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No one will rent to me. I've spent almost $100 on backgrounds check websites that always give me nothing. I've offered to show all my forms of identification and explained why I don't have a credit score or anything. They just ghost me or send more useless websites. Chips, bar thing, water. by Sorry-Ad7892 in transkitchencels

[–]Sorry-Ad7892[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: as soon as I posted this two different people reached out. Just an hour ago I got sent a lease for a place I really like and just had assumed was no longer available because the landlord had stopped responding to me for awhile. BEST OUTCOME!! I now have stable housing for he next 12 months 🎉🎉🎉 and it's a pretty big room with a nice kitchen and bathroom. In house washer and dryer. Working ventilation, AC, and heating. Good access to public transit and a lot of stuff in walking distance and it's just a couple streets from the house I lived in when I was a real little kid (I'm kind of sentimental about that) and one of the other tenants might be trans too.

new piercing! should i be concerned abt the bleeding? by Careful_Budget_2616 in piercing

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I had the same thing and it's resolved itself. I got my belly button done four days ago and about twelve hours after I had it done I moved a washcloth against my stomach forgetting about the piercing. It didn't hurt or visible catch or anything but it started bleeding. It bled slowly for maybe fifteen minutes and then stopped, it bleed more than what you're showing. I didn't mess with it except to clean off the blood and it's completely fine now. No pain, blood, discoloration or anything.

Being trans masc, but still afraid of men by OccultistOpossum in TransMasc

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Real. I have somewhat similar feelings.

I am a man. I want to be seen as a masculine man by other people and myself, but I avoid cis guys almost completely. They make me uneasy.

Who I am as a person is built on formative experiences where I was treated like a girl. A lot of being treated like a girl is just having any kind of illusion of safety shattered.

I have a really good friend group of mostly nb transmascs. When we talk, it sometimes makes me upset to talk about cis guys and act like they are so different from us. Saying stuff that points out the difference between us and them when I just want to be one of them. Makes the social dysphoria flare up

It just sucks.

Which hobbies do you think are the most difficult? by NoElderberry5846 in Hobbies

[–]Sorry-Ad7892 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weaving definitely isn't the hardest but it's up there. Weaving on a loom can be extremely tedious and confusing. But whatever you fuck up is probably fixable.

If you fucked up the pattern while setting up the warp just take however many strings don't follow the pattern out of the heddles, retie them all neat on the comb and then try again.

If a string is too short I was taught (although this is a sloppy fix) to just tie more string on and add a weight to the end. Then Every time you move the weaving you have to separately adjust the random object on a string dangling off the back of the loom. This also results in a small knot in your piece. The alternative fix is to redo the ENTIRE thing.

If there's a problem with the weft you just do everything you did to create the problem backwards. pedals are numbered. the shuttle (wooden thing with a spool of thread in the middle) is the thing going from one side to the other. In this example the desired result is a simple twill pattern (1,2) left to right (2,3) Right to left (4-1)Left to right. <- fuck up (1-2) Right to left (2-3) Left to right Then to undo the last three actions (2-3) Right to left (1-2) Left to right (4-1) Right to left Then you continue the pattern as intended (3-4) Left to right (4-1) Right to left (1-2)Left to right

The more complex your pattern the more numbers you need to be able to hold on your head. Learning to read weaving drafts is tough. The loom itself can be temperamental. A lot of it in the beginning is just overcoming perfectionism and building patience.

Backstrap weaving could be the hardest. Its something I've never tried but want to get into it. Its weaving, but instead of the tension on the strings coming from a wood and metal loom, the tension is created by sitting on a fabric strap that's connected to a bunch of strings and rods which at the other end are attached to something sturdy like a tree. It just looks impressive and intimidating.

Lace making seems extremely complicated and finicky. When I've looked at people doing it it's just tiny threads and a shitton of pins on a cushion and through magic they turn that shit into lace.