#If they're enby they're just getting railed

[spellbound037]

Cindrethresh is babygirl

(Also what the frick frack tic tac are their pronouns- they give hardcore transmasc energy but everyone is calling them by she/her so IDK)

[fenmere]

OC tag game

thank you @the-letterbox-archives for the tag!! the rule is to share some inspirations for the name/personality/design of a character! (originally it said to do more than 1, but letter only did one and we kinda want to focus on one too, only it's still a lot of characters)

the Audreys (they/them)

You know that illustration/cartoon going around where the caption says that if you're queer you know 28 people that look like this?

The Audrey's don't look like that.

A lot about them isn't clearly defined, because we want readers to fill in the blanks as needed. What we know is that they're taller than 5' and shorter than 5'10, willowy and kinda rail thin (the opposite of Erik), with long, straight blonde hair they don't really style, and a lazy queer style of clothing. In one scene, they wear a navy blue hoodie with gold mermaid print leggings and a pair of plain black boots. They also have a simple store bought cane that's black with a scale print etched into it.

We own that cane. That part comes from us.

They mostly use the cane for fatigue and balance.

Like so, so many of our friends, they're trans, autistic, and plural.

And like a lot of them they relate to crows and other corvids. Which is to say, as headmates they're actually literally a bunch of birds. They won't claim to be therian or otherkin, or alterhuman, because they don't really think much about such labels and are used to masking themselves around neurotypicals. But they are. Well, they might relate to corvids the most, but some of them are other things. Like, Brock is a bald eagle.

And their inner government is called The Parliament, and meets in an oak savanna inworld.

There's 140 of them at the beginning of the story, and they grow a little by the third book. And they're mostly full of fictives.

You can decide if they're traumagenic or endogenic or what. Whatever you relate to the most.

As far as we know, they don't look like anybody we know. They don't really behave like anybody we know. Because they are, effectively, a mishmash of every single mid to late twenties something trans masc autistic enby who has ever been our friend. They are an homage to the people who raised us as a baby trans, and the people we feel most comfortable around who don't outright share every trait we have.

They're also a bunch of doofy guys with "they/them" for pronouns. You've got Bock Samson, Donnie from the Big Lebowski, Ray Stance and Egon Spangler, Xander from Buffy, Shaggy, and people like that. Scorpia is also in there, along with any other character like her, too.

A huge part of their fate in the world is to serve as kind of a foil for the other characters. Which, believe it or not, is inspired by how we almost always felt while we were in the closet and trying to move through the world as a man.

It's sort of the reason we love all the fictives that we've put in their system. They're guys who aren't the leads, but who do struggle with that, and have varying success expressing their own presences. Brock is particularly successful, for instance, while Ray not so much.

But the Audreys do lead the way in a few scenes and also get something special out of the deal. We do our best to keep it all pretty even.

To talk specifically about what inspired them, though, we gotta talk about our own life a bit.

In 2004, we started a group called the Bellingham School of Comics, which met twice weekly at a place called the Black Drop. We just put a couple of fliers up for it, and within a month there were thirty members.

Just one of the significant things about the B.S. of Comics is that over the course of our tenure there, it had ten trans masc members. And we got to be pretty good friends with most of them.

But we didn't come out as trans ourselves until 2015. They were our first support group when we hit that dysphoric wall and had to come out. They saved our life. But before that, they also taught us everything they knew about trans feminism at the time. We owe them a lot.

And then, shortly after that, we came out as plural and autistic, and again, the first peers we had in that regard were also trans masc.

And along with Erik, the Audreys are kind of our way of saying, "You guys all really rock, you know that?" Because we made both of these characters to be people we could love. And we had a bunch of good role models for that.

--- Anyway, consider yourself tagged if you have an OC, then tag us in thanks when you post your version of this, so we know it's safe to tag you in the future.

[probablyaseamonster]

So you know how my Witchcraft SMP theory got almost 500 notes? Like I'm talking in the late 490s?

