RMS Titanic — Trans Megathread from December 15th, 2025 to December 21st, 2025
On the 10th of April 1912, The Titanic set sail from Southhampton in England for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Four days later, just before midnight on the 14th, Titanic struck an iceberg, which caused it to take severe damage and sink during the night, leading to the death of the majority of her passengers.
At the time, Titanic was one of the most advanced ships in the world. It was as a steam-powered ocean liner, a type of ship specifically built to repeatedly make the dangerous crossing between Europe and America. Because air travel was not available at the time, this service was vital, and Titanic was built at a time where different shipping lines were constantly trying to outcompete each other in building the fastest and most luxurious ships. The Titanic was equipped with restaurants, cafes and even a Turkish bath (a sort of spa / sauna hybrid), though due to the strict segregation of first, second, and third class passengers, only a minority were allowed access to these accomodations.
The White Star Line, who built and operated the Titanic, was convinced the ship wouldn't sink, and did not adequately prepare for it, only carrying enough lifeboats to carry a portion of the ship's passengers. While this claim seems absurd today — modern ship are far, far safer than the Titanic, but no one would ever claim they couldn't sink — it was a popular sentiment at the time. Because of the Titanic's novel and highly advanced watertight compartments, it was thought that even if she suffered catastrophic damage, she would bob around on the surface like a cork, rather than sink to the bottom, so there would be no hurry to evacuate the passengers
Later, the story of the titanic would go on to become something of a pop culture legend, the greatest example being the 1997 movie by James Cameron (it's really good actually). A bunch of conspiracy theories about the ship's fate has also popped up over the course of the last century, some gaining significant traction despite the lack of evidence.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Lol, I learned about my partner's (who I live with) pronoun shift from they/them to they/she via looking at discord.
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
My partner saw my hexbear profile before I explicitly came out lmfao
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Nasalstrip [he/him] - 7mon
I’ve never regretted starting testosterone but it sucks to be on it for 3 years and still having terrible acne despite great hygiene. I’m almost 21 for gods sake, I already am so insecure about looking young. At least I have professionally done tattoos so people know I’m not actually in my late teens but still frustrating.
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 7mon
Sorry you gotta deal with all that. Acne fucking sucks and I hope for a clear skin future for you
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 7mon
discovered a new type of ewwphoria: boymoding around conservative relatives who tell you “if you don’t cut your hair already everyone will think you’re a girl, didn’t you notice all those people calling you ma’am???”
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Real, my dad told me this kinda a lot when growing my hair out was still new.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 7mon
I’m tired of not having any kind of human contact outside of work, where I still have to boymode. I’ve been on HRT for almost a year and a half but still don’t feel confident to be myself yet. I have hope still that will eventually change but it definitely gets to me a lot lately.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Are there any trans or queer support groups in your area? The one I went to wasn't super useful to me, but it was a way into a queer social circle that allowed me to meet more people and be myself.
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
I forgot to post because I’m wild busy, but I started E yesterdayyyyyyyyy!!!!! I also started bloodborne, hadn’t touched it since youth when I couldn’t beat the cleric beast. Turns out it’s still hard as shit
pausing my euro psychedelic techno to listen to this based Thai psychedelic techno. its so nice to have a soundtrack for important events in our lives. 😊 congrats!
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
It’s pretty sick, and they say they’re doing another one next year. please post your euro psychedelic techno! thank you, I’m feeling very rn
Congrats! Super exciting time for you! Both the estradiol and bloodborne lol. I don't care for fromsoft games like I used to, but that one will always hold a special place in my heart.
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
Thank you! I’m really excited for the new year, I’ve got a lot to look forward to
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la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them] - 7mon
congratulations
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 7mon
Yayy congrats :D
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
Thank youuuuu it’s a hectic holiday but I’m glad I get to start the routine finally
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HexReplyBot [none/use name] - 7mon
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Okay and? Even if that were true who fucking cares?
Oppressors become less sympathetic the more "human" qualities you show (ex - seeking attention, which most people do).
And like, this shit is hard as hell. If you're enduring this much hardship for attention then that's impressive.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Imagine we lived in a socialist society and I could get free education/housing so I could actually focus on studying properly instead of commuting 2 hours a day and constantly being depressed about being too scared of telling my parents I'm trans cause they might threaten me with finances.
Wouldn't it be amazing?
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
I'd kill for that tbh
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Correction: we all
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 7mon
I just wish we had a jobs guarantee like the SU and other socialist states had i need to workkk and noone is hiring me...
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
I have couples counseling today and I am terrified I will out myself before I'm ready. Wish me luck 💜
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
Thank you all for the well wishes. I made it :)
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 7mon
Good luck!
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
I wish you have lots of luck
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
Yo this girl convinced her doctor to up her estrogen tablets to 8mg from 6mg, keep her spirolactone at 50mg and is starting prog now at 10 months!
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
Injections could be better but right now this working well and is hassle free. I've got good breast development I don't want to wait two months.
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Moss [they/them] - 7mon
Being agender I don't have that much to say about my gender, so instrad I will say that Dune is not a challenging read as I have heard. Most of the sci-fi is pretty easy to pick up on from context clues. It is, however, very very long, and at the start of the second half I am kinda losing my motivation to keep reading
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 7mon
i may have lost a luggage with most of my guy clothes and i feel like this is the universe’s way of saying i have to do social transition already
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
The time has come, boy moding is the sunset, pretty girl clothes and butch clothes and casual clothes are in your future
I socially transitioned before HRT! Best choice I ever made.
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 7mon
the airline found it lol
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Whoa, I’m lookin pretty cute today :)
It’s… nice feeling less like the person in the mirror is someone else?
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Hell yeah
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
This rules and I am happy for you :)
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Kind of terrible to admit but one of the "good" things about being out to some people is it forces me to shave my face if I'm going to see them.
::: spoiler dysphoria
Actually shaving is dysphoric, leaving it to get stubbly is obviously super dysphoric, this forces me to at least try more often. Nothing more humiliating then telling someone I'm a woman while fucking facial hair on me.
::: spoiler dysphoria + whining
fucking hate living like this, everything puberty ruined. I am so miserable. I just want to not be like this anymore. I really can't do this.
::: spoiler suicide
should just kill myself already i dont want to do this. its too hard, too much, too painful. its not even worth pushing through.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 7mon
IPL devices work pretty great if you have the right hair for it (which I don’t on my face because I’m an old lady). Works best with light skin and dark hair, but basically it’ll burn the hair at the root and make it grow back much much slower and thinner. Cyperus Rotundus oil also slows growth but doesn’t thin it. I hate facial hair too and struggle against it but hopefully some day I’ll get electrolysis.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
ipl doesn't work on face and can scar :/ or I'd already have one, I tried I looked into those options a lot. Maybe I'll look at that oil though
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
You could whine about how shaving is annoying and expensive and avoid seeing or touching your face instead
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
You could whine about how shaving is annoying
I thought that's what I was doing tbh? I mean the very last spoiler was more a stream of conscious complaining about how awful life is bc that's how I've been feeling and its been hurting a lot.
Yea I could, idk I feel like I still feel it a lot and it greatly effects my mood.
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
I meant to people IRL, instead of worrying about them seeing your facial hair.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler mental health
Asked my therapist if there's a way for me to pursue a gender dysphoria diagnosis (I just needed some affirmation). "Oh, that's been in your file for almost two years now."
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
UMMMMMMM yeah experiment in pupperhood over. It's a thing now.
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 7mon
yayyyy more puppers! Awwruff!
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler bottom surgery, bottom talk
I wasnt planning on stopping E even though surgeons tell you to do it. Its bs, they dont tell cis women to get on estrogen blockers or whatever.
But I might... because I really wanna use my clone a dick thingy so I can literally go fuck myself after. And I feel like a few weeks off without an anti androgen would be the best for that.
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HexaSnoot [none/use name] - 7mon
You should totally make multiple copies for yourself and maybe other people you like enough as a sacredly kinky gift.
Congrats on your upcoming surgery. So exciting.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
I absolutely wanna. Plus... the idea of having someone else using it is lovely
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Wish me luck lads, ladies and ladexes. I need it to prevent my parents from noticing my boobs which have grown since last time. My only hope is that since its winter I can easily wear sweaters inside and never be in a shirt. I've even prepared tops with checker patterns to break up the 3D contour of my boobs
And since last time, they never checked my bag, I've decided to even take my vibrator over.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Good lord am I terrified of them finding out about my boobs. This is not going to be an easy vacation.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
They will almost certainly not notice
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 7mon
I got some pretty big tits and I got people who ignore them at work and call me "sir" all the time. I have no idea how people miss these things
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
I think I'm going to try laser and voice therapy. It's been a while since I made some actual progress.
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Kuori [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
laser is genuinely life-changing
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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 7mon
Late with the post and I have a headache, it's too cold for this shit
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
such a comrade that the artifacting is so potent
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 7mon
Waiting
Get better insurance
Get up to date health records
Schedule consult !!!!!!!!!!
Electrolysis (and more waiting) <--
Take a deep breath, deep breath
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Oh vibrator in my bag
Why did you turn on in public ?
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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 7mon
Voice update: reading voice is perfect, I no longer drop pitch while reading, my voice is bright, and my vowels are sharp. Spontaneous conversation is still rough but I'm working on it.
Speech therapist said conversation is the hardest thing to do and that I've come a long way fast. She also said that pitch is the only thing I need to focus on, everything else I've already got down.
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HexaSnoot [none/use name] - 7mon
Sounds like you're doing amazing.
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
To semi-quote the prodigy: “change my pitch up, not the other part”
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Sibling smacked my chest earlier sensitive as fuck and can't react
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
Getting destroyed at work and missed my trans support group for the second week in a row 😮💨 I don't know how people enjoy this time of year. I love people and want to have a good time, but there's too much stuff going on for me
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
On the plus side, got gender euphoria from having feminine earrings and being told they suit me :]
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
This reminds me I really wanna get my ears pierced
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
I love it 🥰 I am hoping to get more piercings soon
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
::: spoiler guess who just got her ears pierced
FUCKIN' MEEEEEEEEE
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
Hoops or studs? 😄
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
Studs!
I wanna do hoops at some point but not yet
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
I feel like studs is the way to go while it heals! I got hoops when I got mine pierced, and they were a lot more trouble than they were worth. You never realize how much you bump your ear until you get a piercing haha. I hope you love them and best of luck with healing 🥰
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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 7mon
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
It would be funny if I showed up to my parents' house with pride colored nails, wouldn't it? It's just a question if I have the balls to do it.
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
Would the even recognize them? I have a friend who I showed my trans-colored nails after last pride month and I think that friend might still have no clue I'm trans.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
I know my dad would. Hell, even just painting my nails black would catch their eyes as it would be the most outwardly fem thing I did in front of them and they are quite conservative. But my dad def knows the colors. I wouldn't even be surprised if during pride month, his office made him do sensitivity training or something.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
I went to a trans community thing and a new girl dropped!
There was a person who'd never attended before and was super early in transition. It was really exciting.
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
Oh fuck that’s gonna be me next year
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
Lol it was me like 6 months ago when I started getting involved in stuff. Time goes fast!
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crosswind [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
After two years it seemed like my mom had almost adjusted to using my pronouns consistently, but now it looks like she's learned the One Weird Trick where she can just constantly say my name and avoid ever having to use any pronouns for me at all.
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crosswind [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Now that I think about it, that's a good reason to finally make that my deadname.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Beat Celeste's core, wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. B sides I did for hearts were worse.
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Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
Sorry the mega is late, i fell asleep
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
uncritical support to our eepy trans comrades
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Holy fuck I need to shave my arms and legs and fucking everywhere I hate it. Haven't felt good at all or I normally try to
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Shaving makes me feel nice, it's important to do self-care, take some time for yourself
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
It makes me feel nice too, problem is shaving when I feel terrible leaves me with a bunch of cuts...
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
My skin does not do well with razors, so I bought an epilator and it's so much better. A little painful, but so much better
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Ugh same 🖤
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 7mon
Down with cis
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 7mon
down with cis
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
down with cis
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Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
down with cis
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 7mon
Down with cis
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
UP WITH TRAAAAAAAANNNNNSSS
RAWR
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 7mon
UP WITH TRANS
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 7mon
UP WITH TRANS
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
up with trans
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Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
up with trans, perchance
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 7mon
UP WITH TRANS
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
Getting a basic eyeshadow routine down 😄 Feeling good about my progress. I'm so thankful there are a million tutorials on youtube.
