Ok revised introduction I because I'm publicly coming out today in celebration of pride month!

Realized I was a girl about 8 months ago, still working on the details, but I've never been as certain about anything in my life.

Software developer for *for-fucking-ever* OMG how am I so old.
Mostly worked in C/C++ backend stuff, RTOS networking, avionics, deep backend web stuff, and more recently XR, which I'm not actually a huge fan of for a number of reasons.

Avoided gamedev for years and years and dipped my toes in ONCE to try it out and now I'm 13-odd years into a "quick weekend project" and what I do is more like a project manager than a coder. The project is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, an open-source post-apocalyptic survival RPG with an unusual fixation on keeping the setting hard-scifi (except the zombies and stuff, nothing hard scifi about them).

Since it is currently In the Year of Our Lady 2026 let me say fuck LLMs, just to get that out of the way.

Oh right, I did not get the job, but I applied several months later and got it then. I did wonder for a long time if my magic trick put off the interviewer.

Random thread reminded me of the best "magic trick" I ever pulled off.

I showed up a bit early for a job interview at an office with a keypad entry on the front door plus an intercom for contacting the receptionist. Identified myself, got let in. While waiting I learned that they had evidently just changed the keycode that morning and what it was because the receptionist kept giving it out.

Right on time for my interview my interviewer showed up and asked if we could chat outside while they smoked, I agreed. As far as they knew I had just arrived.

After our chat they tried to open the door only for their code to be rejected, without thinking I immediately said, "it's, XXXX". After giving me The Biggest Side Eye I Have Ever Received they punched in the number and the door unlocked. They gave me a second Very Significant Look and we proceeded to the interview.

It took me several minutes to be able to explain or even say anything at all because I knew if I tried I would start laughing and possibly not stop until they had escorted me out of the building.

Could anyone point me at LGBT friendly groups doing low key outdoor activities like ~~walkies~~ hiking in the Seattle area?
Trying to do "healthy" "social" "activities" that won't "risk killing me".
I'll be searching online too but ugh you know how internet be.

I'm now developing headcannon for my own pfp.

Why did I pick *that* image? Well, every time I see that part of the opening I feel a rush of... excitement, anticipation, maybe even yearning? Also Utena is cute and amazing and I want to be her duh.

Who is Utena stabbing? Well who does Utena usually stab? Monomaniacal bullies sure, but what do they represent? The negative parts of us that hold us back?

Ok what negative traits was I thinking of when I made my account explicitly for being my authentic girl self... yea that's obvious.

So in short, if you read one of my toots you're trans now because Utena stabbed the wrongly gendered part of you that's been holding you back.

Thank you for attending my TAM talk.