#genderqueer michelangelo

[tmntismdoodls]

*places this in your hands like it is a tiny pebble*

tc/st & pr0ship dni

[aspen-washere]

mikey is genderqueer heres my proof

"what in all the iterations?" yes

[unorganisedalienrubbish]

I love that genderless fashion is becoming more mainstream and more widely available, but i'd also love if i could find genderless clothes that fit me. not every genderqueer nonbinary bitch is 5'6 and weighs 10 stone soaking wet. Theres nothing wrong with being short or lightweight, but im sick of clothing companies only making 'genderless' clothing for small(/childish) bodies. I have the build of what can only be described as 'the way Michelangelo paints women'. I'm not going to fit into a flimsy crop no matter how 'masculine' the cut is. Also (im not done yet), there are fat genderqueer people, (and because i'm afab this affects me) fat people are usually hung in the tit department, so a single layer of spandex isn't going to do jack shit for my rack or the accompanying dysphoria.

i'm just fed up man, i spent a lot of money on some cool masc bra/crop things and i always check to see if there are any plus size models, but in the genderless section there never are. not all nonbinary/genderqueer people are twinks/twink-adjacent

[aldenverse-tmnt]

MICHELANGELO

Age: 13

Nicknames: Mikey, Mike, Bean, Sunflower /

Sunflower Seed

Role: heart

Likes: arts+ crafts, music, dancing, his family, his friends, being himself

Dislikes: things being/looking boring, bullies,

"mushy romance" artist's block

Aroace

Genderqueer, doesn't mind which pronouns but people usually use he/ him

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CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS!!!!

All this info is from the very beginning of the story! I’ll make more character profiles as the story goes on!

Hamato Raphael:

Age: 13 and three quarters (well… that’s what he thinks he is)

Pronouns: he/him

Height: 6’1

Species: mutant— absolute DNA cocktail, mostly alligator snapping turtle and human

Fun facts: raph is a trans boy, autistic (i mean, as close as a turtle can be to a human diagnosis), and has OSDD (again, as close as he can come to the human diagnosis), though he doesn’t know it yet. can breathe underwater! team medic <3

Hamato Michelangelo:

Age: 11 (as far as he’s aware)

Pronouns: he/him

Height: 5’1

Species: mutant— absolute DNA cocktail, mostly ornate box turtle and human

Fun facts: he’s intersex, but he only finds out at 15 years old lmfao. turtle mutant equivalent of ADHD and probably autism but who knows? pyromaniac. aroace icon!!!

Hamato Donatello:

Age: 12 (twins with leo)

Pronouns: he/him (…or are they?)

Height: 5’9

Species: mutant— absolute DNA cocktail, mostly indian peacock softshell turtle and human, with a very prominent splash of lionfish

Fun facts: autism (again with the human terminology) galore, loves botany, chemistry, mechanics, and coding. can breathe underwater! shy, deadly, and extremely weird. cannot read a map even at gunpoint.

Hamato Leonardo:

Age: 12 (twins with donnie)

Pronouns: he/him and they/them

Height: 5’6

Species: mutant— absolute DNA cocktail, mostly red eared slider and human

Fun facts: PTSD. so much of it. apprentice medic, the best at hiding out of every single character except one. HOH from birth. ADHD (again, human terms). trans boy!

Splinter/ Hamato Yoshi:

Age: 42

Pronouns: he/him

Height: 6’1

Species: mutant— human and grasshopper mouse

Fun facts: represses himself so hard he represses others. absolute piece of shit. he chose this and he deserves what he gets. i hate him so much.

April O’Neil

Age: 14

Pronouns: she/her

Height: 5’

Species: human

Fun facts: autistic, trans girl, she was born without a left hand but completely forgets to do the “can you give me a hand” jokes or the “need a hand?” jokes when she’s wearing her prosthetic. probably hasn’t seen her parents in 2 months because they suck. will be officially adopted as the turtles’ sister

Alistair Phalanx Draxum:

Age: ????

Pronouns: all, but generally prefers he/him

Height: 6’8

Species: dorset sheep yōkai

Fun facts: autistic (again, human terms), genderqueer transmasc, has done genetic experiments but was very ethical about it all, Traumatized, currently a paediatric doctor with a specialty in surgery!

???? (referred to as It):

Age: he’d be around 47 at this point

Pronouns: he/him

Height: 6’1

Species: human

Fun facts: none of his facts are fun.

????:

Age: 12

Pronouns: he/him

Height: 4’11

Species: river/sea kushtaka hybrid

Fun facts: i love him. he’s going to die.