Got my dress out of the back of my closet. Wearing it feels natural :)
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
I've also been playing Celeste again. My fingers hurt lol
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bipp [she/her] - 7mon
Happy for you! :)
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 7mon
Thank you! 🥰
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Went to go message someone but its too late, maybe tomorrow. I got to get better at messaging people. Figuring out how to- what to say is always difficult for me to navigate. Actually makes me really sad thinking about how many of my relationships have vanished because I don't know how.
Oh, something good though, work gave me a $10 gift card which is pretty sweet. Its to subway but I'll regift to my sister.
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 7mon
I keep bumping into shit with my ass at work because I'm not used to being this thicc and it is so affirming
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 7mon
other trans girls talking about how much can still change with your body well past 2 years HRT. I already have such big tits as it is , you mean these things might get bigger? I've only been on HRT for about 19-20 months
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 7mon
Some people continue to have breast growth years into hrt. The other women you're related to can give you an idea of how this might go for you.
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 7mon
me in 2030 looking like a fucking anime girl with spine shattering G cup tiddies
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
good lord woman, how busty are the women in your family
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 7mon
literally the only relative close enough to me to be worth comparing is my mom. she's a D cup
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
Yes. My boobs are still growing. Typically for cis women it takes like 10 years before they properly stop developing. The timeline that changes stop at like 2 to 5 years was always a little silly. Changes that happen after that can be a little subtler I guess but its not like it stops
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 7mon
Being genderfluid / multigender is so cool. Imagine there are multiple options and you just laugh and say "I will have many options, I do what I want!!" And sail away in your pirate ship
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
Why did I have to wake up for this useless-ass meeting?
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
should have been a useless ass-meeting instead.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
I can't believe I've been xkcd 37'd
But yeah I'd get out of bed for an ass-meeting
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
Omg. I was lining up in a local takeaway near where I work on Fridays and the cashier a small woman in her 20s took my order then blurted out "also you're really pretty!" then she blushed and wouldn't make eye contact. I blushed and said "thank you that's so kind".
It's a rougher area than were I live and I worry about being visibly trans sometimes. But here I was in my designer tank top and palazzo pants, with silk scarf, hand bag and high heeled boots, a tasteful combo of red, dark orange, gold and black, next to tradesmen and blue collar workers.
It was really lovely.
(I'm in a relationship. I understand this was flirting etc)
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
Also something about "really pretty" is nice because beautiful can sometimes be used in a patronising way.
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grym - 7mon
Awww that's so good I would be GLOWING for weeks after that interaction!
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
It was so nice and it's going to keep me going for a while. As I posted before turns out I'm getting sick today but at least I had that.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
::: spoiler dysphoria+introspection
As long as I'm boymodding I don't think I can genuinely connect with people. Social interaction is a nightmare because I'm always just concealing my true self and feelings.
And all this can be proven by the fact that my interaction with the transphobic friend are much more pleasant because I don't put up a front anymore.
I prefer being derided to the kind of interaction where we both pretend I'm just a guy.
And the other dude starts complaining about how the girls he finds are always so vapid while also saying "women who attract abusers must have have something wrong with them". The irony seems to be lost on him. But I guess since I get along well with these assholes I too must have something wrong with me (I do. I let people walk over me).
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Yea real, even being out to some people I don't feel like I can, maybe when the dysphoria passes or whatever.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Had fun at our queer TRPG/boardgame club last night (played Wingspan), and also at the after-party (invited folks back to our place and we watched Knives Out 3).
We're going to a nearby city for another LGBT boardgame club this weekend, and I will be taking my partner to Torrid for a shopping trip to try out skirts/dresses.
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 7mon
Wingspan fucking rocks
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
I feel bad and lonely and needing connection but I don't know how I can actually fix it. I know some people at work, I guess, but idk. idk what I'm looking for. Just feel shitty. I don't know what I want to talk about, or do, or anything
Oh and actually as far as work goes, tomorrow is the only day I'll prolly see any of them for the rest of the year. That's cool. I love being friendless and dysphoric.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Life would not suck or hurt or be so miserable and lonely and isolating and just constantly feel like my whole body is on fire if I was cis
my life has just been horrible for years and years and that's why. fuck my life. when will the pain end
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
fuck I feel horrible.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Maybe you also want them to see the real you.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Got through 2 more chapters of who's afraid of gender 4 and 5, I promised myself I'd do more but damn Mondays just might be an exception. Still halfway through is good, I'll do my best to finish it and 2 other books before the year is over
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
It’s me, I’m afraid of gender 😨
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I feel awful. Why are there so many things.
Feels very unlikely I'll get promoted to full time. Fucking need full time to move out. Can't be fucking stuck at home.
I just feel terrible. I don't want to keep going
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
::: spoiler suicide
I just need to kill myself I swear to god
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 7mon
I am beset by gender-affirming cramps and bloating
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
::: spoiler pregnancy/childcare yearnings and hormone journallings as well as a bit pre transition si, could be triggering to some?(long)
I really love being a transfem. The longer I spend in transition, the more worthwhile I think this journey is, and I wouldn't want that to be any other way. And god, do I find trans bodies to be so damn beautiful, never really understood the idea that testosterone mutilated my body, or anyone's. I'm just who I am, and used the resources available to me in this world to shape my body in such a way that reflects my mind.
One thing I wish was possible in this time we live in was I wish so much that I could bear a child, or at least, raise one. I'm not alone in this feeling, I know. Infertility is something a lot of people deal with, my reason is only unique in that I wasn't born with a womb. It's funny, because I used to hate children so much pre transition, simply because I hated being alive so much.
As I started being fortunate enough to be able to interact in the world as a feminized individual and being recognized as such, I began to love children, and relate to people and life that feels so much more whole.
I try not to be jealous of women who can choose to have a child with such relative ease, of a close family member who is raising a 2 year old, seeing how much love they practice with each other. Something I will make my peace with in time, I think.
I wasn't born in a time where I could bear a child in this body of mine, but maybe I will get to see the beginnings of that if I should live long enough?
I have such a strong maternal instinct, and often find myself drawn to be the mother of many in my friend groups, and I love this. I hope as I keep going through this life that I can find ways to mother and nurture folks as I can. Lot of different ways to be a mother, I suppose.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
never really understood the idea that testosterone mutilated my body
shape my body in such a way that reflects my mind
Its because T shaped my body in a way that does not reflect my mind. Warped it, ruined it, destroyed it. Many things about it permanently. Things I care about more then anything. It shaped into the wrong way. A way not reflective of how my mind is. I don't understand how other people don't understand this or feel the same.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I get the tension between thinking trans bodies are beautiful and understanding people who say that the darker stuff about wrong puberty - I love my trans body personally, I think Im pretty sexy and while Im getting bottom surgery and had a tracheal shave I still feel pretty aligned after years of HRT.
I worked in pediatrics! I found it very rewarding. I didnt want kids before transition, same as you - I did figure out that was about not wanting to be a father, being a mother on the other hand sounded lovely! I couldn't afford freezing my sperm so I made my choice, and later when I get bottom surgery itll be foreclosed. Ive never felt bad about it, I was always open to adoption and fostering or surrogacy anyway. Probably best that my genetics ends with me and my siblings generation anyway... and its shaking out like that.
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
yeah i love my trans body and also reckon with i got bottom surgery and ffs in it. feeling a lot more at home in my body than i ever have, and the world views me more in line with how i wish it to. i find it very funny that masculinity really did not work for me as a man, but now i am pretty masc leaning woman, and i feel a lot more at peace.
I did not freeze my sperm either, as i knew that i wanted any of my genetics to end with me. but i very much feel like i could be a mother. i'm still quite young and might find the chance to do so. :)
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
touched up my nails and like from a distance they look fire but if I bring them up close it's noticeable, bleh I gotta find some more vegan nail polish
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Plasma center asking if I feel alright to donate I lie yes, actually got the woke mind virus... Spreading wokeness one donation at a time
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler CW boofing
This girl boofed her prog last night. I always find it funny when guides suggest using a sterile needle to pierce the capsule (and I say this as a healthcare worker). Like I'm putting this in my butt? It's a dirty area already. I just used a badge pin.
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
Toothpick undefeated
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imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
piercing it is not necessary anyway
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Let's talk about pronouns and their placement, is it like the ingredient listing where the first one is the majority/preferred or am I looking too much into it. I've had people use my neopronouns all of 2 times so by having them second am I signaling use they/them first and then fae or do people just use which ever is easier?
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Horse {they/them} - 7mon
personally, i usually use the first set with people i don't know well
with people i do know well i use whichever they prefer or whichever set i feel like using in the moment if they have no preference
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
People started doing they/she cause people wouldnt use they, ever, if you had a she/they thing (like a pin or here with pronouns listed). Cause they default to the gender binary. Which, on the one hand, one is saying theyre fine with both... but maybe sometimes you wanna hear or read the other one. And I guess its different for everyone why they list what they list and the order they put it in now, maybe for people the first is what they wanna hear most often.
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 7mon
I put He first because of the perception that the first one is the most important, but I consider all of them (they/fae/he) to be equally preferred.
I switch the first one around depending on my mood, but lately ive been using He because its interesting to front with a pronoun I havent used that much. Maybe I will do Fae in the near future 🤔 because I would like people to use that set.
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Kuori [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
i honestly think most people just default to whatever is closest to their perception of normalcy, so they/them would probably be ranked above fae/faer and the like for most cis people and a decent chunk of trans people (unfortunately)
it's a little work but i like to cycle through them if it's possible to do so without creating undue confusion
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
I've been getting an unusual amount of gender euphoria from my name lately. Like I have been realllllly liking it. It's the same name that I have used for over a year but somehow it feels even better on me. I think gender things might be happening to me. Both my gender euphoria and gender dysphoria moments have been getting somewhat more intense.
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler bodily fluids and/or crying over spilt milk
So I yoinked it last night and I don't think anything came out? Which I think is the first time that's ever happened. Of course my volume has gone down a fair bit since getting on HRT, but it seemed fairly consistent until recently—probably correlated with injections?
Still not sure how I feel about it. Less clean up is nice, but it's still strange. Plus I know people are commonly into the fluids so I'd worry about that being a deficiency with any future partner. Maybe I should get on one of the nutmaxxing stacks
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 7mon
I've been getting nothing for quite a while now. There is a little that slowly dribbles out afterward but there's no shot at all. I've heard there's a big range of nut volume after starting hormones and some don't see much change. Guess I'm on the low nut extreme
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
Yeah, I'm an extremist:
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I remember my last proper cum lol. Enough E and prog for enough time and I guess you dont really make it the same way. From partners Ive had... it's uh more pleasant after the changes. Also now I fucking leak like a garden hose with someone hot enough when we're just making out, its crazy!! Personally, I do like it better this way.
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
I guess I haven't really been able to test drive it with anyone so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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bipp [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Yep, nothing comes out for me either. I've heard that it's different for everyone, but most people that I've talked to about this say the same thing sooo idk? I thought it was weird the first time but I'm happy w it now!
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
I hate the depression and dysphoria and giving up on life mood can I go back to either hating all of humanity or worrying about work or something
Also why is my life cycling between those three states like what the fuck
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
it really seems that much of non-western global regular people cuisine is "dip or scoop tasty stew with crispy bread" and i'm like "omg that's my favorite thing to do"
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
Mom genders me as a guy typically, but when I joke about sleeping in a bed with my brother without implying anything sexual, I'm suddenly suggesting something inappropriate? The default has been expecting me to give up my bed and sleep with my brother if a guest needs one (guess I get my bed to myself from now on?). Interesting seeing how quickly someone's perception can change.
Doesn't really even make sense to me. Like, why is it okay if we're both guys but not if one of us isn't? Its not like any of us are straight anyways.
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler negativity, venting
no ones ever gonna love me and every time im authentic, most ppl like me a little less
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Everything feels so stagnant when I'm not working towards my transition. Like I'm just waiting to unbox my real self into existence, then I'll start living my life, and then I'll be worthy of being treated like a girl irl.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
::: spoiler searched at airport (off-putting)
Disadvantage of not being legally trans shows up when the airport security guard runs his hands over your body (and even breasts, twice just to be sure). I even thought he was about to take off my shirt and I panicked. Then running over my butt and thighs.
Genuinely what the fuck. How is this even necessary for security? Mfs did a full body all spectrum scan already.
