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I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!

You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.

Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”

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yeah so, I guess I have not been up on who all has been bought by private equity groups, but it may be time to just use up the knitpicks palette instead of holding onto it with the idea of developing patterns around it. I’m a little crushed; I liked their sport organic cotton a whole lot and always wanted to get a sweater quantity of it, but I may have, you know, taken the ongoing availability of that for granted. My good-cotton-sourcing-related troubles are way more numerous than they need to be. Anyway! I do not have any consistent colors. I have about 6 shades of brown and 3 reds. I hope I can get something decently autumnal looking out of it by knitting yarn held together, a thing I am bad at. Can it be done? Can I knit a good sweater with 0 likable colors? Stay tuned to find out!*

*(maybe; I have a frustrating track record for finished work)

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Kichen

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I hate having to post political posts like this nut he we are again. Anybody from the UK wanna sign this. Folks from outside the UK maybe share it?

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My FO for the test knit of Acacia Leaf Cardigan🍂 by @/sedna.knitting on IG

I used stash yarn afraid of how the colours would look since they are not as contrasting as I wanted, somehow it turned out really beautiful to me :’) Planning to knit another one with dark olive an lilac🌿

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GREAT image

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Via:IG@bigskyranchess

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Ben Whishaw at Wimbledon 2025 - Day 11

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swatched for a couple mosaic knitting projects!

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Actor Ben Whishaw and his brother James Whishaw sit in the Royal Box on day 11 of Wimbledon

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huge fan of whatever they r doing on rednote

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saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

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altered a shirt ended up with lots of scraps with a pretty print which can be used as patches

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AAAAHH thank you!!!!! 🥺💛💛💛 (the colours were the result of brainstorming with @lesbworth and i'm sure they'll be very glad to hear this!!!)

fair isle mitts with a secret

modified from this pattern