heights and needles. heavy on the second. i have multiple piercings and tattoos and i do an injection on myself weekly, and it has not gotten better and warrants the same level of panic every time.

trackers are the BEST. been using openMPT a lot recently instead of ableton as i always have

you’ll need some clips of some sort long enough horizontally for your bangs! after you’ve separated the bangs from the rest of the hair, separate a layer and clip horizontally and let it dry with those clips. my hair stylist has done it and it has some cool results for creating volume on the bangs, which is a difficulty with curly bangs. i hope these tips help!!

if you want them to look a little flatter (i’m assuming that’s what you’re after!), try conditioning by putting your hands together (like in the emoji you posted!) and putting the bangs between your hands and sliding down to apply conditioner (sorry if this is unclear, i can try dming and showing you or something). it gives curly hair a wavier look. you could also try drying them in separate layers if you’re finding that your bang strands are conforming to large curls instead of being more evenly distributed.

i have curly bangs! are you just curious on how to style them so they’re less combined into coils (like, distributed across the forehead more) or styling them in general?

still more convenient than pills! thank you, doing my best :3

it is honestly a really good story, worth getting through the slower parts imo

injections are still technically a higher dose of e going into you than pills huh? because i definitely feel it. i’ve been weird with mood lately but i’m not sure if that’s other factors unrelated to it. my provider has me on 10mg every 10 days for some reason, i might push it back to every 7.

also voice training is so hard :(

i think the biggest overall feeling is how much weight feels like it’s been lifted off of you. it’s probably all psychological but it feels like you wake up from something or like you’ve been pinned under a boulder your whole life and finally had it lifted. i’ve only felt alive as long as i’ve been on hrt. and i think this is why so many feel like they experience emotion deeper than before, a general numbness goes away and you feel more in tune with your own emotions.

as for actual physiological change, you can expect skin feeling softer over time and of course the pain in your chest with breast development. i feel like i noticed scents a lot more often and definitely feel temperature much more than i did.

it all seems so daunting at first, but it’s a journey laden with joy.

well, there’s nothing you can do to “look trans” unless you want to reproduce some really fucked up stereotypes. maybe it’s best not to use transness as something to offend others? to utilize a lived reality as something to get a rise out of somebody. just my advice as a trans person.

exactly what im thinking. i don’t know how you can make an outfit “look trans”. feels reeeaally iffy to even say.

i don’t really know what to suggest that won’t reproduce harmful stereotypes. what’s wrong with just doing drag? conservatives fucking hate that and they can’t even tell the difference between being trans and doing drag.

i have literally never seen these terms used in any other way than like, people basically calling me a man or at least not seriously a woman or differentiating me from womanhood in some way. like, for the cis “allies” who think it’s inclusive but also feel uncomfortable with allowing me into womanhood, so to speak. designations on genitalia like this are genuinely only useful in a medical setting and none else.

the one time he finally decides to do something cool with the last few months in office, out of all the cool things he could have done, he does this?

went out tonight dressed as ripley from alien. simple costume but looked good, and i already have curly hair.

he doubled down on this statement by literally saying “yeah, sure, why not?” to joe rogan. america is a joke.

wanna add when it comes to the brushes/combs that a wet brush through the hair while it’s soaked + conditioned in the shower is going to do an amazing job of detangling and distributing the conditioner throughout the length of each strand. this is the thing that really changed things for me wrt clumps of tangles and matting.

usually an unscented body wash (for the fall though, i’ve been using a bath and body works pumpkin cake scented body wash. the unscented soap is good for making sure there isn’t too many scents going on and i’ve been healing several tattoos at the same time currently so i just use unscented all over). a body lotion after showering can be really nice too and will last a while. secret clinical strength gel deodorant, and a little fragrance mist or perfume. in the warmer months i use a floral one, hummingbird by the zoologist (expensive indie fragrance so i just live off samples), and in the colder months, a cheap vanilla bourbon body mist from target.

the mosfilm youtube channel has almost every soviet movie with english subtitles. you can totally watch kin dza dza on there.