At least the airport people kept misgendering me, so that means that I'm safe from my parents 🙂
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Trans
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 7mon
I wonder if they sunk the Titanic in homage to the SS Anne in the Pokémon anime (spoilers).
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Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
I think I would be okay sinking to the bottom of the ocean if the SS Anne theme played
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
The post office is transphobic for not delivering my package before the weekend. Actually maybe it won't even arrive this year if this keeps up...
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
My headache I thought I got from reading so much yesterday is probably me just coming down with something, until I know what it is I'm gonna label it the woke mind virus since I was reading about gender
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
This was a cursed night shift.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
not a profession I want to hear saying that
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
I hate working trauma.
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
My t4t poly network keeps growing :3
Estrogen continues to be the best thing that ever happened to me
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KrupskayaPraxis - 7mon
When did you first start to feel the effects of progesterone? I'm two weeks in. (And a year on E and bica if that's relevant)
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
It was maybe a few weeks before I started feeling more uh feral. Sleep stuff happened faster but I got used to it
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
Do you happen to be on finasteride or dutasteride? They can reduce or entirely neutralize the mood effects respectively
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KrupskayaPraxis - 7mon
I'm not
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
Cock tuah and chomp on that thang
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
::: spoiler voice dysphoria
I usually don't struggle with voice dysphoria, but during my last session of the day, I got hit with this huge wave of it where it was very uncomfortable to hear myself talk. I really hope this doesn't become a thing now. Basically my entire job is talking.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I have been completely tuning myself out since puberty. My voice coach asked me if I wanted to record myself and pick a pitch. I told her no, I simply go by how often Im misgendered 😬
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I have been completely tuning myself out since puberty.
real and tbh this is one of my big problems with voice training, not doing that/playing with my voice/paying it any attention is the worst thing in the world. fucking hate all of it nothing makes me more doomer
Like how are you tuning it out but also consciously changing it etc? I just do not get it it hurts me so bad
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
There's exercises where the focus can be on a feeling rather than a sound. Making a loud MMMM sound and pitching it up should help you feel the buzzing going from lower to face lips and even nose. You can feel your Adam's apple kinda pop back at the right spot too when you do the NG sound glides (I had a tracheal shave so mine isnt as obvious but I can still feel it). I also used a pitch analyzer thing on my phone, all it does is pitch no resonance or whatever else. But it is nice to see the pitch go up over time.
Your soft palette also backs up for a brighter femme sound even when you gotta yell and project and thats a physical sensation over a sound (for me)
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
So am I supposed to just like do the "high" or "forward" or whatever mmmm and my voice will get better? I can feel it moving yea.
Your soft palette
brighter femme sound
Can you explain what either of these mean and how they relate to the exercise?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Different exercises.
Mmmm sound is loud af as you can handle. Start low, lower than your normal speaking voice. Slowly pitch it up. You will feel buzzing. The buzzing will move from chest up to your mouth and teeth and even your nose and sinuses/cheek bones as you keep going up. You'll probably be happy at the pitch where its at your mouth/teeth. Then youll pause a sec, and say My, Me, May, Moe as a list. Only one of those at a time, then restart from looooow.
NG is also loud, really push your tongue against the back of your mouth. Put your finger where your trachea zone is, you will feel it pull back where youre aiming to be later. When you practice youre gonna go a little higher than there to pull up your regular day to day ppitch. It sounds weird but it has worked for me over the last couple months by a lot.
The soft palette one is a totally third different exercise. Dont worry about it too much. When you gasp, you can feel it pull up.
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rtstragedy2 [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
this tbh I'm in a situation where I hear an echo I stop talking too
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
I have a super power because of it! Most people cant talk through a slightly delayed echo, but Ive been tuning myself out and speaking without hearing myself for a good long time. I can speak clearly through it lol
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Does laser get rid of the "beard shadow"? Cause I fucking hate that shit.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Me too it's what bothers me the most
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
For me it has but its taken a lot of sessions with quite a few electrolysis on top. I think Im about done finally after like 4 years of this. Don't have to shave anymore which is nice
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
Yeah I want to spare my skin the daily razor
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 7mon
Yes there's a noticeable reduction within a few sessions, and it should be entirely gone by the time you're done. I feel exactly the same way.
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SexUnderSocialism [she/her] - 7mon
Yes, laser targets the hair follicle, damaging it so that the hair won't grow back. Usually within a few weeks after a session, hairs begin to fall out and then don't grow back. When the hair is gone, so is the shadow it produces. But it does require multiple sessions to get rid of all of it, because each follicle is in its own growth cycle, and they need to be in the active growth phase for them them to be affected by the laser.
Because I have darker skin, it took me a lot of sessions, as they had to use a lower setting to make sure it wouldn't cause burns and blisters. You can also get a numbing cream you can apply like an hour before each session, so that it doesn't hurt as much. In the end, it was totally worth it though. I haven't needed any facial shaving in years.
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Lol my life is falling apart lmao
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Thank you ❤️
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Another one don't know what's going on but wish you the best
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Just a lot. I actually spent more time crying last night than sleeping. And then more today. Lots of stress-induced vomiting too. I’ve been feeling really isolated lately and this means a lot. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Anytime I'd offer you a hug and food irl if I knew you
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Btw did you ever get mint installed?
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
I'll need to get back to it, one of my laptops I've benched and the other I'm not finding windows 11 as smooth. Mostly been busy with family stuff these past week but it's also just hyping myself up to give it another go
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
You can do it! I just picked up a new old thinkpad, and I’ve been wanting to play with nixos, so I’ve got a similar project on the horizon when I can get some time. I hope the BIOS cooperates and things go smoothly for you this time :)
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
I'll give it another got this weekend then, having an old laptop to carry around to write on would be fun. Thank you for the encouragement Shallot always appreciated
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oscardejarjayes [comrade/them] - 7mon
::: spoiler not exactly suicide?
Honestly kinda hoping for a nuclear war that instantly obliterates me
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 7mon
root mean square titanic
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shallot [she/her] - 7mon
Horror movie about bad sensor data and it’s called root mean square terror
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Going to sleep with so many high level ideas kinda hurts my head but it's a good ache like going to the gym my brain is gonna be so big tomorrow
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
I am just really tired and want to go lay in bed, it is too early though just worn out. Can't think of much to post :/
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Tired and burned out and emotional. I have to work the weekend and then I have some time off around christmas. I don't wanna return after. I'm done doing, I'm done thinking, worrying, feeling. All of it. There's too much and I don't want to do any of it.
-Work (both doing and finding)
-Taking care of myself
-Taking care of pets
-dysphoria
-transition
-where I'm going to live
-everything about finding a partner
-everything else
Its so much
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kristina [she/her] - 7mon
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Ceres [she/her] - 7mon
a fun part of being vegan is pairing different plant milks with different things. Im increasingly stocking more kinds in my house so I can go 'hmmm almond milk with this cereal, unsweetened soy as a cheese sauce base, oat for oatmeal...'
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
I'm gonna go back into pretending (before it becomes real) that my nail polish is my health bar. Means touching them up every day or so but it's a neat idea I feel
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
Estus flask themed nail polish bottle??
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
That be dope could lock in a jade underneath and a yellow on top 🤔
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
I am really enjoying WarSails no game has really scratched the Assassins Creed Black Flag like this. I wish I could sail outside of combat though, like in ports or just on the world map.
The only problem is that something needs to be tweaked to make large naval battles more common. I've only had two really memorable, touch and go ones. Every other battle the outcome has pretty much been predetermined by ships and numbers, it's just how skillfully it's pulled off. Factions need to have dedicated Sea-Lords and Land-Lords based on their holdings and size. So that in a war they're not just sailing in a straight line to their target but patrolling in big fleets etc.
Still there's some really neat things you can pull off that I'm surprised by. One time I was on the aft of the ship and in heavy waves. the enemy galley was raised up so that for a brief moment I was able to jump the short distance and suddenly be on their ship with falx in hand cutting their sailors down by surprise.
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ClathrateG [none/use name] - 7mon
Hey guys it's the cool new liberal superhero
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
I'm recovered from my gastro it was really short lived but it has ripped through my family with alarming speed.
I went to get some shopping. I decided to wear an elf hat and elf ears. It was funny to see the triple takes I got. "Hey that lady has elf ears!" followed by "Oh hey that lady is a t-slur"
Also long elf ears give me gender euphoria and I worked out why, they make my chin and nose look more in proportion with my face. All the ladies in my family have big noses, it's not just a being trans thing, my chin is though. Also they peak out of my straight black hair and look really cute.
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 7mon
beating Spec Ops: The Line on FUBAR
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
F4f audio when I'm in transit or on break at work >>>
RoteDisaster really the goat
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
::: spoiler suicide
Idk what to do to feel better anymore. I've been having suicidal thoughts almost constantly now. I had maybe an hour break yesterday. It's just constant. Constant misery, constant thinking about killing myself. So dysphoric. Nothing has really helped. I've talked about it, people have given me their input, I've tried distracting myself and it's still mostly miserable and suicidal. There's just nothing. I hate sitting in misery like this. It hurts constantly. I think about killing myself constantly. I have had no motivation to do anything I don't absolutely have to do. I've been playing a bit of Celeste I guess. This is awful and nothing is making it better.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 7mon
I'm sorry you're having such a difficult time Eggnog; I wish I knew how to help.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Thank you, it's okay. I appreciate it.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Maybe it will get better one day (sooner would be better)
But we can still virtual hug.
Seeing you be miserable most of the time is just
All I cam say is that you remind me of me early this year. I think there is a good chance once you get a couple of months in, things will be better. Not good, but more tolerable.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I already am a couple months in to hrt
But thank you I'm sorry you have to see me miserable most of the time.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
::: spoiler spoiler
It's OK. You don't have to be sorry. You're the one hurting. Don't apologise to me.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler same
Just kill me already I'm done suffering like this.
Why the fuck did I have to be born like this and why the fuck does it hurt me so much more
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 7mon
Looks like next year I'm closing the long distance gap. 2026 is going to be the year of making things happen.
After two years of waiting for a lot of things to start moving forward again, I'd say it's about time to have things to look forward to. Even electrolysis sounds exciting again, never thought I'd be saying that smh
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
read up to the current chapter of Dorley, and now I must wait. holy shit, what a good story.
i was also more than halfway through before i realized it is fucking longer than War and Peace.
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rtstragedy2 [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
longer than War and Peace.
no way... I think I want a hard copy now of it and a few other ao3 things just so I can see how thick they are. I guess when something's interesting it doesn't matter how many pages it is
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
War and Peace-587,287 Words
Sisters of Dorley Hall-1,000,725 Words
I cannot believe I read so much force fem novel, but it is actually so incredibly good.
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
How is trans healthcare in Canada compared to a solid blue state in the US? With that amendment to their citizenship rules I might be able to get it and it'd be nice to have that as an option
Damn, was hoping it was something to help trans people generally
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Kuori [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
frankly I would be beyond shocked if something like that came out of
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Ceres [she/her] - 7mon
Depends a lot on the province, definitely research that side of things.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
First chapter of who's afraid of gender quite good, talks about the phantasm of gender and has a lot of intersectionality that's quite part of me is "no yeah that makes sense" when you connect the dots of patriarchy, racism, neo/colonialism, and neoliberalism. Gonna take a short break to digest but honestly I'll keep posting as I go along these chapters, probably can do 2 more today
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
Chapter 2 good too, I am getting through this faster than I thought go me. Still first time I've heard of the term moral sadism, also thinking of the saying every accusations is a confession when reading this chapter. That really do be scaring people
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
I'm hungry but also another chapter down and with that 100 pages chapter 3 was good too. It feels obvious to say people against woke don't think but yeah their dogmatic ideas can't stand to be challenged. Once again intersectionality in this chapter that I quite enjoy. I'd keep reading but I ran out of brain juice and will need to sleep on some things I read
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queermunist she/her - 7mon
Yesterday was hard.
::: spoiler carshit
So! Woke up early to do some last minute Christmas shopping, but my tire sensor was pinging me when I started the car. It's been doing that off-and-on since it go cold and the pressure dropped with the temperature, but I decided I'd deal with it today.
The cap was stuck. So, I put in some elbow grease. Then I ripped the stem right out of the tire.
Okay. Fuck. Okay. I work out a towtruck, set up an appointment with Tiresplus (evidently my account with them is still under my deadname, so extra stress cool cool cool), and then spent the entire rest of the morning waiting in the lobby for a tire change. Turns out, those tire sensors are on the stem. When I ripped it out I actually broke the sensor, so that's another $80.
