Y'know, when I signed up for this back in June I had grand plans for some grand writeup on the domestically produced unmagnified gunsights of Cuba. I had collected images and info and sources but I lost sight of it as life stuff happened and my time for the trans mega snuck up on me.
Que sera sera.
Anyways, today felt like the first whisper (you have no idea how hard I just thought about the ideal word for this metaphor) of autumn and that put me in the mood for one of my favorite autumnal albums. More Constant Than the Gods by SubRosa is a really lovely doom? sludge? metal album. I like how big it sounds. The lead vocalist is a really talented lady, and its got violins, also the lyrics talk about dying and stuff and I'm into that. Its very fall-y to me, as is Standard Time Volume 1 by Wynton Marsalis, but for extremely different reasons.
The funny thing is that, like the poster of the previous mega it is also my 5th transiversary, I started HRT half a decade ago today (ok technically it was the 17th but I'm gonna count it since thats when I started writing this). Now, I don't think that taking HRT was what made me "officially trans", rather it was the degree of self acceptance required to get to that point. It's a long story, and one I prefer to share privately, but it took a very, very long time before my fear and desperation gave me the strength to allow myself to have this. I think it all turned out pretty well, I experience existence in much higher fidelity, I'm this whole person, along with everything that entails.
I feel very blessed to be transgender.
I hope you all stay safe and have a good, or atleast tolerable week.
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Just had the fucking funniest conversation at work. For context I offered to help this elderly woman earlier.
Like God damn just pulled out the entire "where would you go if you died" shtick. I've been laughing this whole time about that part, like that's just so funny to me. I don't think I've had someone do that to me yet. Her thanking me was really nice though not trying to knock that part. Also funny to me that she assumed I was a Christian from helping her (couldn't be further from the truth) and then without missing a beat tries to convert me.
Extremely sweet lady btw but idk, maybe the funniness doesn't come across through text.
It mightve been a thing to get into that conversation, when I did retail there was a bunch of weirdos who might literally not have any social interaction beyond retail. One guy tried to recruit me to his sales MLM cause I was "so good" at helping him pick the right printer. One guy tried to set me up with his grand daughter. She mightve tried to recruit her to her church if you'd said the wrong kind of Christian lol
Also, as someone who works with older people now (properly older, over 70), a surprising number have mostly functional dementia/memory issues and she might literally think no one's ever helped her because she cant remember anymore but knows she goes there routinely. And then they get in their cars and drive!!! ๐ฑ
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