#trans girl! Adrienne

[catastrophic-crow]

the real gender euphoria was the trans women we knocked up along the way

if you thought I was done making comics about adrien being trans you thought wrong. fuck you

[makingqueerhistory]

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

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[princess-of-the-corner]

trans girl adrien AU do you think mari would develop a crush the female chat noir while feeling conflicted views over adrien?, like she and chloe still had a bitter history from which chloe hasnt apologized for, so there could be some tension between the two, which also conditions her interactions with chloe apparent boyfriend (girlfriend) to be wary of her for a time.

With Chloé having been less antagonistic on the whole, Mari has less beef with her. They're nowhere near friends, but Mari doesn't see her as an enemy, ya know? She's not an evil bitch out to harm her, she's just cold and unfriendly. Sometimes mean, but not a bully.

So when Adrienne shows up and is Chloé's friend, but quickly proves to be sociable (even if in an awkward way), there's no hard feelings or expectations or fears.

I think the thing is she'd feel conflicted with both Adrienne and Chat Noire because like. The class has clocked that "Adrien" is Chloé's "Boyfried". But then I can't imagine Chat Noire not casually mentioning her girlfriend because this is a persona where it's safe to talk about having one, even if the identity needs to be left vague.

So either way Marinette has a crush on someone who is in a relationship. And she doesn't want to be a homewrecker or anything but she can't help her feelings!

I will say this does temper her jealousy most of the time. She might like Adrienne/Chat, but Adrienne/Chat already had a pre-existing gf that they love very much

That said her issues with Lila and later Kagami for a while doesn't get tempered as well because like. Marinette is projecting her guilt onto them when they seem to be ignoring the fact that Adrienne is in a relationship.

Lila is the one actively ignoring that. Kagami initially doesn't know, but tries to back off when she finds out, except her mother keeps pushing her to date "Adrien". Explaining this to Marinette does cool her off.

That said re: Lila. I think that might help when it comes to people taking Marinette's accusations seriously. She's kept her feelings more in check so really only Alya would know her feelings for Adrienne. So when she accuses Lila of things, it's not brushed off as jealousy.

[catastrophic-crow]

i love her

is the answer

how do wefeel ab tgirl adrien :T

[thevampireslovelywife]

Rita Malloy— She/they

Age: 19

Gender: cis-female

Sexuality: Lesbian(romantically) Pansexual(sexually)

Relationships: Grey(best friend), Emerson(sibling)

Occupation: Stripper & library worker

Grey DiScala— he/they

Age: 20

Gender: cis-male

Sexuality: bisexual and polyamorous 

Relationships: Rita(best friend), Elijah(Friends)

Occupation: tattoo artist

Tessa Gomez— She/her

Age: 17

Gender: Trans woman

Sexuality: Straight

Relationships: Ethan(friend)

Occupation: Library volunteer

Elijah Hwang— He/him

Name: Elijah Hwang 

Age: 20

Gender: Cis-male 

Sexuality: Straight(will figure out he's bisexual later) and polyamorous 

Relationships: Grey(friends), Rachel(sister)

Emerson Malloy— They/them

Age: 17

Gender: Non binary

Sexuality: Gay

Relationships: Rita(siblings), ethan(friends), Bellona(friends), Adrienne(best friend)

Adrienne Durand— They/she

Age: 16

Gender: idk but she’s vibing

Sexuality: Aromantic and bisexual demisexual

Relationships: Bellona(queer platonic partners), Emerson(best friends), Lina(friends)

Bellona Gupta— She/her

Age: 16

Gender: Cis-female

Sexuality: Straight and Asexual

Relationships: Adrienne(queer platonic partner), Lina(friend), Emerson(friend)

Joshua Lennon— He/him

Age: 37

Gender: Cis-male

Sexuality: Gay

Relationships: (his husband), Rita(her employer)

Ethan Matthews- They/he

Age: 15

Gender: Genderfluid, transmac

Sexuality: Gay(bi curious)

Relationships: Lina(friend/crush?), Tessa(best friend), Emerson(friend), Elijah(half brother)

Carolina(Lina) Augustin- She/they

Age: 16

Gender: Demi girl(questioning genderfluid)

Sexuality: Pansexual

Relationships: Ethan(friends/crush), adrienne(friends), Bellona(friends)

