#chumpersonable

[chum-personable]

guess who has 15 dollars to her name and needs to afford a train and an uber tomorrow

hey. I am really, really sorry about this. but like the title says I need some money to make it to my first payday on friday

if you can spare a couple dollars I'd really appreciate it

[princesscolumbia]

He had checked for washing instructions, and found a series of hieroglyphs on the tag that told him in no uncertain terms that he was not to use triangles, circles inside of squares, circles not inside of squares, or curling irons during the course of the wash. Wonderful.

- Girls Before Swine by Chumpersonable

[kaiserdrgn]

So, pulling from my AO3 bookmarks I have some favorites.

First up is Finding Oneself by JaquiK aka @jaquik

This is a cute story of Ranma trying to make sure Akane has a nice day while at the same time Ranma begins to figure out some things about gender. It's the story I first found when I started looking back into the Ranma section of AO3 and it was what reminded me of how much Ranma had influeneced me so long ago and how much I love Ranma Fic.

Next I recommend My Brown Eyed Girl(s?) by Beedok aka @beedok

Ryoga makes it back to Jusenkyo and tries to cure his curse. Unfortunately he gets a bit lost and falls into the newest spring to be created, Spring of Drowned Akane.

Honestly, everything Beedok writes is both great and queer. My personal favorite is Stop!! Ranma-Kun! which is a crossover with the obscure 80s manga Stopp!! Hikari-Kun!, an early manga to star a trans character.

Similarly I can recommend pretty much everything by ThrashJazz Stand outs include The Adventures of Guykane, in which Akane is a cisguy, but that still doesn't get him and Ranma out of the engagement. It's been described as Yuri coded Yaoi that is actually Straight. Another of ThrashJazz's fics I recomend is the epic length The Girl Behind the Mirror. This takes the premise of the anime only episode Am I Pretty and continues with what if Ranma never changed back.

Next up by ayellowbirds is The Luckiest Girl in World which is about Ranma and Akane having several general personal realizations.

We have Gender Sleepy by AllisonIlluminated which is a tale of Ranma falling into a coma when he falls into Jusenkyo and waking up several months later in Nerima to discover the curse and engagement all at once and develop some thoughts on their gender.

Girls Before Swine by Chumpersonable is an excellent Ranma/Ryoga story. Lots of queer characters and gender themes.

Let me close this off with Set Me Free by uragaaru is a fun, light hearted story about people playing with Instant Jusenkyo Waters, mall adventures, and 80s fun. It's great.

Apparently I'm celebrating this year's Pride month by reading queer Ranma 1/2 fanfiction. I've read 3,151,333 words of worth of fic this month so far on AO3.

It's interesting to see how the fandom has changed since the old days. I got into Ranma 1/2 back in the late 90s when I was a teenager. I was just as a voracious reader back then, maybe more so, and I read all the classics and standouts of the fandom. As the fandom slowly shrank and died out in 2000s, I naturally migrated to other, more active ones in search of fanfiction. Though I still kept a few fics and authors on my radar even as my interest drifted.

About two weeks ago, I got interested in poking around AO3 to see what I could find for Ranma, and oh my, did I find gold. A veritable feast of Ranma fic, and most of it was wonderfully queer.

Queer Ranma fic isn't by any stretch of the imagination new, but it is different these days. The language we use to describe gender identities has evolved. Back then if you read a fic labeled as Ranma-Chan, you knew you were getting into a work were Ranma is a girl. And Ranma-chan fics were common. But you hardly ever saw the term transgender. And if you did, it was almost exclusively in context of referring to Konatsu and not Ranma.

There were great heart wrenching character pieces, and deeply moving love stories, and side splitting comedies, and edge of seat action stories. But they were all written mostly in the 90s, and mostly by male anime fans. They are definitely products of their times.

The fics I found being written these days are different. And it's great. There is less bashing on characters in general. Even series designated punching bag Kuno often gets more nuanced characterization. Poly relationships aren't written as just harems for Ranma, and bi rep isn't limited to just fetishistic 'hot girl on girl action when the guy is busy elsewhere'. And the explorations of gender and sexual identities among the characters has been great.

As a transfem watching Ranma or any of the other characters explore their gender identity and break out of their egg, it's been a wonderfully fulfilling time to see these familiar thoughts and experiences reflected in fanfic for one of my favorite fandoms.

I don't really have a point to this post. I just took a minute to tally up my bookmarks on A03 and realized I've read over 3 million words in 2 weeks. And felt like rambling Ranma for a bit.

[punkrockclone]

[adamsandlersclick]

Yoyoyoyo look what this person had to say about Adam Sandler's Click

[butch-king-frankenstein]

chumpersonable replied to your post:wait is that is that the voice of Flapjacjk

you bet your ass it is

fuck

[draayder]

CHUMPERSONABLE SAID: CLASSIC SHEELLLLLLLL

Yeah yeah yeah I downloaded it it makes things less awful 

still mad the computer beat me I was so close I just needed one last thing to work

[parasitebeans]

chumpersonable said: we should HANG OUT in the QUEER BRO-LY TRADITION

YES. and we can combine our gaydars to create one super duper gaydar

[beaenkes]

[chum-personable]

I'm sorry to do this again, but I was out of work for a couple weeks due to debilitating back pain we're down around 900 dollars this month.

I'm not expecting nearly that much, but anything to help us until the 6th would be greatly appreciated.

https://paypal.me/chumpersonable?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

[wulfriciceberg]

chumpersonable replied to your post:little persona player things:  when ur hyped up 2...

wait what I own p3 but was gonna play it after I beat p4. what trasnphobia where what

I dont remember the details but there's a dumb "babe hunt" scene where the dudes in the cast flirt with a bunch of girls of a beach and one of them is trans and the game treats it like it's a punchline :/

it's right before they introduce one of the best characters in the game so it's like ur having a good time but then u get punched in the face and then they act like they didnt just punch u and say "look at this cool robot girl wow woah"

[yuri-librarian]

HOT YIFF

fuck no | no thanks | eeeh | not sure | I’d give it a shot | sure why not | omfg yes | there go my pants | holy fuck take me now

[skarchomp]

How abouuuuuuuuut MEDABOTS

You could not have picked a better series for me to not know anything about if you tried, pal.

[cursegoat]

Tumblr user chumpersonable's prophecy came true this evening when I returned to Forbidden Planet and dropped some cash on this amazing thing

[butch-king-frankenstein]

chumpersonable replied to your post:Wax Sherlock Holmes is voiced by John Oliver Wax...

I love the fat that they even bothered making a coolio joke in a 2013 animated show. like what kid would know who coolio is

They might know him from "Take It To the Hub", the song he released as a promotion for PornHub.com earlier this month

Yeah

[onestler]

chumpersonable replied to your post:watching sips play skyrim and obsessively pick up...

have you seen the triforce yet because good god every time he activates it is incredible

i'm on episode 29 :')