#im not rly straight or gay or bi or ace or trans or cis or anything

[algrenion]

i love the term queer in relation to myself because it feels so nebulous and fluid, but also so strong. non-newtonian. like the oobleck of identitifiers. subject to extreme change, but solid in its own unique way, especially when struck. that's just my interpretation of it, but i think it's delightful.

[araksi413]

hi hello!! can i ask 🎮, 🌈, 💙 and 🤔 for the oc ask game? i don’t think i’m familiar with any of your ocs yet so feel free to tell me abt as many ocs as u want to if you have more than one :D

- @bumblebee-bumbling

hiiiiii so sorry for taking so long to answer ! thank you so much for asking !!

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🎮 VIDEO GAME CONTROLLER — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

ooh okay instead of three hobbies per oc ill do three ocs. smiles

Sarah - gardening !! she likes to grow vegetables that her wife bakes into yummy food. they're a very sweet couple

Mattias - fashion.. he likes sewing his own dresses when he has time, though with uni he's much busier then before

Eva - some sort of fighting sport ? probably boxing, she has a lot of anger so venting it by punching people that consent to it is probably nice.. also probably did like. dancing when younger but quit bc of the teachers

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💙 BLUE HEART — does your oc have any cool/special powers and/or abilities? how are they with magic, if it exists in their world?

the Special Twelve are my dnd-ish ocs, so at least some of them have magic :D

most that do have an average skill with magic, tho Bon is a bit of a prodigy for his age.. he had an access to powerful high level magic since early childhood which 1) resulted in him blowing himself up with a fireball at age 10 and 2) means he learned impressive powerful spells before groundwork so he's incredibly powerful but. cant do common level stuff

in World 1, Anna is a time walker... she can pass through different time bubbles/areas and affects time around her (morphs it into what she considers her time, does so subconsciously)

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🤔 THINKING FACE — what are some of your oc's quirks/mannerisms?

Ezry - likes to give people nicknames and petnames ! they get very silly with it

honestly not sure who else to put here..

Al'ixia-MariUnak is super anxious and wrings her hands a lot and pulls on her hair

hmmm Mattias is very touchy but only w people he's close to (so mostly Eva)..

Emobear is mute and not very expressive which is highlighted by Deer who is overly expressive and talkative...

[no name entered] growls a lot, before they learn to mimic human speech, and even afterwards when around people that uh. aren't bad <<they were in a pretty bad situation for a while

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🌈 RAINBOW — what is your oc's sexual orientation/gender identity? what pronouns do they use?

alright, putting this one last bc im gonna do p much all of my ocs:

World 1:

Eva - trans girl, straight (?), she/her

Mattias - gnc cis guy, gay, he/him

Sarah - lesbian, butch, she/her, definitely used he/him at some point

Sun - bisexual, she/her

Zara - bisexual & polyam !, she/her

Anna - transwoman, hasn't ever thought about romance or sex, she/her

Deer - gender is just deer, it/its, Emobear's girlfriend

Emobear - it/he/they, no gender, Deer's girlfriend

Charles - transmasc, not really a man tho? complicated identity issues die to being dead and isolated from society, doesnt care all that much, uses no pronouns

[no name entered] - that's a alien. uhm. nonbinary in a way, fully outside our gender norms. they/them and neopronouns

Araksi - agender aromantic asexual, has a qpp, they/them, sometimes it/its

Daphne - she's a snake.. probably aro? but not ace, i think. doesn't rly use pronouns for herself but other people call her she and she hasn't corrected them

Special Twelve :

(labels would be more complicated bc they would not exist in their world and their society is different then ours, none of them actually have the words to describe their identities the same way we would)

Cari'sam - cis and straight(?) (is it comphet? is it compallo? is she straight?)(she's struggling), she/her

Roben - trans woman, bi, she/her

Menir - gay bear man. he should've gotten to be a bear. he/him

Bon de Ciel - hasn't thought about it (hes just a babyyy), potentially aro/ace , he/him

Illumm - he/they, would get very flustered if asked about romance (questioning, probably)

Al'ixia-MariUnak - bisexual, grey-ace <- but so unaware, she/her, probably she/they if she ever thought about it

Man Uu - gnc genderqueer man, free with his love (wouldn't label), he/him usually, but wouldn't mind any other pronouns (i should make him do drag....)

