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Trans Megathread from September 1st, 2025 to September 7th, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHd5mm7qNI

Etran de L'Aïr - Imouha

The Dream Academy - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

The humble sagebrush

Methuselah - The worlds oldest tree, 4,850 years old

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/02/the-methuselah-tree-and-the-secrets-of-earths-oldest-organisms

Babs - Raw Dawg Comics

https://www.reddit.com/r/rawdawgcomics/comments/1l04trg/queen/

Ballet Dancers in the Wings - Edgar Degas, c. 1890s

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/19840/


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Also, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

i'm making a list and checking it twice, if you don't sign up i'm not gonna be nice. sign up to make a damn mega

if you have a preferred week please tell me

nemmybun (9/8 - 9/14)
Eco* (9/15 - 9/21)
Disaster_of_Passion* (9/22 - 9/28)
Carcharodonna* (9/29 - 10/5)
sodium_nitride* (10/6 - 10/12)
peanutbuttercupola* (10/13 - 10/19)
oscardejarjayes* (10/20 - 10/26)
Wmill (10/27 - 11/2)
Shaleesh* (11/3 - 11/9)
Alisu (11/10 - 11/6)

peanutbuttercupola* (12/29 - 1/4)

​ * after name denotes someone who has posted before and will be skipped by first-time posters

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

I wanna do it, sign me upppppp

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

ok, do you wanna go sooner or later?

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

It can be later, having time to write it up sounds better to me.

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

ok, sounds good. if you wanna bump it up let me know

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

catgirl-salute

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Recent conversations with my mum (who is mostly cool): I understand you're a woman but why when you were younger you were interested in [perfectly normal activity that is in fact a cliche that autistic trans women enjoy it so much] or [toxically masculine compensation that brought me no joy].

Yes mum I still love trains, no I don't do misogyny anymore.

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kristina [she/her] - 3mon

but internalized misogyny is the fun part thonk-cri

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

Yooo a small child came up to me in the dollar store for a first bump before she ran off , kid knew how cool I was/am big-cool

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Okay, new mega so I'll post my things now:

Looks like the move is official, I was waiting to post until it was signed but they're telling my younger siblings later and wouldn't if we weren't actually moving since they aren't expecting one of them to take it well. So that's obviously pretty cool, I'm a bit worried about getting a job again and reintergrating that way but it shouldn't be a huge deal. Hope there's good facilities there. Very hopeful I'll be able to get some good experience and build my (very pathetic) resume a bit over this next year.

Bad news, my irl friend feels like she's getting more and more distant. Hasn't sent me anything in a week, yes I've messaged. I just feel so sad. If it's real and I'm not just being over sensitive to rejection it's definitely because I asked for her to use my name and pronouns. She never did and just awkwardly apologized. I knew this would happen. Why did I delude myself into thinking she might be cool about it. Six years.. Basically my only irl friend... Idk if anyone else from work is interested in being friends outside of work. Fuck I'm alone

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0x2640 - 3mon

ur about to move to a brand new place and make brand new friends!!!! is gonna be okay *patpats*

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Yes, it's very exciting :cat-trans:

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0x2640 - 3mon

our brain replaced "exciting" with "eggciting" for some reason. fun

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lilypad [it/its, pup/pup's] - 3mon

::: spoiler sad about the state of things and how people treat us (cw mention of violence, sex)

Last week my friend got hatecrimed (shes ok, a couple of her friends have concussions, thats about it). Then today some guy tried to solicit sex from me (while i was wearing a rather queer outfit and shoes that added 10cm to my 193cm height, i thought i looked like a femme who could stomp your head in) and when i ignored him he followed me and drove slowly after me, drove around the block multiple times to follow me and keep talking to me, when i stopped for a cig outside my apt he was suddenly there driving from the opposite direction (meaning he either knows where i live or he guessed i was gonna stop there or he quickly circled around to head me off). It was midday, broad daylight.

Im just sad. Frustrated. My neighborhood is safe. Except it isnt. My world is fine. Except it isnt. Just a fucked reminder that even in queer-safe/friendly neighborhoods, cis men feel entitled to my body, entitled to buy sex from me.

And my friend! She doesnt feel safe anywhere now! She deserves better than that! I deserve better than that, than this.

This just sucks.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I love my Cis Italian girl friends. I was telling one of them how the best thing about transition was every woman I met being nice to me.

Then I corrected "well 9 out of 10 women" and immediately she was like "who are the 1 out of 10? Do I know them?" (While looking around the function) like she was ready to start a fight then and there.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Today is the day I decided 5 years ago to socially transition! Never looked back, best decision of my life. I hadn't even started HRT yet

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CrookedSerpent [she/her] - 3mon

Wow our "gender moments" are only a month apart!! Thanks COVID!! 🤭

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I cracked my egg in January 2019, squeeked out right before covid~ I still remember wearing a bralette under my boy clothes and painting my toenails, stealing my exes panties, getting laser hair removal for all that year.

Covid DID let me experiment a lot more at home and have an excuse to wear a mask outside though. And by September 2020 I knew for sure I wanted to go all the way.

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CrookedSerpent [she/her] - 3mon

Real! My egg crack was after the start of my social transition... XD

I started using "girl voice" all the time and wearing girl clothes and shaving all my body/face hair just cuz it felt nice :) I only started actually thinking of myself as a trans woman after people started she/her-ing me in public and I read some queer theory lol

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler Egging

I feel like my mom socially transitioned as a child and still hasn't had her egg crack. Says she's a woman because of the bits she was born with, even if she dressed in mens clothes, has a deep voice, is fine with being he/him/sir'd, acknowledges she's treated as a guy in some social situations, and says she'd rather be on T. :::

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon

there_is_still_time.jpg

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I think it would be amusing if she'd start HRT without cracking too, but her excuse for not taking T was recent health issues (the biggest one being associated with T) when I suggested she should take it because she expressed interest in doing so without any sort of leading. Honestly, if she's gotten what she's wanted from transitioning without cracking, perhaps there's not much point to realizing? And if she's actually set on not taking HRT because of health issues, perhaps cracking would just lead to more stress about what she's missing out on and how much she already missed out on?

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

One year of social transition for me as of a few days ago!

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

Holy crap its been 5 years for me too! Or maybe 4? Goddamn I've gotten so little done in that time it's depressing. Wait no! looks at the woman staring back in the mirror. I've done so much.

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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 3mon

up with trans

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler You locked the thread just as I did my big post! I had really lovely weekend. I met up with a fashion designer I like and hadn't seen since I transitioned. He helped me style a really cute outfit with his stuff. Looking like an art teacher, pottery class, druid fusion that has been getting lots of compliments.

I had tasty food, like mommos, bao and paella. I got my new vinyl record player set up and it worked without any issues. Then I went to a queer women's lunch event and met lots of lovely lesbians, queer women, trans women and non binary etc.

It's funny because I've been getting into Tarot, even though I'm a historical materialist, secularist, atheist etc. Which means I don't really believe in it, it's mostly for fun, which is why it's hilarious I'm keep getting really prescient draws (must be the chaos magick inherent to being trans).

