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[–] Eco@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

i have a record from a band that got "cancelled" for want of a better word a few years ago and i finally have got over my weird aversion to listening to it

like it's not to the level of lostprophets where the act just ruins the art for me, but i've still been putting it off for years despite already owning a physical copy and thus not giving them any more money

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[–] 0x2640@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

ICYMI I canceled your mother's insurance

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

another shitty vent post
spoiler dooming I guess, just being stupid I want as few fucking nights like tonight as possible. Just awful.

A friend pointed out that all I do is vent but I never move forward. She's right. That is what I do.

Why did me and my life have to turn out so shit. Why can so many others deal with this and I can't. Suffering doesn't make you stronger, it has slowly destroyed me. I'm not a happy child any more. I'm a dead eyed adult. god I wish heaven was real. My one life, gone, ruined. Wasted. Unable to make anything of it. Because I am a disgusting waste of a human being.

I can't move forward, there's nothing there anyway. I don't blame being trans, or autistic, I blame myself. Because I am a waste. Everyone around me has tried to help, tried to support. I just suck all of their efforts down. I'm sorry for wasting so much of your time.

I don't even know why I'm a failure like this. By all accounts I shouldn't be. Maybe if I struggled more as a child I'd have been able to cope better. Maybe if I suffered less as an adult I'd be able to cope better. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Like it matters.

What matters is I can't do better. I don't understand how other people can and I can't. All the other questions have been answered. I understand so much. But not that. Why is everyone else so much more able then me.

Sorry. There really was no point saying this. I guess knowing other people know how I feel helps. Or something. I can't explain it. :::

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Cleaned one of my drawers today and found my glow in the dark nail polish, thinking of experimenting with it just need to think of a good color that would work well with it. I'm leaning towards a light green I got to make them look radioactive but blue would be cool too soviet-hmm maybe demon core core

[–] buh@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

My metabolic panel results are back and everything is within “normal” range (except CO2 which was low? IDK what that’s supposed to mean). AST and chloride are also kinda high but still within normal range

Honestly the most shocking thing is that my glucose level is 84 even though my diet is painfully amerikkkan and I come from a family (extended, not just immediate) of diabetics

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[–] Mousy@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Page loaded then i got jumpscared by a gateway timeout error scared

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

facebook ceo, mark dinkleberg

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

No pain, no gain hexbear-trans

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

One more 11 hour shift today, then a 3 day weekend

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

i feel like i'm entering the opposite of heterofatalism by basically giving up on the idea of dating women because my luck trying to have any woman be into me has been so astronomically bad that i've taken as a sign to just date men instead

[–] buh@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

is it typical to be so fucking sleepy like 1.5 hours into the first estriadol dose (via patch) blob-sleep

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[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi again everyone. So I sorta kinda had a mental breakdown.

CW: Dysphoria, mental health stuffI already wasn’t doing great over the holidays break and then I just sort of went off the rails and spent like a solid day or two crying or trying not to cry. I wrote down a bunch of stuff to try to process it, which was a VERY good idea in hindsight. There’s a lot I want to say about it but I maybe need to collect my thoughts a bit better before giving the full version.

The short version is that over the years I’ve learned to disassociate as a coping mechanism, and once I realized I was trans I wanted to move away from that, which is a good thing, of course. The catch though is that, given I have a long time before being able to fully transition, my identity and sense of self is propped up by the ideal version of myself that I’m trying to become. Something I was reading got me thinking back again on how I’d previously experience the world as an egg. Knowing what I know now, however, I was no longer able to disassociate from my current or past reality and just started to spiral.

On a positive note, I was able to identify a lot of thoughts and feelings that went previously unexplored. I also realize much more how important it is our identities (including terms and categories we fit into) really match our personal experience. Very relevant to this, in my free time away from most of the internet ended up finally reading Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue which was better than I expected. One thing that really made an impact on me is how focused on people’s real feelings and experiences it was. I was expecting something more academic, but it was very personal. I also felt it was much more radically inclusive of trans experiences than modern discourse usually allows. I knew before that Feinberg defined “trans” as a broad umbrella, but it was still interesting to see hir reasoning explained further. Here’s a great example from the book:

CW, because it briefly mentions SA

We are a movement of masculine females and feminine males, cross-dressers, transsexual men and women, intersexuals born on the anatomical sweep between female and male, gender-blenders, many other sex and gender-variant people, and our significant oth-ers. All told, we expand understanding of how many ways there are to be a human being. Our lives are proof that sex and gender are much more complex than a delivery room doctor's glance at genitals can determine, more variegated than pink or blue birth caps. We are oppressed for not fitting those narrow social norms. We are fighting back. Our struggle will also help expose some of the harmful myths about what it means to be a woman or a man that have compart-mentalized and distorted your life, as well as mine. Trans liberation has meaning for you — no matter how you define or express your sex or your gender. If you are a trans person, you face horrendous social punishments - from institutionalization to gangremoved, from beatings to denial of child visitation. This oppression is faced, in varying degrees, by all who march under the banner of trans liberation. This brutalization and degradation strips us of what we could achieve with our individual lifetimes. And if you do not identify as transgender or transsexual or in-tersexual, your life is diminished by our oppression as well. Your own choices as a man or a woman are sharply curtailed. Your individual journey to express yourself is shunted into one of two deeply carved ruts, and the social baggage you are handed is already packed. So the defense of each individual's right to control their own body, and to explore the path of self-expression, enhances your own freedom to discover more about yourself and your potentialities. This movement will give you more room to breathe — to be your-self. To discover on a deeper level what it means to be your self.

I thought this passage in particular was fantastic, but the rest has been great too. I do still have one final chapter to read, which I’m going to do right after posting this. :)

I’d love to hear your opinions if you’ve read it already. If you haven’t read it, you should. Could it maybe be a good candidate for a book club type thing?

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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

CW: DysphoriaMy dysphoria has been building up this week. I still have cold symptoms, and can't wear proper make-up due to wiping my nose/mask that smears it. Almost cried a few times this week, either looking at my outfit or at my body or my face. Wearing eye makeup helps, but I still feel too nervous to wear mascara to work. Once my nails grow a bit more I think I need to start painting them. They were at a decent length last weekend, but I chickened out and cut them instead.

Also still worried about the passport, but my therapist wrote a very nice support letter that I hope clears things up for the passport agency.

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm finally not coughing sideways and I'm generally feeling a lot better, so I have that going for me.

Need to figure out what to do with my sideburns this year, I grow them out to mutton chop grade and eventually insta-remove them soon as someone mentions dubois-depressed . Apparently no matter how hard I try it will not be in fashion, also I can't believe how popular that game is.

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm listening to "A Funeral of Flowers" from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and I just noticed the channel name: Ashen Wolf. I am an imposter...

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

emo teenage nostalgia music bullshitGoddamn I still love BTB&M

Listening to the Alaska remaster rn and damn, this album really influenced a lot of my death/prog metal(core) influences

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

my little pony is now a ceefax exclusive

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