????:

Age: VERY OLD

Pronouns: she/her, it/its

Height: 5’

Species: lynx yōkai

Fun facts: extremely fluffy, wonderful person. saved alistair from himself. basically his mom now. paediatric doctor and therapist (thank god)

[royal-frogg]

I finally got Mikey done for my TMNT iteration! (also ignore my bad handwriting and weird art style lol)

Because I didn't have room I'll put it here

Full name: Michelangelo dotto hamato

Nicknames: Mikey,Mickey,Mike,Mimi,Hanten

Pronouns:Any

Gender: Genderqueer

Sexuality: Pansexual

Age: 14

Turtle type: Clemmys guttata spotted turtle (references one and two)

Extra: Raph is their twin & they have low blood sugar

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genderqueer + bisexual michelangelo iconz !! for 🎪🤡 anon ^_< -☆

like or reblog if u uze or zave ♡

[borutouzumaki93]

[leosagi-real]

Day 20: Genderqueer!

[haute-pockette]

Gender Identity Headcanons

Leonardo is often headcanoned as a transman, and I'm on board with that but with a little nuance. He was born with a female body, but identifies as male. But hatchlings are notoriously hard to identify the sex of, so Splinter didn't even realize he had one with a different sex. He raised them all as sons. Leo grew up always thinking he was a boy, and didn't even realize his body was different from his brothers until puberty. It made for awkward conversations, but in the end he just shrugged and said "well either way I'm your brother."

Leo uses only he/him pronouns, and identifies himself as a genderqueer man. If you ask him what that means or what is his sex he will just answer "yes." "No, like what's in your pants?" He will laugh at you, he clearly does not wear pants you fool. Then if you get more specific about his genitalia, he will accuse you of being a pervert for asking about a minor's genitalia. He is the king of trolling people who ask these types of questions.

Donatello is still figuring themself out. It's like not being good at emotions, they don't always know how to describe what they identify as, so right now they're using the term genderfluid or genderqueer. Mostly uses they/them pronouns but will be fine with she/her or he/him. Mikey has given them pins to wear to let others know what they are identifying as in the moment. They don't wear them often unless they are sure, but appreciate the gesture from their baby brother.

Raphael identifies as demiboy using he/him or ey/em. He usually leans towards male, but sometimes doesn't feel like that's quite right. He has a yellow bracelet that Mikey weaved that he'll wear when he wants to go by ey/em. He is super supportive of his siblings and others, and will go out of his way to validate their identity and feelings.

Michelangelo is genderfluid as well, using she/her, he/him, they/them, or fae/faer. Unlike Donnie, who is unsure and still exploring gender identity, Mikey's comfortable with his identity. He also has his own set of pins and bracelets for which gender/pronouns he's feeling that moment.

While he is the sweet sunshine child of the family, he is also the most aggressive in correcting people using the wrong pronouns. He will fight people who misgender on purpose (unless its for the sake of stealthing, he gets that). Mikey doesn't stand for any hate.

[teatitty]

Some EzioLeo HC’s because fuck it why not

Since Ezio canonically has a thing for women who modelled for various renaissance artists, I like to believe he also has a thing for artists in general. So his attraction to Leonardo isn’t a surprise for him but he does panic a little bit about it

They’re verses end of story

Leonardo was the one got their relationship going because Ezio was too afraid to take those steps himself for Various Reasons

Polyam rights with these two actually you cannot change my mind

Leo was the first dude Ezio ever bottomed for and it came entirely from a place of sincere, genuine trust between them

When they arrived in Venice, there was a startling moment where Leonardo protected very injured Ezio by fighting off the Guards himself. Ezio doesn’t remember much of it beside the look of fury on Leo’s face and feeling completely safe despite his physical state

As an aside to the above, this is one of very few times where any of the other assassins and thieves have felt frightened of Leonardo

Ezio discovered some things about himself the first time he ever saw Leonardo casually bend an iron horseshoe like it was nothing

Ezio is not a fan of modelling for artists but he’ll do it for Leo. As such, Leo is... possessive in an artistic sense. If another artist so much as contemplates sketching his friend he will throw hands about it lmao

Neither one of them have a sensible braincell they’re both terrible enablers but like to think they are the respective braincell holder

There was a moment in time where Ezio tried to cut contact with Leonardo to protect him from his lifestyle but all this did was lead to Leo storming the Brotherhood’s headquarters and getting into an almighty row with Ezio that sent everyone scattering to the rooftops to avoid getting pulled into it

