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Trans Megathread from September 8th, 2025 to September 14th, 2025

I was planning to write a longer post for this mega and then Silksong happened so... oops?

Short version is this week is my 9th tranniversary. I don't remember which day exactly so I like to say it was 9/11 so I'd never forget. What ultimately cracked my egg all those years ago was not the deep yearning when looking at women that I couldn't identify as envy or the increasingly intense and umm horny dreams where I had the power to instantly change my gender. No it was that fucking faceapp gender swap filter. I just kept staring at that pic like it was a mirror into an alternate universe where I was happier and suddenly everything clicked into place. The first few years were hit or miss with a lot of other life changes happening at the time that interfered with getting properly started so in some ways it's more like a 5 or 6 year tranniversary but whatever. vivian-shrug

It's weird to say I'm almost done but I really am so close to making all the changes I wanted. I'll never stop being trans, but I'm definitely moving from trans(itioning) femme to trans(itioned) femme and that's quite exciting. And maybe a little wistful looking back at the journey.

Have a good week everyone!


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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

HELLO THIS IS THE MEGA SIGN UP POST/LIST POST

if you have a preferred week please tell me

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

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Im gonna be modelling on a runway~

Got selected! Doesn't pay. I also dont have to pay anything. I think it'll be fun!

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🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

Oooh, that does sound like it'd be really fun. I hope you have a good time!

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Kuori [she/her] - 3mon

s/o to charlie kirk, the first man to ever cause me to achieve orgasm

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

Play 911 in reverse and you get towers being constructed and birthing planes and I think that change of perspective is beautiful

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

Went to trans night at the commie bar last night. Had a good time doggirl-thumbsup got compliments and a touch more on my outfit (and height) from multiple people and like damn yall i get it im tall but stfu im not a top spend 30 seconds with me and its obvious lol, im just tall vivian-shrug

But i did my eyeliner and makeup last night for the first time since april and it felt so good to wear my armour again! I love it and it just is so funnn! I just need to do it early in the day so i can recover for a couple hours from the intense dysphoria of looking in the mirror...

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Kuori [she/her] - 3mon

unexpected downside of charlie kirk biting it: i have a hangover for the first time in like 7 years

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0x2640 - 3mon

etsy witches cursing right wingers does work, keep doing that

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I want it known this was how I found out

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0x2640 - 3mon

it was how we found out too haha

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I alternate between "Tarot is not real, its a fun parlour game for self-reflection".

And "as a trans woman I have profaned both man and nature to gain mystical foresight like my many sisters before me".

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

tarot is not real, unless it tells me that Yeah I Do Deserve Some Pizza As a Little Treat and then it is the gospel truth

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Yo I drew the 7 of Coins/pentacles, 6 of swords and the 9 of cups which definitely means you've been working hard, trans, and deserve a pizza.

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

lets-fucking-go

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Arahnya [he/him, fae/faer] - 3mon

Just a genderfluid tboy wearing a lace croptop and 00's era bedazzled pants

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I think a lot about those studies that showed just knowing a trans person is enough to change people's opinion positively on trans right. Like not being friends or family, just knowing of a trans person.

That's why I kind of love being a huge, beautiful, goofy, obviously trans woman with amazing style who, as a meme I once saw said "was a a pleasure in class and I'm determined to make that everyone's problem".

Like I am going to start a conversation with you ostensibly Cis person and you will enjoy it. Then if trans rights ever come down the track as topic, you are gonna remember me and have a positive opinion.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I like passing but its a little sad to not be read as trans. One of my coworkers didnt know I was trans until me and her had talked to a trans patient about healthcare and clothing stuff and sge asked me how I knew that all - and was surprised when I said I was trans. We'd known eachother for over a year!

I fully respect people who do stealth cause thats their preference or for safety but I like being openly trans

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

I don't try to go stealth but apparently I pass reasonably well because I have told cis people that I'm trans, or at least alluded to having transitioned in a way that I'd think the people I was talking to understood and they just continue to believe that I am somehow just a very tall cis lesbian with a deep voice. I have told medical professionals who can see the gender dysphoria diagnosis on my chart that I do not have a uterus, I have never had a period in my life, I was born without a uterus or ovaries and they just shrug and go "huh alright". I've had coworkers who didn't realize I was trans for a year. I told them I was. They forgot? I've fostered kids who didn't realize I was trans (the kids who did realize were uniformly cool about it, this could mean nothing).

I live as out as I can but sometimes there is that math you have to do in your head about whether it's worth disclosing to someone or not. Most of the time I just let people figure it out themselves eventually. If it comes up, it comes up, it's part of who I am but it is not the most interesting part of who I am and I'm not leading with it.

Never underestimate the obliviousness of cis people. It's really something.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I do, now, get the "are you pregnant" when Im getting a vaccine or whatever. And they dont listen if you coyly get around it lol, saying I dont have a uterus usually works.

I had a hell of a time trying to pass for years. I dont know what's changed exactly over the last couple years. I guess just more time on HRT.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Or else meow-knife-trans

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

Some of the fiercest cis allies I've had have been random people in (fuckass nowhere reactionary shithole) who happened to know trans people. When you're confronted with the reality that we're not some weird Other that exists in porn or as a punchline or just that weird lady (?) who makes me kind of uncomfortable and scurries around like a scared animal whenever I see her, it makes it hard to maintain those prejudices. This goes for any people who are marginalized/othered. It goes for us too.

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

::: spoiler transphobia, hopelessness, ugh I don't regret coming out, but I just wish I could put it on pause just for a day or two so I can breathe. I'm so sick of how people treat me, and I'm so sick of begging people to use my god damn name. I don't even hate my deadname. I actually kind of like it as a name if I'm being honest. But the downright refusal to use the name I'm explicitly asking people to use just feels like a slap in the face every single time. I've told my dad several times now that I don't want to talk about it anymore, and that he can just do what he wants because I'm done feeling like I have to justify myself to him. I asked him if he saw the possibility of a world in which what he was doing was wrong and he said "I am rarely ever 100% certain about anything, but I'm 100% certain you're not a woman." Like at this point trying to talk to him about it is not worth it. But he just keeps fucking bringing it up. Has sent me 5 page long letters written in google docs asking me to see things from his perspective. That he's trying to do what's right for me and that I shouldn't be mad at him for it. The only reason I'm still talking to him at all is because I have $38 in my bank account right now. The financials are kinda shot right now. And sometimes he sends me money. I feel trapped. I just want to leave this god forsaken town in this god forsaken country. I'm so emotionally burnt out and I don't know what to do. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler You are a woman

Having your identity and feelings dismissed by a man is super apropos though lol

Some of you, like the people who are pretty young and poor and just having the worst time of things, I just wanna scoop you all up and take you to my city and feed you soup for a couple days then get your lives started away from shitty family :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler Something about opening up that spoiler and seeing that first line, in the context of the post you were replying to, really hit me in the feels.

I would absolutely love to live in a world where I could be scooped up and fed soup and taken care of for a few days. I absolutely love my sister with every part of me, but pretty much every single other person in my family I cannot stand anymore. Just because of how they think it's acceptable to treat me. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler That's so rough I'm sorry.

I think it's okay to retreat a bit and regroup, if humoring your dad means a chance to get some money which might help you in the long run.

