#i'm nonbinary and use they/them btw

[vintageandroid]

Funny story:

My mom completely forgot my deadname.

Now, this was a little bit of a problem because I still use that name for legal purposes, and my mom was actually writing me a check. So, like, not the most convenient thing in the world. She remembered quickly and was able to correct. We both thought it was hilarious.

But like...this lady selected my old name. It was a family name. She knew me by this name for over 30 years. We were actually estranged for seven of those until last summer when I reached out again because I'd heard my parents had genuinely improved as people and were ready to actually be nice, respectful, and acknowledge boundaries. So like, she wasn't even there when I started going by Ollie.

But she's been trying really hard to use my name (and pronouns, which she still struggles with but she's trying so I don't mind, I care more about effort than perfection). My niblings are happy to correct slip-ups, which is fantastic, and like basically everyone I know, she agrees that Ollie is a super good name for me.

And apparently for a few seconds she just fuckin' wholeass forgot my deadname.

So anyway, I pass on this blessing to you. May the people in your life be as forgetful as my mom, although perhaps not when it's legally inconvenient for them to do so.

[dawn-sunlight]

Let me explain, please I must illustrate to you all why I love this ship so much.

In the last episode of chapter 4, when the main 5 find out about Misty's involvement with the villain, Sunny is seemingly the most upset and hurt by this. She really really REALLY didn't want it to be true, and if you pay close attention to the scenes afterwards you'll notice that she seemed to want to listen and believe what Misty was saying. I think the screenshots below really show this well.

And chapter 5 has shown that Sunny is clearly the one who is the most invested in Misty, she is the most concerned about how Misty feels and whether she is safe and comfortable around them.

It's also definitely worth noting that the thing that causes Misty to finally realize they don't actually want to succeed at their tasks and that's why they keep failing is a speech from Sunny on her and Hitch's cooking show and this fact lives in my mind rent-free.

Plus I just feel like these two have really good story potential.

This ship is also just funny to me on some level because Misty was supposed to hate Sunny and her "ridiculous friends" but instead he ended up dating her.

[snowstories]

Weighing in on the debate “Are you allowed to ship aromantic characters?” As an aromantic person, this is a difficult subject. On the one hand, we have characters who clearly and repeatedly state that they hate romance, do not feel romantic attraction, and don’t want to be in a relationship. On the other hand, we have your personal inability to engage with deep relationships without making them romantic. As a compromise, I say people are allowed to ship canon aromantic characters, provided they pay me at least $100 in cash for the license.

[crowfromfoggyforest]

today on "reasons why i use microlabels":

my gender will stay more or less the same for months, making me think that maybe it's not actually fluid or affected by things around me.

and then it will suddenly shift to "almost boy" just because i saw a video of a person with a deep voice and he/they pronouns who had the same haircut as me. that's what made it change. excuse me brain do you even know what you're doing??

[fennthetalkingdog]

Man, talking to people that aren't buried in queer and furry culture like I am is such a good way to keep myself grounded. Like, one of my friends just asked me what a catboy or dogboy was (I made bead bracelets a long time ago saying those) and that gave me the chance to stop and think what I want those terms to mean for myself. Sometimes it's cool to have someone who just knows and understands, but other times it's super cool having folk around me that don't get it first try, no matter how weird that might sound to say.

[outer-edges]

bruh apparently my roommate fell down the terf pipeline this summer and proudly told me she is a terf tonight. uh. babe what the fuck do you want me to do with that.