Well I'm doing it again. This time with Pirates. On Day 1. Because I can.

... I'll probably update this later.

ANYWAY

I was thinking about the weirdos who took Guqqie. I didn't catch their nametags if they had any (my screen was being super blurry, it's been a problem for like a week), so I'm starting to call them the People of the Yellow Ship (Because notably they're the only ones with a brightly coloured sail and we need more yellow as an intimidating colour. Too many derederes. Not enough Bill Ciphers).

I was wondering, because they explicitly singled her out out of a large crowd of currently loud people. Was it her bright pink hair? The mysterious gleaming circle thing on her shirt, whatever it is? Maybe, but I think it'd be more interesting if the hatred (or admiration? whatever emotion behind the intent) wasn't based on something so surface level. If the People knew some deeper things about Guqqie.

My first thought? They targeted her because she was vulnerable. Like how real cultists operate, because I assume from the shot of the temple at the end of Guqqie's animation that they're meant to be interpreted as cultists. Now obviously real life cultists don't sacrifice people most of the time (although most media doesn't seem to acknowledge that), so keep in mind that these characters are probably not going to be realistic depictions. Of course. It's a story about pirates and eldritch horror made by gamers and influencers.

ON A SIDE NOTE. I think I'm the first person (at least on tumblr) to point out that the Faction/Pirate Isles have their own temple, as shown at the end of the intro. A caved-in greco-roman inspired structure that is surprisingly more overgrown on the very-much-inhabited pirate hotspot compared to the island with the abandoned and corrupted village (and somehow when Guccie made it to the deadly temple it started snowing. How exactly was it snowing on a tropical island? I hope this will be answered... are gods real? and at least one of them condones this?... hm... the eldritch vibes are getting stronger the more I think about it). Also I want to mention that it would've been so easy to make the temple aztec or something but I'm so glad they didn't. Adventure movies do enough damage.

But back to the theory. How is Guqqie vulnerable? Well, in Owen's YouTube series so far, we only see Guqqie a few times. Mostly getting along well with Aimsey, but one time is particularly relevant. I think it was before Owen had chosen to join the Herons, when he was considering all options (as skeptical as he was). Guqqie mentioned that she rarely leaves the island, as she is uncomfortable on the open sea. Mentioned that she gets seasick, and most interestingly, that her parents say that the act of getting seasick is "unladylike".

This sentence set off alarm bells in my head. Honestly whenever someone uses the term unladylike it concerns or enrages me, but past that. We don't know much about Guqqie's home life, other than that she was probably raised a Kestrel, much like how Scott was raised a Heron. On Aimsey's stream she said that c!Guqqie didn't like c!Aimsey at first, which at least to me implies that Guqqie's parents had instilled a hatred of Kites in their daughter, which Guqqie eventually broke out of when she fell for the swag enby with the tentacle tattoos.

Guqqie's parents instilling the importance of appearing ladylike to Guqqie reads that they wanted her to be a model aristocrat (at least among pirates), much like Scott and Owen. But the part where it gets dark is they told her this in the context of her seasickness. They thought it was unbecoming of a woman to need to throw up over the gunwale (yes I looked up what the railing of a ship was called just for this post, what of it), her face green as rotting bread. Which is, in a word, scummy. If your kid has health issues like this, don't be like that. You know, if there are any parents reading this, which I doubt.

cc!Guqqie had only an hour and a bit to tell her story to the other cc!s and their chats. And she chose to tell Owen's that tidbit of information. It seems like a comedic throwaway line, but I keep coming back to it. Something tells me that this was important. That it may have been part of the reason she was chosen.

I just realized something as I was writing this out. Oh god. If I'm right, then they'll probably go after Scott next.

pt 1.