Stuffs tough. :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler yeah... I think I'm only just now realizing how much it all has been affecting me. Yeah that's the thought. That I'm keeping my dad around until hopefully I can get to the point where I don't have to anymore. Or at least take a break from him. If he keeps acting the way he's acting I don't really see myself wanting it to just be a break. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Vampire The Masquerade describes vampire sex as "a biting frenzy"

Say no more, sign me up for a biting frenzy

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kristina [she/her] - 3mon

im-fuckin-gay

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🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

Waow

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

scared the class when talking about charlie kirk the other day, whoops Silly-Liberator

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unfinished | 🇵🇸 - 3mon

Amerikkka deserved 9/11

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

More and more people are saying it

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0x2640 - 3mon

acab includes doctors

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

Yeah ill take A DAB, fuck the doctors orders stalin-smokin

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

All doCtors Are Bad

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🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

::: spoiler Vampireposting (cw: blood) The feminine urge to kiss a woman with a cut and bleeding lip

vs

The feminine urge to bite my lip until it bleeds to tease vampiregf into kissing me :::

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Kuori [she/her] - 3mon

waow-based

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0x2640 - 3mon

we dont understand how in the current state of things in the US people are still telling trans people to go see a doctor for hrt... like are you paying attention at all or???

not like a majority of doctors understand trans healthcare at all anyway xP

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Because DIY isnt, like, easy or straight forward and you have to deal with crypto and its still good to have an endo/prescriber who can figure out your lab values but also help you deal with mental health shit and fertility shit (the two most common concerns with the transgender patient population besides gender affirming care). Some people have insurance that covers meds and otherwise have to pay out of pocket for DIY.

I get the fear that a doctor might not be an ally to say the least. Knowing how to get DIY is a good skill even if you have a great doc who has your back. And I get that doctors aren't all geniuses who know the WPATH in and out - or know when to ignore the WPATH recommendations and go with current research. I don't know how to handle the balance of risks and benefits with yall yankees.

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0x2640 - 3mon

its not the fear of a doctor not being an ally (though many such cases) but the fact that most doctors dont got a bloody clue what they are doing when it comes to trans healthcare period, or just dont care to know. also you really dont need a doctor to read two numbers from a lab and compare them to well known baselines.

i feel like calling getting prescription E "easy or straightforward" is just sugarcoating it, especially right now when its so unstable. the amount of hoops you potentially have to jump through is significant.

the US govt (yes this is a US centric post as stated, but it also applies to like... many places at the moment) is actively trying to collect everyones medical records, is actively trying to ban trans people from existence, and is actively throwing people in concentration camps. i dont see how recommending someone go risk that over at least researching diy is a good idea.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

It's been said already, but going through doctors is a necessity for surgery. That's not to imply DIY is worse or anything, just the reality of the situation. The risk of medical history being used maliciously is an acceptable risk for someone in this situation.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Im definitely not saying people should be prescription only. I think grey market is good and is part of how we as a community stay resilient. I think its important to get people on HRT as quick as possible and, yeah, that usually means grey market. But DIY isnt an easy process and crypto isnt easy so there's reasons why people suggest going through a doctor still.

I know people have had shitty experiences with doctors. I have my own experiences, and I trust mine. I have a different set of experiences because my docs were through the gender clinic or through a trans healthcare thing specifically. I work with a bunch. I work with a bunch of dumb ass doctors and I work with a bunch of genius doctors that make me glad Im not doing their jobs.

Its not just 2 lab values, it depends on what youre taking. Monitoring E and T levels isnt difficult and you can do that on your own for sure.

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

i feel like calling getting prescription E “easy or straightforward” is just sugarcoating it, especially right now when its so unstable. the amount of hoops you potentially have to jump through is significant.

At least when I started 1.5 years ago, it was super easy and straightforward (as someone with insurance, not a minor, and in a large state with informed constant) despite being in Texas. Figuring out the grey market seems much more difficult (and expensive). Of course the lack of reliability means that I'd want backups (either stockpiles or being ready to switch to DIY). Also Texas specifically has also shown it wants lists of trans people for some reasons and I'm sure it not for anything bad (/s), so maybe not going through official means makes a lot of sense.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I don't know how to handle the balance of risks and benefits with yall yankees.

😭

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

its still good to have an endo/prescriber who can figure out your lab values

This is the main reason I’m even looking into non-DIY as an option. The other reason is the potential for surgeries at some point.

That said, it seems like the safer and more stable option is DIY, and like you said that’s a good thing to know how to handle anyway. I’m strongly leaning that’s direction. I tend to have a bit of a DIY streak anyways, and I super do not trust medical records to be in any way private.

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon

Hey just so you know, in most states you can get your own labs without seeing a doctor in person. Plenty of people are using DIY HRT with the same lab tests you would get from Planned Parenthood.

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Good to know. This isn’t the first time you’ve dropped some helpful knowledge on me. Thank you!

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon

You're welcome! If you have any questions about blood tests I'm happy to share what I know.

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

::: spoiler US Politics Even prior to more recent events being able to get HRT through your Dr in the US was a crapshoot at best, and within the past 9 months there have been consistent and escalating legislative attacks against trans healthcare. Even in the few areas where HRT via prescription is more easily accessible, there is anxiety around how reliable and stable that will be moving into the future.

There are also many instances of hardline advocating for HRT via prescription being paired with hardline anti-DIY sentiment. As not straight forward as it can be, there are gonna be circumstances (that I would argue happen more often than not) where DIY is going to be the most simple and reliable way to get HRT and giving information and assistance regarding DIY is gonna be significantly more constructive than insisting the "proper" way is through a doctor :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah I agree, DIY is absolutely part of how trans people should know to get HRT. Yeah it can be faster and it means no one can shut off our medication just cause some legal bullshit.

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

So I don't live in the US. But I have seen many trans women with either completly ineffective, or dangerous officially prescrived hormones regimes here. The diy girlies generally speaking have better hrt regimes here, cause they have more of a clue and motivation than cis doctors. Docs are neglectful at best, ime. (I also have an endo I ignore, cause he is neglectful, just so that the insurance knows I am trans. And to give the prescription E to others)

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Only reason I'm considering it is wanting surgery at some point

I do not feel old enough to make these risk calculations :/

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

agony-shivering honk-enraged badeline-scream I JUST BROKE MY FAVORITE HAIR CLIP AND THEY DON'T EVEN MAKE THIS ONE ANYMORE. FUCK

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I have to wash my hands off at work, usually with alcohol. If your hands are wet with alcohol and you touch certain kinds of printing on plastic, you'll get an imprint on your hand

Anyway, I left work with my left hand imprinted with DONT

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

DONT

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

It creeped me out! If this was a spoopy movie, I dont even know what I was being warned not to do???

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

or maybe you were supposed to warn others...

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

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

rosa-salute

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Trans women have an inherent advantage in doing Tarot and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

My parents, especially my mom likes to brag by saying that she fully understands me. Imagine all the information she doesn't know about me was actually beamed into her head. It'd hit her like unlimited void.

No but seriously, at this point, if they were to find out just how much I have been suffering for so long, they would be devastated. I think knowing that I am trying get into therapy for ideation would break them from thinking that they failed as parents.

I might just be doing motivated reasoning cause I don't want to tell them, but I think keeping things from them would actually be beneficial for them.

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0x2640 - 3mon

its 2025 we arent still pretending misandry is real right

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

you know....i do like ginger ale, especially this brand that's basically a cider but spicy, real easy to get white girl drunk with catgirl-happy

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Bolshechick [she/her, it/its] - 3mon

Haven't been on the bear site for a bit, too busy being gay. Just posting to say I love being trans. I love my genderfluid fiancée, my trans boyfriend, and my enby partner. I love all my trans FWB. I love my trans best friends. I love that I rarely have to ever talk to a cis person. When I was younger, I would never have imagined this would be my life, lol. But I love it!

