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On this mega I shall take the opportunity to rant about one of my favorite things: the Webnovel UNJUST DEPTHS!

Do you love transgenders?

Do you love communism?

Do you love queer romance?

Do you love killing fascists in a giant fucking mech?

Would a plotline with all of these things happening in a underwater retro-futuristic gundam setting intrigue you?

Especially if its actually really well written with good characters, rich worldbuilding, and a marxist leninist transfem author?

All of the answers should be: YES I DO ~~or else I WILL BAN YOU~~

Since you obviously love all of those things then Unjust Depths is perfect for YOU yes YOU! It is DESTINY

The Imbrian Ocean is at a time of severe instability. The monarch of the vast Empire that spans its unjust depths (:3) is sick and nearing death, every territory of the ocean now vying to carve their own Destiny out of the chaos. From the Volk fascists pigmask-off , Zionists hamas-base (they literally will not die why are they still here oh my god), The 'Anarchists' (social chauvanists) lenin-dont-laugh in Bosporus, and the monarchs gui-trans of each vast noble domain, each vies for power and prestige no matter who they crush underfoot, but it would be a pretty depressing story without a bright light in the dark.

On the edge of the Empire sits the glorious Union! The (Soviet) Union soviet-chad is a socialist federation of three states (and one anarchist mountain left-unity-4 )that were formerly slave colonies under the Imbrian Empire until they broke away in a fierce liberation war. They have spent the last 20 years since then building themselves up. Whether they be Human bridget-disco , Shimmi kbity-how (Catgirls who usually follow a religion closely related to modern Islam), and Kattaran transshork-happy (a hybrid humanoid species with characteristics of sea life ranging from sharks to cuttlefish)building socialism side by side.

First lead under the revolutionary leader Dashka Kansal, then the Idealist Ahwalia who lead the country to near ruin in pursuit of building a utopia on pillars of sand, then under the scientific socialist three-heads-thinking leadership of the Grand Marshall of the Union, Bhavani Jayanskar (I love Jayanskar so much shes basically as if Stalin, Lenin, and Zhukov were rolled into the same person but was a black lesbian badass who wore the uniform REALLY WELL)(she aint the main character at all tho shes only in very few scenes i just love her so much). Under Jayanskar, the Union has been growing their economy to both eliminate hunger and give everyone a home chad-stalin , but also growing their military capabilities for the inevitable return of the Empire. The Union is alone, but with the people by its side nothing, not even Destiny, can snuff out true freedoms light. specter

As war wages between the Empire and Republic (basically underwater USA) once more over the lands between them, the facade begins to finally crack...

And a border conflict between the Empire and Union escalate, and the dreaded reconquest begins.

Amidst this turmoil, lives our main characters (yes there are multiple and all of them are lovely). Each of whom I personally love dearly, and are very well characterized. Many are soldiers of the Union, some are scientists, some are divers (mech pilots), some are lost strands finding new meaning after joining this band of Brigands

All are Communists steban

All serve the Union USSR

All would gladly give their lives to defending socialism comrade-stoic

but even they would have little inkling of the adventure set in store for them as the lands beneath the waves erupt in fire, fury, and revolt

Can these transgender badasses kick fascist ass?

Can they kiss? (oh my god please kiss ISTG THERE IS SO MUCH SHIPPING AHHHH ITS GLORIOUS)

FIND OUT HERE: https://unjustdepths.com/

please do or else I will pout incessantly

just try it pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase i need to talk to someone about it after Cromalin went AFK

(I miss her, she was a real one)

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[โ€“] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)
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[โ€“] nemmybun@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's cooled down enough to start exercising again so I got back into it yesterday. Unfortunately I forgot that I should ramp up after a break and went back to my old routine. I overdid it on the squats and today I'm struggling with sitting down or standing up kobeni-sweat

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[โ€“] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (15 children)

dysphoria/body dysmorphia, fitness, hrt questiontfw ass not big enough

I wanna start lifting and doing hella squats/lunges/prone leg curls/hip add+abduction but I strained a hip flexor awhile ago and it's still bugging me ooooooooooooooh

Also unsure if it's better to cut fat down to slim down my tummy then gain when I'm back on hrt or get back on e sooner than later and just see how stuff redistributes

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[โ€“] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

off topic and a little sadI really hate this vague feeling of being a burden. This has always been something I've struggled with. There really doesn't have to be a reason I feel that way, I just do.

