Trans Megathread for the Week of 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-12 - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named "Kern's World", where the plan is to release monkeys le-monke infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern's World hoping to find paradise.

also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good

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shaving, body shame

I'm used to taking care of my arm hair at this point, but my lower body is intimidating.

It's honestly a source of shame, a big reason for not having sex has been hearing people talk about guy's hygiene and "how disGUSTing men are" and not knowing where to start or how to ask.

I know I'm hairy and smelly, and I'm the type of guy that a lot of women will complain has no sense of hygiene. So I just like, never figured it out. What, was my dad supposed to explain stuff to me or something?

For me it's dysphoria related, in that I hate the body hair and the fact of having to manage it and deal with it. I feel so male when I look at it and try to deal with it. I hate it.
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  Imagine a parent explaining anything to their children
  
  I feel so male when I look at it and try to deal with it.
  
  Yea me too Its awful.
- I feel so male when I look at it and try to deal with it. I hate it.
  
  Mood, but I try not to look at it and then I feel better when it’s over.

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