#i ask people to use gender neutral pronouns but i dont correct them if they dont. i like they/them but i dont HATE she or he

[jpegfluttergirl]

November 9th: the "theying" of trans woman

I've noticed this issue for years but i was reminded about it when I was on tiktok and this huge argument started in the comments, and what started this argument was someone misgendering Hunter Shafer by saying "they" the whole video.

It was this long thread of comments, I think like 120 or so comments going back and forth from several people arguing from either side. So many people use the excuse of “oh but you can say they to anyone! It's gender neutral” and others telling the commenters, “no, she’s a she, and she doesn’t want to be called they”. 

If you don't know what pronouns someone uses, that's when you say “they”. When someone clearly says their pronouns are she or he or something else, and they don't wanna be called they, then don't call them they. In the case of hunter schaffer, she’s a she, so why wouldn’t you call her she?

The reason why I called the title “the theying of transwoman” is because this is from my experience of being a transwoman and I've experienced and seen this a lot, not only online, but in my own life too. It is really telling to me when someone calls me "they," they dont actually see me as a woman. when it is said to me it's very often used as a deceptive way of misgendering me, because they don't want to call me he cuz that would be blatant and they don't want to say she because they don’t actually consider me a women, but if they say “they” then its a way for them to misgender me “without” misgendering me. And if I correct them, there is always the excuse of “oh it's gender neutral! I can say it to anyone”. It's underhanded, deceptive, and snake-like.

The moral of this: I wish people would just respect people. I'm not asking for much.

Fluttergirl

[mithliya]

omg hi! I was thinking about it after I saw post on radblr about gendered languages soo I want to ask you to make a poll if it's okay!

my native language is gendered so you can refer to chair as he and to door as she and everything, it is not only reflected in nouns but also in adjectives and verbs. and since everything is gendered, you can't talk about someone without specifying their sex, so for example, if you want to say "this teacher is very nice" you need to specify in every word that teacher's sex.

so the problem in my country that feminists are dealing with, is that people, when referring to a woman, are using he/him for noun and she/her for the rest of the words. like in "this doctor is very nice" "doctor" will be used in a male form, while all the other words will be used in a female form or if someone want to say "this doctor is a good specialist" they will only specify that this is a woman only in a word "this" or won't do even that.

this way of using words is already erasing women from the language, but with all that, one of the arguments against using female form while talking about a woman (which is grammarly correct and is what feminists are asking for) is that female form sound "unserious" or "unprofessional". it is also a common thing to hear something like "she's not an actress, she's an actor!" as if "actress"(female) is inferior and "actor"(male) is superior.

there are female forms of words that people do not care about(some still do), mostly because it is usually women's professions like "teacher", "kindergartener", "flight attendant", "babysitter", etc but it is only adding to all that misogyny.

so all this talking was because I wanted to ask you to make a poll about if other women speaking gendered language have this kind of problem in their country/language.

I also always feel weird when people in english are using gay as an adjective, like saying gay woman instead of lesbian and gay people while referring to LGB but not lesbian people or bi people for some reason. but it seems like a lot of woman here on radblr don't really mind that? so I thought that it might be because of how english is not gendered and if there's any gyns speaking gendered languages, I would also like to read what they think about it.

my language is similarly gendered! coincidentally, chair is also masculine, but the door is also masculine. table is feminine, pillow is feminine, blanket is masculine, room is feminine, etc. it would also be in arabic that if you say "this teacher is very nice" it would be "this(feminine) teacher(feminine) is very nice(feminine)". its extremely gendered which i dont mind but what i DO dislike about it is if you want to be neutral, the default is male. masculine is both masculine and neutral depending on context. male as neutral doesn't sit right with me personally.

how it works in your language sounds terrible! one thing i like about my language is the way words are feminised is pretty simple and consistent. doctor vs doctora, teacher (mudaris, male) vs teacher (mudarisa, female). you just add an -ah sound at the end of the profession & it becomes female.

i would argue english IS gendered tho, its just not as gendered as languages like arabic, german, spanish, etc but it is indeed gendered. especially compared to languages like mandarin, in which the pronoun for both sexes is ta (so no he nor she, just ta. context clues or the character used will indicate the sex tho). theres also stuff to be said about how "female" and "woman" have "male" and "man" in them.

ANYWAYS... heres the poll u asked for,, i wasnt sure if some of these options apply to any languages but i thought id make these options regardless in case thats simply my ignorance:

[mycochaotix]

MCX Rants: “It/it’s pronouns”

r/nonbinary user (heavily downvoted) commented: “

1: This is the first time i see someone using "it". I would be offended if someone called me "it". It is used for objects and dogs, not people. “

Another user said: “...how do their pronouns offend you my dude lmao” downvoted user replied

2: “Did you read what I wrote? I am not offended, I WOULD be offended if it was used for me as it is not a pronoun for people but for animals (not humans) and objects. People in this sub are so ready for aggression, it's unbelievable.”

MCX commented:

Its unfortunate you feel that way :) the community seems opening and non aggressive to me 💯—- i cant speak to the reasons for your downvoting but can speak to your original comment in a kind and hopefully welcoming way :)

I dont use it/it’s for someone unless theyve told me or it says on their profile descriptors that use those pronouns. The reality, imo, is that GENERALLY (unless specified by someone as their correct pronoun(s)): using "it/it’s" pronouns for a person is generally considered offensive and disrespectful.

While its generally true that, for majority of those using pronouns, referring to someone as "it" can be dehumanizing or seen as offensive, its simply not offensive to those who identify with that pronoun in whatever combination. The reasons for this, are specific to the individual being using ‘it/its’ pronouns and can be wide ranging.

Despite reasons, or not, imo to be an empathetic, inclusive, and kind human person: It's crucial we use the pronouns that someone specifies, even if it makes us uncomfortable. Using correct pronouns fosters an inclusive and affirming environment for individuals of all gender identities. If you are unsure about someone's pronouns, it's best to ask them or use gender-neutral language until you have the information.

[demisexual-eddie-diaz]

Hello, it's the anon from the last " is this transphobic?" ask

if i am afraid of misgendering someone, and i am not completely close to them, should I avoid them (while still maintaining cordiality?)

context:

the person in question used to be a friend of mine, before we mutually drifted apart but remained friendly

After this, they came out as a trans ftm, but eventually found themselves to be non-binary

it's been over five years, and I haven' t seen them much since we have very different classes.

