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Pareo | Nyubara Reona

BanG Dream!

[askthethorpeparkrides]

(Everyone) What's you guys' favourite drinks?

- The Islanders rely on their favourite beverages to take them through the demanding task of entertaining parkgoers. Some other fun facts:

- Stealth will only drink Coca-Cola out of glass bottles. "The plastic ones just aren't as cool!"

- Colossus also likes bubble tea. Her favourite flavour is vanilla, but it's pretty uncommon in the stores, so she tends to settle for taro. She tried making it herself once, but it ended in disaster. The Lost City folks and her have wonderful tea parties every week!

- Saw is lactose intolerant, but also allergic to soy, so his go-to alternative is oat. In fact, if he can't have oat milk in his coffee for whatever reason, he'd rather just get tea.

- Xavier's drink is a whisky on the rocks with a bit of still lemonade. They're very particular about most things, and also likes to talk to the night bartender. Who knows why Derren's having a coffee at this time of night, though.....

[Image ID:

Image 1: A 4 paneled comic reading from left to right. Panel 1: Nemesis Inferno, a young woman with medium dark skin, orange eyes and brown wavy hair with orange highlights sits at a table, holding a tumbler of lemon iced tea. She rests her chin on one hand with a ponderous expression and says: "That's a good question, actually! I'm drinking lemon tea right now, even though it's out of season, but it's not my favourite. Or maybe it is? Well, I do love a good smoothie, or just juice (though not orange, yeuch) and flavoured water is nice too. I guess there's just so many that it's hard to decide. Maybe I should narrow it down by starting with drinks I don't like. Hmm..."

Panel 2: Stealth, a young Asian man with light-medium skin, bleached white hair with navy tips and dark red eyes wearing a black, white and red racing suit and a trans flag pin thrusts a glass bottle of Coca Cola towards the viewer, winking charismatically. He says: "Nothing quenches my thirst better than the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola!" A small caption at the bottom of the frame reads: "Note. Stealth is not sponsored by Coca-Cola. Please don't sue us."

Panel 3: Swarm, a young dark-skinned black person with black and grey hair braided into a coily ponytail, dark green eyes and dressed in a camo coat and black bulletproof vest, holds a can of Pepsi Max and asks Stealth: "What about Pepsi Max? That's my favourite." Stealth is turning round to give them a thumbs up and says with a friendly smile and eyes closed: "It's good!"

Panel 4: Chibi versions of Stealth and Swarm stand in front of a descending dark purple gradient. Stealth opens the bottle of Coca Cola and says: "but Coca Cola is still way better." Swarm smiles, unconvincingly, and replies: "Uh, yeah. Whatever you say, big guy." End Image 1 ID.

Image 2: a 4 paneled comic reading from left to right.

Panel 1: Colossus, a fat white woman with curly pale teal hair dressed in Ancient Greek attire, holds a fancy china teacup filled with brown tea. She smiles with her eyes closed and says: "A cup of Earl Grey is my favourite, and it's even better when my friends are at the table!" She's surrounded by a pink glow and cartoon flowers. Behind her, far in the distance, stand Quantum, an elderly Sikh man waving at her with a cup of tea in his hand, Zodiac, a red-haired white woman wearing long loose clothes and smiling, Rush, a woman with medium skin and turquoise hair in a grey dress and eating cake, and Vortex, a dark-skinned woman with deep purple hair and a starry dress who's posed and smiling at the camera.

Panel 2: Saw, a pale-skinned white man with messy, curly dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, a thick beard, dark circles under his eyes and wearing a light grey shirt with a rusted metal cage over his shoulders and ribs, is looking at the viewer and signing the BSL for latte, with his index finger to his palm. He says: "Vanilla oat latte. One shot of espresso."

Panel 3: Xavier, a dark-skinned desi masc with curly dark brown hair with lilac highlights, red-blue heterochromia and a plaster over their nose, wearing a black tank top with a light purple X on it and a scuffed black leather jacket, sits at a tabletop with a whiskey on the rocks in front of him and his hands on his chin. They look downhearted, and say: "...And yet things still aren't the same anymore. This whole zombie thing's just....not my style. It was far simpler, well....back in the 90s. Look, I know, it's cringy, the park's evolved way beyond then and everything, but it all made sense. I was x, the cyberpunk secret agent, the biggest draw, cool with the teens, and liked being me, too. And denim doesn't suit me at all. I wish I could decide my theme instead of always having to chop and change at the marketing team's whims, and........ hello? Did you catch all that?"

Panel 4: it's now clear that Xavier is sat in front of the counter of a bar. He looks to the right in annoyance at the bartender, a white person with freckles and a red ponytail in a blue button down shirt, who is not listening to him but serving Derren a coffee. Derren is a medium-skinned, slightly older man with long, brownish-red locs in a ponytail tied with a blue ribbon, dressed in an elegant red coat with silver tasseling, gloves and a stationmaster hat. The bartender says: "Soy milk cappuccino with cocoa powder and a pump of hazelnut?" A small bit of text under their speech bubble adds: "Though I thought this was a bar, not a coffee shop..." Derren grins delightedly with his eyes closed and one finger up, saying "Why thank you! Yes, that's tremendous." End ID.]

[ishhbowl]

[teenager by superorganism starts playing] notes + closeups under cut B)

so!! this is the first piece of paranatural fanart i’ve posted :) hello pnat fandom i am brainrotting so hard over this comic

i wanted to draw my personal hcs of how the activity club would look as young adults/teenagers/older than canon! also how i imagine their styles would evolve as they got older :)

-i can totally see isabel cutting her hair when she gets older (“its just so much more convenient!”) and wear more alternative-ish clothing, but her style is still mostly the same.

-ed burger is my favorite weirdgirl. he is just so. i also accidentally gave him an ace ring but i liked it so i kept it. diversity win ig

-max‘s style has not changed at all. good for him. he wears platforms because he hates the fact that isaac’s taller than him now (also. fashion.) the “hoodie with another jacket over it” look is so bad but also extremely maxcore so i gave it to him

-isaac is punk now! good for him. im imagining his style eventually changed after max took him to enough concerts. he still really likes vests for some reason tho. i gave him a mohawk because his hair canonically sticks up on its own and a mohawk is literally just the next step. also if you see the trans flag patch no you don’t <3

[dykeyote]

umm,,,,could i maybe request some transfem juniper n joshua hcs,,, :)

YOU SOOOOOOO CAN BECAUSE THATS SO BASED . i enjoy that basically the only curious anons ive gotten are just asking me to transgenderize people bx that is my fav hobby

JUNIPER

SO!!!!! i hc her as transfem nonbinary with she/they prns >:) she has xenogenders too but theyre all chosen EXCLUSIVELY based on the design of the flag she doesnt even know what half of them mean she just thinks thye look cool . she has a little doc with all her xenogender flags in it and the union jack is on there and everyone THINKS theyr joking but lowkey its not entirely clear . she uses any neos i think the only prns theyr not okay with is he/him

i stand by that shes in a qpr with jedidiah . anyway i think they have a similar build and an adjacent gender presentation so they swap clothes sometimes . juniper is a lot FANCIER but they do look good in some of the same colors so juniper usually just spruces the ones she gets from jedidiah up a bit . she “generously” offers jeddy her dress with the union jack emblazoned all over it and hes like …… no its ok thank u 

juniper is VERY much not out at home i think i get the vibe that she hides a LOT from her dad and i think that being trans would Definitely fall under that . its part of why she really enjoys going to camp and spending time with rowan because she can be out there and be more comfortable with the way she presents

i think shes Known that shes trans for a whle but its something shes closeted about for the above reasons shes Very Avoidant so shes like . i can just push that down forever and ever and never transition and it wont be an issue <3 cheers! but being so close to rowan kind of opens her up to the idea more and makes it so they can kind of realize that . yes it will be hard . but she deserves that joy in her life . which is good for her i think shes a lot happier and less stressed

JOSHUA

JOSHUA!!!! i hc as transfem nonbinary theyre a they/them girl. an alpha female if you will . theyre DEEPLY DEEPLY DEEPLY IN THE CLOSET THOUGH theyre more repressed than JEDIDIAH which says smt . i think part of the whole alpha male manosphere thing is a way of avoiding coming to terms with being trans its about a lot of things but thats one of them . the vibes ive always gotten from them is that their family is pretty shitty and gave them a lot of insecurities and hangups about masculinity so i think thats lead to a LOT of internalized transphobia 

BUT!!!!! THEY WORK IT OUT!!!!!!! being friends with yvonne sort of opens them up to the idea more and they slowly leave that whole alpha male mindset which leaves them more open to try out new things including experimenting with their gender which they find really nice

i think they like to present as like . a Masculine Girl . like they dress the same way but they grow their hair out and go on e and start voice training . they do wear more fen clothes SOMETIMES like for special occasions they like to wear fancy dresses and shit . but i think largely the way they dress stays the same it doesnt change in the way it does for jedidiah and juniper . its just their physical features that they adjust 

i think them and yvonne bond a lot over being trans they were already really close friends . but joshua coming out gives them another thing to bond over and brings them even closer which is really nice for them (: it also helps joshua chill out a bit because expressing yourself is relaxing so their dynamic is a lot easier and calm 

[thalassomania]

no, but really-- top ten touhou character designs

oh, this is actually a hard one! character DESIGNS and not characters... hmm. this took me some time but i think i’ve got a definite top 10 down! for visual reference i’m using puppet sprites from touhou puppet dance performance, specifically barudo’s mod shard of dreams extended! starting from the bottom and working our way up...

10. kosuzu motoori something about her color palette, coupled with that checker pattern, is just very soothing. she’s a character who is pleasant to look at and doesn’t need to do much else.

9. yachie kicchou i like the three “points” of her design (the tips of her horns and tail) quite a bit. coupled with a more subdued color scheme and some simple clothing, her design has a level of subtle intimidation to it that i quite like.

8. marisa kirisame lovely poofy witch. i’m a sucker for huge hats and ribbons, and marisa’s black-and-white palette is surprisingly friendly too. she simultaneously feels like a traditional witch and one with a charm all her own.

7. utsuho reiuji BIRD UP. i like how even though she’s a hell raven and all that, her color scheme doesn’t rely too much on red--it’s an accent color that i think hints at what she’s like without being explicit. i also love the asymmetry of her legs and arm cannon.

6. mima the only pc98 character on this list, since a lot of their designs feel less “fully realized” compared to the windows roster... but mima is iconic. her color scheme, her pointy hat, her staff... she has a look that, to me, feels timeless.

5. yuyuko saigyouji i’m biased because i’m gay, but consider: she is covered in frills and her color palette is practically the trans pride flag. light blues and pinks go great together, and her big hat and long sleeves give her simultaneous elegance and gentleness.

4. seija kijin i love her hair. i love her hair so much. i also pretty much automatically love any characters with horns, so...there ya go. the ridiculous arrow pattern on her dress feels very “touhou” in its style--it doesn’t seem like anything a real person would wear, and i mean that as a compliment. plus, she’s black and red without being overly edgy, and that’s rad.

3. flandre scarlet i mean... the wings. the WINGS. her precious, goofy hat. this little vampire has captured so many hearts, and for good reason: her design is kind of legendary. i kinda love how she’s not traditionally gothic like you’d expect a vampire to be--she’s colorful, she’s bright, and she’s attention-grabbing as all hell.

2. shion yorigami did not expect this poverty god to make it into my top 10, but her design is kind of perfect imo. that baggy short-sleeved hoodie, the fact that she doesn’t wear shoes, that massive ribbon, the blue flames of her hair... she looks just the right amount of pathetic while simultaneously being quite pretty.

1. hecatia lapislazuli shion may be perfect, but... hecatia’s shirt says “WELCOME HELL.” her skirt is checkered and has three colors. she’s wearing a choker with big ol’ space orbs chained to it. her design is absolutely unhinged and wonderful and i love it to bits!

[queerdetectiveblue]

Day 3 of @wayhavensummer 

Prompt: flags Pairing: Morgan x f!detective (Charlotte Kingston) Rating: T for some suggestion Summary: Charlotte and her not-girlfriend Morgan get ready for their first pride together <3 Read on ao3

“Stop moving!” Charlotte breathes a laugh, her thumb and index finger tightening around her chin to stop her unfruitful distraction. The paintbrush on her other hand, soft against Morgan’s cheek.

“How can you blame me, sweetheart? When I have you for myself, looking as beautiful as you are in that outfit?” Morgan’s hands find their way to Charlotte’s waist, to her tulle skirt. Layers upon layers of light blue, pink, and white, not her usual outfit, since the detective favored black and white clothing but she looks breathtaking all the same.  

