Lesser known fact is that cis people are also beautiful as who they are, trans people don't need to pass to be who they are and same applies to cis people
Today I went outside as a girl for the first time, I called someones dog cute and they said "just like you". This was an absolutely amazing feeling, it was so hard to not explode in euphoria.
The first one was my grandpa when I came out, he said "That makes sense I would have been nonbinary had that been a thing when I was younger." I felt bad for him mostly because if he wasn't with my grandma he might have explored it more today.
It makes me so sad to see stuff like this ): If only queerness was more widely known and accepted, your gramps could've explored his identity so much more easily
"Normal" is just the widely accepted weird, as there is no all encompassing normal, as it is unique to each individual, even if it is similar to others.
My definition of normal is: Whats possible and exists. Same with the word natural. We trans people exist therefore thats something that has to be normal. If it wasnt it would be an impossible thing never seen. Normal mean existing anormal means not existing or physically unable to exist. Anything that is, is normal.
Thanks so much for teaching me about Plurality! When I was younger I took therapy to help with processing some trauma, and she told me “your emotions are like a dragon,” which caused me to give my emotions a dragon form named Glory. She helped me understand and regulate my emotions throughout my life, and is such a loyal companion helping me traverse life. I’ve experienced a BUTT ton of more trauma since seeing that therapist, she moved out of the area insurance would cover, so I had to stop. So another Dragin joined the roster, Abhor, to give that intense hatred I felt towards the people who caused my trauma, and the cruel thoughts towards myself and others a face and name, so I may reconcile with him. He may be far more aggresive and mean then Glory, but he’s reliable and always thee to protect me. That’s why I love Celeste SO MUCH, you could very well consider Badeline a “plural” of sorts, and opened me up to the idea of making your trauma into a character wasn’t something i only did. It feels SO GOOD to know it has a name and community, I’m so excited to join it.
Celeste absolutely I think falls into "accidental plural representation" or "plural adjacent experiences"!! Honestly conceptualizing the brain and your internal experiences, your sense of "self" has a kind long history of conceptual ideas and frameworks that involve some level of understanding your self through "selves". Freud had things like Id and Ego, Carl Jung had archetypes to split things as self, shadow, anima/animus. Not that older theories like that have much credence as they were just armchair musings of frameworks, but just to point out that history. Plurality of anything offers people to find and accept internal make ups that work best for them. Maybe that's part of why it faces such hate keeping and ridicule, since all plural systems can be very varied and different, different levels of experiences and what it means for them.
i didn't really know what plurality really was and decided to look in the comments section to see what it means for other people, and reading this comment really helped me with understanding it!! it's really awesome seeing other people share their experiences in the comments, and i wish all of them the best
We don't understand why people try to gatekeep other people's internal experience, like if you aren't in their head you have no idea and even then you don't necessarily know everything.
Something I've learned many times over is that people will be stupid given the opportunity. Heck, I've been the stupid one on several occasions, or helped someone else clean up the results of their stupidity. So you have to design around that. Why put sharp corners on your desk for folks to impale themselves when you can round them off just a tiny bit? Like, seriously. If I can manage to be oblivious to the things in our life I was for as long as I was, people can justify darn near anything they want if they can control that "wasted" energy. If everything made sense, we'd be living in a land of alicorns and rainbows. Gay joke fully intended.
omg people calling me "handsome" as a kid pissed me off so much. As I got older, people calling me sir pissed me off so much. I was still in denial during that time mixed with not even knowing about transgender stuff but I got legit angry people calling me "sir" and anything masculine.
I don't know if people would call this plurality, but for me, Stripes (the character on my pfp) is an active voice in my mental landscape, often being a small voice of self-awareness, snark/witty comments and a reminder of why I keep going each day. I am always in control of what happens irl but she is there to help keep my sanity. Edit: I'm honestly not fussed if it is or isn't plurality. I just wanted to share my experiences
Thanks for talking a bit about plurality! I didn't know that "multiple personalities" was outdated til watching this (my bad), so thanks for showing that in the video, and talking about plurality as a whole anyway. Also I had no idea Lena Raine and Aurahack were married!!! I love both of their work so much :3 Thanks and have a good one! - Luna :3
Being exposed to plurality kinda forced me to face it, and I came to the conclusion that if I try to overrationalize it, I'll panic attack myself to death. Now, I identify as plural and live with my sister and brother, who nitpick my day to day because siblings.
I love the way you expound and spend a lot of time telling your own stories and stories from others. you aren't just reading memes, you're genuinely talking about a lot of personal trans and plural experiences and I think that's important for those that share these experiences.
8:49 In my humble opinion transness shouldn't be gauged by dysphoria, rather more by euphoria. Does doing x make you feel good? Then read into why. I think dysphoria measures might be more important with things like surgeries but that's just because people would need to weigh the risk of not doing it with the risk of doing it.
There is no transness in general i feel like. Beeing trans is a definition that you fall under or you dont. And nowhere in that definitions is any talk about disphoria. Its just, the gender people assume i should have based on my sex (at birth, because sex can be changed partially because its defined through hormones, primary and secondary sexual characteristcs, chromosomes and more, and some i changed) beeing different from my actual gender. Thats it, i dont need to present in a certain way or anything to be trans, because thats not part of the definition at all, gender is part of my identity of who i am and as such part of my conciousness and my mind). But i get what you say. People seem to want to gauge when you are trans enough to earn certain treatment. But thats just a misunderstanding in society. Though i do feel that pressure too, even if i know its not rational and wrong.
I really like that idea. Euphoria is a lot more salient a concept than dysphoria. I find most trans people really notice and connect more with their euphoria than we did with our dysphoria. It seems easier to recognize and acknowledge.
@@ASLBarbie Yeah exactly. I was in denial for years about being trans despite the crippling dysphoria I would get, but the euphoria I felt when a gas station clerk referred to me as lady pretty much cracked my egg wide open. Euphoria has been my guide much more so than my dysphoria could ever have been.
I am NO programmer, madams and sirs. yes, from time to time i have been known to program a little here and there, and literally learned Python just for Bayesian Inference class, but I am not a nerd. Sure, I am into all things nerdy, including Star Trek, Deer Dancing, neuroscience and I may have wet myself a little when I saw a Positron Emissions Tomography scanner in person, but I am NOT a stereostripe trans girl. Do I have the mandatory striped thigh highs? yes, multiple, and yes I may have a giant Blahaj, and a ton of miniskirts and crop tops, one which may say “UWU!” on the front, but I am NOT a doll. Do I have 2.5 feet of blonde hair, a love for all things pink, sparkly, pretty and girly, and i may have the exact Barbie dress, the nickname Barbie, a daily face of full makeup, 2 daily moisturizing sessions, and a tall, slim, girly, silky body. Still, i am NOT....a...jazz musician. yeah, yeah, that one. lol, i just realized that this is what we sounded like when we told ourselves we weren’t trans all those times. You ‘member?
