#coffee bean transmasc

[satyrradio]

bloo

[our-honeybee-transfem-experience]

honeybee transfem/coffee bean transmasc solidarity emojis

:D

[residentdisaster124]

chihiro fujisaki coffeebean transmac pfp i felt like making

[spaghoffee]

Finally, meet my Stardew OC, Kyle!

I've also made some more portraits and a wholeass sprite sheet with seasonal outfits and costumes for him, but I'll post those separately! ^^ I've been going insane over him for the past week lol, I wish I could actually mod him into the game ugh

vV Tons More Info About Him Below!!! Vv

-Born and raised in Pelican Town, his café used to be his parents' bed and breakfast. At age 6, his family moved to Zuzu City for several years to give him a proper education, but they kept ownership of the building. After graduating college where he majored in Business Management to follow in his parents' footsteps, Kyle had the old and unused bed and breakfast renovated into his very own Kreamy Kafé, with the help of his parents' good friend Robin, of course! She already started working on the building while he was on his last year of college, so when he moved back in on that winter day it was mostly just to unpack his personal belongings, and he quickly got to work in less than a week!

-The reason why he started a café business instead of just reviving the bed and breakfast is because he's actually autistic and coffee is his special interest! He loves everything about it, from the sprouting seeds to an intricately decorated cup full of the delectable liquid. His café has a mini greenhouse attached to it on the side, where he grows his own coffee beans!

-Despite being transmasc, he doesn't want to have to present as hyper masculine for his identity to be respected. He's quite comfortable with his femininity and his body, and he quite frankly just wishes the world around him would change instead to just accept that yeah this feminine short dude is just another guy .👍👍👍 Which is why he feels closer to the rest of Pelican Town (who welcomed him with open arms) than his own parents, which he never actually came out to because of the mildly transphobic remarks they've made about other trans people when he was growing up, and he decided to not trust them with that information about himself. He'd rather be misgendered by them than disowned, as he is still reliant on them at times.

-Bisexual, falls for people easily but just as quickly makes negative hypothetical situations in his head with that person to kill off those feelings asap 😁👍 that did not work completely when it came to Victor lmao! Loser!!!

-He has a custom latté called Kyle's Special (because he isn't very creative lol) and it gives you +3 speed instead of the +1 regular coffee and triple shot espressos give! The downside (to balance it out) is that it does -30 health and the speed buff only lasts for a mere 30 seconds before your player experiences a sugar crash XP He likes his coffee sweet unfortunately!

-Harvey hates that coffee because it is literally a health hazard, thus they have awkward tension lol

-He's coded as half Filipino, half Italian! Honestly I just got his surname from the dude who invented espressos, Luigi Bezzera, and I took a z out cause that made it look more like a Filo surname LMAO, but after some thinking I gave up and made him half Italian anyway. My poor son is wasian now by an impulsive decision SDKJKSDD

I could add soooo much more info but I'll leave it at that for now ^^ You'll get to know him more in sooner posts!

[nightbunnyageregressionblog]

Are You Currently Regressed?: Yes!

I'm Andrew!

I have Autism and Depression and I am the host of a traumagenic system (currently only things known)

Absolutely No Swearing on this blog or get blocked if you don't listen

This is my agere sideblog! my main is @nightmaretherabbit

Big Age: Minor

Little Age: 1-4 years old

Pronouns:He/Him,They/Them

Testing: Xe/Xem,Bun/Bunny

Gender and Sexuality: Transmasc & Pansexual, Demiromantic, Demisexual

Nicknames I Like To Be Called:

Bubba, Buddy,Angel,Bambino,Bean,Baby, Baby Boy,Cuddle/Snuggle Bunny, Cupcake, Little Man, Little Dude, Mate/Matey, Sunshine, Sweetheart,Sweet Boy, Little One, Little Star,Sweet Pea,Pumpkin.

Favorite Colors:Pastel Yellow,Purple,Pink, and Orange!

