Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

It ain't right. #comics

How to gird your loins

One of the weird things about transition is just how anticlimactic it is. Literally the best possible outcome is for you to finally feel... normal. Not normal in the sense of being like everyone else. (You'll never be like everyone else. You aren't now, either.) Normal in the sense of being at home in your body and in your life.

This is a privilege cis people get to enjoy every day and never realize it.

But it's also pretty weird...

You've transitioned. Now what? You just live your life? You go to work 5 days a week and try to plan a vacation in the summer. Sure, you like your swimming suit better but was it really worth it? What's changed? I went through hell to get what? A little suburban lesbian life? Was it worth it?

Yes. 100%. 10/10, would transition again.

As I was telling my therapist earlier this week, the difference between me now and the old me isn't that life is easier now. It's actually really hard right now. It's that I actually want to live it now. For the first time in a very long time, I'm looking forward to my future. I have hopes and dreams.

It's not that I didn't have anything I looked forward to before but this is different. Before, I had work plans, technical ideas I wanted to try out, and I had places I wanted to visit. But now? Now I have dreams that are just for me. I have goals for my body. I have people I want to meet. I can envision growing old as a beautiful thing and not as a thing of terror.

I also have friends of a sort I never even knew existed before. I've experienced more genuine human connection in the last two years than most of the rest of my life. More joy, too. And just so we're clear, that connection is with all of you. 💜 Before, I had this deep, dark secret which I planned to carry to my grave. It ate me up inside but I couldn't tell a soul because I knew they would be horrified by it. Now it's not only no longer a secret but it's a connection point with other trans folks. Instead of feeling isolated, I've finally found friends who actually understand me.

I wouldn't trade that for the world.

I have nothing to say.

Thank you.

Nintendo uncensored the fact that Vivian is canonically trans in the Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door remaster. This was originally censored out of the western release of the original GameCube version but is back now on Switch

Source: https://mynintendonews.com/2024/05/21/review-paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-for-nintendo-switch/
(thanks @lycanmatriarch )

I heard the good news about the upcoming Thousand Year Door remake, and decided to stop drawing my regularly scheduled trans girls to draw some different trans girls for a while. Congrats on finally getting to be yourself, Vivian! ^_^

Now back to drawing MY trans girls. XD

OK #Linux community, listen up.

MS have done it again and people are looking for a way out.

DON'T TREAT NEWBIES LIKE SHIT.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR ASKING QUESTIONS.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR HAVING PROBLEMS.

DON'T TELL PEOPLE TO "GOOGLE IT" WHEN THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT TO SEARCH FOR, OR HOW TO INTERPRET THE RESULTS THEY'D FIND.

DON'T BE A DICK.