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Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named "Kern's World", where the plan is to release monkeys le-monke infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern's World hoping to find paradise.


also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good


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[-] gaystyleJoker@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[-] President_Obama@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Met an autistic trans girl who programs for a railway company

catgirl-salute

[-] Eco@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago
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[-] Wmill@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago
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[-] Tommasi@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

1 year of HRT, let's fucking goooo!!! transshork-happy

Might write a bit about it later, but the short and sweet is that estrogen fucking rocks and idk how I ever lived without it catgirl-peace

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Death to the reactionary egg prime directive! Long live the revolutionary zone of proximal transgender development!

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the egg prime directive is around to prevent heartache, like a Nevada style thing.

I would've loved if someone told me at 14 that I was feeling so awful about puberty and browsing like fictionmania and researching trans healthcare and being jealous of how my mom related to my sister was all because I was a girl and I could be transgender too. As obvious as it was post egg crack, it wasn't when I was living through it... I probably would've just rejected all that and said "nope still a guy"

But the weird toxic discourse about the egg prime directive isn't about any of that, it's about thinking being called a trans woman or trans man or non binary is the worst thing like an insult or that people who just play with gender (tom boy or butch lesbian) might be "pressured" to transition. I love being trans, it's not an insult to me. We have one last cis het guy in our friend group, everyone else came out and/or transitioned, who we lightly tease about somehow being the last cishet.

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[-] inTheShadowOf@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

Quite frankly, I'm a woman because I said so.

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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

I tried speed dating and this is about how it went:

Them: Says some presumably interesting anecdote about themselves but I can't hear them

Me: "WHAT?"

repeat for two hours

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[-] yewler@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

I've said this all before but I'm feeling it real good again. I'm so freaking thankful for this website. I'm so so so glad I came on here and made that post with my feels and met you all. I'm almost certain I would still be calling myself a cis man i it wasn't for you all 😭, and because I don't, I'm happier than I've ever been. I'm still trying to figure out the details, but realizing I don't have to be a guy has been so unimaginably freeing, and I wanted to thank you all again for helping me realize it.

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[-] Eco@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

you are metrosexual because you wear skinny jeans and wash daily

i am metrosexual because i appreciate the eroticism of trains

we-are-not-the-same

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

My fuckin bottom surgery application was rejected because I faxed it the same day as my doctors did his half 🙄. And it took a few months for them to reject me, now I'll just have to do it again I guess

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[-] bolshevikLovelace@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

THEY'RE TURNING THEIR FRIGGIN' KEYBOARDS TRANSalex-aware

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Aghhhhghghhghgghg just sent a text asking someone on a date. Hhhhhhgggggggg I'm not good at this

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Update: they are not interested in me like that

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[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

Havin' a real rough time today catgirl-flop

Finally got an avatar though

kirby-wave

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[-] yewler@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Ugh I hope I never tire of people telling me they love my outfit

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[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

The only centrists I support are androgynous people

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[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

transphobia is some bullshit. i thought people liked pretty girls but apparently want to stop me from become one? what gives?

[-] Eco@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

fake fans smh

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[-] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 weeks ago

My parents and immediate family keep asking me "when are you bringing home a girlfriend?" every time I visit and I have no idea how to tell them that sooner or latter the "girlfriend" that will come home might just be me.

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[-] yewler@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

sexismI have a difficult time calling myself and being called a woman but not for gender reasons I don't think. I like girl and lady. I think it's because growing up, the context I would hear the word "woman" being used the most is my dad referring to my mom, and tying her fulfilment of her "biblical duties" to her womanhood. I think it's hard for me to separate the word from that connotation, even though I know it's bullshit. Like every time someone calls me a woman I feel my dad calling me one and I hate it.

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[-] Ambii@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Got really drunk on saturday and finally came out to my irl friend group chat. Waking up not remembering doing that was "fun". This is also the second time I've gotten way too drunk and came out (first time was almost ten years ago when I came out to them at a party as bisexual)

Would not recommend it.

internalized transphobia relating to ageIn my coming out message I put in my chosen name and for the first two days afterwards, I thought that maybe I wasn't ready to do that.

On analyzing that feeling I'm realizing that it might just be attatched to my internalized shame about coming out at my age and feeling that this whole thing, this whole experience, is a kid/teen/young adult thing. Like thinking about it makes me feel like I'm going to be physically ill. I actually gag when I think about it, out of shame or embarrassment.

I think I need to talk to more older trans people.

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Hi Ambii

same feelings

internalized shame about coming out at my age and feeling that this whole thing, this whole experience, is a kid/teen/young adult thing. Like thinking about it makes me feel like I'm going to be physically ill. I actually gag when I think about it, out of shame or embarrassment.

I really felt the exact same way and still do sometimes. It's actually very common. I made a post about it once, and there were a lot of very supportive people who responded. You can check out what they said Here . I'm on the older end of the general population here as far as transition age goes, but there are some people who transitioned even later than me in that thread.

In fact, this feeling is so common that this isn't the first time I've linked this post

You can DM me whenever if you wanna chat with a ahem mature woman.

