#binary challenged

[t4transsexual]

gay people will literally be like "oh thank god im not straight i cant imagine having to conform to rigid gender roles based on my genitals. anyway why are you as a top so feminine? you must be secretly a bottom" and honestly i just cannot with you people

[sammyshuno]

Meet Lottie! 🧋

Her name is inspired by Sophie's sister from Howl's Moving Castle. Their dream is to move out to the country in Ravenwood, start growing their own produce, and open a bistro!

I've been having a ton of fun playing with her and using minimal custom content. Will probably continue posting their adventures while I clean out my main mods folder. ☕️

[cipheramnesia]

Probably the most heartbreaking thing about my big all any queer gendery wendery sexery wexery donations post is how many people put "i don't know if i count" somewhere in their reblog. I'm just... like, of course you count, ya always count, c'mere lemme hug you.

[goreyskeleton]

…wanna do a picrew…

*fades*

Another one except I picked the picrew this time

THANK YOU SO MUCH @lilchat FOR DOING THIS CHALLENGE WITH ME ILY YOURE SUCH AN AWESOME AND COOL EPIC FRIEND ARGHHHH

top ones are @lilchat and bottoms ones are mine

Picrew we used lmfao: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/626197#google_vignette

[salty-an-disco]

sure-fire way to make me respect you less as a person: tagging isafrin or sifloop as 'm/m'

[sevikasenby]

can't believe i saw a non-binary ran hate comment........how can you hate on someone who had zero lines in a show and a total of like 60 seconds (if not less) of screen time 😭

MINORS, AGELESS BLOGS AND MEN DNI

[buryyourrevolutionaries]

cobra kai is simultaneously the gayest and straightest show ever how is that even possible

[carelessapples]

pride month art challenge day 12: nathan seymour

masterpost

[cheekymonados]

Florp my beloved :)

[stregoniconiconii]

It's been three thousand years since saidin was tainted. That is a very long time, even with the extended life spans of those who can channel. It's known that countless amounts of knowledge was lost after the breaking of the world. It could very well be possible that some of that knowledge was the ability to channel both saidin and saidar, which could potentially do away with the gendered aspect of the power system. If it's an ability that can be trained, regardless of gender, then the idea that it is gendered was constructed at some point. Maybe there is some truth to a majority of male channelers having a natural affinity to saidin and majority of female channelers having a natural affinity to saidar--but the idea that a male channeler can never channel saidar and a female channeler can never channel saidin could very well be untrue. There are always exceptions to binary rules.

We haven't really seen any exceptions yet in the show canon, but in book canon there's Aran'gar, who was originally a man but who's soul was placed in a woman's body by the Dark One. On the wiki, this is described as reincarnation. However, it is an unnatural one; these bodies have been hijacked by a foreign soul, seemingly kicking out or subduing the original soul that would have belonged to the body (something that I wonder will be explored in the show?). Either way, Aran'gar's ability to channel saidin in a female body indicates that the ability to channel either or maybe even both parts of the one power is tied to the soul. If you truly tie the ability to channel saidin to maleness then gender is based on the soul rather than the body--something that is actually contradicted in show canon. In season 1, we are told that it is possible that Egwene could be the Dragon Reborn due to reincarnation and that this would be ideal as she would not be subjected to the taint of madness on saidin as a channeler of saidar--or this is what Moiraine and Siuan believe, at the very least. This actually makes the show more bioessentialist than the books, as it implies the soul to be genderless and the body to be gendered, tying the ability to channel each part of the one power to the body rather than to the soul. Which is... food for thought.

Curiously, another exception appears to be Rand himself. According to the wiki, in the final battle he uses a combination of saidin, saidar, and the true power to subdue the Dark One. I haven't read this far so I don't know how this is described but we know the true power to not be connected to gender and Rand is a known channeler of saidin... so how is he able to also use saidar? Does the gender of his soul change? Is there some other way it is explained, like through the use of an object of power or using someone else's saidar-powered weave? I don't know, but the fact that Rand showcases this ability to use all three powers at once implies that this can be something learned, allowing other characters to also have this ability. Or maybe even implies that Rand himself is non-binary or intersex, depending on if we're going the soul or the body is gendered routes, which also means that other characters who are non-binary or intersex and can channel can have the ability to channel both saidin and saidar.

