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crustaceousfaggot · 3 months ago

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Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

#eragon #inheritance cycle #eldest #this is the same book where Eragon gets his Magical Elf HRT so yk #i think you can actually do a pretty compelling transgender reading of Eragon's story.#how even though he lost things through his transformation it also saved him #how he's now inherently something between the world of elves and humans #and is regarded as Other wherever he goes #seen as something between an oddity and an abomination #but how those closest to him know that he's still the person they loved even though he's changed #sorry I'm reading into the kid's dragon books again. unfortunately they're permanently welded to my soul and I will never be free

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chaoticgenderfae · 3 months ago

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Someone once took this a step further and just rewrote the entire series to make Eragon transfem and add more openly trans characters (especially elves) and it was brilliant

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

#eragon #inheritance cycle #eldest #this is the same book where Eragon gets his Magical Elf HRT so yk #i think you can actually do a pretty compelling transgender reading of Eragon's story.#how even though he lost things through his transformation it also saved him #how he's now inherently something between the world of elves and humans #and is regarded as Other wherever he goes #seen as something between an oddity and an abomination #but how those closest to him know that he's still the person they loved even though he's changed #sorry I'm reading into the kid's dragon books again. unfortunately they're permanently welded to my soul and I will never be free #transgender #nonbinary #genderqueer #genderfluid #queer

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neonwizardheehee · 3 months ago

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#this is the same book where Eragon gets his Magical Elf HRT so yk#i think you can actually do a pretty compelling transgender reading of Eragon's story.#how even though he lost things through his transformation it also saved him#how he's now inherently something between the world of elves and humans#and is regarded as Other wherever he goes#seen as something between an oddity and an abomination#but how those closest to him know that he's still the person they loved even though he's changed#sorry I'm reading into the kid's dragon books again. unfortunately they're permanently welded to my soul and I will never be free

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

#i love that so much #eragon #inheritance cycle

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