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[โ€“] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the "I haven't shaved in three days" stubble looking a lot less noticeable at a range of 6 feet now... interesting

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[โ€“] Chronicon@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

I think I'm gonna take a train soon

and if I do I'm so gonna read more unjust depths on it

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[โ€“] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Lifetime movies are fucking wild meow-popcorn

[โ€“] Eco@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

maid cafe mixed with an amsterdam coffee shop. maid brings an edible to you and casts a spell to make it tastier and more effective

[โ€“] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

watching azan walking around the TwitchCon floor and I'm being over stimulated like crazy, goddamn I could not handle that shit for a longer period

[โ€“] Eco@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (9 children)

it's mad to me that anyone earning in the millions would just keep working after a few years of earning that amount. like you're set for life, so why keep going

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[โ€“] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Oh my fuckin god, does hand-editing pixel art in Windows 7's MS Paint ever take me back. Goddamn.

This 960x480 image is 2x scaled apparently, so four Paint pixels to one image pixel. The inscrutable mysteries of Paint.............

E: You can see the end result in my banner. It is from Fallow, I had to alter it some. Hexbear makes the aspect ratio skinnier as you zoom out, so a low res window or high Windows scaling looks best.

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[โ€“] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Iโ€™m breaking my diet

[โ€“] ashinadash@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unlimited death to airports qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

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[โ€“] pooh@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I swear estradiol gives me superpowers. More focus. Better able to handle stress. Senses are heightened including everything tasting better. Better sleep. Softer skin. Hope for the future.

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[โ€“] khizuo@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

I've gotten a lot of comments over the past few days basically saying "hey, I recognize you, and I love your outfits".

It's nice. I'm not a social person at all, too, I basically just stay in my dorm when I'm not in class. I hang out with my one friend here and that's about it. To be fair, I guess my elastomeric respirator is hard to miss.

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[โ€“] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

the other day I had a picnic in a cemetery with my undertaker wife, and it sounds a lot more goth than it was. it's one she goes to for work quite often and likes, quite a few well known people burried there

[โ€“] khizuo@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

I've been talking a lot with my best friend about autism, recently, because I've been having a lot of revelations about my autism. And... I'm starting to realize that not only am I definitely, without a shadow of a doubt autistic, I also present a lot of the general stereotypes about autism (which is a neutral thing, not good or bad.) I'm deeply socially inept, have zero volume control, have low empathy, talk with a monotone (my friend told me this and I was like ??? I thought I talked with highly varying tone? but it makes sense), have an extremely one-track mind, have very ritualized behavior, cannot read people, have frequent meltdowns when things don't go my way, and basically cannot mask to save my life.

Despite all of this, I still feel like I "outwardly" present very neurotypical, but my best friend assured me that I absolutely do not, so I guess that's a problem of perception. Tbh I can never tell someone is autistic unless they tell me (not being able to read people extends to autistic people, lol), so whatever, maybe it makes sense that it applies to me too. I'm also starting to realize that my autism does disable me in several ways, like the one-track mind thing (monotropism)? I have that to an extreme. It takes a huge amount of energy to force my brain to multitask, and when I say "multitask" I literally mean "think about more than one subject within the timeframe of a week" (school as been fun!)

The one thing that I still kind of don't know about is sensory stuff, like I know I have some kinds of sensory issues but I haven't been able to really pick them out clearly yet. I feel like they were a lot more heightened when I was a kid. But I'm sure if I do some digging, I'll find out more about myself in that area.