I think it's also prudent to look into other magic systems in WoT--the ones that are "outside the binary" of saidin and saidar. Two examples come to mind first, both representing non-conformity in some way. First is Min, whose ability to see into the future is not due to any ability to channel, and who is notably gender non-conforming. Second is Perrin, who is wolfkin, an ability that is older than and separate from the one power, and struggles with choosing to reject humanity and become fully wolf, as his mentor Elyas had done. It interests me that you can interpret both of these characters through non-conformity of social roles, although Min's is less salient since there is a fairly wide range of gender expression amongst the female characters (she is not the only female character on the show who is kind of butch basically) and Perrin's is not necessarily through gender but society and humanity as a whole. There are other abilities outside of the one power mentioned in the books that we do not yet know if they are gendered, like the sniffing out danger thing. I think we also don't know if Min's visions are a gendered ability but seems unlikely. Although I suspect any men with visions were not treated kindly.

What I wish for mostly in the show is the chance for the binary of saidin and saidar to be challenged. I want to see a female channeler succumbing to the madness because she channeled saidin and it being furiously hidden by the Aes Sedai because they can't afford any mistrust in them. I want to see a male channeler surviving because they channeled saidar or maybe dying still because it's not believed that he could be channeling saidar even with all the evidence for it and he is stilled. I want someone to realise that the Aes Sedai libraries have wiped out all knowledge about different genders channeling saidin and saidar. What if the reason Nynaeve struggles so much with channeling saidar is because she has a natural affinity for saidin? What if she learns how to cure her own madness? What if there were, like, any trans characters? Imagine there was a small fringe society of trans and gender non-conforming people who can channel. Not accepted by the Aes Sedai because they refuse to conform but having to largely be self-taught. I believe we've seen in the latest episode to air (3.05) that the Aes Sedai way to channel is not the only way, there are the seafarers (?)--been seeing the quote "there is more than one way to be a woman" so I'd like to see that explored more fully. I'm imagining a society where there is an acknowledged "third gender" as there is in our world across many different cultures. Maybe when or if they have Aran'gar on the show they could be from a society like that, exploring how that strict binary could push someone to the dark while not making it a rule or a specific punishment/joke for a man to be in a woman's body. I'm curious about the land the Seanchean conquered, were there already inhabitants there? Did they have to suppress or maybe even totally genocide the indigenous culture? Could these cultures have a more complex idea of gender than the cultures on the main land mass that we're exposed to? I'll need to brush up on what I know about the Seanchean because I don't remember much about them besides those nails and their slavery system and they haven't shown up much in s3 yet. There just is room for trans readings or for questioning the binary even with such a strict power system.

[coconutcanary]

While ago one of my friends did a mini “challenge” where she would draw her dnd characters as different dnd races, so I tried to test my hand at it myself with my character Leaper. Elf Leaper is probably the most cursed as I only ever see her as a Dragonborn in my mind

Anyway I do recommend this little art exercise if you ever need a small challenge

[bookwyrminspiration]

"How do you know it's a female?" has gotta be one of the worst sentences in keeper, up there with Keefe's "females are cruel." just. ugh. ew. on so many levels. why. "how do you know the prisoner is female?" was right there.

[ionlypostmymeemocs]

Ppssttt~ They are also Non-Binary!

This is also the first attempt of making them.

Didn't like it at all.

@catboy-medic-tf2

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[juliaswickcrs]

OC STAR WARS DAYS CHALLENGE :: MAY THE FOURTH ( I am one with the force and the force is with me )

the legacy of Zoya Onasi and Rey Kestis

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[0minze]

Pantone®-Farbpaletten

aber es sind Pride-Flaggen

und man kann nur eine Farbe einmal benutzen

[funky-fox-fics]

Prompt: golden apple

please note that this story takes place in my pc/bs au, so you might not understand this if you haven't read that yet!

