#In Golden Flame

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cobalt zealot
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Got to my first appointment already 8 months on E

clever cloud
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luckily, here in middle-of-nowhere ohio, i found an informed consent clinic. But apparently i really lucked out

cobalt zealot
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Endo checked me out, said I was fine, told me to keep going.

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And no lol if you have existing hormonal issues then sure it might be worth it but you can tell if you do.

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If you are otherwise healthy then just. Take HRT. You will be fine.

limber fossil
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as someone who works with disabled clients I'm quite familiar with this rhetoric that "majority isn't impacted so it's not that important" and how rude, harmful, and plain wrong it is.

cobalt zealot
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The body keeps playbooks for both hormone dominant systems for a reason.

limber fossil
willow needle
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i understand the perspective, but i still stand my ground that one shouldnt recommend self medicating to the great majority, many places have good trans healthcare and some people (even close people to me) have been very harmed by trying to self medicate after being recommended dosis from other trans people. each body is a wonder and very different, with different reactions, different needs, for some people a really small dosis will quickly change them and getting a "standard" dosis will be overkill, while for others the highest dosis will do very little change.

i repeat that i am glad that it has worked out for you, but i dont think its okay to recommend it for everyone.

cobalt zealot
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I think you missed the part where I talked about titration.

limber fossil
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because you are treating a very serious potential medical issue with far too much callousness.

cobalt zealot
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There is a recommended dose.

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It's not— it's not that serious.

willow needle
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hormones are very serious.

limber fossil
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i can assure you that it very much is.

cobalt zealot
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Treating it this seriously is why it's so heavily medicalised and considered taboo.

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Like. This is purely societal framing of transition biasing your views here.

willow needle
cobalt zealot
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Transitioning is fundamentally not a complex medical process and fucking with hormones can be done by virtually anyone provided you're routinely doing bloods to ensure proper ranges are met.

willow needle
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so... we agree one needs to be checked by doctors?

cobalt zealot
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No

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You can do that yourself

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Do you think I self medicated without checking my bloods

willow needle
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one needs to do to themselves a bloodwork??

clever cloud
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you can

cobalt zealot
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I literally ordered a private test

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Got my blood drawn

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Got the results from the phlebotomy lab

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Checked against the recommended ranges

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And continued

clever cloud
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yeah the lab does the tests

cobalt zealot
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This is all you need to do

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You don't need a doctor overseeing the process, you need some prior research and attentiveness to your bloodwork frequency

willow needle
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so we agree... you need tests to check if everything is going well

clever cloud
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Ive been doing this for 3 years via doctors and this is exactly what it's boiled down into "check number good" every few months

clever cloud
cobalt zealot
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Oh so we're operating on different assumptions on what medical oversight means

clever cloud
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really, you can be as careful as you want. it's your care; go ahead get that endo appointment. Transfemme HRT is exactly the same as menopausal treatments, which is to say, easy as shit

cobalt zealot
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Or it should be exactly the same

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But nooooo we have to see psychologists to check we're "really trans" and get asked invasive questions like "have you just considered you could be a feminine gay man"

balmy obsidian
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haha old

cobalt zealot
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I will find the person who thought to include that question

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And I will kill them

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Fuck all these paternalistic cunts who think our bodily autonomy isn't valid

clever cloud
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when we say self-medicate here, we're talking about avoiding a lot of institutional prejudice and gatekeeping. WPATH absolutely sucks. US standards absolutely suck. Both of these will routinely undermedicate until you either stop, stop or develop osteoporosis

cobalt zealot
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Yeah pretty much

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Most institutional care will not actually treat you

willow needle
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but then what was the discussion about? if we agree that there has to at least happen a test/check to see if everything is okay.

in the parts of europe i know, to even reach hormonal treatment and corresponding tests you need to have follow ups with an endocrinologist, unless you go full private and buy the hormones from somewhere, which depending in the person that can just be not feasible at all (ive seen hormone packs costing like 60€). now depending in the person, maybe you can compare yourself the results, or have the endocrinologist tell you. i just think that at least a person that is starting should have some ground to start with, where i live there's an excellent trans healthcare unit that comes with mental health as well. they are not perfect but it helped a lot an ex partner of mine that tried to self medicate.

clever cloud
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Hell yeah, agreement

cobalt zealot
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They follow standards deliberately designed to undermedicate you and the intention is not to help you but to get you to quit gender affirming care because it's not having noticeable benefits (either through stopping taking it or ||committing suicide||).

clever cloud
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also good morning; what a convo to have immediately waking up

cobalt zealot
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Morning

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Whereabouts you based if it's morning

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US?

clever cloud
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east coast

cobalt zealot
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Vaguely wondered if you were a fellow Brit

willow needle
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-# and i say that having HUGE FUCKING BEEF with them because, i am an intersex person with no natural hormones in my body, and theres no intersex healthcare in the country i live in, so they have to treat me so i dont focking die, and they for some reason hate my guts like "u aint trans why u even here"

clever cloud
cobalt zealot
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Awh shit

balmy obsidian
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Neo-brit derpthonk

cobalt zealot
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I can't commiserate on how shit things are here :(

balmy obsidian
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Don't worry it's shit everywhere

clever cloud
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It is, but it's a spectrum of shitty

willow needle
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its okay i only have to endure their bs once a year only for them to tell me "yeah ur alright just keep taking your hormones"

clever cloud
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meeee

cobalt zealot
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I turn up to my endo with my bloodwork done and he says "yeah you're good" and I just go back to self medicating as I have done for years :3

clever cloud
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the only time i had to really test shit out was with progesterone, which i quit taking, cuz it gave me depression. Or possibly, worsened it

cobalt zealot
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Prog is the finicky one yeah

