Festa Junina or Festa de São João
Translating literally, June Festivities or Saint John’s Festivals is a celebration on the months of June and July in Brazil. It originated from European midsummer celebrations and includes some similar traditions like a large bonfire (that seems to make a lot more sense in the southern hemisphere because it happens during winter months) and also a dance derived from palatial European court balls, modified and redefined with new meaning, related to popular and rural themes and paired with brazillian “forró” or country music.
Dressing up and dances
Traditionally everyone wears plaid shirts/dresses, straw hats, painted on gap tooths, very blatant blush on cheeks and lots of painted freckles, girls wear their hairs in pigtails and boys paint on moustaches and beards. This is the stereotypical exaggerated rural look, and is more common for kids to dress this way, while in parties with mostly adults it’s more common to just wear plaid shirts, a straw hat and do some make-up.
The dances are choreographed but very standard between places, with someone announcing vocal cues for specific dance steps, switching partners, doing coordinated group moves and sometimes ending in a mock wedding.
Traditional food
Now, the best part of it all, my favorite thing from this time of the year, THE FOOD!
The traditional foods are super delicious and mostly made out of corn, like corn cakes, cural, pamonha, but there’s also peanuts, specially sweetened peanuts, popcorn, sweet or salted, caramelized apples, quentão, which is a warm spiced drink, that may or may not be alcoholic and is one of my favorite things.
I’ll try to update the thread with some recipes later or maybe just talk more about food, but I can’t promise I actually will.
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Is anyone injecting estradiol undecylate? 15mg every 14 days is looking pretty nice for this ADHD-stricken girl and the vial (800mg) would last like two years.
Not on it currently (has been out of stock everywhere I’ve looked when I was ordering), but its very interesting to me. Both because monthly injections are appealing and I’ve heard whisperings that monthly cycles can help feminize.
personally I’d probably try 40mg/28 days but you can try whatever you want, you’ve probably done more looking at dosing then I have recently. Make sure you’re getting your levels checked!
I’m actually about to head in the opposite direction because my new GP said she can get me a valerate script. I’ll just try that out, i can always go back to enanthate if it doesn’t work for me. And the same goes for you if you want to give undecylate a shot, just get yourself a vial and see if and at what interval it works best for you. If you end up liking enenathate better, just throw the vial in the freezer as a backup.
as far as managing your injections with ADHD goes, i actually find that having a 7 day cycle where injection day is always the same weekday has helped me most. I actually plan to switch to a 3 day / 4 day cycle with the valerate so i can keep fixed inection days. If i would have to keep track of a 14 day cycle i would struggle much more. but you could go and set a timer for that.
If i would have to keep track of a 14 day cycle i would struggle much more.
I have a second injection unrelated to E that’s every 2 weeks and its annoying dealing with. I just have a 4 calendar events scheduled for every 8 weeks and another one for every 2 weeks so it also tells me where stab (E I alternate between legs and the other injection I treat my stomach as a Cartesian plane and do a different quadrant every other week). If it were just E every week, I wouldn’t need to calendar to figure it out.
yeah the alternating leg thing is something else to keep track on, i journal about every injection on my friend group’s server bc of that
my partner got me a tamagotchi paradise for my birthday and just look at my little friend (this is a suigyutchi from the jade forest biome which i have named mellow)
taking care of him as part of my routine is doing wonders for me cause it gets me off my phone and reminds me to take care of myself too (like everytime i feed him throughout the day i drink some water).
Ughhhhhhhh I’m tired and fed up with my job and I haven’t heard anything about the new one and everything feels annoying. I feel like I’m one step away from losing it
Me too tbh. My only saving grace is I’m leaving them soon. Just have to hope whatever is next is better.
Going to be my most anti natalist post
spoiler, suicide
Genuinely like, how many people do there have to be who just fundamentally hate their life and the fact they were born at all before people stop having fucking kids? Like there’s gotta be a threshold right, where if like 90% of the people you knew hated that they were born at all and did not enjoy existing people would fucking chill, right?
I don’t enjoy being trans, there’s an ever present discomfort solely because of some random bullshit not working properly in the womb. And this is far from the only case! There’s lots of shit that can go wrong for a person and leave them like this. Why the fuck do people have kids and shit when they could end up being a miserable bastard like me? Like if I made another, innocent being experience this much pain I’d blow my shit right off. How fuckin gross is that right, to make little old me deal with all the pain and suffering life brings. Making me grapple with my mortality.
I guess I don’t understand why people don’t think about the suffering their child is/might have to go through? Why would you want kids when they could grow up to be as miserable as this.
Even perfectly normal things people deal with cause me an immense amount of suffering. I don’t understand it and I don’t like it. If there was even a smidgen of a chance they’d go through 10% of this I would not have a kid. I don’t think an innocent being deserves this.
above + dysphoria
Like fuck. I hate work, I hate school, I’m apparently shit at making friends. My body sucks, my voice sucks, I have to voice train which sucks. I have to completely make myself. I’m not good with other people. I’m detached. I am forced to transition. Deal with everything that brings. Society is shit. Miserable and suffering. Even minor bullshit. Everyone has a job but how many have thought of killing themselves instead of having to grind away forever.
