Lurker > ElatedVenusaur

Yeah, because Whole Foods no longer pays a super competitive wage (at least in CT terms) and the company combines transparent disregard with our safety with a completely unearned sense of its own moral superiority.

Nothing will fundamentally change.
Promise made, promise kept!

DespondentDeity posted...

Thats actually awesome to hear that I wont really be missing out by only having access to laser. Im sure its quite painful but all forms of discomfort are temporary ladies, so we will endure.

Mmm, and then my face will be smooth forever!

Yes, it takes many sessions over a sizeable period of time to kill off masculine facial hair.
And I see girls referring to their appointments as my weekly torture session, LOL.
How we suffer to be beautiful, friends!

Yo, just ignore the lame troll maybe? You should be paying attention to me and asking me questions!
Im going to bed, Ill answer in the morning if anyone cares.

Surprisingly non-terrible hire. Good job Jacksonville, as long as theyve got a good GMI, ohumm, ok, I am just receiving word that their GM is literally Trent Baalke. Well, one of two isstill a failing grade, huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPExpmtdMEw
An oldie but a goodie.

AngelicRadiance posted...

I'm already doing this and not trans

Hey, there are lots of ways to be miserable. We live in a miserable country, even! But having a male level of T was really bad for my brain. That, evidently, was the root of my misery.

googs19 posted...

Well, I'm about there now and working in the "find a therapist" step. Now to see if I can do it without losing my wife and kids!

Ok, so, a few things:
1) Congrats! It took me almost 33 years to get to that point, and then COVID blew everything up and it took forever to get from "admitting I was trans" to "seeing trans dude therapist". So, uhh, I know that's hard

2) I never even managed to go on a date once: I had zero confidence and deeply suppressed jealousy of women (I realized that that's what it was after I had come out to myself and was watching the last half season of BoJack Horseman with a friend. She runs and likes to wear skirts: her legs are and have always been lovely, and I realized I didn't *just* want to stroke them [I never would, for the record: she was never into me like that and is straight as a board], but to have legs like hers!). Combine that with the usual wooziness of being attracted to a woman, and, well...I'm not surprised it never even started working, LOL.

3) But yeah, wife and kids is a lot to navigate. Unfortunately, it's perfectly plausible your wife will leave you, even if she accepts you. It's also possible she'll still be into you. But as I explained above, I can't give you advice on that. Here are a pair of trans women on Twitter who had wives and/or kids, with stories that went various ways:
https://twitter.com/emmy_zje
https://twitter.com/vyrthandi
Certainly I've found following them both helpful myself.

BlingBling22947 posted...

What's the last thing you ate?

Hmm, reginetti pasta with some capocollo, capers, garlic, onions, spinach, kale, and peanuts in a spicyish coconut milk sauce.
DarkRoast posted...

Are you okay with the fact that Blastoise is better than Venusaur

We both know this is fake news. I thought you were better than this.
googs19 posted...

How can I be a happy trans girl like you?

Well, first you've gotta be trans. Unfortunately, that means being horribly miserable. Then you have to admit you're trans, then you have to go see a therapist about it who doesn't suck, go see a doctor about it who doesn't suck for hormones, and find people who don't suck to support you in the process of completely overhauling your identity. Once you're on the hormones, you'll start feeling better and your body will improve. It will improve quickly in some ways, slowly in others, and in ways you didn't anticipate. No two transitions are alike, everyone has their own unique story.
My story includes a ton of super supportive people, especially women.

MC_BatCommander posted...

Read any good books lately?

I've read quite a few, actually. The Disordered Cosmos: On Spacetime, Dark Matter, and Dreams Deferred, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (first thing I read after coming out), Norwegian Wood, and Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization. All great. In fact, I was up past 3 AM last night pondering the parallels between the past-obsessed Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians who seemed to lose faith in the future and our own society, with its increasing unwillingness to grapple with current and future challenges.

Also, here's something I've been working on, or, rather, what I've been working on with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZfGPp-Ves&t=137s
Z here is a sound sorceress and my informal teacher. This video is ear training meant to familiarize you with how different kinds of voices sound like, and sounds maybe you want to avoid.
All speech in this video is produced via her freaky flexible vocal tract.
Full disclosure: I am subscribed to her Patreon.

