so hard not to become the most annoying person on earth if you’re a little excitable and just learned a little about a topic literally no one around you has any interest in
I lost weight when I went on my medication initially because it made me very sick and when I told people that was why, more than a couple would say stuff like “I wish I could get some of that” like you want a weird disorder that is awful and to be violently ill? just to be skinnier?
“After I got the biopsies, they did another mammogram. And I had to have my shirt off. And I was standing there at the machine. And the technician said, oh my gosh, you have such a flat stomach. What is your secret? And I was like, oh, I’m dying.“
-Tig Notaro
More proof that the ideal of thinness never had anything to do with health.
Just saw a reddit thread about sharing how long everyone has been on HRT, and no shade to my fellow baby trans, but seeing that the majority were on HRT for significantly less time than me (1.75yrs) explained a LOT about how much the effects of HRT are under exaggerated online
Like tbh a good rule of thumb is whenever you hear “this will not change or have minimal changes on HRT” a good rule of thumb is just to add “within the first two years” to it and you’re probably going to be much closer to the truth
“it’s unlikely you’ll get a chest beyond a B cup. Within the first two years”
“it’ll barely do anything to your head hair. Within the first two years.”
“Your ‘hard’ facial features won’t shift that much. Within the first two years.”
The most pervasive way that HRT under exaggeration manifests is “cutting the timeline short”, eg, accepting “2 years” as the magic “endpoint” of HRT’s main effects, and anything that happens after that to be a “surprise”.
When in reality, the timescale is of course similar to cis female puberty, and also affects how you age.
These myths are then perpetuated online by early transition trans women, who are more likely to be isolated and more desperate for community, who have internalized what has been told to them by uninformed medical professionals and random people, but haven’t been on HRT long enough to have any counterexamples.
Btw. I am less than two years on HRT. Less than one year living as a woman. I am babytrans. I am early transition. I feel like I’ve avoided this pitfall at this point but I definitely was in it for a bit.
i am five years and a month on hrt and a month away from being five years out.
i stopped being on reddit after a year on hrt because i realized that reddit was just a place for trans people to anxiously compare their progress to each other instead of existing in the real world.
and don’t get me wrong, being on reddit was an important part of my transition because for a long time, i didn’t know where else to look to find advice or to hear other trans people’s experiences. my egg cracked on egg_irl and i spent way too much time browsing r/transtimelines. if you dig back far enough, youll even see me anxiously post in r/transpassing.
but once i started being a part of the world, i started to learn from my own experiences. i realized i didn’t need to keep comparing myself to everyone else because i started to appreciate my own journey for what it was. at a certain point, living vicariously through others becomes a pale shadow of the vivid beauty of your own existence.
i still look at reddit every now and then and even post an update every once in awhile but i don’t do it with the purpose of asking if i pass or asking for validation for how im doing in my transition. i just want all those young trans people to know that their own journey is ahead of them whenever they’re ready.
we all have to leave the nest eventually.
This is kind of exactly it. A lot of online spaces for trans people are essentially early transition support groups. And they’re wonderful for that! But slowly, very slowly, you start to realize that you don’t need that anymore.
This isn’t to say “don’t have trans community”. Precisely the opposite, actually. I’m saying that there’s a life on the other side of transition. Being trans will always be a part of who you are. But part of trans community is living on the “other side”, having a good and fulfilled life while you grow up and age as your gender.
If you watch a youtube video while you're not logged in to youtube, does it still get counted by the view counter? (Sorry I know this isn't a typical poll but I had several people confidently tell me yes it counts, while others are sure doesn't count, so consensus?)
“I don’t like this song because I can’t relate to it” skill issue. I’m mad at my husband I love my girlfriend I’m a lone cowboy I’m growing old I’m growing up I’m depressed I love my friends I’m perpetually horny I’m drunk at the club I love my husband again
i keep getting fines for “excessive water consumption” it’s not my fault that the basement prison cells all need their own toilets and showers. and like the prisoners are not pulling their weight AT ALL. all they do is sleep and be scared of the rats all day instead of painting with the easels i provided so the fines are really putting a financial strain on the household. if i didn’t need them for their plasma i would have killed them all already because this is nottt as financially lucrative as i thought it would be
So that your followers know it’s okay to dig through your blog and send in memes, starters, or responses to opens days, weeks, or months after they’ve been first posted.
I feel like this is the kind of thing you only reblog if you have an aesthetic blog, which I do not, but goddammit I just love it when the moon lines up with stuff
Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
Reblog to actually save a life
To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it
as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion
Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER!
I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.
“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”
i try to reblog this every few times i see it because you might someday need to know how to put out a fire.
fun fact I learned the exciting way: if you see something on fire in the oven, and you open that oven, it’s going to *immediately* become significantly more on fire.
because oxygen. whoops.
if you turn off the oven and leave everything closed while you get your extinguisher and call the fire department or whatever, there is a reasonable chance it will use up the oxygen and put *itself* out.
It’s so nice being on tumblr because you don’t even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you’re good at rebloging posts they like
So you mean to tell me that just by reblogging this I’m ruining an organizations plan, wasting them money, and uncovering some shitbag humans awful behaviour?
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DEFINITELY don’t Lt. John Pike by the nickname “Sargeant Pepper”; I know he HATES that.
genuinely fucked up that if i want to interact with someone online i have to say words and have a conversation instead of just mashing my face against them like a cat
reblog to mash your face against your mutuals like a cat
no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube’s forced ads (at least until they fix it)
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