Jk! Lol idk what I’m doing, I’m the new girl(I haven’t been one that long) but general convo if anyone is interested?

  • Feeling super depressed atm. Getting my second face surgery on the 6th and feel like I have no hope for being desirable as a 200lb woman. I’ve been compulsively eating again at work and haven’t been able to do intermittent fasting like I was doing to be able to lose 20lbs.

  • I went to a pretty big local convention last weekend. Lots of people cosplaying and I wish I could have been a part of it but damn it’s a lot of work and I didn’t have the time to put together an outfit. Either way it was a lot of fun, I feel really lucky to pass but sometimes I wish I weren’t so tall.

    • That sounds fun, I’ve wanted to go to one for so long but never made it. Cosplay can be cheaper. I’ve dressed up as Dr. Krieger from Archer a few times because I feel like we look so similar. I had most of the stuff so all I really needed was the lab coat. (side note, the “costume” la coats were just as expensive or more and incredibly shitty quality, so I just got a real one.

      I’m kind of hoping now one day I can try cosplaying as Cheryl instead 🤣 but not sure I’d ever be able to pull it off.

      I feel you on the height thing, though I will say, I was out shopping yesterday and passed several women taller than me, it caught me off guard, and then really surprised me to see they weren’t wearing heels! I’m 5’11(~180cm) for reference.

    •  dylanne   ( @dylanne@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Oh oh oh was it a video games / tabletop games / nerdy things convention? I wonder if we saw each other! I saw several tall women. All of whom looked stunning to me. The convention I went to had a queer cosplay runway, which was amazing.

      I was only there on Sunday but I took it as an opportunity to come out to one of my best friends, and I tried presenting as vaguely feminine except for my hair being a disaster. It was such a particularly healing environment for me. Figuring out how the bits of my brain that often go into panic mode just quiet down when I’m more comfortable about how I see myself. Despite everything. (I hadn’t done this with somebody I know before, so that was huge). So many accepting people. And I was conveniently colour matched with a giant pikachu :)

        • Fucking same!

          Yes, it is! I wrestled with that realization for a while, I think I’ve more or less accepted it, but not sure what to do about it.

          I’m conflicted on hormones. On one hand, yeah it would help a ton of things, but that’s a huge step.

          • For me, I figure it’ll decide once and for all whether it’s right for me, if it turns out it isn’t then I can just stop them. Everything feels like a huge step to me ATM, and feeling like a man in a dress is a problem for me. I wish I had the confidence some trans women have but I just don’t, I need to at least vaguely pass before I’ll feel cool socially transitioning

            • That is a great way to think about it, I think I was making a similar realization recently.

              On the rest of it, are you me? I’ve said basically all of that before, some it in those same words! 🤣

              All I can think if slowly make ambiguous changes til I feel I can attempt to pass. An example would be to grow my hair out but deal with it differently depending where I’m at til at some point it could be long enough to do something clearly fem with it. My dad grew his out looking like an old hippie in retirement, so I could pass it off like that at first.

                • Sam’s club has generic minoxidil that can be delivered for $20/6 month supply. That’s what I’m trying atm. I think it was like $50 for the membership though. Meds are insanely cheap there though, so that alone feels like it makes up for it. I just got a derma roller to try out some microneedling too. I’ve only done it once but it’s a bizarre feeling.