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In a few words, what's your ideal gender presentation?

"You are not beholden to anyone’s vision of the future, including your own. Past You may have genuinely desired a specific future, but Past You is a memory and Future You is a stranger, and you do not have to listen to memories if you don’t want to. (Corollary: you are allowed to /stop wanting something/.)"

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I'd like to think that I don't read as straight, but I actually have no idea.

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on being a snowflake (xpost mefi) (2/2) 

Do I need to grow a thicker skin than the one I got by spending my twenties in submarines and oil refineries, or does it make sense that hearing "No, you're wrong, you're a man and you'll always be a man" from yet another authority figure, on a day when my brain is screaming the same thing especially loudly, might temporarily wreck my ability to focus on anything other than staying alive?

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Somewhere along the line I managed to develop a really specific sense of my own clothing style and that's kind of cool but also it's narrow enough that I often don't actually know how to find clothing that I like, short of shotgunning thrift stores and print-on-demand websites.

There's a shitload of cool stuff on LiveHeroes but it's expensive enough that waiting for a sale is a v. good idea.

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I also know there's a website that sells awesome printed leggings but can't remember what it was called? @memnus@octodon.social ?

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"When I finally got tired of arguing with [my writing teacher] and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files." -- Jim Butcher

Well that sure does explain some shit. The series sarts getting good around book 5-6 as it begins developing beyond the formula.

idk why but for some reason Mastodon makes it feel a lot easier for me to check existing replies before replying to a post.

My most-common use for this is checking what kind of emotional support (if any) a post has been eliciting so far. Which I guess is pretty on-brand for the platform :)

In a standard three-strand braid, any two given strands are unlinked except by the third strand; if you remove one strand, the second simply lies atop the third.

In this image from Wikipedia, for example, the black strand lies atop the blue strand, the blue atop the red, and the red atop the black. Removing one of the strands leaves behind two unconnected cords.

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