#genderfluid!maggie

[sandstonesunspear]

Hi I have a Director Sanvers ask, what are your headcanons about their sex life both as individuals and as a throuple? Like kinks, preferences no gos etc? And do Leons preferences/no gos/kinks differ from Lucys?

So I'll be running genderfluid!Maggie in addition to genderfluid!Lucy for this.

As individuals:

Maggie likes to strap. She has a complicated relationship with strapping tho because for the longest time she wasn't sure if her preference for it was solely because of her Mateo days. Being with Kate helps her unpack (pun absolutely intended) that. She doesn't like penetration, especially not during Mateo days (he and Kate tried it once and he panicked so bad that he and Kate had to sleep apart for a week). Maggie's absolute hard no, regardless of if it's a Maggie day or a Mateo one, is being called "daddy" or "papi." Nothing ruins the mood faster than that for her.

Lucy is switchy, with a tendency to get super subby if she's had a rough week. On Leon days, he's super touchy about his chest (as in, don't touch it). Unlike Maggie, Lucy's fine with penetration even on Leon days. She also straps, but not as often as Maggie does. Lucy's hard no is degradation and verbal humiliation. She's had to deal with enough of it whilst being a queer woman in the army and refuses to have it in the bedroom.

Alex is a bratty super sub. At first, she's not great at asking for what she needs (she doesn't have a lot of practice in general with that), so it gets her into trouble with Maggie and Lucy. She's also probably the most adventurous/curious of the three (her defence whenever it gets pointed out is that she's making up for all of her years in the closet and unsatisfactory sex with cismen). Alex's hard no is physical bondage (e.g. handcuffs). It's originally a soft no, but after Rick becomes a hard no. She's open to predicament bondage though.

As a trio:

Initially their sex life is really tame because they're still trying to figure each other out. As they grow more comfortable with each other, they start to explore and come clean about kinks they have.

They have great communication. There are PowerPoints and notebooks. If they want to try something new, there's usually a week-long discussion that happens beforehand to make sure they're all on the same page.

Aftercare is super important for the three of them. Even if there's nothing kinky going on when they're having sex, as soon as it's over someone is going to the kitchen to grab snacks and water and another person is grabbing blankets.

Mateo and Leon do have sex. It's super awkward at first because Mateo's like, I've never fucked a guy before and Leon isn't even sure that he'd enjoy penetration. Mateo remembers his own experience, so he's even more on edge the first time he and Leon sleep together because he doesn't want Leon to ever feel like he did. Alex turns out to be the key that gets the two of them to relax enough to make it an enjoyable experience; she guides Mateo and keeps an eye on Leon the whole time. (She later says it's the weirdest fucking experience for her, although extremely enjoyable.)

Even though Mateo and Leon do have sex, on Maggie days, she won't have sex with him. I think they make one honest attempt, but Maggie can't get out of her head long enough to enjoy it so they don't do it again. She will watch him and Alex together and more often than not, she's the one helping him drive Alex up a wall.

Physical bondage is a grey area for them. Maggie can't handle it (they try it once and she has a flashback to when she got kidnapped by Beth), Alex initially tolerates it provided there's substantial conversation beforehand and that she's never left alone but then Rick happens and stops tolerating it, and Lucy is really particular about what's used to bind her. If someone does need to be restrained/wants to be restrained, then they're more likely to make the restraint situational (e.g. you're not allowed to move from this position).

Thanks for the ask!

[tinyartistuko]

1920s AU✨

This au is still a work in progress but here's a quick context.

It takes place in 20s/30s and Dylan is a private investigator working on a case.

Phineas is genderfluid here and the Flynn-Fletchers have a small family business and Phin sings at the establishment/bar. At some point a clue takes Dylan to that bat and they end up meeting and Phineas ends up helping with the case.

(I'm still working on the others roles but was thinking of having Isabella and Pinky as part of the radio station)

The animal agents in this au are also citizens. They can work any kind of job just like a human and live alongside them. For example, Perry works with Dylan and Maggie the Macaw works at the bar.

The animals still don't speak like humans, only in their own species sounds. Unless they're species of birds that are able to speak, like Maggie.

( I guess some examples of worlds like this is pokemon, toons universes like looney tunes show, etc)

[michellemouse]

Happy gay month🫶

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[moonsporemoth]

Caustic x Reader NSFW Headcanons

Caustic x GenderNeutral!Reader (and some extra bits at the end for trans men) Headcanons:Warning: NSFW, Food Kink (slight), Mention of possession, Mention of underwear stealing --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Caustic considered himself a man above simple things like desire. He simply didn't have the time nor interest for it.

*At least that's what he thought until he met you.

*You were also a contester in the games. A good-looking one at that. He was intrigued immediately when you introduced yourself to him as if he was an average Joe.