🤭 I remember writing out worked Bayes problem examples in both Python and R for the Bayes course I TA'd for so students would have a good starting place to pull from if they wanted to do their homework in code rather than Excel because like... Good god trying to work out parameter estimation problems in excel is so much tedious work even with just two dimensions. But yeah couldn't be me matching trans girls stereotypes
@@Lunazera honestly the most difficult course ever. Compounded by the need to learn coding more complex and useful than Excel/Numbers. I had the extra challeng of taking it in Spring 2020, so I lost access to TA and the prof, and nobody in the McMaster math centre or tutor centre actually understood Bayes. But now I have a superpower.
You coming out about your plurality and being so supportive of plural systems has really helped us discover who we are and feel welcomed in our existence. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
You should never feel pressured to speak about anything you're not ready to. Even if it is for a good cause like making people feel more comfortable and represented, you should still put yourself and your own health first. And, if you ever feel comfortable sharing, I'm certain your fans will listen intently and be supportive! I'm not plural myself, but I'm very sure your system siblings will appreciate hearing your experiences and I, along with plenty of your other fans, will too even if we personally can't relate.
The first thing that did crack my egg was fire emblem, cause I picked the female characters on other play throughs, and I was like 'What would be my girl name?' should've been a sign lol
so, as a trans woman, who wears size 12's (and they have to be wide), i can say, i was lucky that i could find heels that fit me, specifically nice chunky heels from demonia, they only carry up to size 12 for fem boots... and i fit in them incredibly snug, but hey, they fit, and nobody can stop me from ordering 3 more pairs of different heels from them in the not so distant future (hopefully)
Honestly, that whole group on tumblr (Fish, Ayvie, Fea, Nyxis and Kayla) were some of the first people I turned to when I started questioning my plurality. The thing that solidified my plurality was, as you put it, feeling the euphoria, and not the dysphoria of being plural. My experiences aren't what most people think of when they hear it, but that doesn't invalidate the experiences. Do what is safe for you and yours, but trust yourself and your headmates.
Regarding Dysphoria. I had no idea that I was dysphoric. Only after coming to terms with the fact that I ain't cis it started to hit me that a lot of stuff I was experiencing was in fact dysphoria. Kinda like the "Always has been"-Meme Also: Being normal is giving up individuality
As an artist, it warms my heart to see you be sure to take a spot in the middle to showcase some cool stuff you've been given or commissioned. So trust me, these intermissions aren't annoying at all, certainly not to me.
Celeste music is so good, i love how all the later music tracks have motifs from earlier tracks, calling back to the struggles you can now overcome, the distance you’ve gone, how far you’ve climbed, and most importantly, how madaline has improved mentally.
I regret to say that my first reaction to hearing about plurality was that I didn't believe it. But I'm self aware of the fact that my brain tends to be kind of reactionary, so I sat on that reaction and chose to ignore it and keep my mind open. I'm not through it yet, but I really appreciate you talking about it. Just that little bit in this video actually helped a lot with quashing that reactionary voice in my head. Also, if it makes you feel better about your voice, your voice is my voice training goal. It sounds really pleasant.
The shoe thing is so annoying because even before realising I was trans finding shoes took multiple hours because our feet were too narrow for men’s shoes but too long for women’s shoes it’s a nightmare
Thanks for including that little talk about plurality, it genuinely means a lot to us. ^u^ We're glad more and more people are slowly coming out in support of us systems, both *other* systems & singlets alike. We hope the language around us keeps progressing too; we almost exclusively hear the term "alter" but never *additionally* our preferred term "headmate" when people are being taught about acceptable terms to use. But overall it's so cool how much sooner we're gaining acceptance than we ever expected :] We'd love to hear you talk about your own experiences with plurality more too, when you're ready
Me to girl i had full blown biochemical dysphoria after male puberty and had no idea something was wrong i just amuse all guys where feeling this miserable and went into zombie mode. Glad that nightmare ended last year VRchat and egg irl break me at last feel ok in my body.
Rick Riordan cracked my egg. I thought I was genderfluid at first but I realized later that I was just transfem but in an almost carefree kind of way where gender is only like 3rd or 4th priority
The Depression meme - resonates with me. I had that without thinking or realising that I was depressed as well. I was generally sad. and the comfortable thing 1000000%
It was FF7 original. Yuffie was my wake up🏳️⚧️. I dressed like her back in the 90’s, you know before actually existed. Cause Matt Walsh said we didn’t exist until a few years ago
OUGH THAT WHOLE DYSPHORIA SECTION HITS HARD It literally took me a year and a half into transition (still without HRT unfortunately) to see my face. Like my actual face. I saw me in a mirror for the first time in a long time. After that, I realized that thinking that my face was boring and stupid was probably actually dysphoria, it was me just feeling this deep horribleness about myself, until that one day that I saw myself. Also turns out that I mostly only get social dysphoria, so while i did hate my face a lot, the main thing that bogged me down (and still kinda does sometimes) was being perceived as a boy. As long as people see me as a girl, im good to go! But it starts to get worse and worse the more people deadname or he/him me. I have one friend at school who's really struggling with getting my name right, and i don't blame him he's a cool guy, but he does make me feel worse, especially when other people start deadnaming me because he deadnamed me. Dysphoria sucks ):
plural here. THis fucking diagnosis with did killed my chances to get to my trans affirming care it can even get denied completly because of it. So yes this diagnosis sucks and i wished i did not have it . I am so fucking happy that you get your care met even ho little it is. Stay up drink coffee and cause mayham ^^
@@Lunazera thats germany for you. You have to be depressed enough to get care but not too much or you are "too sick" to know if it good for you or that you need it. The bad thing the more conservativ the worse it get woth that threshhold. And thanks. I am happy that you and others bild a community were people can talk about that.
Okay, so...I tried a couple of programming courses back in the day, but kinda fell off when they went all "you won't always have a calcu- programming environment" and made us work in Notepad and Windows command line. Does that still count?
Ayo, i'm a trans man (Can't safely transition yet, so pre-t) and shoe sizes are absolute bs. I'm literally 11 and a half in *MEN'S* already! Buying shoes is *TORTURE.* I think the worst part is the half. They *NEVER* have half. 11 is too tight and 12 is too loose. *HELP ME!!!!!*
As a pre-E trans girl, I hate half sizes because they're always too skinny for my feet, despite one size down being too small and one size up being too big. I eventually just settled for going one size up
@@dooblom Omg same. Sometimes even if I find a shoe long enough, even *LONGER* than I need, it's still too narrow. Do I look like I have kangaroo feet!?
@@stanzacosmi Yessss, that is also the reason I settle with the larger size. Too big is better than too small. I actually have a honking pair of giant, size 13 platform Barbie crocs. I was *NOT* gonna pass those up despite being hugemongous, so I got some thick and soft Dr. Scholl's inserts and they fit fairly well. So if a shoe is too big, just get some relatively thick inserts.
