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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>I’m the Gladiator.  I’m 20. Taken.  Living in good ‘ol Michigan.  Crappy job, great friends, interesting life.  High hopes.  Oh, and I’m trans.  Newly comfortable with it.  idgaf.</description><title>Pompeii Manere</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @gladiatorstorm)</generator><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>damn.  just made a mess in my pants.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6718dE0wF1rxvw1mo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;damn.  just made a mess in my pants.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26325837595</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26325837595</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:28:30 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>aciijess:

mpregbert:

mpregbert:

mpregbert:

mpregbert:

omfg i just choked on my poop and almost...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://aciijess.tumblr.com/post/26268445990/mpregbert-mpregbert-mpregbert"&gt;aciijess&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mpregbert.tumblr.com/post/26059563588"&gt;mpregbert&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mpregbert.tumblr.com/post/26054163985"&gt;mpregbert&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mpregbert.tumblr.com/post/26053381996"&gt;mpregbert&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mpregbert.tumblr.com/post/26053366561"&gt;mpregbert&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;omfg i just choked on my poop and almost got it all over the competur that was close&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;POP&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;STOP REBLOGGING IT&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;i hate everyone&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;lol&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26325592035</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26325592035</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:24:48 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>And the truth shall set you free.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30hd7gMAH1qb6oiao1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m30hd7gMAH1qb6oiao2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the truth shall set you free.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26324727180</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26324727180</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:11:59 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>endless-and-eternal:

Crazy tree house!!

HOLY FUCK</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6i8w7xtPH1r3f186o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://endless-and-eternal.tumblr.com/post/26305959341/crazy-tree-house"&gt;endless-and-eternal&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Crazy tree house!!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;HOLY FUCK&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26308785186</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26308785186</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:07:53 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Such a peaceful place to sleep.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6hpt1XZMY1r2ym3bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Such a peaceful place to sleep.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26304353316</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/26304353316</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:55:50 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzfuvt07ty1r3siwbo1_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17657052784</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17657052784</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:00:00 -0400</pubDate><category>Love</category><category>gif</category><category>tattoos</category><category>romance</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ofn6C2mG1r3siwbo1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/19061145433</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/19061145433</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:11:27 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Reblog if you are not wearing pants</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Just happened to be naked.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/19060869384</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/19060869384</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:05:46 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>prettyflyforatransguy:

Life’s problems.
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m001p2XpTa1qjnhqgo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://prettyflyforatransguy.tumblr.com/post/19060612917/lifes-problems"&gt;prettyflyforatransguy&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Life’s problems.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/19060835252</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/19060835252</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:05:04 -0500</pubDate></item><item><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/18790923235</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/18790923235</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:53:37 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
 Rick Santorum can’t stop making unintentional buttsex jokes.
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m074kuyfo21qzdd61o1_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m074kuyfo21qzdd61o2_250.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt; Rick Santorum can’t stop making unintentional buttsex jokes.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/18790886880</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/18790886880</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:52:07 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>tinaxlynn:

