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[scarecrowbutch]

i know what i SHOULD do is fully learn how to code so i know how to read the language more but instead im just frankensteining from the bits i know and googling the rest

[ohcorny]

In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?

well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.

so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.

but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.

it's a lot of things.

[autolenaphilia]

God, Matt Mullenweg is a dumbass. He could just have let his staff ban predstrogen, ignore her harassment and kept quiet, and he would have gotten away with it. She is a trans woman and people literally get away with murdering us, and the majority of the people who care are fellow trans women. Don't get me wrong, he will likely still get away with it, but he made this a bigger problem for him than it would have been otherwise.

Like this is more evidence that rich people are not smarter, they are often quite dumb. They don't work harder, and have quite easy jobs. Matt at this point has one of the easiest jobs in history, just let the money from wordpress being 40% of the internet roll into his bank account and relax. And he still managed to fuck that up.

That's because he took the quite minor controversy over Predstrogen being repeatedly banned personally for some reason. I'm not sure why, probably he thought his site being accused of transmisogynic moderation practices was a blow to his self-image as a cool tolerant dude.

And then he proved the critics point by repeatedly misgendering her, and singling her out by him, the ceo of tumblr, personally justifying her being banned. And then arguing about it with randos in replies and even dms. Like he points out himself that "We generally do not comment on individual cases." That's generally a good policy for a ceo of a social media site to have, Matt, don't ever make an exception to it, no matter how upset you are about "misinformation" that you are a transmisogynist.

Like his company's PR team must have been literally asleep or off the clock, or he didn't consult with them beforehand, because if they were in any way competent they would have told him what a bad idea this was.

[17020]

alrighty bae ty for ur insight <3 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ graduating next year and we’ll see how this goes (gonna spin the wheel when it comes to choosing my major next yr bc i dont rlly care abt what career im pursuing ngl 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ its tough out here 😓)

AND I JUST NEED TO GIVE U A CHARACTER FROM UR LIST RIGHT?? 🙊🙊💕 how abt my glorious king nagi (⩌ᴗ⩌)

hi vivi !! thank you sm for supporting my little wordpress event !! since you're doubting whether or not to study marketing, seishiro nagi will help you! marketing major! reader

SEISHIRO NAGI . . . INSIGHT GENIUS

— nagi unknowingly helps you with everything you might need during your homeworks. he's the one who helps you browse through the net (by having you on his lap while you use his pc) for netnographies, or even lets you use him for an ethnography interview on gamers.

— nagi is crazy good at obtaining insights. we've known that nagi is insanely smart, but he's just lazy. when you're struggling to find an insight for a fast food chain, he'll whip his head up and just go "i like my ice cream with fries, drive me to mcdonalds please" and next thing you know you're creating a promo because he wasn't the only one who liked his ice cream that way.

— if you need connections, nagi's your guy. because reo knows a guy who knows a guy, and chigiri too. due to his status as a football player, he also knows a guy who knows a guy too. so you'll be booked and busy during your internship (which is bomb btw) and after.

— it'll definitely be a conflict of interest later on, but nagi wants you as his community manager. he wants you to manage everything, unlike the OTHER, not you community manager he had before who pestered him about his image and his posts. though, little does he know, you have to do the same as them. just because you're his partner doesn't mean you won't do your job correctly. his brand is sacred.

[bittysfoodbaby]

ok so on top of me being a diet film major at school i'm also on the executive staff of my school's college radio station and that combined with omgcp means it's headcanon time!

you're listening to 91.7 WSMU-FM. don't turn that dial!

lardo started doing radio to keep up the promise to do something technical to her parents after becoming an art major. she chose radio tech ops and programming because it was a chill and easy gig that didn't take too much time out of her day. she ended up being pretty decent at her job and later became known for her cable management skills.

jack first met lardo when he was dating camilla and eventually got involved with the station as a graveyard shift dj to hang out with camilla more as friends (#studentathletethings). lardo often took on the late-night shifts for tech ops, which is just making sure the station doesn't go down in the middle of the night, and noticed that Jack wouldn't use the automated software and do everything manually from spinning tracks to doing his talk breaks live. eventually they became friends over "the old days of radio" and jack referred lardo to becoming the smh team manager.

