#northwest live

[farmerlesbian]

I just heard about this website called TransRural Lives which just went live! Go check it out! You can also find them on Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.

"A digital storytelling project exploring and celebrating the lives of transgender older adults who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and small towns in the Pacific Northwest."

The stories are audio recordings from the trans elders themselves, and I find it incredible to listen to their stories and literally hear their voices. This is definitely worth checking out and maybe even getting connected and sharing your story. You will also find a variety of resources and archives on the website. Check it out!

If you want to get involved, they're taking volunteers, donations, help to spread the word, and stories from rural trans people. Here's some info from the website on who they are looking to hear stories from:

Who is eligible to participate in the project? 

Transgender* adults 50 years of age and older who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and smaller cities/towns in Washington State (outside the Sea-Tac metro). In 2024, we will be expanding the project to include transgender older adults who live in Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and British Columbia.  

* We include and welcome anyone and any identity that falls outside the gender binary, including nonbinary, genderqueer, gender-diverse, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit folks. 

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Edit to add: I am in no way associated or affiliated with this project. I simply came across it while surfin' the web and thought yall would be into it and wanted to share it with tumblr! If you have thoughts or feedback or want to get involved or just want to talk to the project, I encourage you to reach out to them. Check out the website! I have zero affiliation with it.

#trans #pnw #trans stories #queer #rural queer #rural trans #Trans Rural Lives #washington state #pacific northwest #trans elders #links #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQ+ #transgender #transsexual #mod alfalfa #TransRural Lives

[vertigoartgore]

Twin Peaks/Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me/Twin Peaks: The Return commission by Mike & Laura Allred.

#twin peaks #twin peaks fire walk with me #twin peaks the return #david lynch #kyle mclachlan #laura dern #Sheryl lee #david bowie #we live inside a dream #black lodge #dale cooper #laura palmer #gordon cole #phillip jeffries #blue rose task force #FBI #diane #the Arm #1989 #1990 #1991 #1992 #2017 #showtime #abc #northwest passage #idiosyncratic #mike allred #laura allred

[cantsticktoasubject]

Various Photos of Kurt Cobain Throughout the 90s <3

#nirvana #krist novoselic #90s grunge #dave grohl #90s music #90s rock #kurt donald cobain #kurt cobain #grunge #maneskin #live #united states #seattle #washington state #pacific northwest #washington #california #michigan #90s fashion #90s #90s aesthetic #1990s #90s nostalgia #nineties #1998 #late 90s #dark grunge #alternative #grunge aesthetic #tumblr 2014

[alux-ulkan]

Coho Salmon / Silver Salmon - Oncorhynchus kisutch

Scale Pattern, 07/10/2023

#personal #photography #nature #nature photography #alaska #temperate rainforest #naturecore #southeast alaska #ketchikan #island living #watercore #silver salmon #coho salmon #Oncorhynchus kisutch #sea punk #fish scales #scale pattern #silver #ocean #pacific northwest #pacnw #alaskan wildlife #my photgraphy #sea life #salmon #summer #2023

[suddenly-frankenstein]

all i want is nothing more

to hear you knocking at my door

'cause if i could see your face once more

i could die as a happy man i'm sure

— (kodaline – all i want)

who knew that it was their last farewell?

#just imagined the last moments between Crozier and Ross before the Terror and Erebus departure #and made myself cry a little #maybe just maybe it was all an illusion and nothing bad happened #and Crozier returned home across the northwest passage and lived happily ever after #and he and ross would often sit by the fire in james and anne's house and feel safe and warm and secure and happy and in love #JUST MAYBE :(( #idk why i always want to draw melancholic pictures with them #oh :(( #francis crozier #james clark ross #rossier #the terror #(adjacent) #franklin expedition #polar exploration #hms terror #hms erebus

[fabdante]

a new character portrait i did for issue 2 of alice in grungeland! so you won't be seeing him for a while. feel free to make guesses, though!

art only blog - insta - inprnt - redbubble (image description in alt)

#alice in grungeland #indie comics #alice in wonderland #alice in wonderland reimagining #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #original art #illustration #drawing #grunge #my art #no one talks about how grunge fashion involved a lot of shorts with tights underneath #also jackets layered over other jackets #you can tell everyone here lived in the pacific northwest asdfghj

[punkitt-is-here]

you live in washinton?? you should vandalize the wh1t3 hau5

i see terezi took over you for that last bit there

#also i live in washington state not dc! common mistake #even for US americas #but its been a while since ive had someone confused #anyway washington state as in the pacific northwest #my posts #asks #anon

[pickleweed2]

Trinity River along highway 96, before it's meeting with the Klamath

Weitchepec, California

#trinity river #klamath river #waters #yurok land #douglas fir #tanoak #coast live oak #bigleaf maple #west coast #forest #rainy day #fog #mist #mountains #landscape #naturecore #humboldt county #pacific northwest #pnw vibes #pnwonderland #landscape photography #pnw photography #nature photography #original photographers #nikon

[metamatar]

based on one of your recent posts should i still be vegetarian especially if I was born into it?

you can do whatever you want forever!

the tags clearly said the vegetarianism that you were born into bc of your caste position isn't about animal liberation. im also extremely skeptical of any politics that centres personal choice instead of political and economic changes in meat production. anti meat taboos and the social censure of meat eaters in india is basically just an avenue to lynch and discriminate against dalits and muslims. your politics must be one that engages with that material reality, of living in a hindu fascist state where the politics that center anti meat food habits esp through the lens of personal moral goodness and purity are a reactionary force. your vegetarianism and/or veganism should remain a personal choice, that you make about your own body but the politics of what that represents is located in a highly specific context and its presentation.