[calamitaswrath]

Just writing down some thoughts to gather them

I dunno, recently my whole gender questioning has just really been going off the rails. On the one hand, I still don't truly believe that I'm a woman because I don't really want anything that (I think) hrt or surgery would do with my body. What I mean is, I'm fine my current genitals, and don't want breasts, but I'm near certain that hrt and the like would have more effects than just those. And of course there's still all those "what if I'm faking it" doubts, which. . . from what I gather, are also very frequent with other trans or enby people. Another doubt I keep coming back to is that the person I still have feelings for once told me that while they're (not the person's actual pronouns, but just to keep the mention of them more nonspecific, because that whole thing is not the point here) bi, they would currently be more interested in having a relationship with a woman next, so I my thoughts keep circling back to the idea that I'm faking this all to myself in the hopes that it would help me with them. But that's a point I can at least easily dismiss, even if I keep coming back to it.

But then the other hand, I keep trying to tell myself that all these thoughts and doubts are recent, but. . . are they? I haven't actually gone swimming in years, even though I loved to do it as a pre-pubescent child, and I generally really don't like other people seeing me topless, even though it would be acceptable as an amab person. When my beard growth started, I was in denial for the longest time, to the point where I tossed a razor I was gifted into a corner somewhere and never touched it since, and on the whole was super pissed about the present. These days, I shave my face daily, because I really don't want even a single hair there. I also used to think that I hate being called a man or the like because I just fundamentally unprepared for being an adult, but. . . idk, I guess that's still part of it, but I'm also super certain by now that I'm just not a man. And even now, I loathe being called one, but almost never speak out against it, because that's a conversation that I'm just not comfortable with having with anyone irl outside of university. Whenever I hear my own voice in recordings or become aware of it, I just feel distant from it, like it doesn't really fit. For some time, I had bookmarked a video along the lines of "Feminize your voice", which I kept telling myself was just me wanting to improve my vocal range. But. . . was that really it? I ended up deleting the bookmark some while ago apparently, because I never got to it, and now I'm lowkey beating myself up over it. I guess I've also always had a bit of a fascination with the concept of genderswaps, or genderbending? I really liked Ranma 1/2 as a kid, and when I realized that Xenoblade X lets you re-customize your Cross after the start of the game, including gender, I really was all over that. And somehow ended up playing with a male avatar far, far less than I did with a female one. My whole gender questioning began with Arval Fire Emblem. But even though they're still peak gender, I think they're meant to be amab, and didn't shake my own self-view nearly as much A Xenoblade. . . who's afab(-ish), and feminine presenting. I keep asking myself what I want for myself in terms of my presentation, and I just keep coming back to more feminine ways being more appealing to me. I wouldn't even mind wearing skirts (maybe I could microdose by getting a kilt, lol), I feel. I've also already told a few people I interact more commonly with that I wanna give the name Lucia a try, and have already been called that a few times, which always just gives me a jolt in my chest - like, in a good way.

And then there's still the part that considering this trajectory of my own self-view and gender identity, it might not even be wrong to call myself a lesbian, which. . . that thought still gets me all ???, and I'm not really ready yet to interrogate that.

I also rewatched the video that Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube made about her coming out and decision to transition, and. . . well, for the most part, the experiences that she talked about I think didn't feel they matched my own. But one thing she mentioned in there, about a feeling of having your whole being, your identity, everything you believed to be true about yourself coming apart. . . that definitely hit.

[rametarin]

"Latinx" as a word is shit, but

Lets get on the same page about why it's shit, okay?

Latinx is bad because it arrives at a conclusion without any opportunity for discussion or debate, it just asserts its own authority and demands change and adjustment for it, even if it means seizing control of the very data and logic and owning and gatekeeping it as an institution of authority. In this case, language and culture.

Latinx is bad because the people using it used the accusation of transphobia and the specter of 'white supremacy' and 'patriarchy' to argue the very Latin LANGUAGES were evil for not conforming to their views. And in their view, not validating and including the non-binary option was a form of erasure, retroactively. A crime, they argue, akin to declaring another race of humans subhuman. For being, "gender binarist."

In other words, refusing to use a model for gender that disregarded and abolished biological sex as an important factor in how gender was determined and instead going with a purely self-selective, cultural form of imagining gender. By simply NOT conforming to that, they argue, you're committing a hate crime towards, "the enby."