Faelyn Anastasia Boldur - genderfluid/genderqueer, wouldn't id as trans, they have a job so they're not thinking about it, the uniform isnt gendered anyway, they/ze/he/she

Em - they/them nonbinary, wouldn't id as trans

Kamari - they/them but due to additional identity issues, not being trans. they're weird about it <3

Ezry - they/them nonbinary, would id as trans

Camm Dan - in love with his best friend, wouldn't label himself, he/him

Other OCs (holy shit theres more ??):

Un: eh??? probably aro but married? at some point, she/they/it

Rikuki: pan & arospec probably? they/xey/ze

Láng and Lú have the same deal really - when you have lived countless lives in many shapes and forms how can you just be one. all of them are you - their different reincarnations use different pronouns and names but their souls are like. genderless. forever chasing each other because noone else can understand.

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[spearxwind]

correct!

KHLFDKH God i mean. Thats genuinely how I hope my HR shitposts read as 

if i wasnt going for a horrible dark comedy/tragedy combo the story would be a rly edgy slice of life 

I honestly dont know what to say to this bc Im very bad at comparing what I do with others, but if you havent checked them out my friends and I are mostly into the same kinda nonsense! 

@/limesquares @/silvaerial @/theashpit @/excaive and @/sharpibees 

OH THANK U SM I RLY APPRECIATE THAT,,, 

oh well for dragons take my advice with a grain of salt because i have been drawing those bitches for 13 years straight so a lot of the process has been automated for me >:’) 

advice i can give though is definitely think abt what kind of environment it lives in! and then choose real animals that live in those biomes, so you can take the attributes that would Make Sense for them to have (things like claw/spine shapes or lack thereof, feather shapes, wing shapes, coloration... etc) 

There’s a lot of misconception around making cool creatures and having them look cool by just grabbing a bunch of attributes that LOOK cool, but when you look at them all put together its very hard for them to look cohesive as you said.

A lot of it falls into creature design in general and just... asking questions abt ur creature like? How does it fly? How does it hunt? Obviously you dont need to do a whole scientific research or be anatomically accurate but thinking a but about that animal knowledge applied to what youre making. If youre going to make a night hunter, give it owl wings! Soft skin/hide/fur so it doesnt whistle through the air and alert prey. If it lives on snow give it wide paws with fur/feathers on them (like winter ptarmigans or winter hares!) so it can walk on the snow softly without falling in. A lot of irl animals are incredible and its sad that a lot of people just fall back on ah yes i will make Big Beefy Beast With Huge Claw and call it a day

(not that... im not guilty of that myself of course. huge claws are horribly cool) 

sdkfjdsfkjl Hed just Eat It on the spot 

also man I really dont have that much on him but I can say that he has a huge scar on his back from :) happenings :) 

and volites cant ever scar unless theyre literally on the verge of death, so thats fun! 

ah well, admittedly a lot of my ocs are cis, but not a single one is straight and you can count on that! Here’s a bunch!! If their orientation isnt listed here its just bc i havent figured it out 100% yet so just default it to bisexual aight 

Adri - he/him agender aroace  Rip - he/him cis pan Alex - he/him cis bi  C - she/her cis bi (ace) Orion - he/him trans bi Ethan - he/him cis gay (ace) Dianne - she/her cis lesbian (ace) Nirven - he/they nb aroace  Reina - she/they trans nb Gala - she/her cis(??) lesbian Sol - they/them nb  Caval - they/them nb  Amara - she/her cis lesbian

-thick russian accent- he Crush It in his big hand like mere grape

omg idk what I could say?? He’s a CEO !! of what? well, guess we’ll find out someday  he also has.... many suits. and thinks cars are cool. imagine the most basic Rich Businessman ... yeah. hes a cool guy though! 

this is going to sound so fucking wack but my favorite icecream is literally donut icecream (and if not then... white chocolate. im one of those white choc apologist bitches) 

[abyssal-glory]

For the "Send me a character" asks, Hero, TOby, RGB, and Dial from tpoh? Or your pick of the bunch if you only wanna do one character per ask!

dude this is probably the only ask im gonna get im doin em all babey

Hero:

Sexuality Headcanon: when (if) she grows up, either ace or bi

Gender Headcanon: this isnt even really a headcanon since mod p much confirmed she is (or will be, if she ever gets the chance to figure it out) a nonbinary girl but i love it anyway :D