After this lovely day, I shuffled the deck and drew The Star (an auspicious card of self-healing and burdens let go), and I was like lol...

Also previously I mentioned how my cis woman friend had shared her alopecia with me, as an example of the amount of overlap cis and trans women have with their body issues. Well on the weekend I listened to a trans woman and a cis woman compare the process of their breast augmentations (the latter having had developmental issues with her breasts).

This morning I was talking to an entirely different friend my age about my estrogen dose and she revealed how she was having to take supplemental estrogen gel for premature menopause. Like us girls are all in this together.

:::

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

being a woman is so fucking wack. i spent like 20 minutes the other day carefully picking out an outfit just to meet up with my grandfather to grab lunch at carl's Jr. and got totally overdressed and then i got to work later and there's just some guy there who looked at cargo shorts and a t shirt that said "deez nuts" on it and called it a fit

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

some guy there who looked at cargo shorts and a t shirt that said "deez nuts" on it and called it a fit

Dripless individual weak aura

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

The last few times Ive been out at a restaurant, there's been a couple young people out on what seems like a first date. Shes always dressed up, hair looks good and probably took time, makeup looks great. Clearly put a lot of effort. Hes got a trucker hat, gross edgy t shirt, sweats, doesnt look like hes showered today. If youre lucky the dudes wearing jeans.

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

doggirl-sweat please tell me that the bar for dating men isn't that low

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

It does seem more like an early 20s late teens thing (and honestly when I was in that age bracket, same deal) but the bar is very low for men and the so often fail to meet it. Even just like a clean sweater, not smelling like BO, clean shaved or hair kept up, and clean jeans would be impressive

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

agony-deep i spent years as an egg thinking i'd never be able to impress a woman but holy shit i had no fashion sense but i could bathe, wear something kind of nice, and shave wtf

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Kuori [she/her] - 3mon

i'd say it's consistently the case across all age ranges i see

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

waking up in the morning fucking stinks. why did we all collectively decide this was ok? because of some farmers?

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

yes-hahaha-yes-r

👨‍🌾👩‍🌾👨‍🌾👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

I got called ma'am in a drive through! Sometimes the little wins feel so large.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Guess who's workplace replaced men's and women's signs with "male" and "female" 🥰

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SnakeEyes [comrade/them] - 3mon

Feeling sad that when someone brings up that transphobia, homophobia, queerphobia are not chill, we get accused of being wreckers, I feel like we will always be at the periphery of any political movement.

I don't want to start a struggle session, I just want to vent.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I was just thinking about this the other day. So many threads of people excusing it. Its not even just excusing it from the global south, they excuse it for westerners too.

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon

down with cis

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I can't pick between men and women. I'm gonna have to be in a thruple to get one of each. But what if my partners were also bi? The man of the relationship would only have 2 girls, so we need to add an extra man, and be in a 4-couple.

It would be mathematically perfect. I can see no flaws. 4 is not too many relationship dynamics to keep track of either.

The power set of 4 is 16. That means that there are 16 possible subsets you can make out of 4 people. So you can get a group of 3 people, or 2 people, and each such group can have its own unique dynamic.

But 4 of those subsets are just the individuals themselves. And one of those sets is the empty set. So really there are 11 possible distinct dynamics.

If you want to know how many of those possible dynamics involve you personally (in a 4-couple), it is the powerset of 3, minus 1 (the empty set). The powerset of 3 gives every group that doesn't contain you in it. So you can have a unique dynamic with each of these groups. This number turns out to be 7.

I believe that is just at the cusp of what a person can handle. 7 is not too many dynamics.

With 5 people on the other hand, the same formula gives 26 whole dynamics for everyone! And 15 of them involve you! It's too many dynamics. Most of them will just end up being copies of one another, or unexplored.

BTW, to get the powerset of a number, just take 2^number. Also, this is all based on what I think is reasonable about what a person can handle. Not to mention, that not every poss

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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 3mon

sicko-charging yeeeeessssssss

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Could get someone who is genderfluid if you wanna stick to monogamy

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Brilliant idea. But this requires more specialised circumstances.

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lilypad [it/its, pup/pup's] - 3mon

Came for the polyam talk, but fuckyes i am so here staying for the set theory! I miss discrete maths tbh. Hardest maths course i ever took but absolutely the most rewarding and useful.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

To get the number of relationships youre interested in, its 2^n - n - 1 (which is also the sum of the number of binomial coefficients for a given n, and not for no reason). You could also set it up as a graph, then you have a complete graph (K n) and count subsets of at least size 2

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Isn't the sum of binomial coefficients of n equal to 2^n? And then you remove (n choose 1) and (n choose 0) to get 2^n - n -1

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah, what the fuck was I thinking of??

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 3mon

Journal posting

::: spoiler spoiler

Well I should come out to my whole family tomorrow.

Some know, some don't

I expect everyone will be chill

I also have to set up an appointment for hormone testing, and do some paperwork for school I need to do these quickly

:::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The council awaits your report trade-offer

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lilypad [it/its, pup/pup's] - 3mon

I have insurance now.... Now i just have to conquor my executive function to be able to get on the list for bottom surgery... And get laser... And electro for my downstairs... And laser on my legs if i can afford it... Oh and i need a job still. So maybe none of this is even possible... Maybe stim meds are the first step...

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 3mon

HRT appointment set up

I'm off the DIY

stalin-smokin

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

An older lady at work told me she loves my hair cut (I just haven't gotten it cut in over a year and it's just long now, past my shoulders).

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

second-plane a second nice lady has complimented my hair

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler politics, my dad Dad complaining about how far left the democrat establishment is, and how they're so much further left then voters. His evidence of this? Them backing Zohran when 63% of dems don't support him. "oh really, I thought he was pretty popular" -dad admits he is quite popular in NYC. WELL THAT'S WHAT FUCKIN MATTERS ISN'T IT? :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Obviously the much stronger support of his thesis that dems don't know how to read polls is their support of Israel. But guess who goes against majority opinion on that issue, and so never mentioned it?

He was doing this whole larp as a political moderate and how the loony leftist democrats keep trying to pull this country further left :::

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 3mon

Hair removal protip: Looking for cheap or free electrolysis for face or body hair? Look for your nearest electrology school. They're always on the lookout for new models and if you want work done somewhere where two people can work at the same time like legs or arms, you're even more valuable to them.

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Moss [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler horny God I'm such a fucking sub. How do people not want to be dommed :::

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

Last week I told my therapist I thought I might actually have a chance at being hot one day... after deliberating for a moment she says "I didn't want to say anything before you did but honestly you're kind of a babe" and it felt SO SO SO WONDERFUL, legitimately the most elation I can remember feeling in years. And I rode that high for a few days but now I'm back to being wary about how I look.

My friend and her roommate are gonna help me with makeup soon, maybe that'll work as another hopium injection if it looks good. still terrified that I'm gonna look in the mirror and see a man in makeup though

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

A little while ago cis lady friend told me my breast growth was very noticeable and looked good, that made my day

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

I went to a festival last weekend and was on stage several times and people kept stopping me and telling me how good I looked. Among other things, I got some new contacts and made out in a naked cuddle puddle of trans folks.

