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That's what I thought it was, but got something that obviously wasn't a forum so wondered if it was .com, .net, singular or some other combination.

If the site conked maybe a few from there who have been here will be back here.

 

Maybe. There was zero warning about it going down.

 

Here's what I got when I went there just now

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I got some more of my bathroom ripped apart. Previously I got the end and side panels over the bath removed. Today I dismantled the stud wall at the end of the bath and took down almost all of the drywall beside the bath. There's now a clear line of sight through the stud wall into the adjacent room. Along the way I got two black bags filled with smashed up pieces of drywall. Our new garbage service lets me put out two bags each week, each up to 40lb. We only ever need to put out one bag of regular household trash so the second bag is a useful way to slowly feed out debris from general wrecking work. It does mean it takes a while to get rid of it all - I currently have enough pieces of broken drywall to last me until May feeding it out a little at a time - but it's cheaper and easier than taking it to the landfill.

Next up I need to disconnect the water so I can remove the plumbing fixtures, disconnect the drain from the bathtub, and get the bathtub out of the way. The light I put in the adjacent room doesn't really cast enough light to feel comfortable doing the work I need to do, not least because the valves that disconnect that part of the house aren't in a good way. One is so badly corroded there's almost nothing left and the other is stuck tight and difficult to access. I can see what I'll probably do is turn off the master valve to the house, then cut the valves out and replace them with new ones, then turn everything back on.

Along the way I'll need to rejig some of the pipework. For some reason whatever genius set it all up created a nasty jumble of pipes such that the valve to disconnect the bathroom also disconnects the outside tap. So it looks like I'll need three valves - hot water, cold water, outside tap. I think I currently have two valves in my stock, but at a push I can do without the hot water supply to this bathroom for a time. The only reason I want to keep the cold water supply is so that I can mix cement in the area, as there's almost certainly still some brickwork repair to be done. If nothing else it will give me the chances to play with some of the PEX I've had sitting around for a while.

 

I got my pipework at least somewhat sorted out. With a wrench I managed to turn off the cold water to the work area. Thankfully the far side of the valve also included an outside tap that we don't use so I could use that to drain the pipework. Then it was just a question of turning off the hot water for long enough to cut the pipe, cap the end and drain everything downstream of the cut. A handy push-fit elbow meant I could put a bucket under the cut end and drain everything without worrying just how far from the end the water might spray.

Now I can press ahead and disconnect the bath, and get that moved out of the way.

 

Reorganized the house. Moved things downstairs and other things upstairs.

 

Your concept of "reorganize" is a bit different to mine. At present when I refer to reorganizing I'm talking about moving walls around

 

Looking at more 'treatment' options for dysphoria. Everything over here is 'affirmative' as far as I can tell, and with multi-year wait lists. And come with the assumption that I actually want to act. I think I just want someone to argue with.

 

Give or take a Mercury in retrograde or two. I think it's mostly the result of being in lockdown for effectively a year. No chance to do anything much; no opportunity to be away from anyone else. Even if I got 'treatment' I already know what they'd say (by that I mean, 'you're doing what you already know you should be doing for what you want') so it's not like that would help.

I'm just sick and tired of it. I want to hash it out with someone who's convinced I'm wrong. I might just want to scream. Maybe I want to annihilate the narrative structure, the bad ontology, the impossible epistemology. I want to take my self-hatred and burn the whole damned thing to the ground. Maybe I just need to do the thing I've been running from for years, and write openlyish about it.

 

I can't say that writing openlyish about it would be a bad thing. Just think, then you would have plenty of people to argue with.

The evangelicals will throw you to the lions for "being gay."
The pentecostals will throw you to the lions be being demon possessed.
The trans crowd will throw you to the lions for trying to fight "who you really are."
The physicians will throw you to the lions for "refusing to face the settled science."
The psychs will throw you to the lions for "choosing a path that you know based on an irrational fear of a father-figure deity instead of embracing your inner best self"
And Joel Osteen will get an idea for a New York Times best seller.

And you, my friend, will continue to be in all of our prayers.

 

There was someone I used to talk to who was mtf, honest about it, and loved the idea of detransitioning, but not the reality. Mentally unstable, but interesting. It was good insight into a particular hypothetical. Ended up not working out.

Well that sounds like something I've been missing over the last few years. Ahem, pseudonymously of course.

 

Yeah, we are at -23°C this morning and for much of the week. First real cold snap this winter.