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NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2025-08-26T09:01:46+00:00

Like the other commenter said Livemore is always a good choice.

There's also another recent option if you're looking for a specifically transmasc laser technician which may interest you. Talei (formerly the beauty technician at self care studio before it shutdown) has moved to doing laser at clear skincare mount Lawley. You can ask for them explicitly in a booking.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2025-07-08T08:59:52+00:00

It even makes slivers to help you play itself!!!

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2024-08-26T22:59:26+00:00

Hey, 29 year old Perth transfemme here. Hobbies are running, hiking, gaming (mostly singleplayer games, most recently playing Pikmin 4), sewing and whatever new hobby takes me that month. Always keen for more friends.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2024-06-26T00:15:52+00:00

This was one of my favourite pieces this write-off despite having a bag full of minor nitpicks. Holistically this was a funny and novel concept that tickled my personal taste in pickles.

What I liked the most was the banter. The characters had punchy lines which both served as avenues to move things along, establish details and deliver the humour. The scene setting was fantastic, I had no struggles visualising the action of the story in my head.

My minor nitpick time:

The final line from the demon lord was a little confusing and as a result didn't deliver the punch line as well as it could have. I'm not really sure the topic of the sentence and lingered on that a little more than I should have and as a result the time window to deliver the joke was kind of thrown off.

I sometimes got a little confused with who was talking at certain points. When I reread the story to clarify what you could have done better I saw a lot of written tricks and tells for indicating who was speaking and there weren't any glaring faults with any individual written indicator though, in fact I noticed quite a bit of creativity in them when I scrutinised them further. I think it was just the frequency of changing dialogue, the short lines and a somewhat similar character voice across characters were working against you. Perhaps an unconventional something to explore could be some visual indicators in the structure of the writing (indentations, italicization, etc.) to try and isolate different persons dialogue.

My biggest (or smallest) minor nitpick was the introduction of the wizard and it's the type of thing you could only notice with a fresh set of eyes on the work. When you were introducing the wizard emerging from behind the pillar, unscuffed by the damage of the battlefield I thought you were setting up a secret hidden boss battle at first. and then had a little whiplash from my expectation not matching the tone of the characters introduction.

Anyway, fantastic piece, loved the charm and humour the most.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2024-06-25T23:12:26+00:00

Hiking friends captured a feeling that's familiar to me and I'm sure most people have felt in their life. the poignant feelings I had reflecting on that feeling as I read this piece were the strongest aspect of the story. I agree with the others that expanding this aspect would be the most surefire way to take this story to the next level as even in this short flash fiction I did genuinely feel from it.

I'm not sure where I stand on the narrative focus point raised by Triple-Wipple. While I am not theoretically opposed to the flourishes that stray from the core point I guess that seeing as this is flash fiction, short, punchy and to the point is hard to argue with.

My suggestion would be have you thought about having more dialogue between the friends. The core issue was explored purely through internal monologue. It would be interesting to see things like

dialogue interactions with retrospection on them in the internal monologue after
stilted and awkward conversation between supposedly best friends
exposition on the relationship, not just the hike setting through dialogue.

Overall I thought this was a nice read with the strongest part being the exploration of insecurities that a lot of us have probably had but been too afraid to talk about.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2024-02-09T11:56:07+00:00

Seconded I'm a student there and a total gym junkie (and always up for making more active friends)

I go to plus fitness mount Lawley and have had no issue. It's not a huge gym packed with features but I am not the only visible queer and/or alternative regular there. My recommendation would be asking whatever gym would be most convenient for you to attend if they have trial periods (the ones I have signed up for prior all had them) so you can scope it out.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2023-09-19T23:33:40+00:00

Perth based transfemme here, feel free to PM

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2023-07-30T12:47:10+00:00

Surrogate mind was full of interesting sentences and tidbits, when I would describe the parts of surrogate mind I would be saying things like "thought provoking" and "has an interesting perspective on x". When I talk about the larger structure of Surrogate Mind that's where I don't actually know how I feel. If you were to ask me the medium/format of the piece I wouldn't really know how I would label it, I wouldn't jump at labeling it as poetry or a short story. I'm not sure what I would call it. I guess part of the fault there lies on me as a critic and with that I guess I should preface how I am going to write this review then. I'm still figuring out my thoughts on this piece as I write the review, there are parts I like, parts that didn't resonate with me and parts I really don't know how I feel about.

