Green Lake and Round Lake - Trans Megathread from February 23rd, 2025 to March 1st, 2026
Green Lake and its sister Round Lake, are a pair of unique bodies of water located in the aboriginal territory of the Onandoga nation. This writeup will concern itself with Green Lake, but much of this information carries over to its sister.
The final remnants of a plunge pool formed during the last ice age by a glacial waterfall at least twice the size of Niagara Falls; Green Lake is situated in a gorge and fed entirely by rain and groundwater. As a result, it is one of the few meromictic lakes on earth.
So, okay, in general terms, lakes do this:
For the warmer months water organizes into distinct layers, each circulating in their own way. The warmest water, being the least dense, sits at the top. This is where the phytoplankton hang out, producing oxygen and consuming nutrients. The coldest water, being the most dense, sits at the bottom. This is where nutrients tend to accumulate and oxygen gets depleted by animal life. As summer turns to winter the top layers get colder and the water mixes as stratification breaks down, the same happens as winter turns back to summer. This process helps more evenly distribute oxygen and nutrients.
Ok so Green Lake doesn't do this.
The bottom of the lake is totally devoid of oxygen, so no decomposition; whatever falls down there, stays down there. The water is also very high in mineral content, which leaves layers of calcite deposits on anything that isn't moving. Moreover there is a layer of bacterially active water around 18-20 meters down that makes the water purple at that specific depth. Thanks to photosynthetic bacteria that deposit some of the minerals in the water, Green Lake is home to one of the few existing freshwater reefs.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 5mon
Can I sign up again? I wanna talk about MUDs
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
Omg I've just started getting back into these
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 5mon
OoooOOooooOooohhh. Which ones just curious? I've been super into one lately called AwakeMUD that's based on Shadowrun 3e. In the sorta recent past I've also played Aardwolf and The Unofficial Squaresoft MUD. There was one kinda in development I also got into a little called Midnight Equestria. I should probably go back and see how far along they are on that one.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
I've seen stuff about AwakeMUD and have been curious about it. I used to play Aardwolf when I was in high school. I've been playing a bit of Alter Aeon lately
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 5mon
Can I get the week of 3/16 - 3/22?
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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 5mon
my cracka you see that it's already taken
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 5mon
add me to the list
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
I wamna sign up for the one starting 3/30!
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
I havent gushed about my bottom surgery lately but I am very happy about having a vagina and the results of the surgery!! This shit kicks ass
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 5mon
it fucking rules!
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LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves] - 5mon
Fuck yeah! Happy for you :)
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
I can't get over that stat that there's probably 400,000 trans internally displaced refugees in the USA. As in people who've fled one state to another. That's like a factor of 10 more I would have guessed. If a civil war had displaced half a million people that would be news worthy
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
The trans population is something like 0.5%. Somewhere between 0.3% to 1%.
If its 400K, then 400K/1650K are displaced. Or between one out of four to one out of five transgender people have been internally displaced in the US by that estimate.
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Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] - 5mon
a civil war kinda does it more all at once. Queer people leaving rural areas for socially liberal cities is a steady trickle that's been happening for as long as we've had language to describe ourselves.
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Moss [they/them] - 5mon
The world is getting so much scarier for trans people and I feel like I just have to come out. I've been a closter enby agender for years and only ever come out to one person, but I think if I don't come out soon, I never will.
But fuck I hate having that conversation. Like "hey, I'm not who you thought I was and I don't like who I was. Please love me regardless." And my friends and family are all good people who will accept me and do their best and really try to respect me, but it's still so scary.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
I went to a transfem event recently and it was packed. What was really moving was there was the regulars, plus a whole bunch of new girls who'd just dropped (eggs recently broken and out of the closet), but also a bunch of long term trans girls including stealth ones who'd drifted out of the community, who were coming back in because of everything going on.
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 5mon
But fuck I hate having that conversation. Like “hey, I’m not who you thought I was and I don’t like who I was. Please love me regardless.” And my friends and family are all good people who will accept me and do their best and really try to respect me, but it’s still so scary.
I just don't do ave it. With my parents, when I came out, it was just "I'm wearing a bra cause I started HRT" and that more than my sister or my closest friends got in terms of coming up (I did incidentally piss off my sister apparently tho - she thought I told my half-sister that I was an NB and she only found out from my half-sister, but no one told my half-sister that: she just assumed as much).
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
No matter how terrible life gets, my mood always improves when I realise that I'm destined for some real nice tits
(´・ω・`)
(Not going to post actual size cause that feels wierd. Is it wierd?)
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 5mon
I love that feeling/realization. I think I'm past major growth but every now and then they get a touch rounder/fuller ^^ I'm glad you're getting some mood lifts!
is it weird?
I dont think its weird, strictly speaking, I think it has more to do with your comfort if anything. Like, I put stuff here that's probably tmi (tho behind spoilers). But idk, I'm also not good at telling what's weird tho
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
I'm hoping mine fill out more :/ they're "big" by measurement size but I feel like that doesn't account very well for the tuberousness
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 5mon
Yeah, my issues with my breasts I realized aren't really with their size, but with the size of my ribcage. Fingies crossed they fill out more for you, and if not there's surgeries to make tuberousness less tuberous if that's something you want to pursue.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Mine feel like they're starting to grow. Like, I can actually grab them, that feels nice already
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
There are many stages or "yippie they grew again" ahead for you!
(Imagine being able to grab a handful of your boobs. That's always fun)
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Oh that must be awesome, can't wait. Unlimited boobs on the transfems!
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
I literally was staring at myself in disbelief last night. Goddamn I didn’t think it would happen that fast
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Boynomoder [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
I wish I was Ranma; I wish hrt and transitioning was as simple as pouring water over my head
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Boynomoder [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
They should invent HRT that fully gets rid of body hair.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
That gives you a girl voice
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 5mon
transitioning is a type of looksmaxxing
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 5mon
Clavicular estrogen arc waiting room
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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 5mon
what else are the looksmaxxers beyond cisman to transman transitioners?
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 5mon
Things are starting to look pretty bleak in my relationship. They are an anxious personality type and are needing constant assurance that nothing is changing. Things are not changing in who I am as a person, but damn, we don't want anything to change? My lifelong depression should just stay this way?
This is probably just from me not feeling sure about who I am. If I could come out as trans without friction, I'd probably do it just to try. I'm waiting for the waveform collapse. I have to do something even though I don't know what that is, I can't stay in the closet like this much longer. Please send your best vibes.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
You've talked avout your relationship for like a long time now and I gotta be honest, I haven't heard you say a lot that makes it seems like its worth all your heartache and self denial time. You've held yourself in this tension to save a relationship that you dont seem to enjoy very much
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 5mon
I think that's a fair take based on what I've said here. Maybe I'm not being a great member of this community by sadposting so much and not sharing the positives, but there are positives. I don't mean that in a defensive way, just reflecting. I'm distressed because of the things I love about my relationship.
Things are progressing for me, though. You and others here have helped with that immensely. I'm the closest to coming out that I've ever been, and the anxiety of that proximity is hard to handle sometimes. I guess I just want to feel like I tried to make my old life and the new one fit together. Sorry if I'm rambling.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Sure, but it's not like been 2 weeks or 2 months of being sad and distressed and anxious, yeah? It's been 2 years. I really dont recall you once talking about something cute with your partner, something they did that made you feel loved or cherished, something they did that made you feel safe. I only know what you've posted of course, I suppose, but not once did you talk about doing something nice with them? What you've posted is mostly guilt and anxiety about feeling responsible for your partners reactions - which isnt responsibility. Have you ever heard of Issendai's sick systems? Here's a link and a different link. Hopefully none of that rings true.
I struggle to see what you get out of this besides avoiding the anxiety of being single, which is not a failure state. I had a very long term relationship, we were together for 11 years. The last 2 years were hard, they didnt clean, didnt take care of themself, didnt work, didnt make doctor's appointments or go to the ones I made, asked me to wake them earlier and were very mad when I did, and also did some stuff I wont elaborate on without a content warning. I loved them and I tried to work through it but love isn't enough sometimes. Being single after thay was an adjustment but it wasnt like bad - the relief was nice. For you, your main pain point seems to be your partner isnt attracted to your gender identity and you are a not cis - so the relief of just being yourself is likely to be quite good over the next x years of being in the closet and anxious and distressed all for... well again you never elaborate on what exactly is so worth all this so I cant say what you seem to find worth it besides feeling anxious about the possibility of being single.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 5mon
Wow, first of all, thank you for not backing down on this. I needed to hear that. I will have to spend some time thinking about the sick system concept. In some ways, I think I'm the center of one, even though I don't mean to be. My partner has described a feeling of complete instability in our relationship, which lines up with the neverending crisis componenent. They have always been clear that they want me to succeed, and if that means I am trans, they want me to feel like I can express it fully. I've been whittling that part of me down because it is hard to face.
I'm not really scared of being single. At least, I don't think I am. My partner is financially dependent on me. It sounds wrong verbalizing this now, but I have been scared they will struggle without me. They are struggling because of me now though. I guess I know what I have to do. Thanks 💜
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 5mon
transfem dorothy saying "we're not in kansas anymore" but it's actually a good thing and she's never going back again
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grym - 5mon
Damn I just watched that movie. Listening to a podcast by two transfems about twin peaks and they had a bonus episode about wizard of oz. Really fun movie I had somehow never seen it! Made watching Wild at Heart much more fun!
You can I think get the normal episodes without paying? I've seen them on Nebula and other places.
The special patreon feed is "TS TV DVD" with movie reviews
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
Thanks! I've found their official youtube which seems to have all the TP episodes (no The Return yet) and a couple of the bonus movie reviews
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grym - 5mon
if you want some of the DVD episodes you can ask i can probably download them
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Veggie_Deluxe [any, comrade/them] - 5mon
started HRT today, nervous as all hell, but I've been making more music and i really have y'all to thank for regaining the confidence to get back at it. lots goin on over here lmao
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
love the section around 2:40 with the ascending/descending clicky instrument, and the whole thing is immersing me in some kind of late 90s early 2000s video game in a cyber setting
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Veggie_Deluxe [any, comrade/them] - 5mon
Thank you so much<3, i want to build towards a project that is a kind of audiovisual cyberpunk/junglist album that serves as my dream ps1 game, Been learning old 3d modeling software, but that biz is above my paygrade for now lol Regardless its great to hear that my mind's eye vibes are carrying through. For the first time in years i feel like i have stuff to look forward to :)
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HexReplyBot [none/use name] - 5mon
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
i like the person i am dating 🙂 they are cool and smart and make me feel special pretty much every day i talk to them
thank you for your attention to this matter that is all
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
I'm sure they feel lucky to have met you and find your smarts, humor and attitude delightful getting an inside tip that they find you adorable because they adore everything about you.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Regular at work telling me he thinks I should join the navy
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
Bro was trying to get y ou KILLED
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
I'm going to have to give him shit on Monday
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
You gotta, that's great timing
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 5mon
1 day/a few hours later, bad timing
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Transfems would make great naval officers under socialism tho. It is a well established fact within academic circles that a majority of girls love cannons and boom booms and ships and precise engineering and tight fitting uniforms
(Sorry, I got overly carried away and am not sure what the actual joke I'm trying to make is)
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Yvan et nioj
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler misgendering
New housemate was initially perfectly consistent on gendering me right, then eventually I brought up my transness and had fun talking about it a bit to them, but, since then ive consistently been misgendered, which has me less bothered and more just highly suspicious now (like maybe thought I was cis before?), hope its just a coincidence of mistakes and I won't have to deal with more annoying stuff.
There was one especially silly house meeting where I was misgendered 3 times in a short span with my other housemates chiming "she" in correction each time (my heros), almost like a sitcom bit lol.
:::
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rafflesia [she/her, it/its] - 5mon
asked my doc to up my dose and she agreed yay!
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
You know...
Even after everything
If I had the option to restart my life
To choose my birth gender
I would still just choose to be myself
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 5mon
+1
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Would love to take a break from being g trans but then I see women and I lose my mind cause I wanna be her. When I see men I lose my mind cause I want to be held like a girl.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
I must make a correction
When I see girls I also want to be held like a girl
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
What would taking a break from being trans mean?
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
It means I'd like to become a cis girl for a week.
Lol OK the spoiler contains what it actually means
::: spoiler cw:spiraling + suicide
I just came back from downtown. Whole time I was out, I was feeling "fuck fuck fuck", avoiding people cause I was scared, looking at women's fashion and cursing myself for not having the courage to buy anything while also feeling like I didn't deserve to wear such clothes. Then I though about being betrayed by everyone and how I could never trust people again.
And that's more of less how most of my waking time goes. I cannot stand being conscious and try my best to drown out my thoughts with cheap dopamine.
Then I bought some food from the supermarket, and I could only think that I didn't deserve to eat. Now I'm stress eating what I bought as I type this.
In the morning I woke up lamenting that I wasn't dead yet, in the night I will cry myself to sleep.
If that sounds like a lot, it is! I can deal with a lot of bullshit (engineering student, linux user), but like, there is a limit, which has clearly been crossed. If I can't go out on a relaxing stroll on a nice sunny day without feeling like killing myself, then yeah ...
:::
When I say I'd like to take a break from being trans, I really just want a break from all that. I can handle normal life problems just fine.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
That's all very heavy, wow
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Thanks. You always take the time to read my nwgative comments even though you're loaded with work. I appreciate it.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
I can deal with a lot of bullshit (engineering student, linux user)
😭
I am sorry though, it is a lot and I deal with it like that too.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
(っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 5mon
wishing the best for you, comrade
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Not having to think or deal with it and the host of things it comes with for like, a week
Although after that week I definitely couldn't go back
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Sodium was talking like being a cis girl instead, personally Id rather be a trans woman over a cis woman but I can appreciate that pov - but Id definitely opt for trans woman over cis man!! In fact, I did irl~
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Ah I see, I wasn't necessarily trying to speak about her desire but I also want a break and that's what it'd be for me. I definitely could not go back to this after a week as a cis girl. Glad it's better for you though. Wish that was my feelings
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
I get what you mean about rather being trans girl than cis girl. The only real way to somehow become a cis person is to alter your history, but then that's just a different person.
Now a magically induced perfect sex change? Now that's the shit. Or maybe you would refuse that too?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Oh Id take a magic uterus, lol. But I actually kinda like trans bodies. There's stuff Id do with my face and I work out for a bigger booty but I like my arms and shoulders and I really like being as tall as I am. If the price of what I want is to give that up, ah I suppose if I must lol
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
I would love to take a break from living in this hellish world, it's more about not suffering needlessly in cishet society than not being trans
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
There's a version of the trans flag in my mind which is a war or evil version.
