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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.
#the serfs#jesse gender#hbomberguy#the majority report#hasanabi#fd signifier#secular talk#sam seder#kyle kulinski#leftist#progressive#jacob geller#palestine#free gaza#free palestine#gaza#gaza mutual aid#fundraiser
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#yugioh#ygo dm#yugi mutou#pharaoh atem#blindshipping#<- sorta. not sure. but such is the being aroace etc#whatever it is thats going on with them is worse than all that etc#idk why this happened straight up I was drawing something else. why did I draw this. whadda hells...#''ok Im done hatching shit now I should do a less inked thing to refresh'' - me when I lie#you know. rereading the first series made me realize how extremely aromantic it is. every romance thing either doesn't work out#or is so fucked up it generates villains. attraction is either stock or used to signify gender for half a second before being forgotten#meanwhile friendship is magic the whole way through. man I do love ygo tho huh Im realizing lol#(also was liveblogging slash doing a gender reading of the whole first series at friend yumi last month so maybe Im just. dense)#(well.)
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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???
#hoc est meum#mdzs#modern au discourse#malnutrition#i know i've discussed this before#like luo binghe isn't necessarily stunted because his genes are So Powerful#but wwx is a human person#also though the subtext of modern aus that clearly just put him in mxy's body from the word go#like what image of wwx is getting translated here#what story interpretation does this signify what's being valued the most?#the immediate on-page gay romcom of errors sometimes#other times it's less clear#sometimes it's like oh i think this is mostly a gender thing this time#this isn't attachment to the specific on-page dynamic but to the concept of the shou#as a gendered role#etc#wei wuxian#meta#i think this counts as meta
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Date in the Ghost Zone
@seamistagle
Sorry it took so long, I've cjaged ideas, like, five times along the way because my dating expirience is almost none existant. To make up for that, I decided to write them kissing (i also have no expierience in that) but anyway, I hope you'll like it
“Hi starlight!” a voice rang from her ceiling. At this point, she didn't even startle, too used to Danny's dramatics. Popping out of nowhere, halfway through solid objects was so low on the list of shenanigans that she didn't even respond until she finished a scene of the “Hello, Megan!” episode she was rewatching. That's what he got for not using the door and knocking like civilized humans should.
“Hello sunshine“ She leaned back in her chair and smiled at her boyfriend “What brings you to my humble chamber?”
“You're busy this weekend and it's not a question. We're going on a date” he said, determined and anxious in a way that usually translated to ‘I have an unconventional date idea and I hope you like it’. Her smile widened. She loved Danny's unconventional ideas.
“Sure love, do I need to bring something with me?” She started slowly flying up, careful to not be fast enough to bring Danny's attention to it. He took a moment to consider her question but eventually shook his head.
“I'll get everything ready. Just come to Amity on Saturday morning and let everyone know we will be offline whole weekend”
Her smile got a bit softer. Whole weekend with Danny sounded like a dream, especially after a period when life stuff kept them apart for almost a month.
“Alright,” she just needed to stall a little longer. “Can I make cookies though?“
Just a bit higher, less than two feet.
Danny visibly brightened, looking every bit like an angel from an old painting.
“I'll never say no to your cookies”
“I know,” she said and kissed him. His lips were cold and dry as if he spent just a bit too long on the snow, like always when she made out with him as a ghost. She loved every millisecond of the experience.
Obviously, she also loved when he was human, warm and soft and breathing.
She just adored every bit of her boyfriend, okay?
She let go to take a breath, relishing in a way Danny blushed and spluttered. He was an adorable mess every time she so much as smooched him.
(She said, as if she wasn't exactly the same).
“I love you. See you on Saturday“
“Yeah… See you”
***
Danny carefully stared at M'gann when he phased blindfold off her face. It wasn't as much of a surprise as he wished it could be, there wasn’t many places where could he go to from his house, especially ones that she didn’t see already. But he wanted to give her just this little thing, so he lead her in a little bit further.
