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Sorry it's late - Trans Megathread for the Week 25/09/15-25/09/21

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 3mon

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Getting my hrt tomorrow

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

I'm so proud of you for taking this step. cat-trans meow-hug

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Thank you cat-trans it is very scary. I feel very scared to actually start.

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

I remember how scared i was cat-trans i kept telling myself i could always stop if i wanted to. Im proud of you for taking this step!

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I really don't want to stop, I just don't want to deal with my family about it. /work if I can't convincingly boy or girl mode.

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

Youd be surprised how far a sports bra and a lie about gynecomastia can take you owl-wink

No but i could convincingly boymode for like a year, halfconvincingly since then. It just hurts way more to boymode now. Plus im tall af so even when im all done up i get a "here you are sir" when buying things desolate

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Picked up a sports bra, not thrilled about the idea of saying I have gynecomastia though. Feels like an obvious lie.

I want more then a year tbh... at least with my parents. tbh maybe just infinite time socially, in this moment I am not a fan of it being public.

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

in this moment I am not a fan of it being public.

Yeahh... Thats... Yeah it sucks sometimes.

If youre around someone a lot theyll take longer to notice, i avoided coming out to some people for a year and they were surprised when i did, they didnt suspect a thing. But i also got blessed/cursed by the tiny tit fairy

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

Also you dont have to say gynecomastia. I never did, but it was something i kept in my back pocket in case the police or teachers or someone i didnt want to talk to asked questions or smth (i had to meet with police sometimes cause of visa stuff).

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I'm still not out at work and its been 1.5 years and never got any comments about it (although there was that one chaser who clearly knew I was trans...). My parents, I came out to after about 6 months and they had no clue. OTOH, pretty sure my best friend knows (I haven't actually come out to him yet), but he also had started asking if I was a girl occasionally since shortly after my egg cracked and long before I started HRT. If you get hugs though and are wearing a bra, people might notice (my friend clearly noticed).

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

These things are scary for me too. I’m proud of you for doing it anyway :)

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0x2640 - 3mon

yayayayayayay good job!!!! proud of u :3

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

cat-trans

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

hell yea girlie!!lets-fucking-go

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Oh how exciting!!!

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I know! I do still need to figure out the exact steps of taking it tbh

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

spongebob-party LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO, EGGNOG!!!! bridget-vibe

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

spongebob-party

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

congratulations

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

Oh my gosh so happy for you!!!!! doggirl-happy

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rando895 [she/her] - 3mon

Coming out ::: spoiler spoiler

Came out to my parents and long story short, my little sister now has a big sister ready to throw hands at the slightest sign of manipulative, gaslighting bullshit from our parents.

I'm so glad being myself has brought my sister and I closer together, and we can finally start to heal the shit we dealt with. Together.

:::

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

chat is this real??

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

:shy: maybe

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

ya'll bottoms are real cute ngl nia-smug

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

hyperflush

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

::: spoiler i am not an identity state

Hearing people talk about their identity is great! Other people expecting me to produce an identity is fucked. I am not a stative identity. Stative identity is bullshit. I am actions (well, lack thereof). How do people make these statements about themselves? Like, i only do it because people expect a statement, people expect a label, people expect me to be an identity. But im not an identity state, im an identity process.

What i mean is, i am not a woman. I woman (verb). I am not a lesbian. I lesbian (verb). I am not a cyclist. I bike. I am not a gamer. I game. I am not a musician. I play music. I am not. I do. I am not a sub. I enjoy submitting. These statements of identity as a state one is in, they do not make sense. There is no thing. There is only isness.

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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 3mon

I'm deluzianian all up in here.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

I love this post, extremely well put cat-trans

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I don't tend to operate on that abstract level, I'm way more instinctive and embodied and trust my gut when she says "I am a woman" or "I am a nurse" or "I am creative" etc

I do agree that who you are and what you believe is told by actions and that can be in tension or contradiction with what people say they believe (even only to themselves).

Its a neat way to think of yourself as a process~ :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Identity for me is a label, a description of some group of traits. I'm trans because I have dysphoria and need to change how I am and how people perceive me. I'm an atheist because I don't believe in a god or gods. I don't necessarily like, identity as those things, I just am them. I fit into the box they describe.

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dandelion [she/her] - 3mon

tbh, static identity statements / concepts are so common for pragmatic reasons, the way they are used aren't intended to imply some deeper metaphysical truth - lots of language works this way, communication is pragmatic more than it is precise or true (logical positivism died for reasons)

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

Like, yeah, i get that its practical, but it also boxes me in, and most importantly it fundamentally isnt true, at least to my eyes. If i say im a thing, people expect me to perform their idea of that thing. Im not wanting to do that, so they say oh youre not that thing, youre something else, or your a poser, or whatever. They dont know what to do with me. Like, when i talk to people i use the language, but that doesnt make it true and doesnt mean that im that thing. Idk im probably not making a ton of sense. I guess what im saying is that it socially, the stative identity starts as a descriptor but quickly becomes a prescriptor, at least in my experience vivian-shrug

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

not to dox myself but holy shit i got some big fuckin tits now holy fuuuuuuckkkkkk

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

I am officially at the point of not being able to run without a sports bra because ouchy

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

✍️

Now I know to look for someone with big tits and good opinions, nya ha ha

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

Do you have any HRT tips? My boobs stalled pretty bad and idk what to do about it.

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

Do injections instead of anything else, weight cycle, and pray to Venus

also a lot of prog

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

What's a weight cycle?

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

Gain weight, then lose it, or the other way around. This way you can reduce your male pattern fat distribution and reapply it in a more feminine shape. very very nice and affirming

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

Tyty

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

weird 2 am thoughts but (this is mostly for other trans women)

did anyone else feel weirdly ashamed about being attracted to women as an egg? i remember feeling super ashamed by being what i thought was a heterosexual boy/man but in retrospect i can hardly articulate why i felt so ashamed of it. is this a thing anyone else had or was this just me being weird?