And that was my whole morning before work. The entire time I was panicky because yesterday was the last day before our holiday break (well, it's a plant shutdown, but I had saved up vacation so it's all paid for me) and if I was late yesterday I wouldn't have been paid for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, or New Years Day. Combine that with the $300 hit I just took fixing this stupidity (the tow, the tire, the sensor) and I'd have blown through a huge chunk of my savings. So so so so scared for six hours yesterday.
But! It worked out.
... still have to do that last minute Christmas shopping tho lol
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KrupskayaPraxis - 7mon
Finally ready to start dating guys. I changed my Tinder settings to include guys and holy shit, I get so much more matches, even though I'm way more selective with guys than with girls.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
The few cis men I went on dates with over the apps sucked 👎. Apparently trans men are just invisible. The power of invisibility... and all theyre doing with it is not going on dates with me. Id be robbing banks
Same with me. There's a very high bar for guys but I'm dtf with the girls. I think I'm hypersexual for the ladies and strongly demi for dudes.
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 7mon
I have had multiple dreams about being on a sinking ship since I watched titanic (1997) long ago. And sometimes I catch people talking about the relationship between Jack and Rose on my walks.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
My most common nightmare as a kid was having to go up a very steep hill on a car and falling off, I wasnt driving it was usually one of my parents. I have no idea where it could've come from but it plagued me for years.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 7mon
New When You Fell From Heaven book being published tomorrow - I'm excited about it! (Another book series from the author of Dorley, for the Dorley fans here)
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
It's funny that her two other big books are wholesome cheer leaders and sci fi body horror.
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 7mon
is the wholesome cheerleader story also worth diving into? Kimmy emphatically sounds like it is not something for me.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 7mon
Yes! The first book is How To Fly by Alyson Greaves. If you want you can download the first three chapters for free here, or read them on tumblr.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler worms and dysphoria
I don't think there's anything that could make me feel worse about my body and being male and male puberty and acting male then cis lesbians. I just want to be a woman. And seen as a woman. People looking at me as a woman and not this. Why the fuck did I have to be born male
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler sex and sadness
why does everything about this make me so sad. Masturbating makes me feel sad. My fantasies have been sad for a while now. Touching it makes me sad. Fantasizing about a partner makes me sad and anxious. Feel super terrible about the idea of anyone seeing me, obviously that makes it super hard to get, like idk in the mood or anything. It also makes me worry about finding someone, I know its important for most people and its kinda the thing that makes me feel the most broken. I try not to worry about it because that's a future issue but its still a thing. I just hate being sad and dissociating and broken feeling every time and I still feel horny kinda a lot and should do maintenance, idk.
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rafflesia [she/her, it/its] - 7mon
Is it normal to already have breast soreness after only a couple weeks?
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Ceres [she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler bodyfat
thinking about the last time I went swimming (recently, first time in like two years) and how I could barely keep my limbs underwater compared to sinking like a stone before HRT. my efforts to gain 1% body fat must have worked for that thin full body layer. also meant that I found the water initially way less cold than my friend (even if afterwards it took me soooo long to warm up my core again).
those unexpected tangible effects are always a nice surprise.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 7mon
Your bone density also goes down so there's that
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Ceres [she/her] - 7mon
oooh neat, and checks out
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
This puppy girl shit is rad actually. Or maybe just because the audio I was listening to was combined with self-harm aftercare. This warrants further investigation
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Kuori [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
no it's pretty rad
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RION [she/her] - 7mon
Many people are saying this
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Kuori [she/her, pup/pup's] - 7mon
another doggirl has hit the kennel
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Riffraffintheroom [none/use name] - 7mon
Sometimes it feels like the world ended a long time ago, and I’m the last person alive. Or one of very very few scattered across the globe, and all struggling. Which is probably a me problem. I work from home but I still interact with other people every day, but they feel less “full” somehow. I don’t feel their human-ness as much as I used to and it’s very lonely.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 7mon
::: spoiler negativity (sorry)
When I interact with people it makes me feel so awful. I don't even want to do an in depth introspection right now. I shouldn't be crying after talking to a friend. It's disrespectful. But I can't help it. I'm cooked 3 ways to sunday*
*idc if it's not an idiom, I just made it
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler genitals, sex, kink?
I might actually be happy with my balls now just because CBT feels so good
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
Yer girl has gastro. How the mighty have fallen.
This might be the fever talking, but I had tapped out of House of the dragon after season 1. But damn if the Dunk and Egg trailer doesn't have me feel ready to get hurt again.
I think I like Dunk and Egg better than anything in game of thrones. I wish he'd just made a seven book series of those to begin with.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Support group wayy more interested in some random actor's life then mine goes crazy
that sounds tuff how are you getting through it
-only person who had anything to say about my week (I'm not that's my problem)
I guess I don't know what I am hoping for. Why would I be a part of the conversation.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
You might despise small talk but thats how people engage to figure out deeper talk.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
What do you mean by "figure out" deeper talk? I literally don't understand
And like- that's why I'm there. I can bs about a murder case with anyone. I have plenty of that, anywhere else I go. I obviously want to talk about my actual issues, especially things directly connected to my lgbt 'ness right? Like if I went to an autism support group I imagine we'd talk about autism, or a self harm support group we'd talk about self harm... Is that not the thing we're there for? I understand some amount of talk is going to be about other things but that's like the main thing I'm there for?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
There's a few stages any group must go through to become effective. One of those is the godawful small talk stage where, yes, you have to establish youre a conversational person that others can interface with. Hate it as much as you want, you must engage and deal with it. Deeper talk is the stuff youre there to talk about, people do not know you and want a vibe check and theyre gonna do that establishing as they do their small talk stage. They want to establish they can trust each other. Hate it, despise it, whatever - you must go through it to establish youre a person they can trust and speak with.
Self harm group is gonna be different because typically its gonna be led by a professional who will have other techniques to get everyone on the same page. Neurodivergent groups I cant tell ya maybe they would be different cause I imagine a lot of people there are ready to just jump in (given by how often I hear from people on the spectrum that they hate small talk and wanna skip it, thats the only basis I have for that).
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
The group is already established, it sounds like most of the other people have known each other for some time. It is lead by a therapist.
people do not know you and want a vibe check and they're gonna do that establishing as they do their small talk stage.
I don't feel like they include me in that even tbh. Maybe I get a couple words in. I'll give it at least another week, my preferred lead wasn't there, but idk. Maybe I'll just stop going. I really don't have interest in going and listening to other people small talk and not getting to talk about my actual issues. I want support, help, anything. Also like, I've small talked here, I've talked about my actual issues here, people have said what they have to say. idk why I hoped an irl support group to be better or more helpful.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
Youre coming in new whether the groups established, theyre going to want to get the vibe check off you. You have to still deal with small talk and gossip.
IRL is different than here for a few reasons. We're lucky that people are generally more forward moving in the trans mega but online... there's a lot of people who stay stuck and its a bit of a crabs in the bucket thing. You can make friends irl and you can support each other, which can be more helpful than what people online can do (short of cash or words, which Im sure are appreciated but its not the same as having someone help you move or tell you about a local job opportunity or whatever).
To get to the part where people engage hard with your issues is going to take time and youll have to deal with the small talk stage and youre probably going to have to engage with it. You can also vibe check people there ya know, not everyone is gonna be someone you should trust with that deep stuff.
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jackmaoist [none/use name] - 7mon
Nexperia's China unit switches to local firms for wafer supplies
The development will allow the Chinese unit, which declared itself independent of Nexperia's European management two months ago, to continue manufacturing Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) power chips and modules, switches that regulate current in electric vehicles and industrial equipment.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler negativity about family
(cis) people just assuming my family will come around and be fine and I'll have a good relationship with them in the future. Like fr a huge part of my problem is being seen as my agab and you think the people who were there for that will forget?? The people who saw me as a boy for the longest will eventually view me as my true gender? I don't even want people to see my pre transition pics but people who took them its going to be fine. Who called me my deadname for decades. Like even at this stage I feel like there's a difference in how long people have known me before in how they treat/feel about me.
I'm not being doomer btw, I just find it frustrating that the cis (mostly) think I'll have a fine relationship at some point and it just won't be like that.
I feel like its because they don't want to admit how they really see us tbh
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 7mon
good night
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 7mon
I had no gender thoughts today, was too busy playing Kirby soft and wet. Very simple fan game where you fish. Fish fear me women want me you know the deal
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Kind of a bad feeling to see the extra sugar at the end of my bag of spice drops. I know they aren't healthy but looking at a big pile of pure sugar at the end of the bag if not a reminder I wanted
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bigpharmasutra [he/him] - 7mon
Hi everyone, your local straight dumb ally here. I was hoping the collective could help me with a terminology issue because I got legit thrown by this. I was on a covid dating site and someone described themselves as 'agender'. This is legitimately the first time I've ever even seen this used before so I went hunting for a definition. This the first thing that came up:
So I get (or at least think I get it for the most part) non-binary as a concept. Any of the 'A' designations, my brain kind of defaults to thinking of it as 'non', or being without. Asexual - without sex, Agender - without gender, etc.. This part is what threw me:
"Those who are agender do not need to transition physically, legally, or socially to be agender.[1][4] Agender individuals can have any type of gender expression and use any set of pronouns (including no pronouns),[6] and the term is not specific to any assigned gender at birth.[7] Some agender people are genderfluid, meaning their gender identity is not static and changes from being agender some of the time to being another gender at other times.[1] The concept of a person who has no gender may challenge the notion of sexuality as a spectrum of "same" and "opposite" gender attraction.[1]"
So they're not trans, but not non-binary, but they can be genderfluid? Is this like Schrodinger's gender? Am I just overthinking this?
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 7mon
i consider agender to be both non binary and a trans identity, especially in regards to myself as it's one of my gender identities as a multigender person, but it's better to ask the person in question because they might define it differently. this is generally a more intimate question, a good place to start is asking pronouns and how people like to be referred to.
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bigpharmasutra [he/him] - 7mon
Well of course if I ever met anyone that used the pronoun I would obviously inquire. This is more me just getting confused by something new and slightly complicated. If I can ask, since I'm a little confused by your answer to be honest, how can one be both multi-gender and agender? Isn't that a fundamental contradiction?
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Edie [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
Agender people do seem to me to be non-binary. "Nonbinary [...] means any gender identity that is not strictly male or female all the time, and so does not fit within the gender binary." And transgender, "Transgender or trans is an umbrella term covering all gender identities or expressions that transgress or transcend society's rules and concepts of gender." "However, for various reasons, individual nonbinary people may or may not consider themselves transgender."
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bigpharmasutra [he/him] - 7mon
Agender people do seem to me to be non-binary.
Right, this is what I thought on first read. When it hit the section I highlighted saying they could also be genderfluid then my mind cracked.
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
I consider myself transfem, non-binary, and agender-spec. Briefly, I only considered myself agender and only trans/NB perhaps as a technicality and some agender people don't like using the trans/NB label because they feel like those labels still imply a gender. Its pretty much as vague as NB as a label: if you've met one, then you've met that person. So if you want to know what being agender means to that person, you'd have to talk to them about that. Some don't outwardly display that they're not cis while others may appear to be binary trans.
The thing that unites agender people is the feeling that gender in some form or fashion is something they lack to some significant degree.
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bigpharmasutra [he/him] - 7mon
The thing that unites agender people is the feeling that gender in some form or fashion is something they lack to some significant degree.
See this makes perfect sense to me. Maybe it was just that site's definition including the concept of genderfluidity as also being a part of being agender that threw me off. Or it could just be my old dumb brain not really grasping the entirety of the concept.
You know I never noticed the sidebar pic before. Are those lumpen prole great white sharks and polar bear lenin?
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 7mon
Maybe it was just that site’s definition including the concept of genderfluidity as also being a part of being agender that threw me off.
I assumed they just meant that genderfluid people can be fluid between agender and gender of some sort.
Are those lumpen prole great white sharks and polar bear lenin?
Probably? I don't know anything about its history. Except sharks = blahaj = trans meme.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler negativity
I don't think I can ever make peace with being trans, I also don't really know how I can make peace with that. Nothing but horribleness, isolation, dysphoria. Fuck I'm sad. A curse I will never be rid of or be okay with. Distraught over my body, rejected, outcast. Miserable. Going to have a very sad falling asleep.
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Shaved my arms though. So that's good I guess.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 7mon
::: spoiler sadness
holy fuck I hate this life. Why the fuck. Everything about this hurts so badly. My body. My voice. Everyone around me.
