Multi-User Dungeons - Trans Megathread from April 6th, 2026 to April 12th, 2026
Multi-User Dungeons, also called MUDs, are a form of online text-based roleplaying game. MUDs were typically played over telnet protocol and steadily grew in popularity until graphical MMORPGs began to take their place. Initially inspired by text based adventure games such as Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork, as well as early computer RPGs, MUDs most often follow a classic fantasy setting, though you can also find a pretty diverse range of world settings, systems, and playstyles with MUDs and various other related MU* virtual worlds. Some other types of MU* games under the MUD umbrella include:
MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) which emphasized social interaction in a virtual world over actual gameplay (fun fact: The phrase "chatroom" supposedly comes from these types of games).
MUCK (Multi-User... Chat Kingdom? Creation Kit? The origin isn't entirely clear) also emphasizes social interaction, but with the addition of in-game tools that allow the players themselves to help with world building.
MOO (MUD, Object Oriented) allows users to do programming directly within the game/world server.
The first official MUD was started by two students (first Roy Trubshaw, then Richard Bartle later took over) in 1978 at the University of Essex and was simply called "MUD". This MUD was only accessible on the university network until 1980 when the university network was connected to ARPANET, introducing it to the wider world. During the 1980's and early 1990's, MUDs grew in popularity, and over time a diverse range of worlds had been created primarily from a few widely replicated MUD codebases like TinyMUD, LPMUD, and DikuMUD. MUDs eventually reached the peak of their popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s just before the introduction of early MMORPGs like Everquest (created by a DikuMUD player and largely based on it). Since then, they've become a bit more obscure, but never faded away completely and there are still a large number of active MUDs in use today.
As to how to actually play MUDs, you can access them from anything with a telnet client. This means you can log in directly from a terminal window if you want, or you can use MUD clients that offer useful features such as custom add-on packs, scripting/aliasing, audio (including music), auto-mapping, and much more. Two of the more popular clients I'm familiar with are Mudlet and MUSHClient. One I saw recently that looks promising is QMud which is a full cross-platform Qt6 port of MUSHclient. It's supposed to be compatible with existing MUSHClient add-ons, but I haven't tried it yet myself.
If you're new to MUDs and looking for a place to get started, here are three I've played at least somewhat recently and would recommend:
AwakeMUD CE (telnet: play.awakemud.com port 4000): This is a cyberpunk MUD based on Shadowrun 3E that was started in 1994 and has seemingly been running continuously (for the most part) since 2000. This is one I've been playing daily lately and love it so far. The community seems good (and very queer-friendly as far as I can tell) and I'm really liking the Shadowrun 3E world/system. Right now I'm an Adept and have obtained some cool powers and bioware. Currently working on getting cyberfins and retractable shark teeth for new cyberware. AwakeMUD also has a decent UI add-on pack for Mudlet that I'd recommend (available here). If you join this one, let me know and we can join up and do some runs or just go exploring. I usually idle on there so if you're online you can just do a "tell carcharodonna" or send me a message with the pocket secretary.
Unofficial Squaresoft MUD (telnet: uossmud.sandwich.net port 9000): Running since 1997, this MUD is a combination of various worlds and systems taken from popular Squaresoft JRPGs of the 1990s. If you like NES/SNES JRPGs as much as I do, you'll probably like this one. The devs for this MUD seem VERY active and are constantly updating and introducing new features. There's also a very cool MUSHClient soundpack for this (available here) that adds all the wonderful SNES era Squaresoft sound effects and music.
Aardwolf (telnet: aardwolf.org port 4000): Running since 1996, this is a full-featured fantasy MUD which (as far as I know) is currently the most popular traditional MUD going right now. The world of Aardwolf is massive and there's an absurd amount of content to be found here. Aardwolf also has a VERY good MUSHclient package (available here) that includes UI, maps, audio, and lots of other stuff.
Having explained MUD basics above, I wanted to finish this post outlining why MUDs are (still) awesome and why more people should play them:
Ease of access: Vast majority of MUDs are run by volunteers and 100% free (not just "free-to-play"), and can be run on anything with a telnet-enabled terminal. Also, since it's text based, you could play MUDs on the shittiest of internet connections. If you wanted to, you could probably play MUDs on a smart toaster while sitting in a McDonalds bathroom and leaching off their wifi. If nuclear war happens and communication infrastructure gets wiped out, you could probably still play MUDs with something like ham radio packet switching or Meshtastic. Oh, many MUDs also offer screen reader compatibility for people who are vision impaired, which is extremely cool.
Ease of development: Again, since it's text-based, there's much less of a learning curve (in some ways at least) and less of a need for certain skillsets or dev tools. There still is at least some learning curve, however, and the easiest way to get started making your own MUD would be to either use and modify an existing MUD codebase, or... you could use a tool like Evennia. Evennia is a pretty awesome MUD creation FOSS project that's python based and relatively easy to learn. I haven't made anything substantial with it myself, though I did once set up the example world and played around with the world building tools. The basics at least didn't seem all that difficult, though I'm sure there's a lot more you can do with it that requires much more time and skill. Like interesting game mechanics.
Focus on quality of writing and worldbuilding: Without graphics, you're more dependent on the quality of the writing and your own imagination, which in my view can often be a better experience. There's also more freedom in making a MUD than you otherwise might have in making a graphical game, due to the lower barriers and relative obscurity of MUDs. You're really only limited by knowing how to use the tools to make what you want. For example.. If you wanted to make a virtual world where being cis is illegal and cis men are sent to forcefem gulags and used in "unethical" mpreg medical experiments, you could totally do that. No one is stopping you. The sky's the limit, really.
Better online communities: MUDs have historically been a refuge for queer folks, neurodiverse people, or just generally anyone who doesn't feel like they fit well in mainstream society or is looking for a safe space to explore who they are. Maybe as an example, here's a cool zine from 1993 about the zine author's experience with a furry community known as FurryMuck. I can't speak for every MUD out there, but in my experience MUDs generally tend to be more comfortable spaces for queer people than a lot of normal gaming communities typically are.
So that's it. That's the post. Thank you for letting me info dump on this topic and I hope it was at least somewhat informative.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I HATE MEN!
I hate when they feel entitled to touch me, especially because its usually gendered and feels like how a guy would touch another guy. I'm pretty sure if I said something at least the most common offender would stop but I'm really bad at sticking up for myself and making things weird
I also hate how they talk about women! Stop objectifying women to me! I am not your friend in this!
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shallot [she/her] - 3mon
Think I fuckin hate the term “identify as.” Like a lot. Kinda prefer “am” tbh.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
Another wonderful day I get to be a trans woman 🏳️⚧️
I look so fucking cute today
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girl_thing [she/her, any] - 3mon
It rules sometimes
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 3mon
Thank you Terminal for always being such a positive force in here, always makes me smile. I love being trans
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
I think my mom can feel my chest/bra when we hug. She seemed kinda sad when I left her place today. Didn't stop her from he/himming me all the way through, though. Now that she's done with her big test I'm gonna figure out a time to tell her what she has already probably put together.
And her reaction will be entirely her own concern. I am done letting other people tell me who I am when they so obviously don't know
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
I admire your conviction. You are absolutely correct. Wish I could do that too, but it's not the time yet.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
The time for me should've been when i tried with her around 4 years ago but i didn't have enough confidence and I let her sow a debilitating level of doubt. but second best time is now i guess
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Well, the best time is when you can cut ties if necessary.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
true, I was living with her and economically dependent on her at the time. now she's kinda economically dependent on me...
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mean [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
that's very waow and based of you
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
her reaction will be entirely her own concern.
Seen this a lot, the cis are vile. Sorry you have to deal with that.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
Best thing about hosting a trans megathread is looking forward to the notifications which are nearly always going to be thoughtful, interesting, funny, creative, kind, etc. Not to glaze you all or anything, but trans people really are wonderful and trans communities are objectively far better than your average cis-dominated internet spaces.
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mean [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
thank you comrade
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 3mon
Living w family is kinda like if there was a parasite in my brain sucking off energy, and thats even when my parents arent like, overtly transphobic
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woozy [it/its] - 3mon
my gender is meow meow, i'm just in a very meow meow time of my life
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woozy [it/its] - 3mon
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon
Had a scare that the surgeon I'm working with now was going to back out like the last one did. I got a message from someone on the care team asking if we could find time to call this week and my heart sunk. Thankfully, they were just asking if I was still willing to meet with a therapist at the hospital.
I say thankfully, but that comes with it's own issues. I'll just have to trust that my words will be interpreted in good faith. They've given me no reason to doubt that, but still, I'm pretty wary of therapists these days.
Almost started crying when the call was done lol. I've dealt with so much heartbreak from people letting me down in the last few years, I really hope it doesn't happen again.
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler /pos though
Reminding myself that I've come a long way!!
I was thinking about a Weezer song (of all fucking songs) that I listened to a lot when I was first dealing with the fall out from this nightmare. "I'm sinking, could you give me a lift? Want to make an escape, but don't know where to begin." It's been a long time since I felt that way.
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CatoPosting [they/them, she/her] - 3mon
Made my first appointment for gender-affirming care today! It isn't until November I live in a state that wants me to die but on a blue-island that accepts trans folk for now at least
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
MY GIRL CLOTHES ARE HEEEEERE.
I got a super cool shirt that is super my style and I feel really good wearing it. I got some accessories, a moon necklace, a little bracelet, some cool spiderweb gloves.
AND, I got PANTIES. Boyshorts (so I can pretend they're just regular men's underwear) but still panties.
::: spoiler talking about my body parts
I tried on the panties and WOW, they made me look HOT. They're not for people who have a penis, but it felt comfortable, and I don't mind the bulge, anyone who's going to see me in underwear is probably not going to mind it either. And it makes me feel cute and hot and not dysphoric AF like using regular men's underwear.
When I can, I'll get some more feminine ones, it'll feel nice, I'm sure.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
Chat I may be cuter today than I've ever been
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 3mon
Trans girl defies stereotypes by being ass at video games
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Stop describing me please
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
Sometimes I feel like I got every single trans stereotype except for this one
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Best part about hormones will always be that I feel emotions so clearly now. There's no internal repression anymore. That wall is gone and I don't feel like a soulless husk like I did in the latter stages of my bachelor degree.
Of course, life is still tough. I'm still boymodding. And much of what I feel is sadness. Still. I prefer this to what things were like before.
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon
Happy International Ace Day!
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon
the demi hexbear looks like dracula flo
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon
An older cis man I saw at work said it was rare to see a woman as tall as me.
He seemed so sincere, I think this himbo had genuinely never heard of trans people.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
it would be so rad if that was the bulk of the population and when surveys about trans people are done they are just confused and answer randomly
just fine with accepting whatever is in front of them.
like legit tho it could be like 30% right?
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon
I think a bunch of older cis people literally think all trans people are drag queens and kings.
They see a tall lady dressed like a librarian and don't think trans woman.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon
I'm pretty sure half of cis people don't know that HRT exists.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
It's soooo frustrating
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
i have personal experience with this. some think it's like that fucked up family guy ep. go in for surgery and pop out fully transitioned
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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon
Easily that if not more. Most cis people either don't know a trans person personally, or they don't realize they do. We went through this with queer people, with lefties - prejudices wax and wane. What was taboo ceases to be so taboo when you realize it's not the big deal you thought it was, that we are real people.
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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon
I lived for a while in a reactionary backwater as an out trans woman and people could not figure it out. Trans people exist in big cities full of Liberals and don't look or dress like everyone else in fuckass nowhere. It's not on people's radar
I've worked places where no one has clocked that I'm trans even after I have told them, to their faces, that I am transgender. Or they think I'm transmasc (?) - or just a really good ally, or something. Anything but that I'm transfem.
People are oblivious. People are terrible at gendering other people based on anything but vibes a lot of the time. And if they don't know that you're trans for sure then they revert to assuming you're cis.
Trans people are the spiders Georg of thinking about gender. People just wing it, they don't know. Tall women exist!
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 3mon
Just did my first injection! I was so scared id fuck up lolll but YAYYY
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Congrats! I was worried at first too, even after only a few months its not a big deal.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
oooooh congrats lets goooo
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
CONGRATS!!!!!
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
WHOOHOO
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
Girl who salutes the flag out of respect except it's the trans flag
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Ananasova [she/her] - 3mon
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 3mon
The only flags i honor
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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 3mon
Had my last voice training session recently. Half a year that flew by way too quick. My voice is in a good place, and if I wanted to adjust it later, I have the knowledge and tools to do that. My SLP was fantastic, she took my previous self-training attempts and tied them together into a complete voice. We got along well too, maybe too well as sometimes our little pre-lesson chats started to encroach on the lessons themselves. It went from like a couple minutes in the beginning to like 15 mins+ towards the end. The last couple sessions were 30 min chats which at that point I was just going to the appointment to talk with her. So while I'm sad that we don't have the sessions any more, probably not the greatest thing to use up insurance resources and her time just to indulge a crush.
As I was leaving, I told her I enjoyed talking to her and now that I'm no longer a patient, I would love to reconnect later and gave her my info
and then hastily adding that I understand if this is a boundary or not like allowed, I won't be hurt if my info goes in the trash [lie]. She said something like "I love that you did this, I won't be throwing this away" and seemed to genuinely be receptive so uh... maybe interesting things are awaiting me in the future?
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MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them] - 3mon
Becoming an expert on a bunch of states’ antitrans laws so I don’t get arrested for shitting while traveling ✨✨😇✨✨
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon
I don't understand loyalty to parents or family that are hateful. There are circumstances where some people have to stay in contact for financial reasons, but outside of that, just let them go. There's going to be an awkward transition period, but eventually the gaps fill in with better people.
I'm appreciative of everyone in my life.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
::: spoiler cars, angerposting
Oh my FUCKING god I hate cars so much. I was walking around my neighborhood and some piece of shit driving antiparallel to me sped up and swerved in my direction and back just to watch me jump. This is now the second time fucks in cars have done this to me. Last time I was riding my bike through a residential street on my way back from school.
Haha funny joke real classy move. I've already been thrown into an intersection by a car and another time was within inches of being hit by a sportscar speeding through my old neighborhood. Holy fucking shit cars suck so much dear god. Why the hell can I not take a walk through my own freaking neighborhood without some shit threatening me with their deathtrap?
