#they are both trans and gay in this image; btw

[munchbuddi]

Floridan Miku and Teto

(enjoyers of pavilions, publix deli, and florida bands)

[glubby-guppiez]

*Random TMNT 2012 (mainly side characters) hc's bcuz hyperfixation

*(this is the best divider to ever exist btw)

*Warnings: Spoilers for TMNT 2012 ofc, mentions of gender dysphoria and trans related insecurity, transphobia, accidental arson, bullying, manipulation, ptsd, also the tone of the headcanons shift randomly also also typing quirk

*Chris Bradford is trans. )(e did a full transition, he did hormones, voice training, top and bottom surgery, a few different surgeries to make him look/feel more masculine, all the bells and whistles, even went the extra mile to do procedures to hide his surgery scars. )(e's closeted and does about everything in his power to make sure no one even question that he was assigned female at birth because he's scared of his social image of being the great macho man, Chris Bradford, crumbling.

*Leo mainly or solely uses fandom and fanfic socials like Wattpad, AO3, Amino, Tumblr, and maybe Twitter. She mainly interacts with Space )(eroes and Crognard The Barbarian fan posts and shows a special interest in gender swap aus.

*Later on, post show with Muckman's help the mutants are actually able to freely walk around humans without them completely flipping out and starting a mob to witch hunt after them.

*Speaking of walking around humans, Napoleon and the frogs down in Louisiana are considered local urban legend and humans get really excited when they spot the frogs in the woods.

*Dr. Rockwell is a very big coffee enjoyer and used to secretly steal coffee from the nearby shops around the mighty mutanimals hideout and on the rare occasion when someone caught him and called him out he would always use the excuse of the shops being owned by big corporations.

*Don Visioso is a deadbeat father of 5. )(e also has had multiple wives and many divorces.

*Mondo Gecko will call people posers if he's jealous enough of them.

*Ivan Steranko is also trans but has only had hrt and face masculinizing surgery and refuses to get top and bottom surgery.

*Anton Zeck is incredibly smart and performed extremely well in high school and even got free scholarships for how well he did.

*Shinigami is a big video game nerd and will geek out if anyone mentions one of the games she plays.

*The reason Anton hated the mutant name Mikey gave him at first is because it either sounds a lot like or straight up is a nickname old bullies of him gave in order to make fun of him.

*Premutation, Chris acts transphobic towards Xever (despite Xever being cis) out of jealousy and insecurity.

*Baxter Stockman is either a gay aroace trans mspec nonbinary man or a cishet ally. No in-between.

*Mini April cluster!!!:

*April has a deep love for literature and writes poetry in her spare time.

*She almost burned down the culinary class in her school once.

*She's questioning aroace.

*She felt extra empathy for Muckman because he reminded her of Kirby a little bit.

*She likes to hide stickers around the lair whenever has them on her person.

*She thoroughly enjoys having long conversations with each of the individual turtles. (It's her favorite way to spend time with anyone tbh)

*April does eventually take some time to properly learn Japanese and becomes pretty decent at speaking and reading it.

*)(er and Donnie often like to geek out together whenever they find anything new about aliens (both species they haven't seen yet and ones they know well like the kraang).

*End of the mini April cluster!!!

*Kirby O'Neil is a pretty decent cook. That man can make a mean chicken stew.

*Shinigami actually owns multiple cats. 2 ragdoll, 1 sphinx, 1 Persian, and 3 British shorthairs (I could name them all, but I don't wanna). Also, the majority of them are black cats. She feeds strays, too.

*The last headcanon is much to Karai's dismay because she is somewhat allergic. She gets headaches, her skin gets slightly irritated and she gets the sniffles if she's around cats for too long.

*Casey's younger sister wants to be a hair stylist when she grows up, so Jones let's her do his hair every once in a while and he flexes it to every one at the lair like: "Oh? My hair? Yeah, my sister did it for me. Pretty metal, what she did with it, right?"

*Tigerclaw is the only Foot Clan member to not bully Baxter Stockman.

*Someone manipulated and lied to Alopex in order to make her hate and hunt down her brother.

*After season 4, Baxter Stockman leaves New York and takes over Stockman Industries. (If you're unaware of what that is, it's on billboards that the turtles pass throughout the show the most notable appearance being in the ending scene of the final season 4 episode, 'Owari'.)

*Slash deep down still misses The Newtralizer.

*Leatherhead kind of freaks out (apologies for the bad wording) when someone fully wraps their arms around his neck when hugging him because it reminds him of the restraints the Kraang put him in.

*Pigeon Pete learns how to bake so he can make his own bread.

*The turtles get a Wii (or whatever the universes equivalent is).

*Mondo Gecko gets an old Xbox and plays Tony )(awk games, Bully, and Twisted Metal on it.

*Ivan and Anton actually move out to New Jersey post show.

*Alr, that's all for now, toodles!!!

[wowzoerz-blog]

Imma use this as a better bio.

Hi!!!!

My name is Madeline!!!!

I’m 20 and a transfem stereotype.

I’ll occasionally post but this is just gonna be more reblogs of what I like and interacting with my specimens I call mutuals (not that I do much of that lol)

I LOVE dnd, mgs, terraria, balatro, elden ring, various rogue likes, making music, being obscenely GAY, TRANS, and whatever gender I am currently hot for.

I’m not good at making music but if I ever do become so I will probably post it.

Minors, terfs, please stay away!

I WILL occasionally hornypost. So, if you don’t like that, uh, become sillier (and hornier)

I’m dating @intolunarorbit and @roseblog-rog and I love them love them love them love love them, and I love them, btw. I love them both so fucking much and they make me so happy and I’m so fucking happy!!!