*Surely you had watched the Apex Games and seen him before? Why were you so nonchalant with him?

*At first, it infuriated him. You acted as if he wasn't this amazing man of great capabilities.

*Then it excited him, to his extreme surprise.

*He liked that you treated him like a normal man, not a psychopath like everyone else did.

*It started slow.

*At first, it was just simple, innocent thoughts about what you could be up to when he was alone. Were you preparing for a game? What did you do for fun when alone?

*Then it got a little less innocent. He thought about how you'd sound in bed. Were you breathy and quiet? Or gaspy and loud? Were you a screamer? Maybe if he did it right, you'd be.

*He wasn't ashamed of these thoughts, but surprised. He hadn't thought about sex in a while, with all the games and hiding he was doing.

*Sure people had made approaches. Usually, younger girls who liked the mysterious vibe he gave off (and the idea of a sugar daddy), but he always declined with disgust.

*But here he was, fantasizing about you the way those girls did him.

*It was awkward at first for him. He'd think about you and then have to work with you in a game. It was often harder (wink wink) to work when he wanted to just take you right then and there.

*Especially when you teased him.

*It was innocent enough. You making jokes at his expense about his stamina in game or how old he was. But it made him want to prove you wrong and fuck you sore right there in the abandoned building.

*Or when you cooked food on off times. It was a love language he found very enticing, especially when you hummed and wiggled your hips while cooking him something.

*It made him want to skip over the meal and have you instead. (Or integrate the meal into bed ;))

*Speaking of food, he loved when you ate in front of him. You weren't really messy, but you weren't careful in the slightest and he enjoyed watching you scarf down your favorite food after a rigorous match.

*It made him wonder (and jerk off to the thought of) how you'd go down on his dick.

*He often spent multiple nights fisting his cock at the thought of you bouncing on him.

*He often came to the thought of you riding him in one of his coats.

*He didn't know why, but he enjoyed "owning" you in some way.

*And don't even get him started on the idea of stealing your underwear.

*It's taken him all of his self-restraint some days to not grab a few pairs and stuff them in his pocket while you had him help with laundry.

(A few extra for my fellow trans men) *He's surprised.

*He didn't know he was attracted to men?

*He's pretty chill with it though, often telling you scientific proof that gender is a social construct to make you feel better if you're dysphoric.

*If you still have a pussy, he'll have you sit on his face for HOURS. He wants to make you feel good.

*Grab his hair while he eats you out and suddenly you're riding him?

*Like? How tf did that happen? Jk jk, he'll give you a warning (and see if you're okay with riding him when you're so sensitive)

*If you have top surgery, he'll trace your top scars with his tongue, looking up at you all the while. 🤤

*If you don't he'll just lick and suck at them like a starved man. (and look up at you ofc)

*He'll also suck you off (whether you have bottom surgery or not). He'll sit there are suck on your T-dick and afterward tell you how nice you taste.

A/N: I think I went a liiiiiiittle crazy with this one, (704 words for a list of headcanons kinda crazy) but to be fair I haven't written in like 4 or 5 months and I actually was able to write this without much trouble… (also this is my first time posting a fic on Tumblr so idk if this is good, but I might start posting here more)

Links: Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/LV2Obsess Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_WueKCrCs0&t=550s (don't ask idk)

[thatonesapphicfilipino]

guys

i don’t knwo what my name is

so

[nerdsbianhokie]

I wish you would write a fic where genderfluid!Lucy has a feminine/she/her Day but still wants to Pack and bind, and the alieness/unfamiliarity of the Situation throws her for a loop.

So, this did turn into a fic. I hope it hits the mark

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Her skin is smooth beneath her fingers as she traces patterns between her breasts. She takes a deep breath, her chest pressing firmly against her touch.

She doesn't quite get it, the itch crawling up the back of her skull, the static disjointing her mind from her body. She is her. She is she.

But it isn't right.

Something isn't right. Something is off in a way that is familiar but not. Her existence is blurring out of the lines she has only recently redrawn.

Alex appears in the mirror behind her, walking up, sliding both hands along her waist and pulling their bodies close. Alex presses a kiss to the side of her head.

"Hey, pretty lady," Alex murmurs. "What's going on in there?"

Lucy wants to just sink back into her, but the static is oozing out across her nerves and they've been working on communication about this stuff.

She speaks softly, weighing every word before letting it go.

"I think I want to bind today." She pauses.

She could stop there. That would help.

But would it be enough? Or would it be compromising between what she really wants and what she thinks she should do, what she thinks others would want?

"And pack," she adds.

Alex considers her in the mirror. Her cheek presses into Lucy's hair. Her fingers flex around Lucy's hips.

Not long ago, that confession would have sent Alex flying back, apologizing, terrified of hurting Leon, unintentionally or not.

They've been working on it.

"As Lucy?" Alex asks.

