@Nerts Hooray! Happy Birth!
Ramble
@Motodrachen The ability to be completely free of constraints, and act as the person I know I have always been.
Other people who share in the identity help a lot. I have never found a group of people I have felt such an immense emotional connection to. I have always wanted to belong somewhere and now I feel like I do.
re: Ramble
@Pliio Good answer. Damn, damn good answer.
Plugging an artist friend BC reasons <NSFW>
https://durgdoodles.tumblr.com/
He draws stuff people here will find... of interest.
re: Mental health (-)
@Archantael@snouts.online I've had to pound that one into my Wife's head with a sledgehammer for Years.
It's a sneaky narcissism that imagines your fanbase as a static group of individuals who obsess over every detail of your work for Flaws, and have been following you from when you started to Now.
And if you take off, and fifty more people follow you, you have fifty new fans who followed you, but probably didn't dig thru your backlog.
Ding. Whole new circle of reposts.
@Mycroft I know, it's just that I'm the "Don't talk about it just Do It" type and it's clashing with a holdover of toxic masculinity, that kinda insecurity that makes you feel the need to be Extra about stuff.
@Pliio Oooh. what do you like most about it?
re: -
@Kaffe@chitter.xyz Don't havta have a Drive to. Just gotta Do it, little one. After it starts working you'll have the drive to Keep doing it.
And besides the Toe Surgery bit, I've found that the major improvements my trans friends make in their lives IS the above, Because Girl. You'll feel a lot better about yourself and generally Sexier if you take better care of yourself than say...
Gamer Bros do.
Seriously, maybe they wouldn't be such awful gremlins if they got really into personal grooming.
Sometimes I feel like I'm not queer enough to belong here.
And then I remember that I found myself pausing at Furpoc's bathrooms, unsure if I should use the men's room, considering I was Kerithe at the time, and wearing a dress and leggings.
She opted for the mens room anyways because she'd been using it all con and every previous con, why stop Now?
re: -
@Kaffe@chitter.xyz So, Shower, wash your face, brush your teeth, learn why industrial food is making your stomach hurt all the time, wear more comfortable shoes and learn how to kill ingrown toenails yourself with a dremel cutoff wheel.
As for the itching: After you shave, scrub with a kitchen sponge and soap or conditioner. Dry off and moisturize with a good lotion.
Look, being a girl is Hard.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot