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yemmy posted...

How much sydney Sweeney tittie

There's always plenty of that. You also get a Hunter Schafer tittie as a bonus.

Oh man...you're in for a ride. A very nasty, bumpy ride. When "Stand Still Like a Hummingbird" pops up, well...buckle the fuck up.

I really love the shot of in the scene where Jules finds Rue and looks at her through the fire.

The Egyptians were pretty dark and probably a mixture of people from the Levant, Saharan refugees, and what have you. Egypt at times ruled over and was at times ruled by Nubians to the south, in what is today Sudan and South Sudan, as well as Libya and Libyans (who come in several shades, depending on ethnicity).
That said, they typically depicted Sub-Saharan Africans as being darker-skinned than themselves. And the Ptolemaids were white as hell and IIRC Cleopatra was literally the first one who bothered to learn how to speak Egyptian: her forebears seem to have considered it to be beneath them, because they were dumb jerks.
None of this mattered very much to the ancients: we have a tendency to back-port our notions of race and impose them on the ancient world, but those were initially invented by Europeans to justify the brutal exploitation (and the extermination of, as was sometimes the case with the former) of Native Americans and Africans, IIRC.

It would be disappointing if it was. Not that it's bad, mind you: it's quite good. It's just this malformed lump of features on the bones of a different game (Stellaris 1.0).

Kadomony posted...

i didn't think it was so easy to transition and detransition that you could do it 3 times in a row like that

It's a simple matter of starting and stopping HRT. There are only a few things that aren't fully reversible (for example, breast growth and masculinization of facial hair) but those don't really kick irreversibly until you're several months in.

Buu_88 posted...

Ok that actually sounds pretty crap

I mean, you do you, but it's pretty brilliant. Zendaya won an Emmy for her part as Rue, because she manages to bring the role of an opioid-addicted teen to terrible, pathetic, beautiful life. And, IMO, there isn't a performance worse than good. Hunter Schafer, Jacob Elordi, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney also knock it out of the park.

Yeah, Euphoria is pretty unapologeticly unreal. There arent that many parties and drugs in college, let alone high school.

What it is is a show about how our traumas shape us and usually for the worse. All of the main cast are fundamentally damaged people to one extent or another. And the show has incredible empathy for each one of these broken dumb asses. Rue doesnt want to live or die. Nate is twisted by a lifetime of rage. Jules hasnt learned to love herself or to take ownership of her body and her passions. Cassie loathes herself for being a histrionic slut at the same time that she loves being the center of attention. And so on

My 2009 Hyundai Accent is a gritty little thing. Small and underpowered, but nippy and with good MPG. The only problems Ive had arise while I owned it (versus the so-so shape it was in when I got it because the previous owner(s) didnt bother maintaining it) is the battery dying and the starter motor breaking.

Mechanic commented unprompted that its in great shape. Granted, it has ridiculously low mileage for its age, but still. Ill be driving this thing for another 10 years.

I never doubted my transition: that it is was necessary and also that its the best thing that ever happened to me. But every experience is different. Whether its difficulty due to external factors (rejection by parents/family, bad work environment, etc. etc.) or internal factors (confounding conditions like autism, OCD, ADHD, etc. which affect how you think, think about, and process stuff), people do destransition, and that is valid. You are valid, TC.

Im curious: are you seeing a therapist? A good therapist could do a lot to help you sort yourself out.

Edit: Lots of posts happened. I know you may not want to hear this, but you need to be patient, and get yourself straightened out. It is literally never too late to transition, after all.

You better believe it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4BKjdgV_fw

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChSM1yVuB_l/
Also love that she takes an interest in young artists, like Faye here (who I also adore).

Torture, of course, merely gets the torturer want they want to hear, and not necessarily what is true. In general, it's quite ineffective.

I don't know anything about the person in the video, but why would that be horrifying, exactly?

Absolutely. There's so much about the area and its various eras that we'll simply never know. And that's terribly disappointing.

