Lancer - Trans Megathread from January 26th through February 1st, 2026
Lancer is a... weird little guy? I dunno even though I really liked undertale I didn't really vibe with deltarune and never played past ep1. I do vaguely remember having fun fighting him.
Soooo, uh, yeah, that's Lancer I guess. I'd love to hear about everybody's favourite little weirdos.
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 6mon
you can go ahead and sign me up again, just at the end is fine
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Pretending to be asleep
My parents are talking about forcing my hair to be cut (they really have a problem with it)
My brother starts defending me and shuts down their convo.
What a good kid.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
I came out to my little brother!
It went ... completely smoothly lol. No surprises on that front.
He guessed I'd been transitioning for 4 years. This was actually kinda correct since I did start exploring my femininity around that time (aka when I left home)
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
I'm so happy for you!!! Having a supportive sibling rules
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Thanks. Everyone I came out to was supportive except the 2 friends that I actually spend the most time with. Quite funny how that works.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
That's a recurring theme I keep seeing on coming out stories. Somehow the people who seem like they know you best have the hardest time with it. I'm glad that most have chosen to support you :)
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
Wasn't the worst birthday I've had, I didn't even cry. But someone forgot or at least didn't say anything which felt and continues to feel bad. And I can't help but wonder whether they'd care more if I was a real girl
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
Surprise I just postponed crying until this morning in the bathroom at work! My deskmate had the good sense to take away the nail I had found on the floor, and then I asked her to take away the scissors and button/pin from my desk. I guess that's all progress
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Proud of you for that, I've never asked someone to take my sharps
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
I was kinda surprised myself. I was gonna ask her to take the nail away but lost my nerve, since she did that I figured it'd be good to ask for help with the others
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 6mon
The Time Has Come (Again)
Also just got my ears pierced and I feel so cute and gay :)))
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imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 6mon
Yay first piercings are so exciting!
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Hell yeah! To both things 🥰 Did you get lobes pierced or something else?
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 6mon
Just lobes! Got cute little studs and the soreness is gone, so way more chill than I expected
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
That's great! Studs should heal up super fast too 🥰 Are you planning to keep them as studs or swap other earrings?
::: spoiler unsolicited advice
Be careful putting on / taking off shirts / bras. Even though they feel chill now, a big bump or pulling on them will make them very mad.
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 6mon
Eventually I'd like to try other more feminine earrings, but I think I'll probably stick with studs for now. Thank you for the advice, I've gotta be super delicate and careful
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
It's my birthday :/ I wish I could just postpone it or something.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
Happy birthweek then maybe birthmonth or birthyear if you feeling bold
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
Birthlife, perhaps
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
Happy Birthlife 🥳
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 6mon
Birthdays are so complicated, especially being in the middle of transition. The pressure to make each one special~ definitely doesn't help either. I'm sorry it's going to be one of those days
Is there something nice you can do for yourself today? Maybe it won't be a birthday you think about often, but getting through life and being on HRT for a year recently are worth a lil victory lap. Even if it's just getting takeaway :p
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
Well I have leftover Indian from dinner with my family last night... will probably eat that, assemble some IKEA furniture and then cry a little
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Mom is currently discussing with her friend as to why I suddenly went from keeping a buzz cut to growing out my hair.
"What could have happened?"
Truly a mystery for the ages
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
Being a professional library goer (unemployed) I was asked to fill a survey today. Passionately wrote down all the library did for me and how cool it made me like on a spiritual level
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forcefemjdwon [she/her] - 6mon
professional library goer (unemployed)
Same
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
at least the staff is nice to me
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forcefemjdwon [she/her] - 6mon
At mine I got invited to a Marxist reading club because someone saw I was reading Lenin, lol.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
At the library, reading What Is To Be Done and nodding so people know I agree
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
I got a second hand copy of capital that I might as well read
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler sex
Had sex with a dude for the first time last night, bi confirmed
He was really nervous and couldn't get it up but gave great head and knew how to finger the prostate like a pro. Looking forward to when he can annihilate my ass
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
Happy for you! Totally not jealous or anything
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Important PSA:
Many people want a mommy to take care of them. But where do mommies come from? Not from the sky*! In order to fill the shortage of mommies, we need more femmes to step up and become mommies themselves.
We must seek eggs to nurture them!
*I know your mommy is an angel, but that's besides the point
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 6mon
ayy i'm a butch and a mommy too
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
It took me ages and ages having boobs before I started having them in my dreams. But it was like 2 days of having a vagina that I started dreaming it was there, that was super fast.
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 6mon
In 2000 you could get a plant based McDouble for $1 and a side of estrogen for 50 cents
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Dad takes my phone. Starts looking at my lock screen which is like some enby mf with 6 arms meditating in a dumpster surrounded by LSD angels. His comment was "anime ..."
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 6mon
::: spoiler negativity, jealosy
Sometimes i cant stand seeing other trans ppls progress photos or happiness/joyposting or selfies, stuff that should be positive and feel-good just makes me jealous and upset. Idk if somethings wrong with my brain, i hate it
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I think if you feel that way, then the best thing you can do is to redirect that energy from a negative direction to a positive one. If you want what they have, then the question is how you can obtain it as well. I don't think there's anything wrong with your brain: reframing and rechanneling these emotions is a skill that you can practice.
Sometime the answer is just "time" and you can take comfort that it's something you can look forward to. Sometime the answer is "effort". For me, I felt envy when it came to relationships and appearance. I obtained the first by putting myself out there and going through the stress of dating, and for the second I put a lot of practice into makeup and learned a lot about fashion. There are still things that I feel a bit jealous of, like shilouette and voice training: these things are definitely addressable, just harder for me and I know that with effort (and time) they are achievable.
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 6mon
Ty for the helpful reply, rationally i know ur right and i shouldnt compare myself to ppl whove been transitioning for way longer with way more effort than i have, and whove developed their relationships over years and sometimes decades, the idiot part of my brain just keeps telling me theres no hope for me specifically. I am trying/will try to think about it in a more helpful or at least less self-hating way, tho
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CornWoman [she/her] - 6mon
That's a problem with social media in general. It makes you negatively compare yourself to others. I have trans friends who are doing very well in their transitioning. I try to overwrite my feelings of jealousy with feelings of happiness for them and their personal transition, but also look at all the progress I have made and how my journey is unique.
Sorry if this is not very helpful advice, this is just my way of dealing with it. I'm new to being transgender, so I can't really offer much more.
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 6mon
No need to apologize!
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler HRT and body changes
I think my boobs are starting to grow. I can feel a little bit of new fat on them, they bounce a little when I'm moving around too. I am a very skinny person and I know how my body feels pretty well, so I guess I'm just noticing very small changes, but it feels nice to know things are happening.
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Can't believe I'm at 6 weeks already. Very excited for what's coming next.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
You should be! The growth will only accelerate
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Oh wow. If that happens I'm getting big booba this year still
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Leading our monthly meeting tomorrow, fuckin hell how did I get roped into being center stage
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
I wish I had someone. I'd like to yap a bit and cuddle. I'm tired. And I kinda wanted to talk more earlier today but idk what specifically about or what I'd want to message someone about.
I'd also like to have someone to cuddle with me right now. I feel alone.
Cuddling and yapping about stuff, two things I wanna do.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Looking at my chest and low key wondering if there's visible growth? Like at least for me, doubt anyone else would notice atp (thankfully).
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Moss [they/them] - 6mon
Everyone start using linux right now! Linux mint is so easy. I booted up windows and was shocked by how much slower it is than linux
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Linux has raised my standards for what a computer should be by so much that it's painful going back to Windows. Mint has given new life to an old laptop I have 🥰
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
But I already am? Agreed it was a smoother transition than I expected and I find myself dislike windows even more pretty much immediately after. I still use it for some work-stuff unfortunately.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler I want to scream
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 6mon
It's weird to go back and be totally different. Time moves, but everything is familiar. I guess life is just like that.
Reconnecting isn't always bad.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler HRT, body changes, family stuff
Nipples feel very sore, chest feels a little soft and I can feel it bouncing a little bit sometimes. My sister noticed my nipples poking through the shirt, not sure how to feel about this, maybe I'll need bras soon. Being in the closet to my parents and still living with them sucks, I'm going to be in trouble on the next few months, probably.
There's also this headache and brain fog, I can't manage to do anything at the moment, not even videogames, maybe I'm just tired, I don't know...
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
What are your levels? A brain fog could be indicative of either having higher than desirable levels of E, or low levels of both E and T.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I'm not sure about levels yet, but I have a blood test next week. I think my T is low by the effects in my body. This brain fog started on sunday and I do my injection on monday, so my levels were at their lowest, but I think I'm just tired, or maybe it's depression too, idk
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Yeah, your E trough could just be a bit low, so increasing E or shifting your injection schedule may be helpful. For example, I have prescription EV, which has a shorter residence time than EC/EEn so I split my injection in two (taking half on Wednesday and half on Saturday) to have more steady levels.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I'll wait for my blood test results before any adjustments, but I'll keep this in mind, thank you
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Congrats on the changes! You might be able to hide it a bit with just a snug undershirt+looser overshirt. But eventually proper support becomes helpful so you can run around with feeling like you need to hold your chest (which doesn't take much when they're super-sensitive). Built-in bras are at least a little less obvious what they are at a distance, but still something that catches attention if people try, say, folding your laundry or hug you with their hands right at the bands.
If you are taking spiro, make sure to hydrate well. Easy to get dehydrated even if you feel like you're drinking a lot.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I'm not sure how things will play out yet, but I'll have to come out if I absolutely need bras. There's no way to hide my laundry and wash it by myself or something, my parents will see it.
I'm on injections, Een. But maybe I do need to drink more water.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Been crying lately thinking about the different life experiences the women in my life have had that I never will. Today's was a wedding. Imagining how they must have looked on their day. I wish that was me. I wish I was a normal, typical woman. A husband, kids, just how they look and are...
...but I'm not. I'm not straight. I can't have kids. Even if I could I think my autism/overstimulation would make it not for me. I just want to be them. And I'm not.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
Comphet sucks yeah
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Yea I guess it is comphet stuff. Idk, I want that. Maybe I'll look into how to deal with it.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
I mean if youre straight, thats fine. But you definitely dont need a boyfriend or husband to have a wedding or wear a wedding dress. And being a mother does not require that you actually give birth to a kid, besides adoption or step kids theres also surrogacy.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Ahhh, never tucking again~ so nice.
Youre supposed to be pretty dry the first few weeks and months of bottom surgery. And since I have nothing to do, Im off work for this, Im pretty much sitting around with my pussy out all day lol
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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 6mon
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
::: spoiler wierd?
I tell my friend that I don't feel joy from anything anymore and I'm depressed af. He tells me "you need to get fucked"
I mean, true ಠ_ಠ, but kinda crazy to tell someone.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Yeah, that's out of left field and sounds pretty misogynistic to me.
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TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them] - 6mon
He must be having some insane action if it stops making him depressed
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
He's not getting any action because having too high a weight is making him lose confidence.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Nightmares every single night sucks. I used to have great dreams too. Constantly woken up from this.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
I get these pretty consistently as well. Are they about anything in particular?
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
I used to get lots of night terrors before, but they have stopped recently. Not sure why, maybe being on E plus my anxiety medication helped quite a lot
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
I get bad dreams and proper nightmares when I take Benadryl or Tramadol. Otherwise theyre usually pretty boring. Or pleasant!
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Sister asked my mom (who I'm assuming would be the supportive one) how she'd react if I was gay and she refused to respond, how over is it chat?
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
It's not necessarily over, since parents can come around once their child comes our. But there doesn't seem to be a big possibility of things going smoothly anymore.
Coincidentally, this type of reaction to probing is exactly why I haven't come out of the closet either lol
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Honestly how crazy would I have to be to think they'd be any kind of supportive. They don't even like gays and I've always seemed like a normal, but depressed, guy. FML
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
There are some people who are homophobic, but not transphobic (which sometimes leads them to doing pressuring gay people to transition, so they're not gay). Don't think it common in the US, but it happens.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Yeaa but that's not them
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Parents are hard to judge. My father I thought would respond badly and came around so quickly. On the other my parents-in-law seemed really accepting and woah they reacted poorly.
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puppygirlpets [pup/pup's, she/her] - 6mon
a lot of parents don't even know how they will react themselves until it happens. my mum had christian brainworms and was all "it's a sin! eternal damnation will await you!" blah blah whatever. but after i came out she was all "a loving god wouldn't condemn my child to hell for being a removed"
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
I assumed my mom would have tried to be more supportive when I first realized I was trans (until my brother brought a trans boyfriend home...) and I assumed my step-mom would have been more disapproving (even if I assumed she wouldn't express it much directly).
By the time I actually came out though, I suspected the biggest problem I'd have is I'd have to deal with my mom's dysphoria (egg?), and that turned out more true than I even expected.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
::: spoiler transphobic family, rambly
My dad messaged me for the first time since christmas day and I don't know I guess I'm actually really considering this being the moment I cut ties.