Little Shows: Octonauts,Yo Gabba Gabba,Wow Wow Wubbzy,Ruby and Max,Bluey,My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, Bear In The Big Blue House, Steven Universe, Spirit Riding Free, SpongeBob (early seasons especially), Winnie the Pooh, Invader Zim.

Things That Help Me Regress:Coloring Books, Blocks, Pacifiers,Plushies/Stuffies, Little Shows, Little Foods,Toys.

Little Foods/Drinks: Apple Slices, Frosted Animal crackers,Dino Nuggets, Apple Juice (the one with Donald Duck on it), Chocolate Milk, Sausage Patties, Coffee,Cookies, Brownies.

Little Games:Animal Crossing New Leaf + New Horizons, FNaF (yes, listen-),Mario Party,Mario Kart 7,Kirby,Stardew Valley,Sims 4,Pokemon,

Stuffies Names: Pink Panda(Panda), Precious (Toucan),Vanny (Youtooz plush), Socks (Red Sock monkey), Springtrap (Youtooz)

I baby talk and babble nonsense on this blog. Sorry if it's hard to understand.

[genderstarbucks]

I would identify as coffee bean transmasc, but unfortunately, my agab has already pretty much been revealed, unfortunately.

I’ve talked openly and publicly about having periods or being on my period.

Afab voice or Afab sounding voice 

 Talked about binding and the difficulties of it.

GROOOOAAAAN

You can still identify as a coffee bean transmasc, it's for everyone that wants a transmasc label that isn't so agab focused

[cookies-and-mirrors]

Prison of Stone and Flesh

Chapter Three

This is a collaborative fic between @cookiesupplier and @faceless-mirror.

Divider by @samspenandsword

Pairings: Chris x transfem!Vinny, Justin x transmasc!Ricky, Chris x Justin x Ryan, Chris x transmasc!Ricky, Ryan x ONBC, Ryan x transfem!Vinny, Ryan x transmasc!Ricky, Justin x transfem!Vinny

Triggerlist: transphobia, homophobia, abuse, SA, dubcon, religious trauma, past suicide attempts, mental health issues, grief. (To be added to)

Christopher, Justin, and Ryan are members of the Gargoyle Order, soldiers fighting in the angels war against the demonic supernatural evils of the world to protect human kind. Through the years they lost comrades and now just the three of them remain in their little town.

Now, Ricky and Vinny are moving into their church, stirring up old and new feelings, along with the past, posing the challenge of navigating this new chapter in their lives.

Can they all navigate this path successfully and break free of the prisons that is their lives of both stone and flesh, or will they all be trapped forever in a world that could prove to be a constant misery?

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Chapter Three

Ricky had enjoyed the evening cooking with Vinny, everything was perfect and a fair majority had been unpacked. His blue eyes looked her over, “Excited to start your coffee shop?” He questioned softly head tilted some when his hair fell out of his bun as he smiled at her tenderly.

She nodded, bright green eyes looking up at him, “Yes! I’ve been thinking about the menu- and I think I’m going to carry salads, sandwiches, and pastries. I really love the idea of roasting my own beans too but I wanna start easy on it. I’m gonna have the basics and then I’m going to experiment with different lattes-” she rambled her voice getting louder and louder as she practically vibrated in place. “What about you and the bar…? Coming up with some cocktails and figuring out what beers and wines you want to carry?”

“Absolutely. You know I have the experience for it. I definitely want to make grasshoppers regularly- but I was thinking about making some signature ones based off the Gargoyles and stuff… I’m gonna have a good selection of red wine and whiskey but I think I’m also going to carry a selection of mead-” he explained warmly to her just as excited with a timid but overjoyed smile on his lips. “It's hard to believe it's finally happening.”

Vinny nodded going a bit quiet her lips quirking some softly, eyes full of a mix of sorrow and heartache, “I know it’s not the easiest. You wanted them here so badly… but…” she swallowed and grabbed his hand lightly, squeezing lightly. “I know they’re proud of you- both of us.”