Where the light blue is navy, the pink darker and the white grey (white is surrender, grey for the morally grey things I must do to survive).
Sometimes I wear those colours to work, navy skirt, dark pink blazer, grey top.
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
Up with trans!
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 5mon
Up with trans!
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Azarova [they/them] - 5mon
up with trans!
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 5mon
up with trans!
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Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
Fuck LLMs, you should never listen to what they say, but I still get the people who say they trust them more than doctors or psychologists
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 5mon
An LLM cant get u committed, and doctors are somehow still better at gaslighting
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NuanceUnderstander [she/her] - 5mon
At least if you engage with a llm with caution you know it’s an algorithm that runs off the scraped data of the aggregated internet and thus can take everything it shows you with a massive grain of salt and sift through the pile of bs like when googling a question and sorting through Reddit threads to find scaps of ideas you find valuable. With so called professionals they have the appearance of authority which inclines you to trust them even though a good chunk of them have no idea what they are talking about half the time and just got through med school with daddy’s money and good test taking skills. This is more about my dislike of medical professionals than me liking llms though
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
1 year on HRT today. Which is wild. Now that I've hit it doesn't feel that important. Like I knew I wasnt cis ages before, but I didn't know I was a woman until a couple of months in and I only came out a month after that. Also my dose was too small at the start etc.
But still really cool.
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bolshevikLovelace [she/her, love/loves] - 5mon
congrats!!
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
Thank you!
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
Congratulations!!!!!!!
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Dressed up today and I almost feel girly. I just need to get rid of this beard shadow. And do something with my hair.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
My prog order got sized by customs. Fuckers still took taxes from me anyway and likely won’t refund. Dogshit legal and medical system.
Idk what the fuck to do. Where in europe could I get prog OTC?
::: spoiler more negative whining
Everyone who is supposed to help me is against me and making things worse. The amount of gatekeeping, bigotry and hatred are getting to me.
:::
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Are birth control pills somehow a good source of prog?
Or do I have to personally travel to say, the UK where I saw an online pharmacy shipping prog?
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
Yes and no. A lot of them are synthetic not bioidentical progesterones.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Definitely what I'm worried about. No idea where I could find OTC birth control pills with bioidentical prog.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Depends on the birth control, I wouldn't advise it though
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Is it because of under dosing? Or because most birth control pills aren't bio-identical prog (or something like that)?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
They arent bio identical because it wouldnt survive oral ingestion and going through your liver, the ones they put in are designed to be oral. And theyre all quite different in effects, in anti androgenic effects (some are androgenic!), in sleep, in etc. The synthetic progesterone it uses can be quite potent as well, even for a smaller dose.
The estrogen in birth control also has way higher risks of clotting. We switched away from that kind for HRT because of clotting risks.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Which synthetic progs are stronger then bio identical, out of curiosity?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Stronger here is more a matter of potency, like fentanyl is stronger than morphine in MME
You cannot speed run transition Eggnog
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Yea I assumed that's what you meant, I was literally just curious. The ones I'd been warned about were less then bio.
I know I'm cooked, I wasn't planning on taking anything but bio because even places that recommend pio and stuff say not to mess with it.
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
I had my first personal trainer session on monday (ya gurl is getting over her fear of the gym!) and holy fuck. Lemme tell you, skipping my running routine for three months did NOT do me favors for leg day. Im still stiff and sore down there two days later. I'm trying to get some stretches in here and there but good lord are my dogs BARKING.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
I had to stop working out since surgery 😩
I think Im getting close enough I can start at least doing my kettlebells and bodyweight stuff again. The most I did was walk around and use the stairs for the last month and a bit.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
idk why but I was really hesitant with my injection last night, usually its not an issue for me but I was feeling really weird about stabbing myself. Hope this doesn't become a trend.
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 5mon
Sometimes its worse than other times. I wouldn't worry about it.
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 5mon
We've had our fair share of injections like that. It doesn't happen anymore in our case but we know the feel. I think taking a deep breath and telling ourselves that it's okay helped a few times.
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
My new ID got mailed!! Based on what people say online it should only be a few days until it arrives. I quite like the black and white version of my picture, I hope adding color doesn't make it any worse
I still have to get a new version in around two years, which will be a good opportunity to get my gender marker changed if I haven't already
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 5mon
chat....
CHAT
that is all
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler us healthcare
whenever somebody tries to defend the insurance industry by saying it has so many jobs it's always kinda like bizarre to me, like they're literally saying "we have to keep Killing You at the Killing You Factory because think of how many jobs are at the Killing You Factory we simply cannot stop Killing You." preaching to the choir here obv but capitalism is just an actual death cult like for real
:::
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Ask those people if they would support a job guarantee (they won't, since this would eat into capitalist profits). Ask them if they support a job program for doing actually socially useful work like <insert public transportation, research, nurses, engineers, teachers, cleaning up the streets or a million other things> (they won't, since that's socialism)
:::
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 5mon
Between here and my support group, I've finally been able to make the leap to an outward queer identity. I've settled on non-binary for now, knowing that's probably not the whole of it.
Things are very complicated and hard because of that, but my partner has taken it pretty well 🙂 Actually, it feels like the first time I've been fully present for them in a long time. They make me feel so loved and accepted 🥰
@TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net, thanks for giving me such tough advice. I really needed to hear that, even though I didn't want to.
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
:::spoiler a screenshot discussing the social gendering of sex with regards to the non binary identity, and my own follow up comment.
bloomfilters says: basically if we really want true nonbinary legitimacy and the explosion of nonbinary existence into the daily lives of the world the category of 'sex' must be transsexualized and taken head-on to reveal itself for the ideology it is, as the gendering of the body
otherwise we will always just be 'boy nonbinary vs girl nonbinary'.
The social gendering of sex is how I see my own body as androgynous / masc. I have never really vibed with "female sex" and I have always felt that it was a social determination for me. I don't like the label "afab" either.
:::
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
My ex is non binary, and like ELDER non binary like 2010 before it was a thing online you could find. Anyway, when I cracked my egg and commiserated about misgendering they said "I will never be gendered correctly" which is a total bummer. I knew what they meant, its hard to say "things are changing! You'll see give it time." I still hope it does... I guess its easier after seeing like an enby expression form? Id rather see it what your link talked about over the formation of another category/box to get put in.
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Azarova [they/them] - 5mon
down with cis
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wenox [she/her] - 5mon
down with the cissies!
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 5mon
down with cis
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 5mon
down with cis
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler dysphoria (maybe?)
sometimes my boobs look like boobs and sometimes my boobs don't look like boobs and I dunno what to make of that, especially since yknow they're the same boobs
:::
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NuanceUnderstander [she/her] - 5mon
Had a therapy appointment for the first time in 10 years. They did not bring up my gender dysphoria diagnosis or my transness at all despite that being a pretty major development in my mental health since I last went. A trans friend have me resources though, so I’m going to go to one that specializes in lgbtq mental health so I don’t have to deal with cis ignorance
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
::: spoiler cw:trauma
Thing about being fucking traumatised is that you don't know what tf to do afterwards and then just have to go about your life as if nothing happened.
Kinda like being shot in the arm, not being given any medical treatment, then having to go next day to your job lifting boxes.
And yes, that analogy works very well cause my brain is injured, and my work/schooling involves me using my brain.
I was already spending a good chunk of my classes and shit being distracted by bad thoughts. Now that's gonna get worse. I already feel a much greater sense of dread and fear of other people.
And I'm assuming that people here will understand that being given the right kinda words from another person doesn't really fix the issue. Whether it be a psychologist or counselor or maybe even therapist. Well, the later could help, assuming I get the right therapist, get through the waitlist and have enough money/insurance for it.
Kinda like how getting a kiss and being told that the boo-boos will go away won't actually make your gunshot wound go away.
:::
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Wisconcom [she/her] - 5mon
I cut myself like 4 times whilst shaving my face. I looked even more purdy afterwards, so I guess it was worth it.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
Gotta say all the recent news doesn't make me feel peppy.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
its real bad
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
I had a zoom meeting where there was also a woman with my name participating, and before it started I mentioned to a coworker that I wasn't looking forward to the confusion. The coworker said "They're a woman!" or something like that and busted out laughing, the only reasonable justification being that me being mistaken for a woman is funny...
Ironic, as I'd been on a webinar with the name sharing lady presenting yesterday and thought to myself "I think I look more feminine than her". Guess not!
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
::: spoiler self-image and hair loss stuff, but slightly positive
I have been completely unable to look in the mirror properly for around 4 years, this is mostly about hair loss. Today after my injection, I wanted to take some pictures, and I felt pretty hot and feminine and then I caught a glance of my hairline in the mirror, that gave me the confidence to properly look at myself and wow. It felt good. Like, it's not completely perfect, but I thought I had the world's worst receding hairline, but it looked fine. And now I really want to get a haircut, because that can make it look pretty nice.
I feel great about being able to look at myself. But wtf, I had some REALLY BAD body dysmorphia about this, like I thought it was bad enough that the only way would be shaving it all. I completely avoided mirrors for YEARS, and this probably blew everything out of proportion. And while writing this I realized I had a very severe case of body dysmorphic disorder plus dysphoria. I am so happy.
:::
Anyway, does anyone have any cool hairstyle suggestions for curly (3A, to be specific) hair?
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BimboChristmas [she/her] - 5mon
Yo so I guess I've been doing my hair wrong my entire life? Treating my wavy hair like it was straight, getting big frizz every morning after I brush my hair dry.
I am way too old to be figuring this out, but the past couple days I've been detangling in the shower and letting it do its own thing and by golly it looks much better already.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
You can still brush it, but you need some cream or water. Do not brush it while dry, use your hands to style if needed.
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
I have been drawing for the first time since around when I started puberty (wow, I wonder what happened to me that killed my "soul" (I don't belive in souls, but you know what i mean) and my ability/desire to create)!!
And it's feeling so good, like it's fixing me
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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
Thank you for the lake talk!
Over six months off booze and a couple on estrogen and I feel revitalized. I’m not even “back to my old self” so much as I feel I’m becoming a new more comfortable and confident person. So early in this process, haven’t started shots yet, and already I feel like I’m going in the right direction
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
Congrats! That's amazing news!
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KrupskayaPraxis - 5mon
I found out why I never go home with someone after clubbing. I'm bisexual and I always go to gay clubs and most of the men there are gay, and most of the women there are their straight friends. You could say I should go to straight clubs but I'll probably get hate crimed there.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
My city only has one gay bar left standing so its also just the queer bar. Which is nice
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
My transition has been great and all but have you heard the transitions in Alive 2007?
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
Top 5 transitions
5 Oh Yeah into Touch It
4 Steam Machine into Around the World
3 Face to Face into Short Circuit
2 Too Long outro transition into Steam Machine (this one always has me in awe)
1 Everyone here
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
The first time I heard the Oh Yeah into Touch It transition I absolutely lost my shit and knew I was about to be in for an experience. And then it just kept getting better. I wish i could experience it for the first time again.
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grym - 5mon
REAL
Such a good album
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler mundane transfem woes (CW dyphoria)
So I ordered some women's boyshort style underwear because I needed more and I wasn't going to buy men's underwear
I wore them for a couple of hours and felt great, so into the bin went all my old underwear and I ordered some more. However at the end of the day, I've had way too much chafing around my scrotum. And I'm like crap I can't wear these right now. And like I decided I do want bottom surgery so cool I can put these in a cupboard somewhere for then.
But okay I need underwear for now. So okay I sheepishly fished a couple of my most recent boxers out of the bin (they were clean in a paper bag).
Then I went online and Kelvin Klein has some pride colored underwear packs so fuck it at least they're not straight underwear I guess.
:::
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler question about SA
How am I supposed to react when someone tells me about them getting assaulted/harassed? Like to me that's a really terrible and scary thing, and a big deal, and I try to show as much empathy and care as my autistic ass can. But what really threw me was the last time someone told me, she really acted like it wasn't a big deal and it's happened before. Which I know it's not an uncommon experience for women, idk I'm just not sure how to react if they're downplaying it or how I'm supposed to react as a woman (or how women usually react to other women?)
:::
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
Whatever happened to that DIY electrolysis thing that was getting posted about on here a while ago?
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
Waow I had no idea it was still being worked on!!! Serves me for not spending any time in c/diy
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
::: spoiler I think I know why I'm depressed
Haven't done fun things in a while. Haven't left my house to go anywhere that isn't like a pharmacy or a grocery store. My clothes don't fit the gender expression I want. Even videogames are boring right now. Haven't gone out with friends, so no social interaction that isn't online.
I feel terrible.
I don't think I can fix this for now. At least I can feel things now, which didn't use to be the case.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
damnit we drove right past that park last fall. it was really a road trip going to random places in upstate NY and vermont though we want to go back
stumbled upon John Brown's gravesite which was cool though but his hometown is pretty shitty these days
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
John Brown's gravesite
Renowned site of mouldering.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
it was actually a really nice natural boulder with moss and plants (check my old posts it's somewhere there). and he was mouldering with quite a few friends too so at least he won't be lonely
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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 5mon
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Busgirl [she/her] - 5mon
Kansas legislature go here
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler dysphoria/negativity
Wow I hate this. This whole week has just been awful. Consumed. I've been so dysphoric. So hopeless. My bottom dysphoria has been bothering me a lot more than usual. I mean so has everything else.
I hate being trans. It's traumatizing and horrible. It's not worth it. I hate my existence. There's barely a reason to keep pushing. It's all so overwhelmingly awful.
I've thought about messaging people to complain but there's no point, there's no point to any of this. Nothing is going to make this stop. I don't want to keep living if this is what it's going to be like. And I don't have any hope
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
::: spoiler spoiler
There's barely a reason to keep pushing.
It's OK. Just push for the sake of pushing. Even if you don't have a reason, at least outlive your enemies and see them die first.
I've thought about messaging people to complain but there's no point, there's no point to any of this.
Ts is so real. At best it can be a little soothing in some cases.
Lost count of how many comments I made then deleted cause "why tf does this matter?"