I love you all little trans people in my phone <3

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

NORTH

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ZOM

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GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLL

PUTS

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PILL

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler current events + family posting My dad is full on grieving, constantly whining about how this country is so divided, how could someone do this just because of his opinions, wah wah. Mom has watched his clips and liked his speaking style.

Genuinely so cooked. My dad has just been talking all about it, angrily scrolling through comments about it. A couple days left of him being home. He's definitely going to keep talking to me about this.

Obviously Kirk has supported genociding us :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I legitimately do not know what to say to him next time he rants to me please help

Should I just commit to acting like a lib and condemning political violence?

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Kuori [she/her] - 3mon

the tack my gf is taking at her (very public) job is "hatemonger long enough and it should come as no surprise when you get a taste of your own medicine" with a dash of shrug-outta-hecks

kind of a disdainful "what'cha you gonna do?" since obvious glee isn't going to fly where she's at

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

Should I just commit to acting like a lib and condemning political violence?

I certainly wouldn't pretend to condemn it. At best, I'd limit it to a joke about how he wouldn't want people get emotional about it because 2nd amendment rights.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Please, please not another trans shooter. I have basically no weekend this week and I can't deal with that. :::

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

Hopefully this issue has gone away as much information about the shooter has come out. Not that I expected people to actually find out this information.... my mom called me specifically to talk about this yesterday and still thought the shooter was trans because that's what she's been seeing on facebook and just warned me to be careful.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

He hasn't talked about any of the actual info on the shooter, I'm not sure if he doesn't know or just doesn't want to admit it. He has calmed down a lot though so it's not too big of an issue anymore.

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

my gender is that one mysterious faintly androgynous masked antagonist character that always gets gendered as male until near the end of the series where the mask gets removed and it turns out i was a hot girl the entire time

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I love yall poly people, I had a good time being poly. But maybe I want to be monogamous and it would be a little nice to have the choice. Wtf is going on in queer kinky dating lol, its like an inversion of mono-poly ratio in cishet vanilla dating.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I will be very upset if I get finally get into queer dating in my new state and everyone is poly

I am coping by thinking people are overblowing the polycrisis

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🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

Mood, one of the smaller things that made me get a little disillusioned with t4t is how like 90% of the trans people where I live are poly. I love that for all of them, but I'm way too possessive to be poly myself so I effectively have to date cis women because of it. Which then doesn't work out either for other reasons.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

ngl I am finally feeling better about shaving my body- although I did still cut myself doggirl-cry

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I ordered a fancy swim suit, I was really apprehensive on the sizing but it's nearly perfect, slightly too tight but preferable to falling off.

It's like culotte pants with a skirt so my junk is concealed. With a separate bikini top. So cute.

I'm ready for summer. Is summer ready for me?

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🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

Cuuuuute. I've been eyeing getting a cute one piece with a skirt at some point but I feel like my dysphoria would still be too strong to go swimming anytime soon so I've put it off.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler bottom dysohoria This is the first summer where Ive fucking hated having a gock!! I made my peace with her for a long time but tucking has been more a pain in my ass and more annoying and its been so hot out Ive wanted to wear shorts, and Ive worked out a bunch and lost some weight so I wanted to look hot.

Im a top so its always been an uneasy alliance between me and her but getting a good strap has been a godsend. Cant wait until I get the surgeon to morph her into a vagina so we can BOTH be happier. Double sided dildo sounds fun as fuck!! :::

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

Trying to do Linux now and it's been a process, idk just letting it install now and waiting went with mint

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

There is apparently a queer romance brewing at work, currently being kept apart by homophobic parents 💔 tbh I thought for sure one was a trans girl. Maybe an egg ya never know.

::: spoiler spoiler Low key does me some psychic damage that this gay guy is more fem then me. I'm straight up just a dude with long hair :kitty-cri-potato: even the one who's not actually fem presenting :::

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

I told my therapist I've been scrutinizing my appearance more in an almost phrenological way and she said next session we're gonna talk about where I spend time on the internet

Mom found the /r/4tran subscription

Funny, the preoccupation with my brow really kicked off from a YouTube short

And yeah actually the more that I think about it this has been fueled a lot more by /r/transpassing and related subreddits than anything from /r/4tran. I just reflexively discount anything in greentext so I don't think it's that impactful

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

tomorrow i'll be celebrating 11/9 by going to my first bottom surgery consult gender-reveal

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Moss [they/them] - 3mon

Quitting weed has made me so much more interesting. Now when I'm bored, I think "what should I do? I could write, I could read, I could go for a walk, I could drive somewhere new, I could bake something, I could draw, I could meet up with friends, I could do a workout." When I was addicted, the answer was always "I'll get high and watch things I've already watched and eat a massive amount of food." I actually do things now. It's so much better

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

i used to use like that and quit for like 6 years to reset. when i returned (after the govt accidently made cannabis legal and my state did as well) i stick to only 1 hr before bed now. very rarely have some when i'm out hiking/camping

i was always an "enhancement" smoker but the sleepiness and brain fog after 30 minutes just made it useless for that

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Okay chat I have kinda a burning question in my mind that I've been wondering for a while.

Okay, so my cisf friend, several years ago, wanted us all to go to ikea and she got a blahaj and kept like asking me if I knew what it meant (I did not) and kinda smiling/smirking. What did she mean by this? Obviously she knew it was a trans woman thing- so I guess I don't understand?

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Maybe she thought you were trans

Or she just thought it was really cute

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Probably not, she was fine at first when I came out but kinda ditched me after I asked her to use my name.

Maybe.

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

It's unfortunately not uncommon for people to find your transitioning cute or endearing or positive in the abstract but once they have to acknowledge that you are in fact who you are and you expect them to respect that, fall off like that. You're cute to them as a pet, as a toy, but not as a fully realized human being.

Transitioning really put into contrast who my friends were and who tolerated me so long as I was useful to them somehow. I keep my friends close, anyone who tries to put a disclaimer on their support of trans people - of transfems in particular - can fuck right off. I don't have time for that shit.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

If I had the death note I would manipulate all the leaders of the western world into flying to the desert in texas, laying down to spell out "God is watching", then they all simultaneously die of a heart attack. It will be televised of course.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Sometimes people say they could use the death note responsibly. But you cant even not use the fuckin thing. Ryuk will just kill you if you dont do something cool, so all those people that say they wouldn't write any names down - congrats, Ryuk kills you and moves on.

Now making world leaders die, thats a good idea that should keep Ryuk satisfied. Just gotta keep his sense of satisfaction and interest up. I dont think you even need to top yourself every time, just keep up the same level.

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

Looking up the final destination death and making them happen to rich people would probably do the trick

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

We can do it in multiple locations and languages.

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

Small thing I did over the weekend but on tumblr I periodically bully terfs for the fun of it.

But I clapped back on one terf and someone actually began following my blog. I know it’s a very tiny thing, but I like how someone somewhere out there in the world saw a rando say that hatred against people like them isn’t ok.

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WittyProfileName2 [she/her] - 3mon

Refilling my hormone prescription at the pharmacy and the dispensing chemist asked me step into the consultation room.

I was worried there'd been some sort of fuck up somewhere and I was gonna have to spend all day making phone calls to this or that NHS ward because the WGS, the local gender team, and my local GP had started arguing over who's managing my hormones. Again.

Turns out she just wanted to ask what my preferred pronouns were.