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I've started taking it again and fuck

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Why did I stop

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I'm happier and more alert than I have been in two years

balmy obsidian
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The one thing I've heard about prog is that it makes you horny

light mist
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i've been taking prog but i swear it's literally not doing anything ._.

clever cloud
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yeeeaaah, it's really odd how much it varies

cobalt zealot
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oh god it does

clever cloud
balmy obsidian
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add that to the list of things i'm never taking in my life

willow needle
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omg i remember when i asked if i could take progesterone and the endocrinologist looked at me like if she saw a ghost. i was only asking in case i was lacking something in my blood.

cobalt zealot
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It helped with my boobs a little but the emotional improvements are huge

limber fossil
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i became less horny once i started hormones

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which was funny because if anything i was an even bigger slut

light mist
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also i don't think E rly affected my mental state much
maybe i'm just a weird outlier

cobalt zealot
clever cloud
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horny changed on E, like definitionally. It's been cool

cobalt zealot
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Just taking E flattened my libido but I'm also on SSRIs so

clever cloud
cobalt zealot
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Now I'm back on prog

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I woke up this morning outrageously horny

limber fossil
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i was on spiro i think alongside estradiol

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whatever the t-blocker is called

cobalt zealot
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Muscles were tensing that I wasn't even aware I had

clever cloud
balmy obsidian
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before the incident

clever cloud
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cuz spiro, spiro really fucking sucks

balmy obsidian
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poor dragon

tame tide
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This chat is wild, I go to sleep... It's moving, I wake up, it's moving... In my mind the messages never stop

clever cloud
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that one is actively harmful in the long run

balmy obsidian
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sup Al

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Citizen sleeper is no more I see

tame tide
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Corregt

cobalt zealot
balmy obsidian
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no

light mist
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i asked my doctor about going off spiro but she doesn't want me to do that unless i get an orchi -_-
it's weird bc every time we've checked my T levels they have been completely under control
tbf i never got a baseline before starting hormones so i guess it's not a fair comparison

balmy obsidian
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spyro the dragon

limber fossil
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not on spiro anymore

balmy obsidian
cobalt zealot
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I see

cobalt zealot
balmy obsidian
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I forgot your handle was dragonfruit yesterday

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very forgetful

cobalt zealot
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The body has an automatic repression mechanism for T

willow needle
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i have no idea what spiro is i only think about the dragon spyroderp

clever cloud
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Using a t blocker is part of that "institutions suck at trans healthcare"

cobalt zealot
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Spironolactone

balmy obsidian
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yeah that's what i was thinking about as well

willow needle
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dont put the dragon in your blood thats not good for your health.... /j

light mist
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yeah i know E monotherapy is a thing
i guess i'm just afraid of being wrong idk

balmy obsidian
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until someone told me what prog was I always assumed "are they talking about raid progression?"

cobalt zealot
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You need a slightly higher E dose

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Not much higher

clever cloud
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wrong for a bit until your next blood test is all

cobalt zealot
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But yeah it sorts itself out very fast

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I've been on mono therapy for two years

light mist
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hmm
see that's the problem i'm already on a pretty high sublingual dose lol
i guess i could switch to injections but... those sound like a bit of a hassle

cobalt zealot
balmy obsidian
clever cloud
zinc topaz
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good morning i see we're having an interesting conversation first thing today

cobalt zealot
willow needle
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morning

limber fossil
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needles don't exactly scare me but i'm a big hemaphobe

cobalt zealot
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Oh girl same

limber fossil
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the first time i had a blood test i accidentally looked down at the injection

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and nearly fainted

cobalt zealot
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I just don't think about it

balmy obsidian
cobalt zealot
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The needle goes in, I inject, I look away and remove while putting an alcohol wipe over the top.

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Done.

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Also it's helped with the fear of blood a bit.

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It's... Less horrifying when it's just a regular thing.

light mist
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hmmmm
perhaps i will ask about switching at my next appointment 🤔

zinc topaz
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the pit in my stomach when i even imagined doing that to myself rn

clever cloud
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Minor ew story, (minor needle and blood mention) ||my thigh developed a bit of scarring or callous right on the injection sight and i bent a needle one time. It didn't go in at all, not even a prick of blood||

limber fossil
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yeah, everyone knows I hate Lancer players

limber fossil
cobalt zealot
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Or shit

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Gel

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Gel is nice

limber fossil
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whoa, shit gel

cobalt zealot
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I keep a supply of it

clever cloud
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I just jumped in the deep end, shit my pants when i actually had to do it the first 2 times and then it just became routine

cobalt zealot
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My hands were shaking.

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Third time?

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It was like flossing.

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My teeth.

