[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When you're ready to make big changes, definitely look into threading as an alternative to waxing, a lot of folk find it less painful in the long term. (But it still really stings at first! :) )

Having thick/full eyebrows can be an advantage, since you have more to work with. I have the problem that my upper eyebrows are a bit too sparse, which makes them much more difficult to shape.

[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm curious how these modern takes on One Piece will deal with the Okama and related characters (assuming they get that far!)

I haven't read the manga, but the anime at least comes off super-transphobic in how they're played for laughs at times. I think that'd necessarily be cut from the live action version, but less hopeful about this for another anime adaptation.

[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I've always read that it's because many light novels started online, and the way they were listed meant you needed the title to really grab folk's attention.

(I actually really like this particular anime; the animation is often iffy but art and story really appeal to me!)

[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

I can't think of anything less trans-friendly than mandatory pronoun marking.

I quite liked this quote from Isabel Fall (more about identity than pronouns specifically, but still related!)

“We make boxes that seem to enclose a satisfying number of human experiences, and then we put labels on those and argue about them instead,” she says. “The boxes change over time, according to a process which is governed by, as far as I can tell, cycles of human suffering: We realize that forcing people into the last set of boxes was painful and wrong, we wring our hands, we fold up some new boxes and assure ourselves that this time we got it right, or at least right enough for now. Because we need the boxes to argue over. I do not want to be in a box. I want to sift through your fingers, to vanish, to be unseen.”

[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Slightly related: I was looking recently at early issues of Dragon magazine on archive.org, and #3 has a section on women. The title is "NOTES ON WOMEN & MAGIC -- Bringing the Distaff Gamer into D & D".

It proceeds roughly how you'd expect from the title.

[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

For 5e there is https://open5e.com/, although that is under the OGL.

Didn't WOTC end up releasing that under a creative commons license?

[-] amethyst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me, what helped initially was not to focus on whether I was trans or not, but on specific questions like whether I wanted to start HRT.

Because when I read the list of changes it caused, none of them seemed bad, and many seemed really desirable!

That helped reduce my dilemma from a complicated question of "identity" ("Am I trans? Am I nonbinary?" etc), to a more specific choice I could proceed with.

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