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kristina [she/her] - 3mon

Well that's nice

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

::: spoiler bottom surgery I've got this idea super lodged in my brain that, like, it would be a huge power move if I got an orchi but then also got teste implants. I don't even know 100% what the point would be but the thought is just reeaal stuck in my mind :::

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

::: spoiler similar surgery genderfuckery This is just like how I envision getting a breast augmentation just so I can bind. :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler waking up from bottom surgery shouting "FINALLY! NOW I CAN WEAR A PACKER!" :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Of course the night I have to do shit is the one where I feel fucking awful. I can't stop the thoughts. I feel so, so bad about this right now. :::

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0x2640 - 3mon

*hugs*

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Just the absolutely worst experience ever. Body destroyed. Alienated. No fix. So much pain :::

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

Does it still count as yearning if I need romantic-cuddles or friend-cuddles?

10
AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

knight-nod

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

I think I'm gonna go back to make up and nails tomorrow. Job hunt been stale and this been the longest I went without on the off chance someone picks up my application. I can't keep suppressing myself

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

It’s a small thing but on tumblr I’ve been dunking on some terfs.

I should literally be doing anything else with my life, but I just like the idea some trans person out there will see the rebuttal and feel a little bit better someone didn’t let transphobia slide.

10
iridaniotter [she/her] - 3mon

It took me forever but I finally hunted down a real, physical skirt that is basic. They still exist!

10
🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

Congrats!! It is annoying how hard they can be to find. I'm glad you finally found one!

5
hungrybread [comrade/them] - 3mon

I got my legs and armpits waxed for the first time and just wanna say I'm loving being smooth AF again

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

DANCE REPORT:

Preliminary results:

  1. The "feminine" dance class my uni offers for some reason don't accept beginners
  2. One of only 2 guys that know looked at me today and started asking me how the fuck did my parents not notice that I'm transitioning. This is a good sign?
  3. I was really satisfied with the look I made. It could be on the very of androgenous if I had longer hair and a girlie face. It's the best I can do right now without raising questions

Main event:

  1. I did the dance. TWO OF THEM! This was supposed to just be a hangout so most of the event consisted of the expert dancers dancing with each other while us noobs chatted in the corner.
  2. I'm not good at dancing.
  3. Holy shit dancing is so horny.
  4. 2 of the newbie guys told me that if they have to pay for classes there is no way they will accept dancing with a male partner. Kinda fucking cringe imo. Maybe I just lack the bias cause I'm bi, and also I'm here to dance not to find romance.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

It sucks that some guys use this as a way to pick up chicks. I do pole fitness and there's sometimes one guy in a class of 12, and its a crapshoot if hes gay and funny or if hes gonna be a creepy asshole that paid to look in a room of beginner pole people. Wish cishet guys could take a fucking break sometimes, cause they can be hot 😭

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

Yeah, this shit is wild to me. I can't imagine paying for a class just to ogle people. And everyone can tell that they're not actually into what they're supposed to be learning. Side note: I really want to do pole fitness but I have no fucking time.

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

Back when I did dance lessons with my mom I'd ask her to alternate back and forth between lead and follow (come to think about it this is almost certainly egg shit lmao) so a lot of the people in that social circle knew I could do both and sometimes one of the guys would dance with me when there were a lot of guys at an event. Most of the guys were weird about it though. Like chill out I'm wayyyyyyyyy too young for you anyway I just wanna dance doggirl-tears

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

One of only 2 guys that know looked at me today and started asking me how the fuck did my parents not notice that I’m transitioning. This is a good sign?

I'd take it as a win.

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

sometimes I wish I could have modes of being other than "fiscally irresponsible because I feel like shit" and "fiscally irresponsible because I feel kind of okay, maybe even good"

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

We shall discover the effects the squats will bring

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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler reference to dysphoria, minor venting. I visited my folks (not out) this week since they're taking care of my cats while I'm between jobs and my current apartment doesn't allow pets. The cats were doing well, but I felt pretty miserable due to anxiety via-a-vie the news as well as the dysphoria of being home and being in boymode. I'm glad to be back home with my partner. :::

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Coping with the state of the world by making an alt with a silly name on hexbear dot net.

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

Venus help me, I'm thirsting over a long time childhood friend who I know damn well isn't into me

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0x2640 - 3mon

so we see a lot of people on here using the term "wrecker" to describe people but like... what does that even mean? we cant find it defined anywhere and we arent online enough to know the lingo. any insight here?

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

Someone (typically a reactionary) coming into an online space just to start shit and cause fights

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HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided] - 3mon

that's how we use it on here, but in other spaces it can refer to anyone perceived as creating conflict specifically to dissolve the bonds of solidarity. as you can imagine it's very easy to levy this accusation in bad faith.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Fuck my tits are sore AGAIN

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

It's raining. It's thundering. I'm standing by the open window looking out to the cloudy darkened sky while fully nude and munching cereal sipping wine. This is the kind of atmosphere I live for.

Fuck summer. It's rainy season!

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

::: spoiler midnight sad posting i have yearned for so, so many fucking years

and idk how much longer i can take still being alone :::

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

cw: Misgendering, alcohol

::: spoiler spoiler

I went on an anniversary weekend trip with my partner and while she went to the liquor store picking up some sparkling wine for us to celebrate with I was standing outside waiting for her with my dog. Guy in a wheelchair comes out of the store, carrying several 6 packs and mini bottles of spirits. Downs one immediately, then asks me for help to get his 6 packs put away into his bag hanging off the back of his wheelchair since he was holding them in his lap. I help him and put his 6 packs securely away in his tote bag. He then tells me I sound like a boy. (I pass, but not my voice). I tell him I'm not a boy and he offers me voice lessons which I politely decline.

Finally, my partner comes out the store and we walk to the hotel as I tell her what happened. We see another trans couple holding hands walking ahead of us and some guy leans out his truck window and pretends to vomit. Terrible start to what was supposed to be a good weekend, rest of the weekend went well, but that definitely soured things for me.

I've had worse happen to me from transphobic scumbags and that stuff is certainly scary, but the casual bullshit you have to deal with on a daily basis as a trans person adds up after awhile and it is getting to me. :::

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

my partner grabbed a really good username on here years ago and just sits on it. they are too socially anxious about internet communities despite the few interactions on here being very pleasant

also i think browsing was making them blackpilled. so now i just screenshot stuff and run shitposts by them since we chat through text while they are away for work (i literally have copy/pasted emojis from here)

so just pretend i have a little 1ft tall Spock on my shoulder whispering shit into my ear and saying "fascinating" a lot

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

::: spoiler bizarre dream talk. also piss had a dream where i was in some kind of summer camp or something. idk what to call it. it was almost entirely made up of men and for some reason they grouped me in with the male side i genuinely didn't complain or argue with it. i then remember going into the bathroom while there was like 6 other guys in there and just flooding a urinal with piss. just completely soaking the thing. i needed to flush the damn urinal at least once before finishing.

idk what the point of this is other than me in my dreams absolutely pissmogging the cis boys :::

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

Liquid gold your finances are on the up, time to invest or gamble take advantage of this sign stonks-up

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

waow-based

5
0x2640 - 3mon

luigi-dance

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SexUnderSocialism [she/her] - 3mon

Down with cis.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Cis-tem of a down kelly

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler sadgirl shit Every day feels pointless without them in my life. I see friends, go to events, work on my hobbies but I'm still so empty. I know I shouldn't even feel this way after our fight. They were completely unreasonable and hurt me so much but my brain won't let go of how things used to be. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Care-Comrade

::: spoiler spoiler The first few months after my break up, it felt like literally half of my body was missing. Id dream we were still together every night, boring dreams just like regular day to day life, and wake up in my friends guest bedroom single while I was figuring out a new place to live.

It did get easier. No shortcuts. It just took a very long time. :::

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

::: spoiler shoes

I really like shoes. Its one of the more stereotypical things about me. But i have such large feet that finding heels that look on me like they do on other girls is so hard! Like, dont get me wrong, i love my 10cm heel combat boots, they look amazing, but i reaaally wouldnt mind if that were more like 12cm, or even 13 or 14 cm.