I know this isn't plurality, but I still think it's interesting... maybe My sibling got bullied A LOT when we were in public school and I wasn't strong enough to stand up for them. Instead I subconsciously started to create and refine a mental bodyguard or a voice to stop myself from making decisions or acting in a way that would put me in the spotlight, let alone paint a negative picture for myself. I just find it interesting to how the brain adapts to it's environment.
About the Being normal, I know a song by the artist Delain, called "We are the others", great song in general, but there was one specific line that espeacially resosanted with me, and that was "normal is not the norm, its just a uniform"
Fantastic video as always Alice, totally didn't go "oop" only to have my wife look at me like asking if I felt called out.... speaking of which. OI! I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU AND THAT INTERMISSION 😭 Thank you, you have no idea how much it means seeing you were literally the reason why I started my pages. Keep doing the great work, and always looking forward to the next video :3
So often I hear other transfems talk about how hard it is to find shoes that fit properly, meanwhile I'm sitting here with my size 9's, thinking "wow, I am incredibly lucky I can find comfy shoes"
Hearing the whole phantom pain thing explained by an actual neuroscientist is so cool!! It's really fascinating to learn about! And as always, your videos are so nice and comforting. I hope you are doing well!
I’m transfem, I’m also a apprentice software engineer working at a tech company in semiconductors and I use Linux and I own a cluster of 4 raspberry pi 5s
I know we say to treat trans / non-binary folks like how we treat everyone else, but why when I hear someone's trans / non-binary does my appreciation of them get elevated?
Found your channel recently, and it helps me feel better about myself. I’m still a little young, but I really can’t wait to start taking hrt. I have many people who support me and I’m very grateful for that ❤
Don't usually bring up plurality much, still questioning ourself on that front and don't want to finally say so and family finds out until moving out. Already traumatised by childhood, mainly mom, don't need it to get worse.
for me it wasnt the game celeste that cracked my egg, it was actually the amazing community that helped me realise it (and now i basically only play celeste, i have 830 hours on the game HELP)
My opinion on the "when are you gonna get surgery" part is that it's the most obvious and well known part of the process, beyond pronouns and the like. If it's any consolation, one can take that question as evidence that the asker is supportive, unless proven otherwise, as asking questions is typically a sign of interest and support.
Heya, just wanted to say, this was an amazing video. I absolutley loved it, also thanks a lot for the part about plurality, as someone that had to deal with a lot of those "you're just faking it" comments. It can hurt if you hear that over and over again so I'm really glad to hear that you have such a nice space. I just wanted to thank you for that as there aren't that many safe spaces or I'm just great at missing them. Thanks a lot for your great work.
Thanks for mentioning plurals. Don't know much about them, but hearing about it tickled certain thoughts in my brain. Would definitely love a video going into it a bit more, as videos like these are how I get context for what my brain's doing.
That last one really hit hard today. This past weekend my husband and I went to a Queer Film Fest to support a close friend of my husband's family. I'm genderfluid and haven't come out to anyone in person except for my husband, but my family has known I wear men's and women's clothes all my life- a bonus of being AFAB. We stayed with them and I feared telling them what the event was we were going to see was about. We went to where the event was and I was scared because we're in the south. Thankfully it was chill, and nothing to worry about, but I still had to deal with getting back to the family house to stay the night so we could head home the next day. Any time they questioned it, I instantly went to just vaguely explaining it, avoiding that it was about the close friend's life through being a trans woman. I learned that night that she had been raped shortly after her transition (she mentions it in the documentary), in a small span of time where her wife and her were forced to live in different states. I know I've got it easy and yet I still try to hide my true self from my family. Her story and others like her make me want to be braver... one day.
2:34 HA! I'm a trans girl going into psychology! Though I heard from a friend that many autistic people go into psychology to learn more about themselves and other people like I'm doing... A win is a win.
3:27 I got into cross dressing in 2020 from a vtuber who now goes by Naiya or something like that but she was a femboy called ArtsyVRC... 2 years later in 2022 would I have the gender crisis.
8:50 I can really relate. My egg was cracked amidst a hard time in my life where I was dealing with health issues, so it was hard to differentiate dysphoria from depression and fatigue. A knotted mess that held me back from taking the next step. Even if I had no doubts about being trans, it was a excuse to wait. Now, finally with with confidence to take the first step albeit small, I’m starting to see how much of that tangled knot was dysphoria. Like I never realized how much I hated my voice until I started voice training.
19:22 me who can't even get surgery because POTS. I hate this question. Because it reminds me that I'll never have it because loosing blood will lead to my symptoms getting way worse. Not only that, but what if I just don't want to have surgery. It's such an invasive question
My smol brain can't comprehend Anything to do with programming in the slightest 🥴 (and am more Enby leaning than anything), but I Really love seeing the happiness it brings to those who Do when they get to fully geek out + ramble about these things they have Soo much passion for. 💙💙
I have been listening to Lena Raine for literal years, since rtgame played celest way before i knew i was trans, so that was like 5 years back, i have listened to her minecraft stuff, and it has taken 5 years for me to find out she is trans?!
Classic: me was Male New Improved: me is Nonbinary but taking estrogen and spiro just on the edge of Fem side. I thought I'd look like crap, but light facial hair or not I've got that androgynous look that I was always attracted to. My 'tistic ass had almost never been hit on. Now both men and women smile at me more, subtle flirt (mimic my gesture, start hair twirling, feet directions point towards, and just speak to me(formerly a rare event). These signs are far from perfect judge.) Just so weird how much my life has improved in ways I didn't at all expect. Social, emotional, digestive, symptoms of 'tism. I was only prepared the physical things. Softening skin and boobees, other weight redistribution, and sure some emotions, but I didn't know there were this many emotions.
somehow my body knew before me, I did and still do a lot of rp on discord, but in a vc someone referred to me as a cute girl, I vibrated like I was about to blast off into space, I was freaked out at the time and sheepish about it. Now that my egg cracked, it's been easier to get a compliment, and it feels gratifying whenever someone refers to me as my preferred name and pronouns
I'm not trans but it hits different seeing trans memes as a femboy, like, no wonder there's a lot of femboys in trans related content and a lot of trans fems in femboy related content And of course I'm a assembly programmer that _UsEs ArCh LiNuX bTw_
Thank you. You have helped us more than you will ever know. Just, being out where we can see you, to know there are others like us. It means so much. It makes us feel like we are not alone. Do what makes you happy. And keep being you. Wonderful, amazing you.
