Holy shit, that's a blast from the past! Zeiram was such an awesome antagonist. Just this implacable, invincible juggernaut, advancing step by step by unstoppable step.

One of the hardest things to remember in these times is that while things are falling apart, *they are not falling apart because you're not trying hard enough*. They're falling apart because the structures of our society can't prop them up anymore. You are enough, just as you are.

I stopped for lunch at a fast food joint and the woman working the register was definitely late 70s/early 80s. She was definitely having mobility issues. And like What the actual fuck. We have failed as a society if folks that old and infirm have to work jobs that bad.

Spent the morning writing a heavy SGW article and like Phew This shit is tough sometimes.

Fun fact: you didn't just pronounce the "k" in "knight," it was pronounced (I'm not using IPA here because most people don't know it): "k'ni-(brief glottal hiss)-t." And that was only 700 years ago. So like, if you're doing fantasy worldbuilding, please remember that language shifts rapidly.

Trans Joy Tuesday is something I can *emphatically* get behind. B and I just hired our commission for our Yule cards for this year! We like to hire a trans artist every year to illustrate us--it gives us something a little magical, and puts a few bucks in an artist's pocket when they need it.

Hey, small heads up for people: The phishers have come to Bluesky. Yes, for many of us tech-savvy people, this is laughably bad, but Bluesky is never going to do stuff like this. Also, go report this joker, okay?

SERIOUSLY, THE FIRST PAGE OF THIS THING IS SO GOOD!

Look at what a wonderful lunch my darling wife made for me on this cold fall day!!

Since I'm apparently just blathering on this morning: I want to just recognize for a moment how phenomenally well-designed Harlowe, from BL4, is as a character. Visually, she's feminine, cute, not hypersexualized at all, and her writing is so on point for who the lore says she is.

Actually, I don't think I ever shared this publicly. I write about trans stuff, but a huge part of my heart is and forever will be in page design. So, the cartoony bit of this was comissioned, but the rest was designed by me. Yea, I know, it's light touch stuff, but I wanted to emphasize the art.

OK, serious posting done for the morning. Two things I did that really reduced unsolicited dick pics, in case any of you want: 1. I got my second boob job. Having Megaboobs isn't what some of them want, and the others are intimidated. 2. Posted a sapphic romance pic in my header. 😉

This is a wonderful and fascinating thread about being pony famous (meaning: highly notable but in a very niche space. Term originates from MLP fandom, hence the name). My experience is somewhat different than Amabel's, but my unease with the threats of parasociality and harassment are the same.

Okay, this is officially way cool!

Okay, go for it.

Ahh, those nights where you can't sleep because you're too pissed off. Super.

Controlled Opposition (noun phrase): An individual/group which poses as the political opposition to a dominant political group, but which is quietly controlled by that group. By acting as purely symbolic opposition to the dominant group, controlled opposition ensures the success of that group.

Good god, I'd forgotten his much I *loathe* Happosai.

I never never get tired of Ea-Nasir jokes, and given how much of a troll the man seemed to be in real life, I think he'd absolutely *love* that this is a significant part of his enduring legacy.

IT SNOWED LAST NIGHT

Okay, here's a weird one: I have *vivid* dreams. But once in a while I'll have a dream that's a direct sequel to a dream I had a long time ago. Like, think highly narrative, directly connected, often with recurring characters. Totally fictional, top to bottom. Does that happen to anyone else?

Lol. Lmao, even.

Gender is a performance and-- 🎶Get outta heeeeere Get me some money tooooo. Why don't you do riiiiiiiight Like some other men dooooo~🎶

Me, holding my first HRT dose:

Favorite superhero that isn't DC or Marvel. Dreadnought is just... So good.

Every single trans writer or artist can see themselves in the story of Isabel Fall. Especially if your writing is subversive or transgressive in either way. I can't stand the way she was treated, and I can't stand how many otherwise good people were easily tricked into attacking her.

I just starred The Outer Worlds 2. I'm a Dumb, Lucky, Suave Roustabout, meaning that I have no idea how I got my job. She has no idea what she's doing, can't stealth, won't fight in melle because she might break a nail, and has no clue what these complex gizmos do. I made a bimbo. 10/10 goty. 🤣

Oh shit, my talk got scheduled for the best slot in the entire conference. First day, right after lunch. That's... really cool.

