bought myself an offbrand pink blåhaj. might need to do surgery because the stuffing feels kinda cheap, but otherwise super happy
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Trans Megathread for the Week of December 23rd, 2024 to December 29th, 2024 - TMGC MEGA
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Greetings, salutations even! I know this is a tough time of year for many of us, and all I ask is that you all make this the best week you possibly can. If the holidays are a struggle, take time to care for yourself if you can. Hang out with friends, do the things you love, find that sweet gender euphoria, follow what makes you truly happy. Oh, and continue to be yourselves :). Alright everybody, get ready for the largest mega I’ve ever written (I think).
Welcome to the TMGC mega! I have been hyping this up, probably for months now, and it’s my time to deliver on what might be the one of the best Fire Emblem experiences of all time. Buckle up, because this is going to be a long one. Most of the post will have light to no spoilers, but some parts may have a moderate amount of spoilers. With that out of the way, let’s find out what this game has to offer.
What is Fire Emblem? (no spoilers)
Fire Emblem is a strategy role-playing game series where you move your units to fight enemy units on a grid. The simplest way to think about it is like chess, where you have a large team of units fighting another large team of units, while your units are more like characters in that they have personalities. In most entries, these units are also able to have conversations with each other, providing more detail to the characters or the story, while also making the supported characters stronger. The games take place in a medical fantasy setting, with swords, axes, lances, different magics, and staves, with creatures like horses, pegasi, and wyverns.
What is Fire Emblem: The Morrow’s Golden Country (TMGC)? (no spoilers)
TMGC is a romhack of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. It has it’s own story, characters, maps, mechanics, and for all intents and purposes, it’s a whole game built in the engine of Sacred Stones.
Story Outline and Characters (light spoilers)
TMGC features Blair as the protagonist. As a young lesbian lord from the Aercolyn territory within the Dalstinian Alliance, the game follows her around the continent and throughout the many nations. At first, the game features a pretty standard Fire Emblem plot, where one of the nations declares war on a couple of the others, which kicks the story into action. However, it evolves greatly beyond that point, with political drama, suspense, mystery, conspiracy, and so much more that make the story stand out. Of course, I also find the story to be very well written, especially when compared to many other Fire Emblem games.
Along for the ride with Blair is Arin, her closest friend and self-taught tactician/advisor. They will also meet and recruit many of their friends and allies, both ones that existed before and during when the story takes place.
spoiler A little more on the story (moderate spoilers)
What exactly makes the story of TMGC compelling? Well, it’s the depth. The story involved Blair doing a lot to earn the approval of others, which often has her doing some very ethically questionable things. The plight of the commoner is shown in this game, with entire places on the continent being uninhabitable, yet having poverty-stricken inhabitants. Banditry runs rampant, and yet nobody has attempted to reach out to the struggling masses. The society is still feudal, most of the nations are either ruled by kings or lords. The class divide, that between noble and commoner, is very noticeable, and while it is not explicitly addressed like in some other entries, TMGC makes heavy use of “show don’t tell” with these kind of things. The many aspects of war are also shown, among those who do fight for their country. Mevion, the one country that managed to overthrow it’s king in a revolution, has a lot of revolutionaries who now live mundane lives due to being alienated by a revolutionary movement that was corrupted by opportunists are we still playing Fire Emblem? These people, along with the soldiers/knights of other nations, serve their countries or the people of them, and face the reality that what they fight for is not what they first thought. There are multiple characters that serve their lords and their country, but there are just as many deserters, those dissatisfied with how their lives ended up. There’s also political manipulation. Something happens that should lead to certain people taking power, but through political manipulation puppets are put in place. Countries are occupied by invading forces, and the results of that are felt. The frustrations of working within a political system is felt, as characters try again and again only to realize that it’s never going to work. That the only option when a political entity is inherently corrupt is to fight it.
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Characters and Queer Representation (light spoilers, moderate character spoilers)
First of all, the characters in this game are all pretty great, there’s a lot of them, and their supports are written well. The game also lists pronouns for all of the characters in-game as well. Nice touch.
Apollo is a trans man. It’s not revealed that he is at first sight. He’s a man, lives as such, and doing none of his supports leave it at that. However, as his supports are triggered, he gets into more and more of his past. A support chain with the Archbishop reveals that he was rejected, and may have been kicked out by, his parents. A support chain with another trans enby character has them recognizing their similarities, even if they transitioned to different genders. It was good to see a trans character in the game, and while I have not seen all of the supports, I would hope that some of the others manage to go into this as well. To get the lore on this, as far as I know, make sure to do the support chain with Apollo and Vladimir.
