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TMA/TME users: before you is a person with tits, a beard, and long hair. They are wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Your challenge is to fit them into your binary without being weird about their genitals and asking invasive questions. Go.

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I don't very often reblog anything in my endless quest to not piss anyone off. But this hits close to home. I guess this counts as me publically "coming out". I have had someone say to me: "wow! so you're like a real life futa then???" and it pissed me off more than hardcore Christians saying I don't count as a person. 1., I'm just a guy, who happens to be intersex in a way that is close to certain stereotypes. 2., I don't appreciate being called pornographic, fetishistic terms that dehumanise me and other intersex people. I would literally rather be called the h* slur. 3., Hypersexulising intersex people leads to very real violence done against us, which I have unfortunately experienced firsthand, and terms like these solidify this sexual exoticism/objectification in people's minds. Please. I'm not a mystical creature, I'm not your fetish, I'm not some tag on a porn site. I'm just a man. I spilled spaghetti on my bed because I was too lazy to sit in a chair. I sang a song loudly in the shower. I slipped on ice last winter outside the laundromat. Intersex people are NORMAL, and we're everywhere. Stop treating us like a shiny Pokemon and start treating us like human beings.

Reminder for this pride month.

Here is a list of sources you SHOULDN'T listen to about intersex issues & bodies

TERFs

Anyone who uses the term "DSD"

Intersex-medicalists

The medical establishment in general

Fanfiction

The trans community

Trans forums

Perisex (non-intersex) people in general

Futanari porn

Here is a list of sources you SHOULD listen to about intersex issues & bodies

Intersex advocacy groups

Intersex people

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Ah, ma hynny’n cŵl iawn! Ddim yn gwneud llawer o bostiau nid-gelf ar y wefan ‘ma, ond wi’n mynd i ei rannu beth bynnag!

Me, watching my mutuals speak other languages, not understanding a single word: fucking superb you funky little bilinguals

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Back of the hand, side of the forearm-- that sounds like what happened with me a while back. It might be an ulnar nerve RSI instead of carpal tunnel! What worked for me (besides lots of rest) was wrapping an ace bandage over my forearm, wrist, palm, and in between my pinky and ring finger. You can bind between your fingers in a way that feels comfortable, though; I didn’t stick to only those fingers.  It should also be noted that this is only a temporary relief effort and not a replacement for what will ultimately do you the most good (staying off of that hand as much as possible). If left to its own devices, it can cause lasting pain-- 1.5 years, in my case.  I hope this is a bit helpful!

I seem to be having a bit of physical trouble with the transcription of the process for building the fifth Nobilis quest set.

I could use:

* pointers to a good methodology to export discord threads, since copy-paste only gets … either a random amount of text, or up to a fixed number of characters/posts

* thoughts as to whether “back-of-the-hand side of the forearm is really unhappy doing a lot of shift-select and shift-navigation” is carpal tunnel or something else.

* suggestions for getting through a bunch of the same without pushing things too far either way. 

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He would though.

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“Alone”, Edgar Allen Poe. 

– This is the only time I will ever post anything personal on any website. I heavily debated not posting it at all, but decided I wanted this to exist somewhere on the internet in the event that I get eaten by a Dracula or something.  Past life shit isn’t fun. It wasn’t fun growing up, and it isn’t fun now. It’s not some “hee hoo I was [such-and-such famous person], omg look at me I’m sooo quirky” kind of deal– and anywhere I’ve gone to try and open up about my issues has been full of people who either have no idea what they’re talking about, or are the 12000th person on that forum claiming to be Freddy Mercury or whoever-the-fuck. You know. For the laughs.  To anyone who’s had to grow up with PTSD and horrible, vivid memories since they were capable of conscious thought, I see you. You’re not alone. Nobody talks about this stuff and the people who’ve had similar experiences probably don’t think anyone will believe them, mainly because of the growing list of Freddy Mercuries and assorted attention-seekers who devalue the real deal.  I guess this is okay to reblog, but don’t add anything extraordinarily stupid, or I’ll…well, er. I’ll frown at my computer screen. Judgmentally. 

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You can give a Noble a forklift but you can’t teach him how to drive... (based off of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwmo_4S7UXY)

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I adore my Warmain to no end. 