And if you by chance know me irl, leave before my image is irreparably stained

[nahualnextdoor]

Character Analysis for Shitpost's Sake (long post; tw suicide discussion):

A funny haha, a whimsy silly image. Something I did in like 10 minutes...

Well behind the scenes I spent an entire night dissecting every episode and book paragraph in my head just to see what box fits what character (I take my silly guys very seriously and my shitposts should represent their characterizations accurately otherwise I'll kill myself).

So, here we go.

Active suicide risk: (literally anyone except Cleo and Six)

-Resus: Pretty obvious and intuitive in my opinion. Our favorite trans allegory emo boy that literally sleeps in a coffin. Hates pretty much every aspect of his life, thinks he's a disappointment to his family simply for existing (and sadly kinda is), and is pretty much fine with death as a whole (most of his friends already went trough it, after all).

-Luke: This one was also pretty obvious in my opinion. While not as clear cut or active as Resus, there was this one time where he decided to banish himself to the Underlands, no hesitation, as soon as he found out (or rather was made to believe) he attacked his parent. He's very often ostracizing himself over his lycanthropy hurting those around him, and for the major part of the book series he believed himself to be a burden for his parents. (Also he has like. Zero sense of self-preservation, at least in the tv show).

-Luella: Oh boy. Where do I begin with you girl. Just her living situation alone is sad enough, add in her attachment issues, her lack of control over her emotions, her crush on a guy that treats her... horribly, and her lack of any meaningful friendship in her life up until she became bffs with Cleo in s2. Honestly I'm just glad that by the end of s2 she's mostly content with her life the way it is, but still... at least on the episodes before she got her shit together, I'd say she's kinda worrying.

-Dixon: Yeah this guy's life is just hell lol. I'm not really getting any suicidal vibes out of him, but it is more than plausible.

10/10:

-Cleo: She's just... I love her 🙏🙏 Badass, one of the most interesting characters of the tv show in my opinion, autistic as fuck (they all are, but she's the one I relate to the most), curses the entire town in order to fix her problems and is pretty much happy despite being in an eternal sisyphean cycle.

Needs to retake the am I gay quiz:

-Resus: self explanatory I think. He really needs to get his shit together because I just cannot tolerate when he's all over Luella "oh luella I need your help with this spell and also brain drain dumped me in a wet cardboard box and killed my grandma 🥺🥺" and then going "well thanks for nothing, fuck u and ur stupid useless magic, also even tho we're nothing I will get all possessive over u at the slightest possibility of u liking Luke hey can we kiss to save the world btw" She deserves so much better than him omg. Boy you're queer!!! Leave her alone and just stay with the werewolf!!!

Cannibalised first in plane crash scenario:

-Resus: I just thought this was funny lol

Adderal prescription ASAP:

-Luke: Also pretty self explanatory. Lycantrophy is the magical equivalent of autism and adhd in this universe, I don't make the rules. Both in the books and in the show he's shown having a hard time focusing on class, finding it easier to just focus on his videogames. He spends hours playing on his console, to the point of ignoring his baisc needs, and is pretty hyperactive in my opinion, at least in the show. Really I wish they'd bring back the idea of Eeafa (or maybe even Luella) figuring out a potion or spell to help him manage his wild side, wich, to me at least, is not only his wolf self, but all of his neurodivergent tendencies in general (basically it would be magical meds that makes you have more control over the wolf form on top helping you study).

Missing person:

-Pretty much all the other kids from the books but I choose Kian because he's kinda the one that has the most relevance and the only one with an available image on the internet that is not a 3 pixels wide scan on the Internet Archive (still love them tho). He could potentially be on active suicide risk once he gets old enough to understand what happened to his parents tho, but thinking about that for more than 5 seconds makes me cry so I prefer not to.

And that is basically it! Thank you for listening to my ramblings and analysis of these silly little guys that keep rotating on my head like rotisserie chicken ballerinas. Next will probably be my still pending character analysis for why I assigned the slimes I did on my slime rancher post.

[goose-books]

please check out @yvesdot's remastered debut! trust me, it's worth a read and a reread and a re-revisit. for the blog tour, i give you... another blast from the past, an old-fashioned writeblr-style comic sans powerpoint!

Something’s Not Right, published by tRaum Books, will be released October 10th 2023 and is available to preorder at Amazon, Bookshop.org, and itch.io. It will also be available upon release signed from Bookshop Santa Cruz. yves. will also have a local event at 6:30 PM on October 12th at the Santa Cruz Diversity Center and another on January 4th 2024 (to be announced) at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

(my sixth favorite story is koschei, btw. shoutout to koschei. sorry i left you off the slides)

(slides described under the cut)

all slides are written in white comic sans on a black background.

slide one: text reading "FIVE reasons YOU should read" over a cropped image of the cover for Something's Not Right, featuring the title. smaller comic sans next to the image reads "by yves."

slide two: at the center of the slide, text reads "1. IT'S GAY!" smaller text boxes, scattered around the slide, read:

so many transgender people

you want fluff? we got fluff. you want angst? we got angst. you want high octane drama? we got it

you like metaphors for queerness? we’ve got metaphors for queerness

some characters’ identities are plot relevant! some of them just happen to be trans!

there’s even an m/f couple i actually like!

