Y’know, when I signed up for this back in June I had grand plans for some grand writeup on the domestically produced unmagnified gunsights of Cuba. I had collected images and info and sources but I lost sight of it as life stuff happened and my time for the trans mega snuck up on me.
Que sera sera.
Anyways, today felt like the first whisper (you have no idea how hard I just thought about the ideal word for this metaphor) of autumn and that put me in the mood for one of my favorite autumnal albums. More Constant Than the Gods by SubRosa is a really lovely doom? sludge? metal album. I like how big it sounds. The lead vocalist is a really talented lady, and its got violins, also the lyrics talk about dying and stuff and I’m into that. Its very fall-y to me, as is Standard Time Volume 1 by Wynton Marsalis, but for extremely different reasons.
The funny thing is that, like the poster of the previous mega it is also my 5th transiversary, I started HRT half a decade ago today (ok technically it was the 17th but I’m gonna count it since thats when I started writing this). Now, I don’t think that taking HRT was what made me “officially trans”, rather it was the degree of self acceptance required to get to that point. It’s a long story, and one I prefer to share privately, but it took a very, very long time before my fear and desperation gave me the strength to allow myself to have this. I think it all turned out pretty well, I experience existence in much higher fidelity, I’m this whole person, along with everything that entails.
I feel very blessed to be transgender.
I hope you all stay safe and have a good, or atleast tolerable week.
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The one piece of Evolutionary psychology I remember is try to find a partner who likes your stink and vice versa. It did advise to shower and clean yourself and you know wear clean clothes. To the coupled couples here is this real chat, is this the aura that the kids talk about nowadays?
yeah it’s definitely a factor for me, I’m pretty sensitive to smell as is so when sharing space with people it’s difficult to want to be close to someone who I don’t like the smell of.
most of the time with friends it’s not about natural scent tho, it’s about some hair product or laundry detergent or cream or deoderant they use that is very strong.
with romantic partners it’s a huge factor and a prereq to sharing a bed, some people just don’t smell good (their natural scent which I’m sensitive to) to me even if they are very hygienic.
I don’t try to find partners, so can’t contribute to that. But also similarly sensitive to artificial smells. Natural ones are never a problem.
I ain’t in a couple but Ive smooched and smelled people real close up and absolutely you gotta like that taste and smell that smell~
Stink can be good! The right stink lol