That is kinda what I did, but I used shaving cream in the shower and a safety razor. Was like a light sunburn for days.

No, I only know vaguely that they even exist. Thanks for the tip.

https://transfemscience.org/ This is a good source on how different kinds of estrogen work, and at what dose.

Very annoying that I can’t shave my legs, cause it’s too irritating, and also can’t use IPL, because my hair is too bright for it to work. I guess I’ll have to live with long pants for now, and practice body positivity.

At least he looks like a prime candidate for heatstroke, what with not wearing a hat in summer in a desert. Already has the signature anglo-in-spain look. Like a rotissery chicken, or a lobster.

I have been feeling much better the last few days, depression wise. I hope it stays that way for a bit, I kinda forgot how it felt to not be depressed. Didn’t really change anything about my sourrundings, so I hope it’s actually the hormones helping.

I also am enjoying voice training, it’s fun, and I always liked playing with my voice. When I was a child I could imitate other people, maybe I’ll get there again. I also have been making progress with it, I am getting higher than I was two weeks ago.

People always said that my nipples would hurt like shit, but for now it’s a solid 1/10. I still sleep on my stomach, which I thought I would have to stop. I like touching my chest, cause it’s tangible change and progress.

I haven’t felt more anxious, but I greatly reduced my weed consumption. I just don’t want to anymore, most of the time.

100μg/24h.

Yeah I put a lot of effort into understanding my emotions, cause I had problems with short temper and such, and being aggressive makes me want to puke, so I took care to not get to that point.

I definitly felt more when I was a child though. I would actually become depressed after finishing a book, cause it was over and cry a lot. Hasn’t happened in years.

Yeah, possibly the dosage. I just realized thet the cryptic “4 patches/week” I got from the endo, could mean that I was supposed to take two patches at the same time.

I have been wondering about the emotional effects of HRT everyone has ben talking about, because it’s been 2 months, and either I haven’t noticed the changes, or they are too subtle to be perceived by me. I feel very much the same, and still also very much in control of my emotions. Except in extraordinary circumstances(lack of sleep, lack of food, etc). I did put in a lot of effort into my emotional control over the years, since it used to be quite bad, but I thought I would still feel something.

What concretly do people mean, when they talk about “emotional effects”?

I have noticed some physical changes though, so it is working in some regards.

I am too nervous to go to pride, I also have no idea how to not dress to not draw eyes, and I also don’t want to(dress lightly). I don’t know how to not boymode in public really, and I also don’t want to have to explain stuff to people. I should go, though. If simply to have contacts to local queer people

A guy I knows thinks ukraine could still win, if we only sent the right weapons and the right ammount. This is for him.

It is really nice to read, it’s characters have great dynamics. And the city it’s set in feels like a real place, and Thailand isn’t a common setting as well.

I really like black lagoon. It’s characters and setting are really well done. It also has a very class concious worldview. The main protagonist becomes a pirate because he was kidnapped and his company refused to pay ransom, to save money. It still releases a chapter every two months. One of the newest arcs was about french colonialism in west africa.

Oh that is very nice. It was one of the things that made me wary of travelling in china, since it would have really limited me. Though I also heard you could just get the cops to get you a place at a hotel, if you didn’t find one.

To be fair, my hair actually frizzes out when I don’t wash it (with conditioner). It’s fine for a day or two, but after that I should really get to it, because it also starts to itch.

You are right though, hygiene is a space of myth nowadays. Most info out there is bullshit.

I have started actually trying out voice training excercises, and have realized that my vibes based approach of just humming music as high as I can without my voice breaking, maybe wasn’t that bad after all.

Also imitating the sounds my dog used to make, has given me a bigger vocal range.

I am still going to continue with the actual excercises, but I’ll also continue just playing with my voice while having a walk or something. I used to sind a lot as a child, before my voice dropped.

I have been thinking a lot about gender(rereading feinberg, and watching the judith butler video by philosophy tube helped), because well, women in my personal life are not “femme”.

Noone uses makeup, clothes are generally treated as unisex(I and my family generally used to share clothes, everyone wore pants though), and hair is mostly short (at least for the cis women) for maintencae reasons.

So I have been saying that I want to be femme, but if I followed familliar examples, it would mean dressing as usual.

When I first told them why my hair was so important to me, the answer was: “But you know that long hair does not make a women, so why care so much?”

To which I don’t have an answer except: “I like my hair”. Which, is enough for me and my sourrundings.

Anyway, I deeply don’t get gender really. Is the result of me thinking really hard, I know that I know nothing. I am mostly acting based on vibes, doing what feels right, and not orienting myself through social conventions(that train has left a long time ago anyway).