mlerules

ABSOLUTELY you may appropriate my kitty for your own use! ;)

Lets see. . . .

I appropriated "Big Girl Panties" from shimmerdance, it came around at just the right time. I was beginning to face and deal with my gender confusion issues and embrace my femininity, at the same time there was much relationship stuff, much legal stuff, etc. and it truly was a time for me to just deal with everything. The panties are OH so appropriate!

Black Knights! is, or was, the "nickname" of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, where I served in Germany and the Balkan region from 1994 to 1997. This logo is their unit crest. It was where I learned that someone who's "just a supply sergeant" can lead combat night patrols, man the gunner's station on a Bradley fighting vehicle, etc. It was in this unit that I guess I truly got my "trial by fire," learned to lead soldiers, and learned what I was capable of (at times this was much to my own terror) and this time completely changed me. I look back with some pride, this was truly a turning point. . .after this, the army never looked or felt the same to me, and I guess this unit is the standard I still judge the army by today. Somewhat regretfully, perhaps, I am now trying to "undo" some of what occured in my psyche at that time, but I will always be a Black Knight.

"Clay Beret" is a photo that magickalmom took of me about the week I retired from the Army. The Army had gone to a new uniform, that nasty, sage-greenish digital camoflage "ACU." I hated it, and refused to wear it my last three months in uniform. I wanted my time in service to be remembered in the old woodland camoflage. This is one of the few photos in existence of me that I actually like.

"Colleen" was also taken by magickalmom, at Yule time last year while my daughter, violatorfrancis was visiting from Idaho. The occasion was the night of the Gender Alliance of South Sound's "Solstice Soiree" which was postponed due to that horrible snowstorm we had. I dressed anyway. The evening was a lot of up and down emotion and stuff, I'll always remember my daugher doing my makeup and being okay with that part of me.

Both Drama Llama icons came about in the springtime of 2008, when there was MUCH drama in our family, our relationships, our poly-pagan community as a whole, and a lot of personal drama in my life. There was a discussion going on, I believe, between magickamom and some other friends, and the term for drama which just never goes away was named "undead" and because all of us hate drama but love fucking, I guess that one just stuck..... thankfully, I don't need to use these two icons as much as I used to! :)

Thanks, that was fun and pause for reflection. I'll have to pick six of yours now!