Well okay. You’re a 19 year old dude in College who recently drew himself in a skirt for the first time and had a startling emotional reaction to it. you flirt with being a demiboy for a bit but you’re afraid of committing to the idea of being a full-on girl. What if you don’t like it? What if folks reject you? Suddenly, one night, you’re doing homework in the lobby of your dorm and this song comes on.
oh shit oh fuck. of course, it’s full of lyrics that make absolutely zero sense, narratively and grammatically, as this is a japanese man writing in a language that is not his first. this doesn’t matter though, because the singer believes so strongly that you must follow your heart and stand with pride and fight against a world that beats you down. goddamn. this changes everything. you ponder on this.
weeks later, you embark on the traditional three and a half hour drive from your college to the middle of bumfuck nowhere. it’s tumultuous weather, but it’s also beautiful in its chaos. You are going 70 miles per hour and surrounded by gorgeous open fields and dense, snowy mountains. suddenly, Big Blast Sonic comes on again. Oh fuck yeah. You’ve been listening to this for weeks. You’ve memorized the lyrics. And the best thing you just recently discovered about metal? You don’t even have to be a good singer to belt along to the lyrics. In an environment that’s just you and the open road, no one to hear your cry, just the spectacular visage of chaotic nature around you, you belt out the broken English lyrics to a song from a game you’ve never played
Get down to rock! Get up to burn! Stand with your pride! Never fear your desire!
and you think to yourself, hey, man, i really CAN pull off this transgender thing. let’s fuckin do it.
So that’s a rough approximation about how Guilty Gear Xrd turned me trans. It wasn’t like, the whole reason, but it did play a significant part in my acceptance of the idea and embracing The True Self TM. Guilty Gear fucking rocks and I got into Strive a couple years later because of the music alone. Get down to rock, folks!!!!!!!!!!
You have all been so good. You can have a little treat. Here’s the wizard doing a Big (Un?)Naturals spell because I think the friend who commissioned him would think it’s good and fun.
so obviously the make a wish foundation can’t like. do harm in an overt way. for example, they can not create a dracula no matter how grave the illness that the wishing-child suffers. however, i wonder if they are allowed to do other, more subtle forms of evil at the behest of dying children.
