many people in potioncraft:

i think it would be pretty cool for you to ask them to sign a pride flag though. be normal about it, but they’ll be flattered. it’s a cool project

you can try lite salt, it’s sodium salt cut with potassium salt! (i do this for keto but it should work well for workout purposes too)

lmfao god, i’m like the worst guy to ask, my style leans heavily pink/flowery/femme. maybe a symbol one could get tattoed on them?

but i’m thinking about the way my transmasc (masc) friends and how they dress and all of it is just… ugh LOL i hate typical men’s fashion

uhh, there’s a lot of good and valid discourse about cis men and their perceptions and opinions here. and i think that comment was probably about the cis or cis-passing male experience

but there’s some unique aspects to being transmasc that suck and feel comparable to being bisexual, with both of us kind of being invisible to society (frequently, anyways; not claiming this applies 100% of the time)

it seems like there’s a lower bar to passing for trans men (on average, again); this is, generally speaking, a positive in a transphobic society. but it can also be very lonely and isolating, in ways. it’s hard to be really known and a lot of people don’t even know trans men exist

like i’ve thought about this, and there’s just not a good way to advertise that you’re a trans man. if i’m flying the trans flag colors, people think i’m a pre-transition transfem LOL we don’t have a cohesive and meme-y culture of cat ears and thigh highs, there’s nothing i can wear that’s like “oh that guy’s trans(masc)”

i mean, i guess i could take my shirt off, but i don’t even think most people would clock me 💀

anyways i’m just kind of rambling now. but i thought it would be good to have some actual transmasc input on this post lol

i’ve never understood this sort of masculinity, but i also have people who need me to be alive to continue living, and i assume that changes the math (transmasc, since i figure people will wonder, and i’m fine with this being the one thing where i’m not a real man lol)

what’s uhhh, what’s the implication here. because that hand position implies holding down and fucking, but the way the legs are positioned absolutely do not

could do a riding thing if you have a dick and you’re being held down by someone with a vagina, i guess, but i feel like that’s also a different interpretation of what’s happening

(mostly joking / overthinking)

“i don’t have a partner because [only theyfabs] asked me out” is an insane cope, that’s a skill issue

yeah i remember those insecure assholes. annoyed the shit out of me

glad this community isn’t like that :) fuck reddit, and welcome

does the guy you like recognize you as a guy?

this is so real. dresses looked alright on me and then i became much closer to a bear and it’s. less good.

which is even more incredibly fucked when you consider the illusory truth effect, or the effect of something seeming more truthful by the mere repeated exposure to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect)

i’ve found that therapy is good for practicing social skills, and explaining your feelings to other people. these are generally valuable skills, but they lack in what you’re looking for - trying to get yourself to a less reactive state

have you read a book called “the body keeps the score”? it talks a lot about PTSD/CPTSD, the causes, and, most relevantly, the treatments. if you want to stick to therapy, i would suggest EMDR, it seems to have better outcomes for people dealing with trauma. for stuff you can do today, i would practice 4-7-8 breathing and yoga. down the line, i would recommend looking into neurofeedback. it helped me a ton. but i think breathing + yoga are sort of the slow, manual path that neurofeedback takes you down, and are worthwhile in their own respect

good luck in your journey, i hope you find this helpful. one day, may trauma be as easy to treat as any other condition humans can be afflicted with

(the headline) by that you mean, senate republicans are ransoming americans’ healthcare for discrimination

(real question) is there a non-carb grain? is there a grain that’s mostly protein? (a lot of keto stuff has pea protein…) (i’m almost certain there’s no FAT based grain 😭)

yeah it seems a lot trickier to discuss the HRT relevant to us. i don’t think it’s necessarily invalid to have linked it here, but…

people don’t just “wake up”. a movement is built, one conversation, one comrade at a time; it doesn’t just magically happen in the minds of the people. i don’t think you’re necessarily badly intentioned, but you aren’t even giving any compelling stories from your “firsthand experience over the past two decades”. your post amounts to “society is FUBAR’d because trust me bro,” and frankly, none of us have any reason to trust you, brand new account will no posts

you also don’t really talk like someone who has twenty years of organizing experience. there are methodologies to this, one can be trained in these ways if one really wants to be

also, how exactly do you expect to survive the MAGApocalypse without community? who do you expect to turn to in times of crisis if not the people around you? or are you just going to isolate yourself from society and go off the grid? do you think people make it through these sorts of crises alone?

if you are tired of society being built on a foundation of fear, you can begin your journey to building collective power and hope with this page and this site, it’s an excellent resource: https://www.labornotes.org/sites/default/files/22AnOrganizingConversation_0.pdf

finally, reminder that ayn rand ended her life benefiting from the same systems she had decried: social security and medicare

feel like you could do some really interesting things with model trains and like… model-train-track-restraints 🤔

the shit cherry on top is that he was awarded that pride flag by the FBI for his efforts to support diversity!!

apparently the acquaintance of a friend of mine made this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo2sbIg-bLU