Obviously we all know Leonardo cares for Ezio’s injuries, but Ezio himself always makes sure his friend has food on the table and supplies for his projects

Leonardo is the only person to have ever gotten Ezio flustered by flirting with him, which is the exact moment Leo realised that Ezio was, perhaps, a little in love with him

They were both aware of eachother’s feelings for years before they got together. Leonardo thought that Ezio was just taking his time to get used to being attracted to men so when he found out that Ezio had slept with men before he got a little. Tense about it haha (not in a jealous way just in a “oh so you’ll sleep with Michelangelo but god forbid you so much as kiss me, the guy you’re actually in love with -”)

Ezio taught Leonardo basic self defence, both unarmed and armed, but the rest was just whatever Leonardo picked up himself through their years of friendship. Namely the fact that he can scale buildings and always find wherever Ezio is

They’re both really petty and can throw vicious barbs when needed so good luck if you ever get both of them to chew you out together (rip to Antonio specifically)

Leonardo can never forgive Caterina for using Ezio the way that she did no matter what Ezio might say about it

It was years before Ezio ever allowed himself to really grieve and breakdown about his family and it was Leonardo who stayed with him as it happened, shielding him, if temporarily, from the outside world at large

Leonardo: puts his hair up. Ezio: not to be bisexual but ho my god... my fucking mary, jesus and joseph what the f U C K

The Salvator Mundi painting that Ezio kept in his private rooms was one he commissioned himself, though admittedly he hadn’t been 100% serious. Leonardo made sure it was perfect for him regardless

Always plafully make fun of eachother but if someone else does it that person better start running lmao

Genderqueer Ezio is my life blood so when Leo caught him staring wistfully at a corset he marched right into the store and brought it without thinking first. This is a constant source of embarrassment for him but Ezio still has that very same corset even though it’s definitely falling to pieces now

Ezio: I have a confession to make. I’m dating Leonardo - Claudia: oh thank god. Maria: finally I can have peace. Ezio: what

[criminalmutantsins]

What Are Your LGBTQ+ Headcanons for Any of the Characters?

I’ve got this idea because I’m in a meeting about learning the community and terms. I wanted to do this during Pride month, but forgot.

Any versions you can think of.

Here are mine:

2003 Version:

Leo: Gay

Donnie: Pansexual

Raph: Straight or Bisexual

Mikey: Straight, but is down to do drag for fun. 😁

Usagi: Bisexual

Leatherhead: Gay

2012 Version:

Leo: Demisexual

Donnie: Straight

Raph: Straight

Mikey: Pansexual

Karai: Bisexual

Shini: Bisexual

Tiger Claw: Gay

Bebop: Gay

Rocksteady: Pansexual

Usagi: Bisexual

Rise Version:

Leo: Gay

Donnie: Asexual & Genderqueer

Raph: Straight

Michelangelo: Pansexual

April: Lesbian

Casey: Lesbian

Splinter: Bisexual

Draxum: Gay

What do you guys think? 😊❤️TMNT 2003tmnt 2012rottmnt

[remmushound]

Genderfluid Pride!

“Hey Donnie?” Michelangelo wandered into his brother's lab.

“Michael..” Donatello acknowledged, not looking up from the work he was doing, “I didn't hear you knock, nor did I say come in.”

“Oh!” Michelangelo looked back at the door and the sign hanging on it that was meant to remind Donatello's brothers to knock. “The door was open so I forgot.”

Donatello took a deep, frustrated breath and pinched the bridge of his nose. “That’s fine. Just try to remember next time.”

“It’s really hot in here.” Michelangelo fanned himself with his tye-dye shirt.

“That’s why the doors open.” Donatello said simply, “Machines make things hot, Michelangelo.” The softshell found a good stopping point to put his stuff down and then spun around in his chair to face Michelangelo, pulling his feet onto the chair to cross them and lean on his elbow. “What can I help you with?”

“I have a science question.”

“You came to the right place! Ask away, my dear fellow! My brain is a smorgasbord of knowledge and memes!”

“Well…” Michelangelo wrung his hands together, swaying anxiously on his feet, “Now— this is just a theoretical question and… totally not… anything personal whatsoever... but… uh… you know how when you’re born, you’re either a boy or a girl?”

“That’s the simplified version, yes.” Donatello said slowly; his eyes watched Michelangelo closely.

“What’s the... not simplified version?”

