i wish people didn't make it seem like your options for medically transitioning as a nb/gq person are "do nothing" or "the binary opposite of whatever you started with"

#genuinely curious though: what are your other options?#there is no androgynizing hormone#it is just T or E#if you're talking about surgeries you are correct though

There is no "third hormone" but there are ways of going on HRT that are not the typical binary way.

Microdosing, for one, as well as going on HRT for a certain amount of time before stopping, which can leave you with certain effects but not others, or effects to a lesser degree. There's also a certain class of medications (SERMs I believe?) which are popular with NB/GQs who have a naturally T-dominant body, because they block some of the effects of estrogen like breast growth (there may be something similar with testosterone but if there is I can't remember it).

You can take e without taking t blockers. You can use monoxidil for hair growth and not take t. You can take t and finasteride (which blocks dht and so prevents things like bottom growth and baldness). You can maybe use t cream (cream! not gel) applied locally to get bottom growth but less of the other effects of t. You can take t and get laser hair removal on your face if you dont like facial hair. You can get top surgery without taking t at all. You can get electrolysis and not do feminizing hrt at all.

the fucked up thing about critically acclaimed hit mmorpg final fantasy fourteen is that it actually is that good

There shouldn't be $15 indie games you dumb slut

Like I'm sorry we cannot be posting about loving indie games if you aren't going to actually care about indie developers I've seen you people.

There's an entire phenomenon in the indie space called boom/bust pricing where because of games like Hollow Knight, indie developers struggle to sell games at more expensive prices and so have to hope that their game booms in popularity. If it does, they often bust and don't make their money back.

Yes, this is why games go to Kickstarter and yes this is why a game like OMORI took six years and absolutely cost more than the Kickstarter price. You need money to make video games.

The fact that so many posts about indie games are hyperfocused on the price makes me sad. There are plenty of phenomenal indie games on the market that are $25-35 that don't get the attention they should because people don't see indie games as unique ventures that are worth supporting they see indie games as a market of bone cheap games. It's sickening.

“kids spend too much time on their devices” well what else are they supposed to do? there’s no corner shops with pinball machines in them on every corner anymore. there’s no malls or stores in small towns for teens to hang out in without being suspected of shoplifting or kicked out for loitering. sidewalks are too broken for them to ride their bikes and there’s no bike lane in the street to make it safe for them. i just don’t understand where they expect these kids to go when they keep taking places away from them. and yes having no safe public places for them is what leads a lot of teens into addiction if they end up at a place where people aren’t truly looking out for them.

After years of global searching and processing human response, the internet has finally completed its original task of finding the most perfect cat video possible.

oh my god

Unmut this 😭😭😭

ABSOLUTELY unmute this.

people with tooth decay aren't bad people. they aren't lazy either. neither are they unclean or irresponsible. tooth decay doesn't make you a bad person. you don't deserve mockery, judgement, or tooth pain for having any. the only thing people with tooth decay deserve is healthcare.

Yes! Remember to brush and floss, not because of what it looks or smells like if you don't. But because you deserve the care so you can live a healthy life.

Final Fantasy XIV is the greatest game of all time

Pancakes.

question for the chat:

how many people gruesomely die live in the arcadion but no one remembers? i say at least 5 a year

considering the conversation we overhear at some point in the 7.1 MSQ ("we don't actually know what death entails! what if violent and gruesome deaths were more common than peaceful passings?!"), i think it was an almost daily occurrence when it was still in business (before zoraal ja took the soul reserves over)

the worst part is that the arcadion is probably one of the safest dangerous jobs you can take in alexandria. like imagine how bad it would be for ratings if people regularly couldn't remember matches. that's the LAST thing you want to hear about as an advertiser, you would be doing absolutely everything to make sure everyone knows about your medically inadvisable energy drink. i think out of all the dangerous jobs in alexandria the arcadion fighters are probably the most assured they could possibly be that they will not actually die in the ring outside of freak accidents.

but think about the manufacturing sector. imagine working in a setting where fatal workplace accidents will result in absolutely no improvements in safety policy or regulations for anyone ever. you get hit by the Soul Sterilization Laser in origenics you aint coming back from that. but you're scrubbed from the logs and nobody remembers you. who investigates what happened? who fixes the malfunctioning failsafe? who institutes the policy of double checking the maintenance area before the big laser gets turned on? fucking nobody!

somewhere in the everkeep there's a hugely dangerous manufacturing job that feels like it's perpetually short of staff because they never seem to have enough people on hand and they have no idea why

Final Fantasy XIV is the greatest game of all time

If you keep up with polling averages btw, its not that Trump is horribly unpopular yet. Its thats he's more unpopular than he should be in his "honeymoon" post election period, and the half of the country that hates him REALLY hates him while his fans are slowly peeling off

But yeah, if ur curious for exact numbers based on various polling trackers, about 50.1 percent of the us is anti trump rn and 46.7 percent is still pro

try not to get scared, scariest stories

I can't articulate how utterly inhumane it is that we've not only normalized, but valorized, sleep deprivation. We treat it like an achievement.

Sleep deprivation increases your risk for a myriad of serious illnesses like heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and stroke.

And that's just to name a few.

Some of the most important cellular work we do all day happens while we're sleeping. When we don't get enough quality sleep and rest, our cells literally can't effectively repair themselves.

It literally damages every system in our bodies.

Capitalism lies.

Getting enough sleep is actually one of the most meaningfully "productive" things we can do.

i cannot explain it but these all have the same vibes