Trans Megathread for the Week of November 4th, 2024 to November 10th, 2024
DEMOS (Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema: Russian: Диалоговая Единая Мобильная Операционная Система, ДЕМОС, lit. 'Interactive Unified Portable Operating System') is a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union. It is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix.
It's development was initiated in the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1982, and development continued in cooperation from other institutes, and commercialized by DEMOS Co-operative which employed most key contributors to DEMOS and to its earlier alternative, MNOS (a clone of Version 6 Unix). MNOS and DEMOS version 1.x were gradually merged from 1986 until 1990, leaving the joint OS, DEMOS version 2.x, with support for different Cyrillic script character encoding (charsets) (KOI-8 and U-code, used in DEMOS 1 and MNOS, respectively).
Initially it was developed for SM-4 (a PDP-11/40 clone) and SM-1600. Later it was ported to Elektronika-1082, BESM, ES EVM, clones of VAX-11 (SM-1700), and several other platforms, including PC/XT, Elektronika-85 (a clone of DEC Professional), and several Motorola 68020-based microcomputers.
The development of DEMOS effectively ceased in 1991, when the second project of the DEMOS team, RELCOM, took priority.
An archive of the DEMOS source code can found here: https://github.com/bpr97050/DEMOS
There's some interesting comments and mailing list archives in that repository as well. :)
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I've been listening to fucking BOOMER ALBUMS with magi!!!
Hi nerds and sorry I disappeared, uh who knows when I'll be back. I miss talking to people, but y'know. Please excuse the monologue...
We have 221 vinyl albums and 219 CDs, which is about what I expected but goddamn, bitch. That's after culling like thirty each of albums I don't care for. Together, we spent the week cataloguing every record we own on Discogs (I would never touch grass) which was generally pretty enjoyable, found out I have a few neato pressings from pretty far-flung places, for KKKanada. A West German (cringe) ( ) copy of the Jon & Vangelis Short Stories, a br*tish copy of Rubber Soul, a Spanish Yardbirds CD comp. I also discovered, to my sickening shock, that several albums I bought for decent prices (KT Tunstall LPs, Yes blurays) have in fact rocketed up in price to several times what I paid, absolutely horrifying.
Also we have been listening to a great deal of boomer tunes. Some cool things like Mingus Ah Um or Time Out, but also like, early albums by The Who, The Stooges, fucking, SF Sorrow. My internal tanks of Ressrve Gay Energy have almost totally depleted and I will have to engage in gaytrans slop soon; I am saying things like "I wish psychidellic rock was made exclusively by angry dykes". Basta Now was written for me, I think.
I miss talking to people but I'm finding it kind of stresses me out, on top of being a problem for my focus/time management skills. I'm such a fucking mess person, I'm less high strung and weird but the edges of my sense of self, the firmness of my self image, start to soften and go wobbly without other people. Socialising, talking, "You" is also the reflection of yourself in other people, what they see of you. I am without reflections to ponder and my brain is very very weird at this minute.
I miss you and love you, trans mega and the silly little gender people in it. I will try to be better and return.
hello, trans comrades! how do I start stockpiling DIY HRT for the trans people in my life? is there anywhere someone can point me for resources/things I should know? feel free to DM if you want!
I went to the thrift store and picked out a couple skirts and a cute sweater, the changing room was closed so I tried on a skirt in the McDonald's bathroom and it fit. I don't know how I had the courage to do this because Ive barely worn women's clothing on my own let alone in public but I just kept it on as I took the bus home. I was giddy laughing to myself because I looked in the mirror and actually liked how I looked. I have some thinking to do
I've never been big on physical touch (except with my wife), and I avoid when anyone else tries to hug or touch me, but... I'd quite like to experience a queer cuddle puddle at least once
My sleep these past days has been alright, I go to bed with half a gallon of water and usually by midnight I finish it and get another half gallon of water.
nsfw
Used to piss the bed growing up and it was one of the reasons I never had sleep overs and the like but suddenly I just stopped doing it. I don't know what changed and here I am with all this water
Have slowly come to realize I like the puppygirl thing more as an identity than like a kink thing
smut
Like in puppyplay smut or shit (maybe this is isn't an ideal way to explain it) I'm never interested in doing anything of the shit happening. Maybe part of that is prob being ace but acting like a dog isn't for ms
What it feels like is my gender is just Girl with Dog Characteristics. Also if body mods are ever a thing within my lifetime I would want dog ears and a tail
Feeling more comfortable in my skin than possibly ever.