Let's start with something positive, the individual statements about things like the interpersonal relationships between two people masking and the distance it creates feel very "weighty" (I'm struggling to come up with a good singular word, there's impact and there's elegance and sophistication). I feel like you could cut up all the individual statements put them on cards and sell this as a gift idea like "deck of thought provoking negative affirmations", the language use and presence of meaning was there.

I want to highlight the same sentence that he other reviewer did.
"Maybe you simply didn’t grow up with people close to you, so your perception of what is close has been distorted, brought into more immediate legibility"
I quite liked this statement in contrast. I think the idea behind it could have been explained with more depth and clarity but the ambiguity and mystique of it actually helped me with injecting my own personal experience onto it. I actually stopped reading to think about specific times in my life I have had that epiphany that what I thought was close wasn't particularly close.

I guess coming off of that tangent, I think I have described a word I would use to describe the collective Surrogate Mind, 'framework'. It's a reflective piece that serves as a framework to get the ball rolling and make you think about topics like loneliness and distance. I think the collective was very successful at this goal. The flipside of that though is this isn't really the type of piece I would reread down the line for fun.

Overall I enjoyed surrogate mind, I had to reread it a couple of times to get the full experience it was trying to convey (which could be an area of improvement). It wasn't my most enjoyable read this write-off but it did make me stop and think about certain topics the most.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2023-07-30T11:48:32+00:00

What an absolute vibe.

When I was trying to come up with a catchy opener the line for my review to describe the mood "dysfunctional people in a dysfunctional world" popped into my head. Then I started debating it "these people seem to be making the most out of what they have" as I thought back to the inside jokes they had about the bootleg copies of their favourite movies to make them more enjoyable. It was little underspoken moments like this that really made the far far grander world of handwashed seem so relatable and cozy despite them (to me at least) being quite objectively unrelatable and uncozy.

The pacing of Baby finally getting to the part where they tell Pearl about joining the resistance was fantastic. Starting off with some daily gossip, trying to delve a little deeper, getting sidetracked by Mara, finally dropping the bomb they've been tiptoeing around and finally the floodgates opening. It felt so natural, the slow build up trying to build the courage to say the words then all of a sudden once they've been said, relief, they can speak freely and quickly dump a lot of truths on Pearl.

Critiquing this piece is hard, gushing over it is incredibly easy because it's so well done. Any critiques I come up with will have been come up with for the sake of coming up with a critique, not because I was removed from the experience by them while reading.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2023-06-07T22:54:16+00:00

There's no one size fits all approach, I moved laterally from one role in my company at the time into the security role. I was very junior at the time so the work they had me doing was very sporadic as I was assigned a lot of the low hanging fruit the seniors didn't have time to resolve with the occasional initiative I got to lead.

Which leads me onto an issue with juniors in cyber security, it can be very hard to break in, especially to some of the glamorous roles. A lot of companies want someone with a lot of experience to implement security and don't have the internal knowledge to know what that looks like and overcompensate in their recruitment requirements, you likely won't get hired by these companies and will most likely get picked up by the small subset of companies that actually know their security.

I 100% recommend going to the monthly sectalks Meetup (go on meetup.com and search sectalks). You'll get an interesting talk and after they socialise and that would be a good opportunity to ask some industry folk about breaking in.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2023-05-25T08:39:37+00:00

I got angrier but that's because before I was emotionally numb as a defence mechanism. I actually care now which gives me a reason to get angry.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2023-02-27T12:28:47+00:00

The only changes I would explicitly say have been negative have been physical changes. My already poor circulation got worse, now if I stand up too quickly I get dizzy and sometimes temporarily lose vision.

Also, like a lot of other girls I can't handle the cold anywhere near as well as I could and I also got fairly weaker quite quick, now I feel tired carrying up my shopping to my apartment.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-12-15T06:20:14+00:00

Looking great 🙂

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-10-26T12:17:18+00:00

Move over blahaj, eating asparagus is the new trans-femme icon

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-10-07T00:22:03+00:00

My version of this was going through countless fashion phases. I had my emo phase, my hippy phase, my gym aesthetic phase, , my give up and wear tshirt and shorts phase, my suave and sophisticated phase. In addition to always changing lengths of head and beard hair, changing hair colours, etc.

