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In honor of pride month and in an effort to help me find more than just utter doom in my gender dysphoria I'm gonna list my top ten favorite types of trans people.

Rural trans people, I love you rural trans people.

The guys who are way into Fight Club and other such so-macho-it-loops-around-to-being-gay media. Bonus points if they steal their fashion sense from said media.

The cliche electronic musician women and fems. It's a massive stereotype but from an outsider's perspective, lowkey a cool one to have. Maybe the lads can hop on dark techno and we can team up and make some BULLSHIT!

Special recognition to yallternative mfs with funky hair and piercings that clash with their outdoors clothes and hick hobbies. The alt enby who did my first tattoo also digs ramps and goes exploring through creeks. I follow a goth trans woman who is part of a bluegrass band. I love that shit so much.

That one gender fluid mf on tiktok who literally shape shifts?! He's lowkey a great source of outfit inspo in guy mode. I also have a special space in my heart for gender fluid people in general because I identified as such for about ten seconds (15 year old me was woke enough to know genders outside the binary existed but not woke enough to realize I could still be a trans man if I wore eyeliner sometimes).

Heavily connected with #1, the type of trans guys who I can best describe as being in love with being men. They have a kind of fierce love of masculinity that you only get from having to fight tooth and nail for it. It's healing after so much of the internet treating manhood like a sin to atone for. Sometimes in my least dysphoric moments, I feel a glimpse of this and it's so refreshing.

This specific Dunkin employee who saw right through my long hair and earrings and poorly concealed binder, gave me a look of "I gotchu", and went right to calling me "man" and "my guy" every other sentence. Made my damn day.

Fandom artists. Say what you will about trans men and mascs in music but we lowkey got a monopoly on the gorgeous-fucking-fanart-for-violent-video-games market. I will join yall if I ever have the disposable income for a drawing tablet...

Semi niche but those of us in some kind of combat sport. Across boxing and my brief stint in kung fu, I've met one other trans guy, two trans women, and three nonbinary people, including one of my professors. Mack Beggs is also lowkey one of my sports role models, despite not being a wrestler. Our enemies don't typically expect us to be able to beat their asses.

Older trans people, of which I have only met a couple in real life. They have thugged through horrors I don't think I would have made it through, had I been alive in the 60's-80's. Salute the troops.

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USSRs drink of choice 🤝 Classic Southern Boy Beverage

Monster Energy Zero Ultra

Yet another thing I can bond with my Czech cousins over one day. Mountains and Monster

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Rest in peace Sundowner you would have loved Jelly Roll

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I don't have any profound headcanons about Sundowner Metal Gear. I don't have any sad headcanons about Sundowner Metal Gear. I don't have any "projecting my problems" headcanons about Sundowner Metal Gear. I enjoy visualizing him as a Talladega Nightmare. His beauty lies in his cartoonish lack of depth. He bites the caps off of beer bottles. He killed a man at a Kid Rock concert. He's gay.

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Sundowner enjoying a certified yeeyee boy classic beverage brings such joy to my heart

so it's been done

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I am more worried about Ocelot, though god bless he is one of the gayest mofos in gaming history. Love his loser twink self in 3.

Not worried about The Boss, though good god she's simp-worthy. She could punch me and I'd thank her frfr

OH. OH GOD. OH GOD THEY'RE GONNA GET HIM

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Somewhat worried that the Leon Kennedy Goonettes™ are gonna turn their evil gaze towards Big Boss once MGSD comes out. But then again, any man with more than like three chest hairs makes their ovaries shrivel like a slug in a pickle factory. He's gonna be just fine.

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Metal Gear Solid fans when they get a chance to Actually Play The Fucking Game (19 Year Old Me would be incredibly fucking jazzed and 22 Year Old Me is anxiously twiddling his thumbs waiting for his knockoff xbox controller to arrive)

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FOUR OF GOD'S WORST TRANSSEXUALS OUT THERE WALKING AMONG US!!! YARRR

Redbubble is being a greedy whore again, has taken half of my profits for itself, left me with about sixteen bucks in profit, and won't let me cash out until I hit the twenty dollar mark. I'm on a mission to crank out dumb Pride stickers in my efforts to claim my dough, if anybody's interested and wants to help a local trans man save up for HRT teehee

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Redbubble is being a greedy whore again, has taken half of my profits for itself, left me with about sixteen bucks in profit, and won't let me cash out until I hit the twenty dollar mark. I'm on a mission to crank out dumb Pride stickers in my efforts to claim my dough, if anybody's interested and wants to help a local trans man save up for HRT teehee

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Stimming by laying on my front in bed and watching Boiler Room clips and seeing how fast I can twerk

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Users who went suddenly from living in the country to living in quasi suburbia do you ever find yourself staring into the distance hallucinating the smell of hay bales and wondering if you still deserve to have a twang. Do you too feel sudden kinship with the crawdads you yanked out of the creek as a child and doomed to eternity in a pickle jar fish tank full of glass pebbles.

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Team Fortress Two and Metal Gear are comfort fandoms for me in the sense that they are that one childhood friend you could go months without hearing a peep from and then one day they text you out of the blue reminiscing about some goofy shit you did at their birthday party and it's like you never drifted apart. The ol' reliables. Never truly gone.

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Before I knew who Theo Von was I saw a picture of him on Pinterest and thought he was a perfect faceclaim for an older version of one of my ocs so now every time I see a clip of him on tiktok I'm like oh hey what the fuck. My creature

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Happy (late) third birthday my son

I made this as a poster for my wall because I think I’m hilarious. Will update once I have printed it out in the school library and taped it to my wall.

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.