[larryrickard]

i had a dream that i made little cards that say "THEY!" on them that i handed out to people at work who got my pronouns wrong, immediately after they got it wrong. and in smaller text (or on the back) it said "i don't want an apology, i want you to do better" or "don't say you're sorry, DO BETTER" and ..... i kind of want to do it. maybe i'll get some moo cards made lmao

various scenarios included:

me slamming it down on a desk in front of them.

instead i had stickers, would slowly peel one off while they watched, and stick it on it on them.

handing out a quarter sheet piece of paper based on the 'i caught being good' tags we'd get in kindergarten which said 'i got caught misgendering hallie/my coworker'. it would have their name and date on it and a giant 🙁 face. i had them as a pad of paper and would hold up a finger to say 'wait a second', dramatically pull it out of my back pocket, take my pen out of another pocket, slowly fill it out in front of them, and hand it to them while staring them in the eyes.

getting a whiteboard for the outer side of my cubicle wall that said '[days] since i was misgendred' (with a bonus by saying 'last offender: [name]'

i also dreamt that i got into trouble for it because i was making people feel bad and was 'creating a hostile work environment'. i was just like.... okay and how do you think i feel? and my boss shut up real fuckin quick. dunno if that would be the case irl but if that does happen i can only dream.

[al3x-y]

Wip of my Sansona drawing, maybe i'll finish it someday–

[mieczyhale]

not only are they non-binary, they also have ocd

fucking shoot me no wonder i felt weirdly attached to their music and presence right away

[playawner]

I think I need to get off from reels fr this time, because why am I getting detrans content every 5 minutes. I didn't liked a single post about it. What the fuck man

[mechazushi]

Standing at the edge of the lowest platform at the base of the Jeager, were two of the mechanics that had been freshly reassigned to the newest arrival to the Shatterdome, The Divine Deliverance. A taller brunette with long hair wolf-whistled as her eyes trailed higher and higher up the metal monstrosity, taking in her size and design.

"Damn, she's wirey looking one. What do you think she runs on? Nuclear? Has to, right? I mean, she's got a Japanese sponsor, that's what they typically use."

"Worse. Experimental Cold Fusion." A short and quite round blond woman with a neck length bob next to her said, leaning most of her upper body weight on a 62 in, 72 pound pipe wrench.

"Shit." The brunette drawled out, " That means there's gonna be a half-dozen asshats swarmin' the base soon that are about to think they can tell us how to do our job."

"And about 30 safety meetings going over how this damn thing works." the blond woman said as she shifted her stance.

"And we don't even work on the core, that's Terry's crew!" The taller woman said as it jumped to her turn.

"My biggest problem with her is why the hell they gave her such massive hips?" The one wielding the pipe wrench piped up.

"And you of all people got a problem with that?" the brunette teased as she looked down at her friend with a knowing smirk.

"On a robot, yes!" the blond woman retaliated, "That means that there's going to be extra strain on the center-balance servos! Not only are they a bitch to replace, when one breaks, it sends shit all over the lube lines! Which means it's a twenty hour wait while the thing drains, and then I have to shimmy my fat ass through those damn tubes and collect bits and pieces of titanium shards bigger than my fist and heavier than my head! You know damn well that shit ain't fun!" She balanced the pipe wrench against her thigh and arched her back into an intense stretch, "Damn, now my back's cramping up just thinking about it."

Off in the distance behind them, they could sense a distinct change in the atmosphere behind them. The metal workers around them slowed down and became quieter in the process while the ammo loaders and other mech-preppers began to either clap and cheer, or disperse into hushed conversations. Well, hushed enough for the loud and busy environment they were in.

"And they're coming in right behind us, aren't they." the brunette said

"Yep." answered the other one.

The two of them turned around at the same time to get a good look at the pilots entering the main loading deck. Their eyes got bigger and bigger as they got a better view while the newcomers got closer.

"Damn! Like Jeager, like owner." The taller woman harshly growled out as her friend nodded her head in stunned silence. They watched as the pair of attractive and athletically built women strutted closer and closer to their Jeager.

"Ya know, maybe we should get going. Probably shouldn't give the impression that there's lazy people working on something so precious to a Jeager pilot." the blond woman said nervously as she tried to shoulder her wrench and scuttle away.

Her friend's smile grew into a malicious grin as it dawned on her as to why she wanted to leave quickly. Grabbing the back of her overalls, she dragged her closer to the newest arrivals to the Shatterdome.

