Thank ye all for the compliments.

I mostly just wanted to get a new avatar picture that I felt was more accurate (for instance, you can see my squinty smile, which is worse when I try to show teeth

), and thought I'd grab a shot in new wardrobe items while at it. I've been wanting to find a picture that I can show people when I come out to sort of say "look, this is real and it isn't futile", and I feel like I may have found it.
I hate not being able to live in the world dressed like that at the moment.
Quote from: Phoenix1742 on November 20, 2017, 02:59:55 PM
One thing I've loved is having my ears pierced - a nice pair of earrings makes a huge difference!
I laugh though, I got my first earring (single, left ear) in my mid 20s, and within a few years I had a second hole in my left ear and one in my right. In guy mode I wear a small hoop and a stud left, just a stud in my right, and people generally don't seem to notice, I guess it's fallen into acceptable enough. Then again, I've had them for almost 20 years at this point, so I don't think of them most of the time.
You know, a week or two ago I think I was skeptical about ever getting ears pierced (I hate the idea of piercings and tattoos), but after wearing these clip-ons it has become something I dearly want to do, since the effect is so profound (taking off wig, even with bad male hair, the earrings still create a very feminine feel that normally isn't possible for me without the hair).
Unfortunately, it's going to have to wait a little bit. I think that family I'm not out to would think I'd gone insane, I'm such a generally conservative person the idea of me as a "guy" with earrings would just be too much. But once I'm out to them, even if not out to the world, I'm doing it first thing, since I do think that as you said, the world doesn't really seem to care at this point. Afterall, Harrison Ford...