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

God that hits so close to home... It was so hard to experience attraction without experiencing shame... Like, part of it was that i wasnt just attracted to them, i also wanted to be them/look like them. But even beyond that, i felt like my attraction to women was inherrently predatory and bad.

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

yep, mmmhmm, exactly how i felt too meow-hug

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

::: spoiler dysphoria I had a lot of shame... or I guess shame adjacent feelings about it yeah. It was to such a degree that it was dysphoric for me.

I grew up in a really Catholic area and definitely had some of the puritanical shit internalized. When I was really strongly attracted to a woman or very envious of a woman's femininity I felt Unclean, it felt overwhelmingly "male" and was basically the worst I ever felt about myself.

When I started hrt and it nuked my libido I was actually super stoked about it because I knew it meant I wouldn't have that feeling anymore, haha. Glad that that didn't last though, since being a butch lesbian is basically the coolest me that I can be and the new sort of attraction feels so much better. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah definitely I really liked women so much, but I was deathly terrified of the idea of sex or being perceived as predatory or creepy.

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

Yes. Similar thoughts to other commenters. It was to the extent that I started considering myself ace due to my aversion and shame, it was something my body wanted to do so badly, but a part of my mind never wanted to go there. Start taking E, libido goes way down, and I'm excited because that conflict is finally gone. And if course now that the libido was gone my mind decides it wants to go there.

Still working through these thoughts, and have made massive progress (even have my libido back, it comes in waves). It feels nice to have a lot less shame and pain around it, and honestly I'm really lucky to have someone who's helped (and helping) me with that. I still get anxiety of having worked on it "in theory", but having things come back "in practice", but I think having a person I'm comfortable with and really trust mitigates (and would mitigate) that a lot.

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 3mon

I didn't think women were sexual attractive, so no. But I remember liking when people would ask if I'm gay, cause I like the idea that other people assumed I was even if though I wasn't.

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0x2640 - 3mon

::: spoiler si if i randomly dissapear in the next few days i probably killed myself

just putting it out there, i guess. doesnt really matter, thisll probably be deleted anyway :::

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

meow-hug

::: spoiler spoiler

You want to talk about whats going on? Shits rough but i know id miss you if you left... Youve been a really positive presence in this space, and inspired me in some ways.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

After a very small 🤏breakdown at work, so I ending up coming out to someone. She was super supportive- it was very emotional for both of us. Apparently she helps with a couple local queer orgs and might know some people locally. Very unfortunately she doesn't come in often, maybe a few times a month. Once I get my license hopefully I can go to her org or something.

Also the stuff I was studying for I passed with no issue party-cat

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Oh, one thing I did want to mention to someone, she said sorry for not noticing? She said it pretty quickly so idk if it was one of those things where you say sorry and its not like an apology (I say sorry a lot). But idk, I thought... something about that, about her feeling some kinda way for not clocking that about me.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

Yay I'm so glad you got a good coming out experience! It's a wonderful feeling isn't it?

trans-heart

Also the stuff I was studying for I passed with no issue

Damn girl you're killing it today!

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

It really was! I've been thinking about it ever since tbh. I really needed that. I just wish I got to see and talk to her more.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

My blood test results came in and I got confirmation that my T is down to good levels!!! I thought that was one of the differences contributing to how I've been feeling lately. God I fucking love Hrt.

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Came out to a friend today and we’re still friends :)

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

Hello, shout out being trans. Big fan of that. transshork-happy

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

trans girl sliding into my DMs the other day so down horrendous for me that it's a big red flag but I'm horny enough to ignore it

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

I’m considering seeing a therapist about gender stuff in order to help me process everything better, but I’m having a really hard time getting over the idea that wherever they keep their records is somehow going to end up in the hands of genocidal maniacs looking for some slurs to kill.

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

transitioning has unlocked an unbelievable amount of rizz in me and i'm still shocked that i have so much, let alone any at all

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

All it took was being yourself~

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

I must report that I am rediculously cute today. I should have done my nails. That would have really completed it

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Friend forgot. No hrt for me today. Our schedules don't really line up so idk. Maybe Friday will work? Bit nervous about it that day tbh.

Also I'm exhausted and feel like shit. Just need today go be over and have a day off.

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

nooooooo meow-hug

I hope you can get it soon

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Me too :kitty-cri-potato: I was very looking forward to just having it done and not having to deal with it anymore. And no idea when I will be able to get it.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I am now sadly eating an ice cream that I don't really like. Flavor sucks. Can't even cry. Fmsl

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

kaneki i hope you feel better

...what flavor?

edit: flavors of ice cream that would make me sad: bubblegum. rum raisin. mint chocolate chip (the chips are that bad waxy kind).

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

It was maple cookie or something at dq. Terrible. I usually like maple.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Fuck it feels so bad today. Dysphoria has been real bad lately. ::: spoiler spoiler This has been nothing but a source of pain for me. I don't know how to deal with all of it. There's so many things kitty-cri-potato ::: spoiler edit: things -Feeling alone and isolated from basically everyone irl, even after coming out. There's a huge barrier there and its lonely.
-Being trans + ND really shoots my dating options in the foot. I have been really wishing I had someone.
-Facial hair is brutal
-Everything about sex is brutal
-My fucking voice, oh my god I cant stop grieving my voice. Its never going to be okay and its so important.
-All the other dysphoria, the vague wrongness, all of that
-Everything about how society sees me
-Everything about the rise of fascism and trans women being one of the main targets
-Being so far behind everyone else, in everything. Fashion, makeup, college, etc. Everything is behind because I'm trans + the depression
-Constant depression etc from all of this
-Never getting a break

Any of these things would be bad enough on their own but I legitimately can't cope with all of this. This is the most painful experience ever. I can't get over it, I can't cope with it, it doesn't go away. fuck all of this. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I empathize and I'm sorry it knocking you about, I am transitioning in my mid 30s and feel so behind at times too.