:::
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Being intimately aware of how dogshit everything is and being less disconnected is actually fucking horrible.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
When I change my walking route I sometimes end up in the nice part of town and am reminded that I'm poor lmao
One moment you go from the apartment complex next to a police station and prison (no joke, there're just 200m away from me), the next you end up in the part of town with copy paste american suburb style houses built next to a river with a water wheel (a fucking water wheel)
I bet these petite bourgeois mfs don't even get weekly lottery ads in their mailbox.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
When she reads theory
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
I've learnt that when talking about Fallout 4, it's red flag someone's a chud if they call the character from that game Nate, instead of Sole Survivor. Something about the two hit punch of ignoring the female option and having no imagination to give them a different name.
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler Frustrating reminder (vague trauma)
Everything can be packed up neatly to get through the day, but one unknowing comment can really mess things up.
"[Event] is something people don't forget, it really messes with them."
Right, I almost forgot.
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Wakmrow [he/him] - 5mon
Small thing the Wikipedia article for Green lake:
and at the chemocline is a dense layer of purple sulfur bacteria which makes the water appear pink
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
I'm such a nerd for this intersection of biology, physics, chemistry, and ecosystems aaaaaaa I gotta read more about Green Lake. In any scifi worldbuilding setting my favourite environments are the sulfur rich ones too, sulfur chemistry so cool.
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Wakmrow [he/him] - 5mon
I am weirdly interested in lakes. I did not know lake Malawi was also a meromictic lake as well. I did know about limnic eruptions. I didn't know they were all related though, really cool shit.
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
oh hey I researched lake Malawi for a paper a while ago, learned interesting stuff but missed the meromictic part. Now I wanna read about it again <3.
e: sudden revelation about why my research about its substrate wasn't making sense, cause I was assuming it to resemble other lakes
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Wakmrow [he/him] - 5mon
I already thought Malawi was like top 2 coolest lakes in the world without the meromictic part.
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
omg I love them, the lake sisters.
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
I wanted to talk at greater length about that since its such a neat factoid but it was already past midnight and I did not have it in me to parse out what the scientific papers were saying about that lol.
They exist at a very specific depth where its devoid of oxygen and despite their color the lake water is still very green and very clear. Like scary clear. I was a little uncomfortable standing near the parts where it drops off right by the shore.
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Wakmrow [he/him] - 5mon
Fucking cool though.
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jimmyjohnsandwich9 [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Trans Megathread
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BimboChristmas [she/her] - 5mon
I don't think the writers for Young Justice intended for Miss Martian to be a trans narrative, but holy shit what a trans narrative.
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BimboChristmas [she/her] - 5mon
Not watching a video essay about a superhero cartoon but video thumbnail goes pretty hard.
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Moss [they/them] - 5mon
Jimothy Cool is playing Celeste on stream (therefore this post belongs in the trans thread) and he's having an incredible glitch on his chat. English messages are being filtered and he can't see them, so everyone is writing ni hao in the chat, because for some reason chinese isn't banned
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
thanks for mentioning always great to watch a streamer I know play Celeste for the first time, and encouraging me to learn some phrases or at least to read pinyin better
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler trauma? homophobia, self-harm
One thing I absolutely was not prepared for with starting to come out is the level of internalized homophobia. I have this absolutely bloodthirsty, malicious voice in me that wants to harm any part of me that steps out of line. I've been writing about it to try and vomit it all out. It keeps coming.
::: spoiler ideation
Wrote a poem about drowning myself in a local pond I like to visit. It was more about the before and after. The walk into the woods, the weather that day, whether I would leave my keys in the car. Then how I would be found, by whom, how hurtful it would be. That the resting expression on my face doesn't show me at peace peace, it shows there's nothing there at all.
:::
I want true peace and joy so badly. I can almost envision it, but it feels forever just out of reach. The struggle continues even though I am too tired to face it. I can't give up again either.
:::
Thanks for all of your support. I hope we can all get through this.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Gotta be honest, I had no idea lakes did that. But it's cool as hell.
Am I right in assuming that the seperation of a single cycle into an epilimnion and hypolimnion is dependent on the thermal gradient of the water?
The hotter water up top moves faster, and when currents try to move downwards, they are "reflected" if they encounter a large thermal gradient (just like how light reflects when it encounters a new medium).
So if you have a really large thermal gradient, you can actually get more layers of cycles?
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
I asked a researcher about this and the answer is basically no, more or less. While the kind of stratification shown in the diagram in the main post is highly simplified, it can still be broken up into three main layers in terms of temperature and density. The coldest water at the bottom, the warmest at the top, and a slowly mixing layer between them.
The image below is a cross section of lake Ontario in late summer, the hypolimnion in blue, the metalimnion/thermocline is somewhere in the bottom of the green section, and the epilimnion is the red and most of the green.
The other image below is a graph showing temperature at depth over time, the parts in May and October where it is all one color represent mixing events when the temperature difference between the layers is not enough to enforce stratification.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
I see. Thanks for the response!
That lake thermal structure is quite interesting.
So as the temperature/wind speed is raised, the epilimnion just becomes bigger until everything is just one layer.
Or is it more a function of time? It takes months for the hypolimnion to mix and heat?
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
yellow is such an underrated fashion hair color, honestly one of my favorites of all time along with blue.
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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 5mon
erm, you know who else liked blonde hair and blue eyes? 🙄
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Very problematic
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
o nooo
(as a side note -- love this emoji lol)
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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 5mon
But what about blue hair and blond eyes?
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
blue / yellow hair that mixes to green in the center, preferred by birds or tropical fish mostly
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
My jester hat calls to me like the green goblin mask
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GiorgioBoymoder [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler polyheartbreak
my primary partner broke up with their other partner. felt really sudden for everyone, it's clear they're going through a lot but feels like they caused needless hurt. came at a bad time too.
I feel for both of them but it feels like the other one was cast-out and I'm real sad for them. remembering that I'm a big softie and catch feelings easily experience heartbreak easily.
they've made some personal breakthroughs in the short time since, and it came out that some tweaks were needed, but why couldn't these have been shared before taking such drastic steps? these were minor issues if only they were brought up to all involved. now our futures have all been drastically altered (there were changes coming I was looking forward to a lot) and I had no say in the matter.
I'll get through this but all hands on deck for my support network.
Because of the post-break changes I want us to try again but the hurt can't be undone and it's the foolish hope of an unrequited lover.
The weirdest part is navigating the "survivor's guilt" and balancing being there for my primary and their needs with my empathy for other and my feelings this was somewhat rash.
i, segfault11, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with big goofy smiles
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
An extremely goofy movie is just a movie to me
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
Reading theory is just fanfic fuel for me, I wanna get to the trash arc now can we talk about the trash for a second if basic fantasy settings have to answer the question of where does the poop go the industrial settings need to answer what's happening to the trash
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
I really miss working in pediatrics 😭😭
In nursing school, we all had our little fav areas we wanted to work in. A friend of mine was aiming for flight nurse, knew what she wanted to do (ER, CVICU, etc). Another wanted to do maternity, and she did! I was going for oncology. We did a bit as like student nurses in schools and I actually really enjoyed shadowing the kindergarten class which should've been a sign I guess. Pediatrics oncology is a thing (kids can bounce back hard from it, they tend to get different kinds, either way I am also comfortable with the sad side of it and paliation and Ive had my share of hard passing away), but I actually really liked general peds - mental health, inpatient and outpatient, emerg, medsurg, etc. Im still aiming for gender clinic stuff but I know my old unit wants an NP and I know they'll pay for your education for a return to service agreement... it wouldnt be impossible to go back and run a clinic part time.
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Moss [they/them] - 5mon
Any weight loss advice? I've been unsuccessful at losing weight over the past year. I was very depressed over college and put on about ten kilos in my final year, and I can't keep living like this. I enjoy going to the gym, but I'm also awful at regulating myself. I snack too much and make meals that are way too big. I feel really guilty when I don't finish a meal, so I end up eating too much
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
I lost 50 lbs by calorie counting in 2019, it was not easy. It took a little under a year. Marathon, not a sprint, etc. Theres calculators online that can help you figure out a daily calorie goal to lose 1 to 2 lbs a week (they will also be in metric too lol), which is about as fast as you wanna go for the sake of your skin and muscle.
I also did some therapy about why I had been emotionally eating and stress eating as well, which helped. Sounds like you have some stuff to work out over guilt around food. Exercise helps with losing weight a bit but the main thing is cutting intake. If you live alone, just dont buy the food/snacks and only make what you eat and store leftovers quickly - "just" does a lot of work there but its true! Oh, also a kitchen scale was useful!
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wenox [she/her] - 5mon
I have arguably anorexic tendencies so I am not sure how relevant and healthy my advice is. But as calorie counting and kitchen scale are mentioned by someone else I can add few things that works for me psychologically.
First thing that helped me was going back to intermittent fasting, I don't eat until 7pm and just go with coffee/smoking(they are very useful for keeping hunger in check but not obviously not worth starting if you aren't a user).
Eating high fiber foods, brown rice, greens, oatmeal, vegetables keeps you full way longer and allows smaller portions. I also eat same things most days since i find that repetition helps and I keep one 250-300 calorie processed snack space in my 1200 calorie limit as it helps with motivation and my sweet tooth is insatiable.
Mentally, I am against checking the scale way too often. Losing weight is a long and gradual process that doesn't show results very quickly even if everything is going well. I just tell myself to keep going, it has to work mathmetically instead of going to scale every day. Also calculate how much your body burns without working out and plan your daily caloric intake accordingly. Count and weight EVERYTHING you eat. Besides that dysphoria is a good motivator as well for me personally. Allowing yourself cheat days once a month or 2-3 weeks is also important. Keeping motivation pretty much carries the whole process.
I've been able to lose 10 kgs between august and december last year by following these.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
1200 kcal is quite dangerously low, Im saying this because it can hurt you. I work in Trauma and we have people in comas, even then they get at an absolute minimum 1500 kcal - and theyre not doing much of anything. They try to aim for around 2000 kcal.
Everything else if it works for you (maybe dont smoke too lol), go for it but consider increasing your limit because you could be missing critical macros, vitamins, and other nutrients. Cheat days, IF, whatever is working for you.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler eating disorder
Every time you post the numbers like that I'm reminded how bad my 600 cal/day crash was for me
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wenox [she/her] - 5mon
Oh I am aware and I am not at that level anymore, but It's hard to convince me of the fact once I am obsessed with losing weight sadly.
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
Honestly the only thing that worked for me was GLP-1s
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 5mon
I just saw that Open Gate is retiring in a few months. She's doing a going out of business(?) sale so if you're in the USA or UK and you diy estradiol, it might be a good time to stock up.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Thank you for this, $40 for enanthate is hard to turn down. Already have 3 vials but maybe I should double up and have extras to give away or something..
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 5mon
You're welcome, and I think there's no rush because it sounds like she's clearing out current stock for the next twoish months. I don't know what's going to happen after that.
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I never got the stickers :(
EDIT:
So actually it looks like Open Gate Labs isn't shutting down so much as its founder is retiring? The blog post sounded optimistic that OGL will continue on after they leave in a couple months.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 5mon
I hope OGL does continue to exist in some capacity.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
dang, wish they shipped here
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 5mon
I had a bizarre, almost lucid dream the other night. Which was unusual because I've never had a lucid dream before, but I was, for whatever reason, addicted to cigarettes in my dream instead of being the normal alcoholic that i am. I remember very vividly taking a cigarette, smoking it, and then immediately being taken aback because the flavor of it was all wrong. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, nor done any nicotine. I have no frame of reference for what tobacco smoke actually tastes like beyond smelling it second hand and smoking weed on rare occasion before. My mind attempting to approximate the taste of cigarette smoke was so unconvincing that it suddenly snapped me into this bizarre lucidity to where i wasn't in control like a lucid dream, but I was 100% cognizant and aware of what was happening. In my dream, I was fully aware that my brain couldn't convincingly mimic the taste of something I've never had, and spent the next bit of that dream fully understanding that I was dreaming and I knew exactly why I knew that. I saw a glitch in the Matrix of my own dreams but I couldn't get out or use anything with that info
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
that's interesting, nicotine can cause intense / vivid and lucid dreaming.
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 5mon
I've never done nicotine in my life 🤷♀️
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 5mon
Random bout of crushing loneliness again AAAAAAAA
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
I am now her soyfriend
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
I really do just be feeling pretty happy right now, for no particular reason.
Seems like the evil voice in my head has left on a break 3 hours ago and hasn't returned.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
(Yes, feeling normal for 3 hours is a big deal)
:::
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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
My new transman roomate has become my arts and crafts buddy. We've been working on patches, braclets and battle vests all weekend. Has definitely helped me stay grounded with all the chaos going on in the world.
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queermunist she/her - 5mon
Went to a psych about my anxiety and ADHD. Symptoms changed a lot when my hormone profile changed, and they're basically unmanageable now. I got some propranolol for now which actually really helps at work when I'm stressing the fk out over being overstimulated, but I still can't focus on shit or start/switch tasks or remember what I was doing five minutes ago so lol
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
My mom has always maintained that she, my sister, and I have some kind of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and I haven't taken it that seriously until recently.
We were talking in the car and apparently when I was getting therapy for my fine motor control as a kid they noted I had a ton of flexibility in my hands. I've also always had poor grip strength and super sensitive hands
I have a wicked amount of stretch marks all over my torso, armpits, pelvic/crotch area, and knees. A lot of it was already there when I was like 16 prior to my significant weight gain
I did the Beighton test stuff and think I got 5/9? But it's hard to tell if I'm doing it right...
I think I have soft skin, but I don't touch other people's skin enough to compare
I have pretty severe kerstosis pilaris on my legs, which is fairly common and not exclusively an EDS thing but apparently there's an association
Strenuous activity leaves me with muscle soreness for multiple days afterward, although I've never been super fit so could just be normal?
On the other hand, I wouldn't consider myself super flexible (sit and reach test was murder as a kid) and I don't think I've ever dislocated anything ever.
Of course the only reason I care so much is because of the association between EDS and transness. Would be nice to turn that around on my mom and show her scientific evidence for me having a higher likelihood to be trans
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
So apparently liquid leaking from an injection site is probably interstitial fluid. There's always a little drop of blood leaking too. I didn't know interstitial fluid was a thing and you can actually leak a clear body fluid and it probably is fine.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Yes and a tiny dob if blood isnt a problem either, you got little tiny capillaries all over and a little nick might leak blood but thats about it.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Yeah, i thought blood was the only thing that could leak out. If a lot came out I'd be worried, but this much seems normal if not less than I expected
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
me (a black and white manga still of griffith) except i'm not evil 😇
unrelated, but what is it with the the long white haired snake affiliated archetype, I feel like I've been encountering many of them lately 🤔
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Evil twink is an underrated aesthetic and I love it every time I see it
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
::: spoiler depression
Spent the day rotting, doing nothing. Slept through all afternoon. I ate a lot less than normal. Getting depressed has been much more frequent, I guess this is just life being terrible, feeling useless, hopeless about money, lost and incapable of doing anything.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
It's probably a good sign re: my mental health that I've been reading what the rules for trans prisoners are in each Australian state.
