I've been happily posting away here on two accounts since just before the Great Migration, and have no problem being openly a woman on the internet. Up to and including correcting people who assume I'm a guy, and even occasionally acknowledging the existence of periods.

Which, honestly that was a bad tactic back on Reddit, my inbox was a nightmare. But here it's gone much better, so thank you to anyone who ever received one of my corrections with good grace!

It's also brought quite a few DMs my way from other women who try to stay more anonymous with their posts, a choice I can completely understand.

So today on International Women's Day I just want to wave hello to the other women out there, even if you don't want to break cover and wave back. Anonymous or not, cis or trans, I see you out there and you're killing it.

This may break the community rule on encouraging discussion, if nobody wants to out themselves to say hello back. So I guess I should also ask a question.

Um...anyone else using it as an excuse to treat themselves today? I've given myself the day (mostly) off work and am doing some fun gamedev all afternoon instead, then we're planning a takeaway tonight. Easily pleased, perhaps, but sounds good to me 😄

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh that sounds like the perfect treat, take the self-care to that next level!

My old IG account was mostly photos of cross stitch projects and yep, you guessed it, still got creeps. People are absolutely wild. I guess it's because we had the gall to show our naked hands?!

I hope you're feeling a bit better soon, those low energy days (or weeks, or months) are the worst.

[–] Betch 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My old IG account was mostly photos of cross stitch projects and yep, you guessed it, still got creeps. People are absolutely wild. I guess it’s because we had the gall to show our naked hands?!

Wow. Yeah, how dare we! We might have to start wearing mittens when posting so we don't attract all those hand, nail and cross stitch fetishists 😭 (Edit: Just want to make it clear that I don't mean to kink shame anyone. I'm cool with any kink/fetish as long as it hurts no one. It's just about the weird, creepy and sometimes actually scary DMs)

those low energy days (or weeks, or months) are the worst.

Oof yeah, it often does end up being weeks and months but I've been getting more and more breaks between them so I'm hopeful!