There is something about the question that settles Lucy's nerves a bit. There is something about Alex not assuming that Lucy is now Leon because of what she wants, about Alex trusting Lucy to have told her if the switch had happened. But, also about Alex asking, just to be sure, about Alex feeling comfortable enough to ask.

"Yeah," Lucy answers. "I think so."

Alex nods. "Is it safe for you to bind today?"

"I have nothing planned, and it's been a few days since the last time."

"Alright." Alex steps back, the warmth of her instantly missed. She starts towards the closet as she continues. "Which binder do you want?"

A new warmth spreads through Lucy.

"The purple half binder" she quickly decides. She steps to the dresser and opens her underwear drawer.

It's neatly organized.

Lucy's underwear, silky thongs and practical panties, on one side.

Leon's boxers on the other.

A box down the middle separates them, but, she muses as she reaches for the briefs in Leon's pile, both sides are hers.

Lucy is pulling out a pair of briefs as Alex returns, binder in hand.

"That's a good color on you," Alex says, poking at the dark green fabric.

"I know," Lucy says with a smirk.

Alex laughs and drops a kiss on Lucy's lips.

"Can I help or do you want me to leave?" Alex asks.

"You can stay," Lucy replies. "Enjoy the show."

Alex settles on the edge of the bed.

Lucy opens the box in the drawer and pulls out her packer. It's soft and flaccid in her hand and just a few shades lighter than her skin.

She eyes the harness she had bought with the packer.

Leon never uses it. The pressure of its straps on his hips only remind him that he's wearing his penis, that it isn't attached.

But now?

Lucy grabs it.

She slips the harness into the pouch, making sure it's oriented correctly, before pushing off her underwear. She fights back the urge to preen as Alex lets out an appreciative hum.

Lucy steps into the harness and pulls it up over her hips. She settles it into the right position, then pulls the briefs on. After some small adjustments, she lets out a deep breath.

The weight and pressure and bulge settle into her skin, chasing away some of the static.

She turns to face Alex, who looks up from her phone at the movement.

Alex eyes her, looking her up and down with a smile.

"Feeling better?" she asks.

"Yeah," Lucy replies.

Alex holds the binder out. Lucy takes it.

"Maggie is on her way home," Alex says as Lucy wrestles her way into the binder. "She's bringing food."

"Good," Lucy huffs through the exertion of figuring out where the fabric rolled. "I'm starving."

She finally snags the fabric she needs and pulls the binder into place. She adjusts her breasts beneath it, then looks down at herself.

It's good.

The flatness then the bulge. The bright colors not trying to be subtle. The curves of her waist still visible.

She looks up, then laughs at Alex's expression.

"You okay?" she asks.

Alex silently nods, eyes wide, lips pressed together, the lightest flush creeping up her neck.

Lucy steps towards her, relishing in the feeling of the packer.

"Are you sure?" she teases.

Alex nods again.

"Just, uh, remembering how hot you are," she gets out.

Lucy laughs. She climbs into Alex's lap, her knees pressing into the bed next to Alex's hips.

"You never tell Leon he's hot," she says with a fake pout as she slides her arms around Alex's neck.

Alex lets out a light laugh. Her fingers tail up Lucy's bare sides.

"If I still thought I was straight, I would be all over Leon."

"Is that so?"

"Mhm." Alex's hands spread out across Lucy's back. "He's what I thought my type was. Smart, cocky, but kind of shy."

Lucy kisses her. "Too bad for Leon," she murmurs against her lips.

Not that Leon wants Alex like that. It's complicated. He loves her. He loves her so much. Maggie, too. He just isn't comfortable with the idea of sex with them.

They are his life partners and they are lesbians and he is a man and they are his and he is theirs.

It's complicated.

"Too bad," Alex softly agrees.

Lucy is ready to push Alex back and lose herself between Alex's legs when the 'I'm home ' is called through the house.

Alex gently pushes her back.

"Finish getting dressed and come eat," she says.

"I was about to," Lucy huffs.

Alex just laughs into a kiss and murmurs "later."

Lucy grumbles but acquiesces. She climbs off of Alex and goes back to the dresser. Alex heads out to meet Maggie as Lucy reaches into a drawer.

She pulls out an old pair of army sweatpants and puts them on. Tight enough the bulge is there, but not so tight it looks comically big.

Her first packer had been far too big, had made her feel like she had a clown shoe shoved down her pants.

This one is much better.

She considers grabbing a shirt but, looking down at herself, decides against it.

Sweatpants and a sports bra is hot as fuck, why would sweatpants and a binder be different?

Alex and Maggie are setting out the food when Lucy leaves the bedroom.

Pancakes and turkey sausage and biscuits and fruit and Maggie looks up at Lucy and tilts her head to the side and bites her lip.

"Good morning," Lucy says as she steps to Maggie.

