I like books where a witty girl despised by society lies, cheats, and manipulates her way into winning despite everything stacked against her. I want her to win by using the unfair rules of the world against the people who made them and i want that victory to say something about the society we live in.

Bonus points for beautiful prose like in This Is How You Lose The Time War, or for characters like ART from Murderbot where they're a person but also a living space

WARHOUND by Kallidora Rho, narrated by me.

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If you're curious the sigil I was referencing for this picture was the Ascrien Sigil, though I never actually used it for this colour combo in game cause it turns out it doesn't play as nicely as I envisioned. xD

Worked a lot better on my general look u_u

Okay, soooo, I tried a few different things, like, over a decent period of a few years, worked up to this over time. Most of it was done by myself and with some assistance from my boyfriend in terms of like, critique and all that. This might be a kinda long post, but. It's pretty much everything I can remember off the top of my head. I'll add more in reblogs if I think of it later. (Also fair warning in case anyone sees this, don't go looking through my blog if you find it from this, it's all kink stuff).

First of all, started with a pretty masc voice. I'd kinda had a bit of a natural talent for messing with my voice, which probably helped a bit. But I started transitioning, and tested a few things out. I tried transvoicelessions, which gave me a few ideas as to like, at least what I was trying to change, even if I didn't quite get how to do that yet. Pitch wasn't too hard for me, the resonance part was a little fucky. Unfortunately I'm not the best at following video tutorials on stuff, so, I took what I could from the more introductory videos and kinda just went at it from there. Closest I could get to a femme voice for a year or so was a rough approximation of somewhere around Megeara from Hades, and Nebula from the MCU. Low pitch, but somewhat femme. Idk how to put it like. Position of your larynx is a big part of it. Feel your neck, and that accursed little dot there, you want to move that and get it to go upwards. It's technically not just that, but that's how it's gonna feel, that's, kind of a good way of measuring it.

Fun fact for a lot of trans girls that in theory don't know how to do this. Moan like a girl. I'm not kidding. Doing a high, femme moan, sometimes you just gotta have it happen naturally, but in my experience, that'll usually move your throat around in the way you need it to. Whimper. Moan. Feel how it moves, and hold it there. It might take quite a few tries. This isn't gonna sound perfect at first. Going from a small sound like that to speaking with it, it's gonna sound rough, probably. It might suck at first, mine did. But you stick with that. Practice the feeling of keeping your throat like that. A, so you can access it easier, B, this is gonna strain it a lot at first. Work up to being able to do it more consistently. This is probably going to be the hardest step, because for a while, it might not feel like you're making progress.

Also, try to find someone to listen. Doesn't matter who as long as they're not a prick, but in my personal opinion another trans person is probably best because they probably understand the importance and as a result they're less likely to try and say it's good to be ✨supportive✨ even when it isn't. Find someone online if you need to. It's gonna suck, it's gonna feel embarrassing as hell, but you gotta push through that. Take what you've gotten from the whore moan replacement therapy. And just work on it. Fine tune it. Have that someone tell you whether something you change helps, or makes it worse, or doesn't make a difference. And practice a lot. It'll take a while, a lot of trial and error, and so much backsliding. You're probably gonna get discouraged, but you have to push through it anyway. Even if it takes some time. Try to stick to using it when you're safe to. I know, for example, I tried to get my boyfriend to point out whenever I'd dropped it when we were around each other. It hurts, but it helps.

Chances are, the first femme voice you're gonna hit is gonna be kinda high. Stereotypical femme, y'know? That's not a bad thing. Even if it's not what you're aiming for. That alone is good. It'll also probably be a bit more monotone, harder to express emotion, harder to shift pitch and tone and. Everything like that. I had that as my main voice for a while. You're gonna want to get used to it. Try to use it more and more often. Adjust, it'll start to strain less, it'll become more natural, and after a while, you'll barely have to think about it. You'll adjust, get used to being able to alter it in tone and pitch, the same way you used to with the previous voice. When you hit a proper femme voice, you stick with it until you've mastered it, even if it's not your favorite.

Now this part is optional. But it's something I did. It's why I have the voice I have. I got used to the femme voice I'd reached, got comfortable using it, stopped using my masc voice entirely (save for the occasional bit where I found it funny). But generally, there wasn't a moment I wasn't either in femme voice, or just not talking. From there, I decided I wanted to change it. I could sound femme whenever I wanted, so I decided to work on sounding more like, well, what I felt like I should sound like. Lower, more deep, but still noticeably feminine, y'know?

Funny enough, at that point, I'd kinda developed a voice that fit most of that criteria for the sake of hypnokink stuff (same larynx height, lower pitch), only problem was that it was by default very seductive. Kinda based it on the Megeara voice from before voice training, just, y'know, I was a lot better at it now. So I worked on trying to sound more, casual, I guess, in that same voice. Took some time and effort, mostly practiced it in private, but over time, it started to bleed more and more into my normal speaking voice, and eventually I just kinda ended up with that. Which notably also made me better at using it for hypnosis.