I haven't had an actual relationship with the man since high school, and even then I always kept him at arms length. We never talk about anything that's important to me except for when I asked him to call me by my name and he can't do that I guess. He knows nothing about me. I'm seriously curious what he'd say if someone asked him to describe me. I don't think he'd get anything beyond the suface level right. I think I could say more about the girl at the coffee shop I buy chai at than my dad could say about me.
I send him songs every now and then which he ignores, and every couple of months he calls me and I give him a bullet point list of the interesting things that have happened since the last call, and that's it. That's my relationship with my dad. That's the totality.
So like he's just some guy, right? Literally just some guy I happen to be related to genetically and who has my phone number. Which would be cool if he was some guy I talked to who called me by name at the very least, but he doesn't even do that. So why do I indulge in his calls?
I really don't know how to explain this to him, but that's where I'm at.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
I got conscripted to be an Estrogen tester at the femmeperor's imperial court :(
They gonna take me to the flower capitol and dress me up in smooth silky pink robes
Then they gonna force me to wear jewelry and makeup and "serve" her majesty's every "need" TT
Thankfully I'm a communist spy so I gotta assasinate her then run away. It's only temporary. I gotta endure.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
Learning to 'put my mask on before assisting others' is fucking difficult wtf, can I just not and be fine anyway pls
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
Ive seen so many people on sour natural gas sites run in after a downed guy only to add to the number of people that need to be rescued.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
It's like a metaphor or something
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 6mon
Oooooh
I've been forgetting my evening HRT, thaaaaat's why Ive been tossing and turning for so many sleepless hours recently.
I'm so silly.
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Moss [they/them] - 6mon
I've seen a few megathreads on the topic of Lancer, but it seems to be some kind of computer thing I'm not aware of. Now its the Lancer I am aware of! Yippee!
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Moss [they/them] - 6mon
Also @Disaster_of_Passion@hexbear.net if you really liked Undertale I highly recommend Deltarune, imo its a much better game. Chapters 1 and 2 are officially demo chapters, so I'd recommend playing up to chapter 2 and see if you like it.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
If you put your gender under your pillow when you sleep the trans fairy will replace it with a new one
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
::: spoiler CW Transphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, family abuse, Australian nonsense
So Australia has this reactionary federal senator, called Pauline Hanson. She's always doing these little media stunts (wearing a Burka to parliament to be Islamophobic etc). On the federal public holiday that is so called "Australia day" she released a transphobic song that was a collaboration with a failed former TV star/musician/trophy wife called Holly Valance, who has also been a reactionary ghoul for a while. She was famous for being on a Soap Opera called Neighbours, tried to become a singer but didn't get very far, married a rich guy just to get divorced etc.
And it's transphobic anti-woke trash. Quality wise it's dogshit. Like you couldn't do an ironic camp cover of it or something, because it's so characterless.
But it's kind of made me sad. Which is I guess there intention, but for a different reason. Like I'm in my late 30s and Pauline Hanson has been around since I was kid, just being a piece of shit. It's like wow the same dumb shit from my childhood.
My dad was really homophobic. He worried I'd be gay (lol he was right just not in the way he thought). So he'd buy me all these swimsuit magazines. Not like hardcore porn, just bikini stuff. But I had quite a few posters of Holly Valance (she's a few years older than me and was probably most famous when I was in high school) on my teenage wall and I would stare at those amongst others with yearning I now understand was dysphoria.
And I don't know it's just fucked to hear about someone who you haven't thought about in decades and they're a piece of shit. Like fuck I don't want little domino Holly Valance fails her music career, big domino I get murdered transphobically. That's so chicken shit.
At least Natalie Bassingthwaighte (another Soap Opera actor of the time who had a more successful music career) is a trans ally.
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
I used to think I was a cat, starting to think I'm a puppy now though. Not sure if I'm sometimes kitty sometimes puppy, or just puppy yet, remains to be seen.
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 6mon
Perhaps a puppycat?
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 6mon
Arfpurrฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ?
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
My group is meeting in a few weeks and it looks like I'm going to be able to make it, looking forward to it a lot. The therapist has a trans son too and I'll be able to meet him. And see all the people irl (usually we have a zoom call)
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
This will be the first Valentine's Day that I will be spending with a partner. Definitely trying to make it special. So far, we got a hotel room in a nearby city that's on the same block as my favorite LGBT bar, and there's also several nearby nightclubs for dancing (including an LGBT nightclub). There's an LGBT clothing swap/charity thing that we're going to earlier in the day, and we have reservations at my gf's favorite sushi place in the area. Really looking forward to it.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
4 months of injections, a reminder on my phone, thinking about it several times throughout the week and multiple times in Friday itself, still nearly go to bed without doing it.
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Nasalstrip [he/him] - 6mon
I don’t even have a regular schedule after 3 years I need to get it together. I just have the world’s worst executive dysfunction. And I wonder why my moods are so low so often, as if I don’t regularly have low T because I put things off lol
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Yeah. It's tough. I've been doing it for a year, and also do my partner's injections, and I also forgot to do it from time to time. Forgetting and doing it the next day doesn't have any medioum-term/long-term impacts though, and maybe not even short term depending on what your levels are.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Spoiler alert, it doesn't get better.
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
Think I'm getting brain zaps from sertraline withdrawal, delivery is like a week late. Thanks Mark Cuban I love it
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
When I was coming off effexor, that shit sucked. Brain zaps, irritable, if I looked to the side too quick I got dizzy? Saw double anyway. It was rough. Im very glad I had it for the year and a half I was on it, but coming off SUUUCKED
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RION [she/her] - 6mon
It really do effex her
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 6mon
sertraline
i was woozy for a whole month after they took me off it. Like you feel dizzy but your balance wasn't impaired? It was so weird.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
I hate every part of taking care of my hair. In the shower, brushing it, dealing with it when it's wet, it all sucks. Tbh with yall I do not deal with it every day. I have to get better about it.
Just more and more personal care shit. Plus I ha e to add makeup at some point, plus skincare, plus actually doing all the things I'm already supposed to do.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
I only wash my hair every other day, sometimes every three days. I wash my body every day but not my hair. It gets oily for a bit but oil is just texture and eventually your scalp chills out and stops producing as much and you just have regular hair every day. I guess it depends on the type of hair you have but I have pretty wavy style curly hair and it doesnt need a wash literally every day.
Who told you you had to do makeup or skincare every day?? Do you tell the women in your life they should be doing their makeup everyday?? People talk about retinol every day, but thats wayyy too much and not necessary anyway. Might sound harsh but this sounds very much like internalized misogyny. It sucks to start being a woman after years and years of hearing about patriarchal misogynistic beauty standards and then realizing "oh shit this applies to me" and not having the mental antibodies for it yet - rest assured, youre a woman if you dont do your makeup every day and you dont wash your hair every day. Skincare if you wanna get into it can be a moisturizing sunscreen and your 100% of the way there, I have other stuff I do cause I like it not because I have to.
The stuff you have to do is what makes you happy, eggnog.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Well every 3 days is still more often then I wash mine tbh with you.
I guess I just thought that was typical?? Like a lot of the women in my life do at least something every day I feel like, even before workouts and stuff. Skincare I thought people usually did stuff at least once a day. Plus I know makeup can help with passing and stuff which is important to me.
Might sound harsh but this sounds very much like internalized misogyny.
No I just thought that was what most women did?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
So why would you "have" to do makeup? Especially if you are currently saying you dread it? You don't have to.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
I mean I guess yea, I don't literally have to, just that it seems really expected for women to do, and I'm transitioning to be a woman. And even more so because I'm trans and it would help me look better which I need even more. idk, I kinda get what you're saying, do you understand what I'm saying?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
You do not have to do makeup to be a woman, if you want to do it because it makes you happy than do it. If you think its an obligation, its not. Maybe it'd help you pass but the dread you felt suggests maybe you don't want to do makeup. So don't!
it seems really expected of women and Im transitioning to be a woman. And it would help me look better
This part is beauty standards and internalized stuff. You should talk to your support group about these feelings and that you felt some dread about it. Also... you might like makeup later when youre doing it (I do)! If you like it do it! Not bbecause you "have" to or "women have to" - do you tell women in your life they need to wear makeup?
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Skincare can be as simple as just applying some moisturizer after taking a bath. You can do something everyday yes, but it doesn't have to take a lot of time or effort. And remember, if you can do a little better than yesterday it's already progress, go little by little and you'll get where you want to.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
You can even get moisturizers with sunscreen in them, making it just one product!
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
Well every 3 days is still more often then I wash mine tbh with you.
I cowash a couple times a week, but I only shampoo like once a week.
I guess I just thought that was typical?? Like a lot of the women in my life do at least something every day I feel like, even before workouts and stuff.
I never got the impression that it was typical. But my main examples wouldn't be exactly typical women (and one may not be one at all).
Skincare I thought people usually did stuff at least once a day.
I've tried to remember to at least put on lotion/cream/ointment at least once a day. But that's because I'd start to bleed if I don't do that kind of skin care. Likewise for my brother. I don't think I would otherwise. If you think you'd benefit from doing more than you are, then do it. As Alisu pointed out, it can be as simply as putting on some lotion/ointment after a shower to avoid drying out.
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 6mon
disco elysium
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 6mon
my life is a cartoon
unfortunately that cartoon is Bojack Horseman but like 4 times sadder and not even that wacky this last season
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
What you all need to understand that while I may come off as a whiny loser when my family needs me I lock the fuck in and become their rock
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 6mon
down with cis
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Dowm with cis
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 6mon
down with the cisness
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Got a progesterone prescription! Unfortunately, my PP doesn't do suppositories, so I'll have to see if the 100 mg oral has a benefit (or if it's a capsule that can be taken rectally), but they do offer a 200 mg prescription. PP appointment went well. Was kinda worried since my last set of labs wasn't on the patient portal, but they had them in the office and those levels were good even after I went on EV monotherapy.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Most of the capsule don't say they can be taken rectally but you can. I've been doing it for 6 weeks and they seem to be giving me fat tits and a better mood.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Yeah, that's basically what I'm planning to do. I might start with oral to see if there's any effect for a few weeks, and then switch if the capsule is compatible.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Oral can make you sleepier sometimes people like this, but it's weaker.
But what I'm saying is there is no prog capsule that you can't take rectally, even if there is nothing on it about that.
It's off label use but lots of trans healthcare is. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't intentionally make medicines for us.
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queermunist she/her - 6mon
I take tablets sublingually, but they take a long time to dissolve so I just go to sleep with it under my tongue.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
For a while now I have been trying to thrift theory books. Kind of a useless personal challenge, but hey, it's free for as long as I can't find anything 😭 Local used bookstore politics section is 99.8% reactionary garbage and 0.2% gems. Finding a compilation of Lenin's writings printed from before the fall of the Soviet Union today was pretty cool. I have now seen on paper.
Unfortunately still no Little Red Book. Not sure if I'll ever find that one in the wild TBH.
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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 6mon
Obviously this depends on where you live, but second-hand/military surplus places tend to have a lot of cool communist literature (because the military dorks see it as an equally interesting subject as fascist literature). HOWEVER, you have to go into those places, which often sucks for trans people.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Hmmmm unfortunately the closet has been made of glass for me, so I'm not sure I could even safely boymode in that kind of place. Still, it's an interesting idea 🤔 This is where I can make use of my cis party members 😆
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Real. Some people used to ask me if I "wanted to be a girl", but I didn't even know I was trans yet
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
I have learned only recently that many people suspected I was secretly a gay man, but no one ever said that to my face until I "proved" I was by being more comfortable in femininity. I think growing up I outright told some people I wished I was a girl lol
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
i'm gay
:::
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Do you want a medal 0_0 ?
gives you medal before you reply
You earned it
pats you on the back
:::
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
me too
:::
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
::: spoiler dysphoria, loneliness
Because of loneliness I missed out on romance in my teens and early twenties. How do I convince myself it doesn't matter?
:::
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queermunist she/her - 6mon
Yeah I'm in the same place. I have no advice, just solidarity.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
I think every LGBTQ person gets to redo their 20s but good. Or take your pick of decade.
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Well, idk about convincing yourself it doesn't matter (whatever that means), but there's nothing you can do about what happened. What you can do something about is the future. I missed out on romance then too, but now my life is full of romance and love off all kinds! It's doable!
:::
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I was in a toxic relationship starting in high school and continuing for 20 years, off and on. I'm only just starting to figure out how to have healthy relationships now in my late 30s after working through decades of trauma. The first step is just getting into social situations with people any way you can, finding common ground (queer and trans groups are a great place to start), and making friends. Shit's fucking scary at first but just be open and honest around enough people and you will find some that want to hang out and that can lead to more down the line. Whatever it is you like to do, find other people doing the same thing and chill with them.
:::
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sictransitgloria [she/her] - 6mon
well the best time to start gaining that experience is today. we are all on our own journeys, lots of people do not experience romance during parts of their life
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Tell yourself it doesn't matter over and over again until it becomes a mantra in your head. Hypnotize yourself.