The elder nodded sadly, swallowing. His grandparents had passed a few months before. He felt guilt over using his inheritance to open the business and remodel the church. He still had plenty left… but he wished they were here instead. He knew it was silly. They both were older, his grandmother had passed before his grandfather who died of heart failure days later. Tears welled in his eyes remembering, eyes watering more and more. Vinny moved quickly to wrap her arms around him, holding his head to her chest. “I got you. I’m here. Let it out.”

Ryan, while he was here to keep watch over the Church, their home. It wasn’t much of a Church really, no longer a place of worship, to him, to them, it would always be a holy place. It was, after all, their home base, and they were warriors for the angels, warriors for heaven, and as such, this was holy ground, that was what mattered, right? Either way, he figured he could walk around, maybe wander the grounds a bit… see what their newest inhabitants were up to… not that he really needed to be all that close... Tilting his head and letting his senses reach out to listen in, Ryan felt himself deflate with Vinny’s words, wondering exactly what had happened with Ricky’s grandparents. He knew how much he loved them, how much they loved him.

Whispered words in Enochian fell from his lips, he knew to the mortals, even if they could hear him would hear nothing but gibberish, but he prayed for Ricky’s grandparents' souls. Wishing them safe passage on swift angel wings. Far better than becoming nothing but dust, which was what the likes of gargoyles had to look forward to when they were felled in battle by demons. Some think they ascend, others don't.. but Ryan.. no matter what the others try to tell him.. most days.. he just knows they turn to nothing but dust. Such was their fate.

Ricky was sobbing into Vinny’s chest, clinging to her like she was his lifeline as she pet his hair with tears in her eyes as she kissed his head. “It’s okay. It’s okay. I’m right here for you,” she murmured sniffling some. They had been her grandparents as well, taking her in without question when she had been kicked out. “They’re okay. They were amazing and wonderful.”

“I know- I kn…know… but I miss them. I miss them so much I can’t stand it, Vin. They were amazing, and so kind…I love them…” he whispered pulling Vinny onto his lap, still crying into her shoulder.

Vinny bit her lip for a moment, “Tell me about the signature drinks you wanna have on the menu-” she said after a moment, determined to distract him.

“W…wha-”

“What are the names you’ve come up with?” she said clearly.

“You don’t drink though-” he said confused, almost stunned by the demand.

“Just because I don’t do it often because of my alcoholic family, doesn’t mean I’m not going to help you run the bar.” she said firmly, “Just like you said you’d help me with the coffee shop. We’re in this together. We’re all we’ve got. We gotta support each other.”

The soft laugh that came from Rick filled the air lightly, and he smiled through his tears, telling her the drinks and his plan for testing them out and making them. That was one thing he adored about Vinny. She always knew how to snap him out of his sorrow and out of his thoughts with such ease. He would be lost if he didn’t have her.

Ryan couldn’t help but smirk a little. Christopher was going to have a coronary hearing about the bar plans more, not that he didn’t already know, but he did not really like the whole idea about alcohol and inebriation as a whole. It was safe to say, he wasn’t happy about the bar. Sacrificial wine was as close to drinking as the elder gargoyle ever really got, and that was only for blessings.

Hearing Vinny soothe Ricky, however, was something he admired. She used words and managed to bring him back from a spiral of emotional turmoil, in a way he hadn’t seen someone do in, in forever. Hold on to her Ricky, she was a good woman there, she’d treat you right, don’t be like other humans that took those around you for granted. They’d seen it too many times in the people that came into this Church, it was painful. Ricky wouldn’t though, he was always a good egg. 

Vinny pet his hair slowly, listening and committing every word to memory. “I think I can do that with some practice,” she answered warmly, playing with his long hair lovingly, twirling a lock of black hair between olive-toned fingers. “I think it’ll be fun… we can have a nice shop, and bar… and we can be happy and be ourselves… we can make them proud… I can name a coffee after them... and then they’ll always be around us... no matter what,” she promised, petting his cheek as he sighed contently, eyes fluttering softly as he melted into her. Food was long forgotten now as they cuddled awkwardly on the chair. 