0:43 literally me with my mother by complaining about my looks, and it's either that or "don't complain because god made you look like that" or whatever
I know nothin about the plural and system stuff, but you got this queen. Any people out there with extra people in their heads, or at least thats all ive picked up on what that means, keep goin. U got this. You doin wonderful and amazing
12:34 i still remember a Vsauce video i watched years ago about "normal" and how completely NOT normal is it to be "completely normal" humans are not one bell graph with most people in the middle humans are many many different bell graphs of specific things stacked on top of each other, and to be in the middle of every single one of them is what "normal" implies, and its not realistic
Oh voice stuff... Yeah. I get that, I do voice training while I am out for walks or in the shower, sometimes I sing along to female vocals trying to match, and sometimes I just talk to myself in femvoice, as the countryside roads I walk on is usually empty. But some days, some days its just so hard to get the voice right, other days I nail it first try. I think if I am slightly dehydrated it becomes super hard to get the voice right. I also did sing along to female vocals in the shower for like a literal decade befors I cracked... That helped a lot. When I get the voice right though, I do sound convincing even to myself, and my girlfriend have said that I sound super cute. I am glad that my speech pattern was always slightly androgynous, so I didn't have to do super much work there.
I feel the waiting thing so much, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford private healthcare (it's not as expensive in Brazil as it is in the USA) so I didn't have to wait for an appointment to start HRT. Even so, I'm 33 and I can't help but feel like all that time until I finally accepted myself this year was completely wasted. I could have been living as a woman for over a decade, and I'll still have to wait some more time until I can feel comfortable and confident as the woman I've always wanted to be.
OH MY GOD I FEEL SO CALLED OUT BY THE INTERSEX THING AT 29:36 💀💀💀💀💀 I had made up this scenario in my head like six years ago where I would get back at my queerphobic grandma by transitioning MtF. Yup. Totally just to make her mad. Not because I'm like trans or anything, and actually want to be a girl, nahh, no way that's ridiculous, this would just be like a little prank, y'know? Hit em with the "woah hey look I'm a woman now!" /sarc Yeah idk how I didn't realize
Feeling seen on plurality❤ I know it's really scary putting your internal family out there to the world, but occasionally I run into folk who are like me and it reminds me that others do deal with it. It's something real and tangible! Made me really happy to hear, and honestly all the more reason I should've subscribed forever ago
I'm actively fighting learning programming. It would make the games I enjoy so much easier, but I DON'T WANNA BE A STEREOTYPE!!!!! Eh, let's face it, it's gonna happen anywayyyyy
We just wanted to say that the plurality bit as short as it was made us incredibly and immensely happy and seen. It’s really nice to not feel alone with our experiences. We don’t normally comment on videos but we just had to in this case. Thank you Alice for being you, keep up the positivity! 😊🏳️⚧️🩷
What I could never understand, EVEN IF someone were to think someone else was “making it all up”, like, so what? Just go with it. Everyone will be fine. Why the hate? What’s the point of it?
The point is that it's a convenient nonsense thing to ask that most people have an instantaneous reaction to which takes a while to explain why it's nonsense. It's the same kind of question as "Why don't you respond to criticism?". It's irrelevant if you have responded a million times, the only correct answer is, "Whoa, they are awful". Don't give those pricks the time of day, they don't deserve it.
Amazing vid Alice :3 There still some aspects I trying to figure out about myself and this helped a lot :3 Thanks for being an amazing content creator and twitch streamer love your vids have always made my day.
Normal for the most part is society's way of saying standard. It's almost expected sometimes that everyone conform to set standards no matter how miserable that makes them.
YAY! New Lunazera drop! I always love to watch your content when stuff related to having to come out comes up, and you’re such an inspiration to me on a creative level
Thanks a bunch for making me feel more confident about being trans. I'm still kinda early into my transition, and you help me remember that it's OK to be trans and to love myself. Thank you
I found out Lena Raine was trans about a month ago when i went to a pride festival. There was a little game area and celeste was there with a little thing mentioning she was trans. i played it on the little laptop and now love the game. i need to play more of it.
I aways like these videos when I click through, trans memes and your reactions to them totally relateable for some reason (🏳️⚧️😉), and also plural? That's a follow. (Without too much detail in a youtube comment, being a system is also relatable you see) Edit: 25:56 omg they're me. I'm bigender (in a girl who's a boy way) love the enby rep 💜
As someone who recently discovered themselves as an enby and is slowly and carefully starting to transition irl, it brings me so much joy to see these vids. Specially after years of depression. This comunity is a godsend and I can't thank y'all enough for helping me (even if indirectly and parasocially) to discover myself ^^
Well, that's my ASMR channel that I haven't touched in awhile because it wasn't doing great. Been thinking about posting there again, as I have more material to read.
Hey trans and non-binary folks! Reminder that you’re beautiful and you know who you are. No one can change that. Keep on truckin!🏳️⚧️💚✨
i read it as "keep on tuckin" at first and busted out laughing
@@haxune i was literally about to comment the same thing
@@nershacreave6044 Same lmao
Thank you for this, sincerely, a nonbinary trucker
Lesser known fact is that cis people are also beautiful as who they are, trans people don't need to pass to be who they are and same applies to cis people
Today I went outside as a girl for the first time, I called someones dog cute and they said "just like you". This was an absolutely amazing feeling, it was so hard to not explode in euphoria.
I'm so glad for you! Gender euphoria is the best.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee so happy for u!
Yaya!!!
OH MY GOD IM SO HAPPY FOR YOUUUU
I had my mom refer to me as a girl using her and she while talking to my godmother and it was the greatest of euphoria I have felt.
The first one was my grandpa when I came out, he said "That makes sense I would have been nonbinary had that been a thing when I was younger." I felt bad for him mostly because if he wasn't with my grandma he might have explored it more today.
It makes me so sad to see stuff like this ):
If only queerness was more widely known and accepted, your gramps could've explored his identity so much more easily
"Normal" is just the widely accepted weird, as there is no all encompassing normal, as it is unique to each individual, even if it is similar to others.
My definition of normal is: Whats possible and exists. Same with the word natural. We trans people exist therefore thats something that has to be normal. If it wasnt it would be an impossible thing never seen. Normal mean existing anormal means not existing or physically unable to exist. Anything that is, is normal.
@@E_m1ly_6302 I like the old saying that ‘normal is just a setting on the washing machine.’
Thanks so much for teaching me about Plurality! When I was younger I took therapy to help with processing some trauma, and she told me “your emotions are like a dragon,” which caused me to give my emotions a dragon form named Glory. She helped me understand and regulate my emotions throughout my life, and is such a loyal companion helping me traverse life. I’ve experienced a BUTT ton of more trauma since seeing that therapist, she moved out of the area insurance would cover, so I had to stop. So another Dragin joined the roster, Abhor, to give that intense hatred I felt towards the people who caused my trauma, and the cruel thoughts towards myself and others a face and name, so I may reconcile with him. He may be far more aggresive and mean then Glory, but he’s reliable and always thee to protect me. That’s why I love Celeste SO MUCH, you could very well consider Badeline a “plural” of sorts, and opened me up to the idea of making your trauma into a character wasn’t something i only did. It feels SO GOOD to know it has a name and community, I’m so excited to join it.