holster acted as a consultant to the promotions and PR team for one of his finals and observed a morning shift as part of the project. the "bro, we should start a podcast" part of his brain was promptly activated and convinced ransom to do a morning show with him. they mostly talk about college sports and get very heated over college hockey and how much cornell has fallen as a hockey team.

shitty grew up listening to wsmu and used radio as another way to be rebellious against his family. he appreciates the community service and outreach the station does and is ranked the best voice on the station. he hosts a show about local music in samwell and the greater boston area.

bitty joined the promo team after smh found out about his blog and convinced him to join radio after they all realized they did radio together. eventually he became the webmaster of the station's website because he was the only one other than shitty that knew how to use wordpress. his ego grew after he forced hosts to write blog posts during their shifts for the station website and be active on twitter.

chowder used to dj local events in high school and was a pretty decent dj and producer back in the day. when he found out the rest of the team was pretty much doing radio he convinced a radio show about live dj sets boiler room-style.

(side note: farmer finds out about chowder's secret life as a dj through a girl on the volleyball team who's friends with a wsmu sportscaster who knows holster.)

dex found himself working in tech ops after a freak accident involving the station's backup recording software went down. he ended up staying because it's the only non-hockey or non-school thing he had.

nursey was approached to be on the station's student spotlight show for his poetry and found out that the whole team was working on the station. he then romanticized the image of analog radio in his mind and what being a late-night DJ was like. he immediately switched to a mid-day jazz shift the next semester.

i swear i have more but i still have fics i need to write before posting more LMAO

[dreamdolldiary]

130 books: my to be read list

will be updating if i find any more interesting finds

my most anticipated reads:

man's search for meaning

outwitting the devil

say yes to life

deep work

a mind for numbers

limitless mind

so good they can't ignore you

destined for more: a broken girl’s journey of chasing dreams and killing giants 

genius foods

burn the boats

fluent in 3 months

fluency forever

the book of five rings

the science of living + live your best life

the art of choosing

quitter: closing the gap between your day job and your dream job

the how of happiness

the high five method

the power of now

the power of one more

essentialism: the disciplined pursuit

getting things done

four thousand weeks

make time

how not to die

seth speaks

life skills: creativity, problem solving, mindfulness, empathy, teamwork

you have more time than you think

the one thing: the surprisingly simple

the 4 hour work week

essay by the minimalists

start with why

the journey of a girl with lots of dreams

how are you, really?

do the hard things first

willpower doesn't work

better than before

secrets of manifesting - wayne dyer

monk mode

parenting

parent power: bringing up responsible children and teenagers

29 rules for smart parenting: how to raise children without being a tyrant

the 7 best things smart teens do

the emotional lives of teenages

talk to your boys (coming out in 2025?)

getting things done for teens

the 7 habits of highly effective teens

lifeskills for adult children

the 6 most important decisions you'll ever make

smart parenting for safer kids

smart parenting for smart kids

improvement

the 12 week year

the lazy genius way

the surrender experiment

no excuses!

the art and business of online writing

the luck factor

the 2 alarms

the go giver

what we owe the future

someday is today

the 1 rule: how to fall in love with the process and achieve your wildest dreams

seven principles of making marriage work

leadership: six studies in world strategy

drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us

the 80/20 principle

the joy of missing out

the courage to be disliked

the blank slate

the life-changing magic of tidying up

range: why generalists triumph

manage your day to day

adulting made easy: things someone should have told you about getting your grown-up act together

design your life: how to hold a well lived, joyful life

the crossroads of should and must

the happiness advantage

do over: rescue monday, reinvent your work, and never get stuck

the self care prescription

pathless path

how to be a person: 65 hugely useful, super important skills

the brain's way of healing

the driving book: everything new drivers need to know but don't know how to ask

the denial of death

educated (by tara westover)

