#or the fun queer text one

[froginamoodboard]

Demisexual Essek Thelyss moodboard

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[1000dactyls]

I wanna know if you have any thoughts on Valka and Sroicks parenting and how that affects hiccup? Because I'm loving so much of your content rn, especially your drawings!! But when I see stuff like Tgirl Hiccup while I think they would be supportive, I don't think they would be ... the best because their not really the best. Like ofc they tried even Val when she came back, but it doesn't and won't ever make up for everything else it's so complicated, and nuisanced would love to hear your thoughts!!

Im going to break this post into addressing stoick and valka separately because valka is such a non-entity in hiccup and stoick’s familial life. valka’s section will be underneath the ‘read more’

But I definitely agree! Unfortunately for Hiccup (and also not to project ijbol), it’s so hard because stoick’s best isn’t enough. Oh, stoick tries! He tries so hard — between the movies and the shows, he so clearly cares for his son. But he can never be just Hiccup’s dad; Stoick is the Chief of Berk before he’s Hiccup’s father, and both he and Hiccup know that. Hiccup grows up self sufficient and is used to a lonely home. The kind of free reign that he gets (and the resulting knee-jerk reaction he has to any kind of responsibility after 15 years of said free reign) doesn’t make for great conditions to cultivate a healthy, loving, traditional parental relationship

Still — i think stoick is more supportive than we give him credit for, at least going off the RoB/DoB characterizations. (Again, I haven’t finished watching RTTE, so Im not gonna speak for anything there.) When Hiccup makes moves for more freedom and responsibility, even as early as s01e01 “How to Start a Dragon Academy”, Stoick works with Hiccup to grant him that freedom. He makes attempts to connect to his son, albeit misguided and inevitably circling back to his own interests/role as the chief of Berk and not just Hiccup’s dad. For example, s01e07 “How to Pick your Dragon” shows Stoick ending up listening to Hiccup about getting a dragon, even though he mostly gets a dragon because it further suits his interests as a chief, which he realizes on the flight Toothless and Hiccup take him on. Which also leads to the core conflict of the episode! Because Stoick’s attempts to understand Hiccup are ultimately rooted in his own narrow perception of the world, that there is a Right way and Wrong way to do things, and Hiccup’s way is most definitely not the right way.

But Stoick listens. Over time, he picks up the signs when his child is frustrated and genuinely asks how he can help (s02e15 “A Tale of Two Dragons” 3 options talk). And after the events of the first movie, Stoick makes more attempts to involve Hiccup in his going-ons, such as the portrait of the chief’s family or contacting Johann to find a beloved childhood plushie. So i think stoick tries, and his best isn’t enough, so thank god hiccup isn’t dependent on only stoick and the both of them know this. And just because the both of them know this doesn’t mean that stoick doesn’t try to improve their relationship at all. In the end, he’s just really set in his own ways and his own traditions.

So in a world where Hiccup is trans, I do think Stoick is supportive no matter what direction Hiccup ends up going. Is he confused? Yes, always, because there isn’t a very established tradition even if Berk does have a history of trans folk. I think stoick has to try really really hard, and he messes up a lot in the beginning. Like, you know when your parents are trans affirming in a really weird and even insulting way? That happens a lot for Hiccup and Stoick. But they work together and Stoick works to try and get on Hiccup’s level, whether that means sending terror-mail to Johann to inquire about trans literature or gender-affirming clothes or dialing Gothi to move Hiccup’s t/e prescription to the front of the line.

……..argh, Valka.

Of course Valka tried when she came back, but the conscious decision to stay away for twenty years and miss some of the most important milestones in your child’s life says a lot, and I think Hiccup also knows that. Especially because of how similar they are, even though Valka would immediately accept and adore and absolutely love Hiccup and all his Hiccup-ness right off the bat… I think he’s aware of how different and better his life could’ve been with Valka’s understanding presence. In the end, one parent stayed and tried their best. And one didn’t really try at all, not until they reconnected again.

And like! I dont think Valka and Hiccup would ever be as close as Stoick and Hiccup were. Like it is one thing to idolize your parent in absentia and build up this idealistic wholesome perfect image of who they are, getting your characterization from their partner who never got over them even after 20 years. And it is another thing to meet that parent and realize… wow! They also don’t measure up to what I needed them to be as a child.

And so for all of Valka’s understanding, for all of the easiness it is for Valka to understand Hiccup, especially in a world where Hiccup is trans — it’s not Valka who had to deal with the bureaucracy of Hiccup’s gender change, nor aided in the social transition for people Hiccup has spent his entire life with. It’s not Valka who asked uncertain, blunt and somewhat invasive questions about Hiccup’s new identity, or found weird and strange ways to support it. It’s not Valka who would’ve gotten an entirely new wardrobe commissioned or talked to Gothi about medical transition.

Like, I think Valka tries, and it’s easy for her to understand the idea and support Hiccup. But i dont think she’d ever be Hiccup’s first choice when it comes to questions about who s/he is, not when there are people who stayed and tried much harder than her, and know far more about Hiccup than she ever did and maybe will.