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Boynomoder [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
Where am I supposed to go for good fitness/workout advice? The internet is a vast sea of information, it's overwhelming.
I just want something that is simple and works.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
If you start doing a half hour to an hour of moderate activity you are leaps and bounds ahead of the population. Moderate activity is specifically about your heart rate, your target max rate is 220-age and moderate is 50% to 70% of that. They used to think small amount add up but it is better for you the chunkier it is. So 10 minutes x3 a day isnt as good as if you did 30 minutes x1 a day (apparently). Because its about heart rate it can be any kind of cardio - dancing counts!! Walking, running, literally whatever gets your heart rate up.
Strength training stuff, whatever works for you and that youll stick with honestly. There is a set of back and core exercises essentially everyone would benefit from. Theres the simple and sinsiter program if you wanna add kettllebells or whatever. Dont forget rest days, it is important. But honestly whatever gets you moving and even if its bodyweight youre doing WAY more than the median person (who doesnt do physical labour). Youre still young but if you can get up with just your legs (not using your arms) thats important as you age as well.
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Boynomoder [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
That's probably true, but I am doing it for vanity more than health tbh.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
If you wanna look hotter, just general fitness is a good base.
Other than that people like big butts, so work on those muscles? Hamstring helps your booty have a shelf, but the other main glute muscles are important.
Also try gaining some weight from body fat% :p
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Boynomoder [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
I have too much weight in my belly and not enough meat on my bones, so I am just kind of fucked.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Youre supposed to have belly fat, the estrogen is telling your body to have a nice little tummy~
Targeted fat loss isnt really a thing, it comes out all over unless you get it taken out surgically. The hegemonic feminine ideal of a flat tummy isnt real, and to the degree its real its quite difficult/unhealthy (potentially) to get to and maintain and the ones who do get a boost genetically. If youre hoping to be very thin as your ideal for hotter I wouldnt recommend it, and try to aim for healthy habits - you get hotter as a side effect of general health and general fitness (for real). And if you want, throw in some split squats and romanian deadlifts with walking and using stairs as often as possible, get a bigger booty.
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
It can be really overwhelming and honestly intimidating when going at it alone. The fitness comm here on hexbear has some good stuff in the sidebar, particularly in the wikis. Ive tried to do this on my own for a couple years and the biggest improvements in my routines have come from working with people face to face; though this may not be an option for some people and I respect that.
Random unsolicited tips:
Focus on doing stuff consistently rather than progress or results. Showing up and doing the work is arguably the hardest part, and its foundational to progress and results. Starting out can feel miserable, but it gets better once you get used to it and over time you'll even come to enjoy it once you find what you like.
Weight lifting is really good for you, trust. Ive met a lot of transfems who are afraid of gaining muscle mass for dysphoria reasons when they really shouldnt be. Gaining muscle mass is a lot harder once on estrogen and it takes years of concerted effort to get a body builder figure, so it wont masculize your body, if anything, gaining a more toned musculature will be feminizing. Learning to do the excercises also improves the mind-body connection which can help with some forms of dysphoria, I swear by it.
Try to approach it with a hobbyist mindset and have some fun! Theres a lot of options out there and I encourage you to go and explore while trying to find things you like.
Having specific clothes I ONLY wear when working out is a dumb mind trick that helps me stay consistent for some reason.
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 5mon
I really enjoyed the mega topic!
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 5mon
CA giving updates no one asked for (clint) while still ignoring the people who have been asking for years to implement more pronouns, smh.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:
How do you support your boobs while sleeping? Best to wear a bra to bed, or let them free?
If I sleep on one side, will that side's boob develop better (presumably, since it is rested while the other hangs, there must be am effect)? So if I want to balance out my boons I sleep on the small boob to help it grow faster ....?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
No, it doesn't work like that. Sleep in whatever way is actually comfortable
Let the girls free. Enjoy your anti gravity boobs while they last lol
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Uhm, I don't think that works like that.
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler boobtalk
not an expert but I still feel fine saying that it probably doesnt matter. I can offer my data point of my more-rested side if anything being a touch smaller to touch, but looks fully symmetric still. Also, the slightly larger side aligns with how everything on that side of my body is a lil larger. So, yeah probably doesn't matter.
I almost always wear an old stretched out sports bralette to bed but thats more cause it feels comfy to have, its not supporting much.
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 5mon
If it did make a difference in growth it would be imperceptible. Also it is generally inadvisable to sleep with a bra on since theyll restrict your breathing a little and theres a possibility of chafing.
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Goblinmancer [any] - 5mon
Silent hill 2 is about league of legends and in water ending is james reinstalling league
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler weight + eating, working around a disability, adhd
going to mirror the other comment and ask if anyone has advice for gaining weight. While its clear that I'd be able to eat more frequently in a better situation, still wanted to ask just in case. I have to avoid exerting myself so im mostly sedentary, and it feels like I'm already maximizing the space in my digestive system (I look a bit bloated just from the food volume), and focusing on healthy fats and anything calorie dense, but still are underweight. I think addressing my chronically understimulated brain might help? Its always running exhausingly fast and I'm sure thats burning energy, and even though im underweight im quite tall so theres quite a bit to fuel even mostly sedentary. Haven't been able to find any medication so far that's slowed my brain down without awful side effects unfortunately.
Maybe I need to get in contact with a nutritionist, see if theres any other changes to what I eat that'd help (I'm not a picky eater other than being vegan).
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
maybe its as simple as budgeting more dense snacks for me to fill in the gaps throughout the day
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
Reading a new book that involves the criminal underworld, gonna call up RGG I got a new plot for the next yakuza game. Roll kiryu out in a wheelchair we got some work to do
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
NVM this is just IW plot, I do have another plot though with mind blowing conclusion
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
::: spoiler IW and yakuza 6 spoilers
I know these games are Japanese and with war criming them with nukes is something that's gonna linger so for it to effect the plot of 6 and IW it's very understandable. 6 takes place in Hiroshima with one of the antagonist living in the ruins of the bombing so I can understand the anti nuclear themes this series has. IW dealing with countries wanting to start up nuclear energy and the consequences of what do do with the nuclear waste is sort of the driving point to the schemes. I know nuclear waste would be scary in this narrative but with the alternatives never really being presented leave a weird taste in my mouth.
Current book I'm reading deals with what exactly happens to waste from the first world and while it does mirror a lot of the plot it's more expensive in some manners. There is a side story of doko Island that I feel matches what the story might have been about that of trash being dumped.
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Overall I feel maybe IW was going somewhere different but it's hard to say with 6's story. Long story short read books they make your favorite media more interesting
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
Overall conclusion we need to liberate the yakuza series if we wanna make it anticapitalist and antimperialist, 3's story was so close to this being but it avoided it (no one @ me on kiwami 3 I don't know what they did there nor care) and 6 was everything 3 was trying to be but falls just short
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 5mon
Long story short read books they make your favorite media more interesting
been telling myself that i can't really understand Spec Ops: The Line without reading Heart of Darkness and I keep telling myself that I don't think that's true that I need to read Heart of Darkness only for that reason
okay i just looked it up, apparently it's not that long. Less than 200 pages. Not really a fan of fiction but I could give it a try
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
Reading is almost always good, I got a copy of heart of darkness so give me a shout with how it compares to spec ops the line
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 5mon
The thematic parellels are very obvious but kind of superficial. Man goes into very remote area, finds he's in control of his own army there and has descended into barbarity over the isolation, the protagonist descends deeper into madness as he goes deeper into the jungle/desert. The main antagonist of SOTL is named "John Konrad", spelled with a K like Kurtz from Apocalypse Now
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
Was gonna mention apocalypse now another thing I haven't experienced
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 5mon
Apocalypse Now? Nah, I'm gonna watch it Appcalypse Later
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Oh ok, the physicists have been hiding teleportation from the public this whole time.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
No clone theroem though 😔✊️
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
So about prog. Genuinely what do I do? I ain't got a clue.
Ask my GP to prescribe it? He wasn't even willing to prescribe E. I don't really trust anyone to tell them about my DIY. Not sure what kind of consequences I'll get into that.
Do I try to synthesise it myself??? Is that a thing you can do at home?
Travel to the UK and get a batch from a UK pharmacy and presumably have to do this for many years? And also risk getting caught at the border smuggling medicine?
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
You can get raws and diy prog gel, iirc you shouldn't be on it for more then a couple of years but that's still long enough for some good breast growth. I know your diy prog got seized, maybe there are more discrete sellers, or does customs only check some packages? Buying a year or two and bringing it back from the UK might work, idk how tight airport security is over there.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
iirc you shouldn't be on it for more then a couple of years
Women cis or trans need progesterone and it's frankly criminal the way the medical establishment has done little to research it and does little to offer it to Cis and trans women.
It's not just for cis women's uteruses, it's not just for trans women's breast growth, it helps sleep, mood and is an antiandrogen.
The risks of clots are overblown (like estrogen) from old trials on synthetic versions. Most side effects can be avoided by taking it rectally.
Edit: sorry if that was strong I'm passionate about prog
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
You can get raws and diy prog gel, iirc you shouldn't be on it for more then a couple of years but that's still long enough for some good breast growth.
I'm talking specifically about diy prog gel, I don't remember the exact health reasons why its not great for long term use. But its probably fine for a few years which is still worth it imo. Totally agree with everything else you said.
Fenian isn't out until April. I haven't listened to the singles yet, but as decent as Fine Art was, I was pretty disappointed in how much English was in it compared to 3CAG. There aren't a lot of non-trad bands that actually sing in Gaeilge. Hoping Fenian is less English.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 5mon
So for the early movie tomorrow I can’t decide between Redline and Barber Westchester. Which should I go with?
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 5mon
Hey how does watching the movies work? Last time I tried to watch one I could see a chatroom but no video loaded in my browser.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 5mon
That's odd no videos loaded. It may load messages you have to accept before it shows you anything, and sometimes also VPN or country can lead to youtube being blocked for certain videos. TankieTube works everywhere though. Next time you're online, please feel free to let the chat know and we can help you troubleshoot through it, or we can try to get it working whenever you're able to.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 5mon
Alright I will, thank you.
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Ceres [she/her] - 5mon
I've been meaning to watch Barber cause I've heard great things, but Redline is Redline so I gotta for that
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HexReplyBot [none/use name] - 5mon
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Instead of complaining and doom scrolling all the time, I'm gonna pick up a new web novel to hyperfixate about. Unfortunately, I've already read the 2 CN web novels which are most highly praised.
Aparantly, from this point on I'm supposed to lower my expectations.
But instead of doing that, I'm going to find a novel with a FEMALE MAIN CHARACTER written by a WOMAN AUTHOR (this is supposedly not so hard these days and there's a lot more popular options)
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Learning damaged vs undamaged hair was a great mistake. Fuck my life
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Even pretty damaged hair just needs a trim and shampoo/conditioner. And stop blowing drying it or curling it with an iron, that too.
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RION [she/her] - 5mon
I need to stay an hour later at work than usual today and it feels like foreverrrrrr but no one really cares what you do here in the afternoon so I can kinda just goof off. Then I go to my mtf group, maybe get food and go shopping in-between? I need more pants
Wanted to sh earlier but of course the work environment is not conducive to that. It did get me thinking about a portable sh kit I could build which is probably not good. Suppose I just have to hope I'm exhausted enough when I get home that I just don't seize on that idea
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler I have been playing Mount and Blade : Warsails again because you know everything is stressful and shit lately. (CW patriarchal violence)
My current character is an enormously tall, blonde and clocky Nord woman who is never going to marry or become a lord, only a mercenary and trader with workshops funding her troop's wages in the down time between wars.
Her clan is the Völur (which is the plural Norse word for Sorceress). She has scary face paint and her sigil is a hand with the evil eye in the palm. Her ship is Sturgian Lodya (like a black longship with a ram) called Witch and the figurehead is a Siren (which we just captured). She fights with a sword and field, and a 2 handed axe. Her armor and gear is intentionally light for gliding across a deck and swimming to enemy ships.
She has 4 female companions all with grievances against the Patriarchy or mystical backgrounds. Her second in command is a Nordvyg woman who was made to marry a Vanna (Sami equivalent) man and learnt their ways, then her brothers tried to make her poison his clan in an ethnic cleansing, so she booked it. The medic is Sturgian wisewoman, whose mother and fiancé were butchered before her wedding in a raid. Her steward is an Aserai woman whose brothers disowned her when she lost their money when a good investment was destroyed by an accidental fire. Finally my scout is a Battanian woman who was cursed to never have a happy marriage and had three husbands die in quick succession.
I kind of imagine them as big Coven and polycule. Their crew is a motley mix of Nords, Imperial/Sturgian Sailors, Sea Raiders, Corsairs and random convoy guards we've rescued.
Funnily enough, despite my weight being my number cause of "I fucking hate my body", I have never actually purchased/used a weighing scale (of any kind, not even for cooking).
Do you know why? Because I'm too stupid to have thought about it before typing this comment. And I'm sure that I'll forget about it soon enough then never buy one.
So yes, having "stupid b*tch syndrome" isn't all downsides. There's upsides too.
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jakar [she/her, pup/pup's] - 5mon
jakar's megathread post
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
OOZE
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Many questions it seems today
Maca extract pills as a substitute for Progesterone? Does it work? Am I tripping?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Did you search pubmed for "alternatives to HRT" lol
You're ultimately probably better off sticking to straight bio identical progesterone over trying herbal supplements.
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
No, I found maca pills on sale and bought them. I should have researched before buying, but not thinking things through is classic sodium-nitride behaviour
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queermunist she/her - 5mon
Taking maca extract helped with my acne before I got on HRT.
So I guess it did something I think? Didn't grow boobs or anything, but then again that wasn't my goal back then either.
In females, FSH initiates follicular growth, specifically affecting granulosa cells. With the concomitant rise in inhibin B, FSH levels then decline in the late follicular phase. This seems to be critical in selecting only the most advanced follicle to proceed to ovulation. At the end of the luteal phase, there is a slight rise in FSH that seems to be of importance to start the next ovulatory cycle.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
::: spoiler long explanation
Ok, different hormones do different things depending on your body, specifically your gonads. It's not just estrogen and testosterone. FSH is present in both male and female bodies, it stimulates some part of your body to do other things.