She seemed to like it, if his reading of her emotional projection was correct. Apparently he should know it instinctually but he was just tad too alive for the instinct to kick in. From what he knew about M'gann, she liked it. Maybe.
“It's… really green”
Danny blinked. How was he supposed to respond to that?
They both snorted the moment they caught each other's eyes.
“I mean… you warned me but wow–” she said, clearly suppressing out right laughter “–even air is green”
“That's Ghost Zone for you! Green over green with green undertones”
That won him a laugh. Ancients, there weren't many things more beautiful than this laugh and he was willing to do far too much for it.
“Alright, let's go, I have so much to show you. We won't be able to get to Martian sector now, but if you want, we can save more time next–”
“Later. Show me around now, please”
“As you wish”
He grabbed her wrist to lead the way.
***
Danny didn’t stumble when landing on the snow, he didn’t. He just kinda slipped and almost ate dirt or well, ice. M’gann of course was graceful as if she was born in the air. Actually, for all he knew, she could be.
This was not a moment to think about it.
“Welcome to Far Frozen, literally and figuratively the chillest place in the Ghost Zone” he said with a cheeky grin, trying to sound like and overenthusiastic tour guide. They both quite enjoyed when he was in this role.
“This is the Yeti part, right?”
“Exactly! And the main prize goes to- oh!”
Something small and fluffy hit him in the stomach, tiny hands wrapping around him and forcing breath out of his lungs.
“Phantom!”
“Icefang! It’s great to see you kiddo!” he said, hugging little yeti back. “And you guys too!” he yelled, so group running up to them could hear him.
There was something incredibly funny in a fact that there was group of ghost children who treated him as this cool older friend. No way anyone on the living side could ever consider him that.
“Who is that?” one of them asked, pointing at M’gann like there was anyone else they could mean. She smiled and waved at them.
“This is Miss Martian, my girlfriend!” Ancients, they were together for months and being able to call her that still made him giddy “I’m giving her a tour through coolest places in the Realms”
“It’s nice to meet you all, Phantom talked a lot about you”
He wouldn’t say he talked a lot about them, but he certainly mentioned them from time to time… Like the time when he spent half an hour excitedly explaining how Snowstorm managed one fight move he thought them or how Snowdrop made him really cute drawing or… okay, so maybe this counted as a lot.
“Hi, what is girlfriend?” Icefang asked, cocking his head to the side while other kids stopped behind him and also peered curiously.
“Did you say girlfriend?! It’s a special friend with kissing and saying dumb things!” Snowstorm yelled running up to them, clearly winded. Danny hoped they were late because they had to finish dinner or something instead of getting into yet another trouble. They were magnet, really, Fenton Luck wasn’t as bad as- “Like Snowflake and Frost Junior!” nevermind, little shit could be in all the trouble they found. These two were famous among his little group as an embarrassing teen couple and equating him and M’gann to them was an untrue insult, thank you very much.
Kids giggled, because of course they did. Danny rolled his eyes. M’gann seemed to catch enough to realize the weight of the ‘they’re just like Snowflake and Frost Junior’ insult.
“I’d say that Snowstorm is lying but I know you won’t believe me. Sorry I won’t play with you, today I wanted to just walk around with Miss Martian. We will play extra long next time, alright?”
M’gann leaned on him a bit, projecting tiniest bit of playful possessiveness, as if she tried to tell kids ‘mine now’ and barely stopped herself from laughing. Icefang looked up, up, up at her, eyes narrowed and mouth twisted, like she was most hated person in the whole world. Maybe she was actually. From kids perspective she was someone, who was taking away his cool friend.
“We should put her through Trial of Ice” he almost hissed, like it was the worst thing they could do to her. It certainly wasn’t, but he still would prefer to not go through that.
Danny cursed inwardly, because he really should’ve remember about that when he decided to bring M’gann here. It was supposed to be calm pretty date not… that.
There was quiet ping in the back of his mind, a warning that the Mindlink was established.