"Good morning," Maggie replies before Lucy kisses her. "Trying something new?"

"Mhm," Lucy hums.

"It feel good?"

"It does."

It really, really does

[bossymarmalade]

sometimes I’m like why is it that I always relate most to the father/patriarch character in every piece of media and then I remember that as a little girl when we were playing and all my friends were fighting to be Sunni Gummi I was like I’ll be the old wizard bear. Zummi. Gimme that guy. I’ll be Hannibal on the A-Team. I’ll be Mandrake the Magician because he has a daughter. I’m Hazel-rah, I’m Lion-O, I’m Captain Von Trapp. Whoever the dude in charge is I’ll be him thx. so I guess it’s not new lol

[coffeeundchaos]

Going through my Sketchbook. Some of this is from 2022

[multigenderswag]

Bigender Books

Books that feature bigender characters, are written by bigender authors, or both!

Bi-gender: A Candid Nonbinary Memoir by James-Beth Merritt: A memoir of the author's experience living as both a man and a woman.

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault: A magical gemstone is stolen by a baker who is investigating the disappearance of her sister. The protagonist is bigender and aromantic.

Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker: A horror novel about queer teenagers who accidentally invoke a spirit that erases their knowledge of their identities. One of the protagonists is nonbinary, genderfluid, and bigender.

Homesick by Nino Cipri: A short story collection exploring the theme of home and featuring queer and trans characters. The short story "A Silly Love Story" includes a bigender love interest.

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokunda-Hall: A woman disguises herself as a man to live aboard a pirate ship. He falls in love with a wealthy imperial daughter traveling to an arranged marriage. One of the protagonists is genderfluid and bigender.

Nimona by ND Stevenson: A graphic novel in which a chaotic shapeshifter teams up with a supervillain to wreak havoc on the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics. The author is transmasculine and bigender and uses he/him pronouns.

Reality In Bloom by Annette Covrigaro: A prose and poetry chapbook about queerness, mental health, and religion. The author is bigender, gay, and Jewish.

Somebody Told Me by Mia Siegert: After being assaulted, a bigender teenager moves in with their uncle, a Catholic priest, and has to come to terms with their trauma. The author is bigender and uses all pronouns.

The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg: A novel set in the fantasy world Birdverse, where the Starkeeper and a poet work together to save their home. The story includes a side character who identifies as the fantasy world equivalent of bigender. The author is bigender and uses they/them pronouns.

Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore: YA fantasy about a transgender prince pretending to be his brother, and a bigender dama/assassin from an enemy kingdom. One of the authors is bigender and uses they/them pronouns.

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive--including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder, thief, and worse. Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, a highborn Imperial daughter, is on board as well--accompanied by her own casket. But Evelyn's one-way voyage to an arranged marriage in the Floating Islands is interrupted when the captain and crew show their true colors and enslave their wealthy passengers.  Both Florian and Evelyn have lived their lives by the rules, and whims, of others. But when they fall in love, they decide to take fate into their own hands--no matter the cost.  Maggie Tokuda-Hall's sweeping fantasy debut, full of stolen memories, illicit mermaid's blood, double agents, and haunting mythical creatures conjures an extraordinary cast of characters and the unforgettable story of a couple striving to stay together in the face of myriad forces wishing to control their identities and destinies.

[inhonoredglory]

Defining Ineffable Love (or, Aziracrow Learn the Rules of Romance)

(In response to this ask about ineffables and asexuality)

One of the major threads this season was Aziraphale and Crowley asking themselves what exactly is their relationship. Not what it is in terms of how much they love each other. (That's a given.) But what it is in terms of the human implications of their love.

Crowley and Aziraphale definitely come at the relationship with different perspectives, in terms of what they’re willing to admit to the relationship being. I don’t think we can entirely interpret it in human terms. –David Tennant (source)

For 6000 years, they’ve never put a name on their relationship. They didn’t, because they’re inhuman, genderless, sexless beings and they didn’t grow up (as it were) with labels. And even when they did learn them, they couldn’t say it was love, because admitting that was a death sentence.

All of Aziraphale’s heart eyes and pining could live comfortably in his mind if he never admitted what that said about him as an angel (trauma compartmentalization). Crowley tries desperately to be cruel and nasty to add white noise around the blatant reality of his constant loyalty to Aziraphale. If you don’t put a word to it, it’s not real and they can’t punish you.

After the Not-pocalypse, for all rights and purposes, Aziraphale and Crowley chose humanity as their identity. We see Aziraphale “playing house” in various human roles (as a landlord, a private eye, a magician).

We even see Crowley intentionally taking on human behavior to handle emotional issues: “Just breathe, that’s what humans do.” They’re slowly and intentionally enculturating themselves into the world they want to belong––earth.

Yet it’s setting up Maggie and Nina that makes Aziraphale and Crowley start thinking about their relationship as a human construct.