::: spoiler suicide
how the fuck have i not attempted yet like literally
why would I stick around for a life of misery i hate every moment of
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 7mon
New Avatar was fun and worth seeing in theatres. The plot is the weakest point again and it recycled probably too much from 1 and 2 (but we still love seeing whales fight back and giant blue angelic alien dorks squash marines). Comprador Navi is a good idea. Cameron again writes feminine badasses who maintain their femininity while also being covered in blood and raging.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 7mon
I had been getting bored of Warsails. I had an idea for a character last night before bed that I really like. My main character is a tall woman. But a cis woman. She's had kids.
I've made a new character who is a trans woman. She is an Aserai called Farah Banu Fasus. I used the character to editor to make her have a very feminine face compared the masculine defaults, then clean shaven, long hair, eye makeup, etc. She looks pretty and clocky. I gave a high pitched voice that does sound like a voice trained voice. She is going to wear dresses and head scarfs in her civilian outfit. She is not going to become a lord/lady. She is going to be a mercenary pirate with a single ship that is funded by legitimate businesses she owns and gang alleyways. My crew is going to be Corsairs and Aserai naval archers.
Plus I can do the pokemon thing of being in a Lesbian relationship now.
Tommasi in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
RMS Titanic — Trans Megathread from December 15th, 2025 to December 21st, 2025
On the 10th of April 1912, The Titanic set sail from Southhampton in England for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Four days later, just before midnight on the 14th, Titanic struck an iceberg, which caused it to take severe damage and sink during the night, leading to the death of the majority of her passengers.
At the time, Titanic was one of the most advanced ships in the world. It was as a steam-powered ocean liner, a type of ship specifically built to repeatedly make the dangerous crossing between Europe and America. Because air travel was not available at the time, this service was vital, and Titanic was built at a time where different shipping lines were constantly trying to outcompete each other in building the fastest and most luxurious ships. The Titanic was equipped with restaurants, cafes and even a Turkish bath (a sort of spa / sauna hybrid), though due to the strict segregation of first, second, and third class passengers, only a minority were allowed access to these accomodations.
The White Star Line, who built and operated the Titanic, was convinced the ship wouldn't sink, and did not adequately prepare for it, only carrying enough lifeboats to carry a portion of the ship's passengers. While this claim seems absurd today — modern ship are far, far safer than the Titanic, but no one would ever claim they couldn't sink — it was a popular sentiment at the time. Because of the Titanic's novel and highly advanced watertight compartments, it was thought that even if she suffered catastrophic damage, she would bob around on the surface like a cork, rather than sink to the bottom, so there would be no hurry to evacuate the passengers
Later, the story of the titanic would go on to become something of a pop culture legend, the greatest example being the 1997 movie by James Cameron (it's really good actually). A bunch of conspiracy theories about the ship's fate has also popped up over the course of the last century, some gaining significant traction despite the lack of evidence.
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Lol, I learned about my partner's (who I live with) pronoun shift from they/them to they/she via looking at discord.
My partner saw my hexbear profile before I explicitly came out lmfao
I’ve never regretted starting testosterone but it sucks to be on it for 3 years and still having terrible acne despite great hygiene. I’m almost 21 for gods sake, I already am so insecure about looking young. At least I have professionally done tattoos so people know I’m not actually in my late teens but still frustrating.
Sorry you gotta deal with all that. Acne fucking sucks and I hope for a clear skin future for you
discovered a new type of ewwphoria: boymoding around conservative relatives who tell you “if you don’t cut your hair already everyone will think you’re a girl, didn’t you notice all those people calling you ma’am???”
Real, my dad told me this kinda a lot when growing my hair out was still new.
I’m tired of not having any kind of human contact outside of work, where I still have to boymode. I’ve been on HRT for almost a year and a half but still don’t feel confident to be myself yet. I have hope still that will eventually change but it definitely gets to me a lot lately.
Are there any trans or queer support groups in your area? The one I went to wasn't super useful to me, but it was a way into a queer social circle that allowed me to meet more people and be myself.
I forgot to post because I’m wild busy, but I started E yesterdayyyyyyyyy!!!!! I also started bloodborne, hadn’t touched it since youth when I couldn’t beat the cleric beast. Turns out it’s still hard as shit
Here’s some tunes
https://youtu.be/Wrwf5fj4zNI
pausing my euro psychedelic techno to listen to this based Thai psychedelic techno. its so nice to have a soundtrack for important events in our lives. 😊 congrats!
It’s pretty sick, and they say they’re doing another one next year. please post your euro psychedelic techno! thank you, I’m feeling very
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okay! hehehe https://youtu.be/ECNEXh6AziA
its a remix album of didferent artists compiled by sasha, but I do like sasha's other stuff!
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Congrats! Super exciting time for you! Both the estradiol and bloodborne lol. I don't care for fromsoft games like I used to, but that one will always hold a special place in my heart.
Thank you! I’m really excited for the new year, I’ve got a lot to look forward to
congratulations
Yayy congrats :D
Thank youuuuu it’s a hectic holiday but I’m glad I get to start the routine finally
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Sorry for the late congratulations, but congratulations!
::: spoiler transphobia Explain to me why my roomies are trying to draw a line between when it's correct to accept trans people and when it's not?
Okay and? Even if that were true who fucking cares?
Damn I wonder what it's like for people to try to force you to to be a gender you don't identify with. Really must suck tho :::
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yea all that negative attention you get for being trans is actually the reason you transitioned.
cissies are fucking unhinged.
ok now but @isuggestforcefem@hexbear.net has some good ideas actually
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I have a suggestion.
omg I love this
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Oppressors become less sympathetic the more "human" qualities you show (ex - seeking attention, which most people do).
And like, this shit is hard as hell. If you're enduring this much hardship for attention then that's impressive.
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Imagine we lived in a socialist society and I could get free education/housing so I could actually focus on studying properly instead of commuting 2 hours a day and constantly being depressed about being too scared of telling my parents I'm trans cause they might threaten me with finances.
Wouldn't it be amazing?
I'd kill for that tbh
Correction: we all
I just wish we had a jobs guarantee like the SU and other socialist states had
i need to workkk and noone is hiring me...
I have couples counseling today and I am terrified I will out myself before I'm ready. Wish me luck 💜
Thank you all for the well wishes. I made it :)
Good luck!
I wish you have lots of luck
Yo this girl convinced her doctor to up her estrogen tablets to 8mg from 6mg, keep her spirolactone at 50mg and is starting prog now at 10 months!
Injections could be better but right now this working well and is hassle free. I've got good breast development I don't want to wait two months.
Being agender I don't have that much to say about my gender, so instrad I will say that Dune is not a challenging read as I have heard. Most of the sci-fi is pretty easy to pick up on from context clues. It is, however, very very long, and at the start of the second half I am kinda losing my motivation to keep reading
i may have lost a luggage with most of my guy clothes and i feel like this is the universe’s way of saying i have to do social transition already
The time has come, boy moding is the sunset, pretty girl clothes and butch clothes and casual clothes are in your future
I socially transitioned before HRT! Best choice I ever made.
the airline found it lol
Whoa, I’m lookin pretty cute today :)
It’s… nice feeling less like the person in the mirror is someone else?
Hell yeah
This rules and I am happy for you :)
Kind of terrible to admit but one of the "good" things about being out to some people is it forces me to shave my face if I'm going to see them. ::: spoiler dysphoria Actually shaving is dysphoric, leaving it to get stubbly is obviously super dysphoric, this forces me to at least try more often. Nothing more humiliating then telling someone I'm a woman while fucking facial hair on me. ::: spoiler dysphoria + whining fucking hate living like this, everything puberty ruined. I am so miserable. I just want to not be like this anymore. I really can't do this. ::: spoiler suicide should just kill myself already i dont want to do this. its too hard, too much, too painful. its not even worth pushing through. :::
IPL devices work pretty great if you have the right hair for it (which I don’t on my face because I’m an old lady). Works best with light skin and dark hair, but basically it’ll burn the hair at the root and make it grow back much much slower and thinner. Cyperus Rotundus oil also slows growth but doesn’t thin it. I hate facial hair too and struggle against it but hopefully some day I’ll get electrolysis.
ipl doesn't work on face and can scar :/ or I'd already have one, I tried I looked into those options a lot. Maybe I'll look at that oil though
You could whine about how shaving is annoying and expensive and avoid seeing or touching your face instead
I thought that's what I was doing tbh? I mean the very last spoiler was more a stream of conscious complaining about how awful life is bc that's how I've been feeling and its been hurting a lot.
Yea I could, idk I feel like I still feel it a lot and it greatly effects my mood.
I meant to people IRL, instead of worrying about them seeing your facial hair.
::: spoiler mental health Asked my therapist if there's a way for me to pursue a gender dysphoria diagnosis (I just needed some affirmation). "Oh, that's been in your file for almost two years now."
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UMMMMMMM yeah experiment in pupperhood over. It's a thing now.
::: spoiler bottom surgery, bottom talk I wasnt planning on stopping E even though surgeons tell you to do it. Its bs, they dont tell cis women to get on estrogen blockers or whatever.
But I might... because I really wanna use my clone a dick thingy so I can literally go fuck myself after. And I feel like a few weeks off without an anti androgen would be the best for that. :::
You should totally make multiple copies for yourself and maybe other people you like enough as a sacredly kinky gift.
Congrats on your upcoming surgery. So exciting.
I absolutely wanna. Plus... the idea of having someone else using it is lovely
Wish me luck lads, ladies and ladexes. I need it to prevent my parents from noticing my boobs which have grown since last time. My only hope is that since its winter I can easily wear sweaters inside and never be in a shirt. I've even prepared tops with checker patterns to break up the 3D contour of my boobs
And since last time, they never checked my bag, I've decided to even take my vibrator over.
Good lord am I terrified of them finding out about my boobs. This is not going to be an easy vacation.
They will almost certainly not notice
I got some pretty big tits and I got people who ignore them at work and call me "sir" all the time. I have no idea how people miss these things
I think I'm going to try laser and voice therapy. It's been a while since I made some actual progress.
laser is genuinely life-changing
Late with the post and I have a headache, it's too cold for this shit
such a comrade that the artifacting is so potent
WaitingGet better insuranceGet up to date health recordsSchedule consult!!!!!!!!!!Take a deep breath, deep breath
Oh vibrator in my bag
Why did you turn on in public
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Voice update: reading voice is perfect, I no longer drop pitch while reading, my voice is bright, and my vowels are sharp. Spontaneous conversation is still rough but I'm working on it.
Speech therapist said conversation is the hardest thing to do and that I've come a long way fast. She also said that pitch is the only thing I need to focus on, everything else I've already got down.
To semi-quote the prodigy: “change my pitch up, not the other part”
Sibling smacked my chest earlier
sensitive as fuck and can't react
Getting destroyed at work and missed my trans support group for the second week in a row 😮💨 I don't know how people enjoy this time of year. I love people and want to have a good time, but there's too much stuff going on for me
On the plus side, got gender euphoria from having feminine earrings and being told they suit me :]
This reminds me I really wanna get my ears pierced
I love it 🥰 I am hoping to get more piercings soon
::: spoiler guess who just got her ears pierced FUCKIN' MEEEEEEEEE
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Hoops or studs? 😄
Studs!
I wanna do hoops at some point but not yet
I feel like studs is the way to go while it heals! I got hoops when I got mine pierced, and they were a lot more trouble than they were worth. You never realize how much you bump your ear until you get a piercing haha. I hope you love them and best of luck with healing 🥰
It would be funny if I showed up to my parents' house with pride colored nails, wouldn't it? It's just a question if I have the balls to do it.
Would the even recognize them? I have a friend who I showed my trans-colored nails after last pride month and I think that friend might still have no clue I'm trans.
I know my dad would. Hell, even just painting my nails black would catch their eyes as it would be the most outwardly fem thing I did in front of them and they are quite conservative. But my dad def knows the colors. I wouldn't even be surprised if during pride month, his office made him do sensitivity training or something.
I went to a trans community thing and a new girl dropped!
There was a person who'd never attended before and was super early in transition. It was really exciting.
Oh fuck that’s gonna be me next year
Lol it was me like 6 months ago when I started getting involved in stuff. Time goes fast!
After two years it seemed like my mom had almost adjusted to using my pronouns consistently, but now it looks like she's learned the One Weird Trick where she can just constantly say my name and avoid ever having to use any pronouns for me at all.