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Eco [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

smelly farters in the stinks

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

The need to be someone's extremely cuddly gf

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

After being in a pile of naked trans people over the weekend, I now have COVID angery

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

I'm pretty sure me picking up a battle standard and leading a charge against an enemy shield wall would fix my depression

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

It's the only 100% guaranteed way to get rid of it

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

I seek similar, in my case though a wall of death at a metal concert.

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

Round #2 of coming out to my sister

Still the same reaction of "I thought I knew pretty much everything about you but I didn't really see this coming" and "I don't mean to invalidate you but are you sure this is what you want? There are so many other things that go into identity than just gender", now with the added bonus of "if you're pursuing this medically you should tell dad and [our brother] before you 'get too far along'"

I would soooo much rather she do the "okay, whatever" approach. Would be infinitely better than the handwringing "☝️🤓 of course it's your decision and you're valid but you should think about this!!!"

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I don't mean to invalidate you but are you sure this is what you want? There are so many other things that go into identity than just gender

I find this type of comment kind of bizarre. Like okay, yes there are lots of things that make up a person. But I'm not confusing my love of old games for being a woman? Like- what things could even conceivably be mistaken for wanting to be another gender/change your body like this?

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

The way I rationalized it with my own brainworms was that I was looking for something to pin all my issues onto and being trans was just a convenient, en vogue excuse. Which doesn't make much sense when you realize how not easy it is...

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

Given how positively trans people talk about certain parts of their experiences, it makes sense imo that someone could hypothetically see that and be jealous. For some people, a lot of their stress is caused by dysphoria and alleviating that makes a world of difference. Can't imagine someone making that mistake anyways though. Just yesterday, I heard someone in a stream saying that they'd be crashing out if they started growing boobs suddenly. I don't think being depressed would suddenly make someone like that somehow think they'd want to transition.

For me, I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted when I talked to my brother about maybe being trans. Given how much doubt I still had, I appreciated a bit of pushback (but only because it was from the perspective of him being excited, hoping to be proven wrong, not transphobia and trying to convince me I wasn't trans). Its infuriating when you aren't just questioning and someone close to you asks if you've considered the most obvious things as if that might chance your mind...

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

My brother didnt care, he used my pronouns right away and treated me the same as he always did (with slight sibling hatred). We drifted WAY apart, he started using again and now hes Christian (hes been an atheist since he was 6 years old, I know, I was there when he said it) - so now of course he talks transphobic shit about me behind my back 🙄. Hes still never misgendered me to my face though.

It was actually quite sweet looking back how good he was about it all, yeah its soured a bit now but at the time it was a real boost. It was just me, my ex, and him after moving in during covid and they were all so good..

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

After checking the syllabus for my master's, why the hell will even be charged for 2 years of tuition? My 2nd year consists entirely of internships and a research projection. They are charging me tuition to provide the university with labor? Is this a joke?

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Part of your last year of nursing school is a presceptorship. Where you essentially work full time for a few months (and have a fully liscenced nurse watching and supervising). The preceptor gets a bonus but it's... $1 an hour. The school charges tuition and does nothing else!!

Ultrasound tech school was even worse, they worked full time for their last year and it was ALLL preceptorship. They still have to pay tuition for the year on top of working full time for a whole year and not getting paid a red cent

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I hate how exploitative academia is.

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

been full of very heterosexual thoughts recently and idk what to think about that. idk, i always feel guitly somehow for being "too straight" like somehow I'm not allowed to be a straight trans woman and that "straight" actually means I'm just bi with a mild male preference usually? idk. i've felt hung up on this for many many months because all my IRL friends are poly transbians and I'm out here being the monogamous for boys bitch and I feel super weird about it and idk why i can't just say "i like men" and feel like I won't get judged for it

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Kinda same here. I'm surprised by the extent of lesbian majority in trans space I frequent. I never expected it.

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0x2640 - 3mon

we think its at least in part because men kind of suck and a lot of transfems have had bad experiences with men, so naturally trans spaces are full of lesbians. theres also disproportionately less transmascs in trans spaces because reasons (we dont know the exact reasons).

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

In my experience the transmascs are all out there IRL

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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 3mon

I find a lot of explicitly transfem spaces are lesbian dominated and I think many straight trans women often seek out trans spaces less after a certain point in transitioning. Fwiw, I am a bisexual transfem and I often find myself lightly pushing against other transfeminine folk because I do find men and male aligned people to be very attractive, and make this known.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Something like 75% of trans people are one of L G or B. And it tracks youd be into a trans space thats made for femmes, right?

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I expected the overlap to be above average, but not that high.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Its part of why we can never be erased from LGBTQ

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Ngl I semi often find myself wishing I was bi, for various reasons.

It's perfectly okay to be straight or bi and lean towards men :cat-trans:

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I was bi before I cracked my egg but more than once on the never ending bi cycle have I thought "I swear to god if I go through ALL this just to come out straight...." lol

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

me for the last entirety of my transition

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iridaniotter [she/her] - 3mon

I've approached a fork in my life where I either become avoidant towards all relationships or set some really firm boundaries and actually stand up for myself. Both lead to zero friends probably.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

Boundaries are good and friends who respect them are great, you deserve to have them no matter how shit you feel

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

When you lie about peak/trough (which is always okay) but your levels are still so good your doctors doesn't want to increase your dose.

transshork-sad

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lilypad [it/its, pup/pup's] - 3mon

Todo list: super fucking long, full of easy things that i want to do because theyre fun, and completely doable.

Me however, ill be in my bed thinking about how fun doing all that stuff would be instead of doing it shocked-pikachu

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

i didn't know you could just... change the pic after posting

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Gay Tucker puts a lot of effort into ever-changing mega art and I think it’s both way more than I’d be willing to do and super rad, and I really appreciate it.

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 3mon

Thank you for appreciating the effort

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Thanks for doing it!

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I do it semi often to replace broken pics from news previews, just edit the post and replace the "Thumbnail URL" field with the link to your image. Usually uploading to the body of your post and copying that link works well. Sometimes it will break the URL of the post if you posted a link, just paste the url back after you change the image.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

I find the topic of people's children so deeply uninteresting, yet I'm in a meeting where everyone is sharing stories about children. It's really like some people lose their entire identity over time and that's all they talk about 😐

I really blame this more on cishet stuff than anything tbh. You see this loss of identity sometimes with long term couples too and I don't really see that as much with queer people. Vast generalisations, but these are my irl experiences. I can't imagine not wanting to have my own time and do my own things. I appreciate that my partner and I both value that :3

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I love children! Most people who talk about their children usually are talking about people you don't know or have any context for but for whatever anecdotes you've heard - I bet you might feel the same way about their mother in laws. Plus a lot of kids have the same stuff happen (oh she drew on a wall, she jumped in a puddle, yadda yadda) Once when a coworkers kid came in to my work for migraines (turns out it was a subarachnoid cyst) then I had more context for her and it was easier to follow and link those stories up. Plus I like kids in the first place so I had a leg up.