“Princess… do you wanna sleep in the same bed tonight…?” he asked softly. “We don’t have to do anything. I just don’t want to be alone…” he breathed out gently, eyes fluttering as he breathed in her soft scent of lavender and honey. Beautiful… endearing… his best friend. His other half. His constant. 

She nodded slowly, smiling softly, “Yeah. I’d like that. Just us… wanna watch Gargoyles?” she asked out of the blue.

His laugh was much louder, “Yes- Yes please. I could totally go for watching Goliath dealing with angst.” he snorted, lovingly. He did truly love the show. It was his all-time favorite… maybe gargoyles and living in the church as a child rotted his brain somehow… maybe it was the religious trauma. Whatever it was… he was home. Here with his best friend and his gargoyles.

She giggled and got up, cleaning up the food. As soon as she was done, he was dragging her off giggling towards Ricky’s room. Getting comfy and curled up in the bed, the pair melted in delight, the classic show playing on the TV, savoring the gentle silence that filled the night. After so much change and all the work… the pair were exhausted, drifting off together with the show still playing.

Ryan, however, was still wide awake. Despite being semi-aware during the day in the stone, being in the stone, most of the days passed in a meditative state, even if today had been all kinds of something else. He sighed, reeling his senses back to himself as the pair planned their personal night together, not wanting to intrude on the rest of their private evening. Even if they were planning on not having to ‘do anything’ exactly, humans, from his experience, always seemed to gravitate a certain way when sharing a bed. 

That was until a simple question caught his attention and Vinny’s soft voice might as well have yelled it through the entire rafters up to the rectory…

Wanna watch Gargoyles?

There was a show, on their television, about gargoyles? Dammit.. Ryan was so tempted to walk right down there and ask if he could join in to watch.. But Christopher would have his head.. So instead he sat by the door and listened… just listened to what he could until it stopped because the pair had drifted off and whatever was playing came to an end… Damn. He wondered if they could get a TV in the rectory?

[tacticalhimbo]

— OC INTERVIEW

ANTONIA "NOMAD" PERRYMAN

the ghost recon brainrot is consuming my brain, so naturally have to fill this out for her

NICKNAME: nomad (callsign), toni by close friends/team kingslayer (re: holt, weaver, and midas)

GENDER: unlabeled transmasc; she/him pronouns

ORIENTATION: alloromantic questioning (only experiences attraction to men)

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: white american, born in boston (and yes, the accent does come out when she's riled up. yes midas and holt have playfully mocked her for it-)

HEIGHT: 5'9 / 175cm

STAR SIGN: gemini sun, sagittarius moon, leo rising (and suddenly her brazen stubbornness makes so much sense skdjdkdkdk)

FAVE FRUIT: grapes. particularly sweet jubilees

FAVE SEASON: late summer / early autumn

FAVE FLOWER: morning glories

FAVE SCENT: not sure of a specific scent, but categorically... she really likes vibrant, citrus-y scents.

COFFEE, TEA, HOT CHOCOLATE: Coffee, 100%. she likes that shit dark and bitter. hell, she's definitely just straight up snacked on the beans before, if she didn't have the means to brew 'em on the field.

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: anywhere from 2 to 8. tends to fall on the average range, but there have been plenty of times she's gone running on low fumes. it's especially apparent in breakpoint, where she's working entirely alone and in open territory (since walker uh. dispatched. team kingslayer. and wants her dead, too. skjdkdkdkdkd 🥲)

DOG PERSON OR CAT PERSON: definitely a dog person, but not in the "i hate cats they're so mean wah wah wah" way. she just prefers dogs because it's easier to take them places and such. if she weren't being pulled all over the place, i could see her having a malinois, honestly.

DREAM TRIP: route 66 round trip. starting in chicago and ending out in california, then heading back the same way. really taking time with the trip, too, and stopping at each major location (plus some of the smaller ones).

