holy shit man. War-Torn Ice Moon writing and layout done. now its just editing and like a few short fiction interludes and a couple consistency things and some graphics/tables adjustments and the final arts and probably need a logo for Strange Dooms and then WE ORDER A TEST COPY!
@durandalcomplex the answer for my setting is "they did, and the corporate wars were so bad that the earth almost entirely ran out of rare earth minerals and was forced back to broadly 20th century munitions but with mechs"
@TheLastFarm@LeeHepner@AlysonMetzger i do find the decaying edifices of great brutalist structures, partially overtaken by nature, to be beautiful in its own right
@T_Dude15@zzzoe_3 it's kinda like growing a bonsai tree - you won't necessarily know what the end product is going to look like, but every little change you make along the way is part of actively shaping the new self that you're building
@T_Dude15@zzzoe_3 its a process! you'll grow into yourself more, give it time. the best way to handle it, IMO, is to focus on the things that you can actively change (hair, style, voice, self talk) and let the hormones work on the rest, celebrate the changes as they come
@T_Dude15@zzzoe_3 girl you're doing puberty again right now, let it cook lol. but makeup and hair do make a big difference. style goes a long way too but tbh the biggest factor in being attractive is confidence. women love a girl who loves herself
@Red_Grimgrin@DirectrixGazer I've been writing a space mecha setting where the broad designation for light / medium / heavy ships is sloop / cutter / ironclad. Great fun to have an admiral yell "Get those sloops forward!"
@burnthelilacs@SedimentedGeist tbh in my mind this is why any project of constructing a materialist transfeminism is contingent on its connection to the project of autonomist DIY production.
@teethofvenus@burnthelilacs@SedimentedGeist actually existing transmedicalism in the year of our lord 2026 God DAMN
the broad proliferation of DIY networks is the most important autonomy project of our generation
and saying this shit while trans healthcare is actively being attacked from all angles???
@hollerite_vt@thepicdept Some places you can get pellets inserted with an incision in the arm to give a consistent supply for six months, but iirc other than Australia that's mostly still a medical trials thing.
@hollerite_vt@thepicdept A high dose of anti-androgens isn't great for you, both because it can be hard on your liver and because even c1sfem bodies run on a mix of E and T, and injection monotherapy of a high enough level to naturally suppress T is widely considered the gold standard among the informed