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
Yesss MUDs were my earliest form of gender experimentation. I wouldn't have called it that at the time because I was very much "still cis tho"
I remember inviting one of my friends on one time and realizing "oh fuck literally every single one of my characters is a woman how do I explain this? "
It baffles me I never once gave myself a reason why EVERY single new character I made was a woman. It was just something I did for "no reason at all" until all of a sudden everything made sense years later.
Anywho I'll probably join AwakeMUD later today
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woozy [it/its] - 3mon
for real though, i think my gender feels intrinsically entertwined with being a furry like i just made a major breakthrough with my sona the other day and i'm genuinely feeling very euphoric about it like that's just me!!!
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
My cool new pants arrived and now I am a goth girl
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Civility [none/use name] - 3mon
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon
So at work there's a bisexual cis person who is a strong Trans Ally, but who I noticed degenders, trans people...
...but then I noticed they also degender cis people, and after some gentle probing about pronouns they said "I just wish everyone would use they/them, I wish I could just use they/them all the time".
Oh honey.
I think we might have got them
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
I'm not saying I'm gonna wear a dress to my friend's birthday party on Saturday
But I'm also not not saying it
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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 3mon
Up with trans!
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
Up with trans!
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
Up with trans
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon
Up with trans!
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon
Up with trans!
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Ananasova [she/her] - 3mon
Up with trans!
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Bolshechick [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I'm literally so pretty, I love being trans so much. I love my gay little life. I've never been happier than now, like even as a little kid
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
I feel so fucking cute wearing my dress today. I need to get out of the closet soon so I can wear it out.
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 3mon
Nonbinary life has been going well. I was kind of worried that my dysphoria was tied to my seasonal depression, but actually I can still see it pretty clearly now. I guess that inner work is paying off. That is good progress even though it sounds like bad news lol
Hope you all are safe and well
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I was kind of worried that my dysphoria was tied to my seasonal depression
Last few seasons I've been hoping it was 😅
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 3mon
I am sure I'll be hoping it was sometime soon 😬 My fear was I'd lose clarity, like I'm making it all up because I'm depressed. I am much less depressed now but still have the clarity 😎
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Ah yea I definitely get that. I remember, especially early on, the clarity of finally knowing what was wrong with me was a huge relief. Still is nice to know why I am this way.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
::: spoiler dysphoria, beardshit
My roomie, completely unasked, told me I'd "pass" better if I shaved more often. And like I know I don't look like a girl most days, if ever. But shaving gives me so much dysphoria that I avoid it a lot, and then the beard hair itself gives me dysphoria, and it's just this unrelenting cycle. I need to figure out electrolysis. But anyway yeah I feel shitty today
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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler re:
What the hell is wrong with your roommate? I'm sorry, that's so insensitive and frustrating.
Not sure if it's helpful in the meantime, but I found that listening to music or having a video on my phone helped distract me from the more dysphoria inducing thoughts when I had to shave.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Yea real, same cycle I get stuck in. Fuck facial hair and fuck male puberty.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon
If you haven't, google "electrolysis near me", "electrolysis (location)", whatever. The actual process is pretty simple on your part, you just have to grow your hair out for a few days and then tolerate pain.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
I too hate facial hair so I know how you feel :/
I can't get laser for reasons and I have sensitive skin so shaving frequently gives me ingrown hairs and sores. I guess electrolysis is the only way forward.
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon
So a tip I found useful to break the shaving dysphoria (before lazer and hormones fixed it), was to drastically change my shaving routine.
I got a bristle brush, I whipped my shaving cream in a little bowl and used a safety razor.
It felt different to make it this fancier ritual. I've also known girls who go the other way, buying bulk disposable razors, using a fresh one every couple of shaves like it's anywhere else on the body.
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queermunist she/her - 3mon
Huh. Yeah, I did the "safety razor + bristle brush" thing too. Three pass shave, then put on some toner, then into serum and moisturizer and makeup. Plus, hving my shaving stuff with my makeup also definitely made me feel some kind of way.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Sewing is amazing! By sewing, I was able to not look like an idiot wearing torn clothes! Cause I sewed the torn seams. Maybe being a seamstress is in my stars (it's not, threading needles is so hard)
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon
::: spoiler men being creeps
answered the phone at work today and this guy who sounded like he was twice my age said "Hey beautiful" and now I regret ever doing any voice training. I would have been less grossed out if he took a shit in my mouth what the actual fuck.
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 3mon
the one cool thing about my throat muscles tightening whenever im stressed or upset is that my voice deepens significantly. I read about taxes and suddenly ive got a super deep voice. ehehehe
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
Every triangle is a love triangle when you love triangles
-Pythagoras
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hopelessbyanxiety [he/him, he/him] - 3mon
i came here a few days ago expressing a lot of doubts.
the thing that cleared them all away was a simple haircut lol
I found it through this youtube channel, who puts thumbnail source in description. The one I currently have is from here on pinterest. EDIT: Here is the full image directly (as it is difficult for me to access them, it requires some "inspecting"). There is also anther one I had for a short while some time ago, also on pinterest (also directly)
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Moss [they/them] - 3mon
Tramgender
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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 3mon
I used to play the Wheel of Time MUD back in the day, and apparently it is still active. Now I'm considering installing Mudlet and playing it again, even though I don't have time.
Anecdote time: long before I came out as trans, or even really knew what trans was, my character in WoT was a "boy" who discovered she was actually a girl because she channeled saidar, not saidin.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler bottom surgery updates (horny)
Soon... soon I will be able to fuck myself with my vibe... soon
Everything healed well, no pain, no discharge, nothing. Theres a couple scars but I did silicone gel and theyre vanishing quite a bit.
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
EEEEE that's so exciting!!
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
i was (shamefully) looking through your recent history because i have been absent to see what i missed
only to find out u are 3 inches taller then me
::: spoiler some intimate medical questions
i've only recently learned of the wide array of bottom surgical options since i used to have no interest in anything but an orchiectomy
what did u have done? hows your sensation? and this one hopefully isn't too prying but were you circumcised as a baby? raised catholic but i was only because it was the 'craze' at the time
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I had full depth vaginoplasty, penile inversion. Sensation is all intact! I even get wet, which I wasn't expecting but knew was a possibility. It doesn't take a lot either, apparently tieing people up and topping with toys is all it takes and just heavy duty makeouts and too lol. I wasn't circumcised, and believe it or not not everyone knows if they are or aren't! Apparently its non-obvious.
When they do the surgery, as far as I know they dont keep the whole glans? The neurovascular bundle gets kinda shoved in and becomes like a g-spot. A bit of my old head is my clit now (I can still kinda see the resemblance), urethra got redirected lower. Plus you have your old prostate (they dont take that out unless you get cancer, theres no need and it still does stuff for you) and that works too - plus new access point through the front. I have inner labia and outer labia.
It takes about a year for everything to settle and not be as swollen - but after the first few months I think this is pretty close to what its always gonna be. And I like it! Really happy overall.
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler genital question
I hope you don't mind me asking but previous to the surgery did you have a lot of precum cause I heard that usually means you'll be able to get wet?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I didnt before HRT but after about a year, yeah. And it didnt take much for me to get like a uh leaky faucet lol.
From what I understand, the majority of people after bottom surgery will get wet.
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
So, more strange questions no need to answer if you dont feel like it. My understanding that wetness comes from the bartholins/Cowper's glands, which are homologous and when exposed to estrogen start acting more like bartholins. If a person doesn't get wet pre bottom surgery, I'd imagine it would likely stay that way post bottom surgery?
::: spoiler personal, medical, sexual talk
I ask cause like, I dont get wet at all after getting on E (been on it for years). Nothing does it for me. Its lowkey kinda upsetting, but also useful cause nothing gets dirty. I also don't produce anything when I orgasm, like at all. No pre, no cum, no nothing.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I stopped cumming while on HRT, too. Precum didn't. But eventually I stopped cumming with orgasm.
It also changed for me, just like E horny and E orgasms did. It takes more build up, more seeing myself as sexy and beautiful, more emotional connection. But the precum and wetness part comes on quick.
Plenty of cis women need lube, it ain't the end of the world if you get bottom surgery one day and dont get wet. I was prepared to need lube for sex, and honestly I still might need it even thought I do get wet.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
thank you for sharing and especially for the really specific details of how things are done at the biomechanical level!
forth sentence had me blast myself with the ole spray bottle. also same but in a switchy way too
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
sitting next to closest friend at work
she turns the fan on
it kinda kicks up her scent into the air around us
i'd forgotten how much I like the way she smells
not perfume or anything, just her
organic but not musty or pungent or anything—the word that comes to mind is "vital"
head a little fuzzy until she turns it off because it got too cold
helpppppp
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 3mon
Everything is bad and scary and weird im in a nightmare but its real i need a hug (10-15 minutes later) i still need a hug but i feel basically ok now
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Sulvy [he/him, comrade/them] - 3mon
Discworld MUD is really good! If anybody ends up playing and needs help getting acquainted lmk!
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
I remember Discworld being pretty popular back in the day but I’m not sure if I ever tried it. I should probably hop on and see how it is.
Also sorta related, in researching this I came across this very cool MUD zine archive that seems to have been authored mostly by Discworld admins: http://tharsis-gate.org/articles/imaginary.html
Lots of interesting old articles on both MUD mechanics and social aspects of MUDs.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
how common is it to know what your alternative chosen baby name is? my hypothesis is that it's more likely for gen x and elder millennials because our parents didn't know the baby's sex ahead of time
and i'm sure not everyone's parents tell them what their alternative name is. i know the most common is choosing your feminized (or masculinized) current name
i can't reveal my name for opsec but it is veeeeery different then my legal name (and deadname to some). really boring but it fits me because it can be shortened to be femme, masc, or andro
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
I could have actually kept my deadname. Its one of the femmiest deadnames ever, but I never felt like it felt like me so I didn't!
Im old enough now that my friends are having babies and at least with my circle, no one bothers getting "gender" checked. They still do the ultrasound stuff and prenatal visits. Out of them, not many have names picked that could be feminized or masced easily (like Steven <-> Stephanie, etc) although androgynous/neutral baby names are more common. Out of the babies I had when I did pediatrics, usually they either knew or the few that didn't had two wildly different names.
When I was picking my own name, I did not get the people who wanted to like feminize their deadnames. I haven't met anyone irl who did that (where I would have known their deadname usually because I knew them ahead of time or something cursed like a roommate getting mail or sending bank transfer). It did come up often in gender bender erotica though lol
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I think you just have woke friends tbh. They're doing gender reveal parties in my neck of the woods.
Yea I don't get that at all either, for a few reasons. Whatever makes people happy though ig
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
That was my experience with peds, most got it checked when it came up. With my friends I know the whole details and pregnancy part, at work I just heard little bits and after the fact.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
My grandma has genuinely the most masc name of all time
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Idk why but I don't want to change my name too much. My name could be feminine, in a different country, here it isn't. Like if I write it out you're going to say "oh, that's a girl name" but well it really isn't to me. I always liked a pretty similar but 100% fem name, so I'm trying it out (have been for almost a year). Haven't completely decided yet, but I don't think I'll change it.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
yeah i have no empirical evidence of majority feminizing deadnames for some reason i just seem to encounter it a lot in media and stuff. sometimes i think short, feminine, punchy names seem more common but more as handles/nom de plumes (like mine here!)
have only like one IRL transfemme work friend and she picked a name that went waaaaaay outside the context of names i thought people would go for. never had a chance to ask her why she liked it before she moved out of state. honestly think it may have been her alternate birth name
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I could see it getting less common with time, I'm young and know mine though. Then my younger sister took it :/ don't really care for it anyway...
Love names that can be shortened/nicknamed.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
i know my sister's alternate name too which is funny because she is so femme she might as well be an elf. she didn't get mine because we have different dads
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mean [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
my parents told me they forgot
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon
yeah, my mom told me and my sister what our alternate names woulda been a few times. also got to learn what she would have wanted my cis girl nickname to be, and the names my dad came up with that she veto'd :p. none of them had any commonality between them, which kinda sucks cause my cis girl name woulda been pretty cute tbh but they gave me some fuckass terrible name instead (admittedly I'm biased)
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
yeah for various reasons i feel the same. my given name is symbolic for an annoying person my cis girl name would have been super approachable and tomboyish
but the cool thing is i've taken it as my own. even if it sounds like a boy's name when spoken (somebody is going to figure it out lol too many clues)
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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 3mon
I saw a thread about MUDs and then Ctrl+F for RuneScape. For those like minded individuals, don't worry, I have you covered.
RuneScape is a MUD and it was good. It's now the world's most expensive MUD, but it's the quintessential one in my mind.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
I’m not really familiar with RuneScape but I assumed it was more of a graphical mmorpg similar to EverQuest, or am I wrong on that? I did see in researching this that it was initially intended to be text-based, so I’m guessing it’s at least very similar to popular MUDs around that time.
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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 3mon
I am now learning that MUD is usually text based and not graphics based. I was steered wrong by an old video essay
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
RuneScape also looks pretty cool and very similar to older MUDs. I've never played it but maybe I should also check it out.
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WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them] - 3mon
I want to recommend it but I can't without caveat. It's a charmed (big) little world. It's tied in subscription cost with other MMOs like WoW if not more expensive in some locations. Also, one might google "Mod North LGBT event" and find stories that do not reflect kindly on the leadership that stewards the game.
If you had spare time then finding/spinning up a RuneScape Classic server would be a better use of your energy and more faithfully scratch the MUD itch.
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Sanctus - 3mon
RuneScape 1 really showed how close it was to a MUD with graphics you can click on. If you haven't seen the original rooneyscoop I recommend lookibg it up.
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Dessa [she/her] - 3mon
You forgot about the MUX. Never been sure what the X stands for, but I used to spend a ton of time on Sailor Moon MUXes
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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 3mon
Multi-user experience! They were basically the same thing as a MUSH, where roleplay/chatting was the priority. There were two great Wheel of Time ones I played, Cuendillar and Tales of Ta'veren.
