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Trans Megathread from January 27th, 2024 to February 2nd, 2024

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Today: a short yap about computer hardware:

Damn I love the AM4 socket its so upgradable yay, bought a Ryzen 9 5900X for our old desktop soon to be homelab and so excited for it.

Computers are fun! (and expensive)


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  • (cat reading newspaper)

    I should get better at baking

    Gave cookies to the x-ray ppl and orthopedic place that helped me with the broken hand and they were all so kind and appreciative

    Wish I was a good baker instead of just adequate but I thought the cookies turned out well all things considered

  • At like 4 AM a few nights ago, sleepless, I frantically penned down an apparently brand new idea for a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto, despite not being a proficient Esperantist. It's like this:

    • geu estas neduuma esperantisto (they are a nonbinary Esperantist)
    • mi ŝatas geun. (I like them)
    • ĉu vi vidis gees katon? (have you seen their cat?)

    To quickly explain the idea: Esperanto has a prefix that (unofficially) forms gender-neutral words, and a suffix that (mostly unproductively) forms pronouns, so I figured that the most obvious way to create a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto would just be to smash these two affixes together: ge- + -u = geu. Simple as that.

    To me this seemed like such an obvious idea in hindsight, that when I looked into it the next morning, I was genuinely surprised to find that apparently no-one else had ever come up with this idea before me: all the other neopronouns coined in Esperanto thus far apparently just smash the gendered pronouns together, or take the gendered pronouns and replace the first letter randomly. This approach comes with its own advantages and disadvantages, but in any case my proposal isn't really trying to "compete" with these other neopronouns, any more than they competes with xe, you know?

    Edit: A neat little coincidence is that Korean has a gender-neutral pronoun commonly romanized as geu. Maybe that was a subconscious influence!


    In completely unrelated news, did you all know that Margaret McDonald (any/all) is non-binary? I don't know when xe came out as non-binary, but xe's an English-language anime dub VA who I have heard in a lot of different things over the years. I was just watching the movie Tamako Love Story with my mom, in which McDonald plays the titular Tamako Kitashirakawa: I couldn't remember the VA's name, so I looked it up, and that's how I found out that thon was non-binary. Among many other credits, ae also plays Miho Nishizumi in Girls & Panzer — which was frankly the only name I could pull out of my butt, I literally said, "Tamako sounds like whoever it was who did Miho" — and McDonald also voiced Rikka Takanashi in the ever-goated Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, and he also played Sachi Momoi in Maria Holic, which interestingly enough is an anime dub that just straight up drops the T slur at one point.

    So yeah, nonbinary pog.

    Also, e's pan.

    • Hell fuckin' yeah

      I speak some Spanish as a 2nd language and some French and Italian so I always have been fascinated with Esperanto but never learned it but that's extremely my shit

      Trying to work on my Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, German and Swedish currently

      Not really fluent in anything but English but I'm trying

  • fox news: the school nurse is giving kids bottom surgery if they ask nicely

    actual school nurse: i literally cannot give you an ibuprofen or else the entire school district is getting sued to kingdom fuck

  • I did get measured today fora bra after work. It was terrifying, but I did manage to do it. I now have a definitive bra size and I love it and hate it. 38I/40H. I didn’t expect that large of a cup size. Kind of gave my mind rest so I don’t have to worry about them being too small. Also, I will never buy another bra under $70.

    I was terrified and nervous, but the shopkeeper did an excellent job taking care of me. I’m shocked I was able to do it. Maybe things are turning around. I hope so.

    • I will never buy another bra under $70.

      Damn that’s expensive. My bralettes are 15 bucks a piece. Maybe being small isn’t that bad.

    • A good bra is absolutely amazing, my first few I got from Walmart because I knew I'd be going up a size soon enough and while it worked - as soon as I spent some good money on one the difference was night and day. Plus the old ones wire would eventually make it's way out and scratch my tits, very annoying

  • ran out of prog for almost 2 weeks and got back on, how long are these intensified mood swings gonna last it's exhausting

    i went through the same thing when i hopped on initially and it lasted for a good few weeks but ultimately settled down and i decided the drug was worth it. but if I'm in for another month of this cause i took 10 days off I'm gonna be pissed.

  • Gonna have to remember to ask my therapist if I was able to adequately tonally convey pissed the fuck off while maintaining femme voice

  • In the most recent Larian community news post about Baldur's Gate 3:

    our Community Team took the next most natural step and joined Tumblr - because if the gang are going to star in a thousand slow-burn romance fics, we might as well be there to see it.

    it's like they follow me~

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