Celeste absolutely I think falls into "accidental plural representation" or "plural adjacent experiences"!! Honestly conceptualizing the brain and your internal experiences, your sense of "self" has a kind long history of conceptual ideas and frameworks that involve some level of understanding your self through "selves". Freud had things like Id and Ego, Carl Jung had archetypes to split things as self, shadow, anima/animus. Not that older theories like that have much credence as they were just armchair musings of frameworks, but just to point out that history.
Plurality of anything offers people to find and accept internal make ups that work best for them. Maybe that's part of why it faces such hate keeping and ridicule, since all plural systems can be very varied and different, different levels of experiences and what it means for them.
@@Lunazera Celeste really is just an ✨experience,✨ Maddy and Lena are gods of the indie game world!
i didn't really know what plurality really was and decided to look in the comments section to see what it means for other people, and reading this comment really helped me with understanding it!!
it's really awesome seeing other people share their experiences in the comments, and i wish all of them the best
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Anyone else thinking of a specific RainWing when someone mentioned a dragon named Glory?
We don't understand why people try to gatekeep other people's internal experience, like if you aren't in their head you have no idea and even then you don't necessarily know everything.
Exactly right?? It makes no sense
Something I've learned many times over is that people will be stupid given the opportunity. Heck, I've been the stupid one on several occasions, or helped someone else clean up the results of their stupidity. So you have to design around that. Why put sharp corners on your desk for folks to impale themselves when you can round them off just a tiny bit?
Like, seriously. If I can manage to be oblivious to the things in our life I was for as long as I was, people can justify darn near anything they want if they can control that "wasted" energy.
If everything made sense, we'd be living in a land of alicorns and rainbows. Gay joke fully intended.
My big egg crack moment was in Vrchat when i had a super cute fox girl avatar and then felt extremely depressed when i took off my headset
omg people calling me "handsome" as a kid pissed me off so much. As I got older, people calling me sir pissed me off so much. I was still in denial during that time mixed with not even knowing about transgender stuff but I got legit angry people calling me "sir" and anything masculine.
Same! I used to think it was just young me being scared of getting older. Then, I realized it was a trans thing ahaha
Rather just be called cute :3.
@@Drag0n647 Sameee :3
I don't know if people would call this plurality, but for me, Stripes (the character on my pfp) is an active voice in my mental landscape, often being a small voice of self-awareness, snark/witty comments and a reminder of why I keep going each day. I am always in control of what happens irl but she is there to help keep my sanity.
Edit: I'm honestly not fussed if it is or isn't plurality. I just wanted to share my experiences
I'm in a similar boat, just without names, and with 10 times as many people
Thanks for sharing your plurality and yap as much as you want, to me, it feels nice
@@Lunazera You're welcome
So far one of my favorite ways to remove 5 o clock shadow that was shown was "Turn off the sun."
The world shall be swallowed in shadow and in that moment I finally accepted myself
Where’s Mr. Burns when you need him?
Your bit on pursuing happiness instead of searching for dysphoria is a great way to look at it.
Thanks for talking a bit about plurality! I didn't know that "multiple personalities" was outdated til watching this (my bad), so thanks for showing that in the video, and talking about plurality as a whole anyway. Also I had no idea Lena Raine and Aurahack were married!!! I love both of their work so much :3 Thanks and have a good one! - Luna :3
im trans, plural and a programmer and so is my wife :D
thanks for talking about all of it it made my morning
Being exposed to plurality kinda forced me to face it, and I came to the conclusion that if I try to overrationalize it, I'll panic attack myself to death. Now, I identify as plural and live with my sister and brother, who nitpick my day to day because siblings.
Mhm.
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I love the way you expound and spend a lot of time telling your own stories and stories from others. you aren't just reading memes, you're genuinely talking about a lot of personal trans and plural experiences and I think that's important for those that share these experiences.
I'm not plural though, just trans :3
8:49 In my humble opinion transness shouldn't be gauged by dysphoria, rather more by euphoria. Does doing x make you feel good? Then read into why. I think dysphoria measures might be more important with things like surgeries but that's just because people would need to weigh the risk of not doing it with the risk of doing it.
There is no transness in general i feel like. Beeing trans is a definition that you fall under or you dont. And nowhere in that definitions is any talk about disphoria. Its just, the gender people assume i should have based on my sex (at birth, because sex can be changed partially because its defined through hormones, primary and secondary sexual characteristcs, chromosomes and more, and some i changed) beeing different from my actual gender. Thats it, i dont need to present in a certain way or anything to be trans, because thats not part of the definition at all, gender is part of my identity of who i am and as such part of my conciousness and my mind).
But i get what you say. People seem to want to gauge when you are trans enough to earn certain treatment. But thats just a misunderstanding in society. Though i do feel that pressure too, even if i know its not rational and wrong.
I really like that idea. Euphoria is a lot more salient a concept than dysphoria. I find most trans people really notice and connect more with their euphoria than we did with our dysphoria. It seems easier to recognize and acknowledge.
@@ASLBarbie Yeah exactly. I was in denial for years about being trans despite the crippling dysphoria I would get, but the euphoria I felt when a gas station clerk referred to me as lady pretty much cracked my egg wide open. Euphoria has been my guide much more so than my dysphoria could ever have been.
I am NO programmer, madams and sirs. yes, from time to time i have been known to program a little here and there, and literally learned Python just for Bayesian Inference class, but I am not a nerd. Sure, I am into all things nerdy, including Star Trek, Deer Dancing, neuroscience and I may have wet myself a little when I saw a Positron Emissions Tomography scanner in person, but I am NOT a stereostripe trans girl. Do I have the mandatory striped thigh highs? yes, multiple, and yes I may have a giant Blahaj, and a ton of miniskirts and crop tops, one which may say “UWU!” on the front, but I am NOT a doll. Do I have 2.5 feet of blonde hair, a love for all things pink, sparkly, pretty and girly, and i may have the exact Barbie dress, the nickname Barbie, a daily face of full makeup, 2 daily moisturizing sessions, and a tall, slim, girly, silky body. Still, i am NOT....a...jazz musician. yeah, yeah, that one. lol, i just realized that this is what we sounded like when we told ourselves we weren’t trans all those times. You ‘member?
@@ASLBarbie I remember it well. Such a naïve girl I was.
🤭 I remember writing out worked Bayes problem examples in both Python and R for the Bayes course I TA'd for so students would have a good starting place to pull from if they wanted to do their homework in code rather than Excel because like... Good god trying to work out parameter estimation problems in excel is so much tedious work even with just two dimensions.