:::
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
It's more likely to have been bad than good. More mature people make better relationships, not always, but a lot of times. Most young people I know/have known get into awful relationships, so I would say it does not matter much, just get some good experiences now, those are the ones that count.
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Just got invited to a friend's wife's baby shower (former labmate and close colleague), and I am super excited. This will be the first time introducing my gf to my former labmates in person. They have all been supportive of my transition so I hope everything goes well.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Drinking alcohol is like having an older lady friend/aquintance that you see once in a while and hook up with on occasion. Not as glamorous as the youthful energy drinks, but God, she certainly knows her way around your heart.
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 6mon
okay but what if I have both at the same time
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
Four Loko is a lady you have crazy chemistry with but youre both very toxic for each other and bring out the absolute worst out of each other. She broke her hand in a bar fight and got pins put in and then when you went back out she got in another fight and the pins poked out like wolverine. She gave you the worst stick and poke tattoo. You got her to start smoking again. But the hook ups are really fucking good
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
This was exhausting just reading this used to be my type and I'm glad I never went down that path
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
That is called playing with fire. Aka, cheating with a married women.
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TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them] - 6mon
Where'd you get one
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 6mon
idk I just used to mix monster and vodka on my own
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TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them] - 6mon
No the other thing
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 6mon
idk I'm too busy mixing monster with vodka by myself to figure that one out
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
Mixing energy drinks and alcohol is not very safe, avoid mixing them. Both caffeine and taurine are bad to mix with alcoholic beverages. There is a reason why you cannot sell a drink that mixes them
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puppygirlpets [pup/pup's, she/her] - 6mon
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
This would 100% be banned in here. I think the US banned these too. Do not drink anything like this. Energy drinks may mask the effects of alcohol and make you drink way too much, it is pretty dangerous.
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iridaniotter [she/her] - 6mon
You can get espresso martinis and vodka red bulls at bars in the US, and one of our coffee chains started selling canned spiked lattes at alcohol distributors.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Idk if I'm onto something or if I'm just channeling my inner pervert.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Yes, I did kinda fall back on energy drinks. Very hard time. I'll try to quit again.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Recently have become more of a workaholic, which sucks. I guess I just don't want to deal with anything personal because it's gotten too difficult for me again. Feeling exhausted and empty in a way I haven't since college.
I'm hoping soon I can get hormone levels checked and start figuring my gender shit out. Honestly, my biggest mood boost lately is from finding a good excuse to shave daily so I can actually see myself sometimes.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
Im also a workaholic, I pick up a lot, I work long hours. Before I was a nurse, I worked one job in construction from 6 am to midnight (at that time so I could avoid my ex). I definitely work a lot to avoid stillness and rest and that kind of thing. Its been tough for me after surgery and recovery to not be constantly busy...
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
This really resonates with me! I come from a long line of emotionally closed off workaholics, so I feel very antsy and judged if I sit still for even a moment.
By the way, I hope your recovery has still been going really well! I haven't seen any other updates, so I'm hoping that means it is 🙂
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
Oh yeah I stopped after going home! It was just the days in the recovery house I was posting about. From now its mostly boring and mostly "I dilated 4 times today and each time took between 1.5 to 2 hours agter icing, dilating, douching, cleaning, drying" lol
Ill make another update when I see my gynecologist~
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
Dysphoria is making me fail my classes :(
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sictransitgloria [she/her] - 6mon
::: spoiler being rly gay
I posted a bit ago about how this one girl sort of saps all of my charisma. I guess because I have a huge crush on her
well we finally kissed!! it was so much fun y'all, she gave me a hickey and every time I see it or remember what happened I get all 🥰😵💫😌 she's so so so cute agsuxiwjwb
I will still probably be rly nervous when I'm around her but it's nice to know for sure she's into me hehehe
:::
so my confidence is through the roof now 📈📈 how to fully internalize that though is another story...
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Goblinmancer [any] - 6mon
Every single choice in video games after 2011 boils down to "Stormcloaks or imperials"
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
My room mate called me hot in a way that made me uncomfortable
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 6mon
i am reaching new levels in not being okay with myself
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Anyone trans around these parts?
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Thought it would be cool to learn how to ID different animals, and thinking of starting with marine mammals. However the book I'm downloading is huge (lots of pics) and AA is being finicky. Just please download overnight.
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 6mon
identifying animals / plants / rocks / etc one of my favorite things to do
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
I wish I was evil. Would make being alive so much easier.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
I think I get the sexy plumber fantasy but it's more like it be hot if I had an HVAC job and was making money, I'd skip the sex part just to be explaining further how neat dual run capacitors are to some milf
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
I'd also point out the reversing valve to her explain the sequence of events that turn it on which wire it is from the thermostat and how a failure for it to change over has either to do with the power or more likely low refrigerant possibly from a leak some where. This is a heat pump fantasy but can also apply to PTACs. That my friends would be the life...
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
I need to do something for Valentine's Day because fuck me this is getting sad
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
I cut my bangs back into existence and I definitely increased my cuteness rank. More cuteness updates to come hopefully
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queermunist she/her - 6mon
I think my water is going to be frozen all fucking week. I swear this happens every year in January and I always think "I should replace the heat tape on my plumbing when it warms up" and then I never do and then it happens again the next year. 😞
At least shaving is super easy after laser. I just have little whiskers that need electrolysis to finish off and can get a nice smooth shave with a single pass. I'll be shaving from a hot bowl of water, but well, that's what I fucking get for not fixing my shit.
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 6mon
::: spoiler /personal
Every so often, my username reflects how I'm feeling. I'm very good at processing and packing things away, but there's this one jagged thing I struggle to get a handle on. Unfortunately, something I have to do this week will take me somewhere a bit scary. Standing in the shadow of past trauma, I can't help but feel uneasy.
It'll be alright, though. I'm making progress.
(Tbh this post was really just for me)
:::
Transition steps are often scary
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HexaSnoot [none/use name] - 6mon
I'm afraid that because I've been reduced to an "it" by shitty people, I could never confidently be called "it." I don't think it's my pronoun, but I want to feel like I could be called "it" if that were truly my pronoun. Who else wishes they could be called "it" if it were their pronoun, but couldn't put up with sticking to that pronoun due to trauma?
For those who go by "it" confidently, how do you do it?
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imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
only let queer pals use my neos
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HexaSnoot [none/use name] - 6mon
What exactly are neos? I'm sure you mean pronouns, but idk if I've noticed people calling pronouns "neo pronouns" before.
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imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
my neopronouns! generally i understand the term to refer to non-traditional pronouns, in my case "it/its".
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Azarova [they/them] - 6mon
Neopronouns is an umbrella term typically used for pronouns that aren't he/she/they
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 6mon
winter is when I become a creature that ventures out and punches the snow. wearing a hoodie instead of a coat because im probably overheating. trying to clear out concrete-like blocks of ice for everyone who cant shovel (the outdoors has become my gym)
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 6mon
wish I could still chop wood and start up the stove to warm the house like I used to.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
Fae who chops wood warms faerself twice 😌
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Sorry I haven't been replying to comments the way I usually try to, been very eepy the last few days
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 6mon
Playing Kotor2 finally again after a decade! o-oh it came out in 2005 uh....playing it again after two decades!
i can't believe how i was shocked by the "protocol droid" in my first playthrough, like goddamn. ESL and I was a child but still, the droid is like; "Incredibly Suspicious Statement: Nooooo, Master. I definitely didn't kill everyone. I'm just a smål bean uwu."
ah anyway, it's great. I followed a mod build from here and it was surprisingly easy, even on a Linux, just make sure you make all the files in the override and modules folders all lowercase so there isn't 4 different files with technically the same name for the game to fuck itself with.
Also for me the game crashed if I put in different sized movie files, but ymmv
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 6mon
one of my favorite games of all time and was so fun to revisit it as the woman main character, especially as that is the canon.
needs to be done with a mod so you can also have the handmaiden though. the disciple is such a dull character overall <.<
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 6mon
Every Deltarune character is my favourite little weirdo
Especially and
Edit: Oh and this dweeb too --->
honestly the whole game could just be all the Darkners being goobers and I would be eternally happy
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Jessica7 [none/use name] - 6mon
I have developed a crush on my long time friend 😭 it’s never gonna go anywhere and now I’m just like bleh
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
To the trans lesbians here, do you see more dating success with trans lesbians than with cis lesbians? Because I feel like I get almost no matches from cis lesbians and mostly matches with other trans women
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
dating success
e: wrong emoji, was on phone
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
What's not to understand?
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Just joking that I don't know what dating success is
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
She's having a hard time with relationships rn
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
Ah, clear
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
I haven't really tried dating as a trans woman yet. But I plan to try in like a couple months. I've have seen lesbians being pretty transphobic before. I worry my dating pool is going to be severely limited, but I guess that also filters out terrible people automatically.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
My understanding is overwhelmingly lesbians love and accept trans women but the few ones who don't are like experts in transphobia.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
I hope to have a similar experience, the ones that have something against us are very loud about it, so that may mask the reality of it.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
I'm not dating right now. I have been tracking flirting interactions with cis and trans girls.
Honestly I get heaps of cis women's attention I'm tall and very cocky, but also present very femme.
I've had a soft-butch lesbian flirt with me in the mall while stressing her relationship with her girlfriends was open. I've had random queer coded girls tell me how pretty I am.
I get a lot of flirty comments from transfems. I'm not sure if any of this helps.
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 6mon
i'm t4t and love other transfemmes so much.
The femmes love a tall butch enby gal.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Had my meeting with the GP. Not particularly surprised that he had nothing on finding a coach for voice feminisation. Idk if it was intentional, but I felt quite silly talking to him about my dark thoughts. I think it was a good thing shrug. I need to calm the fuck down.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
There is online via zoom or whatever voice coaches, thats what I use. In person would probably be better but you gotta get what you can. It can be expensive but I have found it very very worth it. You can still self train, theres resources and guides!
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Yeah that's probably an option. But I also want an excuse to get out of my house and off a screen. As always, I'll "look into it" (probably like 3 months from now idk when I'll remember again)
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Ceres [she/her] - 6mon
Yeah very funny, posting this the day after after I get intrigued by Lancer the TTRPG and start asking friends to start a game...
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 6mon
I like Lancer because theres a shibari mecha
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 6mon
Lancer ttrpg mega gets comment lamenting it's not Lancer deltarune
Lancer deltarune mega gets comment lamenting it's not Lancer ttrpg
we have achieved balance
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 6mon
I've been getting weird name feelings. I picked out my name awhile ago, and it's what everyone I'm out to knows me by (some of them for several years at this point). I really like it, it's me a lot of the time, but I have to admit it's not me all of the time.
Between middle names, and initials, and possible nicknames or stuff there are like... seven or eight different names that I think are Me and could go by, and depending on the nature of my relationship with people would want to go by multiple or all of them to a person. I just don't even know how I would like, convey that or bring up the subject. Just, "Hey, I know you've known me as [Name A] for like five years since I've been out, and like that's still my chosen name and stuff but also I'm kinda also like [Name B], like I'm still [Name A] but also [Name B] I'm like both, so you can like use both interchangably."
idk, it's not even that big of a deal, it's just kind of annoying because lately I've been feeling a lot more like [Name B] than [Name A]...
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Ceres [she/her] - 6mon
Im pretty happy going by just my new name, but any itch to have alt names is satisfied by using a fake name for lots of mundane reasons, cause that alt/fake name is both not me but fun to 'act' as, if that makes any sense.
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iridaniotter [she/her] - 6mon
cause that alt/fake name is both not me but fun to 'act' as, if that makes any sense.
Oh yeah that's totally normal. You should get a separate phone for when you're her, too.
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Ceres [she/her] - 6mon
I dont understand exactly /gen (no pressure to explain if its just a joke I missed)
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iridaniotter [she/her] - 6mon
Just joking about plurality
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rafflesia [she/her, it/its] - 6mon
Very relatable. I feel like names are treated so rigidly in society that it makes it much harder than it needs to be to do this kind of stuff. When I've been telling people my new name I've straight up just been like "and don't be surprised when, not if, I change it again or add on to it". I refuse to be boxed in haha
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SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, she/her] - 6mon
I have several friends who have friend names that only people within the community call them by while their family uses another chosen name, and usually this has developed over time. It's really not that big of a deal to ask people for this, i've made that switch without problems every time a friend brought up she wants to try that out. It would be a lot different with, say, boomer parents who already struggle with the chosen name you picked originally, but that's part of how i see this applied in practice. That there is one name that is more intimate, one that has more of a symbolic function, one that is more formal (deliberately not saying "official" here bc uually all of these are these people's official, legal names by now).
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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 6mon
Like a courtesy name; I think this is fine to want, and you should try it if it matters to you at all. Anyone who is already accepting of you as trans is probably open-minded enough to not have a problem with a courtesy name, even if they don't "get" it.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
On good days, my favorite little weirdo is me. On other days, it's recently been Quark from ds9. I fuckin' love the lil guy and his big ol' lobes
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Good news: got my new femme glasses!
