Between this faux-80s retro nostalgia that was meant to be ironic but scored a psychic damage bullseye, and add it to webcomic robots swapping to better bodies on a drunken whim, IDK why social media algorithms felt it necessary to come after me quite so viciously bloodthirsty on a Thursday night.
"I want somebody to tell me I'm pretty
I want to feel like I'm worthy of love
Looking in the mirror shouldn't feel so shitty
So tell me I'm pretty, maybe that will be enough"
It won't though. I can tell you that after $50k+ of surgery there isn't anything that will make me feel I deserve to exist.
Personal security. Several friends having to deal with getting deepfakes taken down that creeps made of them. Other creeps randomly showing up at my house despite the fact I've never shared my address publicly.
I was a kid in the 80s, a teen in the 90s. I didn't get on the internet until 1997. Finding message boards with likeminded people in 1999 was a gamechanger, as was reconnecting with classmates via social media in the 2010s. You have no idea how isolating being LGBTQ & autistic is without internet.
Today I learned that Thomas Running (who invented running in 1748 by attempting to walk twice at the same time) was a Friend Of Dorothy.
(plays Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles at 78 rpm)
Some glurge pops up on social media "It was lonely to be the only trans person in my workplace. I was disappointed when we didn't share pronouns at the beginning of meetings..."
Oh, this was absolutely NOT written by a trans person. You want to yank me out of a story, you've done it in 2 sentences.
Very important! I had my first boob-pancakening a few years ago in my mid 40s after 20+ yrs of HRT & 12 yrs post BA with implants that have now been recalled. Thus the reason for the concern. And you would not believe the amount of kicking & screaming it takes to get an appointment before you're 50.
I went deep down this rabbit hole about five years ago when FaceApp was the big thing in trans circles. It took a big chunk out of my mental health that I've never rebuilt & I swore off apps like this.
As someone else posted: "Faceapp cracks eggs pre-transition and shatters joy during transition."
Dunno how I missed this 15 yrs ago but I this is the kinda stuff I like to see. It's so visually rough & raw.
What it immediately reminded me of? MTV's Downtown, which probably nobody else remembers. Ran for 13 eps in 3 mo in '99. Reran after Daria on YTV in Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWlh...
