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Trans Megathread for the Week of 2024-10-07 to 2024-10-13 - ETR 600 (hexbear.net)

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The ETR 600 is a class of trains built by Alstom, and are used on the routes between Roma-Bolzano and Roma-Trieste. The train tilts, using Pendolino technology, allowing higher speeds to be maintained through corners without causing discomfort to passengers. The trains are operated by Trenitalia, originally under the Frecciargento (Silver Arrow) branding used for trains capable of travelling between 250 km/h and 285 km/h, In 2022 they were rebranded under Frecciarossa (Red Arrow) after the Frecciargento branding was retired.

The ETR 600 has also been adapted for use in China as the China Railway CRH5 Hexie. Initially 60 sets were ordered, of which nine were manufactured by Alstom and 51 by CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles. Since, another 80 sets have been created for a total of 140, operating across China's north from Beijing to Ürümqi.

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[-] OpheliaAzure@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

So excited to do a couple of spooky roleplaying with people!

https://hexbear.net/post/3667072

Already have a couple Tuesdays lined up for some Delta Green / SCP-style scares with mostly trans hexbears

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[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Been thinking about Ciaphas Cain a lot recently thinking-about-it Mostly it's that one scene in one of the books where they're fighting against Slaneeshi cultists and they enter into a cultist den with all kinds of varied sexual acts displayed on the walls. One of the guardsmen with him asks if some of those are even possible, and he answers 'No and that if they are they are most certainly heretical'. And that got me thinking of how incredibly repressed the 40k empire civilians must be. It was probably depicting doggystyle with a collar and a chain or some other incredibly vanilla thing with a twist smdh

~it~ ~is~ ~Slaneesh~ ~so~ ~it~ ~could~ ~also~ ~be~ ~like~ ~ear~ ~canals~ ~or~ ~something~ ~worse~ all I'm saying that we could definitely create a chaos god if we spread far and wide enough lea-finger-guns

edit. fucking hell they are still being written Anna's Archive dont fail me now inshallah

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Been thinking about Ciaphas Cain a lot recently

Guys think about Rome all day, but the ladies... The ladies are thinking about ciaphas cain

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[-] commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

Hey Trans comrades, got a question about questioning. If it's inappropriate to do this here, lmk asap and I'll delete. Don't wanna intrude in an undesirable way but pretty sure I'm not breaking any rules.

So I've said before that I feel no strong attachment to my gender, but I live daily as a masc-presenting cis-man and am not bothered by it. But the Q-label is always something I've questioned whether I can apply it permanently to myself. Seems like I'm constantly questioning, for years, what kind of gender would really apply to me because just "average Man" doesn't seem like me, but nothing really does either (not even agender). But I'm confortable enough with myself that I think I will never do anything except continue enjoying the questioning itself and learning from that questioning about myself and others. But I comfortably just go with cis-man and feel intrusive in queer spaces as anything but an Ally.

So the final question, is Questioning dialectical and possibly permanent for 1 person or is it dialectical as in it will have to be subsumed in something else during a person's lifetime (assuming you get the chance to complete such a thing)? Any comrades that have experience here want to pitch in? Ready to learn :denguin:

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

no strong attachment to my gender, but I live daily as a masc-presenting cis-man and am not bothered by it

This is the exact way I felt, and I identify as agender. But after I realized I'm a gender I stopped seeing myself as masc-presenting and just started to see myself as me.

Questioning or unsure or "man I guess, idk" are perfectly valid identities. If the word agender doesn't seem to fit you, then you don't need to label yourself as such. Honestly, there is no need to find a permanent label for yourself at all, but if you find one that you are comfortable with, then go for it.

Thank you for reaching out and asking btw!

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[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

Only you can answer the question of who you are, or how you identify, comrade

Honestly the larger societal idea of what a man is and should be is trash, if you want to call yourself a man but dont feel like you fit what other people expect, make the circle encompassing what a man is larger

I'm sure youre gonna get some better answers than this, I'm more vibes than theory today

I also feel this conversation / comment is fine here

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[-] Luna@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Good Morning Chat! Question for you all:

Dark Chocolate, or Milk Chocolate? Plant milk chocolate counts! I still like Dark Chocolate better though.

[-] Yor@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago

oat milk chocolate is good

[-] Wake@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Dark chocolate. Even if its probably full of heavy metals, I'll still eat that garbage.

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[-] Edie@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

not sure if I should spoiler. What should I even write as spoiler? Weird... existential moment?

I've had these weird moments where I have some existential moment where I go "wait all of this is real, this is reality" and my perspective...shifts? Into 3D. Its quite a surreal moment. What's your surreal/existential moments?

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

Had a bad one yesterday that was pretty unnerving

sad, depersonalization, ennui? idk, Big Sad diary ass post, sorry

Went for a walk in the woods yesterday and it was a lot less busy there than it usually is, but pretty much every time I saw other people there, it was a couple together or a family, then I'd go like 15 minutes walking alone before I'd see anyone again and I had a weird existential kinda depersonalization where I felt like my sense of awareness of myself on the trail was from a bird's eye view above the trail (not like visually seeing myself in third person, just the sense of space and my surroundings). Mentally I knew cognitively that it was just temporary and I'd see other people soon enough again, but something about it made me feel emotionally really strongly that I'm ALONE and even when I'm around other people, they don't really see me and just being overwhelmed by loneliness.

