can't sleep so more on early trans stuff
@Eweish wowwww that sounds worse than I would expect even for a group like that
kink
also I'd kind of hoped that I might to get to make out with cuties and maybe tie some people up, but neither of those things happened :(
Home from pride; queer picnic got cancelled due to weather but I got to hang out with interesting people nonetheless. Now I'm home, knackered and feeling kind of sad that there are no tickets left for the afterparty everyone else is excited to go to. Even though, being knackered, I probably shouldn't go out. But... social contact... :S
sharing endocrine knowledge I learned today, probably primarily of interest for AFAB folk but might have wider applicability?
apparently the testosterone that causes hair growth is a specific form, DHT, and there are blockers that block only that form of testosterone
so if you want the other effects of T but don't want more hair, that's an option you could explore!
@patience uwubstep
@klara I pronounce it KOO-beh-leh, the vowel in the first syllable kind of like a short german ü
the Romans often called Her "Magna Mater" (Great Mother), not sure how they would have pronounced "Cybele" but maybe like "KOO-beh-leh" or "KEE-beh-leh", with the OO like the normal latin "u". Apparently Y is sometimes an EE and sometimes OO
Trans girl, queer, musician, anarchisty, 30s. A writer of fiction and poetry and a researcher of things.