I was planning to write a longer post for this mega and then Silksong happened so... oops?
Short version is this week is my 9th tranniversary. I don't remember which day exactly so I like to say it was 9/11 so I'd never forget. What ultimately cracked my egg all those years ago was not the deep yearning when looking at women that I couldn't identify as envy or the increasingly intense and umm horny dreams where I had the power to instantly change my gender. No it was that fucking faceapp gender swap filter. I just kept staring at that pic like it was a mirror into an alternate universe where I was happier and suddenly everything clicked into place. The first few years were hit or miss with a lot of other life changes happening at the time that interfered with getting properly started so in some ways it's more like a 5 or 6 year tranniversary but whatever. 
It's weird to say I'm almost done but I really am so close to making all the changes I wanted. I'll never stop being trans, but I'm definitely moving from trans(itioning) femme to trans(itioned) femme and that's quite exciting. And maybe a little wistful looking back at the journey.
Have a good week everyone!
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My dad is full on grieving, constantly whining about how this country is so divided, how could someone do this just because of his opinions, wah wah. Mom has watched his clips and liked his speaking style.Genuinely so cooked. My dad has just been talking all about it, angrily scrolling through comments about it. A couple days left of him being home. He's definitely going to keep talking to me about this.
Obviously Kirk has supported genociding us
I legitimately do not know what to say to him next time he rants to me please help
Should I just commit to acting like a lib and condemning political violence?
the tack my gf is taking at her (very public) job is "hatemonger long enough and it should come as no surprise when you get a taste of your own medicine" with a dash of
kind of a disdainful "what'cha you gonna do?" since obvious glee isn't going to fly where she's at
I certainly wouldn't pretend to condemn it. At best, I'd limit it to a joke about how he wouldn't want people get emotional about it because 2nd amendment rights.
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Please, please not another trans shooter. I have basically no weekend this week and I can't deal with that.Hopefully this issue has gone away as much information about the shooter has come out. Not that I expected people to actually find out this information.... my mom called me specifically to talk about this yesterday and still thought the shooter was trans because that's what she's been seeing on facebook and just warned me to be careful.
He hasn't talked about any of the actual info on the shooter, I'm not sure if he doesn't know or just doesn't want to admit it. He has calmed down a lot though so it's not too big of an issue anymore.