"Better idea. Let's introduce ourselves." the brunette said playfully. Her shorter friend tried to fight back and voice how this was a terrible idea, but as they got closer the taller woman managed to wrap her forearm around her friend's face and effectively muffle her protests.

"So, I take it from all the commotion that you two are the Divine Deliverance Pilots?" The brunette answered for both of them.

The twins turned to her with surprise on their faces, but took the interruption in stride, gladly taking the opportunity to engage in conversation.

"Yep! I'm Devar and this is Deil. I've been wanting the chance to talk to somebody that's working on DiDe here." The woman with the short hair and the shaved left side spoke. She carried a chipper kind of energy that seemed almost infectious. Her twinwith the twin-tails and the right half shaved came up and propped up an elbow on her sister's shoulder before she joined in the conversation.

"Uhhh, what's up with your friend there?" The one supposedly named Deil questioned, having a much deeper tone and a more relaxed vibe to her presence.

"Nice to meet you both. I'm Audrey and this is Riley, we call her Rivets around here. Don't worry about this, it's just a preventative measure to keep her from embarrassing herself around pretty women." The brunette answered casually.

The blond one trapped in her arm slowly turned her head to look at her captor with murder in her eyes. Deil turned her head to the side and tried to hide a snort of laughter while Devar bit her lips in amusement before continuing.

"That's... good to know. Would either one of you happen to know anyone that would be familiar with the legs of a model similar to our DiDe here?" Devar asked.

"Ahh! That would actually be Rivets here. Go on girl, show them where that lack of a dating scene has gotten you." Audrey joked as she unraveled her arm from around Riley's head. She took the chance to smack Audrey in the kneecap with the wrench before beginning her interrogative inspection.

"What seems to be the problem?" She started. She had to wait for Deil to pull herself together before she could get an answer.

"Yeah, so, Devar thinks I'm crazy for this, but I swear I can feel a vague vibrating coming from DiDe's right knee. I think it's especially noticeable when we're just doing half-strides."

"Disappears during full strides?" Riley asked.

"Couldn't tell ya. If we're doing full strides, then at that point we're about to start a fight." Deil responded. They all waited as Riley stared off into the distance in the direction of the knee in question. After a minute, it seemed that Riley came back to her senses as she blinked really fast and hard.

"The rubber gaskets around the pneumatic solenoids are stretching out. Nothing immediately life threatening, but if you think it's going to be a distraction later on, then we can try to get them replaced. It's going to depend on if we can get Gypsy Danger finished up and recalibrated before the next emergence." Riley finished as she donned her more official sounding voice that she used whenever she got roped into these sorts of conversations.

"And you just... have something like that here?" Devar questioned, wondering how they managed to store something that was supposedly the size of a Greyhound bus.

"Custom-made thirty miles outside of Denver. They've got an on demand storehouse where they keep a few different models on demand for emergency airlift. You're lucky she's outfitted with a standard '52B Hutcherson Solo otherwise we'd have to start kissing Italy's ass for anything in a different shape and you don't want to be here when I-" suddenly Audrey's arm wrapped itself back around Riley's mouth again once it was becoming clear that she wasn't about to stop talking anytime soon.

"See? Safety Measures." Audrey recalled. The twins nodded in unison once it became clear what she probably has to go through on a daily basis.

"Well I certainly feel better about leaving our baby girl in capable hands. I know you're supposed to report to our sponsor whenever you're asking to make repairs, but if it wouldn't trouble you too much, could you also send a head's up our way as well? " Devar politely pleaded with the two of them.

"Yeah, we're the crazy type of pilots that like to act like overbearing mothers to our giant metal ride-or-die." Deil finished the sentiment.

"Sound's great! You know, we can skip the hunting-you-down part of that request if you handed over your number to Rivet here. She's one of, like, five head mechanics that oversee your Jeager anyway, so it would be a good way to keep up with the changes before your boss even knows anyway." Audrey slyly added on while trying to fight a very angry Riley tucked into her arm.