I'm sorry your plans around HRT have been delayed, because I think it would be really good for your mental health. I felt enormous relief immediately because now I wasn't losing time, any delays or slowness socially were a chance to give it time to work. It has also with time made me less upset about my body, like chest hair between my breast is kind of cute and funny not the horror I had before, etc

The fasicism uh yea :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Yea, it would have been really nice to have it already. tbh a bit stressed about time and starting- it obviously sets a timer and I have to be out. Also very worried about looking visibly trans which is which again is just a timer hrt starts. It will be nice to not be worrying about any more masculinization though.

Yea not really much to do about that :/ :::

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Almost 40 gang

Wish I’d known in my mid 20s but tbh I also was not ready for it

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Fuck sake. All because of some stupid genetic mistake or hormone issue. Why did this have to be my life. Just suffering. ::: spoiler sh Urges are back again :::

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TransWalterKronkite [none/use name] - 3mon

THIS IS A SPECIAL BULLETIN FROM CBS NEWS

A report, from the Associated Press, reads as follows:

I have garlic bread

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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 3mon

I've been thinking about making some miniature clay sculpture. Would be a good excuse to try to find people to give them to and I find it pretty relaxing. Also I'm new here so I hope it's okay to talk about what's been on my mind or does everything have to be related to trans stuff?

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

Miniature clay sculptures are trans stuff if you think about it

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

something something greek god getting drunk something something wrong souls into wrong clay figures something something TRANS

see it tracks theory-gary

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

waow-based

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

No you can talk about anything here.

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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 3mon

Okay that's neat.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

The trans mega is very neat ^^

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Im modelling today~ should be fun!

Im fully tucked, like mega tucked. Like all my shit is fully locked down lol. Balls in the canals getting cooked, taped up to my lower back geez. Brought an extra tuck kit just in case.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

The wait for insurance to kick in at jobs is so silly. You already hired me, just give me insurance already maddened

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

How is this even a thing, at all?

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

Typing in lines of code into the terminal thing of Linux is pretty cool ngl even if it didn't fix my problem, is this what Linux nerds are like doggirl-lol

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

garf-chan Yes.

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

ls -a

I'm in big-cool

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

spaghetti-code

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

One of us, one of us

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

Ok but I'm not a nerd or anything just to be clear

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

It’s okay to be in denial

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

I look in the mirror and see avgn-horror at the horror I become

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I love writing code and I love Linux!

Get yourself an operating system that lets you

sudo rm -f /

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

I kept seeing sudo and idk just kept thinking of sudowoodo

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

Fun fact: I did this on a live USB once to see what would happen (And i think it needed more flags than the f). I thought it would only effect the USB, but it borked the system. Maybe because the boot partition was mounted?Lesson learned. Fortunately, the system it borked was just a fresh install of debian

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

Probably at least r since that’s a directory

That’s rad that you nuked root on a live usb lol. Solid fuckin around. I’m surprised that it jacked the system at large as well, wouldn’t have expected that.

Hmm I’ve got some spare USB’s and an old thinkpad that needs a new OS anyway, maybe I should see if I can confirm your guess…

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Ja. Needs a recursive flag.

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gwysibo [they/them] - 3mon

And --no-preserve-root on newer version of Linux

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

First?

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

My gf? she's on another instance you wouldn't know her

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RagingGingivitis [fae/faer, it/its] - 3mon

an-tifa

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

::: spoiler cw semi-horny so im messaging with this cute girlie and we got to talking about how succubus summoning would be real cool, and then she told me she'd actually like to be a succubus, which okay fair same heresickubus , but then she dropped "subcubus if you will" and she's just so gosh darn cute i dont even know what im going to do with her.

give her lots of headpat i guess :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler I could stand to be a subcubus lea-blush

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler CW mild transphobia mostly funny I find it funny when I met old people who are enthusiastically albeit somewhat problematically curious about me being trans.

It's like meeting a Victorian period explorer. "By Jove! Are you one of those illusive transexuals I've read about in dispatches?" :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

What I like about Tarot is a lot of westerners looking for meaning in mystical stuff comes off as Orientalist or cultural appropriation.

But Tarot is pretty European. It's Italians playing Tarrochi, it's French doing cartomancy and English perverts believing they are magicians.

But it's also occult, feminine and gay enough that tradition Retvrn types haven't made it their thing either.

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

The Cards told me to get a pizza again a couple days ago so I'm starting to really buy in.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

I think that was me. Technically it's just a tool for self reflection so many cards can mean go and have a pizza.

(Or me being like why are all these cards about being trans?)

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

nah nah, your cards told me to get pizza once and then I consulted the cards again and they told me to get pizza again. Justice said yes I should get pizza to uplift my spirit to spite my enemies or something.

...I just frequently wonder if I should get pizza.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

If I have upset anyone I just wanted to make the English pervert joke.

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TransWalterKronkite [none/use name] - 3mon

EXCLUSIVE REPORT:

Trans Mega full of Trans: Exclusive CBS Report Says

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

If I use C for a project is the trans police going to come for my gender?

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

C is the first letter in crab so u good

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

crab-party

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

No, the trans police comes and gives you a medal.

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

the last time I programmed was usin' friggin Matlab and I've only gotten more Gender since, so I imagine you'll be fine

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

That's fantastic news for me, but I'm scared for what part of yourself you've lost by having to use Matlab if it wasn't your genders.

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

trauma

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

You get bonus gender if your project implements half the features of Lisp.

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

down with cis

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

down with cis!

