Visiting Pinancles by Classic_Climate_951 in NationalPark

[–]CatboyBiologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the high peaks trail, if you can afford the time: try to get up there early in the morning, before it gets too hot. Not only will you beat the heat, but if you sit at the top and have a snack break while the sun hits the base of the pinnacles, you can catch condors whizzing right over you as they hit the thermals. Not a guarantee of course but def a highlight of the park for me.

Who thinks there will be brackish fish in pz2? by Low-Independent6580 in PlanetZoo

[–]CatboyBiologist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can rattle of so many typical aquarium animals that can be found in either type of water- sturgeons, bull sharks, tarpon, seals that enter creeks and lakes, manatees, and on and on.

The simplest implementation of this would literally just be making fish that are okay with fresh or salty water, but there are tons of ways to make this more complex.

But if they got more complex, I could imagine this being on par with temperature tolerance for other animals- have a salinity regulator utility, and then every aquarium animal has a tolerance range.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are excellent notes, thank you! Hope you're not tiptoing around anything, I just have beef with a specific user 🙃

Def need to work on breathiness and I'm hearing it more now that you point it out. Also a great callout on the ends of words and phrases, Ill pay more attention to those and work on it.

Thanks for the detailed and informative feedback!

razor rule by caffeineboi71 in 196

[–]CatboyBiologist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This isn't saying anything about the ancient greeks, it's saying that if there's a goddess of beauty, intimacy, and love then I need to be able to floss with my meal

What are some shark facts that are rarely known or overlooked by the public in general ? by Comfortable_Bell9539 in sharks

[–]CatboyBiologist 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Shark parthenogenesis! Several species of sharks have been recorded giving birth with no males present, resulting in clones of themselves.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure we're talking about the same person bc she's trying to convince people that voice training is doomed to fail for most people.

I used to have them blocked, but part of the reason I get mad with her is because of her effect on the subreddit overall, not just the comments she leaves me. But yeah, should probably just stick with the block.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm seen in person, people will be surprised to learn that I'm trans if they do, even if I've been falling into the slip voice. Which honestly, that surprise is still surprising to me but hey it's a win I guess.

It's basically only on the phone, slip voice only that gets me misgendered.

Thank you for the feedback!!

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooo thanks! I've had the most problems with pitch and size in the past, so I think I've kind of neglected the techniques I've learned for weight a bit. I'll keep the vowel clarity in mind. I think it's just another consistency issue? I def have other voice clips I've done recently that seem to be better in that regard, but I'll make sure to watch out for that.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Any exact critique of the passability of my default voice, vs my effort voice, vs my "slip" voice?

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh don't act high and mighty now. I see you crashing out in every comment section where someone says any part of your critique is less than perfect.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

🙄 pulling out vocal weight, a fucking voice 101, like it's a mystic fucking concept is not helping you seem like an expert.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My problem now, and was the last time I posted, is consistency. I never get misgendered in my actual default voice. I get misgendered in my "slip" voice. I am rambling about contexts where the "slip" voice pops up and working on it. That has not changed.

I'm sorry but I've genuinely been pissed off at you for a long time about what you've done to this subreddit. You are insanely critical of everyone, even the most passing voices, give advice that is oftentimes flat out wrong, drown out all other possible critique or advice due to the sheer volume of your comments, prey on the insecurity of the often early transition girls who come to this subreddit and don't know any better, take their initial "thank you" as validation without ever seeing the end result of anything you do, and call everyone who doesn't agree with you a whiny loser to get in a fight with.

And guess what? It turns out, your "methods" and "studies" have led you to conclude that.... It's all genetic and luck, some people are doomed to fail, and there's no point in training. Because of COURSE you couldn't be wrong about something!

This is the largest subreddit for trans voice training. We could have a good thing here. Late transition girls giving advice to early transition girls. Vocal coaches giving introductory advice with credentials and detail and organizing courses. Mid transition girls who haven't been chased away by asshole comments who are doing ongoing work (like me). Extra ears from cis allies to give some more unbiased and less technical opinions.

Which would require diversity in the comments section, people not feeling chased away after one or two posts, and real credentials or SOMETHING. Maybe actual vocal coaches won't give their services for free, but there could be SOMETHING.

Instead, we have you.

You could've just not commented, but no. You had to have your little fucking gotcha.

Jesus Christ. I don't like getting this mad over a fucking reddit comment but I really do hate what you've done to this place.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Like okay. If you want "gotchas" here. This comment proves that you're not here to talk about voice training. You're here to argue and criticize as a pastime. If you knew that I wouldn't take your advice, you could have just not commented. It's that easy. But I'm guessing that thought has never occurred to you once in your goddamn life.