there’s literally a lesbian robot what else am i supposed to say

first book where i ever saw a they/them lesbian referred to as a woman and they at the same time <3 <3 <3

you want monsterfucking? we got—

between the first and third boxes is this image of feathers. beneath the monsterfucking box is this image of a halo/eclipse. beneath the they/them lesbian box is the anakin image from this post, reading, "dyke business. go back to your drinks"

slide three: the top of the slide reads "2. CLEVER USE OF TROPES AND TALES." the bullet points beneath read:

the author was a lit major & lovingly: it shows

fresh takes on everything from sexy vampires to demigod/human romance

do you like russian folklore? do you wish it was set in your high school

hansel and gretel story followed immediately by wlw fairies

STORY WHERE VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN GOES TO A PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE

an arrow points from the sexy vampire bullet to an image of edward cullen, captioned "this guy isn't in there." another points from the frankenstein bullet to a picture of the book Frankenstein, captioned "this guy is, tho"

slide four: at the center of the slide, text reads "3. DELIGHTFUL NARRATIVE VOICE." smaller text boxes read "the sheer range of the range of character narrations in this book is impressive and so fun" and "we got teen talk we got litfic prose we got monsters narrating we got ordinary people." there are also three quotes from various stories, set in speech bubbles:

“Everyone’s cousin Tanya says she’s done it with an elf dude. That doesn’t mean shit.”

“And all of these things were true, and simultaneous, and all of them were occurring only a moment before she might be killed, and rise again.”

“At first, the plants seemed quite innocuous, and Ephraim watched them pile up on the windows of the little greenhouse with mild curiosity.”

there is also an edited image of the "she doesn't have the range" meme, reading, "they have the range."

slide five: the top of the slide reads "4. DON’T LIKE ONE-OFFS? NO PROBLEM!" the bullet points beneath read:

do you prefer your short stories unrelated to each other? completely tonally variant?

SNR has got that!

do you prefer your short stories interconnected? do you like recurring characters? do you want to see… characters from OTHER yves. projects?

SNR has got that too!

smaller text boxes read "Red and Eliza from Forest Castles are there!" and "maybe avner too. i'm not allowed to say"

there is also a picture of hannah montana's "best of both worlds" album.

slide six: the top of the slide reads "5. THERE ARE NEW STORIES IN IT!" the bullet points beneath read:

already an SNR fan? already have a copy? you haven’t yet read the new content!

THREE new stories

what if the alien abductee you were interviewing had questions… for you?

what if you had to love-potion your crush… for someone else?

what if you had to come out to your date… AS A MONSTER?

there are clipart images on the side of an alien spaceship, a bubbling potion, and a lit candle.

slide seven: word art with a glowing green shadow reads "max's favorite stories :)". each story blurb goes with a corresponding image:

Six Hours Under: the woman on the L train is crying, dead, and very very pretty. [clipart of a train]

Monsters and The Guy: there’s a guy in Arrivals. he’s being weird about it. [clipart of an airport]

The Hands and The Mouth: the story-speakers speak only in script. there are only a few of them left. [clipart of rolling waves]

Don't Feel Guilty: a teen’s plant collection starts to unnerve their father. [clipart of a leaf]

Blood Orange Tea: getting trapped at work with your crush is awkward even when you’re not a vampire. [clipart of iced tea]

slide eight: large text reads "THANK YOU. GO FORTH AND BUY SNR." in smaller text is the information paragraph from this post.

[turtle-trash]

Poker night is queer. Source: me

Did both trans and gay for poker night 1 bc I couldn’t decide which to do so I did both (that’s not to say no one at the poker night 2 table is trans of course 👍 transgendaism for all)

(BTW the name at the corner of the images is the channel where I got the screenshots. He has a two hour long play of the first game and a 6 hour one for the second)

[castielsparkle]

I'm so jealous of your dad I got my mom into supernatural and obsessed with cas but she was soo confused when I even mentioned there being gay undertones. And she thinks dean's annoying 😕

/!!3?2$2; that is so crazy to me because . well. ok let me explain. my mom personally is evil and insane and when i was like 12 i would tell her about youtuber rpf and like. she is actively homophobic however she was a legit truther about youtube rpf ships which is. an entire thing. not an rpf guy btw need this to be known . not a fan. not about it whatsoever. actively disdain for it. Moving on. she still talks abt that stuff to this day. unprompted. despite being lgbtphobic love and light. MOVING ON. my dad literally like..... We did Not ask him to fucking do this . he started watching spn and anytime its on tv around him he starts going off about his gay dean truthing and how like. he doesnt subscribe to him being bi hes of the belief dean is a gay man. he also vibes with dean beinng a trans dude. he will make a comment about this at any opportunity . dean scene where hes like 'my boobs are real' cue my father unprompted immediately talking abt top surgery dean . hes insane. he says he is quote 'indifferent' abt trans dean headcanon. he says hes also quote 'indifferent' abt gay and bi dean however he 'sure does act gay with cas' which . is really fucking funny to me bc he put on a destiel compilation on youtube (?? did not fucking ask him to . i wanted to watch the 'deans gay thing' scene) and then it ended up being him critiquing fan compilations of deans behaviors and he even starts bringing up like . 'remember that time he looked at that guys ass in like the 50s' or whatever. like to prove there were better portrayals of dean being gay than in the destiel fan compilations on yourube. my god. he said yesterday separately to both me and my older brother about how he (my dad not dean) is like if gay was a gender and not a sexuality. not unpacking all that rn. but he said it to me when we were watching destiel compilation he put on and he had my older brother back him up abt how he said it earlier GSHJF. i dont remember whrte i was going w this. oh yeah. further context i am his only bio child ever . my older brother is found family we met like five years ago and he moved in w us at the end of last yr. bc dad offered. and before that he offered to move in my other bestie who i went to hs with who ive known for approx four years now and like . we are all trans guys btw. he offered to pay for our t if we set up ghe shit w insurance (this is happening rn i literally got my first t shot yday‼️) ANYWAYS.... all of this to say. my dad is always saying shit about jow destiel are gay or whatever. hes insane. no clue why. he insisted that like Yeah No its not even undertones is so blatant and overt that hes gay . he will say stuff like 'im not a fangirl i dont have headcanons' (insane sentence to hear btw) if u ask him directly abt it when were not watching spn bc it 'stays reserved for when were watching the show' but also like he will just. he. will say things. so much.