Anyway lately ive been wanting my first pair of stillettos, and wanting something hefty, in the 12/13/14cm range. But i cant find anything good! I can find tons of pleaser style shoes, but i dont want a big ol platform up front. I want my toes firmly on the ground thank you very much. Also i wouldnt buy pleasers regardless, the quality has as i understand gone down quite a bit as theyre moving from being a solid working shoe to being a fashion statement, aimed not at workers with the structural considerations but at people wanting to look like strippers.

Tbh some kind of not quite boot but not quite pump would be wonderful, like just a few eyelets like an oxford, but kinda pumpy and with a nice 12-14cm stilletto heel, and no fucking platform thank you very much. I just want the curve and lines of having my feet in an actual heel heel made for my foot length.

But looking for 14cm heels i find either knockoff trash, pleasers, or custom shoes that cost 300 euros and are made to order so they arent returnable.

Anyway. Ya girl wants shoes. SHOE-AZ!

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

Fellow bigfoot here and, yeah, shoes are a fuck. Onlymaker is pretty good and offers sizes up to US 15 for every shoe and I like the quality more than Pleaser.

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

Ok i love their pumps, offering up to 12cm heels is nice, and much more than other places. But also why are all the higher heels (e.g. 14-15cm) coming with a platformmmm jessicry

Cant a girl get some extreme heels that fit her feet? (Also i think i will be hunting for these not-oxford pumps until i cave and have them custom made emilie-shrug)

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I get my shoes off Amazon, its the only place that sells cute enough shoes in big enough sizes. Im down a shoe size from before I started HRT, but Im still not down to regular shoe store range. There used to be a store that stocked up to US size 14 heels and femme shoes, but they went out of business.

I have a cis friend who just has big feet, she's got the exact same problem. Just a women's fashion thing, there's a narrow range they support and youre hooped if youre not in that range.

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

Yeah, im lucky that i have small enough feet that i can buy "average" shoes (im a womens 12/eu42). I just cant find anything with the heel height i want, its always maxing out at 10cm lol.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I buy my shoes from a shop here in Australia that caters for girls with big feet.

I also buy converses in cute colours because they unisex and often the bigger sizes in silver or pink etc are on sale

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

I wish converse worked for me, theyre cute but they always end up hurting my feet.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

That's tough. I also have a pair of Doc Martens with lesbian flag laces, because subtext is for cowards.

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

Fuckyesss i want to get some trans and/or lesbian laces for my kendra doc heels, they would look so much better with themmm

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Mine are practical brown docs with lesbian laces but now I think high heeled black with trans laces would be hot to death and I must get some.

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

They dont make them anymore (booooo) but the kendra docs are what ive got and they are hot to death

2
XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I think I'll get some platform converses and do it with them.

2
SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

Yo, what's that shop?

2
BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Seeing the wrong thing can really just put me in such a terrible headspace and doom about stuff

I wish I could get myself to be more careful :::

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queermunist she/her - 3mon

Transister radio. 📻

Is this anything???

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

It was a bad book. Trans Sister Radio. I guess it was progressive for its time but it kinda sucked

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

finally watched The Batman (2022). It was good, very noir, very detective, kinda clever actually.

also the soft e-boy version of Bruce Wayne is giving me some toppy feels catgirl-smug

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tamagotchicowboy [he/him] - 3mon

I had the worst day in a long time yesterday, first I woke up with a migraine, some guy wanted to rip me off on ebay, one of my cats pooped on the floor, my hacked together water bottle dispenser broke, I locked myself out, then I had to break into my own house which made my neighbors flip out thinking it was a burglar, and lastly I was late to work.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

I can really only be me.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Everyone else was taken!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I hate being trans. I don't feel like a special snowflake, I feel scared and lonely.

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

god forbid you ever have to walk a mile in her shoes, cause then you really might know what it's like to crap a poo

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Okay the ad algorithm learnt to show me large girl dresses I need to log off this is dangerous.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

I love being trans.

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

leslie-shining me too

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

catgirl-huh

I botched my injection today morning and caused myself to go back into that mode. So now I'm having needle problems again.

I even tried again in the evening after getting some prescription lidocaine cream from my pharmacy and it didn't seem to do JACK SHIT.

I think I'll just skip my hormones this week. Already 3 days late with it.

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

Noo, please don't skip your injections. It's not gonna help. I don't know how you do your injections, but I use 30g insulin syringes, and go subq. Which has yet to go wrong for me. Like, i am happy to help if I can.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I keep trying and I keep failing. I tried again a few mins ago. I'll try again tommorow after procuring thinner needles.

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

meow-hug you'll make it.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

I know you mean well, but needles can be scary and sometimes people get to a point of needing a break to clear their head. Ideally no one skips a week, but I'm pretty sure she knows this isn't the ideal solution. The world will not end if she takes a week to collect herself.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Isn't it funny that I fantasise about being a ultra masochist but GET SPOOKED BY NEEDLES LIKE A CHILD

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I'm in the same boat. Needles are scary for no reason. I hate when one shot goes poorly because it means I'm gonna be more anxious the next week and usually that just make it go worse. But I'm stubborn and refuse to use other delivery methods.

Hope you can overcome it soon!

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Just need a sadist to do your injections lol

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Unironically if another person was doing it I would be able to do it. Just now I tried again, only to botch the injection again. I think I'll just try to get thinner needles or some shit.

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I do my brother's (autoinjector) injections for him cause he can't do them himself. So you're far from alone. Hope the thinner needles work out!

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Still blown away at how fast kimchi is to make. Conceptually it’s basically sauerkraut (salty fermented cabbage), but it’s ready in a couple days instead of a couple weeks? Fuck yeah. This shit rules.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I love seeing slander for a novel I haven't even started reading.

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

I followed a link to goodrx from planned parenthood and holy shit, are these prices real? It says these are cash prices and they’re discounted??? The base prices have to be for manufacturers to scam grift efficiently sell meds to insurance companies right? There’s no fucking way you can only get valerate and oh btw it’s like 2-7x the cost of undergrounds. That’s wild. Surely I’m missing something or doing something wrong here.

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I've seen the claim that insurance companies have basically conspired to raise list prices above cash prices just so insurance can claim they save you $192831980231 when they don't pay anything close to that either. But not sure what the data is for that.

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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon

Pharmacy Benefit Managers (separate from, but mostly vertically integrated with, insurance companies in the US) absolutely have been doing this for years now. It lets them say they're providing a service and reducing prices when they're doing the opposite.

Without getting into the details, the cash price of drug x gets set obscenely high, pharmacies bill this price to the appropriate Pharmacy Benefit Manager who then tells the pharmacy "we're paying you whatever we pay you". By and large you're lucky to break even. For some medications and some contracts it can cost a pharmacy hundreds of dollars to fill a prescription. You're not allowed not to fill it. You're not allowed to charge the patient less than the cash price you charge everyone, which is the inflated number the PBMs conspired to come up with. If you do, you risk losing even more money getting audited by Optum or Express Scripts and good luck with that lol lmao

That's the short/comprehensible version. A 30 count bottle of ondansetron (generic Zofran, nausea med) costs $0.39 or so but the U&C most pharmacies use for billing purposes is >$1,000/30 tabs. Actual reimbursement for #30 ondansetron looks more like $0.39 + maybe a dispensing fee that doesn't cover the cost of keeping the lights on. That U&C also becomes the cash price without goodRx or one of the other middlemen who aggregate PBM data and pick a price more or less at random from what reimbursements actually look like. GoodRx also bills pharmacies $8 for the privilege of checking a price with them, every time you submit them a claim.