NUMBER OF BLANKETS THEY SLEEP WITH: ideally two; one comforter and one throw blanket. more often than not, though, it's whatever thin blanket she has on hand (or can get her hands on). and if she doesn't have them, she's tucked in a nice padded sleeping bag.

RANDOM FACT: despite being a military brat, she was not, in fact, a j-rotc kid. at least by technicality. her family had a bunch of connects as is, so they didn't feel the need to make her go through their program on top of her academics (plus, what more could they possibly have taught her that her mom and dad couldn't have?). that said, she's done her fair share of volunteering and misc. favors for the instructors on her high school campus. they were all buddy buddy.

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got tagged by the incredible ✨️ @pinkyjulien to fill this meme out! tyvm again for the tag (and the comic recommendation 👀 i bookmarked it and will be checking it out asap)

i'll tag @perpetuagf , @vendettavalor (figured this one could be good for your rp blog), @alexxmason , aaand anybody else who feels like hopping on board!

i've seen so many of these on my dash it's hard to remember who has/hasn't done it ^^;

[mizumech]

My Deaf Ethoslab Headcanons 2: Electric Boogaloo

I like to think Etho has a ‘mute icon’ tattooed just behind his right ear and and ‘low volume icon’ behind his left ear. Depending on what kind of mask he’s wearing, you might be able to see them.

When he drinks things like coffee, water, potions leisurely, he has a reusable bendy straw on his person so he can keep his hands free to sign while drinking, which has definitely seen better days since Bdubs’ mud/coffee shop opened.

Since the first open mic night, he’s attempted some ASL poetry with beta reading and suggestions from Joe. It’s difficult and a little unnatural to him, so used to either providing information plainly or concealing it, but he’s slowly getting it.

He writes about the jungle often, writes about dancing and music that flow like vines and footfall like rain.

Doc gave him his original sign name (mainly E-Fox), which started mutating from person to person like a nickname.

While Etho would rather only deaf friends give him sign nicknames, there are exceptions. For example, Bdubs isn’t deaf/hard-of-hearing, but is still allowed to give Etho a sign nickname. (Also allowed to call him ‘Ladder-fox’ the same way Pause and Beef do sometimes when they’re not using their Team Canada ones like ‘Canada-mother’, ‘Canada-bean’, ‘Canada-friend’ etc.)

When he absolutely has to go to Xisuma (He normally defers to Tango/Joe first if he can’t speak.) for server-side issues regarding his cybernetics (voicebox, eye, etc.), they used to use pen-and-paper because Xisuma took up BSL to complement his Admin Studies while Etho uses ASL. Nowadays, while they still do that, the server does have standardised ways to sign important things like ‘cybernetic’, ‘player data’, ‘malfunction’, ‘lag’, ‘glitch’, ‘chunk load’, ‘danger’, ‘it’s just redstone, don’t worry’ etc.

Between the redstoners of Hermitcraft, they started to fear a rift in communication between Deaf/HoH BSL and similar-using redstoners, Deaf/HoH ASL and similar-using redstoners, and redstoners of other nationalities like Doc during season 7. Even for hearing redstoners, redstone is loud. Pistons pushing, redstone and explosives fizzing, and occasionally exploding. This made verbal communication unviable at times, eventually prompting them to create server-standard terms for hoppers, dispensers, tripwires, and other redstone components and terms.

This may or may not also have been because Etho kept using the sign for ‘vagina/pussy’ to sign about hoppers (most sign schools do not provide signs for redstone terms as they can be quite regional) and forgetting to update his cybernetics (He keeps thinking he saved the sign and forgets to fingerspell it too) causing many accidental swears.

(Example dialogue between Xisuma and Etho [his hearing aids are still really crappy at this point and they met in the shopping district without paper on hand. His cybernetics are working. [They also thought they would be able to make it through this interaction without text.]

Etho: Hey, X! Do you have pussy I can borrow? (He means hoppers. He wants hoppers.)

Xisuma: *visibly confused, mentally rifling through possibilities*

Etho: Did I sign something wrong?

