#anyway I love it when the binary doesn’t binary yk

[faithfromanewperspective]

green day are really giving this rare perspective of ‘gen x being leftist but also suspicious of modern society and technology like a conservative boomer at the same time’ and honestly I’m not sure how to process it

[sewerpalette]

Have seen a bunch of people do this again so I thought I’d join in: Human AL-AN redesign from my old version, this is just a base I’ll probably draw more full body shots another time.

I gave him a burn scar over his face as I like to imagine that whilst he wasn’t present during the sea dragon attack he did rush back in, guilt ridden trying to save the seven architects still stuck inside attempting to prevent the outbreak, this is how I believe he got the kharaa and (physically) died before being put in storage, ofcourse he doesn’t have the same body now that he did then, but I’d like to imagine mental scarring remembering of past lives and stuff sticks with them throughout every body they continue to inhabit moving on (unless said memory is scraped by a storage transfer). The burn isn’t from the leviathan directly however it is from the heat in the facility that the leviathan mother caused.

Obviously from a design standpoint this is to mimic his face plate (?? What would you call that?) but yk, I thought making up an in lore reason would be fun.

Lab coat more heavily inspired by those the alterrans wear as most stuff in this universe is funded by alterra anyways so even when working for a different or self owned company there’d still be some similarities.

Hair shaped to resembles his horns obv, was thinking of making it white initially but thought the dark greenish teal with white/grey streaks would allow for more referencing on the glowy bits on his head.

Also i gave him facial hair because I thought it would help with the shape language aswell as making it look more similar to his canon design, I actually always loved the idea of making his head look more like he’s wearing a helmet / full body suit, so in reference to mechs that also share that kinda design aesthetic I gave him kind of a goatee, mustache is curled up to aid the shape of his face.

I also thought about giving him a blackout tattoo on his neck as that is also the darkest part of his design in value on the normal alien version, so that might come up in more doodles another time.

Pin on the lab coat inspired by the head of the precursor statues from BZ.

I think he hides his face in his coat a lot, because one, as he doesn’t make a lot of expressions or speak with his mouth it’s not really that necessary to show it in the first place, might aswell have a bit more protection. And two, kinda to show he’s hiding himself, both on things he’s done in the past, aswell as on what exactly he is to people that aren’t Robin, aswell as a sort of shame that comes from not only being in a human body but also having done something that butterflied into something horrible, I think it made him alot more reserved and fearful if not paranoid of extreme consequences to minor actions.

Made another image of him and Robin but it won’t export so I’ll save it for another post.

Also off topic but I hc him as non-binary aro/ace using he/they/it and still referring to themselves in we form because I think that may be a little comforting and make him feel less lonely.

Also wanted to make an alternate version where the burn is so bad his eyelids and mouth are melted shut, since he doesn’t have facial features in his actual design, in that version he’d speak with a voice box obv, but I haven’t gotten around to drawing that so you’ll have to wait a bit.

If you have any questions just ask me in the comments since I have no idea how to enable the ask me anything thingy on my page.

[just-another-author-i-guess]

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OMG HI!!! THIS IS SOOO LONG AGO BUT I FINISHED IT

a/n: I literally made this like a year ago and just procrastinated to post it... so sorry babes :D

Heisenberg x nb!reader boyfriend hcs:

He’s trying to focus more on just being a reliable partner, WHICH HE IS NOT

He’s the type to leave you alone for like d a y s without telling you cause he has an errand from Miranda and then be confused when you’re really worried about him

Before you, he was used to just coming and going as he pleases, he doesn’t really see why that has to change now, I think

But omg,,, he’d bring back like little trinkets or like scrap metal for you or something

Like, don’t be surprised if he straight up brings part of a human back to you cause he thought it was cool

I feel like, he’d be kinda a bad boyfriend though, ngl

Like, he’s really grumpy, and if he’s mad at Miranda he’s just gonna be mad at you too because big boy does not know how to deal his emotions

He’d probably just expect you to stay in the factory at all times too? And if you complain about it, too bad

He’ll be more than willing to entertain you of course *wink wink*

But only AFTER he’s done working

I’m sorry but he’s putting his plans before you always

He’s so emotionally constipated as well? He cares about you of course

He cares a lot about you, but he literally does not know how to say that besides like random comments every now and again

“Hey. You know, I don’t hate having you ‘round here.” And that’s probably the most poetic Karl Heisenberg is able to be

His affection lies in quality time and sharing his plans with you

Every once in a while, small acts of service (Like I said, the trinkets.)