Charlotte laughs again, her eyes shining with mischief. Morgan confirms once more the fluttering in her stomach is a recurring feeling when hearing her laughter now, how a sound she outright ignores or considers annoying in anyone else, sounds so good coming off of her mouth.

“Later, my dear, we wouldn’t want to ruin our looks before the festival even begins, right?” Morgan bites her lower lip, her eyes trailing over the other woman’s body.

“I mean, I wouldn’t t mind.”

Charlotte shakes her head finishing the conversation with pursed lips, her eyes searching hers in thought. “It’s this paintbrush okay? It doesn’t bother you?” Morgan blinks at her, the concern clear in her brown eyes and in the way her hand stops the movement.

“It’s fine, sweetheart. It doesn’t feel bad when you do it,” the smile returns to Charlotte’s lips instantly, her eyes bright with something more: happiness. The same cheerfulness she showed when Morgan accepted her offer of painting her flag on her cheek. Pink, yellow and blue.

After a silent moment, “There, all done,” the detective pulls away slightly to admire her work, a thumb caressing Morgan’s jaw absentmindedly. “You look fantastic. Want me to do your eyes, now?”

Morgan shrug, focusing on Charlotte’s eyeshadow; a mix of different shades of pink and orange with a touch of white framing her beautiful dark eyes, the look on her face even more alluring than usual.

“Sure, but just black, okay? I don’t want more colors than necessary on my face,” Charlotte’s triumphant smile disappear in a second, and an impressive pout took its place.

“Come on not even a little bit of color?” Charlotte leans closer, her voice smooth and sweet like every time she tries to convince someone of doing something for her, “It’ll just be a tiny bit of color, I promise.”

Morgan shakes her head giving Charlotte’s waist a little squeeze between her hands, an amused smile playing on her lips. “You won’t convince me a second time, sweetheart.”

A look of pure mischief flashes across Charlotte’s eyes at her words. Pressing her thumb over Morgan’s lower lip, the vampire opens her mouth willingly, letting herself be distracted by red-painted lips and warm skin, so close to her she could almost taste it.

“Please, solecito, you and I both know I can convince you to do anything.”

Morgan groans, annoyance or arousal she isn’t sure. Probably both. She closes her eyes hoping to break the insufferable gap between their lips. Instead, she gets the tickling feeling of soft curls against her face, the wetness of Charlotte’s lips not on her own, but her cheek, and the obnoxiously loud sound of the kiss breaks Morgan out of her reverie.

She frowns at the detective but it’s clear, even for her, she isn’t irritated, and she can’t, nor does she want to be. Not with the way Charlotte smiles at her.

She never looks more gorgeous than when she’s happy.

“Black it is, then!” Charlotte rummaging through her makeup bag finding dark eyeshadow and black eyeliner.

Morgan closes her eyes reluctantly this time, if only because she couldn’t keep admiring the woman in front of her. Though it also meant she can be more aware of Charlotte’s gentle touch, her intoxicating perfume, her warm minty breath rushing over her face.

“I learned to do my makeup when I was fifteen. My grandma taught me,” her melodic voice fills the silent room around them, and Morgan relaxes with it.

“I always have a very clear idea that I wanted to wear makeup, even before I figure out my gender and how to present myself. My grandma was very chill about it, about what I liked, how I dressed or acted. As far as she’s concerned, I was her little artist, her ‘gorrión’.”

A small smile tug over Morgan’s lips. “She sounds cool.”

“She is the best.”

Morgan can feel the soft expression on Charlotte’s face, she can almost see it, the image vivid in her mind´s eye. She tries to take a look, opening one of her eyes and-

“No-no-no, not yet.” Charlotte tuts at her moving the brush to find her other eye. “Anyway, she took me to my first pride and, I don’t know, um doing this with you, it… it reminds me of her.” With the uncertainty of her voice follows the stop of her movements, and Morgan finds her eyes instantly. Light gray searching her deep brown.

She lifts a hand to Charlotte’s cheek, brushing her hair out of the way to caress her skin, the touch relaxing her instantly. The insecurity vanishing away from her expression and a sweet tentative smile replaces it.

“It’ll be our first pride together,” Charlotte speaks, whispers like a secret. Like it’s something that belongs to them, the two of them and no one else.

Morgan mirrors her expression and leans forward to capture her lips. Charlotte accepts her with pleasure this time, humming contentedly against her.

“Hmm I think we should find the others, Farah said she had a surprise for us.” Morgan rolls her eyes but with no real bite to it, Charlotte just laughs. “You know I hate being late, solecito. Let’s go!” She gets up energetically and extends a slender arm to her, the trans flag painted on her nails.

Morgan took it, hoping the festival wouldn’t be as overwhelming as she feared.

Author’s notes: gorrión means sparrow in spanish

Shout-out to narrativefoiltrope for the nickname ‘solecito’, Charlotte used it in this beautiful fic she wrote for them ❤

[dancedance-resolution]

here's my design for goty 2022 (in an au where copyright isn't an issue)

FACTS

name: nia mahdi

age: 11

ethnicity: persian

religion: muslim

family: nia is an only child. she was born in charlottesville, va, after parents immigrated there from iran.

notes: nia is autistic and trans <3

DOLL

face mold: nia would get a new face mold that is designed based on ethnically persian features

skin tone: 25 ("tan skin with warm neutral undertones")

eye color: dark brown

freckles: yes

hair cut: wavy, very long (kanani length)

hair color: dark brown

meet outfit: a trans pride flag colored scrunchy for her hair, a light blue zip-up sweatshirt that says "i am proud to be autistic" on the back, this t-shirt (a light blue t-shirt with fan art of dreamer with a trans pride flag cape) beneath that sweatshirt, these shorts (pastel plaid knee-length shorts), lindsey's striped leggings beneath those shorts, and sperry shoes

meet accessories: bright purple ear defenders, an AAC tablet, a doll-sized version of the 2021 dc pride comic book, this pink kryptonite chewelry

BOOK 1

(these books would have three authors - me, an author who is muslim and a second generation immigrant, and an author who is a trans woman of color. the reason for three authors is so that we can tell nia's story authentically - i'm autistic and have autism gender like nia, the second author is muslim and an immigrant like nia, and the third author is specifically a trans woman of color like nia.)

in chapter 1 we'll briefly go over this background information:

nia came out to her parents as trans on the car ride home from the last day of first grade. she chose the name "nia" because she wanted to name herself after nia nal, a character on her favorite show (supergirl) because nia nal is trans like she is, nia nal is an alien (and nia mahdi oftentimes feels like an alien around other humans), and nia nal is a really cool superhero! (unspoken: nia nal is nia mahdi's special interest.)

it took nia mahdi's parents a little bit of time to wrap their heads around her truth, but soon, they fully accepted nia for who she is.

that summer, her parents informed nia's school of her correct name, pronouns, and gender. and nia started growing out her hair, and she's never cut it since! nia loves her long hair.

when nia started second grade, nia's classmates sometimes accidentally called her by the wrong name and pronouns, but they always apologized and corrected themselves when nia pointed out their mistake. a few kids were confused, but once nia explained that she knows she's a girl just as well as you know you're a boy/girl, they all understood and accepted her :)

now onto the real content of the first book, which takes place from september to december:

nia's just started sixth grade at a new middle school. it's really loud, big, and hard. but she has a friend, ender. ender doesn't speak english well (he moved to america from turkey just last year), but that's okay because nia has trouble speaking sometimes too.

one day, nia's parents take her to a doctor, and she has to answer a lot of questions and take a lot of tests.

a few weeks later, nia's parents sit her down and tell her that she has been diagnosed with autism.

nia researches autism and feels very relieved and validated. (unspoken: autism becomes one of nia's special interests.)

at school, nia gets some cool accomodations: she's allowed to wear ear defenders at lunch and in the hallways, she can keep a tablet in her backpack to use for AAC when necessary, and she can use the school's sensory break room when necessary.

one time, nia gets very upset after receiving a "bad grade" on a reading test. a few of the questions asked her to identify characters' emotions, motivations, etc., and nia wants to explain to her teacher that her autism makes "emotional reading between the lines" hard for her. but she's so upset that her mouth isn't working properly, so she uses her AAC to talk to the teacher.

after that, one of nia's classmates makes a rude comment about her AAC. speaking through her AAC, nia explains to him why she uses her AAC. she stands up for herself.

in her free time, nia keeps researching autism and disability justice advocacy. she begins to think that her friend ender might be autistic too - he has a lot of autistic traits, and she's never felt alien around him in the way she does around most people.

she tells ender about her theory. ender says he's not sure whether or not he thinks he's autistic. but he does know that the hallways are far too loud, and he would like to be able to wear ear defenders like nia. so nia lends ender her spare pair of ear defenders.

the next day at lunch, ender gives nia back her ear defenders and reveals that he got in trouble for wearing in the hallway. the teacher thought he was wearing headphones and listening to music (which isn't allowed), and ender couldn't remember the english words to explain to her that they were just to shield him from the noise.

nia wants to help ender be able to wear defenders. she schedules a meeting with the guidance counselor. together, she and ender explain to the guidance counselor that ender just wants to wear ear defenders in the loud hallways. the counselor says that ender can't do that since he doesn't have an official accommodations letter.

nia leaves the office very upset. she knows from her research that autism diagnoses are very expensive and hard to get. she wants to find a way to get ender this accommodation without an official letter.

so nia makes a plan: she and ender write a long essay explaining why ender should be allowed to wear ear defenders.

they present the essay to the counselor, and she's convinced by their arguement. ender is now allowed to wear ear defenders in the hallway :)

to celebrate their victory, nia buys ender bright purple ear defenders (the same type she has) so that they can match :)

and that's the end of book 1

BOOK 2

book 2 takes place from january to march

nia goes on puberty blockers. nia's glad that she won't have to go through male puberty, but she also feels weird about it. nia is very excited to start wearing a hijab, and her mom says that she can start wearing a hijab when she goes through puberty and transitions from being a girl to being a woman. so, if nia isn't going through puberty now, when will she get to start wearing a hijab?

nia talks to ender about her problem. ender suggests that she should talk to her mom about it.

nia talks to her mom about her concerns. nia's mom explains that the shift from girl to woman involves more than just her body changing: it involves growth, strength of spirit, and learning about oneself. nia's mom will be able to tell when she's ready to start wearing the hijab, even if nia isn't going through puberty. nia feels a lot better now.

the next day at lunch, nia tells ender the good news. he is very happy for her. he then tells nia that he's scared of puberty too. he asks nia how she knew she was a girl, and nia explains how it was this strong internal feeling. ender reveals that he feels like he's not a boy or a girl. he's afraid that that means he's weird or broken. nia explains that he's not weird or broken - some people are non-binary, which means that they're not fully a boy or fully a girl. ender really likes that word. nia also tells ender that some non-binary like to use the gender-neutral pronouns "they/them" and asks ender if he would like her to start using those pronouns for him. ender says that he's not sure. he likes he/him pronouns, he thinks, at least for now. nia smiles and tells him that she's proud of him.

the spring dance is in march. nia and her mom go shopping for an oufit. at first, nia drifts towards the pretty dresses. she loves how they look and feels great in them, but she wants to try on suits too. she feels a little bit insecure when she realizes that she loves how she looks in the suit too. (plus, this navy suit will go better with her purple ear defenders than the colorful dresses will.) she's scared that her classmates will think she's not a "real girl" if she comes to the dance in a suit, but then she remembers her conversation with ender - when ender asked her how she knew she's a girl, her answer was that it was just something she knew. her gender isn't defined by her clothing preferences - she's just as much of a real girl in this suit as in those dresses. so nia buys the suit, and she feels very happy and confident.

at the dance, she finds that ender is wearing a skirt (and a tuxedo shirt and blazer). she runs up to him, and they both happy stim. they have a lot of fun dancing and snacking on cheez its together.

BOOK 3

book 3 takes place from april to june

the main plot of book 3 is going to be nia's grandmother visiting from iran for three months. nia learns a lot of new information about her family culture.

in june, to celebrate the end of the school year, nia's school has a multi-cultural night.

ender signs up to bring in some traditional turkish food and share some of the poetry his dad has written in turkish. he encourages nia to sign up for multi-cultural night too!

so nia signs up.

together, nia and her grandmother cook a ton of traditional iranian food to share at the celebration. she and her grandmother also work together to sew a special kaftan for nia.

the night of the celebration, nia dresses up in her kaftan and grabs the containers of food. as she's getting ready to leave, her father asks her to stop so he can take a picture of her. her mother says, "wait! i have one other thing for the picture!" (but spoken in faarsi). she emerges with a hijab for nia. she helps nia put on the hijab and tells nia that she's seen how nia's grown into a woman this past school year (aka, over the course of these 3 books). nia is so happy that she cries.

at the multi-cultural night, everyone loves the food and nia's kaftan and hijab. when ender sees nia's hijab, he starts happy stimming, and nia starts happy stimming too.

that's all my plans for goty 2022!