I like my new name, and it's become a natural part of me very quickly.
My preferred clothes ("women's" clothing), which previously I had to work up a lot of emotions to put on, are just a matter of course now. I wear them without even really thinking about it.
I'm less concerned with words like man/woman/enby or pronouns. Just focusing on my own experience. More confident and comfortable with my sexuality.
4 months of laser hair removal is paying off. I have a lot of sessions in front of me, but the results are real and noticeable. I'm happy every time I see it in the mirror. I don't break down crying after I can't get a close shave anymore. If I have a little stubble, it's okay. It'll be gone soon enough.
Voice training continues to be an obstacle. I find it very emotionally draining, but I'm trying. I've done more consistent training in the last few weeks than ever before. It's not where it needs to be, but it's good. Eventually, it will become second nature like the clothes.
All together, thoughts of transition are less fear-based and more colored with calm excitement and confidence.
It feels good, people. I'm really embodying the love/loves atm
being trans is probably the biggest issue in my life. Obviously my autism/avpd/whatever other mental issues I have would still be a struggle, maybe not as bad though. The dysphoria alone is enough for that to be the case tbh. The majority of people seeming to either openly hate me or not care about me doesn't help. Especially when that's who I have irl.
I can't believe this happened to me. That I was born wrong, and puberty further fucked me.
I can't imagine a happy future. Maybe I'm just fundamentally unhappy. If it wasn't the trans stuff it'd just be some other shit. Brain was probably born broken. Brain and body fucked and broken, literally what is left?
Going to get fucked up and try and keep myself from sharp objects, thanks for listening, sorry for always being such a downer.
Is there a good way to hang up flugs in my room where they won't flap when a ceelinh fan is on? I heard command strips are okay but they are pretty expensive. I'm not able to use pins because I am in a dorm
Edit: never mind they are cheaper than I thought. I guess I could use like painters tape tho which would be cheaper
It's gonna take a least half a year before I can take hormones from my healthcare provider so I'm thinking of just doing DIY in the meantime. I'm starting with blood tests and then I'll see if I want to take it further
Does anybody else relate to this? I and a friend of mine are both autistic. He's cis, I'm a trans woman. When I'm noticing my autistic behavior I sometimes feel dysphoric because I fear it makes me look like him.
bit ahead, disclaimer that this is a joke and was not my intention.
THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN PRONOUN ELECTION DAY 2024 :pronouns:! You've now participated in electoralism, and many third parties had a good showing! The two main parties were close, with the Love party getting 8 votes and the Fae party getting 7 votes. The Pup party had a good showing, with 5 votes. Unfortunately I am not converting to puppygirl (yet)
Woof (:i-voted:)
Next election in four years :maybe-later-kiddo:
Results without the BS:
love/loves: 8 votes (lovely, I'm a based trans now #thallopilled #thallosweep)
fae/faer: 7 votes (I'm reading Throne of Glass (Empire of Storms/Tower of Dawn) right now...)
pup/pup's: 5 votes (sorry pups)
sie/hir: 3 votes (powerful)
they/them: 4 votes (idk)
doe/deer: 3 votes (deer-moding)
If this taught me anything, it's that I'm chill with many pronouns. I love love/loves and fae/faer, but found myself hoping for a sie/hir sweep. Honestly, they/them feel like legacy pronouns to me. Doe/deer is also good in it's own right, and although I'm more of a catgirl myself, I would have run pup/pup's for a bit had it won.
pronouns are now she/love/fae/sie on rotation due to slot limitations.
Every time I give a video essay in my youtube feed a chance it always sucks ass. I clicked one about how modern mass media suck wich had 600k views and it's making literal cinema sins tier "critiques" about continuity errors. who tf cares?
i'm doing it again sorry if this is too off-topic (spoilers for homestuck 2792)
In general I'm liking the more varied art styles for the characters
i can't get over how cute the art is in this little Flash interactive thing, omg the sprites i am swooning and now I have decided Vriska is my favourite character. also Feferi is so pretty omg. so much gender envy is happening here right now. who did this art, i need to become them
related, but the word spidersona will live rent-free in my head for a while
there's so many listed music tracks for this one but i uh got lost because it was late and didn't find most of them, lol
also I loved the actual drawings of :?, good bit
(I should mention tho in case anyone is interested in checking it out that some of the language is pretty dated as it's from ~2010 and kinda has its "edgy" roots, the unofficial collection has a whole bunch of content warnings and I think that's great that they did that but I feel it needs to be said)
this silly little comic is making me believe in people and my ability to actually have social connections again, so I appreciate that. I'm not sure what class of treat enjoyer this makes me, perhaps Treat Mage?
