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The Great Jelly Bean Harvest - Trans Megathread from 2025-04-21 to 2025-04-27

i'm harvesting a great crop of jelly beans today

it's my birthday this week and you have to post a lot okay? :^)

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  • I'm like so close to modding daggerfall now but then comes the hard part of continuing to play it after I get the mods I want. Can't say how many times I went out of my way to mod something only to abandon it, only time I stuck through was

    adventure 1 and 2.

  • I got my book of spells staring at me but I'm too lazy to get any of the ingredients to do any of them. So much power at my hands yet it's tempered by my weak follow through.

  • does anyone have any ideas for stuff i could do in my singleplayer minecraft? i'm trying to take it slow because normally i would play very min-maxy and beeline the end and stuff, but now that i have enchanting setup and plenty of diamonds i need ideas for stuff to work on that isn't just "beat the game". can be anything from a basic build to an automated farm or nonsensical contraption, or a more abstract goal. love all my trans comrades and glad to see the megas starting to pop off again!

    also look how cute my UI is, i love vanilla tweaks!

  • Today, I took a little sneak peek at the knitting group Iā€™m about to join. Was only there for about an hour, just saying hello to everyone and getting familiar with the rules there.

    And fucking wow! Everyone there was so damn nice.

    I was fully expecting things to be quite awkward, because "intruding" into a community where everyone else already knows each other usually is, but they were really forthcoming towards me.

    So, yay! I finally get to be more social again after distancing myself from others for so long.

  • There's no way I'm getting nostalgia from being active in the trans mega...

    I think I missed this, y'all. Oh and I'm gay.

    But really, idk why this week feels like such a classic trans mega experience. I'm more active yes, but there's something else about it. Is it the effort of beating the news mega (because they're literally in the dust, well done transgender patriots), is it the weather being warmer again (Pride 2024 mega throwback), is it literally just the fact that high comment count is getting to my head? I don't know, but I've been having fun this week. Especially today, I kind of feel like I'm spamming but at the same time it's such a throwback.

  • Half my coworkers are perimenopausal, some have radical hysterectomies. We're all on estrogen (even me~). We talked about premarin and I mentioned the scythian cult-thing that drank pregnant mare's urine like 4000 years ago, they thought it was cool. Rural women

  • The way liberal cis women discuss a hypothetical "matriarchal world" reeks of binarist essentialism and cisheteronormative naivety. It really often is just "more female war criminals" shit. When you have people who don't actually understand how systems of oppression work discuss their frustrations with said systems of oppression, they end up inadvertently promoting oppression in the process of these discussions.

  • Anybody else here ever just get a really strong case of the gays?

    Who am I kidding, I already know the answer.

    Anyway, girls pretty, reading/seeing yuri always sets me off for weeks so y'all are going to have to keep dealing with this. Sorry, but also, not sorry.

  • Was staring at my folders for a while as elder scrolls music was playing looking for where my daggerfall files were only to realize I forgot to install daggerfall. Cart before the horse and all too busy wanting to mod daggerfall I forgot I need to install daggerfall

  • Update: still understimulated and fucking wired like so goddamn.up but incapable of doing anything. I hate my brain i hate my brain make my brain be normal please

  • I like to think it's my high empathy stat but when my sibling feels achy and bloaty from period stuff so do I. I keep myself in good enough shape otherwise so I don't think it just me. Either way some caffeine on hand helps

  • TW: medical recovery and pain ::: spoiler spoiler I just got ffs two days ago and Jesus this recovery is painful and psychologically pretty scary. My face looks very fucked up right now, and Iā€™m pretty anxious about how itā€™s going to turn out. Thank god for Percocet though :::

  • pirated oblivion remastered and having a good time playing it with gf. the game passed me by back in the day and i don't think i could ever get past the look/art style of the original so this is ideal for me tbh. obviously wouldn't pay money for it but kinda glad it exists?

  • Anyway, found out why the english translations suck for this manhua. It's because this shit is fucking HARD, and I only did this one tiny strip, not 50+ chapters. Erasing the old text, especially over backgrounds or over the bubbles, then picking out fonts (I found a cool app called FontBase to manage fonts! but i had to do some hackerman shit to crack it because it has a hidden subscription fee for some reason?!), then actually translating (or retranslating in my case) the text, it's all TOO much!! It's also compounded by the fact that an official translation will probably drop sometime at the end of the year, so people don't want to waste time for something that will be done by a company.

    Also, finding pirated/dl sites for raws for manhua is difficult. I found like 50 sites but they all only do manga or manhwa, one site that does manhua, but it didn't have this comic. I didn't want to pay for bilibili (because I can't lol no wechat or zhifubao) so I ended up looking up the raws in polish for some reason (?) because a polish group is doing a really good job translating it, I guess they get it from bilibili somehow. I just had to clean it from the jpeg with a denoiser. So... should I actually do the rest of this comic? Maybe when I get a rest this summer this could be my new hobby? I found so many cool apps to help out with this, maybe I'll make a workflow for myself

  • All the mention of elder scrolls been looking into daggerfall unity, is free and my laptop can handle it so gonna figure out that later when I'm done with some stuff today

  • Trying to figure out what's the next scary unknown will be so I can anticipate what the next spiderman origin will be, first radiation then genetic, then quantum stuff. Maybe we'll get communism or gender as the capital hedgemony unravels for how the spider bite works next time

  • If i had a nickel for every time i fall for a woman who can give absolutely incredible amounts of affection and care, but struggles to receive and accept being loved due to past trauma, i'd have two nickels. Which isn't much, but it's funny that it happened twice and by funny i mean i wanna strangle the one that did this to her so badly rn.

  • Need to find some canned vegan food or something, I do miss the convenience of like sardines or tuna (minus all the Mercury) tins around I can dump into some rice with veggies. Closest quick thing I found once was like these packets of miso soup you just added into hot water

  • I've had so much trouble shopping for this specific nail polish since a lot of shades are either exclusive to a specific retailer or sold out from my local stores. However, finally found the shades I need to complete both trans pride and bi pride colors.

  • Did my first injection, please clap

    The injection itself wasn't that bad, I've always been okay with needles. But drawing was a pain in the ass, I had the needle in there for probably 5-10 minutes, constantly pulling and pushing the plunger back and forth to coax the stuff into the syringe. I even did the thing where you inject air into it, but maybe I didn't do it right. I just hope I didn't damage the vial or contaminate it or something

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