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My teeth not the dance.

tame tide
zinc topaz
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you girls are brave as hell

tame tide
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FORTNITE

cobalt zealot
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I should kill you both

tame tide
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If you do that I'll die

balmy obsidian
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You would make someone very sad

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(Me)

clever cloud
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let's keep needle talk to a min. jen wakes up sooon and is deathly afraid of them

cobalt zealot
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Understandable

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I struggle with vaccines still

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Fuck tuberculosis

balmy obsidian
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Is every transfem afraid of needles

cobalt zealot
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Like

tame tide
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No

clever cloud
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it's a very human thing, leo

light mist
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oh that reminds me i need to get flu and covid shots lol

cobalt zealot
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It's not surprising, really?

clever cloud
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like damn, it's a controlled weapon

balmy obsidian
cobalt zealot
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If you think about it

willow needle
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(topic moved on but i already wrote the message lol) man, i used to not care about needles until ||I was at a hospital, with a IV catheter in my wrist. The vein closed up, and opening it was extremely painful, but the nurse forgot to open the flow again, so the vein closed up again. I uh, dont recommend that happening, the pain i felt literally made me faint. since then, I can't stand needles.||

cobalt zealot
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Your skin is supposed to not be open

zinc topaz
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||it is odd that i love being tattooed and pierced but scared of injections||

cobalt zealot
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So intentionally poking a hole in it is like

clever cloud
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normal

cobalt zealot
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"nonononono"

balmy obsidian
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Me I love blood

clever cloud
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freak

cobalt zealot
balmy obsidian
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I see a cut on my skin and I'm like "how did this happen"

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then i poke it to see if its bad or not

clever cloud
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Oh leo, you're gonna be the sluttiest girl at the party....

zinc topaz
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LOL you ARE a freak what

clever cloud
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concerned parent look

balmy obsidian
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I don't wanna be a slut cat_Cry_EEE

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Being horny makes me miserable

balmy obsidian
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I am boring

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I'm a white man

clever cloud
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BECAUSE YOU'RE A GIRL OR ACE

balmy obsidian
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No you

clever cloud
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damn, u right

tame tide
willow needle
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but anyways, i'll leave to draw my egregorian and NHP lesbians o7 (also will try to finish drawing my chomolugnma and the other pilots) birdlesbian

balmy obsidian
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watch me play uno bitch

clever cloud
balmy obsidian
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I don't make promises floof_cool

minor orchid
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Morning Calliope! wtf is going on!? :D

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I eep and see 500 msg damn

light mist
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HRT talk :P

clever cloud
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im firing the estrogen heavy machine gun

balmy obsidian
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Good luck I have 10 evasion

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virtually untouchable

clever cloud
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quantity over quality

balmy obsidian
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No reliable

minor orchid
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Holy heck estrogen HMG

balmy obsidian
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puck up an HRT-AR nex time

light mist
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locks on to leo

balmy obsidian
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or HRT288

tame tide
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Reliable 8

cobalt zealot
balmy obsidian
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Reliable 8 grams of estrogen

tame tide
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gets hit knockback so hard that my chest GROWS

cobalt zealot
minor orchid
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hit from behind

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chest grows

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success

limber fossil
cobalt zealot
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people in the NFL were developing tits because of the training they were doing

zinc topaz
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wha

minor orchid
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No way pfff

cobalt zealot
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Okay look I need you all to understand

tame tide
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I'm into sports now

cobalt zealot
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The human body will take literally any excuse to grow tits

balmy obsidian
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good luck with that

tame tide
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Tell me how to play sports ball

zinc topaz
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mammal moment

limber fossil
balmy obsidian
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No please stay you're hilarious

balmy obsidian
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Hi toaster

tame tide
minor orchid
tame tide
cobalt zealot
minor orchid
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it can be worse

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IT CAN ALWAYS BE WORSE

cobalt zealot
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It happened in the military as well

tame tide
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It all started going down hill after I hit 4 players with a sniper with the line 20 mode optional

light mist
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i thought tits were more than just fat tissue
that's really funny tho

limber fossil
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the first ultra combat i ever faced was an Ultra Sniper with FOUR Scouts.

tame tide
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Damn

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Rip

limber fossil
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and they had that autoloader ultra trait

clever cloud
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yes, they are. If you have fat, but underdeveloped mammaries, that's gynecomastia

limber fossil
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and the reaction snipe

tame tide
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Kindly

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Fuck that

cobalt zealot
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psuedogynecomastia is when it's just fat

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But here

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Laugh at German soldiers

limber fossil
clever cloud
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ah damn

cobalt zealot
minor orchid
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oh-

limber fossil
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after the battle we found out these soldiers were cloneslaves

and while i was gone the rest of the party decided to turn them into a jpop group.

clever cloud
tame tide
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To be a German soldier with a big gun and massive tits 😔

clever cloud
cobalt zealot
tame tide
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Born to be a German soldier with a big gun and massive tits

Forced to GM

clever cloud
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fuuuuu

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dont worry, al. juli's totally gonna run igf for us

minor orchid
cobalt zealot
limber fossil
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what is mechsplo, I keep hearing of it

cobalt zealot
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mechsploitation

zinc topaz
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me two nights ago

zinc topaz
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then i read warhound and inwas like yeah i kinda get it

limber fossil
cobalt zealot
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it's a bdsm dynamic for mech-addicted trans women

minor orchid
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oh god jsjs

cobalt zealot
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if you've ever played armoured core 6

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that kind of sparked it off

limber fossil
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I see

cobalt zealot
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because someone made a fem walter mod and the lesbians went fucking insane over being called a brain damaged dog in a mech cockpit

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me though? i'm built different

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i'm in it for the game

limber fossil
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joining lancer servers is basically "beware of terminally online"

cobalt zealot
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don't need the handler or the reinforcement stims

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i just need to kill

clever cloud
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I would simply keep my mental sovereignty and health if i was stuffed in a mech and poked with a billions stims

noble ivy
cobalt zealot
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no

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I'm pretty sure Terpsi is as well