Tango, just casually passing by: *starts to sim-com while getting some hoppers out of his redstone box* I mean, I have had both…(I headcanon him as transmasc and proud about it)

Etho: *look of realisation* Oh! I meant H-O-P-P-E-R! Sorry, X! Anyways, never mind, I think Tango’s got what I need!)

Etho once asked Impulse why he used the sign name ‘Watch-G’ (Hermitcraft players have many nicknames, even in sign, and Etho thinks its fun to find out how nicknames correspond) to refer to Grian.

(‘Watch’ as in the verb, as signed by Liz Harris (also how I sign it; with an x-hand on the cheekbone) when talking about watching movies, because I’ve seen different people sign it differently).

Impulse said he got it from Mumbo, who accidentally signed up for ASL classes in school instead of BSL and also refused to elaborate on the reasons behind the nickname.

Impulse also recounted how Scar tried to reproduce the sign, instead signing it too high up and then trying to cancel it, wiping his hands on his pants.

“That’s like the sign for desert,’ Impulse had told him, showing him the right way to sign ‘desert’. Scar had let out a huff at the explanation.

Etho never really thought about it until Double Life. Only then did it really hit him.

He spectated that fight with his own two (?) eyes. And yet, while he had almost forgotten it, the two fighting in question had never quite left the desert.

In Limited Life, when he accepts Grian’s sword, he can feel Grian’s stare boring into his back. Maybe that’s why Mumbo nicknamed him so.

It feels like such a contrast to his and Doc’s practice conversations in ASL when conversation roulette inevitably comes back to how he will mess with Grian and the achievements of the hivemind. Doc’s nickname for Grian is ‘Boy-Bird’, ‘Bird-Boy’, and sometimes ‘Boba’ because the mouthing is similar in Doc’s opinion. Etho uses ‘Boba’ a lot more, especially when around Doc, because he thinks its funny. Ariana Griande is sometimes nicknamed ‘Strawberry Boba’ by them both.

Doc’s sign-nickname for Ren is the sign for ‘Spiderman’ followed by the sign for ‘Dog’. Etho reasons it’s not really referring to the superhero part, but instead to the handshape and Season 8. Because of this, it feels a little wrong to copy the sign-nickname, at least to Etho. He uses ‘Story-Dog’ instead.

Etho has jokingly nicknamed Iskall ‘Money-Tree’ and ‘Sugar-Darling’, the latter of which never fails to make Bdubs sputter.

“At least you didn’t use ‘Sugar-Omega,” Bdubs had muttered sourly once, which Etho had to pretend not to hear.

Xisuma’s one of the only Hermits to have an agreed on nickname, which is ‘Mother-X’, the same way most Deaf/HoH hermits agree Hermitcraft’s sign name is ‘Crab-Craft-X’.

That’s some of the only things Deaf/HoH hermits agree on when it comes to sign names. Even season names, other than the numbers can differ from hermit to hermit (Season 8 is still similar among most though, due to the main event being the only real big event. There is an exception for those who sign about defying gravity).

Some sign ‘Vex-Food-Season’. (My headcanoned ASL Minecraft sign for vexes is the sign for ‘spirit’ but the top hand is a ‘V’ instead of an ‘F’). Etho signs ‘Jungle-Found-Season’.

Some sign ‘Colour-Button-Season’. Etho signs ‘Mushroom-Game-Season’.

Some sign ‘E-fox’. Etho; when he’s alone and on the rare occasions he wants to refer to himself when talking to himself, says ‘Love’, the same way the Universe does to him in the faintest tinges of his memory.

After all, what’s in a name?

Part 1

[barbieyaga]

omg that was insane went to buy coffee beans and everyone in there was butch or transmasc all of us buying our fucking beans and oat milk lattes there was like 6 of us in the store and on my way out I bumped into another butch what is happening

[t4tails]

scientists can't agree whether shadow t hedgehog is transfem or transmasc but he clearly is self medicating by eating coffee beans

shadow is mainlining coffee into his bloodstream and his biology is fucked up enough its like hrt. but nobody wants to ask which kind of hrt

[satyrradio]

Coffee Bean Transmasc

An AGAB-less transmasc label. For any transmasc who doesn't want to reveal their AGAB, AMAB transmascs who want a less AGAB-focused label, transmascs who reject their AGAB, are AGABpunk, intersex transmascs, etc.