But yeah couldn't be me matching trans girls stereotypes
I am envious of your confidence in who you are
@@Lunazera honestly the most difficult course ever. Compounded by the need to learn coding more complex and useful than Excel/Numbers. I had the extra challeng of taking it in Spring 2020, so I lost access to TA and the prof, and nobody in the McMaster math centre or tutor centre actually understood Bayes. But now I have a superpower.
@@insaneexpertise wonderful role models, like Alice definitely help one gain the confidence we need.
You coming out about your plurality and being so supportive of plural systems has really helped us discover who we are and feel welcomed in our existence. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
You should never feel pressured to speak about anything you're not ready to. Even if it is for a good cause like making people feel more comfortable and represented, you should still put yourself and your own health first.
And, if you ever feel comfortable sharing, I'm certain your fans will listen intently and be supportive! I'm not plural myself, but I'm very sure your system siblings will appreciate hearing your experiences and I, along with plenty of your other fans, will too even if we personally can't relate.
The first thing that did crack my egg was fire emblem, cause I picked the female characters on other play throughs, and I was like 'What would be my girl name?' should've been a sign lol
so, as a trans woman, who wears size 12's (and they have to be wide), i can say, i was lucky that i could find heels that fit me, specifically nice chunky heels from demonia, they only carry up to size 12 for fem boots... and i fit in them incredibly snug, but hey, they fit, and nobody can stop me from ordering 3 more pairs of different heels from them in the not so distant future (hopefully)
Honestly, that whole group on tumblr (Fish, Ayvie, Fea, Nyxis and Kayla) were some of the first people I turned to when I started questioning my plurality. The thing that solidified my plurality was, as you put it, feeling the euphoria, and not the dysphoria of being plural. My experiences aren't what most people think of when they hear it, but that doesn't invalidate the experiences. Do what is safe for you and yours, but trust yourself and your headmates.
Regarding Dysphoria. I had no idea that I was dysphoric. Only after coming to terms with the fact that I ain't cis it started to hit me that a lot of stuff I was experiencing was in fact dysphoria. Kinda like the "Always has been"-Meme
Also: Being normal is giving up individuality
my god Alice. we're freaking out rn cuz we just got to the point where your talking about systems and omfg im crying im so happy.
As an artist, it warms my heart to see you be sure to take a spot in the middle to showcase some cool stuff you've been given or commissioned. So trust me, these intermissions aren't annoying at all, certainly not to me.
Celeste music is so good, i love how all the later music tracks have motifs from earlier tracks, calling back to the struggles you can now overcome, the distance you’ve gone, how far you’ve climbed, and most importantly, how madaline has improved mentally.
I regret to say that my first reaction to hearing about plurality was that I didn't believe it. But I'm self aware of the fact that my brain tends to be kind of reactionary, so I sat on that reaction and chose to ignore it and keep my mind open. I'm not through it yet, but I really appreciate you talking about it. Just that little bit in this video actually helped a lot with quashing that reactionary voice in my head.
Also, if it makes you feel better about your voice, your voice is my voice training goal. It sounds really pleasant.
The shoe thing is so annoying because even before realising I was trans finding shoes took multiple hours because our feet were too narrow for men’s shoes but too long for women’s shoes it’s a nightmare
Thanks for including that little talk about plurality, it genuinely means a lot to us. ^u^
We're glad more and more people are slowly coming out in support of us systems, both *other* systems & singlets alike. We hope the language around us keeps progressing too; we almost exclusively hear the term "alter" but never *additionally* our preferred term "headmate" when people are being taught about acceptable terms to use. But overall it's so cool how much sooner we're gaining acceptance than we ever expected :]
We'd love to hear you talk about your own experiences with plurality more too, when you're ready
Me to girl i had full blown biochemical dysphoria after male puberty and had no idea something was wrong i just amuse all guys where feeling this miserable and went into zombie mode. Glad that nightmare ended last year VRchat and egg irl break me at last feel ok in my body.
Rick Riordan cracked my egg. I thought I was genderfluid at first but I realized later that I was just transfem but in an almost carefree kind of way where gender is only like 3rd or 4th priority
The Depression meme - resonates with me. I had that without thinking or realising that I was depressed as well. I was generally sad. and the comfortable thing 1000000%
Hello❤️ if youre reading this, HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND YOU ARE BLESSED TO OVERCOME ANY CHALLENGES ❤️❤️💕
It was FF7 original. Yuffie was my wake up🏳️⚧️. I dressed like her back in the 90’s, you know before actually existed. Cause Matt Walsh said we didn’t exist until a few years ago
OUGH THAT WHOLE DYSPHORIA SECTION HITS HARD
It literally took me a year and a half into transition (still without HRT unfortunately) to see my face. Like my actual face. I saw me in a mirror for the first time in a long time. After that, I realized that thinking that my face was boring and stupid was probably actually dysphoria, it was me just feeling this deep horribleness about myself, until that one day that I saw myself. Also turns out that I mostly only get social dysphoria, so while i did hate my face a lot, the main thing that bogged me down (and still kinda does sometimes) was being perceived as a boy. As long as people see me as a girl, im good to go! But it starts to get worse and worse the more people deadname or he/him me. I have one friend at school who's really struggling with getting my name right, and i don't blame him he's a cool guy, but he does make me feel worse, especially when other people start deadnaming me because he deadnamed me. Dysphoria sucks ):
plural here. THis fucking diagnosis with did killed my chances to get to my trans affirming care it can even get denied completly because of it. So yes this diagnosis sucks and i wished i did not have it . I am so fucking happy that you get your care met even ho little it is. Stay up drink coffee and cause mayham ^^
Ugh thats awful :( :( I'm so sorry, I hope y'all can find access to it eventually because that's such bullshit
@@Lunazera thats germany for you. You have to be depressed enough to get care but not too much or you are "too sick" to know if it good for you or that you need it. The bad thing the more conservativ the worse it get woth that threshhold. And thanks. I am happy that you and others bild a community were people can talk about that.
Okay, every trans girl I know is in fact a programmer. Myself included. Why is that?
I, too, am a transfem programmer, and 🤷♀️
Okay, so...I tried a couple of programming courses back in the day, but kinda fell off when they went all "you won't always have a calcu- programming environment" and made us work in Notepad and Windows command line. Does that still count?
@@Tachii31Yes! Also, why would you not have a programming environment?
I’m not lol
I am also kind of a programmer
Ayo, i'm a trans man (Can't safely transition yet, so pre-t) and shoe sizes are absolute bs. I'm literally 11 and a half in *MEN'S* already! Buying shoes is *TORTURE.*
I think the worst part is the half. They *NEVER* have half. 11 is too tight and 12 is too loose. *HELP ME!!!!!*
As a pre-E trans girl, I hate half sizes because they're always too skinny for my feet, despite one size down being too small and one size up being too big. I eventually just settled for going one size up
@@dooblom which is better for you rfeet anyways, shoes being tight causes bunyins later in life
@@dooblom Omg same. Sometimes even if I find a shoe long enough, even *LONGER* than I need, it's still too narrow. Do I look like I have kangaroo feet!?