Now that I think about it, that's a good reason to finally make that my deadname.
Beat Celeste's core, wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. B sides I did for hearts were worse.
Sorry the mega is late, i fell asleep
uncritical support to our eepy trans comrades
Holy fuck I need to shave my arms and legs and fucking everywhere I hate it. Haven't felt good at all or I normally try to
Shaving makes me feel nice, it's important to do self-care, take some time for yourself
It makes me feel nice too, problem is shaving when I feel terrible leaves me with a bunch of cuts...
My skin does not do well with razors, so I bought an epilator and it's so much better. A little painful, but so much better
Ugh same 🖤
Down with cis
down with cis
down with cis
down with cis
Down with cis
UP WITH TRAAAAAAAANNNNNSSS
RAWR
UP WITH TRANS
UP WITH TRANS
up with trans
up with trans, perchance
UP WITH TRANS
Getting a basic eyeshadow routine down 😄 Feeling good about my progress. I'm so thankful there are a million tutorials on youtube.
Got my dress out of the back of my closet. Wearing it feels natural :)
I've also been playing Celeste again. My fingers hurt lol
Went to go message someone but its too late, maybe tomorrow. I got to get better at messaging people. Figuring out how to- what to say is always difficult for me to navigate. Actually makes me really sad thinking about how many of my relationships have vanished because I don't know how.
Oh, something good though, work gave me a $10 gift card which is pretty sweet. Its to subway but I'll regift to my sister.
I keep bumping into shit with my ass at work because I'm not used to being this thicc and it is so affirming
other trans girls talking about how much can still change with your body well past 2 years HRT. I already have such big tits as it is
, you mean these things might get bigger? I've only been on HRT for about 19-20 months
Some people continue to have breast growth years into hrt. The other women you're related to can give you an idea of how this might go for you.
me in 2030 looking like a fucking anime girl with spine shattering G cup tiddies
good lord woman, how busty are the women in your family
Yes. My boobs are still growing. Typically for cis women it takes like 10 years before they properly stop developing. The timeline that changes stop at like 2 to 5 years was always a little silly. Changes that happen after that can be a little subtler I guess but its not like it stops
Being genderfluid / multigender is so cool. Imagine there are multiple options and you just laugh and say "I will have many options, I do what I want!!" And sail away in your pirate ship
Why did I have to wake up for this useless-ass meeting?
should have been a useless ass-meeting instead.
I can't believe I've been xkcd 37'd
But yeah I'd get out of bed for an ass-meeting
Omg. I was lining up in a local takeaway near where I work on Fridays and the cashier a small woman in her 20s took my order then blurted out "also you're really pretty!" then she blushed and wouldn't make eye contact. I blushed and said "thank you that's so kind".
It's a rougher area than were I live and I worry about being visibly trans sometimes. But here I was in my designer tank top and palazzo pants, with silk scarf, hand bag and high heeled boots, a tasteful combo of red, dark orange, gold and black, next to tradesmen and blue collar workers.
It was really lovely.
(I'm in a relationship. I understand this was flirting etc)
Also something about "really pretty" is nice because beautiful can sometimes be used in a patronising way.
Awww that's so good I would be GLOWING for weeks after that interaction!
It was so nice and it's going to keep me going for a while. As I posted before turns out I'm getting sick today but at least I had that.
::: spoiler dysphoria+introspection
As long as I'm boymodding I don't think I can genuinely connect with people. Social interaction is a nightmare because I'm always just concealing my true self and feelings.
And all this can be proven by the fact that my interaction with the transphobic friend are much more pleasant because I don't put up a front anymore.
I prefer being derided to the kind of interaction where we both pretend I'm just a guy.
And the other dude starts complaining about how the girls he finds are always so vapid while also saying "women who attract abusers must have have something wrong with them". The irony seems to be lost on him. But I guess since I get along well with these assholes I too must have something wrong with me (I do. I let people walk over me).
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::: spoiler spoiler Yea real, even being out to some people I don't feel like I can, maybe when the dysphoria passes or whatever. :::
Had fun at our queer TRPG/boardgame club last night (played Wingspan), and also at the after-party (invited folks back to our place and we watched Knives Out 3).
We're going to a nearby city for another LGBT boardgame club this weekend, and I will be taking my partner to Torrid for a shopping trip to try out skirts/dresses.
Wingspan fucking rocks
I feel bad and lonely and needing connection but I don't know how I can actually fix it. I know some people at work, I guess, but idk. idk what I'm looking for. Just feel shitty. I don't know what I want to talk about, or do, or anything
Oh and actually as far as work goes, tomorrow is the only day I'll prolly see any of them for the rest of the year. That's cool. I love being friendless and dysphoric.
::: spoiler spoiler Life would not suck or hurt or be so miserable and lonely and isolating and just constantly feel like my whole body is on fire if I was cis
my life has just been horrible for years and years and that's why. fuck my life. when will the pain end :::
fuck I feel horrible.
Maybe you also want them to see the real you.
Got through 2 more chapters of who's afraid of gender 4 and 5, I promised myself I'd do more but damn Mondays just might be an exception. Still halfway through is good, I'll do my best to finish it and 2 other books before the year is over
It’s me, I’m afraid of gender 😨
::: spoiler spoiler I feel awful. Why are there so many things.
Dysphoria (voice, body, treated, name, everything)
Feels very unlikely I'll get promoted to full time. Fucking need full time to move out. Can't be fucking stuck at home.
I just feel terrible. I don't want to keep going :::
::: spoiler spoiler ::: spoiler suicide I just need to kill myself I swear to god :::
I am beset by gender-affirming cramps and bloating
::: spoiler pregnancy/childcare yearnings and hormone journallings as well as a bit pre transition si, could be triggering to some?(long) I really love being a transfem. The longer I spend in transition, the more worthwhile I think this journey is, and I wouldn't want that to be any other way. And god, do I find trans bodies to be so damn beautiful, never really understood the idea that testosterone mutilated my body, or anyone's. I'm just who I am, and used the resources available to me in this world to shape my body in such a way that reflects my mind.
One thing I wish was possible in this time we live in was I wish so much that I could bear a child, or at least, raise one. I'm not alone in this feeling, I know. Infertility is something a lot of people deal with, my reason is only unique in that I wasn't born with a womb. It's funny, because I used to hate children so much pre transition, simply because I hated being alive so much. As I started being fortunate enough to be able to interact in the world as a feminized individual and being recognized as such, I began to love children, and relate to people and life that feels so much more whole.
I try not to be jealous of women who can choose to have a child with such relative ease, of a close family member who is raising a 2 year old, seeing how much love they practice with each other. Something I will make my peace with in time, I think.
I wasn't born in a time where I could bear a child in this body of mine, but maybe I will get to see the beginnings of that if I should live long enough?
I have such a strong maternal instinct, and often find myself drawn to be the mother of many in my friend groups, and I love this. I hope as I keep going through this life that I can find ways to mother and nurture folks as I can. Lot of different ways to be a mother, I suppose. :::
::: spoiler spoiler
Its because T shaped my body in a way that does not reflect my mind. Warped it, ruined it, destroyed it. Many things about it permanently. Things I care about more then anything. It shaped into the wrong way. A way not reflective of how my mind is. I don't understand how other people don't understand this or feel the same. :::
::: spoiler spoiler I get the tension between thinking trans bodies are beautiful and understanding people who say that the darker stuff about wrong puberty - I love my trans body personally, I think Im pretty sexy and while Im getting bottom surgery and had a tracheal shave I still feel pretty aligned after years of HRT.
I worked in pediatrics! I found it very rewarding. I didnt want kids before transition, same as you - I did figure out that was about not wanting to be a father, being a mother on the other hand sounded lovely! I couldn't afford freezing my sperm so I made my choice, and later when I get bottom surgery itll be foreclosed. Ive never felt bad about it, I was always open to adoption and fostering or surrogacy anyway. Probably best that my genetics ends with me and my siblings generation anyway... and its shaking out like that. :::
::: spoiler spoiler yeah i love my trans body and also reckon with i got bottom surgery and ffs in it. feeling a lot more at home in my body than i ever have, and the world views me more in line with how i wish it to. i find it very funny that masculinity really did not work for me as a man, but now i am pretty masc leaning woman, and i feel a lot more at peace.
I did not freeze my sperm either, as i knew that i wanted any of my genetics to end with me. but i very much feel like i could be a mother. i'm still quite young and might find the chance to do so. :) :::
touched up my nails and like from a distance they look fire but if I bring them up close it's noticeable, bleh
I gotta find some more vegan nail polish
Plasma center asking if I feel alright to donate I lie yes, actually got the woke mind virus... Spreading wokeness one donation at a time
::: spoiler CW boofing This girl boofed her prog last night. I always find it funny when guides suggest using a sterile needle to pierce the capsule (and I say this as a healthcare worker). Like I'm putting this in my butt? It's a dirty area already. I just used a badge pin. :::
Toothpick undefeated
piercing it is not necessary anyway
Let's talk about pronouns and their placement, is it like the ingredient listing where the first one is the majority/preferred or am I looking too much into it. I've had people use my neopronouns all of 2 times so by having them second am I signaling use they/them first and then fae or do people just use which ever is easier?
personally, i usually use the first set with people i don't know well
with people i do know well i use whichever they prefer or whichever set i feel like using in the moment if they have no preference
People started doing they/she cause people wouldnt use they, ever, if you had a she/they thing (like a pin or here with pronouns listed). Cause they default to the gender binary. Which, on the one hand, one is saying theyre fine with both... but maybe sometimes you wanna hear or read the other one. And I guess its different for everyone why they list what they list and the order they put it in now, maybe for people the first is what they wanna hear most often.
I put He first because of the perception that the first one is the most important, but I consider all of them (they/fae/he) to be equally preferred.
I switch the first one around depending on my mood, but lately ive been using He because its interesting to front with a pronoun I havent used that much. Maybe I will do Fae in the near future 🤔 because I would like people to use that set.
i honestly think most people just default to whatever is closest to their perception of normalcy, so they/them would probably be ranked above fae/faer and the like for most cis people and a decent chunk of trans people (unfortunately)
it's a little work but i like to cycle through them if it's possible to do so without creating undue confusion
I've been getting an unusual amount of gender euphoria from my name lately. Like I have been realllllly liking it. It's the same name that I have used for over a year but somehow it feels even better on me. I think gender things might be happening to me. Both my gender euphoria and gender dysphoria moments have been getting somewhat more intense.
::: spoiler bodily fluids and/or crying over spilt milk So I yoinked it last night and I don't think anything came out? Which I think is the first time that's ever happened. Of course my volume has gone down a fair bit since getting on HRT, but it seemed fairly consistent until recently—probably correlated with injections?
Still not sure how I feel about it. Less clean up is nice, but it's still strange. Plus I know people are commonly into the fluids so I'd worry about that being a deficiency with any future partner. Maybe I should get on one of the nutmaxxing stacks :::
I've been getting nothing for quite a while now. There is a little that slowly dribbles out afterward but there's no shot at all. I've heard there's a big range of nut volume after starting hormones and some don't see much change. Guess I'm on the low nut extreme
Yeah, I'm an extremist:
::: spoiler spoiler I remember my last proper cum lol. Enough E and prog for enough time and I guess you dont really make it the same way. From partners Ive had... it's uh more pleasant after the changes. Also now I fucking leak like a garden hose with someone hot enough when we're just making out, its crazy!! Personally, I do like it better this way. :::
I guess I haven't really been able to test drive it with anyone so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
::: spoiler spoiler Yep, nothing comes out for me either. I've heard that it's different for everyone, but most people that I've talked to about this say the same thing sooo idk? I thought it was weird the first time but I'm happy w it now! :::
I hate the depression and dysphoria and giving up on life mood can I go back to either hating all of humanity or worrying about work or something
Also why is my life cycling between those three states like what the fuck
it really seems that much of non-western global regular people cuisine is "dip or scoop tasty stew with crispy bread" and i'm like "omg that's my favorite thing to do"
Mom genders me as a guy typically, but when I joke about sleeping in a bed with my brother without implying anything sexual, I'm suddenly suggesting something inappropriate? The default has been expecting me to give up my bed and sleep with my brother if a guest needs one (guess I get my bed to myself from now on?). Interesting seeing how quickly someone's perception can change.
Doesn't really even make sense to me. Like, why is it okay if we're both guys but not if one of us isn't? Its not like any of us are straight anyways.
