nuance is important in all cases, as written this includes everyone who would have voted for Bill Clinton too

firemelon is a chile, too

i use “bi” specifically because i feel like it excludes androgyny since im attracted to gender binary presentation, trans inclusive, as long as you’re convincingly masculine or feminine in your presentation. not a hard line exclusion ofc but it is my preference and so it’s what i use

ER employee here, multi-hour wait times aren’t caused by people without insurance seeking care, they’re caused by admitted patients taking up all the ER rooms. The ER would function great even with pretty substantial patient volumes because many of the primary-care tier complaints can be seen and discharged relatively quickly, many not needing anything more than a closet to speak in private for 10 minutes and imaging or prescription. In the hospital I work at, and every hospital in the city, and probably every hospital in your city, the floor that holds the most non-ER patients is the ER.

The reason for this is because shit runs downhill, and there’s not enough inpatient infrastructure because it’s expensive during the summer to have excess beds not in use just to have a reserve for flu season. This matters because even nonprofit hospitals are run to make money to pay our CEO ~50x more than the lowest paid employee, which- while a respectable ratio compared to most- is wholly unnecessary. nobody needs a multimillion a year paycheck except perhaps pediatric surgeons with a good bedside manner.

Selfishly?

Golden Sun 2: One of my favorite game series’s growing up, and the first time I experienced a “good” plot twist.

Knights of the Old Republic: Talk about good plot twists, I rented this game from blockbuster once and spent years thinking it was a fever dream.

Pokemon Emerald: Pokemon Crystal is the first game that let me play as a girl, but ruby/sapphire is really my generation.

Baldur’s Gate 3: Met my gf playing this, 1000 hours in, all coop with her.

Monster Hunter World: Met my best friend here, 2000 hours in, and basically infinitely replayable in a way that Elden Ring isn’t

government by the people, right?

I just… tried a bunch. Alexandra was my first, used it for about 6 months online. Didn’t like it. Too harsh. Then I tried Sarah, felt better, new test group… but wasn’t right. Unsure why, just wasn’t me. Tried Amanda, and that was it.

The downside of this is you have to make disposable friend groups. I made mine on old internet kink websites, a few focused on like… pre-written “teases”. It kept things fairly transactional and anonymous so there wasn’t any relationships to break, just another content creator disappearing

visually impaired (not blind(yet)) from keratoconus, the number of people who say “oh im blind without my glasses too” drives me up the wall. nothing to do but pretend to commiserate.

muted

yes! it’s wild getting it from guys who are already taller than me. I’m lucky enough to have not had the experience of looking for a partner on dating apps(unless discord counts?), but i hear all the time about how absurdly superficial they are

I’m 5’8, plenty of men aren’t interested in women as tall as they are.

ive been off social media except reddit, discord, and lemmy for a decade, and i was genuinely confused at labeling that girl “fat”. (and the guy, too).

i think im healing. i needed that hope today

Hey, if hips are something you want, you need to start HRT as soon as possible. Once your bones are set they don’t really change, only fat distribution (which does help, as well as the workout tips mentioned by the other commentator.

It’s been my experience (at 30) that estrogen doesn’t change my body, only the directions it follows when I work to change it, so I very heavily concur with the workout advice!

i feel like it’s more a diagnosis of last resort than something to jump to first off, especially if it doesn’t really line up with your usage, but I’m not sure what else it could be if the doctors don’t think those meds/combination of meds would cause nausea.

I’m on 6mg estradiol daily, 100spiro for 2 years, and new progesterone, with no nausea. Never been on the other stuff you mentioned tho

any chance you smoke weed to help with that depression? Cannabinoid hyperemesis might be worth looking into

one of my (very shy) discord friends posted an accidental face reveal from a photo of their dog, reflected in the pupil.

New phones have absurdly good cameras

thanks, lena! nice to meet you too!

I like the way it sounds, and i like the pun. Can’t bully me if I’ve already made a joke about it. As a bonus, I can sign my initials and have it be both deadname and realname depending on the angle

I’m amanda :)

commenting to save for later, maybe I’ll post some stuff. this is one of the last things i hate about myself so it’d be nice to finally squash it

Not really, but kind of. I was always interested in women and men, but realizing i was trans helped me understand what i was feeling towards women was jealousy not sexual attraction. Unfortunately being attracted to men as a transwoman is kind of a nasty catch22 as my hands were too big for the straight men and the gay men really just wanted a twink. (generalizing here, not all men, etc etc)

So I became mostly aromanic, satisfied with just like… flings with guys online. soft catfishing for quick e-sex, and then I met my girlfriend, who makes me feel like I’ve never loved anyone except her. And we lived happily ever after