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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weight
I’m so close to hitting my goal weight, but I’m honestly thinking of putting some back on.I’m not completely happy with my body, but I don’t hate it and my latest cope is weight cycling.
Pretty much the entire time I’ve been on this higher dose of estrogen I’ve been losing weight and now I’m thinking maybe it’s been keeping it from being as effective as it could be, but the idea of taking even more time to reach my goal and actively getting farther away from it also makes me feel weird.
Honestly don’t really know what to do or how to do it.
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It seems like you’ve been having a pretty intensely hard time emotionally. Maybe being low weight has prevented body fat redistribution (you need some to move around). Your goal weight should be more about healthy habits and feeling healthy and good than a number, you can fluctuate up or down nearly a kilo with a full bladder and a full intestine. Don’t focus on the number, even the trend isn’t that important but the trend line matters more than an actual number
Weight cycling also mean coming back down! Not just gaining. So if you want to stick to aiming for the number, you are supposed to cycle down in weight in the first place. You could try gaining 5 to 15 lbs and see how you feel. Maybe you’ll feel like you have to cut back down, maybe you’ll actually be quite happy because itll go to your thighs, hips, and boobs and femme out your shape - no way to tell until you try. Cycling usually works by gaining a small amount of pounds, cutting them back, putting on again over the course of 3 weeks to 2 months. You could easily gain weight by adding a little bit at breakfast and supper and it should come on in a healthy way. Just an extra 500 kcal over a day (250 kcal if split between 2 meals) should help you gain weight at a good and decent pace and you can decide when you wanna stop and think about reversing or staying (losing weight at the same 500 kcal but as a deficit would be a good pace)
more direct mental health, don't click if you're not into that headspace for it
If I may be more direct, I think working on self acceptance and confidence will help you more than weight cycling because from where I’m sitting, tell me if I’m wrong, you seem to have a pretty distorted view of yourself and have been pretty strict about eating and weight for a long time. I don’t know you besides what you’ve written over time, what you’ve written strikes me as someone dealing with poor mental health instead of someone who doesn’t “look femme.” Take from that what you’d like.
What should I bounce between?
From what I’ve heard and read from others, go for 5 lbs up from where you are then back down 5 lbs to where you are now. If you choose, you could do 10 lbs up to 10 lbs down - I would suggest, specifically for you to try 15 lbs up then back off 5 lbs then up 5 lbs and repeat as necessary and see if you’re happier in your body with an extra 10 lbs and a few cycles, breasts are mostly fat so maybe youll be happier in terms of shape if you have more fat available for breasts and butt. If you’re not comfortable with that, just stick to 5 up and down a couple cycles and see what happens then if you want to try more go 10 lbs up and down.