A Sailor Moon one sounds like it would be a lot of fun
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Ananasova [she/her] - 3mon
is there any Sailor Moon MUXes that are still alive? I would like to try it myself
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Dessa [she/her] - 3mon
Been decades since I've been on a MUX
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Ananasova [she/her] - 3mon
i see, thank you
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
::: spoiler transmed, r*ddit
I did a search for a trans related thing and accidentally stumbled into a subreddit explicitly dedicated to transmedicalism as a "safe space" cause I guess they're unwelcome in trans spaces or whatever. Wtf. Actually.
Anyway, once again, I'm happy to be in this tiny corner of the internet where there's cool people and kits and pups and things and the like and we don't try to gatekeep each other's transness
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mean [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 3mon
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Is anyone is struggling with a family member treating you like shit but you feeling like you owe them because of what they did for you (very specific situation, I know, but my parents' number 1 tactic is guilt tripping)?
If so, I have advice for you. Do not ask what they did for you. Ask yourself if you are willing to treat your family or friends like this.
As much as I feel obligated to my parents because I still love them, I would never treat my own children like this and if I did I would consider myself a failure of a parent.
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Moss [they/them] - 3mon
izutsumi
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
Library was full of kids because Lego day and I got to use one of my cloth masks that has silver and copper in it, it was kinda weird ngl but I recommend them if you are interested 😷
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
::: spoiler dysphoria
My dysphoria usually comes as a pre-prepared scenario of "look at what you'll never have".
I recently had a day dream of being like this sexy girl travelling through europe in hostels, hooking up with random guys along the way, bonding over vintage music, exploring hidden catacombs and uncovering a hidden conspiracy.
And yeah, that won't be me.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
I put slightly more effort into my outfit today than I usually do and got complimented on it by the first person I spoke to while out and about today. Perhaps I should do this more often. Imagine if I could get good
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler ''friend'' drama ig
it's like, some really advanced white dude bullshit to ask a girl "hey I can tell you're feeling bad, I'm sorry what's up?" and then when she tells you be like "oh I made you feel bad, nevermind your feelings aren't valid and you're wrong actually I did exactly what you wanted"
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Leaving work in less than an hour. Probably just gonna get under the covers and stay there for the night
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Based and understandable.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
real depressionheads know 😤
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SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, she/her] - 3mon
So, a friend of mine was streaming Night in the Woods and we finished it two days ago and i'm still blown away by what a perfect metaphor it is that
::: spoiler Spoiler
there's a death cult of conservative uncles that see all the material problems of Possum Springs and are unable to think of any other solution to the ravages of neoliberalism than to throw undesirables into a bottomless hole as sacrifices to their eldritch deity. Oh, and then they get trapped alive in a mineshaft and are left to die like
Also lmao Germ just casually shrugging and saying "i got dynamite" when he's asked to close off the well in his back yard. Wonderful game, really. Yes, a lot of the characters are messy and complicated and i'd be low key worried to be around them irl, but i can't fault them for being intense when they've grown up under conditions like that. During the epilogue, when we took our last tour through Towne Centre, i was honestly scared if somebody would be missing bc we left them in the mineshaft, and it was a relief to see that everything was alright with the folks there.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
::: spoiler Quantum physics fun fact (I guess? I just did my exam today):
In quantum information communications, we can achieve (near) perfect security regardless of how good any eavesdropper's computer is!
This is done by sharing quantum states rather than classical ones. The difference is that quantum states cannot be copy pasted.
Any hacker trying to litsen to your communications will be exposed, because the correct person who was supposed to recieve the info won't recieve the information. Nothing a hacker can do will allow them to copy paste that information and pretend the communication is untapped.
In QKD (quantum key distribution), we make this principle even smarter. We use quantum communication to share encryption keys. Let the hacker litsen to the communication now! Any pieces of the key they pick up, we will forget about. Any pieces they don't pick up will go to the target who will use them to build the encryption key.
Then we use that encryption key to encrypt our data and send it on a normal fiber.
Wait, why do this round about way? If we were just going to encrypt the data and send it on a non-quantum channel, what was the point of the quantum channel?
It's because with this method you can practically share symmetric keys. Using special methods (such as "one time pad"), you can use symmetric keys for absolutely perfect encryption.
Without the QKD stuff, the only fooproof ways to share symmetric keys is to do just stuff take a USB filled with them, drive to the person you want to talk to and hand it over.
How good is this system? They use it to run the geneva elections
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
::: spoiler more fun facts
There are 2 special protocols I want to talk about cause they use quantum entanglement and I know that's a popular topic.
You got E91 (ekert-91, named after the inventer and the year of invention). In this case you generate a pair of entangled photons, seperate them and send them to both communicators (so you need minimum of 3 nodes). Both communicators will measure the same result every time because of entanglement, but the result will still be random! So you can use this to generate the exact same random number in 2 seperate locations at once.
Here's the fun fact. The person generating the entangled photons and sending them out can be a hostile attacker! But the protocol still works! This is because as long as you know the photons are entangled (you can test this), you know the keys were randomly generated at your and your partner's location. The key did not exist in the universe before you 2 measured it!
If I were to give an analogy, imagine you order a package from amazon. It arrives, and the act of opening the box creates the contents of the box.
Then there is the wierdest one. MDI-QKD (measurement device independent QKD).
This is the time-reversed version of E91. It works like this:
Both people randomly guess the next bit of the key
They both encode it onto a photon and send it to a common point
At the common point, if the 2 photons entangle, then both people know they guessed the same bit.
The person at the common point could be an attacker. Their job is to announce if the photons entangled or not. Critically, the fact of entanglement does not tell them what the bits of the key were, just that both people guessed the same.
The 2 photons know what they are encoded as, but this cannot be measured. The 2 photons have the tightest lips in the world! They'll never snitch!
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing :cat-trans: I really love science but have not learned much recently
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
That's super cool!!! I was just learning about one time pads when I was researching number stations!!
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Nice nice.
Nunber stations? I gotta check em out, I never heard of them
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
There really cool you can listen to them if you have a ham radio there for spys
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I don't feel any connection with my current name. I don't feel connection with the femininized version either. I can't think of any new names that I feel describe me.
Honestly wish I was nameless. Wish I just had like titles or roles that people called me by.
Maybe this too is a form of dysphoria? But even in my self insert fantasies I hate having a defined identity. I really do wish I were a nameless shapeshifter.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
You can change your name to a title of you want, theres no real rules on this stuff. Call yourself Doctor if you want. And if they say Doctor Who, just wink
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
That would be pretty funny. But it's very much not compliant with cultural norms (I can insist people call me mam, but people who insist on being called "doctor" aren't looked favourably upon).
I could insist people call me different titles (my favorite would be "junior sister" or "senior sister") and I'm sure most people wouldn't really follow it because they wouldn't be used to it.
It doesn't help that I don't stand up for myself.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
Who cares about norms, youre already trans. If it makes you happy, pick it as a name. Rules arent real.
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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 3mon
What's the feminine form of Sodium?
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
You know I wouldn't mind going by sodium. It feels meaningful to me.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Sodium is the feminine form! Natrium is the masculine form.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Life is so miserable and... unsatisfying. And lonely. So, so sick of feeling like shit.
I have a call tomorrow morning about my summer gig. It doesn't pay as well as I'd hoped. A tiny bit better then my current place. But its closer and a change of scenery I guess. I've been thinking all day about if I even want to bother because the pay is only like a dollar an hour better. Unfortunately I don't want to do anything so I haven't made much headway. Leaning towards picking up at least some hours there and seeing how it is. Honestly don't have high hopes for it being better then my current shit.
Fuck life is such shit.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
I'm such a wide leg pant girlie :) which is so surprising to me because I overcorrected into slimmer pants as a teen and early 20s because I was afraid of looking frumpy. Turns out it's an easy way to look like I have hips and a waist!
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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 3mon
down with cis
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mean [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
the cis
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Ananasova [she/her] - 3mon
down with cis
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
Down with cis!
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
Down with cis!
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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 3mon
Down with cis!
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon
down with cis!
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Found out that if you drink too much you throw up at the club and make an utter fool of yourself in front of your best friend who you're also maybe in love with.
::: spoiler spoiler
Wish I had the courage to kill myself. I wish I didn't have to wake up tomorrow
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
I feel rejuvenated and like I can actually do this transition thing. I'd been kinda coasting through doing very little to feel comfortable with myself because I think at a certain level I didn't actually believe I could do it. I was kind of dreading the warmer weather 'cause I didn't know what I was going to wear, but I took a leap of faith and got some skirts and stuff at a thrift shop and now after yesterday I feel like I have the confidence in myself to actually transition the way I want
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
I'm out here kiwimaxxing (having a kiwi as dessert before bedtime) hell yeah
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
kiwimaxxing
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
HELL YEAH
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
New Zealand people call themselves kiwis lol
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Yeah, and? what did you think I was talking about??
Btw it's two kiwis now 😳
(real talk on top of being tasty I hear they're a good source of fiber which I am most definitely in need of)
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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 3mon
They have fibre and digestives enzymes which are good for IBS I need to buy more kiwi extract capsules they really helped in the past.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Yessss kiwimaxx with me twin
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
okay so overdoing it and throwing up the first time I've drank more than a sip in 5 years isn't the end of the world, right? and in all likelihood my friend doesn't think less of me for it? would you all think less of someone in that situation?
Someone talked to me and I didn't know how to reply
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Wow, it's just like my life, so realistic
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler voice dysphoria
Voice dysphoria has me all fucked up again.
Its weird to think about how foreign a concept this is to cis people, I've talked with a couple about it and they seem to genuinely just not understand the discomfort and pain at all. Like I get they aren't going to feel it but I expected it to be understandable on the level of say, bottom dysphoria. Although tbf I have not and probably will not talk about that with the cis.
But yea, its rough, idk :/
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tithonis [she/her] - 3mon
I had a cis coworker who got misgendered on the phone all the time. Middle-aged church lady who sang in the choir and had a lovely alto/contratenor voice. She understood voice dysphoria just fine because she had to live it every day. Most cis people don't, or if they do, they don't talk about it. My coworker did. It really messed with her.
Meanwhile at that point I'd stopped getting misgendered on the phone for a long, long time. I don't know why. People operate entirely on vibes, and if they want to be shitty about it, they'll be shitty about it. Everyone else at my workplace just kind of rolled their eyes at her, but I felt the sadness in her voice when she put the phone down in my bones.
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mean [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
I don't like being cynical but sometimes I wonder if cis people primarily think being trans is about sex and thus can't concieve of any element of the trans experience that isn't about sex
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queermunist she/her - 3mon
Absolutely they do. A lot of cis people are only exposed to us through porn, so they view us through that lens.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Oh 100% a lot of them do. Its super frustrating, especially when I feel like I might be ace/acespec. These are the two most supportive people I have so I hope they don't just think its about sex :/
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
Went out dancing for the first time since surgery. Ive lost so much fitness and cardio 😩 I used to be able to do this from like 10 pm to 3 am and then go to after hours, but today Im sore all over
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon
I have had such a weird week mentally. And just in general at least.
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JustSo [she/her, any] - 3mon
I probably shouldn't name them but I was a coder/wizard on several and an admin on a pretty popular MUD.
The best of days
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
That’s awesome! What was it like to be an admin/coder for one? Fun or stressful?
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JustSo [she/her, any] - 3mon
Heaps of fun and I learned a lot about how online communities and social interaction work and can go horribly wrong.
But it was a bit like seeing "how the sausage is made" so to speak. Once I had access to admin tools and stuff the magic and my ability immerse myself in the game mechanics went down drastically.
Luckily my main MUD was very RP heavy so there was still plenty to do outside of working on content and code.
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EstraDoll [she/her, he/him] - 3mon
French Netflix animated originals be like:
BeauxJacque Cheveauxman
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
This took me a while to get with the bit of French I know, just wanted to let you know someone got it
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
Had a hummingbird bird flew next to me twice, it's humming as it beat its wings was magical
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catter [comrade/them, she/her] - 3mon
Been feeling great putting together outfits lately, but my shoe game is so weak 😭 Wearing my flowy alternative summer diva outfit paired with Tims was not the look. Gotta get me some chunky bratz sandals. I still felt fantastic once the shoes came off though 🙂
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I must admit. I have ... mommy issues ... and daddy issues.
I'm the chosen one yes, as the prophecies fortold. Duel wielding freudian fixations and partaker of 2 genders.
(Yes, I still consider myself gender fluid. But since gender is a practice and I'm not practicing femininity, my opinion on this doesn't yet count)
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler my morning
Wake up again. Put on some music. Cry about how bad transphobia towards trans women is. Not cut out for this. Think about the last time everyone tried to encourage me to voice train. Cry. Think about how horrible and upsetting voice training is. More hopelessness at my situation. Wonder if I'm going to see my favorite coworker this weekend. I often do once a month but worry I might not. Think about how stupid that is. I just want to whine at her about how awful I feel. I actually have nothing good to talk to her about. I wish I could just be normal. Have something good to say. Cry more. Think about how annoying I must have been when I'd "reach out" and message people about my problems. Think about a project I'm working on. Just need to clean it up a bit. God I wish I could fall back to sleep. Think about how alone and broken I am.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Supposedly getting a job offer soon, they want me on but haven't figured out what they'll pay me. Something for the summer. Honestly hate it at my current job and anticipate hating it there too. Just hope they pay a bit better.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
I'm reaching levels of degen hitherto unknown... Sapphic SFW audios
Somehow feels even more pathetic than the smutty stuff. Benefit is that I can listen to the F4F ones and just ignore... that, whereas there's really no way around it with the smut
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler well, day is now over
Crying more. Hate my stupid life.
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Anyway been looking at a lot of travel stuff, I want to soo badly. Not sure how that would actually work with being trans. Passports, meds, safety, idk. Its something I really want though. I do technically have savings if I wanted to figure something out
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
I want to try thrift-shopping clothes and making them goth, or just making stuff from scratch. I want to make some type of mesh/string for gloves/bracelets/garters or whatever that looks like thorny vines, no idea how to start on that, but I want to try thinking it up.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
trying to make a string look like a thorny vine using knots right now, someone has to have made this before
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
lately i've been feeling like maybe it was an error to choose an ancient Mesopotamian war goddess as my patron Goddess (praise be to my Queen)
did we all pick up on Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte together and manifest this shit and now we're seeing what happens when a Goddess awakens and is super pissed off?
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Oooh, I hope Hecate is next. I could do a lot more praxis if I had magic.