-47…that’s almost half….why does transgender have to...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvppb424RX1r6i83go1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tinaxlynn.tumblr.com/post/17912124344/47-thats-almost-half-why-does-transgender-have"&gt;tinaxlynn&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;-47…that’s almost half….why does transgender have to mean something so horrible to those that don’t understand it and don’t want to understand it?….that’s almost half…half of a group of human beings that deserve the same lives and the same opportunities that everyone does.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/18266630782</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/18266630782</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:13:51 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>This will be the entrance to my future house.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhlajmISj1r8iwvso1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This will be the entrance to my future house.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17937156475</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17937156475</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:40:58 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lypyxe903v1rngrxqo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17937059718</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17937059718</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:37:39 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh my God you're hot, wow...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks, that was my self esteem boost for the month!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17862162974</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17862162974</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:31:31 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>FACT: Trans* spectrum individuals can go for inordinately long amounts of time without sleep.</title><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17836216418</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17836216418</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:33:29 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>
&amp;#8220;Laying beside me in bed watching TV, you turn over and ask if you can suck my cock. I smile...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="entrytext"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;Laying beside me in bed watching TV, you turn over and ask if you can suck my cock. I smile and after kissing you deeply, you slide down my body, your lips leaving a trail from my neck to the head of my cock. Slowly you take my cock into your mouth, your tongue and lips sucking at the head, your mouth wet and warm. Inch by inch you take my cock deeper into your mouth, knowing how much I love that, trying to please me. Feeling me harden against your tongue, my cock throbbing against your lips.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17827666307</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17827666307</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:53:16 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Dear little spoon.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m in the mood for cuddling.&lt;br/&gt;Naked.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17783524793</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17783524793</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:46:43 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh. My. God.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjygwup7D1r93j5vo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh. My. God.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17782183626</link><guid>http://gladiatorstorm.tumblr.com/post/17782183626</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:22:30 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Trans 101 for Trans People</title><description>&lt;a href="http://nonop.zxq.net/101.html"&gt;Trans 101 for Trans People&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tranwrecks.tumblr.com/post/17652821317/trans-101-for-trans-people"&gt;tranwrecks&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;u&gt;A Trans 101 For Trans People&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;You are human. You are worthy of respect. You deserve to be treated with the same dignity as anyone else. There is nothing inherently wrong with your gender. You are not broken, you are not disgusting, you do not deserve to be hurt.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You’ve been brought up and live in a world that’s designed to erase and demonize your existence, you’ve probably internalized a lot of that- and that’s not your fault. But it can be hard to deal with. But you aren’t alone in dealing with it. And &lt;a href="http://takingsteps.blogspot.com/2009/03/fair.html"&gt;sometimes you have to buy into it to be able to handle it&lt;/a&gt; (trigger warning: transphobic violence). And that’s okay.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Your gender is no more or less than anyone else’s. Your history doesn’t make you “not really” or “less” your gender than someone with a cis history, it just makes you a person of your gender with a different history.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You do not deserve to be held to higher standards than cis people. You do not have to “prove” your gender by forcing yourself into societal roles that may not fit. You are not “failing” anyone by fitting into societal roles that are comfortable. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=194"&gt;It is not your job to break down the binary/patriarchy/or anything else&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=194"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; If you want to, go for it, but you have &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; obligation to do anything for cis people just because you are trans.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Being yourself does not hurt trans rights (so long as you aren’t trying to do so while stopping others from being who they are) and is not a reason why people don’t have to treat you with respect. There is nothing wrong with being a feminine man or masculine woman, or being a person who’s comfortable in their body, or being a person who doesn’t transition all the way, or being out about having a non-binary or genderqueer gender. You have not “failed” anyone by doing this, you are not “less” of your gender than someone else. Being who you are is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a valid argument for why people can’t treat you as who you truly are.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;No one else has the right to say your body needs to be changed. It only does if &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; need to change it. Or if you want to change it, that’s valid, too. Your body does not make you “less” your gender. It doesn’t make you “not really” your gender. &lt;a href="http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3310"&gt;It doesn’t mean you’re trapped in someone else’s body&lt;/a&gt;. You do not have to fix your body to “become” your gender- &lt;em&gt;you already are your gender&lt;/em&gt;. All you need to do is what &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; need to do to be comfortable in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; body. And if that includes reclaiming your right to label your own body, &lt;a href="http://tteaequality.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/my-body-my-words/"&gt;you are allowed to do that&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You have just as much of a right to privacy as anyone else. &lt;a href="http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3322"&gt;You do not need to tell anyone about your body, your medical history, or anything else&lt;/a&gt;. Whether or not your body needs to be changed for you to be comfortable, you do not have to change it to deserve to be treated as who you are. You do not owe anyone intimate details about your personal life before you can be treated as who you are.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://the-madame-hatter.tumblr.com/post/1623909669/why-yes-let-me-just-drop-everything-i-am-doing-and"&gt;You have no obligation to educate &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;anyone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; This includes trans people, but is most important with cis people. You are not a walking encyclopedia of transgender and/or transsexual information, you are a person. You do not have to answer every question any cis person comes up with, you do not have to represent trans people as a whole, (see 7) you do not have to bare the most personal and vulnerable parts of your soul to other people on demand.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Not educating people does not “hurt” trans rights. NEVER let anyone try to guilt you into educating people or doing something you don’t want to do by insisting that doing otherwise will “destroy trans rights/acceptance/whatever”. Trying to force trans people to become walking information desks or to put themselves in dangerous situations regardless of whether or not you’re even up for dealing with this destroys trans rights and shows a great deal of intolerance. Asserting that you don’t have to tell anyone anything you don’t want to? That really doesn’t.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you do want to educate people, you are allowed to set limits and boundaries. You are allowed to say that you won’t talk about certain issues, or that you will only talk about them on your terms. You are allowed to decide which people you will talk to about which issues. You are allowed to change these boundaries if you become uncomfortable educating people you were previously willing to educate. You are not obligated to educate anyone just because you educated someone else.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You deserve to take care of yourself- whatever that means. You deserve to be comfortable and safe. You deserve not to be in dangerous situations. If you can’t handle something alone, you deserve to ask for- and get- help or, if you can, take a break from it until you can handle it. Or just stop doing it all together, that’s okay. Taking care of yourself does not make you weak, it does not make you an attention-grabber or overdramatic, it does not make you “less” your gender, &lt;a href="http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/activism-self-harm/"&gt;it does not mean you betray other trans people by not being a full-time (or even part-time) activist&lt;/a&gt;. You’re human, you have limits, and that’s okay.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You deserve to have your boundaries respected. Any boundaries- how and where people can touch you, what information you give to who and when, what places you feel comfortable going or who you feel comfortable going with, what people can tell others about you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You deserve to have the words you are and aren’t comfortable being referred to as respected. You deserve to have the proper pronouns used (and, if there are times when it’s unsafe for that to happen, you deserve to have your safety maintained by those around you), you deserve to be called the proper name, you deserve to have the words you want used to describe your body used, you deserve not to be called by any label, pronoun, word, or name that you don’t want to be called.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If you’re asking for something that you need to feel respected, comfortable, and safe- you are not asking for too much. Your identity is not “too complicated”. Your needs are not less important than anyone elses’.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You are human. You are worthy of respect. You deserve to be treated with the same dignity as anyone else. There is nothing inherently wrong with your gender. You are not broken, you are not disgusting, you do not deserve to be hurt.&lt;/li&gt;
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