[notfeelingthyaster]

Imagine (based on the incomplete fanfic Son of Underworld) (3/5) (Son of Hades! Percy AU)

Before reading, check the masterpost - and read the warnings before proceeding :)) Good reading!

Percy goes back to Yancy, and things proceed as normal. He has nightmares, he misses his mom, who he only saw for a week. He thinks back on last summer and asks himself if it's worth going back to.

Annabeth tries to go back to her father's family. It doesn't go well, but at least they could keep contact using a landline for the three months she can deal with the monsters in her father's new location. There's a weekend he tries to visit her in San Francisco - but he still isn't perfect and lands in Sacramento.

It takes him an hour and a half to reach her - and it's the best weekend of the year, even if he doesn't meet anyone in her family - she is afraid they'll double the monsters in her house.

And her stepmom is racist. So there's that.

Annabeth makes fun of his Academy Uniform, the blazer and the black gloves, the red tie that he hates, and he calls her Wise Girl - he is two grades over her because of her years as a runaway.

It feels a little like a date. There's pizza, and they hold hands when she takes him to see the Golden Gate. He notices that Annie's eyes look literally like molten silver - every demigod carries a trace of their parent, he finally notices.

He can't come back after that - they were attacked by a Hydra, and killing it was only possible because he managed to use fire - a green, weird fire that he did not know he had - to cauterize the stumps.

Blackjack shadow travels him back to Yancy Academy and he and Annie keep the contact for another two weeks before she has to go back to Camp since San Francisco is becoming too dangerous.

It's his last year of middle school. Next year, he doesn't know if he'll continue in Yancy or go for a scholarship at Phillips Academy, in Massachusetts.

It's far. It's almost four hours from his mother, it's six hours from Camp. But it's the best school on the East Coast.

He does his midterms exams. He is in all high of A+ in Geometry, Algebra II, Economics and Government, Ancient World History, and Health&PE.

U.S. History and Science keep between B- and D+, and he is okay with that.

Language Arts and World Cultures can go die in a hole. He hates reading, writing makes him anxious and the only language he can get a C+ is Latin.

They give him a tutor for English - his GPA is only sustained by math. His grades raise a little: They go from F to E+.

There's a girl being tutored with him. She is Cherokee and a grade below him - her name is Piper.

He hates verbs. He hates To Kill a Mockingbird. He will kill a mockingbird if it stops them asking him to read again.

He cheats in his essays - makes skeletons write them for him. They suspect - it's not his handwriting, it's not the way he writes, it has no errors.

They can't prove it, so he scrapes Language Arts with a D+.

His midterm GPA is amazing. He goes see his mother for Christmas, even though he thinks there's no Christ. Maybe. Who knows? He is not celebrating Jupiternalia anyway.

He barely put his bag down when his four weeks with his Mom go down the drain - Thalia and Annabeth appear in his door. He grabs his backpack, his weapons, and go.

Annabeth looks at his hands with wonder - it's the first time she sees them bare in two years, but he puts his gloves back quickly enough.

Thalia is less skittish around him, and that's good. Better, at least. He notices that her eyes aren't only green - there are waves in them, it's like looking at the sea. It changes with her humor, perhaps? He doesn't know.

They make fun of his uniform - but they are going to Westover Hall, and he will merge better if he looks like a preppy kid from a boarding school.

Percy knows about the Mist this time. He helps Thalia to control it - his heart aches when he thinks of his friends. Its been a year and a half now. He misses them.

The daughter of Zeus asks him who taught him.

"The same person who taught you"

She looks at him appreciatively now, but he knows he'll come short of whoever she is measuring him against.

They see the kids. There's a girl looking nervous and overlooking the gym, and a boy by her side fiddling with his cards. Their hair is black just like his - he wishes for a brother and a sister.

Their skin is not like his - but it doesn't matter that they have a different mom, does it? In the end, it's family. Grover says they're powerful - so Big Three might be a possibility.

They're not children of Poseidon - their skin lacks the tan and the hair lacks the messiness, the windswept look - And Zeus is a lot of things, but a hypocrite isn't one of them, is?

Percy dances with Annabeth, and he feels alive. Then, he is running to save the children.

He doesn't shadow travel them. Shadowtravelling with more than one person is tricky, and he still hasn't mastered not going to Wyoming.

He kills the manticore with his Warhammer, but as it crumbles to dust, Annabeth falls.

The earth trembles at his feet - but it's Thalia's hand in his shoulder that remembers him there's two kids here, and Artemis Hunt is all looking at him with varying degrees of disgust and fear.

It's nothing he is not acquainted with. For being black (and not even a normal shade of black), for his clothes, for not having a father, for having a father and it being Hades. Just now, he was being judged for being a man.

Misandry is news for him. His mother raised him to respect all genders (even when he discovered a few months ago there's more than two), that women deserve the same as men. Annabeth fights alongside him frequently enough. Clarisse wipes the floor with his ass. Katie Gardner doesn't - it doesn't make her weaker, or less deserving of respect.

He knows women have to fight for their place in society much more than he has to. He knows these women are probably traumatized by violent men and unable to fight back.

It still doesn't make it right for them to be bullies. It gives a reason, but not a justification.

And when they take Bianca Di Angelo, who has a little brother and barely has any idea of what she is doing, who was just attacked by a thing that shouldn't exist and is probably still in shock, he wants to scream.

Artemis sees something in Bianca - and he finally looks at the girl's eyes. There's a storm raging in them.

Zeus is a hypocrite, after all.

But it's not his place to say anything, nor to the children, nor against Artemis, so he just leaves the tent and goes ask the only other boy here to teach him Mythomagic.

Nico Di Angelo asks way too many questions and has an infinite source of energy. He is prideful - a trace common of all Zeus children. His eyes aren't stormy like his sisters, there aren't clouds in his irises. They are white, like his probable father's lighting bolt.

Nico asks him why he has green eyes - and why they turned black after the question. He doesn't know the answer.

Apollo appears and says something about flying in the sun car - it's the first time he and Thalia agree on something.

But calls for Blackjack. He is not flying, not even under a god's asking. Apollo understands.

Thalia goes with him. Better through shadows than through air. He doesn't want to leave Nico with the misandry archers - but he has Grover, and Percy would probably land them in Iowa.

The daughter of Poseidon holds his waist while they ride on the hellhound. He focuses the best he can - and, for the first time, he lands exactly where he wants to land: in the woods at Camp.

Thalia helps him get to the Big House under weird looks of the year-rounders. They are there at least three hours before Apollo.

"You're kinda heavy, Corpse Breath. But that was cool."

"Shut it, Kelp Head"

He is anxious to just leave and go back to his mother, but Annabeth is in danger: They need a quest.

He has dreams. He can't fault Annabeth for doing what he would've done without a second of hesitation. It's Luke.

He helps Nico settle at Cabin 11, and avoids the huntresses. Connor hugs him, and Clarisse wipes the floor with him in wrestling - they are his friends now.

Clarisse, Connor, Annabeth, Grover, Charles. Luke, Ethan, Alabaster. The scales are tipping. He doesn't care for masters - he cares who is the defending.

Artemis goes missing, and they finally get a quest. Zoe Nightshade doesn't want a boy in the quest but tough luck: He is the most experienced camper here right now AND the quest goes through a desert, so he is going.

There's some doubt about taking Thalia - she is a daughter of Poseidon and can't do much in the wasteland.

So it's decided: Phoebe, Bianca, Zoe, Perseus, and Grover. No one is happy about it, and Percy knows Thalia is going to follow them.

He introduces himself as Perseus to them. He is stoic and doesn't smile around the girls.

Capture the Flag is horrible. He doesn't leave his post and blocks Zoe with skeletons for enough time that Thalia manages to snag the flag and cross the river.

The huntresses get mad and try to fight the campers - Phoebe tries to hit Nico with the pommel of her sword and a lightning bolt hits her, putting her out of commission.

He is claimed. Bianca isn't, but it doesn't matter: She is not a camper, she is a hunter. Her loyalty is to her half-sister now.

They leave in the morning without Phoebe before anyone wakes up.

Bianca looks at him weirdly because of his soft white and blue sweaters and scrunchies that he started using to take off hair from his face, and the contrast it makes with his dark skin and demeanor.

Newsflash: He doesn't care for a prejudiced daughter of Zeus's opinion.

Zoe doesn't even look at him twice: They have trans girls in the hunt, they're caught up with modern times. Except for the misandry and the exclusion of genderfluid, agender and non-binary people. But sure, caught up.

Nico asks him to protect his sister. He says he is going to try, but he understands death better than some. He says it'll be dangerous, but he'll do his best.

For some reason, Nico doesn't look worried.

Thalia joins them in the Space museum. She came in her Pegasus, Porkpie, and they fight the Nemean Lion together. His hellhound startles the hunters, and Thalia laughs.

They kill the Nemean Lion, and Perseus thinks he finally perfects his power over the earth when he uses a stone spike to pierce the monster through the mouth and barely gets tired.

The duster is not his style, but beggars can't be choosers. Zoe is warming up to them, he thinks, but he doesn't care either way: his objective is Annabeth.

He still hasn't managed to open the ground or to control metal's proprieties, but he controls the earth beneath his feet, shadow travels (very badly controlled, but sure), raises armies of skeletons and money and gems just sprout when he wants them. He has power.

But he isn't completely in control yet, so he doesn't want anyone touching him. And it's been such a long time since anyone except his mother ever been close to any skin below his neck.

Perseus has dreams. He is grateful that Artemis took the sky for Annabeth, so he burns the coat in her name.

Thalia says she has met Apollo, and Perseus is glad at least one god is on their side.

Perseus feels in the air: life. This town is cloying with the smell of life, of forests and waterfalls. He hates it on principle but wishes she could enjoy it.

He kills a spartoi. He doesn't manage to kill more, but now he knows. He wishes he could open the ground and swallow all of them, but even his own skeletons he only manages to turn them into piles of bones.

The boar carries most of them: it's still just a boar and they are five, so both he and Thalia enjoy Blackjack, who now is almost the size of a small rhino.

Perseus meets Ares awake this time. He didn't snitch on him to the gods, but he wishes he did.

Meeting Aphrodite is awful. Percy looks at her, and he sees blonde hair that he can't decide if it's golden or brownish, he looks at her eyes and see the blue and grey fight for dominance in the irises. Her skin flicks, and he sees a scar crossing her eye.

For a moment, her skin turns as black as his - his desire for family.

He hates her more than he hates Ares when she looks at him with a smile and says that his love life will be the most interesting tale she has ever woven.

They cross the junkyard. Bianca dies for a figurine of Zeus, and Perseus wants to scream at the skies for the injustice. He isn't close to Bianca, he won't miss her, but he blames himself.

What if he was good enough at shadow traveling to take all of them away? What if he was able to kill Talos before? If he saw the figurine in her hand, if he was clearer in his warning, if, if, if.

He is a son of Hades, and death follows him. The stench of it grabs at his clothes, but he doesn't cry. Bianca is not the first to die in the name of the gods - she won't be the last one.

Perseus tries and tries to reach for any part of her body - everything is gone.

The Hoover Dam goes exactly the same way - Percy finds the mortal girl cute, but he doesn't ponder on it. It's not the time. He tells her his name is Percy, because why not. He is not seeing her again.

He laughs at the dam joke and feels a little freer. He cares about Zoe. It's difficult not to.

They fly away, and Perseus doesn't like it, but he barely flinches.

They get closer - all of them. Perseus always makes friends in quests, and he is happier for it.

Thalia catches Nereus - and she tells them all about Bessie, the ophiotaurus. Percy thinks that, for a serpent cow, it's pretty cute.

Grover leaves with it back to Camp Half-Blood and away from the temptation that Thalia feels. He knows it - he feels it too, deep inside of him, the urge to kill all of them.

But is Kronos any better?

They meet Annabeth's father. Her stepmom caught a glance at him and sneers like he is covered in blood.

Luke is in Mount Othrys. Percy doesn't join him. He wants to. The drachma is still in his pocket. But Luke needs to pay for what he has done to Annabeth. This is not about the war that looms on the horizon, this is about his best friend.

They fight. Perseus holds the sky, but the thing in his fingertips is not the earth, it's something older and harder, that presses him to his knees. He draws strength from the earth, and he holds on.

