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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  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    no-copyright and the black knight was an odd game like you can swing the wiimote around wild but there are visual and auditory cues that if you line up just right can let you finish a boss very quickly. It’s kinda what I love about these games having a learning curve that once you master it it’s like a flow you enter. That flow state is akin to watching a cut scene, like I’m doing everything right and it feel cinematic far different from QTE where you have to wait for the next press and get the sequence right.

    I can honestly say playing no-copyright games is a lot like playing a musical instrument. Sometimes I be playing something so nice that I’m listening to myself and I can swear I’m listening to a recording as I dissociate and just watch. I force myself back just to interrupt myself to make sure the music was coming from me and not a recording. That’s how I feel with no-copyright