#a signifier of gender

[ruvi-muffin]

Hmm

Hot take ??

I think vex is cuter without the lip gloss 🤔🤔

[memingursa]

ANYWAY. Casting a wide net to then talk about Palestine.

@abdalsalam1990 has been a teenager trying to support their family in the midst of struggle you and I cannot imagine. Nader has been so kind and empathetic talking to me, showing a strength I know I do not have. Please help them if you can, and donate. If you can’t, please try and spread Nader’s fundraiser. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-abd-al-salam-and-his-family-get-through-this-war-ingaza

And I linked these channels who I know have active communities. If you can spread word there (on discords, email links etc) for Nader and other Fundraisers you might have found I’m sure alot of progress could be made. Please try and help these people, and get word out.

[whetstonefires]

I know I talk about mdzs modern AUs a lot, but it's just somehow become a fascinating adaptation process to me, all these people making their personal calls about the nature of reality.

And a thing I keep coming back to is all the people who deliberately decide to give modern!wwx Mo Xuanyu's build.

To preserve the strength contrast that's leveraged for horny, which like, yeah that's fair, horny is an acceptable reason to make a story choice. I respect that, sometimes grudgingly.

But as a result of noticing this being done, oftentimes it seems without any reflection about why, I've developed this minor obsession with the fact that wwx in his own body at its adult height was fractionally shorter than lwj.

And this was the height he reached after a multi-year period in childhood living on scrounged garbage, plus the three months starving in the mass grave toward the end of his growth period.

Meaning that by all normal logic, a modern AU wwx who did not experience these periods of intense privation--which is most of them; it's quite rare for children to experience that particular form of total neglect in modern developed nations and modernAU!wwx's life ruining circumstances only occasionally involve intense physical torment--is going to be significantly taller as an adult.

Like. Add a few inches on there.

Where are all my adequately nourished six-foot-four Wei Wuxians???

[abalidoth]

I hate that there's a fundamental incompatibility between social mores that suit

1) a binary trans woman who wishes to be gendered solely on her gender signifiers, and

2) me, a nonbinary transfem who will get he/himmed no matter fucking what because I have a beard and don't bother to voice train, even if my wardrobe and makeup is completely fem

I actually find it relatively affirming when cis people ask my pronouns, because otherwise they are one hundred percent guaranteed to get it wrong.

Guess it's just my fault for being nonconforming and I'll just go fuckin' be misgendered about it, though, because given the volume of posts I see about how evil and transmisogynist asking pronouns is, I'm clearly in the wrong on this one.

[whiskerknittles]

Y’ever go so nuts over a fic it’s literally all you can think about

[technoxenoholic]

too many people don't understand that you can also be gender nonconforming in a way that theoretically "aligns" with your gender, and you can be gnc even if your gender has few to no widespread societal expectations to conform to (you can refuse to conform to your own internalized expectations, or the expectations of individuals and communities around you).

hyperfemme and hypermasc and any nonbinary genderfuck ideas you can possibly come up with can all be valid, legitimate forms of being gnc. you cannot reduce being gnc down to "butch women and femme men" because while those are both valuable and important they are only two out of a myriad of ways to be gnc. there is no gnc binary; that would defeat the entire point.

[ninawolv3rina]

ROOK ROOK ROOK ROOK

OC: Des “Rook” Thorne, Dragon Age Veilguard pc (first run!!!) (they/them)

Gameplay screenshot under the cut (no spoilers but I’m just uhhh keeping it super chill)

Love their little thousand yard stare lol

[braintapes]

trying to find some images of simon for art reference and one of the first results that pops up is an image used for him in lgbt characters archive. which is a little funny to me because like....i GUESS? TECHNICALLY?

i do love the idea that simon has some gender stuff going on but because there is already SO MUCH happening in soma he doesn’t have the time or the brainpower to think/comment on it. 

like...like he’s essentially a software copy of some dude from toronto haphazardly jammed into the cybernetics of a long dead corpse trapped in a diving suit who also happened to be a woman but. like the ‘long dead corpse-jacking’ is already by itself SO MUCH. TOO MUCH. and iirc (though i could be misremembering) his reaction to finding out about imogen is just like “oh. huh okay.” and then he immediately moves on. presumably either to prevent himself from having some kind of breakdown about it or because he Can’t process it all.

and then that happens a SECOND time.

[doecrossing]

every time I see a post from an adult woman about "girlhood ♡" that's just a set of loose aesthetic signifiers designed to provoke a sense of nostalgia in a very specific group of other adult women I puke in my mouth a little

[sysig]

What if baby VUX (Patreon)

[honeyandpumpkins]

can we have a blanket ban on people commenting on how hot trans women are in response to discussions about transmisogyny

[harpalion]

i'm probably like autigender or something but i dislike the word enough to refuse to identify with it.. lol.... nothing hits like lesbian though. did you know that lesbos most likely means forested or woody? you do now. the problem is we just don't get whimsical enough with our words anymore. and if we do we end up with words like enbian and trixic which i do not like. do not like at all

[mommyashtoreth]

F/M(presenting) Az and Crowley is only ever acceptable if it's also t4t-presenting. Cis-presenting, for some unfathomable reason younger-looking, hyperfeminine Crowley sitting in cis-presenting for some unfathomable reason hypermasculine and bearded Aziraphale's lap? Exhausting. Tired. No more. Trans milf sitting in trans dilf's lap? Never gets old. Sound of the summer. Especially if you let her keep being tall

[joelletwo]

[nest-being]

men should be able to wear skirts without it being considered 'gender bending' like babe, it's a piece of fabric, it doesn't say ANYTHING about someone's gender. what it DOES say, is 'these are the kinds of clothes i like' and that's it. just so sick of the fact that pants are the "androgynous" choice that are okay for anyone to wear but put a man in a skirt and he's a weird, sexual deviant.

like, every day gender feels like more of a prison and people are fine to just go along with it instead of trying to break free. i really think that cishet men (in particular) wearing skirts and dresses and traditionally feminine clothing is a small step in the right direction. men's fashion mostly sucks anyway so they'd be doing the world a favour tbh.

[whiskerknittles]

Me: I need to start listening to new audiobooks because it’s good for my brain and introduces me to new concepts and storytelling techniques

Me also: I should listen to Murderbot again