snake post
I'd like to talk about one of my favorite ball python morphs, the banana gene. It is an incomplete dominant trait first produced by NERD in 2003. Incomplete dominant means an animal only needs one copy of the gene for it to express itself, however a "super" (homozygous) form exists when both parents pass the gene on to their offspring.
An adult and baby banana ball python. As you can see, they are bright yellow with black spots as adults, looking very much like a banana. They have white bellies. This is a different gene from albinism, and they have normal eyes. Here's a wild type for comparison:
One thing that is very unique to the banana gene is it is sex linked (the only ball python morph that does this, not sure about other animals). Female bananas will produce equal split of male and female, banana and wild type. However in males, it is linked to how the sire inherited the gene. If he inherited it from his father's side, he is a "male maker" and almost all of the bananas he produces will be male. The sex split and morph split are the same (50/50), but almost all the males will have the gene and almost all the females will be wild type. Same if he inherited the gene from his mother, just reversed (this is a "female maker"). A common myth/misunderstanding is that this holds true all the time, it does not. A male maker can still produce female banana ball pythons, and male wild types. Same for female makers, in the other direction. Roughly 3% of snakes produced from male bananas will be one of these instead of the "expected" outcome.
These are both super bananas if you wanted to see what they look like ^^
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I was just chatting with an online friend (one who I don't talk to a whole lot but recently started chatting with more). I usually communicate with her by text, but I sent her a voice recording tonight.
She said, "Oh, cool! I like your voice."
And then I said, "Yeah, I'm still trying to sound less masculine, but I like my progress."
Then she said, "Wait, what do you mean?"
I said, "I'm training my voice to sound less masculine. It's very common for trans people to do!"
Then she said, "Wait, you're trans?"
I said, "Yeah, wait a minute, did you not know?"
Then she said, "No. I seriously did not!"
I thought she knew this whole time! She has seen multiple pictures of me, and my bio has a ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ in it even!
And I said, "That's crazy. I never thought I looked feminine enough for people to basically assume I'm a cis woman."
She said, "Well, you obviously look very feminine to me."
Not only that, though, but she said this ALL after hearing me speak. And her initial reaction wasn't, "Wow, your voice is deeper than I was expecting" or anything like that... she just liked it and didn't question it. I guess that means that not only do I look more feminine than I think, but my voice sounds more feminine than I think too.
We laughed for a bit, and I ultimately let her know it's a very good, validating thing. Shit's crazy.
Hell yeah
Can confirm. You do have a very pleasant voice.
Also, I started calling this same friend, "da GOAT," and English is not her first language, so she thought I was calling her a literal goat ๐ but she took it as a compliment because she likes goats.
She told her husband (who is American), and he laughed his ass off.
I did the same when she told me this.