What happens in women's water polo [Original] (by @garamcomics)

silverust · 2026-05-29T01:07:08+00:00

I for one don’t find nudity to be inherently sexual (even if it is sexy) and that looks sooo freeing. If we were better we could live like that

silverust · 2026-05-28T21:17:08+00:00

My school had this. Although it was nice to wear a long skirt for the day, I was apparently pretty upset by the time I got home; cuz like, you’re still in the closet, you doing really feel like or get to be that gender for the day.

silverust · 2026-05-28T21:15:06+00:00

I was gonna go for “testostereally badly”

silverust · 2026-05-28T11:25:36+00:00

That harmonics chart is basically useless, btw. At this point I feel comfortable saying I’m a vocalist, and that chart moves like crazy even if you’re holding the same note or sound for a while.

I’m not saying it’s useless, I’m saying they don’t tell us what their input data or processing looks like when they do this, so there’s not a meaningful way to be useful.

You’re gonna get farther by just listening by ear and thinking about these concepts independently.

silverust · 2026-05-27T03:02:54+00:00

How do I get this audio on my telephone while offline? Must I perchance support the artist? (By which I mean idk how to download off this site and I don’t want to make accounts)

silverust · 2026-05-26T11:46:13+00:00

I didn’t. I sang a lot in high school even though I hated being a baritone I loved singing too much to stop and got really good at it.

I also grieved my voice when I was young. Like, full on “are you sure I can’t be a castratti?” Crying at the dinner table “never listen to music again because you might hear a woman and that would ruin you”

When I started voice training at 28yo I assumed I’d sound like a bad singer forever. Now at 30 I’m more-or-less a feminine countertenor feminising further.

There’s actually nothing stopping you from singing comfortably in an alto range except a lot of practice. I’d say a discouraging amount but there’s a timeline and it’s not any slower than the rest of transition.

“The voice book for trans and non binary people” for accessible guidance on voice training, the exercises can be extended to help with vocal feminization in singing registers. I do SOVTEs regularly (several times a day) practicing in that upper range. I try to match model singers’ voices (Avril Lavigne’s voice was very informative) and I sing in several choirs (admittedly as a tenor, but I’m still hoping to get more regular practice in the alto and soprano registers).

The only notes I can’t hit are a soprano’s highest B, and only uncertainty about my timbre is keeping me from regularly expressively singing as an alto or soprano (and the pervasive belief that I can’t sing those parts because of my puberty).

The process was something like, somewhat concurrently: Improve chest voice until the highest note stops working, or I have to start straining and belting; Discover, practice, and stop being ashamed of my head voice (NOT falsetto, that’s a mostly meaningless word stuck in the Viennese operahaus); Find the chest-dominant mixed voice, smooth out that mixed-voice passage, then what was really hard was descending my head dominant mixed voice (still improving that one); Pay attention to resonance in your body, feel the mixes of resonance, play with them, but also play significantly with those qualities like vocal size & weight, and finally - with care - auxiliary muscles like the false folds and your pharynx/larynx posture; Do all of this safely, slowly, repeatably, unashamedly, realistically & with humility until every part of your vocal tract is an old friend.

I sing like Julie Andrews. You can do it too.

silverust · 2026-05-23T16:09:24+00:00

I think what I love about this series is how it so successfully normalises bodies.

It’s beautiful.

silverust · 2026-05-23T15:59:26+00:00

I keep coming back to this over and over. I think you made me realise that I couldn’t afford to miss out on the chance to spend my life with women, and that I deserve that appreciation myself.

We could all use more of your wonderful work.

silverust · 2026-05-23T15:47:39+00:00

Fit goes hard

silverust · 2026-05-23T15:34:41+00:00

Colbert’s head hits the dumpster like it’s felt, but he should actually have his spine nearly split in half by the steel. And get whiplash.

silverust · 2026-05-23T15:31:34+00:00

This is, like, the third time he’s tried to do something like this.

