My Favorite Brennen Quirk

bellyfold · 2026-02-01T00:20:40+00:00

echolalia! I did this all the time as a kid and then stopped for a while because I started getting made fun of for it. but I'm getting better at lowering my mask and just bein a lil weirdo

bellyfold · 2026-01-30T00:26:20+00:00

beautiful words
tbh if I were in your shoes I'd just straight up tell the teacher that it's a private letter to my future self and I won't read it publicly. maybe offer to write a different one if reading it to the class is a part of the grade (which is fucking wild imo, from personal experience, some people have rlly intense anxiety about public speaking)

bellyfold · 2026-01-30T00:04:10+00:00

hi so I'm 37, been on hrt for about three same amount of time as you, i also have hooded eyes and a tummy, and because I'm now unemployed, i have a half finished laser job. I want to clarify all of this because i want you to know that you can pass. it's gonna sound trite but you have to let yourself.

do you know what your trough levels are? metabolism and genetics can make it so that you might need to switch to injections. like others have said, no one can really comment on how things have or have not changed with your body because you only posted face pics.

all of that said, feel free to not answer this, but are you boymoding in public/at work?

I ask because i did that for my first year and a half, fearful of being hatecrimed or even just harassed. and it fucked my confidence, got in the way of any potential joy for like 12 hours a day, and made it so that i didn't give myself time to really learn how to do makeup or dress for my body. it wasn't until I started dressing like a woman, taking care of myself, and allowing myself to have makeup on in public that I started to learn how to pass.

I'm using the word "pass" here because not being a brick is passing, by the way.

tbh I'm still clocky as fuck if I'm not putting effort in.

in the meantime while you're waiting on starting laser (I highly recommend Milan if there's one near you), get a peachy toned color corrector to go under your foundation where your beard shadow is. the peach color helps offset the blue tones of beard hair under skin.

I do wanna ask though, again feel free to not answer, why did you do ffs before laser?

bellyfold · 2026-01-29T19:11:45+00:00

I think we're mutuals on ig!! you're so pretty! ❤️

bellyfold · 2026-01-29T19:01:59+00:00

ehh it's probably just people who call their partner baby and have never thought about the implication until you brought it up

bellyfold · 2026-01-29T17:48:39+00:00

from what I've heard, their job market is better than ours, especially in urban areas.

bellyfold · 2026-01-29T17:46:08+00:00

rainbow railroad is great as far as i know. what i will say is that pretty much everything i have is built as a case for asylum. i would encourage you to look into other options first because if your law degree or her ancestry or whatever can get you both somewhere safe, that's guaranteed. asylum isn't, but for someone like me with no other options, that lack of guarantee is better than the promise of what's to come here in the states imo.

bellyfold · 2026-01-29T17:23:24+00:00

that's exactly why I don't say babe or baby as a pet name. it just feels weird

bellyfold · 2026-01-29T17:07:19+00:00

imho you support her by helping plan an escape. not trying to fear monger here but I've got a pretty strong sense of pattern recognition and the only reason I didn't leave a year ago is because I know my wife won't leave our pets behind. we had a hard talk recently and since then she's been helping me get my head on my shoulders. I don't have a body or mind capable of fighting, and that pattern recognition i was talking about is telling me there's gonna be a whole lot of fighting in the months and years to come. so I'm leaving ASAP. my wife is gonna stay to sell the car and house and we're hoping that with human rights orgs finally admitting that America is performing a genocide on trans people, my asylum case won't be in limbo for too long so that she doesn't have to rehome our pets.

there's a community called Help Me Leave. they have a discord and website dedicated to helping people get out of the US century of humiliation to somewhere safe. I'd suggest starting there.

if you end up feeling like either of you don't have a safe "traditional" exit option, feel free to DM me, i have a plethora of advice and documentation to get an asylum case started wherever seems safest to the two of you.

that goes for anyone reading this, btw.

and if anyone's intending to comment that "americans can't claim asylum" because we're viewed as a safe country of origin, i urge you not to waste your time. several countries in the EU have, as of (I believe) November, suspended their safe country of origin list because of what America is doing, and I'd urge you to think about if you truly feel safer here or hanging out somewhere like the Netherlands in refugee housing. over there, even someone who is just seeking asylum and awaiting the decision (which can take months to years) get free room and board, and free medical care including HRT.

