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hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like

Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"

^ this is all from the wiki btw

I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.

Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.

Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.

With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.

He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.

So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.

Why would I lie about that? Here it is.

Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,

and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)

and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:

What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.


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[โ€“] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Hey how long did it take for you all to get used to a new name? Last time I did this was a decade ago so I forgot, and I'm starting to worry.

[โ€“] Thallo@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

Practically immediately for me

[โ€“] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

I got used to my name pretty quickly, although it's pretty similar to my dead name. I'm not quite sure it's the name I want to keep, even though I'm used to it. It would also probably take time to get used to another new name, change is hard.

I was never particularly attached to my dead name even way before I cracked my egg, like as a 5 year old I wasnt attached to it. People would mispronounce it, I'd never correct them. Other people would overhear the mispronounciation and then mispronounce the misprounounciation in some weird telephone game sequence. Never knew what someone would try to get my attention with

Anyway, it didn't take long for me to get used to my new name. It felt natural pretty quickly and euphoric the first year, it's still nice but that euphoria is dimmed (only so long you can get a kick out of your own name I guess). My ears still perk up when I hear my dead name, but they do with my actual name as well

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[โ€“] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I need the gayest St Sebastian medallion there is.

Okay this is the gayest one I could find

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[โ€“] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Any recs on where to shop for chokers? I want to get a new one for the outfit that I am wearing to a metal show. I have two that I bought from Amazon, but one of the requires an extender so I don't think it looks great, and the other has spikes which I think is kinda inappropriate because I don't want to mosh and I definitely don't want to look like a pit ninja. Looking on Amazon, everything seems to cap at a neck width of 16", while I have a neck width of 17" flat.

EDIT: Also, are pants chains in or out? I always thought they looked kinda dorky, but idk.

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[โ€“] Wmill@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

There's shittin time and then there's quittin time and right now I'm all out of shits to give top-use-words

[โ€“] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

sicko-yes the one voice therapist in my area that takes my insurance got back to me

sicko-speeeeen they can get me in for a first appointment tomorrow

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[โ€“] wenox@hexbear.net 24 points 5 days ago

Turkey just banned the sale of most estrogens and blockers without prescription the-pigs

[โ€“] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Talking too much about smut I only kinda liked: Human Domestication Guide

Alright, been meaning to type this for a while. Saw Ash talk about (check pronoun) readings and reminded me I read this due to (check pronouns)'s recommendation and then forgot to talk about it. Anyways

I like the idea of being taken care of the dxtremley caring plant creatures, but I just get caught up on the cultural imperialism of the forced pet dynamic. I think part of it is me being into like dog or cat girl thing more as an identity than as a kink. I dislike the cultural imperialism a lot. I get its just smut, and smut isn't necisarily realistic, but this is MY post so I get to decide what smut is good or bad enjoyment rise.

But yeah, I enjoy the vibes of being forced to be nice to myself and either being forced to take care of myself, or have a big plant lady take care of me, but the hypnosis and ownership aspects just give me bad vibes personally. Like I remember in the original glitchyrobo writing of the main character writing a document recognizing and signing a thing saying that (she?) has no rights in the Affini Compact. Like that and the ownership shit just made me stop enjoying it. Again, I get its just smut, but I am unable to just turn my brain off and ignore it.

I think I need to find smut, or really just writing in general, that has cozy vibes and maybe a Dom forcing me to take care of myself and be nice to myself. That would be cool. :flush:

That is to say.... If you have any recommendations.... I would love to hear them :flush:

[โ€“] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

oh shitWhy does everyone remember my cursed smut posting catgirl-huh hhhhhhhhgh....

I'm not surprised to hear that some of the setting, and CnC aspects, and the forced pet elements of HDG were unpleasant for you, my apologies. I wasn't really thinking about it in that respect when I read Wellness Check, sheesh a year ago now... I assume that's probably the one you read so uh, again sorry, my bad. I kind of feel the same upon reflection, every other HDG story I tried to poke into I found was a bit much in some of the same respects...

I'd be interested in any recs you get because I'd like to fluff out my smut library, Idk where or how anyone is meant to find this stuff. Does make me wonder if there are HDGs that take catgirl/doggirl into account as more than kink, or just fiction generally? Would be rad? catgirl-sorry

[โ€“] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

::: spoiler Title Yeah, I read wellness check and then the original hdg thing.