edit requests my dad has given me courtesy of my roomie from when they watch spn. in the car on the way to the store tonight he (my father) told me ANOTHWR idea he had which was when cas tried to speak to dean in lazrising and shatters all the glass and shit and hes like . quote. itd be a meme with the caption like 'autistic me not being able to control the volume of my voice.' which yeah. fire image idea. love it. he just says shit. hes always talking about how gay dean is and how detiel is real sorry i know this sounds like fucking down with cis bus and oppa homeless stylw and ahit i literally promise u im being so fucking for real. the first con i ever went to my dad took me and he dressed as naruto bc he doesnt 'kin' naruto but he says if he did kin it wouldbe naruto and pinkie pie . he also is obsessed w weird al. he knows rhat pinkie pie and weird al are married and have a child. he makes. interesting comments abt it when he talks abt how he would kin pinkie pie if he had to kin a my little pony. sorry this got way off the fucking rails. he also twitch streams twice a week. ive never watched sherlock but he did back in the day when it was popular. we also both watched doctor who together. sorry this got so divorced from ur ask anon my dad also got divorced he loves divorce. okay im so sorry im done now . also he says that sam is annoying sometimes

WDIT: SO FUCKING SORRY i forgot to add my dad said he quote 'kind of' would endorse this compilation . https://youtu.be/4McX1GUE3K8 he felt fairly positive about it.

[mordcore]

im looking at this stupid thing again

and im realizing its actually accurate to how fashos perceive diversity.

you can see that different body types get a different "amount of diversity". so according to this graph, fat > cartoonishly muscular > dehydrated bodybuilder and so on. so in this model, if you wanted to increase diversity, you'd just make all characters fat. or black or transgender you get the gist of it.

so no wonder they think that increased diversity = white genocide. they don't understand that diversity is supposed to mean "people who are different from each other" and increased diversity means "more equal percentages of different kinds of people are present" or "more types of differences are recognized and accomodated for" or something in that regard. just, people who are different from each other in various ways, allowed to exist. people who aren't aryan white cishet able bodied etc allowed to be themselves and not forced into anything.

but why do they just assume that we want to force everyone to be in our own image and everyone has to be transgender and have blue hair and pronouns and become fat and disabled?

it's simple, fascists are always projecting. They want the world to be like them, to force everyone to conform and erradicate those who can't or won't, and they will always assume or pretend to believe that ""the other side"" is just like them but with a different hat on. this works on centrists btw who go "both sides bad" and give the fashos even more power.

fascists are really projecting all the time and i realized this because i noticed that they always assume things to be true of "the left" that aren't true at all, but start making sense if you ask if they are the ones who think that way. "disabled people just want special treatment" says Karen McWhiteface who yells at cashiers for not giving her special treatment. "the sjws want to take away your freedom of speech" says the rebublican politician who just got books about queer people banned from schools in usa. "the gays want to indoctrinate our children" say the usa christians who indoctrinate their own children into their own cults. "trans people make Children Mutilate Their Bodies" say terfs who are happy watch intersex children get mutilated as they push for more interphobia and tell queer kids online to kill themselves and lobby to force trans kids through the wrong kind of puberty.

Its All The Same Bullshit.

[niccerooniererer]

Just remembered a thing about like, what I posted and like

and like it's so fuckin weird to me how we speak of so many issues as if they're all separate when in the end they are usually a combination of 2 things

anti choice and racism

now I can't really speak on the latter, considering I'm as white as it gets, but the first one

so. trans rights? when people wanna go against them, they wanna take away their CHOICE to transition (or not) and then go on to demonize them in as many ways as possible

gay rights? people wanting to take away the CHOICE for people to be in queer relationships, then putting all possible effort in to make us look bad

the right to do abortions? literally what the pro choice vs pro life fights have been about, especially the making people feel bad for their choice even more, basically putting an unborn baby's life above the person's who carries it

disabled rights? with intellectual and physical disabilities included as well? also personality disorders included? ableists wanting to take away again the CHOICE and the way for these people to get the care and medication they need and want, and then also going out of their ways to make these people look worthless, scummy, and often even as the villains, or at least the bad people you should avoid

intersex rights? the CHOICE taken away, both from the parents and the child to not have invasive surgeries that are just gonna most likely ruin the child's life, even going onto saying it shouldn't matter because intersex people are rare (not true at all btw) and so why should there be laws protecting these basically non existent people, once again. being a problem, in a round about way, being, somehow, bad people

like Idk if it's just me but it always seems to be the case. Where especially right wingers just can't stop acting like all these minorities bother them and they just NEED to comment on it and have to be included, just like the straight pride thing! like, it's so weird to me how they so often go on to judge you in so so many ways and try to reinforce what they see as good

as if people of the world, who are different from them are only there to be an asset they can react to, get angry at and maybe even kill if they're that far gone

like this anti choice vibe is all over the place, AND NOT WITH JUST RIGHT WINGERS they are just a good example due to their tendency of not hiding the darkest shit they want to do to you just cuz you have to use a wheelchair and have a trans pin on your bag or something

