Heya Everyone, new Mega time and for it, I’m gonna advertise a TTRPG system called Thirsty Sword Lesbians.
A sword duel can end in kissing, a witch can gain her power by helping others find love, and an entire campaign can be built around wandering matchmakers flying from system to system.
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a roleplaying game for telling queer stories with friends. If you love angsty disaster lesbians with swords, you have come to the right place.
In this book, you’ll find:
Flirting, sword-fighting, and zingers in a system designed for both narrative drama and player safety.
An innovative take on the Powered by the Apocalypse family of games.
Nine character types, each focusing on a particular emotional conflict: Beast, Chosen, Devoted, Infamous, Nature Witch, Scoundrel, Seeker, Spooky Witch, and Trickster.
Guidance and support for running the game, including how to make appealing adversaries, set the tone, pace the game, and structure play.
Tools to create your own settings and stories, alongside a dozen pre-written options including the cyberpunk Neon City 2099, steamfunk poets battling oppression as Les Violettes Dangereuses, laser swords and intrigue in the Starcross Galaxy, and more.
World building worksheet for custom scenarios and starting scenario seeds to play with: Best Day of Their Lives, The Constellation Festival, Gal Paladins, and Sword Lesbians of the Three Houses Variant rules to highlight different identities, emotional connections, and setting elements.
Strategies to adapt any setting where swords cross and hearts race for Thirsty Sword Lesbians.
Here’s a link to their website, I did copy everything over directly from it because I put off writing the Mega this week. I was drawing a blank on what I wanted to talk about. 
https://evilhat.com/product/thirsty-sword-lesbians/
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had a conversation the other day that’s still weirding me out a little. i was walking back from the shop when this random woman called out to me, “why have you got the side of your head shaved?” i responded, “because i like it that way.” and she was like, “well i don’t like it.”
i’m sorry for not asking you?? next time i change up my hair i’ll be sure to consult some random woman on a bench
I’m scary looking enough that people keep those comments to themselves, keep rocking the look it looks cool
The bench woman epidemic has been getting out of hand
One time a (very visibly drunk) lady came around my house while I was mowing the lawn and asked me what race I was. I said Metis with some other stuff too lol but mostly Metis.
She got mad, curled her fists, and said “ahh why couldnt you have said Italian!???”
had a conversation the other day that’s still weirding me out a little. i was walking back from the shop when this loud braggart tried to put me down and said his school is great. i told him, “what’s the matter buddy, ain’t you heard of my school? it’s number one in the state.” and he was like, “well i don’t like that you’re true to your school.”
i’m sorry for not asking you?? next time i wear my letterman i’ll be sure to consult some random man on a bench
shut up, i’m expressing myself
express yourself through beach boys lyrics somewhere else please
I’d like to spend as little time as possible talking to cis people.
What fictional character made you go “oh hmm hang on I’m not cis maybe”? For me it was Kris Deltarune. I saw them eating moss and being nonbinary and I was like. Hmm. Yes. I can get behind that
naruto would be better if naruto was a woman and sasuke was a woman and. shikamaru was a woman and neji was a woman
naruto would be better if masashi kishimoto didn’t hate women
Believe it or not sometimes Naruto transforms himself into a sexy woman
Female Itachi
mental health
My anxiety is through the roof :( I’ve been getting a little bit more in touched with my feelings through therapy but right now I just can’t pinpoint the source of my anxiety at all. I feel completely dissociated and without emotion but there clearly is something because my body is having an extreme stress reaction.
alpha bro talk
You’re either a leader or a breeder. Stop pumping it in the wind and start pumping it at the gym 
anxiety
starting work at a new place that’ll hopefully continue after the summer vacation is over and i feel awful, i already took a pill for anxiety and that shit is working too fucking slowly. i wish i could have like normal reactions to anxiety inducing things instead of whatever the fuck this is
suicidal ideation
just wanna die tbh, would be so much easier goddamnit
bad mental health, suicidal ideation
also work stress related stuff
so found out my current limit for stress, and it was this current job. spent the last night crying in bed, eventually fell asleep and woke up with an elevated heart rate and suicidal ideations. did a tearful call to the boss to thankfully get moved into a less stressful familiar place after two days in the new place. god i wish i had like normal responses to these things and was not so messed up
Tonight I’m a soy drinking choccy milk having piss baby and that’s… alright 😑
I don’t think I like the shampoo/conditioner they use at the hair cutter.
dysphoria
weather’s getting nice and warm and sunny and I’m just dreading needing to wear shorts and short sleeve shirts feeling awful about my body
I don’t wanna have to take off my hoodies and pants that make my butt look good
I can’t find the hair removal cream that actually worked for me and thinking about having to wear short sleeves and shorts with how gross I feel about my body hair makes me just wanna become a hermit again
I should just shave but it’s so much and so dispiriting and uncomfortable and feeling shitty about it in the first place drains me of the energy I’d need to actually go through with it all
I’m currently looking for more nail stamping plates and came across this:
spoiler
Am I imagining things, or is this actually Lenin’s face on the right side?
