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xx.xy14 Patch Notes (ii)
Sian doesn’t have to DIY hormones anymore. That’s the news. Gender Services finally got to giving Sian proper HRT. There might even be, before the year is out, a consultation on surgeries. Hurrah! There is a wrinkle: it’s got to be dermal patches. No more injections. The patches are big crinkly plastic squares and you
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xx.xy13. Making the Display Name the Same as the Username
RL!Sian did a small thing yesterday, that also happened to be a huge thing. She changed her name. Now in the UK, it’s fairly easy to do that. You have to have a piece of paper with a specific set of wording on it, that says you don’t want your old name, you want your
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41. Festive
Whatever you’re doing or not doing this festive season, wherever you are or aren’t, whoever you’re with or not, whatever version of the season you’re observing, it’s Sian’s wish for you that you’re OK. That’s all. Featured ThingsABYSSAL Breeze Jacket; Breeze Catsuit; Mistral ankle boots Sense of Winter snow effectHalf-Deer Alpine Christmas Tree – Classic;
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xxx.12 Mother Knows Best
It’s complex, thinking about this. Not about Emily here,we hasten to add: how we feel about her isn’t at all complicated. Emily is one of the central nodes of Sian’s polycule, and Sian loves her fiercely. No, we’re talking about niche kinks again. We’re talking about the forbidden. What does it mean to adopt the
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xx.xy12. Tourist
There’s always a sense of guilt for RL!Sian in being trans, a sense of always feeling that she is just a tourist in queer spaces, that she is somehow not trans enough, both innately and in the way she presents in the flesh. This has eased a little, but not a lot, not least because
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40. Mortal
When, in 2009, an earlier version of RL!Sian logged into SecondLife for her second go at making an account and her first go at really being Sian, she decided that, given she was in her early 30s, Sian would be 29. That account she gave up in 2016. By the time she came back in
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39. Authentic, Redux
Over on Primfeed, where Sian has been hanging out recently, the algorithm gave — Generated? Regurgitated? Exuded? — a link to a YouTube video about being authentic in Second Life. Sian thought, Ooh, discourse, and clicked, because authenticity is on Sian’s mind a lot. Maybe we’ll have a mention of Kierkegaard, even, she thought, maybe
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xxx.11 Realsies
OK, listen. Sian has written a few times now about the concept of doing things for realsies. And the general idea with that has been really that fantasy is fantasy, pretend is pretend. And when you are playing out role play fantasies that would be a bit unethical in the meat world, that is a
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38. Una Bambola in Giallo
This Halloween, RL!Sian’s movie marathon is Italian in theme, a giallo-ween, if you like. On Friday, she is hosting a watch party for a double bill of some of her favourite stabby gialli. But she actually started last night, with a rewatch of one of the Platonic examples of the form, The Red Queen Kills