Note that didn't unfollow Grimes until this specific chosen moment. I hope he dies mad. Very mad.

You guys make my day sometimes. love you all.

Assuming it even comes out. I know there are some gender-related mods and stuff for Stardew Valley, and Stardew itself was a huge leap over the enforced disheteronormativity of Harvest Moon. I would like it if Haunted Choclatier was more "woke".

https://todon.nl/@MxAlba/112987311774530933

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5430764

Hello and welcome to the fourth of my silly little rambles that people apparently like to read, only this time it's a post! I spoke with a few people over on trachat and the consensus seemed to be that making this a full post would be better, so from now on I'll be posting them here and crossposting to traa.

Jumping right into it, today's dress is Long Ears and Sharp Ears' Morning Glory. Unlike the other dresses I've covered so far, this one is available as both a OP and a JSK with blouse.

As you can see the JSK is a lot girlier and cutesier, while the OP has a nicer more mature and elegant look. Of the two I'm drawn more towards the white versions OP, but both are really lovely! I think however that the coloured versions of the dress work better as the JSK, particularly this purple version. I'm just personally drawn towards pretty white clothing in general.

I was mainly drawn to this one by the chiffon and tulle fabric, in particular the metallic tulle hexagon pattern that covers the entire dress is really beautiful and adds a nice shine without being overwhelming. The white versions of the dress show it off particularly well I think. It makes the entire dress glow in the sunlight, hence the name, and it is utterly gorgeous when it does.

As has become a theme, I'm also in love with the smaller details too. In particular this collar is gorgeous and I adore all the little bows on the JSK version. The mix of purple, blue, and green that you can see here is really difficult to get right but I think it works quite well here!

I honestly don't have much else to say about this dress really, it's a bit simple but I think quite effective and I really like it. I already quite liked LnSEars as a brand for their more elaborate fairy-themed pieces, but this one has shown me that they can do a decent variety of looks and it makes me want to get one of their pieces again. LnSEars are also a good brand for taller women, since you can custom order their dresses to match your sizes for only a slight price increase. ($10 extra for a skirt length increase, $15 for a full resizing)

As a reminder, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.

Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.

I am no longer asking but if you were already an Ada Rook Enjoyer before this post then you're a TRUE TRANSGENDER PATRIOT

Fallow is a silly little 640×480 RPG Maker narrative adventure game by Famous Screamy Musician Ada Rook, which in ways feels like a heavily expanded version of a fruity little TWINE game, Perseids or something. It's a game of oppressive atmosphere, desolate landscapes, really good pixel art and very vague storytelling.

The purples-and-golds of the burnt-out forests and dilapidated houses strike a really awesome contrast against the Game Boy green character sprites, sometimes highlighting the contrast between Isabelline's tiny living form, the massive/rotted out husks of old, dead electronics & machinery, and the collossal, alluring biomechanical structures churning away in the Skids. This world is dying, and I wanna know what the Dynon has to do with it. What the Machine Enthusiasts are after. What's in the clearing of the forest. Why it's no longer safe to be here. What's in the dreams. Rapid eye movement.

All of Isabelline's sisters have disappeared.

I've been trying to keep track of all the narrative threads, Isabelline's sisters and the three people mentioned in the carrier pidgeon note, the scripture referring to a Mary-Ann, the suspicious faceless creatures in the bulbs powered by vacuum tubes, but there's a lot going on. Do you know what the fuck is happening? I want to talk about it with you, so you should probably play it, nerd

Hey folks, I'm asking on behalf of a trans comrade that is new to transition and really wants to find some local friends to talk to and possibly hang out with in the future. This comrade is having a bit of a hard time getting started and I think this would help a lot.

If you think this might be in your alley or you know anyone, please DM me on matrix @small-k:matrix.org. You can do so with a new account but I will ask which account on hexbear you are, dw I will forget it almost immediately and you can delete that info after. I'm just asking for security/no trolls reasons.