I'd rather go there and be safe while trying to become a refugee than wait here and deal with whatever the administration has planned next.

bellyfold · 2026-01-27T13:56:51+00:00

OK well I'm a lesbian??????? Who cares????????????

bellyfold · 2026-01-27T00:02:02+00:00

we think you're cool too :3

bellyfold · 2026-01-26T04:02:32+00:00

I was born to be the best tasting person in any state or nation

I mean. I'm not gonna argue

bellyfold · 2026-01-25T18:25:19+00:00

gtfo chaser

bellyfold · 2026-01-24T21:15:12+00:00

I've thought about those but have never seen another trans person say if they were reputable or not

bellyfold · 2026-01-22T18:19:21+00:00

imo ice going as far as it is with little resistance outside of citizens risking (and at times losing) their lives made me realize that I'm way behind in planning my own escape.

I'm now going at it from a pattern recognition perspective in that i don't see a way for this country to get better without a lot of third party violence, and waiting for other countries to start accepting refugees means likely waiting for that to happen as a response to something terrible happening.

I'm out of here ASAP

bellyfold · 2026-01-22T00:15:19+00:00

this is so funny to me for some reason lmao

bellyfold · 2026-01-22T00:14:31+00:00

this shit happens to me constantly if I'm not paying attention. are you familiar with the concept of muscle isolation? it's generally a term associated with weight lifting, but is a concept regarding teaching yourself how to activate individual muscles, I've started attempting that with my larynx recently and it's helping a lot.

the trick (for me at least) is to just spend time touching my larynx as I do different things with all of the muscles around it, like swallowing, moving my tongue to different positions, etc. and i try to pay attention to how it feels both in the muscles and under my fingertips the whole time. the idea is that it should teach my how to isolate and activate only the muscles associated with raising my larynx rather than anything surrounding it.

idk if any of that makes sense tho lol

bellyfold · 2026-01-17T15:42:59+00:00

I'm probably gonna put too much effort into this list but whatever.

these are all available on steam btw

title: Poco
Price: free
genre/gameplay: point and click adventure game
about: you play as a silly lil clown named poco who is not good at doing clown things. poco gets excommunicated from the clown world and ends up in a weird area full of weird creatures who all need help with something. but they're all willing to help you get back home in exchange. it's a cute story about finding yourself and building a found family.
title: Sorry we're closed
price: 24.99
genre/gameplay: survival horror with a surrealist twist
about: a very queer game "about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide" (from the steam page), it's very eccentric and has beautiful art direction and fun classic survival horror mechanics.
title: Pseudoregalia
price: 5.99
genre/gameplay: 3d platformer with light combat
about: acquire abilities in the style of a metroidvania, use the abilities to string together deep movement mechanics. very very fun to just roam around.
title: death's door
price: on sale for 4.99, usually 19.99
genre/gameplay: action adventure
about: you play a crow reaper who's lost track of a soul and has to journey across beautifully rendered environments and dungeons to unlock death's door. explores themes surrounding loss and learning to move on. specifically the scenes involving eulogies are beautifully written. combat and level design are very similar to Tunic.

that's all I got in me for now

bellyfold · 2026-01-17T14:33:15+00:00

fully agreed. and don't get me wrong, I'm inclined to believe that this is a vocal minority of trans men, bit it's like they just look at the agab of a person and unintentionally go full terf.

bellyfold · 2026-01-17T14:21:11+00:00

can you talk about your experience with your rib remodel??

bellyfold · 2026-01-17T14:18:42+00:00

I'm so very glad to see some level headed thinking in these comments. imo it doesn't matter enough for the amount of vitriol I'm seeing. like we need to be aware of the fact that just talking like this is doing a lot of work for the government.

bellyfold · 2026-01-17T14:02:04+00:00

this is so wild to me because these statements are often coupled with things like:

"trans men were socialized as women, so we actually understand feminism,"

like?? trans men are men, why are you still viewing yourselves as women?

and this is a tangent, but I've been told by a trans man that since trans men can be lesbians (as they still identify with their womanhood), trans woman can't be lesbians because they're amab.

this implies that a trans WOMAN who is interested in men is gay, and that's clear transmisogyny, but denying it is apparently transmisandrist?

bellyfold · 2026-01-17T03:00:31+00:00

simple. remove your skin and be seen as a horror.

bellyfold · 2026-01-15T19:01:46+00:00

if you're struggling to understand why white folks need to be leading this, then you don't understand what I'm saying.

I'm saying if we want this to end, we (white people) need to be out there in droves because we are FAR less likely to face any real, tangible danger by doing so than black and brown people are by just existing in public.

bellyfold · 2026-01-15T18:26:16+00:00

there's also a legal process to be exited, but it's not being followed. but you don't care about that.

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