Selfie from earlier. Basically all I’ve got on here is the eyeliner (and a little iOS Portrait Mode Studio Light 😉). I was saying to someone today: all things considered—“grading on a curve”—I’m pretty okay with how I look! And I’m kinda proud of the work I’ve done (like, mentally) to get there. 💖

with alt text, because everyone deserves a good cry. come over.

So. Calling reps about the trans healthcare ban. And asking others to. I don’t have tons of power in life, generally… but I can send alerts to everyone in the local Pokémon Go group… of 7,000 players. Even if only 20% of them have push notifications turned on… Can probably only do that once, tho 😬

it's wild that the White House is calling trans people nihilistic. i found a way to live. i fought HARD to stay alive for years, decades even, even when i didn't want to. And then i found a way to make living easy, and joyful, and vibrant how is that nihilism

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

turns out the funny feeling I got when I saw larissa oleynik in the secret world of Alex Mack is because I wanted to be her

It me 😅 (speaking of my last position… which I was doing… at length 😅) (and I’m very grateful to Chi for listening. I love my friends too 💖💜💖)

I wasn’t let go from my last job because I’m trans per se… but, essentially, it was this 👇

evergreen always

the one-woman WOODWORKING book club strikes again 😈

I just want an audiobook I haven’t listened to before, but it feels like I have. It should be fiction, but not feel totally disconnected from the real world, but nothing truly bad should happen to any character who doesn’t fully deserve it according to my specific personal moral cosmology.

genuinely, dating her is how I came to consciously understand two things: 1. Women with stronger chins/jaws, and/or broader frames in general, can also be hot as fuck—not “despite” these qualities, but in fact *because* of them 2. Having gender stuff going on is not inherently the same as being cool

I hate when “only 1% of the population is trans!” is used as some kind of rhetorical point or political “gotcha.” Yeah not all of us break through the bullshit to SAY it openly, maybe if we weren’t under constant fucking assault that number would be bigger AND WE WOULD STILL DESERVE TO LIVE IN PEACE

having one of those nights where it’s hard to be understanding with myself—let alone forgive myself—for waiting as long as I did to start all this. I know, intellectually: in many if not all ways, I started as soon as I could‘ve. but it’s not always easy for that to get from the head to the heart.

happy Jen Stabs Herself Day #20! 🏳️‍⚧️💉2️⃣0️⃣🥳 dose 2 out of this vial, of which the goal is to get twenty full doses (5mL/.21mL should be more like 23 doses, hypothetically, but since we only got 18 out of the last vial we’re tempering our expectations) (We don’t think of ourself as plural—more, royal 👸🏻)

the american century of humiliation is bad and will lead to widespread death and destruction throughout the imperial core. this is why im advocating for the julia century of humiliation which will lead to no death and instead be pretty hot if we do it correctly and i get good aftercare afterwards

I'm the secret third thing

I love the bit in Nevada, by Imogen Binnie, where Maria Nevada commandeers the water supply for Nevada and contaminates it with feminising HRT so that way James Nevada has to transition.

The phrase “gender affirming care” has always felt like when Democrats dodge universal healthcare questions by saying “everyone should have ACCESS to care”. I’m firm in my gender. I don’t need affirmation from a doctor, I need my medicine.

my BlueSky-ing is as good as two of the best licensed games for GameCube? sweet, that actually feels like about what I'm going for here 👍

one could make a bunch of hacky Jeopardy-style jokes but I’m genuinely curious what menu had these three things, and only these, as options

hi, cis folks! do you trust the senate to decide whether you can have healthcare or if you legally exist under the law or where you can legally wash your hands or pee? neither do we! please tap into the thread & tell senators our civil rights & lives matter—even more than the jimmy kimmel show!

god, my brain is *garbage* today. Like yeah I didn’t take my morning meds until 1:30 PM (whoops) but still—utterly nothing from the ol’ thinks-box, here. 🧠🚮😣

think I need to start taking my sleep aid a little later, see if maybe that helps with this thing where I keep waking up 5:30-6:30 (at least an hour earlier than I’d like) from dreams that are super transparently just my brain trying to process the wild-ass three-to-five months I have just had 🙃