It's fucked. There's compounding pharmacies that'll make injectables for you cheaper than you can find at a standard retail pharmacy, if you can find one.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I somehow managed to botch a doctor's appointment! New achievement for me catgirl-sorry

Anyway, I got assigned to this local rural psychologist because my GP now thinks I have ... bipolar disorder.

I didn't even mention my "ideations" out of sheer embarrassment. Imagine being too embarrassed to tell your doctor the problem you went to them for!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The upside of bring addicted to anime is that it distracts me from other things.

The downsides of being addicted to anime is that it distracts me from other things.

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

::: spoiler spoiler Trans is really good, i’m such a fan :::

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0x2640 - 3mon

more violent protests upon the first world

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

amerikkka

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0x2640 - 3mon

well that works

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

This is not a drill. This girl has hair scrunchies

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Telling myself I want to start listening to more calm, chill music

tiktok gives me a video about uptempo

I'm listening to uptempo now

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

what's uptempo

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SockOlm [she/her] - 3mon

nothing much, how about you? doggirl-lol

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

gottem

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Wear headphones | A newer song

Its a subgenre of hardstyle, which is a subgenre of EDM. Its very fast and intense. idk if the two above are necessarily like the best of the genre but its that kind of vibe.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

I have so much mental resilience lately despite how emotionally sensitive I am. I wish I knew how to share it.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Math crankery and philosophy is the funniest shit eveeer.

Spek! My glorious king!

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

I couldn't agree more. I eat this shit up. It's some of my favorite stuff on the internet

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I find shit like this funnier than it has any right to be.

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

I lost my shit at "it is an elementary exercise to show that [0, 1) = [0, 0.999...]." That's some comedy gold.

I love math cranks because a lot of times they are doing something creative. If you to define something in a nonstandard way to see what comes out of it, fuckin' do it. It's fun. It's just absolutely wild when people do that and then turn around and act like what they've done is somehow more correct than assumptions made and established, that have centuries of theory built on top of them.

Who knows? Maybe there's a universe in which our understanding of the reals was something resembling Z10^Z. I'm not immediately sure how to make sense of arithmetic in this kind of system, but maybe there's some creativity possible here. And maybe there's a universe in which calculus has its foundations in infinitesimals. That one feels more likely to me since the early history of calculus did use infinitesimals. Maybe in that universe we just kept thinking about infinitesimals and never developed limits. This would be sad since limits are wayyyy more versitile than infinitesimals and would require every system we have that we want limits in to have infinitesimals as well, but I guess it could have happened that way.

But we have mountains and mountains and mountains of theory built on the standard definitions, and the thought that we should throw all of that away just to be able to make the assertion that 1 isn't equal to .999... Is soooooo fucking funny

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Saying [0,1) = [0, 0.999999999...] is literally circular reasoning for 1 =/= 0.999....

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

It's soooo good doggirl-tears

I'm reading into the nonsense quite a bit so I might be wrong but I don't think it's circular logic. I think it's just them misunderstanding how the real numbers are constructed and being VERY confident in their misunderstanding.

Their notation of Z10^Z makes me think they're thinking of the reals not as Cauchy sequences of rationals but as functions from Z to Z10. And honestly, I think something like that could be pretty easily (approximately so. Arithmetic would be a pain in the ass to define correctly because you'd be stuck having to worry about carrying your ones in your construction that's so tightly bound to the base 10 numbering system) converted to something equivalent to the more accepted notion of the reals. And it's pretty much how we all intuitively think of numbers anyway.

Their definition of less than also seems to be an attempt at codifying an intuition we all use. None of us ever actually compare reals in our day to day life, unless we're arguing about 0.999... = 1. Any time we are comparing two numbers that are written out, we start at the leftmost place value and read right until the two numbers differ, and use that place value to determine which of the numbers are bigger. It's not immediately clear why this intuition wouldn't work for all reals.

If it is the case that reals are functions from Z to Z10 and if the intuition of less than from finitely long rationals carries over to the infinitely long ones, than it would imply [0, 1) = [0, 0.999] and therefore 1 =/= 0.999...

So unless I am completely wrong about what they are trying to argue, I think it's less circular and more either they think their intuition is the agreed upon definition, or they think their intuition is better than the agreed upon definition.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Great comment. But I prefer infinitesimals. So many problems in engineering and physics have physical intuition where it just naturally makes sense to talk about infinitesimals. Hell, often times we are dealing with actual quanta that are in reality discrete (but very small). And of course, IRL functions tend to be very well behaved (smooth upto C_infinity) so you can get away with a lot of bs.

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

I can absolutely imagine infinitesimals being better in engineering contexts. I think both limits and infinitesimals are elegant in their own way. Infinitesimals are elegant in that they make some very specific contexts easier to think about and more intuitive. But limits are elegant in that the same stuff that works for the simpler contexts works the same way for all contexts

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

There was this guy's blog I cant find anymore but he also believed infinity isnt real and we shouldn't use it in math

Anyway, if you want you can use the reals + infintesimals and its called the hyperreals. It already exists.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

This guy who doesn't believe in infinity is a strange fellow. The hyperreals still contain an inaccessible infinity that you cannot get to no matter how you combine the transfinite numbers.

It doesn't mean that the set of hyperreal numbers has to contain them, but you can't get rid of the concept of a "true infinity".

But yeah, the hyperreals are fairly cool.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Hell yeah! Infinitesimals are the real real numbers! Fiuck limits!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Yesterday night I nearly had a panic attack at uni that I could only calm down by downing beers, today morning I'm straight up just happy.

Hmmmm....

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

:very-smart:

Guess what I need to try

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Ive heard people joke AA should be anxiety anonymous instead of alcoholics anonymous

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Me yesterday, wondering if I had just gaslit myself into being dysphoric

::: spoiler spoiler Me today, looking at the old men and thinking I'd kms if I looked like that

Also pretty bothered by them downstairs. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler more bottom thoughts I've definitely been feeling lately like I want to get full srs, I haven't looked into it much though. I know there's a lot of options, both for the surgery techniques themselves and for the surgeon. All with their own pros and cons. It's such a big decision and it's not like you get a second chance. It's obviously a long way off still but idk. I do not look forward to the decisions.

Also, side thing, I'm a bit worried about researching into it and having a strong preference for something and it not being possible/realistic for me. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler For a couple of my friends who were on the fence about it, I asked them this:

If tomorrow, you woke up and you had a vagina BUT had this magic pill on your bedside that would instantly make it go back to penis, would you take it? You get your vagina for as long as youd like, days even, and all you have to do is take the pill and you'll go back. What do you do with the pill? Throw it out?

Most of em said theyd never use and theyd throw it out so theyd never accidentally use it. Because for them the worst part of bottom surgery was recovery - which can be a pain, and its long, but its shorter than the rest of your life with a vagina. I did have one girl though who said she'd feel ambiguous and want to keep the pill or even use it - which, fair, she's more trans femme enby than binary trans woman. Believe it or not, there's even penile preserving vaginoplasty where you get to keep your gock more or less and have a vagina with labia.

If you need it, they can do revisions afterwards if thats what you mean by second chances. Theres even some doctors that do a phalloplasty for people who actually do regret it (its an even harder process to get though and it doesnt work the same as your birth one).

I think your biggest question right now is: do you want it? And second biggest is: if so, do you want a vaginal cavity? Cause you can get zero depth, just a pretty labia. Especially if you dont think you'll ever use it for anything. Thats what one of my friends got and her recovery was WAY shorter than the girls I know who've had full depth. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Probably give it to a cute trans guy.. I don't think I'd need it. I think the longer I had a vagina the less I'd want to switch back. I don't see me wanting a penis. I'd probably have to get rid of it, in case I forgot how much I dislike having a penis sometimes.