"Hell yeah! Sounds amazing!" Deil said as she whipped out her phone. Audrey punched in her friend's number and waited for the receiving phone to ding. Once it did, she handed the phone back and started to drag her friend away.

"Thanks for settling that! We'll be sure we'll get around to that gasket problem soon!" Audrey yelled as both pairs parted ways. She waited for them to get an acceptable distance away before she released her grip on her friend.

"I believe a 'Thank you' is in order." Audrey said smugly.

"Yes it is." Riley replied in an irritated tone, " It will come in the form of your headstone matching your casket."

"Aww, come on. You can't be that mad, can you? I did you a lot of favors back there!" Audrey exclaimed, not bothering to hide her excitement.

"You should have known better! You know I am a consummate professional and I have rightfully gained that title by not entertaining distractions." Riley said as she shouldered her massive pipe wrench.

"I guess we're about to see how well that keeps up." Audrey replied back as she rolled her eyes. She watched as Riley walked away and ever closer to the dangerously unprotected ledge that led off to the pit the Jeager stood in.

"Always gotta have the last word." Riley mumbled to herself as she stepped off the platform and shockingly dropped from view.

If anyone wasn't the wiser, they would have thought that she had dropped to her death from her previous embarrassment. Unfortunately, monsters wait for no one's drama and neither do robot repairs. Landing on the metal grate of a wide bucket lift, she played around with the controls until they made her slowly rise from the pit she purposely fell into. Ascending up from the depths, she caught her friend's gaze as they both went off to start their day's work

"No time for slacking on the job, Audrey! We've got shit to fix!"

Noo...I'm not dead..I just can't finish sh*t right now, instead I start new shit each day, to add to my pile of shame.. :|

it just keeps happening, I don't know why..I know exactly why, but whatever

Soo, I came up with this idea, of two new OCs for the Kaijuverse...but it turned out kinda..complex..

What I thought of was the Hoshina-family tree (with the 1st and 4th son thing, you know what I mean). I tried to come up with an idea for the "middle" siblings....and I made them twins....aaand kinda smashed the Pacific Rim AU onto it just because.. 🫡 Yeah, I'd thought of a reason why they haven't appeared yet, and this is what I came up with:

Besides the issue with low combat power and mediocre performance with the sword, the two sisters where not quite what you'd call "presentable" for a formal reknowned kaiju slaying family clan. Even in modern times some might believe in twins to be a bad omen for a family and the lack in sword skill was seen proof of that by some.*

So when in highschool both where sent to leave for an exchange year to the U.S. Away from home and disapproving looks they finally thrived. (In this version of the AU, I kinda imagine the Pacific Rim methodics to be the American way to handle with Kaiju attacks, where they can upkeep a stable society and stuff just like Japan).

While failing to fight Kaiju in a combat suit, they are now outstanding together as jaeger pilots, preferebly using no additional weapons, but the adapted Hoshina hands-on fighting style, which they mastered and altered to their needs, 'till it could be perfectly transmitted to a jaeger. Despite their success abroad, the Hoshina clan is not eager to spread more news about them than necessary. While Soshiro couldn't grasp the events around his sisters much, due to his young age, Soichiro was especially hurt seeing his little sisters leave. It might caused him to try not to be as attached to his last remaining sibling. But when he saw how his bragging got Soshiro on his toes and skyrocket his training, he thought he'd found a way to prevent his brother from his families displeasement. Even if it meant giving up on a close bond with his brother in exchange.

Now, grown-up, the twins don't have contact with the Hoshina clan, or their father, but occasionally chat with their brothers just to catch up.

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*I am so very anxious when talking about another cultures law. I am "educated" by limfamy's youtube videos, and saw this one, where he explained that Japanese families frowned upon twin and/or tripplet births before the 2nd half of the Edo Period. Of course this has changed in modern times, and my accusement there might me people still believing in old ways, is a sheer assumption for the sake of my plot.