Bad news: the lenses are fucked up and giving me the worst eye strain of my life 😮💨
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 6mon
If it's a new prescription that should go away after a few days. There's always an adjustment period for me with me prescriptions.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Slightly new prescription and very different style from what I've had before. I hope you're right! I love love love the frames
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 6mon
What's the femme style? I just got my first pair and they're good, but I'm curious what others use
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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 6mon
lensalter has these super cute heart-shaped lenses, and they do a really high index, so they're like the only place that I can get frameless glasses with my strong-ass prescription
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
It's a small difference, but mine are rounder than a lot of men's glasses and are a nice soft brown. They also have some "jewelry" on the arms. In general you can see a lot more of my face as well :) I don't know if that description is helpful at all haha
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 5mon
By the way, I have now acclimated to the new glasses! Thank you for grounding me.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Never really thought about changing my name. Cause it just feels a little ... off. Never had any attachment/problems with my name (or my bday, or other special events in my life), which I guess is just a side effect of feeling like I wasn't living in reality/distant from my surroundings/dispossessed.
I am interested in the concept of just .. being multiple people. Having multiple personas. Sounds cool and fun. I don't like the idea of having a fixed identity.
But I somehow doubt the legal system will let "Ritisha"* get away from the murders that "Jasmine"* committed.
*example personas
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
You hate capitalism because of its exploitation of the working class. I hate capitalism because Adam Smith wasn't a trans girl. We are not the same
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tamagotchicowboy [he/him] - 6mon
Funny story inb4 the thread closes, so I've had a lot of falls lately due to being clumsy af and all the non stop ice storms teaching me to skate without skates, my knee hurts at night and wakes me up sometimes since my worst fall. An older former coworker mentioned pregnancy pillows are gold tier for all sorts of aches, though she was also big on holding yoga stances for 30min, especially lying on the floor 30min straight with your legs up against a wall, that was her doctor. Anyway, pregnancy pillows are no joke expensive, like 50 dollars on Amazon and 20 dollars or so on Aliexpress/etc. Last week I saw them at the local hardware store on sale for a mere 9 dollars, so I buy one.
So, I pick it up and I carry my big ass pregnancy pillow big as me through the big ass hardware store, the whole local universe knows I was fired recently and the confused weird stares I get are just fucking gold. I can just imagine the elaborate soap worthy tales they're cobbling up in their heads since I pass, though I'm sure whoever various HR is in town knows otherwise and let others know via the mill. I couldn't help but crack up in my car it was some Mel Brooks meets John Waters tier shit.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
::: spoiler dysphoria
ughghghghghgh I have to listen to myself talk for the next hour and a half or so and I'm already hating the first few minutes :(
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
Been listening to an HVAC/refrigeration lecture and I can keep up with it 😲 feels good ngl 😁. Was doing a course these past days on rack refrigeration and getting more in depth on EPRs is tight
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
Would be interesting if HVAC classes included lessons on things like cooling for electron paramagnetic resonance.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
the EPR I meant was just the evaporator pressure regulator not that scifi stuff, most classes are just how to diagnose problems and replacing parts.
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 6mon
Cooling cycle is scifi stuff <3
In the lab I worked in, most of our [redacted to avoid doxing myself] were cooled just with the refrigeration cycle. Didn't get nearly as cold as you get with liquid hydrogen, but still cool stuff. I was a helping hand with some of the repairs, but I don't think I ever had any clue what was actually going on.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
I like learning new things and while the refrigerant cycle repeats over and over again it's nice to see new things. The courses I do are online with a simulation portion that lets me interact with the machines but other than a brief intro and some quizzes there isn't much theory I learn that from the HVAC school podcast really good to put on during drives or walks
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 6mon
Cooling cycle is scifi stuff <3
Right? What do you mean we can move heat by repeatedly squeezing a gas?
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
Mathologer agender confirmed?
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
Keeping true to my fae nature I keep my true name hidden not just for ospecs but so people can't ask me for favors or cast hexes on me. Y'all need to get on this shit fr
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
I've been casting blessings 🥲
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
I've cut myself off from the good of the world for fear of the bad
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
I really like how all Alyson Greaves novels are like little advice books on top of the drama and emotional stuff. Like drink more water! Put your hands on your hips more girl!
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Born to ponder fantasy power systems
Forced to interpret homework assignments that are never clear enough (homework can be so autism unfriendly)
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
I will give you an example since I just finished that particular problem.
Question tells me to simulate something. Set aside the fact that the questions have felt too easy and I feel like I'm missing something crucial.
Am I supposed to put these simulation graphics into my report? Obviously ig? I mean, it doesn't tell you what to do with the simulation. Just ... do it.
But my report is a pdf. Does the professor want me to manually make an animated gif in matlab and then use special latex packages (that I found online) to embed animations into my pdf? It feels like that's overkill. But I also didn't find any simpler ways. Ofc, it wasn't hard. But I'm stumbling round the dark wondering if I'm stupid or if the prof is stupid.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Maybe the prof wants the code and some screenshots from the sim showing it's working as expected? When I had labs like that, I had a juicy appendix where I dumped all that sort of thing. Not having clarity sucks big time though.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
That might actually be the case. But I've already figured out how to add animations to my pdf.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
Was researching transition stuff for the last, I guess 2 hours and ended up researching VFS surgeons again. This one surgeon who looks really good requires a month of no speaking at all, damn recovery is such a pain... I need to train too idk if any surgeons would even take me if I haven't got at least a somewhat trained voice.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Lord help me. The Fallout TV show is making me want to play new Vegas again. I'm at the fiddling around in an online character creator stage. I'm thinking an incredibly lucky cyborg who uses lots of firearms (so the same character I always make except she's a trans woman now).
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
::: spoiler The build I'm bouncing around. I'm trying not to min-max too hard.
Strength 3. I'm a noodle armed girl. I will use Lucky and a light in shining darkness early, then with a reinforced spine and strength implant I use things like the Survivalists Rifle and Medicine Stick. Might use a hunting shotgun. That's a lot of gun redundancy but I love the shotguns.
Perception 5. With implant goes to 6 and I get sniper if I want
Endurance 8. Necessary baseline to get every implant. I'm tough.
Charisma 5. Up to 6 with implant. Usually a dump stat but I'll stay average here
Intelligence 5. Up to 6 with implant. I know everyone loves to pump INT but I always have enough skill points by endgame regardless of my Int
Agility. 5, up to 7 with implant and small frame. I'm a smol bean. This gets me nerves of steel if I want it.
Luck 8. Up to 9 with implant and 10 if I decide to snag the lucky glasses.
Basically trans version of every cowboy and soldier Clint Eastwood ever played who is also a cyborg.
:::
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
I like to treat my companion like a caddy. I carry 2 handguns but only one longarm. But the other two are carried by my follower. "Deathclaws ahead. I think hunting shotgun with slugs please"
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Have you gotten to the second season? Watching the first season made me feel the same way! Dropped 30 hours into it in a couple weeks lol.
The writing in the new season doesn't seem as good to me, even though I love a lot of the lore going on. It feels like they had enough story for four episodes and are stretching it to eight.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Yeah the second season specifically makes me want to play New Vegas because it's there.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
now that you put it that way, it seems kind of obvious 🙂
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Lurkerino [comrade/them] - 6mon
Chapter one is just a presentation, chapter two is typical but good, chapter 3 starts evolving, chapter 4 starts getting sserious
Overall love the game, its more videogamey than undertale
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Is it less repetitive than Undertale? I love Undertale and am playing it through with my partner, but they struggle with dodging enemy attacks and have to reset a lot. Re-solving puzzle fights becomes a huge chore after the third or fourth time through an area.
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Moss [they/them] - 6mon
Deltarune is more linear than undertale, you don't have to resolve puzzles and enemies are in the overworld rather than randomly appearing so you can predict and avoid fights
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
The random fights are definitely my least favorite part of Undertale. Sounds like Deltarune is up next for my partner haha
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Busgirl [she/her] - 5mon
Where new mega?
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rtstragedy2 [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
I think I've finally turned a corner with embedded Rust, I tricked a Pi Pico 2 into playing NSF files!
I'm scared of how many thousands of lines of code the NES emulator I had to write was, and for a while it felt like it was never going to be fast enough to run on a 150MHz processor, but some optimization that was within run-to-run variance on the benchmarks on my laptop must have really favoured the pico 2, and now there's no dropouts!
Lessons learned:
as far as I can tell, if you overflow stack on these microcontrollers you won't get a fancy stack overflow error, it will just hard fault (although I suspect sometimes it won't even fault and will just give you fun UB). Lost a day to that.
goddamn lifetimes and statics and interior mutability etc. caused me so much grief. There's a crate called embedded_alloc which gives you access to Rc, Arc, Vec, etc by actually letting you define a heap. I highly recommend this although remember that when a Vec needs to grow it needs 3x it's previous size in memory, because it creates a new Vec with 2x previous capacity, copies from the old Vec, then drops it.
I didn't end up using both cores (yet) but Embassy doesn't appear to support the doorbell IRQs or the inter-core FIFO queues, so if you want those you need to use rp-hal.
The embedded-sdmmc library certainly takes some getting used to. You need to implement long file name support yourself, no file sorting (do it yourself but use a master branch), use RawFile instead of File because it seems to be so ready to drop my files when I look the other way, etc.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Anybody know where I could get DIY Progesterone? I've almost gone a year in HRT so I'm pretty sure now is the ideal time to introduce it.
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 6mon
Kind of feel like I don't get nostalgia, at least not now. Transitioning definitely has a part in that, but I'm just more interested in what's going on right now.
Maybe one day I'll think back this time in my life and be like those were the days
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
The algorithm gives me so much to pull from, got recommended smash or pass content and lesbian paradox gaming stuff just this morning. I've just had my oatmeal I'm too sleepy to pick
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
Webnovels like these are why the cultivation genre is considered brainrot. Imagine the kind of brain damage a medieval daoist monk would receive if they read this shit.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler kink
I get the appreciation of a cheap cheap collar, or like a dog collar even, but I love the eternity collar even though its stupid expensive. I could justify it for the right sub
:::
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KrupskayaPraxis - 6mon
I have a great friend group from high school, but also lost touch with a lot of people I knew from high school. I wish I did more to stay in touch.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 6mon
The library only fire if the chairs are the kind you can be slumped in for hours as you read, only down side the library closing for lunch if not I could easily do a 5 hour slump streak
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 6mon
frostpunk 2
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 6mon
::: spoiler star wars nerd shit
been reading through the wookiepedia articles about "legends" lore. got an interest in Star Wars stuff again due to my KoTOR2 modding spree (I'll play it I swear ) and it's just so great how during the smallish period of like a 100 years there were FOUR galaxy-spanning conflicts of which THREE were somehow started by the jedi, AND the one not started by them was still related due to the mercenaries of the previous war deciding to start shit!
i dunno but maybe the jedi code needs revising or something, they have a remarkable tendency to create brutal galaxy-wide conflicts due to religious disagreements.
But what about the sith? Not even around, just chilling outside the whole galaxy.
:::
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D61 [any] - 6mon
For something to watch while eating my first breakfasts in the morning, I plowed through the Star Wars (hehe... Star"t" Wars) anthology series, Star Wars: Visions.
Nothing spectacular for most of the plots, as its just: Jedi/Sith vs Sith/Jedi. But my takeaway was pretty much that both Jedi and Sith are both ruled by fear. Jedi, about the possible abuses of power... leading them to do the thing they say they don't want to do, abusing their power. And the Sith, being afraid of being powerless... mostly (with a few exceptions for seeking power for the sake of power.).
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
The higher up the ranks of the electromagnetic illuminati you climb, the less magical it feels. You can only have technical difficulties with your fucking orbs and silicon runes for the 58657th time before you forget all about the wonders of thundermancy and the profound formulae of fourier's spectres.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
@GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net you've inspired me to bypass the backlog of Games I Will Play Eventually™ to play modded KotOR 1+2 for the millionth time lol.
Actually, KotOR 2 is a childhood egg canon experience for me. The first time I played a woman character and the first time trying to copy femininity (they stand differently than the men do). Thanks for reminding me of that 🙂
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 6mon
Actually, KotOR 2 is a childhood egg canon experience for me. The first time I played a woman character and the first time trying to copy femininity (they stand differently than the men do). Thanks for reminding me of that 🙂
omgggggggg same bestie!
i played like twice on a dudebro and then after some pondering I fired up the game as a woman, and holy shit it just felt so right.
the backlog of Games I Will Play Eventually™
lmao yea, same
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
Also several characters with "do I want to be with her or BE her???" This was very affirming, so glad I have found someone with the same experience! 🥰
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 6mon
My mouse (razer deathadder) scrollwheel is buggin out, when I scroll one way or another it likes to scroll the other way its very buggy. I don't see anything stuck inside it, might just be what a decade of use does. I don't really play anything competitive enough anymore to care too much about my mouse but I still need to shop around.
