Permanent Body modification to date. Not counting maintenance like food, exercise, tooth cleansing, haircuts or dyes, sunscreen or dilation

( Greater than one per year )

Just now, I was pondering getting some tattoos.

One, reading "registered mutant " with a number below it. A signifier for finishing transition. Likely on my hip; somewhere you'd expect an impersonal government agency to mark you so they can ID you if they really have to, but not so it shows in public.

A second, some sort of signifier of the victory ( Read more... )

There's a a blast of cold on your skin, a pulse of heat and flash of light, a varying amount of pain, and then rhythmic "whump." Repeat once per second ( Read more... )

My ears = pierced.

More specifically, after taking the fine suggestions of several people, I went with Rowan to the Sacred Heart outlet on Nelson. There I saw Stephanie who took excellent care in picking out where exactly to poke me. She labeled first, I double-checked, and Rowan, who was wearing corrective lenses unlike yours truly, triple-checked ( Read more... )

Before venturing into the land of the damned, I require a protective amulet ( Read more... )

"I now have a lot more respect for 14-year-old boys"

- participant at a transgender support group

I empathize. Both he and I were/are dealing with having the hormonal oscillations of an adolescant member of our preferred gender.

All this crazy hormone shit is good - it's really good - but it's interesting and, at times, six kinds of intense.

At least I ( Read more... )

    I went to see the laser hair removal people.
    I gotta say, this laser business is cool: you wear goggles with the same salmon colour as the dress I'm in (more on this later), and they put the tip about five centimeters from your skin. Then there are two simultaneousish flashes on your skin: one's the colour of frost, 'cause that's what it is ( Read more... )