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hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like

Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"

^ this is all from the wiki btw

I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.

Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.

Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.

With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.

He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.

So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.

Why would I lie about that? Here it is.

Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,

and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)

and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:

What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.


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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (18 children)

hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i'll add you to the list!

the list as it stands:

Hestia (11/25 - 12/1)
SwitchyWitchyandBitchy (12/2 - 12/8)
HelltakerHomosexual* (12/9 - 12/15)
GayTuckerCarlson* (12/16 - 12/22)
AshenWolf*  (12/23 - 12/29)
Eco* (12/30 - 1/5)
oscardejarjayes* (1/6 (The Darkest Day in Our Democracy.) - 1/12)

EstraDoll (3/2 - 3/8)

​ * after name denotes someone who has posted before and will be skipped by first-time posters

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

oh my fucking god i can really feel the E making me weaker now catgirl-flop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 minutes ago

Gotta start LIFTING arm-L catgirl-peace

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 minutes ago

hair's finally growing decently long. i can fit it about an inch of it in my mouth now, and I'm a little conflicted because on the one hand, long ass hair is something I've always wanted to try and grow and will likely get me gendered correctly more, on the other hand, damn, i look really fucking cute in short hair...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 31 minutes ago

dysphoria, hair styling, body hair removalseriously considering shaving my head and doing a Mellon Collie tour era femme-ish Billy (Billie? I guess?) Corgan kinda look

Got REAL self loathing brushing my hair and seeing how pitiful it is

Shoulder length but I'm probably a year a way from Ocean Machine era Devin Townsend minus the crunchy dreads and a skullet is definitely not what I want personally

Might become a wig person

Idk

Also anyone ever use Nair Leg Masks? Impulse bought a bottle on sale and haven't used it yet but shaving takes forever for me and I have sensitive gay baby skin

It says it's for sensitive skin but I've been burned by that before with other stuff

Will report back for gay science later I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 43 minutes ago

Found smut with the tag #catgirls_make_the_best_communists and it didn't have a pet play tag so I thought it would be good, and yet it lied and still ends with pet play :boohoo:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 minutes ago

weird thing to harp on about but I really want to see more fictional depictions of trans people that show them not really passing. Like, I kind of want to see a video game featuring a trans woman with kind of a clockable face and not well trained voice (And, I shouldn't have to state: isn't treated as a punchline or abnormal for it). Give me more blunt, realistic depictions of trans people, dammit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

I don't remember seeing a bastion and nether fortress intersecting like this before:

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Your nether portal spawns right above the bastion, was neat to see last night when I was practicing. Ended up losing this run to not enough food iirc, you spawn in a mesa so not a ton of animals. Just thought this was neat world gen. seed: 2029358003872644754

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

spoiler>wake up

>the pain immediately starts

Fuck me and fuck this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 27 minutes ago

meow-hug

drugs, possibly unsolicited advice sryRed kratom strains have been really helpful for me and have also cut down on my urge to drink

I have some scoliosis and Osgood-Schlauter (sp?) in one of my knees and a fucky hip and ankle and it's helped with the achiness and combining that with a weight training routine and flexibility work has made my joints less achy and poppy

Like, it's still not great, but it's better

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

the real hero's journey is transgenderism. get fucked joseph campbell you dead fascist loser

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

I should have started working years ago. Could have saved up quite a bit of money by now. Instead I spent the past 3 years studying, and all I have to show for it is a ton of student debt and knowledge about web development that I will never get any use out of because I have zero interest in that stuff. I have a job now, but the pay isn't very high so it's gonna take me a very long time to save up for all the surgeries I want madeline-sadeline

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

CW: indirect dysphoriaTis weird experiencing dysphoria because of other people's voice or body. Like, sometimes when I hear guys talk with a very buzzy voice, I find it icky. Not because I think its a bad voice inherently, but the thought of me sounding like that just bothers me (unfortunately, when I'm congested, its hard not to sound sorta like that). Or like, I saw my brother's leg/chest hair and I felt surprised that I never had such a clear issue with the fact that I used to be hairier than him pretty recently. But since it originally grew in very slowly, I got used to it and became mostly numb to it? Like I still don't shave or trim all that much, but like there's no way I'd be okay with it being like that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

dysphoria, comparing myself with other pplI'm really bad about that with cis women fitness video ppl

