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Cake day: September 13th, 2025

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  • Do not underestimate silent film! My kiddo loved them as a toddler. Here are some great starters:

    • The Cook (Roscoe Arbuckle)
    • Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton)
    • Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
    • A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès)

    Very engaging with way more visual gags than we usually see nowadays, few title cards, and a chance to talk with your kid about what is happening on screen (Ooh no, Charlie is stuck in the lions cage! How is Buster going to get on that runaway train?)

    And eventually when they’re a little older, getting your kid to sit down with you to watch Scorsese’s Hugo (2011). It is an absolutely magical loveletter to early film, particularly Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon.



  • Strap-ons don’t really do it for me. As far as post-op, I am not really up to speed on how advanced these are, and how well they replicate a “homegrown” set. Full disclosure, I’m Aroallo, so my physical tastes take a much higher priority than emotional attachment and commitment. I would be a way better platonic friend than a “girlfriend.”

    Provided that the operations are perfectly done, my only hangup might be some remnants of my heteromisogynist upbringing. Do I want to feel like an alluring feminine mystery to someone who was never socialized with the “girlhood” experience, rather than “been there, hated it?” Maybe, and ironically I think that’s more shallow of me than the genital compatibility.

    That’s a pity about Buck Angel. Haven’t heard of him before. Idk if it’s a self loathing mental health lashing out against your group thing (which I emphasize with, despite the clear harm) or a “pulling the ladder behind you” a la Blair White thing.