At 10:42 PM 8/30/1997 -0400, Hunter Kid wrote:
As a comment about all of this:
It's harder to play a different persona than you might think! (Especially
of the opposite sex...that was kinda what this Chris guy/girl was doing.)
I can do it, and undoubtedly others can as well, but it takes a good deal
of effort.
I have done it before, actually, under the name of <deleted>. (Can't say
who...might bring back my alter-ego for some kicks someday. :) It's a
great deal of fun at times; if you're bored, hop into the newsgroups under
a new handle, don't tell anyone it's you, and you get to goof around and
pretend you're a newbie! ;)
Also, some jerks on the 'net like to use search engines to make dossiers of
their net.enemies and then take your forum A comments out of context on
forum B to embarrass you. So switching handles is often a good idea.
Shocked? Disappointed? So was I.
Startled, if nothing else. And maybe a little revolted...
Here, let me start at the beginning.
Sounds like the *perfect* place to start!
A while ago, when I discovered 'Hitomi' was located in Winnipeg,
Canada like me, I was quite happy to be so close to another fanfic writer. I
was impressed by her discriptions of her 'job' and workplace. Not being the
suspicious sort and having no reason to investigate I accepted her word.
Bert(SkyKnight) was also quite involved in e-mail with Hitomi and accepted
her at face value as well. After all, she wrote great stories: why should we
be suspicious?
'Hitomi' *did* write great stories, and even if she doesn't exist and only
is a reality in the mind of some weird transsexual, her stories still rule,
and that's the important thing...right? Right?
Okay, maybe not, but I think it counts for something. :P
Of course it does.
In hindsight, perhaps a mistake.
Especially when she first suggested we(Bert, Hitomi, and I) try to
create a book(not a story) to sell for money. That attempt died rather
quickly as Bert and I lost interest in the idea. There was silence on that
topic until the author wars started and she claimed to have 'contacts' with
ani-mayhem to write a book that we could write. Again, it sounded plausible,
even though we(Bert and I) never got e-mail or a phone call from anyone but
Hitomi. However, that died too. (I wonder if our subconscious minds
suspected something here)
Hmm...some of these contacts might be for real.
Back when Hitomi was promoting the Chibipop site, I sent her a few
suggestions such as showing an introduction to the webzine instead of a raw
directory listing when people went to http://www.tokyokid.com/chibipop/
instead of any individual issue file. Later, I checked out the site and
that suggestion was incorporated. Did Hitomi (who has a fanfic up there)
pass it on to Tokyo Kid's webmaster? Maybe, maybe not.
(Considering everyone who met she/he at first thought 'man', including me, a
rather poor one.) Dressed somewhat poorly, she/he has a slight lisp and must
weigh somewhere around 180 pounds at 5' 7".
The Nyanniichuan effect. Shudder as you see it in reality.
Just out of curiousity (no I'm not weird - not like that, anyway - but I've
wondered about this on some occasions, like those times I see 'masculine
women' walking by in the malls and stuff...), how do sex-change operations
work? Pardon my ignorance, because I know it *is* possible, but it seems
kinda...impossible.
What do they do, pump the guy full of estrogen and suck out the
testosterone? Can transsexuals have babies? (YUCK ALERT)
Oh goody, another biology thread where I get to bla bla bla and people think
I know what I'm talking about. Here goes....
It's mostly cosmetic surgery and hormone treatments. I don't think someone
would or could afford to get the innards changed too. In other words, MtoF
folks probably don't have uteri (did anyone else here take Latin, or am I
the only one who noticed that uterus is a masculine noun?).
Also, converting sperm to eggs - which would need to be done one cell at a
time - would be way too costly in time and money, especially if the patient
wants all four hundred eggs made.
Oh yeah, would someone do me a favor and answer one REALLY important
question for me?
Transsexuals are never actually PRETTY, are they? I don't know, but I
think it would freak me out if I had a crush on some hot babe and then I
found out it was some geek who had a sex change.
Hmm...I guess if you looked pretty androgynous in the first place, or had
the surgery and hormone treatments done very early, you could pass for the
other gender. I've heard of people doing this to babies after botched
circumcisions. Word to the wise: don't trim healthy kids.
The outcome? Maybe Ranma 1/2 screws up your mind. Chris Hill obviously
watched Ranma get splashed too many times and thought it would be fun to
try it himself. After he found out that Jusenkyo didn't exist (or does it?
there was rumor on the Ranma ML that there was a place called Jusenkyo in
China), he then decided to... <gasp> <rest of story deleted>
More like maybe transsexuals really like R 1/2 when they find out about it.
Not that I cared as she/he claimed to be a good friend of Hitomi's.
I mean, hey, an actual person who KNEW Hitomi! To make a very long story
short here is a brief summary of what Chris told me. (And I'm quite
embarassed to say I bought into this... Hm, maybe just 'accepted it' and
didn't give it much thought is more accurate )
Hey, if I bought into it, I'd be embarrassed too! ;) Just kiddin.
Actually, this story you're telling now sounds kinda whacked, too.
My reactions below:
Dynanex was some big-time corporation in Japan and the two sisters
were major partners.
"Then how come I've never heard of it? Show me a catalogue or something,
BAKA!"
During the April Fool's mess I posted some stuff about how Hitomi seemed to
have a job in the anime field and thus those phone calls she complained
about were justified as a business expense. I had assumed Dynanex was one
of many midsize Japanese corps I don't know about. Now it's pretty clear
that it's not.
Whatever. I don't feel embarassed or betrayed or anything, but I guess
that's because I wasn't really involved.
The funny thing was, she openly invited us to investigate him/her.
Then she/he got ticked when we did. *snort*
Must've been that time of the month. ;) Say, do transsexuals have 'that
time of the month?'
Hmm. It's a time of month because women are 85% water so we get a tidal
wave effect, right? Well, some of us slosh around more or less quickly than
others so it's really three to six weeks...but men are 85% water too.
I heard that someone did a study and found a really tiny monthly mood swing
in both genders (like 1% - the other 99% was due to work, school, family,
traffic, those annoying locked bathroom doors, etc.). So I guess a former
guy would end up with some kind of quasi-monthly female-hormone effect, too,
even if not an actual period.
You ever heard of spoofers? I had one that was impersonating me once,
though luckily for me, the idiot was just out for laughs and wasn't being
malicious in any way. (He'd pull stunts like showing up places with me,
making fun of me, and having people wonder why I was mocking myself. The
baka got over it, though, and we're friends now...)
Point is, Chris's 'imaginary friend' may not be a real person, but Hitomi
Ichinohei might exist, and is just absent currently for some reason. I'd
like to think this, anyway, because if 'Hitomi' shuts up for good, then so
do her stories, and they, unquestionably, kick ass! :)
Interesting point.