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Running a Nobilis campaign next year (gobeithiol...!) and I needed to visually conceptualise Lord Entropy and his Powers. 

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There’s a viral Twitter thread at the moment which is talking about how white nonbinary people should use Gaelic [sic] names because they’re Very Gender due to, idk, the vowels, and you have no idea how much fun I’m having correcting white Americans’ spelling and pronunciation of their super uwu gender ‘Gaelic’* Welsh names

Am I being a huge arsehole? Yes! We’re in a heatwave, and my fury runs hotter than the sun! But also, consider this: we do need to have a conversation about appropriation of chosen names, and the fact that taking names from other cultures that you blatantly know literally nothing about (see: thinking that Welsh is Gaelic, accidentally naming yourself ‘wine’) and arbitrarily deciding that it has super uwu gender vibes just because you can’t easily place it within your own cultural context is Bad Actually. While the original thread on Twitter had a good point that white nonbinary people (of which I am one) need to stop taking East Asian names, I think that all the people taking ‘Gaelic’ (again, [sic]) names are just part of the same problem, which is the idea that being a white queer person somehow gives you a license to appropriate other cultures based solely on Gender Vibes TM, and like… no. No, it does not.

The thing is, you don’t get to just take a name from another culture and reduce it solely to the gender and meaning you give it as an individual outside of that culture, because that name has very specific meanings and contexts in its place and culture of origin. You don’t get to treat names from other cultures and languages in a way that you wouldn’t treat names from your own cultural and linguistic context. If this sounds like I’m saying ‘don’t make [insert culture here] names gender neutral’, then let me clarify that I’m not saying that at all. On the contrary, it’s completely fine to de/re-gender a name! Names are just phonemes and orthography is a construct, just like gender! Call yourself whatever you like; I think de-gendering and re-gendering names is good and right and proper. Howevs, it’s not OK to do it solely on the basis of a name’s non-Anglo roots, or because a name’s perceived strangeness (or uniqueness) or difference make it seem or sound genderless to you. You not having an awareness of a name’s meaning does not mean it doesn’t have a meaning.

If you wouldn’t make, idk, Kaylynn or Roger or Paul gender neutral, then ask yourself why you view non-Anglo names as inherently more malleable and available to reinterpret. Call yourself what you want! Chosen names are very very valid and very important! Just make sure you know why you view certain names as Rigid And Untouchable And Inherently And Inexorably Gendered and other names as ripe for reinterpretation, because often that reason is Anglocentrism and colonialism. Eirlys and Aiko and Aoife and Saoirse and Ryu and Bryn are only gender neutral if Graham and Rachel and Oliver and Alan and Nancy and Luke are gender neutral, i.e. on the basis that all names can be divested from a specific gendered context, not just names that you perceive as being somehow ~mystical genderless otherworldly super gender uwu names~.

tl;dr if a name’s Gender Vibes rest solely on it being from another culture and therefore somehow Magic And Beyond All Concepts of Gender, then you need to reconsider why that is, and whether you’re just exoticising it and taking aesthetics from a culture without respecting its meaning and origin. ‘It looks cool’ is not a good enough reason to decide that you get to use a name and divest it of all context. If you’re going to use a name from another culture, then for fuck’s sake, learn how to spell and pronounce it and what it means, and make sure that you’re doing it out of respect.

(Also, pet peeve, but for the love of holy God, don’t just pick a name because you like its uwu mystical Celtic vibes and then spend your whole life mispronouncing it and telling everyone that it means some absolute bullshit like ‘fiery dragon’ or ‘elven princess’. We cri evrytiem. Plus, you’ll probably just end up calling yourself ‘wine’.)

*except Welsh is Brythonic, not Gaelic, lads, and words have meanings!

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I don’t share my art so often...but I suppose I’ll have to make an exception for Ieuangi Fychan. 

(Pre-storyboarding warmups) 

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Trying to explain Gambit to friends as a new Light, Trinity-Ghoul-toting, Wormhusk-using, Gjallarhorn-not-having, sniper-ignoring blueberry is like...

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I tried my best to recreate the meme from scratch, ahaha!

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In light of all my recent Destiny 2 posts, I thought I should share this unfinished animatic I made last February in case I get too busy to finish it!  (Artwork is old and does not reflect my current skill level.)