They win, but at what cost? Luke falls. He cries and throws the drachma over the cliff - a promise gone with one of his first friends.

Zoe is dead. Three people dead, for a goddess who couldn't care less about them. Perseus wants to go back in time and accept Luke's proposal.

He wants to cry and he doesn't. They go to Olympus. Thalia joins Artemis, and he feels betrayed: just because she is afraid of power, she is going to throw the weight of this prophecy on him?

And on top, she just joined the eternal misandry group, and something in his heart festers. He thought he had one more friend in her, but she was just another pawn.

Annabeth basks in her mother's praise. He wants to vomit - two people are dead, but who cares.

Thalia pleads for the ophiotaurus life, but she doesn't lift a finger when they talk about his death. He hates her. He holds a grudge for his cousin just like his father holds one for his brother.

He just saved their asses for the third time, and they're talking about murdering him because he might not save them a fourth.

The gods. They take and they take and they take and the demigods keep giving.

His father saves him - no one dares to go against Hades' vote to let him live, because he is a hero.

They go back to camp, and Perseus is charged with the task to tell Nico.

"Well, so bring her back"

The boy says it non-chanlantly like he is counting on it. Percy feels guilt creep at his heart like a plague, all the ways he failed to save Bianca. If he just had a better grasp in his powers, if he was just better. And here it was, something else he couldn't do.

"I can't, Nico"

Nico yells at him. He screams that he killed his sister. Percy starts to retract, and they end up in the pavilion. Everyone is there, and they don't lift a finger to help.

Percy is so tired. He hasn't seen his mom since October. He just lost one of his best friends. He was on a mission for a week. He held the sky in his hands. Zoe is dead. Thalia is gone. Death follows him. The guilt claws at him - for not being enough.

Nico shouts and shouts. The final straw is when he says that he shouldn't have trusted a son of Hades, how everyone told him not to. He tells no one wants him here, and before anyone can say anything to contest it, spartoi appear.

People scramble for their weapons, but Percy opens the ground and swallows all of the skeletons. When they're gone, so is Percy.

Turns out? Percy doesn't want to be here anymore either.

Nico is prideful. People in camp scrambled for his attention. A couple of kids of Aphrodite tell him that Perseus wasn't a good company, trying to get in his good graces. This time around, there's no one to sing the praises of Percy Jackson.

Grover takes him aside and explains, a little against him own will, what happened with Bianca. He gives him the figurine.

Nico feels guilty. He is too prideful to admit, but he feels it burning in his heart - so he tries to understand what he just did. Grover tells him about the last two years. The guilt now fights with admiration, and resentment battles with adoration.

Some people steer clear of him for a while. Charles Beckendorf is too kind to isolate him - but Nico sees the sadness in his eyes. Annabeth doesn't talk with him - she just lost three best friends in a swoop. Grover reluctantly tells him more about Percy. Clarisse wipes the floor with him - and he doesn't complain when he wakes up and his makeshift bed in Cabin 1 is crawling with bugs - He is pretty sure Connor hates him.

Katie Gardner doesn't talk to him anymore. Will Solace - who is his best friend - consolates him. He tells Nico he was pretty awful to Percy last summer, and Percy still came back.

Pretty awful doesn't even begin to cover what Nico did. But he nods and settles. It's going to be fine.

Perseus wanders the Underworld. He plays with Cerberus, and it's finally time to go make peace with his father and meet Persephone.

There's the heavy weight of a drachma in his pocket.

[crystu-cii]

XDD

I f e e l that pain in my soul-- my older sister uses cologne sometimes and it is sO STRONG AND WILL NOT STAY CONFINED TO HER ROOM-- AMD SOMETIMES SHED DO IT IN THE DOORWAY LIKE HELLO-- XDD

YEAH WH GET SOME SLEEP LEAVE THE STAYING UP TO US-- XDD

YES BABY JAIL, INTO THE UPSIDE DOWN LAUNDRY BASKET YOU KNIFE-WIELDING HEATHEN-- XDD oms XDD well I don't know them but I love them- YESSS THEYRE SO FLUFFY-- I'm actually curious what images pop up first imma check-- FLUFFY PUPPIES-- we've actually never owned ones that fluffy(those actually look more similar to shetland sheepdogs than the shelties we've had so far?? Very similar/similar enough where if someone doesn't know a sheltie we mention shetland sheepdogs), our current one is a purebred that we got for free(she was being given away bc her family never came back for her and the lady taking care of her couldn't afford the time to take care of a second dog long-term think) and she's got pretty short fur in comparison- still fluffy enough, but not quite so long of fur-- she's a blue merle(absolutely gorgeous fur, she's like 8 now with a lot of health problems but she's super loving still 💕💞) anyways about the fur, so long as you brush regularly you should mitigate most of that, and it mostly collects in corners- but like.. be prepared to eat and wear dog fur for the rest of your life-- (actually there's a thing called a fur zapper we bought recent that you put in with your clothes when you wash/dry them(I think it's dry but idk??) that's supposed to get a lot of hair off your clothes in that process? Also lint rollers are your best friend--) AND roombas are really helpful(we bought a knockoff one and rarely have to sweep ever so 👀) XDD WHEEZE I can't even imagine what you did-- but like you could ask for a budgie/parakeet /hj I mean, they aren't very expensive (actually they're pretty cheap) but they're very loud, need a lot of attention(especially if you want them to bond to you!) and you need to research into them a lot to make sure you're doing things right-- loads of vids online!! Loads of websites too!!! I'd know I have one- JUST A WARNING, FEATHERS AND SEED HULLS GET ALL OVER YOUR FLOOR XD p l u s like you have a friend who knows stuff about birbs :3 anyways ENOUGH RAMBLING FROM ME WOW THAT GOT LONG--

💕💕 I feel that XD OMS-- I WISH-- WHAT A D R E A M - s n a k - Awww but what a mood XD

XDDD oms YES-- EXACTLY-- XDDDD another good thing you should try eventually is SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE WHICH IS APPARENTLY DELICIOUS??? I TRIED IT FOR THE FIRST TIME(AT LEAST IN A WHILE) TODAY AND IT WAS SO FUCKIN TASTY????

H E A THEN-- XDD how cool of them to try tho :3 whEEZE Y 'A LL-- XDD

WHEEZE I SUCK WITH INSTRUMENTS SOOOO-- DAMN THA'S SOME BAD LUCK MY DUDE-- MAYBE YOU'RE CURSED DAMN-- oms wOWW--

Yesss-- ooh I've never played 👀 seen some stuff but never played-- (see: my computer sucks XD) I h a v e played Portal 1 and it is SO GOOD and SO SHORT and I WISH I HAD GOTTEN PORTAL 2 INSTEAD BUT THATS OKAY CRIES-- YESSSS THE SONGS SLAP--- ALSO THERE ARE ACTUALLY TWO WHOLE MORE CANON(PROBABLY KINDA MAYBE NOT?? IDK) SONGS, ONE FROM A LEG DIMENSIONS GAME("You Wouldn't Know") AND ONE THAT WAS CUT FROM PORT TWO("Don't Say Goodbye"(Harry101UK made an edit to make it Glados' voice!!)) THERE ARE ALSO A BUNCH OF GOOD FAN SONGS SO YEAH-- ALSO NOT TO BE A SIMP BUT GLADOS' VOICE? PERFECTION. I LOVE HER. ALSO I COULD LITERALLY DETAIL THE PORTAL LORE I AM INCREDIBLY EMOTIONALLY INVESTED IN THIS GAME-- ALSO THERES A CLIP THAT SOMEONE MADE USING A (VERY GOOD) GLADOS TTS TO HAVE GLADOS SAY TRANS RIGHTS AND ENBY RIGHTS AND IF I FIND IT AGAIN ILL SEND IT TO YOU-- YOU COULD PROBABLY FIND IT IF YOU LOOM UP GLADOS SAYS TRANS RIGHTS? IT HAS A VIDEO WITH TRANS FLAG COMPANION CUBES ACCOMPANYING IT-- ALSO YES THE PORT MODS(/ADD-ONS? MAYBE? THEY'RE COMMUNITY MADE I THINK BUT IDK ALL I KNOW IS THAT THEYRE COOL AF--) (also I apologize for all the screaming? XD it's like, four am and I was talking about portal so.. whoops?)

Right like wth???? I???? Okay but like December to February babies just fuckin DONT EXIST IN THIS GEN OR SOMETHIN-- CAUSE I FIND N O N E -- Maybe there are more December babies but there are definitely like NO January to February babies it is So Weird--

NEJFQOBGKW WOWW d an g like-p l e a se s t op over sp r aying-- xD and LEGITTTT LIKE- THAT WAS M Y ROLE TO STAY UP LATE- XDD

WHEHEHEZE- LAUNDRY BASKET TIME- G E T I N XDD anD YESS- any doggo is just such a cute doggo 😭💞💞 but for me- fLUFFY ONES ARE WHERE ITS A T- and ohhhh i see- FOR FREE?? W H A T A S T E A L XDD but awwww the poor doggg at least she's with you now ! ;0;; 💞💞😭 aaw such a lovable puppup 😭😭💞 and oHHH i see :00 but oh no- xD i also have a friend that has two dogs and whenever he would give me gifts- there would be dog hair on them no matter what- XDD and ooOhhh those sound really helpful! omg- i swear i dont have to have a pet for the need of a roomba- i already shed so much hair myself its so crazy-- xDD and oH MAN loud animals are really gon get my mom fired up- and OO birds just look so cuteee i always fantasize of having one- but then again- with the noise and all xD the more i think about it i dont think we are prepared to have a pet at all xD but i still dream of at least having one pet in my lifetime!

and OO that sounds awesome!! i have no clue if i even tried casserole before- man- sometimes i just eat food without even knowing wth it is XDDD but THAT SOUNDS so gooodddd :O

and LEGITT LIKE- TF IS HAPPENING WITH MY SCHOOL LIFE- XDD and oh my god- IT GETS WORSE- that year there was a FREAKINGG FIREEEEEEE- it wasnt that dangerous thank god- but it had to get a whole ass room renovated because of it- and guess what room it was- THE ORCHESTRA ROOM- AND GUESS WHAT M A D E I T W OR SE- that year- it was the first time the school replaced those 10+ year old instruments with new ones- NOW THEYRE B U R N T- and mind you that the school's budget isnt so- gr e a t- like oh my god i am still so bewildered over HOW MUCH chaos HAPPENED that year- and i thought that year was gon be the year- yknow? like UGH

and OHH MANN playing portal sounds awesome! but i just dont think the game would be worth my money cause i know the plot- and even with the mods and all my brain would be broken as i would possibly have no clue what to do- xDDD

and HOOOO MANNN game fan songs are just so AWESOMEEE- and those sound pretty cool! :OO and HOLY SHIT FUCK YEAH- GLADOS SAYS TRANS AND ENBY RIGHTS Y A LL- now im gonna look that up and let my ears be blessed by such words- XDDD and DONT WORRY BOUT SCREAMING ALOT- i scream a whole dam lot too XDD

and LEGITTT- finding someone's b-day in january and feb is so rare all of a sudden like wh a t - XDD

[queer-sky]

i found this on YouTube from Ashton Daniel so im gonna link their original video since its his tag but i thought it would be fun to do it as well

NONBINARY TAG

1. Let's do the basics - what's your gender and what're your pronouns? (tell me all your gender labels!!)

id say nonbinary and genderfluid fits best

and i mainly use they/them pronouns but at times im okay with he/him or she/her pronouns as well depending on how i feel on the gender spectrum i guess

2. Do you consider yourself to be under the trans umbrella, or is being nonbinary separate from that for you?

i personally feel that at least for myself nonbinary doesn't count as trans but im sure for others it does just i dont identify with the trans label

3. How do you feel about the label "enby"? Do you use it for yourself?

yes i do use it and i think it sounds lovely actually

4. What song is your gender?

am i a girl - poppy

5. Do you experience gender euphoria and if so, what causes it?

yea i do when i look/pass as androgynous or masc depending on how i feel that day/time

6. What's a question you're tired of being asked?

im actually not out to many people yet so there arent any yet but something thats annoying is telling someone i identity as nonbinary and they keep calling me girl

7. What outfits, accessories, presentations do you feel most yourself in? Is your style connected to your gender for you?

yes my style is connected to my gender so it fluids all the time really but baggy clothes and more masc jewelry does like chains and safety pin earrings and stuff like that or random objects as earrings like the other day i made small rubics cube earrings which i really like and also definitely wearing a beanie and having my hair in it (making it look short)