::: spoiler negativity, venting no ones ever gonna love me and every time im authentic, most ppl like me a little less :::
Everything feels so stagnant when I'm not working towards my transition. Like I'm just waiting to unbox my real self into existence, then I'll start living my life, and then I'll be worthy of being treated like a girl irl.
::: spoiler searched at airport (off-putting)
Disadvantage of not being legally trans shows up when the airport security guard runs his hands over your body (and even breasts, twice just to be sure). I even thought he was about to take off my shirt and I panicked. Then running over my butt and thighs.
Genuinely what the fuck. How is this even necessary for security? Mfs did a full body all spectrum scan already.
At least the airport people kept misgendering me, so that means that I'm safe from my parents 🙂
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Trans
I wonder if they sunk the Titanic in homage to the SS Anne in the Pokémon anime (spoilers).
I think I would be okay sinking to the bottom of the ocean if the SS Anne theme played
The post office is transphobic for not delivering my package before the weekend. Actually maybe it won't even arrive this year if this keeps up...
My headache I thought I got from reading so much yesterday is probably me just coming down with something, until I know what it is I'm gonna label it the woke mind virus since I was reading about gender
This was a cursed night shift.
I hate working trauma.
My t4t poly network keeps growing :3
Estrogen continues to be the best thing that ever happened to me
When did you first start to feel the effects of progesterone? I'm two weeks in. (And a year on E and bica if that's relevant)
It was maybe a few weeks before I started feeling more uh feral. Sleep stuff happened faster but I got used to it
Do you happen to be on finasteride or dutasteride? They can reduce or entirely neutralize the mood effects respectively
I'm not
Cock tuah and chomp on that thang
::: spoiler voice dysphoria I usually don't struggle with voice dysphoria, but during my last session of the day, I got hit with this huge wave of it where it was very uncomfortable to hear myself talk. I really hope this doesn't become a thing now. Basically my entire job is talking. :::
::: spoiler spoiler I have been completely tuning myself out since puberty. My voice coach asked me if I wanted to record myself and pick a pitch. I told her no, I simply go by how often Im misgendered 😬 :::
::: spoiler spoiler
real and tbh this is one of my big problems with voice training, not doing that/playing with my voice/paying it any attention is the worst thing in the world. fucking hate all of it nothing makes me more doomer
Like how are you tuning it out but also consciously changing it etc? I just do not get it it hurts me so bad :::
::: spoiler spoiler There's exercises where the focus can be on a feeling rather than a sound. Making a loud MMMM sound and pitching it up should help you feel the buzzing going from lower to face lips and even nose. You can feel your Adam's apple kinda pop back at the right spot too when you do the NG sound glides (I had a tracheal shave so mine isnt as obvious but I can still feel it). I also used a pitch analyzer thing on my phone, all it does is pitch no resonance or whatever else. But it is nice to see the pitch go up over time.
Your soft palette also backs up for a brighter femme sound even when you gotta yell and project and thats a physical sensation over a sound (for me) :::
::: spoiler spoiler So am I supposed to just like do the "high" or "forward" or whatever mmmm and my voice will get better? I can feel it moving yea.
Can you explain what either of these mean and how they relate to the exercise? :::
::: spoiler spoiler Different exercises.
Mmmm sound is loud af as you can handle. Start low, lower than your normal speaking voice. Slowly pitch it up. You will feel buzzing. The buzzing will move from chest up to your mouth and teeth and even your nose and sinuses/cheek bones as you keep going up. You'll probably be happy at the pitch where its at your mouth/teeth. Then youll pause a sec, and say My, Me, May, Moe as a list. Only one of those at a time, then restart from looooow.
NG is also loud, really push your tongue against the back of your mouth. Put your finger where your trachea zone is, you will feel it pull back where youre aiming to be later. When you practice youre gonna go a little higher than there to pull up your regular day to day ppitch. It sounds weird but it has worked for me over the last couple months by a lot.
The soft palette one is a totally third different exercise. Dont worry about it too much. When you gasp, you can feel it pull up. :::
this tbh I'm in a situation where I hear an echo I stop talking too
I have a super power because of it! Most people cant talk through a slightly delayed echo, but Ive been tuning myself out and speaking without hearing myself for a good long time. I can speak clearly through it lol
Does laser get rid of the "beard shadow"? Cause I fucking hate that shit.
Me too it's what bothers me the most
For me it has but its taken a lot of sessions with quite a few electrolysis on top. I think Im about done finally after like 4 years of this. Don't have to shave anymore which is nice
Yeah I want to spare my skin the daily razor
Yes there's a noticeable reduction within a few sessions, and it should be entirely gone by the time you're done. I feel exactly the same way.
Yes, laser targets the hair follicle, damaging it so that the hair won't grow back. Usually within a few weeks after a session, hairs begin to fall out and then don't grow back. When the hair is gone, so is the shadow it produces. But it does require multiple sessions to get rid of all of it, because each follicle is in its own growth cycle, and they need to be in the active growth phase for them them to be affected by the laser.
Because I have darker skin, it took me a lot of sessions, as they had to use a lower setting to make sure it wouldn't cause burns and blisters. You can also get a numbing cream you can apply like an hour before each session, so that it doesn't hurt as much. In the end, it was totally worth it though. I haven't needed any facial shaving in years.
Lol my life is falling apart lmao
Thank you ❤️
Another one
don't know what's going on but wish you the best
Just a lot. I actually spent more time crying last night than sleeping. And then more today. Lots of stress-induced vomiting too. I’ve been feeling really isolated lately and this means a lot. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Anytime
I'd offer you a hug and food irl if I knew you
Btw did you ever get mint installed?
I'll need to get back to it, one of my laptops I've benched and the other I'm not finding windows 11 as smooth. Mostly been busy with family stuff these past week but it's also just hyping myself up to give it another go
You can do it! I just picked up a new old thinkpad, and I’ve been wanting to play with nixos, so I’ve got a similar project on the horizon when I can get some time. I hope the BIOS cooperates and things go smoothly for you this time :)
I'll give it another got this weekend then, having an old laptop to carry around to write on would be fun. Thank you for the encouragement Shallot always appreciated
::: spoiler not exactly suicide? Honestly kinda hoping for a nuclear war that instantly obliterates me :::
root mean square titanic
Horror movie about bad sensor data and it’s called root mean square terror
Going to sleep with so many high level ideas kinda hurts my head but it's a good ache like going to the gym
my brain is gonna be so big tomorrow
I am just really tired and want to go lay in bed, it is too early though
just worn out. Can't think of much to post :/
Tired and burned out and emotional. I have to work the weekend and then I have some time off around christmas. I don't wanna return after. I'm done doing, I'm done thinking, worrying, feeling. All of it. There's too much and I don't want to do any of it.
-Work (both doing and finding)
-Taking care of myself
-Taking care of pets
-dysphoria
-transition
-where I'm going to live
-everything about finding a partner
-everything else
Its so much
a fun part of being vegan is pairing different plant milks with different things. Im increasingly stocking more kinds in my house so I can go 'hmmm almond milk with this cereal, unsweetened soy as a cheese sauce base, oat for oatmeal...'
I'm gonna go back into pretending (before it becomes real) that my nail polish is my health bar. Means touching them up every day or so but it's a neat idea I feel
Estus flask themed nail polish bottle??
That be dope could lock in a jade underneath and a yellow on top 🤔
I am really enjoying WarSails no game has really scratched the Assassins Creed Black Flag like this. I wish I could sail outside of combat though, like in ports or just on the world map.
The only problem is that something needs to be tweaked to make large naval battles more common. I've only had two really memorable, touch and go ones. Every other battle the outcome has pretty much been predetermined by ships and numbers, it's just how skillfully it's pulled off. Factions need to have dedicated Sea-Lords and Land-Lords based on their holdings and size. So that in a war they're not just sailing in a straight line to their target but patrolling in big fleets etc.
Still there's some really neat things you can pull off that I'm surprised by. One time I was on the aft of the ship and in heavy waves. the enemy galley was raised up so that for a brief moment I was able to jump the short distance and suddenly be on their ship with falx in hand cutting their sailors down by surprise.
Hey guys it's the cool new liberal superhero
I'm recovered from my gastro it was really short lived but it has ripped through my family with alarming speed.
I went to get some shopping. I decided to wear an elf hat and elf ears. It was funny to see the triple takes I got. "Hey that lady has elf ears!" followed by "Oh hey that lady is a t-slur"
Also long elf ears give me gender euphoria and I worked out why, they make my chin and nose look more in proportion with my face. All the ladies in my family have big noses, it's not just a being trans thing, my chin is though. Also they peak out of my straight black hair and look really cute.
F4f audio when I'm in transit or on break at work >>>
RoteDisaster really the goat
::: spoiler spoiler ::: spoiler suicide Idk what to do to feel better anymore. I've been having suicidal thoughts almost constantly now. I had maybe an hour break yesterday. It's just constant. Constant misery, constant thinking about killing myself. So dysphoric. Nothing has really helped. I've talked about it, people have given me their input, I've tried distracting myself and it's still mostly miserable and suicidal. There's just nothing. I hate sitting in misery like this. It hurts constantly. I think about killing myself constantly. I have had no motivation to do anything I don't absolutely have to do. I've been playing a bit of Celeste I guess. This is awful and nothing is making it better. :::
I'm sorry you're having such a difficult time Eggnog; I wish I knew how to help.
Thank you, it's okay. I appreciate it.
::: spoiler spoiler Maybe it will get better one day (sooner would be better)
But we can still virtual hug.
Seeing you be miserable most of the time is just
All I cam say is that you remind me of me early this year. I think there is a good chance once you get a couple of months in, things will be better. Not good, but more tolerable.
:::
::: spoiler spoiler I already am a couple months in to hrt
But thank you
I'm sorry you have to see me miserable most of the time.
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::: spoiler spoiler
It's OK. You don't have to be sorry. You're the one hurting. Don't apologise to me.
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::: spoiler same Just kill me already I'm done suffering like this.
Why the fuck did I have to be born like this and why the fuck does it hurt me so much more :::
Looks like next year I'm closing the long distance gap. 2026 is going to be the year of making things happen.
After two years of waiting for a lot of things to start moving forward again, I'd say it's about time to have things to look forward to. Even electrolysis sounds exciting again, never thought I'd be saying that smh
read up to the current chapter of Dorley, and now I must wait. holy shit, what a good story.
i was also more than halfway through before i realized it is fucking longer than War and Peace.
no way... I think I want a hard copy now of it and a few other ao3 things just so I can see how thick they are. I guess when something's interesting it doesn't matter how many pages it is
War and Peace-587,287 Words
Sisters of Dorley Hall-1,000,725 Words
I cannot believe I read so much force fem novel, but it is actually so incredibly good.
How is trans healthcare in Canada compared to a solid blue state in the US? With that amendment to their citizenship rules I might be able to get it and it'd be nice to have that as an option
What amendment?
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2025/12/bill-c-3-an-act-to-amend-the-citizenship-act-2025-comes-into-effect.html
Damn, was hoping it was something to help trans people generally
frankly I would be beyond shocked if something like that came out of
Depends a lot on the province, definitely research that side of things.
First chapter of who's afraid of gender quite good, talks about the phantasm of gender and has a lot of intersectionality that's quite
part of me is "no yeah that makes sense" when you connect the dots of patriarchy, racism, neo/colonialism, and neoliberalism. Gonna take a short break to digest but honestly I'll keep posting as I go along these chapters, probably can do 2 more today
Chapter 2 good too, I am getting through this faster than I thought go me. Still first time I've heard of the term moral sadism, also thinking of the saying every accusations is a confession when reading this chapter. That
really do be scaring people
I'm hungry but also another chapter down and with that 100 pages
chapter 3 was good too. It feels obvious to say people against woke don't think but yeah their dogmatic ideas can't stand to be challenged. Once again intersectionality in this chapter that I quite enjoy. I'd keep reading but I ran out of brain juice and will need to sleep on some things I read
Yesterday was hard.
::: spoiler carshit So! Woke up early to do some last minute Christmas shopping, but my tire sensor was pinging me when I started the car. It's been doing that off-and-on since it go cold and the pressure dropped with the temperature, but I decided I'd deal with it today.
The cap was stuck. So, I put in some elbow grease. Then I ripped the stem right out of the tire.
Okay. Fuck. Okay. I work out a towtruck, set up an appointment with Tiresplus (evidently my account with them is still under my deadname, so extra stress cool cool cool), and then spent the entire rest of the morning waiting in the lobby for a tire change. Turns out, those tire sensors are on the stem. When I ripped it out I actually broke the sensor, so that's another $80.