I absolutely see this with other people as well, where it seems like they are pro choice until it's about a group they don't like

like when gay skinny people will be like yasss slayyyy until a fat man tries out being a drag queen and they proceed to half subconsciously berate him for trying to do that while fat, or worse, tell him that he's being soooooo brave for this

anyways my point was that all this anti choice thing seems to have, basically 2 goals in mind: eliminate or assimilate

it's like, it feels like a losing battle

especially feeling this as I'm fat and my body image is not consistent at all, all because of this kind of, anti choice, semi fash mindset, maybe I could even call it an ideology-

anyways it either kills us or numbs us to the point that we don't fight anymore, and maybe even die to that at that point, especially if it's about getting necessary medication and aid to literally survive

anyways my point with this- why are we fighting each other? we're all hurting just about the same way, by the very same people, the very same system

best we can do is hold each other up, just a bit higher so maybe we can live just a little longer, or maybe even get something done even, whatever it is, even just society getting a little better is good

[kittycatcarla]

Note before the image description as i had too google it: "MAGA" stands for "Make America Great Again". (Or at least that's the meaning i found"

Image description:

"A screenshot of 3 tweets by Lakota Man @\LakotaMan1:

First tweet: "So, MAGA's are whining and crying because Pedro Pascal took his trans sister Lux Pascal to the Emmy's. I've never ever seen a more fragile, delicate demographic than [quote] straight [unquote] MAGA [quote] men [unquote]"

In the same tweet there is a picture of Pedro and Lux Pascal, Lux holding Pedro by his arm. They both wear mostly black attire, Lux wearing a backless sleeveless black dress.

Second tweet: "She's absolutely gorgeous btw. I think so."

Third tweet: "MAGA's in the comments calling me gay for supoorting trans people is a wonderful compliment. Shit, I'd rather be gay than white, dumb, confused and transphobic/homophobic. If i had to choose. Lol."

\end ID

[menstits]

Everything about being gay and trans is so alienating oh my god. Like i constantly feel like i can't keep both aspects of my identity like i have to choose which one i'm "allowed" to claim which might depend on the situation but it's never both at once. Like if i try to claim the fact that i'm trans cis people will immediately tell me i'm faking it because a Real trans man is attracted to women and wants to transition so he can fit into a relationship that can look cishet to outside eyes. And if i try to claim my attraction to men people will tell me it would just be easier for me to be a girl instead and that people would like me more if i was a cis girl. I've had people tell me both of these things to my face before btw. It's incredible how cis people (of any sexuality like cis lgbs aren't exempt from this lmao) just. Refuse to consider the fact that trans people's sexualities can be as varied and complex as theirs like ofc they're familiar with other cis het or cis lgb people but when they think of a trans person they automatically default to some horrible caricature-esque mental image of a trans person who lives for cis approval 😐 like i seriously hope every single cis person on the planet dies i'm not joking literally none of you know how to act

[scarletwelly-boots]

Books Read 2020

I started off really good this year, what with quarantine and all. And then I got sidetracked by reading one hundred and forty-nine fanfics (and counting) (mostly Destiel; CW can kiss my ass). 

I read 30 books this year, which I thought was bad, but apparently I only read 24 last year, so not awful. I did the Popsugar reading challenge for the fifth year. There were 50 categories this year, so 60% isn’t too bad. So without further ado, let’s get started under the cut.

1. The Mermaid, The Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall (a book that’s published in 2020). This book, y’all. My god. It has it all: pirates, queer relationships, genderfluid characters, an intense plot. This book was so good. I definitely recommend this book. Pirates!!! And gay!

2. Somebody Told Me, by Mia Siegert (a book by a trans or nonbinary author). I don’t know how Siegert identifies, but I know they use they/them pronouns. This book was... okay but frustrating. A bigender teen, Aleks/Alexis, has a traumatic experience and moves in with their aunt and uncle, who is a newly converted Catholic priest. I liked the queer rep, but sometimes it felt like the author had these assumptions or prejudices about the Catholic church. Some of them were right, granted, and I’m not a practicing Catholic anymore so I don’t know why it pissed me off, but it bugged me anyway. So I guess if you don’t mind it seeming like the author did little to no research on Catholicism, then it’s a good book.

3. All the King’s Men, by Nora Sakavic (a bildungsroman). Who, me? Rereading my gay comfort trilogies during quarantine? It’s more likely than you think. Love the All for the Game trilogy. This is the third book in the series. It’s the best book in the trilogy. It is a series about a college sports team who play a made up sport called Exy, which is basically a more violent version of lacrosse. I’m not a huge sports fan, but the way she writes Exy matches had me on the edge of my seat. The team is made up of all “at-risk” students, the main character being a kid on the run from his mob boss dad. Trigger warning for the series for violence, sexual assault/rape, abuse, drug use, I may be missing some things. It was so good though.

4. Captive Prince, by C.S.Pacat (a book with a map). Back again with the gay comfort trilogies. This is the first book in the Captive Prince trilogy, and whoops, did I say love All For the Game? Love this series more. It’s awesome. It’s fantasy and gay and romantic. But the romance isn’t even the central part. Laurent is my favorite asshole. Damen is so sweet and sassy as fuck. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Seriously. I can’t do this series justice.

5. The Foxhole Court, by Nora Sakavic (a book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club). First book in the All for the Game series. What are you still doing here? Go start this trilogy!

6. Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine (a book that passes the bechdel test). This is such a good book. It was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. It’s basically a retelling of Cinderella, and if you’ve seen the movie version with Anne Hathaway, the book is way, way better. 

7. Loki: The God Who Fell to Earth, by Oscar Basaldua (a book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it). God, I cannot WAIT for the Loki show. Anyway, this is a new comic about Loki (obviously). I love anything with my disaster wife in it, so 100% I recommend it. 

