Logging onto here is like walking through a bead curtain
When The Green Man pub went out of business, not only was it abandoned, it was sealed up underground, where it still lies buried beneath this shopping mall.
It currently lies beneath four retail shops and can only be accessed by a hole under in the commercial center.
The Green Man in Loughborough, UK was a popular local pub decorated like a Medieval castle with large wall murals depicting knights and life in the middle ages. The murals still remain, as well as the benches and the bar complete with dusty beer glasses.
It closed its doors for the last time in 1993 when its entrance was walled up during renovation work on the shopping center.
It still has electricity and this sitting area is intact.
Lovely curved wood bar with a now-rusty foot rail.
One of the Medieval murals.
A former DJ for the pub submitted some old photos to the local paper, taken at the Green Man between ‘87-’88.
This was the entrance as it looked in the mall back then.
Alexander Alexandrov, cavaleryman and trans person
The man, known to many of russians as ‘cavaleryman-maiden’, Nadezhda Durova, until his death, insisted on a different naming of himself: Alexander Alexandrov. This surname was given to him as a gift from Alexander I, emperior of Russia, when he learned that the brave cavalaryman who fought in the Prussian campaign wasn’t actually a cisgender, unlike other warriors.
Unfortunately, the pre-life and modern narratives of his life insist that Alexander was a woman disguised as a man for convenience, but people who insist on that don’t consider Alexander’s own position. The modern concept of transgender identity and gender dysphoria is hard to apply to a resident of the 19th century, but ont thing we know for sure: Alexander Alexandrov consistently and against all the requirements of society and the family insisted on his mans’ name and the presentation.
In addition to military success, Alexandrov reached certain heights in writing. In a letter to Alexander Pushkin, who highly appreciated the manuscript of his “Notes” and undertook to help with the publication, he complains about the title assigned to the manuscript, which revealed the name ‘Nadezhda Durova’. Alexander wrote, ‘The Name that you called me in your Preface does not give me peace! Is there no remedy for this grief?’ There he asks for a different name, ‘Self-taught notes of a Russian Amazon known as Alexandrov’. A. Panaeva (a writer) recalls his masculine manners, smoking a pipe and the habit of sitting with his legs crossed. In Alexander’s ‘Year of life in St. Petersburg’ there is a dialogue that is acutely recall to any gender-nonconforming person:
— And now that in your coat, between so many dozens of coats, everyone will take you for a man! — So much the better, that’s all I want! — To the young man! — That’s the best part.
In a young age, he was forcibly married and gave birth to a son, placing him in an orphanage right after that. Alexander did not maintain any relations with his husband also. For the last 25 years of his life, Alexandrov lived in Yelabuga, where he was buried under the name of Nadezhda Durova. His first biographer N. Blinov writes that, after receiving a request from his son for a “mother's” blessing for his marriage, Alexandrov, without reading, threw the letter into the fire, and gave his blessing only when the next letter was addressed to staff-captain Alexandrov. Alexander was buried with military honors, under three rifle volleys. In the order of the funeral ceremony, he is named ‘retired staff captain of the Lithuanian Uhlan regiment A. Alexandrov’.
Some douche replied to a youtube comment i left about how transphobes don't even consider cis women who aren't feminine enough to be "real women" and what a woman is supposed to be varies from culture to culture and even within the same culture. They said that they identified as a cat and there was no way to say they were wrong without "debunking this gender nonsense" and I guess it was supposed to make me mad but it honestly just cracked me up like
Okay, if you would like to live as a cat that's literally none of my business. If you want to crawl around someone else's house, naked except for a collar with a bell on it and a tag saying you belong to them, while they decide when you eat and give you a box to shit in and discipline you for breaking the rules, you wouldn't be the only person. There's an entire community you can talk to about that, and a few people would be happy to help you live like that if you genuinely wanted.
And if it's just that you feel a really strong connection with cats and find them to be a better representation of all that you are than your physical human body, there are also people like that.