It seems like every story has the actual pet aspect, as that seems to be the ghoice of the original author so everything is just built on it.

Like I read the rules for a story, and it seems like the og author wants it to be a setting of pet ownership and hypnosis. Doesn't really seem like there are any cutouts for people without the same exact kinks as the author. Which I like get why the author would want it written a certain way IG they created it, but dammit I want the plant people to not be imperialists!

Sorry if I'm just repeating the same shit over and over again, I do that a lot and its hard to manage it.

Anyways, yeah there isn't really any stories that don't have the forced pet shit. Unfortunate because I would love a setting where it was all species being equal.

As for other Smit, I ahvent found much. Only have like the past 6 months of me trying yo find good smut, and there is just so much shit that even with the tags that scratch my brain right will just have theming that puts me off.

I also lost my bookmarks because I forgot my ff password so I lost about half of my smut, so i need to dig out a laptop i habe Form 2 months ago to See if any oft my favorites are in it.

But for ones i do habe that i think are atleast okay,

i have "catgirl hipnotises you." Does what it says on the tin, catgirl hypnotises you and you turn into a cstgirl from it. Its alright, but not great https://readonlymind.com/@elizzyviolet/CatgirlHypnotizesYou/

I have "A little friendly competition," which is hypnotizing 2 straight girls into lesbians which is alright https://readonlymind.com/@HypnoBunny/ALittleFriendlyCompetition/

And now that I'm looking at my list... that's kinda it for ones I find at least a 6/10. A lot of stories will have some identity of someone as a dog/catgirl, then will fumble it in my mind of having it be purely kink or have some ownership aspect. A lot of stories also love including LOTS of fluids, and I've realized that fluids which just kind gross me out I'm realizing. Like I'm fine with a bit of fluids just existing, but the stories will be describing in detail the fluids and textures of it and I'll just be sitting here thinking how I'd rather do anything else than imagine awful textures in or on me. Like stories will have tags which do an alright job filtering stuff, but there is a wide berth of what the "dog( )girl" categories will have regarding it being identity or petplay. And then there is just nothing regarding whether there is a heavy emphasis on fluids.

I wonder if I just need to look for non-smut stories, because so many smut stories will have such wildly different ways I dislike them. Maybe that could help with regards to getting identity related dog/catgirl stuff and less petplay.

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Edit- also I'm realizing me seeing your comment talking about wellness check was like 2 accounts ago for me, and the time still just feels like a couple months ago. Wild

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[โ€“] Ambii@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Hey y'all what's the consensus about progesterone?

I reached out to my endo last night about starting prog and he got back to me today with a link to the 2022 wpath guideline update regarding progesterone where they state that the benefits are negligible and also introduces an increased thromboembolism risk.

He also said that it's "closer to testosterone than estrogen" which I think is oversimplifying things from what I've come across on my own but w/e he's the doctor ig.

I told him that, regardless, I do wanna move forward with trialing micronized progesterone. What do y'all think?

[โ€“] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's made my boobs bigger, helped my sleep vs without taking it, also made me horny as hell. And over the year or so I've been on it, I've definitely got curvier - but I was doing the same with E and an antiandrogen.

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[โ€“] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

I'm a dog girl woof woof

[โ€“] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

My psychology textbook didn't CW transphobia, how do I report it to the mods?

[โ€“] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

unrestrained braggingsometimes when I'm feeling like someone matters to me I copy down the nice things they say into a document so if I'm ever worrying about whether they suddenly hate me or not I can reference that document to remind myself

this is turning into a bit of a problem because one of them is getting really long... or maybe this is actually not a problem and is in fact the best thing ever? no, no, it's the best thing ever

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[โ€“] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Psycho Nymph Exile

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spoiler cw discussions of trauma, incest mentions maybe in a kink context?, idek just look out Writing out that CW was a brain-bender.

So I finally got back to reading and thinking about gay trans shit, which is rad I really missed it. Talked to someone who has Psycho Nymph Exile by Porpentine Charity Heartscape in her top 10, fucking sick. I figured I'd get back into the swing with that because, Ada Rook, Fallow, I know who Porpentine is. That'll probably be brain-stimulating while not exploding my brain.

I got my brain exploded nia-you-what just a lil...