I'm the only 'me' that ever was I see my pre-transition self as something not unlike myself as a child - a phase in life I've outgrown, a series of habits I've unlearned, a few mistakes I've learned from I'm still me. I was always me. I'm just wiser now, and happier

At the beginning of my transition, I stumbled across @valeriehalla.dicot.moe's Goodbye to Halos. It was a lifeline to me, offering me a vision of a life after transition, a world of simple acceptance. There's something profoundly special about the bits of media that help us see ourselves early on.

I've been watching Season 2 of Hazbin Hotel and like... Ugh, I feel bad even suggesting this but... But it feels like a real step down, for the most part, from season 1, so far. I've been trying to not be a little disappointed. Is this a just me thing?

This. So much this.

I finally finished the revised ending of Hades 2 and I agree--this was *much* more well-done than the original.

*Sigh* Too many of the people I love are too overwhelmed and overworked by a country and a time that cares too much for profits and cruelty and too little for people and kindness. I wish I could make anything better for them. 😢

So I've run into a weird little problem: my optometrist is REALLY good at his job. As a result, my corrected vision is somewhere between 20/10 and 20/15. I generally appreciate the hell out of this, as a design specialist. BUT I can also see every damn pore on my face, and it makes me feel old. 🤣

I am me, in an unbroken lone from who I was, to who I am, to who I will someday be. There has been dramaticchange, *but change is fundamental to all life*. I understand, for sure, the urge to distance yourself from Who You Were. Those times were hard and sad. But I wouldn't be me without them.

To all the new dolls and questioning eggs who follow me: this is one of the truest statements I've ever read. I've become much more aware of my past dysphoria once I accepted that it was worth trying a new gender. Having the freedom to try to be happier gave me space to recontextualize everything.

If you see this, post an anime you love. It's called Bofuri, and it's so much more ridiculous than this gif makes it seem.

This. Good god, this. And it's not just welfare either, though that's what this particular paper studied--it's *all* public programs. American racism is why we can't have the things that'd make our nation work. It's why we're dealing with the socio-political disaster we're currently dealing with.

So my buddy @almostneontoast.bsky.social alerted me that the store he sells his custom merch at, Glamazon Jayne, appears to be calling themselves The Bimbo Boutique now. So uhh Any trans gals in Columbus wanna go check out the vibes and report? 🤣

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The part we far too often don't talk about when we finally get the gender-affirming surgeries that we need is how hard recovery is--and I don't mean the physical stuff. Today, on Stained Glass Woman, we're looking at The Other Recovery. stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/the-other-...

Today's @reallifecomics.bsky.social comic is just... lolsob in so many ways.

Watching white cis women argue about that Bimbo Doll song I linked a few days ago is irritating enough that I almost want to write a SGW article about psychology and transfmeinine kink to flip them both the bird. Like Jesus fucking Christ, come on, their feminisms are just so surface level.

B and I just started watching There's No Way I'll Be Your Lover Unless... And y'all This show is great. We are giggling so hard. It's U-Haul Lesbian meets Useless Lesbian and both are sooooo fucking stupid it's glorious.

Buying into transmisogyny as a trans person is self-hatred, and that is as true for trans men and transmascs as anyone. When the dominant message is that to be trans is to be a trans woman, and that trans women are monsters, no version of engaging in that as a trans person can be anything else.

I dressed up as the stolen Louvre crown jewels for Halloween, so obviously I had to recreate the tiara and necklace entirely out of paper U_U I detailed my process for patrons here (goes public next week) 1) www.patreon.com/posts/constr... 2) www.patreon.com/posts/rock-p...

Getting to be a girl is awfully neat.

The Matrix's answer to the question "what is a woman" is "idk really fucking cool?"

SUCH a key point from #CCCC (paraphrased): trans people are in a constant state of digital diaspora, pushed out of platforms they helped create/shape, & thus constantly ~building~ the internet Cred @lawsonvee.bsky.social @rubymendozaphd.bsky.social @adahubrig.bsky.social Avery Edenfield &Erin Green