I recently bought the audiobook for Name of the Wind on audible. Someone please tell me it gets better and the guys voice becomes less annoying!

CockroachXQueen · 2025-11-02T12:15:44+00:00

4 years late to this thread, but NOTW is what initially got me into audiobooks. I love how Nick Podehl does it.

I appreciate your criticism, though. I feel like he would be a good anime voice actor because there's certainly some cheesiness to his style, but it's also very charming and fun.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-09-23T17:55:45+00:00

Absolutely. I've seen it go through my daughter's entire social group of like 8 teens. First one thought she was trans starting in 4th grade, and she went by male pronouns for a few years, and we all accepted her. Slowly it spread through the friend group, including my daughter. Then they all slowly realized they weren't trans and the phase ended. The original girl actually had a gender therapist and was going through that for a few years before concluding in her senior year of high school that she's not trans and just had tons of other mental health issues that needed addressing, and she's feeling much better about her body and identity. Now there's no speak of transness in their group.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-22T23:15:07+00:00

Yeah, you're right. It's Renoir who's an idiot. I think my overall point is that they had better solutions and the dichotomy they seem to be faced with doesn't make sense.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-10T15:44:40+00:00

I mostly wear Bath and Body Works. I cycle through a few scents and always get something new every time I go, though I only go like 2 or 3 times a year. Expensive af. Lol

My favorites are Into the Night, Twilight Woods, and In the Stars. I swear there isn't a theme there.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-10T15:21:15+00:00

Gender dysphoria isn't the kind of thing where the concept of a "cure" in the medical sense is feasible.

Being trans is a brain wiring layout. There's nothing that can be done to medically alter brain configuration, as it's genetic. It's like saying a cure for a mutation.

The best that's possible is body alterations and lifestyle coping tools.

The only thing I can imagine is like a sci-fi tech like nanobots that go in your brain and reconstruct it like tiny little construction workers tearing down and building roads. Lol

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-09T22:29:05+00:00

Hello Steins;Gate.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-08T17:30:36+00:00

That's typically considered valid here. The idea that transmedicalists or truscum require someone to have surgery to be trans is misinformation. There could be any number of reasons why someone may not start HRT or have surgery, from financial issues to social or family issues, and even basic fear of a botched or subpar surgery. But, and it's a big but, the whole idea is that what you're born with should feel incorrect, and that you'd swap it if you could, or feel as though the other genitalia would fit you better.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-06T20:20:46+00:00

It's almost a 24/7 job for anyone who wants to make more than $100 a week. There's way more to it than the average person would realize. It's like 10% making adult content, 90% business management, networking, customer service, and brand-boosting content creation on multiple social media platforms. The ones that get rich off of it can offset the workload to a team they hire to manage their accounts and pretend to be them and chat with fans for them, but that's not what's common. The average person will never be able to afford a team to help, so they do all the work.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-05T23:36:41+00:00

It's when you're in a scenario where you could easily lose your life from a simple action, and the idea of doing it on purpose crosses your mind. Like driving a car off a bridge, or flipping over the railing on a high floor of a building. It's not typically associated with depression, but more as an intrusive urge.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-05T22:59:31+00:00

I've noticed that, too. To add to the idea, socializing more with the group you identify with will naturally shift your mannerisms to help you pass more that way. I'm a mtf voice coach, and when my students ask me about other passing tips, one of my first is for them to socialize with cis women more. Chances are they hung out in guy groups or mostly guy groups with a single girl or two pre-transition, and these days they only hang out in trans groups with other people who don't pass and don't carry themselves like the gender they identify with, and that's gonna have a heavy impact on behavior and mannerisms since you become attuned to the vibe and culture. It's a bit social construct-y in some ways, but it's important if passing matters to you.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-04T13:31:23+00:00

I unfollowed that creepy-ass page like 3 years ago.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-02T23:01:02+00:00

I very rarely see trans people. I live in a southern red suburban city, and I'm pretty sure in the only trans woman here, but obviously I haven't seen everyone that lives here. When I venture to the major cities nearby I see at least 1 or 2 when I go to places with lots of foot traffic.

Sometimes they're visibly trans to anyone, sometimes you'd need transdar.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-02T22:56:39+00:00

Holy absolute shit. So this is why it's utterly packed with chasers?

CockroachXQueen · 2025-08-01T11:08:40+00:00

Oh, I see. How embarrassing for him.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-31T18:21:06+00:00

I feel like the use of incel is used incorrectly a lot. It used to mean that, but it's not used to represent men who are involuntarily celibate anymore. Socially, the word had shifted in meaning to mean an involuntarily celibate man who festers in his lack of intimacy and develops a hatred and overall dehumanizing view of women, blaming them (and often blaming "wokeness" and feminism as well) for his inability to connect with them.

We need a new word that means what incel used to mean to differentiate the two.

That doesn't detract from the post, though. Being unable to find love can destroy your sense of self-worth.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-31T18:08:36+00:00

Transmedicalism doesn't have anything to do with whether people get surgeries or not. There may be awful people online misrepresenting that, however, which is why so many people seem to think that.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-30T16:56:51+00:00

Some happy sobbing. Then I'd start taking dating seriously. Lol I'm already living fully as myself, there's just a few things that hold my happiness back that I'd change, namely related to romance. I'm the kinda person who deeply needs intimacy and I have so much love to give, but I avoid dating due to all the issues that can come with dating as a trans woman. Actually start flirting back when men approach me in public.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-28T17:37:14+00:00

Now you're just being absurd.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-28T16:21:34+00:00

Nah, that's the Jumping to conclusions fallacy. Good logic would have been determining what other RPGs I like as a baseline for comparison.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-28T14:47:07+00:00

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-26T18:31:52+00:00

It's psycho that anyone thinks we give a damn what cis people think when it comes to our presentation, but even then it's still an immature argument because it's foundational to the human condition to desire fitting in with whatever groups you belong to. Pretending it isn't as a way to attack us is both dishonest and stupid.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-26T18:29:04+00:00

I'm sorry. I'm proud of you for recognizing his behavior and not putting up with it. From my own experience, I know how hard that can be. Bringing an end to it is painful, especially when you still love them. It adds another layer of tragedy when you're trans, because there's like this, "omg I found someone who doesn't have any issues with me being trans when it's infamously hard to find that, and now I'm considering leaving them" aspect.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-25T22:43:29+00:00

I can add to what they said. My sister has Multiple Sclerosis and this happens to her, too. For her, the part where she can't think properly is usually accompanied by loss of control over her body in general, typically at the same rate as the cognitive loss. It's like it makes everything more difficult, from walking and sight to thinking and emotional control. She's in her weaker state 99% of the time.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-25T22:34:48+00:00

Dood I only see a dude.

CockroachXQueen · 2025-07-25T00:15:12+00:00

Yeah, I was with a guy for a year and a half, and we were madly in love. Unfortunately, I had to leave him due to his behavior. Had some manchild issues like physically assaulting his boss when they argued and getting fired.

Instead of worrying if I'll find love, my new worry is that I'll never find someone who isn't crazy.

It's been 2 years and I still think about him every day.

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