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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

I looooove how soft my skin is

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah E is kick ass for your skin. Mine started changing softer after just a few months but all these years later it apparently feels sooo nice. I was with my ex before HRT (and for a while after) and they noticed how soft my skin got before I noticed!!

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

This tree picture rules. The gnarly old tree, the trans sky. Hell yeah.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

The trans agenda today is obtain oreos.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler CW idle musing, transphobia, the holocaust etc Sometimes as a trans person in Australia I wonder if this is what being an Italian Jew felt like.

(For context Italian Jews were discriminated against but active murder only happened once Mussolini fell and the Nazis occupied half of Italy)

Like my government is so strongly aligned with the Nazis and the Ustaše (USA and UK) but things are kind of okay here? Not great but like not terrible. :::

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon

we're supposed to be in the friggin future and yet the only way I can turn my tablet off with my phone is throwing one at the other and breaking them both smdh

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

my transition is about a year and a half old now

i still never learned how to do my makeup

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

After my parents forced me to cut my hair, it's been growing back so slowly!!! oooaaaaaaauhhh

I hadn't even grown it past the "the top part of my ears are covered" phase! And yet even that progress is gone!

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Instagram targeted ads, you have recognised I am a woman who likes cute dresses, your ads ARE working, however somehow you don't realise I'm a transexual, I need BIGGER dresses!

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon

I've recently been getting targeted ads for head shavers exclusively featuring butch women, and even though I'm probably never going to wear my hair that short again I do feel very Seen

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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

was working today at my very masculine job being very masculine masculiney and after helping a customer with a duton ranch yellowstone hat (just so you get picture the type of boomer) i think he accidently said "thanks doll" or slurred his words where that's what i heard

lol even if i heard it wrong bam i got paralyzed with gender euphoria for a few minutes. overall was kind of a weird scenerio but i'll take whatever.

nothing will ever beat my cis lesbian friends calling me pretty all the time when i was younger tho

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

slurred his words where that’s what i heard

Pretty much any time I hear something that could be remotely affirm, I immediately just assume I misheard something and try to figure out what was actually said.

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 3mon

::: spoiler electrolysis, genitals After some bottom clearing sessions, I'm still confident that the area directly under nose is the worst in terms of pain from electrolysis, but base of penis is a close second.

Only 190 hours of this left to go... inside-im-crying :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler

190 hours

jesus christ. I'm never getting srs, am I... :::

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

I know someone who got bottom surgery without doing any hair removal? She seemed surprised that it was a requirement and as far as I know she hasn't had any hairs appear somewhere they shouldn't. The surgeon scraped the follicles off while they were in there and that was sufficient, evidently. I've never heard of anyone else doing this, though. Vale la pena!

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I know a couple girls who've got it done, they've had their follicles burned out or otherwise dealt with during surgery (under anesthetic even). Only one of em had hair grow and its just a revision or whatever to get it removed apparently. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Oh okay, well that's a relief. Thought I was going to have to/it was typical to do hundreds of hours of electro for a minute there.. :::

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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler i got laser covered under insurance where I am, and it is significantly less time for hair removal if your hair is a goo candidate for it! You got this. :::

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler There's a lot of different types of bottom surgery and requirements for the surgery and it's mostly determined by what you have access to via insurance unless you're able/willing to pay out of pocket. I'm putting up with this because the surgery and electro is completely covered by my insurance :::

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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

A lot of people canceled at the place I work at so I'm getting paid to sit in my chair and play chess on my phone for several hours. Life is good

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Sometimes, I just touch my chest and realize that I have boobs now. Or like, I get pretty aware that my butt is much bigger. Even in my own internal talking and fantasies I sometimes accidentally call myself with she/her pronouns, instead of the usual dissociation or self-loathing.

The march of progress [E] is pushing against the reactionary tendencies of my body/mind. It is gaining ground, slowly but surely.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

You know, I really thought before cracking my egg that if I ever grew boobs Id play with em all day. Nope, theyre just kinda here ans I love em for it but I honestly forget to even check em for lumps weekly.

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

I'd probably play with them more if they weren't so damn sore all the time

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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

i feel like this would fuck with my head so hard because i would be turned on by the soreness/sensitivity. or maybe not maybe the hormones would cancel that part of my brain out

but yeah a few months after my nipple piercings was a wild ride (and i'm not on HRT yet)

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

if I ever grew boobs Id play with em all day.

I always found the idea that someone would do that kinda odd, but surprised by how often I mess when them when trying to avoid being productive. Granted, its about on par with accidentally scratching myself until I bleed as a fidget activity.

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler thinking about hormones I was hoping to just be quietly trans over here and not have to deal with HRT, but then I woke up this morning like holy shit I need some of that. Just total certainty.

I’m kinda scared to do it, which I know is silly. The terrifying nature of going through an actual no-kidding transition aside, the permanence of the HRT (that I want) and laser (that I also want) scares me, I think. Somehow the fact that I’m already dealing with the effects of testosterone and that’s actively making me unhappy right fucking now doesn’t really seem to help.

Probably the best move is to just go for it. :::

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I was in the same boat for a while after socially transitioning. I was like, "I'm just going to be a femme NB and I don't need no stinking hormones!" That lasted all of two months after I wore my first dress and started messing around with makeup. I broke down crying at the end of I Saw the TV Glow, realizing I would end up being trapped in a masc body and that terrified the fuck out of me. I made an appointment with Planned Parenthood and got in as soon as possible to start HRT and I've been so much happier. Even the hard times are easier because at least I feel at home in my own body and mind. Just knowing that I finally took the first step to stop the horrors of testosterone made such a huge difference before anything noticeable happened to my mind and body. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler

realizing I would end up being trapped in a masc body and that terrified the fuck out of me.

Yea this is one of the big things for me too, it's not like it's going to stay the same. Fuck going bald and shit. It can catch up to you fast. If it was going to stay the same I'd probably wait more before starting hrt tbh :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I was nervous about HRT too, it did feel like an indelible crossing line.

Its not, for E, cause estrogen is nice and gentle and takes its sweet time to kick in. Im sure if you started tomorrow 3 months from now youll be begging for it to work faster lol. Out of the two sex hormones I love that T is the one that hits hards and fast with changes coming quick and muscle coming on fast and E is the one thats slow and gentle and sculpts you gently. Very apropos.

Estrogen for me wasn't just about the physical changes, it was also more or less a constant low grade antidepressant. Plus, it was like putting on emotion glasses. I could suddenly name and feel emotions besides "meh doing okay" or "incoherent rage" or "incredible depressed." There are gradiations to being happy or sad or angry that I didnt know.

HRT was the best decision I ever made. You might as well start it, if you don't like it you can stop any time.

