Hampter Girl

24 & chronically ill Constantly in fight or flight

[liberalsarecool]

The death of joy. #MAGA

[liberalsarecool]

Solid start.

[liberalsarecool]

Women frighten conservative men. Any instance of independence and reactionary Republicans go medieval.

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

[boybeetles]

Lost the ask, got a lot of asks in my inbox today so it got buried but my last post reminded me of it. Someone asked me if penile atrophy caused by t-blockers/estrogen can be treated the same way vaginal atrophy can.

It can! here’s a substack article written by a transfem for transfems about it:

How To Maintain Your Penis' Function On Feminizing HRT

Trans Science!

[boybeetles]

Adding this to this post so I can just link everything together next time I get an ask about genital care for trans people. Here’s a link for vaginal atrophy care for people on testosterone hrt, also goes over common questions people have about vaginal and urinary healthcare for people with vaginas on testosterone hrt.

Q&A: Gynecologic and vaginal care for trans men - San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Dr. Juno Obedin-Maliver shares advice on dryness, pelvic pain, infections and other vaginal and frontal genital opening health issues.

Looking for links related to care for vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, metoidplasty, orchiectomy, etc and also other care of the side effects estrogen hrt/testosterone blockers has on people with penises (stuff like UTIs, I remember reading somewhere that, just like testosterone hrt, estrogen hrt/t-blockers can increase chance of UTIs. Correct me if I’m wrong.). if anyone has some please add on! Would be nice to have just one big post to link people too for questions about trans genital care.

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

Crazy thing about gender is that it does that

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

I’m like if a girl was a closeted bi frat boy in a way that is only experienced by an elite few

(I’m a 24 yr old outed bi afab)

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

So I’m afab but my parents have known I haven’t really adhered to a certain gender since before puberty. Just the other day my mom officially assigned me a masc name when I’m masc presenting.

I have been anointed as Mac

(No she’s never seen It’s Always Sunny)

[npdclaraoswald]

A doll youtuber I watch has made a video about the history of Polly Pocket, and she's describing the plots of the dvd specials, one of which features an elderly woman named Ms. Throckmorton, and my reaction was

[depsidase]

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[aidashakur]

there's not a single casual bone in my body. everything means something to me

[depsidase]

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

I was actually in a car crash and DESPITE the insurance intro saying my call was being recorded, there was no recording available when they called back to discuss the details. Bitch you literally said you were recording.

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

You can tell my mental state with extreme accuracy based on how bloody and chapped my lips are

[yesornopolls]

A New STI is Spreading in the U.S. What You Should Know.

The infection, caused by the fungus Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII (TMvii), spreads through intimate contact and has predominantly been seen among men who have sex with men. It causes painful, coin-sized rashes on the arms, buttocks, trunk, legs, and genitals. While infections can be treated with oral antifungal medications, treatment can take several weeks, making fast detection of the uncommon infection critical. 

“TMvii can resemble other skin conditions or sexually transmitted infections, so proper evaluation is important,” says Tom Carpino, Ph.D., the Hock postdoctoral research fellow at DGHI, who has studied the public health challenges of emerging STIs such as mpox. “The lack of awareness among the highest risk individuals and communities, combined with the lack of wide-scale testing and reporting from clinics, are ingredients for a very serious epidemic to go under the radar.”

[houndmother]

[invaderxan]

[neoneyebrowsgetcandy]

Drank so much moonshine the nurse said that’s why my lymph node on my neck is swollen like a marble