Sending good vibes to all of my trans comrades 
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inspired by @ashinadash@hexbear.net curlposting i have decided to give my curls a bit more love. i ordered a nice hair care package of scrunchies, wide tooth comb, curly shampoo/conditioner and some oils and shit. i have a nice wave naturally, but i normally don't put too much work into my curls besides brushing in the shower, scromching with a towel and air drying. i need to get a trim too as my hair is well below shoulder length which isn't optimal for my curls, but i'm excited to curlmaxx some!!
in other news, i went to see I Saw the TV Glow and it was... good? i suppose it left me slightly underwhelmed because it definitely didn't resonate with me emotionally as much as i expected given what i had heard going in. it was still an enjoyable and clearly very well crafted movie, just didn't click with me in that way. i had some gripes with it, but the stuff i didn't like was largely in service of horror which i have to appreciate so my criticism is fairly soft. i think it's Good the movie exists and if it shakes some eggs out of the closet or illuminates the horror of dysphoria to some cissies, that marks it as an accomplished and transgressive work in my view. definitely better than the hot new queer story being about some gay english white boys which god knows we've seen enough of for a bit.
(spoilers) i guess
i was a little disappointed when i realised it was going to have a tragic ending. i wouldn't reduce the movie to "just another queer tragedy", it does stand on its own and like i mentioned the tragic elements are in service of horror which makes the formula a little more fresh... but it did ultimately feel like a tragedy. in the horror context, a happy ending was never on the cards. it wouldn't have made sense i guess. not asking it to be a different movie, but it did make me yearn a bit more for new queer stories that are more radically hopeful, which is something i strongly feel we need more of.
I find good trans media hard to come by.. a lot before the past 5 years isn't that great especially where films are concerned. I've only seen one film that was okay.. but it's really slim pickings.
I get most of my trans and gender non conforming fix from books, there's a steady amount of stuff out there, not all great but it's a lot more than what's in the mainstream
My curls are so good. Here's what I do but hey ymmv:
-Cowash and brush with wide tooth comb every 3 days
-Apply conditioner after cowash. Rinse most out but leave some in.
once out of the shower, get a small amount (I use 1-2 pumps from my pump bottle) of sweet almond oil and run it through my hair
I use a hair towel to dry but you could air dry too.
Let it dry and my curls come out amazing almost every time. I make a concerted effort to kinda force the curls around each other while it's wet, that way it dries in a way that naturally curls.
thanks for the tips:) how often do you shampoo? i get greasy enough every 3 days or so that I feel compelled to, but I'd love to push that number longer like I used to be able to do with shorter hair.
I almost never shampoo. I just Cowash.
To do that I get the suave coconut conditioner. Get a ton of it and wash it through my hair and then brush. Then get it all out of my hair. My hair is pretty dry overall though
Oh yeah I'm still getting my hair wet basically every day. Just no wash. I shower every day