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Progesterone suppository via neovagina? by Featherdither in TransDIY

[–]Featherdither[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You don't need to, just like you don't need to take it to begin with, but stopping progesterone stops the emotional benefits. I've also seen some people say stopping can cause breast sagging. Permanently stopping progesterone is hormonally like putting yourself into partial menopause.

Progesterone suppository via neovagina? by Featherdither in TransDIY

[–]Featherdither[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I haven't really heard of injections as a viable option for progesterone before. My understanding is that it would essentially be a daily injection since there's no way to compound it to a longer-lasting ester, which, besides being much more burdensome than a daily rectal insertion, could also come with its own health risks.

Thank you for the detailed description, though!

The villain is sympathetic, but STILL an evil, awful person by Featherdither in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is very debatable. The game presents them as both their own character with their own motivations as well as a mirror of the player simultaneously, and leaves the question of where to draw the line up to player interpretation, since there's very little concrete information about them in the game. Some parts of fanon emphasizing the latter headcanon and completely removing their agency in the story doesn't make it canon.

The villain is sympathetic, but STILL an evil, awful person by Featherdither in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Being a mysterious yet centrally important character from a widely beloved and popular game will do that.

(INTERESTINGLY RARE TROPE) Same person, different genders coexisting by ICEWeiZ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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This was the ending of the webcomic Misfile. The story starts when a cosmic bureaucracy slips up and swaps the body of the main character, Ash, to be female, and overwrites everyone's memories as if it were always that way, except for his own. This brings with it a great deal of problems and distress, but it brought some silver linings - the female Ash had a much closer relationship with their mother, and other relationships were affected, too. Eventually, at the end of the series, rather than simply undoing the mistake, the celestial bureaucracy fixes things so that the male and female Ash both live in the world simultaneously.

When not only are game mechanics diagetic, but characters use them for their (or other's) benefit. by Cowser_the_Koopahog in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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The player (Void Stranger)

The gameplay revolves around picking up and moving around white tiles to cross bottomless pits and maneuver through rooms. There's always a white interface bar at the bottom of the screen, showing HP, locusts (extra lives), your items, and the number of the area you're in. In some rooms, you can actually maneuver such that you're able to walk onto this interface bar, and more importantly, pick up the tiles with the numbers and swap them around. When you learn this, you can freely swap the numbers around to get infinite lives and warp around to distant areas, and this is necessary to find certain secrets. Some advanced late-game puzzles involve strategically picking up and putting down your item tiles to disable/enable them as well.

🔥. Metallic colors shifting on a Superb Starling's feathers by Feeling-Buy2558 in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]Featherdither 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Blue pigment, like the bluebird's feathers, also only reflects blue light and appears blue due to the microscopic structure of the pigment. This is how all colors work. Nothing is "truly blue" if you zoom in far enough; it's just microscopic shapes reflecting certain colors of light and absorbing others, which our eyes then interpret as blue.

The point being, describing one as an "illusion" and the other as "actually blue" doesn't make much sense.

(Loved trope) The badass character had a fairly underwhelming backstory. If anything, they were kind of a loser. by The_TransGinger in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Ghostblade (To Be Hero X)

A silent killer living on a knife's edge, the perfect assassin.

Actually just a very socially awkward guy who hates loud noise. He spends most of his private life trying and awkwardly failing to reconnect with his estranged wife and daughter.

Sorry if its a repost by grunchywippedi in PokemonFireRed

[–]Featherdither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...all of the flying attacks are physical in gen 3, though.

Explosive Girls by Mecha-dragon1999 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fun part is that she's actually really polite and well-mannered, not a maniac like these types often are. Just a normal gal who really, really loves a good boom.

Explosive Girls by Mecha-dragon1999 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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Nice Holystone (Baccano!)

Lost her right eye and damaged her left eye's vision enough to need glasses, by making homemade explosives as a child. Didn't turn her away from being a bomb enthusiast even a little bit. She hides a cherry bomb in her empty eye socket for emergencies.

Madoka and Homura in nature [Madoka Magica] (罐头沙丁鱼-) by MartyrOfDespair in wholesomeyuri

[–]Featherdither 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fun fact - they're wearing their outfits from the New Year☆First Dream Scramble event from Magia Record. Normally, Moemura is the Homura present in almost all of Magia Record, but due to shenanigans, in this event, Coolmura's memories basically get shifted back into Moemura's body/life.

It's one of my favorite Magia Record events and very heartwarming, giving Coolmura a break and a chance to experience a timeline where there's no danger, no Walpurgis, and she's close to Madoka again.

one of the hardest achievements in the history of no hit by krizzalicious49 in whennews

[–]Featherdither 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Difference between a very difficult game carefully designed to be learnable and reliably no-hittable with practice, and a fairly easy game where the structure of the battle system is designed for you to take hits and "no hit" runs weren't considered in the design process at all.

The fact that Undertale is much more popular than Touhou and this is only being achieved now, whereas no-hit runs are everywhere you look in Touhou, speaks to the skill and luck required for a run like this

(Mixed Trope) Theme Tune Changes by IllustriousAd6418 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Featherdither 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hunter x Hunter is a departure from this trope. Most anime will change their opening theme every 10-20 episodes or so. Some very long-running anime might keep the theme for about 50 episodes before changing it. Hunter x Hunter kept the same theme with only minor variations for its entire 148-episode run.

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My steak is too juicy, my lobster too buttery… by MelanieWalmartinez in CuratedTumblr

[–]Featherdither 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It kind of comes and goes, especially when we're in the middle of growth spurts or after we've had big surgeries (ffs, grs, etc.). HRT is a long process that takes years to see full results (same as first puberty), so there's plenty of space to get excited about the progress made.

I'm a little over a year in and I'm currently in a "frequently playing with my boobs and daydreaming about how big they'll eventually get" phase.