Girl who loved every Alanis Morissette album from Jagged Little Pill (1995) to Such Pretty Forks In The Road (2020), and identified with many of the songs on a deep level, but didn't realise / accept that she was trans fem until 2021 😅🤦‍♀️

#ThereWereNoSigns #ThereWereActuallyLotsOfObviousSignsInHindsight #StillCisTho #trans #transgender #TransFem #transition #EggyAF #AlanisMorissette

Girl who has been listening to Garbage since the second half of the 1990s, and yet still took until the first half of the 2020s to work out that she was queer 🤦‍♀️

#Garbage #ThereWereNoSigns #ThereWereActuallyLotsOfObviousSignsInHindsight #queer #trans #transgender #NonBinary

Edit: Girl also didn't realise she was trans fem until this time 🤦‍♀️

Us: "We're clearly not therian!"

Also Us: has customised their RuneScape character with cat ears and a cat tail  

Okay, so this kind of only shows that we're primarily a catgirl, but there are other things beyond this that we may explain more at some point 😅

#RuneScape #therian #catgirl #ThereWereNoSigns #ThereWereActuallyLotsOfObviousSignsInHindsight

Sometimes we think back on the many obvious-in-hindsight signs that we were queer and trans when we were younger, then wonder how we didn't recognise them, especially when we had some more freedom at university vs living at home with family.

Then we remember that our younger self was also incredibly oblivious, unconfident, and socially awkward AF. They couldn't see the forest for the trees a lot of the time.

It would have taken meeting and probably befriending some trans+ folk for them to have even had a chance of cracking their egg earlier, but this was before microblogging social media. The closest she got to online community were PC overclocking forums, a Power Ranger IRC channel, and later Runescape. (Ironically the latter is SO full of openly queer and trans+ people now!)

We also then remember that our younger self dressed up in cardboard boxes to pretend to be a Power Rangers zord... and filmed themselves doing so with a close friend (whom we're still in contact with), and who thought this was both funny and creative 😅🤦‍♀️

It would have taken some external event or force to help them get there sooner than we did.

We should remember to be kinder to our younger self. Without them muddling through, we wouldn't be here today.   

#trans #transgender #transition #ThereWereNoSigns #ThereWereActuallyLotsOfObviousSignsInHindsight #queer

Finally started a long-overdue rewatch of Steven Universe.

The last time we watched it through, we still thought that we were a cis het guy 😅

It's kinda funny in hindsight how many little signs there were that we didn't know how to read at the time.

#StevenUniverse #trans #transgender #queer #ThereWereNoSigns #ThereWereActuallyLotsOfObviousSignsInHindsight

Oh, also, for morale, we decided to actual resume playing RuneScape properly for the first time since stopping back in 2009.

At that time, we had 10 x level 99 skills and were ranked within about the top 10K players overall. on the hisores.

We're currently within the to 268K players, which isn't too bad, given that we spent 15 years away.

For the record, our character in RuneScape was female, because of course she was. People online assumed we were and we never corrected them... for totally cis reasons 😅🤦‍♀️

Only took us until 2021 to finally realise / accept that we're trans, and a little bit longer to realise all the other stuff we'd buried deep down.

#ThereWereNoSigns #ThereWereActuallyLotsOfObviousSignsInHindsight #trans #gaming #RuneScape