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@kara_dreamer As someone who mostly looks at gods through historical lenses, I find the idea of Yahweh as singular creator more understandable when I think of it first being seriously posited during the Babylonian exile, as a people who'd been _really_ successful by nomadic-to-settled tribal standards struggled to conceive of their place now that, in their part of the world, empires had become a thing that they couldn't ignore.

@kara_dreamer It's not too early to find out why so many trans women like the Hitachi Magic Wand.

@kara_dreamer I request trashy Undertale references-- like, an unmarked set of seven on a necklace or bracelet, and individuals with the appropriate "virtue" words from the ball game best victory text on them.

@kara_dreamer Well, if you're looking for a trans friendly doctor, Jessica Rongitsch at Capitol Hill Medical has been really good to me.

I don't know if they require anything before giving someone a prescription (since I'd already started when I moved here), but it's worth calling and asking, because there's a good chance they don't.

And if she's not taking new patients, I know there are good people elsewhere, too-- someone at Polyclinic, at least, and someone in Queen Anne? And I suspect there are more...

@kara_dreamer Are you on hormones? Because, in case you haven't heard, they do a nice job fighting off the effects of aging, and especially of testosterone-based aging.

@ikea_femme Probably yes? Staying hydrated is important during colds, which I'll bet means your usual salt loss is even greater.

@noelle In my experience, for whatever it's worth, Utena holds up super well, but Escaflowne, um, does not. (I've never seen Big O.)

@ikea_femme I dunno, I think it's worth trying for anyone doing our kind of transition.

@Eve @kara_dreamer It is, though unlike her previous series its books do not stand alone. So you're definitely committing to three books of the most exquisite suffering before you get whatever closure she's willing to give us in August.

@ikea_femme Results vary a lot by person, but fear of breast cancer in trans women is pretty much always way overblown.

I like it, and I think it's if anything good for my mood. The most commonly cited mood problems are from going off of it for more than a few days at at time, though some people do that intentionally on the theory that cycling is more accurately simulating the hormones they'd get if they were cis.

@ikea_femme I have these sort of feels all the time. About people who went to better schools, who transitioned earlier, who have "productive" hobbies, who are better at tech, you name it.

But I'm friends with some of those people anyway, and I know they have lots of insecurities, too. Often of the same kind, and sometimes (and very weirdly to me) even about something (always inconsequential-seeming) that I'm okay it?

I don't know if that helps; it doesn't always help me. But, um, it's a thing, I guess?

@kara_dreamer I think anything that hits really hard in the feels can help a person hatch. And Undertale sure hits hard in the feels.

@kara_dreamer That was a really sweet story, and figuring out gender shit can be super tricky. Thanks for sharing.

@kara_dreamer You might like this series. And they're relatively stand-alone, so if you don't like the first one (The Hundred-thousand Kingdoms) there's no harm in stopping there.

@kara_dreamer It's a trilogy that the author describes as "epic fantasy less like Tolkien and more like Gilgamesh". It has the whole family of gods who interfere / have sex with mortals thing, but, um, written and thought through better than a lot of (especially patriarchal accounts of) old real-world myths are. It's really good and fast-paced and harrowing.

@kara_dreamer I was trying to think why Asgore hit me in the dad feels without me analyzing his crimes too hard, and then I remembered that I often compare him to Bright Itempas, and, wow, that is a different level of crime.

(Incidentally, I think you might enjoy N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy.)

@kara_dreamer Oh god, yeah, that scene. I don't know how a person can get through The Walk (as some friends of mine have taken to calling it) without crying.

@kara_dreamer Are you implying that you expect there's a lot of... boning?

@kara_dreamer I do in fact live in Capitol Hill and go out for tea a lot, so, yes, for those definitions of "local".