They are SUPER nice but i still catch myself slipping with pronouns sometimes. I can remember their name perfectly though (no deadnaming, but then again I haven't interacted with them much since we drifted).

The fact that it's been so long since they've come out kind of negates the excuse of "not being used to it"

On the other hand, the language we speak at home does not have gender neutral pronouns (i mean they might have come up with some, but my parents sure don' t know about them/wouldn't use them) so my friend is still referred to with feminine pronoun, on the occasion that they are mentioned.

They were only male-identifying for a short period, but i think i had an easier time remembering the male pronouns. so maybe its because im not used to gender neutral pronouns, since all the books I've read only use he/she for the third person singular?

i dont think it would be obvious if i DID avoid them since they have other friends and we dont interact much in the first place

i dont want to alienate or "other" them by making it seem like im walking around eggshells around them--- even if i often am.

also, are they even still nonbinary???? they dont correct me when i slip up, so maybe the pronouns they use have changed??? but its probably because they're just a kind person

Hi, friend:)

To start with, I think the easiest thing pronoun wise would be to just use their name as much as possible.

Example:

A - “Who’s that?”

B - “Matthew. We’re friends.”

A - “How long have you known Matthew?”

B - “I’ve known Matthew for three years.”

As for ‘slipping up’ on their pronouns and not knowing whether or not they still identify as non binary, the easiest thing is to just ask.

Truly, you don’t have to worry about upsetting trans people by asking their pronouns. As long as you’re being respectful and don’t ask too personal questions. The classic ‘what’s in your pants’ question would be an example of going too far.

I know that as long as I’m with a safe group of people, not around my unsupportive family, then I’m perfectly okay with telling people my name and pronouns.

Example:

(Me) - Hello, I’m Matthew. My pronouns are he/him.

(My friend) - Hi, my name is Julia. My pronouns are she/her.

It’s really is that easy and as long as you use the name they’ve asked you to use, and you try to say their name and not pronouns as much as possible, it would probably go a lot smoother.

As for the language part, I’m not sure what language you do speak, but I know that this was a problem for one of my friends. They’re Mexican and only speak Spanish at home. There are a few queer organizations working on discovering new ways to say singular they/them in other languages. As for the book part, I’d recommend going to a library or bookstore and just reading a book centering a gender non conforming character. The book will use the singular they for that character so it would be good practice. Also, you used the correct pronouns when typing this so maybe just writing about your friend or even making stories about characters with they/them pronouns can help.

I hope that this was helpful, I’m a binary trans person so I gave the best input I could. If it makes you feel any better, I will say that even as a trans person I mess up on some of my friends pronouns. If I knew them before then I do sometimes mess up. I will say that the name is the easier part, pronouns can be more difficult.

Also, if you have any other questions you could ask here or private message me. Either are fine.

- Matthew(he/him)

[oyesteryells]

been working on this painting for a few weeks now (its unfinished). every now and then i talk about it with the other ppl in my painting class. i showed it to my friend from a different class (i dont know her super well but she's cool) and she said it gave her Salvador Dali vibes cuz of the background. i found that so interesting because its actually inspired by a Georgia O'Keefe painting. then i got asked about the character so i was explaining my idea: that they're a cyborg pulling out their "intestines" and pulling off part of their face. its supposed to be symbolic of deconstructing your identity and reconstructing yourself as something else. i'd be lying if i said there weren't gender identity undertones. most people have referred to my character as "he", including my friend. i never corrected anyone, but my friend realized i had been using gender-neutral pronouns for them, and she started correcting herself, calling them "they" as i had been. when i started referring to the cyborg like that, it was more subconscious than anything. i mean internally i had always seen them as gender-neutral, even feminine. it somehow felt validating to me to hear my friend pick up on what i was saying so quickly. its so interesting how looking at a piece of art through different perspectives yields different meanings and interpretations in the same way that sometimes we just need a nudge in the right direction to change our preconceived notions about a person.

[shepardschildofinfinity]

Sorry if this is a bit long-winded, i tried putting it the comments, but it was too long:

There's actually a conversation about the Doctor's gender in 12s era, between the Doctor and Bill, that suggests they're some form of genderfluid/agender/nonbinary.

And quote from the EDAs novels where the 8th doctor where they say they've " never felt like a man".

Not to mention the interview with Eccleston where he says he tried to play the 9th doctor with a balance of masculine and feminine aspects.

Even if they still use he/him pronouns quite a bit, the doctor does feel removed from human/binary gender.

Please feel free to bug me about finding these quotes later if i get distracted and don't add them after a while!

I can't speak as well for 13, but the quote from her "mummy, daddy, I mean..." which sounds like shes searching for a more neutral word too.

Beyond that, a she comes across as fairly ok being binary woman (with maybe a little nb thrown in there too). Especially in her interactions with humans, or trying to make a point to a misogynistic character/interaction.

But they way the doctor ignores/accepts their gender/pronouns being assumed by people doesnt mean they agree with those assumptions, more so than dont bother to correct people they meet? Like they know most humans are thinking within a gender binary, and they are ok that most humans wont be open minded/likely to understand in certain parts of history.

Rose knows shes not a cis boy, but the narrative doesnt seem to make it very clear that shes nb or questioning before that moment, or at least not as well as it could have. (It also doesnt help that it feels like some of the transness of the narative is undermined by14 switching back to he/him pronouns and typically really masculine expressions/behaviors after that conversation for the remainder of the ep. And that the solution to the metacrisis is framed in a very gender essentialist way too )

I think more adept writing could make it clearer that shes an enby and trans girl, rather than a binary trans girl. Hopefully a cowriter whos nb and trans could help a bit.

Honestly, i need to do a prop write up on my thoughts, but the scene could also could be read as rose figuring out that shes trans and nb? That she is also both, and contains complexity/multitudes.

Also have to write about my reading of how both the doctor and master being nb/genderfluid even by timelord standards too, at some point later.

Also feel free to ask questions/dm too!

I'm not sure if Rose knew she was non-binary before the DoctorDonna memories came back.