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in fact i think our group dynamic is reversed

noble ivy
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It’s either terpsi or Ana

cobalt zealot
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Cel is the one insane lesbian hound in a group of shounen pilots

tame tide
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Nah I'd win

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If I was put in a mech I'd simply hit the griddy

cobalt zealot
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man i think i just got fucking ghosted by this company

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i've been waiting 10 minutes for someone to join the call

noble ivy
# noble ivy

-# hope you’re ready for two hour sessions with no prep time

tame tide
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AAAAAH, NEW HTP AUDIO EPISODE

minor orchid
clever cloud
fast parrot
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Shit is so gas

cobalt zealot
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Then you have Cel

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Who would kill someone for looking at her funny

tame tide
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ITS 2 HOURS

cobalt zealot
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Who immediately resorted to lethal violence in mech combat when everyone else did disabling shots

minor orchid
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in all fairness my players literally had 1 hour and a half of being stupid in ||the dragon's tooth|| before I could put them in the ||Tachyon||

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ch1 spoilers heh

cobalt zealot
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Who has the same demeanour as this dog

noble ivy
cobalt zealot
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She is

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She's so shy and cute and the fact she accepted the ||NHP shard without question|| is both really dumb and very sweet

cobalt zealot
willow needle
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hey guys quick question, how tall do you think Jerry is? no reason in particular...

cobalt zealot
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Oh he's 5'2

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No doubt

noble ivy
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4’10

minor orchid
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4'10 PFFFFF

cobalt zealot
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you don't have to do it to him like that Juli

minor orchid
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VALID

willow needle
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hmm

noble ivy
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No, I had to
I can’t make fun of him being short when he’s the same height as me

minor orchid
cobalt zealot
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Cel was brooding in her cabin idly watching Apollo try and fail miserably to play against Siren

tame tide
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They voted on Jerry's height

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Conclusion was 5ft 1

willow needle
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hipo made him 5'8

minor orchid
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So teeny tiny-

noble ivy
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Jerry is a short king in every universe

tame tide
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He's 100% equippable

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You can just grab him and put him in your inventory

willow needle
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like lancer (deltarune)?

willow needle
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@minor orchid you got some explaining to do

jovial beacon
minor orchid
jovial beacon
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🦅

noble ivy
willow needle
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jerry is taller than reverie...

minor orchid
balmy obsidian
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I think ours's height has never been confirmed

minor orchid
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if you want to canonize another height, be my guest!

cobalt zealot
clever cloud
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Rita is 5'10" plus heels

willow needle
minor orchid
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you are right

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He's 1,69

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meters

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deal with it now

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:3

jovial beacon
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Lol i am taller than Jerry irl

willow needle
jovial beacon
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Smol

minor orchid
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You can use yourself as reference!

willow needle
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sajkbsahdsbvagh

noble ivy
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You’re a hundred and sixty nine meters tall???

jovial beacon
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So naana is Jerry irl

light mist
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169 cm

willow needle
minor orchid
willow needle
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you cant reply ping me with a spoiler

cobalt zealot
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How tall is Howl

willow needle
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what kind of monster are you

minor orchid
noble ivy
willow needle
jovial beacon
minor orchid
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toe-to-toe

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easily

noble ivy
minor orchid
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plus considering the Howl in your game?

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...

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she goes over 2 meters

jovial beacon
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Would

cobalt zealot
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fr though is she given a canon height

minor orchid
limber fossil
jovial beacon
limber fossil
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jerry radiates irresistible loser tboy energy

cobalt zealot
minor orchid
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:3

cobalt zealot
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i'm going to start killing you one by one until i get an answer

clever cloud
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She's violently furry

jovial beacon
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:3

minor orchid
noble ivy
cobalt zealot
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oh for fuck's sake

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look does she have bodymods or not

clever cloud
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surprisingly no?

minor orchid
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Canonically, no

cobalt zealot
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right

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normal ass trans woman

clever cloud
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yep

minor orchid
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indeed

clever cloud
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Howl, most normal person in Calliope

cobalt zealot
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Surely that title goes to someone else

limber fossil
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Howl is that rare trans woman who doesn't do hard raves (frequently) or use the omninet 24/7

minor orchid
jovial beacon
cobalt zealot
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I haven't decided if Cel is cis or trans yet and I probably never will

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It's not important to her backstory anyway

limber fossil
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the funniest thing about Smith Johnson is that they use they/them pronouns i feel

clever cloud
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no, Howl is the mech fighting league champion with a giant wolf Black Beard

minor orchid
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superposition of both states

limber fossil
limber fossil
willow needle
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smith johnson lancer

clever cloud
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Smith Lancerson

willow needle
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john lancer, its real!

cobalt zealot
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it's just the backstory element

minor orchid
west phoenix
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Maine Coon

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Jesus fucking christ so many messages this morning

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I had to scroll up so far

minor orchid
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Good morning meow jsjs

willow needle
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sesbian talk

noble ivy
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I know… I woke up like an hour ago and chat was still exploding

minor orchid
tame tide
noble ivy
clever cloud
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at this rate, 200k by the end of the week

willow needle
minor orchid
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I lied to you naana

cobalt zealot
willow needle
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how can one check how many messages are there in the thread now? it only says 100k

minor orchid
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chapter 5 spoilers:|| you have to confess your feelings to Hope, or the universe resets||

willow needle
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or did discord give up counting

minor orchid
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ok not really spoilers jsjs

west phoenix
willow needle
noble ivy
minor orchid
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honestly it's not a spoiler either jsjs

willow needle
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so i can read?

minor orchid
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Is just the "Confess your feelings" joke

