amethyst

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I keep injecting in the wrong spot and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I keep injecting into the wrong spot. Usually how I know is it feels harder to push the plunger down on the syringe. And I bleed a little upon removal. How I find the spot is I feel different spots on my leg to see if it flexs, I find the spot and mark it. Disinfect it and inject. Usually turns out fine but these past two times...

amethyst, (edited )

There’s definitely just some variance in terms of how much it bleeds and whether it hurts. I haven’t really noticed any pattern in terms of injection site; I think there are a lot of factors. Holding the vial and maybe rolling it between your hands can help warm up the liquid, which makes it a little bit easier to both draw and inject.

The needle size will affect these things too – the thinner the injection needle the less blood I’ve seen, but then it takes a little longer to inject. Do you know what gauge you’re using to inject with?

I found the whole process very stressful for the first several weeks, but eventually it just became routine!

amethyst,

When you’re ready to make big changes, definitely look into threading as an alternative to waxing, a lot of folk find it less painful in the long term. (But it still really stings at first! :) )

Having thick/full eyebrows can be an advantage, since you have more to work with. I have the problem that my upper eyebrows are a bit too sparse, which makes them much more difficult to shape.

amethyst,

Ok, so the MC gets iskei’d into their own Mary Sue story, but as the villainess… now I really want to know if the author based it on something they wrote in middle school!

amethyst,

I’m pro this rule. I eventually quit reading a lot of the trans subreddits because of the constant doomposting.

amethyst,

The source is referenced in the graph (PRRI survey from 2023, as described e.g. here)

The previous years are a different org’s polls (Gallups)

amethyst,

I thought Frieren was still better at suppressing her mana.

Although, Frieren did state in an earlier episode that Fern was faster at getting off spells, which would definitely be an advantage here.

amethyst,

Not everybody wants to subscribe to a community dedicated to a single seasonal show.

I know I actively avoid those communities for works based on a manga, because they often have spoilers show up by way of fanart/etc/. It’s just not a suitable place for general discussion of a currently airing anime.

amethyst,

I’m curious how these modern takes on One Piece will deal with the Okama and related characters (assuming they get that far!)

I haven’t read the manga, but the anime at least comes off super-transphobic in how they’re played for laughs at times. I think that’d necessarily be cut from the live action version, but less hopeful about this for another anime adaptation.

amethyst,

Sure, that’s kind of tangential to the point I’m making. Something can reflect transphobic ideas without explicitly being about trans folk.

amethyst,

This is a weird grey area for me. I see it as a silly episode where bender does some reprehensible shit, sort of learns his lesson but than continues being a shitty person.

That episode really bothered me – decades before I realized I was trans it was my least favorite episode of the entire run. It just came off as too mean spirited, and relied too heavily on the man-in-a-dress “joke”.

amethyst,

I’ve always read that it’s because many light novels started online, and the way they were listed meant you needed the title to really grab folk’s attention.

(I actually really like this particular anime; the animation is often iffy but art and story really appeal to me!)

amethyst,

<3 Shami momo

As a trans woman, I thought it was interesting that in one of the most recent chapters (this is not a spoiler) Shamiko has to deal with some minor awkwardness about her name having changed. The series is consistently queer-adjacent in ways that go way beyond the central relationship!

amethyst, (edited )

One kind of interesting twist on that is Fincher’s The Game. It remains unclear until the very end of the movie whether the main character is in a convoluted game where people are pretending to conspire against him, or an actual conspiracy using the game as cover.

amethyst,

They also tended to say the changes made it ‘hard to follow’ or ‘ruined the pacing’ or other things, but as an anime-only that just flat wasn’t true. I actually really loved the kind of elliptical feel of the story in S1.

I honestly kind of felt that source readers were border-line brigading posts about the anime on reddit. It certainly didn’t make me any more inclined to check it out!

amethyst,

You should probably have made some of the questions optional – “distribute a 100 points” is just not something I’m going to bother thinking about.

amethyst,

Bofuri is surprisingly good! Not in any way serious in tone, since it all takes place in an MMORPG, but some good action scenes, especially in the first season.

Pretty sure it’s completely kid friendly (no fan service or other anime weirdness.)

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amethyst,

One issue I’ve seen is that the bot’s empty posts tend to flood out other more interesting stuff from my main feed.

I’ve thought about removing the community from my feed for that reason, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

amethyst,

I think Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer have mixed review because the content/story is much more mature than Frieren.

Hmm, the former two shows always seemed extremely juvenile to me.