8. Have you identified with different genders, nonbinary or otherwise, in the past?

well ive identified with my birth gender before but im not sure if i actually did or if i just didnt really question my gender before cuz i knew im not a boy so i must be cis then idk

9. Are there gendered phrases or words you like/don't like? Dude, gal, man, sis, etc?

i don't really like gendered words in general id rather be refered to as genderneutral terms

10. What compliments best suit your gender? Handsome, beautiful, pretty, hot, stunning, etc?

i actually haven't thought about that yet but i think im fine with either ones? idkk

11. What's your favourite gender-neutral alternative to commonly gendered words? (e.g. sib instead of brother/sister, mx instead of miss/mr, enby instead of boy/girl, etc?)

just refer to me as a person like i dont feel the need to have a certain gender to be addressed as but yea genderneutral ones are good too like mx and enby and goddex or royalty instead of king/queen

12. Do you like the nonbinary pride flag for yourself? Do you prefer the trans flag, or a flag more specific to your gender?

yea i do like the nonbinary one

13. Are physical and/or medical transition important to you? If so or if not and you want to expand, do so!

no well not medical/surgical but i was thinking about getting a binder/sports bra and maybe something to make my hips not look so wide

14. Are there any nonbinary people you look up to? If so, who?

im not sure tbh but i have some nonbinary friends and i told one of them

15. How do you write "nonbinary"? one word, two words, with a dash?

i write it as nonbinary so one word

16. If you are/were to be someone's significant other, how would you want to be referred to? Boyfriend, girlfriend, theyfriend, partner, lover, etc?

probably partner or like their person but maybe if my gender leans more towards one side then id like to be referred as boyfriend or girlfriend but probably not really boyfriend cuz that term sounds toxic to me since most of my relationships with guys were toxic so i guess partner or girlfriend

17. Are you out in your day-to-day life, just online, just to close friends, etc?

just online i wanna figure it out first before i come out in rl and other then being called sky it wouldn't really change much since german doesn't have they/them pronouns

18. Are there any silly nonbinary stereotypes you embrace? e.g. pride flag stuff, coloured hair, liking plants, cats, whatever else?

yea i have piercings and dyed hair even tho its only split dye and a natural red but i wanna dye it purple or blue if im able to and i do have two pride flags hanging up in my home and some pride wallpapers and i kinda like cats plants and rocks

19. Does the word "queer" fit you, do you use it for yourself?

yea i think it really does and i do use it as a umbrella term meaning im part of the lgbtq+ community and bc i havent found a right label that completely fits me yet sexuality wise as well

20. This isn't nonbinary related, I just think it's a cool question. If you could go to any concert of any band, artist, performer, living or dead, what's the lineup?

probably gay/indie music so like

girl in red,hayley kiyoko,cavetown,dodie,jessiepaege

cant think of more artists rn oop

[real-jaune-isms]

Admit it, she looks a lot like Kairi in Kingdom Hearts II. And her skirt literally has hearts on it. It’s so close.

Honestly though, I think this is a great outfit. The exposed shoulders and thighs are a little head scratching since this is a colder climate, but Nora has never been one for making sense. The blue in her color scheme is more pronounced this time and I too have heard the pitch that this matched the transgender flag so Nora might be a trans girl. It’s a nice headcanon, but I get the feeling it’s not what they were going for. Still, feel free to go with it. The world is a happier place with people who believe in things. The fingerless gloves, sleeves and armor bands are also pretty cool, and in all it seems like a great new look.

Meanwhile...

Don’t tell me he’s not turning you the more you look at him.

This majestic man. A fusion of his 1-3 and 4-6 outfits with the white pants making a return, plus a single black sleeve/pauldron with magenta accents for a nice asymmetrical look vs the all white left sleeve and the green vest to bring it all together. I know that’s a big run on sentence, but it’s a lot to take in. Plus now he has the ponytail again and it looks great. And who could ignore the knife? Clearly his father’s, last seen in V4, now displayed proudly on his upper arm. It’s a beautiful aesthetic and Lie Ren does it marvelously. 10/10

And then... their fearless leader.

I’ve had that hairstyle before so I know it’s not the worst thing ever and I really don’t mind it much. I just don’t see why he would get his hair cut shorter and expose his ears (a new sight for us) when they’re in the icy north and you’d wanna keep your ears and head warm. Aside from that it’s growing on me.

The rest of the outfit seems fine to me. A second shoulder pad finally. New jeans and a new belt with a strap extending down to a loop around the left thigh for some reason... and some additions to his chest plate. Also... the end of the pumpkin Pete’s hoodie in favor of some black wrap clothing thing with orange on the inside that give him a little collar boost. It’s a good looking outfit. They all are. I’m excited to see they in action.

[dreamterlude]

headcanons for your skater au?? also highkey relate to keeping hands in bags where else u gonna put the ones who steal 😩😩

See, someone who supports Neil!! Anyways, this took days to reply, but here’s some insight into this au:

First of all I think it’s time I said what each fox is majoring in/what kind of job they have so!

Both twins work at Eden’s, Aaron is studying medicine (of course) while Andrew is doing an art course

Matt works at a mechanics and he studies engineering at night

Dan works at a café some days and she studies marine biology

Kevin is studying history and he doesn’t work

Neil studies maths and some languages on his free time! also Matt got him a job at the mechanics as an assistant

Nicky works at a clothes store (and sometimes he babysits) and is studying marketing

Seth is a part-time DJ and studies audiovisuals

Renee is an english lit major and she works at a flower shop

Allison is a law major and she doesn’t work because Money (but she does volunteering with Renee uwu)

Now, actual insight on their group dynamics, what they do, sutff like that owo

The gang has movie nights and they build blanket forts, usually at the Matt/Dan/Neil flat (yeah they live together!!), they take turns choosing the movie and everyone hates Kevin’s picks

Seth takes videos of the foxes at the skate park and makes edits of the cool tricks they manage to do (almost nothing at first, but they do get better)

Andrew is The Art Guy, he paints over skateboards (Neil’s, Renee’s) and he also paints over the foxes’ bedroom doors, something that’s close to each of them (like Ireland’s flag on Kevin’s)

They also have sleepovers at Matt’s trunk and it’s not big enough because it’s only a trunk and it’s 10 of them so what they do is: they take some mattresses and put them next to the truck so that the ones that dont fit in it don’t have to sleep in the grond lmao 

They also have impromptu roadtrips if they can, half of them in the truck, half of them going by skate. They go to the beach maybe, spend th enight there under the stars, make a bonfire and gossip

In one of those roadtrips Dan teaches Kevin how to swim

Renee is a sweetheart and usually makes small bouquets of flower pouches for the gang

(Andrew hangs his by the window and smells them every morning)

(Allison puts them in a flower crown and Renee kisses her)

Aaron, med student, is the supreme mom friend, always worried about his family’s health, he’s the one to go when you’re sick (probably carries stuff like ibuprophen on his backpack. Seth and Matt call him ibubrophen)

Seth goes full musical prodigy and makes playlists for each of the foxes as a gift to show how much he cares about them

Renee is that bitch that dances in her board while skating down the street. The sheer power she has

Allison has a snake tattooed on her thigh and “I love my trans body” on her left hip

Renee has flowers on the inside of her arms!!

Andrew has a septum and he also wears a dangly earring that’s a bee

Nicky dyes his hair obnoxious colors to cope but also to match his boards

Seth is very into skincare and often sends videos of him doing putting on facemasks to the foxes gc

(They give him shit for it but tbh his skin looks good as fuck so they also ask for advice)

They organize graffiti races around the neighbourhood in which the one to draw more in a period of 3 hours wins (these are held from 12pm to 3am, usually on Saturdays)

(Usually, Andrew wins)

They celebrate the gangs anniversary by spending the night at the twins’. Erik bakes them a cake, they each get a plate of it and throw it at each other’s faces. They’re stupid and they’re a family

They have karaoke nights and they end up drunk and sing creaming All Star and/or Sk8r Boi

There’s a non spoken rule that if someone texts or says “everytime” another person must reply with the lyrics from Cascada’s song

(This is based on another ask but) they do in fact own shirts that say skate or die and each of them has customized it a bit to their own liking!!

They used to be the joke gang at the skate park but now they’re kind of respected

They get in fights with the Ravens, their rival gang and shit gets nasty. They usually end with bloody knuckles, broken noses, spray paint in their clothes and legs sore from running away at the sound of police sirens

Andrew and Neil have been pining for exactly 3 years and 11 months but they’re fucking stupid and also best friends so shit’s wack (they have moments of intimacy that they both think shouldn’t be allowed, but how could they say no to them)

Seth and Kevin are a thing that eventually happens and it’s way more tender than the rest of the foxes ever thought it possible

Matt and Dan go on cute dates like going to a park and having a picnic there, taking pics of each other and cuddling watching vines

Allison and Renee have the absolute power. They go to fancy restaurants and order a lot of food (thanks Allison’s parents) which they then proceed to carry in take-away boxes to homeless people. Then they go to their flat and eat pizza from the grocery store and watch trashy rom-coms

Aaron definitely had a Tiktok phase but we dont talk about that

(Seth talks about it. Constantly)

Gonna cut it there because this is too long already, hope you enjoyed these uwu

[mysterylover123]

BNHA Rewatch: Episode 41 “Kota”

mysterylover123

OK so just a few comments about my last post before we get into it!

First of all, like I predicted, it did get flagged, but quickly restored. Secondly, an ask pointed out that the scene with Bakugo reprimanding Deku about Tomura is not, actually, in the episode. I’m not sure why I thought it was, but oh well. I’ll try and double check next time before I post the recap. Anyway, off to recap-ville. Episode 41 time!

Quirk training! The anime seriously elaborated on this from the manga, where it was just a few pages.

WOOF. At this point Todoroki has spent more screen time in season 3 without clothes than with.

wow that looks like good cake. They did not skimp on the desserts here. 

FULL VERSION! Gotta say, Ragdoll and Tiger really round it out; it just looks kinda silly when it’s just Mandalay and Pixie Bob. They have a really impressive clatch of quirks too, ngl. 

I wish they’d given Deku more than basic boot camp training. I’m kinda split on how they handled Tiger being trans; on the one hand, he’s a cool hero who kicks serious ass and has respect, on the other the characters make a slightly disparaging remark about him...but that could be what a transgender person would deal with in reality, and this series isn’t exactly presenting a utopia...I don’t know, it’s the same way I feel about Pixie Bob’s age thing. I’d like to give it the benefit of the doubt and it could be a lot worse, but it could be a lot better, too.

Oh my. Breathless, finding-his-resolve Deku is giving me rather impure thoughts.

I’m not sure what purpose making them cook for themselves serves, honestly.  Iida tries to come up with one, but it kinda comes across like the WWP are just being lazy. The kids are training hard all day, wtf is wrong with having food pre-prepared for them?

Maybe it was just for another excuse to humiliate Bakugo. At this point, he hasn’t even done anything. Karma just hates him.

Or to give us this shot of Momo and her main love interests. Momo standing up for Shoto’s rights, cute TDDMM moment!

Aw poor Kacchan!

Feels overload! Also, kinda low-key ship Todo/Ochaco sometimes. I dunno, they seem like they’d have a good repertoire.

Wow Momo’s getting a lot of moments this episode ain’t she!

Deku is inexplicably drawn to pissed off, antisocial spiky-haired punks who seem like they need saving from their own temper, ain’t he? (Good god Kota looks like a BKDK lovechild in this scene, doesn’t he? Same Kacchan eyes).

BEHOLD, THE SINGLE SADDEST IMAGE SET COMMITTED TO SCREEN! OMG THE FEELS. (Someone give me a firebending Deku au fanfic, please!)

Toga’s complaining about how not-cute her outfit is. I think the fanbase would disagree.

Dabi sure loves monologuing, doesn’t he? Maybe he isn’t Toya after all; the other Todoroki’s don’t like to talk this much. Anyway, cute sleeping babies!

OMG Bakugo’s shirt. It’s like he wanted to remind us that he’s cut too, ya’ll. Deku isn’t the only one with abs of steel. (I think Kaminari’s the one under the pillows). 

Poor remedial course babies! I feel them. I’ve been having bouts of insomnia lately, like, 4 hours of sleep type, and I can’t imagine that schedule they’re on. Honestly, I know they’re trying to make ‘em stronger, but depriving them of good food and sleep is not going to help with that. I’m pretty sure most workout advisors advocate keeping your basic needs provided for for maximum performance.

Aizawa is telling Ochaco and Aoyama that they nearly failed. I think this is an important point that all the people who try and excuse the Uraraka/Aoyama v 13 fight need to remember. Even Aizawa called them out on their mess up. It was a fluke, and there’s something deeper getting in the way of their success. Everyone else either passed by changing, or failed by refusing to change. These two need to be challenged in the same way, or they’ll never change for the better.

