Eldritch Mlems

I'm around 9 months of feminizing HRT, and maintain the opinion that it is one of the best decisions I've made. I know that a lot of long term changes won't kick in until the 2-3 year mark at least, and it can take 5 or more years before strength is comparable to a cis woman.

Yesterday I took some milestone pictures, and it was the first time I've seen my back since before starting hormones. Holy dysphoria Batman. Genuinely the most acute dysphoria I've experienced. I have had a day to cry, nap, and evaluate, and am back to trusting the process, but damn I want these lats to go away.

I powerlifted in my past life as a way to try and run away from the woman I wanted to become, but haven't done any upper body strength training in over 3 years. I'd have great genes if I wasn't trans ;-;

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Looking back at my past campaigns, the ones I've had the most fun running (and which were arguably the most successful) were the ones where the PCs could take a fairly sandboxy approach to exploring a wilderness region. I'd like to develop a new campaign like this again one day, but what I could use for such a campaign is an interesting premise. I am ruling the following premises out:

• Adventurers plundering old ruins for profit: Too trite.
• Adenturer-archeologists uncovering the deep history of the region for academic bragging rights: A lot of fun, but I have done this before.
• Making the region "safe" for colonization and settlement: While the whole concept of "colonizing the frontier" provides plenty of interesting background drama for a campaign that I don't mind exploring, it is too ethically dubious to make the PCs take the side of the colonizers by default.

So, what other premises can you come up with that provide a justification for player characters to hang around a frontier region and explore it?

Paxiti

Original art by Ayvie

Description: The title is "The two trans moods". In the left half of the image, a blushing catgirl is doing the 👉️👈️ gesture. She is surrounded by four captions: "I just wanna exist I guess..."; "I wish I passed"; "UwU" and "Don't look at me..." In the right half of the picture is a trans woman shooting a machine gun and stripes in the trans pride colors on her face. She is surrounded by four different captions: "We exist!"; "Trans liberation now!"; "Trans rights" and "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

I first put the red bow on Ollie, the brown smiley one on the right. Bruno was not having it, and endlessly wrestled him and tried to pull it off. I finally took it off and put it on Bruno, expecting him to try and take it off himself.

Nope, Bruno was just jealous and wanted the bow for himself. He has been wearing it for three days straight. Ollie isn't bothered. Everyone is happy!

Me and my also transfem partner got married last week on the fourth anniversary of our relationship. I haven't changed my name yet, but I plan to take her last name at the same time as I change my first name, and if I do it soon enough it's cheaper and easier. So now I'm on a clock to get ready for that. Wish me luck!

Its hard to believe I started this community over 2 years ago now. I really love that its been able to provide a protected space for transfeminine and questioning people to experience, share, celebrate and commiserate.

I just couldn't be more happy that I've been able to help provide that to other trans and gender variant people out there. I lost my mom 3 years ago, not too long before I started this community. Christmas is a tough time of year for me, because of that and the complexities of being queer and what that means for family and friends.

I'm glad that people think to come here to vent about what theyre going through right now and support each other through it. That is exactly the kind of environment I wanted when I started this space. If the blahaj.zone transfem space has helped you in any way over the years then I think it has served its purpose well.

As always a huge thank you to Ada and Kaity for hosting, moderating and administrating the blahaj.zone lemmy instance. Theres no way something like this community would've been possible without all the work they've done.

I wish everyone a lovely holiday season and look forward to all the conversations we will have in the new year 😊💕

You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.

Sending holiday love and cheer out to everyone else with their chosen family or alone right now!

So I started HRT 6 weeks and it seems like, that the amount I have to sleephas skyrocketed since then. Before it was impossible for me to sleep more than 9-10h, now if nothing wakes me up I easily sleep 11-12h. If I wake up after 9h of sleep I feel like I barely slept at all and I get quite tired over the day. I know that this is an expected side effect of HRT (or puberty in general) but I did not expect for this to happen this fast. When did you started to get so tired?

I just want to wish everyone an acceptable wintervus and send hugs to those beeing deadnamed and misgendered by their families. I know this can be a difficult season for many of you, but freedom is just a few days away.

Hang in there!