the one thing

do hard things

take the steps

daring greatly

mindset: the psychology of success

grit: the power of passion and perseverance

willpower doesn't work

goodbye to shy

quiet mind, epic life

finance and business

the intelligent investor

secrets of six figure women: surprising strategies to up your earnings and change your life

wealthing like rabbits

i will teach you to be rich

how not to move back in with your parents

overcoming underearning: a five step plan to a richer life

the infographic guide to personal finance: a visual reference for everything you need to know

passive income: the smart passive income guide: how to successfully create passive income streams with a growth mindset

stop sabotaging your career: 8 proven strategies to succeed in spite of yourself

you are a badass at making money

the million-dollar, one-person business

e-commerce business: 3 books in 1: the ultimate guide to making money online from home and reach financial freedom

side hustle: from idea to income in 27 days

make bank (when you think like one)

skills

making money on blogging: 2020 Edition - how to start your blogging blueprint and make profit online with your blog - how do people make money

starting a successful blog when you have NO CLUE!: 7 steps to wordpress bliss.... (beginner internet marketing series book 1)

youtube secrets: the ultimate guide to growing your following and making money as a video influencer

christianity

mere christianity

surprised by joy

the case of christ

the historical figure of jesus

the bible unearthed

catholics: a very short introduction

random, mostly just for fun

forever chic

ooh la la

secret model beauty

get rich, lucky bitch

french women don't get fat

skinny bitch

bonjour happiness!

miss manners

the social climber's bible

city chic

the modern girl's guide to life

fat, broke, and lonely

women have all the power

soft is the new power

how to marry the rich

and reminder: it doesn't matter how tall your book stack is.

[unpretty]

Hi I also do not have time for web dev* but since reading your post about Patreon-Memberful being terrible and Ghost looking appealing I can't stop thinking about the migration sounding kind of fun. What's your current hosting situation and if you went to ghost would you keep it or switch to their managed hosting Ghost Pro offering or is that all as yet undecided?

*My job is web dev and this ask is at least 90% procrastinating at Job web dev with Daydream web dev, but since it's sticking I figured I might as well try to make the daydream web dev mildly useful

i'd love to do ghost's managed hosting BUT i need custom themes since none of the defaults are geared toward multi serials. and i don't trust them to be cool about smut long-term.

my current cheapo shared hosting for wordpress can't handle ghost so i'd probably do a digitalocean droplet since. that seems like something i can manage lmao. my original plan was to Make A Theme but it turns out i don't want to. so instead i'll probably buy a docs theme (i like the table of contents functionality) and hope for the best.

[taelophone]

So heya i read your personality analysis about luigi and i can say you are somehow spot on (tho dont know him personally lol) like the confidence...

I saw his vids ..getting taken away by nypd to him wearing a red sweater, strutting down with confidence his head held up high to him sitting looking relaxed and calm like he is not in court. I am already sensing he is a very self assured person and doesnt mind the spotlight on him.

I dont know but part of me is thinking that he gets to do those things since he knows his plan worked (honestly im thinking he planned to get caught ...) and he knows he is good looking..and smart.

And also him being sassy? I saw his blog on wordpress (source: tiktok) and you are right lol. Combined it with the tweets i have seen and his archived posts on reddit, he is opinionated,solutions oriented ( see japan tweet) and efficient. I bet he will be fun to be around but can be challenging.

Also sidenote-I havent had a friend or coworker like him. Im sure if he was my coworker or a senior (high job level like near manager level), he will be a great mentor but I imagine it will be kinda challenging for you or me who is average...like it will be challenging to match his intellect , his way of doing things and his outlook on things. I have worked with some smart people believe me while they are the best in their job, they can believe their way of doing things is the best way. They will challenge you to be independent and efficient.

Yeah thats all lol! This was long but just my insight. Love luigi tho.

Thoughts?

I’m so glad I made that analysis extra earrly on cuz it’s paying off BIG TIME in seeing how accurate I was ngl😭 like it’s almost scary.