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YES

minor orchid
west phoenix
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Y'all wanna hear about Biolante

minor orchid
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honestly you don't need a gun to do that(?)

minor orchid
west phoenix
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Man chats moving too fast don't worry about it i can't even make a joke about what leo posted

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I need to get ready lol

jovial beacon
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I forgot to say something

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Good morning calliope hope all have a wonderful day!

zinc topaz
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i was gonna post about people lusting after jerry but by the time i had typed my message it was buried already

jovial beacon
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And remember ||hope is the last thing to die ||

noble ivy
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Please do not the Jerry it will kill him

tame tide
zinc topaz
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i was just going to say i didnt get it until ch.3 spoilers ||elske shows up and he locks in||

willow needle
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last session we had a glimpse of jerry sleeping and the station stability dropping until an explosion woke him up

minor orchid
zinc topaz
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LOL

tame tide
tame tide
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(this is how one of my players first cubbying trips went wrong)

minor orchid
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STEPPED ON A LANDMINE?!

tame tide
minor orchid
#

W-HOW?!

#

WHY?!

tame tide
#

Striga put it there

#

Striga put it there

noble ivy
#

Wouldn’t it be a vent mine at that point?

balmy obsidian
minor orchid
#

god damn it crazy woman-

tame tide
#

Yeah probably

jovial beacon
#

Five nigths at jerry?!

minor orchid
balmy obsidian
#

aw

minor orchid
#

five nights at IGF

tame tide
#

Luckily the PC was an NHP

#

Unluckily her subaltern was utterly annihilated

jovial beacon
cobalt zealot
#

Why is she putting fucking land mines in the vents

minor orchid
#

Meanwhile Reverie trying to GET A FUCKING VENT CRAB PET

cobalt zealot
#

Striga???

cobalt zealot
minor orchid
#

needs to kill the vent crab?

limber fossil
# minor orchid sesbian lex

Sesbian lex LUTHOR.

I WON’T STOP TILL I SEE THE WORLD SPITTING ON SUPERMAN’S IMAGE EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY

noble ivy
cobalt zealot
willow needle
#

kraken understands me fr...

cobalt zealot
clever cloud
#

If striga was on any enemy faction, igf would be 10 pages long

noble ivy
tame tide
noble ivy
#

But Al… I’m a vent dweller…

clever cloud
tame tide
#

Welp, good luck

#

Strigas coming

minor orchid
balmy obsidian
tame tide
#

Striga watched too many shitty Minecraft horror mods

tame tide
minor orchid
balmy obsidian
#

bread delivery

minor orchid
#

so yeh :>

#

This ain't no place for no heroes

clever cloud
#

i am literally playing BL2 right now

noble ivy
clever cloud
#

I'm saying it pains me every time someone talks

minor orchid
#

THIS AIN'T NO PLACE FOR NO... BETTER MAAAAN

balmy obsidian
#

Bacon Lettuce 2matoes

supple carbon
#

What

jovial beacon
tame tide
#

I remember watching someone do a story recap of BL3 and it actually bought me mental anguish

jovial beacon
#

I love BL3 dlcs

tame tide
#

I remember liking the BL2 gameplay and writing but BL3 was so... Reddit humour

balmy obsidian
#

What I gathered of BL4 is ||"Lilith is here (again)"||

jovial beacon
#

Specially the desert one

noble ivy
tame tide
tame tide
balmy obsidian
#

BARTENDER_MOTHERFUCKER is Claptrap

tame tide
#

No

noble ivy
#

You… you take that back…

balmy obsidian
#

No

tame tide
#

They're just not

#

Smh

#

LEO friendship clock -12,000,000

jovial beacon
balmy obsidian
#

“Oh, that’s the Calliope Project default Comp/Con personality profile! We’re meant to project a cheerful, upbeat attitude at all times! My voice modulation database wasn’t even installed with the profiles for any emotional affect other than bland positivity! If I were a sentient being capable of genuine emotional expression, I would probably find this state of affairs [murderously infuriating]! Good thing that’s not the case!”
If I sound happy, it's only because my programmers made this my default tone of voice. I'm actually quite depressed!

clever cloud
#

Leo, i will physically harm you

balmy obsidian
#

I reiterate, BARTENDER_MOTHERFUCKER is claptrap.

clever cloud
#

i will say, claptrap in BL4 is much better written

#

but even further from BMF

jovial beacon
#

Yeah

minor orchid
#

... it has claptrap vibes

#

NO EXTACTLY but close vibes

tame tide
#

I know nothing of BL4 and I don't want to because BL3 so unbelievably killed my hype for the franchise that anything after tales from the borderlands isn't real to me

jovial beacon
minor orchid
#

I still need to finish BL 3

tame tide
#

I can't believe hatsune miku made borderlands

tame tide
#

Tbh I don't even remember if the gameplay itself is good

jovial beacon
#

Yeah it is

tame tide
#

Give me krieg, give me buzzaxe rampage, I am happy

#

Bloodsplosion exotic gear pls

noble ivy
#

Borderlands 3 is only for people who are weaning off a destiny addiction

minor orchid
#

shiny gold weapon goes brrr

jovial beacon
#

I really enjoyed playing as fl4k or moose

tame tide
#

I remember playing destiny when it went F2P and going "hahahaha, no..."