FortuneCookie posted...

That is awesome.

Not the last part. Everything preceding it.

Yeah, there's a lot that sucks about being trans. Finding a dermatologist who accepts Medicaid AND does electrolysis, for instance estheticians more frequently do stuff like that, but they don't take health insurance and electrolysis on masculine facial hair especially is expensive.

But those difficulties are without, not within.

Cocytus posted...

Is it kind of like Carl Sagan's Cosmos?

Not having read Cosmos, I cannot say, but Dr. Prescod-Weinstein does talk a lot about physics. She also has a lot to say about how we do science, who gets to be a scientist and who gets credit and why, about how she feels the field comes up short and how it could be better, peppered with lots of historical and autobiographical anecdotes.
She's the first Black-Jewish woman (well, technically, she's agender) to be an astrophysicist, and the first one to also teach Women's Studies in addition. As such, it's also a work of sociology studying the field of physics.
One comparison she made was between the quantum physics of electrons and gender expression, and her dismay that many scientists acknowledge(or even study) the complexity of the former but refuse to even consider the latter.

My recent reads:
The Disordered Cosmos: Spacetime, Dark Matter, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Babylon: Mesopotamia and The Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

I am glad to say I can recommend all of them, but I think I most in love with The Disordered Cosmos.

Femputer posted...

Would Shrek beat Sully's all time scare record if he worked at monsters Inc

Shrek seems pretty talented in the scaring department, to be honest. I think it would be close, but I gotta go with Sully here.
bsp77 posted...

Serious question. Did your parents take it well? I hope so, as I am a father and my support my daughters no matter what they choose

My parents took it fantastically. Thankfully, I already had a non-binary person in my friend group, so they had already been exposed, so it wasn't so hard to explain. Really, I must say, my experience in coming out has been overwhelmingly positive. Unfortunately, most trans people aren't even half as fortunate.

AngelicRadiance posted...

Are you playing Pokemon Legends?

Nah. I'm a little intrigued, but I'm spending a lot of money on other things right now.
catboy2 posted...

is Venusaur more a female or a male pokemon in your opinion?

Fully 87.5% of all Venusaur are male, while only 12.5% are female. I am a rare bird all right!
MabusIncarnate posted...

Are you elated?

More contended and hopeful.
Mr_Karate_II posted...

Favorite 80s song
Favorite 80s movie
Favorite Horror movie

I don't really have an answer for these. Except '80s song: maybe Ashes to Ashes by Bowie.
AldousIsDead posted...

Would you rather be a vampire, or werewolf?

Depends on what kind of vampire and what kind of werewolf, really. Each has quite a few different potential rule sets.
greyfox747 posted...

Are you happier than me

I don't know, you seem to be doing great.

Well, not anything. I reserve the right to not answer any question for any reason. Be kind, be respectful, be thoughtful, and mindful.

Gwynevere posted...

God damn, Granny out here throwing haymakers

You get in bed with Virginia, you best not miss.

Congrats my dude!
My stupid facial hair makes me super clockable and I can't wait to get it fried clean off.

Heh, I just spent $153 in Ulta on Monday and learned how to use that stuff from a former coworker. It's cool they're trying to center BlPOC companies, but I bet they would work feverishly to crush a unionizing attempt by their workers.

One of my favorite bits about this is from (the otherwise mediocre) Shadows of New York, where you play Julia, a Lasombra vampire.
She needs to have her girlfriend apply her makeup, because she doesn't have a reflection(in Vampire: The Masquerade, this is a Lasombra-only bane: other vampires have reflections) and thus can't do it herself. And she needs to trust her girlfriend to do a good job because she has no way of knowing what her face looks like.
Really, the only really good part of that game (IMO) is its exploration of Julia's fraught relationship with her human girlfriend, and their mutual struggle to stay connected to one another even though they live in completely different realities.

I guess how bad it is depends on what kind of rules your vampirism adheres by. Like, in VtM, you don't have to kill for your blood: in fact, it's considered very bad to drain a human dry, but vampires in other universes have no choice but to kill.
Of course, in VtM, your unlife is going to be a constant mess of centuries-old political intrigues in which you are likely doomed to be nothing but a pawn, which seems like a total drag. I think I would be sorely tempted to catch a sunrise.

greyfox747 posted...

