Some of you may have noticed in my signature is a link to a new blog I made. This was sort of in response to reading some of the crap on dirt's blog. I wanted a place on blogspot where transguys could share their stories and show more positive examples of being ftm.
I'm trying to get a team of guys together to blog on this so there are several points of view and stories. As said in my signature if you'd like to be an author on the blog please PM me. If not you can always just check out the blog and read what's posted. :)
Cool, I will definitely check it out!
Good idea. I'll be following this blog.
Awesome!
Good For You Osiris ;D
That Dirt Fool is a Weak Pig
Great idea! I would love to be an author but I have no time at the moment.
But I certainly will bookmark it and check it out
That's a great idea, I'll check it out now.
I used to have a blog documenting all the hilarious stuff that happened to me for being trans....I forgot about it. Everyone loved it, I may have to start back up again
Edit: Also, the top banner on the site looks way too much like it says "Fem Pride" because of the font :D
Haha, yeah it's a temp banner until I can get something more fitting together. :P
I'm glad some of y'all are showing some interest. 8)
Quote from: Osiris on August 14, 2010, 11:21:07 AM
Haha, yeah it's a temp banner until I can get something more fitting together. :P
I'm glad some of y'all are showing some interest. 8)
we need more (non violent?) counters to some of this idiocy.of course people aer going to be interested
I bookmarked it. This is pretty awesome! :)
Its looking good so far, nice one Osiris
Since I'm getting some interested parties in joining the FTM Pride Author Team who have had some questions about what it'd entail I figured I'd post some of that stuff here incase others are curious.
1. Will there be prompts do I have to write on a specific subject?
No I will not make participants write on assignment. I may come up with prompts if I think of something that would be neat to get different perspectives on, but whether or not you participate in those is completely up to you. If you want to write about something else that pertains to the subject of the blog (FTMs), then go for it!
2. Is there a posting schedule?
No, not at this point. There is a small group of writers and readers right now and we're gonna have time to sort of get our sea legs. I want to get several perspectives and stories so if you need to work longer on your posts, or post irregularly then that's fine with me. If we get alot of authors I may introduce a schedule just to keep from people tripping over each other while posting, but that's probably quite a ways down the road if it comes to that.
4. How do I participate?
You will need to make (if you do not already have) a blogger account. I will need you to send me your email address so that I can invite you to join as an author. Once you accept the invitation you will be ready to start blogging. 8)
5. Do I have to be a literary genius to participate?
No, you don't need to be a college graduate in writing and English. But I do have certain standards. At the very least run your blog through spell check to take care of typos. For the love of God don't type in n3t speek 0r l33t speek. It is annoying and hard to read.
6. I have more questions!
Then let me know. You can PM me or hit me up in chat.
Do I actually need to set up a blog of my own, or does just having a google email address work?
Great idea Osiris! I have just started a MtF blog there, MtF Crossroads... you're right, we need a stronger presence to combat the ignorance, hate, misinformation, and defamation of our people by Dirt and others like him.
Quote from: AprilDawn on August 14, 2010, 05:15:44 PM
... and defamation of our people by Dirt and others like him.
:D
what we're really thinking
hahaha couldn't help myself... if he's trolling here, he'll see it, which makes me giggle
Quote from: insanitylives on August 14, 2010, 04:59:36 PM
Do I actually need to set up a blog of my own, or does just having a google email address work?
You need to sign up to blogger in order to post on the blog, you should be able to sign up with your google account. You don't need to create your own blog for it to work, but you do need a blogger account.
April: I'm glad I could help inspire you to share your voice on blogger. Your blog already looks great and I look forward to reading more from you. 8)
Thanks very much =] I am following you, and will continue reading/sharing here and there. =]
That's cool, Osiris! I'd offer to be an author, but frankly, I'm too lazy/rant-ish to make a constructive blog. But good luck! I'll be sure to read it.
I subbed to the RSS feed. :) Can't wait to read the posts.
nice. i'm not in a writing mood lately... but that may change.
I'd love to participate, I'm just worried about being totally un-inspired and not coming up with anything to write! So I'm starting to like the prompt idea. :P
Nice idea man. There's no need to fight hate with hate, making a positive blog about us is a much better solution. ;D
Farm Boy: Then I will be sure to periodically send out prompts to the contributors to help get them creative juices flowin. 8)
Thanks again to everyone for your interest in the blog. I hope we can start getting some good content on there soon.
oh, if you give me a colour scheme, i could make some shiny logo-banner thingy. i'm no professional, but i like messing around with graphics^^
I was also going to offer my graphics services :D sorta my trade
Definitely going to check this out~ :DD
<3 Alun