And that was my whole morning before work. The entire time I was panicky because yesterday was the last day before our holiday break (well, it's a plant shutdown, but I had saved up vacation so it's all paid for me) and if I was late yesterday I wouldn't have been paid for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, or New Years Day. Combine that with the $300 hit I just took fixing this stupidity (the tow, the tire, the sensor) and I'd have blown through a huge chunk of my savings. So so so so scared for six hours yesterday.
But! It worked out.
... still have to do that last minute Christmas shopping tho lol :::
Finally ready to start dating guys. I changed my Tinder settings to include guys and holy shit, I get so much more matches, even though I'm way more selective with guys than with girls.
The few cis men I went on dates with over the apps sucked 👎. Apparently trans men are just invisible. The power of invisibility... and all theyre doing with it is not going on dates with me. Id be robbing banks
quality men will rob them for you
Same with me. There's a very high bar for guys but I'm dtf with the girls. I think I'm hypersexual for the ladies and strongly demi for dudes.
I have had multiple dreams about being on a sinking ship since I watched titanic (1997) long ago. And sometimes I catch people talking about the relationship between Jack and Rose on my walks.
My most common nightmare as a kid was having to go up a very steep hill on a car and falling off, I wasnt driving it was usually one of my parents. I have no idea where it could've come from but it plagued me for years.
New When You Fell From Heaven book being published tomorrow - I'm excited about it! (Another book series from the author of Dorley, for the Dorley fans here)
It's funny that her two other big books are wholesome cheer leaders and sci fi body horror.
is the wholesome cheerleader story also worth diving into? Kimmy emphatically sounds like it is not something for me.
Yes! The first book is How To Fly by Alyson Greaves. If you want you can download the first three chapters for free here, or read them on tumblr.
::: spoiler worms and dysphoria I don't think there's anything that could make me feel worse about my body and being male and male puberty and acting male then cis lesbians. I just want to be a woman. And seen as a woman. People looking at me as a woman and not this. Why the fuck did I have to be born male :::
::: spoiler sex and sadness
why does everything about this make me so sad. Masturbating makes me feel sad. My fantasies have been sad for a while now. Touching it makes me sad. Fantasizing about a partner makes me sad and anxious. Feel super terrible about the idea of anyone seeing me, obviously that makes it super hard to get, like idk in the mood or anything. It also makes me worry about finding someone, I know its important for most people and its kinda the thing that makes me feel the most broken. I try not to worry about it because that's a future issue but its still a thing. I just hate being sad and dissociating and broken feeling every time and I still feel horny kinda a lot and should do maintenance, idk.
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Is it normal to already have breast soreness after only a couple weeks?
::: spoiler bodyfat thinking about the last time I went swimming (recently, first time in like two years) and how I could barely keep my limbs underwater compared to sinking like a stone before HRT. my efforts to gain 1% body fat must have worked for that thin full body layer. also meant that I found the water initially way less cold than my friend (even if afterwards it took me soooo long to warm up my core again). those unexpected tangible effects are always a nice surprise. :::
Your bone density also goes down so there's that
oooh neat, and checks out
This puppy girl shit is rad actually. Or maybe just because the audio I was listening to was combined with self-harm aftercare. This warrants further investigation
no it's pretty rad
Many people are saying this
another doggirl has hit the kennel
Sometimes it feels like the world ended a long time ago, and I’m the last person alive. Or one of very very few scattered across the globe, and all struggling. Which is probably a me problem. I work from home but I still interact with other people every day, but they feel less “full” somehow. I don’t feel their human-ness as much as I used to and it’s very lonely.
::: spoiler negativity (sorry)
When I interact with people it makes me feel so awful. I don't even want to do an in depth introspection right now. I shouldn't be crying after talking to a friend. It's disrespectful. But I can't help it. I'm cooked 3 ways to sunday*
*idc if it's not an idiom, I just made it
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::: spoiler genitals, sex, kink? I might actually be happy with my balls now just because CBT feels so good :::
Yer girl has gastro. How the mighty have fallen.
This might be the fever talking, but I had tapped out of House of the dragon after season 1. But damn if the Dunk and Egg trailer doesn't have me feel ready to get hurt again.
I think I like Dunk and Egg better than anything in game of thrones. I wish he'd just made a seven book series of those to begin with.
Support group wayy more interested in some random actor's life then mine goes crazy
-only person who had anything to say about my week (I'm not that's my problem)
I guess I don't know what I am hoping for. Why would I be a part of the conversation.
You might despise small talk but thats how people engage to figure out deeper talk.
What do you mean by "figure out" deeper talk? I literally don't understand
And like- that's why I'm there. I can bs about a murder case with anyone. I have plenty of that, anywhere else I go. I obviously want to talk about my actual issues, especially things directly connected to my lgbt 'ness right? Like if I went to an autism support group I imagine we'd talk about autism, or a self harm support group we'd talk about self harm... Is that not the thing we're there for? I understand some amount of talk is going to be about other things but that's like the main thing I'm there for?
There's a few stages any group must go through to become effective. One of those is the godawful small talk stage where, yes, you have to establish youre a conversational person that others can interface with. Hate it as much as you want, you must engage and deal with it. Deeper talk is the stuff youre there to talk about, people do not know you and want a vibe check and theyre gonna do that establishing as they do their small talk stage. They want to establish they can trust each other. Hate it, despise it, whatever - you must go through it to establish youre a person they can trust and speak with.
Self harm group is gonna be different because typically its gonna be led by a professional who will have other techniques to get everyone on the same page. Neurodivergent groups I cant tell ya maybe they would be different cause I imagine a lot of people there are ready to just jump in (given by how often I hear from people on the spectrum that they hate small talk and wanna skip it, thats the only basis I have for that).
The group is already established, it sounds like most of the other people have known each other for some time. It is lead by a therapist.
I don't feel like they include me in that even tbh. Maybe I get a couple words in. I'll give it at least another week, my preferred lead wasn't there, but idk. Maybe I'll just stop going. I really don't have interest in going and listening to other people small talk and not getting to talk about my actual issues. I want support, help, anything. Also like, I've small talked here, I've talked about my actual issues here, people have said what they have to say. idk why I hoped an irl support group to be better or more helpful.
Youre coming in new whether the groups established, theyre going to want to get the vibe check off you. You have to still deal with small talk and gossip.
IRL is different than here for a few reasons. We're lucky that people are generally more forward moving in the trans mega but online... there's a lot of people who stay stuck and its a bit of a crabs in the bucket thing. You can make friends irl and you can support each other, which can be more helpful than what people online can do (short of cash or words, which Im sure are appreciated but its not the same as having someone help you move or tell you about a local job opportunity or whatever).
To get to the part where people engage hard with your issues is going to take time and youll have to deal with the small talk stage and youre probably going to have to engage with it. You can also vibe check people there ya know, not everyone is gonna be someone you should trust with that deep stuff.
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::: spoiler negativity about family (cis) people just assuming my family will come around and be fine and I'll have a good relationship with them in the future. Like fr a huge part of my problem is being seen as my agab and you think the people who were there for that will forget?? The people who saw me as a boy for the longest will eventually view me as my true gender? I don't even want people to see my pre transition pics but people who took them its going to be fine. Who called me my deadname for decades. Like even at this stage I feel like there's a difference in how long people have known me before in how they treat/feel about me.
I'm not being doomer btw, I just find it frustrating that the cis (mostly) think I'll have a fine relationship at some point and it just won't be like that.
I feel like its because they don't want to admit how they really see us tbh :::
good night
I had no gender thoughts today, was too busy playing Kirby soft and wet. Very simple fan game where you fish. Fish fear me women want me you know the deal
Kind of a bad feeling to see the extra sugar at the end of my bag of spice drops. I know they aren't healthy but looking at a big pile of pure sugar at the end of the bag if not a reminder I wanted
Hi everyone, your local straight dumb ally here. I was hoping the collective could help me with a terminology issue because I got legit thrown by this. I was on a covid dating site and someone described themselves as 'agender'. This is legitimately the first time I've ever even seen this used before so I went hunting for a definition. This the first thing that came up:
https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Agender (very cute design btw)
So I get (or at least think I get it for the most part) non-binary as a concept. Any of the 'A' designations, my brain kind of defaults to thinking of it as 'non', or being without. Asexual - without sex, Agender - without gender, etc.. This part is what threw me:
"Those who are agender do not need to transition physically, legally, or socially to be agender.[1][4] Agender individuals can have any type of gender expression and use any set of pronouns (including no pronouns),[6] and the term is not specific to any assigned gender at birth.[7] Some agender people are genderfluid, meaning their gender identity is not static and changes from being agender some of the time to being another gender at other times.[1] The concept of a person who has no gender may challenge the notion of sexuality as a spectrum of "same" and "opposite" gender attraction.[1]"
So they're not trans, but not non-binary, but they can be genderfluid? Is this like Schrodinger's gender? Am I just overthinking this?
i consider agender to be both non binary and a trans identity, especially in regards to myself as it's one of my gender identities as a multigender person, but it's better to ask the person in question because they might define it differently. this is generally a more intimate question, a good place to start is asking pronouns and how people like to be referred to.
Well of course if I ever met anyone that used the pronoun I would obviously inquire. This is more me just getting confused by something new and slightly complicated. If I can ask, since I'm a little confused by your answer to be honest, how can one be both multi-gender and agender? Isn't that a fundamental contradiction?
Agender people do seem to me to be non-binary. "Nonbinary [...] means any gender identity that is not strictly male or female all the time, and so does not fit within the gender binary." And transgender, "Transgender or trans is an umbrella term covering all gender identities or expressions that transgress or transcend society's rules and concepts of gender." "However, for various reasons, individual nonbinary people may or may not consider themselves transgender."
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Right, this is what I thought on first read. When it hit the section I highlighted saying they could also be genderfluid then my mind cracked.
I consider myself transfem, non-binary, and agender-spec. Briefly, I only considered myself agender and only trans/NB perhaps as a technicality and some agender people don't like using the trans/NB label because they feel like those labels still imply a gender. Its pretty much as vague as NB as a label: if you've met one, then you've met that person. So if you want to know what being agender means to that person, you'd have to talk to them about that. Some don't outwardly display that they're not cis while others may appear to be binary trans.
The thing that unites agender people is the feeling that gender in some form or fashion is something they lack to some significant degree.
See this makes perfect sense to me. Maybe it was just that site's definition including the concept of genderfluidity as also being a part of being agender that threw me off. Or it could just be my old dumb brain not really grasping the entirety of the concept.
You know I never noticed the sidebar pic before. Are those lumpen prole great white sharks and polar bear lenin?
I assumed they just meant that genderfluid people can be fluid between agender and gender of some sort.
Probably? I don't know anything about its history. Except sharks = blahaj = trans meme.
::: spoiler negativity I don't think I can ever make peace with being trans, I also don't really know how I can make peace with that. Nothing but horribleness, isolation, dysphoria. Fuck I'm sad. A curse I will never be rid of or be okay with. Distraught over my body, rejected, outcast. Miserable. Going to have a very sad falling asleep. :::
Shaved my arms though. So that's good I guess.
::: spoiler sadness holy fuck I hate this life. Why the fuck. Everything about this hurts so badly. My body. My voice. Everyone around me. ::: spoiler suicide how the fuck have i not attempted yet like literally
why would I stick around for a life of misery i hate every moment of :::
New Avatar was fun and worth seeing in theatres. The plot is the weakest point again and it recycled probably too much from 1 and 2 (but we still love seeing whales fight back and giant blue angelic alien dorks squash marines). Comprador Navi is a good idea. Cameron again writes feminine badasses who maintain their femininity while also being covered in blood and raging.
I had been getting bored of Warsails. I had an idea for a character last night before bed that I really like. My main character is a tall woman. But a cis woman. She's had kids.
I've made a new character who is a trans woman. She is an Aserai called Farah Banu Fasus. I used the character to editor to make her have a very feminine face compared the masculine defaults, then clean shaven, long hair, eye makeup, etc. She looks pretty and clocky. I gave a high pitched voice that does sound like a voice trained voice. She is going to wear dresses and head scarfs in her civilian outfit. She is not going to become a lord/lady. She is going to be a mercenary pirate with a single ship that is funded by legitimate businesses she owns and gang alleyways. My crew is going to be Corsairs and Aserai naval archers.
Plus I can do the pokemon thing of being in a Lesbian relationship now.