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Streamer Ch. 18: 100 Subs
🕑 Added 2022-04-13 01:07:18 +0000 UTC“Hey, guys, welcome back to the stream!” Hunter said. They spun a little to reveal their new outfit of a black, embroidered top and a denim skort. “Some updates: I got new clothes! Also, Mel is now officially my manager! Oh, and I’m trying out they/them pronouns, if you could try and stick to those in chat.”
Mel frowned as she rapidly deleted the comments of and then blocked some guy named MisterPwn88. “Fuckin’ yikes,” she muttered to herself. Under her desk, Pickle made a weird sound. “Pickle, no! Wires are not food!”
Hunter glanced at the chat before continuing. They were a little stressed about how people would react to the new pronouns, but it generally seemed pretty chill.
yaoiMaster69: poggers
yaoiMaster69: good for them!
yaoiMaster69: has anyone coined themboy
trans_rites: I called it!
trans_rites: My transceiver is flawless
trans_rites: Anyway I can and WILL ban any transphobes in chat
melsalvia: oh fuck sorry i had to keep a kitty from electrocuting himself
melsalvia: oh chat seems chill though, thanks chat
melsalvia: and thanks other mods obv
melsalvia: <3
Hunter tore their attention away from the chat and got back into streamer mode. “So, today I’m going to be working on the girl voice. I need something to say so instead of the text-to-speech voice I’ll be reading your donations myself! Although I won’t be reading anything too weird or objectionable, so try and keep things reasonable.”
A moment later, an alert came in for a donation. “Rites! Thank you for the donation! ‘Trans rights are human rights’. Absolutely!”
After waiting for a few seconds, no other donations seemed imminent. “Well, chat, I guess we should have something else to do between donos. Any suggestions?”
melsalvia: play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV
melsalvia: lol
melsalvia: no idk maybe minecraft?
yaoiMaster69: try on more outfits?
eastlySnipes: BotW randomizer?
eastlySnipes: lowkey fiending for some Zelda content
“Breath of the Wild randomizer sounds good! Maybe I can read item descriptions as I get them. Let me just change the stream title real quick.”
They quickly edited the stream title to “Breath of the Wild Randomizer + Girl Voice”
Before they’d even left the Shrine of Resurrection, another donation rolled in. This one was… less than great, though.
“This stream is getting too political for me. I just wanted to watch a chill guy play Nintendo games. I don’t know what all this stuff with gender is. No offense but I’m unsubbing.”
Hunter frowned. “Well, I don’t see why those need to be mutually exclusive? I mean, I’m playing a Nintendo game right now.” They tried to return their attention to the game but remained a bit perturbed. What if their new look and pronouns drove off other older viewers? Maybe leaning into this had been a mistake.
As they played, they kept forgetting to read item descriptions as they got them. “Hmm, chat, I’m not sure I can multitask that well. I keep either getting too into reading things out loud and dying, or I get too into the game and forget to read things.”
melsalvia: i just had an idea
melsalvia: it might be big brain!
melsalvia: or maybe it’s a little derivative
melsalvia: uh speedrun but every time you forget to do girl voice you have to reset
“Huh. Sure, I guess I’ll give that a try?”
A few hours later, Hunter was feeling incredibly frustrated. They were upset that they kept slipping on the girl voice, and they hadn’t even managed to get off the Great Plateau. And they hadn’t gotten nearly as many donations as they’d been hoping. “Sorry, chat, I think I’m gonna end the stream here. I know this wasn’t the greatest stream but I’ll try to work on refining the format. Maybe I should just practice the girl voice off stream. We’ll see. Anyway, thanks for watching!”
They stopped the stream and went to flop back on their bed. Glancing at their phone, they saw they had several missed Discord messages from Mel.
melsalvia: hey
melsalvia: don’t stress over the girl voice thing too much
melsalvia: you don’t need to do it if you don’t wanna
melsalvia: shit is hard
melsalvia: that’s why i never did it lol
BigGoron5: ?
BigGoron5: you sound like a girl to me
BigGoron5: did you just start out sounding like that?
melsalvia: idk i think context does a lot
melsalvia: i think my voice is kinda in the androgynous range
melsalvia: but if people see me they take it as female
melsalvia: lowkey i hate phone calls tho
melsalvia: main time i get misgendered but even then it’s not super common
BigGoron5: huh
BigGoron5: Good to know
melsalvia: i think my voice used to be, like, lower in my range back when i was trying to present as Guy ™
BigGoron5: Whoa, you used to be Guy Fieri? Amazing
melsalvia: thats right
melsalvia: mayor of flavortown right here baybee
BigGoron5: Mel you’re very silly
BigGoron5: I do feel a little better now though, so thank you
BigGoron5: <3
melsalvia: no problem cutie
melsalvia: i am going to send you a bill for this therapy session tho
BigGoron5: Oh no
melsalvia: don’t worry, you can pay in cuddles
melsalvia: we also accept bitcoin
melsalvia: jk fuck crypto
BigGoron5: Based
BigGoron5: Specifically, coinbased
melsalvia: hmm
melsalvia: I’ll accept it
melsalvia: but i thought i was in charge of the bad puns
melsalvia: you know, as your manager
melsalvia: oh that reminds me! I set up a youtube channel for u
melsalvia: what do you think would be a good first video?
BigGoron5: I’m sure you could look through the vods
BigGoron5: Maybe it would be better to start with some of the older content?
BigGoron5: Or to have separate channels for gender-related stuff versus Zelda stuff
BigGoron5: Not sure, I’ll think about it
BigGoron5: Thanks though Mel!
melsalvia: no problemo
melsalvia: *finger guns*
BigGoron5: Dork <3
