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Including the underscore?

Every time I’ve tried to sit down and watch full episodes, it reinforced that it’s not really my thing. It’s a lot of awkward/verging on cringe humor and that’s typically not something I enjoy. I have seen like clips/compilations I’ve thought were incredibly funny though and I think that’s good enough for me.

As someone who hasn’t really seen the show, I don’t think I get it

Consider that people before transition are not necessarily any different from any other people. You can have very racist, transphobic, alt-right people secretly harboring trans feelings themselves. Sometimes people will turn to those spaces as a coping mechanism and then they become entrenched and invested in the communities. Just because they eventually finally accept their transness doesn’t mean they’re willing to let go of it entirely or the personality archetype they’ve developed as a part of it. If they leave it entirely just because they transitioned , they may not have another community they feel enough a part of to fall back on. Everyone needs and wants some sort of feeling of community even when it isn’t good for them. It can be very hard to break out of toxic spaces when it’s the only space you know and it’s practically defined you as a person, sometimes for most people’s adult lives

It looks to me like it’s making fun of the really bad brain worms that permeate the trans 4chan community. There’s a very specific type of brain wormed in-group jargon being made fun of here. The orange stick figure is saying they’ll never be orange but we can clearly see they’re just… orange. The brain worms are so bad that they believe even while being orange, they aren’t actually. The green stick figure, not being involved with the community or perspective of it, is a representation of the few people trying to break the brain worms within the community. The author knows exactly where the terms being parodied come from and wrote it for that audience

It’s the kind of thing that’s utterly incomprehensible to anyone who isn’t familiar with 4tran or tttt

Amazing lol people are hilariously creative sometimes

I heard the VI works fine in the US but I guess not the VII? The Xperia subreddit seems to constantly recommend against it

If only there were still US models, I would absolutely buy the VII. I love my IV but dropped it a few too many times and have some cracks and occasional weird screen issues because of it. The price point is pretty bonkers but I make enough to afford it and haven’t regretted what I spent on it at all.

My feed is so flooded with moth memes right now and I didn’t look at the name, I was genuinely a bit disappointed that the bottom middle one didn’t say “love lamp” or something.

I’m one of those people that basically never uses consumables in games because I never know when a good time to use them is. I really like the way expedition 33 does it instead because there’s no reward to hoarding them so I actually do use them. You only have a couple and they refresh every time you rest, plus you can also increase your max of each throughout the game.

I think anyone who uses the phrase trans girl is almost definitely not a white supremacist :p

Have you two talked about marriage before? Are your long-term goals compatible? I’m of the philosophy that totally spontaneous proposals generally aren’t a great idea unless certain important things are already known.

If you have talked about those things, then yeah go for it.

Literally just moved to Seattle for this reason

My mom did when I was like 3 but never told me xd

Then I suspected for much of my adult life but put enormous effort into masking it because I didn’t want to accept it

Then in my time at a therapy group a few years ago, I occasionally described like how my brain works and my thought processes and everyone said I should get tested but in like a nice way that helped me slowly finally accept that part of myself

It’s also worth noting that unless your temples are quite receded, it’s actually surprisingly common that cis women have sharp temple corners of their own. Dysphoria doesn’t always care about that though so it’s up to you how you feel about it in the end. I know plenty of trans girls that didn’t and still don’t give a fuck and look amazing (and pass, since that’s something they care about) and I definitely would have also passed just fine without it but my dysphoria just didn’t care and couldn’t accept it as it was.

Minoxidil can definitely give a lot of regrowth, especially when you’re on HRT so there’s a lot less DHT in your system to fuck with the regrowth effects of it. However, there are some drawbacks. A big one is that even topical minoxidil frequently causes increased body hair growth which is generally undesirable for trans women. It won’t turn you into a hurry werewolf overnight so you could do it, see how it works for you, then stop. Similarly due to the lack of DHT in your system, the consequences for going off it are significantly less than with a cis man.

I haven’t personally used minoxidil but that’s the information I’ve gathered over time from people I know and things I’ve read online.

I have, however, used finasteride and oh boy let me tell you I fuckin love it. I ended up getting hair transplants to fill in my temples anyway but I was seeing regrowth in the corners, just slower than what I wanted for my transition timeline. It was also helpful for some unfortunate density issues I had on my crown but the very best thing it did for me, or at least likely had a part in, was decreased body hair. I used to grow this wiry gross hair on my shoulders and it just stopped entirely after a few months on HRT and finasteride. I know HRT slows body hair growth over time but this was super fast so I generally attribute it to the finasteride.

Had to? What do you mean?

For me it was more a belief of what they’d be able to do, not try to do. I had faith in the system to stop certain things but the lack of pushback from anyone else in power despite everything going on right now is proving that believe to be very misguided and naive

Holy shit that Nemo song was so good