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
my partner awaits that day until then they are forced to accept Inanna's gifts that are given to all non-binary people
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Florn [they/them] - 3mon
Better than Athena
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Des [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
she was still my first until i realized it was actually Ishtar/Inanna the whole time
the war nerd in me still likes Athena's whole deal but i couldn't help but submit before the concept of warrior goddess in full makeup and voluminous dancer's regalia cleaving through her foes effortlessly in time with music
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
A turtleneck might fix me
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon
Okay I think I've pulled myself out of this funk. I'm at least in the process of it. The anxiety has largely subsided and I was able to pull myself together and do a night of self care, which really did wonders. I finally feel like I'm in my own skin again after exfoliating, shaving, and moisturizing. I feel soft and clean and smooth.
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
I need a backpack for work, the one they gave me is uncomfortable and bleh. But I want it to be something that can
Hold up to a 15" laptop
Have patches sewn onto it
be at at least a little cute, or at minimum try to not be the blandest techworker looking thing in existence
Somehow finding that while keeping it to like $50 range is impossible
I would also like a cute Xenia plushie, but I cannot for the life of me find one
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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 3mon
chasing the multi user dragon
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
My therapist did not know who Kafka is! I even went "Kafka? The Metamorphosis? Guy turns into a bug?" NOTHING
Tbf I've never read him but like I know the gist...
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Also my hair stylist asked what exactly the difference between Catholics and Lutherans was which kinda stunlocked me. Like I know the answer(s) but I haven't had to articulate them in such a direct way since like high school
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Infamousblt [any] - 3mon
What was everyone's favorite MUD. I spent way way too long playing Achaea, it was genuinely formative for me
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
I played a few back in the day, but the one I remember most was I believe called Mirkwood. I was about to say it's been out of service for awhile, since it was gone when I've checked before, but... Seems like it's back?? I'm too consumed with awakemud at the moment but at some point maybe I'll check it out again.
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transition_property [pup/pup's] - 3mon
Achaea was what I played a shit ton of in high school. It was great
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
It's so frustrating feeling like shit all the time because I genuinely believe this is the best it's going to get. And I can't even fucking enjoy it. Life is such bullshit.
best because of climate change/quality of living/politics*
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Going to bed sad and feeling terrible again. again. I am so sick of this.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
How it feels to conclude literally dozens of times every day that life is not worth living
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Everything is such a god awful mess in my life right now (my fault + 100% deserved) in every aspect.
Also, I'll probably quit SSRIs for now. I have too many exams, and this headache + nausea combo is nasty.
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
Do not quit, it takes a few weeks to kick in. I started Effexor in nursing school, exams and preceptorship and codes. Yes it sucks, but its very worth it.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I'll try ...
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Busgirl [she/her] - 3mon
YOU CAN DO IT!!!
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I can do it .... yay ....
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon
I just closed all the tabs on my phone browser like 5 minutes ago and it's actually giving me anxiety about the tabs that I lost. Why must we be like this?
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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 3mon
You can find them in history under recently closed tabs (depends on browser I guess)
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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 3mon
If I try that, I will have to be so disciplined about sorting them off into bookmarks instead of just opening them again and leaving them.
Edit: most of the tabs I kinda wish I had bookmarked are so old I can't find them in the tab history anyway. It seems to go by when they were opened, not when they were closed. Recently closed tabs only has the last 10.
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
It prob all depends right but gonna try joining a union soon for HVAC, has other professions too like plumbing, as an apprentice and I'm wondering how in do I need to be before I can start painting my nails again. Also looking forward to having money for nice vegan nail polish.
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shallot [she/her] - 3mon
I am so very nearly someone who plays MUDs for someone who never has lmao. Really should check them out, I think they’d be very much my speed.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
If you do try them out, hit me up and I’d be happy to do whatever I can to help get you started.
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shallot [she/her] - 3mon
That is a kind offer, thank you :)
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Had a dream where I did femme things from my culture. Like wearing sarees, and tying rakhi knots. It made me realise that even beyond just my immediate family, I'll never participate in my own culture due to my extended family being ultraconservative.
You might think that I could do all that stuff on my own, but a huge portion Indian femme activities are highly social affairs. You're supposed to do it with your mom, 4 aunties, grandmas, random ladies you never met before, the neighbour is also involved for some reason.
Of course, I could still like wear traditional femme dresses, but I feel so traumatised about it. I couldn't stop thinking about all the things. In my dream I felt free and happy. No repression. But it wasn't real.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I wish everything was different and instead of being miserable and hopeless I was happy.
I was going to make a list but it is not worth it. Its everything.
I don't know what I can even do
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Everyone else gets to be happy and live a good life while I rot away to nothing. Rip me for getting hit by some stupid cosmic curse or something.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
good lord i just hope I die already. I am so sick of feeling like shit and suffering all day every day. Nothing has gotten better. I am SO sick of being trans. fuck my life. i literally just need this shit to wrap up. im so fucking done.
:::
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
:cuddle: Thank you sodium. It's rough.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I know ...
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
hugs
Breaks my heart to see you feeling down and I wish there was more I could do to help you feel better
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Kinda sad that the only text games I've ever played are smutty and single player.
I never got into gaming as a hobby. Picking up reading was the thing for me (yes, I'm reading another web novel now)
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I think undertale and delta rune are fairly text/story heavy if you're looking for something? Not fully text but still.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I mean i played those, and some visual novels as well. I might have been exaggerating a little (I forgot) when I implied I literally never llayed any other type of game.
I still played way more smut games
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
I'm starting to see the beauty in having pouches especially when organizing things in my bag now, it just makes pulling things out so much easier
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Dude being drunk is sick. I should be like this all the time. Who needs inhibitions? I'm so much better this way. Plus it dulls the pain of maybe being in love with my best friend
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Hair care always pmo because it always feels a little tangled or not the perfect texture or just off in general. Like I washed it last night and it was perfectly combed and then I brushed it this morning but running my fingers through it now there's a bunch of little places its snagging. FML
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Is your hair straight? If you have wavy or curly hair you just can't be combing your hair too much. Also, avoid sleeping with your hair wet and try to put it up while you sleep, like with your hands, spread them up and away from your head. If you can afford to one of those satin hat things to tuck your hair in it, get one, it makes quite a difference.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Yes, I do. Ooh okay I'll give that a try, I wondered if I was supposed to put it up or something but that seemed uncomfortable.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Like, my hair has loose spiral curls, it usually looks better after I wake up and style (I only use my hands). If your hair is straight, brush it after waking up. If it starts getting frizz you need to use some kind of cream to brush it.
Don't worry too much about learning all this at once, just try out stuff and see what works for you. Oh yeah, and get you hair trimmed once in a while, I know you're letting it grow but even then, you have to trim it.
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
I try to brush it out when I get up but sadly it doesn't always happen :/ curls look great, heard they're a pain though.
I actually just cut a bunch of the ends off the other day, would be better to actually go somewhere but I'm worried they'll take too much off. When I'm able to go somewhere I know is supportive I will though.
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Curls just need a different type of care, I got used to mine so it's easy now. And I only wash 2 or 3 times a week.
You need to learn how to take care of your hair, everyone is different. You can get some advice and look some info on the internet. And get some better quality products if you can, take care of yourself, you deserve it.
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Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him] - 3mon
You ever notice how there were a couple measures passed to curb insider trading by members of congress and then, just a few months later, polymarket becomes a dominant force in our society?
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Aparantly my municipality is doing experimental mental health interviews, and I participated in one. It was surprisingly nice. Kinda like a low stakes therapy session? With 2 practitioners at once.
Best part? Since it's in the experimental stage it's free. Thank the heavens! I have 4 bucks in my account right now.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Random meme time to lighten the mood (I say fully aware of the content warning I had to put )
Things are generally going well, minus a death in the family of a great cousin that's sitting oddly
death, religious cult, and existentialism, more than usual
::: spoiler spoiler
So my great cousin died a week ago of both cancer and heart issues in her mid 60s, which hits odd since she was unhealthy when she was young but turned into a health guru, but sadly religious zealot sort as she got older. She was also in some kind of super strict religious cult the past 20yrs or so, RL version of 'the church down the road with a mere 6 people, those are heretics, we are the true 4!' like half the punchline to the man traveling in the Andes with his llama joke, her friend/handler at the cult handled all her finances etc for about that time and kept family away from her. All her money etc went to them.
Now the parts that get me, so she was in hospice and the cult members didn't visit her once, my aunt tried to visit her but found her totally disoriented and confused, she didn't realize that was due to the heavy medication. A bit later dad and I go to offer some support and the nursing staff at hospice spill the beans that minus my aunt no one else had visited her, like at all. All she did for that 'church' and they did nothing, cult they are, my dad and I are aware to that. I guess we came in before medication because she was at a full AO4 which was startling based on my aunt's description, idk what to say whatsoever, and my dad just spoke about some random health troubles of his own, not really having a good topic of conversation neither and being in the same boat. She was weak but was able to tell us what happened, apparently a cancer from her 20s returned.
Then due to work scheduling etc no one was able to visit again, and sure enough she died. Only visited twice and that just got me. Her funeral is coming up and the whole thing like bothers me, we weren't close whatsoever and she only had some contact with my uncle and aunt though mostly they'd only fight about her being in her cult vs my uncle being a deist and then her only conversation with my aunt was trying to get her to join the cult. The funeral is coming up idk what to expect.
:::
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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 3mon
ah, to go back and experience Left Hand Of Darkness for the first time again. Knowing absolutely nothing about it, and having the story call you out in strong bolded letters : this is for you. This story is actually about you
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Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir] - 3mon
Fuckin' right?!?! I love that book. Easily my favorite. It's so good!!
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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 3mon
:::spoiler cw ablist language (self directed)
I love my job. Its the only thing keeping me going right now. The promise of another tomorrow, a tomorrow where I can afford to eat food and buy nice things for myself. But the rest of my life outside of work? Real hit or miss. Pretty sure the girl I'm kinda sorta seeing thinks I'm a wackjob now and doesn't know how to interact with me. And. Idk. I'm tired of being vulnerable. I'm tired of people seeing me for who I am. Cause that person? That person is fucking crazy. I was talking about my processes, and like, there's dissociative stuff, and I dont think she understands it at all (I mean fuck I dont even understand it) and I'm pretty sure I freaked her out and I just, idk. I just, I'm tired of being vulnerable. Im tired of being around people. I want to be held, I want to be in community, but fuck, I just want everyone to go away. There is no unconditional love or support in this world. And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of this world. I'm tired. I just. I'm tired. I want this all to end.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Lol I made a comment saying that I had no internal repression anymore. Now I have a comment about a dream where I was happy and free and didn't feel repressed.
This clearly shows that I'm actually a CIA agent who can't keep her stories straight.
(It actually means I still don't understand myself well enough)
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
god I love fantasizing, this shit is great when its something I want.
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
Wanna get some earings but I couldn't hide the piercings from my parents. I was thinking some sort of cyan colored spheres (I want cyan to be my color pallette) and I'd match them up with cyan nail polish.
Alas, wearing a ripped dirty grey boymodding depression jacket is my destiny.
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woozy [it/its] - 3mon
muds sound really fun! never heard of them at all before and now i really want to try playing so thanks for sharing :o
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
Thinking of not going to my group anymore. Really disappointing because I wanted this to work out and be good. But idk. I don't feel like I'm getting what I wanted out of it, I don't feel comfortable talking about my issues either.
I don't know what I'm looking for because I do still feel like I want to go and whatever, but I don't know.
Life is often disappointing.
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RION [she/her] - 3mon
Channeling my /r/smutttt skills with a TRUE story from last night
Seeing some independent theater with a few friends
Black box setup, intimate, holds maybe 80 people max
We sidle into our row of cramped seats
I'm next to my close friend (the one who smells nice)
she helps me take off my jacket, exposing the sweetheart neckline of the top I'm wearing underneath
Suddenly very aware of how much skin it shows
And how she said I looked beautiful when we met up at the theater
And then, after we sit down, the way our shoulders brush together
As the show progresses I feel myself shift closer to her
Like an asteroid trapped in her orbit
out of the corner of my eye I see her move
Her arm wraps around the back of my seat
My heartbeat quickens, breath too
Can hardly pay attention to the next few scenes
After a while she takes her arm back
Immediately despondent, wondering what I did wrong
Try to focus on the show
Not long after I hear her whisper
Don't quite catch it at first, ask her to repeat
"Is it okay if I put my arm here?"
I nod way too vigorously, she puts it back, I'm in heaven
She alternates throughout the rest of the show, provoking the most ridiculous mood swings in me
Wish I could just tell her to come back
Or move her arm around my shoulder
Show ends, somehow everything is back to normal
I'm so cooked dude this girl has a boyfriend... who I'm meeting tonight!!!
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
It wasn't a fluke the first time. I got horny again earlier today. Have I always had this capability??
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
The power of written smut is truly incredible that it jostles me from my turboace equilibrium
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b000rg @midwest.social - 3mon
I used to play one called CLOK that has skill progression tied to skill use, a deep focus on crafting, and a unique history/lore in a fascinating gaslamp/steampunk/wild west setting. It's now got a sister MUD from the same developer, COGG, that's even more focused on player-driven mechanics. They're not really listed on most MUD sites, so I try to tell people about them when I can, because I've never seen another MUD like it.
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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 3mon
(Math) education is so fundamentally unfixable under capitalism fucking hell
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
I'd be recovered from my cough if it weren't for me being unable to sleep more than 3 hours a day for the past week
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler suicide thoughts
Life is just so miserable and hopeless. I have no hope of feeling happy or comfortable or satisfied with this wretched body. Fuck my life. It is so, so depressing to have my life ruined this way. I wish I could cry but tears won't even come.
there's no point in reaching out to anyone. Last time I did she tried giving me hope and it didn't work. Nothing ever works. Not permanently. Life just sucks. Horrible.
I was thinking and I was like oh, I maybe I should think about more positive things of how life could be. It's just escapism. Just deludjng myself with shit that won't happen. I can't work any harder to get there. I can't do enough. I don't even think all the effort in the world could fix it but I literally can't even put that in.
I just need to kill myself. Get out of this fucking life. I hate it every day. Suffering every day. Why the fuck
:::
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
There is nothing wrong with escapism. Better be deluded than constantly miserable.