“Am I supposed to be scared?” she asked, without an ounce of fear.
“You’ve certainly fought harder battles, but they probably won’t leave us alone unless we do it”
“Isn’t Trial of Ice a family thing?”
“Have your family done that?” Snowstorm asked, in this truly condescending way that only preteens managed to access.
“Well, they haven’t met her and they’re human so…”
“You see? We’re picking up their slack. Now, enough yapping, Phantom go over there, to your place”
“We can evacuate if you don’t want to indulge them”
It certainly wouldn’t make kids happy, but he didn’t want to pressure Meg into anything.
“Why would we?”
Well, who was he to disagree with all of them. He walked over to the place Snowstorm pointed.
“How will it look like?” she asked out loud, leaning down a bit to be closer to kids level “It’s probably obvious to you, but I don’t know the rules”
She looked at them like it was genuinely important to her, like it was almost life and death and Danny was once again reminded why he loved this girl so much and that he could and would commit great crimes for her.
Icefang perked up like an overeager puppy. If there was one sure way to buy his favor it was by letting him share his knowledge. Or have cookies, cookies also worked.
“You have to prove your decli- degi- deti-”
“Dedication”
“Right, that, thank you Briarheart, and show that you’re worth being Phantom’s special kissing friend. To do that, you need to get through us and kiss him while we will do all we can to stop you, mostly by throwing stuff at you. You can use your powers but if we hit you ten times you loose and can’t be Phantom’s kissing friend anymore”
“You can’t fly out of the throwing range for more than ten seconds and can’t phase through the ground”
“Alright, I get it. I have one question. One of my powers is that I can move things without touching them, can I just use it to move Phantom to me?”
“No, he has to stay were he is”
“That’s what I thought, thank you”
Snowdrop tugged at small bit of Snowstorm’s fur and started signing rapidly. Danny was learning Yeti Sign Language but it was slow going, mostly because of everything else he had to get done at the same time. But he was learning when he had time! He even understood a few signs! Not enough to actually catch what she was saying but… Yeah, no, he should do better.
“Good point Snowdrop”
“I didn’t see what did she say?”
“You can just say you can’t read yet Icefang. She said that we should put Phantom through Trial of Ice too. It’s always to ways thing”
“Aw, thank you sweetheart”
“We won’t be good for the task though” Briarheart Junior pointed out, always the rational one “Phantom is our friend so we won’t put up good fight against him. Someone else needs to do that”
Yeti kids all started nodding with various levels of enthusiasm. Snowstorm seemed to already think about logistics and candidates since, again, it was Snowstorm, their involvement could only mean chaos.
“Give us two weeks, we’ll be back with candidates by then”
M’gann looked like she tried to hold back laughter. Instead, she nodded and thanked them again. Snowstorm told everyone to move to their positions, with M’gann exactly one hundred twenty three ‘big steps’ away from him. Then Icefang got to use new trick he learned and made wall around Danny. It was less than one feet high, but they really didn’t need anything higher. He was sufficiently praised for it, which made him smile brightly enough to rival the sun.
For all it’s worth, Trial of Ice was pretty boring when he was the prize. Don’t get him wrong, he was proud of the kids whenever they did some trick he thought them and M’gann ‘fighting’ was one of the hottest thing he could imagine, but still. He itched to join.
Or maybe not. He liked what he was seeing. M’gann changed her clothes into something resembling her night suit, just in white and pale blue to better match surroundings. It looked good on her, emphasizing lines of her body and how they changed in the movement, in such way that he couldn’t drag his eye away from her. He didn’t often get the chance to admire her like in action, to look at the way she was in the air, when she evaded attacks, all grace and power and precision. Usually he was right next to her, or if sidelined, too stressed for her life to ever really look.
He could appreciate this chance.
It made him once again wonder how he managed to get someone as amazing to date him. Like, really, how did it happen?!