Gender critical/TERFism

SergeantGander posted...

If we forgive student loans, we should also forgive small business loans.

What's the difference between borrowing money in an attempt to create a better future for yourself and borrowing money in an attempt to create a better future for yourself?

We did forgive a ton of "small business" loans, fully. Very recently!

I lotion up religiously after shaving my body, and its fantastic how soft and smooth my skin has become.

And springing for slightly more expensive shampoo and conditioner has done wonders for my hair.
I mean, Im a girl, but you dudes can take notes. I promise straight ladies and gay dudes (and everyone in between) alike are probably going to appreciate healthy skin and hair.

Any chance of a significant (positive) change to the status quo died years ago. All people like Biden will ever give us are crumbs, and only grudgingly.

The Democrats could still torpedo their momentum by restarting student loan payments.

Look, the androphiles deserve eye candy too.

That thing gets so insanely clogged by the 4th and 5th laps, it turns into some kind of demented obstacle course. It's certainly unique.

No one at work bullies me though. And we don't have our own spots, because that would require Whole Foods to value us as individuals, and it didn't do that even before Amazon bought it.

Ugh, I wish Whole Foods rode stragglers that hard. Nothing worse than standing around waiting for some asshole to finish meandering aimlessly through the store 15 minutes after close.

Bob is definitely my favorite character, because Bob's the kind of man I would want to be if I was man.
But I don't think anyone is bad, though Gene plots tend to be uninteresting. The rest of the Belchers are great though.

I don't stare, but I definitely check other girls out.

I wouldnt put up much of a fight.

gunplagirl posted...

"I gotta go to the bathroom, excuse me" and I ask the bartender if they can get a staff member to "kick me out" or something and I'll apologize to my date in embarrassment and leave early then ghost her.

Oooh, that's brilliant! Don't mind me, just taking notes.

Early on, the first organized groups were gay men, transvestites(access to transition care being virtually non-existent, though Christine Jorgensen is a prominent early example dating to the '50s, trans sexual/gender [even the terms have evolved over time!]) and the like weren't categories many ID'd with yet), and they were all faced with similar problems, so they were mostly cohesive. Trans men mostly preferred to just throw on some trousers and exist as men to the best of their abilities: it was relatively easy to disappear until recently. They were all considered mentally ill.

Gay rights activists succeeded in getting homosexuality removed from the DSM as a disorder in the '70s, and generally gays and lesbians were hostile to the medical establishment that discriminated against them and pathologized them, basically around the same time it began providing trans people with transition care (though they were still subject to the problems listed above) with major caveats.

Second-wave feminism had two strains which proved hostile to trans women in particular: it created the ideas that conceptualized woman as an oppressed class that "women" must escape (thus turning trans women into oppressors attempting to reinforce their prison or, at best, patriarchal dupes). The other was obsessed with purity: and trans women were necessarily deemed to be "impure" the latter is still an obsession in TERF circles.

Things didn't really start getting better until the early '90s. Read Susan Stryker's Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution I am: it's how I know any of this! if you're curious to learn more.

MrMallard posted...

No-one deserves a dedicated community analysing your fucking hotel bedsheets so you can spam mail at their hotel to make them evict you. Eat shit.

They would rather blame the victim than talk about what happened. It's always thus with these types.

Wow, they all crawling out of the woodwork, huh?

Never understood this opinion, honestly.
Then again, Im a trans lesbian. Maybe straight dudes just really like dick?

Smashingpmkns posted...

Even if she got someone banned and cheered it on that definitely doesn't justify the shit that has happened to her lol I barely know shit about any of these people but getting swatted is fucked.

Not even just that, these psychos tracked her to the hotel she was staying at by cross-referencing the fucking bedsheets.

AceMos posted...

this topic is not about destiny please do not derail this very serious topic

They dont want to talk about whats happened to her though, because they dont have a leg to stand on there. Not even gish gallop.