He’s a rough man, yk, he’s definitely the type to annoy and bully you all the time

(Out of love of course)

He’d blow the smoke from one of those cigars he smokes directly into your face just for fun

If you’re shorter than him your head is an armrest

If you’re taller he’ll never stop complaining about it

“Hey sunshine. How’s the weather up there?” And so on

And he’ll always have that smug little grin

He’ll introduce you to the lycans and then get pissed off when they like you more than him

And you tell him it’s because you’re actually nice to them

He’ll get jealous and complain that you’re not as nice to him as you are to them lmfao

I hope for your sake that you can cook,,, cus Karl is definitely not cooking

Even if he tried, I wouldn’t advise you to try eating it

I don’t care, he does NOT wash his hands

He’s kinda stinky and always smells of motor oil and smoke, sometimes a bit like beef jerky strangely enough

If neither of you can cook, you’ll probably just have to go to the duke and get some microwaveable meals if he has any

Does Karl even have a microwave? I’m not sure actually

Anyways I hope you learn to cook then

Okay but I’ve spend so much time just bashing him,, so here’s some nice things about him

He’s oddly cute when he sleeps, yk? 

For such a big, grumpy man, he looks so relaxed and soft

He’ll even let you fall asleep on top of him, he’s very soft idc

And he likes the bit of pressure on top of him I think

He snores, tho ):

He also always wakes up super early to work, and he’s annoyingly chirpy in the morning

It’s all “Rise and shine, sweetheart!” and “Get the hell up, we have work to do!” 

I don’t know, I think he likes being annoying on purpose

But he’s kinda a sweetheart, so it’s okay lol

I mean, he’s definitely very protective

No way he’s going to let you go to Dimitrescu’s house

Even you just going to the market would freak him out honestly

He kinda doubts that you can handle yourself, ngl

No matter how big and strong you are

That’ll never change, he is obsessed with the idea that he’s your protector and he thinks it’s always on him to keep you safe.

He’ll get legitimately really mad if you get hurt, not only at whoever or whatever hurt you, but also at you

Because it stresses him out and you know he feels bad for you

Would probably also feel personally offended if you got sick lol

edit: pookie bear :D

a/n: sry its only a headcannon, but I really like doing them bc they're not so serious yk??? ok anyways, I actually got a whole ass story for him on ao3 if you're interested but I wrote it like 2 years ago when i was 17-18 so its kindaaaaaa.... anyways im gonna edit it before i post it on here as well ):

[codgod]

hi and welcome to a brief explanation of my slime hybrid headcanons that absolutely nobody asked for [featuring charlie, mike, and jevin for examples]

[under the cut because it is very long and also includes pictures lol]

all slime hybrids have poor eyesight! this is because slimes evolved to live and thrive in caves and since it’s so dark they don’t really need their eyes anyway, so sight has gradually gotten worse over time. think like olms/cave salamanders. they use their other sense to get around without glasses

they can change the colour/texture/shape of any part of themselves at will as long as it’s something they’ve encountered before. so they could give their skin the look/feel of metal [though it’s not as strong as actual metal] if they wanted

[or, yk, they can use it to look like their partners ex for some passive aggressive torture]

some use that ^ to make it look like they have bones, since slimes don’t actually need bones to maintain their shape. this is usually done by hybrids that prefer to still look like slimes [like jevin] rather than ones that prefer to look more human-ish [like charlie or mike] for the aesthetic of it all, since they’re transparent. they do also sometimes just claim random dead bodies as their own, but that’s not common practice or technically considered ethical [plus actual bones dissolve over time]

[jaw may or may not move how it’s supposed to lol]

on that note, slime hybrids don’t have to use their mouths to eat. they can just shove whatever they want to absorb into wherever they want on their bodies and it works fine. any that spend a lot of time around humans/non-slimes do use their mouths though, it’s only polite. also, does not have to be actual food, just something they can get energy or extra mass from [like when qslime spent all that time living on rotten flesh]

since they can shapeshift, slimes tend to have at least one “default” form that’s most comfortable for them to take/requires the least amount of energy to maintain. for some this is just a blob, but for others this could be more human-shaped, or even an animal. for example, charlie’s is humanoid but with some slime features showing through like patches of green skin/hair

