Orc

everyone is always their own worst critic. Dm me if you want to talk semi-offline!

It’s so wonderfully stupid! I love it!

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Before I finally rolled off the ledge, I felt like I was so deeply underwater that I would never emerge, but eventually I broke the surface and that -- despite being an emotional trainwreck in almost every other way -- was something that I can't even fully put into words.

You can find your way, too

She might be happier in the world that split off when I was 12, but she's not me and her happiness is not mine.

You are you, you are enough, and you are perfect as you are. Yes, even if you're fretful and worry that you have fallen short of the ideal.

The other scenarios are what you imagine; you are, for better or worse, the sum of your life and how you're dealing now is the way you are.

I grieve for the tall gawky redhead I never was, but I glory in how I am now. My partner, my kids, my obsession with trains -- they are me, just as I am.

Funny how that works, isn't it? :-)

Absolutely not.

I have a soft spot for the Mime 1 (Mime I?) terminal -- the sheetmetal box had such a industrial age flair to it.

I suspect that we are different enough so that neither of us fully understand the other on this topic; let's drop this discussion?

There's no accounting for taste.

There's as much in common among trans people as there is among cis people, which is to say almost nothing at all.

The evangelical types, well, bless their hearts but they're not the boss of either you or me.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

That's FABULOUS!

I've not used a fountain pen in almost 50 years (left handed) but boy oh boy I can feel my fingers itching to grab that one.

Yes!

But everybody's got their own path to figuring things out, and if problematic literature is someone's way that's just how it is.

Women who want to be women, but feel that social pressure will stop them and wish for some external force to compel them into taking that step?

Huh. I didn't think that that series would be enough to push anyone off the ledge, but to each their own -- it's kind of like the magic gender-correcting button, but in novel form?

Our circles may not be congruent, tho! I know of _ _ _, but I don't know of anyone who says it's a must read; if you're interacting with a lot of people who insist it's essential reading oh boy I don't blame you one bit for reacting to it as if it was mobile poison ivy.

I don't think the chasers care so much about that; they just want their "chicks with dicks" as disposable sidepieces.

(caveat; I'm sure that there are chasers who get off on forcefem, but my seat of the pants feeling is that that's a really obscure kink.)

Oh, sure, but it's fiction, and g-d knows fiction can be problematic . I don't know anyone who reads that series, but like most forcefemme stuff I'd strongly suspect that the readership's interest in it stops at the edges of the pages.

I don't know if being a fan of that series makes you a believer in the nonsense world it describes. I've read some of her unrelated novelettes and they were cute even though they're about as alien to my experience as any trans lit can be.

I saw a couple of plays in Guthrie 1, but it's been 40+ years so I don't remember either of them.

(Still annoyed they replaced it. G1 was a boxy disaster, but it was a good looking boxy disaster.)

Which manga/manhua is this?

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that's certainly quite a trailer. It's the reddit "everyone sucks here" in video form.

Yup. He did the right thing when evidence of his misbehavior surfaced. The GOP, on the other hand, is not exactly known for any sort of decency.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

Ah, COBOL, now that's a language I never got any footing in. Pity, too, it would have made a great scripting language for web apps :-)

OMG those contacts are *PERFECT*!

Hmmm, ok.

You may find it reassuring to know that those bikes almost certainly have studded t(i|y)res and are easily as nimble as most of the autos out on the road.

textile mill worker, mechanical engineer/troubleshooter