This train of thought was abandoned when after last refined loop M’gann descended right in front of him. He looked at her face, maybe bordering on staring but how could he not? How could he not stare at her freckles highlighted by the teal blush from all the exercise? How could he not stare at her perfectly shaped lips, now that he knew how they felt against his?
Damn it, he wanted to kiss this girl five minutes ago.
M’gann leaned forward, close enough that puffs of their breaths mixed together.
“You realize I can still hear all of your thoughts?”
He did, actually, not realize that.
“Good thing, I’m not thinking about anything you shouldn’t hear then”
She finally did kiss him after that, though unfortunately it was just a quick smooch (he said as if it didn’t leave him just a little bit brain scrambled for a moment and wait did she use blackberry lip balm? It was hard to tell when their lips barely touched). Then she grabbed his elbow and dragged him up and away before he fully caught up what was going on. Mock noises of disgust turned into open protest when kids realized they were getting away.
Danny and M’gann kinda laughed as they were sprinting away before kids could caught up to them. It took him a moment to calm down enough to scrap whatever he knew about Far Frozen, so he could point them somewhere where they could hide out until kids got distracted (about half an hour at most).
They dipped into some small ice cavern and curled up next to each other, still slightly shaking from giggles. There was enough room to sit straighter and keep personal space but they didn’t want to.
M’gann laid her head on his shoulder.
“This is so weird, you know? Nice, but weird. Like uncanny valley but without uncomfortable part. Or at least not as much of uncomfortable part”
***
M’gann wasn’t sure why she kept talking after Danny hummed with small projection of curiosity. It would probably just sour the mood, but it was maybe a little too late now that she started.
“It’s just… you know, it’s all so similar to M’arzz. Which is great! Don’t get me wrong, I loved it! I missed it, even if I didn’t realize it! But you know, it not the same,” her voice broke a bit, and she felt an arm circling her back. She took a moment to gather herself “They were all so emotive and loud, I almost started reading their minds because it couldn’t not be deliberate. But it was. Kids didn’t look to different from my peers back home, I could certainly imagine them playing with shape-shifting and testing this type of form for longer time. It’s colder than Earth but too cold to actually be M’arzz. Everything is going on above the ground which isn’t dangerous here but I was raised knowing it was not safe. We also have this thing about proving our worth but it’s with heat instead of ice and right before the wedding instead of right from the get go. It’s all just kinda itching.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah”
“Um, sorry. I haven’t thought about it. I should. Do you want to go back? We can chill in Amity if you want to. Or, you know do something else on the living side”
“No, no, no it’s fine, I like it. It’s nice. It’s familiar, but in a good way. There isn’t really a way for me to just go back and it’s nice to have it even if a little bit”
Danny shifted a bit, as if he tried to look at her, but she kept her face buried in is arm. She shouldn’t have said anything. She should’ve swallowed nostalgia and just keep going. It was such a great time before too.
There was nudge at her mind, clearly deliberate even if clumsy. Absolutely incomprehensible, like Martian’s babies and toddlers did it.
Another nudge, more defined but still unable to carry any ideas more sophisticated than vague invitation to connect.
“Danny?”
“Do you want to talk telepathically? To make it better?”
Oh. Oh.
“Sure. Thank you,” she took a deep breath, trying to collect herself once again “Are you trying to make me cry today? You’re lucky I don’t wear make-up or it would be all ruined”
“You would be stunning anyway. I don’t think there is anything you could do to not be, let’s be honest”
“And now you’re trying to sweeten me up, you dork” She roughly dried her eyes against his suit. It’s absolutely useless to this purpose but she wanted to hide for a bit longer.