So VERY sorry, if I get this wrong, please don't hate me, and I'd love to be corrected if there's need to!

(This is also why they are nameless btw, I don't dare trying the find fitting names that work in japanese with the 1st,2nd,3rd and smth... if anybody knows more about this stuff and has suggestions you're more than welcome to share, i'd love to hear them!!)

[eatanorange]

marauders do the candy trauma salad trend since I JUST saw a fantastic one for pjo (highly encourage y'all to add your versions/to this pls I don't have solid hcs of everyone) (evan's is fully me projecting btw)(a lot of them are me projecting <3).

Upon completion I want to add up here n not just the tags that these do reference various traumas/bigotry so be careful and mind what headspace ur in n all that pls take care of urselves k thanks love u.

Sirius: Hi I'm sirius and every time my mother considered something I did 'impure', like experience joy or get sorted in to gryffindor, she took my mouth away! *momentary zone out from the horrors* I brought milk duds!

Barty: bazooka bubblegum. *vid cuts* I'm barty and I hate my dad for all of the reasons you can imagine and I think it would be fun if he blew up. good?

Lily: Hi I'm Lily and after I got sent to magic school, all emotional ties with my muggle sister, who regards me as a freak, and my mother, who was more sensitive to her side, were severed. They didn't tell me when my dad died. I brought 3 musketeers.

Remus: Hi I'm remus and I got bit by a werewolf when I was 5, then my dad offed himself because of it. I brought moon pies.

James: Hi I'm James and I fell into limerence with someone and incessantly pursued them for over a year in ways that were detrimental to both of our mental states. I was so public about it I don't even need to say who it was. My mother sat me down one day and said "was it something your father and I did, something we said, that convinced you you need to beg someone to love you? to let you show them love?" and that broke something in me. We're chill now though, and I have coping techniques that work for me while still allowing me to be my expressive self, so I brought mr. goodbars.

Peter: Hi I'm peter and my animagus is literally a rat. I brought sour patch kids.

Dorcas: Hi I'm dorcas and my pureblood parents will never say it to my face but they wanted me to be a boy. To compensate I was sure to always get top marks, be well liked, and experience gender dysphoria. I burnt out before our 5th year, and learning radical acceptance in the place of trying to guess unspoken rules saved my life. I brought smarties.

Regulus: Hi I'm regulus and in order to be sure my mother didn't assassinate my brother for running away, I stayed behind in the abusive household and eventually became a deatheater to keep my cover, hunting down one bald headed bitch's horcruxes until it literally almost killed me. I think it did kill me in some lives. and I brought the starburst.

Mary: Hi I'm Mary and due to blood supremacist bigots, I have to go to school with people who want me to die just for having the audacity to exist. The muggle world is also like this. The school I go to does not matter in this scenario. I brought mentos for the salad and a bottle of soda for the show.

Evan: Hi I'm evan and my ex went on holiday to another country for 3 months, told me we could write to stay connected, they didn't, broke up with me via owl while still on said vacation, and then came to talk to me in person about that, denied that it was an active choice to disconnect from me, then tried to put the onus of any friendship to follow on just me. We haven't spoken since. Also I'm a sex positive, but also trauma affected ace, it was an open relationship, and they somehow still managed to be shady/inconsiderate about hooking up with someone on the vacation. I brought blow pops.

Pandora: Hi I'm pandora and sometimes I get prophetic dreams so vivid I can't tell when I wake up. Sometimes, though the future is not stagnant, I see my friends die :) I brought airheads.

Marlene: Hi I'm marlene and I have 5 brothers. 3 of them accept my nonbinary identity. The rest, and my parents, blatantly ignore that I use they/them pronouns. Then they told me if I don't have children as an adult I won't be worth visiting because it's my job as a pureblood to produce an heir. So I went to St. Mungos and got sterilized. I brought baby ruth candy.

Hope you enjoy! and thanks if you read them all! This was fun for me.

