In my state they “just” decided to train the regular 988 operators to better respond to LGBTQ+ people in need

god I’m in the same damn boat. a week and a half in and I’m already like. fuck I need to get on that. but also ✨ doubts ✨

oh god yes the chiseled jawline… mine reminds me of Chad (the meme character)

thanks for the encouragement 🙏

I’m always cautious when it comes to AI. Like you said it follows a lot of stereotypes and such, and I noticed it messed with my eye shapes in the picture a little bit. It’s why I’ll never trust the “AI/AR try on” features in clothes shopping, either (also it defeats half the point of trying it on, which is seeing how it feels to wear).

I feel like I could be a lot prettier, or not. It’s a complete mystery until it happens…

update: I played with it some more and oh my god is it even possible I could be this pretty someday??? I want to post it but then I’d be showing my face 😞

edit: I also don’t look like my mom OR my ex this way!!

oh that’s exactly what I did… every word of it…

oh god oh fuck

edit: no disrespect to my mother, just, let me be my own girl god damn it 😭

it’s been so long since I’ve heard skirt go spinny

trans or not I’m gonna die poor 😎

(the really sucky part now is, I now have three names for myself, the only place I’m currently going by Hailey is here… and I never finished rolling out Hal, so it’s kinda breaking my brain that now I want to kinda clean all that up. Domain names, usernames, display names… school is the only IRL place I managed to go by Hal, everyone else knows me by my birthname… I’m holding back on tangenting on the logistics of social name changing & of course coming out…)

I had actually agonized over a new male name before, and eventually I settled on Hal… and it didn’t take long before the idea of a Hailey appeared… I couldn’t shake the name so it ended up sticking to an idea of an idealized partner. So when I found out I’m trans, it was only natural to pick Hailey.

Now, there are multiple equally valid (and a few invalid) ways to spell it so that was just kinda vibes

yeah… I can’t really get outside of my house so um having that as an option would be great… (I’m not yet brave enough to look up what it’s like to do that in my state)

I think part of it is that people just moved right back to the red site, just as they were counting on us doing. I never did, and now I feel kinda left in the dust for it, since that’s where these wonderful communities are.

I’m glad there’s at least something here for me. I just wish I were creative or funny enough to contribute :(

god I’m gonna be stuck living here for another few years, at least… cause I need to finish (community) college before I can get a “good paying job” that might, possibly, pay enough to survive off of…

it’s been like, a week since the egg cracked, and i’m already trying to do voice stuff… I can at least excuse it as learning a new voice trick because I’ve long liked to do cool, new stuff with my voice…

Adding the Rust Book and Minecraft Wiki to that list

funny thing is i’ve been into programming since I was like 6 or so? and um uh fuck here I am

I had it long before and got it cut cause it was too girly (“it looked like my mom’s hair” was the reason I told everyone), but um jokes on me cause now I wanna grow it back out…