“I am not sweetening anyone up, it would have to be untrue for it to be that’
“Oh shut up”
“Never~”
“It’s not even my true form”
“M’gann, Meg, my starlight and love of my Afterlife. When I saw your true form I was so enamored my brain ceased higher functions. I watched ‘Hello, Megan!’ because you liked it, but the main character was just… kinda meh in terms of looks. Do you understand? I think you’re beautiful because it’s you, not because of anything else. No matter what form you’d choose to be in, I’ll love it and want to be as close to you as you’ll let me”
M’gann finally raised her head and with small startle she realized that between their faces were only inches. There was still small blush on his cheeks and his eyes were almost hipnotizing, with the way they focused on her like she was only thing that mattered. His hair was ruffled from wind, just asking to run finger through it. Once again their puffing breaths were mixing but this time they were alone. They could savor it, they could-
“Great One? I was informed you came with your suitor?”
Of course. They couldn’t even kiss in peace.
Thankfully, encounter with Frostbite, even if awkward, was quite short. She didn’t have anything against the yeti, really, she couldn’t even begin to tell how much she appreciated help he extended to Danny but still…
It was not the type of moment she wanted to be interrupted on.
Thankfully older ghost caught it, despite both of them trying to be subtle, and didn’t seem to be too angry about it, so soon they were on their merry way to ‘'one more place’ Danny wanted to show her.
He even brought back up the blindfold, which made her stomach do funny things. She was excited to see what Danny wanted to show her, but also…
There was something really intimate about flying blind, not in a way even their deepest kisses were, but in the absolute trust she had to have in him. In the Ghost Zone she couldn’t even navigate with her telekinesis and telepathy like she could try on the living side. In the Ghost Zone, she had just Danny, and this made something as simple as getting off the ground, into the air all more electrifying in the way that would be almost scary, if she was with anyone else.
She got a little worried when instead of lightly holding her wrist like he did before, Danny caught both of her hands and grasped her like he didn’t plan to let go for the rest of eternity.
“Do you trust me?”
“Of course”
And then they were off, faster than she’d ever dare when blind, faster than they usually did, faster than they sometimes went when racing even. Danny kept her close, practically clinging.
Then they were falling and twisting and turning like on some crazy roller coaster and it was breathtaking in both best and worst ways because they were close and it was exciting but she had no idea where they were going or when were they going to turn. Her stomach was doing funny things. Actually, she liked that. She liked that a lot. Especially when Danny slowed down a bit and brought her to his chest before kicking off again.
This was electrifying.
She let out a little yelp when they stopped abruptly and gently landed on the snow. For a long moment they both just stood, panting with soft giggles, getting of off adrenaline high.
***
Danny’s breath caught in his throat again when M’gann grasped sides of his face. It was a bit clumsy, with fingers getting on his mouth and ear but it just made it all more… more.
After few months in relationships he should probably get better at handling all the times she did things like that. As it was, he was barely able to focus on anything other than fingers in his hair and cold hands on his cheeks.
“It was amazing”
He shuddered when she whispered in his mind. It used to terrify him beyond belief, the idea that someone could hear all his thoughts, could touch his very being, made him rebel on the most instinctual level. Now, when M’gann did it, when by just being next to him she rewrote his brain to associate her with mind-reading, it was intoxicating.
“I know, you’re welcome” he managed to stuttered.
She leaned closer, obviously aiming for his mouth and it took all of his will to not meet her midway. They stayed just close, with Danny’s eyes fluttering each time warm puff of air hit them.
“Never do it again”
Instead of answering, he put his hands between her shoulder blades to bring her closer, reached up to cross the remaining distance and kissed her.
Oh, it was definitely blackberry lip balm. He loved it. He loved it all so much.
He loved the way her lips felt brushing against his, cold and smooth despite the time they spent in cold. He loved the way he could almost feel her heartbeat, pressed slightly above his own heart, how he could hear it above his own blood rushing in his ears, faster that it was when they were flying moments ago. He loved the way her hand moved through his hair to press against the back of his head, a wordless command to get closer. He happily complied, adjusting slightly and almost locking on her closed mouth. One of his hands moved lower as he rammed forward, kissing her with enough fervor that she had to arch back a bit. Like that he couldn’t reach her without climbing to his tiptoes, but he didn’t mind.