Sertoli cells are present on testicles, fsh makes them produce some other hormone and regulate sperm production.
When you have ovaries, FSH has many functions, mainly the follicle stimulating part that's on the name. It helps follicles turn into the corpus luteum after ovulation. The corpus luteum produces progesterone, so that might be it.
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Simple explanation:
FSH>testies>sperm and androgen hormone
FSH>ovaries>ovulating and prog
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
Just need to nuke DMRT1 first ez
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Yeah, fuck DMRT1
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 5mon
Just gotta do that before you're born and boom, XY feminization
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 5mon
If my parents really loved me they'd have done this
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Reading these articles makes me feel like what lay people must feel when they see scientific terms in a movie and then the protag/general tells the scientist to "speak english" (even though any competent general should know the terminology for the weapons they are using)
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SuperZutsuki [they/them] - 5mon
Anyone else taking their prog as a troche? It says it dissolves after 30 minutes but there's always some left over. Should I spit it out?
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queermunist she/her - 5mon
idk I go to sleep with it under my tongue 🤷♀️
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 5mon
I was gonna make a book reading post but I got a call and got ma'am pretty hard. Idk know what the call was about
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
I have fully perfected the brooding anti-hero archetype who wears too much black, has a revenge motivation and a tragic backstory.
The violent desires and burning hatred are also there.
Only thing missing are guns/swords (and women swooning over how cool I am)
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Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml - 5mon
Is walking around 5-10 hours a week considered good cardio (I know the variation is high, I don't have a fixed routine per say)?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 5mon
Yeah, if you want a target walk fast enough to get your heart rate up into moderate activity zone (either by feeling it or whatever). The other rule is if you can talk but you couldnt sing at moderate activity rate.
5 hours is above the minimum recommended moderate activity a week - please by all means go for 10 a week just know youre in a good zone.
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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 5mon
::: spoiler gross
made a great escape from the call last night because everyone was talking about paying for food with boners and "getting to" pick up dog shit with their bare hands...
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 5mon
I liked reading about the lakes this week.
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HexReplyBot [none/use name] - 5mon
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Shaleesh in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
Green Lake and Round Lake - Trans Megathread from February 23rd, 2025 to March 1st, 2026
Green Lake and its sister Round Lake, are a pair of unique bodies of water located in the aboriginal territory of the Onandoga nation. This writeup will concern itself with Green Lake, but much of this information carries over to its sister.
The final remnants of a plunge pool formed during the last ice age by a glacial waterfall at least twice the size of Niagara Falls; Green Lake is situated in a gorge and fed entirely by rain and groundwater. As a result, it is one of the few meromictic lakes on earth.
So, okay, in general terms, lakes do this:
For the warmer months water organizes into distinct layers, each circulating in their own way. The warmest water, being the least dense, sits at the top. This is where the phytoplankton hang out, producing oxygen and consuming nutrients. The coldest water, being the most dense, sits at the bottom. This is where nutrients tend to accumulate and oxygen gets depleted by animal life. As summer turns to winter the top layers get colder and the water mixes as stratification breaks down, the same happens as winter turns back to summer. This process helps more evenly distribute oxygen and nutrients.
Ok so Green Lake doesn't do this.
The bottom of the lake is totally devoid of oxygen, so no decomposition; whatever falls down there, stays down there. The water is also very high in mineral content, which leaves layers of calcite deposits on anything that isn't moving. Moreover there is a layer of bacterially active water around 18-20 meters down that makes the water purple at that specific depth. Thanks to photosynthetic bacteria that deposit some of the minerals in the water, Green Lake is home to one of the few existing freshwater reefs.
I just think its neat.
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if you have a preferred week please tell me
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Can I sign up again? I wanna talk about MUDs
Omg I've just started getting back into these
OoooOOooooOooohhh. Which ones just curious? I've been super into one lately called AwakeMUD that's based on Shadowrun 3e. In the sorta recent past I've also played Aardwolf and The Unofficial Squaresoft MUD. There was one kinda in development I also got into a little called Midnight Equestria. I should probably go back and see how far along they are on that one.
I've seen stuff about AwakeMUD and have been curious about it. I used to play Aardwolf when I was in high school. I've been playing a bit of Alter Aeon lately
Can I get the week of 3/16 - 3/22?
my cracka you see that it's already taken
add me to the list
I wamna sign up for the one starting 3/30!
I havent gushed about my bottom surgery lately but I am very happy about having a vagina and the results of the surgery!! This shit kicks ass
it fucking rules!
Fuck yeah! Happy for you :)
I can't get over that stat that there's probably 400,000 trans internally displaced refugees in the USA. As in people who've fled one state to another. That's like a factor of 10 more I would have guessed. If a civil war had displaced half a million people that would be news worthy
The trans population is something like 0.5%. Somewhere between 0.3% to 1%.
If its 400K, then 400K/1650K are displaced. Or between one out of four to one out of five transgender people have been internally displaced in the US by that estimate.
a civil war kinda does it more all at once. Queer people leaving rural areas for socially liberal cities is a steady trickle that's been happening for as long as we've had language to describe ourselves.
The world is getting so much scarier for trans people and I feel like I just have to come out. I've been a closter enby agender for years and only ever come out to one person, but I think if I don't come out soon, I never will.
But fuck I hate having that conversation. Like "hey, I'm not who you thought I was and I don't like who I was. Please love me regardless." And my friends and family are all good people who will accept me and do their best and really try to respect me, but it's still so scary.
I went to a transfem event recently and it was packed. What was really moving was there was the regulars, plus a whole bunch of new girls who'd just dropped (eggs recently broken and out of the closet), but also a bunch of long term trans girls including stealth ones who'd drifted out of the community, who were coming back in because of everything going on.
I just don't do ave it. With my parents, when I came out, it was just "I'm wearing a bra cause I started HRT" and that more than my sister or my closest friends got in terms of coming up (I did incidentally piss off my sister apparently tho - she thought I told my half-sister that I was an NB and she only found out from my half-sister, but no one told my half-sister that: she just assumed as much).
No matter how terrible life gets, my mood always improves when I realise that I'm destined for some real nice tits
(´・ω・`)
(Not going to post actual size cause that feels wierd. Is it wierd?)
I love that feeling/realization. I think I'm past major growth but every now and then they get a touch rounder/fuller ^^ I'm glad you're getting some mood lifts!
I dont think its weird, strictly speaking, I think it has more to do with your comfort if anything. Like, I put stuff here that's probably tmi (tho behind spoilers). But idk, I'm also not good at telling what's weird tho
I'm hoping mine fill out more :/ they're "big" by measurement size but I feel like that doesn't account very well for the tuberousness
Yeah, my issues with my breasts I realized aren't really with their size, but with the size of my ribcage. Fingies crossed they fill out more for you, and if not there's surgeries to make tuberousness less tuberous if that's something you want to pursue.
Mine feel like they're starting to grow. Like, I can actually grab them, that feels nice already
There are many stages or "yippie they grew again" ahead for you!
(Imagine being able to grab a handful of your boobs. That's always fun)
Oh that must be awesome, can't wait. Unlimited boobs on the transfems!
I literally was staring at myself in disbelief last night. Goddamn I didn’t think it would happen that fast
I wish I was Ranma; I wish hrt and transitioning was as simple as pouring water over my head
They should invent HRT that fully gets rid of body hair.
That gives you a girl voice
transitioning is a type of looksmaxxing
Clavicular estrogen arc waiting room
what else are the looksmaxxers beyond cisman to transman transitioners?
Things are starting to look pretty bleak in my relationship. They are an anxious personality type and are needing constant assurance that nothing is changing. Things are not changing in who I am as a person, but damn, we don't want anything to change? My lifelong depression should just stay this way?
This is probably just from me not feeling sure about who I am. If I could come out as trans without friction, I'd probably do it just to try. I'm waiting for the waveform collapse. I have to do something even though I don't know what that is, I can't stay in the closet like this much longer. Please send your best vibes.
You've talked avout your relationship for like a long time now and I gotta be honest, I haven't heard you say a lot that makes it seems like its worth all your heartache and self denial time. You've held yourself in this tension to save a relationship that you dont seem to enjoy very much
I think that's a fair take based on what I've said here. Maybe I'm not being a great member of this community by sadposting so much and not sharing the positives, but there are positives. I don't mean that in a defensive way, just reflecting. I'm distressed because of the things I love about my relationship.
Things are progressing for me, though. You and others here have helped with that immensely. I'm the closest to coming out that I've ever been, and the anxiety of that proximity is hard to handle sometimes. I guess I just want to feel like I tried to make my old life and the new one fit together. Sorry if I'm rambling.
Sure, but it's not like been 2 weeks or 2 months of being sad and distressed and anxious, yeah? It's been 2 years. I really dont recall you once talking about something cute with your partner, something they did that made you feel loved or cherished, something they did that made you feel safe. I only know what you've posted of course, I suppose, but not once did you talk about doing something nice with them? What you've posted is mostly guilt and anxiety about feeling responsible for your partners reactions - which isnt responsibility. Have you ever heard of Issendai's sick systems? Here's a link and a different link. Hopefully none of that rings true.
I struggle to see what you get out of this besides avoiding the anxiety of being single, which is not a failure state. I had a very long term relationship, we were together for 11 years. The last 2 years were hard, they didnt clean, didnt take care of themself, didnt work, didnt make doctor's appointments or go to the ones I made, asked me to wake them earlier and were very mad when I did, and also did some stuff I wont elaborate on without a content warning. I loved them and I tried to work through it but love isn't enough sometimes. Being single after thay was an adjustment but it wasnt like bad - the relief was nice. For you, your main pain point seems to be your partner isnt attracted to your gender identity and you are a not cis - so the relief of just being yourself is likely to be quite good over the next x years of being in the closet and anxious and distressed all for... well again you never elaborate on what exactly is so worth all this so I cant say what you seem to find worth it besides feeling anxious about the possibility of being single.
Wow, first of all, thank you for not backing down on this. I needed to hear that. I will have to spend some time thinking about the sick system concept. In some ways, I think I'm the center of one, even though I don't mean to be. My partner has described a feeling of complete instability in our relationship, which lines up with the neverending crisis componenent. They have always been clear that they want me to succeed, and if that means I am trans, they want me to feel like I can express it fully. I've been whittling that part of me down because it is hard to face.
I'm not really scared of being single. At least, I don't think I am. My partner is financially dependent on me. It sounds wrong verbalizing this now, but I have been scared they will struggle without me. They are struggling because of me now though. I guess I know what I have to do. Thanks 💜
transfem dorothy saying "we're not in kansas anymore" but it's actually a good thing and she's never going back again
Damn I just watched that movie. Listening to a podcast by two transfems about twin peaks and they had a bonus episode about wizard of oz. Really fun movie I had somehow never seen it! Made watching Wild at Heart much more fun!
Woah hey whats the podcast called?
TS TV ! https://www.patreon.com/c/TSTVshow/posts
You can I think get the normal episodes without paying? I've seen them on Nebula and other places. The special patreon feed is "TS TV DVD" with movie reviews
Thanks! I've found their official youtube which seems to have all the TP episodes (no The Return yet) and a couple of the bonus movie reviews
if you want some of the DVD episodes you can ask i can probably download them
started HRT today, nervous as all hell, but I've been making more music and i really have y'all to thank for regaining the confidence to get back at it. lots goin on over here lmao
love the section around 2:40 with the ascending/descending clicky instrument, and the whole thing is immersing me in some kind of late 90s early 2000s video game in a cyber setting
Thank you so much<3, i want to build towards a project that is a kind of audiovisual cyberpunk/junglist album that serves as my dream ps1 game, Been learning old 3d modeling software, but that biz is above my paygrade for now lol Regardless its great to hear that my mind's eye vibes are carrying through. For the first time in years i feel like i have stuff to look forward to :)
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
i like the person i am dating 🙂 they are cool and smart and make me feel special pretty much every day i talk to them
thank you for your attention to this matter
that is all 
I'm sure they feel lucky to have met you and find your smarts, humor and attitude delightful
getting an inside tip that they find you adorable because they adore everything about you.
Regular at work telling me he thinks I should join the navy
Bro was trying to get y ou KILLED
I'm going to have to give him shit on Monday
You gotta, that's great timing
1 day/a few hours later, bad timing
Transfems would make great naval officers under socialism tho. It is a well established fact within academic circles that a majority of girls love cannons and boom booms and ships and precise engineering and tight fitting uniforms
(Sorry, I got overly carried away and am not sure what the actual joke I'm trying to make is)
Yvan et nioj
::: spoiler misgendering New housemate was initially perfectly consistent on gendering me right, then eventually I brought up my transness and had fun talking about it a bit to them, but, since then ive consistently been misgendered, which has me less bothered and more just highly suspicious now (like maybe thought I was cis before?), hope its just a coincidence of mistakes and I won't have to deal with more annoying stuff. There was one especially silly house meeting where I was misgendered 3 times in a short span with my other housemates chiming "she" in correction each time (my heros), almost like a sitcom bit lol. :::
asked my doc to up my dose and she agreed yay!
You know...
Even after everything
If I had the option to restart my life
To choose my birth gender
I would still just choose to be myself
+1
Would love to take a break from being g trans but then I see women and I lose my mind cause I wanna be her. When I see men I lose my mind cause I want to be held like a girl.
I must make a correction
When I see girls I also want to be held like a girl
What would taking a break from being trans mean?
It means I'd like to become a cis girl for a week.
Lol OK the spoiler contains what it actually means
::: spoiler cw:spiraling + suicide
I just came back from downtown. Whole time I was out, I was feeling "fuck fuck fuck", avoiding people cause I was scared, looking at women's fashion and cursing myself for not having the courage to buy anything while also feeling like I didn't deserve to wear such clothes. Then I though about being betrayed by everyone and how I could never trust people again.
And that's more of less how most of my waking time goes. I cannot stand being conscious and try my best to drown out my thoughts with cheap dopamine.
Then I bought some food from the supermarket, and I could only think that I didn't deserve to eat. Now I'm stress eating what I bought as I type this.
In the morning I woke up lamenting that I wasn't dead yet, in the night I will cry myself to sleep.
If that sounds like a lot, it is! I can deal with a lot of bullshit (engineering student, linux user), but like, there is a limit, which has clearly been crossed. If I can't go out on a relaxing stroll on a nice sunny day without feeling like killing myself, then yeah ...