#i personally try to minimise my own meat consumption #but i don't view it as a political position. #i live in the pacific northwest of the us atm. im surrounded by people for whom veganism is political action and its frustrating bc #the rhetoric they use is kind of. pointless and would be reactionary as hell if they were any kind of hegemonic force #asks #anon #veganism

[clove-pinks]

Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio.

#fort meigs #war of 1812 #military history #ohio #historical reenactment #living history #old northwest #perrysburg #us army #dressed to kill #reuploading my fort meigs pictures in a better post #this place is so amazing there's a wonderful museum and gift shop #they sell many cool books and gifts #and they have the war of 1812-scented candle

[shorlinesorrows]

I understand why people love warmer water beaches, they're gorgeous. Beautiful.

But as a person who was raised near a northern pacific coast, can confirm that nothing will ever compare to the feeling of walking in the surf of an ocean with water so cold it numbs your skin and burns your bones, the wind snatching at your clothes with icy fingers, silver overcast sky as far as the eye can see

something about sand that's smooth and chilly on your feet, and half-hidden shards of seashell, and an ocean that you know could drag you under at will

something about cliffs and rocks emerging from the mist at night, and the roar of waves, and the occasional seal that pops up between swells, the sea foam and shiny black mussels clinging to tide-beaten rocks

Idk there's something very special about beaches that are cold for a majority of the year and tbh I'd take one of those any day.

#don't get me wrong I just like being at the beach #any beach #gimme the ocean please I will TAKE IT #but my home coast is very dear to me and frankly i do not think cold beaches get enough attention #i freaking love cold beaches they make me so happy #there's something downright powerful about them #i've lived near water of some form my whole life and trust me i didn't make it this far by disrespecting it #anyways yeah #I'm sick atm and having Thoughts #ramblings #personal #ocean #pacific northwest #pacific ocean

[winter-seance]

#poll #polls #christmas #christmas trees #i live in the pacific northwest so we have a pretty massive supply of real fir trees #my family has always gotten real trees #but in other areas of the country (or world) i'd assume artificial trees are more typical...?

[chicago-geniza]

So true bestie

#I am a white adult but I live on the northwest side go to a west side low-income clinic and work on the south side #I am usually the only white person at every asthma clinic I attend

[ozarktrailerparkdykefag]

I am a woman, and I learned what that meant to me in various ways, through various people.

Like the single mom caring for 7 kids on a gas station salary.

Like the woman wearing a bandana and apron tending a veggie garden outside her trailer to save her and her friends money.

Like the women told they couldn't do something cause they weren't a man, and did it anyway.

Like the woman who learned to bow hunt to feed her family.

Like the girl riding an old motorcycle or car pooling with coworkers to save gas getting to work.

Like the lady working on her neighbors car cause every mechanic tried to cheat her outa everything she had to fix it.

Like the gal smoking out back of the IGA between a double shift.

Like the girls who just wore whatever and were just women as they defined themselves, good hardworking people.

The lunch ladies

Gas station clerks

Soup kitchen volunteers

Junk yard scrappers

The women who inspired me, who I wanted to be like growing up, who I felt like, where women all beat too hard by life, but kept going and kept being good people.

Woman hood is hard working, self defined, its independence, tenderness in hard places.

I wish I saw more trans girls see themselves in that, tried to emulate that, and not anime bullshit and tv models or "influencers".

#trans #southern queer #south #arkansas #northwest arkansas #nwa #ozark mountains #feminism #women #transgender #trans woman #transfem #mobile home #trailer trash #trailer park #i hope i can live up to the qualities of the strong people in my life #mom was a lotta this shorta bein a decent person sadly

[shelovesplants]

Driving through Oregon in my rv⛰️❤️

#rv living #rv #rvtravel #rv trip #rv life #oregon #pnwisbest #pnw #pnwvibes #pnwisbeautiful #pnw photography #pacific northwest #driving video #driving #traveling #travel #my video

[dionysus-complex]

that LA poll I made is also interesting in that it's revealing some really common misconceptions about LA's geography - there's a lot of "oh, I'd never want to live there, it's too hot/in the middle of the desert" and like. it's not Phoenix. with the exception of places like Palmdale or Lancaster which are LA County but very much Not LA, it's a coastal Mediterranean chaparral ecosystem and while there are parts of LA (the valleys) that are very hot in the summer there are also areas (the Westside/Long Beach) that rarely get warmer than 80-85 degrees Fahrenheit

#~20 degree fahrenheit temperature differences between the coast and the inland valleys are not uncommon #frankly i experienced more extreme summer heat when i lived in the pacific northwest than i do where we live now