She knew she wasn't male, but also mentions at the end finally feeling like herself. So the Doctor's influence, passed down through Donna have been impacting her for her entire existence.

She prioritises neither immediately after that power is released in her and I think that's when she's started being able to tell what is the influence of that power, those unreachable memories and what is her.

She's neither and more, but I think, quite possiblty, she'd have only viewed herself as more, in a 'I've been one transitioned to the other so have a deeper understanding of both' type of way before that.

Now she can be neither because she's not got this unconscious influence pushing her towards the binary now.

Cause yes, the Doctor is intersex. I thought about it and I don't want to say non-binary because the Doctor's changing gender and regeneration as a whole is biological so that fits more with my understanding of what intersex is rather than the identity of non-binary or any of the other ones. (Please Please correct me if my understanding is wrong)

He still tends to follow the binary. How he appears is how he presumes to be. When the Thirteenth Doctor took over, yes there were comments about being male ("come to daddy, no mummy" jumps to mind) but she changed how she was refering and presuming to be to be female. The rest of the time the Doctor has presented and accepted being seen as male.

Rose would have had that influence, unknown and unconscious as it was until she could tell the difference between that and who she is.

Donna admitted it impacted her, made her give away all that money so I don't think making toys and painting a shed to be a TARDIS is the only way it impaced Rose.

I think the non-binary was a release and realisation allowed by an easier differentiation between Rose and the metacrisis.

[mokonamania]

gentle reminder that it is still very much misgendering if you purposefully do not use someone’s pronouns. if someone’s pronouns are he/him and you know this it is misgendering to address him with they/them. if someone’s pronouns are she/her and you know this it is misgendering to address her with it/its. if someone’s pronouns are ze/zir and you know this it is misgendering to address zir with they/them. it is misgendering to purposefully use pronouns that people don’t identify with regardless of gender identity. just because pronouns aren’t gendered doesn’t mean everyone identifies with them. everyone is different so ask what pronouns to use in certain situations if you’re unsure. it never hurts

[redrreign]

god why is gender

[kyoryu]

Sorry if this is this weird to ask but do you know if there is anything generally acepted non binary pronoun in spanish? I have heard "Elle" being used a couple of time but i am not sure if that is correct. Again sorry if this is weird.

as a native speaker i use "elle". putting an "e" behind the gendered words too. i have friends who go by elle specifically!

its called inclusive language (lenguaje inclusivo), its been a thing for a while but it only started being pushed socially around uhhh 2017 or something like that, at least here in argentina. younger groups (like me) have already incorporated "elle" completely into our everyday talk, but older people (and dont get me wrong, some bigots my age as well) get really pissed off about it, a lot like it is with they/them in english. but since in spanish we have every single adjective gendered, we change words to have an "e" a lot, and people think its sooooo funny and original to make fun of it (its not)

personally i still go by ella (she) in spanish, mostly bc i dont care to come out as nb to my parents and also im pretty used to referring to myself with an "a" at the end of a word already (getting used to "e" and having to change back and forth whether im with family or not would be a little annoying)

anyway, hope that explains it a bit! short answer is, we do have a gender neutral alternative. we are working on it :)

[mlm-mod-taka]

hello!! im resubmitting the transmasc reader coming out to shuichi and hajime request :00 and dw abt it!! stuff happens :]

COMING OUT • hajime, shuichi x transmasc reader

thank you for understanding! i really dislike inconveniencing people, so ill definitely try my best not to do it again. ill attempt to make up for it with these hcs, even though im not the best at writing for hajime and shuichi. i hope you enjoy these!

tws/cws: mentions of misgendering and dead naming.

|| -> mod taka <3

is worried when you ask to talk to him privately. whatever youre about to say to him, it must be a big deal for you to look so worried and serious at the same time.

"is something wrong s/o? did anything happen?" he'll listen intently as you try to explain to him that youre transmasc, and that you want to go by different pronouns now.

once you finally get it out of your mouth, he just pauses for a second, no emotion on his face. right when youre about to say sorry and that he should just ignore what you said, he goes "so youre my boyfriend now, right?" theres no sign of hostility or agression in his voice.

you think for a second, and nod. "hm, i suppose that would make me bisexual." hajime says again, then he looks up at you, smiling. "thanks for telling me s/o. what pronouns do you want to go by?"

really doesnt cause that much of a hassle when you do come out to him. if youre ready to tell everyone else, then he'll offer to say it to them instead of you so they dont bombard you with questions.

if youre not ready yet, then he'll just nod. he will discretly start using they/them pronouns for you though, hed rather not misgender you and make you uncomfortable because of others.

will cook you food that increases your testosterone and decreases your estrogen! that is, if he could cook. instead just asks teruteru to cook you some eggs since they increase t, and some mushrooms since they decrease estrogen.

will start using traditionally masc ways to compliment you, if youre comfortable with that! will also use gender neutral ways to address you. most likely will call you his lover/partner rather than boyfriend.

corrects people who use the wrong pronouns, and also tell others to stop throwing your deadname around. finds it really annoying that he still hears people use those, so he tries his best to get them to stop doing so.

gets onto the "my partner is trans and thats cool." part of social media, he doesnt know how and he doesnt know why, but he just does. will often send you the photos and memes he finds on that side of the internet.

if he ever does something even remotely offensive or wrong, please correct him! he wont put up an arguement since he knows that he has no say with whats offensive to trans people when hes not trans himself, so he'll immediately apologize and correct whatever he was doing.

honestly, you being transmasc doesnt really effect the way he sees you at all. the only difference is he now sees you as more androgynous and with a different name. he still loves you, inside and out.

probably had a feeling that you werent cis beforehand, but he doesnt comment on it in case hes wrong. once you do come out to him, hes very supportive.

