That's it, Chap. Put that monocle and top-hat on. You don't need to think anymore, you're a proper Gentlemanly Chap now. Yes, drink your tea.. Now get in the fantastical steampunk flying machine..
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When I was in grad school, one of my professors shared how to write a scientific paper (unsolicited, during a discussion on pelicans).
First, he said, you write the methods. You’ve been doing the methods for months, you know what goes there. You know what questions you’re trying to answer and how you went about answering them.
Now that you’ve done that, write the results. Do your analysis. Take some time to bask in having done that and chew it over.
Next: the introduction. What information do you need to set up the conclusion? Do you need to write the six worst sentences known to man as a draft conclusion so you can go back that up in the introduction? Do that.
Write that conclusion. Tie things up, you’ve done amazing. It’s looking good! Unfortunately. The hardest part is yet to come:
The abstract. An unholy melange of introduction, results, and conclusion. The thing that 90% of readers are going to stop after reading. The ultimate test of your ability to communicate your science. Thank goodness you have all this prep work done and aren’t trying to create it out of nothing! Thank goodness you didn’t try to write it first because it was the first thing on the page!
Anyway I’ve taken that approach to a lot of other kinds of writing since. I write the part I know (because of months of development) and then what that will mean, and then I work out what I need to support that, and then I write the part everyone will read.
I cannot argue with the excellent and cogent points made here
You are standing at a crossroads, and what should be the hardest choice of your life is very, very easy
Something that is evil and wrong about me is that my brain, such as it is, after some 7 years has decided to designate ao3 comments on my work as Scary and Impossible to respond to. As a result I have some 122 (lovely) comments in my inbox that have been glaring at me for way too long. Apologies to anyone who took the time to comment, while deeply appreciated I will struggle to respond.
i think ive said this in some fashion before but i think the cure to being nervous about starting testosterone hrt is to know and love trans women with all your heart
the """worst case scenario""" of taking testosterone that everyone was warning me about is that i would take it, go through testosterone puberty, and then want to be a feminine girl again.
luckily all of the most beautiful women in the world also went through testosterone puberty. so basically i dont even need to worry about it at all
Woe coding errors woe extensive feedback on chapter drafts woe encroaching deadline woe excessive ambition to produce The Best Thesis woe diminishing motivation and energy woe the dysphoria woe the anxiety
Lads academia might kinda suck ... Have they not considered that I am Just A Little Guy?
Update, The Best Thesis was achieved!!!
does anyone know if we have transmasc and transfem love and friendship today
We do. And tomorrow and the next day and every day forever and ever and ever too. :)
a long time ago i was struggling with being transmasc because i felt like i was betraying womanhood somehow. then one of my best friends came out as a trans woman and i realised "ah... there will always be so many beautiful women in the world, so it's okay that i'm not one of them". what i'm trying to say is you need to love each other or there's no point to any of this
in a reversal of this. when i came out as transfem i was almost dissapointed because i spent so long trying to be a truly good man. i was raised with a lot of shitty guys so i tried to be the most pro-feminist comfortable dude i could be for the women around me. when my egg cracked, i almost felt this feeling of "shit, are the only men who think like this secretly women inside?" and it feels nice to see that proven so utterly and completely wrong by the trans men i know in my life. i love seeing people take on the masculinity i hated and do amazing shit with it, god bless trans dudes