[regretevator-confessions]

This is in response to Nemelerdo's confession about queer representation in Regretevator: I totally agree that obvious queer rep is good and desirable, but I feel like this is the most obvious you can make it without it tipping over into the accidentally offensive category. Like.. Yeah I knew Gregoriah was trans because I knew Gregoriah is a man and his voice + design read as trans to other trans people. Recognition of the self in the other and all that. The characters are open and obvious about their pronouns and use them in dialogue- I know Pilby is probably nonbinary bc they use they/them, I know Gnarpy uses neopronouns, etc etc. The only canon relationships are mlm exes and two wlw asking each other out. Do you expect these characters to just say "Oh no! I summoned the flood! Also I'm trans btw"? Do you want Pest to tell you he has ASPD as he's like robbing you? I think it would be cute and charming to have like character profiles accessible in-game, but this is literally the most overt queer rep you can get before it spills over into like comically bad. The characters aren't going to tell people who already know their pronouns their pronouns, they aren't going to drop the fact that they have ADHD while you're spritzing them with water, and they won't come out to you while lazering you for annoying them because that would all be like, really weird

(Referring to this)

[gettinontopic]

How am I racist? Other people are constantly trying to get through to you about transmisogyny and you instead choose to constantly try and hide behind being black, acting like that makes you immune from transmisogyny. You can still hurt transfems of any race with the way you talk about opression. You think men are an opressed class who's so so victimized by the mean women and fems of the world that you wont listen to those same actually opressed women.

Maybe if you were more willing to listen onstead of bloack a bunch of us every time we disagreed with you, you would u deratand how you're perpetuating more misogyny than any trans woman/fem whos using a few words not perfectly.

Btw, the standards you put on our words isn't fair and then you turn around and demand we be okay when your word litteraly implues we can opress you.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

How are you racist? How are you r a c i st?? You have to be kidding me! This must be a joke. Your laugh of the day. Your haha of the week.

I d not hide behind being black. Youre sick for implying that. Like many black people before me I beg my community to remember the nuances that come with my race when they talk and a bunch of them spit in my fucking face. They tell me they want the right to opress me (As if their whiteness doesn't already allow that) or they try and argue how another class of trans women is still below me in their sick opression math. They are not below me because this is not a ranking of who has it worse. Me and trans women are working together to rid the world of transphobia.

I have never on my ENTIRE blog said that men are so opressed by women. Words in my mouth moment!! I have said that the patriarcy, a system of opressions, opresses men and encourages the worst in human behavior to survive and be safe.

Those womens opression doesn't matter more than mine. All of our opression matters equal ly. We are all fighting for our rights and safet. There is no reason we need to form a line and force someone to wait a turn. I am not speaking over woman to call out the abuse to to trans men, trans masc, and other nonbinary people. Nor is it speaking over women to make sure intersex voices are included and heard when its said that negtive stereotypes and standards of men hurt them too.

Funny you claim I block all of you but you seem to have no clue how many have me blocked on the word of a racist discourse blog or who blocked me after I rightfully call out their racist remarks. It grossed me out that you assume I can't hold good faith discussion and not that maybe some of you blocked me first for talking at all. Also lmao guilt tripping me for using my block feature to keep my spaces safe and comfortable. Why, did I block your main and you've bee seething?

I'm not bothered by a few incorrect words. I'm litterally pissed at the racism, exorsexism, and blantant transphobia thats been thrown my way and the way of many other trans people at this point in an attempt to stop us from speaking about opression that affects us.

*Slow clap* What standard? The standard not to write transphobic ass shit about trans men/masc? Where you blantanly lie about our experiences ? To the point you're also lying about our nonbinary experiences? To the point where your lying about intersex and multigender and even sometimes other different trans womens experiences? I watch this happen in resl time and you have the audacity to ckme in my inbox and tell me I'm word policong you? Right before admitting you don't want us to have our word bc you still won't learn it's definition!! Fuck.

