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MY NEW BINDER ARRIVED TODAY WOOOOOO omg lol it's so much tighter than my old one...but still wearable...which is awesome. Although getting it on and off is a liiiittle bit of a struggle lol but the velcro makes it easier.

Also I got new Sherlock shirts ahhhhh

ALSO...I have the house to myself this weekend, just me and Tripper and the cat although she keeps mostly to herself...I am taking advantage of this situation for NAKED BAKING TIME. Yesterday I made some dough with my shirt off. Today I will bake it, probably in just my boxers because the oven will heat the kitchen up.

Not sure I'll be able to get proper photos of these cookies though because MY PARENTS TOOK MY CAMERA ON THEIR TRIP. WITHOUT ASKING.

Whatever. I'll see if I can get good pics out of dad's camera. These cookies will either be fantastic or weird-looking and either way y'all will want pictures I'm sure.

Also, just as a general statement, if you claim to be a trans* ally and then use 'trans' as a noun, as in calling me 'a trans', I'm going to have some significant doubts about your allyhood. I didn't even know anybody did that except radfems and certain conservatives until recently.
(ESL people exempted from this skepticism of course. God I can't imagine what kinds of terrible shit I would say if I tried to talk about issues of privilege in German)

ETA also I anticipate problems now that I can bind properly again. I 'pass' about 25-50% of the time if I'm binding well and I've been tossed out of the women's room before, but I can't use the men's room because there are people on campus who know me.



HATE BATHROOMS

I had a post I was going to write about the sex/gender divide but then I decided to...not. Sorry. Actually, here, I'll sum it up:

The enforced sex binary is bullshit and based on cultural norms rather than anything actually medically useful, don't call me female-bodied because I am not.


Sorry for the swearing, I am angry because (warning: transphobia) Urban Outfitters and casual transphobia yay

Also, a relevant thing, from sunisup:

"Sometimes I hear people say that racism/sexism/etc in culture isn’t important or worth criticizing. ”Oh it’s just a book,” they say. ”It’s just a crappy TV show.” ”It’s just a commercial.”

This argument always baffles me. It’s like if you put poison into a fish-tank and then say “Oh well I didn’t poison the fish, I just poisoned the water.” The fish lives in the water, dumbass; it’s completely submerged in and surrounded by the water. I’m pretty sure that poisoned water is going to affect the fish."

Rest here.


...Did I even connect those things coherently? Oh well, this is what you're getting. I'm going to go write porn rather than strangle the next cis person I see. Because that would probably be dakfire and I think I like her better alive.

Been awhile since my last baking post, right? Well, it's been awhile since I tried a new recipe, so.

These I found out about from pwalkeri, as soon as I saw them I KNEW I HAD TO MAKE THEM. I mentioned them to mom and dad and immediately got a request to make them for Superbowl Sunday. So.



( SUGAR COOKIE BOWLS. )

Also - I am finding my kind of slapdash method of outlining plots is not working for longer pieces like the er, epic I am working on right now (writing-wise). Does anybody have any recommendations? I feel kind of overwhelmed with the plot and can't get it down.

I had an outline guide that I learned a method from that I really really liked - it seemed very organic and natural to me - but I've lost the guide and forgotten all of it (well, I completely quit writing there for awhile - if y'all didn't notice, even the creepypastas I wrote were all heavily edited - sometimes rewritten - by Amanda). IIRC the guide was by the writer of God Eaters, which should make finding it easy right since I thought he had posted it to his LJ, but...I keep looking and can't find it anywhere I think it should be ;A;

I would go back to my old method of basically keeping it all in my head - since I have a very good (eh, VERY good) memory as long as I can web it, which of course plots and story info do very naturally - and just starting writing scenes with summaries before and after of where they go in the story (this is what I'm doing right now with short pieces like fanfics) but with something of this size I don't think I can do that and still make it as complex as I think it should be.