#lgbt protag

[unmellowyellowfellow]

Chalk Mountain

+ a WiP introduction

(status: third draft)

genre(s): fantasy, action, au

tone(s): regional gothic, found family, prophesies, platonic love, lgbt+ protag, "magic" abilities

warning(s): blood, harsh family relations, death, cursing -- (will be editing to add more as i come across them)

tag: #wip: chalk mountain

"stay away from the bluebonnets," dixie's mother always said. "they know your secrets and will trick you with good smelling petals and a comfortable place to rest after a picnic; but eventually you will never get up, eventually you will be blue, floral, swaying in the hot wind, watching as people pass by until another sleepy bystander succumbs to take their last nap as the person they were. before they take them. before they take you."

(will be adding links to characters and more characters and some other stuff when they are ready; this will be reblogged when updated with anything. authors notes at the end!)

characters and descriptions! (to be edited)

Dixie Alvarez is the protagonist of this story. A heroine against her will, Dixie has a smart mouth and a bad habit of holding grudges; she never fit in anywhere and always managed to piss somebody off no matter where she was. A difficult relationship with her father and her mothers abandonment drives her to flee her home in search of a new, quiet, and peaceful life with people like her. Outcasts. So, she set off in her trashy green minivan to a town her mother used to tell her about in stories. Chalk Mountain. Curly, mid-length red hair, downturned brown eyes, freckles, (mostly) untamed eyebrows, 5'7". Evolved (unknown)

Emilio Baku is the side character, Dixie's best friend, and partner in crime. Ripped away from his home in Korea, Emilio developed a big heart that was always open to others after his adoptive parents took him in like it was nothing; he has now been in Chalk Mountain since he was 5 years old. Lovable teddy bear meets ruthless suppressed anger makes a man willing to do anything to protect what he loves. Short black hair that's always a little messy, deep dark brown eyes, faded burn scars cover his hands. 6'2". Evolved

Franklin and Maude are Emilio's adoptive parents and Dixie's guardians. Maude has been in Chalk Mountain since she was born. Her mother was a jailer before the town went bankrupt after a false meteorite claim that drained their tourism. Franklin came later, after he was found out as an Evolved and began to be hunted down. He took refuge in Chalk mountain 27 years ago and soon after met Maude. Maude: long, straight, gray hair, white eyes, smile lines, eye wrinkles, 7'6". Franklin: long gray hair, tall and slender figure, milky white eyes. 7'6". Both Evolved.

extra characters + descriptions (to be expanded)

The Oracle -> eons old but presents as around 30s/40s. vitiligo, blind with white irises, waist length wavy hair as black as the night sky, various markings and tattoos and scars. can only speak in prophet but can communicate in your dreams.

Marigold Alvarez -> Dixie's mother, very, very, VERY powerful woman. A force to be reckoned with, legends about her, and large popularity around Chalk Mountain. Marigold has been missing for over 11 years now, but Dixie hasn't seen her since before she herself was 12 years old. Short red bob, green eyes, freckles, permanent smirk on her face with smile lines. 5'9". Last known location: Chalk Mountain.

Walter Alvarez -> Dixie's father, loud, overbearing. One night after a screaming fight that Dixie overheard, her mother left in a tizzy. She watched her mom speed off in the car from her bedroom window, never to be seen or heard of again. Walter makes a point to never speak of Marigold and has tried painting her to be the villain ever since. Salt and pepper, short, gelled, curly hair, 5'8". Husky figure, brown eyes, grungy teeth.

authors note >

so excited to finally get this ball rolling and start sharing it with you as i figure my way through this story. i will eventually be sharing drafts as i get them written and will do snippets, short stories, moodboards, etc. based on this wip! i will announce when tag list is open (not enough content for me to want to make one yet) but for now enjoy this little info dump on my world i'm building:) also this story will be written with "proper" capital letters, i just enjoy making content lowercase! open to asks and tag games about this wip!!

this will be giving very much "mutants from x-men", very "don't trust anything beautiful". also there's dragons.

[kurogenesis]

And here's my last catch-up post. After this, new chapter posts will be brand-new releases. In the previous chapter, Rhea and Mason learned the identity of the group they encountered in the jungle, and now it's time to begin searching for one of the ancient temples of Chaosia.

