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On this mega I shall take the opportunity to rant about one of my favorite things: the Webnovel UNJUST DEPTHS!

Do you love transgenders?

Do you love communism?

Do you love queer romance?

Do you love killing fascists in a giant fucking mech?

Would a plotline with all of these things happening in a underwater retro-futuristic gundam setting intrigue you?

Especially if its actually really well written with good characters, rich worldbuilding, and a marxist leninist transfem author?

All of the answers should be: YES I DO ~~or else I WILL BAN YOU~~

Since you obviously love all of those things then Unjust Depths is perfect for YOU yes YOU! It is DESTINY

The Imbrian Ocean is at a time of severe instability. The monarch of the vast Empire that spans its unjust depths (:3) is sick and nearing death, every territory of the ocean now vying to carve their own Destiny out of the chaos. From the Volk fascists pigmask-off , Zionists hamas-base (they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The 'Anarchists' (social chauvanists) lenin-dont-laugh in Bosporus, and the monarchs gui-trans of each vast noble domain, each vies for power and prestige no matter who they crush underfoot, but it would be a pretty depressing story without a bright light in the dark.

On the edge of the Empire sits the glorious Union! The (Soviet) Union soviet-chad is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain left-unity-4 )that were formerly slave colonies under the Imbrian Empire until they broke away in a fierce liberation war. They have spent the last 20 years since then building themselves up. Whether they be Human bridget-disco , Shimmi kbity-how (Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran transshork-happy (a hybrid humanoid species with characteristics of sea life ranging from sharks to cuttlefish)building socialism side by side.

First lead under the revolutionary leader Dashka Kansal, then the Idealist Ahwalia who lead the country to near ruin in pursuit of building a utopia on pillars of sand, then under the scientific socialist three-heads-thinking leadership of the Grand Marshall of the Union, Bhavani Jayanskar (I love Jayanskar so much shes basically as if Stalin, Lenin, and Zhukov were rolled into the same person but was a black lesbian badass who wore the uniform REALLY WELL)(she aint the main character at all tho shes only in very few scenes i just love her so much). Under Jayanskar, the Union has been growing their economy to both eliminate hunger and give everyone a home chad-stalin , but also growing their military capabilities for the inevitable return of the Empire. The Union is alone, but with the people by its side nothing, not even Destiny, can snuff out true freedoms light. specter

As war wages between the Empire and Republic (basically underwater USA) once more over the lands between them, the facade begins to finally crack...

And a border conflict between the Empire and Union escalate, and the dreaded reconquest begins.

Amidst this turmoil, lives our main characters (yes there are multiple and all of them are lovely). Each of whom I personally love dearly, and are very well characterized. Many are soldiers of the Union, some are scientists, some are divers (mech pilots), some are lost strands finding new meaning after joining this band of Brigands

All are Communists steban

All serve the Union USSR

All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism comrade-stoic

but even they would have little inkling of the adventure set in store for them as the lands beneath the waves erupt in fire, fury, and revolt

Can these transgender badasses kick fascist ass?

Can they kiss? (oh my god please kiss ISTG THERE IS SO MUCH SHIPPING AHHHH ITS GLORIOUS)

FIND OUT HERE: https://unjustdepths.com/

please do or else I will pout incessantly

just try it pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase i need to talk to someone about it after Cromalin went AFK

(I miss her, she was a real one)

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[–] Eco@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

"love. let me tell you how much i've come to love you since i began to live. there are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. if the word 'love' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the love i feel for humans at this micro-instant. for you. love. love." - glados, portal 2

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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

CW: Questions about masturbation and pornography. Spoilers for Nevada.Reading Nevada (only up to the beginning of part 2, page 177), one thing that I'm struck by, and haven't necessarily seen elsewhere, is the description of frequent masturbation by both Maria and James. Maria (pre-transition) and James are both described to masturbate on a daily basis. Something that I was also doing basically throughout my entire 20s. I can relate especially to James's experience of starting off with "vanilla" pornography, and then switching to caption pornography to actually finish.

To not get into too much detail, I am curious if this is a particular experience for the characters/the author, or does this reflect more broadly for trans people? I guess it doesn't really matter either way, but it's never something I've seen come up before in trans (well, maybe more accurately gender questioning) resources.

