#everyone is Schrodinger's trans character in here

[zillychu]

"did you draw this character as trans, or are they cis?"

the answer is yes. whichever makes you happiest. or, if you're being weird or a jerk about it, it's whatever makes you angriest. if you're transphobic, every character I draw is trans. especially your faves. they're Turbo Trans actually.

unless I'm specifically saying otherwise, you're welcome to view the characters I draw as whatever you like! sometimes they're trans when I draw them, sometimes they aren't. sometimes they're just a pretty man or a girl with small boobs or whatever. I tend to prefer an androgynous aesthetic so it's not easy to tell lol

[spitblaze]

You're so right actually, and like that one tournament is so odd in general because they've got so many characters on there who are very much NOT "schrödingers gender" whatsoever. Like Kris who is very much nonbinary, mad mew mew who is implied to be transfem, chihiro from DR who is a whole can of beans bc of the horrible writing but they literally can't be transmasc bc their writing is based on transmisogynistic tropes (and the way they reveal their agab fucking sucks), Naoto from p4 who is the same as chihiro but the other way around, also they've included several south park characters on there (also a hetalia character and the pedo clown from hxh <- which btw some people are very nasty about in the notes) which is..definitely A Choice.

yeah me and my friends were going through it earlier. theres over 300 contestants. the brackets are organized alphabetically. a ton of them are like...very decidedly one kind of trans. its not schrodinger. mario is there. why is mario there??? also i said it before but the implication that someone who is very decidedly transmasc, or heavily coded, or like naoto their entire fuckin story is ABOUT their being afab is actually 'schrodingers gender' as if its cute to take someone who has a pretty well-defined marginalized identity and going 'well they could be anything they could even be a trans woman!' is very. like just say you dont respect transmascs and get it over with. also the amount of people here who do not understand the concept of being gnc is Fucking Staggering im sending everyone who submitted something back to Gender Identity 101, except for whoever submitted Ed from Cowboy Bebop. Perfectly understood the assignment, 10/10 no notes.

[grantairezee]

I had this survey saved in my drafts from like 6 years ago or something, so I’m going to do it. I was tagged by @boutiquebeelzebub

1. Write your name in song titles:

golly. My actual name is long, so I’m going to shorten it to an adjacent nickname that nobody actually calls me.

California Dreaming-The Mamas and the Papas

Holiday-Green Day

Undisclosed Desires-Muse

Cemeteries of London-Coldplay

Kryptonite-3 Doors Down

2. Why did you choose your url?

Grantaire is a cynical “trained-as-an-artist-but-not-using-his-training-for-mental-health-reasons” “does-a-lot-of-anguished-pining” type character who I vibed with for Obvious Reasons. The -zee is from Gamzee Homestuck, who I like, but he got mind-controlled and then everyone including the author acted like the things he did while mind-controlled were narratively the same as his independent actions, which makes me mad. (I just like that Sad Clown, OK?). Before that I think my URL was viewfromthecarrock, a Tolkien Reference, but also that was so long ago that I can’t actually remember when I changed it. I probably wont ever change it again bc now i got that Brand Identity, babey.

3. Middle name?

Marie

4. If you could be any ficitional character who would it be?

I don’t think I would want to Be A Fictional Character per se. Be in a fictional universe? Maybe. but if you’re making me pick: Gandalf, because being OP and also trolling everyone on the reg. is an energy I would enjoy manifesting.

6. Favourite song atm?

I don’t have one specific song that i’m deeply into right now. I’m experiencing complicated thoughts about The Wellerman, and also I’ve been listening to Green Day’s Entire Discography from the last 10 years while i drive to and from work, and that is an interesting experience in light of current events.

7. Top 4 Fandoms?

Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are always my top 2. IDK which other two would round out my 4. I guess Les Mis and Homestuck would be solid contenders since they’re where my url came from...IDK, folks, IDK. If I had done this when I was tagged, harry potter would have been in there too, but I’m Having Complicated Thoughts in re: JKR’s whole everything, so idk if I can count that anymore, even though I have probably put more brain hours into thinking about Harry Potter than any other franchise in existence, Literally Since I Was Seven. Possibly more brain hours than JKR put into it. JKR thinks august has 3 weeks in it and that trans people aren’t valid, though, so what does she know? Maybe I should just revoke custody. My City Now And They’re All Trans.

8. Why do you like tumblr?

I like it bc nobody IRL could find mine unless I told them how. It’s the anonymity for me. I enjoy shouting into the void with limited repercussions. Also I’ve made some good friends on here that I enjoy talking with. @ my mutuals I see u and I love u.

