Skip Navigation
Remote View
traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns @hexbear.net
Eco [she/her, he/him] @hexbear.net

Trans Megathread for the Week of 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-12 - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named "Kern's World", where the plan is to release monkeys

infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern's World hoping to find paradise.

also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good

Join our public Matrix server! https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat

As a reminder, please do not discuss current struggle sessions in the mega. We want this to be a little oasis for all of us and the best way to do that is not to feed into existing conflict on the site.

Also, 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.

579 comments

  • hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i'll add you to the list!

    the list as it stands:

     
            oscardejarjayes* (1/13 - 1/19)
    SwitchyandWitchy* (1/20 - 1/26)
    SILLY BEAN@lemmygrad.ml* (1/27 - 2/2)
    AshenWolf* (2/3 - 2/9)
    GayTuckerCarlson* (2/10 - 2/16)

    EstraDoll (3/2 - 3/8)

    ​ * after name denotes someone who has posted before and will be skipped by first-time posters

  • I tried speed dating and this is about how it went:

    Them: Says some presumably interesting anecdote about themselves but I can't hear them

    Me: "WHAT?"

    repeat for two hours

  • i thought i was really gonna miss having gargantuan pockets when i moved to more femme clothing, but honestly i love having a silly little handbag so much.

  • My fuckin bottom surgery application was rejected because I faxed it the same day as my doctors did his half πŸ™„. And it took a few months for them to reject me, now I'll just have to do it again I guess

  • I'm booking an appointment and the only gender neutral honorific is Dr. So fuck it, if you have to call me something, call me Doctor Moss. Doc Moss is acceptable.

    Unironically wish I could put in Comrade instead of Mr or Miss or whatever

  • Just paid my semester's tuition and... I have more money than I thought I would, I've got an entire extra month's rent compared to what I expected and then some more to cover all my books. I'm starting to feel actually kind of okay being independent? A lot of the worry about if I'd be able to be okay is gone now, replaced, admittedly by other worries, but I feel okay about my situation, even if it's not super secure or the most comfortable, its become livable. Especially since the past few weeks finally gave me my first real break in over a year and I was able to rest a little.

  • Still feel self conscious enough to stop my self from using feminine mannerisms around other people, but now it comes with guilt over not asserting myself 🫠

  • put some effort into painting my nails instead of just throwing on a quick layer like i normally do. did base coat, 2 coats black, then shiny top coat, just took my time at it while i was installing new linux on my laptop, it was relaxing. starting to think it's kinda worth the effort, they look really nice and shiny and will take longer to chip off.

  • so i was walking through the house earlier when i noticed that one board that my parents insist on keeping which tracks how tall me and my siblings were through time with the little marks and the date of when the mark was kept? out of curiosity I went and I checked my height as it stands now and... I've apparently lost about half an inch since I was 17. God I guess I wasn't going crazy, I do feel faintly just a bit shorter since starting HRT. It's totally possible it might just be normal aging things but I think it might be true, HRT does make you shrink a little

  • I decided to check up on r/MTF, which I haven't done in a long time. Unsurprisingly, that sub is still as embarrassingly lib as it ever was. More so than most other trans subs. They're still unable to connect the dots, and constantly making excuses for democrats, and acting like they're protectors of trans rights while they've actually shown that they do not care. Now I remember why I stopped visiting that place years ago. I have little patience for this lib shit.

  • Had a dream I had an avatar to go out in my place to do stuff for me, felt nice since I didn't have to mask so much

    only downside was resisting the urge to bunnyhop everywhere to save time

    • Realizing there was a period of my life where I'd skip everywhere since I thought it was both fun to do and got me around faster

      what if I'm actually in some sort of simulation

579 comments