A ship I have with said character: none

A BROTP I have with said character: i mean pretty much all the past heroes?? herofam ftw

A NOTP I have with said character: Any Adult :)

A random headcanon: she either already has or will in the future have some form of an anxiety disorder. my discord rp friends hate me for this headcanon haha :D

General Opinion over said character: i would die for you. precious child i have like eighty tpoh aus and she gets adopted in all of them

TOby:

Sexuality Headcanon: gay

Gender Headcanon: cis guy

A ship I have with said character: radio static because Oh My Gods doorstoplord has Ruined me

A BROTP I have with said character: TOby and Tailor. snark buddies who bond over hating RGB

A NOTP I have with said character: errr probably TOby with anybody other than Dial???? honestly radio static in-canon is even a bit of a stretch, he doesn’t seem like the type to get into romance.

A random headcanon: his human form was really tall and beefy and he intimidated the hell out of RGB the whole time they were traveling together

General Opinion over said character: his humor is dry as a dead leaf and he could probably kick rgb’s ass if he wasn’t stuck in a doll’s body. i adore him and i’m looking forward to seeing him again in the comic

RGB:

Sexuality Headcanon: pan, doi

Gender Headcanon: cis dude

A ship I have with said character: honestly i can see RGB with Magnus, but man, Madras definitely doesn’t get enough love from the fandom. like, don’t get me wrong, i love light entertainment, but there’s just...so much of it since everybody seems to ship it, and i can’t help but feel like ignoring the current, perfectly good ship dynamic in favor of one that’s already passed just because the current one happens to be straight is...kinda bonkers.

so i’m gonna go with eyetenna for this one. :D

A BROTP I have with said character: RGB and Hero. i am forever predictable

A NOTP I have with said character: RGB and Click. i’ve never liked hateships all that much i’m sorry :/

A random headcanon: his antennae make shapes according to his emotions

General Opinion over said character: wonderful catastrophe man. parent-in-denial. i love him so.

Dial:

Sexuality Headcanon: bi

Gender Headcanon: trans dude

A ship I have with said character: radio static

A BROTP I have with said character: dial and tailor. actually, dial, TOby, and tailor. the “We Hate RGB” club.

A NOTP I have with said character: dial and anybody who isn’t TOby. again, canon boi doesn’t rly seem like the type to get into a relationship, tho he does seem like the type to flirt.

A random headcanon: was shorter than rgb until they hit their teen years; he shot up like a weed and rgb was stuck at an angry 5’5. dial never ever ever stopped bringing this to his attention for as long as they were both alive (which, admittedly, wasn’t all that long, but)

General Opinion over said character: AWFUL TRAITOR BOY!!!! :D 

i love all the tpoh characters what do you want from me

[abstractlesbian]

Im rly sry im not trying to start discourse but im curious: do u think any wlw can pick up the label lesbian? Ive always been scared to commit to that identity bc I'm genderfluid and bi/demi but I do sometimes refer to me and my gf as lesbians bc it's easier to explain to straight ppl. this isnt a sensitive question so u dont have to post it if u dont want to deal w discourse I was just curious

Firstly of all DO NOT REBLOG THIS, and i won't be answering any further asks on this topic

You can be genderfluid and a lesbian or nonbinary and a lesbian (👋 I'm nonbinary and a lesbian)

And you can be demi/aro/ace etc and a lesbian

But you cannot be bisexual and a lesbian.

Lesbians are exclusively attracted to women (which includes trans women, non-binary women, and cis women) and ARE NOT ATTRACTED TO MEN (TRANS, NB, OR CIS)

Lesbian is no longer an umbrella term the way gay, the q slur, non-binary, lgbt etc are. It has a specific meaning.

There's other ways to say you're in a relationship with a woman or mainly attracted to women or whatever your situation may be without using the word lesbian. You already used wlw, but there's also sapphic or gay woman or the q slur (if you're comfortable reclaiming it).

And anon you don't have to simplify or hide your bisexuality from straight people. Bisexuality is a beautiful thing.

