Shash of the Grove ⚧️ Hippie Chick

Shash of the Grove ⚧️ Hippie Chick

@bearofthegrove.bsky.social

Currently: Transfluid-Hippie Chick, and loving it while it lasts. 💋 Blind artist and gardener of the desert Southwest. Feminine artist, Demimale gardener and lots of Androgyny/Agender. I'm Fluid ⚧️. Call me by any pronoun you wish, it's OK with me. 😘

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We now know some of the people involved in mailing children fake transgender pamphlets here in Texas.

Did my nails with a clear ridge filler base. Feel better about life. I will probably paint them with a blush pink polish and hope it is subtle enough to go fairly unnoticed. Almost finished updating my clothing colors, a hazard of 4-5 years between feminine shifts and graying hair.

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Update on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Operation Quiet Piggy blowing up Russian data cenrers! Slava Ukraini!

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Ok slowed it down for MAGA mushrooms to understand. We no get diesel from Russia.

Going to have to clear out some space, like move the toolboxes with guy tools, so I can set up a sewing area. I only hand sew, but I still need some table space. The work benches can work just as well for sewing, and they come in from the shop. Story of my life, but it works if I go with it.

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Republican David Flippo stolen valor scandal. Vote Teresa Benitez-Thompson, she's REAL!

It's a strange feeling to read my old posts, so focused on getting the gardens prepared, photographing the doves, tuning tools. And now, I feel myself land back on the feminine shore, wave after wave, finding myself about to say something from then, and it doesn't feel right., other words do.

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Sad feeling that I can't garden in a denim skirt. I used to wear kilts for the same feel, but the neighborhood has changed, the whole country. I'm sure I'll look back on these posts at some point and remember the feelings, but they'll feel distant, waves returning me to another shore over and over.

It's a strange feeling to read my old posts, so focused on getting the gardens prepared, photographing the doves, tuning tools. And now, I feel myself land back on the feminine shore, wave after wave, finding myself about to say something from then, and it doesn't feel right., other words do.

I still tend the garden, but the urgency is gone. No passion to photograph the birds, to make more horticultural knives, to study the bonsai for new possibilities. Instead the waves bring me back to making space for sewing, for subtle feminine expressions to manage dysphoria, clear nail polish.

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Trump and his minions can try and gaslight their base but you can't gaslight bankruptcies.

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MAGA lady says we wouldn't care about Jane Doe if it was 7 immigrants. Let's talk about that.

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Yes, things are looking good for Democrats but we need to talk if you care about your family or anyone for that matter. That means you too MAGA!

Not that I have to speak often around here, but working a little on the voice dysphoria. Spend a little time each day practicing with something vaguely female sounding until it feels too ridiculous to continue. The male voice does seem to naturally get softer,maybe nicer when I feel feminine. 🤷‍♀️

So I still need to present as demimale, and... I'm just softening things up a little, even though my forearms are causing a bit of dysphoria. The smile, the pose are how I feel inside, and I wanted to try my new headband on. Yes, I pulled a strand of hair out to frame my face for giggles.

Got my earring stand and jewelry box set up, new lavender and lilac shirt colors and some hair accessories like pink flower clip and hippie head bands. Try to make this body androgynous. Will look through fabric stock and maybe make a couple of hippie skirts, like if I don't have enough skirts...

It seems like it's been a few weeks since I had to scream into a pillow. Holy cow, I needed this female shift. I look at all the work, masculine work, I put into getting ready for hard times... And think you demimale for getting acetone for the epoxy that can also be safe as nail polish remover.

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We Democrats need to be talking to young folks with respect. This video is for them.

I've noticed my mental female self image has fully kicked in. Very helpful toward being a female pilot of a male body. Visualization is one of the techniques I learned for dealing with issues in therapy. It's quite natural for me as a formerly sighted person, and she's hanging out in my mind.

Cool part is she gets to instantly be in any outfit or be any race she wants as I go through the day. Such is synesthesia from blindness. I'm trying to not be too unmerciful in sissifying myself, at least in public. Chose to not withdraw from social media this time around. Go with the flow.

Neither of us were quite mature enough for the relationship that was developing. She was the first person to recognize I had a feminine side, and we had much fun talking about skirts and pleats and slips and slits... until I changed and that wasn't working. Memories I use against Fluidity dysphoria.

Been watching this. The moments of masculine feeling rage still pop up, but they feel weak and heavy. They sink away immediately. Thankful for that. Also noticed I lost my passion for photography with the feminine feelings. Story of my life. Finishing writing the novels started last cycle. Shash is.

Interesting morning conversation with a neighbor who takes issue with "pronouns," and can make no distinction between physical and mental gender. Was slightly open to a medically transitioned person, but closed to all else. I'm not presenting as feminine out there, especially not out in the garden.

I usually buy myself a few feminine clothing gifts when I shift, a tradition. Ordered a pair of cornflower blue earrings. Might wear them when I go down to vote. Although, I can look at my shopping histories on sites and track when I shift to feminine. Power tool/drill set/power tool/skirt/heels/...

Looking over a lot of posts and records, I think I was in a more masculine place over the last two years. This was from emotional shock after 2024. Masculine things needed to be done, I suppose. I think there's a lot to the notion that emotional extremes are playing a role in my shifts at times.

So my inner voice going from masculine to feminine abruptly was an unusual experience. It's welcome though. I'm leaving the grafting knife projects for my other genders to finish. And have devoted my energy to helping others in the Fluid community. We're helping each other. It's a scary era.