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

This voice lesson gal wants to charge $1000 up front!! Its a lot of lessons though 2 to 3 months (weekly). Ill drop $1000 on a car repair or on a flight to visit someone, with lots of grumbling - I can keep trying to self study voice training, there's a lot of creators out there and I made a lot of progress on my own! I do pass (at least half the time), but I want it to hit closer to what I feel like it's ought to sound like? Im gonna do her consultation thing and see if she's worth it, my insurance covers some bit of SLP visits so maybe I can convince them thats what she is lol

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

::: spoiler some dysphoria stuff, weird existential things, some sex talk, some brainworms too yay I don't think my dream self matches my day self sometimes.

I am pretty fem-shaped IRL and it's weird that in my dreams sometimes I'll be kinda ... a guy? sometimes I have dreams where I even use the bottom parts I am trying to get rid of for sex things?

I always wake up feeling weird, like maybe I'm repressing some secret thing about myself. I hear about other people dreaming in their identified gender and with their ideal body even and such and so it always puzzles me that my dreams are sometimes just stuck in "guy mode." I've been kind of envious in the past of it.

It's easy to say "it's just a dream," and I'm happy with who I am when I look in the mirror (compared to the alternative), but there's just these lingering doubts that I have sometimes like "maybe I'm not really trans and instead I'm just traumatized by my first romantic relationship and that led to me having wires crossed and suddenly wanting to be her." That line of thinking is something my (at the time) unsupportive mother said when I first came out, and if I'm honest I don't think I've ever really dealt with it. I feel like I'm so close to disproving it ... like there's something in there that seems fishy but I can't quite get a solid foundation for it.

Most days I'm happy with who I am but I just feel like there's just this little pain that comes up every so often when I have these dreams. I don't know how to deal with it. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Before transitioning I had dreams where I innately knew I was myself and a woman, without that having any effect on the actual dream.

Sometimes dreams are profound

On the other hand I had a dream last night where a lover assisted me to self suck and my body bent into an unnatural ouroboros that started spinning and spinning until it produced a beam of rainbow light and I gained enlightenment.

So sometimes dream are a little silly. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler If you want to be trans, you are~

I dont always have boobs in my dreams but Ive had them in real life for a long time. I sometimes use my bottom parts for that kind of dream too. :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler For what it's worth, I have similar dreams and fantasies. Never involved sex or anything. But I don't think it's a symptom of anything more than "this is what your brain was used to thinking yourself as for your whole childhood"?? :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

GG guys and girls, everyone in between and everyone beyond. It was nice knowing you. This (mild) fever will be the end of me. I can feel it, like an old grandparent in the movies who dies after giving profound wisdom to the protagonist.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

It was a good run and I will miss having you around o7

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EllenKelly [comrade/them] - 3mon

Changing my name before the state locks this shit down, cost me like a weeks pay, and two weeks of admin, what a lovely experience

if youre in victoria, australia, transgender victoria may be able to provide you a reimbursement for this stuff

i think theyre at www.tgv.org.au, i had to email them

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EllenKelly [comrade/them] - 3mon

Mostly got around to doing it because I need a new passport, and i overheard a married woman talking about how she was meant to update her name a decade ago, and I thought to myself hell, me too

anyway, its done now, but i need to make a lot of calls to banks and etc yet

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0x2640 - 3mon

has victoria shown precedent for locking down name changes or?

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Not the poster but no not really it's probably one of the best states in Australia but I think they're probably get proactive rather than done the track if things changed.

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

::: spoiler spoiler NSFW mention I just cracked a rib from a t4t Grindr sesh, owie owie owie :::

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

Today was a good day, got studying done, read some cool ttrpg stuff, played some games, read a book, practiced my french and just felt a peace I haven't felt in a while. Today is the day my dog died what now 6 years ago when I made this account. I wish I could say I made a lot of progress in my life since then but I feel I have a goal now and life is worth living. To that end I've been living like a got a tomorrow now and this contentedness I feel is amazing

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

I experience more joy in a single day now that I experienced in a year before I came out and found the queer community.

::: spoiler sex

::: spoiler kink

::: spoiler blood, razor, cutting My boyfriend has been cutting me to suck my blood and it's so fucking sexy. Tonight they cut a heart into my thigh with a razor blade while i was restrained. I have never been more in love, felt sexier, or had better sex. Things are just so amazing! I love t4t freak shit so much. This shit is literally fixing me :::

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0x2640 - 3mon

waow-based

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Peak.

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

Today is a "very happy to be trans" kind of day. I've got a bit of a fever and don't feel super great, but I feel super happy to be a woman

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Since taking up tarot my response to nearly anything

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

LMAFO foretold of this with one of their iconic songs

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∞ 🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided] - 3mon

Positive gender affirmations imply the existence of negative gender affirmations

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

You absolutely get those, like a trans man told to man up or a trans woman getting talked over lol

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∞ 🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, none/use name, undecided] - 3mon

Yeah, I was thinking it was stuff like misogyny

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∞🏳️‍⚧️Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself, fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself, love/love/loves/loves/loveself, des/pair, null/void, none/use name] - 3mon

Also made my name longer

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

No longer undecided, I see!

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0x2640 - 3mon

finally made the switch to android after way too long:tm: and wow its kind of great ey

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RedSturgeon [she/her] - 3mon

Good job on making the switch. Hope your new setup serves you well.

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

::: spoiler mh Dooming hard lately. Can't find the will to do anything. I have nowhere to escape to, no money to escape with even if I did, and my skills are devaluing faster than I can save up. I wanted to get into nursing since that seems like a role that's in demand no matter where I end up but it feels like I'm running out of time. I'm gonna keep pushing forward just from lack of options but I don't have a lot of hope rn :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I started nursing school at 30. I wasn't even the oldest in my class :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler Oh I'm not worried about my age, I've known people who've gone into it later in life. I feel like I'm out of time due to the rapidly rising fascist state and their laser focused oppression toward trans people. Not knowing what's going to happen makes it really hard to plan ahead. :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Feeling like I'm running out of time at the very beginning of my life and transition :kitty-cri: :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler It sucks a lot. You worked so hard to get this far. You don't deserve to be made to feel this way :::

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler One of the most frustrating things about feeling like shit is I do so much worse in games and most of the games I like to play are at least semi competitive. Been getting big into chess lately but it is not fun to play terribly. :::

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RagingGingivitis [fae/faer, it/its] - 3mon

:trantifa

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

up with trans bridget-vibe

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

Up with trans!

