#his pronouns are he/it and he is trans

[cepheusgalaxy]

Petrichor ✨ref✨ sheet

[Plain Text: Petrichor ✨ref✨ sheet /end PT.]

ID: A full-body drawing of Petrichor, with his face very simplified. He is tall, has uncolored skin and pink freckles on his face, wears a black witch hat, black pants and no shoes. He also has a black tie and wears an open dark blue button-up shirt and purple fingerless gloves. On his right arm is a small tattoo with the masculine gender symble, and he has no shoes. The drawing is taken from the turnaround. Near him, are some notes on his design: five buttons, man symble tattoo, shape language: triangles and squares, color scheme (in small colored circles, pink, blue, purple, black and an uncolored slot), top surgery scars, a representaton of his body shape compared to a retangle, no shoes and inner pockets on his shirt. He has very long pink hair with a blue stripe. /end ID.

ID: Turnaround of Petrichor in traditional medium: He has a hand on hips and there are some small notes near the front view of him. /end ID.

Turnaround

ID: An expression sheet of Petrichor: A small one of it looking upset, a profile of him smilling proudly without his hat, one of him crying, an angry one without his hat, a cocky smile, a simplified chibi of him doing the "gay hand", a nervous smile, and another profile of him, smilling and making half of a heart with one of his hands. There are some pencil notes on the left of the paper on his color pallette and details of his design, including his body shape, his freckles and his top surgery scars. /end ID.

Expression sheet

Notes:

His skin is not white, just very light. I didn't have the pencils to do it that's all

He has a ♂️ tattoo on his right arm, not sure if you can see it (above the gloves)

His hair makes this shape:

ID: Drawing of a losangle composed by one big triangle on the top and a smaller one at the bottom. /end ID.

His shirt has 5 buttons

He has top surgery scars

He has pink freckles and purple eyes

No shoes :)

His hair lengh reaches his knees.

Little details about him:

His broom is pink now and it looks like smth you'd buy at Shopee

He's gnc also (he's not above masc clothes but if it's to... say, a formal event he'll be more prone to getting a dress. One of those party ones)

He is a little cocky and stoic

And dramatic

[lichen-soup-scribe]

So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"

The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.

I love trans people so much

Edit 4/8, in case you don't see the reblogged additions -- my wife is now going by Eve!

[corviiids]

there are many arguments for why light could be transmasc but chief among them to me is that it explains why soichiro and sachiko yagami have one child named "sayu" and one child named "light but it's written with the kanji for moon unusual isn't it"

[starwarsanthropology]

Canon genders the clones, both individually and collectively, pretty aggressively. They're men, brothers, boys, sirs. Omega is notable for being the "female" clone, to the point where she's not recognized as a clone in a meaningful way.

But the clones grew up without gendered social groups! Despite how clones are gendered by external factors, gender is functionally a nonentity in their lives until they meet civilians, and civilians do a load of other weird shit anyway.

So why do they still use gendered language?

My argument is that feminine language isn't used as a gendered form of address, but as a form of address that reflects a specific kind of power dynamic and relationship between parties.

Given the structure of the clone army, the only people a vast majority of young clones interact with who could insist on being called ma'am are exclusively kaminoans.

The kaminoans view clones not as autonomous subjects, but as property. They have and expect complete control over their lives and actions. Incidentally, the female kaminoans we see (such as Nala Se) tend to demonstrate an even more proprietary perspectives on the clones.

You can question a sir, like your superiors or trainers, at your discretion, but you can't question a ma'am. A sir is someone who has power over you, but is somewhat responsible for you. The have personal accountability to you in some way. Sirs are responsible for men under them. A ma'am is someone whose power over you is absolute, an authority without accountability, who is not beholden to you but that you must obey. You are tool or a number to a ma'am.

And when you bring clones out into the wider galaxy, I'm not sure anyone would figure it out that quickly.

Say you're a new jedi general. You meet your men, and they address you as "ma'am". Maybe you correct and move on, figuring that they've grown up surrounded by thousands of identical men and aren't great at guessing genders based on social and appearance cues. Scuttlebutt has your forms of address spread through the men by the end of the day, and you don't think about it again.

The clones, on the other hand, take this correction as he/him jedi stating that they want to work with them and suppourt them despite having so much power over them, which fits with both what they know of the jedi and, most often, their leadership style.

She/her jedi (see Shaak Ti especially!), clones maybe treat a little more as absolute authorities. This gendered divide in behavior gets met with, "hm, maybe they're just not used to women." For many jedi, they eventually switch to calling them sir as well, especially as they build rapport.

For Shaak Ti specifically, she is an absolute authority as the representative of the Jedi on Kamino, not just as a figurehead but as a decision maker and educator. Even as the clones grow to trust and love her, she's a relatively distant and all-powered figure. She has near total authority over them, and clones might ask for help or suppourt, but there's no social obligation for those requests to be met, she's just kind. It's compassion, not duty.