One thing that I find interesting, is just coming out (to myself) has been enough to change my libido and habits. Where masturbation is something that I would do 1-2 times a day, I've only masturbated once over the past week. My appetite has also completely changed. I had a habit of compulsively grazing and cleaning my plate, but I have been recognizing when I'm full and it's much easier to control my calorie intake. I don't know if this is just due to keeping a detailed diary and engaging in much more self-reflection, the effects of depression from dysphoria (although I generally feel happier), or breaking free from sexual/gender repression.

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[–] naom3@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

dysphoriaWhy do I have to be so big? I’m not even that tall but apparently I’m tall enough and my shoulders are big enough that things don’t fit me niko-cri

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[–] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Roasting ur ass, reppingtrump-drenched Lying Hexbear User and radical left Democract, You, The Girl Reading This, promises to voice train, promises to learn how to do make up but never has, she can't be trusted. Why hasn't she done it already? Why the hell hasn't she done it already?

Repressionomics isn't working. trump-who-must-go

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Long hair problems, chat. My oscillating fans are all hungry for my hair. How can I stop this???

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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Started reading "Fake It" by Lily Seabrooke.

Avery is just im-fuckin-gay personified, it's kinda cute tbh. every second thought in her head is "oh god pls she is so pretty i want her to do me on this table right noooooooow" kinda based ngl

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[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone help me and tell me to get out of bed plz its very important

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Went to Student Counseling Services. Was able to have a frank conversation, and the consuelor was supportive both my chronic mental health issues and my gender dysphoria. Getting on a care management plan and have an appointment scheduled with an interim therapist next week.

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[–] yewler@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Is the trans <-> programmer connection as strong as they say it is? If so, why is that? I ask this as a person with a comp sci degree lol

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[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

girlupdate to girlwork: i have done maybe 10 minutes of actual work today at emailjob. it sure felt good to just totally let go of caring about this shitty company lol, and i still got paid!

and some more trauma-related deets, CW harm(wow i sure hope i didn't post this already) i talked to my dad this morning and he was telling me about how shitty his work was. i already knew - i could feel it from him when he would get laid off again, etc. his despair and suicidal tendencies were not a surprise when he told me about them this morning.

he felt trapped in his jobs, just like i did last night, but between him and me is a completely different situation. so i have a new theory - what if i've been carrying his feelings around to my situation? just like i did with my mom and her discomfort with me presenting fem?

jeez, feeling other people's emotions is absolutely wild.

spoiler one piece spoilers for water seven arc so okay, this may be debateable, but i am now convinced Nico Robin was intentionally written as an autistic character now that I've actually seen a bit of her backstory. The bit about her getting blamed by an adult for being bullied and called names for having special powers (but not just that! she also skipped grades, and has an SI in archaeology) fucking made me cry.

also the World Government making reading a fucking crime worthy of death penalty is so anti-communism coded, holy f. it may not be literally true about the burger reich, but it feels emotionally true that reading communist literature is a crime.

Her believing her existence is a sin is so fucking relateable oh my god this show just keeps getting to me, she is my favourite character, i'm so excited for her self-acceptance arc :::

[–] Kiagz@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I just love having to wait half a year before I can get prescribed any new ADHD medication. Feels like I'm spending half my life just waiting around for shit to happen

[–] outside_enjoyer@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

my sigma power move is to never accept meeting invites

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

What if u were just rlly anxious late into the burgernight?

(I missed a med by like an hour please help)

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[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Ok I needed an excuse and reason to voice train, and this was it, this post kicked me hard enough to make me do something about it. So I uploaded to tankie.tube a reading of the Unjust Depths intro and am using it to voice train. Plus I just want to make stuff thats useful for other people, and this is one way to do that while also relearning how to talk like the girl I am ^^

If you want to listen you'll need to make an account for now, cause I dont know the peertube vibes and culture so I made the visibility instance only to avoid harrassment.

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

sutherland-point THAT'S HER OFFICER!