Because fundamentally, Aziraphale and Crowley are not human. Like Neil Gaiman tells us constantly, they can’t be defined in human terms when it comes to gender and sexuality. They can shift and move through each and any of those markers at will, purely for the pleasure of the thing: “angels are sexless unless they really want to make an effort.”

IMO that makes them originally asexual, in the sense they were created without the need for sex. And it makes them fundamentally transgender and genderfluid, because while on earth, their sexless, eldritch spiritual bodies take on human, gendered forms and clothing. What gender (and sexuality) they identify with while on earth varies through the eras. Crowley definitely has a fluid gender identity, while Aziraphale appears to have settled on gay man (aka THE southern pansy) for his internal typology (although all of these identities are subject to change).

In the midst of all this fluidity, it’s no wonder Aziraphale and Crowley haven’t thought of their relationship in human terms before. There’s just so much different in them and their bodies than what they see in humanity. And there are no books and songs that show the kind of love they have, in the malleable, sexless bodies they have, with the background they have; it’s all ineffable.

Aziraphale and Crowley didn’t start out thinking they were in a romantic relationship. Whatever feelings they had were long repressed, redefined, and shuttled away. But they did love each other, without question. And it was that love which scared them, because it was bigger than anything they saw among humans, a love that was beautiful and blasphemous and unfathomable.

Kinda like what David Duchovny said about Mulder and Scully in The X-Files, “I don’t know if they’re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.”

Now take this profound, ineffable love and drop it into the little boxes and labels human culture has created for itself.

Full disclosure: I’m an asexual demiromantic person in a queerplatonic relationship, so I’ve done a fair bit of research on what romance is and how the rituals of romance are, in many ways, social inventions that vary from culture to culture. There’s love and then there’s romance, and they don’t always overlap. So my interpretation of Aziraphale and Crowley comes through this lens and the fact that Neil Gaiman has affirmed the validity of an ace-spec reading on our ineffables.

Which brings me back to my thesis: That only now are Aziraphale and Crowley thinking of themselves as a romantic couple, precisely because they are interfacing with humans and taking on their social rules.

I like this one asexual person’s description of their experience, which feels very much like our ineffables (from a very good article, I def recommend):

If there is a border between friendship and romance, then in my internal landscape, it goes right through a misty forest where no one has ever bothered to place signs.... Neither of us had intended to start anything even vaguely romantic, but the activities we did and the intense kind of immediate connection we had was coded as romantic in our culture.

That’s what Crowley realizes when Nina confronts him about his relationship to Aziraphale.

“It looks like that from here.” What Crowley and Aziraphale share is beyond definition, but Nina cannot imagine the anything beyond the human labels she was taught. The tragedy of an everlasting love is that it can only be conveyed properly to other humans if it is cast in such small human words––partner, boyfriend, husband.

Because when Crowley denied those human roles for Aziraphale, Nina slid down the path of thinking Aziraphale was just his “bit on the side,” because there were no labels left she could imagine for them. If you don’t put a word to it, it’s not real.

That’s the purpose of labels, to culturally validate a person's identity. Labels, of course, DO NOT create reality; people's experiences are always real, in all their varied ineffability. But labels allow a space for culture (ie other humans and political and legal society) to recognize formally your lived reality.

So Crowley started really thinking about him and Aziraphale, about the ineffable love between them and realized that in human terms, those would be the things he’d call Aziraphale, because those were the words that gave Aziraphale that place of importance in his life.

But with that realization comes all the human trappings and behavioral patterns around those words (the candlelit dinners, dramatic rescues, drinks at the Ritz, etc.) which Crowley had never thought of before, and yet… maybe romance is what he and Aziraphale have been doing all along.

That’s why this season centered so much around Aziraphale and Crowley using cultural artifacts (film and literature) to understand romance, because romance is so deeply socially-defined.

Aziraphale himself has been leaning hard into the romantic social cues (he’s more well-read in the cultural trappings of romance than Crowley is), especially post-Blitz. But when he watches Maggie and Nina dancing, he works up the courage to do something with Crowley that’s even more explicitly loaded as “traditionally romantic” than anything he’s done up to that point.

Because while risking their lives for each other and defying everything for each other is love in its purest form, dancing (specifically in Jane Austen’s world) is a public performance coded for potential marriage partners. It's an intimate ritual of the entire body. (And in British slang, dancing has been used as a euphemism for sex.)

Crowley's "We don't dance" is really telling, because it shows Crowley’s awareness of the unknowable devotion between them vs the human roles Aziraphale is asking him to fill, specifically its physical aspects. Aziraphale is asking to make their relationship more public, more physically explicit, more coded as romantic in a setting specifically intended to couple individuals.