:::
When I say I'd like to take a break from being trans, I really just want a break from all that. I can handle normal life problems just fine.
That's all very heavy, wow
Thanks. You always take the time to read my nwgative comments even though you're loaded with work. I appreciate it.
😭
I am sorry though, it is a lot and I deal with it like that too.
(っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ
wishing the best for you, comrade
Not having to think or deal with it and the host of things it comes with for like, a week
Although after that week I definitely couldn't go back
Sodium was talking like being a cis girl instead, personally Id rather be a trans woman over a cis woman but I can appreciate that pov - but Id definitely opt for trans woman over cis man!! In fact, I did irl~
Ah I see, I wasn't necessarily trying to speak about her desire but I also want a break and that's what it'd be for me. I definitely could not go back to this after a week as a cis girl. Glad it's better for you though. Wish that was my feelings
I get what you mean about rather being trans girl than cis girl. The only real way to somehow become a cis person is to alter your history, but then that's just a different person.
Now a magically induced perfect sex change? Now that's the shit. Or maybe you would refuse that too?
Oh Id take a magic uterus, lol. But I actually kinda like trans bodies. There's stuff Id do with my face and I work out for a bigger booty but I like my arms and shoulders and I really like being as tall as I am. If the price of what I want is to give that up, ah I suppose if I must lol
I would love to take a break from living in this hellish world, it's more about not suffering needlessly in cishet society than not being trans
There's a version of the trans flag in my mind which is a war or evil version.
Where the light blue is navy, the pink darker and the white grey (white is surrender, grey for the morally grey things I must do to survive).
Sometimes I wear those colours to work, navy skirt, dark pink blazer, grey top.
Up with trans!
Up with trans!
up with trans!
up with trans!
Fuck LLMs, you should never listen to what they say, but I still get the people who say they trust them more than doctors or psychologists
An LLM cant get u committed, and doctors are somehow still better at gaslighting
At least if you engage with a llm with caution you know it’s an algorithm that runs off the scraped data of the aggregated internet and thus can take everything it shows you with a massive grain of salt and sift through the pile of bs like when googling a question and sorting through Reddit threads to find scaps of ideas you find valuable. With so called professionals they have the appearance of authority which inclines you to trust them even though a good chunk of them have no idea what they are talking about half the time and just got through med school with daddy’s money and good test taking skills. This is more about my dislike of medical professionals than me liking llms though
1 year on HRT today. Which is wild. Now that I've hit it doesn't feel that important. Like I knew I wasnt cis ages before, but I didn't know I was a woman until a couple of months in and I only came out a month after that. Also my dose was too small at the start etc.
But still really cool.
congrats!!
Thank you!
Congratulations!!!!!!!
Dressed up today and I almost feel girly. I just need to get rid of this beard shadow. And do something with my hair.
My prog order got sized by customs. Fuckers still took taxes from me anyway and likely won’t refund. Dogshit legal and medical system.
Idk what the fuck to do. Where in europe could I get prog OTC?
::: spoiler more negative whining
Everyone who is supposed to help me is against me and making things worse. The amount of gatekeeping, bigotry and hatred are getting to me.
:::
Are birth control pills somehow a good source of prog?
Or do I have to personally travel to say, the UK where I saw an online pharmacy shipping prog?
Yes and no. A lot of them are synthetic not bioidentical progesterones.
Definitely what I'm worried about. No idea where I could find OTC birth control pills with bioidentical prog.
Depends on the birth control, I wouldn't advise it though
Is it because of under dosing? Or because most birth control pills aren't bio-identical prog (or something like that)?
They arent bio identical because it wouldnt survive oral ingestion and going through your liver, the ones they put in are designed to be oral. And theyre all quite different in effects, in anti androgenic effects (some are androgenic!), in sleep, in etc. The synthetic progesterone it uses can be quite potent as well, even for a smaller dose.
The estrogen in birth control also has way higher risks of clotting. We switched away from that kind for HRT because of clotting risks.
Which synthetic progs are stronger then bio identical, out of curiosity?
Stronger here is more a matter of potency, like fentanyl is stronger than morphine in MME
You cannot speed run transition Eggnog
Yea I assumed that's what you meant, I was literally just curious. The ones I'd been warned about were less then bio.
I know I'm cooked, I wasn't planning on taking anything but bio because even places that recommend pio and stuff say not to mess with it.
I had my first personal trainer session on monday (ya gurl is getting over her fear of the gym!) and holy fuck. Lemme tell you, skipping my running routine for three months did NOT do me favors for leg day. Im still stiff and sore down there two days later. I'm trying to get some stretches in here and there but good lord are my dogs BARKING.
I had to stop working out since surgery 😩
I think Im getting close enough I can start at least doing my kettlebells and bodyweight stuff again. The most I did was walk around and use the stairs for the last month and a bit.
idk why but I was really hesitant with my injection last night, usually its not an issue for me but I was feeling really weird about stabbing myself. Hope this doesn't become a trend.
Sometimes its worse than other times. I wouldn't worry about it.
We've had our fair share of injections like that. It doesn't happen anymore in our case but we know the feel. I think taking a deep breath and telling ourselves that it's okay helped a few times.
My new ID got mailed!! Based on what people say online it should only be a few days until it arrives. I quite like the black and white version of my picture, I hope adding color doesn't make it any worse
I still have to get a new version in around two years, which will be a good opportunity to get my gender marker changed if I haven't already
chat....
CHAT
that is all
::: spoiler us healthcare whenever somebody tries to defend the insurance industry by saying it has so many jobs it's always kinda like bizarre to me, like they're literally saying "we have to keep Killing You at the Killing You Factory because think of how many jobs are at the Killing You Factory we simply cannot stop Killing You." preaching to the choir here obv but capitalism is just an actual death cult like for real :::
::: spoiler spoiler
Ask those people if they would support a job guarantee (they won't, since this would eat into capitalist profits). Ask them if they support a job program for doing actually socially useful work like <insert public transportation, research, nurses, engineers, teachers, cleaning up the streets or a million other things> (they won't, since that's socialism)
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Between here and my support group, I've finally been able to make the leap to an outward queer identity. I've settled on non-binary for now, knowing that's probably not the whole of it.
Things are very complicated and hard because of that, but my partner has taken it pretty well 🙂 Actually, it feels like the first time I've been fully present for them in a long time. They make me feel so loved and accepted 🥰
@TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net, thanks for giving me such tough advice. I really needed to hear that, even though I didn't want to.
:::spoiler a screenshot discussing the social gendering of sex with regards to the non binary identity, and my own follow up comment.
The social gendering of sex is how I see my own body as androgynous / masc. I have never really vibed with "female sex" and I have always felt that it was a social determination for me. I don't like the label "afab" either.
:::
My ex is non binary, and like ELDER non binary like 2010 before it was a thing online you could find. Anyway, when I cracked my egg and commiserated about misgendering they said "I will never be gendered correctly" which is a total bummer. I knew what they meant, its hard to say "things are changing! You'll see give it time." I still hope it does... I guess its easier after seeing like an enby expression form? Id rather see it what your link talked about over the formation of another category/box to get put in.
down with cis
down with the cissies!
down with cis
down with cis
::: spoiler dysphoria (maybe?) sometimes my boobs look like boobs and sometimes my boobs don't look like boobs and I dunno what to make of that, especially since yknow they're the same boobs :::
Had a therapy appointment for the first time in 10 years. They did not bring up my gender dysphoria diagnosis or my transness at all despite that being a pretty major development in my mental health since I last went. A trans friend have me resources though, so I’m going to go to one that specializes in lgbtq mental health so I don’t have to deal with cis ignorance
::: spoiler cw:trauma
Thing about being fucking traumatised is that you don't know what tf to do afterwards and then just have to go about your life as if nothing happened.
Kinda like being shot in the arm, not being given any medical treatment, then having to go next day to your job lifting boxes.
And yes, that analogy works very well cause my brain is injured, and my work/schooling involves me using my brain.
I was already spending a good chunk of my classes and shit being distracted by bad thoughts. Now that's gonna get worse. I already feel a much greater sense of dread and fear of other people.
And I'm assuming that people here will understand that being given the right kinda words from another person doesn't really fix the issue. Whether it be a psychologist or counselor or maybe even therapist. Well, the later could help, assuming I get the right therapist, get through the waitlist and have enough money/insurance for it.
Kinda like how getting a kiss and being told that the boo-boos will go away won't actually make your gunshot wound go away.
:::
I cut myself like 4 times whilst shaving my face. I looked even more purdy afterwards, so I guess it was worth it.
Gotta say all the recent news doesn't make me feel peppy.
I had a zoom meeting where there was also a woman with my name participating, and before it started I mentioned to a coworker that I wasn't looking forward to the confusion. The coworker said "They're a woman!" or something like that and busted out laughing, the only reasonable justification being that me being mistaken for a woman is funny...
Ironic, as I'd been on a webinar with the name sharing lady presenting yesterday and thought to myself "I think I look more feminine than her". Guess not!
::: spoiler self-image and hair loss stuff, but slightly positive I have been completely unable to look in the mirror properly for around 4 years, this is mostly about hair loss. Today after my injection, I wanted to take some pictures, and I felt pretty hot and feminine and then I caught a glance of my hairline in the mirror, that gave me the confidence to properly look at myself and wow. It felt good. Like, it's not completely perfect, but I thought I had the world's worst receding hairline, but it looked fine. And now I really want to get a haircut, because that can make it look pretty nice.
I feel great about being able to look at myself. But wtf, I had some REALLY BAD body dysmorphia about this, like I thought it was bad enough that the only way would be shaving it all. I completely avoided mirrors for YEARS, and this probably blew everything out of proportion. And while writing this I realized I had a very severe case of body dysmorphic disorder plus dysphoria. I am so happy. :::
Anyway, does anyone have any cool hairstyle suggestions for curly (3A, to be specific) hair?
Yo so I guess I've been doing my hair wrong my entire life? Treating my wavy hair like it was straight, getting big frizz every morning after I brush my hair dry.
I am way too old to be figuring this out, but the past couple days I've been detangling in the shower and letting it do its own thing and by golly it looks much better already.
You can still brush it, but you need some cream or water. Do not brush it while dry, use your hands to style if needed.
I have been drawing for the first time since around when I started puberty (wow, I wonder what happened to me that killed my "soul" (I don't belive in souls, but you know what i mean) and my ability/desire to create)!!
And it's feeling so good, like it's fixing me
Thank you for the lake talk!
Over six months off booze and a couple on estrogen and I feel revitalized. I’m not even “back to my old self” so much as I feel I’m becoming a new more comfortable and confident person. So early in this process, haven’t started shots yet, and already I feel like I’m going in the right direction
Congrats! That's amazing news!
I found out why I never go home with someone after clubbing. I'm bisexual and I always go to gay clubs and most of the men there are gay, and most of the women there are their straight friends. You could say I should go to straight clubs but I'll probably get hate crimed there.
My city only has one gay bar left standing so its also just the queer bar. Which is nice
My transition has been great and all but have you heard the transitions in Alive 2007?
Top 5 transitions
5 Oh Yeah into Touch It
4 Steam Machine into Around the World
3 Face to Face into Short Circuit
2 Too Long outro transition into Steam Machine (this one always has me in awe)
1 Everyone here
The first time I heard the Oh Yeah into Touch It transition I absolutely lost my shit and knew I was about to be in for an experience. And then it just kept getting better. I wish i could experience it for the first time again.
REAL
Such a good album
::: spoiler mundane transfem woes (CW dyphoria) So I ordered some women's boyshort style underwear because I needed more and I wasn't going to buy men's underwear
I wore them for a couple of hours and felt great, so into the bin went all my old underwear and I ordered some more. However at the end of the day, I've had way too much chafing around my scrotum. And I'm like crap I can't wear these right now. And like I decided I do want bottom surgery so cool I can put these in a cupboard somewhere for then.
But okay I need underwear for now. So okay I sheepishly fished a couple of my most recent boxers out of the bin (they were clean in a paper bag).
Then I went online and Kelvin Klein has some pride colored underwear packs so fuck it at least they're not straight underwear I guess. :::
::: spoiler question about SA How am I supposed to react when someone tells me about them getting assaulted/harassed? Like to me that's a really terrible and scary thing, and a big deal, and I try to show as much empathy and care as my autistic ass can. But what really threw me was the last time someone told me, she really acted like it wasn't a big deal and it's happened before. Which I know it's not an uncommon experience for women, idk I'm just not sure how to react if they're downplaying it or how I'm supposed to react as a woman (or how women usually react to other women?) :::
Whatever happened to that DIY electrolysis thing that was getting posted about on here a while ago?
https://hexbear.net/post/7682243
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Waow I had no idea it was still being worked on!!! Serves me for not spending any time in c/diy
::: spoiler I think I know why I'm depressed Haven't done fun things in a while. Haven't left my house to go anywhere that isn't like a pharmacy or a grocery store. My clothes don't fit the gender expression I want. Even videogames are boring right now. Haven't gone out with friends, so no social interaction that isn't online.
I feel terrible.
I don't think I can fix this for now. At least I can feel things now, which didn't use to be the case. :::
damnit we drove right past that park last fall. it was really a road trip going to random places in upstate NY and vermont though we want to go back
stumbled upon John Brown's gravesite which was cool though but his hometown is pretty shitty these days
Renowned site of mouldering.
it was actually a really nice natural boulder with moss and plants (check my old posts it's somewhere there). and he was mouldering with quite a few friends too so at least he won't be lonely
Kansas legislature go here
::: spoiler dysphoria/negativity Wow I hate this. This whole week has just been awful. Consumed. I've been so dysphoric. So hopeless. My bottom dysphoria has been bothering me a lot more than usual. I mean so has everything else.
I hate being trans. It's traumatizing and horrible. It's not worth it. I hate my existence. There's barely a reason to keep pushing. It's all so overwhelmingly awful.
I've thought about messaging people to complain but there's no point, there's no point to any of this. Nothing is going to make this stop. I don't want to keep living if this is what it's going to be like. And I don't have any hope :::
::: spoiler spoiler
It's OK. Just push for the sake of pushing. Even if you don't have a reason, at least outlive your enemies and see them die first.
Ts is so real. At best it can be a little soothing in some cases.
Lost count of how many comments I made then deleted cause "why tf does this matter?"
:::
Being intimately aware of how dogshit everything is and being less disconnected is actually fucking horrible.