Meant to mirror Honeybee Transfem !

@radiomogai

[our-honeybee-transfem-experience]

Folks are not normal enough about folks who reject their AGAB, even if it's for personal, deep reasons. I hate how it's normalized to dictate someone else's identity in modern queer spaces.

Someone who says they're AMAB but transmasc sounds pretty freaking queer to me. I'm not going to question them because they have an experience I can't comprehend. It's not fair to them to have to explain themselves, and not be allowed to simply just be.

Someone rejecting their AGAB should not be as controversial as it is. Someone could have trauma relating to their AGAB, therefore reject it. Someone could simply not like being seen as their AGAB, so reject it entirely. Someone can validly choose to reject their AGAB for the sake of being 'reborn' in their new identity. Nothing wrong with that.

It feels weird to see folks say, "Um. You have to actually acknowledge that you were assigned a male, and that it'll forever be that way because you can't change your assigned gender at birth.", or say something like "You can only be AMAB or AFAB, you can't change what gender you were born into." to trans people. Not to mention how intersexist that can be. Like, how is this even a commonplace thing I hear as an argument against AGAB non-conforming folks???

Or someone telling me I'm cis for identifying as transfem, despite being AFAB. That infuriates me. I am NOT cis. I don't feel cis in any way. I don't feel comfortable with my AGAB. It's just transphobia whenever someone tells me this at this point. I AM transfem. My genders aren't all completely/traditionally female, therefore I identify as transfem. It's that simple. And the stupid "Cis isn't an identity, it's a fact and something you can't change." I beg of them to understand that some folks that would count as trans consider themselves cis. I beg of them to understand that some folks are cis and trans at the same time. I beg of them to understand that gender is messy, and minimizing the vast experience of gender down to AGAB is violently wrong.

Sure, I acknowledge I will not ever have the same experience as an AMAB transfem, but that doesn't make me any less transfem. Ever. I am still transfem, regardless of my AGAB. I. AM. Transfem. Proudly, and truly.

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[theopolis]

The Coffee Bean Gang boys represent three ends of the transmasc fashion spectrum. Dapper clown (Harry), whore (Flash) and grandpa (Peter)

[souls-foreclosed]