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[โ€“] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

mental healthhad a panic attack lmao

not good! lea-breakdown

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[โ€“] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (19 children)

you know, in my more than a decade of playing minecraft, I don't think I have ever made leather armour. who tf has the time early game to get 24 leather

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[โ€“] outside_enjoyer@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

my sigma power move is to never accept meeting invites

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[โ€“] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

LocalOaf get to sleep with 4 rambunctious kittens running around and a neighbor that somehow goes out on his patio facing my bedroom window to smoke like every half hour through the night and cough loudly challenge: impossible difficulty

yes-honey-left

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[โ€“] Wendy_Pleakley@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

I feel much more relaxed in school now, with classmates who are 5-6 years younger than me, than I ever did when I was in school around people my own age. It's easier to chit chat, I don't quite understand but I enjoy it

[โ€“] Eco@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

uncommitted movement have endorsed anthony fantano for president in an unprecedented move

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[โ€“] buh@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I updated my pfp and the site became inaccessible for like 20 mins ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] yewler@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Is the trans <-> programmer connection as strong as they say it is? If so, why is that? I ask this as a person with a comp sci degree lol

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[โ€“] khizuo@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Some thoughts on Nevada part 2.

spoilers ofcThe ending. I personally loved the ending, and there's a very specific reason why.

Imogen Binnie talks about how, when she was writing + editing + publishing Nevada, she was very frustrated with the stories about trans people that were being published at the time by cis authors. Stories where a tortured trans protagonist goes through hell during transition but ultimately emerges victorious and transitioned. The "Gender Novel(tm)", as Casey Plett put it. I've personally never read any of these books, and I'm not too interested in doing so; but the trend seems indicative of something that I think about sometimes: liberals are obsessed with endings.

The end of history (lol), the end of racism (lmao even), the end of COVID (how do they come up with this stuff), and โ€” the end of transition. In the afterword, Binnie talks about how she purposefully wrote Maria to be a "post-trans" protagonist, to disrupt the idea that trans people take hormones, get surgery, and happily disappear, their lives as trans people effectively over, ready to live as cis people. The idea that the Gender Novel (tm) was pushing. That there is a set "end point" to transition. Maria is clearly still struggling, still wrestling with her issues around dissociation, dysphoria, and transness.

That's why I like Nevada's ending so much. The fact that it doesn't end, that Maria and James' storylines don't get wrapped up with any kind of satisfactory conclusion. Because for a lot of trans people, it doesn't really end; at least, not nicely and neatly. It unsettles cis liberal sensibilities, cis liberal desires for a conclusion to the struggle. And well, upsetting liberals is my favorite thing.


Another (unrelated) thought โ€” in class, the topic of James' pronouns came up. At first my answer was "well idk, I don't think it's that serious", but then I thought a little bit more about it, and I think I came to a different conclusion.

The entire second part of Nevada is basically a long, drawn-out "what-if" scenario for a lot of trans people. For people in James' position, it's "what if a magical trans person descended from the sky to talk to me about my gender issues"; for people in Maria's position, it's "what if I met someone who is probably trans, and how could I help them?"

I think there's a strong aspect of asking: what would you, the reader, do in this situation? What would you say to James, if you were in Maria's position? Was Maria's method effective? Is there any way she could have done it better? I guess this is the question the "egg prime directive" was trying to solve, lol. I wonder how soon that appeared after Nevada's publication. (For the record, I personally don't believe in the egg prime directive. But I did bring it up in class when the discussion touched on this subject, because I'm annoying and internet-poisoned like that.)

And along with that, there's this question hanging in the air โ€” what pronouns? Maria uses she/her in her head, but well, maybe Maria wasn't the best at this. Binnie uses he/him. I think this part of the story is written to unsettle people, to unsettle cis people but also trans people too.

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[โ€“] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

trying to remember what a sex drive feels like right now. it's not really coming to me lea-think

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[โ€“] khizuo@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

like two days ago, before reading part 2 of orange book, I was like "maria would layer despite the heat, wouldn't she"

and I was right! screm-cool

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