Donatello cleared his throat. “In most educational spaces we’re taught about the simple XX for female and XY for male, but that’s rudimentary at best! Sure, it’s the ‘standard’ for most, but then there’s also the substantial amount of the population that have different variations, some without even knowing! For example, XXX or XXY or XXYY; sex is much more complicated than aynone cares to admit, so the concept of two genders based on chromosones is completely unfounded. Gender and sex are better off separate from each other.”

Michelangelo listened earnestly, nodding his head along. “So… chromosomes don’t equal gender?”

“Not at all, dear Michael!” Donatello declared proudly, “Is that you have to ask?”

“No. That was just my first question.” He smiled shyly, “My next one is… uh… kinda more… personal?”

Donatello gave a slow nod, giving Michelangelo his full attention. “That’s what I’m here for, Michelangelo.”

“I… know the cultural norm is being a him or… or a her…”

“The American cultural norm, yes.” Donatello nodded.

“Well… is… it is possible to be all of that…?”

Donatello blinked slowly. “Could you… give me more detail?”

“Like…” There was a bitter taste in Michelangelo’s mouth, but he kept speaking, “One day you feel like a boy who should be called a he, but… then you feel like a she… or sometimes neither? Or… or none at all…?”

Donatello stood up and hurried over to close the door. Then he returned back to his seat, sitting properly this time so he could address Michelangelo with complete sincerity.

“The term for that is genderqueer or, more typically, genderfluid.”

“Is it new…?”

“Er… well, no, not exactly. The term itself is modern, but there are accounts of transgenderism and nombinarism and even gender fluidity in many ancient civilizations! Juchitán had muxes, Indigenous Americans had two-spirits, and Samoans have fa’afafine just to name a few. The history of these genders is a deep and rich culture that’s been existing for as long as humans have.”

“Could a… a mutant be one of those things?” Michelangelo’s voice was soft, eyes wide as he looked to his older brother for guidance.

“Michelangelo.” Donatello put a hand on his brother’s shoulder. “You can be whatever you want, and you can celebrate. If you want to, that is.”

Michelangelo considered, then shook his head quickly. “Nuh uh… I don’t want anyone else to know.”

Donatello simply nodded. “Then it shall stay our little secret, dear brother.”

[campgender]

my hair is finally long enough to braid!! (they/them & ze/zem)

[ID: 4 photos of Mac, a white genderqueer person with long auburn hair and large clear glasses, and their outfit. they’re wearing a white t-shirt with an image of Michelangelo’s David with red top surgery scars, a red flannel, and multicolored they/them earrings. they have a silver daith piercing and red stubble, and their hair is in a braid. they look to the side with a hand on their chin and cartoon hearts and freckles on their cheeks. end ID.]

[glittergummicandypeach]

Our Father, Who Art Our Mother: The (Open) Secret Queer History of God | Religion Dispatches

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as “your father” (avicha).  

God the Father is front and center in Jewish and Christian liturgy. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Jews direct their prayers to “Our Father, Our King” (Avinu malkenu). The Christian prayer “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven” (Pater noster qui es in caelis)—otherwise known as the Lord’s Prayer—was declared by Tertullian “the summary of the whole gospel.” 

And yet the Hebrew Bible tells us this same God “convulsed in labor for you,” “gave birth to you,” and “suckled you” (Deuteronomy 32:13 and 18). Such contrasting images—of Divine Father and Divine Mother, just a few lines apart—suggest a dual-gendered deity. Why has no one written on this before? 

In my book The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God (Wipf & Stock, 2020) I set out the case that the earliest worshippers of YHWH understood God to be a “male-female” deity. Reading the Hebrew Bible in a non-gendered language such as English, much (though not all) of this gets lost in translation. 

In Hebrew, Moses addresses God in the second person masculine singular (attah) and the second person feminine singular (at). The original human being, the adam—created, according to the text, in God’s own image—is referred to as “them” (otam), which the rabbis took to mean an androgynous being only later separated by God into the male and female characters Adam and Eve. 

Mothers and fathers in the Hebrew Bible retain more than a vestige of their dual-gendered origins. Eve—“the mother of all living”—is referred to as “he.” Mordecai—who takes Esther as his own daughter—is described as the young woman’s “nursing father.” Isaiah—extending the trope—prophetically declares that Israel’s future kings will be “nursing kings.” (Then, to be sure we don’t miss the point, Isaiah adds “kings’ breasts you shall suck.”) 

All of the above—and many other examples which I cite in my book—are, I argue, hints to the closely-held priestly secret of the pronunciation and meaning of God’s “lost” name. YHWH—the so-called ineffable name of God, which some have guessed was pronounced Yahweh or Jehovah—is a cryptogram composed of the Hebrew pronouns “he” and “she.” 

