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Toyosatomimi no Miko is a character in the Touhou Project series introduced in its 13th installment, Ten Desires.
Miko was once Prince Shoutoku, a Japanese leader in the 600s known for promoting Buddhism and streamlining the Japanese government. In the Touhou lore, she was visited by Taoist hermit Seiga Kaku, who had heard about Miko’s longing for immortality. Seiga introduced her to Taoism, but she rejected it as a religion unfit for placating an entire country. She was intrigued by its promise of immortality, however, and privately converted to it, advocating for Buddhism to keep Japan stable. After drinking an “immortality elixir” (mercury sulfide), however, she was forced to let go of her body and become a supernatural hermit like Seiga, notably taking on the form of a woman, making her a canonically trans character (
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After convincing a hermit from a rival clan (Mononobe no Futo) to sleep without decaying, Miko followed in suit, waiting for a time where a Taoist Japan would revive her in search of guidance. However, Buddhist monks were able to keep her mausoleum sealed, and the legends surrounding her were slowly brushed off- which led to her transportation into Gensokyo, where the folklore of old is a reality of everyday life.
When she awoke in Gensokyo, it was right after Buddhist monk Byakuren Hijiri opened her own temple, however, leading to a surge of divine spirits across the realm, setting up the events of Ten Desires.
What look like headphones on her are canonically earmuffs- Shoutoku was allegedly able to discern between ten questions asked at once, an ability carried by Miko (although with her enhanced abilities, she can also analyze each person and determine their inner desires (thus the title of the game))- although it means her hearing is highly sensitive and has to be muffled to prevent pain.
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I was actually so happy this morning. It just hit me how much better my life is now, how much less dull everything feels, how good it feels to just be in my home, screaming and singing, in a skirt. With the school year starting, I have some time where there's nobody home, and I took that opportunity to just start singing again. I actually recorded some vocals alongside an instrumental track for some songs, and while most sounded bad, one actually sounded decent, in a raw kind of way. It's much better to study my voice in a singing setting, because it's less "ugh why do I sound like that" or "This doesn't sound like someone speaking" and more like "ugh, how do I improve that tone while maintaining pitch?" or "my screams sound like shit, what can I do to improve how they're picked up on the microphone?".
Let it be known that transitioning is going to get me back into singing, even though E doesn't change vocal chords. When I was going through benefits of HRT (literally everything), I was like "It would be nice to have a higher range and a more feminine voice". I was debating to myself whether or not I was trans in the first place, and I was leaning towards not. Do these sound like cis thoughts? I ask myself that a lot when I think back to a few months ago.
Sorry for rambling, and as a side note, sorry for posting too much
. As much as posting is encouraged, I feel like some might think I have been flooding the mega with sub-par comments. I promise, that's not it, I'm just in a better headspace than I have been in a while, and I feel like sharing some of my thoughts. I've never really felt like I've wanted to do that before, I've always felt like my thoughts and emotions weren't worth sharing with others.
Love how a side note practically becomes a whole post of it's own.
Me but all of my voice, it sounds okay until I put it through an analog to digital converter
Ah, the microphone bit is mostly just me wanting to record music/covers of my own, and it mostly applies to screams. I suck at it, so I'm not the best person to ask, but a scream can sound good without a mic while being bad with a mic, and sound good with a mic (and sometimes distortion in post, I haven't tried that though) and not good without that.
I see, curious. The ins and outs of recording screamy tunes...
I know I have a double standard, but as someone who posts too much, you do not post too much.
Same, I don't do social media that much either c:
Fun. I go through phases of where I’m posting. There are obviously lulls before internet fixations move on, but for the most part I’ve always had somewhere to type a lot of thoughts online to whoever will listen.
Of course they sound like cis thoughts! What men don't personally want things like softer skin and a more feminine voices. /s
Actually observing/talking to cis people and not assuming they're either making fun of masculine gender expression or just trying to follow the script because they feel it is expected of them can be quite informative.
Congrats on being happy this morning!
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It's a nice feeling to wake up happy or as much as I can recognise as happy. Looking at how to improve your voice it is a good sign, I recorded myself doing the training and it helped me (also listening back in realtime) but it can be hard if you have voice dysphoria. Voice for me was like, I like this sound, I don't care about if it's perfect or not but it sounds nice for me and I stopped worrying
Your posts are good keep posting, but I do understand the doubts can creep in. (try not to listen to those too much) Glad you're in a good headspace too it's hard to get there and stay there, hopefully you'll remain there c:
Trying to listen to a spoken voice recording of myself is bad 😔. Warm ups are also bad, as are many of the first recordings of songs. If I had to give advice to people looking to record, DON'T record warm-ups, DON'T record your first few singthroughs, and then start recording with singthroughs synced with a backing instrumental track or accompaniment. I find that I actually don't hate how I sound once the singing sounds less strained and has a better (less masculine) resonance applied (I'm kind of bad at that second part, so it sounds a bit overly-nasaly sometimes).
What I'm trying to say is, singing can possibly be a nice way to get around voice dysphoria when it comes to things like range extension and applying resonance, dynamics, etc. The toughest part is then applying that to ordinary speech, which almost feels like a completely different field of voice. Almost.
I know it can be very difficult to do, I am fortunate I didn't really have voice dysphoria, I did want to improve my voice tho c:
Singing would probably help a lot, especially the more you do it the more you're working your voice sort of gets to the point where you'll keep it in that range.. it did for me though I went full at it.