I mean like, if I go for an option I think its kinda locked it? I haven't looked at how significant the pros and cons for all the techniques are though. I know revisions can make the inner labia more prominent/bigger/I don't know the exact details on that or anything else revisions can do. That seems nice, I would want them. I've looked at phallo and I wouldn't want that. If I want a penis I need to keep my natal one.

I do want it. I've always imagined it having depth, that seems like it would open up some kinda hot options. Unfortunately because yea I've heard recovery is way better without depth. Also like, I don't know if I'll actually like it. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler cursed transphobia enter at your own risk Hi guys whose excited for the new Lego Dragon Alley? It's only 400 US dollars! :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I was at the hospital to try to get thinner needles. I lied to them that I needed the needles for insulin. Unfortunately, the needles they gave me are useless. However, one thing stuck out to me.

The pharmacist at the hospital told me that she would only give me enough needles to survive through the weekend cause I didn't have a prescription.

This shit is just absurd. So if I didn't visit on a weekend or didn't have an appointment on Monday what and actually had diabetes, what was I supposed to have done?

And what is she even scared that I would do with insulin needles?

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

And what is she even scared that I would do with insulin needles?

Even if the assumption is use for illicit drugs, having clean needles is still better than not.

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queermunist she/her - 3mon

"Better" from a public health perspective.

But that's never been what US healthcare was about.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I'm in Europe. Things aren't much better here.

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queermunist she/her - 3mon

oop my b I just kinda assume all bad healthcare stories are about the US tbh

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

That's just Euro propaganda. Don't trust them! Waiting lists and austerity are brutal here.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Better 100 diabetics die then one drug addict get their fix

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Can you not just buy em off Amazon or whatever? I swear you can

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

i had the actual worst sleep ever, too spicy taco + shampoo that smelled a bit too strong + having to work the next day + a billion nightmares lol i'm tired.

::: spoiler i'm still doing some gamedev stuff it's been a slog trying to get animations working, both to understand the current Bevy system and to figure out what's missing to get basic weapon swinging animations going in the little project I'm working on. I don't think anyone is happy with the current state of Bevy animations and I see a lot of discussion about how to improve it, but, well, no point waiting for the perfect time or perfect engine (since those don't exist) and everything has weak points.

Right now my current understanding is that a basic 3D model animation system needs three things:

  1. A way to load keyframe+pose+bone data from somewhere (Some engines have it in-engine, Bevy supports loading from GLTF/GLB which means it'll load your Blender animations and rigs along with your models) and play back a selected animation with basic controls like repeat/pause/etc. In Bevy this is the AnimationPlayer and there's an AnimationClip and it's all tied in to the Gltf class too
  2. A way to combine the individual animation clips from 1 into a graph structure to allow for blending of multiple animations or masking of individual bones (this allows you to, for instance, attack and walk at the same time and play both animations and either blend them together or only have individual bones from each move). Bevy has AnimationGraph for this (and in fact even if you don't want to use the blending/masking abilities you still need to make an AnimationGraph from a single clip) which you attach to an AnimationPlayer using AnimationGraphHandle and then the player can control which animations are playing.
  3. And a third thing - a state machine of some kind to determine which animations should be playing. Are we idling? Swinging a sword? Getting hit? It all came together when I watched a Unity tutorial and I saw the graph structure in the animation system there - basically it can respond to external triggers and also internal logic to shift between states, which have one or more animations playing. Bevy doesn't currently have something tailor built for this so I'm uh stumbling through making my own.

There are seams and dumb assumptions I made everywhere and I don't have a working demo yet but the code is starting to come together, its just a lot of balancing simplicity vs flexibility for the project I'm working on since I don't plan to re-use this code.

Of course, animating UI and 2D is a whole other thing. :::

::: spoiler some thoughts on adhd I think that since I started ADHD meds my interests have become a lot more stable and long-lasting, which is nice. Previously I think it would be difficult to connect with people about interests and to find people who have things in common with me because I'm constantly into something new and of course I want to talk to people about the things that interest me. idk just a thought I had at 3am :::

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

::: spoiler sex work, ranting about life, maybe not thinking straight...

Is it weird/bad/inappropriate that im genuinely considering sex work? Like, its been 2 years and no job. My savings arent exactly getting bigger you know? I skip meals a lot (Ive had 3 meals in as many days (and one of those was a side salad) cause i cant justify spending money on food rn... My friends and family feed me sometimes, its pretty nice. Im also just fucking sick of rice and beans day in and day out) and am definitely in the survival mindset. And its like, i have money, but idk how much longer it will last. Like yes i can go buy a car for $5000, but i cant do that and eat and pay rent. Clocks ticking i guess is what im saying, and job hunting continues to be the worst thing ive ever done. And the prospect of having a 9-5 is both appealing (money!) and horrible.

Anyway, i looked into it a bit and tbh the actual hardest part of the job to my uneducated eyes is the whole social media thing. I hate social media, my private life is mine, other people dont get to be a part of that! But ive never operated a business social media account, so idk maybe its different.

And like, im a dyke but i could fuck men for money. Or even just $100/hr for dfk, cbj, being the trans gf who you never have to worry about bringing home to your parents, etc. isnt exactly a "oh fuck no" moment. Like, when guys have tried to pick me up, the shitty part hasnt been that theyre trying to pick me up, its been that they dont understand boundaries and try to pick me up when im busy doing other things or having time to myself. I mean, im not blind, if someone is trying to get me into a car with no plates after following me around i know better than to do that.

Idk, im probably off on some weird train of thought and id actually hate the work. But like, ive blown people i didnt like before and it wasnt upsetting, i can fake an orgasm, im decent at massage and as hookups have shown me i can act all sexy like and sexed up for someone even when im not into them. Most difficult part would tbh be making myself pretty in a heterosexual way, cause like i cant afford laser and all that shit (well, maybe i can now that i have health insurance (after two fucking years of no insurance and being terrified for it)).

Idk, chat am i off on a fucking weird train of thought? Am i delusional and grasping at straws as my money situation slowly deteriorates?

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

Not weird at all! I've been struggling with the same feelings. I just don't know what to do or how to get started. I want to make content but like a bunch of stuff about my life right now is a mess. Like I'm kind of a high level professional musician associated with really out there renowned avant garde jazz musicians. Uhh at risk of doxing myself, the oldest living working musician alive today is a friend of mine. He's my teacher and he took me on as a student at 100 years old. It's a spiritual thing more than anything. It means a lot to me but it doesn't seem to add up to a whole lot to anyone else. UGH!!! I should be compensated fairly for being a genderbending demi-goddess from outer space in all my psychedelic glory!

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler frank descriptions of violence Theres a reason a lot of trans women do survival sex work.

I knew someone who did it for a couple summers not out of survival but cause she liked sex and wanted to get paid to have it. Her experience was mostly good. She was r*ped twice that she talked about, you can be sexually assaulted even by someone paying (for her she didnt want to be fisted but the john did so he did it and she couldnt do anything about it). There was that one article by a trans sex worker complaining none of her friends are progressive guys she knew would pay her for a blow job but insisted on the rigamarole of paying her for dinner and then fucking and then not calling. Her clientele was basically limited to uh the kind of person you think would be a john. But both made better money than they could have otherwise. At my work, there's been a few poly trauma (as in mutliple body sustems poly not the other kind) assaulted women who do survival sex work but were paid in drugs, not even cash

They roll up sex work from this survival work where youre picking up people and actually fucking to stripping to posting on clips4sale to posting feet pics on only fans. Some lines are much safer but its all sex work.