8. As Drowning Men Clutch at Straws, by EA Roisin (a book by an author with flora or fauna in their name). Okay, so. Roisin is an Irish name that means rose, and EA Roisin is my (unpublished) pen name. In my defense, the manuscript is 186 pages long and it felt like an accomplishment when I finally finished rereading it for the first time since I finished it in 2015. Do I recommend it? I’ll let you know if it ever gets published.

9. Red White and Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston (a book that won an award in 2019). I’m still rereading this book. I got interrupted because my sister wanted to read it and then I got a new book for my birthday. But this is, far and away, my FAVORITE BOOK. It’s so beautiful. It was very romantic (once they stopped “hating” each other), and gay. The premise sounds far-fetched: First Son of the United States falls for the Crown Prince of England. But, guys, it’s soooo gooooood. Highly, highly, highly recommend. 

10. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, by Hank Green (a book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics). This is the sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. This was just as great as the first, but I spent a good chunk of the book vibrating with anxiety. The stakes were way higher, and I don’t think I’ve been scared while reading a book since reading Jade Green (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor) in junior high (which was fucking terrifying, btw). But I definitely recommend it!

11. Crush, by Richard Siken (a book with a pun in the title). Guys. I read this book almost every year, because it’s quick and gorgeous and the title is accurate because it absolutely crushes me. This is a collection of LGBT (more specifically, gay) poetry, and OH MY GOD. This is in my top five favorite books. I read it all the time. This is the book that made me fall in love with poetry, back in high school.

12. The Raven King, by Nora Sakavic (a book with a bird on the cover). The second book in the All for the Game series. Trigger warnings for All the King’s Men apply to this one, too. 

13. 1014: Brian Boru, by Morgan Llewelyn (a fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader). If you know me, you know I’m a complete Irish history nerd. This book is about a very important battle that took place in Ireland, and the last great High King of Ireland, Brian Boru. High Kings are mostly just an elected title, who get paid via taxes from provincial kings and chieftains, but Brian was the only one who saw as close to a united, free Ireland as it got until 1921 (although since the island is split between the North and the Republic, it’s still not totally unified). I recommend if you like history.

14. The Magnolia Sword, by Sherry Thomas (a book by a WOC). Oh. My. God. So this is a retelling of the ballad of Mulan. Mulan is a very important story to me anyway (tomboy as a child, genderfluid, bisexual as fuck), and this retelling was so good and interesting. It also features one of my favorite tropes, Surprise Gays. I highly, highly recommend.

15. My Own Ways Through This Life, by Chris Viau (a book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads). Okay, so it miiiight have a four-star rating because of me and my camp family all rating it, but it counts. This is a mixed media autobiography by one of my camp friends. He has written at least three books, and all are available on Amazon. This is the only one I’ve read so far, and it was really interesting. I definitely recommend it. 

16. Insomniac City, by Bill Hayes (a book you meant to read in 2019). This book was beautiful and heartbreaking. It was a Christmas gift from my brother. It’s a memoir about Bill’s time in a relationship with Oliver Sacks, a famous neurologist. It’s sweet and melancholic and funny. Huge recommendation.

17. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens’ Agenda, by Becky Albertalli (a book about or involving social media). Still such a wonderful book. Better than the movie, I’m telling you. It was really good, and I definitely cried. If you liked the movie, read the book. It’s different in several ways. I think if you’re thinking in terms of trueness to the book, the movie was maybe not as good, but they’re both good as their own standalone things. But I highly recommend both.

18. Loki: Agent of Asgard, by Jason Ewing (a book that has a book on the cover). This is such a good series. It’s a great characterization of my disaster wife.  I love this graphic novel series. I love how they depict Loki, how he finally gets a goddamn redemption arc. It’s a really fun read. Check it out.

19. Kings Rising, by CS Pacat (a book with a made up language). This is pushing it, since they never actually speak in the made up languages on paper. But UGH. Third book in the Captive Prince trilogy, and hands down the best. Laurent and Damen finally let go of the goddamn longing and actually do something about it.

20. The Deep, by Rivers Solomon (a book set in a country beginning with C). This is pushing it, because it’s about mermaids (basically), but I think they’re in the Caribbean. I loved this book. It was so interesting. It’s based on a song by clipping., Daveed Diggs’s group. The premise is the wajinru (the mermaid people) originated as the infants from pregnant Africans that died and were thrown overboard during the slave trade. So like, it’s a pretty heavy book. But it’s heartfelt and sweet, too. Also more Surprise Gays, which came at an excellent time (November, post-Supernatual finale) for me. I highly recommend.

21. Written in the Stars, by Alexandria Bellefleur (a book you picked because the title caught your attention). I just finished this book tonight and it was so. good. It’s basically a modern, lesbian, fake dating rendering of Pride and Prejudice. And let me tell you, if there’s one thing I love more than Pride and Prejudice, it’s lesbians. It’s really really great. I highly, highly recommend. 

22. Running with Lions, by Julian Winters (a book with a three-word title). Thanks to All for the Game and movies like Handsome Devil and Boys, I have discovered that I have a huge thing for queer sport stories. So this book was really, really good. It’s got friends to enemies to friends to lovers, which is great. It’s got soccer, which is way more homoerotic now. And it’s got gays, which is really why I picked this book up. But it’s well written and the story is interesting, too. I definitely recommend.

23. The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang (a book with a pink cover). Oh my god. AHHHHH!!! This book is amazing. It’s a graphic novel, so it’s a quick read. It’s fantasy and feels a little Cinderella-y, but that’s not the best part. The queer relationship is amazing, but that’s not the best part. The prince is genderfluid! Like me! And his mask name is Sebastian! Like me! (Okay, so my name is Bastien, but close enough) This was so so so good. I got it at a convention in February, and I was practically vibrating with excitement as I read it. I highly highly highly recommend. 