They argue, by not conforming to what they insist is a civil right for an, "oppressed minority," by upending and redefining how Spanish works according to THEIR ideas of how gender ACTUALLY works, declaring any use of biology to determine gender as a norm to be archaic, antiquated and a hate crime.

Latinx is shit because it tries to assert enby is not only valid but Latin needs to, "de-colonize" and lose the male bias. They chose Latin specifically because English already doesn't gender things default male or female, so they have a harder time picking that fight.

And who are the perpetrators perpetuating this stupid shit?

Before they felt brave enough to just out and out say, "your language is bad because it doesn't already validate non-binary gender/enbies as a legitimate thing," they went with the, "it's not trans inclusive" line, just because it was already a third rail to stand on to be perceived as a transphobe. So, for a bit they Courtney Loved Spanish's Curt Kobain and associated them together. "It's trans and enbyphobia!"

They picked this fight as a way to skip a few stages of the debate and argument and get right to the part where you have to conform to their views or they'll declare you endangering their civil rights. They picked it with the language that uses gendered expressions from a binary sexed perspective, instead of one that either doesn't gender the language, or has pronouns for non-binary designations, specifically to trash it as a problem.

They didn't do it because they're just anglos attacking Spanish or Latin America. This same movement exists inside South American colleges, same as it does in this one. They network, in fact, because up here in Anglo land, just to be Hispanic or Latin-American or Spanish(mainland European) makes you in the same category of 'oppressed person' as black people or Asian people. And they write legislation for and advocate on behalf of Hispanic/Latin-Americans as oppressed minorities.

So when you see Mexican or some student further south from the US border regurgitating these shit lines about Latinx to make Spanish, "More Inclusive to the Non-binary," recognize it for what it is. Cultural Marxism, trying to seize control of how culture and social knowledge is expressed and understood.

It's something that's going to repeat itself in other languages that gender things, especially if they default to male, because they use the illusion of the male-supremacist/male-chauvinist Patriarchy to charge up the younger, passionate rebellion in students against inequality. They preach that any culture or society that WON'T adopt their view of sex and gender determinism being socially constructed in the absence of biology, is backwards and bigoted and wrong.

And it's just more of the same, "lets tear everything down as evil and wrong and medieval and bigoted and start from a clean slate, comrade!" bullshit.

I was moved to comment on this because I see too many folks from Hispanic countries and cultures misunderstanding Latinx as shit just because it's, "those anglos trying to tell us what to do again! They don't even know how Spanish works!" And

No. NO. It's NOT, "those anglos." This is a complete fringe group of internationalist conspiracists that network and operate internationally. They're in Central and South America. They're even in JAPAN these days!! That's the thing! If you think these academics are doing this because they DON'T understand Spanish, you're misunderstanding exactly what they want and why they want it. It's not some stupid Americans that can't even pronounce enchilada properly, it's people that know how Spanish works, but want it to work another way.

They invented this whole convoluted argument of a non-binary gender specifically to disestablish Spanish and split it open to re-write it, or make its very existence a hate crime against a demographic, without their generous revisions to how it works. That's seizing power over something in academia and human knowledge, not with armed military action. And it depends entirely on the system of Human Resources to arbitrate and hand down verdict. They've CREATED an institution of power specifically to turn movements like this into ways to control language and culture.

It isn't the "anglos." It's the socialists.

[cipheramnesia]

I really should find a way to compress my bio but whatever also. No one reads em. Or do they? Hmm what else, what else, my dad was having a trouble with pronouns today which was a little vexing but he tries really hard and loves me as I am so that's fine. Stupid fuckin terf got lost and wandered into my posts again, still shakin my head wondering how they escaped from their sewer. They're so gross.

Anywho, I'm just daydreaming about getting railed, getting my nails and teeth on a hot enby. Having a great big snarling sexy fight. Mm yes, that's a good thought.