I'm not upset with you but I am currently coming down from a panic attack and really not up for talking about this further

Again, DO NOT REBLOG THIS, and i won't be answering any further asks on this topic

[keepthemacramesecret]

yknow im sure im not saying anything here that hasnt been said better by people more awake and literate than me but... in all this discourse over whether ppl can call themselves queer or not it rly is tiring how solidly a lot of it excludes trans people. like, i am, for all intents and purposes, a boy who is only interested in girls. im not gay or bi, but im Certainly not in any way going to call myself straight. im not connected to that culture or identity at all and i dont want to be, and it still wouldnt reaLLy describe my experiences accurately anyway even tho it fits a surface reading of the situation. and i dont mean that in a ‘im not straight bc im not Really a guy bc im not cis’ way before anyone tries it. i mean quantifying ur sexuality gets a lot more complicated when ur not cis and trying to declare outright that everyone is actually able to ~just pick bi or gay~ is.... blatantly erasing the experience of a huge portion of the community. im glad to id as ace, but it doesnt cover everything, and the only word that exists that i feel comfortable with is queer. 

literally no one is saying every single person has to like it or use it. no one. but you cannot deny people access to language that is not only useful but has been thoroughly reclaimed to the point that it is the name of an academic study. and if you dont like it being used as an umbrella term please consider: if you dont think of yourself as part of the queer community, only as lgbt, someone talking about the queer community is not talking about you. if u dont id as queer its not abt you. thats literally it. if u still relate to the content of the post/talk/essay/etc then great! solidarity! 

[antiterf]

monosexual is mostly considered homophobic bc it compares gay/lesbian ppl to straight ppl in a lot of contexts! this is usually when bi/pan/ace/aro ppl call gay/lesbian ppl out for their bi/pan/aphobia (usually rightfully so, but im not gonna get too much into that discourse here). unfortunately, while most of these ppl are well-meaning, this lumps the bi/aphobia from str8 ppl in with the bi/aphobia from gay ppl when theyre rly not comparable! tldr its a convenient but kinda shitty term

“monosexual” is homophobic and lesbophobic bc gays and lesbians dont like admitting they oppress multiple attracted people :/ like thats… literally it lmao. is ppl not wanting to admit theyre bi/pan/plyphobes. (Another anon not this one)

I literally consider myself straight so I don’t know what to do here. But I guess since this is coming from a straight white trans man who gets clumped together with white straight cis men all the time, mostly because people just refer to the least oppressed group of people, as straight white men, I can kind of see where you’re coming from here. I can also see where the other side is coming from because like.. it’s just a label that fits you. Sure I hate being grouped together with cis people, but I know that I fit labels that cis people can fit too. It doesn’t make the term straight transphobic, it’s just generally assumed by society that being in a group makes you extremely alike to other people in it. At that point, it’s just the fault of the human thought process.

But like I said, I’m straight. I really shouldn’t be taking a part on either side and I had no clue that this could be a possible landmine. I’ll just change it because I hate for this blog to go any farther than terf discourse and apparently that word reeks of it.

[winterywitch]

Hey. You're pretty smart in terms of media and social issues, so I have a possible media-related discussion point for you. What do you think is a realistic ratio of straight/cis to non-straight/non-cis individuals in a main cast? Obviously 'realistic' is not the same thing as 'ideal' here - ideally everyone'd be gay to some degree - but if people were focus testing a show to correspond with 'reality', what would be the likely ratio?

