XiaCobolt [undecided, she/her] @ XiaCobolt @hexbear.net

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Weirdly true. Source is dog shit (Radio Free Europe), but a combination of the non-aligned movement and loving basketball made Serbs pretty chill with most other people except those also from the Balkans.

All the other former Yugoslav nations scoring well too except North Macedonia.

Yeah definitely Yugoslavia was in the Balkens not Eastern Europe, and non aligned movement not Warsaw Pact. It's more like if China broke apart and there was a restoration of "liberal democracy" and oligarchs etc, then Vietnam broke out in a Civil War due to US meddling economically, politically and covertly.

I thought you had to change them almost monthly cause they get "cored"?

Oh I meant an unopened vial can sit on a shelf for 5 years and doesn't take up much room, if people can afford to plan that far in advance. "Coring" is real but also kind of overblown, there's techniques and equipment to reduce the chances, the more concerning thing is discoloration etc that suggests containments have entered or the vial has gone bad. I don't do DIY HRT but have investigated it a bunch in case things turn sour here in Australia.

Would actually be interested in reading more about this

Trans people throughout history have come up with ways to have gender affirming care. One particular group are the Enarei from ancient Scythia, who were feminised Priestesses assigned male at birth. It's speculated they would consume Licorice and Black Coshosh, herbs that have anti-androgenic effects (post-menopausal women take black cohosh even now as a supplements). Pregnant mare's have large amounts of estrogen in their urine. One of the first modern HRT medications was Premarin derived from Mare's piss. The concentrations were still quite low, so they would be fermented sometimes into beer, sometimes into cheese.

Edit: Sorry the wikipedia sucks because they don't mention all the HRT stuff, I'll try to remember a good source, but that's the name for example of a group to look into.

Because most Cis men won't buy a prostate massager or a magic wand.

Baby Zombies will jump onto chickens and ride them, it's pretty rare.

C'mon don't up vote this

"Face too manly, haircut too woke, looked too old, breasts too small" etc. I remember they hated this.

Superficially it's not great. A few observations though:

• This costume is no more revealing than things Emma Frost wears in the comics, it's basically her thing. Not that this excuses things (comics are misogynistic AF), but it's not like they took a more modest character and changed her (like Kitty Pryde in a skimpy outfit etc).
• This is an unlockable outfit her default is way more concealing than anything she has ever worn in comics (and I remember that pissing Chuds off a while back). Still pretty objectifying
• The Art Director for Marvel Rivals is Dino Ma (far left on picture I confirmed with other sources as the naming order is wrong in the tweet), now I don't know for certain Dino designed Emma Frost, but it's a small studio. I don't know Dino's gender or sexuality and shouldn't speculate. But they have queer vibes from my impressions. I also from years of hanging out on NSFW tumblr and twitter have a good sense for when an artist is drawing objectification (cishet) versus objectification (queer) and this tickles my six sense slightly, entirely vibes based towards the latter.
• There's an online meme that Emma Frost is trans (positive) that some writers have leant into over the years. From memory there's a story about how a young Brunette Emma Frost has a blonde brother named Christian who is sent to a conversion camp for being gay and is never seen again. Both sort of connecting the mutant as a metaphor for queerness, but also a theory is that Emma was that blonde boy and wasn't gay but actually straight trans woman (the Brunette Emma being a sibling or an invented person). A trans woman dressing like this would be "Mother" as the kids say
• Uh...she could make me worse.

And too be fair we all want good bones.

(Plus i did skip over that psychologically it can suck to not have the hormones you want and need)

Milo Edwards has this bit about how foot fetish guys have the worst PR for what is kind of a mild fetish and it's so bad you can't compliment or massage a foot without being suspected.

I'm not a foot fetish person but I'm not anti it. Feet stuff synthesises well with a lot of BDSM which I am into, being stepped on, dismissive foot jobs, tickle torture, worshipping through foot massage etc

It's kind of like piss. Not my thing again but I'd do it in a BDSM context because it fits well, being tied and needing to piss, being forced to drink piss, piss waterboarding etc.

Er do we need CW in an already NSFW thread?

Technically even people without testicles aren't dependent on testosterone or estrogen. It's rough but you have some hormones from adrenal glands.

Court Eunarchs have been a thing across history and many lived long lives. There's all sort of additional health complications like osteoporosis. But it's not like you drop dead without estrogen or testosterone.

Even today there's people due to hormonal related cancers (prostate or testicular, breast or ovarian) who have to be deprived of sex hormones either chemically or surgically to treat the cancer and prevent it's return.

1. There's Cis and trans women athletes (the latter a current target of reactionary response). Yes estrogen is not as advantageous to muscle growth but women/femmes can still be muscular.
2. I've definitely thought of this myself. Estrogen vials from DIY can last 5 years and are quite small to have a supply that long. Stopping HRT is also not the end of the world. Menopause is Cis women basically running out of estrogen and it's rough but they live. If there's still a source of testosterone (no orchie) that is not going undo some estrogen changes like breast growth.
3. Others in the thread can answer as to options based on geography. Some doses of estrogen injection are quite standard. Some of our foremothers thousands of years ago were eating cheese made with fermented pregnant mare's piss and chewing black cohosh and just kind of winging it for their whole lives. A couple of years of winging with the modern estrogen might be fine.

Self criticism time. I always thought the concept of bibliotherapy was bogus. As in doing therapy through a book.

But I think reading Sisters of Dorley Hall is actively helping me work through a bunch of stuff.

Oh yeah, it’s been a while I should rewatch. I think Twin Peaks is its own special thing but it definitely plays with these various tropes.

It's a bit of an edge case but spiritually I think it fits. Because initially Dale Cooper is more of the trope of the outsider cop who comes into a place where things are unfamiliar and not what they seem on the surface, as opposed to the police officer working their normal job and then things get weird. But then he also stays and become local law enforcement and the weird stuff is certainly above his paygrade.

Even if true that's 0.000011% of their population.

Throwing off a weighted hoodie, "by boymode-ing I was hiding my power level"

Okay that's tough. And shit that it happened.

Again depends on your circumstances but might be worth investigating what the ramifications would be if you knew, so that if you find out later or you feel you want to warn the classs against further events etc(that also you need to weigh pros and cons).

Hexbear user who has only recently read Dorley Hall, reading this post: Getting a lot of 'Dorley Hall' vibes from this...