While Maggie and Nina inspired Aziraphale to progress their relationship into a publicly physical direction, Maggie and Nina inspired Crowley to think of the emotional implications of their human roles: the commitment, security, and monogamy of a husband, a partner, an us.

That’s what he decides after Maggie and Nina confront him in the end. “You never say what you’re really thinking.” He wants to codify his relationship so they each become responsible to one another. Aziraphale has always been his soulmate, the one he could always rely on. But he wants to place a word and a role to their love that will bring with it Aziraphale’s commitment and dedication to him.

And that's another reason why Crowley kisses Aziraphale, because he knows Aziraphale was willing to make their relationship physical, and he wants that, too. To consummate this bond in the way humans do.

But Crowley doesn’t really know how to kiss; he’s not as worldly as he makes out to be. (It’s Aziraphale who owns the gun, and Crowley who’s never fired one.) He uses the kiss as a tool to get across to Aziraphale what he wants for them, in the physical language Aziraphale has been using, because "one fabulous kiss and we're good," right?

But it doesn’t work, because real life and real emotions don’t work like that; life and love don’t follow a script, despite the novels and plays and songs.

Aziraphale and Crowley spent this entire season trying to figure out what their relationship is and what they wanted out of it, trying to make sense of the unfathomable thing they share and the human implications of it, and not quite landing on the same page.

Part 2 of this Analysis, covering a correction in Crowley’s statement (“You don’t dance”) and the further implications of dancing/sex.

[k-is-for-potassium]

MOOT NAME AND PRONOUN MASTERPOST >:D (idea stolen from asher lol)

@miku-blue-n-pronouns – genderfluid, idk name or pronouns

@izzyfizzykitty – izzy, she/her

@waverthebluephoenix – grrr idk

@your-gay-emo-cousin – lyla, she/her

@laurenshamiltonjr – >:) may, she/they

@your-everyday-theatre-kid – (real) lyric, she/they

@discocannon8002 – disco(?), she/her according to pfp

@lil-gae-disaster – (real) noah, they/them

@im-a-skeleton-in-your-closet – rip asher (they deactivated)

@bleep-bloop-boo – (>:333) honey, she/her

@musical-dash-trash – they have the best asks >:) bug, she/he/they/ask (preference shifts)

@that-dam-heartstopper-fan – (SAME ALSO PJO REF) darcy/darce, ash, angel, she/they demigirl

@kwilooo – kira, any pronouns

@mediumdoodles – medium/variations, any pronouns

@galaxys-universe – galaxy, they/she (prefers they)

@cloud-makers-make-pollution – LES MIS BESTIE!! idk name, she/her

@mybedroomceilingsbored – (love ur banner) mouse, she/her

@emdabitchass – ooc is em, emmie, emma, emersyn, any pronouns, prefers he/they

@unstableunicornsofasgard – forrest, he/they (i don't talk to them much but he seems awesome >:))

@small-giggle – (holy shit it has 500 followers how am i moots with someone so famous) angel or jelly (they don't like caps for its name) it/they/she

@margaret-the-duck – (had a typo and almost did fuck instead of duck lol) maggie, she/her

@demigod-jack-hearth – uhh it's an rp blog so im not quite sure?

@bifluidmax08 – robin/max but can call them robbie, b, or maxi

@nothing-but-glitter-and-lashes – CHAPPELL BESTIE!!!!! no name, she/her

@noahher – noah, he/him

@squiggles-of-rats – @ang3lic-t3ars sideblog lol

@phoenixwench – no idea lol

@adumbteenboy BOYS WILL BE BUGS URL?! also idk

@codexnuminous – codex, they/them

@steph-schuyler – stephanie/steph, she/her

@eyes-shining-with-love – piper, they/star/song/spark/lyric/idol (woahh lots of pronouns!!)

@nowjumpinthewater – rania, she/her

@marsfingershurt – mar, they/them

@ang3lic-t3ars – riley/ry, she/xey

@definitionoffuckup – (MY POOKIE) star/al/grape (garpe), he/they COINED THE BABNA 😨 TAG

@next-level-simp – (real) leyla, she/her

@frogsthatbite – (IM PRETTY SURE SHE INTRODUCED ME TO NOAHFINNCE??? :000) she/her

@stickbug-made-entirely-of-spite – SUPER COOL ARTIST AND BUG-LOVER :D stickbug, any non-gendered pronouns (they, it, etc)

@the-seas-most-lovable-bitch – azriel, they/she/he

@the-gods-strange-children – sol, she/they

@mun-urufu – transfem, that's it :(

@i-eat-so-much-grass – (real) flynn, they/them

@theronanlynchshow – ronan/rose, she/her but drc

@crowofthestars – m, they/any except she and it

@coswinx – (cat pfp :0) ozzie, xe/she/it (COOL PRONOUNS :D)

