Babs

I will not eat the bugs.

I posted in the wrong mega. Model rockets are just neat.

Finally looking at electrolysis providers like I didn't come out way back in the 2000s 🤡

Everyone's transition is different.

A little fat on the hips and thighs and butt goes a long way though, and you can definitely get that after your bones are done doing bone stuff.

Been thinking a lot about model rocketry.

Summer is fun cause I can't tell if the people are staring at me cause I'm trans, or oggling cause I'm finally comfortable enough to show some skin. Either way it's a weird feeling.

All my cis woman relatives have wider hips than me (in relation to the rest of their bodies), and this happened to them during puberty. Trans women who transition very young also often experience hip growth like this.

Skinny hips aren't end of the world though. I usually hide mine under skirts and dresses and poofy pants that make me look like a Toriyama character.

Hexbear bullied me into being vegan.

I wasn't a little over a year ago. I knew the horrors of animal agriculture for years - seeing images of pig lagoons was a big part of my radicalizing as a teenager and I was a vegetarian for a bit in my 20s before I decided it was too hard while living with my parents. I knew it was bad but it wasn't a big priority for me knowing I would need to relearn how to shop and cook and eat. Seemed hard when all of society catered to omnivores.

The various vegan struggle sessions here made me realize I was being a big whiny baby doing something that I knew was wrong out of convenience, and also taught me more about "vegetarian" products like milk and eggs (they're bad, people!). So I decided to make the switch. I learned some new recipes and started reading labels while shopping. The fact that I also developed horrible lactose intolerance in the last few years didn't hurt.

Anyways, shit was easy. I eat hella good food now and lots of tasty snacks and junk food and don't miss meat at all, but if I did I could just get some plant-based proteins cause those are pretty good now (I don't like impossible meat because it's too real).

Partner isn't vegan. We almost split up over it. He's like where I was two years ago and will freely bring up how veganism is morally correct in any relevant conversation, but also has other shit he's working on right now. He's still eating way less animals now though, since we eat dinner together and cooking two meals is inconvenient. I'm willing to wait and see what happens.

Pro-tip: Chinese food.

They are white until they are orcs.

Unless you live where I do. We have a large Slavic population here that faces a number of structural barriers, to the extent that a lot of demographic forms here list White (Western European) and Slavic (Eastern European) separately and there are specific social service organizations serving them like with other minority communities here.

Shit is super contextual.

What do you use to press your tofu, and is it cooler than my deactivated Bulgarian landmine?

And if you are pessimistic about the possibility of revolution in the imperial core, do this anyways. You'll find the people you can rely on going forward in this increasingly-awful fascist country.