I have a Tsunami grinder that is excellent. It doesn't get gritty and stiff to turn from kief like most grinders I've had.
A markedly less successful ripoff of Tubular Bells
Bummer. I really like the direction they've been going. Make it weirder. Make it more uncomfortable.
None. I wish I could see more content. Not enough is made of the fact that you only see content your instance is already connected to. Part of my frustration with the platform is that I joined a neutral instance to have as much content as possible, but relatively little of it is shuffled to me in the all feed. I like discovering new things online. I hate the catch 22 of federation content access, where being on a large enough instance to be certain you're well connected means being on an instance that has blocked a lot of content to appease its larger userbase.
Conversely, I am not LGBTQ+ and I don't need to be in their space. They get to deal with normies all the time in everyday life.
Tbh this experience explains the be nice rule. We often get to be treated badly in everyday life. Many of us experience a passive level of hostility and interrogation just out in the world living our lives. A portion of people internalize a portion of what they hear, which leads to hostility and conflict within the community. To counter the flow of outside hate into the group, many LGBTQ+ communities have that sort of blanket tone rule. When you're sorting out that you're a different and controversial type of person, it's important to have a space to express yourself without intense scrutiny. You need a place where it is safe to be wrong, because you're often declared wrong and attacked just for being there, so you can't judge your own thoughts and feelings. It's important that people in that position can be helped and directed without being stifled. Otherwise the true form of the self can be lost to self defense conformity.
I love Ari Aster movies. Hereditary makes me feel like I'm going to puke. We own all three of his movies on Blu Ray, including a special edition director's cut of Midsommar with a bunch of little dicks on the spine. Beau is Afraid only kind of fits the topic, but it's probably my favorite of the three.
If you're of OG Futurama age, King of the Hill is pretty good about not being transphobic. I will always love Hank refusing to speak to Peggy's friend Caroline when she answered the phone in boy mode. No, he's looking for his wife's friend Caroline. Please don't try to confuse him with stories about who she used to be. He used to sell jeans, and only people close to him know that.
Random trans folk I see look right past me.
I had this happen with a whole group of trans women staying at the motel I used to work at. I passed to them to the point that there was no "oh hey!" moment, no Charlie Kelly meerkat eyes. It was a strange experience, at once sad and satisfied?
Now I work at a dispensary and smoke or vape weed every day. For better or worse, I'll never voice pass consistently in a world with legal weed. Which I guess is fine. I'm not especially fond of the "oh whoa" moment on the faces of straight men who have decided from a distance I was a hotgirl(tm) and they were gonna treat me a certain way, but I guess I'd rather disarm straight people than be invisible to young trans girls.
the models and movie stars and idols and influencers
Most of them don't actually "look like that." They are photographed from the best angles with expensive camera equipment and lighting. Then they select the best photos from a series of mediocre to great shots. These selected photos are often then edited. There are billions of women who could look like that if they had $20k to drop on a professional makeover and photoshoot
Tbh I'd just say some racist shit. I'm not gonna write the racist things I would say I legitimately believed it would save my wife's life. I am from the deep south. I have all that shit in a neglected shed in the backlot of my brain. Not thoughts and opinions, just hurtful words. And I can't forget them because I was an elementary school vocab whiz when I first heard most of them.
[The Lost Years 1~5][The Hard Times 5~23][The Dark Night of the Soul 23~30][The Golden Goddess 30~present]
I finally made it to the good part! Damn, it's kinda sad when you lay it all out like that. But I'm thriving now!
I am already an active practicing Discordian. My work is religious. Every day I distribute a substance that uproots the normal workings of the mind. Hail Eris! Hail Yourself!