This chapter introduces quite a few secondary characters, many of which will have larger roles later on, but now the plot's definitely started rolling, so get ready for the ride!

[joshuamj]

In Stars And Time? More like In Ace And Gender

+ some alts

[flufflecat]

Once again feeling annoyed that basically no one in the rrverse fandom acknowledges Apollo. They're always like "oh we need more rep, surely this this and this character is secretly queer and rick just won't admit it or something" when man. Lester's RIGHT there. Why are you ignoring CANON queer content, then acting like it'd be better for the author to retcon some shoehorned queering of straight characters into existence? Like. It's fun to have previously straight characters be changed to be queer, but that obviously wouldn't be the intention the whole time, and it's kind of disingenuous for an author to pretend it was intentional all along and get praised for it. I feel insane, shouting at people who want more lgbt characters in pjo like "LESTER EXISTS AND HES LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT." Would PERCY ever say he has a "frisson of pleasure go up his back" at the thought of pipers hot dad? No. He wouldn't, thank you very much.

[janzuei]

Finally forced my girlfriend to play Elevator Hitch (she liked it :D), so now I can post my art!

I usually don't end up making "sonas" for most things but holy SHIT Elevator Hitch is so fucking good y'all I had to please don't bully me

I'm very normal about the Coworker guys trust me I'm so normal 🙏

+ Normal Guy close-up because he's neat

[volfoss]

i think honestly what irritates me about yoshidas work SO much is that people will tell you that banana fish is THE gay manga (ignoring the many things that came before it and were more groundbreaking, ie MW literally having on screen (or like. on panel but still.) gay sex in it and that came out like a decade before BF did) when there really isn't barely any gay rep outside of the pedophiles and the one time ash drops the f slur. like im sorry but somehow yasha, a work she wrote in 1996, has more gay rep in it but also has the same issues.

i truly do not get how people can enjoy banana fish with the rampant racism every 2 pages or the rampant sexual assault plotlines (on women and ash bc he is just... written like how yoshida writes women lmao) that are handled IMPOSSIBLY bad and sincerely i hoped yasha would be better because it had been like a decade or so between works. and then it proceeds to continue with the heres our blonde genius protagonist who everyone is weird as fuck to and will sexually harrass and everyone finds it a VERY funny joke to point out how feminine he is when theres barely any women in the work (if you exclude the ones that are being raped/killed/creepy to minors. which to be fair yasha has toned down the sa a LOT) and that its funny that hes kind of gay except not really!! and its just absurd to me how it just persists in all of her stuff because she is not an author that handles gay stuff well. like the scene in banana fish where ash is completely ok getting gang raped and did it solely to get into the hospital when its been SHOWN that he has a lot of trauma with that. and then right after his friend makes a joke at ash's expense about that. like sincerely and genuinely is this what we are hyping up as the old retro gay manga. go read some tezuka and stop reading shit that the most the main characters do is share a kiss in a nonromantic sense and is obsessed w making every gay person be evil!!

[spyres]

went to check out some details to make a post about the gen 10 leaks but a leak dropped about a policy from tpci on lgbt rep in pokemon and god the comments on twitter are more homophobic than that policy could've ever been

[butch-bakugo]

Publisher: Hey gay! Check out our expansive pride collection this pride month!

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman *

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman *

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman *

* Abusive man x man written by a white cis bi woman *

* Abusive man x man written by a white bi woman with a husband with mysognistic female charicatures*

* Asexual self love story that has weird puritanical veiws of sex and relationships and low-key shits on allos and tells you its totally not rape culture shit to sleep with your partner if they want it but you dont.*

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman but one of the men is described as "bronze skinned stallion" and "exotic". He's Italian.*

* Clearly was Voltron/Hazbin hotel/Hetalia/lore Olympus man x man fanfic but the cishet white woman writer made very minimal effort to change the settings, character names and character dynamics*

* Random kinda ok lesbian story but really only applies to cis white able bodied rich women and no one else. Was also written by a white cis woman*