Like most of the time I'm alright about not comparing myself to cis women unfavorably, but taller/bulkier women that lift and are still feminine and elegant despite being tall and strong really make me spiral feeling shitty about myself sometimes

That and cis men that have narrower frames and are shorter than me

Like, why do you get the better frame for Having Genderℒ️ my dude? Especially when (gestures at self) I'm working with this

Shit's rough sometimes cuddle cat-trans

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

CW: DysphoriaHonestly, looking/perceiving people who looked like I did was/is a major source of dysphoria. I could avoid looking at myself, but seeing resemblances just made me feel so incredibly bad. I confused it with weight/conventional body image issues for the longest time, and was always confused on how others could stand to look like I did. I think now that I'm taking steps to transition I can better escape from that trap.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

spoilerFor me, it wasn't something I thought about before. Its only after changing a bit myself that I notice it. I guess its affirming in a way? I know I'm bad at predicting what I would/wouldn't like, so doing any sort of transitioning kinda felt like a coin flip. So its only after experiencing an alternative to how I was that I can realize how much I disliked what was. Its not a particularly bad feeling. Just like, immediate negative reaction followed by sorta internally laughing about how silly it is to be bothered by other people having traits they probably like.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

okay, I know I stalled for like a month, but I've asked her out catgirl-heart

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Made a friend recently and went to a show she was in and her set was absolutely fucking killer

I feel like a lil weirdo trying to talk to her catgirl-flop i am useless

Me when i keep meeting really cool queer ppl and finding out what my city has to offer right as im trying to leave everything i know and love behind

Thats probably the first and last time i'll ever get to hear her music live which makes me kind of sad ngl

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Gonna go online and complain about woke (being woke up early on a saturday)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

painted nails, picked partner up from the airport, both got our brows done, 6th laser session done (brandon). feeling like a bad bitch ngl

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

i was talking with my voice therapist today and he was talking about one client he had who, on the day she finally realized she was a trans girl, scheduled an HRT appointment, laser hair removal appointment, AND a professional voice therapist.

I know nothing else about this girl but I absolutely love her and she's fucking great

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

blog, sadposting, crush, dysphoria progress I guess?Didn't see crush today, kept thinking about them and made myself sad

Took a selfie in the gym changing room? I never take pictures of myself

Not really happy with it but I guess I'm less unhappy with my appearance than I usually am? I liked my outfit and I looked alright I guess? Idk

I feel like I'm making a lot of progress, but in a way that just makes me more acutely aware of the things about myself I hate and can't really do anything to change

I dunno, big bittersweet feels today

Beats being severely depressed but I've been pretty bummed out lately thinking about how elated I'd be to have just a pretty mundane neurotypical cishet person's unremarkable suburban life instead of (gestures at self) this

I wish I was as self aware and determined as I am now like 14 years ago

I've wasted so much of my life just being depressed and have so little to show for it

Now that I'm doing better, it just makes me angry at myself and shitty circumstances I had to deal with for leaving me with such a deep hole to try to climb out of

Idk I'm exhausted and really, really lonely and I feel like I've missed a ton of windows for lives I could have led that would've left me a lot happier with myself than where I am now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

spoilerAhh, I feel ya :c I'm doing just a little better recently, but it's been enough to where I'm constantly thinking "wow, it's fucking bullshit that it has taken me this long to get here". Been spending a lotta time grieving all the ways things could have been better...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

okay, i have decided to say something:

bragging about feelings i guessi have been so happy these past few weeks. i'm back in letter writing mode and it's because of one very special person. it is genuinely so fulfilling to have something like a mind-meld with someone who sees me so clearly and respects me so deeply. i didn't expect this at all and i feel so so lucky to have it. lol i'm pretty sure fae is going to read this at some point actually... it makes me happy to imagine that. πŸ’œπŸŒΉ

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

speaking of, please go pet your wife

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago

I somewhat feel comfortable posting in here again. Maybe. We'll give it a small trial.

My top surgery is in 4 days. I'm hoping it doesn't look awkward. No lift, which is something I absolutely need, but the implants will likely be big enough to mitigate that issue. idk, we will see. Will be down for a while from it since I'm getting bottom revision as well.

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