Another sweetie down, infinite cuteness on the human race

A rambling, treatbrained manifesto.

So let's say, purely for the sake of argument that you and I talking about a movie or manga or a novel something, and you told me a little about something you like. However, I noticed that it only seems to have cishets in it. No queers? Sorry, dropped.

These are not the thoughts of someone normal. All media has cishets in it, though, or it used to. Until I was in my teens I didn't think about it too hard, but then I read this funny orange book, Nevada by Imogen Binnie. It broke my brain in several ways, but majorly, I didn't realise before then that we were allowed to have trans people in our narratives? I don't know why I'm like this, but it was the beginning of my downward spiral. I'm a sad little gay and always have been, so I was pretty desperate to see anything more than the average, straight people kissing, thing. Representation Matters. At first I was just obsessed with yuri manga and anime, and that was okay for a little bit. Who remembers Miss Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles? Or maybe Yurucamp? Raise your hand if someone sold you these as YURI and it turned out to be BAIT and you wasted your time because nobody would be honest about the queer content of an anime back then!!! The only manga that remain in my Tachiyomi library are So, Do You Want To Go Out, Or and After Hours. From there, it was logical to move to manhua, manhwa, and donghua about women kissing. Mage and Demon Queen, or like Soulmate, Ghosts of Greywoods, so on.

When I literally ran out out of decent webcomics about women kissing though, I stumbled my way into the murican (and it seems to be a deeply amerikkkan thing, or at least a western thing) romance novel. I have no idea how I did, but this increased my pool of stuff considerably. The other thing it did was reconnect me with trans people in fiction.

Look, if you know, you know. In movies it's only ever really The Silence of the Lambs or Boys Don't Cry. TV shows, it's all dramatic reveals on crime shows, or whatever. Bad unfunny sitcom jokes. Video games, don't even fucking try. Code Veronica deserves to be bullied. Despite the absolute state of things, I was always keeping my eyes open for trans rep, and I mean you could have been reading the Wandering Son manga, or any amount of low-quality ultra-misogynist gender-essentialist "genderbender" dogshit. I long for a future where kids don't have to deal with shit like that when lookin' for queer manga.

Novels, however, have funny tagging systems. Goodreads is so trash thanks to Amazon’s enforced decay of the site that frequently books end up with the wrong tags. And so, anything with two queer women who kiss in it sometimes gets filed under “romance”, even if it really should not. As a result I ended up discovering Detransition, Baby through my adventures gathering gay stuff. And hey, as it turns out, author Torrey Peters is at least aware of Imogen Binnie. Oh, and there’s a novel by Casey Plett, too? And then there are even more novels with transfemme protagonists outside of that??? In fact, probably a few hundred????

So here’s the thing, right? There are probably less than fifty films with trans people as protagonists, or even major characters. There are definitely less than fifty video games in that category. Novels, though? I have read thirty-six and have a further sixty on my immediate watch list to read. Probably another 40 or so on my Goodreads To-Read. If you limit yourself by rep in any other medium, you’ll be running out basically instantly. There actually are enough queer and trans books to sustain yourself on.

I do not wanna be inside the mind of your cishet protagonist, go away. Cis queers are fine, but I would really prefer you write someone cisn’t, because we can do better collectively than forcing cisgender representation down people’s throats, I mean keep that in the bedroom please. My decision has been: I will simply never read another book with a cishet protagonist, usually. Last one I did was Neuromancer by William Gibson, and holy shit did that ever reinforce why I’m doing this. It’s not an irredeemable text, but I don’t want to put up with that fucking shit. /r/menwritingwomen might be a stupid subreddit but it has a point. At time of writing the last I read any book with a cishet protagonist was in 2020. Conversely I am always interested in a decent cis queer protagonist too, like I can easily enjoy a Girl Flesh or an Our Wives Under The Sea for whatever other aspects of queer existence they might poke at. I am most enthusiastic for transfemme protagonists though, (I wish I could find nb transfemme leads but tagging makes it hard) however I am amicable to many different queer protagonists, from regular cis lesbians to nonbinary transmascs to agender peeps. Anything goes as long as it’s not cishet.

