#partially for gender reasons

[melathinn]

Ok I borrowed my friends dress and didn’t check the size but it’s a size 4 and it fits which is WILD. Also I saw a pic of me from high school and realized a. I do not recognize myself without tattoos and b. I def weigh less than I did then which is swaggy

[project-sekai-facts]

wait wait so speaking in terms of the eng translation, everyone in the cast uses they/them for mizuki?? or do people typically switch between the two??? the pronoun discourse when it came to mizuki (when it was really big a while back) stressed me tf out but i'd like to make sure i'm getting it right this time about what pronouns to use if that's ok

everyone uses they/them for mizuki on EN. There's old dialogue that uses she/her (I think all of it's from Kanade), but they stopped doing that very early on. The general consensus in the fandom nowadays is she/her though, due to it better aligning with how her story and gender is portrayed.

[communistkenobi]

Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your readthrough of Whipping Girl! You have a lot of excellent commentary on it, and although I've read the book many times myself and recommend it to all the other trans women I'm friends with, it rooted itself so deeply in my mind that I can't always tell when I'm drawing on Serano's argument. You've helped me to see the book in a new light.

thank you right back! It’s an incredible book and I’m learning a lot from it. It’s also a really good book to have productive disagreements with - I’m pretty skeptical of Serano’s conception of social constructions (or “the social” more broadly - basically, the social elements of gender) but that has more to do with the liberal framework of the book and her background as a biologist - every academic believes their field is the key to unlocking all other fields lol. I’m also sensitive to the fact that this is like a foundational text in trans theory and she has to deal with the biological essentialism embedded within virtually all discussions of gender, so i think reading her concessions to biology as charitably as possible is probably the best way to deal with those elements of the book

[gothic-chicanery]

I love getting myself into situations. My college’s theater is doing a duet roulette thing where you sign up and get assigned a random duet and find out who is singing the duet with you the night of the performance. And I signed up bc I like chaos and also attention and there was a bit where you could indicate your voice range and I said like oh I used to be an alto but I haven’t really sang since going on T so I’m not really sure what it’s like now.

Folks, they gave me a soprano part.

[aeide-thea]

thinking abt (1) that post abt how most censorship is preemptive self-censorship¹ (2) bras²

⸻ ¹ wow, tumblr search actually worked for once??? ² i do understand and respect that for many people bras serve an actual structural function wrt support/comfort! however, for many other people (hi!) they do not, at least in everyday non-sports contexts, and that's the set of concerns i'm speaking to here.

[spydertrans]

my sexuality being tied with my gender is so weird 'cause if i identified as female in any way, i would be attracted to women again

[samaspic31]

More ppl and characters with heavily fluctuating gender presentation in media I am not longer asking. where is representation for ppl who crossdress both ways depending on the day or even ppl putting wild amounts of effort on random days

[flecks-of-stardust]

'people should make weirder gender headcanons,' i say, looking at my main group of OCs, of which none of them use they/them except innocence (who is genderfluid)

[ingo-appreciation]

Id like to hear your take on an all ghost team!

Ghost types aren’t often on my teams, but honestly, there are a lot of solid ghost type designs! It’d be

Misdreavus

Yamask

Froslass

Mimikyu

Decidueye

Hisuian Zorua

If I was allowed legendaries, I would absolutely have Giratina and probably Hoopa

[theophagie-remade]

"Not actually out but also no one who sees me doesn't think that there's something going on" is a fun state to be in

[eruukat]

voice heacanons. [head in my hands] voice headcanons!!!! theyre so powerful......

its rly cool that you can read a characters dialogue with a specific voice and politely disagree with other fans' voiceclaims only to one day wake up and realize u headcanoned them with your own voice on hrt or after voice training that whole time

or the feeling of reading a fic and feeling ur brain twist to see a new perspective as someone else describes their dialogue in a completely different tone of voice than you interpreted it to be. like the difference between a characters voice being harshly cold versus softly spoken with the words themselves carrying a cold, stern weight underneath. such nuance, interpretation, and personal characterization that is up to the audience is so unique to media w text based dialogue, like books n certain video games..... its very underrated i think

[sabrina-valerie]

>Read a really good fic based on the Mario Movie wherein Kamek's got a bit of an issue with his reflection in a mirror (cw: internalized transphobia)

>Want to go comment on it because it was that good (and i'm working on a comment bingo card)

>Want to include a mention of that flavor text from one of the Mario Party games about how Kamek has a panic attack when he sees himself in a mirror

>Go look up the fact on the wiki so i can quote it in the comment

>Realize the flavor text is actually this:

>Get really embarrassed and delete half the comment

[stonebutchery]

i will never understand the insular fraternalism that so many (mostly white) ftm/trans men participate in... why are you so hellbent on having no transfeminine friends? you don't want to get to know any trans women as people? you don't want to listen to their life experiences? you don't want to play videogames with them? you don't want to talk about book recommendations with them? you don't want to talk about their pet dogs or cats or fish or birds or lizards with them? you don't want to share parts of your life with them? why the fuck not?

[valentineblacker]

Oh! I have this due to a reduction! They're very noticeable because they stick way out- the surgeon made it clear that anything under the arms was NOT her department. It's actually pretty nice to see some positivity. But it's also nice to see in the comments that there's a fix.

more people should draw the dogears that often happen when you've have double mastectomy top surgery. they're important to me

[snekdood]

gonna be very annoyed if ppl insist on tryna turn all 5 of my dude characters into women when the majority of other characters in my comic already identify as women