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wow i sure wonder 🤔🤔 what the new layouts supposed to look like 🤔🤔🤔🤔 its a mystery
Don’t forget y’all that there’s a much better way for us to let Tumblr know what we think about specific changes, rather than @ ing staff or wip, and it’s sending in a support ticket and choosing feedback!
Tumblr reverted some of the asinine app decisions they made after a concerted feedback effort! So make sure to use this form! It’s what it’s for, but it’s not well advertised!
So, I was gathering ak'ab references in the Monster Gallery for potential eventual anthropomorphizing purposes. (They look like moths, so they’re prime Mothman inspirations.) But as I turned them about, I had some…cursed, spicy Realizations. *pats ak'ab* This bad bug can fit so many fetishes. Sure, there’s tentacles on a whole bunch of stuff in Secret World, but there is just…so much in the design for the ak'ab that can lend to all sorts of shenanigans.
So buckle the fuck up, sweetlings, we’re going on a deep dive analyzation of ak'ab anatomy and observing the wild potential for fetishes along the way.
[Image ID: concept art of an ak'ab, a bizarre monster from the game Secret World Legends. It’s quadrupedal, but has extra bug-like digits on the sides of its torso. It also has what appear to be bat-like wings, but the membrane connects in the center to a long digit that’s sprouting from the center of its back, which results in a single, triangular wing. Its head is large and bulbous, and transitions directly to its shoulders with no neck. It has two pairs of eyes on the front of its head, with a vertically-slit mouth below them that contains two rows of humanoid teeth, and multiple thin tongues extend from it. Below that are another few pairs of eyes, and a large proboscis hanging downward. It has multiple sets of gills in the space between the lower set of eyes and its shoulders, with another set of humanoid teeth inside the gills closest to the eyes.]
The reason vaginal atrophy in HRT is rarely discussed isn’t because some nefarious boogeyman wants to transgenderficate all your pretty lesbian crushes into chronic pelvic pain it’s because people don’t give a shit about transmasculine reproductive health and you hijacking the topic for your detransition propaganda will only make things worse as you discourage transmascs from researching the subject and learning that it’s treatable
“You’ll live with chronic pain for the rest of your life is it worth it” casual ableism aside you’re saying that as if vaginal atrophy doesn’t happen to half of all postmenopausal people, what makes you think you’re immune
Because I am on a mission to make sure everyone knows this and every time vaginal atrophy comes up, I will bring it up:
Vaginal atrophy is easily preventable and treatable. if YOU are on T and you’re experiencing it, PLEASE let your gyno/HRT doc know. They can prescribe topical estrogen which will treat the issue without interfering with your HRT!
I’ve looked into it a LITTLE and over the counter phyto-estrogen creams seem to have an effect but IDK if I’d 100% trust them.
Sorry, this is just super fucking important to me and literally everyone on T needs to know about it because when I was doing the research NO ONE brought up how easily it was treated until I looked into vaginal atrophy itself and found out because of how it’s treated in menopausal women.
When I talked to the doctor at planned parenthood she echoed this, too. That if vaginal atrophy starts to develop, I should just let her know so she can prescribe me topical estrogen to help!
the fact that we aren’t fucking told this is PART of the problem. The fact that we’re told it’s inevitable and untreatable is part of the problem. You don’t *have* to deal with that pain and discomfort.
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Topical estrogen won’t affect your T levels either, from what I know. It will just affect the vagina, so you don’t have to worry that your transition will be impacted if you do get vaginal atrophy treated. If you are worried about topical estrogen affecting your transition talk to your doctor! There’s no reason trans people should suffer out of fear and misinformation.
This is true! Be aware that whether you can get effective treatments over the counter will depend on the exact pharmacy laws in your area – for example, in NZ it’s a prescription-only medicine (but prescriptions are subsidised so this isn’t too bad).
This matters because there’s a bunch of products out there that claim to treat vaginal atrophy, including lube and “vaginal moisturisers”, which don’t have the estrogen in them that makes it work properly. You’ll probably get some relief from the moisturising but it won’t be reversing the atrophy. These products are available over the counter and one is directly shilled by Buck Angel lmfao so it can be tempting to go for them rather than going through the hassle of getting a script, but please, if you can, get the prescription stuff that works the best ^_^
Alright, okay, playing Secret World Legends, picked up the “Dear Reader” side mission to collect scattered pages from an upcoming Sam Krieg novel. Got knocked back in a shadowy flutter of wings, as ya do. Clearly something did not want me to have those pages yet…but maybe the something is friend-shaped! So I said aloud, “Hello?” And not two seconds later, from the hella-haunted building the pages were next to (which is emanating old radio and nigh-indiscernible vocalizations), a clear voice in the exact same
“Hello?”