in terms of what's "realistic," i don't think we'll ever really know. maybe in another century lolbc it's very easy to say for example, as many do, "only 10% (or w/e) of the population is gay, bi or trans!" ... when it's still incredibly unsafe to be out as gay, bi or trans. people still face physical violence of many kinds for being openly Not Cis and Not Straight.plus, given what i know about the field, im not sure how possible it is to give people a realistic idea of how much of the world population is LGBT, ESPECIALLY right now.so why are we to believe that statistics (already a pretty shaky, quite imperfect science as it is, as anyone who anyone who has taken statistics classes would know) regarding the LGBT population are accurate at this point? for that reason im gonna say that striving to resemble "reality" is not the most "realistic" goal in the here and now. the goal imo should be more about representing different groups.to me, a balanced cast would involve a minority cishet 'population', since there are so many sexualities and genders out there, even if we're only going with pretty basic identities like, say: straight, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, aro and ace // cis, trans, intersex // male, female, nonbinary, genderfluid, bigender and agender.ofc i have not given the exhaustive list of sexualities and gender identities+configurations and i might not have listed them in the most masterful way, as im human and therefore fallible, but that's really the perspective i come from about it.i definitely strive to be more diverse than more obsessed with "well let's be Realistic (in many cases a term used to justify discomfort with venturing outside of the cishet perisex norm)". it's definitely a process when you've been raised on these normsim not the kind of writer who's concerned with "well but the setting is medievalish so no one is allowed to be LGBT - besides maybe one person who is killed off very quickly," im more concerned with "what would be more appealing to me as a writer, what would help me put more interesting shit into this universe" which usually for me means there's more LGBT characters than cishet ones. in my Big Setting ive been trying to refine into a comprehensible story for like 10 years now, i can name probably one or two cishets in it off the top of my head - which isn't me trying to brag or anything about ooh look how diverse my cast is, it's just the way i prefer to write characters lolidk if this even really answered the question I tend to go on tangents and i am on mobile rn which makes that worse but i guess the bottom line is on this chill and pleasantly rambly post opportunity you just gave me, "realistic" numbers of cishet and LGBT characters might not even be a goal we as writers need to concern ourselves with as a stop on the road to Being A Good Writer-- did my dogs just fuckign open a door one secok no they didn't but they have several times before BUT OK IDK in closing,I think ideal is what we should be going for. i think it's more important to balance the scales of cishet vs LGBT representation than to try and aim BELOW what we want. think about it, we are encouraged as writers to underrepresent ourselves in the interest of supposed realism. but cishets don't rly have to police themselves like that so fuck em neither should we, to TRULY balance the scales we'd need literal centuries of only lgbt characters which honestly, fine by me. write whatever your gay little heart desires

[dek0pon]

on that pride month questionnaire: 1-5 11 17/18 20-24 28 30 its a lot sorry!

1. what is your sexuality?bi/pan, with a preference for boys/masc people

2.what do you identify as?nb/agender/gendervoid, usually i just say im nbor just queer

3. how long have you been aware of yr sexuality/identity?i wasn’t totally aware of the fact but i was pretty fuckin gay in middle school while i still thought i was cis, and although i couldn’t describe it i’ve had dysphoria since then as well but i’ve been actually aware for over 2.5 yrs of my both being not straight and not cis

4. do you have any preferences?like i said in 1, boys/masc ppl

5. share a positive memory abt coming outi came out to my friends abt 1 year 4 months ago by giving them notes saying i was trans and my pronouns (they/them) and i got a bunch of rlly nice texts that day in response that made me weep

17. whats yr biggest pet peeve when it comes to lgbt characterization in media?in terms of like News and stuff i fucking hate it when we’re treated like some weird new phenomenon that’s a complete oddity. they call us the gayest generation but its just because we’re less afraid of hiding it. fuck that, normalize queer.i don’t fuck with any negative characterization whatsoever, especially fetishization. absolutely fucking not.

18. whats your favorite parts of lgbt+ characterization in media?i don’t know if i really? have an answer to this? i just want positive representation of all not straight and not cis ppl, i appreciate it when i see representation but i always wish there was more

20. do you practice safe sex with the same sex?idk what same sex is supposed to mean for this since im nb , so im just gonna answer for whoeverim not sexually active with anyone but if i was i would

21. what’s an absolute turn off for you in a partner? (i changed it from same/opposite sex bc again im nb soo)for both this and 22 i really Don’t have anything pinned down because nobody wants to date me B) i wouldn’t fuck with anybody republican/pro trump/neonazi aligned or whatever i can tell you that much

22. what’s an absolute turn on for you in a partner?Actually being attracted to and wanting to date me B)

23. how do you feel about lgbt+ clubs/apps/websites?theres a gsa at my school but i’m not part of it partially bc i dont have time and also bc there are some people in it who i Don’t like, i feel like its good in the sense that you can know who might have your back esp at my school which is overflowing with fuckboys, i don’t rly have any plans to join it but i think its better to have it than to go without it apps nd websites are also good for outreach and support and just finding and knowing there are other people like you, unless used negatively then i wouldnt have anything bad to say about them

24. how do u feel abt the term “queer”?i use it all the time, i think its a güd umbrella for everyone not cis + not straight but it’s also not for everyone. i personally identify with it and have reclaimed it or whatever

28. whats the most annoying question you have ever gotten?what’s yr birth name

30. what is your romantic affiliation?i don’t really separate my romantic and sexual attraction bc im not aro/ace so again, bi/pan with a strong preference for boys/masc ppl

no problem my dude, thanks