There’s also many non-binary characters, including a protagonist character (Viridian) that gets their own arc of the story! Not to mention that sooooooo many of the characters are gay, bi, or pan it’s amazing. I could go over all of them, but I don’t actually know all of them! So, I need to go over a special example. TMGC’s poly characters. Heavy character spoilers, of course.
There’s also everyone’s favorite genderfluid (maybe) enby (maybe) possibly agender (maybe) assassin with a heart Olson. She goes by she/they/he pronouns. I have not seen much to this character, I’ve just gotten them, but his introduction already has her requesting a great title, and they’re a really good unit in combat (100% crit rates and a skill that insta-kills on crit). All hair the Ser Duke-Duchess o7
If Blair gets a B+ support, and crucially does not A support, five of the other women, they all get married at the end and start a polycule. I do not know exactly how the ending goes, I messed up the support chains, but I do know who the people are. Arin, Natasia, Avan, Yuyu, and Estelle. For the poly ending, Blair can only support these five people, which will make more sense once I go over game mechanics. This might be the most queer fire emblem of all time.
Mechanics (no spoilers)
On the topic of supports, each character can only have up to five supports. I’m guessing this is due to hardware limitations, and this is fine for many characters. However, for characters like Blair or Arin, supports have to be done more carefully, considering whether or not you like a character enough to go through a support chain, or even going through another playthrough to see all of the supports. These supports increase stats between the characters, just like in normal FE, but they can also allow for other things, such as class promotions or new weapon proficiency. These can be game changing, with some characters gaining classes that make them the best characters in the game, to once mediocre characters gaining a weapon proficiency that makes them stand out. This not only makes supports more rewarding, but allows for more replayability, with more builds available to the player.
TMGC also takes features from other Fire Emblem games in an attempt to create a definitive experience. While the GBA games are great aesthetically and aged really well, they were lacking in some aspects that later games would innovate on. For example, Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn make use of a Base Area that the player can use to go over supports and buy items and such. TMGC adds this, also changing supports to be story-based rather than combat-based a lot of the time. This means that characters don’t have to be fielded to go through their supports (most of the time). Considering how many characters are in this game, it’s a really helpful inclusion.
TMGC also adds the save points that were in the DS games. This means a mistake doesn’t necessarily equal a reset, and it’s great for quality of life, especially considering how big some of these maps can get. Of course, it’s a double-edged sword. Not saving can leave you losing a lot of progress, and saving in a bad spot means you either have to either reset the whole level, or continue on without certain characters. Yes, this game has permadeath and only permadeath, there is no casual mode. However, there are also SOOOOOO many characters. Losing a few characters won’t be the end of the world gameplay-wise (I’m still a perfectionist for supports and story, although R.I.P. Butch, there goes My Hero), and you won’t likely find yourself unable to complete the game.
TMGC adds personal skills as well, something that was featured in certain entries of the series, removed for the GBA games, and the added again for the following entries. These really make each individual character stand out. For example, you can have a normal mercenary, or you can have a mercenary with a hit chance skill, who can level up high stats except for skill. The game likes to do this a lot, and it allows for certain units to be strong while posing some sort of challenge. There are of course alternatives to these units, I don’t have to use Gaylord if I don’t want to (yes there’s a character named Gaylord, yes he’s really good, and yes, he’s straight). Something really interesting about certain skills is that they become combat arts. For a certain amount of weapon durability, skills like Luna (ignore defense/resistance) and Sol (heal HP in damage dealt) can be triggered manually on the player’s turn, rather than having a chance of activating during an attack. This can allow for many interesting strategies. There’s one boss that has really high resistance, defense, and legendary tome when most of the characters aren’t even promoted. However, Kenneth (a dark mage) has the Luna skill, which I can manually activate to come up with a plan to kill the unkillable. As a reward, I received a gem I could sell for 30,000 gold (that’s a lot). This also ends a defend map early, meaning it could be easier to keep certain weaker units safe.
Back to the Tellius games (Path of Radiance & Radiant Dawn), TMGC adds movement skills! Characters can shove, smite, reposition, swap, etc. with other characters. This allows for great strategies, and I’ve found myself utilizing shove in order to push a certain unit into position a lot. It’s quite fun, and going back to the vanilla games is always a shock when I find that I cannot, in fact, push my units around for extra movement.
There’s also a lot of new classes, spells, weapons, animations and so much more!
I’m realizing that I’m treading a lot of the same ground as I did in my last post, and I’m trying to think about what else to write. The thing is, I don’t know what else to say. I don’t want to spoil the game for you wonderful people! So, you’re going to have to play this for yourself, especially those of you familiar with Fire Emblem.