Thats awesome.

Ive never been one for makeup, really. I dont think Ive worn anything more than nail polish every since I transitioned, and I dont even wear that that much. Its just never been my style, and I know that I would poke my eyes out if I tried

I love the way I look, even with the subtle natural makeup, and I can't stop gushing to other women about their eye makeup, so I think it's definitely me lol.
I love painting my nails too! Currently my fingernails are lavendar and my toenails are metallic green. Since coming out, I've had my fingernails continuously painted, and I have an ever-growing collection of nail polish.

I may have a problem.

I'm happy as hell, because a former coworker of mine took me to Ulta yesterday, where I bought a ton of makeup with her guidance (I felt a natural look was a good place to start. Total damages: $153. Setting spray, tinted moisturizer, bronzer, blush, eye shadow, eye liner, clear mascara, etc.) and then she gave me a primer on how to apply it. I have to train my eyes to cooperate insofar as getting them to close one at a time and habituate them to objects near them, but it feels really good to have my own makeup and know what to do with it.

So TC, do you wear makeup, and if so, what kinds of looks do you favor? Any recommendations?
I plan on corralling other lady friends to give me demos, so I can absorb their culture and uniqueness into my own. Resistance is futile.

Human rights.

"I love the free market!"
*free market exerts upward pressure on wages*
"Wait, no, not like that! This is socialism!"

RenescoStCewl posted...

Shovel knight wasn't any of those.

If anything, it felt a bit like Mega Man to me, oddly enough.

HairyQueen posted...

I've posted 7 people so far, and 4 are POC. And 6 out of the 13 before Cece have been POC. I'm all for broadening the scope, but that's not the most accurate IMO.

I am factually wrong, I'm sorry. Not sure where I was coming from with that, honestly.

https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1488687868306505731
This is a great Twitter thread.

And an article more specifically relating to Whoopi Goldberg's comments:
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/61f992de9277230021ae11f7/are-jews-a-race-whoopi-goldberg-holocaust/

Really, it sounds like her remarks come from a place of ignorance and confusion as to how to define Jewish people. Rabbi Rutenberg defines Jews as a "people" and Mr. Rosenburg as a "family": they are bound by common traditions and beliefs that cross racial and cultural boundaries in a way that confounds typical modern categories like race, nation, etc.

I just would love to say this topic is lovely. But it's....really white lol. It's okay, I'm guilty of it too, so let's get some color up in here! Because this is a list of 7(well, 6 new ones: we've already been introduced to Marsha P. Johnson), I'll post them one-by-one, but if you want to skip ahead, I'm including the link to all these women.
https://www.queerevents.ca/queer-corner/blog/trans-poc-activists
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/9/AAIAInAAC4ID.jpg
Cece McDonald is a prison reform activist. She was charged with manslaughter after stabbing a man who assaulted her and a friend to death. Facing a possible 20 year sentence, McDonald took a plea deal, and was housed in men's prisons, where she was repeatedly assaulted, abused and placed into solitary confinement. She was released after serving 19 months in prison, and a documentary (Free Cece) was made about her harrowing experience with our broken criminal justice system.

Connecticut is full of brewers, and both Two Roads and Thimble Island have extensive collections of sours (Thimble calls theirs The Sour Siren series: the beers are all named after women and have drawings on the can of them enjoying or holding whatever fruit is featured. Theyre all drawn by the same woman.)
They both also have a full suite of beers. Thimble makes an excellent ale (their flagship was an ale), pilsner, and several porters and stouts. Two Roads is more IPA focused, but makes a nice Hefeweizen too.

Theyre just the two most prominent brewers in this corner of Connecticut. Therere literally dozens more.

It's a shame, because Rotom is a super cool concept.

