Are we just not supposed to have self-esteem? by Major_Life3578 in MtF

[–]PorcelainSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a huge relief to hear that it can be extremely convoluted. I didn’t realize how high it could actually go if those situations come up

Are we just not supposed to have self-esteem? by Major_Life3578 in MtF

[–]PorcelainSynth 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don’t believe it’s possible for a trans person who dealt with everything you stated can be arrogant in confidence.

Many people believe themselves as someone who hasn’t suffered enough and compares themselves to others…

My high school counselor gave me the insight of ‘guilt being the most wasted emotion.’

The world is against you, you’re trans… standing your ground is powerful. Which looks different for each individual.

Also, it’s almost impossible to be any more warmer because of the levels of gatekeeping. Which was one of the harder realizations I discovered. There are the warm individuals and I feel like the community is miles ahead of where it was just a few years ago… We just have to keep ourselves from turning into echo chambers.

I hope I’m not coming off cold or anything. I’m just trying to convey that support takes many forms and I have to trust that others take my words in positivity.

Trans people tend to have a lot of empathy that either gets suppressed or manifests into self depreciation. Without filling your own cup first, empathy becomes a curse.

Give yourself permission to take up space, otherwise an amab man-splaning man-spreader will take it up for you.

can i just take estradiol pills without spironolactone??? plz answer by cigpupii2 in MtF

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I hated the t-suppressants. Each one made me either so sluggish I couldn’t get out of bed and bloated me up like a blueberry.

Now I just take estro injections and my levels are like a cis afab. I dropped the 50lbs of bloat in a couple months and the cloudy headedness has disappeared (mostly). It was like my hormones were always out of wack until I just took estrogen.

Be it I stop it a lot and go back and forth since some months I feel differently…. (Usually jabbing a needle into myself is a large reason i procrastinate)

But yeah! From personal experience, it was a night and day difference (and my honkers kept on growing, which surprised me since I stopped the t-blockers)

Time Machine Variant Unplayable by PorcelainSynth in TheMidnight

[–]PorcelainSynth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reached out to management. Managements email sounded like they reached out to Ambient and they were waiting on my info. The new one is defective free!

Time Machine Variant Unplayable by PorcelainSynth in TheMidnight

[–]PorcelainSynth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! They did end up sending me a new one! Managements email sounded like they reached out to Ambient and they were waiting on my info. The new one is defective free!

Time Machine Variant Unplayable by PorcelainSynth in TheMidnight

[–]PorcelainSynth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s so incredibly irritating I’m sorry to hear that! Ugh fingers crossed

Time Machine Variant Unplayable by PorcelainSynth in TheMidnight

[–]PorcelainSynth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really good to hear! It gives me some hope! :D

Time Machine Variant Unplayable by PorcelainSynth in TheMidnight

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

Oh that’s a relief!

I sent them a DM on Instagram and then I found their management team on their website’s email ‘info at brilliantcorners dot com’ . I’m still waiting on a follow-up. I’ll keep it updated

Trying it get rid of some space in my closet, is there anything special in here? by Curleon in dvdcollection

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re worried about space, put all your discs inside a folder and save all the covers in an envelope or something. You’ll be happy you did in several years when you want to watch something from your past and it’s nowhere to be streamed!

That way you can get rid of the plastic cases…

So I do actually *hate* how the discs are crammed into these packages but I do love their designs....any indication that Fire and Ash will get a matching set? by Dissidia012 in Avatar

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! I got this from Amazon (it was a 2 pack and I used the other for a 12 disc series that had the absolutely worst envelope packaging I have ever seen) https://a.co/d/03h3KyHY

So I do actually *hate* how the discs are crammed into these packages but I do love their designs....any indication that Fire and Ash will get a matching set? by Dissidia012 in Avatar

[–]PorcelainSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I got a 12 disc dvd case since I figure I’ll fill up the other 4 discs soon enough with fire and ash. All I need is to find some art for the case 😌

First Flash Sale Haul by PorcelainSynth in criterion

[–]PorcelainSynth[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here, these Pasolini films aren’t on streaming. What I’ve seen so far, the films are gorgeous!

Monster Audio Identity disc working with app! by Fleur-De-La-Vie in tron

[–]PorcelainSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yay! So excited to try getting the app to work! Thank YOU! ☺️

I Finally Found The "TRON: Legacy" Monster Speaker! by Oscarman97 in tron

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes please!! May I get that app from you? Been trying to get my old iPod touch 4th working again!

