elilla @elilla@queer.party

hello comrades!♡ I’m a Brazilian trans woman living in Germany 💕

Intend to post: selfies; trans issues; reviews of books I’m reading (mostly fantasy); comments on comic books; agitprop.

I like linux, nail polish, revolution, linguistics, made-up languages, makeup, antifa, calligraphy, #bujo, intersectional veganism &c.

My account about linguistics & academia is @melissaboiko

#introductions #introduction #germany #bochum #nrw #linguistics #transgender #vegan #selfies #mtf

1. Melissa (Greek μέλισσα) ‘honeybee’ ≅ general Tupian Jandira ‘honeybee’, name of my grandmother who raised me as a baby
2. ‘Mel’ is feminine (not neutral) in my language and it sounds almost like an inversion of the shortened form of my deadname.
3. Alphabetically one letter forward from deadname; symbolically a step forward.
4. But matches it in sonorous liquid consonants.

#transgender #mtf #name

From: « Les Amies de Place Blanche », Christer Strömholm.

This made me happy.

(source and more: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcollection_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Les+Amies+de+Place+Blanche+by+Christer+Str%C3%B6mholm&f%5Bsubject_geographic_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Paris)

#transgender #sapphic #wlw

push-up bra! I like what it does with a deep V cut.

had to dig up autumn clothes but hey it's autumn back home hohoho

#finefemmefriday

If Audrey Coulthurst thinks she can get me to read her whole fantasy series with bait like "nerdy princess blushing wildly as she ties the lace of the dress of her hot riding instructor", she’s completely right. She has my number. I’m ~so~ here for this. I’m gonna binge on the whole thing, am I not.

#offireandstars #books #fantasy #wlw

when gf gets up before me, she does like this ninja body substitution jutsu and replaces herself with chonky seal, so that I'm not left hugless 😌

#plush

There are some scenes from undercover footage of animal abuse. They're not the focus of the doc and are relevant to the argument, but still, have somebody to hug if you're going to watch this. And then go bomb the fuckers, because *damn*.

The title is funny because the lesson at the end of the day is that justice isn't possible under capitalism, and animal cruelty will only stop when society learns to see animals as people.

This doc about the "Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty" movement organising is valuable as historical documentation of one specific tactic: going after companies that finance a particular group doing animal abuse, and protesting loudly until the investment becomes not worth the trouble.

This was legal. Then the animal industry lobby had the U.S. gov pass a law classifying "harm to a company's finances" as terrorism.

just binged on all 5 seasons of #SheRa in a row, in German

had some frozen kale to use. found a pasta recipe with lemon, but it depended on animal exploitation, so I tried to improvise something similar.

gf, being German, thought pasta mit Grünkohl was weird but decided to try and approved it, so I guess it worked! tastes like spinach pasta to me.

hardwheat farfalle, olive oil, black pepper, lemon juice, lightly fried cherry tomatoes with mirin and salt, and stir-fried kale on olive oil with garlic, salt, glutamate, pepper, chili.

had some frozen kale to use. found a pasta recipe with lemon, but it depended on animal exploitation, so I tried to improvise something similar.

gf, being German, thought pasta mit Grünkohl was weird but decided to try and approved it, so I guess it worked! tastes like spinach pasta to me.

hardwheat farfalle, olive oil, black pepper, lemon juice, lightly fried cherry tomatoes with mirin and salt, and stir-fried kale on olive oil with garlic, salt, glutamate, pepper, chili.

gifted myself a selfie stick.

when I become sufficiently nondepressed to play with selfies again, my angle game is so gonna level up~

wanting to install openwrt on my archer c7 router specifically because having no ssh access makes me feel blocked somehow

I don't really need ssh access, or any other openwrt features really. the install can be a lot of work, even brick the AP, and in the end it might be buggy or slow. it's a lot of trouble and risk for no gain but I still want to dooo iittt

duh that one’s /hært/, heart! obviously! Heart of Etheria Protocol

it’s like this cartoon was made for me

#SheRa #conlang

just taking a moment to appreciate Perfuma’s handwriting & doodles

#SheRa

spending 2h on my bowsette outfit to hop to the station and print my letter of objection to the health insurance that refused my orchi is trans culture

princess Koopa? honey, there are no princesses here. now kneel before your queen~

One fairy tale archetype that is explored in depth is that of the social-climber stepmother, of social structures pushing women against one another. The mother-daughter relationship is the focus of the story, and satisfyingly so. Feudalism, however, is never examined critically.

It was a light listen and I enjoyed it.

#girlsmadeofsnowandglass #books #fantasy #wlw

Rather, it deals with themes one sees more often in sci-fi: Being artificial, having a constructed body, and the dehumanisation that follows. Being built differently, and being told that because of your nature, you're unable to love, that if you think you love at all you’re fooling yourself. Being a mother but just a substitute. These naturally had instant personal resonance for my transness.

"Only dead mothers are perfect"

First things first: Lesbians? Yes ✅

With that out of the way: This story was sold to me as a take on Snow White and the Snow Queen. I started reading out of my lifelong, hypnokinky crush on the latter; but I don't think the novel is very close to these tales, in theme or character.

I miss ad&d. The sheer excess of it, endless hours of preparation and entire nights dedicated to nothing but leisure. I loved the convoluted rules, the way everything was messy and unbalanced and full of contradictions, like life.

no one gives you compensation for the emotional impact of feeling invalid and wrong when dealing with institutions that make you keep proving yourself, again and again.