Who have you recruited so far?
Because you definitely want to have Lysithea, at least. She gets a shared paralogue with Ferdinand and has really great support convos with Edelgard, in addition to being a walking nuke. Mercedes and Constance also have one Crimson Flower-exclusive support each. You may also want to recruit Leonie: she shares a paralogue with Linhardt.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/4/AAIAInAAC32o.jpg
Christine Jorgensen served in the US Army in WW2, went to school, learned that bottom surgery was a thing, and went to Denmark to get it started. She is one of the first recorded Americans to have received the triple triad of trans female bottom surgery: orchiectomy, penectomy, and vaginoplasty. She reported eagerly to friends via letter: "As you can see by the enclosed photos, taken just before the operation, I have changed a great deal. But it is the other changes that are so much more important. Remember the shy, miserable person who left America? Well, that person is no more and, as you can see, I'm in marvelous spirits."* Her bravery in undergoing what were then extremely novel procedures helped push those operations forward.
She also spoke openly about her experiences, as bedeviled by transphobia as she was (for example, she was unable to legally marry her would-be husband Howard Knox, because her birth certificate listed her as male, and Howard lost his job as soon as the engagement was announced). She was a nightclub entertainer until she died of cancer in 1989.

*Ever since I started hormones, people have been telling *me* I looked happier, even sometimes people I wasn't out to yet. And I certainly feel happier, so this little excerpt spoke to me. Nothing feels better than becoming the person you were always meant to be.

Adventure Time has a happy ending, though it's not perfectly happy.
Steven Universe ends a little too neatly, but The Movie and Future, whatever their flaws, complicate the picture beautifully. The fact that Steven, specifically, doesn't know what to do with himself now that no one needs his help anymore is a fantastic concept, and the fact that they actually confront how goddamned traumatized he was/would realistically be by everything that happened makes it pretty unique.

I'm poor as hell and don't have many documents at all ever, so I file ASAP and get a fat refund even though I've minimized my withholding.
It's like the IRS looks at my finances, makes a concerned face, and hands me a fat stack of bills, "Please just take it, sweetie. You need it."

Man, all they debate about in the US is whether to decrease pensions (usually via subtle accounting tricks rather than an outright reduction).

Handsome Jimmy couldn't get it up when it counted.

AsucaHayashi posted...

still don't get why janet took all the heat for it as if she had any control over him ripping off her clothes..

This sort of thing is always blamed on the woman.

Women's razors are advertised as much, if not more, than men's razors.
And the subtext is clear: smooth = sexy. And sexy is good, you can complete the other side of that equation, I trust?

KINDERFELD posted...

https://nypost.com/2022/01/30/poll-biden-should-consider-all-choices-for-supreme-court/amp/

Seems most aren't for the "nominate a black woman" thing.

Its weird how worked up you are about this.

Im so happy for you!
Im definitely going to have to do that. Its supposed to be pretty straightforward in CT.

I would either be a refugee or die. I'm not cut out for fighting, and I'm part of one of the most marginalized groups in society.
So, probably die.

greyfox747 posted...

simp

You know it.
I doubt I can even post it, but check Kim's Twitter.
https://twitter.com/kimpetras
She going OFF. Too profane for me to link directly lol.

greyfox747 posted...

wow, a topic all about me

I def appreciate you girl. And @gunplagirl .

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/6/AAIAInAAC3aE.jpg
https://twitter.com/pwcdanica
Danica Roem was the first trans woman elected to Virginia House of Delegates. She represents HD13, and she initially ran against 13-term incumbent Bob Marshall in 2017, who proudly described himself as a "chief homophobe" and engaged in misogynistic and transphobic attacks on Del. Roem, but ultimately lost. Roem has held the seat ever since, and has advocated for LGBTQ+ rights and causes in the House of Delegates, as well as the rights and advancement of women, racial and ethnic minorities, and workers.

Orcas are terrifying monsters and I'm really glad we don't live in the ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZfGPp-Ves
I mentioned Z before, but this is an excellent example of her talents. And also how she teaches. This video is specifically designed to help you, the viewer, to differentiate between pitch and resonance so that you can better judge your own efforts in modulating your voice, however it is you're doing it.
Hint: pitch is secondary.

Yup, just sipping tea and watching the snow pile up. I would call out if I had to go in.

Eel is great. The few times I had torched toro it was to die for.
I'm not picky when it comes to the seafood (no une, no shrimp, everything else is great), just the veggies: no cucumbers or asparagus please.