#i do have gender envy for haruhi tho

[imafuckinghostbitch]

I'm sorry I always read your url as "I'm a fucking host bitch" which makes me think of Ouran Host Club

Honestly, I'm not upset about that lmao, way worse things to be associated with. It is, technically, supposed to be "I'm a fuckin ghost bitch", but for you anon, I will be a host💛

[flyingcookierambles]

wittwe muwues

jgriohagorhbiorghfvhgifvoghf ano really tho this is a gonna be a rambling weird gender shit post i just wanted to have a stupid name ghriohaguohguovhoge ok under the cut if you wanna read if not just move along bye lol

ok disclaimer on gender swap/genderbends, stuff like that

personally i am the person on the right of this post that doesn’t mind rule 63 of the internet its a good post that explains how some ppl may be ok with this trope and some are not

also more nuanced post explaining how genderswap/genderbends can be transphobic if not done well, etc.

anyways!

ive realized that in hindsight maybe i shouldve realized that i was not cis sooner bc i was always drawn to female/afab characters that crossdressed or hid their gender such as:

haruhi from ouran

mulan

haru from aoharu x kikanjuu that really edgy anime about some japanese ppl who have local bb gun tournaments in the woods, etc.

jackie faber, a girl who for various reasons disguises herself as a boy and sneaks onto a british navy ship

also altho it was minor and she wasn’t doing it in real life, moriko morioka from mmo junkie played her mmo with a male avatar

also not cross dressing or anything, but i was very interested by gender bends of characters and especially love the fiona and cake episodes of adventure time

alex dragalia lost (she doesn’t hide her gender or crossdress or anything, but she is very androgynous and i love her)

i guess that, much like how i never referred to myself with feminine terms or with she/her pronouns when thinking of myself, on some subconsciousness level,  related to/with or wanted to be like them in the way that they were able to physically pass as male or be at least gender ambiguous. in hindsight, i probably was experiencing some major gender envy or something.

anywyas uwuwuuwuwuwuwu i wish that shapeshifting or devil fruit powers like iva’s (instant magical hrt via control of hormones) were real so i (and all other trans/gnc ppl can just instantly get the types of bodies that we want and can just change them any time or day and stuff like uuu that’d be so cool

maybe thats also why sci-fi things like altered carbon and ghost in the shell also appeal to me. like. if you have enough money, just. make your own android body and put your brain in it. discard your former useless flesh prison.

anyways ill probs make some meme with more recent characters that are like. gender envy. to me lol. more recently its just. like. androgynous boys. lol. like. mascula, summer norwin, vice, and delphi from dragalia lost. albedo from genshin. just. short king representation. love to see it lol.

(ironically, despite being a short person irl and i guess wanting to look like a short androgynous monarch of some kind, my ffxiv avatar is just. tall. tall man. tall lizard au ra manly man. fjrhiaoghreogiheriogheiohfg lol i couldve picked an average or slightly smaller than average cat man avatar but no. i want to be tall. playing ffxiv and having basically all the other scions look up to me in cutscenes bc they’re all not male au ra and im literally the physically tallest person in the room (other than urianger ig lol) gives me some small joy in my heart daily lololol)

[themadcapmathematician]

do you know of any good examples of androgyny in media? like, cartoons, anime, maybe live action shows? not many examples are coming to mind, but it could just be that i haven’t looked hard enough :/

You mean androgynous presentation for nb people or including gnc cis ppl or ambiguous folk? Im honestly going to assume the latter bc it gives me more to work with lmfao

It depends also on what you mean by androgynous (many characters often mentioned on lists are crossdressing as a binary gender) or good, cause there's characters with solid Looks tm but whether or not they're actually treated with. Like. Dignity is tenuous lmfao

Some general examples off the top of my head (keep in mind some are treated well and some are not, and some are in the middle somewhere) are Frisk and Chara from Undertale and basically all the other they/them characters (tho most are monsters), fusions like Stevonnie from Steven Universe, Dillon from Billions, Crona from Soul Eater, Dr. Franknfurter from Rocky Horror, Fire Emblem from Tiger and Bunny, Envy from Fullmetal alchemist, Mello from Death Eater, Haku from Naruto, Haruhi Fujioka from Ouran High School Host Club (she's technically passing as a man but her attitude on gender is very hrm...nonbinary dare i say), 2d and noodle from gorillaz have some androgynous looks tbh...idk theres surely a lot more but my brain isnt doing The Thinking enough to remember lmfao