Hey girls! Baby trans here with some questions about body hair

So, my egg finally cracked a few weeks ago. And while generally dysphoria isn’t terrible for me at the moment, one thing that is really making me uncomfortable is my body hair. I’ve always been pretty hairy, so I bought an epilator a while ago, and while I’m really happy with it for my legs (smooth legs are aweeesome!),...

amethyst,

I mentioned this in another recent thread, but I spent a lot of time looking through reddit threads where transgirls talked about body hair.

What I thought was interesting is that:

  • while you do get a lot of responses that say it only somewhat reduces body hair
  • there were several folk who said it eventually did pretty much stop growth in many places (especially the torso), but that it took 3-4 years.
  • One thing generally agreed on was that no matter what, hair on the legs/forearms will stick around; that’s typical for cis women as well. (There’s a lot of variability where cis women will have noticeable hair, but almost always on the legs/forearms.)

In online spaces you’ll generally see a lot more folk in the 0-2yrs range of HRT (because they’re newer and have more things they want to talk about.) So my guess is that the long term reduction in body hair is larger than you’d think just skimming threads like this one.

I’m at a bit more than 2 years, and it definitely has reduced a lot on my chest/shoulders/back/butt/upper arms, but I still have to shave occasionally (especially chest/butt). For now I’m content to see if the rest goes away on its own.

amethyst,

Will I be able to go more than one day without shaving my body hair without looking at my chest and arms in disgust?

I’ve previously been curious about this, and I waded through a lot of reddit threads looking at all the anecdotal answers.

A pretty fair number of folk said they eventually saw a large reduction in body hair on the torso especially, but that it took 3-4 years.

You’ll also see a lot of folk on 2 years of HRT saying it gives only a little bit of reduction.

Hard to draw a strong conclusion here, but it seems hopeful! (I’m two years in and see some reduction, but I still have plenty of hair. Pretty sure it grows back much more slowly now, but since I didn’t shave my body pre-HRT it’s kind of hard to tell.)

amethyst,

I’ve watched four this season:

  • Seven Spellblades: I assumed going in it would be fairly generic, but it’s turned into my overall favorite, mostly on the merits of the story itself. It does a surprisingly good job of maintaining a relatively large ensemble of MCs. (Also, given that the setting is kind of “dark anime harry potter”, I can’t help but appreciate the implied “fuck you” to JKR in one subplot.)
  • Helck: not all the humor lands for me, but enough does that I really enjoy the show! The slowly unfolding plot is kind of neat too.
  • Undead Girl Murder Farce: I really like the sense of humor and style in this one. At the start it seems like it’s going to be a bit like In/Spectre in terms of slow-paced mystery solving, but the action starts to pick up ~half way through the first cour.
  • The vending machine iskei: I wouldn’t say it’s exactly a good show, but it’s been watchable enough I made it to the end of the season!
amethyst, (edited )

What I’m pretty sure is the creator’s name is watermarked in the top left – “Sangled”.

That let me find this post: www.deviantart.com/…/I-Made-a-Picrew-805976802

It says it was made private, but that you can still access it via this link: picrew.me/ja/secret_image_maker/GWQo0ayzr7bd5eKF. (I checked and it has the sunglasses and lips from your pic, so presumably it’s the right one!)

amethyst,

it seems to kind of match the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Ghost#/media/File:MF_Ghost_manga_volume_1.png, though.

Hiii cute trans people, my name is valentine, but it doesn't sound good with my last name at all, so I was wondering if you can help me find a full name that sounds cute. (lemmy.ml)

I don’t really plan to use it on legal documents yet (it is a nightmare to legally change my legal name in my country), but it might sound better online and to introduce myself. I would appreciate suggestions uwu.

amethyst,

You might want to start by looking at common last names for a region you identify with.

e.g. here’s a list of common surnames in England/Wales (Picked because I’m British myself)

If I had to pick from that particular list, I might go with:

  • Valentine Yates
  • Valentine May
  • Valentine Frost

(also several borderline puns such as Valentine Hart, Valentine Rose, Valentine Day)

e: Oh also, I honestly didn’t think my full name flowed very well initially. But I got used to it over time!

amethyst,

This is such a shitty way to frame it.

I think folk should default to neutral pronouns, especially in trans safe spaces. But phrasing a failure to do so it as “misgendering trans people” is jumping straight to the most absolute bad-faith interpretation.

Then further, saying that anyone who does it is “a transphobe” is way off base. (It reminds me of Contrapoint’s bit about essentialism)

It’s also notable to me that you’re not asking for e.g. any change of policy here. You’re not trying to improve the way this instance is run to discourage folk from using masculine defaults.

You’re using this incident only to wage war against someone you were already in conflict with, and assuming that anyone who steps in and criticizes your behavior is taking sides in that conflict.

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