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Ceres [she/her] - 6mon
I'm coming up on the two year mark of my scroll wheel not functioning, and was surprised to find myself still able to play all my games and do almost all the same work things. Its made me extra conscious of poor UI design too (so many skinny glitchy scroll bars in programs that most people avoid by wheel scrolling). I think the only game its a real issue in is apex legends, cause I simply cant loot deathboxes unless a friend does it for me haha
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 6mon
I had multiple mice from SteelSeries do this after less than a year. I think it's the sensor kicking the bucket. Cleaning it out with compressed air or clicking the wheel a bunch (thought maybe it was positioned weird?) didn't make any noticeable difference.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 6mon
First 😎
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
TVP rocks, I love that shit. Made a stir fry style thing with cashew, TVP, udon, vegetable stock, peppers, hot sauce, broccoli yummy
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 6mon
This sublimation-ink printing thing I bought is so cool, I can just draw some stuff and put it on a t-shirt, I fucking love this. I hope I can sell some around in my city. The only thing I need is to buy more t-shirts to sublimate.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 6mon
::: spoiler cw:suicide
Waiting to go from being a passive suicide risk to active suicide risk so I can fucking end it already.
Good news is that I'm getting there :)
Been thinking recently of some vague conceptions of a plan (usa democrat style), but there is a small chance of actually enacting them (also usa democrat style).
I know this post is attention seeking. But I keep getting urges of starving myself till forced hospitalisation. It sounds so easy and fun. Maybe if I do it the doctors will pay attention.
:::
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Watching other people react to "A knight of the seven kingdoms" and turning to myself who hasn't watched it yet like a medieval sergeant at arms, steadying a row of archers "hold, hold, HOLD! Wait until you can see the whites of the fifth or sixth episode's eyes!"
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 6mon
Smart. It's painful to get the 30-min weekly drip feed
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 6mon
Also in this day and age it's entirely possible for something towards the end of the season to ruin it. Like a complete deviation from the adaption or unnecessary reactionary extra thing.
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SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, she/her] - 6mon
I dunno even though I really liked undertale I didn't really vibe with deltarune and never played past ep1.
::: spoiler very mild spoilers
Chapter 1 is honestly kinda so-so, it especially lacks most of the very cute and wholesome yuri. In general, the first two chapters are much better on a replay because they mostly set up character arcs that get interesting later on. For my favorite little weirdo Noelle and my favorite big weirdo Susie, the first two chapters only show them at the beginning of their development, as a damsel in distress resp. a big meanie, and this only really pays off once we get shown what their deal is and they start to move beyond that. Same for Ralsei and Kris, although their arcs take longer to unfold.
:::
Disaster_of_Passion in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
Lancer - Trans Megathread from January 26th through February 1st, 2026
Lancer is a... weird little guy? I dunno even though I really liked undertale I didn't really vibe with deltarune and never played past ep1. I do vaguely remember having fun fighting him.
Soooo, uh, yeah, that's Lancer I guess. I'd love to hear about everybody's favourite little weirdos.
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Pretending to be asleep
My parents are talking about forcing my hair to be cut (they really have a problem with it)
My brother starts defending me and shuts down their convo.
What a good kid.
I came out to my little brother!
It went ... completely smoothly lol. No surprises on that front.
He guessed I'd been transitioning for 4 years. This was actually kinda correct since I did start exploring my femininity around that time (aka when I left home)
I'm so happy for you!!! Having a supportive sibling rules
Thanks. Everyone I came out to was supportive except the 2 friends that I actually spend the most time with. Quite funny how that works.
That's a recurring theme I keep seeing on coming out stories. Somehow the people who seem like they know you best have the hardest time with it. I'm glad that most have chosen to support you :)
Wasn't the worst birthday I've had, I didn't even cry. But someone forgot or at least didn't say anything which felt and continues to feel bad. And I can't help but wonder whether they'd care more if I was a real girl
Surprise I just postponed crying until this morning in the bathroom at work! My deskmate had the good sense to take away the nail I had found on the floor, and then I asked her to take away the scissors and button/pin from my desk. I guess that's all progress
Proud of you for that, I've never asked someone to take my sharps
I was kinda surprised myself. I was gonna ask her to take the nail away but lost my nerve, since she did that I figured it'd be good to ask for help with the others
The Time Has Come (Again)
Also just got my ears pierced and I feel so cute and gay :)))
Yay first piercings are so exciting!
Hell yeah! To both things 🥰 Did you get lobes pierced or something else?
Just lobes! Got cute little studs and the soreness is gone, so way more chill than I expected
That's great! Studs should heal up super fast too 🥰 Are you planning to keep them as studs or swap other earrings?
::: spoiler unsolicited advice Be careful putting on / taking off shirts / bras. Even though they feel chill now, a big bump or pulling on them will make them very mad. :::
Eventually I'd like to try other more feminine earrings, but I think I'll probably stick with studs for now. Thank you for the advice, I've gotta be super delicate and careful
It's my birthday :/ I wish I could just postpone it or something.
Happy birthweek then
maybe birthmonth or birthyear if you feeling bold
Birthlife, perhaps
Happy Birthlife 🥳
Birthdays are so complicated, especially being in the middle of transition. The pressure to make each one special~ definitely doesn't help either. I'm sorry it's going to be one of those days
Is there something nice you can do for yourself today? Maybe it won't be a birthday you think about often, but getting through life and being on HRT for a year recently are worth a lil victory lap. Even if it's just getting takeaway :p
Well I have leftover Indian from dinner with my family last night... will probably eat that, assemble some IKEA furniture and then cry a little
Mom is currently discussing with her friend as to why I suddenly went from keeping a buzz cut to growing out my hair.
"What could have happened?"
Truly a mystery for the ages
Being a professional library goer (unemployed) I was asked to fill a survey today. Passionately wrote down all the library did for me and how cool it made me like on a spiritual level
Same
At mine I got invited to a Marxist reading club because someone saw I was reading Lenin, lol.
At the library, reading What Is To Be Done and nodding so people know I agree
I got a second hand copy of capital that I might as well read
::: spoiler sex Had sex with a dude for the first time last night, bi confirmed

He was really nervous and couldn't get it up but gave great head and knew how to finger the prostate like a pro. Looking forward to when he can annihilate my ass
:::
Happy for you! Totally not jealous or anything
Important PSA:
Many people want a mommy to take care of them. But where do mommies come from? Not from the sky*! In order to fill the shortage of mommies, we need more femmes to step up and become mommies themselves.
We must seek eggs to nurture them!
*I know your mommy is an angel, but that's besides the point
ayy i'm a butch and a mommy too
It took me ages and ages having boobs before I started having them in my dreams. But it was like 2 days of having a vagina that I started dreaming it was there, that was super fast.
In 2000 you could get a plant based McDouble for $1 and a side of estrogen for 50 cents
Dad takes my phone. Starts looking at my lock screen which is like some enby mf with 6 arms meditating in a dumpster surrounded by LSD angels. His comment was "anime ..."
::: spoiler negativity, jealosy Sometimes i cant stand seeing other trans ppls progress photos or happiness/joyposting or selfies, stuff that should be positive and feel-good just makes me jealous and upset. Idk if somethings wrong with my brain, i hate it :::
::: spoiler spoiler I think if you feel that way, then the best thing you can do is to redirect that energy from a negative direction to a positive one. If you want what they have, then the question is how you can obtain it as well. I don't think there's anything wrong with your brain: reframing and rechanneling these emotions is a skill that you can practice.
Sometime the answer is just "time" and you can take comfort that it's something you can look forward to. Sometime the answer is "effort". For me, I felt envy when it came to relationships and appearance. I obtained the first by putting myself out there and going through the stress of dating, and for the second I put a lot of practice into makeup and learned a lot about fashion. There are still things that I feel a bit jealous of, like shilouette and voice training: these things are definitely addressable, just harder for me and I know that with effort (and time) they are achievable. :::
Ty for the helpful reply, rationally i know ur right and i shouldnt compare myself to ppl whove been transitioning for way longer with way more effort than i have, and whove developed their relationships over years and sometimes decades, the idiot part of my brain just keeps telling me theres no hope for me specifically. I am trying/will try to think about it in a more helpful or at least less self-hating way, tho
That's a problem with social media in general. It makes you negatively compare yourself to others. I have trans friends who are doing very well in their transitioning. I try to overwrite my feelings of jealousy with feelings of happiness for them and their personal transition, but also look at all the progress I have made and how my journey is unique.
Sorry if this is not very helpful advice, this is just my way of dealing with it. I'm new to being transgender, so I can't really offer much more.
No need to apologize!
::: spoiler HRT and body changes I think my boobs are starting to grow. I can feel a little bit of new fat on them, they bounce a little when I'm moving around too. I am a very skinny person and I know how my body feels pretty well, so I guess I'm just noticing very small changes, but it feels nice to know things are happening. :::
Can't believe I'm at 6 weeks already. Very excited for what's coming next.
You should be! The growth will only accelerate
Oh wow. If that happens I'm getting big booba this year still
Leading our monthly meeting tomorrow, fuckin hell how did I get roped into being center stage
I wish I had someone. I'd like to yap a bit and cuddle. I'm tired. And I kinda wanted to talk more earlier today but idk what specifically about or what I'd want to message someone about.
I'd also like to have someone to cuddle with me right now. I feel alone.
Cuddling and yapping about stuff, two things I wanna do.
Looking at my chest and low key wondering if there's visible growth? Like at least for me, doubt anyone else would notice atp (thankfully).
Everyone start using linux right now! Linux mint is so easy. I booted up windows and was shocked by how much slower it is than linux
Linux has raised my standards for what a computer should be by so much that it's painful going back to Windows. Mint has given new life to an old laptop I have 🥰
But I already am? Agreed it was a smoother transition than I expected and I find myself dislike windows even more pretty much immediately after. I still use it for some work-stuff unfortunately.
::: spoiler I want to scream AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :::
It's weird to go back and be totally different. Time moves, but everything is familiar. I guess life is just like that.
Reconnecting isn't always bad.
::: spoiler HRT, body changes, family stuff Nipples feel very sore, chest feels a little soft and I can feel it bouncing a little bit sometimes. My sister noticed my nipples poking through the shirt, not sure how to feel about this, maybe I'll need bras soon. Being in the closet to my parents and still living with them sucks, I'm going to be in trouble on the next few months, probably.
There's also this headache and brain fog, I can't manage to do anything at the moment, not even videogames, maybe I'm just tired, I don't know... :::
::: spoiler spoiler What are your levels? A brain fog could be indicative of either having higher than desirable levels of E, or low levels of both E and T. :::
::: spoiler spoiler I'm not sure about levels yet, but I have a blood test next week. I think my T is low by the effects in my body. This brain fog started on sunday and I do my injection on monday, so my levels were at their lowest, but I think I'm just tired, or maybe it's depression too, idk :::
::: spoiler spoiler Yeah, your E trough could just be a bit low, so increasing E or shifting your injection schedule may be helpful. For example, I have prescription EV, which has a shorter residence time than EC/EEn so I split my injection in two (taking half on Wednesday and half on Saturday) to have more steady levels. :::
::: spoiler spoiler I'll wait for my blood test results before any adjustments, but I'll keep this in mind, thank you :::
::: spoiler spoiler Congrats on the changes! You might be able to hide it a bit with just a snug undershirt+looser overshirt. But eventually proper support becomes helpful so you can run around with feeling like you need to hold your chest (which doesn't take much when they're super-sensitive). Built-in bras are at least a little less obvious what they are at a distance, but still something that catches attention if people try, say, folding your laundry or hug you with their hands right at the bands.
If you are taking spiro, make sure to hydrate well. Easy to get dehydrated even if you feel like you're drinking a lot. :::
::: spoiler spoiler I'm not sure how things will play out yet, but I'll have to come out if I absolutely need bras. There's no way to hide my laundry and wash it by myself or something, my parents will see it.
I'm on injections, Een. But maybe I do need to drink more water. :::
Been crying lately thinking about the different life experiences the women in my life have had that I never will. Today's was a wedding. Imagining how they must have looked on their day. I wish that was me. I wish I was a normal, typical woman. A husband, kids, just how they look and are...
...but I'm not. I'm not straight. I can't have kids. Even if I could I think my autism/overstimulation would make it not for me. I just want to be them. And I'm not.
Comphet sucks yeah
Yea I guess it is comphet stuff. Idk, I want that. Maybe I'll look into how to deal with it.
I mean if youre straight, thats fine. But you definitely dont need a boyfriend or husband to have a wedding or wear a wedding dress. And being a mother does not require that you actually give birth to a kid, besides adoption or step kids theres also surrogacy.
Ahhh, never tucking again~ so nice.
Youre supposed to be pretty dry the first few weeks and months of bottom surgery. And since I have nothing to do, Im off work for this, Im pretty much sitting around with my pussy out all day lol
::: spoiler wierd?
I tell my friend that I don't feel joy from anything anymore and I'm depressed af. He tells me "you need to get fucked"
I mean, true ಠ_ಠ, but kinda crazy to tell someone.
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::: spoiler spoiler Yeah, that's out of left field and sounds pretty misogynistic to me. :::
He must be having some insane action if it stops making him depressed
He's not getting any action because having too high a weight is making him lose confidence.