Tag 9 friends:

This is Schrodinger’s tag. You may self-select to participate as the spirit leads you.

[fyrapartnersearch]

F4A OC's Welcome-Doubling-Fandoms

So yeah, pretty much what the title says. I like to use OC's. I prefer to play OC X Canon, and will double up to do the same for you.

I'm mostly interested in fandom stuff, which I'll list below, and also name off my crushes.

I do all pairings. M/F, F/F, M/M, Trans Characters

I'm over 18

If you're a guy don't talk about sex constantly. Don't message me with your fantasy for an RP where I play a sex slave to your character. If you're one of the few guys who doesn't do this shit, then we'll be fine.

If you're a girl...TALK TO ME WHEN OR IF I'VE UPSET YOU. Seriously, this is just as bad as guys constantly talking about sex. My female partners will get upset, and then give me the silent treatment. Oh gee what did I do? Oh that's right! I'm never going to know because they won't just tell me. Nope. I did or said the wrong thing ONCE, and that was enough for us to not be friends anymore.

My preferred length is about 400 to 600 words per side.  If we're doubling that's 800 to over 1,000 total.

I write in 3rd person. I prefer that you do as well.

If we do My Hero Academy, please have an idea for when you tell me that they have to be aged up. Everyone wants to age the cast up, and skip over 2-3 years of development...and then has no idea what to do next. It's just; "Oh let's make them all 18."

So I'll try and do this on Discord. That'll be at the bottom.

The list;

Resident Evil - Leon, Moira, Zoe, Chris

Dead Space - No crush, might be willing to do OC x OC for it

Pokemon - Aged up Barry

Cowboy Bebop - AU or Post-Series, Older(Adult) Edward

My Hero Academy - Momo, Izuku, Kirishima

Dragonball AU (Since most of the people are in a relationship the AU would make them single) - Bulma, Goku, Percel,

One Punch Man - Fubuki, Genos, Lightning Max

Hellsing - Schrodinger (My OC isn't a Nazi so it could be a Post AU series, or something)

Life Is Strange - Chloe, Victoria...don't really have a guy crush here.

DC Stuff - Nightwing, Starfire, Superman, Giganta, Deadshot, Harley Quinn

Marvel Stuff - Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Taskmaster

BlazBlue - Makoto

Death Note - Near

The Evil Within - Juli Kidman

RBC#4710 is my discord.

[utopianparadoxist]

man I don't think you can really say bro is brainwashed but gamzee's just evil when you can argue that gamzee's also possessed by cal. they even have really similar relationships to how he's formed, ie part of their souls exist inside lil cal already. which is probably a good explanation for how lil cal is able to brainwash them when he doesn't brainwash, like, dave, who is around him his whole childhood. idk, I just think gamzee's more complicated than "evil ass hole"

As it happens, Gamzee has a line I never gave much weight to before noticing Bro’s SAW interest that I’m more inclined to take seriously now, that suggests Gamzee and Bro’s relationship to Cal WAS intrinsically different:

But even if Bro is kind of a noble captor figure holding Cal back, I still wouldn’t think it excuses any of what he put Dave through. He’s still an awful dude.

As for Gamzee, here’s the main problem with reading him as “just” brainwashed.

Gamzee doesn’t require Lil Cal’s presence to go evil. In fact, Gamzee doesn’t seem to require ANYTHING to turn evil. But even if like, Doc Scratch ALWAYS teleports Lil Cal into Gamzee’s presence to trigger his personality shift, I don’t think it would matter.The weight of the sheer SCALE of Gamzee’s devotion cements his place as an ultimately willing accomplice/acolyte to Caliborn’s Dark Carnival. 

And it kind of makes Gamzee fucking terrifying and a fantastic villain.

I’ll explain my reasoning here.

We know for a fact that Gamzee snaps and kills all his friends in at least one Doomed timeline. This is the source for half the code used in the creation of Doc Scratch. There’s no implication that Lil Cal is involved here at all. 

But again, let’s assume Lil Cal was here again. It doesn’t matter.

Because there is canonically, explicitly, no timeline in the history of Gamzee where Gamzee ever, ever, EVER chooses to rebel. Gamzee Makara simply does not ever choose his friends over Lord English.  In any timeline. Ever.How do I know?

Lets talk about Ghosts for a minute. The fandom has historically kind of taken these guys for granted, and loose fandom consensus is that they aren’t coherent/who has what ghosts is arbitrary. This is incorrect!