@@stanzacosmi Yessss, that is also the reason I settle with the larger size. Too big is better than too small.
I actually have a honking pair of giant, size 13 platform Barbie crocs. I was *NOT* gonna pass those up despite being hugemongous, so I got some thick and soft Dr. Scholl's inserts and they fit fairly well. So if a shoe is too big, just get some relatively thick inserts.
I know this isn't plurality, but I still think it's interesting... maybe
My sibling got bullied A LOT when we were in public school and I wasn't strong enough to stand up for them. Instead I subconsciously started to create and refine a mental bodyguard or a voice to stop myself from making decisions or acting in a way that would put me in the spotlight, let alone paint a negative picture for myself.
I just find it interesting to how the brain adapts to it's environment.
About the Being normal, I know a song by the artist Delain, called "We are the others", great song in general, but there was one specific line that espeacially resosanted with me, and that was "normal is not the norm, its just a uniform"
Let's goooo! New LZ video!!! :3
Fantastic video as always Alice, totally didn't go "oop" only to have my wife look at me like asking if I felt called out.... speaking of which. OI! I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU AND THAT INTERMISSION 😭 Thank you, you have no idea how much it means seeing you were literally the reason why I started my pages. Keep doing the great work, and always looking forward to the next video :3
Sisters, I come with great news
Rejoice, for I have just bought my first skirt
Go girl!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Celeste didnt make me trans.....
ULTRAKILL did
@@paradoxfox2440 I would like to hear the story behind this.
@catfwish I second this I would like to hear the story
I may have played ultrakill and understand vaguely why , but still, I like hearing stories :3
relatable
So often I hear other transfems talk about how hard it is to find shoes that fit properly, meanwhile I'm sitting here with my size 9's, thinking "wow, I am incredibly lucky I can find comfy shoes"
Hearing the whole phantom pain thing explained by an actual neuroscientist is so cool!! It's really fascinating to learn about! And as always, your videos are so nice and comforting. I hope you are doing well!
I’m transfem, I’m also a apprentice software engineer working at a tech company in semiconductors and I use Linux and I own a cluster of 4 raspberry pi 5s
It's obvious
I know we say to treat trans / non-binary folks like how we treat everyone else, but why when I hear someone's trans / non-binary does my appreciation of them get elevated?
Found your channel recently, and it helps me feel better about myself. I’m still a little young, but I really can’t wait to start taking hrt. I have many people who support me and I’m very grateful for that ❤
realizing you have dysphoria is like wearing glasses for the first time
new fear unlocked: Phantom Balls
from one transfem to another, i think your voice is rather pretty, almost motherly too
Don't usually bring up plurality much, still questioning ourself on that front and don't want to finally say so and family finds out until moving out. Already traumatised by childhood, mainly mom, don't need it to get worse.
I love your intermissions!
for me it wasnt the game celeste that cracked my egg, it was actually the amazing community that helped me realise it (and now i basically only play celeste, i have 830 hours on the game HELP)
My opinion on the "when are you gonna get surgery" part is that it's the most obvious and well known part of the process, beyond pronouns and the like. If it's any consolation, one can take that question as evidence that the asker is supportive, unless proven otherwise, as asking questions is typically a sign of interest and support.
Heya, just wanted to say, this was an amazing video. I absolutley loved it, also thanks a lot for the part about plurality, as someone that had to deal with a lot of those "you're just faking it" comments. It can hurt if you hear that over and over again so I'm really glad to hear that you have such a nice space. I just wanted to thank you for that as there aren't that many safe spaces or I'm just great at missing them. Thanks a lot for your great work.
This made me wanna go back and read one of my favorite transfem webcomics. Have a great day Ms. Alice!
Thanks for mentioning plurals.
Don't know much about them, but hearing about it tickled certain thoughts in my brain.
Would definitely love a video going into it a bit more, as videos like these are how I get context for what my brain's doing.
I'd like to talk more about plural stuff too!! We're going to try and work up to including some discussion of experiences more and more
That last one really hit hard today. This past weekend my husband and I went to a Queer Film Fest to support a close friend of my husband's family. I'm genderfluid and haven't come out to anyone in person except for my husband, but my family has known I wear men's and women's clothes all my life- a bonus of being AFAB. We stayed with them and I feared telling them what the event was we were going to see was about. We went to where the event was and I was scared because we're in the south. Thankfully it was chill, and nothing to worry about, but I still had to deal with getting back to the family house to stay the night so we could head home the next day. Any time they questioned it, I instantly went to just vaguely explaining it, avoiding that it was about the close friend's life through being a trans woman. I learned that night that she had been raped shortly after her transition (she mentions it in the documentary), in a small span of time where her wife and her were forced to live in different states. I know I've got it easy and yet I still try to hide my true self from my family. Her story and others like her make me want to be braver... one day.
2:34 HA! I'm a trans girl going into psychology! Though I heard from a friend that many autistic people go into psychology to learn more about themselves and other people like I'm doing... A win is a win.
3:27 I got into cross dressing in 2020 from a vtuber who now goes by Naiya or something like that but she was a femboy called ArtsyVRC... 2 years later in 2022 would I have the gender crisis.
8:50 I can really relate. My egg was cracked amidst a hard time in my life where I was dealing with health issues, so it was hard to differentiate dysphoria from depression and fatigue. A knotted mess that held me back from taking the next step. Even if I had no doubts about being trans, it was a excuse to wait.
Now, finally with with confidence to take the first step albeit small, I’m starting to see how much of that tangled knot was dysphoria. Like I never realized how much I hated my voice until I started voice training.
19:22 me who can't even get surgery because POTS. I hate this question.
Because it reminds me that I'll never have it because loosing blood will lead to my symptoms getting way worse. Not only that, but what if I just don't want to have surgery. It's such an invasive question
Okay, now I’ve seen this all the way, and it’s making me cry. Thank you! I really needed this
My smol brain can't comprehend Anything to do with programming in the slightest 🥴 (and am more Enby leaning than anything),
but I Really love seeing the happiness it brings to those who Do when they get to fully geek out + ramble about these things they have Soo much passion for. 💙💙
I have been listening to Lena Raine for literal years, since rtgame played celest way before i knew i was trans, so that was like 5 years back, i have listened to her minecraft stuff, and it has taken 5 years for me to find out she is trans?!
exact same situation here, i was so surprised
Classic: me was Male
New Improved: me is Nonbinary but taking estrogen and spiro just on the edge of Fem side.
I thought I'd look like crap, but light facial hair or not I've got that androgynous look that I was always attracted to.
My 'tistic ass had almost never been hit on. Now both men and women smile at me more, subtle flirt (mimic my gesture, start hair twirling, feet directions point towards, and just speak to me(formerly a rare event). These signs are far from perfect judge.)
Just so weird how much my life has improved in ways I didn't at all expect.