@sketch-begginerr – ce? she/they/he/any

@tealeafstew – laurel; any or she/they/he

@whythankyouforthetrauma – (I LOVE THE HEADER) she/her

@weird-dork37 – iris, any prns

@raeprise – rae; he/they

@moonage-nightterrors – el; they/them

@thedancingclowns – (FELLOW METAL FAMILY FAN 💪💪) heath/dee; he/they

@lavaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa – lava; they/them

@daggerhobbit – felix, aster, wren; xe/it/they NOT she/her (awesome pronouns)

@asters-tempo – aster, bread; ei love neopronouns and rn likes ei/it/they

@bees-official – (glad u finally fixed the typo lol) bee, he/him

@powehi-the-blackhole – idk zyr name (is that how u spell that pronoun? not quite sure /gen) ze/zym (COOL PRONOUNSSS)

@stars-on-my-bedroom-ceiling – ana; any, they/she preferred

@nao-walks-into-poles – nao; any pronouns

@beenoop – cam; agender, accepts he/him

@blackbirdsinatrenchcoat – (ahhh i love ur url) blue or ben; any pronouns

@remithegayshoebill – remi probably, idk tho

@not-sammie – sammie (OR ARE THEY?!); they/she

@cactus-with-boobs – hannah; she/her (GIRLLLL I WOULD GLADLY PLAY SMASH WITH YOU)

@justmemyselfandthefridge – fridge, she/her

@garden-of-runar – runar; pronouns change based on feelings, currently says he/him in the intro post

@saintperseus – james; he/him

@cemeterygrace – noa; any

@mush-fool – mxri, mint; intro post currently says they/xe

@discoveredreality – ari; she/her

@sotiredimbored – kuko or ollie; any pronouns

@shark-tranny – noelle; she/they

@goobsie0 – goobs; any pronouns

@fairyycoffin – aster; she/they

@eef-stars – BLUD WHERE IS UR INTRO POST

@divinequo – he/him

@imadragonhehe – RAHHH IDK

@touslin – r; they/he

@cloverthesimp365 – clover; she/her

AND THATS ALL!! lmk if you wanna be taken off/correct your part of the list :3 (this will be updated quite frequently, if i can help it)

[lgbtqreads]

hey there! i hope that the new year has been treating you well so far :D

kind of a niche request, but i’m someone who’s identified as a lesbian for years, but for the past year or two has been wondering if i might be transmasc and heterosexual instead. i was wondering if you might know of any books with a mc who’s going through a similar thing - maybe a trans guy who’s transitioning after being out as a lesbian, maybe a lesbian who’s wondering if she’s not a femme but rather a butch lesbian or trans, or maybe a butch lesbian trying to figure out her gender identity. i don’t really mind how the character ‘ends up’ — as in, it’s fine if they’re transmasc or a lesbian at the end of the story, i just… am looking for something where the main character is maybe wondering about this, if that makes sense? really just anything w/ a character who’s perceived as female, likes women, and starts to question their gender and/or gender expression.

…..actually, yknow what, i’ve also been wondering lately if i’m genderfluid or not, so tbh if you know of any books w/ a lesbian character who ends up being genderfluid too, that’d also be welcome tbh! or even a book where there’s a transmasc mc who considers that he might be genderfluid. honestly any combination of these three things goes, really :)

the vibe i’d love is ideally something like ‘may the best man win’, which is about a gay trans guy and a big part of the story is him transitioning and dealing with a kind of messy breakup with his boyfriend whom he’d dated before transitioning. said boyfriend is also a main character, and has to figure out what he’d like his relationship with the mc to look like, esp since he didn’t know mc was trans before they came out. smth maybe like that, vibes wise, if that makes sense…?

Hello, yes, I’m gonna throw two books at you immediately - one that’s pretty much exactly what you’re asking for, including vibes, and one that I think is one of the most underrated queer YAs of all time and really sums up everything you’re looking for but isn’t quite exactly the vibe but please please read it anyway. 

The first one is Between Perfect & Real by Ray Stoeve

The second one is Man O’War by Cory McCarthy

You need both. 

Then I will add a third, which is The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, to follow up on the genderfluid conversation, but start with the first two. 

(Also, I haven’t read May the Best Man Win but for other m/m that’s sort of “second chance after the MC has transitioned” check out Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander and the upcoming And They Were Roommates by Page Powars.)

Happy reading, and I hope these help provide some clarity! 

[moonsporemoth]

Literally no one is talking about it, but Caustic used to have an undercut before he started the games (and hiding) and I'm so not normal about it. LOOK AT HIM!!! God he's so good looking it isn't even funny. 😭

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

I've been holding this news to my chest for quite a while…I've been interviewed about my book and the spin-off series based on The Man From C.A.M.P. I've been developing, Agents of C.A.M.P.

The first book will have ace and aro non-binary protagonists!