See, the thing about effects--status or not--is this: unless they're vanilla, a binary can undo them.

Of course not alone; a binary's only as strong as a normal player alone. But with both halves joined, well. There's something about that intimate chemistry, that ability to poke through another player's mind like it was your own, that allows you to slowly and carefully untangle a non-vanilla status effect from your binary's mind.

And of course it's sensitive, finicky, easily messed up or even amplified on accident. While there's been a few posts on the binary subreddit about it, well, most binaries don't use the subreddit.

If there's anything that would make a binary "dangerous", it would be that.

But, see, the thing is that's only non-vanilla. The Universe is looser about non-vanilla things, after all--non-vanilla deaths are far more likely to permanently kill you than vanilla deaths, non-vanilla mob hybrids are at higher risk of glitches and early perma-deaths due to the Universe not viewing them as valid as vanilla mob hybrids--but vanilla effects it's pretty strict on.

(They'd tried it, once, back on their old Naked and Scared worlds. Skizz had gotten a nasty wither scar, and, well. To say it was a painful experience would be a massive understatement. There had been something like a wall of wither, keeping the effect active, something Impulse couldn't untangle or pick at until it unravelled like a love potion or an amnesia potion.)

(It had felt like dying of wither himself.)

But anyways. The thing about vanilla effects is this; it's like you're feeling them through the bond. It's why Impulse and Skizz don't take fire res, water breathing, or other similar potions without at least warning the other binary first. Because if two binaries are bridging through the Nether, and one accidentally takes a fire res potion and shares the sensation through the bond, well...

But the thing about right now is this: he's pressed against the Nether brick wall, five--wait, no, six skeletons leering down at him, and if he doesn't eat the gapple in his inventory, he's not going to survive this.

Binary bonds are a little... staticky across dimensions. Like being sedated, a little--distant thoughts, foggy awareness, dulled shared emotions. But still, Impulse shouts out into the bond: Skizz, I'm gonna take a gapple, okay?

For a moment there's silence from the other side. The skellies come closer, eyes bright with soulflame. Their swords shine in the firelight of the Nether. He doesn't know where his spawn is; if he dies here, he's probably not gonna find his stuff again soon. Maybe at all.

Skizz? he calls out again, drawing his sword. If he knocks one back, the others are going to absolutely swarm him.

He should probably just eat the apple. Unless Skizz is, like, trying to defend his own base, well, there's worse potions to suddenly feel through a binary bond.

He takes out the apple.

One last time, he calls, Skizz! Skizz I'm gonna eat the apple! You good with that?

Eat it! Skizz suddenly shouts, his voice strained and quiet but very much audible. I'm fine, dude, but you can eat it!

Impulse pulses over a flash of gratitude and wolfs down the apple.

See, the thing about golden apples are this: the effects it promises are absorption and regen. The thing about those two effects is this: that absorption feels like a brightening, like a light turning on in a dusty room, like an idea you've finally grasped; that regen feels like a soft blooming warmth in your chest, like acceptance, like an easy exhale.

The thing about golden apples themselves is: they do not advertise the fact that they taste like victory.

The thing about that is this: Impulse bites into the apple and it's not just his own victories he tastes. He tastes the time Skizz killed Cleo and Jimmy in Third Life; he tastes the moment Skizz got invited to Hermitcraft. And he tastes the finishing of the witch farm all the way back in Season Three, and he tastes nearly winning Limited Life.

Quietly, the victories whisper in his ear, reminding him of how he's won, how much he's won, how well he's won. That sort of Skizz-like confidence fills him to brimming, warm and bright and absolutely self-assured.

He's going to come out of this alive.

He knows it.

He lifts the sword and stabs one of the skeletons, and then he charges forward into battle.