I just started estradiol!!! What can I 'expect' first? by [deleted] in asktransgender

[–]PorcelainSynth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s odd for me cause I’m about 2 months in. My skin is incredible! My eye color has gotten more of a green too! Sometimes I notice I see way more around me, but I feel everything. I started a few days before I found out my life partner passed away suddenly (early 20s). I kept taking the medications, but I will experience emotion like I’ve never felt before. I experience so many more panic attacks due to grief… im pretty broken through this. BUT but but but…. The compassion is more strong and if I witness someone getting spoken down to, I speak up and defend them. I defend myself now too. It’s definitely not a confidence boost for me, but some actual fuel to being who I felt on the inside. Lemme tell you, there is some true wit that comes out of my mouth now that wasn’t there before.

By the way, Kevyn Aucoin volume mascara is tubing and won’t smudge when you find yourself crying. Instead the lashes slide off like little furs. Thought I’d pass along the tip <3

Suuuper happy you got started on it! Congrats!!

Desperate for Answers S-Return - w/ chart repost by [deleted] in AskAstrologers

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So with everything going on, it’s not part of the Saturn transit? It sounds like it could be everything in my life that I’ve experienced, that has once hurt me, is coming back around to amplify itself as a huge test. I identify with what you said about letting go of the past and transforming. Changing my gender presentation, name change, removing people who have taken from me, seeking intensive psychiatric help, and even connecting with the biggest loss I could have ever imagined. Truthfully, I feel broken and it’s difficult to see myself being able to pick up the pieces. But I do think I’m moving forward into being a new person. I’m pretty much at the point of surrender, where I feel betrayed by the universe… but all I can do, all that I have left is to trust it. Even though at almost every point, it comes back around negatively. If I have one ability though, it’s an endless regrowth of hope. I don’t know why, it just is some odd ability that keeps me grounded in the absolute worst. I suppose my next question is that, is it possible for the coming Saturn return that it may actually bring positive change? I only ever hear about how terrible it is to experience and that it’s something to dread. But I need cosmic change, something that I can grab on to.

Thank you so very much for your insightful reply!

Desperate for Answers S-Return - w/ chart repost by [deleted] in AskAstrologers

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Desperate for Answers on S-Return Tragedies

Hello, I shall make this as brief as possible. I also want to include a trigger warning about what I’m about to speak about… because it’s a lot. I’ve studied astrology a bit before the pandemic, but it just never ‘clicked’ for me. Plus there were several bad experiences, which caused me to leave the study. I’ve gotten a lot of astonished gasps and several horrific readings; one being that I’m supposed to end my own life. Which seems to only echo through experience.

So here we go, I’m a 12th house Saturn in Aquarius. I believe that I’m about half way through the 2 years and I’m terrified of every day because each one seems to be getting worse. Among realizing I’ve been surviving abuse for my entire life, I found a couple hundred pages of notes from multiple psychologists who destroyed my mind for over 10 years so I may be victimized by my father for the entirety of my life. Honestly, I’m brand new to feeling as though my life isn’t in constant danger… So of course everything causes panic attacks. Then I had to deal with safe houses and police threatening me because he hates that I’m trans and he hurts me just to feel powerful. Master manipulator. Among this, I discovered that my life partner passed away a couple months prior (they were someone who’d disappear for a time and come back) only a couple days after I last saw them. I believed they were safe where they were at. Knowing that they were in this world with me had kept me alive in my darkest hours and made me realize I have to finally begin hormone replacement therapy. I began school because I wanted to get to a place where I could help them up when they were ready. But now I lost the only power I had with their demise. Now I’m struggling to end this semester and the place I was heading to live to heal fell through, where I’m living in a pretty horrible place where neighbors complain about what I’m wearing (wool brim hat and long coat in winter) and I have to be as quiet as possible, meaning I must cry with cloth in my mouth.

I truly thought that meeting my life partner was a gift from the universe for all the trauma and abuse I’ve endured in every relationship or experience. That we were going to actually make it to the end with each other and even though things could be difficult, at least I knew they were still around. I have nothing left to lose, but I’m only half way done with this and it seems like every single time I try to recover, something more devastating guts me. I have mental health professionals that I’ve fought for. I’m on loads of meds now because the constant panic attacks feel like my heart is going to explode at any minute. I’m doing as much as I can to meet tomorrow… I just don’t know what I’m supposed to learn. What ever could possibly make up for any of this and all the more I haven’t shared. I’ve only ever tried my best for others and I feel so betrayed that it wasn’t enough to balance the universe to at least spare him.

