TerminalEncounter

I can't remember who was talking and speculating about this, but China had been through a number of centralizing than fracturing periods then centralizing again and repeat ("the Empire long united, must divide. Long divided, must unite") for whatever reason.

When periods of unification happened, an outside force or theory of government would come and unite all of China (whatever "all" meant for that period). The Yuan dynasty from Mongolia, the Han dynasty bringing about confuscianisn on a grand governmental scale, etc. And when it came time for to divide after disunity and corruption of the Qing in the mid 19th century, it probably would've been under the Heavenly Kingdom syncretized Christianity - except for the intervention of now world bestriding imperial European great powers, which had a vested interest in maintaining the Qing and later the Republic.

In the end, it was still an outside force that put an end to banditry, disunity, etc. Or another fracturing period. It was marxism and Maoism, and it was the establishment of the PRC (notwithstanding the ROC in Taiwan).

I found the pretty butterfly dress I fucking adored! It was the most expensive piece of clothing I got from a pricey department store that went out of business, $300 yeesh. But I loved it, did the spinny. Just needed repairs so I put it down for repairs - and forgot lol

Fucking libs, swear to god

I wish I could molt and a pretty lady with a uterus could come out.

Anyway, new trans chat feels like chrysalis molting

Pastel goth is in your soul, could always wear a wig or just die the ends

He might have some dirty smudged up glasses if yall get into it enough lol

Oh my dearie, there is a world of goths - cyber goth, emo goth, vampire goth, pastel goth (as mentioned), victorian/edwardian goth, the goth types never end they multiply

When you're so happy to see each other you don't even take your glasses off when you smooch hello after a long time away ♡

Resist the sirens call, it doesn't work like that

Try your best, especially if your gf is asking. My mom had a hard time accepting I was a woman after quite a few years as a dude, but she got there. It's not misgendering if your gf has explicitly asked you to.

Always kinda sad :(

My ex had a friend who was cool with any pronouns, so we'd switch back and forth as often as we could lol.

Another friend of mine said she was cool with any before ultimately going with transitioning to binary trans femme and sticking with she/her.

Why not, you can pick a vampire as whatever you want if you don't have some blowhard storyteller and a boring table. One of the most fun characters I shared a table with was a soviet russian vampire turned in the 30s and lived through the 90s shock/collapse before coming to America (with looted wealth of course).

Boring Dave who works the as a night shift janitor could probably make it on his own as a Caitiff with no one ever figuring it out, even if that's a boring-ass life.

I played a Brujah attempted revolutionary once that I imagined working with Harvey Milk's campaign, the '68 DNC shenanigans, etc. Nosferatu easily lend to a 4chan /i/ type stuck in the sewers with a character arc of growing personally as kindred when she couldn't have done as a kine (I imagine tzimce aided transitioning probably helped lol)

Doesn't have to be a mid 19th century aristocrat filled with ennui from a century and a half of unlife. Or some industrial goth/punk raging against the machine and filled with guilt over feeding.