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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • On a side note, I had a chat with a trans friend once, regarding emotions. When they transitioned, the intensity of their emotions didn’t change much. However, their ability to contain them plummeted

    In my experience this isn’t universal. I’m trans myself, and I’ve talked about this with a lot of my trans friends and we’ve all had pretty different experiences with the emotional aspects of transitioning.

    Personally, I definitely had a really hard time containing my emotions early transition. They felt so unfamiliar. It felt like I had gained an entirely new set of emotions, and I had to relearn how to cope with them. It didn’t help that I was going through the early stages of puberty-which is already a time of heightened emotions-while dealing with the loss of my entire support network.

    Now that I’m more settled into my life as a woman: I’m accustomed to how I experience my emotions, I have a loving support network around me, and I’m in a new job where people treat me with respect; I feel like I have a much firmer handle on my emotions than I ever did pre-transiton.




  • Can’t have a revolution without some bloodshed, and until we have a revolution ordinary people are going to continue dying by the thousands.

    I mean, if you wanna look down your nose from up on your high horse, go ahead. But we’re dying down here. We’re being brutalized. I think we have a fucking right to cheer on the one person in recent memory to give us a tiny scrap of justice.

    We get beaten and scapegoated anytime we have a peaceful protest. The ruling class has been asking for this for a long time.





  • A couple of years ago my (now ex, for urelated reasons) partner got ahold of some molly. I was pretty new to drugs, but trusted her to keep me safe. We tested a small portion of it, and it came back clean. That night we took it with us to some club and did some lines in the bathroom.

    Unfortunately, I was unaware that the chemicals in those test kits have expiration dates, and no one had ever explained the chocolate chip cookie effect to me. Either we just missed the chunk that had fentanyl in it, or those expired tests just weren’t accurate, but either way I ended up overdosing.

    I’m told my heart stopped for about ten minutes. Fortunately for me, the boyfriend of one of the performers had narcan with him. I had collapsed in front of the bar, and woke up laying in the parking lot with a bunch of strangers crowding around me. My partner ended up bundling me into the car and driving me home. I’m pretty sure I ended up with some brain damage. Years later though, I feel like I’m pretty much recovered, fortunately.