Swimming in the cultural currents of our time—feminism, gender revolution, and intersectionality—the idea of a dual-gendered God doesn’t strike many of us, as it would have struck most in previous generations, as blasphemous, or even strange. On the contrary, positive implications may spring to mind.

The idea of a dual-gendered God may be seen as a helpful corrective to the problem of conceptualizing God as male (as the feminist theologian Mary Daly wrote, “If God is male, then male is God”). So too, we may welcome a way of speaking about God which affirms people who identify as non-binary, gender-fluid, transgender, or otherwise genderqueer. 

Moreover, reconceptualizing God in this “new-old” way (to borrow a term from the Zohar) may help disabuse us of the idea that our world is fundamentally dichotomous and hierarchal. Indeed, the metaphor may help us to appreciate the world’s differences as sitting in creative tension within a larger, all-embracing reality (a concept to which the philosophers gave the name coincidentia oppositorum, and which today is more often referred to by the term “integral”). 

Of course, some may deem the dual-gendered God idea almost too convenient for the moment, too “politically correct.” If what I’m saying is true, why, they also may ask, has no one written on this before? 

In fact, they have. 

1540 was the year it was declared, according to one Kabbalistic tradition, not only permissible, but a mitzvah—a commandment—to teach Judaism’s mystical secrets openly to old and young alike in public. Just a few years later, a non-Jewish French scholar by the name of Guillaume Postel acquired some portion of the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, from the printing house of Daniel Bomberg in Venice and began translating the work into Latin. Postel was arrested by the Vatican (not for translating the Zohar, but on a charge of heresy) and imprisoned for a time. In 1566 he published “The Treasure” (Le Thrésor des Prophéties de l’Univers) in which he wrote that the four-Hebrew-letter name of God YHWH was composed of the Hebrew pronouns “he” and “she.” 

Fast forward to the nineteenth century. An Italian scholar by the name of Michelangelo Lanci wrote a book in which he, like Postel before him, claimed that the four-letter Hebrew name of God, YHWH, was composed of the Hebrew pronouns “he” and “she,” signifying a dual-gendered deity. Lanci’s book was banned by the Vatican which—unsurprisingly—considered it deeply heretical. But unlike Postel, in deference to his position, Lanci was not arrested. Father Lanci was the Vatican Librarian.

Postel’s work came to light again in 1972 through the work of the (ironically named) French scholar François Secret. More recently, Postel’s work has been cited by Robert J. Wilkinson (2015), and is the subject of two books by Judith Weiss (2016 and 2017). Father Lanci’s writings are, at the moment, less well-known, although they were covered in books—even a popular magazine article—published in America in the nineteenth century, as I recount in my book. 

The secret of God’s name and dual gender has been an open secret for almost five hundred years. Only recently have feminism, the gender revolution, and intersectionality made the notion of a dual-gendered God seem both culturally possible and historically plausible. 

As Harry S. Truman said “there is not really anything new, if you know what has gone before.”

This content was originally published here.

[eugenefischer]

My WisCon 41 Schedule

I’ll be in Madison, Wisconsin from May 26-29th for WisCon. Here’s what I’ll be doing.

• Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 am, Caucus: Critique Session. I’m running one of the workshop sessions this year, and very excited to do so. This is one you’d’ve had to apply for in advance. If it sounds like something cool and you missed your chance, look for it next year. There are general fiction workshops every year, plus special topic sessions on things like genderqueer writing and romance in SF.

• Friday, 7:30-8:30 pm, Capitol/Wisconson: Opening Ceremonies. Pat Schmatz and myself, last year’s Tiptree winners, will be there to crown this year’s winner, Anna Marie McLemore.

• Saturday, 10:00-11:15 am, room 605: Judging the Tiptree. Current Tiptree jurors discuss the process of judging and selecting Tiptree award winners. Other panelists are Jeanne Gomoll, Aimee Bahng, Kazue Harada, Alexis Lothian, Roxanne Samer, and Julia Starkey.

• Sunday, 10:00 am – 11:15 am, Michelangelos: Burning Up on Re-entry (reading).  I’ll be reading some of my fiction, along with Jed Hartman, Kat Tanaka Okopnik, Benjamin Rosenbaum, and David J. Schwartz. This’ll be in the back of the Michelangelos coffee shop around the corner from the con hotel, where I’ve attended many WisCon readings over the years but never before done one.

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