I grieve for her. Shes been faced with unimaginable terror, but her enemies dont seem capable of understanding her passion and sheer ferocity. Theyve bitten off more than they can chew.

I just wish she wouldnt fuel petty internecine shit in our community.

I just watched that yesterday and its really great.
Wish we had gotten more Terry Time.

If you want to criticize keffals, she and her acolytes have been nasty to trans women of color griping about how she raised a shit ton of money in a blink of an eye while their needs are continually ignored.

Destiny and the rest are fascist scum though. And theyre not even half as bad as fucking Kiwi Farms!

That was a fantastic episode.
The Joker turning over a new leaf and becoming a passive-aggressive suburban step dad is....way more interesting than I expected.

https://twitter.com/Ranting_Trans/status/1528619125521539072
I always thought this one was funny.

I was also "hi"d in the past. Talk ewphoria.

Its a fucking awesome show.
Also queer AF. Takes a while to get going though.

Night bump for our Utopian Queen.

Congratulations lady! I hope everything goes well!

Smashingpmkns posted...

Still lacks the only reason to play a 3D Sonic game: Chao Garden

Yeah, I would take that before literally anything else.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/19/i-got-really-grounded-and-loved-it-how-grief-going-home-and-gabber-built-bjorks-new-album
I would paste in the article, but it's too long (of course). Apparently Bjrk spent Iceland's COVID lockdown jamming to Dutch and Indonesian techno?
I....well, that's a sentence, isn't it? She's a delightfully odd duck. The new album is called "Fossora", which is apparently Latin for digger. Her mom died in 2019, apparently, so there're some grief tracks.
In any case, I'm excited to listen to it. Her music is always fascinating and emotional.

Turbam posted...

Baten Kaitos

You can't post it and not explain it.
Kalas does a heel turn. Yes, the character you control, but not who you play: "you", the player, are Kalas' guardian spirit, and it is revealed that Melodia and Kalas somehow erased your memory/knocked you out so you wouldn't know their evil plan. He does it so he can get organic wings: he lost one of his.
You have to give it props for the sheer "WTF" factor, and it even does decently with the execution. Origins also has a doozy of a twist.

Proto_Spark posted...

I don't really like this argument. Suggesting that sports are just inherently unfair gives the impression that trans women in sports are just genetically better off, when there's very limited evidence to suggest that, especially with the amount of HRT that's required often for trans athletes to actually compete (things like NCAA and the Olympics have had HRT requirements for decades)

Using the argument "Sports are inherently unfair" just gives a lot of weight to transphobic arguments that haven't done nearly enough work to earn that. Not to mention it leads to things like "well then why do we bother with women's sports at all?"

The section of HRT is... weird. 2 of the 3 studies are based on trans men vs. trans women, When the actual debate is about trans women vs. cis women or trans men vs cis men. And the only study shared that even comes close comes with the caveat of "this isn't actually how we measure athletic performance". It certainly doesn't do a particularly good job of saying trans women are just empirically better equipped for sports against cis women, which is how they just start the next section assuming.

Theres also a lot of ignorance about how HRT actually works: mostly cis people way underestimate how powerful it really is. This isnt just limited to laypeople either: a lot of doctors are ignorant too. Its rooted in the erroneous belief that a male person and a female person are fundamentally different from each other, when the biggest difference by far is just from their hormone levels.

Giant Death Meteor, you're our only hope.

I mean, coke fiends probably aren't the best prime ministers, but I would take that over cruel indifference and anti-democratic fascism.

I prefer serials for serious dramas. Some degree of serialization is good even in most shows though.

Stewman_Magoo posted...

Oh good, so whenever cis women lose at high school level sports, they can just call out their opponent for being trans?

Yeah this is CLEARLY a better option than letting trans women play sports.

1,000 cis girls being traumatized by genital inspections is better than letting 1 trans girl play girls' sports.
-TERFs, probably they would use much worse language to describe a trans girl, but I just...can't