I'll admit, not everything from the interview could make it in, and understandably so. The article goes into more of the history than I originally thought, it goes into the foundation and Maggie Weadick, which I always knew (at first just Maggie was going to be interviewed).

The Agents of C.A.M.P. series in this article was essentially a damn good third act and an announcement. There was no way all of my autistic-motivated info-dumping and gushing was going to fit, I knew that.

Like, the fact that it took years of re-reading some of the books on-and-off as a fan before it became a hyperfixation out of necessity for the spin-off. Or how all that research thanks to those libraries was to piece together the unofficial final out-of-print novel of the original series. Or how 'The Golden Doppelbangers' title is also inspired by the Dr Goldfoot films (for good reason *wink*)

However, here, and here only, I was add a few things that I'm eager to share now that this project is more public. Supplementary material. Extra goodies for the people interested, let's say.

Firstly, the other protagonist. I'm happy Quant is introduced to a lot of people in this article, especially considering how fulfilling it has been to write the flamboyant, confident asexual character I always wanted to see (I've noticed allos can't really imagine ace characters being anything except demure, reserved, and deadpanned, and I'm tired of that). But Quant is one protagonist out of two, and not even the novel's main POV protagonist.

The other protagonist is Sypretes Arsénios. An aromantic, genderfluid lesbian, archer, and art thief. Their whole deal is they've been on a years-long quest to recover queer art looted by Nazis. But now that quest is finished. They can't return to their old life and they can't bring themself to giving up their current one, at best now stealing queer art to make a statement. And that's where Quant comes in, recruiting Sypretes as their new partner in C.A.M.P.

They're your eyes, being introduced to C.A.M.P. in the modern day, and asking the questions that need to be asked.

The first thought I had about this novel was that the protagonists had to be an ace and an aro. As an ace myself, I know how tiresome it is to be the afterthought in the queer community. This will not be the case here, aces and aros are in the first book and more will come.

And I wanted ensure aroallos, queer folks we hardly ever see in stories, gets represented with Sypretes. Due to this amatonormative world seeing aroallos as cold 'at best' and predatory at worst, plenty of creators seem uncomfortable to even try to represent them. As though sex isn't 'exploitative' if there's a potential for romance. That rhetoric is much more conservative than people think, so I say screw that. In this novel, platonic relationships are worth more than gold, whether sex is involved or not.

I probably already hinted at this on tumblr, but this novel is about sexbots. One reason I did this is because aces and aros are often compared to robots, and I wanted to show how untrue that is. Especially with Sypretes and how much of a caring lover they are.

Secondly, I want to talk about C.A.M.P. itself. I definitely get why even other queer folks might give the side-eye to novels starring queer secret agents. The reason why a lot of us don't trust the series Q-Force (and I agree). A lot of us know real government agencies in charge of espionage have screwed over marginalised groups, including the LGBTIQA+ community. COINTELPRO. Operation Condor. The Lavender Scare. And many, many more atrocities. It doesn't make any of it better if the government agent is queer.

Here's the thing. I wouldn't have been interested in the original series at all if the series' protagonist Jackie Holmes was 'a CIA agent but gay'. C.A.M.P. isn't a government organisation. Since the original series in the 1960s, C.A.M.P. has been a secret underground independent organisation dedicated to advancing and protecting the LGBTIQA+ community, through many different branches.

Each branch focused on a different subject matter through a queer lens. One of which is the 'special services' branch, essentially the secret agents/detectives. I won't give everything they do away, but in short, when there's a hate group threatening the community, it's the agents' job to punch them and stop them.

Agents of C.A.M.P. will have more in common with Leverage than James Bond. Even the original Man From C.A.M.P. series was more inspired by James Bond's aesthetic than the franchise's authoritarian ethos.

Now, the original series wasn't perfect, for instance some of Jackie Holmes' missions/novels didn't involve the point of C.A.M.P. because of elements that haven't aged well. I've been intent on dealing with the original series' problems thanks to researching the lore (I know a lot of people hate that word now, but it's what I got). While also making sure both the series and the in-universe organisation are much more intersectional and much more focused on fighting fascists.

Thirdly, I'll admit, I'm a slow writer. It doesn't help that my book has ballooned bigger than I intended (as apparently any creative project I do does) and the plot is now too tight to break and cut. I'm nowhere near the end of the first draft yet, though I've been finding more ways to write more often as possible.

My point is if my novel's release date (there isn't one yet) gets delayed, maybe delayed more than once: please don't blame the Victor J Banis Family Foundation or speculate the worst case scenario. It would be me being slow and too thorough for my own good.

I don't want to end on that note though. Now that this project is way more public, I would be more than happy to answer any questions about Agents of C.A.M.P., my novel 'The Golden Doppelgangers', maybe even the original Man From C.A.M.P. series, or anything else relevant.