Her mouth opened slightly, so he took invitation for what it was and started to devour what she had. As he was, draped across M’gann’s chest, with her hands barely holding on his neck, her lips against his and her tongue brushing against his teeth, the whole world could disappear and he couldn’t be bothered. Being this close, with her, was all that mattered and all that could fill his brain.
It got sloppy, when hand laid on the small of his back, full body shiver making their teeth clank. Before he got himself at least a little bit together other hand appeared in his hair. It yanked him back on just the right side of painful, while the arm around his waist pressed him forward and all at once he couldn’t find his footing, bend back so much that if his hand didn’t grasp the edge of M’gann’s cape they could probably touch the ground. Other one by miracle stayed on her neck.
He was fully at her mercy and there was nowhere he could rather be, hanging in her arms all nice and docile. He was stuck in almost addicting cycle of telepathic projection of his excited-eager-confident and M’gann's giddy-greedy-restless response and how it made him all fervent-dizzy-thrilled and how much he could feel it, how intimate this type of closeness was, how kiss dissolved whatever it was that made sensing emotions so much harder and more muted at any other time.
He let himself be handled and adjusted sometimes grasping her hair when he felt too much, in the best way he could imagine, but frankly he forgot about everything else after that.
They had to let go at some point, to catch breath if nothing else but they stayed close. Close enough that he could smell the lip balm that by now was probably mostly on him. Close enough that their noses would touch if they turned their heads just right. Close enough that he could count her freckles and connect them into little constellations, as if her skin was map of the space that gave her to him.
It wasn’t rare, for them to be this close, but it never changed the fact, that when he caught her eyes, half closed but striking, sparkling in the cold blue-green light in the way that was almost iridescent, he couldn’t help but think he wouldn’t be mad to get lost in them. He wouldn’t be mad to be trapped forever, like mosquito in amber with which her eyes shared color.
“Okay, you can do that again”
He needed a long moment to realize why that would ever be in question or what she was referencing, or were they were and what they were doing before. By the time he scrambled his brain again, M’gann’s eyes were closed and she was going for another kiss. He tilted her by the chin just slightly away, because they came there for a reason and he wanted to fulfill said reason before he totally forgot.
M’gann looked back at him, slightly dazed, straightening just a bit. She brought him with her, so his position was just a touch less parallel to the ground, which was also nice.
“I have nothing against round to but before that, I wanted to show you something”
He waited for a moment until she full caught what he was saying. It was overwhelmingly exhilarating to see that she was affected by it just as much as he was. When she nodded, he turned her chin to the left, slowly so she could fully admire the view.
He didn’t turn. He knew what she could see, the breathtaking spectacle of Far Frozen, the wonderful mix of futuristic and traditional, shining in the Ghost Zone’s lights like under aurora. He knew this view well.
Arms around him went almost lax, so he slipped and fell on the snow. He could catch himself or stay were he was, close enough to smell her ever changing shampoo, but he preferred it that way.
“Oh… it’s… It’s beautiful”
He propped himself up on his hands and looked up at her, at the curves of her face and shape of her nose and the little scar she could shape-shift away but just didn’t want to. He looked at her hair, the way her red contrasted with Zone’s ambient green and snow’s reflected cold white and how disheveled it was from flight and the kiss and he wasn’t sure if he wanted to brush his fingers through them until they were neat again or ruffle them even more during another kiss.
He looked the golden clasp of her cape, slightly greener ever since they learned he could be summoned and figured out how to make M’gann always have this chance. He looked at the red ribbons crossing on her chest, only thing she kept from her ‘true’ form, only symbol she let herself keep from the home she could both hate and miss. He looked at her fingers, covered in freckles like the rest of her, short and slender, grasping at the improvised railing now that they weren’t holding him. He looked at the way her back curved as she leaned forward to see better. He looked back at her face, at her slightly opened lips and wide opened eyes and her raised eyebrows. He looked at her open, almost child like delight over something he, at this point, seen as almost mundane.