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[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

Really hoping I pass enough for my sister’s wedding doggirl-gloom

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

put some effort into painting my nails instead of just throwing on a quick layer like i normally do. did base coat, 2 coats black, then shiny top coat, just took my time at it while i was installing new linux on my laptop, it was relaxing. starting to think it's kinda worth the effort, they look really nice and shiny and will take longer to chip off.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Still feel self conscious enough to stop my self from using feminine mannerisms around other people, but now it comes with guilt over not asserting myself 🫠

[-] yewler@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

I got kidnapped by a bunch of trans girls today. Was not expecting that to be how my day ended but I'm not complaining

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[-] yewler@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

I have my HRT consultation on Thursday and I can't stop thinking about it

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[-] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

buying the cheapest men's shaving gel instead of the same thing in a pink box and double the price from the woman's aisle catgirl-peace

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

I'm booking an appointment and the only gender neutral honorific is Dr. So fuck it, if you have to call me something, call me Doctor Moss. Doc Moss is acceptable.

Unironically wish I could put in Comrade instead of Mr or Miss or whatever

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

listen well this tale of dysphoric(?) woe

Giggling with my friend at work as some of the gals we're friendly with have some incredibly candid sex discussions in the next cubicle over since the office is basically empty

She goes over to tell them that we can definitely hear everything they're saying

I think I can hear one of them poke fun at the fact that I (boymoding, only out to my friend) can hear

Suddenly reminded of the distance that exists between me and them because of how they perceive me

Feel very far away, almost "shell-shocked" for the remaining half hour of the work day

According to my friend they were actually cool with me hearing and that I was explicitly invited to join in when the next such Empty Office Sex Salon occurs. But I still can't shake the feeling that I'm different, that me being there just pollutes everything and they'll always view me with some unshakable suspicion and wariness, like a wild animal that could snap and start mauling people.

I honestly don't get too much dysphoria, to the point that I don't even know if this counts?? but this is the feeling that gets me. Can't we just pretend I'm part of the group? I'm not that much different from you on the inside, I promise.

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[-] Wendy_Pleakley@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yapping about traumathe more I think about trauma, the more unfair I think it is to make traumatized adults participate in capitalist society when they're basically kids.

social services should circle the wagons and let people heal and learn before they have to grow up. it should be given the same urgency as a house fire.

like literally it's not right. you shouldn't be able to grow up wrong. people who need to learn to love themselves should be given that care. not access, not the option, point blank, provided with mental health resources and professionals.

when someone injures their leg, it's not, "oh oh I hope you can get the help you need" it's "holy shit he can't fucking walk we gotta help". why is mental health different LMAO

Obviously I'm being ridiculous and describing something that will never happen. Wanting to be dead is a feature, not a bug.

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[-] yewler@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I'm feeling particularly content today and wish I knew how to recreate this feeling more consistently. I feel cheerful in a way where I don't feel like I'm faking it

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[-] Eco@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

"yes please i will download a torrent of this series that is 55gb. it's only twelve episodes at 1080p but that's a reasonable file size to expend"

words no one has ever said

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[-] Mousy@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

Every time i try to join a discord i'm too afraid to actually say anything.

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[-] Yukiko@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

CW: Extreme depression, dysphoriaMy brain is screaming out in agony tonight. I was watching GDQ and a lot of donations started to come in about how trans folks families were so accepting and supportive. What a stark difference between them and myself where I lost literally everyone except for my mother. I even lost my fucking husband. It's so painful. I'm so happy others had it better than me, but gods it's killing me on the inside and I just want to cry. It hurts so much. Sometimes I wish I wasn't trans and this is one of those moments. I fucking hate everything right now.

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I decided to check up on r/MTF, which I haven't done in a long time. Unsurprisingly, that sub is still as embarrassingly lib as it ever was. More so than most other trans subs. They're still unable to connect the dots, and constantly making excuses for democrats, and acting like they're protectors of trans rights while they've actually shown that they do not care. Now I remember why I stopped visiting that place years ago. I have little patience for this lib shit.

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[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

alcoholFucked up rn but felt kinda weird about "ze/hir" lately despite them being rad asf pronouns imho

Think I'm still mostly a "they/them" but being a "she/her" trans femme on occasion mite b cool

You know, just to cement the "lol definitely not a guy" feeling home

Or fuck, could I possibly be a binary trans woman instead of a weird enby that I've been living as for like a decade now???

Fuck idk

catgirl-flop

Idk maybe refer to me with she/her for awhile and I'm seeing if that's actually right or not, sorry

Like I came out gender wise as a trans woman initially a long time ago, then felt more comfortable being nonbinary, and I guess now I've kinda done full circle?

I dunno

I'm queer

spoiler . and my junk is small

:::

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Had to remind an ex that we will remain exes for the foreseeable future, that sucks.

[-] Wendy_Pleakley@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

called the college LGBTQ center

left a voicemail

if this truly is a solo journey then i have to accept that i have nobody. it's just me. it might always be just me.

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My mom and I are watching the second squid game season, the trans character is cute and very relatable which I wasn't expecting (apparently the actor is a cis guy). Kinda weird how much of the trans experience is apparently universal.

We're watching it dubbed and I really appreciate that they cast a voice actress that didn't have the perfect femme voice training or cast a cis girl to voice her. She sounds more or less like I do on a "bad" voice day lol

[-] yewler@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad I started growing my hair out when I did

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[-] Tommasi@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I tried playing marvel rivals with some friends and its kinda fun, but also reminded me why I stopped playing those types of games: so many people who can't take a loss without getting insanely mad doggirl-sweat The absurdity of it is kinda funny when it happens, but it creates such a negative environment where i don't want to spend that much time tbh

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[-] Eco@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

sorry boss i can't come in to work today. my wife is holding my arm hostage while she sleeps. yeah idk i'll be in next week maybe. i expect full pay for this

[-] amy_jmayday@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

i thought i was really gonna miss having gargantuan pockets when i moved to more femme clothing, but honestly i love having a silly little handbag so much.

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