[–] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm a transfem who, once long ago, took an aikido class. I totally get violence. It can be very gratifying. I probably couldn't win any fight, but I like the idea of being handled by a big guy. What you're describing with the motorcycles and such almost sounds like leather culture, which I definitely have engaged with.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    As a transfem I can say with certainty that I have had the same experiences. I'm not saying you should transition, I'm only saying that the behavior you've described doesn't fit a masculine stereotype. This is good, because gender roles are for the straights.

    At the same time, there is something to be said for male socialization taking away some forms of emotional expression that could harm your ability to connect to other people. If you come across as stoic or quiet or overly self-conscious, you're seen as someone who dislikes people. Obviously you aren't, but this is a perception I struggle with as well. Arguably this difficulty in making friends isn't a queer issue at all, it's just a personality thing that you can work on by building confidence and doing more therapy.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yes this is gay and yes Spongebob has a large gay audience. You usually don't make a quick meal like soup for a friend you're not fucking or in love with. Squidward was always a gay-coded character. While this relationship portrayal is incredibly sweet, I've always disliked Patrick and I don't personally ship them.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm sorry you've been feeling this way! You look super cute and super sad. If you aren't already, you could cosider dating a girl who could provide some affirmation and help with beauty and such. From that photo, everything seems physiologically perfect, but I do get a certain vibe that is consistent with the things you've said. If you want some advice from random people here, I have some pointers:

    • The emo/goth look does nothing to make you less depressed
    • Try dyeing your hair
    • Try wearing lighter colors
    • Smile! :)
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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    A sense of adequacy as a person, but this is tied to a relationship as much as sex. Being able to make someone cum when they have had difficulty with other partners is a terribly wonderful feeling to have, especially when one can anticipate future visits and possibly a life with this person.

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    This thought has been bugging me for the past few months. Out of my ~15 partners, only 4 would I describe as "conventionally attractive," and all of those were decidedly fem (1 cis f, 2 tf, 1 sissy), and they were all bottoms. I (32tf) can't and don't want to top.

    I consider myself pan and I say I like men, but in practice I only like soft and androgynous types. Fem tops are unicorns, and I seem to only be able to maintain relationships for ~6 months at most. My last relationship with a man was such a disaster that I'm tempted to swing the other way, except I don't want to be an ace side or whatever terms people use to justify what amount to platonic relationships. I'm also too busy to really care about anyone right now. How do other transfems navigate this kind of sexual/romantic difficulty?

     

    At 31, I have had 6-10 sexual partners (depending on what counts), half guys, half girls. My female partners (including one transfem) were mostly interested in long-term relationships, as am I. My male partners were all hookups with no follow-up, much to my disappointment. As I am now actively looking for a boyfriend, are there any special considerations when courting men, as opposed to women, for this purpose?

     

    It's been a long day and I'm probably not in the best state of mind to be asking this question, but have you guys solved packaging yet?

    I want to ship an executable with supporting files in a compressed archive, much like the Windows exe-in-a-zip pattern. I can cross-compile a Win32 C program using MinGW that will always use baseline Win32 functionality, but if I try to build for Linux I run into the whole dependency versioning situation, specifically glibc fixing its symbol version to whichever Linux I happen to be building from at the time. But if I try to static link with musl, the expectation is that everything is static linked, including system libraries that really shouldn't be.

    AppImage is in the ballpark of what I'm looking for, and I've heard that Zig works as a compatibility-enhancing frontend if you're compiling C. I'd just like something simple that runs 99% of the time for non-technical end users and isn't bloated with dependencies I can't keep track of. (No containers.) Is this easily achievable?

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