“Yeah, beautiful”
#dpxdc#dp x dc#dc x dp#dcxdp#danny fenton/m'gann m'orzz#anyway i think Trial of Ice officially is more of a 'right before marriage/some other formal signifier of relationship' type of deal#that's preplanned and scheduled and shit#but kids got excited#and don't understand the concept of “you don't have to end up with the first person you fall in love with”#M'gann acidentally finished off correctly because Trial is supposed to work as this symbolic more than any real trial of fighting prowess#you're taking away member of our family to-#- make them your own#but kids did get it correctly that it's gender inclusive and both parties have to fight for each other#Snowdrop decided not get involved in fighting and instead made cut little ice crowns for both Danny and M'gann#she was really offended when they didn't stick around long enough to actually get it#she forgave them by the time they came back but acted like she didn't until they apologized a lot and gave her human cookies#she likes human cookies#anyway#spearmint ship#(almost) New Years fic special#part four#wandixx writes#have a nice day dear stranger who got to this part
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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.
#tesserants#im sorry i know im being shitty and evil about this and whatever but it's so frustrating#sometimes i wish i was more binary so i could just. SIGNIFY and trust people to either#sometimes im sick of fucking explaining complicated gender bullshit to cis people over and over and over and fucking OVER#sometimes i wish i could be happy just being a girl and not have to make it so fucking complicated
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Y’ever go so nuts over a fic it’s literally all you can think about
#IM LOSING IT OVER HERE LADS#LEARNING TO LOSE KOMODOBITS HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME#NOT ONLY AS YET UNFINISHED BUT ALSO AN AU SO THERES NOTHING ELSE CLOSE#AND SPECTACTULARLY WRITTEN#PHENOMENAL SLOWBURN INTIMATE FUNNY TRAGIC#FUCK MAN. CHRIST#anyway. I’m normal I’m normal I’m normal#I will do my job like a good little (gender signifier here) and NOT obsess over this#red dwarf#of course it is cmon who else do I foam at the mouth so desperately and consistently for#this fic tho seriously.#seriously seriously immaculate
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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.
#stfu blue#gnc#gender nonconforming#gender nonconformity#genderfuck#genderpunk#i'm a gnc nonbinary person myself#i'm personally gnc in a way that rejects the idea of bland soft-masc androgyny as the 'standard' for nonbinary people#i like to mix and match extreme gender signifiers. i'm a dandy. i like to merge disparate aspects of presentation#when i get dressed up that is. most of the time i am too disabled to put in the effort. but the point stands
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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)
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Love their little thousand yard stare lol
#rook rook rook rook!!!#dragon age veilguard#dragon age veilgaurd spoilers#rook veilguard#my art#my characters#des thorne#rook#I LOVE the voice I was able to give them and the top scars and stuff#i might change their voice and hair as we play to signify them transitioning further but they’re so gender affirming to me I love them#i love them so FUCKIGN MUCH SDKjhsDKJhKJh#I can’t wait to keep playing tomorrow but for now i am sleeping
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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.