[small changes like hair length, height, chest size, etc. or basically anything that doesn’t entirely change their look/take too much extra energy is still considered their “default” form. since my gegg design includes changed skin colour, hairstyle, glasses/eyes, whatever else, it’s a seperate form even if he’s still at least kinda recognisable as charlie]

when tired/emotional they tend to lose shape or become more slime-like if they’re usually more human-looking, like melting or changing back to their natural colour

they don’t have a rigid concept of a gender binary, so they’re generally fine with whatever people want to see them as. when communicating between each other slimes just use names, but some that live around humans might pick pronouns for themselves. they just as often don’t, though

okay this one’s a little silly but i think different colours have different flavours if you lick them. green is lime, blue is blue raspberry, pink is strawberry, yellow is piss lemon, etc.

also silly but they either hate being squished and stretched like actual slime or LOVE it it’s like stimming for them. put charlie in an industrial mixer with some biodegradable glitter he’s having the time of his life

[polyamorouspunk]

I just figured out I'm polyam, and I'm moving out of my hometown to a very queer city (one of the queerest in the world). I'm scared that even there I'll have trouble making friends and finding people as a non-binary, bisexual, polyam person (especially one that leans alternative). Do you have any advice for being your authentic self while still grappling with a lot of internalised stuff and moving to a new place?

Hmm. When I moved to a new place I found comfort in being able to dress more as a girl even though I’m afab. I felt like people in my hometown had put me in a box (“I bet you hated wearing a dress!”) and I felt like I was having trouble breaking out of that box. I’m able to dress more femme comfortably now. As for other genders, I don’t really consider myself in or out of the closet. I’m just someone who doesn’t enforce my pronouns or gender because I just don’t care enough about it/to make a fuss about it. I have pronoun pins I don’t really wear. If there was a day I was feeling really adverse to being gendered as my agab then I guess I would wear them but right now I present so femme that there’s no real point to it for me because I just don’t feel masc. And I’m just never out as plural. I just use genderfluid instead, which is more accurate right now anyway. Not that anyone really. Asks.

Working at Michaels Craft Store I’ve found other queer people who are out and have pronouns on their name tags and stuff. They are properly gendered by other staff. I’m not saying make friends with your local craft store employees but like yk it’s a start. Ask them if there’s any cool queer places if they look openly queer or something.

In college I’ve found openly queer people but college acquaintances haven’t lasted for me. There’s no point in really talking to someone once your not in a class with them anymore. The exception has been @princess-pathetic-112898 and I love her so so much and I had the pleasure of dating her for a bit and it was wonderful and she was such a blessing. When I was feeling so alone in the world she was there for me, and I’ve been praying for someone like her ever since but let’s be honest she’s a once-in-a-lifetime friend. I haven’t met anyone like her since.

As for polyam people, and scenes, I would check Facebook! Someone on here (I think it was Key but if I’m misassigning credit I’m sorry) said to check Facebook and that’s where I found the local punk venue in my city last week after finally looking. Honestly as “Punk” I don’t really look like… “myself”, so I’m not going to go until “Punk” feels comfortable going as himself, though we’ve been so solid I haven’t heard from him really in months. But I won’t be going right now until I can comfortably pass as transmasc for myself. I have other plans for the body right now I want to focus on and I don’t mind putting that on the back burner, which it feels like some people don’t really understand.

There’s a wonderful pagan store I go to that I hung out at the other day, and they decorated for pride, but there weren’t any other shoppers in there but I hung out with the cashier for almost an hour. She was cool, in her late 30s early 40s, and she told me about a summer harvest festival they’re hosting and suggested I come to try and meet some people there. I go to a lot of Pride events and I’ve followed some people on Instagram from them in the past but I haven’t made any friends.

Truth is: I’m really lonely. All of my friends are back home. I miss them. My mom has asked if I want to move back but other than being lonely my mental health is SO much better here. But I haven’t been able to make friends since moving here and it sucks. I feel like I’m doing everything I’m supposed to be to make friends (getting a job with other college kids, going to college, becoming a regular at a local store, going to events and concerts, etc.) and nothing is working and it’s extremely disappointing. I feel like I should be doing more but that really pushes my physical limits. People seem surprised I’m not out ever Friday night at the punk scene thrashing around and I feel like I have to explain I live in rural North Carolina 40 minutes away from the city, and if I’m not already working it’s a haul to go there, and if I am already working I’m tired and depending on how many hours I’m working in a week I’m already pushing my physical limits just to make ends meet at home. At this point it’s looking like I’m going to need physical therapy. I’m not sure I want to head to a punk show after work OR drive 40 minutes just to go to one on a Friday night when I have a day off.