Pretty much everybody in the Bubbles that should have alt!ghosts does, including Meenah and Aranea, the two characters who’s alt!ghosts are typically presumed “Missing”. 

This is important. The Ghosts kind of give us very low-key character development, and contextualize the characters for us. For example, Eridan is an absolute irredeemable bastard in the Alpha timeline. But in a God Tier iteration of themselves, Eridan and Feferi seemingly come to friendlier terms. In another, there’s suggestions Eridan makes up with Feferi and Sollux. In yet another, he seems to be Trans or exploring femininity at least.

The point is, there’s a certain fluidity to Eridan’s potential. Still terrible in the comic, but it’s important to remember that Eridan didn’t CHOOSE to be trapped in the meteor with Jack, or to be born to Alternia’s power system, or to be trapped in the Alpha Timeline. 

It’s important to remember these things because in Homestuck, someone with power–Lord English–deliberately and willfully chose those things FOR him. Eridan’s lives are lived in response to that imposed power structure.These factors don’t redeem him completely necessarily

But anyway, the fact that the rest of the cast have coherent quantum expressions means there are only three real exceptions–three characters who either don’t have any ghosts at all, or should have more ghosts than they do. 

The first is Caliborn, who’s timeline has exactly one deviation from the Alpha–apparently caused by John’s retcon. This riddle’s solved easily enough:Predomination doesn’t leave a ghost to appear in the bubbles at all. When Calliope says she ate his soul, she means that literally. Caliborn’s cheating in the Alpha Timeline is indeed the only reason Calliope exists in the bubbles at all.

(This, by the way, explains a lot about the relationship between Caliborn’s soul and Gamzee/Arquis’ in the Lord English. He predominated over them, too.)

The second is Vriska, who only has a single ghost in (Vriska). This is really weird, because we literally know for a fact she dies in more than one doomed timeline! As with the two Calliopes, I think this is down to John’s retcon doing some weird entanglement nonsense to Vriska’s quantum existence.The point is: Where others have a palette of possibility, Vriska has two extremely polarized halves. Schrodinger’s Vriska. 

Important to mention that just like Eridan, the structure of the Alpha Timeline that limits potential Vriskas is IMPOSED ONTO HER. Vriska didn’t want anything about the way she was raised or where she was born. She didn’t ask John and Terezi to retcon her into this bizarre state. Both Vriskas, like the rest of the cast, are rolling with the punches LE has seen fit to give. 

Except for Gamzee.

Hussie literally tells us Gamzee never dies. His single non-Alpha Timeline death in [S] Game Over is retconned by John, and Hussie suggests it straight up doesn’t count. But that presents a problem.

There are thousands upon thousands of Doomed troll timelines. How is it that Gamzee specifically never ever EVER dies? Well, there’s only one real way that a Non-Time player can survive a Doomed timeline, that we know of:

Dream self merger. By going to sleep as the last player present in Sburb, the Doomed Rose from Davesprite’s timeline triggers a game mechanic that ends her timeline completely and merges her consciousness with that of Alpha Rose through their dreamselves. 

If Gamzee survives his doomed timelines, this is the only possible way how. And collapsing all of his potential instances into a single Alpha identity certainly sounds like the reduction of possibility commonly attributed to the Rage aspect.But what that means is that to move on to the Alpha, every Doomed Gamzee must inevitably either snap and kill all the other trolls, or somehow outlast them. And it means that if any Gamzee had EVER, in the entire spectrum of plausibility the Alpha timeline affords, EVER been inclined to rebel against LE–then we would know. Because somewhere out there, that at least Hussie could see, there would be a Ghost to show for it.

But there isn’t. Similar in this respect only to Caliborn, Gamzee simply has no alternate deviations because he doesn’t want them. He chooses the path that leads to Lord English freely and willingly, over and over and over again. 

And like Caliborn…

Gamzee does this because he wants to. 

Gamzee doesn’t BELIEVE he’s going to become his own God–he knows it for a fact. He sees it in Lil Cal’s mangled soul. And he embraces that truth wholeheartedly, throwing himself into the acolyte role from then onwards and presumably following instructions Doc Scratch gives him throughout Act 6. 

Which we can talk about some other time. The point is: Gamzee chooses all this. Whether or not Lil Cal causes him to is beside the point, because there is not and never will be any timeline where Gamzee chooses to resist. 

Gamzee is the ultimate in shitty cosmic nazi religious zealots, and devoted to the very power structure that causes every other character to suffer so. There are no mitigating factors for him as there are for everyone else but Caliborn. At the end of the day, he’s evil.Bad clown. Worst enemy.