its been a billion years since I posted anything meaningful about mcga but I'm thinking about Alex helping Magnus with clothes.
I think Blitzen would love to help style Magnus, but I think he might accidentally end up being a bit overbearing, albeit with good intentions. He wants to help, but would probably end up tripping over his own fashion opinions more often than not, and Magnus would want to make his friend happy too much to actually voice his own opinions consistently. But Alex would understand that identity through fashion is something slow to be discovered on your own. It's not instant, it's a slow process of trying things and finding out what makes you feel good physically and emotionally. You can't pressure a person finding their own style, especially someone who's never had much room to do so and will likely feel guilty about making that room. She's gone through the process, and she'd probably be more than happy to help someone with it too.
I'm thinking about them going around to different stores and finding that Magnus likes second hand and low-end boutique stuff more than anything. Alex letting him onto her etsy account and buying his first piece of jewelry, taking him around to all of her favorite stores where she's greeted as a friend. Yeah, they could do all this in Valhalla, but where's the fun in that?
I think Magnus would like earth tones and dark, muted colors. He would avoid synthetic materials for their unnaturally soft textures and blue would make rare appearances. Alex would parade him around in his first pair of White Guy Khaki Shorts in five years, glowing with a silly sort of pride and Magnus feeling something kindle back to life in his chest at a growing collection or flannels, just like his mom. I'm imagining Magnus learning what it's like to live with his body, rather than despite it, and feel comfortable with himself in his surroundings for the first time since he was a little kid, taking a hike in the woods. And I'm thinking of Alex holding his hand the whole time.
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Reflecting on how ppl perceive me being a guy is interesting bc largely it is a non thing even in lgbt spaces. So most ppl treating me like a guy has been from me joking about it more, which leads others to joke about it too but the jokes are very much like Masc tm donny hates women jokes. Which I do find funny to a degree obviously bc joking abt the toxic masc standards is funny but I'm also literally like femme gay so it feels slightly surreal that that's the kind of masc affirming joke around yk. Like I want to be at that point where I'm baseline recognized as a femme gay guy bc that's what I am but when I don't pass I guess people would feel like it was misgendering to go for like a girly gay guy joke.
This is like a nothing sentiment though I'm just thinking out loud. I guess even in a jokey way I don't really enjoy the separation lmao. I don't enjoy other lgbt ppl asking me if my pronouns are she/her off the bat or ppl thinking everything in reference to me needs to be as burly masc tm as possible. ig largely I don't like being heavily gendered in any direction. 'they' tends to have the woman lite connotation with me, irl ppl don't use it pronouns typically. Again I want to pass Enough as a guy already so I can feel good about being genderstrange.
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