"thank you for trusting me enough to tell me. do you have a new name and new pronouns you want me to use?"

he switches to your new set of pronouns and your name very easily, and never uses your old ones again. his mind probably saw you as androgynous even if you originally identified as a woman, so its not that big of a change.

buys you traditionally masculine clothing you can wear to any formal events, so you dont have to feel gender dysphoria if you ever need to go to one and you only have old gowns.

buys you 7 new binders so you can wear a clean one during every day of the week. also includes those fabric transmasc flags that you can put up on your wall as decoration.

probably identified as lgbtq+ already, so his label most likely didnt change after you came out.

when its june, he asks if you want to go to the biggest pride parade in the area, and just have a small date near it. he wants you to be proud of who you are, so he often asks if you can do things like that together.

probably gives you alot of transmasc colored items. you passed a math test with flying colors once, so he gave you a cake that was colored as the transmasc flag inside as a little surprise.

really likes giving you those kinds of things, he thinks your flag is so pleasing to the eye. therefore, any chance he gets to give you something like that, he takes it immediately.

will send you funny tiktoks involving your identities. you dont know how he finds them, but theyre hilarious so you just want him to keep sending them to you.

hes already quite educated with the problems and the taboo subjects/actions in the trans community, and he definitely knows his boundaries. if he finds something that states that whatever hes doing/thinking is problematic, he instantly gets rid of that part of him with no struggle or second thought.

marks the day that you came out to him so you and him can celebrate it every year. its a big sign of trust and loyalty to him, which is a thing that he thinks should be celebrated.

one of the few times he isnt timid is when someone misgenders or deadnames you. he all of a sudden becomes this serious and stoic character when he heard someone referring to you like that.

is just very happy that you trust him enough to tell him who you really are, and will treasure you forever. loves you either way, because youre still the same person he loves, regardless of your gender.

[honeychilde]

Hello! I saw your non-binary head canons and loved them! If you’re comfortable with it, could you do some for a reader that’s trans? With Xingqiu (If you write for him), Venti, and any other characters you’d like? (´ ω `♡)

𝔗𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔰𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔰/𝔬

featuring: venti, kaeya, and razor

warning: none

gender: neutral

authors note: no i don’t write for Xingqiu sorry, he just seems like a character that’d be hard to master😓

He’d still treat you the same way

it’s not your gender he fell inlove with it’s your personality!

if you came out before getting together then telling him, he will still use what you want to be called

100% supportive

if you came out while together, still again would call you the pronouns you want to be called, but will take sometime to adjust

just give him a week or two and he’ll have your pronouns mastered✨

he believes in people’s freedom (he is the god of the city of freedom after all) so he finds that whatever you’d like to be called is your choice and nobody else’s

if faced with a rude person who does not believe in that... he’ll try to educate the person, 1/10 times it’ll work-

the persons still being an absolute nuisance? venti will take your hand and just leave, he is not dealing with that

your not the gender you were assigned at birth?

THATS SO COOL

he will ask a lot and you can’t tell me otherwise, mans just curious

ok ok listen- this man does not care for gender norms

BITCH LOOKS GREAT IN A DRESS

anyways off topic

kaeya would fight anyone that was being mean to you and use his power as the calvary captain to defend you

at first he might take a second more to respond to you because he doesn’t want to accidentally mess up your pronouns

if you came out before dating him, just like venti nothing would change, he still loves you very much🥺

if you came out while dating him? aha SUPPORTIVE wants everyone to know just how amazing you are (unless your not comfortable with it of course)

this boy lives in a forest without having that much human contact for his whole life

he doesn’t know about gender norms, like if a female wants to wear a suit? he doesn’t care, he think she looks amazing!

if you came out before dating him, he’d be like “weren’t you always.. (gender)..?” razor is so cute-

he’d still call you by your preferred pronouns though no matter what, because that’s you!

if you came out while dating him, he’ll ask questions about it (to the best of his ability), and try his absolute hardest to always correct himself if he uses the wrong pronouns

he do be trying dont worry🥺

if faced with a rude person tho? either fights them or leaves with you, he doesn’t like to speak that often so he’ll use actions instead

masterlist|request stuff

[wifeylouis]

i’m so tired of being invaliding as lgbt louie by henries who think that one way of support lgbt is only waving pride flag but i know how working showbis.. why he can only saying loud words in the social media waving flags on the stage and all.. when he see lgbt people face to face he assuming their sexuality and he’s not that educated member who correcting prounonces for not misgenderibg i’m so tired i want to stop crying every day pls can you help me with your story of being in his fandom or how he helped you i want to stop being invaliding, i know he loves me but this shittest fandom never shut up

Hi! I’m so sorry you have been invalidated by some vile, horrible people on the internet sadly they do it to all of us bipoc/lgbt+ louies. but we have seen thru out louis’ career how much he loves, cares for, and respects us and hes grateful for all of us!! he is so, so educated on lgbt+ matters, the way he comforts fans who tell him that he’s helped them come to terms with their sexualities by always telling them to be proud, or everytime he asks a fan for their pronouns or uses the correct adjectives and terms for them, the way he never assumes a fans sexuality, and made a gender neutral album, all the times he praised and supported lgbt+ contestants on txf on their lyrics and their transitioning experiences and the way he was so accepting and supportive of Thomas Pound (he was a rly talented drag queen on louis’ xf team who even spoke abt how louis is one of the most accepting guys hes ever met!!) and the other gnc contestants, ESPECIALLY his support and love for trans and wlw fans is so loud, the jly music video, him attending pride at glastonbury and wearing pride tshirts and pointing at pride flags and holding hands with fans with pride flags between them all of that means SO MUCH to his majority lgbt+ fanbase. let these things comfort you <3 he loves you so, so much!! dont let silly rumours and nasty comments abt him and his fans by jealous, pathetic ppl get to you, louis has gay fans for a reason, if he didnt love and support us, we wldnt be here right now in the massive amount that we are :D 

[janthonyashtoreth]

Another big batch of asks!

Answering a bunch of asks under the cut! Most of them are ink and flowers centric. I hope you all are doing well <3

anonymous asked: wait wait hold up Anathema works in Azra's tattoo parlour?? amazing, when i was thinking of making my own florist/tattoo artist au, i also had Anathema be Aziraphale's apprentice :D i like when these two are friends. do you have any more headcanons about Anathema in ink and flowers?

she does!! she was doing an apprenticeship under him but has since graduated to doing her own thing (but she still works at his parlor). i can’t get into the whole plot because spoilers but angels/demons and agnes nutter’s prophecies still exist in the iaf universe, but anathema isn’t her descendant. instead, anathema is a wickedly smart computer genius and her boyfriend newt is an endearing but kind of inept descendent of agnes. anathema was azra’s good friend-turned-wingwoman once anthony shows up. i love her

anonymous asked: concept: aziraphale seeing crowley presenting femininely for the first time how'd you think he'd react? in your flower shop tattoo artist au

anonymous asked: OKAY totally not asking bc i may or may not have been thinkin abt this for like. too long. but would anthony have to like, come out as genderfluid to azra/how would azra react to seeing anthony present more fem for the first time

ooo ive been thinking about this as well! i dont think anthony would necessarily have a “coming out moment”, they just kind of do what they want. if they feel like presenting fem or using different pronouns they would just. do it. and azra would just kind of roll with it. i like to think that the first time anthony presented fem she got all dressed up for date night and didn’t tell azra and azra just Stares bc,,,, wow anthony is just gorgeous like that!! azra’s dead!!!

anonymous asked: You're a cutie pie. That's it. That's the fact.