And i'm just imagining this cis dude at a computer like "okay, well what if i was a bdsm kitten and/or otherkin?!?!?! What then liberal?" Honey, i've met weirder and they're both better company and contributing more to their social circles than you
some might say it is crass to make 9/11 jokes but also more people die from covid every week then died in 9/11 and we’ve decided that That’s Fine so i think a reduction in the seriousness with which we take 9/11 is warranted
Get this shit out of my fucking face LIKE WHAT IS THIS?????
RIP groupchats this was a once in a lifetime experience </3
Was anybody gonna tell me tumblr got rid of groupchats, or was I just supposed find out from a post about narutos ass
My dad told me a Queen Elizabeth x 9/11 combo joke but idk if it works in English
It goes something like this
Q: Why can’t Americans play chess against the British anymore?
A: Because the British are missing the queen and the Americans are missing two towers (rooks).
To whoever unfollowed me for this: I didn’t even come up with the joke myself, you should unfollow my dad instead.
If you went by what you see on TV you’d think the nation was gripped in a collective outpouring of grief and.. it isn’t! No spontaneous flower tributes, no black armbands. People are just getting on with their lives. The only public displays are by brands and businesses.
Look at the number of flowers in town today under the queen statue. They’ve optimistically set the barriers far back anticipating thousands. There’s about 15. There was no one there paying their respects either. Literally no one. The biggest queue was at a burger van nearby.
There is a huge difference between somebody actively erasing somebody else's struggles and somebody talking about their issues and needs.
Oftentimes I have seen when people say trans men and transmascs are "erasing other trans people," they really mean that we are simply talking about our issues and needs, or that we are prioritizing our community. It would be erasure to say that trans men and transmascs are the only trans people with needs or that only we matter, but by and large, this isn't happening. What happens nine times out of ten is that we are trying to make theory, discuss material needs, seek community, and find people to connect with. There is, quite literally, nothing wrong with that.
It isn't erasure of trans people for a trans person to say that trans men and transmascs have specific needs and issues and that we are worthy of being recognized. Learn to think critically about this. For the survival of trans communities, learn to think critically for once.
reminds me of when some old church in Sweden was cleaning out their storage and they forgot they had left like 80 medieval corpses in some ikea bags during renovations so somebody opened a closet door and it’s just
Just some stretches you can add to your daily routine!
I know I’ve said this before but if you wear a binder for multiple hours at a time, stretching regularly (without the binder on) is incredibly important to prevent muscle atrophy. It sneaks up on you - I started binding in my mid teens with sports bras, and properly in my late teens to early twenties, and when I was maybe twenty-eight or twenty-nine, I had to go to the doctor with sharp, severe pains in my chest that got worse with binding, but didn’t go away even if I left the binders off for a few days.
The issue was I’d worn them consistently enough that my chest/abdomen/torso/back muscles (i don’t know, core shit), the ones that are working in resting positions, had atrophied. So stretching those regularly, especially before putting a binder on, pretty much eliminated the pain over the next couple of weeks.
Anyway if you’re transmasc follow this person’s videos!
It’s coming
petition to start using it like we did the megamind meme until it comes true
Black trans men elders have done so much for the trans community but get little support or visibility in return. Let's change this!
Dr. Kortney Ziegler is raising $100k to split between three amazing Black trans men who have paved the way for our community to live as open and authentically as we can.
Ethan Thomas Young:
Ethan is Almost 61 years old trans man with Cerebral Palsy. He is working part time as a peer support specialist.
Rev. Louis Mitchell:
Rev. Louis Mitchell is a pioneering "intentional man". He is known around the country and abroad as an elder, advocate, teacher, student, minister, parent and friend.
Kylar Broadus, Esq.:
Kylar is a lawyer, civil rights activist, and first transgender person to speak at the Senate to defend the rights of transgender workers across America.
