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hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like

Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"

^ this is all from the wiki btw

I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.

Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.

Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.

With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.

He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.

So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.

Why would I lie about that? Here it is.

Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,

and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)

and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:

What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.


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[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Tried a new blush color and placement and i love how it looks on me, getting cuter everyday doggirl-happy

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (10 children)

crushposting, sad? IdkTalked to new crush yesterday, learned new crush's name (I know, I know, we'd only ran into each other three(?) times making small talk before)

Realistically given the circumstances I don't see how this goes anywhere and I feel fuckin' stupid and embarrassed to have developed as strong of an infatuation with someone new this quickly and I feel juvenile and foolish for it and idk why but I'm kinda being a bitch to myself mentally about it and it's bumming me out

I'm doing the loser thing of "cute person is nice to me a couple times! (Imagines life together)" and that's pathetic and weird and just makes me feel hypothetically bad for the person to figure out my sad bullshit unrequited feelings for them

I wracked my brain trying to think of what it was that's making me feel so weirdly strong towards them, and realized it's a combination of "they remind me of my first love" and "we met and see each other somewhere that's a refuge from the stressful bullshit everywhere else in my life"

Even if I know I haven't acted weird or done anything outside of just being friendly and socially acceptable when we've spoken, I'm like mortified that crush is on to me and it'd be weird

I feel embarrassed of who I am and where I am in life, and even if we might be compatible, it feels unfair to crush to have a weirdo loser like me be infatuated with them

Idk sorry

Just felt bad about it yesterday and ruminating on it just made me feel viscerally lonely and angry at myself for being in a shitty state in life

In another timeline this could be really sweet and cute and I feel like I could be a really loving and supportive partner but I just feel gross and ashamed for even abstractly bothering someone kind and gorgeous by developing feelings for them

Why am I like this aaaaaa

aubrey-pain

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[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My dad just saw my profile picture somewhere else (same character, different artwork) and asked if it was a portrait of me that my sister drew. I was confused at first, because I was wondering if he saw something else, but nope, he thought that the character looked like me.

I mean, looking back at it again, I guess I can see how he came to that conclusion. She kind of looks like me, in some sort of way. I guess I'll take the compliment! Unfortunately, my sister can't, because she wasn't the one who drew it.

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[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (8 children)

oh my fucking god i can really feel the E making me weaker now catgirl-flop

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[–] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Im sad, can't play games with my person tonight

gotta study gotta get going

things are hard

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What has it been? A year?

It took me a year to realize what I (probably) want is to be androgynous.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Josephine_Spiro@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Had a dream that started as a nightmare of a creature going around killing people in a space station on some planet, and then the creature got to me and she turned out to be Badeline from Celeste. She was like "oh shit your trans? Good for you," made a connection that felt like a friendship with me, then went back to killing cis people. Pretty cool dream.

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[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I finally got my T results and IT'S LOWER THAN LAST TIME AND I WAS OFF OF THE SPIRO AT THAT POINT lets-fucking-go

I'm so glad it wasn't higher, I probably would have panicked and stressed for another 3 months.

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[–] Yukiko@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm dying. My mother decided to move Thanksgiving up to today because I won't be able to have it on Thursday and I'm killing myself with all the cooking. And yes, I'm starting to suspect that the real reason was because I'm the one that cooks the meal >w>

Send help and energy drinks

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[–] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Funny how it hits some family members a lil different when I tell them I’m sterile now vs. when I first told them I never wanted kids

Like even when they’re polite about it I can still tell they’re shook

Makes me wonder how many of them were quietly hoping my partner and I would have a change of heart or worse, an accident (we live in a state where abortion is banned). Fuck youuuu, I’m never getting pregnant! popuko-finger

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

My mask broke and I don't have another one on me.

This is horrible for a lot of reasons, including the fact that I'm sick ralsei-splat

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Psycho Nymph Exile

Click below to be Normal! normal

spoiler cw discussions of trauma, incest mentions maybe in a kink context?, idek just look out Writing out that CW was a brain-bender.

So I finally got back to reading and thinking about gay trans shit, which is rad I really missed it. Talked to someone who has Psycho Nymph Exile by Porpentine Charity Heartscape in her top 10, fucking sick. I figured I'd get back into the swing with that because, Ada Rook, Fallow, I know who Porpentine is. That'll probably be brain-stimulating while not exploding my brain.

I got my brain exploded nia-you-what just a lil...

I was following along acceptably until the plot actually kicks into gear, is it "some kind of weird lesbian incest", Vellus???

They tell people they're sisters, and Vellus is especially pleased when people mistake them for sisters without prompting. If blood relations are seen as superior because they precede intent, creating that bond deliberately feels powerful, like the creation of a shadow lineage.

Ohhhhh... makima-think so this is where all of those really intense presumably-kink-but-maybe-not horny posts on tumblr come from? Okay, yes. I believe so.

I dunno if I would say I'm enjoying Psycho Nymph, but it's a good exercise, I think I'm having fun. I could quote it forever, I like bending my head around the stuff; I'm getting my understanding expanded. But even if I will probably need to reread this immediately, it's also not 100% new and strange to me. I mean, who can't get down w/a footnote that reads 3. Girl smells trapped under hems and seams and elastic bands. right? (No clue why there are so many footnotes) There is T4T in Psycho Nymph which ABSOLUTELY fucking rules. My head is golden and warm and empty.