Echoes back to me.
And look, I’ve got a pretty solid grasp on reality, I know the game is fictional. But sometimes…
Question for people who use screen readers or text to speech/audio
When a post on here has lots of emojis, special fonts/text or lots of keysmashes, what is a way to tag those posts so that you guys don’t have to sit there listening to nonsense for a minute straight?
Thanks!
the best tag in my opinion would be “screenreader unsafe” !! and i would deeply appreciate things like that being tagged whenever possible , because … it fully crashes cheaper screenreaders like mine and i have to restart it >_<
Guess why I woke up with the Secret World Legends barbershop music stuck in my head!
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[Image ID: Comparing Devinder with a SWL player character, there are some differences in 3d style and color, like his scarf being red instead of orange. But the PC overall has a similar scarf, shirt, hairstyle, and physical appearance. His hair is parted in the opposite direction to the screenshot above, though it matches the direction from his promotional trailer, which is not pictured here.
That conversation between Devinder and Jacob about Dev being inspired by Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumb trail for his Translocate device (plus his planned heart-freezing gadget) has really pinged something in my brain in the best way. It’s so simple to take it as a sorta silly thing, with a dismissive “oh ha ha it’s just a kid’s story” and the like.
But for me, it feels like a way to show that he really Gets It.
Stories have power. It’s typically more metaphorical, in that they help us internally process and understand ourselves and the world around us. They can be a way to pass on so many types of information via oral traditions. They can change how someone looks at the world. They can save lives. Long or short, silly or serious, they’re transformative. They’re a social connective tissue.
But Dev harnessed that power in a more literal manner. One way to approach how he did it is also fairly straightforward—that he simply used these stories as the inspiration for incredible invention(s). Which is fantastic, and good on him for using such a creative springboard for his gadgets! (In contrast, some of the alpha-vampires used local Redfall legends as their names, trying to leverage that power for themselves. They were able to use it against the locals for fear-based manipulation, but the powers they have were stolen from the Gateway, not from borrowing those names. The fae these fools are not.)
But then—and this is swinging around to Secret-World-Legends-flavored shenanigans—you can also approach how Dev used the power of stories in a deeper, more bizarre and magical way. Certain stories, certain tropes, might sum up certain “rules of the universe” that we haven’t been able to scientifically quantify yet. (Sort of like how stuff such as “toast always lands butter-side down,” or “you’re always going to forget to pack something you need on a trip” can feel like they’re unwritten “rules” of How Things Work.) It’s taking the phrase to mean that stories sometimes literally explain the world around us—we just need to figure out how. And Dev’s been able to pluck out some of those “rules” that have been stitched within longstanding stories, and figured out how to harness their implied power via gadgets.
It strikes that sweet chord in me of “art as magic"—or art as magitech/gadgets, in this case.
Seen a couple posts on the dashboard lately about writing with ADHD. So, for the ADHD and neurodivergent folks who like writing but struggle sometimes… check out StimuWrite.
You can set it to make little sounds as you type (or leave them off), and emojis pop up in the corner. You can change the background, dark and light themes, set your word goal, and it gives you a percentage and total word count at the bottom. Though it’s more meant for getting a draft written up, so it doesn’t have spell check or anything like that. You’re meant to just copy and past what you write here into Google Docs or Word or Scrivener or whatever else you use and go from there. Honestly love it when I’m struggling to get words down, though. And apparently there’s an update now for StimuWrite 2?👀
Anyways, give it a try if it looks like it may help. It’s currently name-your-own-price.
Yo I just downloaded this thing and hammered out 3000 words????? Which is more than I’ve written in years????????
Hey I’ve accidentally written 20,000 words in six days.
I was just thinking thoughts about eldritch things that have physically impossible anatomy (unless you handwave physics and chuck in some interdimensionality or the like)…and maybe it’s because I’m also in the middle of some (digital) art that I’m trying to work on the way I would with chalk pastels, so I’ve got traditional media methods in the back of my mind, but…
The line “take a tortillon to the line separating dimensions” was a rather rad phrase my brain just provided. Kinda wish I had something I could use it in.
Wouldn’t make sense to folks who don’t know what tortillons are (paper rolled up into a slightly-pointed stick that you can use to blend dry media–chalk, charcoal, pencil, etc.). But I like it. Gives art-as-magic vibes, if you take it a little literally, rather than a weird metaphor for “blur the lines of reality.” (Use it to smooth out dimension hopping by metaphysically “smoothing” the barrier. Though I guess hopefully the barrier would have some self-healing, or you’d also need a kneaded eraser and a dimensional pencil to correct it, and keep things from collapsing.)
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