I think that moving to a new place can really help you overcome some internal things. I was able to break out of a box I felt like I had put myself in/been put in and start experimenting with my style and fashion. I moved where I know people and while I’m out as bisexual and polyam I just haven’t bothered to broach the gender subject because I’m not ready and it doesn’t bother me enough to push me to say something other than a comment here and there. The idea of being “out” is overrated to me anyway. I’m just me.

Making friends used to be so easy for me but I guess that’s what happens when you’re someone years spending time with people 5/7 days of the week. Now that I only see people a few times a week it’s a lot harder, and even though other people I know have made friends with college companions and coworkers I have not. I wish I had better advice and I’m wishing you better luck than I’ve been having.

[bottlealleytotheharbor]

You wanna talk about queer newsies? Trans head cannons perhaps?

yessssss (this is gonna get long. sorry.

ok. Jack. -he’s trans

-he’s one of those people who’s been out since they were like eight yk?

-when he gets really dysphoric he paints

- it’s like me but with writing and singing instead

- he gets awful chest dysphoria, but is super strict about his binder health. only wears it eight hours, takes breaks, never sleeps in it. that sort of thing.

- intentionally buys sweatshirts like four sizes too big to wear on days he‘s extra dysphoric or can’t bind.

- will fist fight someone if they disrespect any trans person.

Spot. (yk i‘m a sucker for Spot and project all my problems onto him. some of these apply to only 1992 Spot but most are both. )

-he’s a trans guy

- but in more of a fuck gender way than Jack

-like, he’s a dude but also gender is a social construct that doesn’t apply to him

- i’ve said it before but. he collects binders like a fucking crow, but only wears like, one of them

- 1992 Spot cuts his own hair, and has literally never had anyone else do it.

-platform shoes (mostly converse)

- literally named himself Spot. legally

- trans flag is the only thing in his wall.

-literally the only thing.

- has a pronoun pin on his backpack.

-one of those people who really only gets referred to with he/him pronouns, and is fine with this. but puts he/they in his bios and stuff to make a point.

- 1992 Spot has quite literally bitten transphobes before.

Sarah:

-she/they trans femme

- super into sewing and is an expert at making or tailoring her clothes to fit her, because often times she has trouble with the fit of women‘s clothing.

- insecure about her height but wears heels anyways because fuck the patriarchy

-either a pansexual or a lesbian. i can’t decide.

- has a jean jacket with the trans flag painted on the back.

- collects baby trans people

Specs:

- they‘re agender

- very gender apathetic

-uses they/them pronouns but honestly couldn’t give less of a fuck.

- very adamant that they are agender and don’t use the label non binary

- has had hair in so many colors

- gets a wild amount of gender euphoria from black dr marten boots

- knows literally everything there is to know on the concept of gender and gender non conformity.

Smalls:

-genderfluid.

- literally so small.

- texts their friend group chat every morning to let them know what their pronouns are for the day.

-also wears an ask me about my pronouns pin.

- addicted to monster energy and drinks different flavors depending on their current gender.

that’s all for now o loves!/p

thanks so much for the ask!!

[elekinetic]

!!!!!!!!!! thoughts on they/he mike !!!!!!!!!!

not my personal headcanon but mad love and respect to ppl who are they/he mike truthers!!

personally i project onto mike out the wazoo so i think he has the same relationship w gender as i do (after he untangles his internalized shit lol): gender isn’t really for me? like i use she/her bc i’m used to it and it doesn’t feel accurate when ppl use they/them, but im not a woman. but i am a girl. but like firstly im just ella. yk? like why does gender even matter? non-binary (not identity, adjective) in the “it’s all bullshit, but im cool w my pronouns” way. yeah he’s a guy, but why does it matter? he’s a person first. ANYWAY that’s just me projecting my own thots on gender lol.