Edit: Shit!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

They're gonna run a mind scan on me at the psychologist's place and the results will say that I'm lacking in the vitamin. I'll just need to start taking supplements for the vitamin and I'll become an interesting, capable and studious person again!

::: spoiler cw:si I'm back to fantasizing about dying again. Yesterday I dreamed that my friend just choked me to death. It's not the sexy kind of "I wanna die catgirl-heart" fantasy either. It's the bad kind, easy to mix them up, I know.

Frankly, I'm even having trouble focusing on doing homework or studying. I would love to say that taking time off will help, but it won't. Not that I can afford it anyway. I'm still dragging myself to college everyday despite being sick and feverish. :::

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

Hey gamers pronouns and being mindful of the ones people have on their employee badges got mentioned in our staff meeting and now I want to crawl into a tight spot and die like a rodent

I grabbed my badge and tore it up into little paper shreds when I got a moment alone I couldn't stand the thought of wearing it and I haven't done so in months and I didn't realize just how much I really don't want to. No one's bugged me about it before though

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Does your badge have the wrong ones on it?

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah. It's not an issue of getting the correct ones on there it's that I'm not out at work and really don't want to be right now but I just can't have the wrong ones. I might try to print a version without any pronouns (and a less shitty picture of myself) and hope no one notices the omission

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EllenKelly [comrade/them] - 3mon

I couldnt bring myself to have masc pronouns in mywork email back in the day, i ended up just leaving and getting a entry level job in service industry

These social conventions make it hard for closeted people I hate them so much

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RION [she/her] - 3mon

And I get that it's probably a good thing on the whole it just really sucks for me... I'm trying to leave the job soon so hopefully at the next one I could soft launch at least they/them and stop the bleeding

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

a-little-trolling being the only friend in the group with charisma or how the kids say rizz is tough, they always come to me "Wmill Wmill how do we do it, how do we show our gfs/wives we love them?" Folx it's simple tell her she may not be the first thought you think of when stumbling to piss at 2 am but she's the last person you think of when you fall asleep cuddle

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

Why am i so goddamn horny? Like, seriously. I dont have the capacity to go out to bars and hit on/talk to other trans women... Shits cliquey as fuck around here, and im a socially akward tall gal... So please brain, stop with the horny please i beg of you

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

finally starting to get this shaving down to an art catgirl-happy my legs are so soft

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

Hung out with great friends today and that may have been the kick in the ass I need to take this gender shit seriously

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

spend a while making a a post and then cancel it, an ashenwolf classic

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

oh wait I accidentally posted

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mendiCAN [none/use name] - 3mon

i love the new avatar

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

me too I'm glad I looked for random foxgirl stickers on the line store (I mod the matrix space so I added a ton of them)

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

::: spoiler just some morose and doomer ruminations mostly stream of consciousness, just needed to get them out without concerning my friends

moving has gotten me morose about the world, thinking about where things are going in the United States, I don’t intend to leave here. I was born here and I the most that I can do in my little transgender life is here, and I wonder if I will die here from who I am and from being a marxist. that realization that i very well might be killed at some point for my part in that struggle weighs on me a lot at times.

these ghouls in power have shown time and again how little they care about human life if that means they can hold up their unsustainable ways of living and vampiric extraction, and we must stop them. our side has to win, or they will not stop until they have killed every living being on earth. i hope that i live to see the fall of the united states empire and maybe the beginnings of a better future, but right now that is so hard to see. :::

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

oh hey it's the girl with the confused sexuality! silly-liberator

the distinction is between "men" or "no men", and honestly the more I think about it the more confused I get because sometimes there will be something romantic and I'll just be like crush, and others I'm like "eh, [reference event that fell in other example] though"

in the end, it doesn't even matter. the only thing I know for real, there will be hexbear-lesbian

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🎀 Seryph (She/Her) - 3mon

You can just be bi and mostly lesbian lol. I've started just calling my own sexuality "sapphic" on account of it being basically lesbian but with potential exceptions wherein I'm still mostly attracted to the person's femininity. Like Yuri in FE3H (can you tell my brain is completely colonised rn)

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AshenWolf [she/her] - 3mon

That's essentially what I run with, "lesbian bi-on-mondays (not literally mondays)". Actually really close to what I run with because there's something magical about femininity.

also unlimited fire emblem upon sery's brain

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

But yeah learned today that the word twink is taken from the word twinkie kiryu-stare why didn't I realize this sooner

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

What about twink in WOW

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

::: spoiler homophobia I think that twink in the WoW sense originated in a derisive, "Gay is the worst thing to be," just in the gay-as-a-universal-insult way from the time but also maybe because their gear was always just wildly colourful in that early WoW way. I didn't start playing until the final patch of vanilla tho so it's admittedly more than a little bit of speculation on my part. :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

No way! I thought it was like something about twinkling gear?? You know it does track that it was probably more a slur

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

It is an ancient term, which in fact is a competition to become the most twinkling twink.

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

I played WOW once but never got past the full install thing so I can't say

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

Need a distraction so for the rest of the mega I'll do tarot pulls. Ask a question and whether you want 1 card or 3 card (past present future) and I'll serve you some (limited) cosmic wisdom

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

::: spoiler dysphoria?

I kept telling myself i didnt want to deal with the hassle of a BA, but... I woke up from a nap just now and i think thats shifted. Maybe its cause im still a bit eepi, maybe its the dreams talking, but i think i just made the decision to pursue a BA... And now i have health insurance so i actually might be able to not starve to death if i get one lol

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler I feel awful. It's all I can think about. They're going to genocide us. All I want is to try and fix my broken body. Why did this have to be me. Why do I need to suffer like this. My only chance at being alive.