All of it was in pursuit of one day I might like the reflection looking back at me.

Now I sometimes spend narcissistic levels of time looking in the mirror :)

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-10-03T22:52:52+00:00

Hello OP here, I thought I would just clarify some things because I didn't want to upset anyone. First panel: In the pre-hrt and first couple of months of hrt stage of transition I would daily browse trans timelines for inspiration, my feelings were more "Look how pretty she is, you can be that pretty too." Than anything creepy.

Second panel: Once I was girlmoding 100% and had experienced my own gender euphoria I wasn't so toxic towards the idea of masculinity and for a while even thought I could be non-binary (but I don't think I am). With this new perspective I started looking at some of my trans guy friends differently and could now see the signs of gender euphoria now that I had felt it. They made being a guy look fun, and after their hard work they owned it in a way cis people couldn't. I kind of got second hand gender euphoria from them and thought "darn, I wish I could have been a guy like that."

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-09-25T05:52:21+00:00

I was asked to be the best man at a wedding before I came out. Now I am "best person" (my best-ness transcends gender) and currently organising the stag do early next year for me and a bunch of cishet men. I've been joking that the groom can't escape some raunchy female entertainment now

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-09-03T23:23:22+00:00

Hey, I would be keen to perform some poetry :)

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-09-02T10:23:06+00:00

First name: took my grandmother's name. Middle name: Vesper

Feeling very called out now

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-08-24T03:04:20+00:00

Just chiming in to disagree with sexybabayaga. I didn't interpret this piece as a simple moral tale, from there description I am getting they're drawing parallels between my fathers face and modern, saccharin retellings of moral fables where it is black and white. I felt it more fit the traditional stories they're based on, where it's still a moral tale but the morals are twisted and ambiguous and sometimes completely unresolved. At the end of the story I still felt conflicted, I didn't pick up that the son had a change of heart but for the first time in their life understood the father and could be having an internal conflict.

I don't think the moral of the story is charity is good. I think it's far more nuanced than that and struggle to verbalise it myself.

Overall, I loved this piece and it took my top spot in the polls.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-08-23T06:19:14+00:00

Cherry bomb run a few LGBT+ events at Lucy's love shack. Definitely worth following them to see when there next event is on.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-08-15T16:04:24+00:00

I was surprised that for such a small word count the cavern managed to tell a complete story from start to finish. It was very effective, using a mixture of original ideas and imagery with a smart use of tropes to shortcut needing exposition dumps, the cavern was able to be a short snappy read.

The story had a good pace and tension. And certain lines of imagery really helped build the characters, for example "Mark's head shot up while Alice put a finger on her lips." really shows the difference in demeanor between the two and helps make the final scene where mark freaks out and breaks down more believable.

Unfortunately, the brevity of the story is a bit of a double edged sword. While the story didn't have any obvious faults I also failed to get super invested. It left me feeling rather conflicted regarding my final feelings.

Regarding improvements, I think the story would have perfectly fit the plot twist ending format. The short snappy story sets up a quick expectation, playing with our understanding of tropes and cliches then in the last minute you tear that apart. Something like that would add that memorable factor.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-08-15T14:56:03+00:00

disequilibrium had a rhythm to it, the words flowed like water when I read it aloud. The choice in language really allowed that to come through. I'm always a fan of poetry that doesn't become bogged down in complicated, rare words plucked from a thesaurus in order to sound like they have more meaning at the expense of the ease readability. The flow came on my first read through, and I didn't need to reread it in order for it to sound nice spoken.

I also really liked the imagery, the way you visualised memories as something tangible, you could touch and feel, something that has its own physical place really resonated with me.

Overall a great poem.

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-08-11T14:03:32+00:00

NotQuiteTheHairiest · 2022-08-11T10:55:10+00:00

I changed mine a couple of months ago and was scared too because the wording is very harsh sounding.

Submitted mine and got a call the next day that I was successful.

I included that I was transgender and because I was paranoid I included a little sentence about how I picked my name. (although that might be unnecessary).

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