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I haven't posted anything in ages bc the semester started and then I immediately started the process of getting T and then got sick so it's been one thing after another, but here's a quick update because maybe that will shake some thoughts loose for the future:

my Kindle (a refurbished Kindle 4, the generation from 2012) died, and I am now engaged in a bidding war on ebay for a used Kindle 3, because I am an ungrateful bog creature who doesn't want a touch screen. I just want an ereader with a battery that lasts a week of constant reading and does nothing except calling up books and downloading books. If it has a keyboard for notes and costs $30 including shipping, so much the better. I don't want to have to smear my greasy fingers over the screen and I don't want glare. BAH.
Anyway, I took an emergency library trip and got among other things the entire last four Temeraire books, Shada, and the Rebecca Roanhorse novel I've been wait for for Ever, so probably I'll do some book reviews soonish.
Bowman wrote a novel and it's destroying my life. WHY IS IT NOT PUBLISHED YET. WHY ISN'T THERE A FANDOM YET. I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT GILBERT/THOMAS. I should probably make a separate post JUST to tell you all about how much I love this novel bc I have to tell someone who isn't the author.
I sound upset when I talk now and it's probably T! Voice Changes!! I thought it was too early but three separate people on tumblr said "nope that sounds right." So I'm very excited about that.
This crop of my students are going to have a very weird time with their teacher's voice gently dropping as the semester winds on. It's probably good I'm only teaching 1 this semester, because I feel like talking is going to become increasingly strained, especially because I'm terrible at remembering to lower my voice to stop it from breaking.
Honestly? this is going to be a weird time for Everyone in my life because I have not told one person in my day-to-day life I'm on T because it's none of their business. I think there's 2 people I interact with regularly who know I'm trans. They have no context for me suddenly undergoing Second Puberty. I wonder if anyone will actually ask.
Otherwise thus far the main effects have been spots and sweat, urgh, and NSFW stuff that I'm not gonna talk about but am moderately pleased with. To the degree that I might be feeling gender euphoria? Or gender confirmation, or something.
I'm going home to visit Ohio over the winter break and Bowman's coming with me. This is good, because I'm going to have to come out to at least some of my family (my sister and my mother are the most urgent). My current plan is to text them and then hand my phone to Bowman and make him field particularly my mother's rampant religious anger, because that sort of thing doesn't frighten him the way it does me.
I'm taking two education classes and it's LOATHSOME but I'm also taking a corpus linguistics class and that's fun. Why is typing into a command prompt box so exciting? I really like doing very basic programming/computering things even though it's extremely challenging for me.
I'm making baby quilts for my two cousins' kids to take with me to Ohio!

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Yeah, a transmasc person I knew from fandom back in the day went what seemed like ages passing it off as a bit of a cold. Perhaps nowadays, people in the university setting at least will figure and just go with the flow.

Best of luck with the coming-out-to-family, and bless Bowman's buffering.

I should probably make a separate post JUST to tell you all about how much I love this novel bc I have to tell someone who isn't the author.

Eyes dot gif.

Happily it's a decently queer-friendly environment, so if they do ask I don't need to come up with an excuse, but probably that does mean they're more likely to figure it out on their own so that's good too.

Thanks so much!

Well, if I'm being ENCOURAGED... :p (but seriously, gay medieval longing and community-building in the wake of the plague, what's not to love?)

I'm glad you're feeling good about T! I'm also glad Bowman can help buffer you and your family, when it's needful :)

His book sounds so cool! I'd love to hear more about it - if he's comfortable with you sharing more about it than that it exists and is awesome, anyway :)

And yay books! Libraries are so good, and the books I recognize on that list are great.

Thank you! <3 Yeah I definitely need to tell you all about it because it's SO GOOD.

Yeah! Even when I'm on ebooks I'm usually getting them from the online library. It's just such RICHNESS, you can just go in and BORROW BOOKS. It's ridiculous how sentimental I get about libraries to say I've been using them all my life, but...

<3 <3 <3

Libraries are the best! I delight in how many I have access to, and also in all my friends who are librarians, because they're such good people doing such a good thing! Growing up with libraries is so important. <3

I'm glad that T is going relatively well, and good luck with coming out to your family :)

thank you friend! :)

I'm glad being on T has been going well, and it's even brought you some euphoria! I'm really glad you'll have backup when you come out to your family <3