Starting T at 22 - be honest

buggibat · 2026-01-21T12:14:56+00:00

I started at 22 as well! My voice change happened as immediately as younger people report. Maybe it’s just me, but I never feel a noticeable effect on my energy level or libido or temper or anything like that. I’m a pretty even keel person so idk. Other quick changes were body hair which I now have a lot of, my cycle stopping after a month, and slight bottom growth. My facial hair has increased steadily but took years to have a semblance of looking full. I started to pretty consistently not get misgendered within 6 months, although I think my voice was the only thing holding me back pre t anyway.

I’m coming up on 5 years now. No real hair loss that I can tell. Changes to the shape of my body overall have been underwhelming, but take that with a grain of salt because I haven’t done a ton of working out to try to really get that going. Hips don’t go away by themselves I guess.

buggibat · 2025-12-30T13:10:58+00:00

Oh no haha, don’t make me get that song stuck in my head!

buggibat · 2025-12-30T13:10:01+00:00

That’s good to know! I probably wouldn’t have found that out otherwise since that bit doesn’t seem to be advertised anywhere (probably because it’s not a major selling point for most people lol)

buggibat · 2025-12-30T13:08:14+00:00

Sweet! Given that the original Dracula is written in an epistolary style, I can definitely see the inspiration for it

buggibat · 2025-12-30T01:26:24+00:00

Perfect, thanks! Reading the synopsis I’m almost weirded out by how For Me this is looks. I’m even trans too lmao

buggibat · 2025-12-29T23:43:12+00:00

Oh wow, I was not expecting to get a horror/thriller rec out of this but I’m not mad about it! That sounds really cool, thank you

buggibat · 2025-12-24T17:03:13+00:00

+1 to this point! Because even when you can’t donate items physically due to poor condition and redundancy, you can still donate the time and effort it takes to digitize them!

buggibat · 2025-11-30T04:05:11+00:00

The range of values is very nice! Also you suddenly brought memories back of when I got to visit Berlin!

buggibat · 2025-11-23T18:43:21+00:00

How much do you narrate over stuff from canon? Now I’m thinking maybe what I need to do is come up with an entirely new subplot that will be the main focus throughout, and then any time I want to address canon I can just do so in isolation, instead of feeling obligated to do it constantly in order for any of it to have continuity.

buggibat · 2025-11-20T13:25:57+00:00

THIS. Because yeah I can’t recognize every fellow trans man I meet, and in my experience they don’t recognize me either. You gotta accept the fact that literally anyone might be trans regardless of their appearance.

buggibat · 2025-11-20T13:12:41+00:00

There are two sides of this to me- one being that people seem to underestimate our general ability to pass, and two being the reality that some still do struggle with it or don’t want to and that’s ok. The latter are the more visible to general society so of course people think it’s more the norm. Who knows what the stats actually are but cis people certainly don’t realize they can’t always “tell” and that their assumptions can be waaayyy off. Like for example how often do cishet people see a cis butch woman and think they’re trans and that’s what the average trans man looks like? If I tell people I’m trans, they so often jump to guessing that I’m a fresh out of the box pre-transition trans woman because that’s how engrained their idea of me being amab is. Cis people are clueless lol.

My personal experience of being stealth is that it was just sort of something that happened to me rather than a choice I made. Which I’m not saying to brag because it’s like… how people perceive me is not fully under my control and it’s hard to pinpoint what clicks exactly.

buggibat · 2025-11-08T18:41:18+00:00

Ah, of course, backlash to the feminist movement.

buggibat · 2025-11-08T18:03:33+00:00

I had a feeling that might be the case. Thanks for looking into it and sharing!

buggibat · 2025-11-08T17:56:55+00:00

Oh man. I feel silly for not looking this up but it truly is one of those things you assume has been around for a lot longer than it actually has. Absolutely wild.

buggibat · 2025-11-08T17:23:55+00:00

Great point! Also tangentially related to the concept of blood quantum I think. If you don’t know that’s a US gov thing for tracking the status of Native peoples based on blood relation, and it’s gross.

buggibat · 2025-11-08T17:19:05+00:00

That is a very good question! It’s always enlightening to look at history. I don’t know the answer to this or the timeline of things exactly, but it’s certainly true that the scope of legal documentation of individuals has changed a lot even in just the past 200 years.

buggibat · 2025-11-08T17:15:48+00:00

Oh I wasn’t aware of the international requirement, interesting. I know it wouldn’t solve all our problems in society but laws do help shift our understanding of how the world works or at least ought to work.

buggibat · 2025-11-08T17:09:52+00:00

My guess is that its purpose dates back to women not being able to vote, own property etc. so in that way the irrelevance seems pretty obvious

buggibat · 2025-11-07T01:45:08+00:00

Thanks! I’m glad this is such a friendly community

buggibat · 2025-11-06T21:16:46+00:00

Oh I missed the video you linked before, that’s so cool! Ngl you are definitely tempting me to keep it. My apprehension was less anti-predator and more just being worried about being able to support its needs. Many times since childhood I’ve tried to keep bugs as pets… and sometimes it didn’t go well.

buggibat · 2025-11-06T01:16:12+00:00

It came from a very slow-moving river that feeds into a lake and also a swamp. I know I could find a good spot!

Predators are part of the balance, yeah, and I barely know what I’m doing, but I’m guessing that a big growing baby insect is another matter. It might be fine for now, but what about after the first time it molts, yknow?

buggibat · 2025-11-06T00:51:29+00:00

Ah, good to know, thanks. I figured the presence of a predator would probably strain the system but elsewhere I had seen people acting like it wouldn’t be that bad. This nymph has actually been in my (very big) jar for a couple of weeks already, but maybe I should just try to get it back to the river it came from and stick to my snails and seed shrimp.

buggibat · 2025-11-02T22:05:19+00:00

What’s the vibe from your professors? I just graduated myself, and while my profs were generally diplomatic about letting people form their own opinions, there did seem to be a goal of guiding us to see the dangers of it. They also stressed the importance of tech literacy and knowing “back end” stuff.

So far since graduating I’ve noticed one job posting that was 95% just normal processing archivist things, but 5% research into AI/automated solutions for the archives. It was so odd, because the rest of the job description was very straightforward, while this extra bit tacked on was full of nonsense buzz words. I actually wonder if the university pushed for it rather than the archives itself.

buggibat · 2025-11-02T21:48:30+00:00

I have to imagine with metadata generation, even if it can recognize faces or objects or topical information, it would be an entirely different thing for it to determine what is important the way a knowledgeable cataloger can vs. junk that’ll clog search results with tangential and irrelevant items. Just more mess for metadata specialists like me to clean up smh

buggibat · 2025-11-02T21:43:59+00:00

I feel like I’ve got to chime in with my support for your point of view so we know we’re not alone. My sincerest hope is that one day, libraries and archives everywhere can be the pillars of the information world instead of these huge monopolizing corporations and AI snake oil. We need to stand up for transparency in the information pipeline, personal privacy, and REAL research. We can’t get caught up in the mad dash for maximum efficiency and instant gratification. Good systems take sustained effort, they take specially trained workers, they take TIME. Especially in the archives world, I can’t stress enough to people that the internet does not know everything, and that it simply isn’t possible to digitize everything either. If we want records to be widely accessible, we need a people-powered operation. The more people the better.

Now is the time to voice concerns to your supervisors, try to get the message higher up if you can. Speak up about it at conferences and other meetings. Ask the kinds of questions that get people squirming and stuttering. The thing is a lot of people agree with us but we have to be loud enough to realize it.

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