Hey Birls!

So many of you play guitar and ride bikes.

I think that's most fabulous.

So, let's have it, eh?

I want to see photos of your guitars and bikes (especially the old, loved, decorated, customs,etc.)!

I'm an artist working on a project and need some inspiration.

Pee Ess: Thank you.

My friend and I made a bacon weave tonight. EPIC

smudges on glasses
short kisses goodnight
secret messages shown through touch
hugs never long enough


smooth to the touch,
tipped over with lush,

descriptive scenes





No words come to mind,
when I sit and try,
to tell the world of what I see,
every single day because of you and me.
I can't promise a symphony,
or a novel to spare,
I'm only allowed to see your shine,
not to share.

Starting to paint a picture,
everything's first start,
the beginning of a story,
the journey of my heart.
Dark forests,
and creatures disgust,
I was lost in a nightmare,
with no one to trust.
The shape of your hands,
shaded below, but not on top,
every crease in your smile,
is everything I'd ever want.
You didn't fight a dragon,
or kill a horrendous beast,
all you did was trace,
trace through my streets.
You said there's no such thing,
as a nightmare to haunt,
only fairytale dreams that come true,
and love if you want.
Each time I take,
my sight to the world,
changes grow, scenery bright,
butterflies shine in the light;
the same ones you bestowed upon myself,
my hearts content, my hearts wealth,
filled up with no grace,
only falls through clouds,
you spoke to my thoughts,
told me to live out loud.
Pen and paper is where I stand,
path between hate and creativity's hand.
Water trickles down,
as time fades away,
nothing is as clear,
as what your light browns always say.
The first stroke,
first sentence,
everything's new beginning,
your whole makes my world living.




So, I couldn't really write at the beginning. And I'm not sure how I did at the end.
I suppose there just aren't words or pictures or stories to show how great this is.
But I'll continue to try. Maybe I'll never get better at it, but still, I'll try.
<3

Just playing around with trying to find a more gender neutral/masculine name. I want it to start with E as my birth name does, and I really like EL names because those are the first two letters of my name. I was thinking:

• Ellis
• Elian
• Elias
• Elliot

Preferences? Suggestions?

Thanks all,
E-

I'm kind of nonplussed - I'm not exactly a fashion fanatic and usually don't pay much attention to what I wear. As you guys have fabulous fashion sense, do you think this looks okay for a queer, genderqueer questioning-asexual-in-denial at a local GLBT dinner? I'd like to go with something birly obviously to represent who I am, but it's also out at a restaurant and I don't have any fancy clothes. Just jeans, really. Gods, I hadn't realized how huge my chest looks in a simple bonds singlet though, even though I'm wearing one of those frog compression sports bras.
I'm going with a bi mate of mine who dresses eternally in black, so he'll fit in 'cause black fits in anywhere. As for me, I'm not particularly eager to roast myself in the middle of an Aussie summer for the sake of style, thanks. This is what I came up with : Jeans, bonds singlet (aka "wife beater" but I'm hoping that'll slip under the radar), checked shirt, retro hat and the obligatory glasses. I'm wondering if I can get away with thongs ("flip-flops" for yankees I believe) in a restaurant or not, because it's baking.



That outfit look anywhere near decent?

( i know how y'all are about the pictures )

j.bee
sassyfrasscircus.com

my friend and I went on a hunt for records, good food and Coopers Pale Ale on tap the other day and took some photos along the way...



( +8 )

i bought a sweater vest last night that i am very excited about
( the vest and one other photo )

also, i'm the new featured artist on this website
i'd love for you to check it out :)

Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

Hello! My name is Raechel and my membership in this group falls under
the “birl-admirer” category. I am currently working toward my PhD in
Communication Studies and this semester I’m writing a paper focusing
on trans and gender-variant identity and community construction
through livejournal sites (ftmvanity and birls). I’m hoping to
explore how internet community sites influence and empower gender
variant identity, and how they impact new ways of understanding
masculinity. If you have a few minutes, I’d love to get some feedback
into specific questions I’m exploring. In addition, I am only using
LJ names, but if this ever got published, I wold ask permission of
anyone I end up quoting. As a cis gender female, I am trying to
incorporate as many actual voices of birls and FTMs in my paper as
possible, and consider everyone on this site as a “co-researcher” not
a “subject” (as your voice is more legitimate than a PhD student
studying this community as a relative outsider—I specify that I never
try to determine “what it’s like to be non cisgender” but rather how a
SOFFA/birl-admirer understands these sites only through my
relationships with former trans-partners and current trans-friends).While my focus
in this paper is on transmasculine identifying folks, I'm also happy to hear responses from birl-admirers and other gender-varient modalities.
So, on to the questions!:

1. Have you learned new ways of describing your lived experience
because of the LJ community? (For example, have you implemented new
words into your vocabulary that you learned from the blogs?)

2. Do you feel that your town or school is not accepting of your
gender performance?

3. Do you see the LJ community as a way to “escape” from your less
accepting surroundings?

4. Have you made friends on the LJ site?

5. What is your goal when you post blogs or photos? (eg-do you hope to
start discussion, get compliments/ego-boost, etc?)

6. Do you think this site is “empowering”? (And if so, how do you define that?)

7. Have you had a bad experience in the birls community?

8. What is something you feel someone doing academic work on trans and
gender-varient identity should know about how this site impacts your
identity or sense of community with other birls or FTMs?

Thanks for your help! : )

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- What's your name? Kayli
- Are you out?: Not really, most of my friends know but my parent definately don't
- How many years have you graced earth?: 14
- Where ya from?: United States
- Would you date long distance?: I would.
- Do you smoke? Do you mind smokers?: no and not really
- Do you drink? Do you mind drinkers?: when I go to parties and i just dont like mean drunks
- Do you do drugs? What about girls/guys that do? weed/ um..
- How tall are you? 5'ish
- What kinds of music do you like? alteravitve, NeverShoutNever, ... pretty much anything tho.
- Do you consider yourself butch/femme/andy/labeless?: labeless
- Tell me 4 things, you are looking for in a future partner: common sense, humor, someone who doesn't put themselves down all the time; AND friends ship.
- What is your current r'ship status? Single.
- And of course the cheesy one, what would be a perfect date for you? at home with a box of pizza, music, and just us two
- Only one left! How can you be reached? LiveJournal, msn messenger,

Hi all,

Hopefully this question doesn't seem too outlandish, but I am seriously wondering if this is a decent way to raise money for chest surgery.

( This might sound silly! )

Also, I have outlandishly sized breasts.

Hey, I'm Ace. 19. Live in the scorching land of Tucson Arizona. I'm not as masculine as I'd like to be, but I recently came out to my anarchist collective and admitted that I'd reached a stage in my life where I really didn't want to be referred to by feminine pronouns anymore. I'm really considering starting T soon but my current partner is kind of unhappy about it. Cut my hair the other day, so this isn't totally current picturage. I probably lurked for way longer than I should've without introducing myself. Am also super worried that this post is dull.

Tank Girl Tattoo! ( More birling around town... )
EDIT: Atrocious coding is fixed!

Hey birls,
I'm just in all sorts of happy moods right now...which is strange since it's that time of the month. I made a video yesterday (I think - my memory is shit) and I wanna share it with ya cause I loves ya. I don't know, I guess I'm just excited that this community is so awesome and we can actually post this kind of crap. Anyways, MTF Vlog numero dos. It doesn't reflect the happy mood I'm in right now...but pshhh whatever. Also posted on my journal.

( Under cut 'cause I'm kinda shy. )