:::
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Wish it would fucking work today
:::
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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 3mon
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
I also wish it
:::
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
I hate it. I hate living. I hate being trans. This is the most miserable, awful experience. It hurts so badly. I just have to die. Why can't I be okay.
:::
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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 3mon
::: spoiler spoiler
Why am I a fat autistic man who wants to be a woman more then anything in the world
Holy shit KMS
:::
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 3mon
Put on some of my new clothes, put together a look.
My mom says I look like a warrior(?).
I'm wearing cargo pants with chains, a moon shape necklace, a t-shirt, my all-star boots and spiderweb patterned gloves. WTF do you mean with warrior??? Do I look like some edgy RPG character?
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xijinpingist [none/use name] - 3mon
I played these before Ultima Online came out. I was baffled that nobody seemed to actually play the game but just seemed to want to talk about bullshit. What you were "supposed" to do was make it to level 50 and then you would be a wizard and could create your own game content. I didn't want to do that! I just wanted to play video games!
In a new and exciting way, over telnet on this new internet thing. The loss of the text-based internet was something we'll never get over. The worldwide web and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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moh [it/its] - 3mon
:3c
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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 3mon
It sinks closer and closer now with my chance at actually working hvac how damn expensive it all is, okay just on parts even not using OEM having shit be in the hundreds minimum is and some of the quotes I'm seeing for installing and designing shit is actual money. I got an udemy account thanks to my library and been enrolling in courses there on design and engineering for one day just being able to make something.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
So I’m looking at options for movies to show on blorp this Friday, and there’s one im considering called… F.A.R.T. The Movie
I love showing slop, but I’m worried this might be 2 sloppy 4 blorp. Or would it? Someone please talk me out of (or into) showing this steaming hot garbage pile of a movie.
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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 3mon
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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] - 3mon
"My name is MUD", I may not be Trans, but I am very interested in MUDs. How is it I never found my way into a MUD before? I have no idea. Shadowrun always sounded cool, so I think I'll check out AwakeMUD.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
Nice!! Hit me up on there when you get past the tutorial!
ⓘ This user is suspected of being a cat. Please report any suspicious behavior.
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xijinpingist [none/use name] - 3mon
The golden age of MUDs passed when Ultima Online came out. They they were graphical and nobody wanted text adventures any more. As outdated as Pac-Man.
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Carcharodonna [she/her] - 3mon
MUDs are cool again actually and everyone should play them with me
Carcharodonna in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
Multi-User Dungeons - Trans Megathread from April 6th, 2026 to April 12th, 2026
Multi-User Dungeons, also called MUDs, are a form of online text-based roleplaying game. MUDs were typically played over telnet protocol and steadily grew in popularity until graphical MMORPGs began to take their place. Initially inspired by text based adventure games such as Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork, as well as early computer RPGs, MUDs most often follow a classic fantasy setting, though you can also find a pretty diverse range of world settings, systems, and playstyles with MUDs and various other related MU* virtual worlds. Some other types of MU* games under the MUD umbrella include:
MUSH (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) which emphasized social interaction in a virtual world over actual gameplay (fun fact: The phrase "chatroom" supposedly comes from these types of games).
MUCK (Multi-User... Chat Kingdom? Creation Kit? The origin isn't entirely clear) also emphasizes social interaction, but with the addition of in-game tools that allow the players themselves to help with world building.
MOO (MUD, Object Oriented) allows users to do programming directly within the game/world server.
The first official MUD was started by two students (first Roy Trubshaw, then Richard Bartle later took over) in 1978 at the University of Essex and was simply called "MUD". This MUD was only accessible on the university network until 1980 when the university network was connected to ARPANET, introducing it to the wider world. During the 1980's and early 1990's, MUDs grew in popularity, and over time a diverse range of worlds had been created primarily from a few widely replicated MUD codebases like TinyMUD, LPMUD, and DikuMUD. MUDs eventually reached the peak of their popularity in the mid-to-late 1990s just before the introduction of early MMORPGs like Everquest (created by a DikuMUD player and largely based on it). Since then, they've become a bit more obscure, but never faded away completely and there are still a large number of active MUDs in use today.
As to how to actually play MUDs, you can access them from anything with a telnet client. This means you can log in directly from a terminal window if you want, or you can use MUD clients that offer useful features such as custom add-on packs, scripting/aliasing, audio (including music), auto-mapping, and much more. Two of the more popular clients I'm familiar with are Mudlet and MUSHClient. One I saw recently that looks promising is QMud which is a full cross-platform Qt6 port of MUSHclient. It's supposed to be compatible with existing MUSHClient add-ons, but I haven't tried it yet myself.
If you're new to MUDs and looking for a place to get started, here are three I've played at least somewhat recently and would recommend:
AwakeMUD CE (telnet: play.awakemud.com port 4000): This is a cyberpunk MUD based on Shadowrun 3E that was started in 1994 and has seemingly been running continuously (for the most part) since 2000. This is one I've been playing daily lately and love it so far. The community seems good (and very queer-friendly as far as I can tell) and I'm really liking the Shadowrun 3E world/system. Right now I'm an Adept and have obtained some cool powers and bioware. Currently working on getting cyberfins and retractable shark teeth for new cyberware. AwakeMUD also has a decent UI add-on pack for Mudlet that I'd recommend (available here). If you join this one, let me know and we can join up and do some runs or just go exploring. I usually idle on there so if you're online you can just do a "tell carcharodonna" or send me a message with the pocket secretary.
Unofficial Squaresoft MUD (telnet: uossmud.sandwich.net port 9000): Running since 1997, this MUD is a combination of various worlds and systems taken from popular Squaresoft JRPGs of the 1990s. If you like NES/SNES JRPGs as much as I do, you'll probably like this one. The devs for this MUD seem VERY active and are constantly updating and introducing new features. There's also a very cool MUSHClient soundpack for this (available here) that adds all the wonderful SNES era Squaresoft sound effects and music.
Aardwolf (telnet: aardwolf.org port 4000): Running since 1996, this is a full-featured fantasy MUD which (as far as I know) is currently the most popular traditional MUD going right now. The world of Aardwolf is massive and there's an absurd amount of content to be found here. Aardwolf also has a VERY good MUSHclient package (available here) that includes UI, maps, audio, and lots of other stuff.
Having explained MUD basics above, I wanted to finish this post outlining why MUDs are (still) awesome and why more people should play them:
Ease of access: Vast majority of MUDs are run by volunteers and 100% free (not just "free-to-play"), and can be run on anything with a telnet-enabled terminal. Also, since it's text based, you could play MUDs on the shittiest of internet connections. If you wanted to, you could probably play MUDs on a smart toaster while sitting in a McDonalds bathroom and leaching off their wifi. If nuclear war happens and communication infrastructure gets wiped out, you could probably still play MUDs with something like ham radio packet switching or Meshtastic. Oh, many MUDs also offer screen reader compatibility for people who are vision impaired, which is extremely cool.
Ease of development: Again, since it's text-based, there's much less of a learning curve (in some ways at least) and less of a need for certain skillsets or dev tools. There still is at least some learning curve, however, and the easiest way to get started making your own MUD would be to either use and modify an existing MUD codebase, or... you could use a tool like Evennia. Evennia is a pretty awesome MUD creation FOSS project that's python based and relatively easy to learn. I haven't made anything substantial with it myself, though I did once set up the example world and played around with the world building tools. The basics at least didn't seem all that difficult, though I'm sure there's a lot more you can do with it that requires much more time and skill. Like interesting game mechanics.
Focus on quality of writing and worldbuilding: Without graphics, you're more dependent on the quality of the writing and your own imagination, which in my view can often be a better experience. There's also more freedom in making a MUD than you otherwise might have in making a graphical game, due to the lower barriers and relative obscurity of MUDs. You're really only limited by knowing how to use the tools to make what you want. For example.. If you wanted to make a virtual world where being cis is illegal and cis men are sent to forcefem gulags and used in "unethical" mpreg medical experiments, you could totally do that. No one is stopping you. The sky's the limit, really.
Better online communities: MUDs have historically been a refuge for queer folks, neurodiverse people, or just generally anyone who doesn't feel like they fit well in mainstream society or is looking for a safe space to explore who they are. Maybe as an example, here's a cool zine from 1993 about the zine author's experience with a furry community known as FurryMuck. I can't speak for every MUD out there, but in my experience MUDs generally tend to be more comfortable spaces for queer people than a lot of normal gaming communities typically are.
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I HATE MEN!
I hate when they feel entitled to touch me, especially because its usually gendered and feels like how a guy would touch another guy. I'm pretty sure if I said something at least the most common offender would stop but I'm really bad at sticking up for myself and making things weird
I also hate how they talk about women! Stop objectifying women to me! I am not your friend in this!
Think I fuckin hate the term “identify as.” Like a lot. Kinda prefer “am” tbh.
Another wonderful day I get to be a trans woman 🏳️⚧️
I look so fucking cute today
It rules sometimes
Thank you Terminal for always being such a positive force in here, always makes me smile. I love being trans
I think my mom can feel my chest/bra when we hug. She seemed kinda sad when I left her place today. Didn't stop her from he/himming me all the way through, though. Now that she's done with her big test I'm gonna figure out a time to tell her what she has already probably put together.
And her reaction will be entirely her own concern. I am done letting other people tell me who I am when they so obviously don't know
I admire your conviction. You are absolutely correct. Wish I could do that too, but it's not the time yet.
The time for me should've been when i tried with her around 4 years ago but i didn't have enough confidence and I let her sow a debilitating level of doubt. but second best time is now i guess
Well, the best time is when you can cut ties if necessary.
true, I was living with her and economically dependent on her at the time. now she's kinda economically dependent on me...
that's very waow and based of you
Seen this a lot, the cis are vile. Sorry you have to deal with that.
Best thing about hosting a trans megathread is looking forward to the notifications which are nearly always going to be thoughtful, interesting, funny, creative, kind, etc. Not to glaze you all or anything, but trans people really are wonderful and trans communities are objectively far better than your average cis-dominated internet spaces.
thank you comrade
Living w family is kinda like if there was a parasite in my brain sucking off energy, and thats even when my parents arent like, overtly transphobic
my gender is meow meow, i'm just in a very meow meow time of my life
Meow ! That's real.
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Had a scare that the surgeon I'm working with now was going to back out like the last one did. I got a message from someone on the care team asking if we could find time to call this week and my heart sunk. Thankfully, they were just asking if I was still willing to meet with a therapist at the hospital.
I say thankfully, but that comes with it's own issues. I'll just have to trust that my words will be interpreted in good faith. They've given me no reason to doubt that, but still, I'm pretty wary of therapists these days.
Almost started crying when the call was done lol. I've dealt with so much heartbreak from people letting me down in the last few years, I really hope it doesn't happen again.
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Reminding myself that I've come a long way!!
I was thinking about a Weezer song (of all fucking songs) that I listened to a lot when I was first dealing with the fall out from this nightmare. "I'm sinking, could you give me a lift? Want to make an escape, but don't know where to begin." It's been a long time since I felt that way. :::
Made my first appointment for gender-affirming care today!
It isn't until November
I live in a state that wants me to die
but on a blue-island that accepts trans folk for now at least

MY GIRL CLOTHES ARE HEEEEERE.
I got a super cool shirt that is super my style and I feel really good wearing it. I got some accessories, a moon necklace, a little bracelet, some cool spiderweb gloves.
AND, I got PANTIES. Boyshorts (so I can pretend they're just regular men's underwear) but still panties.
::: spoiler talking about my body parts I tried on the panties and WOW, they made me look HOT. They're not for people who have a penis, but it felt comfortable, and I don't mind the bulge, anyone who's going to see me in underwear is probably not going to mind it either. And it makes me feel cute and hot and not dysphoric AF like using regular men's underwear.
When I can, I'll get some more feminine ones, it'll feel nice, I'm sure. :::
Chat I may be cuter today than I've ever been
Trans girl defies stereotypes by being ass at video games
Stop describing me please
Sometimes I feel like I got every single trans stereotype except for this one
Best part about hormones will always be that I feel emotions so clearly now. There's no internal repression anymore. That wall is gone and I don't feel like a soulless husk like I did in the latter stages of my bachelor degree.
Of course, life is still tough. I'm still boymodding. And much of what I feel is sadness. Still. I prefer this to what things were like before.
Happy International Ace Day!
the demi hexbear looks like dracula flo
An older cis man I saw at work said it was rare to see a woman as tall as me.
He seemed so sincere, I think this himbo had genuinely never heard of trans people.
it would be so rad if that was the bulk of the population and when surveys about trans people are done they are just confused and answer randomly
just fine with accepting whatever is in front of them.
like legit tho it could be like 30% right?
I think a bunch of older cis people literally think all trans people are drag queens and kings.
They see a tall lady dressed like a librarian and don't think trans woman.
I'm pretty sure half of cis people don't know that HRT exists.
It's soooo frustrating
i have personal experience with this. some think it's like that fucked up family guy ep. go in for surgery and pop out fully transitioned
Easily that if not more. Most cis people either don't know a trans person personally, or they don't realize they do. We went through this with queer people, with lefties - prejudices wax and wane. What was taboo ceases to be so taboo when you realize it's not the big deal you thought it was, that we are real people.
I lived for a while in a reactionary backwater as an out trans woman and people could not figure it out. Trans people exist in big cities full of Liberals and don't look or dress like everyone else in fuckass nowhere. It's not on people's radar
I've worked places where no one has clocked that I'm trans even after I have told them, to their faces, that I am transgender. Or they think I'm transmasc (?) - or just a really good ally, or something. Anything but that I'm transfem.
People are oblivious. People are terrible at gendering other people based on anything but vibes a lot of the time. And if they don't know that you're trans for sure then they revert to assuming you're cis.
Trans people are the spiders Georg of thinking about gender. People just wing it, they don't know. Tall women exist!
Just did my first injection! I was so scared id fuck up lolll but YAYYY
Congrats! I was worried at first too, even after only a few months its not a big deal.
oooooh congrats lets goooo
CONGRATS!!!!!