I wish I had started at a high dose off the bat instead of fucking myself over on the first few crucial years with low and inconsistent doses.
I wish I was skinnier/more comfortable with my weight so I could feel fine gaining weight for HRT affects.
I sometimes wish I was just ace so I could have that as an excuse for my hang ups with physical intimacy.
So, now that it's been a couple weeks since initially shaping my eyebrows (and overall I happy with them), I am being plagued by hairs regrowing in the plucked area. I don't mind replucking them, but when they're so small it's difficult to get a grip on them, and they make my eyebrows look bushier than they are do to the color even if they don't contribute any volume per say. Should I just use an eyebrow razor and deal with them via shaving, or should I just pluck them as they get long enough to repluck?
Well, it finally happened. I don't know how, but it did. My gender's on the move again, and so I was thinking about it while taking a test. My brain somehow thought about my E dose and my upcoming blood test, and then it hit me.
Anyone just do a little eye makeup and lip gloss and that's it? I'm looking at tutorials for the first time and it's way too much. I'm not doing a full face with foundation and all that. Also, I work a manual labor job, outside in heat/rain, get sweaty, etc. How to do minimal eye makeup that also won't smear everywhere if I get sweaty? Oh, I also have hooded eyes. @MusicOwl@hexbear.net@magi@hexbear.net
As much as I like the idea of falling asleep to music I need the time to have a dialogue in my head to think. I know it's a little weird but the two main voices in my mind are a bit of roles I assign Quique (masc) Kiki( femme). Probably just me switching back and forth like playing ping pong with myself but my best thinking gets done like that. It helps explain the contradictory emotions I feel by assigning them to one side or the other and I gotta manage my best making both happy.
I also stop using I and go by we for a while, instinct really it's weird. All of this might me coping from loneliness since I got no one to talk to most of the time but as far as coping mechanism go it's easily on of my more healthy ones I've tried. Maybe all of this is just my imagination but so far it's helped me get out of the worst of my depression the ability to just myself and get a quick prep talk through the worst of the negative self talk.
Going through old comments on stuff like youtube, SCP wiki watching as more and more profile pics put up a trans flag or have trans pride colours - the harvest is coming, more and more nya ha ha... you fool, you posted in the video that makes you trans 8 years ago it's only a matter of time
Voice training and realizing that I have amazing control of the muscles I need already due to years of singing. The thing is... it's with singing. I can't for the life of me control them while speaking (yet). I actually got into it on the way to work this morning, and was able to speak with a pretty good fem voice, but on the way back I just couldn't get it for the whole commute.
I will master this, I will. Am I, a self-described vocalist, really going to let speaking (vocals) get the best of me? NO
does hormones and laser even do anything?
I thought I’d see more of a difference for how long I’ve been doing both.
I see so many trans girls that just look like normal girls (even if you can still kind of tell they are trans) is it too much to ask for for myself?
Will laser actually eventually get rid of all my facial hair?
Will hormones do more eventually? Is it cuz I’ve been losing weight so not as much fat redistributes?
Do all the girls who pass just rely on makeup? That’s the only thing I can think of to cope, but o don’t know what I will do if I try makeup and still don’t pass.
I fear my gf is tying her life to mine and I am destined to just be miserable forever.
Update on my transphobic supervisor: he spent all morning talking about how some billionaires are good people who earned their money through noble ventures, like investment banking. He tells me he is a stock broker on the side and offers to give me some tips.
Ok but for real why is this guy working in a homeless shelter???
So I'm going to a hair salon tomorrow. It'll be a day of firsts for me. It'll be the first time I've presented as fem in public somewhere other than at my therapists. It'll be my first time really doing anything fem in public. I'm stressed but excited. So to cope I'm trying on a bunch of different outfits right now to see what I like. I think I've settled on an outfit comprised of a gray teeshirt under a cute orange cardigan. I'm trying to decide if I should do the high waisted jeans I have, or a cute orange hippy skirt I like. I could do the skirt over the jeans or leggings if it stays cold and rainy like today. Decisions decisions
I'm pretty used to blank deer-in-the-headlights stares or looks of confusion and disgust, but someone surprised me. We were walking in opposite directions and our paths were about to cross, when they raised their glance at me and their expression instantly became so depressed. Feels good knowing I'm making transphobes lose their will to carry on just by existing. Obviously you can't know what strangers are thinking and feeling from their facial expressions alone, but I'll take the wins where I can
storybook sonic still top fave of mine, he'll save the day like usual but he'll also just sit down with you and be an emotional support. The character is 15 or something but it doesn't take that as a cue to just make him immature. like he does deal with things maybe out of his element but he's steadfast in his optimism and support.