24. Girl Crushed, by Katie Heaney (a book by or about a journalist). I think I’d have liked this book better if it wasn’t so...similar to my life. The main premise is the main character is getting over a sudden and painful break up, after being dumped by her long-term (maybe first? I can’t remember) girlfriend. The ex has the same initials as my ex and acted very similarly, so maybe I ended up picturing her when the character came up in the book. The ending pissed me off. It was very gay and that wasn’t the entirety of the book, so maybe you’ll like it more than me. It was just too true to life for me and opened up some old wounds I didn’t want to open up. The author is an editor at Buzzfeed, so that’s how it fits into this category. 

25. Date Me, Bryson Keller, by Kevin van Whye (your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge--a book published this year). This might be my second or third favorite book, goddamn it’s that good. It’s queer, obviously, and sort of fake dating? Bryson is dared to date someone new each week. He’s assumed to be straight, so all the people he dates are girls until Kai asks him. It’s really sweet, and there’s some issues with coming out to your family that don’t always sit well with me, but overall it was really good and it ends well. I definitely recommend.

26. Loki: Where Mischief Lies, by Mackenzi Lee (a book written by an author in their 20s). AAAHHHH!!!! Fuckin.... Okay, y’all know I have feelings about Loki. He’s my spouse and I love him to death. This book was so, so good. Loki gets sent to Victorian London to solve a mystery and meets a group of humans who know about Asgard and basically keep Midgard in order for Odin. Loki is canonically pan and genderfluid (as he should be), and Theo is a sweetheart. I wrote a 10k fic coming out of reading this book (Phantom Limb by Irishavalon on AO3, check it out.). I seriously recommend!

27. Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo (a book by an author who has written more than 20 books). I read this with my third graders at the beginning of this year. Such a good book. I read it as a kid too. The movie is great but as always, book is better. Recommend.

28. Adventures of Charls, the Veretian Cloth Merchant, by CS Pacat (a book with more than 20 letters in its title). This was a reread of a short story that comes after the Captive Prince trilogy. Charls, the cloth merchant, was such a great side character in the CP trilogy, and telling the story from his perspective was great. It doesn’t have to be read after the other CP short stories, but at least the trilogy should be read first.

29. Fence vol.1, by CS Pacat (a book from a series with more than 20 books). I’m pushing it with this category. I read the first volume, but this is a comic book series, so the 20 books is more issues. This is very good too. It’s another gay sports story, and is probably going to be enemies to lovers, but they’re still enemies by the end of volume 1. Still recommend. 

30. Prince’s Gambit, by CS Pacat (a book with a main character in their 20s). Book 2 of the Captive Prince trilogy. Very very good. 

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I already commented this on Twitter but this is nothing but hilarious to me.

LONG RANT UNDER THE CUT, SWEETIES

What I LOVE about Helluva Boss is, that it's not an actual topic that there are so many queer characters. Stolas sleeping with a man? Not the whole problem, it's more problematic that he has/had sex with an Imp, there are racial differences here that are problematic.

Moxxie being bi (which got revealed later but come on, I saw that cute face and thought "If he's not bi, he's at least demi") was just a thing for his Dad, which seems ridiculous because everyone else was totally cool with it, so it seems? But Crimson is a special case anyway.

Sallie May is a trans character which is related to one of the main cast, but we've actually seen multiple trans Imps before, since they can change their body characteristics, but they still will be recognized by their horns (that's why it irks me when Blitzø gets gender swapped which is FINE, totally. But at least change the horns? Not if he's trans, of course!).

Don't wanna talk about Fizz and Ozzie too much, they have the same "problem" as Stolas and Blitzø. The problem is no that Fizz is a guy (at least that's what we see in the show since he's using He/Him pronouns but I'm always in for intersex or Trans Fizz💖), the problem is the classicism in Hell.

And now we're coming to Blitzø, or how I call him The Sexy Lizard Man ™.

Blitzø had MULTIPLE relationships as we know, his first love we know of being Fizzarolli. Maybe he had a gay crisis, who knows, I guess him being Blitzø he was more scared about being in love with his FRIEND, then that said friend is a guy/identifies as one.

Then we know of Verosika for sure, a weird dynamic for me but I guess it fits a younger Blitzø having his Bad Boy image and I don't know much about his past in his work context, but I guess he started out as a bodyguard (then got into the assassination business). I know we got the whole "He won't go down on me" quote from her, but yeah, they were a couple.

Aaaaand I guess Blitzø had his fair share of one night stands, also switching (I'm so not cool with the whole bottom/top discourse because come on people, it's 2024, do we have to talk about preferences and how they can change in a relationship??), also got awfully drunk, also made out with TransImps at Bees party.

And this absolute horrible adventure that was Chaz.

Which also seems to be Bi btw?

And the show opens with Stolas and Blitzø, both MEN and identifying as said, having consensual kinky sex (the situation is complicated but they DO consent).

Also Blitzø doing hilariously awkward role play games with crafted versions of Millie and Moxxie in his office. A heterosexual couple.

So, NO ONE bats an eyelash. No one says it's awkward that Blitzø has partners of different genders. They ARE worried about Blitzø using sex as a coping mechanism to be close to someone, they're worried that he can't keep a relationship up without him self sabotaging it but they never comment on his sexuality.

And you know I, as an asexual lesbian woman, being mostly in my leftist green LGBTQ+ bubble, find it so damn comforting and so relaxing that we see so many MANY kinds of love in this damn Cartoon and that it's NORMAL.