Nightmares every single night sucks. I used to have great dreams too. Constantly woken up from this.
I get these pretty consistently as well. Are they about anything in particular?
I used to get lots of night terrors before, but they have stopped recently. Not sure why, maybe being on E plus my anxiety medication helped quite a lot
I get bad dreams and proper nightmares when I take Benadryl or Tramadol. Otherwise theyre usually pretty boring. Or pleasant!
Sister asked my mom (who I'm assuming would be the supportive one) how she'd react if I was gay and she refused to respond, how over is it chat?
It's not necessarily over, since parents can come around once their child comes our. But there doesn't seem to be a big possibility of things going smoothly anymore.
Coincidentally, this type of reaction to probing is exactly why I haven't come out of the closet either lol
Honestly how crazy would I have to be to think they'd be any kind of supportive. They don't even like gays and I've always seemed like a normal, but depressed, guy. FML
There are some people who are homophobic, but not transphobic (which sometimes leads them to doing pressuring gay people to transition, so they're not gay). Don't think it common in the US, but it happens.
Yeaa but that's not them
Parents are hard to judge. My father I thought would respond badly and came around so quickly. On the other my parents-in-law seemed really accepting and woah they reacted poorly.
a lot of parents don't even know how they will react themselves until it happens. my mum had christian brainworms and was all "it's a sin! eternal damnation will await you!" blah blah whatever. but after i came out she was all "a loving god wouldn't condemn my child to hell for being a removed"
I assumed my mom would have tried to be more supportive when I first realized I was trans (until my brother brought a trans boyfriend home...) and I assumed my step-mom would have been more disapproving (even if I assumed she wouldn't express it much directly).
By the time I actually came out though, I suspected the biggest problem I'd have is I'd have to deal with my mom's dysphoria (egg?), and that turned out more true than I even expected.
::: spoiler transphobic family, rambly My dad messaged me for the first time since christmas day and I don't know I guess I'm actually really considering this being the moment I cut ties.
I haven't had an actual relationship with the man since high school, and even then I always kept him at arms length. We never talk about anything that's important to me except for when I asked him to call me by my name and he can't do that I guess. He knows nothing about me. I'm seriously curious what he'd say if someone asked him to describe me. I don't think he'd get anything beyond the suface level right. I think I could say more about the girl at the coffee shop I buy chai at than my dad could say about me.
I send him songs every now and then which he ignores, and every couple of months he calls me and I give him a bullet point list of the interesting things that have happened since the last call, and that's it. That's my relationship with my dad. That's the totality.
So like he's just some guy, right? Literally just some guy I happen to be related to genetically and who has my phone number. Which would be cool if he was some guy I talked to who called me by name at the very least, but he doesn't even do that. So why do I indulge in his calls?
I really don't know how to explain this to him, but that's where I'm at. :::
I got conscripted to be an Estrogen tester at the femmeperor's imperial court :(
They gonna take me to the flower capitol and dress me up in smooth silky pink robes
Then they gonna force me to wear jewelry and makeup and "serve" her majesty's every "need" TT
Thankfully I'm a communist spy so I gotta assasinate her then run away. It's only temporary. I gotta endure.
Learning to 'put my mask on before assisting others' is fucking difficult wtf, can I just not and be fine anyway pls
Ive seen so many people on sour natural gas sites run in after a downed guy only to add to the number of people that need to be rescued.
It's like a metaphor or something
Oooooh
I've been forgetting my evening HRT, thaaaaat's why Ive been tossing and turning for so many sleepless hours recently.
I'm so silly.
I've seen a few megathreads on the topic of Lancer, but it seems to be some kind of computer thing I'm not aware of. Now its the Lancer I am aware of! Yippee!
Also @Disaster_of_Passion@hexbear.net if you really liked Undertale I highly recommend Deltarune, imo its a much better game. Chapters 1 and 2 are officially demo chapters, so I'd recommend playing up to chapter 2 and see if you like it.
If you put your gender under your pillow when you sleep the trans fairy will replace it with a new one
::: spoiler CW Transphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, family abuse, Australian nonsense So Australia has this reactionary federal senator, called Pauline Hanson. She's always doing these little media stunts (wearing a Burka to parliament to be Islamophobic etc). On the federal public holiday that is so called "Australia day" she released a transphobic song that was a collaboration with a failed former TV star/musician/trophy wife called Holly Valance, who has also been a reactionary ghoul for a while. She was famous for being on a Soap Opera called Neighbours, tried to become a singer but didn't get very far, married a rich guy just to get divorced etc.
And it's transphobic anti-woke trash. Quality wise it's dogshit. Like you couldn't do an ironic camp cover of it or something, because it's so characterless.
But it's kind of made me sad. Which is I guess there intention, but for a different reason. Like I'm in my late 30s and Pauline Hanson has been around since I was kid, just being a piece of shit. It's like wow the same dumb shit from my childhood.
My dad was really homophobic. He worried I'd be gay (lol he was right just not in the way he thought). So he'd buy me all these swimsuit magazines. Not like hardcore porn, just bikini stuff. But I had quite a few posters of Holly Valance (she's a few years older than me and was probably most famous when I was in high school) on my teenage wall and I would stare at those amongst others with yearning I now understand was dysphoria.
And I don't know it's just fucked to hear about someone who you haven't thought about in decades and they're a piece of shit. Like fuck I don't want little domino Holly Valance fails her music career, big domino I get murdered transphobically. That's so chicken shit.
At least Natalie Bassingthwaighte (another Soap Opera actor of the time who had a more successful music career) is a trans ally. :::
I used to think I was a cat, starting to think I'm a puppy now though. Not sure if I'm sometimes kitty sometimes puppy, or just puppy yet, remains to be seen.
Perhaps a puppycat?
Arfpurrฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ?
My group is meeting in a few weeks and it looks like I'm going to be able to make it, looking forward to it a lot. The therapist has a trans son too and I'll be able to meet him. And see all the people irl (usually we have a zoom call)
This will be the first Valentine's Day that I will be spending with a partner. Definitely trying to make it special. So far, we got a hotel room in a nearby city that's on the same block as my favorite LGBT bar, and there's also several nearby nightclubs for dancing (including an LGBT nightclub). There's an LGBT clothing swap/charity thing that we're going to earlier in the day, and we have reservations at my gf's favorite sushi place in the area. Really looking forward to it.
4 months of injections, a reminder on my phone, thinking about it several times throughout the week and multiple times in Friday itself, still nearly go to bed without doing it.
I don’t even have a regular schedule after 3 years I need to get it together. I just have the world’s worst executive dysfunction. And I wonder why my moods are so low so often, as if I don’t regularly have low T because I put things off lol
Yeah. It's tough. I've been doing it for a year, and also do my partner's injections, and I also forgot to do it from time to time. Forgetting and doing it the next day doesn't have any medioum-term/long-term impacts though, and maybe not even short term depending on what your levels are.
Spoiler alert, it doesn't get better.
Think I'm getting brain zaps from sertraline withdrawal, delivery is like a week late. Thanks Mark Cuban I love it
When I was coming off effexor, that shit sucked. Brain zaps, irritable, if I looked to the side too quick I got dizzy? Saw double anyway. It was rough. Im very glad I had it for the year and a half I was on it, but coming off SUUUCKED
It really do effex her
i was woozy for a whole month after they took me off it. Like you feel dizzy but your balance wasn't impaired? It was so weird.
I hate every part of taking care of my hair. In the shower, brushing it, dealing with it when it's wet, it all sucks. Tbh with yall I do not deal with it every day. I have to get better about it.
Just more and more personal care shit. Plus I ha e to add makeup at some point, plus skincare, plus actually doing all the things I'm already supposed to do.
I only wash my hair every other day, sometimes every three days. I wash my body every day but not my hair. It gets oily for a bit but oil is just texture and eventually your scalp chills out and stops producing as much and you just have regular hair every day. I guess it depends on the type of hair you have but I have pretty wavy style curly hair and it doesnt need a wash literally every day.
Who told you you had to do makeup or skincare every day?? Do you tell the women in your life they should be doing their makeup everyday?? People talk about retinol every day, but thats wayyy too much and not necessary anyway. Might sound harsh but this sounds very much like internalized misogyny. It sucks to start being a woman after years and years of hearing about patriarchal misogynistic beauty standards and then realizing "oh shit this applies to me" and not having the mental antibodies for it yet - rest assured, youre a woman if you dont do your makeup every day and you dont wash your hair every day. Skincare if you wanna get into it can be a moisturizing sunscreen and your 100% of the way there, I have other stuff I do cause I like it not because I have to.
The stuff you have to do is what makes you happy, eggnog.
Well every 3 days is still more often then I wash mine tbh with you.
I guess I just thought that was typical?? Like a lot of the women in my life do at least something every day I feel like, even before workouts and stuff. Skincare I thought people usually did stuff at least once a day. Plus I know makeup can help with passing and stuff which is important to me.
No I just thought that was what most women did?
So why would you "have" to do makeup? Especially if you are currently saying you dread it? You don't have to.
I mean I guess yea, I don't literally have to, just that it seems really expected for women to do, and I'm transitioning to be a woman. And even more so because I'm trans and it would help me look better which I need even more. idk, I kinda get what you're saying, do you understand what I'm saying?
You do not have to do makeup to be a woman, if you want to do it because it makes you happy than do it. If you think its an obligation, its not. Maybe it'd help you pass but the dread you felt suggests maybe you don't want to do makeup. So don't!
This part is beauty standards and internalized stuff. You should talk to your support group about these feelings and that you felt some dread about it. Also... you might like makeup later when youre doing it (I do)! If you like it do it! Not bbecause you "have" to or "women have to" - do you tell women in your life they need to wear makeup?
Skincare can be as simple as just applying some moisturizer after taking a bath. You can do something everyday yes, but it doesn't have to take a lot of time or effort. And remember, if you can do a little better than yesterday it's already progress, go little by little and you'll get where you want to.
You can even get moisturizers with sunscreen in them, making it just one product!
I cowash a couple times a week, but I only shampoo like once a week.
I never got the impression that it was typical. But my main examples wouldn't be exactly typical women (and one may not be one at all).
I've tried to remember to at least put on lotion/cream/ointment at least once a day. But that's because I'd start to bleed if I don't do that kind of skin care. Likewise for my brother. I don't think I would otherwise. If you think you'd benefit from doing more than you are, then do it. As Alisu pointed out, it can be as simply as putting on some lotion/ointment after a shower to avoid drying out.
disco elysium
my life is a cartoon
unfortunately that cartoon is Bojack Horseman but like 4 times sadder and not even that wacky this last season
What you all need to understand that while I may come off as a whiny loser when my family needs me I lock the fuck in and become their rock
down with cis
Dowm with cis
down with the cisness
Got a progesterone prescription! Unfortunately, my PP doesn't do suppositories, so I'll have to see if the 100 mg oral has a benefit (or if it's a capsule that can be taken rectally), but they do offer a 200 mg prescription. PP appointment went well. Was kinda worried since my last set of labs wasn't on the patient portal, but they had them in the office and those levels were good even after I went on EV monotherapy.
Most of the capsule don't say they can be taken rectally but you can. I've been doing it for 6 weeks and they seem to be giving me fat tits and a better mood.
Yeah, that's basically what I'm planning to do. I might start with oral to see if there's any effect for a few weeks, and then switch if the capsule is compatible.
Oral can make you sleepier sometimes people like this, but it's weaker.
But what I'm saying is there is no prog capsule that you can't take rectally, even if there is nothing on it about that.
It's off label use but lots of trans healthcare is. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't intentionally make medicines for us.
I take tablets sublingually, but they take a long time to dissolve so I just go to sleep with it under my tongue.
For a while now I have been trying to thrift theory books. Kind of a useless personal challenge, but hey, it's free for as long as I can't find anything 😭 Local used bookstore politics section is 99.8% reactionary garbage and 0.2% gems. Finding a compilation of Lenin's writings printed from before the fall of the Soviet Union today was pretty cool. I have now seen
on paper.
Unfortunately still no Little Red Book. Not sure if I'll ever find that one in the wild TBH.
Obviously this depends on where you live, but second-hand/military surplus places tend to have a lot of cool communist literature (because the military dorks see it as an equally interesting subject as fascist literature). HOWEVER, you have to go into those places, which often sucks for trans people.
Hmmmm unfortunately the closet has been made of glass for me, so I'm not sure I could even safely boymode in that kind of place. Still, it's an interesting idea 🤔 This is where I can make use of my cis party members 😆
Real. Some people used to ask me if I "wanted to be a girl", but I didn't even know I was trans yet
I have learned only recently that many people suspected I was secretly a gay man, but no one ever said that to my face until I "proved" I was by being more comfortable in femininity. I think growing up I outright told some people I wished I was a girl lol
::: spoiler spoiler i'm gay :::
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Do you want a medal 0_0 ?
gives you medal before you reply
You earned it
pats you on the back
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::: spoiler spoiler me too :::
::: spoiler dysphoria, loneliness Because of loneliness I missed out on romance in my teens and early twenties. How do I convince myself it doesn't matter? :::
Yeah I'm in the same place. I have no advice, just solidarity.