My biggest like pet peeve between Luigi supporters was the characterization of him being some raging tech-bro republican with narcissism issues or something along those lines, like ts always pissed me off cuz wtf. IN FACT, the reason I made the analysis was to retaliate (kindly) against the people who would say shit like that cuz wtf .

And you’re very very right about him encouraging independence!! I say this all the time but I really and truly believe he loves an independent mind and someone who can grasp conclusions on their own without the support of like 11 different people or the media alone. He takes it as a sign of intelligence and maturity. But honestly, I don’t think him being a mentor would be challenging. He’d literally walk you down each concept with him, explain his POV, and help you form connections like every step of the way. He’s smart, but let’s remember that he absolutely hates when people overcomplicate simply info!!

[talenlee]

4,000 posts

This is not the 4,000th post on this blog.

It’s the 4,000th one that goes public, but while I write this, but as I say, regularly, I am always working ahead. This is just another note in the midst of a mix, an article that due to a coincidence of timing comes out now, right at the very tail end of December, 4,380 days since the blog’s founding in 2013. That indicates that I’ve only not posted something here in on 9% of the days that it was possible to do so, and if I keep going with the daily posting like this, that percent will creep down until at some point I can’t do it any more and then it will creep back up until the lifetime of these 4,000 posts is a blip in the greater cosmic significance of our ascendance to the stars or whatever.

I mean it’s not a special thing, really. 4,000 is no more special or less a number than 4,001 or 3,999. The significance it has is being assigned to it by me, as someone who noticed a count on an internal system, a number on the wordpress content management system.

There are some you won’t see; there’s some posts about something private, when I imagined maybe I would treat the blog like a journal, a literal web log? But that faded, and now I keep them because their primary job as posts is to mark dates for me, to put time stamps on events that are important in my life and the life of my friends.

I wish I had some statistics on this. I know this year, the target has been a 1,000 word minimum for every post that isn’t showing off a graphic design or releasing something with its own big word count. Like if I’d made a podcast this year (and there is a plan to), a post announcing and sharing that would be just that. All the t-shirt posts this year are just posts showing off the design and giving links, but I’ve felt that’s a valid way to serve those up. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, etcetera.

That means across this year, at minimum, I’ve written 354,000 words for this blog. Now, I do fear that some of those words are bad ones, wasteful words. Words where I pad a sentence with a joke about padding sentences, words where I got lost in my own conversational style and waste your time with the reading, but while there are some weeds I have an easier time pulling up (like starting sentences with ‘so’), some of these problems in my writing are like sand in stones, deep and abiding and almost impossible to peel out. The solution would have been to not make the mistakes in the first place.

When I hit 2,000 daily posts, I wrote about the things that being able to do that indicated. This list included:

You make big habits out of small habits.

Post regularly because you want to.

Not everything needs to be for everyone.

Building habits has knock-on effects.

Build structures to build structure.

I can do this because of pre-existing privilege.

You’ve got to be willing to shout in a bucket.

These are all still true. After all, writing 4,000 anythings is going to take some time, even just 4,000 words is the task of a few days. Heck, even if you were just repeating the same word over and over again, writing down any word 4,000 times is going to be a chunk of time expended. And I ostensibly, spente this time, doing things with these words.

Some of these things are a matter of big things that I break up as a part of workload. Like, the articles about Hecsenfore, the city I designed to answer a question about whether or not there was a possibility for a livable, acceptable Necrostate, there is no reason I had to do that as three articles. I could have made one absolute monster of an article, one article, six thousand words long, but instead I broke it in to three parts. This was, in part, thanks to the idea of a word count goal. A thousand words is the goal, so if I get near a thousand words, there is a push to get the last of that thousand out and tap to the next post. There is an urge, with that goal, to hit that goal and not ‘waste’ effort.

