#transland

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Transland: Consent, Kink and Pleasure by Mx. Sly

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Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that explores what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as many problematic rules, expectations, and hierarchies as mainstream ones. Moving from wide-eyed optimism that the fetish community is the promised land to realizing the ways fetish communities—even queer ones—reinforce the commodification of bodies, Mx. Sly examines how BDSM helped them understand and articulate their gender, how kink helped them turn shameful experiences into liberating ones, and how they became disillusioned with the BDSM scene—without rejecting the lessons fetish taught them.  The stories in Transland explore PTSD, intergenerational trauma, memory, consent, gender transition and diversity, queer relationships and subculture, and a lot of bondage. An odyssey of kinky hookups (including a charismatic Toronto femdomme, an Aussie rope bondage expert, and the queer sex tourism neighborhood of Bangkok), gender euphoria, and testing the limits of sensual experience, this memoir is a candid exploration of fetish communities and practices and a wandering quest through sensuality toward personal strength and self-reliance. Sexy, gutting, graphic, and existential, Transland is about finding oneself through intense sensations, reaching a point where being hit has diminishing returns, and coming out wiser on the other side.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this one yet, but it sounds so interesting I hope to get around to it soon!

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Transland

Is easy to understand why certain regions of this country get abandoned during long periods of time but its even easier to imagine why its habitants are a nomad population. Transland is situated on one of the southernmost areas of the Vasmwe territory. The peculiarity is in its climate conditions, like no other region Transland has weather seasons that happen at the same time but in different defined areas within the territory. These seasons keep hopping to the next area in a consecutive fashion, forcing Tranlanders to move away from Hio and Tjo, two of the most extreme ones. Translanders have improved their way of living in the rest of the seasons that sit in between these two extremes ones. Hio’s temperatures are extremely low, freezing all possible forms of life, making practically impossible to harvest nor farm. On the flip side, Tjo‘s weather conditions are ridiculously dry paired with very hot wind streams making it very difficult to deal with on a daily basis. The order is crucial here, after Hio always comes Tjo, melting all the frozen and preparing the land for the following seasons. Away from what everyone might think, for Translanders a nomad live is a symbol of freedom, from having to build movable shelters to figuring out ways to bury commodities, that they will be re-using once they go back, all this make them feel burdenless and independent. They have learned how to live a life with just what they need.

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From Transland

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Archive.org now has a collection of over 2000 DOS games playable in-browser! There's a huge, huge selection here, including rarities like Transland and Tongue of the Fatman. If you have any interest in older games, especially DOS games, head over there immediately and start combing through things!

Just for fun, here's a link to SOPWITH, a bomber game I was never good at.