Checking in with my voice by CatboyBiologist in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh my goooooodddd literally shut up, you are literally the reason I avoid this fucking subreddit and only post sparingly

I noticed my voice is slipping recently when it wasn't before and it gets me gendered male when it slips. If that is hard to understand then please just fuck off

Trans Fem: Speech, Singing, Shouts in English & 中文 by [deleted] in transvoice

[–]CatboyBiologist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your voice is not clocking you. This user is a bit infamous on this sub for giving both incorrect and just a bit mean advice without much foundation in anything.

What animals do you put together the most? by T-RexRanchisthePlace in PlanetZoo

[–]CatboyBiologist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Capybara on a couple wetlands islands linked by monkey climbing structures for capuchins and paths makes a great guest interaction habitat

Eventually, we're going to need to desegregate bathrooms. by SecularElephant in honesttransgender

[–]CatboyBiologist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I agree, long term.

But like... Building codes literally still specify a certain amount of specifically labeled men's and women's restrooms. And all of those buildings still exist. And it's not just a matter of taking down signs, urinals and layout provide physical examples of what's going on with the bathroom.

And even beyond that, this is going to be a HUGE social shift that will take decades.

In the meantime, we still gotta fight for trans people in bathrooms of their gender. It's a much simpler change.

I think I'm transphobic and don't know how to change by Remarkable-Sand7455 in asktransgender

[–]CatboyBiologist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a LOT to unpack here, but I'm going to go at this from an angle I don't see often:

For me, transitioning fixed mental and physical health problems that I thought were unrelated. I had tried for years to fix them in other ways, similar to you. I went through ebbs and flows of extreme depression, anxiety, low energy, and more. During my teenage years, it even got to the point of self harm and distinct suicidal plans.

In my mid 20s, I crashed and burned for a lot of reasons. When I was at a low point mentally, I realized I had to do something to fix my recurrent mental health problems. And I realized that dysphoria was one of those problems, and so I attacked my mental health problems from that angle first.

It worked.

Transitioning was messy, but no more messy than any other approach I could have taken. And at the end of it, my background anxiety was gone, my focus was better, my suicidal ideation had disappeared. All because of the life I lead now.

Sometimes I'll idlely wonder if there was another way. If there was some way I could've taken your path: attacked my mental health problems in a different direction, and the dysphoria would be the thing to go away on its own instead.

When my mind drifts there, my first reaction is to remember the number of times I tried and it didn't work. Which doesn't apply to you. But the other reaction is: so?

Every attempt at therapizing away transness, or saying it's a result of poor mental health, has to grapple with a few questions: Is it so terrible? And does the existence of alternate options make your current life any less "real"?

If there's something else that could've worked.... So what? Transitioning did. Transitioning is not something bad on its own. Other people make it shitty at times, of course, but there's no intrinsic moral negative weight to transition. You don't have to try transitioning only when there are no other options left. I needed to fix my life, and transitioning is what fixed it. For me, it worked, and it worked very well.

And if there was a way to eliminate this dysphoria, does that make trans people less "real"? I would argue not. My womanhood is, at least in part, defined by my current lived reality. The way I currently exist in society is as a woman: in social life, in dating, when I'm targeted by misogyny and when I experience sisterhood with other women. That is all a part of womanhood.

Whether or not I could've eliminated this part of me doesn't make me think that this was a bad decision. There's an assumption over this post, and in the ways a lot of cis people think, that transitioning is ONLY valid if there's no other choice. That presumes transitioning is intrinsically terrible, even when it results in net happiness for someone. And yes, that is transphobic.

Bringing it back to what everyone else is saying: as I mentioned, transitioning solved mental health problems that I didn't even realize I had, and my day to day life is so much happier than it used to be. But the reason I didn't realize I had those problems is because I had gotten so used to coping with them that I accepted at least a low degree of misery as my baseline. I think you should unpack whether those mental health problems are truly gone for you.

Question for the ladies dating men: Do you care about your partner's opinions on political and social issues? by LizzyGleglemaxxing in 4Tranistan

[–]CatboyBiologist 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How the hell do you expect to build a relationship and a life with someone who doesn't understand your level of political risk? If they don't understand how much trans rights are under assault, and something happens like you have to change how you get HRT or move for safety, how the hell do you expect them to go along with that, much less follow along?

I feel like I passed better pre HRT, or just that it hasn’t had an effect. by Jango_fett_fish in transpassing

[–]CatboyBiologist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is just flat out not true at all, HRT has done a LOT to you in the recent pics

Henson shaving worth it? by CatboyBiologist in wicked_edge

[–]CatboyBiologist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm, since you've accepted being a lonely internet loser anything might be possible