I’m gonna reply to everyone’s kind responses to this in a bit! 💖 I just spent an hour or running around in the humidity with the Pokémon nerds, who’re all cool & affirming (if they can handle a new design for the magic horse that controls time, they can handle a new name & pronouns). It helped 🥰

like I don’t think I’m nonbinary or genderfluid or w/e but some days you just don’t want to beat your face make it cute & savage, y’know? Some days you just don’t want to go to the hassle of visually communicating to the world “I Am Girl” just to pick your sweetie up from the bus & get drive-thru 😓

obviously we all wish our OEM names were cool gender-neutral ones—like Alex or Erin/Aaron—or at least easily-feminized—like Jack(ie) or Nic(k)— (…we all wish that, right?) —but today I’m particularly having a spell of “why couldn’t I at least have picked a new name that kept my same initials? 🤦🏻‍♀️”

oh hey, it's my 20s as condensed into a single panel

I was just saying to @chithemonkey.bsky.social how a different “yikes, (parent)” DoA strip wasn’t my mom situation… but it wasn’t *not* my mom situation and, well, this is more or less the same thing for my dad, here 🙃

i don't desire to be God but i consider my transition a sacred act if you accept that we are made "in God's image" and that the only thing we truly know about God is that God creates then creation is our birthright and our sacred duty my self-authorship is the ultimate fulfillment of that duty

an important thing to remember is to wash, brush, floss, moisturize, and *then* take the progesterone

Please, please start right now with “bodily autonomy is for all, no matter the group they’re in” because they’re going to keep going down the DSM finding groups few will fight for.

Somebody should make booty shorts with this.

You are a heretic for believing in knowing when the apocalypse is I'm a heretic for being a hot socialist trans femme slut We are not the same

Go tell 2003 me “in 21 years there’ll be new Linkin Park music with a woman on lead vocals. In 22 years, you’ll be listening to it while injecting yourself with estrogen.” Lmk what that poor little closeted neurotic says about it lol 😅 (happy Jen Stabs Herself Day #19! 🏳️‍⚧️💉🥳)

yeah that post started getting picked up by some of those blue-wave bots, so its quote posts & replies are disabled now… and we’re on the verge of just deleting it outright chalk up another Gender-Affirming Inconvenience, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️😬🙅🏻‍♀️

I’d love it if people talked this way about anti-trans medical misinformation propaganda too! Just saying! It’s right there and quite easy to do!

I feel like we could be even louder and say *even if* autism was “bad” (it’s not), it is not parents’ right or role to use every scrap of power available to them to violate their kids’ bodily autonomy to achieve a desired result. Feels like that stance covers quite a few issues going on right now.

Audre told us.

Caught myself starting to spiral just now, feeling like I’ve made no progress—which, leaving LOTS of stuff aside, today is literally the three-month anniversary of my first time ever leaving home in a skirt (sincerely). Three months! Been a long, long three months, but… breathe, girl. Breathe 😮‍💨

My old landlords—an elderly Hispanic couple with a Virgin Mary… thingy… in their yard—are literally the last people on Earth I want to talk to about transition so when they tell me they’ve got mail for me I either have to boymode or ask Sweetie to handle it for me (& Sweetie then has to girlmode)

Earlier my mother, unprompted, sent me photos she took of Sweetie & I when we had dinner with her last weekend (plus one I’d taken of us & sent to her) That sent me into a dysphoria spiral, which crashed out into a nice (needed) nap. hoping i sent a reasonably balanced response to her, considering

Tired: Cis guy playing a trans woman Inspired: Trans woman playing a cis guy

honestly you had me with this post but also apparently it’s a series by some of the major talents behind The Owl House (hence “f $DIS”) working with the studio behind The Amazing Digital Circus? And at least one of the major roles is voiced by a trans woman? How is this not consuming my feed already

They're making the sunsets transgender!

It Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love

Yeah @bsky.app @support.bsky.team it’s kinda creepy that I can see my post has been saved but not by who. Either as the post author I should be able to see that, or you just shouldn’t tell me it’s being saved (same way you don’t tell me if it’s being screenshotted—which, fine long as I don’t know!)

It’s tautological but my answer to “how do you know you’re trans” is “a cis man would freak the fuck out about the changes I’m delighting in”.

Had what might be the first dream I can recall where in the dream I was also transitioning. In the dream it was fresher than it is IRL so clearly there’s a lag there… also I don’t usually remember my dreams when I wake up Also-also in the dream I was working in a LEGO store (which I never have), so

hey are you doomscrolling? panic posting? stop what you’re doing for a sec and take a breath. drink some water. maybe eat a little. go outside if it’s nice and smell the air. not trying to be condescending here. actually just reminding you to take a break.