Even without fearing for the future and being targeted ts sucked. :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

DAMCE REPORT 2:

preliminary nonsense:

  1. I am doing substance abuse. It's caffeine and alcohol. he-admit-it
  2. Studying is becoming kinda boring cause I keep learning shit I can't apply.

Dance:

  1. This shit really is horny. When we were split into "leaders" and "followers" half the class split into couples and started caressing each other. In order to continue with the classes, you need to find a permanent dance partner, and this seems to be basically your actual partner.
  2. This shit is gendered AF. Every single "follower" was a girl (even if we count me)! Even the instructor was just using female pronouns for everything. Kinda affirming?
  3. Everytime we switched partners, my new "leader" would give me a firm handshake and we would do introductions. This wasn't done with anyone else (I was paying attention).
  4. Salsa is fun. But I don't want to be cut out from dancing cause I don't have a girlfriend/boyfriend. Why do we even need permanent dance partners?
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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Everytime we switched partners, my new "leader" would give me a firm handshake and we would do introductions. This wasn't done with anyone else (I was paying attention).

Acab

(all cis are bastards)

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The cishet men treat me like a person because they don't know my real gender.

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

That sounds like a really shit way to run a salsa class. In my class they rotate follows every few minutes during the lesson part and in the social dancing part everyone changes partners after every song, pretty much. Part of being a good dancer is knowing how to dance with anyone as long as there's good communication. If you only ever dance with same person, you'll only learn how to understand their body language and no one else's.

Also, in my classes all the instructors will lead or follow during the social part according to what their partner wants to do, including switching halfway through (which is pretty sick when it goes smoothly).

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Crazy thing is. They do actually switch followers. And they even say they will do it after you get a permanent dance partner, unless you don't want to. Which makes it really confusing that it is mandatory to find a permanent partner. Otherwise you'll be booted.

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

My dance classes explicitly referred to the followers as "ladies" 😭😭 it's so needlessly gendered

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Babs [she/her] - 3mon

Yeah dance being so gendered is hard. I used to do a lot of swing dance, and learned to lead so that I could dance with this lady I had a crush on, but everyone just assumed I was a follow and pairing up was awkward. Eventually learned to follow just to make things easier for everyone. Being ambidancetrous is pretty cool too.

The dancing scene is very horny, yes.

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

I talked about this a bit on sodium's last dance report but I used to do a ton of swing dance too. I learned to follow and lead and a lot of the guys made it really weird

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Babs [she/her] - 3mon

One time I was at a big swing dance festival (8 hours of classes followed by nightly dances. It was intense!) and some guy once literally tried to get between me and a dance partner because he didn't understand that I was there to learn lead.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

I had a dance partner, we weren't together and never were interested in being together romantically. We just worked really really well in terms of movement. My ex and I worked TERRIBLY as dance partners, although theyre my ex so maybe that was portentious? Anyway, I was the leader but Im used to that in most other aspects of my life (not just dance or bedroom stuff), I was also the base in a base-flyer dynamic simply because Im so dang tall and used to be pretty strong

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0x2640 - 3mon

if only it was cheaper

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

Upping my shaving routine from every other day to everyday. I cut my top lip a bit but it's worth it to be this smooth

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

How do you do this? My skin gets so angry with me if i shave every day? (I know i ask about this every time someone mentions shaving but nothing seems to work...)

I should just get laser. Like. All the laser. Like. Put me in a box with 1000 lasers and zap every non-head-hair on my body for 20 continuous hours i will survive and thrive

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

It's more I started now but other than being inattentive I don't think I have any problems. I shower and use a facial scrub and rough glove every morning in the shower and after my shower shaving cream and slap myself silly with some rubbing alcohol. Afterwards I put some lotion on and done. Idk what the secret is I'm doing that others aren't maybe it's all the water I drink?

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

Hmmm maybe water? The things i dont do are lotion, facial scrub/glove, and water (im chronically dehydrated its a problem i need to drink more water but i forget constantly...

Ill try those things out for a month and report back any suggestions on facial scrub?

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

I usually just get the cheapest one at the dollar store tbh, personally I go with citrus smelling ones because I like the smell and look forward to it

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

Idk shaved again today and feeling fine if anything it was easier than every other day. Water def key but like I imagine estrogen made your skin thin so gotta drink even more water

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

Im startin with step 1: water. I am like chronically dehydrated and forget to drink water allll the goddamn time

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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 3mon

It's fall season! Time for me to have my yearly delibetating coughing fits!

On a more positive note, imma try out ALL the dancing courses we got and spend the whole week moving my hips.

On a more (ew) note, dancing is really bringing out all the wierd latent homophobia shit from my friend who I did not expect to have any such brainworms. What the hell do you mean "modern dancing is gay so I won't do it"?

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

It's fall season!

hell yeah it is! kbity i can finally add layers without literally dying lesgoooooooo

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

Sometimes people talk past you until you believe it for a bit. I hate seeing it happen to others.

I want trans people to believe trans people.

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

Went dancing with a friend who also just went through a breakup and there might be chemistry? Also ran into some other friends and made some new ones, as well. Either way, I had a great time shaking my ass, grinding, and getting ground on.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler Discussing the name and history of a particular niche porn site and it's owner's identity journey (CW discussion of Porn, Slurs, dysphoria and brainworms) So there's a niche porn site called "[plural of t-slur] in Trouble". Oof right? It does softcore Damsel in Distress BDSM videos and pictures, only more recently actual sex acts have been performed and on the more tamer side of things.

Now it's an OLD website (and it really looks it too), it was started in 2001, 24years ago. It's owner, photographer, and occasional model, Sandra Gibbons is a trans woman. Now she didn't actually know this before creating the website. She identified as a crossdresser or transvestite. Which is where the name comes from, the early 2000s were a marginal period where the t-slur meant both trans people and crossdressers, see RuPaul having a song called "[T-Slur] Chaser" in 2009! Which I think is way too late honestly, but for context.