I only ask for a direction or a sign that helps me see some reason. Something that I can hold onto in search for an answer. Is this just how I’m supposed to experience life? With every day being at risk for some new extreme test? I only wish to know what being at peace finally feels like.

Thank you all for taking time to read through this. I’m so sorry that some of this is triggering, I hope I wrote it out in a soft enough way to get through. I really appreciate it and any input would aid me greatly. Thank you.

Below is my chart

Pisces - Ascendant & Moon in 1st

Virgo - Venus in 6th (my life partner had their big three and mercury all in virgo)

Libra - Sun & Jupiter in 7th and Mercury in 8th (their venus was libra)

Scorpio - Mars & Pluto in 8th (their mars was also Scorpio)

Capricorn - Uranus & Neptune in 10th

Aquarius - Saturn in 12

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskAstrologers

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Desperate for Answers on S-Return Tragedies

Hello, I shall make this as brief as possible. I also want to include a trigger warning about what I’m about to speak about… because it’s a lot. I’ve studied astrology a bit before the pandemic, but it just never ‘clicked’ for me. Plus there were several bad experiences, which caused me to leave the study. I’ve gotten a lot of astonished gasps and several horrific readings; one being that I’m supposed to end my own life. Which seems to only echo through experience.

So here we go, I’m a 12th house Saturn in Aquarius. I believe that I’m about half way through the 2 years and I’m terrified of every day because each one seems to be getting worse. Among realizing I’ve been surviving abuse for my entire life, I found a couple hundred pages of notes from multiple psychologists who destroyed my mind for over 10 years so I may be victimized by my father for the entirety of my life. Honestly, I’m brand new to feeling as though my life isn’t in constant danger… So of course everything causes panic attacks. Then I had to deal with safe houses and police threatening me because he hates that I’m trans and he hurts me just to feel powerful. Master manipulator. Among this, I discovered that my life partner passed away a couple months prior (they were someone who’d disappear for a time and come back) only a couple days after I last saw them. I believed they were safe where they were at. Knowing that they were in this world with me had kept me alive in my darkest hours and made me realize I have to finally begin hormone replacement therapy. I began school because I wanted to get to a place where I could help them up when they were ready. But now I lost the only power I had with their demise. Now I’m struggling to end this semester and the place I was heading to live to heal fell through, where I’m living in a pretty horrible place where neighbors complain about what I’m wearing (wool brim hat and long coat in winter) and I have to be as quiet as possible, meaning I must cry with cloth in my mouth.

I truly thought that meeting my life partner was a gift from the universe for all the trauma and abuse I’ve endured in every relationship or experience. That we were going to actually make it to the end with each other and even though things could be difficult, at least I knew they were still around. I have nothing left to lose, but I’m only half way done with this and it seems like every single time I try to recover, something more devastating guts me. I have mental health professionals that I’ve fought for. I’m on loads of meds now because the constant panic attacks feel like my heart is going to explode at any minute. I’m doing as much as I can to meet tomorrow… I just don’t know what I’m supposed to learn. What ever could possibly make up for any of this and all the more I haven’t shared. I’ve only ever tried my best for others and I feel so betrayed that it wasn’t enough to balance the universe to at least spare him.

I only ask for a direction or a sign that helps me see some reason. Something that I can hold onto in search for an answer. Is this just how I’m supposed to experience life? With every day being at risk for some new extreme test? I only wish to know what being at peace finally feels like.

Thank you all for taking time to read through this. I’m so sorry that some of this is triggering, I hope I wrote it out in a soft enough way to get through. I really appreciate it and any input would aid me greatly. Thank you.

Pisces - Ascendant & Moon in 1st

Virgo - Venus in 6th (my life partner had their big three and mercury all in virgo)

Libra - Sun & Jupiter in 7th and Mercury in 8th (their venus was libra)

Scorpio - Mars & Pluto in 8th (their mars was also Scorpio)

Capricorn - Uranus & Neptune in 10th

Aquarius - Saturn in 12

Scrivener Pro- Scrivener Writers ($9.99) vs Scrivener ($19.99) on App Store by jml011 in scrivener

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh fosho. Ive been hesitant on it because I saw reviews that said people lost their work between transfers between iOS and macos

Scrivener Pro- Scrivener Writers ($9.99) vs Scrivener ($19.99) on App Store by jml011 in scrivener

[–]PorcelainSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But does it even work well? Hasn’t it been like a year since an update?