Feels like kinda important context that infant mortality was like 30 % for most of those thousands of years.

being a mid girl is a vibe tbh, being a hot girl is high maintenance

This is pretty much how it works in my experience.

My mum is great too She occasionally says the wrong thing but she always corrects herself

Been offline for a couple of days as I've been travelling to spend christmas with my family. Things have been going great so far. My mom was always completely supportive but a little awkward about things, but she seems to have overcome that and is using my new name more and more, and while my dad does not, he no longer deliberately misgenders me either, so I hope he's on the right path. Extremely grateful to my sister who's always been super supportive. She's also LGBTQ so unlike my parents she knows what a trans person is. Just lifts a burden of my shoulders to have at least one person who just understands without me needing to explain everything, and she's even offered to talk to our grandparents about it if I don't want to. I think the fact that she's been using my name and has been gendering me correctly since the moment I told her I was trans makes it easier for my parents to do the same.

I'm not out to most of my relatives because I don't keep in contact with them and live far away, but I'm 100 % done with boymoding, so I'll just show up as myself and they can think whatever. Kinda looking forward to seeing how they react tbh

normalize being cute with your homies

Thinking about an event in my teens when I was having pre-drinks with a bunch of guys, and one of them was joking about how I was mean to him, and I said a cutesy "aww, i'm sorry". It was kind of a dickhead frat bro-ish group and everyone just looked down and got super quiet for like 5 seconds and it was so fucking awkward.

After that I realised I needed to act more masculine or people will think i'm fucking weird and I basically repressed my "natural" personality and way of communicating for years.

but the show at it's core is moreso about family and trauma than it is about politics

I don't entirely agree with this, especially for season 1. Stories tend to have more than one theme, and Arcane has both non-political ones and explicitly political ones. It's more than just a backdrop to a story about family. The main conflict we're present in the show is political in a very obvious way, and the show doesn't hide it: plenty of runtime is used to show us characters discuss and ruminate about the the zaun and piltover situation and what they think should be done about it.

Part of the reason the end of season 2 felt disappointing imo, was that at some point they just completely gave up on those themes that HAD been a central part of the show. Nothing gets resolved and everything stays basically the same, no one in piltover has to take responsiblity for their actions, but it's treated as a happy ending, which really gives the impression that piltover was who we were supposed to root for all along, even if it felt like that was mostly not the case in season 1.

that's one way to spend your 5 minutes of fame

Why does the hawk tuah girl have a podcast and a crypto scam? Wasn't it just a random street interview? Is this just what you do if you go viral now?

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Many NTs communicate like thas too, and most of the time won't think anything negative about someone doing it. Like most social stuff, it really depends on context

The situations where I've found it really off-putting is when you've been in a conversation with someone for a while and it's mainly been about them and their problems. If I then try to talk about something that's been bothering me and they immediately go right back to a story about themselves it seems less like they're trying to relate and more like they dislike it when they're not the focus of the conversation and don't care about me. If the conversation has been more balanced up until that point it doesn't come of as so self-centered.

If you're unsure, you can keep the conversation focused on them for a while and then tell your own story after. You don't have to just tell them shallow, stock responses either. You could, and it's probably better, to ask questions about how they feel or their plans going forward or whatever else is relevant to the story.

I hate that too. Now that it's the next day I've gone from the upset kind of sad to the deflated kind of sad

That means confrontation though, so I'm probably not doing that

It's hard for me to think about her that way. She's my friend and she's always been very kind to me before (which is part of why this caught me so off-guard). I don't want her to hurt or feel bad, but i don't think I can continue to hang up with her as before either.

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Insane estrogenmaxxing