Representation of trans people by way of our own voices is more or less a fresh development of the last eleven years, so I consider myself sort of a cut-rate historical observer as well. A lot of these books, especially the ones about trans women, have their little spot on an ever-growing web that extends outward from the starting point of Orange Book, and I try to keep tabs on what sort of funny developments are ongoing. I have to read Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin and Brainwyrms by Allison Rumfitt. It’s been enriching to see how different genres and writers interact with trans fiction, and what gets depicted and doesn’t. I am an enthusiast of trans and to a certain extent broader queer representation. It is a beautiful little blossoming flower of love and I need to touch it at least once a month or else I will die.

Down with cis, up with trans.

this one is gonna be so much fun, please come out and enjoy the evening with us!

Fire Island (2022) - A group of queer best friends gather in Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise.

we got a few CWs on this one because the cis gays are unfortunately not ok. read through here and make sure you're ok with everything going on: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15218000/parentalguide

Hadestown (2019 bootleg) - A sung-through musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.

Hadestown
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/19198

• gaslighting
• addiction
• alcohol abuse
• kidnapping
• flashing lights/images
• sexual content
• sad ending
• blood/gore

anyway, with all of that said, good or bad it will be a nice night of chatting with other queer people and we hope to keep it going so if you have any suggestions for queer movies/shows, feel free to drop them in here and we'll do them one week!

Hadestown
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/19198

• gaslighting
• addiction
• alcohol abuse
• kidnapping
• flashing lights/images
• sexual content
• sad ending
• blood/gore

For real, this is the least creepy picture I can remember seeing, and it's LLM generated.

I get why it happens, but boy, is it tiring sometimes or what?

source but it explains nothing

As a reminder, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.

Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.

Let's have another good week everyone

Again, I'm looking for FUN movies that would be good candidates for a trans/queer movie night. Here's what I have based on internet searching:

• Wild Zero

• The People's Joker

• Fresa y Chocolate

• Nuigulamar Z: Gothic Lolita Battle Bear

• I Saw the TV Glow (ok, not FUN but good)

• But I'm a Cheerleader

• The Bird Cage

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (CW: Anti-Asian racism)

• Paris is Burning

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch

• Jennifer's Body

• Female Trouble

• Velvet Goldmine

• Psycho Beach Party

• All About Evil

• Serial Mom

• The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror

• Liquid Sky

• Death Drop Gorgeous

• Heathers

• Slumber Party Massacre (Remake)

• Assassination Nation

• Ed Wood

• A Fantastic Woman (also not FUN but supposedly really good)

• Boy Meets Girl

• The Garden Left Behind (another drama on the list)

• Freak Show

• Ma Vie en Rose

• Kaboom

• VelociPastor (not specifically a queer film but came up on some lists I found)

• The Forbidden Zone (CW: Quite a bit of blackface)

• Alice Junior 

• Venus

• Julie Johnson

• Transamerica

• Breakfast on Pluto

• The Iron Ladies

• Nimona

• The Watermelon Woman

• Dracula's Daughter

• Tangerine (2015)

• Chicken Run

• Daisies

• Hackers

• Shortbus

• Saved!

• To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

• Some Like It Hot

• Bound

• All of The Matrix films

• Your Name

• She-Ra and the Princess of Power (Series)

• Warrior Nun (Series)

• .hack//Sign (Series)

• Recovery of an MMO Junkie (Series)

This song has hit more on my trans feelings more than many explicitly trans songs? I always hear the "She's running out again" as it being "her", the person I want to be

Thanks to @proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml for helping me come up with a title

Today is day 14 of being under estradiol(i started decapeptyl 2 months ago). I feel a bit more tired than before and feel like my hairs are a bit smoother(when i brush them). So i want to know, what could i expect from the next weeks ?

Edit : i just found out my nipples are more sensitive than before.