minor orchid
#

In the end, only one thing stands

balmy obsidian
#

Cold-

minor orchid
#

THE AIR AND WATER FLOWING

tame tide
#

In BL3 I played moze and would just get in my mech and annihilate everything with the nuke weapons

balmy obsidian
#

Hard-

tame tide
#

Dual wield them

#

Moze was boring

minor orchid
#

THE LAND WE CALL OUR HOME

balmy obsidian
#

Push-

minor orchid
#

TO KEEP THE DARK FROM COMING

balmy obsidian
#

FEEL THE WEIGHT OF WHAT WE OWE

tame tide
#

The best part about BL3 to me was... Uuuh flints brothers character. He was funny I guess

minor orchid
#

This-

west phoenix
#

What's going on in here

balmy obsidian
#

warframe

minor orchid
#

we are all lifting together

noble ivy
#

Shit talking borderlands too

west phoenix
#

How about you lift some bitches

balmy obsidian
#

Do you volunteer

west phoenix
west phoenix
supple carbon
minor orchid
#

You can't be that big(?)

balmy obsidian
#

True I have no muscles in my arms

west phoenix
#

I'm big enough Leo can't lift me

noble ivy
#

-# outta my way ace boi, let me try

clever cloud
#

Me? I can body slam you

west phoenix
#

No way

minor orchid
balmy obsidian
#

Eleonorway

minor orchid
#

SO GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER, EVAN

jovial beacon
west phoenix
noble ivy
#

So?

clever cloud
minor orchid
balmy obsidian
#

Good things come in small packages

supple carbon
balmy obsidian
#

Or so they say

zinc topaz
#

i played the borderlands spinoff game on the ps5 and that was really it

west phoenix
jovial beacon
noble ivy
zinc topaz
#

tiny tinas wonderland

clever cloud
#

Im sorry for your loss i think

west phoenix
#

Neither are good

zinc topaz
#

i mean it was . okay

west phoenix
#

God the name tiny tina makes me mad alone. What an insufferable character

zinc topaz
#

true

#

and she narrates the whole fucking thing

clever cloud
#

she has a really nice handgun reward in BL2

noble ivy
#

Okay phew… I don’t remember if the old tales from the borderlands was available on the ps5 so that meant the only other option was…

clever cloud
#

... that's the extent of my positivity towards that character

west phoenix
clever cloud
#

which, i gotta say, is highly ironic given that her whole shtick is explosives

#

maybe lategame she comes back

west phoenix
#

Yeah, yeah... She gets better 500 episodes in

willow needle
#

quick sketch idea of [NAMEPENDING] RTS.

west phoenix
west phoenix
minor orchid
supple carbon
cobalt zealot
#

so why do we all hate borderlands so much

tame tide
zinc topaz
#

jerry's height crossed out and lowered lol

west phoenix
noble ivy
supple carbon
cobalt zealot
#

i thought it was kinda funny—

west phoenix
#

L

clever cloud
minor orchid
#

you'll forget

tame tide
minor orchid
#

seran nombre pendiente

#

alias temporal

willow needle
zinc topaz
cobalt zealot
#

borderlands 2 is fun

minor orchid
#

Equipo temporario

cobalt zealot
#

never played 3

#

i heard 3 was baaaaad

supple carbon
supple carbon
#

He doesn't

tame tide
clever cloud
#

One Piece specifically runs into the problem of terrible pacing because making the anime is a lot faster than making the manga. So the density of story per episode has to tank massively

minor orchid
clever cloud
#

Normally, most anime does 3 issues per episode. There days, one piece is at 0.80 issues per episode

west phoenix
willow needle
minor orchid
#

THE WLB

clever cloud
#

women's league baseball

willow needle
# clever cloud WHY ARE THEY SO SMALL

its funny that i made reverie smaller in purpose, because SSC made her be inside a mech since she was barely an adult so she had to adapt to the lack of space, but then everyone else is also a shortie.

minor orchid
#

Lucero: Why ya'll so fucking short?!

west phoenix
#

Says you, gerbil

minor orchid
#

He's shorter

willow needle
balmy obsidian
#

BASEBALL, THE WARRIOR'S SPORT

west phoenix
#

Our squad is 3 tall people and 2 shorties

supple carbon
clever cloud
#

Puerto rico is really really big into baseball

west phoenix
#

I love that Primo is only like an inch taller than Serenity without his platform boots. That's why she bullies him, she picks on her own size

clever cloud
#

Im not but

balmy obsidian
#

Fuck I meant Basketball

noble ivy
minor orchid
#

I honestly would love to have played more baseball/softball

#

but... guess we got

west phoenix
balmy obsidian
#

heightist

balmy obsidian
#

bigot

west phoenix
#

If i can pick you up and carry you over my shoulder you aren't real

balmy obsidian
west phoenix
willow needle
#

dies

cobalt zealot
#

However!

noble ivy
cobalt zealot
#

The live action is both surprisingly well made

jovial beacon
minor orchid
cobalt zealot
#

And it also has Oda's input so he's been able to redo some of the early arcs to help with their pacing and overall panache

minor orchid
supple carbon
#

Saved by being fat

cobalt zealot
#

I actually would recommend the live action for people starting out with One Piece

minor orchid
jovial beacon
#

Me too

zinc topaz
#

i'm 6'3 and 210lb so picking me up is not an option for most people

west phoenix
supple carbon
west phoenix
#

If anyone is shorter than me they're prey, if you're taller than me you're a threat

balmy obsidian
#

How tall are you again

minor orchid
#

6

minor orchid
#

centimeters

west phoenix
balmy obsidian
#

Pathetic

west phoenix
#

Like 180lb probably

balmy obsidian
#

Pathetic²

zinc topaz
#

ideal height

west phoenix
minor orchid
#

why everyone so heavy

balmy obsidian
#

Short

minor orchid
#

WHY AM I JUST 130LBS

balmy obsidian
#

Tiny tiny cat

balmy obsidian
west phoenix
#

I'm big for cat standards, I'll have you know

balmy obsidian
#

So am I

balmy obsidian
#

I'm not a cat but by cat standards I'm hella tall coolcat

west phoenix
noble ivy
#

rawr perlcat?