Social, emotional, digestive, symptoms of 'tism. I was only prepared the physical things.
Softening skin and boobees, other weight redistribution, and sure some emotions, but I didn't know there were this many emotions.
somehow my body knew before me, I did and still do a lot of rp on discord, but in a vc someone referred to me as a cute girl, I vibrated like I was about to blast off into space, I was freaked out at the time and sheepish about it. Now that my egg cracked, it's been easier to get a compliment, and it feels gratifying whenever someone refers to me as my preferred name and pronouns
I'm not trans but it hits different seeing trans memes as a femboy, like, no wonder there's a lot of femboys in trans related content and a lot of trans fems in femboy related content
And of course I'm a assembly programmer that _UsEs ArCh LiNuX bTw_
Thank you. You have helped us more than you will ever know. Just, being out where we can see you, to know there are others like us. It means so much. It makes us feel like we are not alone. Do what makes you happy. And keep being you. Wonderful, amazing you.
0:43 literally me with my mother by complaining about my looks, and it's either that or "don't complain because god made you look like that" or whatever
I know nothin about the plural and system stuff, but you got this queen. Any people out there with extra people in their heads, or at least thats all ive picked up on what that means, keep goin. U got this. You doin wonderful and amazing
Phantom balls are crazy
To the transgirls who can’t find shoes. I have many cisgirl friends who have the same problem.
12:34 i still remember a Vsauce video i watched years ago about "normal" and how completely NOT normal is it to be "completely normal"
humans are not one bell graph with most people in the middle
humans are many many different bell graphs of specific things stacked on top of each other, and to be in the middle of every single one of them is what "normal" implies, and its not realistic
Oh voice stuff... Yeah. I get that, I do voice training while I am out for walks or in the shower, sometimes I sing along to female vocals trying to match, and sometimes I just talk to myself in femvoice, as the countryside roads I walk on is usually empty. But some days, some days its just so hard to get the voice right, other days I nail it first try. I think if I am slightly dehydrated it becomes super hard to get the voice right. I also did sing along to female vocals in the shower for like a literal decade befors I cracked... That helped a lot.
When I get the voice right though, I do sound convincing even to myself, and my girlfriend have said that I sound super cute. I am glad that my speech pattern was always slightly androgynous, so I didn't have to do super much work there.
I feel the waiting thing so much, and I'm fortunate enough to be able to afford private healthcare (it's not as expensive in Brazil as it is in the USA) so I didn't have to wait for an appointment to start HRT. Even so, I'm 33 and I can't help but feel like all that time until I finally accepted myself this year was completely wasted. I could have been living as a woman for over a decade, and I'll still have to wait some more time until I can feel comfortable and confident as the woman I've always wanted to be.
I'm always grateful, for the meme vids, but some of these hit harder than I expected. Ooof!
OH MY GOD I FEEL SO CALLED OUT BY THE INTERSEX THING AT 29:36 💀💀💀💀💀
I had made up this scenario in my head like six years ago where I would get back at my queerphobic grandma by transitioning MtF.
Yup. Totally just to make her mad. Not because I'm like trans or anything, and actually want to be a girl, nahh, no way that's ridiculous, this would just be like a little prank, y'know? Hit em with the "woah hey look I'm a woman now!" /sarc
Yeah idk how I didn't realize
Feeling seen on plurality❤
I know it's really scary putting your internal family out there to the world, but occasionally I run into folk who are like me and it reminds me that others do deal with it. It's something real and tangible!
Made me really happy to hear, and honestly all the more reason I should've subscribed forever ago
I'm actively fighting learning programming. It would make the games I enjoy so much easier, but I DON'T WANNA BE A STEREOTYPE!!!!! Eh, let's face it, it's gonna happen anywayyyyy
We just wanted to say that the plurality bit as short as it was made us incredibly and immensely happy and seen. It’s really nice to not feel alone with our experiences. We don’t normally comment on videos but we just had to in this case. Thank you Alice for being you, keep up the positivity! 😊🏳️⚧️🩷
What I could never understand, EVEN IF someone were to think someone else was “making it all up”, like, so what? Just go with it. Everyone will be fine. Why the hate? What’s the point of it?
The point is that it's a convenient nonsense thing to ask that most people have an instantaneous reaction to which takes a while to explain why it's nonsense. It's the same kind of question as "Why don't you respond to criticism?". It's irrelevant if you have responded a million times, the only correct answer is, "Whoa, they are awful". Don't give those pricks the time of day, they don't deserve it.
The most euphoric thing that happened to me was when i was wearing a mask one day and someone couldn't tell what my gender was
Your intermissions aren't annoying in my opinion, I think they're cool! Just sharing your thoughts and maybe some news about the channel
Amazing vid Alice :3
There still some aspects I trying to figure out about myself and this helped a lot :3
Thanks for being an amazing content creator and twitch streamer love your vids have always made my day.
Normal for the most part is society's way of saying standard. It's almost expected sometimes that everyone conform to set standards no matter how miserable that makes them.
YAY! New Lunazera drop! I always love to watch your content when stuff related to having to come out comes up, and you’re such an inspiration to me on a creative level
Pretty sure there is a dysphoria simulator! I don’t remember much but there was VR goggles involved-
Also hooray, caught a premiere :D
The plural segment made me so happy❤
Re. shoes-lucky me, I have small feet-they're just.. wide...
Thanks a bunch for making me feel more confident about being trans. I'm still kinda early into my transition, and you help me remember that it's OK to be trans and to love myself. Thank you
Y'alls videos have got to be one of our fav videos for memes and thats mainly because of the occasional plural meme
I found out Lena Raine was trans about a month ago when i went to a pride festival. There was a little game area and celeste was there with a little thing mentioning she was trans. i played it on the little laptop and now love the game. i need to play more of it.
I’m very glad I was blessed with small feet. But I was cursed with tall.
Hi Alice! Glad to see you again! I hope you (and your plurals) had a great day today! 🤍🥰
I aways like these videos when I click through, trans memes and your reactions to them totally relateable for some reason (🏳️⚧️😉), and also plural?
That's a follow.
(Without too much detail in a youtube comment, being a system is also relatable you see)
Edit: 25:56 omg they're me. I'm bigender (in a girl who's a boy way) love the enby rep 💜
As someone who recently discovered themselves as an enby and is slowly and carefully starting to transition irl, it brings me so much joy to see these vids. Specially after years of depression.
This comunity is a godsend and I can't thank y'all enough for helping me (even if indirectly and parasocially) to discover myself ^^
Looks at Café Fox Tale and first video i see is "A Calm Reading of Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee", well i'm sold.
Well, that's my ASMR channel that I haven't touched in awhile because it wasn't doing great. Been thinking about posting there again, as I have more material to read.
I love your voice a lot! It calms me down, it's good to hear and gives me a bit of peace.
Please keep talking. 😊