* Story of a nonbinary teen but they are afab and end up with a cis man who "suddenly comes out as bi" when he was straight before this. Written by either a cis bi woman or an actual afab enby.*

* Trans man x cis man and trans man is infantilized to hell and back and the author slips up calling the trans man she multiple times in the book and refers to him femininely. Was written by a cis white woman.*

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman *

* scifi story that's supposed to tackle tough issues but only really says "capitalism bad" and every character is just the stereotypes of multiple different LGBT identities. Also describes its POC characters real weird and still is only really centering either two cis gay men together or a trans man and a cis man together. Was written by a white afab nonbinary pan ace or a cis white bi woman. No in-between.*

* Autobiography written by a white cis gay man that's actually genuine and the only non-booktok ass book on the list and it dosent address any non white non cis experiences but its still good none the less*

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman but it has all the abuse. Age gap/pedophilia, multiple forms of a abuse, incest, necrophilia, beastiality, etc. just the most vile shit*

* Bi latina protagonist and her gay white guy friend spies or whatever and the guy friend ends up dieing, she's over sexualized with horrific Spanglish and stereotypes, only really kisses girls to manipulate them or show off for men and ends up with a guy at the end. Written by a cis white bi woman*

* Basically every other piece of Copy-paste unoriginal Fantasy ya set in a school but there's a stereotypical Twink in the background and it's mostly centering a cishet white couple.*

* Abusive man x man written by a white cishet woman *

[dapper-lil-arts]

Why does people always make A weird ship? One of my friend ship that sweeten sour x sour sweet, isn't they both siblings? (Lol, i believe that theory too)

dude im the kinda person that ships characters that have chemistry in canon, if not confirmed relationships. Yer asking me? who knows tbh

[creepyscritches]

I haven't watched trigun yet bc as you all will recall I am incapable of being normal about biblically critical themes and allegories

[chadsuke]

Comics Read in 2023:

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 9 by Koyoharu Gotouge (2017)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 10 by Koyoharu Gotouge (2018)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 11 by Koyoharu Gotouge (2018)

My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files Vol. 1 by Natsumi Ito (2023)

My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files Vol. 2 by Natsumi Ito (2023)

My Dear Detective: Mitsuko's Case Files Vol. 3 by Natsumi Ito (2023)

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts Vol. 6 by Yu Tomofuji (2018)

Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts Vol. 7 by Yu Tomofuji (2018)

Cheating Men Must Die Vol. 1 by The King (2022)

[ID: Covers of the aforementioned books. End ID.]

[kurogenesis]

Today's post is Chapter - or Track - 1 of Song of the Elements. An urban fantasy tale that's gone through many changes to reach the form it has now. A city of dreams, full of strange and wonderful individuals... but does the heart still beat? Does the soul of the city still live? Music is - obviously - a significant factor in this story. It's referenced frequently and is the medium through which the protagonists are going to be trying to reach the hearts of the people. Such to the point that the Tracks (as I will insist on referring to them for this work) are all named after actual songs - some famous, some not, but all had something that stuck out to me lyrically.

This one is named for the opening track of Hammerfall's 2002 album Crimson Thunder. The bit of the lyrics that always stuck with me was just before the second chorus. We dream of a genesis reborn Where our spirits are free Let us choose our own destiny

I'm... definitely a highly individualistic person and I value people's personal freedoms, it's something that's going to reflect in the writing for sure. And yes, the "dream" part of the lyrics is why the story started off with the dream sequence.

OH, and one final thing. Content Warning for some sexually suggestive content near the end of the chapter. It's not explicit, but it's... pretty obvious what the two protagonists are getting up to. ENJOY!

[dogboyrevenge]

I know for a lot of people assigning a character as queer is the highest honour they could bestow upon that character. But for me personally, the highest honour i can give to a character is for them to fluently speak in my native language

[amethyst-halo]

my favorite thing is how clearly gay all the arcs protags are. like evry arc has at least one gay protag

UR SO RIGHT the gays are keeping this series afloat

[liminalhymnal]

I found my old Kenshiro edit:

[monoceroscaeli]

the day a video game i really like has a true ambiguous mc or hell even just a playable character intentionally made to be read as nonbinary or open to interpretation is the day i finally Rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe thanos style