balmy obsidian
#

Mrow Purrmeow

minor orchid
#

Something something Sehkmet protocol

clever cloud
noble ivy
#

you need to eat him/her??!?

supple carbon
#

Here, use this

clever cloud
#

I was 200lbs when i moved to ohio, and now im 240 :))

balmy obsidian
#

I wanna lose pounds but as previously established, chocolate is delicious

willow needle
#

quick reference for the poses Reverie can walk in (?)

minor orchid
willow needle
#

the right pose when drawn correctly looks like this

cobalt zealot
zinc topaz
#

i would also like to weigh less but this chocolate croissant in my hand as im typing this is soo good

clever cloud
#

i need to ask permission from a few people if thats the case

supple carbon
west phoenix
#

But i guess outside of going to work/home and a few chores I don't go outside :)

zinc topaz
#

old man customer who calls me hon each morning just called me babe . excuse me

noble ivy
#

Ewphoria?

zinc topaz
#

No im wondering if hes trying to tell me something lmfao

west phoenix
#

Can i call you babe

zinc topaz
#

honestly not even the strangest work event recently. a woman was complaining about her husband to me the other day and said "i love you" before she left

zinc topaz
west phoenix
#

Thanks babe

zinc topaz
#

but yea i feel like i have bartender customers if that makes sense i swear sometimes people come in just to vent. i manage a gas station

jovial beacon
west phoenix
#

But it was all upper middle class white people and I'm like... Man, you got like no struggles in your life bro they're all your doing

zinc topaz
#

same here

supple carbon
zinc topaz
#

i work in a pretty affluent area that's mostly a retirement neighborhood

#

most of my customers are sad moderately wealthy old people

#

the guy who just called me babe comes in every morning about this time to get 3 white claws before going golfing lol

tame tide
#

"hey there minimum wage barista... She took the FUCKING KIDS"

jovial beacon
supple carbon
#

Shredded pants look cool

balmy obsidian
#

And shredded cheese tastes good

tame tide
#

Swallowtail when it locks onto your trousers

#

Swallowtail when it locks onto your cheese

#

Vlad when it impails your trousers

#

Oh my

west phoenix
zinc topaz
#

and literally yes

#

its a lot of "i dont think my husband/wife loves me anymore"

#

and im like .. would you like a bag 🙂

clever cloud
#

people need connections, and rich people especially have no fucking clue what real connections look like so they just... treat service workers like that

#

what no friends does to a motherfucker

tame tide
balmy obsidian
#

Or an emperor

zinc topaz
#

the vlad can ... uh impale my pants any time (?)

#

something like that

tame tide
jovial beacon
balmy obsidian
#

But the stereotype is the hydra

zinc topaz
#

buildcrafting btw but i thought about this earlier when talking about nelsons

supple carbon
zinc topaz
#

vlad drill + nelson melee weapon mod = ??

supple carbon
#

It comes with having almost died

zinc topaz
#

do we fw an exploding drill

supple carbon
#

That sounds cool

zinc topaz
#

i mean cool ≠ viable though

balmy obsidian
#

I love when my drill exp- [Extremely loud incorrect buzzer]

tame tide
#

L + OPCAL + super heavy mounting + atlas + nelson weapon mod + nuc cav + DRILL

dire cloud
#

I was going to say Mourning Cloak is easier to proc, but you want them prone anyway.

supple carbon
#

Nuk cav is great

supple carbon
#

How can you make the drill explode?

hybrid salmon
#

Nelson mod

#

(why so many messages I am eepy)

zinc topaz
zinc topaz
#

the main question being is 1d6 extra damage on a vlad drill even worth investing the 2sp

#

or am i paying for aura

hybrid salmon
#

I prefer slower chats and am trying to train myself away from disappointment over not reading everything, a task which has been going on for years

supple carbon
cobalt zealot
hybrid salmon
#

It’s less great if you have to Barrage to get it

cobalt zealot
#

the explosive charge is better on a chassis that skirmishes

west phoenix
#

Some enemies are tanky AF

#

Especially tier 2/3

tame tide
#

Also the 1d6 explodes

supple carbon
#

More damage types means more damage that bypasses resistance

dire cloud
#

Also, big number funy

supple carbon
#

That's why im playing a sniper

west phoenix
#

I just like being a shield and bully

shell bison
#

Crowd control blink tech c:

west phoenix
#

One of these days i want to play a grappler saggy martha

zinc topaz
#

thats what makes me like the minotaur too tho

west phoenix
#

Its the weakest of GMS but god i love it

west phoenix
zinc topaz
#

being able to bully enemies around and cc them

clever cloud
#

we need to bully more people into GMing lancer for us

#

the whole reason i made amber corps is that

#

well, am making

zinc topaz
#

amber corps?

clever cloud
#

im making a mercernary westmarch-esque campaign

#

work in progress for sure

#

IGF takes precedent so it's in the backburner a lot

zinc topaz
#

ooo .. sounds cool

cobalt zealot
tame tide
#

Good luck with that

noble ivy
zinc topaz
clever cloud
#

the parts i struggle with are not exclusive to lancer

dire cloud
#

Isaac Newton himself had that disease. Legend says he invented the cat door by drilling a hole in his door for the cat to leave.