WHOOHOO
Girl who salutes the flag out of respect except it's the trans flag
The only flags i honor

Had my last voice training session recently. Half a year that flew by way too quick. My voice is in a good place, and if I wanted to adjust it later, I have the knowledge and tools to do that. My SLP was fantastic, she took my previous self-training attempts and tied them together into a complete voice. We got along well too, maybe too well as sometimes our little pre-lesson chats started to encroach on the lessons themselves. It went from like a couple minutes in the beginning to like 15 mins+ towards the end. The last couple sessions were 30 min chats which at that point I was just going to the appointment to talk with her. So while I'm sad that we don't have the sessions any more, probably not the greatest thing to use up insurance resources and her time just to indulge a crush.
As I was leaving, I told her I enjoyed talking to her and now that I'm no longer a patient, I would love to reconnect later and gave her my info and then hastily adding that I understand if this is a boundary or not like allowed, I won't be hurt if my info goes in the trash [lie]. She said something like "I love that you did this, I won't be throwing this away" and seemed to genuinely be receptive so uh... maybe interesting things are awaiting me in the future?
Becoming an expert on a bunch of states’ antitrans laws so I don’t get arrested for shitting while traveling ✨✨😇✨✨
I don't understand loyalty to parents or family that are hateful. There are circumstances where some people have to stay in contact for financial reasons, but outside of that, just let them go. There's going to be an awkward transition period, but eventually the gaps fill in with better people.
I'm appreciative of everyone in my life.
::: spoiler cars, angerposting Oh my FUCKING god I hate cars so much. I was walking around my neighborhood and some piece of shit driving antiparallel to me sped up and swerved in my direction and back just to watch me jump. This is now the second time fucks in cars have done this to me. Last time I was riding my bike through a residential street on my way back from school.
Haha funny joke real classy move. I've already been thrown into an intersection by a car and another time was within inches of being hit by a sportscar speeding through my old neighborhood. Holy fucking shit cars suck so much dear god. Why the hell can I not take a walk through my own freaking neighborhood without some shit threatening me with their deathtrap? :::
Yesss MUDs were my earliest form of gender experimentation. I wouldn't have called it that at the time because I was very much "still cis tho"
I remember inviting one of my friends on one time and realizing "oh fuck literally every single one of my characters is a woman how do I explain this? "
It baffles me I never once gave myself a reason why EVERY single new character I made was a woman. It was just something I did for "no reason at all" until all of a sudden everything made sense years later.
Anywho I'll probably join AwakeMUD later today
for real though, i think my gender feels intrinsically entertwined with being a furry like i just made a major breakthrough with my sona the other day and i'm genuinely feeling very euphoric about it like that's just me!!!
My cool new pants arrived and now I am a goth girl
So at work there's a bisexual cis person who is a strong Trans Ally, but who I noticed degenders, trans people...
...but then I noticed they also degender cis people, and after some gentle probing about pronouns they said "I just wish everyone would use they/them, I wish I could just use they/them all the time".
Oh honey.
I think we might have got them
I'm not saying I'm gonna wear a dress to my friend's birthday party on Saturday
But I'm also not not saying it
Up with trans!
Up with trans!
Up with trans
Up with trans!
Up with trans!
Up with trans!
I'm literally so pretty, I love being trans so much. I love my gay little life. I've never been happier than now, like even as a little kid
I feel so fucking cute wearing my dress today. I need to get out of the closet soon so I can wear it out.
Nonbinary life has been going well. I was kind of worried that my dysphoria was tied to my seasonal depression, but actually I can still see it pretty clearly now. I guess that inner work is paying off. That is good progress even though it sounds like bad news lol
Hope you all are safe and well
Last few seasons I've been hoping it was 😅
I am sure I'll be hoping it was sometime soon 😬 My fear was I'd lose clarity, like I'm making it all up because I'm depressed. I am much less depressed now but still have the clarity 😎
Ah yea I definitely get that. I remember, especially early on, the clarity of finally knowing what was wrong with me was a huge relief. Still is nice to know why I am this way.
::: spoiler dysphoria, beardshit My roomie, completely unasked, told me I'd "pass" better if I shaved more often. And like I know I don't look like a girl most days, if ever. But shaving gives me so much dysphoria that I avoid it a lot, and then the beard hair itself gives me dysphoria, and it's just this unrelenting cycle. I need to figure out electrolysis. But anyway yeah I feel shitty today :::
::: spoiler re: What the hell is wrong with your roommate? I'm sorry, that's so insensitive and frustrating.
Not sure if it's helpful in the meantime, but I found that listening to music or having a video on my phone helped distract me from the more dysphoria inducing thoughts when I had to shave. :::
::: spoiler spoiler Yea real, same cycle I get stuck in. Fuck facial hair and fuck male puberty. :::
If you haven't, google "electrolysis near me", "electrolysis (location)", whatever. The actual process is pretty simple on your part, you just have to grow your hair out for a few days and then tolerate pain.
I too hate facial hair so I know how you feel :/
I can't get laser for reasons and I have sensitive skin so shaving frequently gives me ingrown hairs and sores. I guess electrolysis is the only way forward.
So a tip I found useful to break the shaving dysphoria (before lazer and hormones fixed it), was to drastically change my shaving routine.
I got a bristle brush, I whipped my shaving cream in a little bowl and used a safety razor.
It felt different to make it this fancier ritual. I've also known girls who go the other way, buying bulk disposable razors, using a fresh one every couple of shaves like it's anywhere else on the body.
Huh. Yeah, I did the "safety razor + bristle brush" thing too. Three pass shave, then put on some toner, then into serum and moisturizer and makeup. Plus, hving my shaving stuff with my makeup also definitely made me feel some kind of way.
Sewing is amazing! By sewing, I was able to not look like an idiot wearing torn clothes! Cause I sewed the torn seams. Maybe being a seamstress is in my stars (it's not, threading needles is so hard)
::: spoiler men being creeps answered the phone at work today and this guy who sounded like he was twice my age said "Hey beautiful" and now I regret ever doing any voice training. I would have been less grossed out if he took a shit in my mouth what the actual fuck. :::
the one cool thing about my throat muscles tightening whenever im stressed or upset is that my voice deepens significantly. I read about taxes and suddenly ive got a super deep voice. ehehehe
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i came here a few days ago expressing a lot of doubts. the thing that cleared them all away was a simple haircut lol
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It is! It's sooo cute.
I found it through this youtube channel, who puts thumbnail source in description. The one I currently have is from here on pinterest. EDIT: Here is the full image directly (as it is difficult for me to access them, it requires some "inspecting"). There is also anther one I had for a short while some time ago, also on pinterest (also directly)
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I used to play the Wheel of Time MUD back in the day, and apparently it is still active. Now I'm considering installing Mudlet and playing it again, even though I don't have time.
Anecdote time: long before I came out as trans, or even really knew what trans was, my character in WoT was a "boy" who discovered she was actually a girl because she channeled saidar, not saidin.
::: spoiler bottom surgery updates (horny) Soon... soon I will be able to fuck myself with my vibe... soon
Everything healed well, no pain, no discharge, nothing. Theres a couple scars but I did silicone gel and theyre vanishing quite a bit. :::
EEEEE that's so exciting!!
i was (shamefully) looking through your recent history because i have been absent to see what i missed
only to find out u are 3 inches taller then me
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i've only recently learned of the wide array of bottom surgical options since i used to have no interest in anything but an orchiectomy
what did u have done? hows your sensation? and this one hopefully isn't too prying but were you circumcised as a baby? raised catholic but i was only because it was the 'craze' at the time
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::: spoiler spoiler I had full depth vaginoplasty, penile inversion. Sensation is all intact! I even get wet, which I wasn't expecting but knew was a possibility. It doesn't take a lot either, apparently tieing people up and topping with toys is all it takes and just heavy duty makeouts and too lol. I wasn't circumcised, and believe it or not not everyone knows if they are or aren't! Apparently its non-obvious.
When they do the surgery, as far as I know they dont keep the whole glans? The neurovascular bundle gets kinda shoved in and becomes like a g-spot. A bit of my old head is my clit now (I can still kinda see the resemblance), urethra got redirected lower. Plus you have your old prostate (they dont take that out unless you get cancer, theres no need and it still does stuff for you) and that works too - plus new access point through the front. I have inner labia and outer labia.
It takes about a year for everything to settle and not be as swollen - but after the first few months I think this is pretty close to what its always gonna be. And I like it! Really happy overall. :::
::: spoiler genital question I hope you don't mind me asking but previous to the surgery did you have a lot of precum cause I heard that usually means you'll be able to get wet? :::
::: spoiler spoiler I didnt before HRT but after about a year, yeah. And it didnt take much for me to get like a uh leaky faucet lol.
From what I understand, the majority of people after bottom surgery will get wet. :::
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So, more strange questions no need to answer if you dont feel like it. My understanding that wetness comes from the bartholins/Cowper's glands, which are homologous and when exposed to estrogen start acting more like bartholins. If a person doesn't get wet pre bottom surgery, I'd imagine it would likely stay that way post bottom surgery?
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I ask cause like, I dont get wet at all after getting on E (been on it for years). Nothing does it for me. Its lowkey kinda upsetting, but also useful cause nothing gets dirty. I also don't produce anything when I orgasm, like at all. No pre, no cum, no nothing.
::: spoiler spoiler I stopped cumming while on HRT, too. Precum didn't. But eventually I stopped cumming with orgasm.
It also changed for me, just like E horny and E orgasms did. It takes more build up, more seeing myself as sexy and beautiful, more emotional connection. But the precum and wetness part comes on quick.
Plenty of cis women need lube, it ain't the end of the world if you get bottom surgery one day and dont get wet. I was prepared to need lube for sex, and honestly I still might need it even thought I do get wet. :::
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thank you for sharing and especially for the really specific details of how things are done at the biomechanical level!
forth sentence had me blast myself with the ole spray bottle. also same but in a switchy way too
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Everything is bad and scary and weird im in a nightmare but its real i need a hug
(10-15 minutes later) i still need a hug but i feel basically ok now
Discworld MUD is really good! If anybody ends up playing and needs help getting acquainted lmk!
I remember Discworld being pretty popular back in the day but I’m not sure if I ever tried it. I should probably hop on and see how it is.
Also sorta related, in researching this I came across this very cool MUD zine archive that seems to have been authored mostly by Discworld admins: http://tharsis-gate.org/articles/imaginary.html
Lots of interesting old articles on both MUD mechanics and social aspects of MUDs.
how common is it to know what your alternative chosen baby name is? my hypothesis is that it's more likely for gen x and elder millennials because our parents didn't know the baby's sex ahead of time
and i'm sure not everyone's parents tell them what their alternative name is. i know the most common is choosing your feminized (or masculinized) current name
i can't reveal my name for opsec but it is veeeeery different then my legal name (and deadname to some). really boring but it fits me because it can be shortened to be femme, masc, or andro
I could have actually kept my deadname. Its one of the femmiest deadnames ever, but I never felt like it felt like me so I didn't!
Im old enough now that my friends are having babies and at least with my circle, no one bothers getting "gender" checked. They still do the ultrasound stuff and prenatal visits. Out of them, not many have names picked that could be feminized or masced easily (like Steven <-> Stephanie, etc) although androgynous/neutral baby names are more common. Out of the babies I had when I did pediatrics, usually they either knew or the few that didn't had two wildly different names.
When I was picking my own name, I did not get the people who wanted to like feminize their deadnames. I haven't met anyone irl who did that (where I would have known their deadname usually because I knew them ahead of time or something cursed like a roommate getting mail or sending bank transfer). It did come up often in gender bender erotica though lol
I think you just have woke friends tbh. They're doing gender reveal parties in my neck of the woods.
Yea I don't get that at all either, for a few reasons. Whatever makes people happy though ig
That was my experience with peds, most got it checked when it came up. With my friends I know the whole details and pregnancy part, at work I just heard little bits and after the fact.
My grandma has genuinely the most masc name of all time
Idk why but I don't want to change my name too much. My name could be feminine, in a different country, here it isn't. Like if I write it out you're going to say "oh, that's a girl name" but well it really isn't to me. I always liked a pretty similar but 100% fem name, so I'm trying it out (have been for almost a year). Haven't completely decided yet, but I don't think I'll change it.
yeah i have no empirical evidence of majority feminizing deadnames for some reason i just seem to encounter it a lot in media and stuff. sometimes i think short, feminine, punchy names seem more common but more as handles/nom de plumes (like mine here!)
have only like one IRL transfemme work friend and she picked a name that went waaaaaay outside the context of names i thought people would go for. never had a chance to ask her why she liked it before she moved out of state. honestly think it may have been her alternate birth name
I could see it getting less common with time, I'm young and know mine though. Then my younger sister took it :/ don't really care for it anyway...
Love names that can be shortened/nicknamed.
i know my sister's alternate name too which is funny because she is so femme she might as well be an elf. she didn't get mine because we have different dads
my parents told me they forgot
yeah, my mom told me and my sister what our alternate names woulda been a few times. also got to learn what she would have wanted my cis girl nickname to be, and the names my dad came up with that she veto'd :p. none of them had any commonality between them, which kinda sucks cause my cis girl name woulda been pretty cute tbh but they gave me some fuckass terrible name instead (admittedly I'm biased)
yeah for various reasons i feel the same. my given name is symbolic for an annoying person my cis girl name would have been super approachable and tomboyish
but the cool thing is i've taken it as my own. even if it sounds like a boy's name when spoken (somebody is going to figure it out lol too many clues)
I saw a thread about MUDs and then Ctrl+F for RuneScape. For those like minded individuals, don't worry, I have you covered.
RuneScape is a MUD and it was good. It's now the world's most expensive MUD, but it's the quintessential one in my mind.
I’m not really familiar with RuneScape but I assumed it was more of a graphical mmorpg similar to EverQuest, or am I wrong on that? I did see in researching this that it was initially intended to be text-based, so I’m guessing it’s at least very similar to popular MUDs around that time.
I am now learning that MUD is usually text based and not graphics based. I was steered wrong by an old video essay
RuneScape also looks pretty cool and very similar to older MUDs. I've never played it but maybe I should also check it out.
I want to recommend it but I can't without caveat. It's a charmed (big) little world. It's tied in subscription cost with other MMOs like WoW if not more expensive in some locations. Also, one might google "Mod North LGBT event" and find stories that do not reflect kindly on the leadership that stewards the game.