The dream 3some is finishing each other’s thoughts! Wow, that used to just be a BKDK thing, but Shoto has effectively nudged his way in there. Also, I love the symbolism of Kacchan looking at his own reflection here. Visual metaphors!

“Is All Might - I mean, the other teachers, coming?” Haha Deku don’t even pretend like you care about any of the other teachers.

Oh I see that’s why we had to have them cook their food! So we could prove who secret best girl really is. And tease Kacchako a little. At this point I’m not sure who most wants a threesome with the Wonder Duo, Uraraka or Todoroki.

Ooh, Shoto’s gaining on her!

Honestly, this is one of my favorite Tododeku moments. I kinda like their smaller moments even more than the “big” moments with these two, where they’re having dramatic stuff. The little stuff like Shoto giving Deku such emotionally intelligent advice. It’s very strong.

Expectations vs reality

Team Animal Bromance Solidarity

Team Just F*ck Already

Team Maximum Cuteness

Team Saved Bakugo and Tokoyami’s Asses

Team Femslash Initiative

Team Poor Ojiro

Team Polar Opposites

Oh no my bbs all alone! I’ll be your teammate Deku!

Everyone on Team Ojiro is unsatisfied.

Tsuchaco begins!

OMG THEY’RE SO CUTE! (THE TODOBAKU ARC!)

NGL, Yui Kodai is really pretty and has a legit awesome quirk. Underrated Best Girl of Class 1B.

Holy Shit that Music tho! The League of Villains is In the Building! (Metaphorically, anyway)

This is the arc where I stopped thinking of the LOV as boring obstacles and started seeing them as kinda awesome.

“Kota” really picks up the momentum of Season 3, throwing us straight into a “holy crap” plotsplosion with little adieu. There’s a little more setup to go before we just jump straight into the chaotic, violent and transformative Training Camp Arc in the upcoming episodes. I pretty much binge-watched the whole first 12 episodes of Season 3 in one sitting the first time I watched it, so I don’t know what it would be like to watch these week to week. Next up: BEST BOY DEKU’S ARMS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

BKDK CORNER:

Nothing really in the actual episode, but I wanna acknowledge Best OP’s heartbreaking BKDK nod:

“don’t come deku” OMG episode 45 is gonna break my heart all over again in’t it?

Also the ED:

“Cause I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this place” (Todoroki’s sitting with them too for some bonus TDBKDK points.) Subtle, Bones. We know which way your bread is buttered.

BEST GIRL OF THE EP: Mandalay!

RANKER: The Test of Courage Teams

8. Ojiro and Mineta (poor Ojiro!)

7. Iida and Koda (normally Iida’d be pretty cool, but this team does basically nothing)

6. Jiro and Tooru (get knocked out pretty quickly.

5. Momo and Aoyama (they seriously saved everyone)

4. Solo Deku (who is better than most on his own and also saved Kota)

3. Tokoyami and Shoji (who are seriously metal)

2. Uraraka and Asui (another seriously awesome duo)

1. Todoroki and Bakugo (just add Deku for maximum perfection)

[notquiteaghost]

there isn't enough nonbinary jon sims content, here is... well i started writing this as headcanons but this is really a not!fic about nonbinary jon sims. it’s 3′300 words

it contains: nonbinary trans masc autistic jon, jongeorgie, lesbian georgie, trans guy martin & tim, trans woman sasha, team archives trans solidarity, and not-insignificant amount of internalised transphobia and references to misgendering & general cis people bullshit

(also ftr i am heavily basing jon's experiences here as a nonbinary autistic person on my own experiences as a nonbinary autistic person) (this is like 80% projection) (what else is fandom for!)

also on AO3 if you prefer your 3k of bullet points to have better spacing

tiny baby [jon] who knows she isn't very good at being a girl but doesn't have the words to articulate why

her grandmother thinks kids clothes should be durable and practical so even tho jon is not a kid who climbs trees or plays football, her wardrobe is exclusively straight jeans & 'boys' t-shirts & large jumpers

she keeps her hair roughly shoulder length because that's the length it's always been but strangers still 'mistake' her for a boy a lot. this makes her feel a way she again hasn't got the words for

when she starts secondary school she continues to dress 'masc', never starts wearing makeup, never gets any interest in dating, generally fills out the checklist for everyone else assuming she's a lesbian

she knows she's definitely not a straight girl, so she shrugs and decides sure, she's a lesbian. it's a moot point, mostly, seeing as even if she did have any interest in dating she's the only gay person her age she knows

but she does get involved in some community support stuff – she spends a lot of time in the library as a teenager, and one of the librarians is a lesbian who takes jon under her wing a bit

coffee mornings and book clubs and things like that. sixteen year old jon and a dozen queer women all in their late twenties at the youngest. they joke a lot how often they forget jon isn't also a thirty-something

(this is that autism feel of having no interest in your peers but getting on great with adults)

and then she goes to uni, and then she meets georgie

georgie is a Very Out lesbian. she goes to clubs, she's heavily involved in the lgbt society, she has a rainbow flag hanging in her bedroom window. yknow.

jon likes her a lot, and still isn't really sure if it's romantic or not, but assumes that's more due to being gay than anything else

(no one has told jon about asexuality yet)

so when, one night when they're meant to be studying in georgie's room but instead are mostly drinking shit cheap wine and complaining about their professors, georgie looks at jon with this soft look on her face and asks to kiss her, jon says yes

and then they date

they're both living in one of those massive student houses with a thousand bedrooms crammed everywhere and only a kitchen for a communal space. georgie has lived there since coming back to finish first year, and jon moved in halfway through second year after a somewhat disastrous flatmate situation

so after they graduate, moving in together seems like the natural progression of things even tho they’ve only been dating for two months

jon is still, when asked, identifying as a lesbian and using she/her, but is also still dressing what other people now call butch. she always feels kind of weird about that term, but again, just chalks it up to the mess of complicated feelings being a gnc lesbian does genuinely involve

and then, finally, jon meets some actual trans people

jon has, circumstantially, known trans people. thanks to georgie, jon goes to a lot of lgbt soc things, and is passingly familiar with most of the lgbt people on their campus

but there’s a big difference between nodding at someone when you see them in the library and having an actual, proper conversation about gender

so, jon goes to a lot of social events because georgie does. without georgie, jon would probably not leave the house except to go to work and to the library (jon is not doing postgrad. jon’s library habits do not particularly reflect this)

mostly at these events, jon sits in the corner and reads, and only talks to other quiet antisocial people, while georgie circles back periodically to report on her social butterfly escapades

and at one, one of the other quiet antisocial people is a trans guy

he’s called harry, and he asks about the book jon is reading, and after they’ve been talking a while he says, “sorry, you probably get this a lot, but what pronouns do you use?”

jon just blinks at him and says “what”

“well, i’m trans, so i’m always really cautious about assuming,” harry says, easily, and this does not answer the question jon was asking

jon.exe has crashed

she(?) eventually says, “uh. she? i’ve never– she”

and harry, who has spent the last forty minutes discussing dante with jon and is already sure they’re going to be friends, says “want the trans 101? you’re making a face like you need it”

three hours later georgie finally reappears with the intent to actually interrupt (she’s drifted past periodically, but jon was always deep in conversation with harry, so she left them alone) and get going, and jon gets harry’s email address and is then very quiet as they walk arm-in-arm back to their house

just as they turn onto their street, jon says, “i, ah. i think i might be trans?”

georgie, who has for the past couple months been having something of a crisis after realising she definitely loves jon but she isn’t in love and she can’t figure out why, says “oh thank god”

jon, very bemused, “that wasn’t the reaction i was expecting”

“i think we should break up,” georgie replies, and jon stops walking. they’re four feet from their front door, but it’s late, no one’s about, so georgie decides sure, they can have this conversation in the street

“you– because i’m trans?”

“i love you, i really do,” georgie steps closer, takes jon’s hands in hers, “but i’m not in love with you. and it was driving me crazy trying to figure out why, but if you’re not a girl–”

“i can’t tell if i should be offended by this or not,” jon says, somewhat dazed, “i’ve been trans for an hour, georgie, i don’t know if this is transphobic yet”

georgie laughs, and presses a kiss to jon’s cheek, and says “it’s nearly midnight, we both have work tomorrow, let’s table this for later. we can look up names and what word i should use when i complain to other people how you always leave your shoes in the middle of the floor when we aren’t both on the verge of passing out”

and that sounds reasonable, so jon nods, and kisses georgie on the mouth, and then they go inside

the next day jon stops by the library on the way home from work and checks out almost every baby names book they have. georgie comes home and he’s sat at the kitchen table making a spreadsheet

“you don’t have to make it this complicated, you know,” she says, hooking her chin over his shoulder to read what he’s already got. the spreadsheet has a lot of columns.

“it’s my name,” he retorts, and she hums agreeably, then points to ‘jonathan’, which has relatively few ticks in any pro columns (god, this nerd), and says, “isn’t that your grandfather’s name?”

it is. he doesn’t talk about his grandfather a lot – doesn’t talk about his family a lot full stop, but she knows, even though he died when jon was still a toddler, the stories his grandmother told had a significant impact

“my parents didn’t name me after anyone,” jon says, quietly

georgie nods. she doesn’t say they’re not here now to offer an opinion, because that’s far harsher than jon deserves to hear, and it’s not like she ever needs to remind him of it either. he’s definitely already beating himself up for taking so long to come to this realisation there’s no one left around to tell him how they’d have reacted

“i think it suits you,” she says instead, and jon nods, and then she moves away to make a pot of tea and some pasta (it’s technically jon’s night to cook, but she was anticipating coming home to find him already hyperfocused beyond the point of no return)

a week later, jon looks up from the spreadsheet to where georgie is curled up on the sofa reading and says “ugh, fine, you win, you were right”

(georgie hadn’t pressed her point any further, jon is just like that)

“jon?” she asks, and he makes an exasperated noise and nods, then closes his laptop dramatically and stands. most of his spine pops when he stretches

“this calls for celebration” georgie says, also standing, “franco’s or monsoon?”

“franco’s. i’m going to eat a pizza the size of a car”

so then jon is actually going by jon, and using he/him, and isn’t dating georgie anymore but is still living with her and spending most of his time with her and factoring her into all his major decisions

he talks to harry, and other (binary) trans people, and reads a lot of blogs, and after a few months gets a referral to charing cross gic

by the time he starts at the magnus institute, he’s had top surgery and has been on T for years, and passes as cis completely, and he doesn’t know how to articulate it but this is. bothering him.

he’s not exactly… he likes being stealth, he doesn’t need to flaunt his personal life. he can understand the impulse, but he doesn’t share it. his feelings about gender and romance are no one’s business but his own

but. everyone assuming he was a girl itched – being miss simms, georgie’s girlfriend, she, it felt like wearing a coarse knitted jumper. it was exhausting

and, for a while, everyone assuming he was a man was a relief. it didn’t make his skin crawl, it didn’t make him want to scream, it was nice. it felt good.

it didn’t feel right. but it didn’t feel bad, either, and jon has never been gendered in a way that felt right. he thought that was just part of being trans

except. he moves to london, and he starts at the magnus institute, and he wears shirts and slacks, and the long skirts and patterned dresses some of his colleagues wear keep catching his eye the way men in three-piece suits used to, and that terrifies him

he was lucky, in a way, having no family left to care when he transitioned – if anyone reacted negatively, he could just cut them out of his life, and his social circle was already queer enough that was hardly necessary

but that doesn’t mean he escaped internalising a whole swathe of shit about what being trans should mean and how he should act and what he should want and if he wants to wear skirts then is he even a man? was he making it up all along after all?

naturally, he deals with this by ignoring it. he’s a man, men don’t wear skirts, he doesn’t wear skirts, that’s that.

he manages to keep that up until he’s made head archivist, and he’s given three assistants who are all also trans

(he doesn’t know if elias did it on purpose. elias knows he’s trans, of course, because he’s never bothered to get the name on his diploma changed, but the way elias reacted lead jon to assume elias may also be trans. and if that’s true, then selecting only trans people for the archives staff feels like a kindness more than anything)

and, the thing about them all being trans, is even if jon and martin are both rather fond of being stealth, and sasha and tim aren’t used to being out at work, and none of them are exactly friends, they’re the only people who ever come in the archives, so the archives very quickly becomes the Safe Trans Zone

they all vent a lot about cis people. sasha will walk in and the first words out her mouth will be “the next person to ask me if i’d had the surgery is getting their own surgery when i cut their tongues out”, and tim will make a commiserating noise and offer her the pack of donuts martin brought in

so when, on one of the rare afternoons when jon leaves his office to lean against tim’s desk and brainstorm organisational system ideas, martin walks back from the break room upstairs with a scowl and says, bitterly, as he sits back down, “oh so when cis guys wear nail polish it’s inspiring and breaking down gender roles but when i wear nail polish, jenny from HR gets to side eye me and ask if that means i changed my mind, because surely i’m the one who’ll do that and not all the men who didn’t have to do hours of therapy to establish they are definitely, one hundred percent for sure a guy!”

tim and sasha both make the standard commiseration noises, and sasha says something about the supervisor at her last job trying to say it wasn’t appropriate for her to wear trousers, and jon stops listening and runs away moves back to his office

he hadn’t noticed martin is wearing nail polish, is the thing. or, he had noticed it, but he hadn’t thought about it, and now he’s thinking about it. he’s thinking about it a lot

martin had– martin is a guy. martin is definitely a guy, if something of a feminine-leaning gay guy, the kind of feminine-leaning no one ever questions in cis guys, and it hadn’t occurred to jon to question martin, either, even though he’s trans, and. and.

he’s still circling round a revelation he can’t quite make himself have an hour or so later, when martin sticks his head round the door

“you, uh. you alright?” martin asks, incredibly tentatively. it says a lot, jon thinks, about how nice martin is, that he’s asking even though there’s a 90% chance jon will tell him to fuck off “you kind of disappeared abruptly, earlier. i didn’t upset you, did i?”

jon stares at him for a long moment, then says, “can i see your nail polish?”

