by hospital and parrent's house. )

to a Friend's house... 

( Friend's house. Reuniting with a very old friend. )

More happened later that nig but nowhere near as important. Today; off to my second appoint ment with the shrink, Going in girl mode this time.

Cross posted in my jounral, transgender, and mtf.

how do you respond to this?

[tgjerusalem.livejournal.com]

I recently got into an argument on a public message board, after one guy posted that if he ever found out he'd had sex with or even kissed a transwoman, he would severely beat her and she would deserve it. Of the people who responded, a few were outraged/disgusted, many were of a general "well, I can't understand, but beating people is bad..." sentiment, and maybe 1/4 agreed.

( how the hell do I respond to shit like that? )