:’ ) you’re a sweety pie!!!

anonymous asked: i deadass tried for 20 minutes to make the finger heart...... how did your friend do it......

i have absolutely no idea and it hurts my brain,,,

anonymous asked: Wahoo

wahoo.....

@alligatorsnbats asked: OK, so what's Oscar's thoughts on Anthony?

oscar LOVES anthony... he’s the worlds most apathetic cat but he actively seeks anthony out when hes around. azra is only slightly salty about it

anonymous asked: Is Anthony cross eyed?

he’s not! i made him a little bit cross-eyed in my latest post on purpose bc he was flustered but i dont know if it came across very well ;;

anonymous asked: not to be *THAT* bitch who comes into your ask box and gushes over your art but i love the way you colour things and your clean line work?? mwah. i wish i could draw like you its just so lovely

bfdkjfdh im cry,,,, just keep practicing my friend!!! i promise it’ll get you where you want to go. the last couple of months have been really nice for me in my ~art journey~ because its the first time i’ve ever really liked stuff that i’ve drawn. ive been drawing for about 7-8 years and this is only just happening and it varies so much from person to person!! some people get to where they want to go in 2 years, some people take 20. just don’t stop practicing!!

anonymous asked: your human!crowley deserves infinite appreciation and the fact that he has coloboma: that right there! is! good shit! he has snake eyes,,,, but as a human. u are a genius good sir and your art is a blessing 👌👌👌

haha thank you!! i think coloboma (i know how to spell it now!!) is such an interesting condition and it’s kind of underused for human aus!!! its so dope!!!

@bolitakawaii-senpai asked: what would crowley's and azi's fav emojies from the cursed emojis??

asking the real questions out here..... i think crowley’s would be the one with all of the teeth and aziraphale’s (assuming he knows what they are in the first place) would be the really cute one with big eyes and the pink hairbow

anonymous asked: concept for the ink and flowers au: something happens to crowley (imma b honest i have no idea) and has a lowkey crisis and chops all his hair off and just. joins his pet snake and snakes around the nursery untill azra comes in seeing crowley crying and cuddling his snake and yeah idk enjoy my the weird shit my brain comes up with

jhuyhaijodfaydgsihfujoi RIP TO THE HAIR...... i love the angst potential (and i can come up with a few reasons for the angst, but i digress) but i dont think i could part with anthony’s hair,,, i love it too much

anonymous asked: I can't handle your ink and flowers Aziraphale. I can't. His hair is TOO fluffy. His face is TOO squishy. He is EXTREMELY friend shaped. His glasses and his eyes are bright like SPARKLES. Every time I see him I want to go feral and show all my friends. I would hug him without letting go of given the chance. 1000000000/10. 💜🐝

anonymous asked: I have a cat just like Oscar (big himbo) and I got him some knit hats for Christmas and he's gonna hate me but I can't wait to dress him up like a little bee so: does Azra ever give Oscar like costumes or footies just for fun? If yes, does Oscar love or hate? 💜🐝

isldakfj im grouping these two together bc im assuming ur the same person anon!! i love your signature!!

you’re correct. his hair IS too fluffy, and he IS entirely too friend shaped. he has the BRIGHTEST eyes. i cant contain my rabid love for him and it spills out into the art. i can’t help it. he gives the best hugs

SLADKFJ YES HE DOES..... IVE BEEN MEANING TO DRAW THIS FOR A HOT MINUTE,,,, as i mentioned earlier oscar is the world’s most apathetic cat so i dont think he would care that much but he’s not super happy about it

anonymous asked: Y'know what? I'm too tired so say smth clever so just know that I love you and your art is amazing 💕💕 PS: i love that you also tag them as Ineffable partners (i guess the point is to be gender neutral)

i love you as well anon,,, and yeah i like the ineffable partners tag! i find that it fits more with their relationship for some reason. though i still tag as ineffable husbands since its such a popular tag lksdfjdfknjbh

anonymous asked: Hello! Fist of all thank you for yor art, you are one of my favorite artists in this fandom and I have Feelings about the Ink and Flowers AU. Second: Don't feel pressured to post daily, we understand that life is complicated and art can be difficult sometimes. Take care! You're the best!

anon i would die for you!!! i never imagined that i would ever be one of anyone’s favorite artists,,,,, im speechless,,,,,,,,

and yeah unfortunately i dont think ill be able to post every other day once this coming semester starts :( i’ll probably have to cut back to once every 3. but there’s more ink and flowers coming at u guys so!! stay tuned for that

anonymous asked: Good omens characters having a game night?

i know this was sent in for the au prompts i asked for but. i dont think im physically capable of capturing the pure chaos that would ensue from this. holy shit it would be so feral. 

thank you to anyone who read this whole thing!! i read all of my asks as soon as i get them and i have a lot that i’ve been sitting on for a while. if you sent me something i promise i haven’t forgotten about it!! if you’ve sent something in that you were expecting a response to and i havent responded, just send it again to be safe in case tumblr ate it

i love all of you! <3

[atransreflection]

If you don’t mind me asking, how did you know you were non binary and what would you say to someone questioning being non binary?

