[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know what your size is, but a lot of us (including me) wear shoe sizes that most stores don't have in stock.

Thursday Boot Company has womens' sneakers that go to size 13, and those are high quality. Someone did a three-year review, actually. Red Wings moc toe shoes are super durable and can be repaired. (Solovair and Jim Green are non-American alternatives for those boycotting.) Vans and Converse also has extended sizes, but those tend to be two-year shoes. I'd skip anything from Torrid and most other Chinese imports.

Underwear: The lady who runs Leolines is doing important work, but I'm not impressed with the quality. She splits the fabric in two places right where the tuck is, which is a design flaw that has led to multiple pairs failing on both me and my fiancee within a year. I've had way better experiences with TomboyX; the stitching is way tighter and it's one big piece of fabric sewed to a waistband. I have yet to encounter a pair of tucking underwear that uses natural fibers, though. If you don't need to tuck, I've had good experiences with PAKA and Branwyn.

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a dumb wedge issue that doesn't matter. For student athletes, sports are about building cooperation and leadership skills and having fun, and for professional athletes, the issue is so relegated to a tiny amount of wealthy celebrity athletes that it's completely divorced from the lives of everyday Americans. In both cases, there are non-government sports agencies who already make decisions, and I'm going to channel some old-school Republican energy to say the government shouldn't be the ones making that choice. Unless it's some ulterior motive to normalize thinking about trans women as men to push the overton window on other issues, I genuinely don't understand why everyone cares so much.

I wish Democrats would just not talk about sports and instead redirect to equal employment and housing, while fighting attempts to ban HRT. I wish they would stop taking the bait.

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

First of all, I love everything about this, including her works cited page where she includes her own paper dated in the future on why her boyfriend is "Proof of Freud's Darker Theories."

Second of all, climate change kind of ruined winter. Where I live, it's too icy to bike and too cold to go camping, but there also isn't consistent enough snow for skiing and snowmen. So winters for me and my partner have turned into hibernation mode with slow-cooked meals and long RPGs.

Was Chad, um, right all along? 😅

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 2 months ago

Region zones do indeed suck, but I installed custom firmware on my PS3 to remove the DVD/Blu-Ray region lock, and now it's a non-issue.

And I use disc binders for most of my collection, unless it's something I really want to display. Long-term, once my collection is complete, I do plan to rip everything.

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My partner advertised herself as being more of a nature girl than she actually was. She told me later that she was just trying to impress me. While that was disappointing at first, there's so many things we have in common that it wasn't an issue. And it's honestly better now because we take things at her pace and she has a better time, like for instance, we spend an hour at a nature trail and then go to brunch as opposed to a multi-day camping trip. It's very nice.

Me feeling like I needed whoever I'm with to go camping with me is something I realized I could let go, just like OP said, because I can find other people in my life to do those things with. I think sometimes we come out stronger by letting go of our expectations.

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 4 months ago

My watch collection. I love the Casio G-Shock line because they're really practical, being repairable, really durable, and having all the features I need short of having a smartwatch.

I prefer the womens' Baby-G line -- I have a black and gold steampunk-ish one that goes really well with my black dresses. But you can't get any of the cool features with any of the womens' watches, so I have a men's athletic watch with a vibrating alarm, pedometer, and second counter; and a hiking watch that's solar-powered and tells you the temperature and the phases of the moon.

Aside from that, not really, unless you count flannels and unisex boots. I've found that clothes from the mens' section are too baggy and hide my proportions. Even with womens' clothes, I actively avoid "boyfriend fit" clothes which seem to be really common right now even though they're identical to the mens' clothes that are already being sold an aisle over.

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not considered overweight based on my height, but I weigh about 5-10 pounds more than I'd like to, since any excess weight seems to go to my tummy. I was a little mortified when the internet invented a new word to make people feel inadequate -- skinny fat -- because, yep, that's me. 😮‍💨 I can hide my stomach pretty well with clothes, and people say I'm thin, but it can hurt a little looking in the mirror, and swimming is out of the question.

I work out every day, but I just can't seem to get get the flat tummy I had in my college days.

[-] MystValkyrie 9 points 5 months ago

Everything involving this topic makes me so angry and sad. How do you trust any man now that this technology exists?

I think we should all think twice about having photos publically accessible, or even visible to friends, on social media. Between deepfakes, Kiwifarms if you're trans, and Clearview AI, Facebook and Instagram was a mistake.

It's illegal in other countries and eventually I think it will me in my country too, but it's already too late.

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