For those of you unfamiliar with Fire Emblem, this might be difficult to pick up. If you’re willing to figure things out, or DM me for help (seriously, I’m willing to, don’t be shy :)), go right ahead! It’s a great game. However, there are definitely better games to help you get into Fire Emblem as a series. I would recommend Fire Emblem: Three Houses for the Nintendo Switch, or Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia for the 3DS. These games both go over basic Fire Emblem mechanics, while having some of the things TMGC takes inspiration from. Both games make use of combat arts, for example. They are also both really good games, and I would consider Shadows of Valentia to be one of my favorite Fire Emblem games, especially in it’s presentation. And yes, if I do a Fire Emblem mega next time, it’s going to be a Shadows of Valentia mega. Those who saw the last time I hosted the megathread are sure to recognize the characters :)
If you want to play Fire Emblem: The Morrow’s Golden Country, you’ll need a GameBoy Advance emulator (I use MGBA) as well as a copy of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (shouldn't be hard to find). From there, download the patch (sorry for google link, the patch is regularly updated) and apply it to the Sacred Stones rom using RomPatcher. From there, you have a functioning TMGC rom and are ready to play.
I think that’s going to be all from me today. Again, I hope the holidays go well for all of you. I know this is a tough time of year, and I wish you all the best of luck. I also encourage you to keep up the posting in both the mega and tracha. I’ll likely spend some time in tracha myself, and who knows, maybe we can even talk about Fire Emblem. Don’t suffer in silence, feel free to vent frustrations. Love you all, let’s have a great week!
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Why is she bigger than Orvar?
Why are you trying to emasculate him??
I was thinking of buying an off brand one that is bigger than what IKEA sells too. What, uhh.... where did you get it?
But, also we went to IKEA today (for bed) and so I got an actual Blåhaj.
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this is how it begins 
soon you'll have a single whole aquarium and your loved ones will try to do an intervention smdh 
cw: nerd shit 
Dragon Age
So the Dragon Age series is really interesting from a business standpoint. The first game wasnt such a massive success that EA was expecting clearly, when put up against Mass Effect 2, so they tried to turn it into a yearly franchise like their sports ball stuff.
Obviously making a full RPG in a year is going to suck, so Dragon Age 2 was roasted pretty much universally on release (i still think it's pretty fun though 
) and spurred on by this DA Inquisition was going to be an MMO originally, which they then scrapped and turned it into a single player RPG again.
Somehow it was actually pretty successful mostly thanks to insane crunch. THEN they were first thinking of making Veilguard into a live service esque game like Anthem was, then scrapped that idea and cobbled together a single player RPG again.
it would be interesting to see them actually make a single player rpg from the start again. 
What's the story with origins?
It's the only one I've played but I bounced off of it because it just felt like an MMO but I was the only player
I don't remember all of it, but the game had a long development cycle that went on from 2002 to 2009. A lot of shit was redesigned and as a first attempt at the setting it didnt really....wow people at the time, especially because Mass Effect 2 came out like 4 months later.
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young people don't even crucify the christmas gnome any more. it's sad the way these traditions fall out of favour
I just did a big burp
lewd, endocrinology question
hey uh, is it normal to get like, abruptly stupidly horny out of nowhere after exercising and having like a runner's high endorphin rush mixed with "holy shit why am I in heat all of a sudden"
like I never usually get worked up outta nowhere anymore so now I'm worried my levels might be fucked up or something
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i knew a dude who would randomly get boners when working out so at the least you're not alone in this
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Like, I'm grateful it waited until I was alone in the shower and didn't happen on the treadmill but jfc, I'm not a teenager and haven't been for like half a decade lmao, what is going on??? 
Was switching phones to the slightly less shitty one I have and lost half of my Yuri images :(
Like I have actual important photos I could've lost and yet its the Yuri that I'd making me distraught
sadposting, a little bit of self-loathing
I still don’t know where I stand with my friend or whether he likes me and it’s killing me. I wish I wasn’t too autistic to just know or that I wasn’t too anxious to just ask
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Yeah, I know damn well that with anxiety everything is 10 times harder and more complicated than it has to be. I’m not autistic and I would be overwhelmed by this situation too. So you shouldn’t feel too bad about yourself here.