Saying Blitzø is straight rubs me in all the wrong places because of all the things he IS, he's not even close to straight.

...

That got out of hand but I felt like talking about my favorite show and why I love that topics, which are in real life make so many people so damn sad and anxious, are in Hell not even mentioned or when, it's not THE TOPIC, it's something that just IS.

LIKE IN REAL LIFE.

People are homosexual and they just are, they don't have to tell you that. People are trans and just exist and that's how it is. We're so used to the heteronormativity, that people who are part of the community and being represented on TV are usually so damn over the top, that we just look at that one character and know he's gay. That's horrible. Let people just be people and show TV Land a 9-1-1, they did that right. At least in that case.

I'm so sorry for my rant but I have so many feelings for that show about The Sexy Lizard Man ™ and his relationships, you have no idea.

Pretty sure he bottomed for Chaz so you could throw that "It's not gay if you top" argument away.

[nightcoremoon]

potentially controversial post ahead

Republicans: literally running a gestapo, literally murdering brown people, literally screaming for mexicans to "go back home", literally funding racist domestic terror organizations, literally covering up internalized pedophilia scandals, literally driving this county into the fucking ground

Joe Biden: says something taken out of context and overanalyzed to be indicative of some slight racist tendencies which is to be 100% fully expected from a white man in america

You dumb motherfuckers: they're the same thing, both evil, don't vote for biden if he wins the candidacy or you're a racist too, this is a rational mindset to have, this exact same mentality towards clinton lead to landing trump in the white house once already but I'm a dumb motherfucker who never learns so I'm gonna shit on and disparage everyone who isn't sanders (until we dig up some random dirt on him saying he's *throws dart* misogynist) or cortes (until we dig up some random dirt on her says she's *spins wheel* ableist) or whoever the fuck else while being terrible because HEY NEWSFLASH! ALL POLITICIANS ARE BAD!

so you gotta choose who's less bad. and, like, literally anyone would be better than trump for ever singly minority demographic in america.

all white people are racist in some capacity so it's fucking stupid to just discount every white potential candidate for being ~racist when the opposition is goddamn rice and milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm with an unhealthy tinge of orange spraytan. there's a fucking difference between "all blacks are rapists" racism and "hey brown skinned people are given worse opportunities for education than white people so let me make a careless offhand remark that's incredibly tasteless and sounds bad out of context" racism, and "let's shoot unarmed black kids because we cops can get away with it" racism and "I sing gold digger by kanye west and say every word even though I'm white" racism, and "fuck muslims, we should kill them all" racism and "I'm too stupid and narcissistic to understand why any person would have a different upbringing than me and therefore don't know why affirmative action is necessary in situations that I've never encountered" racism, and "BLM are terrorists and kaepernick is the antichrist" racism and "I don't like rap music" racism. like yeah it's all bad and it's all terrible and life is a fucking nightmare for poc in america but logically microaggressions are a better alternative than being murdered, right? there's no magic off switch to turn off all racism forever, but there's a way to make it less bad if even slightly.

but if the prospect of joe "literally obama's vice president" biden sometimes saying dumb and kinda racist shit is JUST AS BAD as donald "literally throwing kids into concentration camps for being brown" trump, then go off.

but like... ethnicity isn't the only demographic that's being treated like shit, being murdered, and having civil liberties stripped from them. if y'all are fine keeping trump in office because biden's "also racist", keep in mind that all the impoverished, the female, the gay, the trans, the disabled, the sick, the mentally ill, the autistic, the jewish, the muslim, the homeless, and the dissenters, they all get fucked too.

it just blows my mind that the radicals and the extreme left are so hard-on for an unattainable image of fucking perfection that nothing short of god herself will ever be good enough for us, that they're willing to let the tangerine stay??? stupid, stupid, stupid. but whatever, what do I know, I'm just affected by the decisions of the government of the country i'm forced to live in.

if biden becomes the democratic candidate I'm fucking voting for him because he'll be the democratic candidate. don't @ me if you don't like it because like it or not we have a 2 party system. so don't blame me. I voted for kodos.

inb4 I get a swarm of angry hatemail calling me racist and telling me to kill myself just because I dared to say that trump is far more of a majorly dangerous problem to ethnic minorities than joe "again, literally obama's vice president" biden ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

btw:

fuck republicans

fuck you if you're a conservative

fuck off if you're in the right wing

eat a dick if you're in the GOP

and all nazis and fascists must die

[thatonefurryartist]

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Above is a drawing of a fluffy, small mutted magenta dog with bright blue eyes and a little pink chest fluff. They have a scar on his chest, and a scar on his back, both being from surgery.

The fluffy dog is holding a paw up, while looking forwards.

Above the drawing, lists their name and pronouns, which are Arwen and he or they.

Beside these,to the right is two boxes with a gay flag in one, and the trans flag in another.

Beside that, to the right, is listed some design notes, which read

Is a little chubby

Is a shape shifter (this is his normal form)

Below this is a up close reference for the characters bright blue eyes with dark blue pupils and Eyeshine that looks like a star.

Slightly below this, is a reference for the characters tounge color, and nose colors, both being mutted shades of magenta, with the nose a darker shade, and the tounge being lighter

Beside that, to the right, is a reference for their pawpaw, which is an extremely mutted magenta

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Sorry if this is long, btw.

Anyways, updated fursona lore! (Part 1)

He is canonically plural, and a shape shifter. Keeps a normal appearance when possible, but it slightly changes depending on whom is co-fronting

Due to the alters, he has many powers, depending on whom is co-fronting, of course.

His brother died a mysterious death. He refuses to talk about him (but don't worry, his brother deserved whatever happened to him. He's an abusive asshole.)