Why do I have to exist and why do people force more people like me to exist. Or, or, people in even more suffering.
voice training +above
Okay one more thing VOICE TRAINING MAKES ME WANT TO KILL MYSELF HOLY SHIT. THAT SHIT BY ITSELF IS ENOUGH
Why the fuck couldn’t I have been okay to do it earlier. I’d already have made progress. And I just can’t. Genuinely enough to make life miserable for me.
And if people really do have worse lives then me then wtf are we doing?? Why have you kept fucking having kids if none of us have what we need???
Whatever I’ll try to stop posting now.
Dance or die
I danced last night
I’m dancing again tonight
I will dance tomorrow and every tomorrow after
I’m here to dance or die and I’m all out of death
I am pleased to report my nipples hurt to high hell
Mine have been quiet for a while
This has been my experience for the past omg it’s been 6 months I just realized
That’s so good
happy for you Alisu. Mine too, off and on.Wow 6 months is a good while. You should celebrate and get something nice to eat. It’s like having an extra birthday
It’s next week maybe I should get myself something to celebrate huh, maybe a date hehehe
I don’t want to live like regretful loser with wishes and no actions.
I really wanted to do a cross country bike trip across Europe. And this summer I’m going to try no matter what. Fuck everything else. I’m going to bike.
Even if it’s a nightmare to plan. I’ll still fucking do it.
Hell yeah, that sounds fun! Keep us updated
I have no idea how to find a job
suicide
Might have to blow my brains out idk
Like genuinely no idea. Why do I have to find some way to work my life away to survive.
I’m going to be able to get a job I hate that pays me nothing AND have to deal with my transphobic father and I already know everyone there will side with him. Or what. Or what the fuck else can I even do. I’ll take it for now but I really need something else, something further from him. But I don’t know what or how to do that
Makes me genuinely hopeless l
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance dance til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you’re dead
Off, off, off with your head
Dance, dance, dance til you’re dead
dysphoria
You know, growing tits is great.
You know what would be a whole lot better? Growing tits without having a disgusting man face looking back at me. I just wanna admire my tits but seeing my gross man face fucking ruins that. Why the fuck do I have tits and a man face. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea to do to myself.
voice training/dysphoria
Its so frustrating. I was on vc with someone the other day and she was giving me an exercise to do that she thought would help, said it was very simple, couldn’t figure it out. Fuck my life. Voice training is shit. And I need a passing voice more then anything. And its shit. Can’t train for anything. Want to be out full time in a year and can’t do even the simplest shit to fix my voice.
bottom surgery/dysphoria
Having to get bottom surgery is so frustrating. I know being able to is great, medical wonder, etc etc. I still don’t want to have to go through all of it. The consults, the figuring out what I can get, what I want, aftercare/healing, the whole thing seems like so much time and work.
I just wish I was born right. That I had a pussy now. Completely cis.
I really don’t like having to transition. So much work, so much bullshit, and healthcare I need that I’m worried about even being able to get. All the shit from other people. Voice training. And all to end up imperfect anyway. All the pain, and tears, and work. To not even get where I want. To get the best of a bad situation. Fuck my life.
I’m not doing well. I mean that’s obvious from everything but life really likes to kick you down. My phone had to break at this specific point in time when I am the most busy.
And obviously, I haven’t been taking my anti-depressants at all. Which is just great.
And fuck machine learning. I fucking hate. There is nothing worse than having to spin these goddammed slot machine algorithms and hope they give you a good result in 2 hours.
It’s like if Russian roulette and those call centers that make you wait had a love baby.
You should be taking your anti depressants
I just need to power through for another week.
I know I must sound like one of your non-cooperative patients. Sorry for being like this. I want to fix my life. But circumstances just keep piling up. All I need is time.
You’ve been saying you need to power through another week for a couple months at least now.
Yeah I have. And that’s not good
I took them today
I want to have a baby why was I born like this?What are you applying machine learning to?
Inverted pendulum system. We try to make it swing up and stand up straight
You don’t have to talk about something you hate, but I’m curious if you’re doing it physically or simulated or both.
Both. The thing works on the real system as well. Not my model of course (if I was doing well I wouldn’t be so stressed). But another group mate’s.
sex
I am going to an event tomorrow night where there will 100% be hundreds of trans people dancing and there’s a separate room for sucking (but not fucking), making out, cuddling, etc. This touch-starved girl bout to eat.
CW mild transphobia
Whenever I noticed people staring at me for being a tall stylishly dressed trans woman, instead of getting upset now I mutter under my breath (and occasionally audibly if I have company) “have these rubes never seen a transsexual?” and it makes me feel sexy and cosmopolitan.
