it sucks to be us

Wow, I really loved this. The writing is fantastic and really expresses a lot of the nuance in being a multiply marginalised queer person!

I'm glad I tried a replay and made it to Ending 3 - I definitely wouldn't have got a proper sense of it if I'd just given up after getting Ending 5 on my first playthrough!

Sorry this is probably the least heartfelt comment on here but holy shit does Xinyu like me back when I was transmasc and presenting as masc/androgynous. I've since grown into a both a more comfortable and nebulous understanding of my gender and am a lot happier in exploring presentation, but seeing a character that's so similar to a younger phase of my life is strangely nice.

I don't see a lot of depictions of queer/trans asians either so that's also nice wwwww

as a trans girl i'm probably not the target demographic, but i liked the story, had to use the guide to get any ending other than 5 but still, i liked seeing the way the relationship between the mc and xinyu developed, and i think how easy it is to get the bad ending may be a sort of (unintentional?) metaphor at how easy it is to fall into apathy, and how sometimes it's hard to make things better, but the effort to do it and better yourself will always be worth it

Perhaps I’m not the target demographic. I thought I was a trans man once, and it turns out I was a cis woman the whole time who was just dealing with internalized misogyny.

But one thing I love about my experience is that it provided me with new perspectives and a better understanding of trans people. The demonization of men in queer circles is so evil I think. I’m working on a book, and the protagonist is a transmasc who believed themself to be a lesbian, and this does seem strangely relevant to that. I don’t know. I’m not finished with this game yet, it’s just that I really like learning more about other people’s experiences. Shoutout to trans men, and I hope to leave a better comment when I’m done.

This really made me think a little more about what it might be like...very relatable even if I'm probably not the intended audience. I kinda always hated labels, it's too hard and never right really. Who a person is inside...it's much too complicated to label. Thank you for the experience.

Thanks for writing this! It's good for morale to see other folks who see "demonizing people you think are men" as Pretty Terrible Behavior, Honestly

Good stuff, way too relatable. No idea how I ended up here, though, I just had it open in my tab ^^' I'm glad I decided to play it

"you forget that belonging to one marginalized group doesn't automatically radicalize people to actually care about others in a meaningful way"

Yeah

this hits hard. 

"I don't want the ostracized group who I'm supposed to be a part of to also ostracize me." is a mood.  

thank you for making it.