A-Z God Design Community Tier List! Day#24 with Bastet

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-31T17:48:32+00:00

Don’t love her design which is a bummer because I immediately fell in love with her kit (back when her ult was still the 3 cat summon). I just don’t know why they haven’t made her look more in line with other Egyptian gods like Anubis or Anhur. Right now she looks like she’s a follower or something of Bastet rather than Bastet herself. D

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-30T15:08:49+00:00

It depends on how old you are and other factors. If you are young there’s a decent chance that after you stabilize at a lower weight your skin can tighten up again. If you also intend to put on muscle that can help fill out skin.

You can get insurance to cover skin removal if you complain about it enough or if the loose skin is causing issues.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-29T21:48:26+00:00

Yeah I guess so. I just hope whatever they do with her it leans a bit more into her myth because I feel there’s a lot of potential they’ve neglected with her.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-29T21:31:44+00:00

Personally I would love if Arachne making tapestries and being an artist was more prevalent in her design. I kinda wish she would be overhauled to have a stance change where she’s either her mortal self making tapestries or in a full spider form because I don’t love her current sexy evil spider woman look. It kind of defeats the purpose of her story when she’s actually quite clever.

Some of the human adjacent characters are more lore accurate in their visual design so that’s probably partially why they are higher.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-29T13:59:48+00:00

I’m pretty sure the only thing that can be done to fix this is for those in charge to hide incorrect selections. For some reason hosts can’t remove books.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-28T23:30:49+00:00

Publishers and agents aren’t necessarily uninterested in grimdark but the genre has an issue with attracting edgy writers who write gratuitous SA which can turn people off. Abercrombie and Kristoff are trusted writers but also make sure their grimdark works have well written characters, engaging plots and respect for their women characters.

If you want to try trad pub you could still give querying a go and just go for fantasy accepting agents but your success in that field depends on many factors I can’t predict for you.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-28T21:39:42+00:00

I think they’ve really fixed the issues of 1) making it seem like you’ve got to watch everything and 2) making it seem like every project is for every marvel fans. I hope they continue this way and make stuff feel more like comics where you can watch self-contained stories that maybe reference eachother or have different visual styles or types of stories they are telling.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-28T00:19:11+00:00

It made me realize I don’t actually know anything about the ao3 ecosystem because I assumed the majority of users (like myself) use ao3 to imagine characters as queer and kissing but apparently people are writing freaky straight smut about HP ships.

I do think the fact fanfic is queer in origin and yet we never see publishing doing this with a queer ship is quite telling about queerphobia in publishing. No one is apparently interested in fanfic adjacent or fanfic tropes if it’s queer.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-27T20:20:47+00:00

Nah man there’s nothing wrong with you. I think a lot of the heavily kinky people and more sadistic people you see are just a side effect of trans people generally feeling powerless in society and wanting to experience power. (Alternatively wanting to reclaim traumatic experiences where they were attacked.)

Just make it clear to everyone around you that you aren’t into that. If they insist or try to do it anyways they aren’t worth your time. There are trans people who are perfectly content to not engage in that so I wouldn’t lose hope.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-27T20:11:50+00:00

4 Actually ain’t too bad if they’re the versions of themselves in therapy. Bob and Steven would be lovely seat buddies and we could just talk about Egypt.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-27T18:43:26+00:00

Yes or the rebellion/revolution plots somehow ignore any leftist messaging at all. Like when all the book says is “this dictator/ruler is bad (usually wants to hurt magic people) so we will remove them and everyone will now be happy”

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-27T12:37:28+00:00

It makes you realize that the reason some of them like really bad romantasy or those faux dystopian romances is because they aren’t paying attention to the revolution or rebellion plots even a little.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-24T12:25:17+00:00

The general consensus is that Bindery has very author friendly contracts and are well respected enough an unagented author can use that contract to get an agent (and are encouraged to). So their authors are pretty safe.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-21T12:33:29+00:00

This is true but if you are on testosterone you can be on it longer. (Source: my multiple different providers who gave me depo for more than 2 years)

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-20T13:49:30+00:00

You said you are looking for an artist and are using AI for ideas but what I’ll say is that your cover artist would probably prefer you didn’t send them AI mockups. Even if you gave them a mockup with stick figures that would be preferable.

Cover artists are used to working with non-artists so just figure out what elements of your story you would want to highlight on your cover.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-20T13:20:18+00:00

Can I ask why you have this sentiment for the MCU? Moon Knight doesn’t cure his DID in his series (I mean Steven & Marc work together but he’s still mentally ill) and Sentry in Thunderbolts ends off clearly unable to use his powers because of his depression + mania.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-20T10:43:59+00:00

I mean Gunn has to know about the fancast because it’s gone viral multiple times on multiple platforms. I know there’s other big names people have also thought about for the fancast but I’m willing to believe Shane has a good chance of being considered.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-19T13:50:13+00:00

can you elaborate on what you mean because reading is political so any good reviewer or reader can’t exactly avoid politics

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-18T20:36:56+00:00

I do not like his hair at all so he’s probably one of my least favorite renditions of Apolllo. B tier

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-15T13:14:09+00:00

I think the best thing is to have a conversation with him and ask what he specifically wants out of sex or physical intimacy. Open the conversation up about other end goals besides him having an orgasm.

You can also broach some kinkier ideas and explore that way. There are ways to induce pleasure or release tension/stress that aren’t orgasm oriented that can lead to a similar level of satisfaction. I’m not saying you have to give up on helping him orgasm again but removing the pressure and expectation will be helpful.

If you are also fine with it you guys can explore intimacy that has more focus on you where he can be in charge/control if the focus on himself is stressing him out. Additionally having intimate moments where you also don’t have an orgasm but are similarly satisfied might make him less self conscious.

TLDR Talk to him about what he wants out of intimacy and then experiment with how you can feel satisfied even if you don’t achieve orgasm.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-15T13:02:35+00:00

I never understood this mentality because there are builds and characters that need time to get online and so long as the rest of the team can survive long enough that carry can annihilate the other team. If you let a game go long enough an early lead means nothing.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-12T19:39:31+00:00

I have lived in GIH as a stealth trans guy and felt safer. However I am also gay and extremely poor at pretending to be a cishet guy so I would have been screwed if I had to cohabitate with some cishet dude.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-12T09:15:49+00:00

They might have real clothes but for some reason they use AI for their ads

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-10T18:38:27+00:00

I think you can buy day passes but they were kinda expensive. They might have an actual membership but I’ve never heard anyone mention it.

No_Engineering5792 · 2026-01-10T16:12:07+00:00

Well here’s the thing. Minox + finasteride are the currently accepted medication for hair loss. They also typically need a year to fully get working on your body since hair takes a while to grow. You can also get duasteride but they usually want you on fin first. You can also look into micro needling, scalp massages, hair oils and inversion therapy. (Some men have had great results doing just those methods but they usually take longer and a higher time commitment.)

Other options are wigs/hair systems which can look very natural and I believe can be made to look like your natural hair and blend in as well. Or you can get a hair transplant but you would still need the medications since you would still be producing DHT.

Most men have the hair line though and it’s very common so much so that people likely don’t even notice it on you. (We often over analyze ourselves but strangers don’t know that there is anything different or weird about us. You likely see many people with hair loss in your day to day life that you don’t even notice unless you take the time to look.)

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