When I change my walking route I sometimes end up in the nice part of town and am reminded that I'm poor lmao
One moment you go from the apartment complex next to a police station and prison (no joke, there're just 200m away from me), the next you end up in the part of town with copy paste american suburb style houses built next to a river with a water wheel (a fucking water wheel)
I bet these petite bourgeois mfs don't even get weekly lottery ads in their mailbox.
When she reads theory
I've learnt that when talking about Fallout 4, it's red flag someone's a chud if they call the character from that game Nate, instead of Sole Survivor. Something about the two hit punch of ignoring the female option and having no imagination to give them a different name.
::: spoiler Frustrating reminder (vague trauma) Everything can be packed up neatly to get through the day, but one unknowing comment can really mess things up.
"[Event] is something people don't forget, it really messes with them."
Right, I almost forgot. :::
Small thing the Wikipedia article for Green lake:
and at the chemocline is a dense layer of purple sulfur bacteria which makes the water appear pink
I'm such a nerd for this intersection of biology, physics, chemistry, and ecosystems aaaaaaa I gotta read more about Green Lake. In any scifi worldbuilding setting my favourite environments are the sulfur rich ones too, sulfur chemistry so cool.
I am weirdly interested in lakes. I did not know lake Malawi was also a meromictic lake as well. I did know about limnic eruptions. I didn't know they were all related though, really cool shit.
oh hey I researched lake Malawi for a paper a while ago, learned interesting stuff but missed the meromictic part. Now I wanna read about it again <3.
e: sudden revelation about why my research about its substrate wasn't making sense, cause I was assuming it to resemble other lakes
I already thought Malawi was like top 2 coolest lakes in the world without the meromictic part.
omg I love them, the lake sisters.
I wanted to talk at greater length about that since its such a neat factoid but it was already past midnight and I did not have it in me to parse out what the scientific papers were saying about that lol.
They exist at a very specific depth where its devoid of oxygen and despite their color the lake water is still very green and very clear. Like scary clear. I was a little uncomfortable standing near the parts where it drops off right by the shore.
Fucking cool though.
Trans Megathread
I don't think the writers for Young Justice intended for Miss Martian to be a trans narrative, but holy shit what a trans narrative.
Not watching a video essay about a superhero cartoon but video thumbnail goes pretty hard.
Jimothy Cool is playing Celeste on stream (therefore this post belongs in the trans thread) and he's having an incredible glitch on his chat. English messages are being filtered and he can't see them, so everyone is writing ni hao in the chat, because for some reason chinese isn't banned
thanks for mentioning always great to watch a streamer I know play Celeste for the first time, and encouraging me to learn some phrases or at least to read pinyin better
::: spoiler trauma? homophobia, self-harm One thing I absolutely was not prepared for with starting to come out is the level of internalized homophobia. I have this absolutely bloodthirsty, malicious voice in me that wants to harm any part of me that steps out of line. I've been writing about it to try and vomit it all out. It keeps coming.
::: spoiler ideation Wrote a poem about drowning myself in a local pond I like to visit. It was more about the before and after. The walk into the woods, the weather that day, whether I would leave my keys in the car. Then how I would be found, by whom, how hurtful it would be. That the resting expression on my face doesn't show me at peace peace, it shows there's nothing there at all. :::
I want true peace and joy so badly. I can almost envision it, but it feels forever just out of reach. The struggle continues even though I am too tired to face it. I can't give up again either. :::
Thanks for all of your support. I hope we can all get through this.
Gotta be honest, I had no idea lakes did that. But it's cool as hell.
Am I right in assuming that the seperation of a single cycle into an epilimnion and hypolimnion is dependent on the thermal gradient of the water?
The hotter water up top moves faster, and when currents try to move downwards, they are "reflected" if they encounter a large thermal gradient (just like how light reflects when it encounters a new medium).
So if you have a really large thermal gradient, you can actually get more layers of cycles?
I asked a researcher about this and the answer is basically no, more or less. While the kind of stratification shown in the diagram in the main post is highly simplified, it can still be broken up into three main layers in terms of temperature and density. The coldest water at the bottom, the warmest at the top, and a slowly mixing layer between them.
The image below is a cross section of lake Ontario in late summer, the hypolimnion in blue, the metalimnion/thermocline is somewhere in the bottom of the green section, and the epilimnion is the red and most of the green.
The other image below is a graph showing temperature at depth over time, the parts in May and October where it is all one color represent mixing events when the temperature difference between the layers is not enough to enforce stratification.
I see. Thanks for the response!
That lake thermal structure is quite interesting.
So as the temperature/wind speed is raised, the epilimnion just becomes bigger until everything is just one layer.
Or is it more a function of time? It takes months for the hypolimnion to mix and heat?
yellow is such an underrated fashion hair color, honestly one of my favorites of all time along with blue.
erm, you know who else liked blonde hair and blue eyes? 🙄
Very problematic
(as a side note -- love this emoji lol)
But what about blue hair and blond eyes?
blue / yellow hair that mixes to green in the center, preferred by birds or tropical fish mostly
My jester hat calls to me like the green goblin mask
::: spoiler polyheartbreak my primary partner broke up with their other partner. felt really sudden for everyone, it's clear they're going through a lot but feels like they caused needless hurt. came at a bad time too. I feel for both of them but it feels like the other one was cast-out and I'm real sad for them. remembering that I'm a big softie and catch feelings easily experience heartbreak easily.
they've made some personal breakthroughs in the short time since, and it came out that some tweaks were needed, but why couldn't these have been shared before taking such drastic steps? these were minor issues if only they were brought up to all involved. now our futures have all been drastically altered (there were changes coming I was looking forward to a lot) and I had no say in the matter. I'll get through this but all hands on deck for my support network.
Because of the post-break changes I want us to try again but the hurt can't be undone and it's the foolish hope of an unrequited lover.
The weirdest part is navigating the "survivor's guilt" and balancing being there for my primary and their needs with my empathy for other and my feelings this was somewhat rash.
I kinda feel like
at the end.
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When she starts acting like
in your dreams
i, segfault11, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with big goofy smiles
An extremely goofy movie is just a movie to me
Reading theory is just fanfic fuel for me, I wanna get to the trash arc now can we talk about the trash for a second
if basic fantasy settings have to answer the question of where does the poop go the industrial settings need to answer what's happening to the trash
I really miss working in pediatrics 😭😭
In nursing school, we all had our little fav areas we wanted to work in. A friend of mine was aiming for flight nurse, knew what she wanted to do (ER, CVICU, etc). Another wanted to do maternity, and she did! I was going for oncology. We did a bit as like student nurses in schools and I actually really enjoyed shadowing the kindergarten class which should've been a sign I guess. Pediatrics oncology is a thing (kids can bounce back hard from it, they tend to get different kinds, either way I am also comfortable with the sad side of it and paliation and Ive had my share of hard passing away), but I actually really liked general peds - mental health, inpatient and outpatient, emerg, medsurg, etc. Im still aiming for gender clinic stuff but I know my old unit wants an NP and I know they'll pay for your education for a return to service agreement... it wouldnt be impossible to go back and run a clinic part time.
Any weight loss advice? I've been unsuccessful at losing weight over the past year. I was very depressed over college and put on about ten kilos in my final year, and I can't keep living like this. I enjoy going to the gym, but I'm also awful at regulating myself. I snack too much and make meals that are way too big. I feel really guilty when I don't finish a meal, so I end up eating too much
I lost 50 lbs by calorie counting in 2019, it was not easy. It took a little under a year. Marathon, not a sprint, etc. Theres calculators online that can help you figure out a daily calorie goal to lose 1 to 2 lbs a week (they will also be in metric too lol), which is about as fast as you wanna go for the sake of your skin and muscle.
I also did some therapy about why I had been emotionally eating and stress eating as well, which helped. Sounds like you have some stuff to work out over guilt around food. Exercise helps with losing weight a bit but the main thing is cutting intake. If you live alone, just dont buy the food/snacks and only make what you eat and store leftovers quickly - "just" does a lot of work there but its true! Oh, also a kitchen scale was useful!
I have arguably anorexic tendencies so I am not sure how relevant and healthy my advice is. But as calorie counting and kitchen scale are mentioned by someone else I can add few things that works for me psychologically.
First thing that helped me was going back to intermittent fasting, I don't eat until 7pm and just go with coffee/smoking(they are very useful for keeping hunger in check but not obviously not worth starting if you aren't a user).
Eating high fiber foods, brown rice, greens, oatmeal, vegetables keeps you full way longer and allows smaller portions. I also eat same things most days since i find that repetition helps and I keep one 250-300 calorie processed snack space in my 1200 calorie limit as it helps with motivation and my sweet tooth is insatiable.
Mentally, I am against checking the scale way too often. Losing weight is a long and gradual process that doesn't show results very quickly even if everything is going well. I just tell myself to keep going, it has to work mathmetically instead of going to scale every day. Also calculate how much your body burns without working out and plan your daily caloric intake accordingly. Count and weight EVERYTHING you eat. Besides that dysphoria is a good motivator as well for me personally. Allowing yourself cheat days once a month or 2-3 weeks is also important. Keeping motivation pretty much carries the whole process.
I've been able to lose 10 kgs between august and december last year by following these.
1200 kcal is quite dangerously low, Im saying this because it can hurt you. I work in Trauma and we have people in comas, even then they get at an absolute minimum 1500 kcal - and theyre not doing much of anything. They try to aim for around 2000 kcal.
Everything else if it works for you (maybe dont smoke too lol), go for it but consider increasing your limit because you could be missing critical macros, vitamins, and other nutrients. Cheat days, IF, whatever is working for you.
::: spoiler eating disorder Every time you post the numbers like that I'm reminded how bad my 600 cal/day crash was for me :::
Oh I am aware and I am not at that level anymore, but It's hard to convince me of the fact once I am obsessed with losing weight sadly.
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Honestly the only thing that worked for me was GLP-1s
I just saw that Open Gate is retiring in a few months. She's doing a going out of business(?) sale so if you're in the USA or UK and you diy estradiol, it might be a good time to stock up.
Thank you for this, $40 for enanthate is hard to turn down. Already have 3 vials but maybe I should double up and have extras to give away or something..
You're welcome, and I think there's no rush because it sounds like she's clearing out current stock for the next twoish months. I don't know what's going to happen after that.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I never got the stickers :(EDIT:
So actually it looks like Open Gate Labs isn't shutting down so much as its founder is retiring? The blog post sounded optimistic that OGL will continue on after they leave in a couple months.
I hope OGL does continue to exist in some capacity.
dang, wish they shipped here
I had a bizarre, almost lucid dream the other night. Which was unusual because I've never had a lucid dream before, but I was, for whatever reason, addicted to cigarettes in my dream instead of being the normal alcoholic that i am. I remember very vividly taking a cigarette, smoking it, and then immediately being taken aback because the flavor of it was all wrong. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, nor done any nicotine. I have no frame of reference for what tobacco smoke actually tastes like beyond smelling it second hand and smoking weed on rare occasion before. My mind attempting to approximate the taste of cigarette smoke was so unconvincing that it suddenly snapped me into this bizarre lucidity to where i wasn't in control like a lucid dream, but I was 100% cognizant and aware of what was happening. In my dream, I was fully aware that my brain couldn't convincingly mimic the taste of something I've never had, and spent the next bit of that dream fully understanding that I was dreaming and I knew exactly why I knew that. I saw a glitch in the Matrix of my own dreams but I couldn't get out or use anything with that info
that's interesting, nicotine can cause intense / vivid and lucid dreaming.
I've never done nicotine in my life 🤷♀️
Random bout of crushing loneliness again AAAAAAAA
I am now her soyfriend
I really do just be feeling pretty happy right now, for no particular reason.
Seems like the evil voice in my head has left on a break 3 hours ago and hasn't returned.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
(Yes, feeling normal for 3 hours is a big deal)
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My new transman roomate has become my arts and crafts buddy. We've been working on patches, braclets and battle vests all weekend. Has definitely helped me stay grounded with all the chaos going on in the world.
Went to a psych about my anxiety and ADHD. Symptoms changed a lot when my hormone profile changed, and they're basically unmanageable now. I got some propranolol for now which actually really helps at work when I'm stressing the fk out over being overstimulated, but I still can't focus on shit or start/switch tasks or remember what I was doing five minutes ago so lol
My mom has always maintained that she, my sister, and I have some kind of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and I haven't taken it that seriously until recently.
On the other hand, I wouldn't consider myself super flexible (sit and reach test was murder as a kid) and I don't think I've ever dislocated anything ever.
Of course the only reason I care so much is because of the association between EDS and transness. Would be nice to turn that around on my mom and show her scientific evidence for me having a higher likelihood to be trans
So apparently liquid leaking from an injection site is probably interstitial fluid. There's always a little drop of blood leaking too. I didn't know interstitial fluid was a thing and you can actually leak a clear body fluid and it probably is fine.
Yes and a tiny dob if blood isnt a problem either, you got little tiny capillaries all over and a little nick might leak blood but thats about it.
Yeah, i thought blood was the only thing that could leak out. If a lot came out I'd be worried, but this much seems normal if not less than I expected
me (a black and white manga still of griffith) except i'm not evil 😇
unrelated, but what is it with the the long white haired snake affiliated archetype, I feel like I've been encountering many of them lately 🤔
Evil twink is an underrated aesthetic and I love it every time I see it
::: spoiler depression Spent the day rotting, doing nothing. Slept through all afternoon. I ate a lot less than normal. Getting depressed has been much more frequent, I guess this is just life being terrible, feeling useless, hopeless about money, lost and incapable of doing anything. :::
It's probably a good sign re: my mental health that I've been reading what the rules for trans prisoners are in each Australian state.
Where am I supposed to go for good fitness/workout advice? The internet is a vast sea of information, it's overwhelming.
I just want something that is simple and works.
If you start doing a half hour to an hour of moderate activity you are leaps and bounds ahead of the population. Moderate activity is specifically about your heart rate, your target max rate is 220-age and moderate is 50% to 70% of that. They used to think small amount add up but it is better for you the chunkier it is. So 10 minutes x3 a day isnt as good as if you did 30 minutes x1 a day (apparently). Because its about heart rate it can be any kind of cardio - dancing counts!! Walking, running, literally whatever gets your heart rate up.
Strength training stuff, whatever works for you and that youll stick with honestly. There is a set of back and core exercises essentially everyone would benefit from. Theres the simple and sinsiter program if you wanna add kettllebells or whatever. Dont forget rest days, it is important. But honestly whatever gets you moving and even if its bodyweight youre doing WAY more than the median person (who doesnt do physical labour). Youre still young but if you can get up with just your legs (not using your arms) thats important as you age as well.