As for laser, if you don't like facial hair then even if you maybe dont end up doing HRT or living femme - hey, at least you dont have to deal with facial hair anymore! Laser also doesnt work as fast as a lot of people wish it does. Its gonna be quite a few sessions before you start feeling smooth day to day, I bet. :::

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Thank you, I think this is exactly what I needed to hear :)

Oddly enough I actually think that my face is last on the laser list lol. I can look cute with facial hair imo, and also face shaving is nowhere near as irritating as leg shaving (upper legs in particular).

I think I’m going to give it like a week and if I still feel so strongly and clearly that this is what I want then I’ll have a conversation with my partner about it and start figuring out logistics. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I would definitely agree the changes with estrogen are very slow and subtle. But I felt the positive mental effects almost immediately. I had decided to try estrogen because I felt I would regret never trying it. I had already identified as non-binary for a couple of years. Almost immediately I felt like I was seeing in colour for the first time. I was like, "well I can't live without this", it actually took a couple of weeks for me to decide that okay I was a trans woman not a transfemme non binary or a gender non conforming man on estrogen, process that and plan coming out.

As for upper legs, I did at home IPL for nearly 2 years with only average improvement. 6 months on estrogen and spironolactone have thinned the hair way more than (my crappy home) laser did. But also I care a lot less about my body hair in certain places, like lots of women have hairy legs, I'm friends with some Italian women who have complained about it. Even my chest hair is kind of cute now it's like a soft fury patch between my growing breasts if I don't shave it, but I kind of start to look like a fantasy faun/satyr type character

I have done (professional) laser on my face for 6 months and I'm up to the stage where it's 6 weekly (from 2 then 4). It's pretty great. I get only a few light bristles on my checks I shave every few days, and only now at like 5 weeks 5 days is dark hair coming back on my lip and chin. :::

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I keep hearing that E really helps the hair situation for a lot of people; I really hope it works that way for me as well! The faun look sounds pretty cool tbh. I’ve done a bit of dressing femme with a solid mustache, and idk if that’s right for me long-term but wow is it a look. I think stereotypically male body hair patterns on women are rad and underdone. I also feel (at least at the moment) like I’d rather leave that form of GNC for others, but that’s part of my hesitation; if it looks good on me then why wreck that? (because looking good doesn’t mean feeling good, but like, it gives me pause is all)

I’ve gone back and forth over IPL. We have one in the house, but everything I’ve heard that doesn’t sound like it comes from marketing is that they are basically for shit.

If you don’t mind my asking, did you try monotherapy or were you also on spiro all along? I’m planning to start on mono and see how it goes, but if adding an AA helped with the hair situation then I may consider adding it at some point to see if it helps with that in my case as well, assuming that estradiol alone doesn’t do the trick well enough of course.

Thank you for the reply. Regardless of whether I end up going for it, hearing everyone’s experiences is making the decision seem a lot more manageable to make and I really appreciate it :) :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler For context I took finasteride for nearly 2 years because I wasn't sure about estrogen and wanted less body hair and thicker head hair.

When I started estrogen I started Spiro at the same time. It's a bad anti-androgen but we're limited in Australia but it has really good positive side effects for skin and hair. I only take 100mg and skip it if the urinary frequency will be inconvenient. :::

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Quote from Terminal:

I was nervous about HRT too, it did feel like an indelible crossing line.

Its not, for E, cause estrogen is nice and gentle and takes its sweet time to kick in. Im sure if you started tomorrow 3 months from now youll be begging for it to work faster lol.

Can confirm. Granted, during the first week or so of starting HRT (at too low of a dose to do much - mostly just noticing the effect of spiro), the anxiety from the whole thing caused a fair bit of dissociation and I only continued taking it because I trusted the me from a week before that was super-excited for it. But after that, there was no way I'd be stopping willingly. And after 3 months (and E barely above normal cis-male levels), I switch to injections (at a dose that was eventually cut down by more than half) and I could tell the difference mentally the next day.

I keep hearing that E really helps the hair situation for a lot of people; I really hope it works that way for me as well!

When I started HRT, I assumed I'd eventually need laser for pretty much everything is I wanted to be content with my body hair. Honestly, at this point, I'd probably only serious consider it for my face and chest unless it was covered by insurance or really cheap. I'd still prefer less, but its not really a big deal anymore. Took over a year to get to that point though imo. :::

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon

Go for it. What is your next step towards starting HRT?

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Step one is giving it a week, and step two is discussing it with my partner. After that, my next moves are

  • Figure out blood testing, either through my GP or a private lab
  • Look into dosing and come up with a starting point (probably run sims on estrannaise)
  • Order syringes, pins (probably 25ga subq), alcohol wipes
  • Pick a lab and buy two vials of estradiol enanthate, and possibly other supplies (thinking cialis maybe)
  • Get baseline blood work done
  • Start

Also, I’m in the process of losing weight. I’ve got an approximate number I’d like to hit, but am open to stopping early if I end up feeling happy with the mirror as a starting point. Then I’ll be slowly gaining back to probably 200 or so.

If the first month-ish feels like I’m on the right track, that’s probably about when I’ll start voice training and getting shot up with lasers.

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon

I have a little bit of feedback, if you're open to it:

People commonly start estradiol enanthate with 4mg injections once per week. This does not require adjustment based on body size.

You probably don't need baseline blood work; just start and then get your testosterone and estradiol tested after a few months to see if your dose needs to be adjusted.

You may or may not need Cialis, since not everyone requires it to maintain functionality.

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

I am definitely open to it and thank you :)

It is helpful to have a decent starting point, and also I was not aware that body size was not super important, so that’s good to know too.

I’ll likely still get baseline blood work done, even if it’s not necessary, just so I have it as a reference. Similarly, I may snag some cialis preemptively just so I have it on hand if it becomes necessary, but I won’t start with it unless that happens. I feel like in the scenario where I find out I need it I’ll be a shitload less anxious and stressed if I’m not waiting for payments to process and shipments to arrive. Either way it’s good to know that I may not need it!

Edit: regarding bodyweight, that part was mostly my plan for putting some fat in the good places once the E is doing its business.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

The amount of people who know my true name is manageable, makes hexes and curses less effective on me

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I will devise a type of hex that works even if I don't know your true name.

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SpookyBogMonster @lemmy.ml - 3mon

A hex with the strength of a large bear, perhaps 🤔

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

scared

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

you ever eat a burger on a wednesday?

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

Not even once.

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

you ever eat vegan chik'n on a thursday?

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I haven't tried any vegan meat substitutes either

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

There is a guy in college. Haven't talked to him in 2 years. But everytime we see each other we aknowledge the other's presence by raising a hand.

What a beautiful friendship.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

It'd be very funny if you two end up working at the same place after you graduate and the friendship continues the same.

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon

I'm pretty well versed in yearning at this point but I'll admit tonight is the first time I've thought "I need a woman to physically reach into my heart and pull a magical sword out of my chest like I'm from Revolutionary Girl Utena"

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 3mon

First

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

When I changed my pronouns to they/them I was legally obligated to take a sledgehammer to my bathroom and remake it into a gender neutral bathroom. It was fine they said the woke government was gonna cover it but then biden-fall lost and cheeto-man won so now I'm 113k in debt doggirl-tears

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

If only there was some snappy saying that could have warned me about this...