Growing up I suffered (what I didn't know at the time) was dysphoria, I'd get mad when people would call me a girl and would always want to be with the guys at playtime because we often split off into guys and girls. But even then, I'd still get mad after I got a haircut that was more masculine and people would say im a boy. See my running series on my page 'trans childhood confessions' for examples of this 😊 As I grew older, when I was around 15, I found out that being trans was a thing when I met my friend Llion. He told me that he was born in a women's body, but is a guy, changed his name and people call him a guy now and used differnt pronouns. I was in owe, I remember thinking 'You can do that?!' and instantly began questioning all my past experiences and feelings around my mismatched gender. I looked at myself in the present time and knew then this was the issue Id had about myself for my so far short lifetime. So I came out as a guy and purchased a binder. I wore my first crappy binder to school the day after I got it and was so excited. I finally felt more myself. But when I got to school I was bullied horribly, to the point I took it off and didn't put that binder back on again. Infact it was bad enough for me to go back into that closet for a year. When I reached 16 I re-evaluated and looked at some of my childhood memories, I looked at myself and wondered if I even felt like a guy, maybe I was making it up? But that couldnt be true, I definitly wasnt a female, male was closer but to me I felt like I was in the middle. I did some research online and found the term Non-binary, and that was it. The reason for how I was feeling, how I had been feeling my whole life. So the next day, and this time only to my closest friends, I came out as Non-Binary. They began using gender neutral pronouns for abit but eventually stopped after I was too timid to correct them. Now we skip ahead 4 years, I meet my current partner, Izzy. They're super interested in the fact I am Non-binary, they want to know more and want to know how it affects me. They even ask what pronouns I would rather go by, and for the first time in my life, I had someone trying everyday to use them. After about 6 months they had they/them down to a key, and had even started using them for strangers as they dont know what pronouns they prefer. I began wondering if, now, in a solid friend group of amazing people and having a partner who supported me greatly, I could begin to re-evaluate my gender again.

I purchased another binder online and began wearing it more often, I also stopped wearing makeup to give myself a more androgynous/masculine look. I began purchasing clothes from the men's section. And finally, I changed my name. To have all of my friends try and begin to use my name was amazing, it inspired me to be my true self. Something I noticed was wearing a binder made me feel something, it made me feel differnt. The sort of differnt that you pretend to be at a party so you sound cooler, or pretend to be at school so you sound smarter. But this was differnt, in a way. It felt better, it was strange, it was a sense of freedom that I felt had been taken away from me years before. It clicked for me then, it was me pretending to be another person, it was me breaking free from this shell I used to call a body, a shell that I would wear that would be the perfect girl that others wanted me to be. Sadly, with this realisation also came dysphoria. Seeing the way I wanted to be on the outside, made me get really bad dysphoria when I didn't look like that - as well as this I began noticing other things I disliked, like my voice was so high that everyone assumed I was a female and that my face is too round and soft to be seen as more masculine. That's when I signed up for other treatments, I'm finally now on hormones and im less than a year away from top surgery, and I have to say this is the best time of my life, I'm finally myself

Ps. I'm super sorry about this long ass post, I got emotional and wanted to give you all the details haha

[dvp95]

quiet on widow’s peak (6)

pairing: dan howell/phil lester, pj liguori/sophie newton/chris kendall rating: teen & up tags: paranormal investigator, mystery, online friendship, slow burn, strangers to lovers, nonbinary character, trans character, background poly, phil does some buzzfeed unsolved shit and dan is a fan word count: 2.9k (this chapter), 19.7k (total) summary: Phil’s got a list of paranormal experiences a mile long that he likes to share with the world. Abandoned buildings, cemeteries, and ghost stories have always called his name, and a particular fan of his has a really, really good ghost story.

read this chapter on ao3 or here!

Hope my friends and I didn't make things weird for you yesterday. We're heading to the city around noon if you're still up for helping us with the boring part.

noon?? fucking alright i guess i gotta put pants on

lmao yeah, sorry. My parents woke us up at EIGHT like that's a normal time to be awake????

desgostang

What?

ill send u the link later and also no i didnt feel weird yesterday you guys are nice

That's good! And hey I wanted to ask. You were kind of put on the spot with introducing yourself, would you rather we called you Dan or Winnie? I just wanna make sure we aren't making you uncomfortable at all lmao

no its all fine you can call me dan idc and actually its best if you do call me dan when youre in my work lmao

Are you totally sure?

why would i lie abt this. dont be an idiot it isnt a good look on you

haha okay. I’ll see you around noon.

--

“Christopher is a nice boy,” Phil’s mum is telling him as she helps him with their fancy new coffeemaker. There are so many buttons and Phil is so, so tired. “And Sophie is lovely, such a soft-spoken thing. Why haven’t we met them before, dear?”

“Dunno,” Phil says instead of the truth, which is that he’d had no idea how he was supposed to introduce them. “You have now, though.”

His mum laughs and reaches up to pat his cheek. “True enough. I’m so happy that you’ve got good people around you, Philip. I’ve gotten quite worried about you down there by yourself, you know.”

“I’m not by myself,” says Phil. “I live with, like, thirty people.”

“Bunch of strangers, I’ll bet,” she says, because she knows him. “Aside from those three.”

The thing is, she’s not wrong. Phil’s obviously exaggerating about the number of people under the roof of the creaky Brighton house, but the truth is that he can’t keep track half the time. A lot of the rooms get sublet out randomly, or a significant other will start spending so much time around the place that they might as well pay rent, and Phil really isn’t good with new people. He gets along fine with Holly and Dave, but they’ve been there as long as he has and the closest they’ve ever come to a heart-to-heart was comparing anxiety meds over burned pancakes.

Chris and Sophie were there when Phil moved in, and they’d taken one look at him and decided to just keep shoving into his space until he liked having them there, like they were on a mission to adopt PJ’s sad, ghost-obsessed friend from the internet.

“You might be right,” Phil says, feeling a smile tug at his lips for the first time all morning. He’s already had a coffee - and a half, when PJ declared that not even Kath could make coffee taste good and shoved the rest of his Phil’s way - but he still doesn’t feel fully awake. “I’m only really friends with Chris and Soph because of PJ.”

“PJ is a good friend to you, isn’t he?” his mum hums. That slightly pointed tone doesn’t get to Phil the way it usually does, because he knows that she’s just trying to understand him.

It doesn’t escape Phil’s notice that he’s looking into a mirror whenever he sees his parents watching him carefully, waiting for him to tell them something he hasn’t explicitly said, because he’s been doing the exact same thing to his housemates for nearly two years.