“oh!” martin’s cheeks flush, just slightly, as he steps inside the office and lets the door shut behind him “uh, yeah, of course. it’s a little chipped, now, but, yeah”

martin’s nail polish is a light, pastel blue. it’s neat, and even, though his nails aren’t that long, and jon thinks he remembers martin saying something about mostly painting his nails to try and get himself to stop biting them. jon’s never really gone for nail polish, but it’s. nice.

“it’s, uh. it’s a good colour, on you,” he says awkwardly. martin flushes even more

“oh, um, thanks? did– are you alright?”

if jon was a different kind of person, this is where he’d open up to martin, and this would be the beginning of them becoming actual friends

jon is jon, though, so he just shoves all his emotions back in the box they escaped from, nods, and says “i didn’t sleep that well, is all. not really up to socialising”

(an aside about s1 jonmartin dynamic: jon is very good at shittalking martin when martin isn’t around, but in the face of martin’s genuine care and concern, he defaults back to a far more friendlier tone than he’s aiming for. he knows, on a level, that he and martin could be good friends if he ever got his shit together, but that is something else he’s currently repressing. he doesn’t need friends! he isn’t desperate for social contact at all! what’s loneliness!)

martin says “ah, okay, i’ll just– i’ll leave you alone, then”, and then jon makes himself focus on work, and then when he gets home he opens the group chat he’s still, thankfully, in with the trans people who got him through his first gender crisis and sends ‘help i don’t know if i’m a guy after all’

three people immediately send back a link to nonbinary.org

and that’s the rest of jon’s evening

he reads through every article. he reads several articles multiple times. he opens several new tabs, and gets a notepad to make a list of books, and eventually remembers to reply in the group chat

a week later, he bites the bullet and writes an email to georgie

nothing long, just, they still tell each other about big life events

and then, another couple weeks after that, when martin brings him tea, he says, “ah, martin, could i– do you have a moment?”

“of course,” martin says, and lets the door swing closed again, “what do you need?”

“i, ah. this isn’t very professional, so, you don’t– you are perfectly welcome to say no, of course, but i. um. would you– come clothes shopping with me?”

(ideally, jon would have asked georgie, but as much as he loves her (still), they haven’t talked properly in years, and she is cis. the best cis person he knows, but still a cis person. and he’d just, rather have a trans person, for emotional support, and no one in the group chat lives particularly nearby anymore) (or, well, some of them are, but when he asked they all told him to get over himself and ask one of his ‘lovely’ coworkers)

(why does he ask martin and not sasha?) (well, dear reader, he is nursing the beginnings of a crush) (not that he knows it. but that’s absolutely what’s happening here. martin is sweet and lovely and jon definitely finds him annoying and overbearing. yes. nothing else. no other emotions.) (his chest feels all weird when martin smiles because he doesn’t like him. that always happens around people he dislikes.)

“oh!” martin says, surprised. “uh, yes, of course, is– is there an event or something…?”

jon takes a moment to stare at the wall above martin’s head before he makes himself say, “i. am non-binary, and i need– different clothes.”

“oh, god, have we been–”

“no, no, this is a, a very recent development. he is still fine,” jon says, quickly, then pauses, then adds, more haltingly, “i think. i might, if – they, as well, maybe? just, to see”

“of course. d’you want me to tell tim and sasha?”

martin, jon thinks, is maybe not all that bad “yes, please”

“cool,” martin smiles, “i’m free this weekend? for shopping?”

“this saturday would be good, yes”

and then jon and martin go shopping! it’s probably not that successful of a shopping trip, because it takes jon like four shops before they admit what exactly it is they’re looking for, but they go to several charity shops and have fun trying to one-up each other with the most ridiculous/inexplicable item of clothing, and at the end of the day jon has three skirts (a knee-length black a-line skirt, a full-length black skirt, and a full-length black skirt patterned with red flowers), two necklaces, and a skater dress they probably can’t get away with wearing to work, but they really liked the way the skirt moved when they spun

other things that happen include lunch at a cafe where the staff definitely think they’re on a date and only martin notices and also martin is dying, both of them only managing to walk past a secondhand bookshop twice before they cave and go inside, and then emerge half an hour later both holding three books (two poetry anthologies and a sci fi novel; a psychology book and two history books), and martin somehow talking jon into trying on skinny jeans and then, again, leaving this mortal coil

jon doesn’t buy the skinny jeans, which is for the best really

the first time jon wears one of the skirts to work, sasha does a victory lap around the archives because “hell yes skirts are so much more comfortable, and now you swish! tim you should get a skirt. skirts for archives uniform”

and jon is still a prickly antisocial bastard but now he’s an outly nonbinary prickly antisocial bastard, and sometimes they walk into the archives at 2PM smelling of tobacco and holding a bottle of vodka, and then the archives staff all do shots and dramatic readings of the most ridiculous fake statements, because sometimes that’s how you cope with cis people, and that’s! valid!