I am proud of myself. I am so proud of my beautiful nonbinary black fucking ass that you WISH you could have what I do.

[mischa-makowka]

I have a question and i am legit curious and not at all trying to be mean but please ignore me if i am! I just saw you art (beautiful btw) of nonbinary folks not owing you androgyni and yeah! You don't owe anyone anything just because of your gender but isn't like....looking androgynous the point? I understand leaning to more feminine or masculine presenting things and looks but overall isn't the point of nonbinary to not look like either? Again i am so sorry if I'm being insensitive and please fo ahead and cuss me out if you need to i don't mind, I'm just curious and my trans friends are all full mtf or ftm none of them identify as nonbinary

thank you for asking respectfully! nonbinary is not a synonym of androgynous, gender identity ≠ appearance, we shouldn't assume someone's gender based on what they look like. it's true that a lot of nonbinary people prefer to look androgynous but a lot of us still love expressing ourselves differently. same goes for everyone. there are feminine men and masculine women, the way they look doesn't define their gender.

i'm nonbinary and i mostly prefer to look androgynous but sometimes i want to wear makeup and more feminine clothes, it doesn't make me a woman though (literally the only thing that often stops me is that other people might misgender me).

also some trans people are not safe to express themselves the way they want or don't have the privilege to get gender affirming care, their identity is still valid.

[gayelderstourney]

OLD MAN YAOI/OLD WOMAN YURI TOURNAMENT

Do you love old man yaoi? Old woman yuri? Do you want to see your favorite old man yaoi and old woman yuri couples fight each other? to the death? Well here we are now.

(Btw we only do real gay elders here we are NOT calling dudes in their 30s old man yaoi. more info is in the form and under the read more)

This is my third time running a tournament; I also did @worstcharacterpoll and @youngersiblingstournament & both times i have gained more insight on how to run these properly LOL

well anyway ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS NOW vvv

submissions will close Jul 19 at 8:00 pm CST/Jul 20 at 1:00 UTC

Guidelines and stuff is below, but it's copy pasted in the submission form. Also please submit yuri

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (Please read):

No real people even if it's really funny

No characters based on real people

Couples must be gay; if one of them is canonically nonbinary though, they will be allowed

No incest or abusive ships

I'll be vetting source material on a case-by-case basis, but just so we're clear I'm not putting Harry Potter or OFMD in the poll

There will be a maximum of one ship per source material in the poll. You can submit multiple ships from the same material, but only one will be allowed if it gets in

AGE GUIDELINES SECTION (because I keep seeing people use the term "old man yaoi" for couples in their 30s or even 20s):

THESE GO FOR BOTH PARTIES IN THE RELATIONSHIP

Human characters with a canon age must be at least 50. This also goes for characters that aren't human but age at the same rate as humans. Please double-check your characters' ages before you submit to save me some headache

If they don't have a canon age, they must look elderly.

No characters that have been de-aged (ex. Purah from Zelda).

For nonhuman characters that age at a different rate than humans: they must be old for their species (ex. Ravenpaw and Barley from Warrior Cats; Ravenpaw is the younger one, and is around the same age as Graystripe, who becomes old enough to retire as an elder).

For immortals/characters with very very long lifespans, they must look old (ex. Gandalf from Lord of the Rings would count; Hythlodaeus from Final Fantasy XIV would not).

Couples that will already be in the poll, so you don't need to submit them:

Fiddleford McGucket/Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls)

Hanayo Nishida/Yoshiko Dojima (Hanamonogatari)

Ravenpaw/Barley (Warriors)

Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers (The Owl House)

Couples already under consideration, but will depend on the other submissions if they get in the poll or not; you may submit your support for them if you want to see them:

Walter White/Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad) (keep in mind this one is mostly a joke)

Ms. Bitters/Countess von Verminstrassen (Invader Zim) (minor characters but I invented this one and I'm partial to it)

The Once-ler/The Lorax (Lorax 2012)