I was following along acceptably until the plot actually kicks into gear, is it "some kind of weird lesbian incest", Vellus???

They tell people they're sisters, and Vellus is especially pleased when people mistake them for sisters without prompting. If blood relations are seen as superior because they precede intent, creating that bond deliberately feels powerful, like the creation of a shadow lineage.

Ohhhhh... makima-think so this is where all of those really intense presumably-kink-but-maybe-not horny posts on tumblr come from? Okay, yes. I believe so.

I dunno if I would say I'm enjoying Psycho Nymph, but it's a good exercise, I think I'm having fun. I could quote it forever, I like bending my head around the stuff; I'm getting my understanding expanded. But even if I will probably need to reread this immediately, it's also not 100% new and strange to me. I mean, who can't get down w/a footnote that reads 3. Girl smells trapped under hems and seams and elastic bands. right? (No clue why there are so many footnotes) There is T4T in Psycho Nymph which ABSOLUTELY fucking rules. My head is golden and warm and empty.

I'm so fucking jazzed, this is the kind of neural input I need. "Wanna just watch catgirl hypnosis vids and get high?" catgirl-heart Good vibe!!!

More on what I am yapping abt

Personal yapping

I stopped taking tramadol (37.5mg) because I figure I need at least one month's detox because when I stopped I could feel a fog lifting. The real change came when I started reading Psycho Nymph though, I could feel my grey matter reactivating and like, serotonin goo all over me. It was rad, I felt compelled to yap instantly, but Magi understandably isn't super interested in what's going on in Psycho Nymph, plus I wanna knock heads with people who know about it, y'know. If you know, you should inform me. madeline-stare

I love talking to people about stuff even if it's a strain. I guess one of the reasons I fell into an (at first deliberate) isolation is because, bereft of gay shit and dopey brained, I didn't have the right balance of like, queer humours to keep my brain in check. Usually, I think, the special interest brainrot way outweighs the difficulties and stressors and I fucking Post, I yap to people. Bereft of that I will become sad and listless.

Where did I get this life-altering dependancy on queer things that I have? Either I gave myself this depedence by reading Nevada too much, or else my brain was just inactive all those years until I read Orange Book and my brain activated.

Also I have no idea if or when I'm gonna read more Whipping Girl; I'm compelled to continue analysing it but hate reading it, and have no spoons catgirl-flop

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[โ€“] buh@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I intentionally skipped out so Iโ€™m only finding out now but they had a Harry Potter themed event at work yesterday cringe

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[โ€“] ashinadash@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

Psycho Nymph, unrelated yappingUGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU, same-picture Psycho Nymph Exile

Is this an aesthetic that is fair to call an aesthetic? I first noticed the TRASH GIRL thing in the bandcamp description of Shed Blood by Ada Rook, but look there it is again. A term some people use! And uh, the creative output of these people smells the same, like Shed Blood could totally soundtrack Psycho Nymph if it weren't a multimedia oddysey or smth. Where does this come from? Do you have to be a 30something trans woman with a background in IBM PC clones to have evolved this specific style of gorey, screaming gay gendery apocalyptic rage music?

But then Fallow is so downkey, like I was not expecting it to get labelled "southern gothic" and if I had found Fallow first I'd have been shocked that the Fallow lady makes weird industrial screamy music. Contains Multitudes.

Idk how I would go about studying this, scene? there's a sphere of people? who is ESPER99 I wonder? thing, but I want to know more Idk. Imogen Binnie โœจ says in her new Orange Book afterword that Black Dresses is pop music and not new, and I'm like shoulder-grab WHERE IS MORE OF THIS. GIVE IT TO ME, MA'AM

[โ€“] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

E acquired (and also spiro).

Confirmed with the pharmacy tech that it's formulated for standard oral injestion rather than sublingual. Depending on how effective the regimen is, may ask to switch up at the 3 month checkin, but I am just excited to get started.

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[โ€“] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago (10 children)

People are decrying the loss of nightclubs and bars. They're blaming it on $18 cocktails and $12 beers and young people not having the money for that - and that's right. But also the club and the bar always sucked? You were just in your early 20s and dealt with how bad it sucked because you were horny, plus think of how many of people going out also had to roll on molly or bring coke never mind the drinking (i guess we won the war on drugs too). No one would reinvent a nightclub if it was forgotten tech

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