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(TW/CW: Mild unrealistic gore) [Image description: Three digital line drawings done for Pride Month 2019 of my original characters posing together, wearing clothes with their LGBTQ+ identities' flags on them. First picture, from left to right: 1. Grace, a tall Mixed Race nonbinary person with an afro and vitiligo, wearing a hoodie with Japanese writing on it, a tank top with the Asexual and Cassromantic flags on it and jean shorts with the Vaguegirl flag on them, holding an e-cigarette and glaring at the other characters. Parts of their body are cut out, revealing grapefruit segments inside their body. 2. Ricky, a tall Latino man with a shaved head, wearing shades, a dress shirt with the Heteroflexible flag on it and creased pants with the Transgender flag on them, slouching with his hands in his pockets and a grumpy expression. 3. Robin, an average height Black nonbinary person with locs in a ponytail, wearing a jacket with the Venusic flag on it, a T-shirt with the Galaxian flag on it, bracelets with the Intersex and Agender flags on them and plain cargo shorts, leaning forward and making the peace sign with a happy expression. 4. Nerys, an average height Black nonbinary person with long natural hair, a support cane and one prosthetic eye, wearing pentagram earrings, a rainbow glass eye with the lambda symbol on it, a long cardigan with the Bisexual and Demiromantic flags on it and a maxi dress with the Witchgender flag on it, leaning on her cane and resting her arm on the head of Angelica, the character next to her, and looking at her with an affectionate expression. 5. Angelica, a short Black teenage nonbinary person with long natural hair with two braids, a birthmark on their face and a wheelchair, wearing braid decorations with the Intersex flag on them, a long-sleeved top with the Horrorgender flag on it and a dress with the Apothisexual flag on it, sitting in their wheelchair and looking up at Nerys with a cheeky expression. 6. Mickey, an average height Black nonbinary person with natural hair in an undercut, wearing rose earrings, a sweater with the Agender flag on it and leggings with the Asexual and Panromantic flags on them, standing with one hand on their hip and the other holding the hand of Ama, the character next to them, and looking at her with a loving expression. 7. Ama, a tall Mixed Race woman with a shaved head and ponytail, wearing a sleeveless top with the Asexual and Lesbian flags on it, bridal gloves and jeans with the Intersex flag on them, holding Mickey's hand and looking at them with a loving expression. Second picture, from left to right: 1. Neeta, a short South Asian nonbinary person with glasses, wearing a hijab with the Autigender flag on it, a long-sleeved top with the Asexual and Aromantic flags on it, purple and black bead bracelets and leggings with the Agender flag on them, leaning forward with their arm around Rillion, the character next to them, and an excited expression. 2. Daisy, a short female anthro duckling with natural hair in an undercut, wearing a daisy hair decoration, a T-shirt with the Demipansexual flag on it and jeans with the Transgender flag on it, waving at the viewer with a happy expression. 3. Rillion, a tall East Asian man with shaggy hair and a goatee, wearing a long-sleeved shirt with the Queer flag on it and jeans, leaning to the side with one hand on his hip and the other around Neeta with a happy expression. 4. Bride, a short Mixed Race teenage nonbinary person with a shaved head, a cybernetic eye and a mask covering half of their face, wearing a jumpsuit with the Genderflora, Asexual and Bellusromantic flags on it, shyly waving at the viewer with a small smile. 5. Dandelion, a tall male anthro duck with shaggy hair in a ponytail, wearing a dress shirt with the QPOC Gay flag and the Biromantic flag on it and jeans, posing with his hand on his hip and an irritated expression. 6. Jamie, a tall Southeast Asian nonbinary person with spiky hair, wearing a T-shirt with the Polysexual and Recipromantic flags and jeans with the Bigender flag on them, standing with one hand in his pocket and the other around Julie, the character next to him, and looking at her with an affectionate expression. 7. Julie, a short Southeast Asian teenage girl with long straight hair, wearing a long-sleeved top with the Transgender flag on it and jeans with the Neptunic flag on them, standing with one arm holding her other arm and looking up at Jamie with a shy smile. Third picture, from left to right: 1. Skylla, a tall Black nonbinary person with long natural hair in a high ponytail, wearing a Grecian-style dress with the Greysexual and Terasgender flags on it, standing with their arms around Kharybdis, the character next to them, and looking at her with a loving expression. 2. Kharybdis, a short East Asian woman with long curly hair, wearing a headband with the Sapphic flag on it and a Grecian-style dress with the Transgender and Intersex flags on it, standing with her arms around Skylla and looking at them with a loving expression. 3. Alisha, a short Mixed Race teenage nonbinary person with afro puffs and a prosthetic arm, wearing earrings, a T-shirt with the Heliogender flag on it and shorts with the Lesbian flag on them, standing with their hand on their hip and looking up at Zeta, the character next to them, with a happy expression. 4. Zeta, a tall nonbinary anthro axolotl with straight hair in a bob cut and glasses, wearing a necklace, a sleeveless top with the Lunarian flag on it, bracelets and a pencil skirt with the Caedosexual and Biromantic flags on it, hovering above the ground with their arm around Alisha and looking at them with an affectionate expression. 5. Gopi, a tall South Asian nonbinary person with a TV for a head, wearing a T-shirt with the Staticnonbinary flag on it and jeans with the Requiessexual and Aromantic flags on them, leaning forward with one hand on their hip and the other doing a small salute. Their TV head has a pixellated image of a rainbow on it.] Part 1 of this year's Pride Month picture. Sorry it's so massively late, but I had computer trouble and a shoulder injury. These are all the protagonists of my original stories and their canon LGBTQ+ identities. The second part will be my fan characters and their identities. Most of these identities are fairly new or not well known and will probably require some explanation, so I'm including links to their respective entries in Pride-Flags' DeviantART gallery, which is where I got most of these identities from. Also, don't worry if the link name is different to the identity name I've used, those are the right links. From left to right: 1. Grace McKenzie (27 years old, Biracial (Black/White), British Jamaican, vitiligo, lupus, autistic, depression) - Asexual, Cassromantic, Vaguegirl (they/them). The protagonist of my unnamed pastel gore story, a grumpy vaporwave girl with a weird condition that makes their body split into fruit segments. Links: Asexual (1) Cassromantic Vaguegirl 2. Ricky Hernandez/'Agent Aries' (45 years old, Latino, Mexican British, autistic) - Heteroflexible, Biromantic, Trans man (he/him). The secondary protagonist of my unnamed magical girl story, a hotheaded career criminal turned magical boy who is secretly geeking out about how cool his new destiny is. Links: Heteroflexible (1) Biromantic Transgender (1) 3. Robin Adebayo/'Agent Taurus' (25 years old, Black, British Nigerian, autistic, anxiety, 5-ARD) - Venusic, Galaxian, Intersex, Agender (they/them). The primary protagonist of my unnamed magical girl story, a nervous anime fan who gets their dream come true when they are turned into a magical enby. Links: Venusic (2) Galaxian Intersex (2) Agender (1) 4. Nerys Bridgewater (47 years old, Black, Antiguan British, cane user, missing eye, autistic) - Bisexual, Demiromantic, Witchgender (she/her). The secondary protagonist of my unnamed witch story, a socially awkward witch who has to suddenly look after her niece, despite the fact that she's not good with kids (or anyone else, really...). Links: Bi- Demiromantic Witchgender / Magusgender / Magegender (1) 5. Angelica Bridgewater (14 years old, Black British, spina bifida, leukemia survivor, autistic, Perrault syndrome) - Intersex, Horrorgender (they/them), Apothisexual. The primary protagonist of my unnamed witch story, a stroppy teenage cancer survivor who has spent most of their life in a hospital bed and now has to go live with their weird aunt in her creepy mansion. Links: Intersex (2) Horrorgender (2) Apothisexual (1) 6. Mickey Montague (24 years old, Black, British Caribbean, schizoaffective disorder, autistic) - Agender (they/them), Asexual, Panromantic. The secondary protagonist of my urban fantasy/detective story 'Truth Seekers', a sweet social butterfly who had to drop out of college for mental health reasons and has lost their direction in life until a chance encounter with a runaway princess gives them a new lease on life. Links: Agender (1) Asexual (1) Panromantic (5) 7. Ama Grivillix (20 years old, Mixed Race (Black/Latino/White), Mixed British, Erb's palsy, autistic, CAH) - Asexual, Homoromantic, Intersex (she/her). The primary protagonist of my urban fantasy/detective story 'Truth Seekers', a reserved fairy princess who ran away from her underground kingdom to become a detective and avoid being crowned king. Links: Asexual (1) Homoromantic (1) (This isn't the right flag. The flag I used is the more inclusive version of the lesbian flag, but Pride Flags doesn't have that one.) Intersex (2) 8. Neeta Kandhari (26 years old, Desi, British Indian, Muslim, autistic, OCD, depression, anxiety) - Autigender, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender (they/them). The primary protagonist of my sitcom story 'Failure to Thrive', an adorable shy nerd who needs to go outside and make friends, so they get sent to a house full of strangers with issues. Links: Autigender Asexual (1) Aromantic (1) Agender (1) 9. Daisy Drake (11 years old, Mixed Race (Black/Arab), Mixed British, autistic) - Demipansexual, Trans woman (she/her). The primary protagonist of my kid hero story 'Daisy Bubblegum', a cute, bubbly little duckling who is just starting secondary school and just starting openly presenting as female, when the ancient gods of her world suddenly show up and tell her that she's the chosen one. Links: Demipan- Pride Flag Transgender (1) 10. Rillion Shimada (27 years old, Asian, British Japanese, depression, abuse survivor) - Queer. The secondary protagonist of my sitcom story 'Failure to Thrive', an embittered cynic who has successfully alienated everyone in the halfway house where he lives, until Neeta arrives and melts his icy facade. Links: Queer (1) (This isn't the right flag. The flag I used is the queer chevron one, but Pride Flags doesn't have it.) 11. Bride McGuire (15 years old, Mixed Race (Roma/Irish Traveller), Mixed British, autistic, anxiety, burn survivor, missing eye, scoliosis, heart defects) - Genderflora, Asexual, Bellusromantic. The primary protagonist of my cyberpunk dystopia story 'Planet Earth', a painfully shy teenage cyborg working at their family's flower shop, until an incident with the police awakens their mutant powers and forces them to go on the run. Links: Genderflora (1) Asexual (1) Bellusromantic (1) 12. Dandelion Gadwall (21 years old, Desi, British Asian, albinism) - Gay, Biromantic. The secondary protagonist and main antagonist of my kid hero story 'Daisy Bubblegum', the lazy, mischievous son of a cult leader who has been chosen by the cult to be their messiah and implement their new world order, even though he'd rather mess around with his friends. Links: Philadelphia Gay Pride Biromantic 13. Jamie Phung/'Supernova' (26 years old, Asian, British Vietnamese, autistic, anxiety, PTSD) - Polysexual, Recipromantic, Bigender (he/him, she/her). The primary protagonist of my superhero story 'Supertwats', a kind and humble graphic designer who is coping with raising his sister on his own and being heavily closeted about his gender identity, when he and his sister are suddenly kidnapped by the government and turned into superheroes, giving him a powerful, genderfluid super identity. Links: Poly- (1) Recipromantic Pride Bigender (1) 14. Julie Phung/'Sailor Rage' (16 years old, Asian, British Vietnamese, autistic, anxiety, PTSD) - Trans woman (she/her), Neptunic. The secondary protagonist of my superhero story 'Supertwats', a shy, sensitive teenage girl who is coping with the loss of her parents and trying not to be a burden on her brother while repressing her anger issues, when she and Jamie suddenly get kidnapped and turned into superheroes, leaving her with an anger-powered beserker form. Links: Transgender (1) Neptunic 15. Skylla (??? years old, Black, Greek, autistic, depression) - Greysexual, Terasgender (they/them). The primary protagonist of my Greek myth story 'Skylla and Kharybdis', a depressed former nymph who was turned into a man-eating monster by a jealous love rival and is now stuck in a cliff with very little company or food and forced to eat passing sailors to stay alive, until they strike up a friendship with their neighbour Kharybdis. Links: Gray Asexual (2) Terasgender 16. Kharybdis (??? years old, Asian, Greek, autistic, anxiety) - Sapphic, Trans woman (she/her), Intersex. The secondary protagonist of my Greek myth story 'Skylla and Kharybdis', a cheery former mortal priestess who was chained to the bottom of the sea by Zeus for stealing cattle from his son and became a ravenous whirlpool, forced to eat ships to sate her never-ending hunger, until she strikes up a friendship with her neighbour Skylla. Links: Sapphic (2) Transgender (1) Intersex (2) 17. Alisha Roberts (14 years old, Biracial (Black/Desi), Mixed British, autistic, nonverbal, amputee, depression) - Heliogender (they/them), Lesbian. The primary protagonist of my video game idea 'Coping', a moody autistic teenager who is being bullied at school and babied by their parents and seeks solace in video games, until an alien virtual reality device lands in their back garden and creates a new world for them to escape to. Links: Heliogender Lesbian (This isn't the right flag. The flag I used is the more inclusive version of the lesbian flag, but Pride Flags doesn't have that one.) 18. Zeta (30 years old, Asian, British Asian, autistic, depression, PTSD) - Lunarian (they/them, she/her), Caedosexual, Biromantic. The secondary protagonist of my video game idea 'Coping', the friendly AI interface for the virtual reality device who helps Alisha create a fantasy world suited to them and despite her limited programming, starts to form a deep friendship with Alisha. Links: Lunarian (1) Caedsexual / Caedosexual Biromantic 19. Gopi Shiraz (33 years old, Desi, British Indian, autistic, depression) - Staticnonbinary (they/them), Requiessexual, Aromantic. The primary protagonist of my unnamed original species story, a grumpy tech geek who fixes old televisions, computers and gaming consoles for a living and through exposure to their magical essence, ends up turning into a TV objecthead with the power to create and control electricity. Links: Staticnonbinary (1) Requies-   Aromantic (1) Photoshop CS4

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#TuaPrideMonth Day 3 - Pride Parade

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Klaus could hardly wait until June. Every year, he went all out for pride month, going head to toe in his pan and nonbinary colors, attending every pride parade in the tristate area, and buying anything and everything rainbow.

But this year would be even more special. Because this year all of his siblings would be taking part in pride with him.

After they had managed to avoid the apocalypse, the seven had grown closer as a family. They caught Five up on modern slang and memes, they trained Vanya in her powers, and Klaus was able to successfully manifest Ben to join in on the fun. So when Klaus mentioned his annual pride activities, his siblings politely requested to join in as well. Klaus, naturally, was overjoyed.

Finally, after much waiting, June rolled around, along with the first pride parade. Klaus skipped around his siblings, helping them adjust their pride attire.

Luther, the most conservative, hesitantly wore a pin with the bi flag, though later he would acquire a cape as well. Diego wore his trans and bi flags with pride, along with face paint. Allison looked as elegant as ever, in a flower crown with the pan colors and a matching designer scarf. She, being the rich, influential movie star she is, managed to convince her favorite brands to release affordable, high quality pride clothing items. Allison has also decided to dye her hair to match. Five, though at first a bit hesitant, wore a bi colored blazer with a demisexual shirt on underneath. Ben simply wore a rainbow flag and asexual shirt, after Klaus finally figured out how to make “ghost clothing.” Vanya, although shy initially, wore a lesbian shirt, and her jean jacket Klaus has bought her was decorated with lgbt+ pins and patches.

Klaus, to no ones surprise, went the most out. He brought out his old flags, his favorite pan jacket and nb crop top, his rainbow pants, and his glittery pride shoes. He too had face paint on, and was looking very sparkly. To top it all off, Klaus wore lots and lots of pins.

Klaus smiled excitedly at all his siblings. “Who’s ready for the first pride parade with the entire umbrella academy?”

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Vanya never felt like she was apart of something. Her whole life, she had never been appreciated. She was always the ordinary one, the extra one, the forgotten one. Even after the apocalypse was prevented and she was included in the family, it was hard for her to feel accepted. Even when she had first admitted to Klaus that she was attracted and he hugged her, telling her he was happy she told him, Vanya couldn’t help but wait for the catch. But here she was, surrounded by people like her, and for once Vanya felt like she belonged. So she smiled, filled with pride.

Ben was hesitant going to Pride. He was still a ghost after all. But through a lot of concentration and practice on Klaus’s end, the sixth Hargreeves was alive for a day. Wrapped in his rainbow flag, constantly having his siblings hug him, assuring him and themselves that he was really there, getting to be apart of such a wonderful family, even with all of their flaws, Ben knew he was more than just “The Horror.” So he smiled, filled with pride.

Five grew up in the apocalypse, so he never had the chance to explore his sexuality or grow closer to his siblings. But now that Five - the Hargreeves siblings had prevented the apocalypse, the Boy had the chance to do both. Five finally had the do-over he had always wanted, the opportunity to know what the modern world was really like with, the opportunity to discover himself. But most importantly, Five was so damn proud of his family. So he smiled, filled with pride.

Klaus always felt pride during June. He was always proud of the fact that he was apart of the LGBT+ community. But this June, he wasn’t just proud of his sexuality and gender. He was proud of his family, for coming together and discovering themselves. He was proud of himself, for becoming more than the useless, gay junkie. For being able to master his powers. For being more than Reginald’s greatest disappointment. So he smiled, filled with pride.

Allison always had whatever she wanted. Her rumors had lead her to riches, fame, and happiness. Or so it would seem. But she would never really be happy. Everyday, Allison was painfully aware that she was lying to herself, until it got too much. So she quit her rumors. Than Five returns, and Allison was launched into the most impactful eight days of her life. Afterward, Allison was able to connect both her families; her siblings and her daughter. Allison also opened up about her sexuality to the public, and used her influence for good, without rumors. Allison was proud of herself, and her family. So she smiled, filled with pride.

Diego knew that he never opened up to his family. He thought that he didn’t need connections. But after the eight days that brought together his family ended, he realized just how false that was. Diego was never subtle about his sexuality or gender. He started wearing binders at age 14, and hung a bisexual flag in his room shortly after. But it wasn’t until after him and his siblings prevented the apocalypse did Diego really know what it meant to be prideful. It was being accepting of yourself and the people you hold close. And Diego was finally able to admit that he matched those requirements. So he smiled, filled with pride.

Luther thought that no one would forgive him after he had locked up Vanya, his sister. Luther still hadn’t forgiven himself. But his siblings assured him that that decision was a product of his trauma, which was no less valid than that of his siblings. They encouraged him to go to therapy, which helped significantly. And so Luther was able to discover himself, realizing his sexuality, as well as how much he loved his siblings. His family was proud of how he’s changed, and Luther was proud of himself. He might have flaws, but those flaws do not define him. So he smiled, filled with pride.