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Social justice warrior. Get poor-ier.

Politically correc(t). No cheque.

Nah none of these work.

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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 3mon

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

My back is broken carrying all my wins.

....

My back hurts so much thonk-cri. I clearly am not sleeping and sitting in the correct posture.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I'm so worn out madeline-sadeline idk why so much more today.

Oh, something kinda funny at work though. A little kid asked why I was [job]. Told him to make money and its not too bad. He then asks if I have a better job kitty-cri No buddy, this is as good as it gets.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Periodic reminder that Ru Paul's Drag Race went woke apologised for all the shitty transphobic behaviour and routinely features trans and non binary contestants with multiple winners who are trans/non binary, bringing back past contestants who are now trans and non binary etc.

Even past seasons are improved when you know how many contestants are now trans. Jinkx Monsoon won it in season 5 (2013) and started estrogen last year! Adore Delano (runner up season 6) is a trans woman!

Season 9 is a great entry point. At the time it had the first (openly) trans finalist (Peppermint), but now it has in hindsight more trans women (Trinity the Tuck, Valentina, Farrah Moan, Eureka) and Non Binary people (Shea Coulee, Sasha Velour).

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

You can watch an old season and just do leo-point every time a trans woman appears, then you check the wiki and the answer is always "yes" or "soon".

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

They are calling the crystals defective and labeling all its "flaws"! Leave the crystal alone! Poor thing is already a low energy state. If you create even more negative energy, it will become cold and distant.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

You will all be happy to know that I made an appointment with my GP to get psychiatric help. I have made no lies, no delays this time. Just an appointment.

Choosing to do this was the hard part. Showing up to the appointment will be easy. I have a major fear of disappointing authority figures.

After that, it's smooth sailing into the process of being in a waiting list for multiple years.

::: spoiler cw:sui But yeah, the "end yourself" thoughts are getting too strong lately. Ain't no denying it. It's gotten bad, and I'm tired of making excuses like "what if I'm just being a bktch or am overreacting or misinterpreting" or fucking whatever the hell. All garbage. If I really don't need the help so what, it would just be a small wastage of time in the grand scheme of things.

But I've grown to hate making excuses and feeling sorry for myself. I'm not dead yet, so why do I lollygag like I am? :::

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

MATRIX WORKING AGAIN

default-dance

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Shoe company. Makes exclusively unisex shoes. In rainbow patterns. Website says they are LGBT friendly.

Women's sizes stop at 12/44.5...

45 up only in men's section.

Oh I'm making this someone's problem.

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 3mon

The problem with biscuits is that you eventually run out of them

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

Matrix update for those who use matrix.org:

https://bsky.app/profile/matrix.org/post/3lxwhw33wms23

The Matrix.org Foundation‬ ‪@matrix.org‬ · 6m Status update: we've restored the 55TB snapshot and subsequent incremental backups, and are about to replay the remaining traffic since the backup. There are still several unknowns, but if things go well the matrix.org instance should be back in 3-4 hours.

Fingers crossed it's back up soon. Tracha Aux is still running. If anyone needs a link my matrix info is in my bio.

Edit: it works now

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

matrix isn't working for me angery

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon

there was some sort of database error and the fix is still ongoing, has been down for like 7 hours doggirl-gloom

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

My old gzd account has been coming in clutch. It seems to have only affected .org?

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Big ahh fungus (dried af) growing on fallen tree in europe. My foot for size comparison is there. If anyone knows what it's called, would be appreciated.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

My brain froze at Big ... Fungus bugs-stalin did you put ahh between them on purpose?

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Abracadaniel [he/him] - 3mon

"ahh" is a way of writing/pronouncing "ass"

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woozy [it/its] - 3mon

looks kinda similar to turkey tail fungus? not entirely sure though :3

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0x2640 - 3mon

our version of minmaxing in bg3 is to find out how we can sneakily pickpocket a trader to get all our gold back

in our latest adventure: the trader had 2 guards behind her guarding a door, so we jumped behind the place and blew up the door with some explosive barrels, killing the guards and allowing us to pickpocket the trader for all our gold back and then some

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0x2640 - 3mon

oh and we slit lae'zels throat

:3

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon

waow-based

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Don't mind me, just placing my foot down in the new megathread.

My professor brought us in today for a class in the morning, so I had to wake up at 5:30 am and drag myself to uni sadness-abysmal. God I woke feeling like I had fallen down a flight of stairs.

After the lecture starts the professor tells us that all the course stuff happens online. 5 minutes after the lecture starts, we are dismissed.

I had no other reason to come to uni today.

Please take me and the professor to a nice isolated location. I promise I will not harm them catgirl-heart

And if you are wondering why I had to wake up at 5:30 am despite classes starting almost 9 am, the answer is literally capitalism. The cause and effect chain is very direct. I love living in a neoliberal hellhole.

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

i think waking up in the morning is good now. i feel great and apparently i am not just manic

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Mmm 😋 that delicious, consuming negativity is really hitting tonight.

Also re: my list of shit to do, I read 1 out of 3 chapters in my Rust book, didn't do my internet™️ order (can't find what I'm looking for for the life of me), and only half did my resume. Fantastic stuff.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I have got to start taking better care of myself. But it's so hard.

::: spoiler spoiler I hate worrying and feeling pessimistic about transition. Like- getting hrt soon and trying not to worry about it not doing enough for me. But also worried about voice training. I don't feel like I can do it. There's other effort I'm not sure if I can do. Idk. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler You can voice train! You got this. You will feel better when people say ma'am on the phone or in a drive through, the first hit of that euphoria makes all the awkwardness of starting training worth it. Im not kidding, one of the best feelings in the world passing by voice the first handful of times. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I really don't think so. It's too painful. Frustrating. I don't understand it. It's the most dysphoric, painful, horrible thing ever. How I wish it was just awkward

Having a passing voice, or voice I'm happy with would be so nice. I have been so uncomfortable with it for so long. :::

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rtstragedy2 [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

which rust book are you reading?

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

The official one! I forget the exact url. It's on my desktop and I'm on mobile rn

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rtstragedy2 [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

nice that's a good one I keep coming back to it

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I did pole fitness and then worked out afterwards and now im fucking paying for it. My shoulders and tiny back muscles hurt, my legs are bruised to fuck and I cut myself a bunch on my foot somehow?? And my glutes and hamstrings HURT. wtf was I thinking no booty is worth this

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Woke up feeling worse :doomer:

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Okay well back from work and feeling better at least

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

Yay!

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

Ok but how exactly do the funny Yakuza guys rip their shirt and top off like that, shouldn't they be tearing off the button each time kiryu-slam

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler sadposting After all the excitement last weekend this one is looking very empty and I can't help thinking about my ex. I could've stayed at home today but why not get paid to drive around and cry? :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler bottom surgery I have kinda a tight timeline if I want to put any surgeries on my parents insurance, which I probably do. Also have to hope they're okay with it. or if they aren't I could just do it anyway and pay them back. But with wait times I am actually a bit worried about getting it done in time.

