edit: this was bitchy and grumbly. But it’s fair to want to compare yourself to your peers and siblings, and this notion that you should only compare yourself to the most masculine-looking women out there, the few who get misgendered, rubs me wrong.
Generally you dissolve them.
Raws look like some of the most questionable drugs I have ever seen.
Excited to have this security though.
Fencing can get pretty spendy if you buy a fancy uniform, but for most casual purposes all you really need is a mask, jacket, glove, and foil. That’ll protect your important bits and give you something to stab with. Most clubs will have loaners of all of these, but masks and gloves get sweaty, and it can be nice to eventually have your own stuff.
Absolute Fencing is a good company with affordable gear.
You don’t need the expensive electronic stuff, or special pants or shoes, or chest/underarm protectors. You’ll be fine, it doesn’t hurt.
For HEMA you can keep the same mask and jacket, but you also need at least a gorget and much more protective gloves. Probably all sorts of other pads based on the sword, but that’s what I used for rapier. Also HEMA swords are expensive but also way coler. Whacking people with actual swords is a lot more dangerous than poking them with a bendy stick. HEMA clubs also usually have loaners.
Hell yeah. I did fencing through college and I’ve been thinking a lot about it recently since I still have my gear.
My college club was coed outside of big competitions, so it avoids any “trans in sports” worries. HEMA is also an extremely queer sport.
Look into local fencing clubs, there might be somewhere with cheap group lessons, and usually they will have loaner gear (you will want at least your own mask and glove real quick though, they can get grody). Most people start by learning foil. Foil is cool and good and fun even if it has funny timing rules. They might also have smaller saber and epee classes. I’ve never done saber but epee is pretty cool.
I’ve done a little HEMA rapier fencing too. It’s very different from olympic fencing (the blade is super heavy in comparison, and there’s lotsa weird cuts instead of just poking) but I found it very handy to already have the basics and vocabulary of fencing while learning.
I apologize constantly.
Not a doctor, just a communist that likes to stab girl drugs into her leg.
Your estrogen is really high, probably isn’t a problem though. You could likely reduce your dose a little bit and still suppress your testosterone, ifn you wanted to. Was this taken before injection, when levels are lowest?
I take it out of an abundance of paranoia (my levels are fine, but what if they suddenly aren’t???) No weird side effects, likely no effects at all since my testosterone levels are super low, but all the men in my family are bald and I’m not taking any risks if I can avoid it. It’s just another tiny pill I take before bed.
LF was my first hotbed of weird internet leftism.
If Russia killed a bunch of innocent civilians, I wanna hear about it from someone who isn’t at war with Russia.
Trying to explain to my zoomer friends that Something Awful isn’t 4chan. They are different sites that had very different cultures damn it! If you made bad posts you’d be out 10bux! It was different, damn it…
It would sure be cool if we could get an independent investigation at Bucha, if it isn’t too late. There have been so many different stories and inconsistencies about what happened there that it becomes very confusing if you don’t just take one side completely at face value and ignore any hard questions.
I love my local PSL comrades!
At least locally, all the ML parties seem to be on real good terms with each other. Whatever national drama and ideological differences there are feel so unrelatable when we’re doing the Big Red Tent thing.
Except for that trot who tried to shake me down for 50 cents for a newspaper, what was even up with that, who invited you?
Hate speech is when you say mean things about someone because you hate them.
I’ve used a needle to suck up the last bit of one vial and squeeze it into another. It might not be the best practice but I was low on meds and it turned out fine.
I’ve poked some very uncomfortable things before. You just go slow, back out a little if you hit something that hurts. There are very few large blood vessels in that part of the leg, so I rarely bleed much. And if I do, it looks scary but it’s fine.
Also like, sometimes the needle doesn’t go “all the way” in and it’s fine. Thighs are meaty and there’s a bit of freedom as to where it ends up.
I do a 1" 23g needle, and it goes all the way into my thigh.
I take my thigh and imagine a DnD alignment grid on it. If I’m injecting into my right leg, I inject into chaotic neutral. If left leg, lawful neutral. I do this z-track method thing and it helps me bleed a lot less. https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-the-z-track-injection-method
I still suck at doing left leg so it kinda hurts sometimes. But the process is simple.
Nesting on a pile of 10ml vials like some sort of estrogen dragon.
Finally got confirmation that my raws were shipped. Dragon Ordnance kinda dragged their ass on this one, but it will be worth it once I have my years’ worth of sweet, sweet estrogen powder.
Who would win
world events in a time of increasing geopolitical instability
some sad trans girls