But an interesting thing happened, over times less of the models Sandra Gibbons worked with identified a cis male crossdressers, and more identified as trans women or non binary. And you see her undergo the dialectic of reflecting whether she is transgender or not through her blog. Dealing with many of the same dysphoric thoughts trans women have "It's too late", "I look too masculine" etc.

As it stands right now she uses Sandra as her name, she uses she/her pronouns, she dresses femininely when in public. She said in 2022 she recognized she had Gender dysphoria but wasn't going to take hormones, and I really do hope she has changed her mind since then and quietly started since then. [This is still my opinion but see comments downstream for context]

She has also talked about changing the name of the website. But as it stands it's a largely boutique trans-owned website that features trans women and has a fan base in trans women, there's definitely an aspect of reclamation of that word. I believe it doesn't really make much money, it's really just love of the game. And if she didn't squat the name, a big exploitative porn company would probably snatch it up.

Anyway I just wanted to share this odd and interesting story of a trans woman and her old ass website. :::

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Moss [they/them] - 3mon

I went for a hike that was kind of a disaster, nearly died about ten different times without exaggerating. Anyway I'll post more about it later, because when I went to poo just now, I wiped and there was grass in my ass?

You touch the grass and the grass touches back

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

I've been toying around with the idea of one particular middle name, I like it and it flows well, not 100% sure but idk. Its been a thought in my mind for a while. But the gmail is open so thonk

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

I couldnt choose a first name so i have a bunch of middle names

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

Had a dream my voice has power that when I shouted commands people fell in line. Used it first to get some kid better treatment and later to find my things that were stolen by a thief envious of my voice. Shouted at him some life advice and then woke up

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

Think this is significant because I don't like my voice but maybe it's growing on me

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

Yooo wadda hell happened to my site pronouns? How long have you all let me be none/use name??? I think the secondary pronouns feature is bugged. I can't seem to get she/her, ze/zir to stick making me think it's some kind of off by one error since that's the last set in the list. I'm going with ze/hir on the site for now because I think that's second place for me.

::: spoiler annoying pronoun shit I told several people that I wanted to try a little bit of ze/zir but still no one's used that once. Like yes I fucking love she/her with every ounce of my soul and I would never give it up but it'd be nice to hear the neos every now and then.

I mean it's been a little bit since I decided I was this weird bigender demigirl whatever the hell. I'll take this treatment over being treated as a guy ever again any day of the week. It's not the end of the world for me that my friends gender me as a woman all the time. I just kind of would rather it happen some of the time. Maybe it's on me for not being very clear with what the hell my gender even is. Which brings me to... :::

::: spoiler what the hell is my gender even I know the two main components of my gender are woman and agender but I still can't figure out how they fit together. I feel it's some sort of weird bigender but the specifics confuse me. Presenting fem makes me feel so good. Being called a woman makes me feel so good. All the binary transfer shit makes me feel really good. But it's like. I simultaneously feel like a woman and like gender shouldn't apply to me, and I'm not sure what to do with these seemingly conflicting ideas. I'm not really willing to let go of either of them completely for the other, and it's not a sort of gender fluid situation where I'm one for a period and then the other. I'm both somehow, but I don't know how. :::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon

I journaled for the first time in a while last night. I was gonna just write a really short entry but it ended up being a page and a half, including some affirmations that were lovely to re-read just now :D

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Fuck, I gotta skip my remaining dance class tryouts cause of my cold (i don'twant to infect everybody). Will I manage to find a damce partner even if I don't attend all the try-outs? Who fucking knows.

I somehow didn't realise that we were supposed to be meeting up with each other after dance classes to find partners. I always just book it for the trains.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

Presumably they only take an even number of people so someones bound to need a partner too

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Hope so. I just wish I am able to be charming enough to find someone.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

That would be so sad if they kick out multiple people without partners, "too bad this is a The Lobster situation, youre all screwed"

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I don't know what "The Lobster" is, but I concur

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0x2640 - 3mon

*beeeeeg puppy stretch* seeeepy sunday

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kristina [she/her] - 3mon

hey, you

explain how you feel about gender party-parrot-science

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

Reading in the park, got my fold up chair, jug of water, thermos of soup, and library book on me. Fort Bragg cartel if anyone interest worth a read

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler cum, surgery I got a vasectomy a while ago and when I did the first semen analysis test I produced barely enough goop for them to test, because HRT shut that whole thing down. They still found some sperm in there (though it didn't say they were alive) so I have to do another one and I'm not making any goop these days. When I bust, I might get a tiny drop dribbling out over the course of a minute. Maybe a little more comes out later but that's been variable. Do I have to get off HRT for a while to make enough goop so they can do a proper test? I just want the paper that says I'm sterile already! :::

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

who up takin fat rips out of they SilkBong right now? knight-nod stalin-smokin

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Babs [she/her] - 3mon

Are there any grey market pharmacies still delivering to the US? I was hoping to refill my pill stash but alldaychemist has stopped all deliveries here.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

Does it have to be pills specifically, are you opposed to switching to injections?

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Babs [she/her] - 3mon

I'm on injections and have plenty of that, but I like the reassurance of taking an antiandrogen/anti-dht drug on top.

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon

Do you think Rachel Pollack ever played Morrowind?

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

Every group chat needs someone like me to run cover, important things will be buried by my wondering/yappings/dead memes. I can annoy the fuck out of agents trying to find useful things

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

New trans mega smell honk

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dorkiectomy [she/her] - 3mon

Hell yeah

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shallot [she/her] - 3mon

Watching Xena and uh im-fuckin-gay

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

yeaaa crush

ao3 has 1395 Gabrielle/Xena fics and that number is too low smdh

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The council has convened and made a decision.