Honestly the more I think about all the steps the less I feel like I can get it done in that amount of time :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler You can do it! It depends on the surgeon or the program, sometimes they want you to be out/on HRT for at least a year. I say sometimes but Im pretty sure its basically always, but I haven't looked at every program in every state in the US and in Canada. It used to be worse, years out as a woman (NO HRT even!!), then years on HRT, then bottom surgery... ugh can you imagine. Still costs a lot though :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I can definitely get to a pp fairly soon and start the year timer for hrt, my concern is mostly wait times for surgeons and stuff. I know that can vary a lot and sometimes be super long.

Plus I do not understand insurance at all/how that works with it being my parents. Fuck and like just telling them in general. I guess I will probably end up having to come out in the next year or so anyway.

I know it used to be a lot worse, I'm just hoping if I cram it in while I have their insurance it would be cheaper. I hate cis people :::

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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 3mon

::: spoiler bottom surgery tip Specifically for bottom surgery, what you can do if they mandate the WPATH requirement of a year on HRT, you can go ahead and start hair removal, which significantly shortens the lead time for a surgery date! :::

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rtstragedy2 [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

::: spoiler concerns about long term side effects of medication so when i switched to CPA (cyproterone acetate) at the start of this year my doctor mentioned something about there being some risk of "benign brain tumours" as a side effect of the medication, has anyone heard of this? :::

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CrookedSerpent [she/her] - 3mon

This is a well known side effects of CPA, it's not recommended for long term use. But you should be probably fine for short term use at the low doses required for it to be effective.

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0x2640 - 3mon

known side effect but only at high dosages over long periods

its like how every medication in existence has a "may cause heart attack" or whatnot warning, just because it can happen doesnt mean it will

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon

It's a real side effect and it's more likely to happen with higher doses, so a lot of trans women who need to use CPA take a low dose, ~6mg/day. A lot of people don't actually need to use an antiandrogen if they're on a high enough dose of estradiol - this is easier to achieve with injections.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah, prolactinoma. My prolactin levels are higher on it. Im on a quater tab every week so I think my prolactin is higher cause of stress more than cyproterone

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

God damn I dont remember hollow knight being this hard wtf silksong is kicking my ass

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Hollow Knight has been on my list to play almost since release, should finally get around to it..

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

A friend and I were talking about how she's a hades trans girl and Im a hollowknight trans girl lol. Both series started with masc main characters (the knights more genderless I guess) and the sequel has a lady. Both are indie darlings. In hades 2, some character congrats Zagreus on his transition when he sees the new PC lol (its not the same character). And in silk song youre in universe a tall maiden bug (not a ladybug)

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

I wanna make some annoying younger friends, I wanna be a queer elder/mentor to them. I do wanna be more successful professionally/romantically first so I don't feel like a fraud trying to help them when I can barely help myself tho

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CrookedSerpent [she/her] - 3mon

I have the opposite problem. I am now the resident boy-modebreaker in the queer community in my city haahah. It's an exhausting job sometimes but also rewarding 🤭

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

You've no doubt made freinds for life with that role rat-salute-2

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

I've always been a hot mess but the maternal instinct is too strong. Sometimes we find the strength to help ourselves through helping others. Sometimes they help us back. What's fraudulent about your help as it exists?

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

All advice I can give can be redirected back to me for not living up to it or having experience with X or Y subject. My precieved immaturity has also lead my friend groups from not asking me for help or excluding me from difficult group decisions because they didn't wanna worry me. Some ways hurts more because I'm supposed to be older than a lot of them but yeah.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

::: spoiler cw: very harmful thoughts The voice in my head keep telling me to "kill yourself" and "wouldn't it be great if you died" and shit like this. I'm just tired of it. I want out. Its too much. I can't be crossing the streets and thinking to myself that I don't mind getting hit by the cars. It doesn't work when everytime I go to bed I'm thinking about how amazing sleeping is cause I don't have to exist for those hours.

And all I seem to do about it is think more thoughts and write more words. I'm at an impasse. I'm stuck. My best friend told me that he will leave forever in 6 months. I can't handle being even more alone than I already am. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler oh no transphobia So I was walking today in an ostensibly progressive part of the city, looking like a pop punk princess in stunning grey and black plaid dress, with metallic purple lipstick and cool high tops.

A drunk 20-30 something at an outdoor bar with his friends made eye contact with me and as I walked past he said "what the fuck! did you see that?" I was already well past so I didn't hear anymore

And like that sucked. But it didn't suck as much as I thought it would. Like worrying a slap would be a killer one-hit punch my whole life. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Everyone probably already knows this but I don't really know how to deal with some of my common negative feelings and unfortunately I'm feeling it again tonight. I have overall been feeling much better lately, but I still have a lot of negativity surrounding this and I don't think there's anything I can really do about it. It sucks and hurts and I can't do anything. :::

In good news, my dad has been talking about possibly getting me a job with his new company. It sounds pretty easy, full time and would pay a lot better then my current job. I need a few things before I could start doing it though. I would definitely take it if I could get it, it would be actually good pay and I don't have much qualifications. The problem is my dad's industry is dominated by white, middle aged conservative men. I'd feel really uncomfortable tbh.

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EllenKelly [comrade/them] - 3mon

As the years passed, Degas became isolated, due in part to his belief that a painter could have no personal life.[28] The Dreyfus Affair controversy brought his anti-Semitic leanings to the fore and he broke with all his Jewish friends.[29] His argumentative nature was deplored by Renoir, who said of him: "What a creature he was, that Degas! All his friends had to leave him; I was one of the last to go, but even I couldn't stay till the end."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas

basically every painter for that time was an absolute shocker just fyi, I've never read about any and found out anything good - ymmv

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

As the years passed, Degas became isolated, due in part to his belief that a painter could have no personal life.

Just like me fr

The Dreyfus Affair controversy brought his anti-Semitic leanings

spoke too soon ohnoes

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CDommunist [she/her, love/loves] - 3mon

Every Frenchman since Napoleon has been a total monster

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9to5 [any, comrade/them] - 3mon

Will my egg crack ? next time on Dragon Ball z

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler recent catholic school mass shooter stuff The catholic church shooter being part of 764 reminds me so much of Amygdalatropolis. Its a shock horror novel, so warning on that. But the person who did it and the people that take part of 764 and O9A sound EXACTLY like the boards the kid in the novel was obsessed with. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler same topic but not really related Holy fuck seeing all the pundits and fox news and shit testing the waters with calling us a terrorist org and saying we need to be locked up and studied has done wonders for my mental health :::

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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

I know I'm usually in here being dorky and silly but ::: spoiler suicidal thoughts I really can't think of any reasons outside how it would affect the people I care about to not end it. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

If I got isekaid into the omegaverse I think I would wanna do something boring like be a patent office clerk. Like be as far away from the rest of the nonsense as possible.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

100% lol. I'd hear about it through other people I'm sure, but I don't think I could love through a world like that and keep my sanity

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The levels of misogyny in your average omegaverse would vapourise me instantly. Either that or they'll see a new type of person for the first time and be confused as hell. "What are these flashy growths on your chest? Is this not cancer?"

