I am so glad I went to college and did my academic writing before AI because I keep hearing so many stories about competent writers who 100% wrote things getting their writing flagged as AI generated. I just could not play those games it would drive me crazy.
Yeah the low dose probably wasn't it for you because you're fighting your existing hormones, which I'm not doing. So hopefully, yes, I think there will be more at the higher dose.
Hey what's up. I started in my 30s on a pretty low dose (no ovaries though so more effective) and it took about three years for the changes to really add up. Give it some time?
I still have something like this. The one with the big breadboard on it and all the stuff around the edges. I don't know why I keep it it's just such a great tool I don't want to get rid of it because I know I'll never find it again.
@ashthestampede.bsky.social If I told players to bring a ballcap to wear backwards as an official courtroom head covering for "Fellas is it Gay...?" that would be on theme right?
A white man with brown hair and a slight curl of hair on his forehead. He has black glasses with white trim. He is wearing a black tshirt with some kind of light blue print on it, the head of a dragon probably.
It's Trans Day of Visibility and here is my face. Look at me. I am a person. I deserve to live my life the way I've chosen, as who I am. I am also 44 years old. This makes me a trans elder. I am still alive. I stand as proof that you can also make it to 44 as a trans person. And longer.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Fucking Ben Hur tho.
Today I learned that I am definitely not going to sit in front of my computer all day for talks even if it's a subject that interests and enriches me. I probably would have watched more talks if I picked up my knitting but oh well. The ones I watched were great!
Ah crap. Big hugs.
Today a friend said "Fantasies of escape are one way to survive."
I wanted to cry.
Gambling, like alcohol, is an easy addiction to fall prey to. I don't know how this bootstraps blamey country is going to deal with the public health ramifications of on tap gambling 24/7. Probably badly. I feel bad for all those people.
Wait isn't this also the plot of Killer Tomatoes?
I wonder if this was a coy callback to Babylon 5.
youtu.be/wgi-i1xzNQw?...
I'm late to a lot of Horror movies because I don't like watching Horror alone and it's hard to find a person who likes the genre AND wants to watch the movie I want to watch.
Which is to say, I think I'm going to have to watch Sinners alone.
Really interested in Seven Part Pact but dubious of my ability to get the requisite number of adults to make the required time commitment to actually play it. In any case it looks rad.
Trans people are so fucked. We have to get out of here. Why can't other countries see that yet?
This might be a little tangential but I always found inspiration in Letters to a Young Poet.
I can't physically bike that hour long drive to everywhere. I can't bike to pick up my teen daughter. I have no idea how I would safely bike anywhere in my town on busy roads without bike lanes. The idea is terrifying. If I lived in Europe I'd be biking everywhere though.
Did that. Never again.
My mom still secretly wishes I was a Christian who went to church. She accepts that she has lost that battle but 🤷
I also think about the nose jobs for 16 year olds. Obviously many of them "want them" but what kind of fucked up pressure are they under? What kind of body negativity have they grown up with? In some cases what kind of anti-Semitism? I have a lot of mixed feelings about kids getting plastic surgery.
That's fair. My mother also expressed many ideas about ownership of my body that did damage to me and I am still processing. I did my best not to do that to my own children.
I got in a big fight with my ex because he wanted to get my kids ears pierced when they were babies and I was like "No. That is for them to decide they want done to their bodies."
My daughter has been apologizing to me for being straight as a joke and I'm like "Girl, apologize to yourself. You're the one who has to deal with men."
I mean if my six year old needed their appendix out but didn't want surgery I'd force them to get it so they didn't die because they are too young to understand the consequences of refusal. Is that what you're talking about?
It's been a lovely day hanging out with my daughter. Just idyllic.
What's that? We're at war with Iran?
Fuck.
Depends on whether it's "Come to My Window" or "Late September Dogs"
What about "I'm better than you, and you are a goddamn weight around my neck that I have to drag kicking and screaming into a better world?"
Oh interesting!