It was a nice day and I was getting out and getting some exercise and in a beautiful forest trail and usually feel good about that, but I wanted to cry for awhile and couldn't. I often feel distant from others irl and like whatever my spectrum-y ass brain is like is just fundamentally magnetically resistant to intuitive interactions with most people, but it's normally just a dull background frustration to me in my head, and this was really visceral and upsetting. I got home exhausted and it was a grueling chore to make myself shower and get ready for bed and I was overwhelmed by feeling profoundly lonely and wishing I had a partner to cuddle up with and hold me and fall asleep with my head on their chest wrapped up in their arms.

isaac-cry

My kitties were happy to see me though cuddle

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[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

I have started playing Slay the Princess, a indie horror visual novel with hand drawn art. Its fully voice acted and has weird time stuff. Its a good game, its even on gog, if you like that kind of thing. Some spoilers ahead, although I haven't finished the game yet. Oh and a CW/spoiler for the game:

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In one of the endings you commit suicide in a very violent way. Its obvious its coming, I'm not sure if its avoidable or if sensitive players should just cut that story loop short. I don't remember if there's any gore in that particular ending, but there is gore in other endings.

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The game immediately feels eerie. The atmosphere is full of dread. You can try to turn around, but are unable to actually do so. If you test the barriers of the game, you are pushed to the cabin. The cabin starts bare, with only a knife on a table. You grab it, or don't, and enter the basement. The narrator reminds you repeatedly through this whole process how dangerous the princess is and how important slaying her is, and how it must be done immediately.

There's a lot of dialog options in the basement. None of them work out for you, the player. She is a demon. A trickster, who can't be believed. Once in the basement, unless you stick exactly to the script you die. Sometimes you can kill her first. If you try to leave the basement, another (unknown) character locks you inside. Its too late to be saved at this point.

Assuming you don't get the "good" ending, after you (and possibly her) die you get brought to the beginning. Things change, depending on how you died and what dialog options you chose previously. The cabin changes, the state you find her in is different, you get different dialog. You start to splinter, there are more voices in your head. The voice of the broken, of cold. Your internal monologue becomes chaotic. But in a way, nothing changes. You are still supposed to kill the princess, and it becomes much harder. I'm not sure if there are any "good" endings past day one. If you don't defeat her perfectly and live in the void the narrator gives you, you become trapped in a cycle of violence. You die more, you get more voices, she becomes more powerful. It feels completely hopeless.

One of the endings (I don't completely remember how to get back here but I believe you have to kill her enough times?) she, this creature, possesses you. You hear her voice within your own head. Telling you to bring her to the rest of the world. That can't happen. She has proven herself to kill you if given any opportunity. You can't befriend her. I threw myself into a void, killing both of us. She is twisted and sick. Vengeful. She needs you to let her out. Once you start engaging with her, you are already doomed. She can't be entertained at all. If you do kill her at the very beginning and live, your life is empty. Floating in a void, told you are happy.

Maybe I'm projection a bit, but this is the most hopeless a game has made me feel. This game reminds me a lot of depression.

I haven't finished the game yet, there are more paths I need to explore. There's an overarching plot line I haven't seen through yet. And I'm hoping to watch a video essay or two about the game, just to make sure I haven't missed anything and to hear other's thoughts on the experience. Anyway, that's my thoughts on the game at this point, its quite the experience for me.

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[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

On one hand, wearing a tank top makes me feel more femme. On the other hand, it reveals arm hair. On the third hand, women have body hair. On the fourth hand, my arm hair is too dark even after it's been shaved recently.

CW: Reddit-tier bit.

On the fifth hand, where are all these hands coming from! joker-gaming

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[-] pooh@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

Movie night plans failed, since I didn’t plan as far ahead as I should have, but it’s better to postpone anyways.

Instead, I’m gonna start on a new mecha misume model kit (this one is Nuke Matrix brand) and listen to the audiobook of Manhunt.

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

My gender today is salty old seadog

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[-] Luna@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago

I found this really Interesting FE romhack. Seems really unique and intuitive, I'll report back when I've played more of the game.

Also it's totally pronoun emblem :waow-based:

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hot take, its okay to have secrets, or to not tell people things, or not interact with people you don't want to. Obviously I'm not advocating for with-holding information that harms people.

Everything else aside I cant stop thinking about this current wave of discourse about how people are entitled to know everything about you just cause youre dating, and (*comparing it) to the you have to reveal your trans status thing

sorry I'm venting, obviously I'm not even mentioning the misogyny, which ew

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[-] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

Anyone have clothing brand recxomendations that aren't BDS?

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago

I'm hiking, which is nice, but my asthma is kindly reminding me of what happened yesterday. The Earth, kindly enough, is answering my prayers for air and sending giant gusts of wind in my direction. I've rolled my ankle multiple times, but it's really nice out so it's still a good time 😊

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[-] Eco@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago

truly aren't we all working on disco elysium successor projects?

[-] Luna@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yeah this FE romhack has been really fun (image of said fun in spoiler)

This cleric yearns for BLOOD jetstream-troll

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