I would say, if you cannot bring yourself to ask him directly, then let him do the first move (if the kiss doesn’t count as one). Maybe give him some more or less subtle signs that you are open to such a relationship and see where things go. You don’t really have to rush it. 
when you see someone in public with the same shoes you’re wearing and you realize they look like shit 🫠
(my excuse is that I bought them specifically because I wanted the cheapest comfortable pair of jogging shoes with no regard for looks but damn…)
meanwhile when you notice someone wearing the same hat you're wearing and it looks fantastic!... on him. ugh it's fine it's fine
I get to see my sis today
For Xmas I got the gift of illness, caught some other respiratory thing no idea what, covid19 test still says negative, again have a fever, tonsils swollen af, congested AF with scary neon mucus, and a cough. It's kicking my ass to the point I had to miss out on work yet again, get more of these and I won't have to worry about getting fired due to a future surgery. Shame, I was getting better too. Unlike last time this time I'm so sick all I could do was lie around in a semi-sleep fever dream while a low grade fever makes me sweat it out. Last time was the cool illness, at least I had enough consciousness to read, this time is not so cool, can't even follow a movie or a non-theory ez book without falling asleep. This illness 0/10.
You always seem to be fighting with your health. I'm wishing you more strength through this one ❤️
::: spoiler spoiler I socialized with close friends yesterday, so today I get to freak out and try to stop my brain from thinking they all hate me and want me gone. I hate my brain, why does it try to hurt me so much when people express that they enjoy my company? Why does it not want me to be happy? I should be happy and joyful and instead i feel alone and like all the people I know are out for blood, my blood.
To be clear, they have done literally nothing to indicate this, its all in my head. Well, my heart. Is there a word for delusions of the heart? Cause thats what ive got. I dont get paranoid delusions about cognitive things, i just get super fucking deluded and paranoid about emotional things. I hate this.
To be clear, they have done literally nothing to indicate this, its all in my head. Well, my heart. Is there a word for delusions of the heart?
RSD?
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How relatable (・–・;)ゞ
I wish I knew how to help (´-﹏-`；)♡
Thanks, its very frustrating (𖦹﹏𖦹;) like I am cognitively aware that its bs, but emotionally distraught because while my cognitive reality is accurate, in my emotional reality my friends are all on their way to either hurt me or leave.
Also I love kamoji its nice to see someone using it on bearsite (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) ૮₍´˶• . • ⑅ ₎ა
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did you know: @EstraDoll@hexbear.net is a myth made up by big anxiety to sell more anxiety???
My favorite myth from big anxiety 
oh, stop it, you
no thank you, i have enough
i keep asking myself if i really like this girl or not like i didn't already write her a love letter once without intention on sending it
i printed it off and i'm going to bring it to her when we talk on Saturday but I'm not sure if there will be a good time at all to bring it up, or if it's a good idea in the first place. i'll just hold onto it in my pocket and play it by ear i guess
i'm trying to worldbuild out one of my stories rn and it's so hard... i admire people who do this for fun. i feel like i'm just literally copy-pasting the real world.
i feel like i'm just literally copy-pasting the real world
I think that's 100% valid though, sometimes the made up bits ring even more true when they feel grounded in a believable context.
I'm writing a problematic yuri swordfighting story where the trainer is a dragonkin and the princess student is a cat girl~ the world building comes as I need it, I don't plan anything on the first pass besides like "hm, why would they be doing sword fighting instead of wars to handle international disputes" and "maybe there should be magic to prevent injury and death but that's newer"
This is how you should do it tbh. All the world building isnt going to help if you have no storyline.
This would usually be a c/disability post but Idk, cw chronic pain mention of vomit
My better half and I went out on a cartrip with my dad to get my brother from the airport a few towns over, he sucks way worse at driving than he did ten years ago tbh.
Aside from the wash of small towns built around churches conjuring some kind of old existential dread, I could not last the full five hours in the car and right at the end I fuckin puked. Probably my first genuine car sickness in my life, which figures between bad driving, the car being musty (he has a dog and never washes it) and my fuckin body deteriorating.
Thing is I guess it hurts A LOT because various parts of my ribcage haven't stopped screaming at me since. It hurts to even use my arms for most stuff, lmao. Guess I'll keep going but Idk.
finally booked an appointment for HRT, it’s online in about a week. what kinds of questions should I expect from them? also will they require blood tests before prescribing anything? I assume so, and if that’s the case, would I be better off changing to an in person appointment?
When I had mine, the main questions were like "did you want an antiandrogen or not." There were questions like "what name/pronouns should I use" as well.
If I hadn't opted for an antiandrogen, there would have been no bloodwork - they only did a basic metabolic panel to make sure my potassium wasn't already high. They only did hormone check 3 months later. I find virtual more convenient for me - there's a labcorp in the same strip as my work, so I'll get bloodwork done there before followups before/after/during workday.
Edit: it was an informed consent clinic, so there was no requirement that I answer questions about dysphoria or such.
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that hoodie and necklace I was talking about
That’s cute
ooooooooh!
Very cool necklace
"Yeah, I'm really into honeycomb"
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