Maybe he’ll tell his parents when he’s got someone serious or even, like, semi-serious. Longer than two dates would be a record at this point. But right now he already feels like he’s been one misstep away from disappointing them, and he doesn’t want to take the gamble that his sexuality will be that misstep.

He’s not up for this conversation, though, isn’t sure he’ll ever be, so he just says, “Yeah, he is.”

--

Dan is late. They’re so late, actually, that Phil’s wheel of worst case scenarios has been spinning silently and getting faster and faster the more caffeine he chugs. They roll in with flushed cheeks and a jacket that looks too thin, apologies on their shiny lips that Phil doesn’t even hear for a couple of seconds because he’s too busy staring at them.

“No worries,” Sophie says, interrupting their rambling before they lose another half hour to it. “You want something? I’m getting a refill.”

“No, no, let me,” says Dan. They shrug off their jacket and hang it on one of the empty chairs. Phil and his friends have co-opted the largest table in the place so they can spread out with their laptops and notebooks, and it doesn’t escape Phil’s notice that Dan has decided to sit next to him when they’ve got a couple of options. “I get free drinks if Gabe’s in a good mood. Anyone else need a refill?”

“Me,” Chris says, not looking up from his screen. “Not Phil. He’s cut off.”

“Hey,” Phil protests weakly. His heart rate really has picked up since they sat down, so he knows Chris has a point.

Dan grins, their soft cheeks giving way to the dimples that Phil is very quickly growing obsessed with. He just wants to make Dan smile and laugh constantly, to hear them cackle and see all the lines in their round face deepen with happiness.

Right. Phil watched a horror movie with PJ instead of unpacking this fluttering start of a crush last night, and now he’s just got to deal with it for the rest of the day.

As if it’s a compulsion, Dan clears the empty mugs from their table before heading up to the counter. Phil focuses on the EMF readings so he doesn’t get caught up on Dan holding four mugs by the handles with total ease.

PJ has got headphones on and his eyes closed, so he might not even have noticed that Dan is there. He’s been going through Sophie’s footage and his own audio recordings to try and find some anomalies while Chris looks for the weird visual stuff - they’re a great team at that, and it makes Phil feel like he’s not doing enough. Sure, he could find those things on his own, but not as quickly as they can when it’s a team effort, and they’re on a bit of a tight schedule here. Well, his housemates are. They’ve got actual jobs to get back to once the weekend is over.

Allegedly, Sophie is doing research on sigils, but it looks to Phil like she’s just doodling. Not that he really blames her if she is. He’s barely been paying attention to the chart he’s making of spikes in electromagnetism because he’s been so busy watching the door for Dan.

And Dan looks… good. They’re wearing chunky boots and a shirt that falls to their thighs - a dress, maybe, but it looks like a regular black t-shirt that got extended at the hem - with tight white jeans. The only colour on them is the plaid shirt around their waist and the shiny red product on their lips to match it. Phil watches them lean against the counter and grin at the older barista, and he’s so distracted by looking at their profile that he startles when a foot connects with his under the table.

“Stop staring,” Sophie says, quiet and smiling. “He’s going to notice.”

Phil considers correcting her, but then he remembers that he probably doesn’t have to. Dan had said any pronouns, that they didn’t care how they were referred to, so it would definitely be weirder to act like he knows better than Sophie.

He knows he won’t be able to use masculine terms for Dan. Not because they aren’t true, because he’s pretty sure they’re no less accurate than neutral or feminine would be, but because thinking of Dan as a maculine person is only going to allow Phil’s brain to fall into the familiar traps of gender in ways he doesn’t want to allow.

Gay monkey brain doesn’t need any more leeway in finding Dan attractive, that’s for damn sure.

“So, what are we doing?” Dan asks, interrupting Phil’s thoughts, and, wow, four mugs is a lot more impressive when they’re full of hot liquid. Phil marvels at Dan’s ability not to trip and spill it all as they dole out the coffee and teas.

“I’m doing the boring part,” says Phil. He turns his screen so Dan can see the Excel spreadsheet and laughs at the face they make. “Yeah. It's not glamorous, but it's the easiest way to find patterns in the EMF readings. Honestly, most of my job is just staring at things and finding patterns in them. Like, uh, what's that guy? With the butterfly splotches?"

"Worcestershire," Chris suggests.

"Rorschach," Dan corrects him, lips twitching like they aren't sure if they're allowed to laugh in Chris' face or not.

“That’s exactly what I said,” says Chris.

“You know EMF meters don’t have anything to do with ghosts, right?” Dan asks, ignoring Chris completely and leaning a bit closer to Phil to get a better look at his laptop. “I mean, none of this has anything to do with ghosts, really, but you’re more or less just measuring electricity.”

Phil is aware of that. He wonders if Dan thinks he just stumbles into haunted houses with equipment he hasn’t researched and waits to be spooked. He’s too distracted by how close Dan is and how good they smell to work up to proper offense, though. “Yeah,” he says simply. “But don’t you think it’s weird that the place still has electricity to begin with? Who’s paying for that?”

“A Wilkins, I’d imagine.”

“But why? If they’ve forgotten about the property or abandoned it on purpose, surely they wouldn’t still pay the bills.”

“Maybe they don’t handle their own finances,” Dan suggests. “How rich were these assholes?”

“I honestly don’t know,” says Phil. He taps his fingers in an erratic pattern on the edge of his laptop, trying to spark something in his mind.

It’s almost disappointing when Dan pulls away to dig out their own sleek Macbook out of their messenger bag, but Phil is also glad for it. He can think a lot easier when the warm scent of spice and mint isn’t clogging his brain.

Dan slots into the work as easily as if a space was left for them. They’ve got dozens of tabs open already and they start to go through them, cross-referencing magic things with Sophie in quiet tones and digging deeper into the Wilkins family than Phil ever would have thought to. Every so often they tap Phil on the arm and drag him into whatever rabbithole they’ve fallen down, chatting animatedly.

Phil knows, objectively, that Dan is a fan of his and that Dan is weird about research. It’s another thing entirely to watch it happen in real time, to see Dan pull up local census PDFs from the eighties and explain why chaos magic is bullshit in the same breath.