Alright, my second pronoun slot is now for sale! I'm doing this to expand my pronoun usage, also just feel like I should have another set of pronouns for the NB times. So, throw them at me. Throw pronouns you like at me, I literally just want to try whatever you all think might suit me. Could also just go back to fae/faer but I've been on a strictly she/her rampage right now and I'm not in the proper state of mind to judge myself right now. A carousel is circular, so I will be eventually .
I've put the three pronoun sets I've used in the past (I ran comrade/them or they/them on an old account).
Upvote the pronouns to pick them, or comment them if they aren't already there. I will turn on upvote view in 24 hours to see the results. If you never want to see something like this again, send me threatening DMs, and I will never do this again
TL;DR, pronouns are fun, pick pronouns with upvote or add new ones in comments please
some days a trans girl just has to wake up and compare herself to a completely unreasonable body standard for 98% of cis women, let alone a newish on HRT trans woman
Hello fellow trans people. I have my first appointment at the gender clinic coming up next week and I’m excited. I won’t be able to start hormone treatment yet but it’s a step in the right direction
Well, I just don't think I'm an eyeliner person. Seems to give my face a look that I'm not going for, although maybe more subtle eyeliner would look better. Additionally, that color corrector I got not only didn't do what I wanted it to do, but it made me look like an orange. Also my foundation turned out to be pretty bad.
In terms of a bright side, the mascara is still great, and is quickly becoming my favorite makeup to wear.
I should just bite the bullet and get laser for my face
two of my piercings are acting up and being really annoying im making an appointment to go get them looked at, I feel like it might be a mystery metal allergy issue because my other piercing that i got from a different place is very stable in comparison. hoping i can get it sorted out this week because it's very frustrating grrrrrr
How am I supposed to mindlessly watch videos on YouTube when they have cis woman in them taunting me with what I can never have and what I can never be!?
Going to a show with some trans comrades tonight. Looking forward to it. Been feeling isolated lately due to lack of spoons, trying to avoid falling into the depression hole.
lil’ eyeliner review
Did really well with the eyeliner today. It’s pretty modest by my standards, the wings are quite small, but it looks really good. I usually use the nyx liquid liner, but had a giftcard and got a more expensive waterproof liner from urban decay with it.
It is a damn fine liquid liner and has a nice weight to it, rather like a fountain pen. It checks the boxes well, very dark black, and applies very easily and consistently once you write with it a bit. I can even apply it to my waterline if I so choose, though I prefer to use gel for my lower waterline.
laser and a surgery mention and some bottom dysphoria
Hitting the two week mark after laser where the hair is finally coming out! This is session number 2 for hair removal prepping for bottom surgery. Really strange having so little hair down there, e already thinned it out, and now it is smooth
Hoping I can have a bottom surgery date for next year, I want this off of me.
Was watching muscles and magic mashlee and they got a nonbinary masc character they an antagonist and a bit weird but good person.
spoiler
It's a series of magic so their powered up form is more nonbinary femme
Still dub sticks with they/them and outside of their presentation they a classical music buff at least what classical music means to anime fans. They also eat tartar sauce and use fish as a means to eat more tartar sauce. I feel them on this but with sriracha
Estrogen has made me substantially more emotional but it seems like I bounce back from things alot quicker than in the past. I don't ruminate on things as much because my baseline emotional state is higher.
i think the last of the storm passed late last night. we seem to have escaped relatively unscathed considering everything.
but unfortunately today is the day i must dig my car out of the mud and go find out if it's still possible to drive to town.
I've posted before about my "stuff I just think is neat" or "neat thing I find" windowsill but I got a cute lil' sugarskull pot with some kinda succulent and transferred a hen & chick from the garden into a big mug that sucks to actually drink out of and I think it's cute
(the little 👻 for the skull is a ring that was a decoration for a spoopy Halloween cupcake)
secret rings soundtrack is prob idk not my favorite but one I listen to most. I know the series is mostly known for butt rock but this game also got some nu metal. It was a different time...