I'm so fucking jazzed, this is the kind of neural input I need. "Wanna just watch catgirl hypnosis vids and get high?" catgirl-heart Good vibe!!!

More on what I am yapping abt

Personal yapping

I stopped taking tramadol (37.5mg) because I figure I need at least one month's detox because when I stopped I could feel a fog lifting. The real change came when I started reading Psycho Nymph though, I could feel my grey matter reactivating and like, serotonin goo all over me. It was rad, I felt compelled to yap instantly, but Magi understandably isn't super interested in what's going on in Psycho Nymph, plus I wanna knock heads with people who know about it, y'know. If you know, you should inform me. madeline-stare

I love talking to people about stuff even if it's a strain. I guess one of the reasons I fell into an (at first deliberate) isolation is because, bereft of gay shit and dopey brained, I didn't have the right balance of like, queer humours to keep my brain in check. Usually, I think, the special interest brainrot way outweighs the difficulties and stressors and I fucking Post, I yap to people. Bereft of that I will become sad and listless.

Where did I get this life-altering dependancy on queer things that I have? Either I gave myself this depedence by reading Nevada too much, or else my brain was just inactive all those years until I read Orange Book and my brain activated.

Also I have no idea if or when I'm gonna read more Whipping Girl; I'm compelled to continue analysing it but hate reading it, and have no spoons catgirl-flop

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Now and forever

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

E acquired (and also spiro).

Confirmed with the pharmacy tech that it's formulated for standard oral injestion rather than sublingual. Depending on how effective the regimen is, may ask to switch up at the 3 month checkin, but I am just excited to get started.

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[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember seeing pictures of shadow in magazines before Sonic Adventure 2 came out. I was super excited. I loved his design, and I was an edgelord, and I thought his rocket skates were so cool.

Then I played the game and was like, "oh this guy is pretty cringe" but I pretended to like him because my brother is a huge sonic fan, and so I had to say shadow was better.

Anyway, now I like Amy amy-bruh

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[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Hey this feminist ethical theorist is taking a pretty marxist view on feminism, I wonder what the rest of the class is going to say about the issues that still face us today!

up-arrow clueless

[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I woke up at a stupid hour because the microchips are making me feel weird. Usually getting vaccinated is like a kinda shitty experience where i have to take a day and a half off of work and just lay in bed whining but this time I kinda spent the day with someone instead and it was really nice, and my anxiety fell asleep so I could talk more freely. So ... Thank you, vaccine brain?

spoilerits possible I am one of the luckiest people alive

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[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

I take back what I said about pants chain. I had picked one up at a thrift shop, and I have the chance to put on full makeup and try stuff out tonight. Honestly, it kinda slaps, although the color of the metal doesn't match some of my other jewelry accessories (it's more of a gunmetal than a silver).

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My HRT checkup lasted 5 minutes and nothing of note happened. Yeah, that's it, although they do sound like they'll give me prog in 6 months. Could have gotten it now, but I feel like it's safer, and not any worse, to wait a bit longer.

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[–] rtstragedy@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can we talk about The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog? How it, as far as I can tell, just fucking appeared one day as a silly little free game? How it was a several hour VN with decent art and writing? And especially how my partner and I fucking loved it to bits? Look at this guy: tails-pout

I don't even remember what happened in it but it was like unironically good. Thanks for reading.

[–] AshenWolf@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

I finished my journal. I'm remembering all of the things that have happened these past 6 months, what I've done, what's changed, how long ago some of these things feel. Just 7 months ago, I thought I was for all intents and purposes cis. That's not that long, and yet it feels like it's just a memory, and a distant one at that. I'm going to start another journal, that much is certain, but it'll be strange to start from what will feel like the beginning. It felt strange reaching what felt like the end. It gave me end-of-an-era feelings, even though I've really only just begun.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. It was a missed opportunity not to add this to the end of my essay post earlier this week.

[–] Eco@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

the real hero's journey is transgenderism. get fucked joseph campbell you dead fascist loser

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

The pro strat for getting all 326 routes in shadow the hedgehog (2005) is to have no social life, why have sex or go out with a S/O when you got routes to complete very-smart also do route 326 first and work backwards that way each time you check the library it'll open up to your last run and you don't gotta flip through it.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

CW: indirect dysphoriaTis weird experiencing dysphoria because of other people's voice or body. Like, sometimes when I hear guys talk with a very buzzy voice, I find it icky. Not because I think its a bad voice inherently, but the thought of me sounding like that just bothers me (unfortunately, when I'm congested, its hard not to sound sorta like that). Or like, I saw my brother's leg/chest hair and I felt surprised that I never had such a clear issue with the fact that I used to be hairier than him pretty recently. But since it originally grew in very slowly, I got used to it and became mostly numb to it? Like I still don't shave or trim all that much, but like there's no way I'd be okay with it being like that anymore.

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[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Is it just me or does starting E and spiro feel like a medium (sub tripping) dose of mushrooms? My head feels funny in the same way where it seems like new connections are being made and I also got nausea that eventually passed. Anyway, 3rd day on the juice possum-party

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

CW foodThey made Cracker Jack woke!! maddened pronouns

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[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Hey how long did it take for you all to get used to a new name? Last time I did this was a decade ago so I forgot, and I'm starting to worry.

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

I'm making bread today~ 🍞

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