Youre the only one that can judge if the risk is worth the benefit. :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler

Thanks for the frank descriptions. I know the risks (well, i think i do. You dont know what you dont know), and my calculus isnt a "i want to do this work" but more of a "wtf else am i supposed to do" calculus. Like, everywhere i apply is fucking not even responding. Job market is shit it seems.

And like, i know theresremoved, the sex workers ive known have all been pretty frank about it. And like, im trans, the people who would fuck me would be the ones who fetishize trans women, in a violent way. The cis women who have talked about it to me have been much more... Idk, just not as fucked and violent as the trans woman ive spoken to.

you can be sexually assaulted even by someone paying

Yeah. From the smallest consent boundary crossed to the most violent shit. Tricks arent friends, at least, thats what ive understood from the people ive known whove done this.

Idk, im probably off on a "well shit is this what its gonna come to?" kinda thought/feeling, and trying to rationalize it ig? Idk. Its not been a serious thought until now. And like, I have family support in the sense of "i want you to eat so ill feed you" but not in the sense of "i want you to be housed so ill give you the guest bedroom".

And yeah to your point the term sex work is so broad that like theres no way to speak about it all in one, or directly compare. Even in the context of like escorting, someone doing survival work has a very different calculus and material conditions to someone who has an 80k/yr normal job and can leave at any time.

Like, im not wanting to fuck men, but if thats the options available to me thats whats available to me. And idk, maybe theres other options that i havent seen. Someone suggested trying to work as a legal assistant, but like, im so fucking done i have no faith in any of it anymore. Like, the world fucking sucks. I show up to an interview (back when i got interviews) and sometimes you can just see in their face that youre not getting the job. The disgust and tension in their face of knowing "you have to be civil with the removed, get thru the interview, and deny her the job."

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

Doggirl when she asks her gf what's her fav cowboy bebop ost and all she knows is tank, real folk blues and idk gotta knock a little harder doggirl-cry

::: spoiler spoiler she misinterpreted bad dog no biscuit as a command instead of a title but as previously mentioned said doggirl only knows 3 songs from cowboy bebop :::

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

hi I'm Wmill and you're probably wondering why I'm making a dig at doggirls music tastes

::: spoiler spoiler good night catgirl-flop :::

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

ooh is CB the sonic replacement?

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

Nah that level of obsession I'm trying to channel into my HVAC career I'm hoping to make a thing

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

good luck in your career! i will await your next bit once things cool off wakka wakka

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

freeze-peach ty I look forward to my mega, by then I hopefully will make something legit career wise or at least my first mega will be on something I'm passionate about

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

I feel so called out by this post you have no idea doggirl-sweat i like cowboy bebop i swear! I like the music i swear! ^i^ ^just^ ^dont^ ^know^ ^any^ ^of^ ^the^ ^songs^ ^besides^ ^tank^ ^and^ ^real^ ^folk^ ^blues^ ^😭^

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

this directed towards you specifically Lilypad fedposting just one of those fleeting thoughts when I was going to sleep tbh

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

ohnoes directed towards me?

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

obama-spike go look up your favorite song that isn't tank or real folk blues enjoy the ost

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

Been listening to Queer as folklore by Sacha Coward, I like it so far. It been confirming a lot of suspicions I've had and adding fuel to the fire powering my eventual ttrpg campaign I wanna run some day

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

The gen x indie dev thing of "dont look up anything online" is a bit tiresome. I get it, they wanna preserve the magic of their own youth and experiences with games. They have a lot of fond memories of exploring on their own. Its cool to do that even now! I just dont like the obscure puzzle thing, like the REALLY bad point and click puzzles where you have to combine an octopus and a bolt to stick down an outhouse to scare the guard so he leaves the key... like that bullshit should be out or accept people are just gonna look stuff up and plan accordingly.

So far I haven't had anything in Silksong that makes me wanna turn to guides. I never feel lost and Ive enjoyed just exploring, I still haven't felt like I even need to look up something online. Just finding fleas on my own is great! I dont know what they did differently than like Dark Souls or Bloodbourne or if its something about me in particular thats changed - whatever it is Ive been having a good time not going online, but not as like a top down command but cause I just like it and thinks its neat! Its still way harder than hollowknight was lol

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Arahnya [he/him, fae/faer] - 3mon

When ya got old friends floating around but you haven't spoken since changing your name and pronouns and went no contact with ya fam. 😅

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler Orchiectomy I want an orchiectomy for very practical reasons, no anti-androgen, committing to transition permanently, wearing comfortable pants...

...and the magical power harnessed from intentional castration! :::

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

My face remains free of break outs and if I'm being honest with myself it's to do with no sweets like cookies. I can put them away but I do suffer when I'm shaving. I guess being treat less has its advantages

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

I just feel like "I hope your day gets better" actually means "You misjudged the level of rapport we have and I don't feel comfortable with you expressing having had a bad time" and it feels like a punch in the dick every time.

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

y'know it's a little weird in bg3 that Withers is consistently referred to as a Skeleton when he very clearly is covered in tissue

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Thank you father for the drip

(I'm talking about my dad's coat that he gave me)

I shall use this to great effect

(I have figured out a style to tone down my boymodding while still retaining a masculine look)

I have donned the ritual garments and shall dance in their honor

(I am trying to join dancing classes)

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Imma try dancing classes at uni. I highly doubt I will stick to them, but I will at least check them out.

The dance courses have sign ups for classes. They have multiple courses for "feminine" dances. Uhhhhhhh, I'm still boymodding.

Anyway, I now have to buy shoes. Can't go to dance class wearing flip flops.

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

Dancing is one my favorite things in the world and every dance class I've been to has been super cool with queer and trans people. Have fun!

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

Trying to look up vids of people using pantyhose as a serpentine belt and idk. I see some vids of it working and always hear the anecdotes so I really wanted to see it. The common thing I see with other substitutes is like the water pump barely works and then the whole car overheats after a while though I did see one person add rubber bands around the water pump to increase friction

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

Tool belt lesbians tell me your tales 🥺

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler The feeling of just being a horrible, miserable, inconsolable piece of shit :::

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

I watched KPop Demon Hunters because of all the fan art where the girls are gay for each other and I feel a bit hoodwinked... they're all straight in the movie?? I didn't expect an explicit throuple or anything but I figured there'd be a little bit of something that all this was predicated upon...

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I only ever drink alcohol when I'm with my friends or when I'm feeling real bad. I strictly limit myself to 1 drink per day so I only feel a little opened up and nothing more.

I downed 4 drinks after dinner and am feeling fine :) ! . Haven't seen my friends since last week.

Fuck I was going to study after dinner. At least a chaopteeeeeeerr. r

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Goodness gracious. I got drunk and left behind a mess catgirl-smug

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

Finally getting around to figuring out how to do my signature with my new name and deciding instead of like a Proper Cursive Signature or whatever I'm just gonna do some like obnoxious rockstar bullshit

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

So much music out this week, so little time 😞

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

gunther-fear gunther

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

I think the dream is getting paid to indulge your creature to that end I've been pursuing one special thought that has been filling my fantasies for a long time now of thermodynamics in the form of hvac. Ever since I learned frigorific rays were a lie because of a fan made ttrpg game called genius the transgression I kept thinking about heat moving around. I'd picture myself freezing an area by sucking the heat out of it and making a big ass fire ball elsewhere with the heat I removed wizard that shit would be neat.

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

I remember having a gay dream last night and waking up knowing the more gay dreams I have the closer I'll be in a relationship that wasn't gay. I'm sure of it but don't know why

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