If you had spare time then finding/spinning up a RuneScape Classic server would be a better use of your energy and more faithfully scratch the MUD itch.
RuneScape 1 really showed how close it was to a MUD with graphics you can click on. If you haven't seen the original rooneyscoop I recommend lookibg it up.
You forgot about the MUX. Never been sure what the X stands for, but I used to spend a ton of time on Sailor Moon MUXes
Multi-user experience! They were basically the same thing as a MUSH, where roleplay/chatting was the priority. There were two great Wheel of Time ones I played, Cuendillar and Tales of Ta'veren.
A Sailor Moon one sounds like it would be a lot of fun
is there any Sailor Moon MUXes that are still alive? I would like to try it myself
Been decades since I've been on a MUX
i see, thank you
::: spoiler transmed, r*ddit I did a search for a trans related thing and accidentally stumbled into a subreddit explicitly dedicated to transmedicalism as a "safe space" cause I guess they're unwelcome in trans spaces or whatever. Wtf. Actually.
Anyway, once again, I'm happy to be in this tiny corner of the internet where there's cool people and kits and pups and things and the like and we don't try to gatekeep each other's transness :::
Is anyone is struggling with a family member treating you like shit but you feeling like you owe them because of what they did for you (very specific situation, I know, but my parents' number 1 tactic is guilt tripping)?
If so, I have advice for you. Do not ask what they did for you. Ask yourself if you are willing to treat your family or friends like this.
As much as I feel obligated to my parents because I still love them, I would never treat my own children like this and if I did I would consider myself a failure of a parent.
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Library was full of kids because Lego day and I got to use one of my cloth masks that has silver and copper in it, it was kinda weird ngl but I recommend them if you are interested 😷
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My dysphoria usually comes as a pre-prepared scenario of "look at what you'll never have".
I recently had a day dream of being like this sexy girl travelling through europe in hostels, hooking up with random guys along the way, bonding over vintage music, exploring hidden catacombs and uncovering a hidden conspiracy.
And yeah, that won't be me.
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I put slightly more effort into my outfit today than I usually do and got complimented on it by the first person I spoke to while out and about today. Perhaps I should do this more often. Imagine if I could get good
::: spoiler ''friend'' drama ig it's like, some really advanced white dude bullshit to ask a girl "hey I can tell you're feeling bad, I'm sorry what's up?" and then when she tells you be like "oh I made you feel bad, nevermind your feelings aren't valid and you're wrong actually I did exactly what you wanted" :::
Leaving work in less than an hour. Probably just gonna get under the covers and stay there for the night
Based and understandable.
real depressionheads know 😤
So, a friend of mine was streaming Night in the Woods and we finished it two days ago and i'm still blown away by what a perfect metaphor it is that ::: spoiler Spoiler there's a death cult of conservative uncles that see all the material problems of Possum Springs and are unable to think of any other solution to the ravages of neoliberalism than to throw undesirables into a bottomless hole as sacrifices to their eldritch deity. Oh, and then they get trapped alive in a mineshaft and are left to die like
Also lmao Germ just casually shrugging and saying "i got dynamite" when he's asked to close off the well in his back yard. Wonderful game, really. Yes, a lot of the characters are messy and complicated and i'd be low key worried to be around them irl, but i can't fault them for being intense when they've grown up under conditions like that. During the epilogue, when we took our last tour through Towne Centre, i was honestly scared if somebody would be missing bc we left them in the mineshaft, and it was a relief to see that everything was alright with the folks there. :::
::: spoiler Quantum physics fun fact (I guess? I just did my exam today):
In quantum information communications, we can achieve (near) perfect security regardless of how good any eavesdropper's computer is!
This is done by sharing quantum states rather than classical ones. The difference is that quantum states cannot be copy pasted.
Any hacker trying to litsen to your communications will be exposed, because the correct person who was supposed to recieve the info won't recieve the information. Nothing a hacker can do will allow them to copy paste that information and pretend the communication is untapped.
In QKD (quantum key distribution), we make this principle even smarter. We use quantum communication to share encryption keys. Let the hacker litsen to the communication now! Any pieces of the key they pick up, we will forget about. Any pieces they don't pick up will go to the target who will use them to build the encryption key.
Then we use that encryption key to encrypt our data and send it on a normal fiber.
Wait, why do this round about way? If we were just going to encrypt the data and send it on a non-quantum channel, what was the point of the quantum channel?
It's because with this method you can practically share symmetric keys. Using special methods (such as "one time pad"), you can use symmetric keys for absolutely perfect encryption.
Without the QKD stuff, the only fooproof ways to share symmetric keys is to do just stuff take a USB filled with them, drive to the person you want to talk to and hand it over.
How good is this system? They use it to run the geneva elections
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There are 2 special protocols I want to talk about cause they use quantum entanglement and I know that's a popular topic.
You got E91 (ekert-91, named after the inventer and the year of invention). In this case you generate a pair of entangled photons, seperate them and send them to both communicators (so you need minimum of 3 nodes). Both communicators will measure the same result every time because of entanglement, but the result will still be random! So you can use this to generate the exact same random number in 2 seperate locations at once.
Here's the fun fact. The person generating the entangled photons and sending them out can be a hostile attacker! But the protocol still works! This is because as long as you know the photons are entangled (you can test this), you know the keys were randomly generated at your and your partner's location. The key did not exist in the universe before you 2 measured it!
If I were to give an analogy, imagine you order a package from amazon. It arrives, and the act of opening the box creates the contents of the box.
Then there is the wierdest one. MDI-QKD (measurement device independent QKD).
This is the time-reversed version of E91. It works like this:
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Fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing :cat-trans: I really love science but have not learned much recently
That's super cool!!! I was just learning about one time pads when I was researching number stations!!
Nice nice.
Nunber stations? I gotta check em out, I never heard of them
There really cool you can listen to them if you have a ham radio there for spys
I don't feel any connection with my current name. I don't feel connection with the femininized version either. I can't think of any new names that I feel describe me.
Honestly wish I was nameless. Wish I just had like titles or roles that people called me by.
Maybe this too is a form of dysphoria? But even in my self insert fantasies I hate having a defined identity. I really do wish I were a nameless shapeshifter.
You can change your name to a title of you want, theres no real rules on this stuff. Call yourself Doctor if you want. And if they say Doctor Who, just wink
That would be pretty funny. But it's very much not compliant with cultural norms (I can insist people call me mam, but people who insist on being called "doctor" aren't looked favourably upon).
I could insist people call me different titles (my favorite would be "junior sister" or "senior sister") and I'm sure most people wouldn't really follow it because they wouldn't be used to it.
It doesn't help that I don't stand up for myself.
Who cares about norms, youre already trans. If it makes you happy, pick it as a name. Rules arent real.
What's the feminine form of Sodium?
You know I wouldn't mind going by sodium. It feels meaningful to me.
Sodium is the feminine form! Natrium is the masculine form.
Life is so miserable and... unsatisfying. And lonely. So, so sick of feeling like shit.
I have a call tomorrow morning about my summer gig. It doesn't pay as well as I'd hoped. A tiny bit better then my current place. But its closer and a change of scenery I guess. I've been thinking all day about if I even want to bother because the pay is only like a dollar an hour better. Unfortunately I don't want to do anything so I haven't made much headway. Leaning towards picking up at least some hours there and seeing how it is. Honestly don't have high hopes for it being better then my current shit.
Fuck life is such shit.
I'm such a wide leg pant girlie :) which is so surprising to me because I overcorrected into slimmer pants as a teen and early 20s because I was afraid of looking frumpy. Turns out it's an easy way to look like I have hips and a waist!
down with cis
the cis
down with cis
Down with cis!
Down with cis!
Down with cis!
down with cis!
Found out that if you drink too much you throw up at the club and make an utter fool of yourself in front of your best friend who you're also maybe in love with.
::: spoiler spoiler Wish I had the courage to kill myself. I wish I didn't have to wake up tomorrow :::
I feel rejuvenated and like I can actually do this transition thing. I'd been kinda coasting through doing very little to feel comfortable with myself because I think at a certain level I didn't actually believe I could do it. I was kind of dreading the warmer weather 'cause I didn't know what I was going to wear, but I took a leap of faith and got some skirts and stuff at a thrift shop and now after yesterday I feel like I have the confidence in myself to actually transition the way I want
I'm out here kiwimaxxing (having a kiwi as dessert before bedtime) hell yeah
kiwimaxxing
HELL YEAH
New Zealand people call themselves kiwis lol
Yeah, and? what did you think I was talking about??
Btw it's two kiwis now 😳
(real talk on top of being tasty I hear they're a good source of fiber which I am most definitely in need of)
They have fibre and digestives enzymes which are good for IBS I need to buy more kiwi extract capsules they really helped in the past.
Yessss kiwimaxx with me twin
okay so overdoing it and throwing up the first time I've drank more than a sip in 5 years isn't the end of the world, right? and in all likelihood my friend doesn't think less of me for it? would you all think less of someone in that situation?
I think I'll try and join AwakenMUD.
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Holy shit I'm still not out of the intro there is so much information
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I already forgot half of it
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Someone talked to me and I didn't know how to reply
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Wow, it's just like my life, so realistic
::: spoiler voice dysphoria Voice dysphoria has me all fucked up again.
Its weird to think about how foreign a concept this is to cis people, I've talked with a couple about it and they seem to genuinely just not understand the discomfort and pain at all. Like I get they aren't going to feel it but I expected it to be understandable on the level of say, bottom dysphoria. Although tbf I have not and probably will not talk about that with the cis.
But yea, its rough, idk :/ :::
I had a cis coworker who got misgendered on the phone all the time. Middle-aged church lady who sang in the choir and had a lovely alto/contratenor voice. She understood voice dysphoria just fine because she had to live it every day. Most cis people don't, or if they do, they don't talk about it. My coworker did. It really messed with her.
Meanwhile at that point I'd stopped getting misgendered on the phone for a long, long time. I don't know why. People operate entirely on vibes, and if they want to be shitty about it, they'll be shitty about it. Everyone else at my workplace just kind of rolled their eyes at her, but I felt the sadness in her voice when she put the phone down in my bones.
I don't like being cynical but sometimes I wonder if cis people primarily think being trans is about sex and thus can't concieve of any element of the trans experience that isn't about sex
Absolutely they do. A lot of cis people are only exposed to us through porn, so they view us through that lens.
Oh 100% a lot of them do. Its super frustrating, especially when I feel like I might be ace/acespec. These are the two most supportive people I have so I hope they don't just think its about sex :/
Went out dancing for the first time since surgery. Ive lost so much fitness and cardio 😩 I used to be able to do this from like 10 pm to 3 am and then go to after hours, but today Im sore all over
I have had such a weird week mentally. And just in general at least.
I probably shouldn't name them but I was a coder/wizard on several and an admin on a pretty popular MUD.
The best of days
That’s awesome! What was it like to be an admin/coder for one? Fun or stressful?
Heaps of fun and I learned a lot about how online communities and social interaction work and can go horribly wrong.
But it was a bit like seeing "how the sausage is made" so to speak. Once I had access to admin tools and stuff the magic and my ability immerse myself in the game mechanics went down drastically.
Luckily my main MUD was very RP heavy so there was still plenty to do outside of working on content and code.
French Netflix animated originals be like:
BeauxJacque Cheveauxman
This took me a while to get with the bit of French I know, just wanted to let you know someone got it
Had a hummingbird bird flew next to me twice, it's humming as it beat its wings was magical
Been feeling great putting together outfits lately, but my shoe game is so weak 😭 Wearing my flowy alternative summer diva outfit paired with Tims was not the look. Gotta get me some chunky bratz sandals. I still felt fantastic once the shoes came off though 🙂
I must admit. I have ... mommy issues ... and daddy issues.
I'm the chosen one yes, as the prophecies fortold. Duel wielding freudian fixations and partaker of 2 genders.
(Yes, I still consider myself gender fluid. But since gender is a practice and I'm not practicing femininity, my opinion on this doesn't yet count)
::: spoiler my morning Wake up again. Put on some music. Cry about how bad transphobia towards trans women is. Not cut out for this. Think about the last time everyone tried to encourage me to voice train. Cry. Think about how horrible and upsetting voice training is. More hopelessness at my situation. Wonder if I'm going to see my favorite coworker this weekend. I often do once a month but worry I might not. Think about how stupid that is. I just want to whine at her about how awful I feel. I actually have nothing good to talk to her about. I wish I could just be normal. Have something good to say. Cry more. Think about how annoying I must have been when I'd "reach out" and message people about my problems. Think about a project I'm working on. Just need to clean it up a bit. God I wish I could fall back to sleep. Think about how alone and broken I am. :::
Supposedly getting a job offer soon, they want me on but haven't figured out what they'll pay me. Something for the summer. Honestly hate it at my current job and anticipate hating it there too. Just hope they pay a bit better.
I'm reaching levels of degen hitherto unknown... Sapphic SFW audios
Somehow feels even more pathetic than the smutty stuff. Benefit is that I can listen to the F4F ones and just ignore... that, whereas there's really no way around it with the smut
::: spoiler well, day is now over Crying more. Hate my stupid life. :::
Anyway been looking at a lot of travel stuff, I want to soo badly. Not sure how that would actually work with being trans. Passports, meds, safety, idk. Its something I really want though. I do technically have savings if I wanted to figure something out
I want to try thrift-shopping clothes and making them goth, or just making stuff from scratch. I want to make some type of mesh/string for gloves/bracelets/garters or whatever that looks like thorny vines, no idea how to start on that, but I want to try thinking it up.
trying to make a string look like a thorny vine using knots right now, someone has to have made this before
lately i've been feeling like maybe it was an error to choose an ancient Mesopotamian war goddess as my patron Goddess (praise be to my Queen)
did we all pick up on Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte together and manifest this shit and now we're seeing what happens when a Goddess awakens and is super pissed off?
Oooh, I hope Hecate is next. I could do a lot more praxis if I had magic.
my partner awaits that day until then they are forced to accept Inanna's gifts that are given to all non-binary people
Better than Athena
she was still my first until i realized it was actually Ishtar/Inanna the whole time
the war nerd in me still likes Athena's whole deal but i couldn't help but submit before the concept of warrior goddess in full makeup and voluminous dancer's regalia cleaving through her foes effortlessly in time with music
A turtleneck might fix me
Okay I think I've pulled myself out of this funk. I'm at least in the process of it. The anxiety has largely subsided and I was able to pull myself together and do a night of self care, which really did wonders. I finally feel like I'm in my own skin again after exfoliating, shaving, and moisturizing. I feel soft and clean and smooth.