[piierrote]

Divine Bodies

A mini comic discussing the medicalisation of trans bodies for an Anthology under the theme 'Them'

ID in ALT, transcript below the cut

Page 1/2: The transgender is seen as a body with no soul, a set of organs, skin, bones, blood, DNA, hormones, chemistry. The transgender experience is one narrowly percieved through medical procedures, the transgender body is victimised, the perpetrator being its own soul.

The transgender body is not seen as joyful, loving, complex. To do that would expose the human being that is the transgender body. The transgender body is loved only when separated from its transness. The transgender body is to be saved. The transgender person is to be damned. The transgender body is not a body at all. The transgender body is a concept. It has no existence beyong the medicalisation it experiences. It has no autonomy. It has no choices.

Page 3: Add a soul back to the transgender body and you will see joy. Add a soul back to the transgender body and you will see love. You will see community. You will see the transgender experience through access to medical care and through liberation within the community.

You will see transgender freedom, transgender life. To be trans is to partake in the divine act of creation. The transgender body is a real person.

[transmechanicus]

A-!

[odemiourgos]

“The labor of making transgender identity is handmade: collective --made with and across bodies, objects, and forces of power-- a process, unfinished yet enough (process, not progress); autonomous choregraphy; free; do-it-yourself; nongeometrical transformation; freeform.” Handmade, Jeanne Vaccaro

[alchemiclee]

I think doing shipping through and aroace lens makes things complicated but also interesting. I think one reason I don't enjoy straight ships as much is because it's very rare for people write/talk about them with a queerplatonic dynamic. straight romance is so "normalized" in society, it's hard to get any other dynamic out of those ships from other people in conversation or writing. it's mostly always romantic. (especially when "guys and girls can't be *just* friends" is extremely common and has ruined mamy of my own friendships) but I enjoy a handful of a straight ship with that dynamic. it's just way more rare to see talked about than gay ones from my observation. anyway point is, more queerplatonic type ships and stuff please! those aren't explored enough!

[varyathevillain]

Aziraphale entering his Jonathan Sims arc was not something I had on the bingo for season 2 of Good Omens.

[pupkou]

i feel very disappointed and sad right now 😞

[heartofstanding]

semi-relatedly to the post I reblogged about queer history, but this is where Ian Mortimer's multiple-page rant about Henry V not having sex with women is so, so silly for me. it simultaneously treats it as something othering and one might consider that if you're going to place so much weight on a historical figure not having sex with women (the two sources of evidence for Henry V's lack of sex specify "with women", btw) you might consider the possibility that they were, in fact, not straight. But Mortimer is so convinced that everyone in the past is straight (he has no-homo'ed Edward II and Queen Anne - the latter with virulent homophobia) that it's not even a remote possibility for him to mention and then scornfully debunk. No, Henry V not having sex with women is proof that he is defective and morally abhorrent and wrong and misogynist and terrible.

it's like congrats. you're basically repeating homophobic and aphobic rhetoric whilst simultaneously denying the possibility that people might not feel sexual desire in a heteronormative way. more queerphobia, yay!

[ghostprinceiii]

ah, discouraged once again from continuing Persona 5 because of how People Like Me are portrayed and treated :/

Ended up down kindof a chain of articles (like this) (and this one) that confirm how I've already been feeling —ie that the NPCs are not only actively hostile to 'me' as a character, but me as a player, as well, in many ways.

What I've seen and read of the characters and world-concept from a distanced perspective (through the lens of an audience, and not Experiencing The Story As Joker) has been cool and interesting and the music fucks, obviously, but idk, I'm just tired of this shit, today. Maybe this just Isn't The Game For Me and this is just another factor of that to add to the list, maybe it's just not the right time to be playing it and I'll do another 8 hours in another 5 months, or get super into it next week, I dunno.

Anyways. The articles give some good context for part of what I'm referring to here, and I thought they were quite well-written, so I'm linking them above if anyone's interested.^^

[coffeeworldsasaki]

I really can't get over how a fucking Mormon is more normal about queer people that the terf queen god

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

I made a tiktok and i find myself very funny. Please enjoy.

[sanstropfremir]

have you heard of kpop group QI.X ?? they're a new group with three members who are all nonbinary/trans and im p sure they just realised their first song!! i have zero expectations in music/styling/mv quality because lets be real they're gonna get zero resources but the act of having openly queer idols in a group together in korea is such a good step forward im really looking forward to them

yes actually!! i think lights up got released on spotify a couple of days ago? its true they're gonna get zero resources and not a lot of attention but i'm happy to support them and keep an eye on what they're doing!

[queerholmcs]

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[15000bugs]

no bc in retrospect why did (and probably still does) the dr fandom have ZERO media literacy its insane. ive never seen that level of cognitive dissonance in any other fandom in my LIFE

[smulnsander]

They way dating apps take try to advantage of pepole with not granting what should be basic features and instead trying to make ppl pay 20$ so you can scroll back to somone you acidentaly swiped away from is so fucking sucks