i also added a few stickers on the inside

wonder how much longer i can keep this charade going, my face has unmistakably been getting more fem the past 2-ish months

that said, i kinda don't even mind presenting masc that much anymore, mainly 'cause i'm pretty sure i look a hell of a lot cuter these days regardless of which gender people are reading me as :3

i don't think there's any real purpose to this post, i just kinda wanted to balance out my past selfies. 90% of the time i'm dressed like this, it feels more honest (?) to show the "normal" side, idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Shot using a Fairphone 3 with a broken Fairphone 3+ camera module

view from the top

@AnxiousMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone seems to have deleted her account a few hours ago, and i haven't managed to reach with her on matrix since she deleted and recreated her account there a few weeks ago. does anyone know if she's alright?

getting the wings right only took me two attempts per side, compared to over 10 in total the last time i tried eyeliner. i call that progress!

my uni's queer student association hosted a dinner event today! this was the first one since the start of the semester, so i got to meet the new wave of baby transes (and other assorted queers) :3
kinda crazy to think i was in their place only a year ago!

bonus: a series of increasingly deranged selfies

So I've been doing subcutaneous E injections for close to 11 months at this point¹, and my most recent one turned out kinda weird. It hurt a bit more than usual going in, there was a lot less resistance when pushing the plunger in (got everything injected in less time than normal), and there was significantly more blood than I'm used to after removing the needle (typically there's only a tiny speck if anything, this time nearly the entire cotton part of the band-aid is stained red). It's been about 2 days now and there's a ~1cm diameter bruise at the injection spot, which is also something I haven't seen before.

The only thing I can think of is that I must've gotten unlucky and managed to hit a blood vessel. If that is the case though, my understanding of how injections work tells me that this will dramatically affect the release curve - rather than being deposited into fat tissue and slowly being released into the bloodstream, I assume this would mean much of the EEn was dumped directly into the blood where it would then be converted into E2 and consumed/destroyed within hours or a few days at most. Am I overthinking this? Should I do another shot to make sure my levels don't crash down in case my hypothesis is correct, or should I just stick to my usual weekly schedule?

¹ probably not relevant, but including this anyway: I'm injecting 0.13 mL of EEn (40 mg/mL, in MCT oil) once per week using 30G, 1/2in long needles