the stage becomes a ship in flames

The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that some aspects of Ford Prefect's description in the books (namely his hair color and what his life is like on Earth before the events start) are truly derived from David Bowie's character in The Man Who Fell to Earth.

In case anyone is curious, the women/fems/etc. of our system feel positively about the top surgery because most of us are mammal therians (dogs, hyenas, lions, etc). Humans are the only mammals that have breasts other than when they are raising their young, and we do not intend to have children. Those members of our system have transitioned to a female animal, which we prefer over being a human woman.

I can currently only speak for myself, but I believe the top surgery also changed the innerworld in that my body, and I suspect multiple headmates' bodies, changed in a way that is more consistent with what our natural body would have been. This is not necessarily including people who identify more with what we have transitioned to, or who may have transitioned to something else in the innerworld.

I've found out that, at least with some people, I have a reputation both online and offline for being tough, and I have mixed feelings about it. It's validating on a gender level, especially since a lot of the people who tell me this aren't men - not that people who aren't men can't be tough, but it feels more gendered when people who aren't my gender are telling me something that I have a trait stereotypically associated with my gender that they implicitly don't have as much of as me (or else they wouldn't think it's something special about me) - but I wish I didn't have to be tough. I wish I could be gentle and taken care of. It's like in The Lion King where Simba goes to the Elephant Graveyard and when Mufasa is lecturing him about it after, Simba says "I was just trying to be brave like you" and Mufasa says "I'm only brave because I have to be." I'm only tough because I have literally no other choice.

Home from the top surgery! We're going back to the city this weekend to get the drains out, but the surgery itself is over and we're home!

Suddenly realizing I've become the kind of Nine Inch Nails fan who gets a little pissed off and judgmental if the only song of theirs you care about is "Closer".

Hot take but I don't think those posts about seeing this beautiful alt girl out with some boring average man are all that funny, because the alt girl deserves to be with another alt person and as an alt person, I would only date a normie if there were no other alt people for me to date. And you know that that normie guy doesn't appreciate the alt girl's interests or music taste at all. I think those relationships are very sad TBH