transition isn't about gender and it's not about bodies. it's about breath, slowly exhaled in the middle of the night, crystallizing in the cool air, as you look out the window at the dimly-lit street below, at peace for the first time in your life. it's about knowing that peace is yours now. - ThreadSky

mel.bzky.team • 7 days ago

transition isn't about gender and it's not about bodies. it's about breath, slowly exhaled in the middle of the night, crystallizing in the cool air, as you look out the window at the dimly-lit street below, at peace for the first time in your life. it's about knowing that peace is yours now.

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valisdheart.bsky.social•7 days ago

mel this is really beautiful, and puts a certain shape to something i’ve only begun to feel… thank you

mel.bzky.team•7 days ago

🫡sometimes I cook

susankayequinn.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is beauty

doctor-lesbian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Fuckin beautiful.

I've started finding ways to make that feeling possible more often.

aliteraltree.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is wonderful and i will be returning to it many more times

mel.bzky.team•7 days ago

transition is about smelling things, touching things, tasting things for the first time, for a second time. it's about everything being new again, about embodying a shape in an only-just-created cosmos

mel.bzky.team•7 days ago

second first kisses after second first dates with second first partners, who you get to love fully for the first first time.

mel.bzky.team•7 days ago

and it's about names. about deciding on the shape of you, then engraving it on the world's countenance in sound and letter. in many belief systems, a name is a uniquely powerful thing, a truth beyond other words capable of summoning gods and demons. how could transition not be about that

mel.bzky.team•7 days ago

it's about finding the new good words to describe that old, now-passed misery, and by doing so to banish it forever to the margins. you were never broken like you believed. you were dysphoric; call the demon by its name and its power wanes, the infinitely large reduced to a few letters on a page

mel.bzky.team•7 days ago

transition is breath and taste and names and words and love, and, sure, sometimes that means it must briefly be genders and bathrooms and sports that you don't even play, but that's just the tedium that must be overcome and will be overcome. that's never what it was about

garnet.horse•7 days ago

This is genuine poetry

I’m crying and I don’t even care

syberkai.bsky.social•7 days ago

I'm going through a lot of positive changes, including transitioning right now.

I had no idea how badly I needed to hear this until I heard it. Thank you 💜

lexorchid.bsky.social•7 days ago

fr, our transition wasn't for social reasons or for brownie points or buzzwords or politics, it wasn't about gender specifically, and it wasn't for anyone else. It's for looking in the mirror and finally recognizing who that is.

dani-lslmlv.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is exquisitely put.

ary.yuri.observer•7 days ago

I wonder if I’ll ever have this experience…

gyrasolune.bsky.social•7 days ago

i need that intensely.

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