It’s beautiful!

I’d be an *expensive* cute cat girlfriend. 😆

This was 100% a joke, but honestly, if someone accepted the terms of the contract I wrote, I might very well go for it.

So I once in conversation drew up a contract of what it would take for someone to hire me as their live-in cat girl. Thinking it through, it was surprisingly involved. Headpats and treats should not be enough; you need health care and either a 401(k) or, in lieu of that, funding for a Roth IRA.

そんなに面白くて美しい表紙があれば、誰でも読みたくなります。素晴らしい本みたいです。

It’s hard to tell, but I worry that the checkboxes and radio buttons (incredible to me that zoomers will mostly never have experienced directly why they are called that) would be visually challenging. OTOH, they might be kind of awesome.

Also I love the pun on OS 8.

I also maybe can’t remember my biology. I’m having doubts that seta is the right term for the hairlike structures of these fuzzy bud coverings. Maybe it’s trichome? I’m having a little trouble confirming that that’s applicable to those case.

*fantastic. I just can’t type today, 英語でも日本語でも。

機械* 🤦‍♀️

All of our bodies know every minute detail of how to develop in either direction, and thankfully, these days, we get to choose which direction(s) to tell them to go.

I don’t enjoy seeing what I used to look like, and I’m worried about what people could do to me with this information. But, I still come across people every single day who have just no idea at all that changes like this are not just possible, but natural and easy.

I’ve thought long and hard about whether to post a transition timeline here, especially in today’s political climate. I guess at the end of the day, I decided it’s more important to show people the joy of becoming than it is to hide myself away.

I strongly identify with the idea that as soon as I realized what hormones could actually do, I jumped on the chance to obtain them. I moved quick once I knew. I think If I weren’t so deeply in love with my spouse and worried for her, I would have opened that door wide as soon I noticed it.

It’s easy to get sad knowing that if I’d just met the right person or read the right article 20 years earlier my life would have been entirely different, but I’m really proud of how I still managed to be a version of myself even back then instead of what the world around me said I should be.

For just one year after getting an inkling that HRT exists and works, because I knew it would change everything, I closed the door and kept just trying to be the best version of myself I could be without it.

Nearly a single year to the day after, I clicked the next link and changed my life forever.

I usually find that if I put a lot of effort into a topic that I want to address on the Internet, it is usually a topic I needed to spend some time developing my own understanding and arguments for on my own anyway. Maybe the other person doesn’t listen, but at least I learned something.

As long as I’m sharing selfies, here’s one of my favorite skating selfies! Dang, do I miss this skate park. I promise I was wearing protective gear when I was actually skating any of the features.