I think every LGBTQ person gets to redo their 20s but good. Or take your pick of decade.
::: spoiler spoiler Well, idk about convincing yourself it doesn't matter (whatever that means), but there's nothing you can do about what happened. What you can do something about is the future. I missed out on romance then too, but now my life is full of romance and love off all kinds! It's doable! :::
::: spoiler spoiler I was in a toxic relationship starting in high school and continuing for 20 years, off and on. I'm only just starting to figure out how to have healthy relationships now in my late 30s after working through decades of trauma. The first step is just getting into social situations with people any way you can, finding common ground (queer and trans groups are a great place to start), and making friends. Shit's fucking scary at first but just be open and honest around enough people and you will find some that want to hang out and that can lead to more down the line. Whatever it is you like to do, find other people doing the same thing and chill with them. :::
well the best time to start gaining that experience is today. we are all on our own journeys, lots of people do not experience romance during parts of their life
::: spoiler spoiler
Tell yourself it doesn't matter over and over again until it becomes a mantra in your head. Hypnotize yourself.
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It's more likely to have been bad than good. More mature people make better relationships, not always, but a lot of times. Most young people I know/have known get into awful relationships, so I would say it does not matter much, just get some good experiences now, those are the ones that count.
Just got invited to a friend's wife's baby shower (former labmate and close colleague), and I am super excited. This will be the first time introducing my gf to my former labmates in person. They have all been supportive of my transition so I hope everything goes well.
Drinking alcohol is like having an older lady friend/aquintance that you see once in a while and hook up with on occasion. Not as glamorous as the youthful energy drinks, but God, she certainly knows her way around your heart.
okay but what if I have both at the same time
Four Loko is a lady you have crazy chemistry with but youre both very toxic for each other and bring out the absolute worst out of each other. She broke her hand in a bar fight and got pins put in and then when you went back out she got in another fight and the pins poked out like wolverine. She gave you the worst stick and poke tattoo. You got her to start smoking again. But the hook ups are really fucking good
This was exhausting just reading
this used to be my type and I'm glad I never went down that path
That is called playing with fire. Aka, cheating with a married women.
Where'd you get one
idk I just used to mix monster and vodka on my own
No the other thing
idk I'm too busy mixing monster with vodka by myself to figure that one out
Mixing energy drinks and alcohol is not very safe, avoid mixing them. Both caffeine and taurine are bad to mix with alcoholic beverages. There is a reason why you cannot sell a drink that mixes them
This would 100% be banned in here. I think the US banned these too. Do not drink anything like this. Energy drinks may mask the effects of alcohol and make you drink way too much, it is pretty dangerous.
You can get espresso martinis and vodka red bulls at bars in the US, and one of our coffee chains started selling canned spiked lattes at alcohol distributors.
Idk if I'm onto something or if I'm just channeling my inner pervert.
Yes, I did kinda fall back on energy drinks. Very hard time. I'll try to quit again.
Recently have become more of a workaholic, which sucks. I guess I just don't want to deal with anything personal because it's gotten too difficult for me again. Feeling exhausted and empty in a way I haven't since college.
I'm hoping soon I can get hormone levels checked and start figuring my gender shit out. Honestly, my biggest mood boost lately is from finding a good excuse to shave daily so I can actually see myself sometimes.
Im also a workaholic, I pick up a lot, I work long hours. Before I was a nurse, I worked one job in construction from 6 am to midnight (at that time so I could avoid my ex). I definitely work a lot to avoid stillness and rest and that kind of thing. Its been tough for me after surgery and recovery to not be constantly busy...
This really resonates with me! I come from a long line of emotionally closed off workaholics, so I feel very antsy and judged if I sit still for even a moment.
By the way, I hope your recovery has still been going really well! I haven't seen any other updates, so I'm hoping that means it is 🙂
Oh yeah I stopped after going home! It was just the days in the recovery house I was posting about. From now its mostly boring and mostly "I dilated 4 times today and each time took between 1.5 to 2 hours agter icing, dilating, douching, cleaning, drying" lol
Ill make another update when I see my gynecologist~
Dysphoria is making me fail my classes :(
::: spoiler being rly gay I posted a bit ago about how this one girl sort of saps all of my charisma. I guess because I have a huge crush on her
well we finally kissed!! it was so much fun y'all, she gave me a hickey and every time I see it or remember what happened I get all 🥰😵💫😌 she's so so so cute agsuxiwjwb
I will still probably be rly nervous when I'm around her but it's nice to know for sure she's into me hehehe :::
so my confidence is through the roof now 📈📈 how to fully internalize that though is another story...
Every single choice in video games after 2011 boils down to "Stormcloaks or imperials"
My room mate called me hot in a way that made me uncomfortable
i am reaching new levels in not being okay with myself
Anyone trans around these parts?
Thought it would be cool to learn how to ID different animals, and thinking of starting with marine mammals. However the book I'm downloading is huge (lots of pics) and AA is being finicky. Just please download overnight.
identifying animals / plants / rocks / etc one of my favorite things to do
I wish I was evil. Would make being alive so much easier.
I think I get the sexy plumber fantasy but it's more like it be hot if I had an HVAC job and was making money, I'd skip the sex part just to be explaining further how neat dual run capacitors are to some milf
I'd also point out the reversing valve to her explain the sequence of events that turn it on which wire it is from the thermostat and how a failure for it to change over has either to do with the power or more likely low refrigerant possibly from a leak some where. This is a heat pump fantasy but can also apply to PTACs. That my friends would be the life...
I need to do something for Valentine's Day because fuck me this is getting sad
I cut my bangs back into existence and I definitely increased my cuteness rank. More cuteness updates to come hopefully
I think my water is going to be frozen all fucking week. I swear this happens every year in January and I always think "I should replace the heat tape on my plumbing when it warms up" and then I never do and then it happens again the next year. 😞
At least shaving is super easy after laser. I just have little whiskers that need electrolysis to finish off and can get a nice smooth shave with a single pass. I'll be shaving from a hot bowl of water, but well, that's what I fucking get for not fixing my shit.
::: spoiler /personal Every so often, my username reflects how I'm feeling. I'm very good at processing and packing things away, but there's this one jagged thing I struggle to get a handle on. Unfortunately, something I have to do this week will take me somewhere a bit scary. Standing in the shadow of past trauma, I can't help but feel uneasy.
It'll be alright, though. I'm making progress.
(Tbh this post was really just for me) ::: Transition steps are often scary
For those who go by "it" confidently, how do you do it?
only let queer pals use my neos
What exactly are neos? I'm sure you mean pronouns, but idk if I've noticed people calling pronouns "neo pronouns" before.
my neopronouns! generally i understand the term to refer to non-traditional pronouns, in my case "it/its".
Neopronouns is an umbrella term typically used for pronouns that aren't he/she/they
winter is when I become a creature that ventures out and punches the snow. wearing a hoodie instead of a coat because im probably overheating. trying to clear out concrete-like blocks of ice for everyone who cant shovel (the outdoors has become my gym)
wish I could still chop wood and start up the stove to warm the house like I used to.
Fae who chops wood warms faerself twice 😌
Sorry I haven't been replying to comments the way I usually try to, been very eepy the last few days
Playing Kotor2 finally again after a decade!
o-oh it came out in 2005
uh....playing it again after two decades!
i can't believe how i was shocked by the "protocol droid" in my first playthrough, like goddamn. ESL and I was a child but still, the droid is like; "Incredibly Suspicious Statement: Nooooo, Master. I definitely didn't kill everyone. I'm just a smål bean uwu."
ah anyway, it's great. I followed a mod build from here and it was surprisingly easy, even on a Linux, just make sure you make all the files in the override and modules folders all lowercase so there isn't 4 different files with technically the same name for the game to fuck itself with.
Also for me the game crashed if I put in different sized movie files, but ymmv
one of my favorite games of all time and was so fun to revisit it as the woman main character, especially as that is the canon.
needs to be done with a mod so you can also have the handmaiden though. the disciple is such a dull character overall <.<
Every Deltarune character is my favourite little weirdo
Especially
and 
Edit: Oh and this dweeb too --->
honestly the whole game could just be all the Darkners being goobers and I would be eternally happy
I have developed a crush on my long time friend 😭 it’s never gonna go anywhere and now I’m just like bleh
To the trans lesbians here, do you see more dating success with trans lesbians than with cis lesbians? Because I feel like I get almost no matches from cis lesbians and mostly matches with other trans women
e: wrong emoji, was on phone
What's not to understand?
Just joking that I don't know what dating success is
She's having a hard time with relationships rn
Ah, clear
I haven't really tried dating as a trans woman yet. But I plan to try in like a couple months. I've have seen lesbians being pretty transphobic before. I worry my dating pool is going to be severely limited, but I guess that also filters out terrible people automatically.
My understanding is overwhelmingly lesbians love and accept trans women but the few ones who don't are like experts in transphobia.
I hope to have a similar experience, the ones that have something against us are very loud about it, so that may mask the reality of it.
I'm not dating right now. I have been tracking flirting interactions with cis and trans girls.
Honestly I get heaps of cis women's attention I'm tall and very cocky, but also present very femme.
I've had a soft-butch lesbian flirt with me in the mall while stressing her relationship with her girlfriends was open. I've had random queer coded girls tell me how pretty I am.
I get a lot of flirty comments from transfems. I'm not sure if any of this helps.
i'm t4t and love other transfemmes so much.
The femmes love a tall butch enby gal.
Had my meeting with the GP. Not particularly surprised that he had nothing on finding a coach for voice feminisation. Idk if it was intentional, but I felt quite silly talking to him about my dark thoughts. I think it was a good thing shrug. I need to calm the fuck down.
There is online via zoom or whatever voice coaches, thats what I use. In person would probably be better but you gotta get what you can. It can be expensive but I have found it very very worth it. You can still self train, theres resources and guides!
Yeah that's probably an option. But I also want an excuse to get out of my house and off a screen. As always, I'll "look into it" (probably like 3 months from now idk when I'll remember again)
Yeah very funny, posting this the day after after I get intrigued by Lancer the TTRPG and start asking friends to start a game...
I like Lancer because theres a shibari mecha
Lancer ttrpg mega gets comment lamenting it's not Lancer deltarune
Lancer deltarune mega gets comment lamenting it's not Lancer ttrpg
we have achieved balance
I've been getting weird name feelings. I picked out my name awhile ago, and it's what everyone I'm out to knows me by (some of them for several years at this point). I really like it, it's me a lot of the time, but I have to admit it's not me all of the time.
Between middle names, and initials, and possible nicknames or stuff there are like... seven or eight different names that I think are Me and could go by, and depending on the nature of my relationship with people would want to go by multiple or all of them to a person. I just don't even know how I would like, convey that or bring up the subject. Just, "Hey, I know you've known me as [Name A] for like five years since I've been out, and like that's still my chosen name and stuff but also I'm kinda also like [Name B], like I'm still [Name A] but also [Name B] I'm like both, so you can like use both interchangably."
idk, it's not even that big of a deal, it's just kind of annoying because lately I've been feeling a lot more like [Name B] than [Name A]...
Im pretty happy going by just my new name, but any itch to have alt names is satisfied by using a fake name for lots of mundane reasons, cause that alt/fake name is both not me but fun to 'act' as, if that makes any sense.
Oh yeah that's totally normal. You should get a separate phone for when you're her, too.
I dont understand exactly /gen (no pressure to explain if its just a joke I missed)
Just joking about plurality
Very relatable. I feel like names are treated so rigidly in society that it makes it much harder than it needs to be to do this kind of stuff. When I've been telling people my new name I've straight up just been like "and don't be surprised when, not if, I change it again or add on to it". I refuse to be boxed in haha
I have several friends who have friend names that only people within the community call them by while their family uses another chosen name, and usually this has developed over time. It's really not that big of a deal to ask people for this, i've made that switch without problems every time a friend brought up she wants to try that out. It would be a lot different with, say, boomer parents who already struggle with the chosen name you picked originally, but that's part of how i see this applied in practice. That there is one name that is more intimate, one that has more of a symbolic function, one that is more formal (deliberately not saying "official" here bc uually all of these are these people's official, legal names by now).
Like a courtesy name; I think this is fine to want, and you should try it if it matters to you at all. Anyone who is already accepting of you as trans is probably open-minded enough to not have a problem with a courtesy name, even if they don't "get" it.
On good days, my favorite little weirdo is me. On other days, it's recently been Quark from ds9. I fuckin' love the lil guy and his big ol' lobes
Good news: got my new femme glasses! Bad news: the lenses are fucked up and giving me the worst eye strain of my life 😮💨
If it's a new prescription that should go away after a few days. There's always an adjustment period for me with me prescriptions.
Slightly new prescription and very different style from what I've had before. I hope you're right! I love love love the frames
What's the femme style? I just got my first pair and they're good, but I'm curious what others use
lensalter has these super cute heart-shaped lenses, and they do a really high index, so they're like the only place that I can get frameless glasses with my strong-ass prescription
It's a small difference, but mine are rounder than a lot of men's glasses and are a nice soft brown. They also have some "jewelry" on the arms. In general you can see a lot more of my face as well :) I don't know if that description is helpful at all haha
By the way, I have now acclimated to the new glasses! Thank you for grounding me.