An hour or so goes by like that, all of them working on their own things with minimal words exchanged by everybody but Dan, and then Chris shouts loud enough to make the barista jump. Nobody else is in the coffee shop right now, which is lucky, because Dan’s got a hand over their chest and Sophie has slopped tea down her front. PJ, with his headphones on, simply cracks an eye open.

“What the fuck was that about?” Phil asks, putting his own palm against his chest to feel his heart race. Dan raises their eyebrows and looks at Phil, seemingly distracted from the startling, wordless exclamation.

They don’t get a chance to say whatever they’re thinking, though, because Chris is turning his laptop to the rest of the table and grinning wide like the Cheshire Cat. “I found something.”

Everybody gathers round, PJ getting up to lean over the back of Phil’s chair and Sophie getting so far into Dan’s personal space that Phil is certain they’re uncomfortable with it, and then Chris presses play upside down. It’s part of Sophie’s footage, Phil standing in the dim foyer and looking frustrated. Even without sound, Phil can tell that this is when he was arguing with Sophie about going upstairs. He squints, but he can’t see whatever it is that’s got Chris being so loud.

“What am I looking at?” PJ asks when the short clip ends, and Dan hums an agreement. Chris makes a frustrated noise like they’re being obtuse on purpose and rewinds to the beginning.

"There," Chris says, excited like he hasn't been since they got to Manchester. He taps his finger against the laptop screen. "D'you see it? D'you see the shadow?"

Now that Chris has pointed it out, Phil does see something. He moves his own laptop and notebook out of the way to pull Chris’ closer with a frown. Chris lets him do that, bouncing in his seat a little bit.

“That’s straight up a person,” Phil says slowly, tracing the outline of the shadow with the mouse. It’s behind him, in the entry to the kitchen, and it looks tall. Quite a bit taller than Phil, anyway, if he’s remembering that doorframe correctly. He decides to measure it next time they go so he isn’t going off memory. “I knew we weren’t alone in there. Like. I’m not crazy, that’s a human being.”

“That’s what I thought,” says Chris. “But press play.”

So Phil presses play. He watches the shadow stay perfectly still in the kitchen doorway until, suddenly, it’s not there anymore. He blinks, rewinds, and watches it disappear again.

Phil’s caffeinated brain is firing on all cylinders now. He grins and shoves his sleeves up to his elbows before he starts fiddling with the clip. The lighting gets played with until the shadow is more obvious and then he slows it down to 0.25 times speed to see if the shadow really just vanishes.

He presses play again. This time, with a very slow-motion Phil talking in the foreground, he sees the shadow move. It runs sideways, further into the house.

“What the fuck?” Dan breathes.

“We are not going back there without some serious protection,” PJ says, even firmer on the topic now.

“What, like sigils?” Dan asks, their pretty eyes wide even as they scoff. “You’d be better off with a fucking, like, baseball bat, mate. That doesn’t look like something that wants to be your friend.”

“I’ve got a crowbar in PJ’s trunk,” Phil says, absent-minded as he plays with the clip some more.

“Excuse me? When did you put that in my car?”

“Couple months ago.”

“Huh. How have I not noticed?”

“You’re not the most observant person I’ve ever met,” says Phil. He looks up at Chris, who’s got the same exhilarated look that Phil is sure he’s mirroring. They don’t get evidence like this very often, something so clearly there that it’s even got a skeptic’s mind racing. Phil exports the edited clip and then the original, putting them both into the Cloud and emailing them to himself. “Was this the only time you saw it?”

Chris nods, accepting his laptop back when Phil is done with it. “I’ll look through everything again, now that I know what I’m looking for and all, but I think that’s it.”

“Okay, cool.” Phil looks around at his friends and Dan, beaming. “Something weird is happening. I love it when something weird is happening.”

“I hate it when something weird is happening,” PJ says, which is a blatant lie.

“Well, we can’t go snooping around until it’s darker out, anyhow,” Sophie reminds them.

“Wait, we’re snooping?” Dan asks, their voice going up an entire octave in disbelief. “Like… you just saw that someone is there and probably not happy about people sneaking around, right? Don’t you have enough for a video already?”

“We’re spending the night,” says Phil. “It’s what we do.”

“It’s what you do,” PJ corrects him.

“Okay, yeah, you guys don’t have to come if you don’t want to.”

“No, I’m coming,” says PJ.

As if she can’t hear them bickering, Sophie turns to Dan with a sweet smile, her eyes twinkling with the same excitement in Chris’. They love this, just like Phil does. “What about you, Dan?” she asks. “Are you going to have a ghost sleepover with us?”

“There’s no such thing as ghosts,” Dan says, their eyes still glued to the back of Chris’ laptop like they can see the shadow through it.

“Guess you don’t have anything to be afraid of, then,” says Chris.

“Uh, axe murderers, maybe?”

“We know what we’re doing, Dan,” Phil reassures them. He reaches a hand out to pat at their arm, feeling a bit awkward about it. “But you don’t have to come with us if you’re scared.”

That makes Dan’s gaze shift. Suddenly, those brown eyes are staring right into Phil’s soul, defiant and beautiful and impossible to look away from.

“Who said I was fucking scared?”

[takaska]

when trans people Choose not to take hormones or "medically transition" (or even if they DO but still choose to be gender non-conforming in any capacity) it does not mean every time someone new meets and misgenders us that it's our fault. whether we were surprised or not, angered or not by it, THEY still misgendered a trans person, because THEY didn't ask, they assumed.

when it's a stranger going "ma'am, you dropped this" or someone on the phone calling me "miss" I often won't correct people if i dont think i'll see them again, or if I don't have energy, or i just dont feel safe. that doesnt mean I'm not allowed to be upset that I was misgendered. it's often not even At the person, just the fact that society has everyone so fucked up that cis is still seen as The Only Option if someone doesn't have their pronouns on their forehead (even then people choose to misgender us all the time)

people make "did you just ASSUME my gender??" jokes, but that shit legitimately hurts BECAUSE I shouldn't have to look like fuckin clint eastwood to be referred to with he/him pronouns, and transfemmes shouldnt have to look like fuckin Marilyn Monroe to be referred to with she/her pronouns. gender neutral language, or just forgoing pronouns/ titles altogether if you arent sure, needs to be way more normalized than people just getting mad at someone for "tricking you" based on... the fact that they existed near you and wanted to be gendered correctly...