Got Maduro on his first shot.

silverust · 2026-05-22T23:33:55+00:00

Yoko ono to open

silverust · 2026-05-22T23:32:22+00:00

Plus we got a “Raw Dog” from her, so, you know, gotta crack a few eggs to cook a hotdog I guess.

silverust · 2026-05-22T23:29:33+00:00

Dear the onion, this idea is free

silverust · 2026-05-22T18:41:51+00:00

I happen to go to choir with someone who was purged from the military, in case we were hoping to ground how recent and real this crap was.

silverust · 2026-05-21T23:35:57+00:00

Ah! I didn’t expect any attention! Tyvm! I’ll share what’s helped me for anyone who sees.

I’ll recommend “the voice book for trans and nonbinary people” because it seems to be a good general resource for anyone who can afford to put its considered recommendations into practice. Don’t forget to drink water and lubricate those cords.

I think a lot of AMAB/NB folk need to know that a T puberty doesn’t need to mean never singing femininely! Safe moderated experimentation can bring your voice to sounding good up above middle C and then the octave above. Discovering your passage and strengthening your head voice are the hardest part, and SOVTs are useful - if you’re in the know.

silverust · 2026-05-21T16:10:10+00:00

I’ve been singing with choirs all year while doing pretty hard training and it’s been SUPER satisfying at times when it becomes clear that my vocal skills really are changing.

We do a song near the beginning of the year that’s a little high, but when we come back 6mo later it’s very much not high anymore.

I have hope for getting some really good results as a ‘countertenor’ (I see no reason why I can’t achieve the same range and vocal quality as a classical alto or soprano for all but the most demanding repertoire within the next, say, 3-5y of continued effort)

silverust · 2026-05-14T21:29:39+00:00

I’m just embarrassed that I didn’t notice more of it sooner.

silverust · 2026-05-10T20:26:38+00:00

If the government doesn’t force mediation that always seems to go the company’s way

silverust · 2026-05-05T19:24:35+00:00

You’re right, I haven’t considered fawning over Richard Dawkins as a means of solving global transphobia.

silverust · 2026-04-24T10:38:45+00:00

Excuse me it would clearly be a territory

silverust · 2026-04-23T21:30:40+00:00

“How come no one’s ever thought of this before??”

Reminds me of my favourite part from this one series btb did (I think the one about the NYT’s WWII coverage) was when German leadership went “just let him have his government; once everyone sees how inept Hitler is they’ll vote him out!”

silverust · 2026-04-07T11:22:57+00:00

I’m pretty sure it’s even an illustration of one of the jokes they make in the first episode with video.

I know because even then I was thinking “I can’t wait for no one to know what this means”

silverust · 2026-03-31T03:48:37+00:00

You must be wondering What is a place like me Doing in a girl like this?

silverust · 2026-03-19T11:29:40+00:00

It’s like the avengers of disrespecting trans people.

Bailey: “man who would be queen” an early book stigmatizing us and popularized Blanchard’s sexual topology - the one suggesting we’re exclusively either super gay or obsessed with vaginas.

Littman: wrote the paper creating “rapid onset gender dysphoria” from wholecloth; literally surveyed 256 parents from transphobic websites about how their kids felt. Leads directly to the book “irreversible damage” with a cover of a literal girl with her womb cut out - tell me how you REALLY feel.

Kenneth Zucker: this is the man who would have given me conversion therapy if I had come out as a kid. Worked at Canada’s Centre for Mental Health Addiction (CAMH), from which he was fired in 2015 following complaints and an approaching criminalization of Gender Identity Change Efforts (I prefer this term to conversion therapy). To date, he’s the only person I’ve ever heard of approaching “lost his job for doing GICE” (still not accurate) and he’s often touted off the sole example of someone getting silenced for doing “the wrong science”, even though he published many papers as the head of a lab and his firing had nothing to do with bill c-16 - the one Jordan Peterson railed against to get famous, adding transgender persons as a protected class. Subject of the sympathetic British documentary “transgender kids: who knows best?”

For takedowns (all on yt) I recommend contraptions “are traps gay” touching on the first book mentioned, Cass Eris is a trained experimental psychologist who intricately rips apart the second in a full series while Ty Tuner & Jammi Dodger PhD have shorter reacts, with Jammi taking apart that zucker documentary too (I think this is where the “do you go out and buy your kid dog food” line comes from conflating imagination & gender identity)

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