Some articles are just necessarily larger than that. Sometimes I write about something where I’m deeply invested in it, where the words are going to come out of me and there’s an immense weight to it. I feel like that’s my desire to run my mouth, where sometimes the ideas are there and coiling inside me and I just have a lot to say and this blog is the best place to say it. My article on Oshi no Ko is six thousand words, practically a week of writing all on its own, and I instead made it as one single beast of a text, and that’s because, well, that’s… that’s just what I had in me to talk about. There’s a reality at work here though: I have other things I have to do and this blog is a hobby, not a job. There are things that if I was being paid more I would do more, I would make larger and more elaborate things, but when I get 2,500 words out of me on a topic that can be split apart… why wouldn’t I? That’s practically three articles, all spread out that way, maybe a little introduction for one of them and a conclusion for the last one?

Plus, and this is also a factor, I feel like spending a lot of your time on what I want to talk about is a waste unless I have something meaningful to say. Multi-hour videos are a genre unto themselves on Youtube, but they’ve made me keenly aware of how frustrated I am by people using them as a way to make a point when the point they want to make should be more conveniently referencable, Harris Bomberguy.

Four thousand posts.

Four thousand posts.

So close to the end of the year, where I normally do a yearly reflection post, it is pretty funny to consider this post is also going to be doing back references to other things I wrote. There should be some lesson, some greater lesson from the 2,000 daily posts posts, but the result is much more relaxed. Yeah, those things I said? They’re right. They’re still right. And now I’m here, with all this writing and all this practice, multiple books of work and just multiple books.

Because I wanted to try and I was able to keep going when I got hit in the gut with early discouragement.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[tofueggnoodles]

My Drama CD translation workflow

The first Drama CD I ever translated is One-Day Store Manager. That was in July 2022, nearly two years ago. Until recently, the workflow was simple, at least on the surface. I listened and either typed out the first thing that came to mind or looked up what I heard in jisho. If the sentence was long and complicated, I would listen to it at half-speed a few times, transcribed it into romaji and tried to figure out the translation as I stared at the transcription. Obviously, it was a slow and painstaking process.

During the past few years, rapid progress has been made in the fields of machine transcription and translation. Even back in 2022, I had the nagging feeling that things could be sped up.

Last April, I finally did it. After scouring the world wide web, I cobbled up some python scripts to do a couple of things.

1. Automatic transcriptions from mp3 files. Yep. This removes the major pain in the neck. However, as they say in computer science, garbage in garbage out (GIGO). The quality of the transcription depends on the audio quality of the mp3 file, of course. The amount of corrections I have to make is correlated to the bitrate. If the quality is good, I only have to correct about five percent of the transcription.

2. Automatic translation. Not so great, but it takes away the hassle of translating simple sentences and stock expressions. It is equivalent to copying and pasting into Google Translate site, but in bulk. Again, the GIGO principle applies. Hence the importance of making sure the Japanese text makes sense in the first place.

I will use a short scene from Kyouka Suigetsu to demonstrate the advantages and the pitfalls of automation in Japanese to English translation.

The speech to text output is a chunk of text, sans punctuation and indication of who is speaking. The script is particularly bad at transcribing our guy’s names. Hakkai is either eight floor, destruction, eight times or Bajie. (The last is not technically wrong, though.)

Here is how the translation looks like. Of course, it is also a chunk of text.

Here is the edited transcription. I corrected the obvious mistakes and indicated who is speaking at the beginning of their lines.

Again, GIGO. The output of machine translation this time is much better. It is not perfect, but I find it so much easier to re-translate with the Japanese text just below each line.

Still, the fact that even the automatic translation from the automatic transcription makes more sense than a translation made by a human being nearly twenty years ago is a testament to how far the transcription and translation technologies have come. The fears expressed by some professional translators are far from unfounded.

The day Google Translate matches a human translation more than ninety-five percent of the time is the day yet another job becomes obsolete thanks to AI. (Yes, I’m quite pessimistic about this. Why are we letting AI do all the fun stuff [art, writing, translation] and none of the soul-crushing or dangerous jobs?)

Advertisement: I made a wordpress blog for putting my BL Drama CD translations. If you happen to be a BL Drama CD fan, you can compare my manual translation to the one using this semi-automated workflow (ongoing, first disc completed).

