What and or who inspires you?

[Lesley_Roberta]

I am male to female, so I will be seeing life I suppose differently than our female to male crowd. But I am interested in all here.

My avatar might be a give away, I assume it is at any rate.

Anime has done more for me than I can measure. It brought back my laugh and my smile and it made it possible to cry again. Oh I sure don't ever want to experience 'emotionally dead' ever again.

And while I have watched a gazillion shows, I always come back to that one iconic show most will at least have heard of, the all time girlie anime Sailor Moon. Usagi was always a whiney crybaby, always so easy to get distracted too. An under achieving doofus. But in the end her heart was limitless. She always came through in the end. The last episode of the show (only an anime fan will have seen as it was never aired on TV out of Japan), she saves the entire world through refusing to give up on the villain knowing that even the villain had needs. She saves the villain and then saves everyone that had perished to that point.

And the show is goofy fight sequences yes, but it is all just such wonderful fun romantic moments too. And it is missing all of the silly idiocy that plagues anime. Bouncy bouncy boobs and pantie scenes and an obsession with nipples. It's anime a girl can enjoy. It's girls with nice long hair (which I envy so intensely) and girls wearing skirts and dresses in additional to ordinary street clothes. It's a world I so wish I could be a part of.

It's everything I dream of.

I would just looooove to be able to start from the skin out, lose the body hair, put on all the right lingerie, the perfect Sailor Moon outfit and get a real wig made from a real wig maker made to be gorgeous Sailor Moon hair and not the usual brilliant yellow cheap no effort silly wig. And then attend Anime North (it in Toronto) and spend the whole weekend 100% female.

Either that or my number 2 personal love, Hatsune Miku. At least neither girl is much in the way of bust size.

I don't have any person in the real world that I want to idolize.

[King Malachite]

It's funny that you say that because I was going to mention Sailor Moon.  That show has gotten me through so many hard times and I actually consider Usagi my "Light of Hope".  It's also a world that I wish I could be a part of.  I'd choose that world over this one any day.  I didn't get to watch all of the Stars season, but I did see the ending.  Coming from the other side of the tracks, I have typically favored Mamoru.  I envied his body and charm and the love that he and Usagi shared and I often longed for that type of love....for my own Usako. 

Our dreams are very similar.  It is my desire of mine to go to Anime Expo and cosplay as King Endymion, Prince Endymion, Tuxedo Mask, and The Moonlight Knight (and have his wig fit perfectly on me) and be seen 100 percent as male.  If I was taller and looked more masculine with a deeper voice, then that would be perfect.

You could be my long lost sister lol.

Aside from that, I've always looked up to Sailor Uranus.  As far as the "real world" is concerned, there are a couple of ftm guys on Youtube who inspire me and I just discovered them only about a year ago.  Before then, it has pretty much only been Sailor Moon that truly inspired me.....well, and some professional wrestlers too.

[Emily Aster]

Reading stories and seeing movies about people where everybody is trying to prevent them from being who they want to be and them somehow finding a way to do it anyway. I'm not just talking trans stories either. Anything that can be compared to it. Rudy and X-Men come to mind.

[Lesley_Roberta]

Hehehe Malachite I suppose I could see you and me having a full bore outright blast at the same con together. I'd have a hoot being Usagi and you be stuck buying me a lot of ice cream I'd be more than willing to let you be as much King Endymion, Prince Endymion, Tuxedo Mask, and The Moonlight Knight for me, but I'd draw the line at being scolded for lousy marks

I have tormented my local anime buddy, that  want to some day take him to Anime North but he has to go as Tuxedo Mask for me. I am not sure he's really in a big hurry to see me as Usagi though

Mamochan get me some iiiiiiiiicream pllllllleeeeeeeeeease

[King Malachite]

Hehehe Malachite I suppose I could see you and me having a full bore outright blast at the same con together. I'd have a hoot being Usagi and you be stuck buying me a lot of ice cream I'd be more than willing to let you be as much King Endymion, Prince Endymion, Tuxedo Mask, and The Moonlight Knight for me, but I'd draw the line at being scolded for lousy marks

I have tormented my local anime buddy, that  want to some day take him to Anime North but he has to go as Tuxedo Mask for me. I am not sure he's really in a big hurry to see me as Usagi though

Mamochan get me some iiiiiiiiicream pllllllleeeeeeeeeease

I won't scold you as long as you don't get jealous of me saying hi to other women.   

I'm jealous that you have a local anime buddy.  I will probably wind up paying someone to go to AX with me since no one around me likes anime, thus forcing them to cosplay as Sailor Moon

[Lesley_Roberta]

Yeah my anime buddy is also my computer guru friend. He ensures my computer works better than advertized. He's generally speaking pretty damned smart where electronic and communications tech is concerned.

I have a few locals that are ok with anime actually. And comically, several of them are all 6 foot omg tall behemoths that like sensitive girlie anime shows You do NOT tell a bouncer sized individual he's anything unfriendly sounding because he likes anime

I know a few girls that have no problem with anime as well.

Used to get together with friends to watch anime a lot in the past, but it seems to have died out as an option.

Took my son to a couple of cons with me and the buddies in the past. Nothing say 'I am not a damned creep' like having a kid with you hehe. Made it a lot easier to ask girls if I could take shots of them in their outfit standing next to my son. Needless to say I had fun kidding my son about it

My first con was sure an eye opener. Holy crap there are thousands of girls here! It was nice finding out that anime is interesting to both genders equally.