This study has the intended purpose of finding out how transgender people customize their characters in games and what this mean to them in terms of their self expression. The information you provide will be anonymous and only quoted from where necessary. As I collect data I will be trying to draw conclusions from various experiences of those who participate in the study to aid in designing components for character customization in the future.
To reiterate, your supplied information will not be posted anywhere with any profile images or names and will only be quoted from if needed to stress a point.
If you find the form lacking, want to elaborate more upon your feelings or simply prefer to do more of an interview with me one on one, send me a message and I can supply my contact details. I do know from my prior studies that some transgender people do simply feel more comfortable talking to another trans person like myself as opposed to filling out a form.
As a side note, I’m also curious about people who are unsure of, or are exploring their gender identity with regards to the topic. If you are one such person, feel free to fill out the form as well, just mention in the final section so I can analyze the data appropriately within context.
If you know any transgender people who might want to have their say on the subject, please share this around.
anooooooother reblog
I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’ (via advotiya-raskolnikova)
We trained the dog so that when he wants out, he goes to the front door and waits.
Somehow in his little golden retriever brain, he interpreted this to mean “go to the front door, and lick it.”
If he’s at the door, but isn’t licking it, he doesn’t need out, he’s just chilling.
So, this was our routine – when he wants out, he goes to the front door, and licks it. And then we moved house, and he got very, very confused.
He knew he had to go to the front door when he wants out, but this was a new house with obviously a door that was completely new to him.
Despite our condo having only one door that leads outside, and him going out this very same door literally at least five times a day, every day, for about a year…he still has no idea where the front door is in this house. Absolutely no idea at all.
Now whenever he needs out, he will go to any random door and start licking it. And I mean any door – the bathroom door, my bedroom door, my closet, the goddamn door of a kitchen cabinet, even.
I don’t know if he’s really smart or really dumb. Because clearly, he understands conceptually what a door is. I don’t know if he thinks my closet or the kitchen cabinets lead to outside, or if he’s just hoping to find doggy Narnia, or if he’s just hopelessly given up on ever being able to find the door by himself and is just doing the best he can, but every goddamn time he wants out, he’s right there licking the glass door to the shower or something.
He doesn’t alert us he needs out any other way. So if you haven’t seen him in a while, you have to search room by room until you find him with his tongue pressed up against the linen closet because he thinks outside might be that way.
He’s the biggest, dumbest dog I have ever met in my life and I could not love him any more. He’s perfect.
Here he is, patiently licking the door of my wardrobe.
I love this
me: *waits until 11:00 PM to start homework*
me: ugh god are they trying to kill us?? fucking hell…. do they not understand we need to sleep?? do they think we have all the time in the world to do these stupid ass assignments?? we as students are completely overwhelmed our health is in peril this is too much
i can’t believe that they saw a japanese story they wanted to tell so they went “let’s pioneer ridiculously advanced and horrifying expensive cgi technology so we can make this white actress look japanese” and it never occurred to them to just….. hire….. a japanese woman…. like nature’s already done the cgi for you buddy
