Munsi 🏳️⚧️
@munsi.bsky.social
Your nonbinary wine aunt! They/Femme, and I tweet about writing, transition, lefty politics, old indie bands, X-Men, and depression!
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It’s a banger!!! I was too invested in my own ironic detachment to appreciate it in its time, but with hindsight, it’s really fun!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It’s a banger!!! I was too invested in my own ironic detachment to appreciate it in its time, but with hindsight, it’s really fun!
So that's a thing I realized about myself, today. No idea what it means, it's not really actionable on my part, I just find it interesting.
Also: If you're a dude who wears black, plastic framed glasses, I apparently consider you very masculine. So well done there, if that's a goal you have!
Also: If you're a dude who wears black, plastic framed glasses, I apparently consider you very masculine. So well done there, if that's a goal you have!
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
So that's a thing I realized about myself, today. No idea what it means, it's not really actionable on my part, I just find it interesting.
Also: If you're a dude who wears black, plastic framed glasses, I apparently consider you very masculine. So well done there, if that's a goal you have!
Also: If you're a dude who wears black, plastic framed glasses, I apparently consider you very masculine. So well done there, if that's a goal you have!
The person who'd pointed it out had assumed I'd been doing this on purpose. I had not been. I just picked glasses that felt right to the character, and when the character felt like a boy, they wound up being similar to one another.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The person who'd pointed it out had assumed I'd been doing this on purpose. I had not been. I just picked glasses that felt right to the character, and when the character felt like a boy, they wound up being similar to one another.
Not the same pair, mind you, I've bought several pairs of "masc glasses" to wear on stage whilst playing men over the past three years, and they're always black plastic frames. Different shapes, but black and plastic.
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Not the same pair, mind you, I've bought several pairs of "masc glasses" to wear on stage whilst playing men over the past three years, and they're always black plastic frames. Different shapes, but black and plastic.
I’m full of feelings sometimes 😅
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I’m full of feelings sometimes 😅
It’s extremely sincere! I appreciate it a lot!
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It’s extremely sincere! I appreciate it a lot!
And I never figured out how to say so without making it weird. So three years later, I chose to make it SUPER weird. Thanks, @josie.zone, I know you didn't intend it, or even know, but one time you helped me feel like I was not the only one going through a thing, and it was super helpful.
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
And I never figured out how to say so without making it weird. So three years later, I chose to make it SUPER weird. Thanks, @josie.zone, I know you didn't intend it, or even know, but one time you helped me feel like I was not the only one going through a thing, and it was super helpful.
I found it hugely helpful. I don't know that she knows that. Her going on HRT during the specific window between when I asked a doctor and when I finally took that leap of faith, a full year after coming out, did so much to help me feel like I was not the only one going through this.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I found it hugely helpful. I don't know that she knows that. Her going on HRT during the specific window between when I asked a doctor and when I finally took that leap of faith, a full year after coming out, did so much to help me feel like I was not the only one going through this.
In the time between that first appointment, and my actually going on my meds, a girl I'd never met in person, but had interacted with in passing on Twitter, because she apparently also kind of knew @hugobookclub.bsky.social and that dude's one of my oldest friends, had announced she was on HRT.
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In the time between that first appointment, and my actually going on my meds, a girl I'd never met in person, but had interacted with in passing on Twitter, because she apparently also kind of knew @hugobookclub.bsky.social and that dude's one of my oldest friends, had announced she was on HRT.
TERRIFYING. Life changing. But I was too busy being scared about the allergic reaction to fully register how huge it was going to be.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
TERRIFYING. Life changing. But I was too busy being scared about the allergic reaction to fully register how huge it was going to be.
By the end of the appointment, I'd scheduled bloodwork, made an appointment to bring my bisexual partner to talk about how I'd already changed my name and gender marker on my ID, worked in a famously queer industry, and didn't want children, and if things went well to get my first prescription.
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
By the end of the appointment, I'd scheduled bloodwork, made an appointment to bring my bisexual partner to talk about how I'd already changed my name and gender marker on my ID, worked in a famously queer industry, and didn't want children, and if things went well to get my first prescription.
...at the end of the appointment, he asked, "Is there anything else you wanted to talk about while you're here?"