I finally did some reading on grapefruit medication interactions as it pertains to estrogen! the primary mechanism of interaction is at the “gut wall” (I was surprised to see scientific papers use this term), where the grapefruit can inhibit an enzyme that works to break down and metabolize many oral medications including estrogen. So with oral estrogen grapefruit will definitely screw with your levels and cause them to spike.
My main curiosity was injectable estrogen though. Many drugs taken by injection are unaffected by grapefruit, so I thought estrogen might be fine! As ever with biology though, apparently it’s not that simple. Even with purely endogenous (body-produced) estrogen, grapefruit consumption increases levels (though more modestly than the extreme/dangerous effects seen with oral medications, the study I saw cited a peak 26% increase in cis women 8hrs after consuming grapefruit). I didn’t see a ton of specific research on the mechanism of action here, but I expect it’s related to the fact that the exact same enzyme responsible for breaking down medications in the gut is also present in the liver and helps break down and eliminate various substances from the bloodstream there. The study noted that average levels remained the same with whole grapefruit consumption, it was just a temporary fluctuations.
So my conclusion for my own personal consumption (please don’t take this as gospel/medical advice, I’m pretty dumb) is that grapefruit intake doesn’t appear to be much more dangerous than it is for cis women if you’re doing injections (the reason for the study was elevated cancer risk associated with high estrogen levels so there may be some long term risks there).
It does affect levels, which is good to be aware of, and is a valid reason to be cautious, and there may be nuances I’m missing here (please tell me if you see any), but much like how preferred HRT dosage and levels vary widely by person, and even in cis women, vary drastically throughout hormonal cycles, the variance caused by grapefruit interaction is probably not harmful in any immediate way.
I guess if I was using a shorter lived ester with sharper peaks in levels and I was really worried about levels, I might be more concerned about not having grapefruit around those peak times? still probably not acutely dangerous though, IMO
Usually people on HRT are on other meds too, an anti androgen (spiro or whatever) and being trans is a risk factor for mental health problems to probably no one’s surprise. It’s not just the E that has interactions with grapefruit and the CYP 3A4 liver enzyme.
But if someone was on monotherapy and injectable, that’s really good research! Very fascinating!
Yeah honestly the mental health angle is my biggest concern. If these fluctuations are going to destabilize your mental health or otherwise interfere with your day that’s bad and not a worthwhile risk to take just for grapefruit, but I don’t thiiiink most people are that dialed into their levels hour-by-hour. I’m seemingly not, anyhow, but its worth considering
This inspired me to do some more digging on spiro! (might do other AAs later but got work to do unfortunately). What I’m finding is that spiro itself is not metabolized by CYP3A4, but one of its active metabolites is, at least in part. However, everything I can find seems to suggest if this interaction is significant at all, it isn’t dangerous. Spiro is actually listed here as a safe alternative to eplerenone, which is chemically similar but does have dangerous interactions with grapefruit/other cyp3a4 inhibiting substances.
I also found out during this that the active ingredient in one kind of dandruff shampoo is also a potent cyp3a4 blocker (but thankfully its not absorbed into the bloodstream really when used topically). Its actually crazy how many different things are affected by this metabolism pathway and/or inhibit or enhance its effect. hundreds of drugs easily
Also I have eaten two entire grapefruits since finding all this out and its very exciting for me
I had a dream that someone here (won’t say who) got stood up on a date and sad sad and messaged me to play Ace Combat 8 to fill the night instead.
I’ve never played Ace Combat, so it’s crazy to me that 8 is the one being worked on right now.
volcel investigation in progress
I must’ve built up a bit of a reputation with the weekend’s gay escapades. Now the GF of one of the cuties i played with is in my DMs and we’re talking kink preferences and are planning a date. I mean, we always were lowkey into each other, and it was always clear that what she’s into requires a kind of soft domming that’s kind of my specialty, but nothing beyond a few headpats ever came off it. And then we met in VC yesterday and immediately started hitting it off super hard and i can’t help but wonder what her GF told her about me lmao.