(questions from Sw0rdh3art, NeilKapit, LatinoPurrito, DesDemonical) What is Astor's preferred rifle? He can work with most anything that isn't a mounted gun, but his favorite is the 1860 Arklyte "Super Perforator" lever action rifle, a gun designed not for hunting but for blowing straight through a man from far away (hence the name). How much can Reah bench press? What's her strength according to the Marvel Strength Scale? Reah qualifies as "Peak Human" according to the Marvel Strength Scale (somewhere between Kingpin and Black Panther), bench pressing 1300 lbs. She spent her teenage and young adult years doing work like chopping firewood, hauling sacks of flour, fixing the dormitorium's roof, building fences etc. not combat training though, so a "weaker" person with superior training could probably defeat her in a one-on-one fight. What does Tabitha's singing voice sound like? Her "default" singing voice sounds a little like this, but she has a range. The cast's favorite foods? Reah: Campfire sausage and beans with cornbread. Tabitha: Does not like food, period. Anything sufficiently filling will do for her. The only taste she enjoys is coffee, made exactly to her standards. Astor: Grits. Zeyneb: Green pepper dolma stuffed with chopped coriander and onion rice. Joey: Raisin sweetbread, unless Ma's cottage pie is on the menu. LaBelle: Smoked trout fish pies, a great snack underappreciated by the upper class. Alessandra: A gourmand who'll try anything once, she doesn't have a particular favorite as long as she gets a big serving of it. Posthaste: Also grits. One can never go wrong with grits. Did you have someone or something as a reference when coming up with the designs of your characters? Some characters are so old that I legitimately do not remember what initially inspired them (like original Reah), but I usually incorporate lots of elements from the vast database of "stuff I have looked at and liked/found interesting" in a process of constant refinement. Reah's more recent looks take a lot of cues from... ahem, bara yaoi and Kentaro Miura's Berserk, ahem. Her new hair's taken wholesale from Overwatch's Zarya. Original Tabitha was a blend of Orkbutch's take on Elphaba from Wicked, Cio from Kill Six Billion Demons, and Maleficent from Disney's Sleeping Beauty dressed up in various bondage or drag outfits I randomly found on social media. Throughout this process of reiteration a character's face usually changes so much they don't fully resemble any of their initial inspirations. General rule of thumb is if a character looks vaguely like something from somewhere else, that's probably one of their influences (and I might have forgotten, so feel free to point those out to me) - I soak up everything like a sponge! Some characters like Zeyneb and Posthaste owe their faces to historical photographs, not any one definite person but an amalgamation of impressions. Exceptions are LaBelle, whose face is fully based on Kit Young as Jesper from the show Shadow and Bone (aged up a bit), and Lucifer, whose extensive design process has already filled a whole post on my tumblr blog. What parts of your story have you changed while making it? I could spend many many paragraphs on this question alone... basically any given fact about Souls Foreclosed was at some point changed, altered, or thrown out temporarily. Just off the top of my head, Reah was supposed to be a womanizing flirt that random powerful women took advantage of, Tabitha had huge boobs and was meant to have a 4 page guest comic about her feud with her brother, instead Astor there was meant to be a crack shot transmasc demon named Yolanthe who also drove the trio's wagon (I basically raffled off their traits to other characters in Unholy Savior), there was a plot about Godfrey putting more and more pickled reliquary organs into Lourdes via surgery, the Uyulala was(!) meant to be a singular divine presence without a body that speaks through multiple people, Joey was supposed to be a tiny butch journalist uncovering a conspiracy in a spinoff comic called Smoke and Mirrors (which I folded back into the main plot in Chapter VIII), Monsignore had a longer stay in the plot past the ending of Chapter VIII, Alessandra and LaBelle were not meant to be more than bit parts past that chapter's Scene 3, etc. etc. What was the inspiration for the setting? Just like character designs, these are also a mixture of media I consumed (Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts, Game Kitchen's Blasphemous, From Software's Dark Souls - specifically the Ringed City DLC, Chris Riddell's illustrations in the Edge Chronicles) and impressions from my 4 year stint studying for a degree in History, which might be the most obvious from the depiction of Tyvia in Chapter VIII. I wanted to depict a kind of "mundane" apocalypse that both feels gritty and poetic, with villains that had motivations taken from real life oppression. Is it your perception that Souls Foreclosed will help people accept eachother as they are, instead of projecting and reproducing societal and aesthetic expectations? (Because I sure do hope so) We can only hope. I think I have a better shot at making a certain flavor of trans reader see their own self be loved and kicking ass in it! Why is Tabitha so hot? Because while nobody wants to admit it, we all secretly want to be condescended to by a tall woman who's flat as a board and as lethal as a loaded gun. When are we getting the Reah plush we deserve? For the 10th anniversary, surely! Thank you all for these questions!                    

[your-bigender-big-brother]

I guess this isn't what you usual do, but would create a coffee bean cismasc flag?

Based on this: https://www.tumblr.com/satyrradio/757210430769872896/coffee-bean-transmasc

Basically, an AGAB-less cismasc label / a cismasc label that isn't so focused on AGAB. (I mean yeah I could just use cismasc like this (I already do) but I like the extra specificity)

I just picked "coffee bean" because that's what the other label is called, but if you'd rather come up with a different name you could.

I made some adjustments to the cismasc flag to make it coffee themed! I hope this looks okay. I like the idea of a "coffee bean" aesthetic. - 💙💚