[fairycosmos]

how did you get that kind of job without a university marketing degree or whatever? i'm kinda struggling here :(((((

it was a (relatively) long process of trial and error and a lot of freelance work/not having a stable income but basically to break it down. a few yrs ago i went to careers advice and asked how to maximise my future prospects or whatever and the first thing they said was add ALLL of ur skills onto your resume even if youve never used them in a job role before. if you're proficient in (or capable of learning) excel, photoshop, adobe creative suite, wordpress, social media, copywriting, seo software....even if youve never used it in a professional capacity its rly good to kind of emphasize ur digital skill set as much as possible and start researching it as much as possible too. then i started a wordpress blog and would write copywriting articles on there (or in google docs) even though i had no one to send them to lol just to build a portfolio that i could send out to freelance content and copy writer agencies who were hiring. there's tons of tips and articles and pdfs online that can help you write great articles and help u learn content design. anyway i did this for a longgggg time and finally got some actual freelance work coming in. from this, i started interviewing for actual full time copywriting jobs, and was hired to intern at a digital agency at the end of 2021. did that for months then went back to freelance but was able to get more projects with my slowly growing experience. while doing freelance i was interviewing for a shit ton of full time copywriting and content management roles, most of which i got rejected from after like the 1st interview. finally i heard back from a team i had interviewed for and they had me give a presentation outlining my approach to copywriting/media managemenet and from that they've hired me and ive been really really lucky that they have. unfortunately that's what i think it was more than anything, like a stroke of luck that they saw smth in me and took me on despite me unconventional background. im rly rly grateful to them for it. i would also encourage you to look for literally any volunteer opportunities in admin, soc media, bookkeeping - it looks rly good on the resume and can sometimes expand into a job. also look up general cv tips cause there's a ton of cheatsheets out there that can help you get yours to the top of the pile or near the top. good luck and im really sorry you're struggling atm!! ive absolutely been there and it's honestly so discouraging, the amt of times i quit job hunting while doing freelance out of sheer despair was a lot. it's hard but there are ways to show what you have to offer in a really favourable light, and the more you interview/resume edit/write the better you will get. it's all one horrible big skill at least that's how it felt to me, and i still suck at it. just clawing my way up TBH. anyway sending you a lot of love ❤️ hope you catch the break u deserve soon. X

[sawyerquinnbrown]

Adventures in Boob Removal

Check out my new blog post on Wordpress!

Where to start? Probably in April 2022, when I met with the first surgeon who was supposed to perform my top surgery.

This surgeon, who we will call Dr. Rude, began by explaining that my chest “wouldn’t look like a man’s chest” post-surgery, to which my non-binary ass replied,

“Good thing I’m not a man, then.”

Dr. Rude did not get the joke. He went on to complain about my having had a breast reduction surgery in the past, claiming I was “making [his] job more difficult.” I refrained from sarcastically apologizing,

“Sorry my understanding of my gender dysphoria didn’t happen sooner, good buddy.”

Anyway, it’s a good thing that first attempt at top surgery didn’t work out before my move to Chicago, because I wasn’t sure I could trust Dr. Rude, who had apparently never met a non-binary person before.

Once I moved to Chicago, however, it became clear that if I got my surgery there I would be waiting years for an appointment. The soonest they had for a consultation appointment was a year out. “Don’t bring your paperwork,” they told me, so to hell with that.

Instead I settled on flying to Boston for my surgery, since 1) I wouldn’t be waiting a year, 2) some of the best surgeons are in Boston, and 3) I have family and friends there with whom I could stay for my recovery.

My discussions with the receptionist at the new surgeon’s office (we’ll call him Dr. Did-My-Breast-Reduction-Six-Years-Ago Second Try) involved crossed wires, however.

“How long have you legally been a man?” they asked.

Puzzled, I replied, “No time. I’m non-binary.” This stumped the receptionist for a moment. “There’s an ‘X’ on my state ID?” I offered.

“Okay. And how long have you been on hormones?”

“I’m not on hormones.”

Once again this threw the receptionist for a loop, but we did manage to schedule a pre-surgical exam, so go us.