#simon jarrett#simon oh simon my most waterlogged blorbo#soma game#he is trans tho. i'll take it#hmm actually i wonder...#does becoming a robot change ones sense of gender?#can you experience dysphoria as a robot?#is it one of those things tied in with other signifiers of 'Self'?#wherein if you think abt the discrepancies too much your brain melts from existential overload?#before he finds out abt the robot thing he does see himself as his human self. as a guy#and that never seems to waver. even his ark self is presumably like#him. human simon
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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
#part of this is that said aesthetic signifiers are often very white + gender-conforming#and i hate the universalization of the experience of white girlhood as 'girlhood' in general#the other part of this is that i cannot STAND to see adults dwell on childhood this much. like its so embarrassing.#txt
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What if baby VUX (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#Honestly mostly speculating around VUX baby clothes#And casual clothes generally but especially comfy clothes!#I could've sworn I saw a set at one point of baby ZEX but I haven't been able to find it again ah#Reverse-engineering design from the military uniforms - I mean it's only assumed that they have tunics as only their upper bodies are shown#But definitely nothing that would impede their arm mobility! I imagine a lot of loose and flowy clothing generally ♪#Babies all tend to be in something soft and loose to allow them to move without catching ♫ Little infant gowns ah <3#Would a VUX baby enjoy being swaddled? I think so - like the full-body pressure of water!#I do wonder about VUX culture insofar as gendered clothing as well - jewelry is across the board so that seems more like a class thing#Lots of little ones here with tiny tendril or tail accessories hehe <3#On their stubby little tendrils! I already draw tails on even adults as being rather short but look at the tiny head tendrils ahhh <3 <3#I do enjoy the little headcanon of tendril length being an age signifier - or of having them ripped off frequently pft#But for babies and children they're have short tendrils they wave around all jerkily and inelegant#Like how human babies practice gross and fine motor skills hehe <3 Cute!!#Until eventually you get smooth tendril expressions - longer tendrils requiring the extra care in movement to express properly ah#The mark of adulthood and all that hehe ♪ It's cute! I like it very much!!#I do wonder if VUX would have baby fat :0 Or just generally be rounder and smaller and less realized in movement haha#Gave me some ideas for how arms might look depending on if the VUX were reaching or recoiling as well hmm#Interesting anatomy fun ♪#Cute little ones <3 Still some ideas to do with little ZEX as well! Since these were more general haha
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can we have a blanket ban on people commenting on how hot trans women are in response to discussions about transmisogyny
#transmisogyny#like it feels so blatantly sexist to bring everything back to how attractive trans women are#as if that’s a signifier of their worthiness to you#it also feels like ppl say this as a way to affirm trans women’s gender? like ‘oh i totally see you as a woman bc i think ur hot’#just seems gross to me
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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
#no offense at all if you use those words these r just my personal feelings#i dont really care too much about labels i really mostly use transfeminine to signify that i experience transmisogyny lol#actually my gender is probably like lesbigender or whatever but again i dont like that. i can never be satisfied#i will never stop making personal posts that flow terribly. Btw
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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
#i say t4t-presenting bc i don't ever describe angels or demons as 'trans'. they don't have assigned genders and thus cannot be trans#but i do think they can adopt what humans consider trans signifiers (like certain surgical scars and etc)#the same way they can adopt any other human trait. but this isn't the post for my thoughts in that department#and ofc this applies to tmilf az and tdilf crowley i just tend to see girlcrowley/guyziraphale around more#open mick night#good omens#gomens#aziraphale#crowley#aziracrow#ineffable spouses#ineffable husbands#ineffable wives
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#gintama#sopping wet gintoki posting#do NOT vote based on his hair if u dont know him. long hair isnt a gnc signifier on dudes in gintama's setting.#i cant tell WHATS a gnc signifier in gintama's setting. <- has tried to do math on it ->#gintama gender theory#i think polls is the ideal way to process finishing a media. lol. im having fun with it. *calibrates my opinions by yours*
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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.
#look i don't wanna just ignore the history of clothes and what they represent#but what i can say is that it's stupid that these entrenched ideas abt what clothing represents prevents people from wearing what they like#i've been wondering for a while but would people still experience such extreme gender dysphoria if there was no gender binary?#like the signifiers for gender are all based on the white ideal anyway so why are we going along with them???#going insane reading about lolitas experiencing gender dysphoria and thinking the answer is to start wearing pants#like babe i'm sorry but the pants version of lolita (ouji) still reads hyperfeminine i don't think the clothes are the problem tbh#like if men weren't made fun of for wearing dresses you probably wouldn't be feeling that kind of dysphoria to begin with#obviously this is such an idealistic view and we do live in a world shackled by the gender binary so i get people want to be perceived#in a way that accurately reflects them but like if you're already wearing alt fashion people are already perceiving you in a negative way#completely outside of your control#isn't the point of alt fashion to say fuck you to mainstream ways of dressing and thinking anyway???
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