And I answered, "Well, actually..."
And I answered, "Well, actually..."
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
...at the end of the appointment, he asked, "Is there anything else you wanted to talk about while you're here?"
And I answered, "Well, actually..."
And I answered, "Well, actually..."
He was kind, and he reassured me tremendously, and told me what I needed to do and prescribed the meds I'd need to recover, which I eventually did. There were a couple shows on a cane, and I never bounced back 100%, but I got there close enough to function within the events of my life.
BUT....
BUT....
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
He was kind, and he reassured me tremendously, and told me what I needed to do and prescribed the meds I'd need to recover, which I eventually did. There were a couple shows on a cane, and I never bounced back 100%, but I got there close enough to function within the events of my life.
BUT....
BUT....
So, using a cane, NEEDING to have the allergic reaction treated, I found myself in a clinic, on a walk-in, face to face with the only doctor in town who did informed consent for Trans people.
Purely by accident. Sometimes things just kind of happen.
Purely by accident. Sometimes things just kind of happen.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
So, using a cane, NEEDING to have the allergic reaction treated, I found myself in a clinic, on a walk-in, face to face with the only doctor in town who did informed consent for Trans people.
Purely by accident. Sometimes things just kind of happen.
Purely by accident. Sometimes things just kind of happen.
I'd been batting the idea around in my mind for about a year, whilst identifying as nonbinary and attempting to get there through social transition only, so I knew who to go to, and what to ask, and what would be asked of me, but I hadn't made the appointment yet.
Sometimes events find a way.
Sometimes events find a way.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I'd been batting the idea around in my mind for about a year, whilst identifying as nonbinary and attempting to get there through social transition only, so I knew who to go to, and what to ask, and what would be asked of me, but I hadn't made the appointment yet.
Sometimes events find a way.
Sometimes events find a way.
So, of course, I was rushed to a clinic to get myself on industrial grade antihistamines and steroid injections.
The clinic nearest my apartment.
Where the only doctor in town who did HRT on an informed consent model was working.
The clinic nearest my apartment.
Where the only doctor in town who did HRT on an informed consent model was working.
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
So, of course, I was rushed to a clinic to get myself on industrial grade antihistamines and steroid injections.
The clinic nearest my apartment.
Where the only doctor in town who did HRT on an informed consent model was working.
The clinic nearest my apartment.
Where the only doctor in town who did HRT on an informed consent model was working.
For real, my feet had swollen up like melons. I'm still dealing with the aftermath. They replaced the makeup immediately, but there was a moment where whether I'd be able to walk normally again was very much an open question.
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
For real, my feet had swollen up like melons. I'm still dealing with the aftermath. They replaced the makeup immediately, but there was a moment where whether I'd be able to walk normally again was very much an open question.
a) I was realizing that the "jokes" I'd been making about how I kind of looked like Shrek were less jokes than a cry for help about how I was conceptualizing myself.
b) I was having an allergic reaction to inexpensive face paint so severe that I could barely walk.
b) I was having an allergic reaction to inexpensive face paint so severe that I could barely walk.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
a) I was realizing that the "jokes" I'd been making about how I kind of looked like Shrek were less jokes than a cry for help about how I was conceptualizing myself.
b) I was having an allergic reaction to inexpensive face paint so severe that I could barely walk.
b) I was having an allergic reaction to inexpensive face paint so severe that I could barely walk.
I was playing Shrek in a very broad, very silly kids show about Shrek, and while the show as extremely fun and extremely lovable, it was destroying me.
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I was playing Shrek in a very broad, very silly kids show about Shrek, and while the show as extremely fun and extremely lovable, it was destroying me.
This does seem like a potentially better system!
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This does seem like a potentially better system!
Wait, am I taking prog wrong? 🤣
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wait, am I taking prog wrong? 🤣
I feel that, tho. i managed kind of bangin' hips, but i've got the smallest chest of any of my trans friends locally and it's sometimes a hassle to have a good attitude about that.
November 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I feel that, tho. i managed kind of bangin' hips, but i've got the smallest chest of any of my trans friends locally and it's sometimes a hassle to have a good attitude about that.