At the pre-surgical exam I met with the surgeon’s assistant, who spent about fifteen minutes flapping her hands over my boobs while she told me about the surgery. Fondling complete, she told me to wait in the lobby to schedule my surgery, and she’d see if Dr. Second Try was available to speak with me. So I waited in the lobby, where I was told my surgery couldn’t be scheduled until they submitted to my insurance anyway, at which point Dr. Second Try appeared, fully scrubbed- and masked-up, and announced to the room,

“So no nipples?”

“No nipples,” I confirmed with a thumbs up, glad that the entire waiting room now knew this.

Off I toddled back to Chicago to wait for my surgery date. The first time my info had been submitted to insurance, with Dr. Rude, it had taken about two weeks to hear back, so I was surprised that I hadn’t heard in three weeks. I finally got a call saying they’d never received my letter of approval from my psychiatrist.*

*This is a fun thing about being trans. It’s not enough to say to a doctor that you have gender dysphoria. First you have to go to a mental health professional to say you have gender dysphoria, then that mental health professional writes down that you have gender dysphoria and informs the doctor that hey, this person has gender dysphoria. Very efficient system, makes perfect sense.

“What do you mean you never got my letter? It’s the first thing I handed over at my exam.”

“We never got it.”

“It was in an orange folder.” They told me to hold.

Three minutes later: “We found the orange folder!”

“Why did it take three weeks to determine that you didn’t have my letter?” I asked politely, masking my understandable annoyance.

The scheduler said, snippy, “We have other things to do.”

Well excuse the shit out of me.

I’d go into more detail about the rest of the process, but everything went pretty smoothly for scheduling after that, as well as the surgery itself and the recovery (which was very itchy. No one warned me). The only moment of note was when I went to get my drains taken out (if you don’t know about drains, consider yourself very lucky).

The nurse who was assisting Dr. Second Try started to speak. “She–I mean, he–“

“They,” I corrected gently but wearily.

“They need more bandages,” she finished. Bless her, she was trying.*

*I find it a little odd that so many of the staff struggled with my pronouns and gender identity. This surgeon had done top surgeries many times before.

Anyhow, that was my top surgery adventure, and I’m finally able to lift my hands all the way over my head again. Yay! Though I do have something I call "phantom boob syndrome"--similar to phantom limb syndrome except that it means sometimes my chest will be itchy but no matter how much I scratch the itch won't go away because the itch is on my no-longer-existent boob. #suffering

[sparrow-flight]

Happy New Year, everyone! I've been slowly chipping away at this comic for who knows how long now. But at least I got a full page finished last night! I'm pretty happy about that! I like how it looks, too.

I've inked and coloured most of 5 pages during my two 17h flights (had to keep myself awake somehow) (but also didn't do much because I had to sleep + being sleepy makes me slow). Now, it's a matter of finding time between the 3 games I have to make in 3 months and other assignments and job applications to continue slowly chipping away at it. I won't post this as soon as it's done, though -- I promised my impatient ass to have a buffer of at least 1 story/comic first 😭😂

In the meantime, you should check out the new Sparrow Flight site I built from scratch!! Wrote it all in VS Code and all!!! For a first site, I'm pretty proud of the features I've implemented:

Email subscription and comment section (go subscribe to the mailing list!!)

Support for mobile display

Webcomic-like navigation (that updates links to parts automatically so I never have to once manually add them!!)

The paragraphs have proper indents!!! Truly my dream come true

Also if you prefer a dark mode reading experience, the site has that

What's left is to have a dyslexia-friendly mode (that's also doubles as a light mode with different font) and to take down the Wordpress site. As always, the next two parts are already drafted, and I'll have to work on turning the next third part into a comic script. Here's to hoping I won't take too long and that I'll have good time management!

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Card of the Day - Queen of Wands - Thursday, January 9, 2025

A much more settled Queen of Wands arrives today, with a clearer vision toward your changes, helping you do the job. She finally has a better scope of things and the Big Picture is making more sense. While she is not one for the finer details, there is currently enough energy around you to help you with them. Let her show you what needs to be done in order to manage things more effectively. The…

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