Boobs? Incorrect.

Butt? Also incorrect.

Skincare? catgirl-heart

Face? corn-man-khrush

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SexUnderSocialism [she/her] - 3mon

So this is the Council Communism I've heard so much about. pannekoek-point

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Attraction is relative and no "council" can make objective or conclusive judgements like this stuff

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

::: spoiler replace the Dorito dust with nooch covering me and I really have to wonder if I'm any better than your typical gamer Yes but not by much kitty-birthday-sad wish my Friday nights weren't so lonely :::

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

xi-cooking I gotta cook something but I'm feeling super agitated, whatever I make next is gonna be angry food

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

It's kind of fucked up that I'm matching with a bunch of cool people right before I go on vacation. A cute masc enby matched with me and they went to fucking Berklee and I'm tryna play music with them but I have to go to Japannnn

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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 3mon

I have the perfect idea for a drag/burlesque performance! Now to just figure out the costuming, props, choreography...

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

::: spoiler kink, mental health it's kinda funny thinking about and comparing my progress with comfort and openness on sexuality. ten years ago I was repressing just Everything About Myself and a side effect of that is I was like cripplingly uncomfortable with anything sexual, my friends would joke that I was basically a puritan. Now I semi-regularly have group chats with the same friends talking about stuff like "if you wanna lick marinara sauce off your partner's boobs you can just ask, that's incredibly mild"
:::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I've been having some thoughts recently.

Why are we born on this earth? Just to suffer?

Incorrect. We are born because our parents had sex and didn't abort us.

Furthermore, we have no purpose. You can make your own "purpose in life" but I don't think it really matters. "Being" a "nihilist" also doesn't "matter". So what if you don't care? And so what if you do?

I've also thought a little about absurdism. I don't get why they are laughing in the face of the vast uncaring empty universe. It's empty. Ain't nothing there to laugh at. Maybe that's why it's "absurd".

Funnily enough, this is exactly the thought process that made me stop being a nihilist and become a communist/materialist. I realised that I am allowed to care for and engage with things that actually exist in the world. If I cut off all my attachments, I will not suffer. But my suffering doesn't matter. I don't need to escape samsara.

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BountifulEggnog [she/her] - 3mon

But my suffering doesn't matter.

See this bit I disagree with. Suffering sucks. This life is all we have, I don't want it to suck.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I don't want it to suck either. But the realisation that it isn't supposed to be like this is even worse for me.

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon

I like that there's no true point to any of this, that it all will wash away with time. It's kind of freeing tbh. What I'm doing right now won't be remembered long term. I can find my own value in living for a bit and support people around me. That's more than enough for me.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Holy fuck. I just realised this is why they say "the dao that can be spoken of is not the true dao".

One cannot describe nothingness because there is nothing to describe.

That's why I have felt like all the "nihilistic" and "existential" philosophies never really gelled with me.

And now I understand the concept of effortless action (or whatever it is called). You do things without thinking. That is closest you can come to nothingness while still being alive.

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

::: spoiler injection question Sometimes when I inject there's a lump that lasts quite a while after. It didn't happen for the first few ones, but now it seems a lot more common. They're not itchy, and I'm rotating my sites. What could be happening? Subq BTW :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler How long is quite a while? An hour? A day? Lasts for a week or more?

You might be sensitized to the carrier oil now but I suspect youre not going quite deep enough or pushing too fast. Nice and slow and smooth (even for SQ). Make sure you properly wash your skin etc, cause I guess you could be getting a little local infection but U doubt thats the case either. :::

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

::: spoiler spoiler How do I know if I'm not going deep enough? :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

::: spoiler spoiler Well for one youd be getting a big ol bleb lol

If you have a nice chunk of tissue with enough fat in it you can inject pretty much straight down otherwise stick to 45° angle and use SQ needles :::

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

there's not a lump after today so it looks like it might have been a speed thing

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

Next yakuza game is gonna be real 🔥 leaked title was LAD 9 : 11 stories we tell kiryu-pain

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

Does drinking liquor help with colds? If the answer is yes, I'm going to drink liquor. If the answer is no, I'm going to drink liquor.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon

It'll probably make your cold worse. More dehydration (your body makes a lot of mucous during illness and you gotta drink more water), even less quality sleep, probably it'll make you more congested. Also it can fuck with cold meds depending on what you take.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I see. I'm not going to drink then.

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

When I have a sore throat I find a little bit of liquor can help soothe it. I'd never have more than a tiny bit though, your body is already working hard fighting a virus, so making it fight alcohol at the same time is gonna make both things worse.

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EllenKelly [comrade/them] - 3mon

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler - small rant about nsfw games on steam all this stuff is happening and steam is telling me the top selling new games this week are called like femboy massage parlor and femboy futa house, which is what like a trans share house simulator? what the fuck is going in :::

anyway the new skate game is fun and free, its not as fun as skate 3, i wonder if i still have that somewhere

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

The tone of this post should not be taken as depressive or neurotic, but rather psychotic

::: spoiler cw:si Kinda crazy isn't it? Yesterday I was pleasantly dreaming about my friend choking me and snapping my neck to death. Today, he was sitting in front of me and we had a mundane conversation about homework. I looked him in the eye as if nothing happened. It wasn't hard. I was sorta feeling fucked yesterday for having that dream, but now I don't even feel that.

If any of my friends knew about what I was feeling, they wouldn't want to be my friends anymore. I wouldn't blame them. It wasn't even a sexual dream, which could just be explained away as "attraction happens". No, it was this psycho shit.

I also had impulsive thoughts while meeting other people about asking them to help me kill myself.

I feel a sense of pride. I am going to be the toughest case that my GP assigned psychologist has seen in their career. Hopefully anyway. :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon

I genuinely want to read reverend insanity just because of the fan art. Good Lord look at this man's smilecrush. I want him to [REDACTED] me. He makes me feel dark heterosexual thoughts.

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