THAT'S THE GIRL WHO DIDN'T DO THE PACHACUTI

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Indirect genital reference but this was honestly so funny

Look up tips on tucking

Get an ad for a university that sells themselves on being a small campus that find internships for all their majors before the video

Ad ends with the tagline, "small on purpose"

hahaha

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

LocalOaf get to sleep with 4 rambunctious kittens running around and a neighbor that somehow goes out on his patio facing my bedroom window to smoke like every half hour through the night and cough loudly challenge: impossible difficulty

yes-honey-left

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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Despite doing a bad job at it, I am surprised with how good I feel about painting my nails for the first time. I didn't think I wanted to buy any girl clothes until I lost more weight, but now I am already thinking about outfits and how to paint my nails with them. I found some plus-sized thighhighs and skirt online that should fit (need to get a tape measurer to double check, can't find the one I had). For the top, just looking for an appropriate graphic hoodie.

I also need to course correct a bit on my diet. I lost 5 lbs in 1 week (~1000 kcal intake/day + exercise + a job that keeps me walking most of the day), and was starting to feel a bit ill yesterday. So, took the day off from the gym and made some vegan imitation chorizo + roasted veggies.

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[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (19 children)

you know, in my more than a decade of playing minecraft, I don't think I have ever made leather armour. who tf has the time early game to get 24 leather

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I updated my pfp and the site became inaccessible for like 20 mins πŸ€”

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[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Some thoughts on Nevada part 2.

spoilers ofcThe ending. I personally loved the ending, and there's a very specific reason why.

Imogen Binnie talks about how, when she was writing + editing + publishing Nevada, she was very frustrated with the stories about trans people that were being published at the time by cis authors. Stories where a tortured trans protagonist goes through hell during transition but ultimately emerges victorious and transitioned. The "Gender Novel(tm)", as Casey Plett put it. I've personally never read any of these books, and I'm not too interested in doing so; but the trend seems indicative of something that I think about sometimes: liberals are obsessed with endings.

The end of history (lol), the end of racism (lmao even), the end of COVID (how do they come up with this stuff), and β€” the end of transition. In the afterword, Binnie talks about how she purposefully wrote Maria to be a "post-trans" protagonist, to disrupt the idea that trans people take hormones, get surgery, and happily disappear, their lives as trans people effectively over, ready to live as cis people. The idea that the Gender Novel (tm) was pushing. That there is a set "end point" to transition. Maria is clearly still struggling, still wrestling with her issues around dissociation, dysphoria, and transness.

That's why I like Nevada's ending so much. The fact that it doesn't end, that Maria and James' storylines don't get wrapped up with any kind of satisfactory conclusion. Because for a lot of trans people, it doesn't really end; at least, not nicely and neatly. It unsettles cis liberal sensibilities, cis liberal desires for a conclusion to the struggle. And well, upsetting liberals is my favorite thing.


Another (unrelated) thought β€” in class, the topic of James' pronouns came up. At first my answer was "well idk, I don't think it's that serious", but then I thought a little bit more about it, and I think I came to a different conclusion.

The entire second part of Nevada is basically a long, drawn-out "what-if" scenario for a lot of trans people. For people in James' position, it's "what if a magical trans person descended from the sky to talk to me about my gender issues"; for people in Maria's position, it's "what if I met someone who is probably trans, and how could I help them?"

I think there's a strong aspect of asking: what would you, the reader, do in this situation? What would you say to James, if you were in Maria's position? Was Maria's method effective? Is there any way she could have done it better? I guess this is the question the "egg prime directive" was trying to solve, lol. I wonder how soon that appeared after Nevada's publication. (For the record, I personally don't believe in the egg prime directive. But I did bring it up in class when the discussion touched on this subject, because I'm annoying and internet-poisoned like that.)

And along with that, there's this question hanging in the air β€” what pronouns? Maria uses she/her in her head, but well, maybe Maria wasn't the best at this. Binnie uses he/him. I think this part of the story is written to unsettle people, to unsettle cis people but also trans people too.

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[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

like two days ago, before reading part 2 of orange book, I was like "maria would layer despite the heat, wouldn't she"

and I was right! screm-cool

[–] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Stealing the bridget-disco emote for my PFP because she is cute

Also should I get Guilty Gear Strive? For totally unrelated reasons bridget-yoyo-walk

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