That's probably true, but I am doing it for vanity more than health tbh.
If you wanna look hotter, just general fitness is a good base.
Other than that people like big butts, so work on those muscles? Hamstring helps your booty have a shelf, but the other main glute muscles are important.
Also try gaining some weight from body fat% :p
I have too much weight in my belly and not enough meat on my bones, so I am just kind of fucked.
Youre supposed to have belly fat, the estrogen is telling your body to have a nice little tummy~
Targeted fat loss isnt really a thing, it comes out all over unless you get it taken out surgically. The hegemonic feminine ideal of a flat tummy isnt real, and to the degree its real its quite difficult/unhealthy (potentially) to get to and maintain and the ones who do get a boost genetically. If youre hoping to be very thin as your ideal for hotter I wouldnt recommend it, and try to aim for healthy habits - you get hotter as a side effect of general health and general fitness (for real). And if you want, throw in some split squats and romanian deadlifts with walking and using stairs as often as possible, get a bigger booty.
It can be really overwhelming and honestly intimidating when going at it alone. The fitness comm here on hexbear has some good stuff in the sidebar, particularly in the wikis. Ive tried to do this on my own for a couple years and the biggest improvements in my routines have come from working with people face to face; though this may not be an option for some people and I respect that.
Random unsolicited tips:
Focus on doing stuff consistently rather than progress or results. Showing up and doing the work is arguably the hardest part, and its foundational to progress and results. Starting out can feel miserable, but it gets better once you get used to it and over time you'll even come to enjoy it once you find what you like.
Weight lifting is really good for you, trust. Ive met a lot of transfems who are afraid of gaining muscle mass for dysphoria reasons when they really shouldnt be. Gaining muscle mass is a lot harder once on estrogen and it takes years of concerted effort to get a body builder figure, so it wont masculize your body, if anything, gaining a more toned musculature will be feminizing. Learning to do the excercises also improves the mind-body connection which can help with some forms of dysphoria, I swear by it.
Try to approach it with a hobbyist mindset and have some fun! Theres a lot of options out there and I encourage you to go and explore while trying to find things you like.
Having specific clothes I ONLY wear when working out is a dumb mind trick that helps me stay consistent for some reason.
I really enjoyed the mega topic!
CA giving updates no one asked for (clint) while still ignoring the people who have been asking for years to implement more pronouns, smh.
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:
How do you support your boobs while sleeping? Best to wear a bra to bed, or let them free?
If I sleep on one side, will that side's boob develop better (presumably, since it is rested while the other hangs, there must be am effect)? So if I want to balance out my boons I sleep on the small boob to help it grow faster ....?
No, it doesn't work like that. Sleep in whatever way is actually comfortable
Let the girls free. Enjoy your anti gravity boobs while they last lol
Uhm, I don't think that works like that.
::: spoiler boobtalk not an expert but I still feel fine saying that it probably doesnt matter. I can offer my data point of my more-rested side if anything being a touch smaller to touch, but looks fully symmetric still. Also, the slightly larger side aligns with how everything on that side of my body is a lil larger. So, yeah probably doesn't matter.
I almost always wear an old stretched out sports bralette to bed but thats more cause it feels comfy to have, its not supporting much. :::
If it did make a difference in growth it would be imperceptible. Also it is generally inadvisable to sleep with a bra on since theyll restrict your breathing a little and theres a possibility of chafing.
Silent hill 2 is about league of legends and in water ending is james reinstalling league
::: spoiler weight + eating, working around a disability, adhd going to mirror the other comment and ask if anyone has advice for gaining weight. While its clear that I'd be able to eat more frequently in a better situation, still wanted to ask just in case. I have to avoid exerting myself so im mostly sedentary, and it feels like I'm already maximizing the space in my digestive system (I look a bit bloated just from the food volume), and focusing on healthy fats and anything calorie dense, but still are underweight. I think addressing my chronically understimulated brain might help? Its always running exhausingly fast and I'm sure thats burning energy, and even though im underweight im quite tall so theres quite a bit to fuel even mostly sedentary. Haven't been able to find any medication so far that's slowed my brain down without awful side effects unfortunately.
Maybe I need to get in contact with a nutritionist, see if theres any other changes to what I eat that'd help (I'm not a picky eater other than being vegan). :::
maybe its as simple as budgeting more dense snacks for me to fill in the gaps throughout the day
Reading a new book that involves the criminal underworld, gonna call up RGG I got a new plot for the next yakuza game. Roll kiryu out in a wheelchair we got some work to do
NVM this is just IW plot, I do have another plot though with mind blowing conclusion
::: spoiler IW and yakuza 6 spoilers I know these games are Japanese and with
war criming them with nukes is something that's gonna linger so for it to effect the plot of 6 and IW it's very understandable. 6 takes place in Hiroshima with one of the antagonist living in the ruins of the bombing so I can understand the anti nuclear themes this series has. IW dealing with countries wanting to start up nuclear energy and the consequences of what do do with the nuclear waste is sort of the driving point to the schemes. I know nuclear waste would be scary in this narrative but with the alternatives never really being presented leave a weird taste in my mouth.
Current book I'm reading deals with what exactly happens to waste from the first world and while it does mirror a lot of the plot it's more expensive in some manners. There is a side story of doko Island that I feel matches what the story might have been about that of trash being dumped. :::
Overall I feel maybe IW was going somewhere different but it's hard to say with 6's story. Long story short read books they make your favorite media more interesting
Overall conclusion we need to liberate the yakuza series if we wanna make it anticapitalist and antimperialist, 3's story was so close to this being but it avoided it (no one @ me on kiwami 3 I don't know what they did there nor care) and 6 was everything 3 was trying to be but falls just short
been telling myself that i can't really understand Spec Ops: The Line without reading Heart of Darkness and I keep telling myself that I don't think that's true that I need to read Heart of Darkness only for that reason
okay i just looked it up, apparently it's not that long. Less than 200 pages. Not really a fan of fiction but I could give it a try
Reading is almost always good, I got a copy of heart of darkness so give me a shout with how it compares to spec ops the line
The thematic parellels are very obvious but kind of superficial. Man goes into very remote area, finds he's in control of his own army there and has descended into barbarity over the isolation, the protagonist descends deeper into madness as he goes deeper into the jungle/desert. The main antagonist of SOTL is named "John Konrad", spelled with a K like Kurtz from Apocalypse Now
Was gonna mention apocalypse now another thing I haven't experienced
Apocalypse Now? Nah, I'm gonna watch it Appcalypse Later
Oh ok, the physicists have been hiding teleportation from the public this whole time.
No clone theroem though 😔✊️
So about prog. Genuinely what do I do? I ain't got a clue.
Ask my GP to prescribe it? He wasn't even willing to prescribe E. I don't really trust anyone to tell them about my DIY. Not sure what kind of consequences I'll get into that.
Do I try to synthesise it myself??? Is that a thing you can do at home?
Travel to the UK and get a batch from a UK pharmacy and presumably have to do this for many years? And also risk getting caught at the border smuggling medicine?
You can get raws and diy prog gel, iirc you shouldn't be on it for more then a couple of years but that's still long enough for some good breast growth. I know your diy prog got seized, maybe there are more discrete sellers, or does customs only check some packages? Buying a year or two and bringing it back from the UK might work, idk how tight airport security is over there.
Women cis or trans need progesterone and it's frankly criminal the way the medical establishment has done little to research it and does little to offer it to Cis and trans women.
It's not just for cis women's uteruses, it's not just for trans women's breast growth, it helps sleep, mood and is an antiandrogen.
The risks of clots are overblown (like estrogen) from old trials on synthetic versions. Most side effects can be avoided by taking it rectally.
Edit: sorry if that was strong I'm passionate about prog
I'm talking specifically about diy prog gel, I don't remember the exact health reasons why its not great for long term use. But its probably fine for a few years which is still worth it imo. Totally agree with everything else you said.
Oh nevermind sorry
You mean something like this?
Oh nice, Kneecap droped a new album
Fenian isn't out until April. I haven't listened to the singles yet, but as decent as Fine Art was, I was pretty disappointed in how much English was in it compared to 3CAG. There aren't a lot of non-trad bands that actually sing in Gaeilge. Hoping Fenian is less English.
So for the early movie tomorrow I can’t decide between Redline and Barber Westchester. Which should I go with?
Hey how does watching the movies work? Last time I tried to watch one I could see a chatroom but no video loaded in my browser.
That's odd no videos loaded. It may load messages you have to accept before it shows you anything, and sometimes also VPN or country can lead to youtube being blocked for certain videos. TankieTube works everywhere though. Next time you're online, please feel free to let the chat know and we can help you troubleshoot through it, or we can try to get it working whenever you're able to.
Alright I will, thank you.
I've been meaning to watch Barber cause I've heard great things, but Redline is Redline so I gotta
for that
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Instead of complaining and doom scrolling all the time, I'm gonna pick up a new web novel to hyperfixate about. Unfortunately, I've already read the 2 CN web novels which are most highly praised.
Aparantly, from this point on I'm supposed to lower my expectations.
But instead of doing that, I'm going to find a novel with a FEMALE MAIN CHARACTER written by a WOMAN AUTHOR (this is supposedly not so hard these days and there's a lot more popular options)
Learning damaged vs undamaged hair was a great mistake. Fuck my life
Even pretty damaged hair just needs a trim and shampoo/conditioner. And stop blowing drying it or curling it with an iron, that too.
I need to stay an hour later at work than usual today and it feels like foreverrrrrr but no one really cares what you do here in the afternoon so I can kinda just goof off. Then I go to my mtf group, maybe get food and go shopping in-between? I need more pants
Wanted to sh earlier but of course the work environment is not conducive to that. It did get me thinking about a portable sh kit I could build which is probably not good. Suppose I just have to hope I'm exhausted enough when I get home that I just don't seize on that idea
::: spoiler I have been playing Mount and Blade : Warsails again because you know everything is stressful and shit lately. (CW patriarchal violence) My current character is an enormously tall, blonde and clocky Nord woman who is never going to marry or become a lord, only a mercenary and trader with workshops funding her troop's wages in the down time between wars.
Her clan is the Völur (which is the plural Norse word for Sorceress). She has scary face paint and her sigil is a hand with the evil eye in the palm. Her ship is Sturgian Lodya (like a black longship with a ram) called Witch and the figurehead is a Siren (which we just captured). She fights with a sword and field, and a 2 handed axe. Her armor and gear is intentionally light for gliding across a deck and swimming to enemy ships.
She has 4 female companions all with grievances against the Patriarchy or mystical backgrounds. Her second in command is a Nordvyg woman who was made to marry a Vanna (Sami equivalent) man and learnt their ways, then her brothers tried to make her poison his clan in an ethnic cleansing, so she booked it. The medic is Sturgian wisewoman, whose mother and fiancé were butchered before her wedding in a raid. Her steward is an Aserai woman whose brothers disowned her when she lost their money when a good investment was destroyed by an accidental fire. Finally my scout is a Battanian woman who was cursed to never have a happy marriage and had three husbands die in quick succession.
I kind of imagine them as big Coven and polycule. Their crew is a motley mix of Nords, Imperial/Sturgian Sailors, Sea Raiders, Corsairs and random convoy guards we've rescued.
I'm having a lot of fun. :::
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::: spoiler weight stuff, not depressing
Funnily enough, despite my weight being my number cause of "I fucking hate my body", I have never actually purchased/used a weighing scale (of any kind, not even for cooking).
Do you know why? Because I'm too stupid to have thought about it before typing this comment. And I'm sure that I'll forget about it soon enough then never buy one.
So yes, having "stupid b*tch syndrome" isn't all downsides. There's upsides too.
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Many questions it seems today
Maca extract pills as a substitute for Progesterone? Does it work? Am I tripping?
Did you search pubmed for "alternatives to HRT" lol
You're ultimately probably better off sticking to straight bio identical progesterone over trying herbal supplements.
No, I found maca pills on sale and bought them. I should have researched before buying, but not thinking things through is classic sodium-nitride behaviour
Taking maca extract helped with my acne before I got on HRT.
So I guess it did something I think? Didn't grow boobs or anything, but then again that wasn't my goal back then either.
Example study
Since I know little about the endocrine system, I find it hard to parse what this stuff means.
The alkaloids in the maca stimulate testes and ovaries to do ... idk what
And they also produce hormone balancing effects ...?
I think HRT there refers to hormone replacement for cis menopausal women...
And there is FSH hormone which according to Wikipedia does:
::: spoiler long explanation Ok, different hormones do different things depending on your body, specifically your gonads. It's not just estrogen and testosterone. FSH is present in both male and female bodies, it stimulates some part of your body to do other things.
Sertoli cells are present on testicles, fsh makes them produce some other hormone and regulate sperm production.
When you have ovaries, FSH has many functions, mainly the follicle stimulating part that's on the name. It helps follicles turn into the corpus luteum after ovulation. The corpus luteum produces progesterone, so that might be it. :::
Simple explanation:
FSH>testies>sperm and androgen hormone
FSH>ovaries>ovulating and prog
Just need to nuke DMRT1 first ez
Yeah, fuck DMRT1
Just gotta do that before you're born and boom, XY feminization
If my parents really loved me they'd have done this
Reading these articles makes me feel like what lay people must feel when they see scientific terms in a movie and then the protag/general tells the scientist to "speak english" (even though any competent general should know the terminology for the weapons they are using)
Anyone else taking their prog as a troche? It says it dissolves after 30 minutes but there's always some left over. Should I spit it out?
idk I go to sleep with it under my tongue 🤷♀️
I was gonna make a book reading post but I got a call and got ma'am pretty hard. Idk know what the call was about
I have fully perfected the brooding anti-hero archetype who wears too much black, has a revenge motivation and a tragic backstory.
The violent desires and burning hatred are also there.
Only thing missing are guns/swords (and women swooning over how cool I am)
Is walking around 5-10 hours a week considered good cardio (I know the variation is high, I don't have a fixed routine per say)?
Yeah, if you want a target walk fast enough to get your heart rate up into moderate activity zone (either by feeling it or whatever). The other rule is if you can talk but you couldnt sing at moderate activity rate.
5 hours is above the minimum recommended moderate activity a week - please by all means go for 10 a week just know youre in a good zone.
::: spoiler gross made a great escape from the call last night because everyone was talking about paying for food with boners and "getting to" pick up dog shit with their bare hands... :::
I liked reading about the lakes this week.
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