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tamagotchicowboy [he/him] - 3mon

Finally back to seeing a therapist, we'll see how this one goes for the few months I have access.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

::: spoiler therapy questions

Anyone here exactly know if there is a difference between psychiatrist and therapist?

And also, what exactly should I tell my GP when I go there? I want to see a therapist, but what kind of therapist, and what exactly would the goal be?

I didn't really think about this, I just had the vague idea "stop being useless and go to therapy" then clicked a button.

The whole reason I want a therapist is that I want to the voices in my head to stop telling me to die, but saying that to my GP will make him think I am joking or crazy. And I don't want to tell my GP that I am suicidal cause that makes it sound worse than it is. :::

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

::: spoiler dream/attraction musing Had a dream I was making out with Deadpool, it was real nice since we were friends. I'll admit to being a turbo mega virgin but making out with someone is probably the furthest I ever went in a dream. It might be how I handle attraction towards dudes but idk if I can call myself biderman more hexbear-pan when I think about them. With women I def am more horn dog though reserved about it. I guess it's just the way I am or the way I've been raised. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Theres been a few girls Ive been with where at the end Ive thought idly "I wish you were a boy, this would've been better." Dunno wtf THAT means, cause it was enjoyable regardless :::

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

Interesting you ever gave it more thought or just let move back into your brain ether

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I have no idea, it haunted me 👻

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I'm positively reminiscing back to the time when I lived in a slum house, renting a 9 m^2 room from a crime lord. I looked homeless, and legally speaking, I was homeless, since I wasn't allowed tk register my address.

It was a fun time. I was in the first year of my bachelor. I was young. I tried things. I even had hope! Crazy isn't it that my current standard of novelty is to change my walking route or ride a bike. I used to ride my bike between cities back then! Now I touch the poor thing once every 2 months.

Also, funnily enough, I dressed more girly back then. I even experimented with makeup.

Now, I think about how few friends I truly have left. I only have 2 people I talk to on an occasional basis. Did you know, I can count the average number of sentences I speak per week on my hands?

And do you know why that piece of my soul died? It's because after I ran away from the crime lord, the only place I could find a room in is about 3 hours by train (there are many complications involved in why it takes me that long). I'm completely isolated from other people. I spoke 2 sentences this whole week to another person! And it was a question to a professor.

I am quite literally a displaced proletariat migrant worker student. I am going into debt in order to make myself more useful to master. I am a dog that plays tricks for the master, and then I give the master a treat if I do it right. And of course I have to do it right, cause if I don't, I get thrown away.

Perhaps it is precisely because I live the life of such a miserable dog that I also behave like one. Materialism etc bottom text. You know the drill.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

I gotta be less hard on my self and more optimistic. When I put my mind to something and really let myself go all in, that shit gets done and it gets done well. "What is to be done" continues to be an evergreen question for me, but goddamn whatever it is maybe I can do it.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

All the no-copyright was all just a bit that didn't pan out, gonna have to move on to the next bit. Adios sonic posting

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

Don't be sad it's done be glad my annoying ramblings (on sonic) are over

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

You are forcing me to edit the part of the tag I have for you that says “sonic enjoyer” to “ex-sonic bit doer”.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

I'm gonna miss that stage of my life just know I moved on from it not because it was cringe but because what I wanted out of it I never got and what I wanted even I'm not fully sure of

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

Where's the sign up to do the mega post?

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melon_popsicle [none/use name] - 3mon

Going to a cousin's wedding at the end of the month. Not out to any family but my sister, so I tried on my old suit. I look like a woman in a suit! and my butt looks really good lol.

Anyone have suggestions for easy to do hairstyles for a wedding? I've been really loving big claw clip for a voluminous pony tail, but I worried that'll read too obviously femme. I'll probably just do some sort of bun.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

Let's all pretend the long and thought out musing on gender is this comment instead of me thinking it real hard and forgetting it when I finished my cabbage with beans and rice just now

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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon

::: spoiler horny "i'm not that into men" i think to myself having to stop thinking about boys for 10 seconds because if i keep thinking about how kissable they are then my computer mouse is going to shatter from how hard i've been gripping it :::

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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon

Can someone recommend me something to listen to that's super distorted and gross sounding but in a good way? I really love that kind of sound but I don't really know where to find it doggirl-tears

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queermunist she/her - 3mon

Master Boot Record basically sounds like a symphony of hard drives and floppy disk readers being tortured if you're into that.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Music stuff:

I was listening to J.Cole's She knows. I hate how such a banging beat/melody is used for a song with such an idiotic theme. It's not even bad. I just wish the subject matter wasn't about treating women like shit and bragging about your musical abilities, thinking you are on par with MJ.

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mrfugu [he/him, any] - 3mon

I always interpreted it as a critique on cheating culture. Less bragging about it and moreso describing the prevalence of cheating and how it’s hypocritical and does nothing but hurt people.

I love that album it’s very introspective IMO a lot of the songs are taken from the perspective of a young, dumb J Cole leading up to his crash out.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Maybe it is. Cause I'll be real. I didn't even know who this guy was until the whole drake vs kendrick thing happened. I don't know anything about the musicians themselves.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Leap years make programming with dates so much harder it is crazy. I hate leap years. Stupid concept.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

It follows a pretty regular pattern, if a year is 0 mod 4 then its a leap year. Unless its also 0 mod 100 then its not a leap year. UNLESS its 0 mod 400, then it IS a leap year. Last one was 2000 so unless your code is gonna be used in 2400, youre fine.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The real problem is that I gotta sort all the birthrate in a certain range of dates into a mod 366 cycle such that Feb 29 has its own spot. I managed to do it in the end, buying was pointlessly difficult

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I looked in the mirror and I see a stereotypical and boyish office lady.

I'll take it. Plus, I can improve later on with longer hair.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

I attribute my intelligence increase to all the library water I've consumed this week power-genius about 4 gallons of it this week

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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 3mon

Got maybe 2 hours of sleep last night/this morning. Really need to change my phone bed habits. I found myself so angry at so many things that I couldn't really rest. I have my coffee and my ADHD meds in me so sleeping is out of the question, but given my sleep deprived state, so is driving. Thankfully I have today and tomorrow off so I think I'll be fine by the time I get back to it on the 3rd. Hoping to attend a protest for palestine tomorrow, I'll be bringing an aquaintance, I'm nervous but looking forward to it.

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 3mon

Click the thumbnail

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Thinking about getting an altar cloth, circlet to wear on my head and candles/lighter to fit in my handbag as a bit for when I offer to do someone's Tarot.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon

I was not ready for the live action actresses in the man who erased his name kiryu-pain why would sega do this to me having to make eye contact with real people creature I am fucked Mr SEGA I play no-copyright games so I don't have to talk to people

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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 3mon

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Ive got a bulletproof heart
Youve got a hollowpoint smile

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