I need a backpack for work, the one they gave me is uncomfortable and bleh. But I want it to be something that can
Somehow finding that while keeping it to like $50 range is impossible
I would also like a cute Xenia plushie, but I cannot for the life of me find one
chasing the multi user dragon
My therapist did not know who Kafka is! I even went "Kafka? The Metamorphosis? Guy turns into a bug?" NOTHING
Tbf I've never read him but like I know the gist...
Also my hair stylist asked what exactly the difference between Catholics and Lutherans was which kinda stunlocked me. Like I know the answer(s) but I haven't had to articulate them in such a direct way since like high school
What was everyone's favorite MUD. I spent way way too long playing Achaea, it was genuinely formative for me
I played a few back in the day, but the one I remember most was I believe called Mirkwood. I was about to say it's been out of service for awhile, since it was gone when I've checked before, but... Seems like it's back?? I'm too consumed with awakemud at the moment but at some point maybe I'll check it out again.
Achaea was what I played a shit ton of in high school. It was great
It's so frustrating feeling like shit all the time because I genuinely believe this is the best it's going to get. And I can't even fucking enjoy it. Life is such bullshit.
best because of climate change/quality of living/politics*
Going to bed sad and feeling terrible again. again. I am so sick of this.
How it feels to conclude literally dozens of times every day that life is not worth living
Everything is such a god awful mess in my life right now (my fault + 100% deserved) in every aspect.
Also, I'll probably quit SSRIs for now. I have too many exams, and this headache + nausea combo is nasty.
Do not quit, it takes a few weeks to kick in. I started Effexor in nursing school, exams and preceptorship and codes. Yes it sucks, but its very worth it.
I'll try ...
YOU CAN DO IT!!!
I can do it .... yay ....
I just closed all the tabs on my phone browser like 5 minutes ago and it's actually giving me anxiety about the tabs that I lost. Why must we be like this?
You can find them in history under recently closed tabs (depends on browser I guess)
If I try that, I will have to be so disciplined about sorting them off into bookmarks instead of just opening them again and leaving them.
Edit: most of the tabs I kinda wish I had bookmarked are so old I can't find them in the tab history anyway. It seems to go by when they were opened, not when they were closed. Recently closed tabs only has the last 10.
It prob all depends right but gonna try joining a union soon for HVAC, has other professions too like plumbing, as an apprentice and I'm wondering how in do I need to be before I can start painting my nails again. Also looking forward to having money for nice vegan nail polish.
I am so very nearly someone who plays MUDs for someone who never has lmao. Really should check them out, I think they’d be very much my speed.
If you do try them out, hit me up and I’d be happy to do whatever I can to help get you started.
That is a kind offer, thank you :)
Had a dream where I did femme things from my culture. Like wearing sarees, and tying rakhi knots. It made me realise that even beyond just my immediate family, I'll never participate in my own culture due to my extended family being ultraconservative.
You might think that I could do all that stuff on my own, but a huge portion Indian femme activities are highly social affairs. You're supposed to do it with your mom, 4 aunties, grandmas, random ladies you never met before, the neighbour is also involved for some reason.
Of course, I could still like wear traditional femme dresses, but I feel so traumatised about it. I couldn't stop thinking about all the things. In my dream I felt free and happy. No repression. But it wasn't real.
I wish everything was different and instead of being miserable and hopeless I was happy.
I was going to make a list but it is not worth it. Its everything.
I don't know what I can even do
Everyone else gets to be happy and live a good life while I rot away to nothing. Rip me for getting hit by some stupid cosmic curse or something.
::: spoiler spoiler good lord i just hope I die already. I am so sick of feeling like shit and suffering all day every day. Nothing has gotten better. I am SO sick of being trans. fuck my life. i literally just need this shit to wrap up. im so fucking done. :::
:cuddle: Thank you sodium. It's rough.
hugs
Breaks my heart to see you feeling down and I wish there was more I could do to help you feel better
Kinda sad that the only text games I've ever played are smutty and single player.
I never got into gaming as a hobby. Picking up reading was the thing for me (yes, I'm reading another web novel now)
I think undertale and delta rune are fairly text/story heavy if you're looking for something? Not fully text but still.
I mean i played those, and some visual novels as well. I might have been exaggerating a little (I forgot) when I implied I literally never llayed any other type of game.
I still played way more smut games
I'm starting to see the beauty in having pouches especially when organizing things in my bag now, it just makes pulling things out so much easier
Dude being drunk is sick. I should be like this all the time. Who needs inhibitions? I'm so much better this way. Plus it dulls the pain of maybe being in love with my best friend
Hair care always pmo because it always feels a little tangled or not the perfect texture or just off in general. Like I washed it last night and it was perfectly combed and then I brushed it this morning but running my fingers through it now there's a bunch of little places its snagging. FML
Is your hair straight? If you have wavy or curly hair you just can't be combing your hair too much. Also, avoid sleeping with your hair wet and try to put it up while you sleep, like with your hands, spread them up and away from your head. If you can afford to one of those satin hat things to tuck your hair in it, get one, it makes quite a difference.
Yes, I do. Ooh okay I'll give that a try, I wondered if I was supposed to put it up or something but that seemed uncomfortable.
Like, my hair has loose spiral curls, it usually looks better after I wake up and style (I only use my hands). If your hair is straight, brush it after waking up. If it starts getting frizz you need to use some kind of cream to brush it.
Don't worry too much about learning all this at once, just try out stuff and see what works for you. Oh yeah, and get you hair trimmed once in a while, I know you're letting it grow but even then, you have to trim it.
I try to brush it out when I get up but sadly it doesn't always happen :/ curls look great, heard they're a pain though.
I actually just cut a bunch of the ends off the other day, would be better to actually go somewhere but I'm worried they'll take too much off. When I'm able to go somewhere I know is supportive I will though.
Curls just need a different type of care, I got used to mine so it's easy now. And I only wash 2 or 3 times a week.
You need to learn how to take care of your hair, everyone is different. You can get some advice and look some info on the internet. And get some better quality products if you can, take care of yourself, you deserve it.
You ever notice how there were a couple measures passed to curb insider trading by members of congress and then, just a few months later, polymarket becomes a dominant force in our society?
Aparantly my municipality is doing experimental mental health interviews, and I participated in one. It was surprisingly nice. Kinda like a low stakes therapy session? With 2 practitioners at once.
Best part? Since it's in the experimental stage it's free. Thank the heavens! I have 4 bucks in my account right now.
Random meme time to lighten the mood (I say fully aware of the content warning I had to put
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Mother Mother - Arms Tonite
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Things are generally going well, minus a death in the family of a great cousin that's sitting oddly death, religious cult, and existentialism, more than usual
::: spoiler spoiler So my great cousin died a week ago of both cancer and heart issues in her mid 60s, which hits odd since she was unhealthy when she was young but turned into a health guru, but sadly religious zealot sort as she got older. She was also in some kind of super strict religious cult the past 20yrs or so, RL version of 'the church down the road with a mere 6 people, those are heretics, we are the true 4!' like half the punchline to the man traveling in the Andes with his llama joke, her friend/handler at the cult handled all her finances etc for about that time and kept family away from her. All her money etc went to them.
Now the parts that get me, so she was in hospice and the cult members didn't visit her once, my aunt tried to visit her but found her totally disoriented and confused, she didn't realize that was due to the heavy medication. A bit later dad and I go to offer some support and the nursing staff at hospice spill the beans that minus my aunt no one else had visited her, like at all. All she did for that 'church' and they did nothing, cult they are, my dad and I are aware to that. I guess we came in before medication because she was at a full AO4 which was startling based on my aunt's description, idk what to say whatsoever, and my dad just spoke about some random health troubles of his own, not really having a good topic of conversation neither and being in the same boat. She was weak but was able to tell us what happened, apparently a cancer from her 20s returned.
Then due to work scheduling etc no one was able to visit again, and sure enough she died. Only visited twice and that just got me. Her funeral is coming up and the whole thing like bothers me, we weren't close whatsoever and she only had some contact with my uncle and aunt though mostly they'd only fight about her being in her cult vs my uncle being a deist and then her only conversation with my aunt was trying to get her to join the cult. The funeral is coming up idk what to expect.
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ah, to go back and experience Left Hand Of Darkness for the first time again. Knowing absolutely nothing about it, and having the story call you out in strong bolded letters : this is for you. This story is actually about you
Fuckin' right?!?! I love that book. Easily my favorite. It's so good!!
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I love my job. Its the only thing keeping me going right now. The promise of another tomorrow, a tomorrow where I can afford to eat food and buy nice things for myself. But the rest of my life outside of work? Real hit or miss. Pretty sure the girl I'm kinda sorta seeing thinks I'm a wackjob now and doesn't know how to interact with me. And. Idk. I'm tired of being vulnerable. I'm tired of people seeing me for who I am. Cause that person? That person is fucking crazy. I was talking about my processes, and like, there's dissociative stuff, and I dont think she understands it at all (I mean fuck I dont even understand it) and I'm pretty sure I freaked her out and I just, idk. I just, I'm tired of being vulnerable. Im tired of being around people. I want to be held, I want to be in community, but fuck, I just want everyone to go away. There is no unconditional love or support in this world. And I'm tired of it. I'm tired of this world. I'm tired. I just. I'm tired. I want this all to end.
Lol I made a comment saying that I had no internal repression anymore. Now I have a comment about a dream where I was happy and free and didn't feel repressed.
This clearly shows that I'm actually a CIA agent who can't keep her stories straight.
(It actually means I still don't understand myself well enough)
god I love fantasizing, this shit is great when its something I want.
Wanna get some earings but I couldn't hide the piercings from my parents. I was thinking some sort of cyan colored spheres (I want cyan to be my color pallette) and I'd match them up with cyan nail polish.
Alas, wearing a ripped dirty grey boymodding depression jacket is my destiny.
muds sound really fun! never heard of them at all before and now i really want to try playing so thanks for sharing :o
Thinking of not going to my group anymore. Really disappointing because I wanted this to work out and be good. But idk. I don't feel like I'm getting what I wanted out of it, I don't feel comfortable talking about my issues either.
I don't know what I'm looking for because I do still feel like I want to go and whatever, but I don't know.
Life is often disappointing.
Channeling my /r/smutttt skills with a TRUE story from last night
I'm so cooked dude this girl has a boyfriend... who I'm meeting tonight!!!
It wasn't a fluke the first time. I got horny again earlier today. Have I always had this capability??
The power of written smut is truly incredible that it jostles me from my turboace equilibrium
I used to play one called CLOK that has skill progression tied to skill use, a deep focus on crafting, and a unique history/lore in a fascinating gaslamp/steampunk/wild west setting. It's now got a sister MUD from the same developer, COGG, that's even more focused on player-driven mechanics. They're not really listed on most MUD sites, so I try to tell people about them when I can, because I've never seen another MUD like it.
(Math) education is so fundamentally unfixable under capitalism fucking hell
I'd be recovered from my cough if it weren't for me being unable to sleep more than 3 hours a day for the past week
::: spoiler suicide thoughts Life is just so miserable and hopeless. I have no hope of feeling happy or comfortable or satisfied with this wretched body. Fuck my life. It is so, so depressing to have my life ruined this way. I wish I could cry but tears won't even come.
there's no point in reaching out to anyone. Last time I did she tried giving me hope and it didn't work. Nothing ever works. Not permanently. Life just sucks. Horrible.
I was thinking and I was like oh, I maybe I should think about more positive things of how life could be. It's just escapism. Just deludjng myself with shit that won't happen. I can't work any harder to get there. I can't do enough. I don't even think all the effort in the world could fix it but I literally can't even put that in.
I just need to kill myself. Get out of this fucking life. I hate it every day. Suffering every day. Why the fuck :::
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There is nothing wrong with escapism. Better be deluded than constantly miserable.
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::: spoiler spoiler Wish it would fucking work today :::
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I also wish it
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::: spoiler spoiler I hate it. I hate living. I hate being trans. This is the most miserable, awful experience. It hurts so badly. I just have to die. Why can't I be okay. :::
::: spoiler spoiler Why am I a fat autistic man who wants to be a woman more then anything in the world
Holy shit KMS :::
Put on some of my new clothes, put together a look.
My mom says I look like a warrior(?).
I'm wearing cargo pants with chains, a moon shape necklace, a t-shirt, my all-star boots and spiderweb patterned gloves. WTF do you mean with warrior??? Do I look like some edgy RPG character?
I played these before Ultima Online came out. I was baffled that nobody seemed to actually play the game but just seemed to want to talk about bullshit. What you were "supposed" to do was make it to level 50 and then you would be a wizard and could create your own game content. I didn't want to do that! I just wanted to play video games! In a new and exciting way, over telnet on this new internet thing. The loss of the text-based internet was something we'll never get over. The worldwide web and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
:3c
It sinks closer and closer now with my chance at actually working hvac how damn expensive it all is, okay just on parts even not using OEM having shit be in the hundreds minimum is
and some of the quotes I'm seeing for installing and designing shit is actual money. I got an udemy account thanks to my library and been enrolling in courses there on design and engineering for one day just being able to make something.
So I’m looking at options for movies to show on blorp this Friday, and there’s one im considering called… F.A.R.T. The Movie
I love showing slop, but I’m worried this might be 2 sloppy 4 blorp. Or would it? Someone please talk me out of (or into) showing this steaming hot garbage pile of a movie.
"My name is MUD", I may not be Trans, but I am very interested in MUDs. How is it I never found my way into a MUD before? I have no idea. Shadowrun always sounded cool, so I think I'll check out AwakeMUD.
Nice!! Hit me up on there when you get past the tutorial!
I'm also on there, hit me up too if you want.
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The golden age of MUDs passed when Ultima Online came out. They they were graphical and nobody wanted text adventures any more. As outdated as Pac-Man.
MUDs are cool again actually and everyone should play them with me
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Given the main topic: anyone here play the Wheel of Time MUD? We could start a hella cool hexbear based clan.
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