Never really thought about changing my name. Cause it just feels a little ... off. Never had any attachment/problems with my name (or my bday, or other special events in my life), which I guess is just a side effect of feeling like I wasn't living in reality/distant from my surroundings/dispossessed.
I am interested in the concept of just .. being multiple people. Having multiple personas. Sounds cool and fun. I don't like the idea of having a fixed identity.
But I somehow doubt the legal system will let "Ritisha"* get away from the murders that "Jasmine"* committed.
*example personas
You hate capitalism because of its exploitation of the working class. I hate capitalism because Adam Smith wasn't a trans girl. We are not the same
Funny story inb4 the thread closes, so I've had a lot of falls lately due to being clumsy af and all the non stop ice storms teaching me to skate without skates, my knee hurts at night and wakes me up sometimes since my worst fall. An older former coworker mentioned pregnancy pillows are gold tier for all sorts of aches, though she was also big on holding yoga stances for 30min, especially lying on the floor 30min straight with your legs up against a wall, that was her doctor. Anyway, pregnancy pillows are no joke expensive, like 50 dollars on Amazon and 20 dollars or so on Aliexpress/etc. Last week I saw them at the local hardware store on sale for a mere 9 dollars, so I buy one.
So, I pick it up and I carry my big ass pregnancy pillow big as me through the big ass hardware store, the whole local universe knows I was fired recently and the confused weird stares I get are just fucking gold. I can just imagine the elaborate soap worthy tales they're cobbling up in their heads since I pass, though I'm sure whoever various HR is in town knows otherwise and let others know via the mill. I couldn't help but crack up in my car it was some Mel Brooks meets John Waters tier shit.
::: spoiler dysphoria ughghghghghgh I have to listen to myself talk for the next hour and a half or so and I'm already hating the first few minutes :( :::
Been listening to an HVAC/refrigeration lecture and I can keep up with it 😲 feels good ngl 😁. Was doing a course these past days on rack refrigeration and getting more in depth on EPRs is tight
Would be interesting if HVAC classes included lessons on things like cooling for electron paramagnetic resonance.
Cooling cycle is scifi stuff <3
In the lab I worked in, most of our [redacted to avoid doxing myself] were cooled just with the refrigeration cycle. Didn't get nearly as cold as you get with liquid hydrogen, but still cool stuff. I was a helping hand with some of the repairs, but I don't think I ever had any clue what was actually going on.
I like learning new things and while the refrigerant cycle repeats over and over again it's nice to see new things. The courses I do are online with a simulation portion that lets me interact with the machines but other than a brief intro and some quizzes there isn't much theory I learn that from the HVAC school podcast really good to put on during drives or walks
Right? What do you mean we can move heat by repeatedly squeezing a gas?
Mathologer agender confirmed?
Keeping true to my fae nature I keep my true name hidden not just for ospecs but so people can't ask me for favors or cast hexes on me. Y'all need to get on this shit fr
I've been casting blessings 🥲
I really like how all Alyson Greaves novels are like little advice books on top of the drama and emotional stuff. Like drink more water! Put your hands on your hips more girl!
Born to ponder fantasy power systems
Forced to interpret homework assignments that are never clear enough (homework can be so autism unfriendly)
I will give you an example since I just finished that particular problem.
Question tells me to simulate something. Set aside the fact that the questions have felt too easy and I feel like I'm missing something crucial.
Am I supposed to put these simulation graphics into my report? Obviously ig? I mean, it doesn't tell you what to do with the simulation. Just ... do it.
But my report is a pdf. Does the professor want me to manually make an animated gif in matlab and then use special latex packages (that I found online) to embed animations into my pdf? It feels like that's overkill. But I also didn't find any simpler ways. Ofc, it wasn't hard. But I'm stumbling round the dark wondering if I'm stupid or if the prof is stupid.
Maybe the prof wants the code and some screenshots from the sim showing it's working as expected? When I had labs like that, I had a juicy appendix where I dumped all that sort of thing. Not having clarity sucks big time though.
That might actually be the case. But I've already figured out how to add animations to my pdf.
Was researching transition stuff for the last, I guess 2 hours and ended up researching VFS surgeons again. This one surgeon who looks really good requires a month of no speaking at all, damn recovery is such a pain... I need to train too idk if any surgeons would even take me if I haven't got at least a somewhat trained voice.
Lord help me. The Fallout TV show is making me want to play new Vegas again. I'm at the fiddling around in an online character creator stage. I'm thinking an incredibly lucky cyborg who uses lots of firearms (so the same character I always make except she's a trans woman now).
::: spoiler The build I'm bouncing around. I'm trying not to min-max too hard. Strength 3. I'm a noodle armed girl. I will use Lucky and a light in shining darkness early, then with a reinforced spine and strength implant I use things like the Survivalists Rifle and Medicine Stick. Might use a hunting shotgun. That's a lot of gun redundancy but I love the shotguns.
Perception 5. With implant goes to 6 and I get sniper if I want
Endurance 8. Necessary baseline to get every implant. I'm tough.
Charisma 5. Up to 6 with implant. Usually a dump stat but I'll stay average here
Intelligence 5. Up to 6 with implant. I know everyone loves to pump INT but I always have enough skill points by endgame regardless of my Int
Agility. 5, up to 7 with implant and small frame. I'm a smol bean. This gets me nerves of steel if I want it.
Luck 8. Up to 9 with implant and 10 if I decide to snag the lucky glasses.
Basically trans version of every cowboy and soldier Clint Eastwood ever played who is also a cyborg. :::
I like to treat my companion like a caddy. I carry 2 handguns but only one longarm. But the other two are carried by my follower. "Deathclaws ahead. I think hunting shotgun with slugs please"
Have you gotten to the second season? Watching the first season made me feel the same way! Dropped 30 hours into it in a couple weeks lol.
The writing in the new season doesn't seem as good to me, even though I love a lot of the lore going on. It feels like they had enough story for four episodes and are stretching it to eight.
Yeah the second season specifically makes me want to play New Vegas because it's there.
Chapter one is just a presentation, chapter two is typical but good, chapter 3 starts evolving, chapter 4 starts getting sserious Overall love the game, its more videogamey than undertale
Is it less repetitive than Undertale? I love Undertale and am playing it through with my partner, but they struggle with dodging enemy attacks and have to reset a lot. Re-solving puzzle fights becomes a huge chore after the third or fourth time through an area.
Deltarune is more linear than undertale, you don't have to resolve puzzles and enemies are in the overworld rather than randomly appearing so you can predict and avoid fights
The random fights are definitely my least favorite part of Undertale. Sounds like Deltarune is up next for my partner haha
Where new mega?
I think I've finally turned a corner with embedded Rust, I tricked a Pi Pico 2 into playing NSF files!
I'm scared of how many thousands of lines of code the NES emulator I had to write was, and for a while it felt like it was never going to be fast enough to run on a 150MHz processor, but some optimization that was within run-to-run variance on the benchmarks on my laptop must have really favoured the pico 2, and now there's no dropouts!
Lessons learned:
embedded_allocwhich gives you access toRc,Arc,Vec, etc by actually letting you define a heap. I highly recommend this although remember that when aVecneeds to grow it needs 3x it's previous size in memory, because it creates a newVecwith 2x previous capacity, copies from the oldVec, then drops it.rp-hal.Anybody know where I could get DIY Progesterone? I've almost gone a year in HRT so I'm pretty sure now is the ideal time to introduce it.
Kind of feel like I don't get nostalgia, at least not now. Transitioning definitely has a part in that, but I'm just more interested in what's going on right now.
Maybe one day I'll think back this time in my life and be like those were the days
The algorithm gives me so much to pull from, got recommended smash or pass content and lesbian paradox gaming stuff just this morning. I've just had my oatmeal I'm too sleepy to pick
Webnovels like these are why the cultivation genre is considered brainrot. Imagine the kind of brain damage a medieval daoist monk would receive if they read this shit.
::: spoiler kink I get the appreciation of a cheap cheap collar, or like a dog collar even, but I love the eternity collar even though its stupid expensive. I could justify it for the right sub :::
I have a great friend group from high school, but also lost touch with a lot of people I knew from high school. I wish I did more to stay in touch.
The library only fire if the chairs are the kind you can be slumped in for hours as you read, only down side the library closing for lunch if not I could easily do a 5 hour slump streak
frostpunk 2
::: spoiler star wars nerd shit been reading through the wookiepedia articles about "legends" lore. got an interest in Star Wars stuff again due to my KoTOR2 modding spree (I'll play it I swear
) and it's just so great how during the smallish period of like a 100 years there were FOUR galaxy-spanning conflicts of which THREE were somehow started by the jedi, AND the one not started by them was still related due to the mercenaries of the previous war deciding to start shit!
i dunno but maybe the jedi code needs revising or something, they have a remarkable tendency to create brutal galaxy-wide conflicts due to religious disagreements.
But what about the sith? Not even around, just chilling outside the whole galaxy. :::
For something to watch while eating my first breakfasts in the morning, I plowed through the Star Wars (hehe... Star"t" Wars) anthology series, Star Wars: Visions.
Nothing spectacular for most of the plots, as its just: Jedi/Sith vs Sith/Jedi. But my takeaway was pretty much that both Jedi and Sith are both ruled by fear. Jedi, about the possible abuses of power... leading them to do the thing they say they don't want to do, abusing their power. And the Sith, being afraid of being powerless... mostly (with a few exceptions for seeking power for the sake of power.).
The higher up the ranks of the electromagnetic illuminati you climb, the less magical it feels. You can only have technical difficulties with your fucking orbs and silicon runes for the 58657th time before you forget all about the wonders of thundermancy and the profound formulae of fourier's spectres.
@GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net you've inspired me to bypass the backlog of Games I Will Play Eventually™ to play modded KotOR 1+2 for the millionth time lol.
Actually, KotOR 2 is a childhood egg canon experience for me. The first time I played a woman character and the first time trying to copy femininity (they stand differently than the men do). Thanks for reminding me of that 🙂
omgggggggg same bestie!
i played like twice on a dudebro and then after some pondering I fired up the game as a woman, and holy shit it just felt so right.
lmao yea, same
Also several characters with "do I want to be with her or BE her???" This was very affirming, so glad I have found someone with the same experience! 🥰
My mouse (razer deathadder) scrollwheel is buggin out, when I scroll one way or another it likes to scroll the other way its very buggy. I don't see anything stuck inside it, might just be what a decade of use does. I don't really play anything competitive enough anymore to care too much about my mouse but I still need to shop around.
I'm coming up on the two year mark of my scroll wheel not functioning, and was surprised to find myself still able to play all my games and do almost all the same work things. Its made me extra conscious of poor UI design too (so many skinny glitchy scroll bars in programs that most people avoid by wheel scrolling). I think the only game its a real issue in is apex legends, cause I simply cant loot deathboxes unless a friend does it for me haha
I had multiple mice from SteelSeries do this after less than a year. I think it's the sensor kicking the bucket. Cleaning it out with compressed air or clicking the wheel a bunch (thought maybe it was positioned weird?) didn't make any noticeable difference.
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TVP rocks, I love that shit. Made a stir fry style thing with cashew, TVP, udon, vegetable stock, peppers, hot sauce, broccoli yummy
This sublimation-ink printing thing I bought is so cool, I can just draw some stuff and put it on a t-shirt, I fucking love this. I hope I can sell some around in my city. The only thing I need is to buy more t-shirts to sublimate.
::: spoiler cw:suicide
Waiting to go from being a passive suicide risk to active suicide risk so I can fucking end it already.
Good news is that I'm getting there :)
Been thinking recently of some vague conceptions of a plan (usa democrat style), but there is a small chance of actually enacting them (also usa democrat style).
I know this post is attention seeking. But I keep getting urges of starving myself till forced hospitalisation. It sounds so easy and fun. Maybe if I do it the doctors will pay attention.
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Watching other people react to "A knight of the seven kingdoms" and turning to myself who hasn't watched it yet like a medieval sergeant at arms, steadying a row of archers "hold, hold, HOLD! Wait until you can see the whites of the fifth or sixth episode's eyes!"
Smart. It's painful to get the 30-min weekly drip feed
Also in this day and age it's entirely possible for something towards the end of the season to ruin it. Like a complete deviation from the adaption or unnecessary reactionary extra thing.
::: spoiler very mild spoilers Chapter 1 is honestly kinda so-so, it especially lacks most of the very cute and wholesome yuri. In general, the first two chapters are much better on a replay because they mostly set up character arcs that get interesting later on. For my favorite little weirdo Noelle and my favorite big weirdo Susie, the first two chapters only show them at the beginning of their development, as a damsel in distress resp. a big meanie, and this only really pays off once we get shown what their deal is and they start to move beyond that. Same for Ralsei and Kris, although their arcs take longer to unfold. :::