#

But this same legend says that when the cat had six kittens, he drilled six tiny holes at the bottom for them.

clever cloud
tame tide
#

Car

west phoenix
#

If i can do it i believe that anyone else can

clever cloud
#

trust me, jen is really brainless

tame tide
#

Cqr

west phoenix
#

Me forgetting to use half of the abilities an NPC has

clever cloud
west phoenix
clever cloud
#
(car (cdr '(1 2 3 4))) ; => 2
tame tide
zinc topaz
cobalt zealot
west phoenix
#

I want it to be good, not just be

clever cloud
#

you see, in spite of being brainless, Jenny uses what little thinking she has to be a damn perfeCTIONIST!!

cobalt zealot
#

I have perfectionism but also anxiety but also adhd but also autism

clever cloud
#

girl

cobalt zealot
#

Running a game is impossible for me

#

I have tried so many times

west phoenix
clever cloud
#

you say that but im fucking loving your WF

tame tide
#

STOP SELF DEPRECATING

cobalt zealot
#

I spend way too much time planning things and then lose my motivation

clever cloud
#

you've put in a lot of work and it shows

west phoenix
cobalt zealot
#

I want to run a custom Pokémon game

tame tide
#

THE MORE YOU SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF THE MORE YOI BELIEVE IT, ESPECIALLY WHEN ITS ERONG

cobalt zealot
#

And I've done some work on creating a system

#

However

west phoenix
cobalt zealot
#

It will never be finished

#

And I will never run it

#

:)

clever cloud
west phoenix
#

Yeah... Been working on something I'd like to turn into a module but that ain't gonna happen, it's kind of a mess

west phoenix
clever cloud
#

i probably wouldn't even have the decency of telling you

west phoenix
#

Thats enough to turn something mid to great

clever cloud
#

i wish i could punch you

west phoenix
#

Effort does not equal good

#

Hell you put in a lot less effort and get way more out of it lmao

clever cloud
#

girl jesus christ i know! I read Gio's and Rhiannon's backstories!!

#

Im saying the effort you're putting into WF is GOOD!!

west phoenix
#

But i thought i was brainless ch_think

cobalt zealot
zinc topaz
west phoenix
#

Been GMing for like 8 years and writing for longer, I've set standards for myself that i should be at considering

tame tide
#

It's that thing of "aww man... My cake is no way near as cool as theirs"

"HOLY SHIT TWO CAKES"

west phoenix
#

Its not good, but its not bad, and people think that if its not bad its good

west phoenix
west phoenix
#

Idk if its more you can get slop anywhere

balmy obsidian
#

slop isn't cake how dare you

west phoenix
#

I want to make the good cake

balmy obsidian
#

tha cake is good

west phoenix
#

I want pristine wet food not the goo and slime

shell bison
#

Jen, I mean this as sincerely as I can. do you ever think you are the source of your own impossible standard you are trying to place on everything you create or do rather than finding the joy in doing it and if others that you made if for enjoy it that you acheived your goal in the first place?

cobalt zealot
west phoenix
tame tide
cobalt zealot
#

I don't make cakes I make wet dough

zinc topaz
#

i am just scared of not living up to my own expectations of what a story can be

#

personally

clever cloud
#

yall, i've seen jen do a bad game. a big reason it was bad was Starfinder as a system and she was literally in the middle of a psychotic episode

cobalt zealot
#

Uncooked, unfinished, and left on the counter because I realised it was never going to live up to what I wanted it to be in the first place

clever cloud
#

i mean it when i say, her WF is real fucking good

zinc topaz
#

esp bc my writing process with creative writing tends to be scattered all over the place and i connect the gaps between narrative points i want to have in

west phoenix
#

I have trust issues about these things lmao

clever cloud
#

and honestly, triaxus was an excellent setting executed through a shitty system

#

girl i love the story going on

clever cloud
#

we both agree that SF sucked for it

cobalt zealot
#

I've recently just wondered if it would be better writing snippets

#

Just the cool parts that I think of

clever cloud
#

and honestly, the players were not up to the complexities in the story

cobalt zealot
#

And then not thinking about any intervening stuff

#

Maybe I should just explode

clever cloud
#

you enable solutions

balmy obsidian
#

for example, alcohol

zinc topaz
#

ive said it before and ill say it a million more times i love love love gming but

clever cloud
#

🍑

zinc topaz
#

to be a player i think is a more pleasant experience

shell bison
clever cloud
cobalt zealot
#

I'm... Sad. That nothing I ever do seems to stick.

#

That's all.

#

I remember wanting to run a Scion game.

#

Never happened.

west phoenix
cobalt zealot
#

And an Interface Zero game.

#

Never happened.

zinc topaz
#

i end up putting too much on my own plate myself bc i get overzealous and want to make this insane memorable make you cry make you laugh experience and when its good but i KNOW i could have done better

west phoenix
#

It was a half baked campaign in a shitty system

#

I'm so embarrassed

cobalt zealot
#

All the writing projects I started and just. Never got past 2000 words.

zinc topaz
#

it just makes me feel silly for the work i did do

hybrid salmon
#

it would be good for me to gm again

clever cloud
#

ladies and gentlemen, we gottem

cobalt zealot
clever cloud
#

Quill is running the GM igf game