Courtney (she/her/they)

Hello lovelies, I am a (trans)Woman who is still in the process of discovering herself!

I have been working up the courage to be who I am for so long, I am excited to be figuring things out.

Pre-HRT, pre-fashion-sense, and pre-confidence.

Any and all tips and advice from more experienced women are welcome!

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Cake day: April 10th, 2026

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  • The point of language is to convey meaning. Grammar is less important than what the speaker wants to tell other people.

    If this sentence, in context of a larger conversation, has meaning to the people listening to it, then congratulations! Rejoice, for communication has been achieved! Whether it was grammatically correct or not is irrelevant, because the intended target understands.

    Language changes over time. Nobody just decided to come up with modern English one day and it caught on, it’s a gross pot filled with words and grammar from many other languages (some more melted than others, so not really a melting pot), and mostly filtered from a language nobody speaks anymore.

    So having what are essentially arbitrary rules that dictate how things must always be for that language is already pretty dumb to me.





  • Open the flour over a trash can to catch that little bit of flour that always seems to be on top, try to keep the folding paper top together, but open one side like a milk carton.

    Open resealable container of your choice, I have large plastic bins that hold 10lbs of flour quite nicely. Big round container with handles and a lid.

    Dump flour into container, slow-ish so it doesn’t poof into the air

    Seal container, use dry paper towel, rag, or vacuum to clean the small amount that probably came off the paper top.

    I usually give the open top a flick with my finger over the trash can to dislodge as much as possible before going to the counter.

    I really can’t think of a better way to package it, other ways are either taking up more space than needed, or uses plastic/metal. Plastic is a non-starter for me, and metal would drastically increase price. It’s a cost-effective way of tansporting a cheap product. Just don’t get it wet lol



  • My spouse kept insisting I peel the potatoes I used for home fries (not sure if there’s another name for them, but cut the potatoes into 10-15mm chunks and cook them in a pan with oil or butter with a lid for a bit to soften them up and then raise the temp to brown the outside, I always season with garlic) until one day I “forgot” the peeler while camping and it was either try it or go hungry. Surprise surprise, they loved it



  • Well that depends, am I the “main character”, if so do I start at the beginning or where I left off?

    I mean, either way in satisfactory I don’t require sleep or food or drink, unless I take damage and need to eat some nuts or berries. So just avoid the local wildlife until I get the hover pack.

    I remember my first time playing and not wanting to wander too far from the grassy spawn because of all the hostile fauna and unfamiliar terrain.

    Now with the hover pack, a full island-spanning rail network with power pylons, dimensional depots with packaged fuel and a jetpack, I’m constantly zipping across the place and half the time I have no idea where exactly I am but I’m just hopping over the wildlife and on the off chance something hits me and I’m offended, I’ll toss a nuke at it before flying off.

    I just unlocked the nuclear pasta milestone and am currently working on getting the nuclear power situation sorted while I wait for my very slow factories to pump out the space elevator bits.

    I could do without ADA trying not to sound like GLaDOS-lite, but I can live with an annoying bot.

    The other game I played today was Project zomboid, and as the title card says every time you start a new game, “this is how [I] died”

    Legit didn’t even last 5 minutes in my starting character in a new world today. Looted the spawn house, leveled a little bit of carpentry and cooking, then got bit in the fucking driveway because I miss-timed my swing. I had a shotgun and axe, too…





  • Keep your body clear, grab onto the top nice and tight, keep your saw-holding arm semi-rigid and controlled, start the cut a little slow and the blade will take care of the rest.

    A good sawzall will still cut through 2in hollow round stock in under 35 seconds, so they’re both quick, I just prefer the circular saw for the extra speed. You could theoretically rock up on a bike and be gone with the wind in under 30 seconds if you get your flow down.


  • Without getting into details, I can confirm that a circular saw with even a cheap wood cutting blade is much quicker than a sawzall with a metal cutting blade on 2in aluminum pipes. And you really want speed for something like this, especially if you have reason to believe cameras are being watched by the local brute squad.

    The size is about the same for either one, honestly. Both will readily fit in a small backpack. My brushless motor battery powered one is about a 4x6x8in rectangle that fits nicely in my old highschool backpack underneath gym clothes and other things.

    If you’ve got a sawzall and not a circular saw, great! Use that! If you have neither… Well, a hacksaw will do in a pinch. If you have access to both, just fiddle around and see what provides the best crossings fmof comfort, concealment, and speed.