Senators, there's a good mix of different factors that make it confusing. "Senator" is always an acceptable form of address if you're not sure how'd they react, even if they should be ma'ams by default, but they're either trying to build rapport for some reason or genuinely want to work with you when they say to call them sir, regardless of the actual power dynamic at play. The she/her senators that respect the clones are in the same boat as Shaak Ti: Padme Amidala may care about clone rights, but I am still just one of hundreds to her and she has no personal accountability to me. Her position is such that she should not and cannot owe me anything. Same with Riyo Chuchi, Mon Mothma, etc. etc.

And a civilian that insists on being called ma'am or sir is going to be an asshole either way, and they technically have power over clones without personal accountability or responsibility for them. It works.

Finally, Palpatine.

He's a slimy rat fuck who pretends to be affable and kind, so of course he's going to laugh and say, "Oh, no, call me Sir!" when you call him ma'am. He is not personally accountable to you, and he does not care about you, but it helps his image and it helps him manipulate people to pretend, so of course he's making you use sir to build false intimacy despite the fact that he's the ma'am of ma'ams, both in power gaps and lack of accountability for his treatment of clones.

So having clones using sir vs ma'am not as a reflection of gender but as a reflection of power? Yeah, I think it works.

[blaithnne]

I like how I gave Frida two flags when she only needed one, meanwhile David has to squish both flags together. To be fair, it’s just like Frida to be incredibly organised and bring multiple back up flags, and for David to panic and not do that.

[klanced]

when adam met 11yo keith he immediately knew that keith was gay and was like i have GOT to support this kid!! (runs into traffic) meanwhile shiro spent years operating under the assumption that keith had like a gender thing going on

[rauchendesgnu]

Today's my first day on testosterone, and to celebrate that, I present these:

as you can see, this is Jon with a huge Blåhaj—I started working on the mechs drawings, but they're fully rendered pieces in a style that is quite different from mine, and I was aching for something quick that didn't have to be finished and polished

Also: yay, Melanie debut!

[yurious-george]

saw a post claiming mizu was a canonical trans man when mizu has 3 genders: man, woman, and unlovable monster, and unlovable monster always wins. like yeeeeessss mizu intentionally presents male for the freedom it affords him but was canonically 'happiest' as a woman. saying simply 'he's a trans man' is pretty reductive for a character who hates themselves so much they have no solid identity outside of 'monster,' and whose amorphous gender identity is a central aspect of the show

[calware]

i love how they're all so mean to each other

[bloomeng]

magical girls and the “go piss girl” meme aren’t gendered terms to me anymore that’s actually very gender construct of you to emphasize the “girl” instead of the essence of the phrase/ j

I laughed bc I saw a tiktok the other day where a trans masc was jokingly complaining when his friends try to change the pronouns in “go piss girl” he was like “actually that’s more gendered just tell me to ‘go piss girl’ like everyone else” like you lose the joke bc you’re quoting something you wouldn’t change it for a cis man that’s what makes it funny!!

But being serious for a minute, magical girl is a genre. Even if there are male characters in a magical girl series it doesn’t change that the genre is called magical girl. It’s not describing gender, it’s describing a set of tropes and aesthetics. I don’t have any issue with the term magical boy but sometimes people try to correct me when I’m talking about male characters in the genre and it takes everything in me to not “ummmm actually.”

[bizarreaizen]

can we stop putting individuals in the fem, masc, or androgynous category just because of their pronouns? no, not all people who use she/her are fem or fem-presenting, no, not all people who use he/him are masc or masc-presenting, and no, not all people who use they/them are androgynous or supposed to be androgynous. our identities and how we present ourselves are way more then our pronouns /srs

[thatonegaybrit]

; I love when people try to explain my identity to me. As if I don't know first hand ?? How ?? I identify ?? It's my identity not yours like back off ☹️

[kirkwallguy]

still can't stop thinking about the fact that they have demigenders in tevinter but if you're in ferelden you're still using medieval euphemisms for being gay. there are some extremely funny situations to put several characters in

[ffc1cb]

i’ve always found it peculiar how during meeting the chargers cutscene the game just assumes your character automatically understands what krem is talking about when he mentions binding (though, granted, it’s all very unsubtle). like, this is a roleplaying game. what if i want to play a character who just doesn’t get it

[silverskye13]

DEADNAME! as a hk song? both referring to wels and previous champions? not a perfect fit but it kinda matches his vibe

You are absolutely correct DEADNAME! Is a great song for him, however I cannot put that song on his playlist because it is also on my Nonbinary Jams playlist, and he WILL become nonbinary if I do that, and I cannot switch pronouns mid plot--

[kingmakerpod]

It is very, very hard to establish queerness through subtext because sometimes that can be very hard to pick up, especially when there's no visual info to go on. We got a comment on the YouTube upload of Chapter 12 that timestamped this conversation:

and they said something to the effect of "Is Mandel trans? If so, this scene goes hard."