they/he mike peeps ily and ur so valid <3

[campgender]

hey, would you mind talking about your most recent poem? I really resonated with the vibes it was giving off, but I don’t really understand the specifics. obviously it’s okay if it’s personal and you don’t want to explain, but I thought i’d just ask.

oh my god i would Love To, i appreciate any reason to ramble about my writing lol. & thank you for asking so kindly! honestly i’m gonna use this opportunity for all it’s worth and take it line by line because i’m excited ☺️ the poem is here (link) for anyone who’s curious

“closer to 22 than anything else, i’m still thinking about that professor / who said she wished everyone could transition. ma’am, i don’t see you / picking up a needle. stop making my body nothing more than a metaphor.” so the whole piece is about HRT and cis people’s various expectations about and reactions to it, & the disconnect between the narratives they try to force on my transition and my own narrative/concept of it.

i took a women’s and gender studies class a little over two years ago, long before i started HRT, and there was a lot of transphobia in it, made even worse by how i wasn’t braced for it the way i am in engineering classes. my prof was kinda super dehumanizing in the way she talked about medical transition, but under a progressive veneer, like “oh i wish everyone could have that process of introspection and changing, and knowing what it’s like to live as both genders,” which, yikes. i’m like, that’s rich when you’re saying that but i’m the one actually doing it, paying & bleeding for it, yk?

and like, this is my body. it doesn’t exist to teach people some deep truth about themselves or be cis women’s savior in destroying the gender binary. i don’t exist to represent someone else’s experiences; i exist, full stop.

“a cis friend calls me after the diagnosis & i say i know it isn’t the same, / but he doesn’t let me put that kind of distance between our bodies.” a friend was recently diagnosed with testicular cancer and underwent procedures that mean he’ll be on testosterone injections for the rest of his life. because his circumstances aren’t very common, he asked if he could talk to me about my experience with hormones, & i was really surprised when he didn’t treat our experiences as totally disparate. like yeah, they’re definitely different, but it meant a lot that he wasn’t uncomfortable comparing himself to a trans person—he handled it really respectfully, treated HRT like it was normal, not some strange and otherworldly process the way my prof did.

“(neither would the boy, if he was here.)” i’ve gotta slip a little t4t content in lol so here’s a reference to the (trans) guy i like

“so here it goes: / yeah, i still hesitate, but i don’t flinch. print that out & tape it / to her office door. burn that goddamn book” the hesitate but don’t flinch part is directly about giving myself injections, but it’s also about my increased willingness to point out and dismantle transphobic rhetoric in the past couple years. doing painful things anyway even though they’re difficult, and being used to the pain of it, coping with it.

the book referenced is a memoir we read in that prof’s class which included a trans guy being misgendered, outed for shock value, and having his abusive behavior connected to his transness. his transition was a source of fetishizing curiosity and fascination for the author, and i’m still disgusted by it.

“& say into the phone / yes. just to be safe.” directly about when the cis guy friend asked if i aspirate when doing injections, but safety is something i’ve been thinking about a lot lately. it’s complicated; being visibly trans makes me less safe, but my mental health improved so much after starting HRT, which is its own safety. i want so badly just to be safe, but that often isn’t an option, or it’s not worth the consequences.

“i’ve touched more alcohol swabs in the past 11 months / than ever before—that’s the kind of thing i think about, not whatever kind of / evolution you’re expecting. you & i, with all undue respect, / are the same fucking species,” going back to the way a lot of cis people treat medical transition as something Serious and Deep and Heavy that you have to have equally serious, deep, heavy thoughts about or make serious, deep, heavy art about. & as i allude to earlier, there are certainly serious aspects, and every trans person feels differently about it, but overall for me it’s just a thing that’s happening to my body. it’s so normal.

& then i couldn’t resist a play on words with evolution to reiterate that medical transition doesn’t separate me from cis people in general & that professor in particular the way they act like it does. we’re more similar than they think, and that scares them.

“& when i say yes to my mentor’s for the rest of / your life? she winces, but i beam.” the third and final cis person who had a totally different attitude about HRT than i did: my mentor, who i love dearly & who was so happy for me when i told her i was starting testosterone, and who was (understandably, imo) upset that i’d have to inject myself once a week for the rest of my life. but as much as i get why she reacted that way, it’s not how i feel about it—the thought of injecting myself for the rest of my life is exciting, not dismaying, because it means i’ll be able to exist in & with my body the way i want to.