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@m0ngrxl

Thx for helping me name them: @obsessingoverl

[buggaboo-i-love-you]

my notes document is full of cursed fic ideas. here they are, just copied and pasted so there are odd spelling mistakes and weird grammar bc i just write them down before i lose the idea lol. some of my favorites that i will write soon include:

1.a fic where ladybug gets trapped with like five seconds before she transforms back and has to play it off with major gaslighting like- no you’re hallucinating chat, i’ve been here the whole time! oh no, i had a costume party earlier. no actually, ladybug was almost trapped but then she came in really fast and put me in here instead. chat believes it until she brings adrien into it

2. genderfluid adrien agreste. mari meets him like normal, the umbrella scene and everything, and he acts like a cis guy at school. outside of school though, they can be genderfluid but their father doesn’t know. gabe would be mad. mari meets him as a girl, and thinks she’s a completely different person and has another cute scene. she wouldn’t know her name, but it’s just adrienne and she finds out later. chat is openly genderfluid and the suit morphs along with them for whatever they’re feeling for the day.

3. the episode where lila conjures an illusion of chat catalysming himself but for some reason it’s not an illusion and his suit just crumbles away leaving him in the cartoony white with red heart underwear. he politely excuses himself basically going streaking through the city and someone flings like a bathrobe at him and he just. goes back like that. i reblogged the art that’s the inspo so link that

4. ladybug tells chat that he can tell someone his identity bc she told someone. he’s like, uh i wouldn’t know who. he accidentally blurts it out in front of ivan and just.. runs away. the summary is something like ladybug told chat he can tell his superhero identity to someone, but she didn’t expect him to tell who he told.. 

5. Fic that looks like Adrien salt and Chloé sugar at first glance only for the fic to slowly reveal that both of them are trans, transitioned before the fic started, and thought it would be hilarious to switch first names, so they’re actually both completely in-character

[spuercrazycat16]

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[gatnya-kat]

Comphet is not a extrictly lesbian experience

Comphet is a experience created by heteronormativity which states cisheterosexuality being the "norm" or the "right thing to do", Everything who doesn't get close to this norm is "wrong"

You can be Bisexual, Gay, Trans, NB, etc and still have comphet

Heterosexuality is more an institute more than a sexuality, paraphrasing Adrienne Rich postulate in the essay "Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence" (1980)

I think the reason that comphet relates more with lesbians is because as little girls/AFABs is teached us that man is the center of our lives and that's why most of us have it

Still, remember, if you have comphet, you are still valid ✨

[read-alert]

January TBR! I have once again made a TBR that is way too long

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll by MG Lord

Grievers by adrienne maree brown

Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan

This Bridge Called by Back ed by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria E Anzaldúa

Three Strong Women by Marie NDaiye trans by John Fletcher

Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva trans by Izidora Angel

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis

The Art of Saving the World by Corrine Duyvis

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Ten Myths About Israel by Illan Pappé

Bluff by Danez Smith

Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen by Amrou Al-Kadhi

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

The World We Make by NK Jemisin

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

Second Night Stand by Karelia and Fay Stetz-Waters

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

If I Loved You Less by Aamna Qureshi

Couplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner

No 6 vol 4 by Atsuko Asano and Hinoki Kino

A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert

Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio and Paulina Ganucheau

The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho and Deb JJ Lee

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood and Dozerdraws

Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman

A Map for Falasteen: A Palestinian Child's Search for Home by Maysa Odeh and Aliaa Betawi

The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado and DaNi

Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka

Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

For Laika: The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars by Kai Cheng Thom and Kai Yun Ching

Doctor Who: The Eye of Torment by Scott Gray et al

Star Trek/Doctor Who: Assimilation² vol 1 by Scott Tipton et al

Star Trek: Spock Reflections by Scott Tipton et al

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I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the World

“This enlightened essay collection is both an invocation of and invitation to love—with intention—as a way to repair, rebuild and reimagine new worlds. I hope readers will choose to take up Kai Cheng Thom’s fiery call to arms.” – Vivek Shraya

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith?

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author’s characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as Adrienne Maree Brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

[paracosmicat]

Fan Fiction Review

Once again, I have thoughts, and need somewhere to dump them and I’m using it as an excuse to treat this like a book review. WELCOME to my very professional book review.

This time is the one and only @buggachat’s fan fiction Rocking the Cat Eye

I feel particularly excited about this one because I have a whole transfem Adrien that I write and her name is Adrienne and she is very cute and very cat girl so lets seeee (I know this Adrien is genderfluid, but they can have overlap) 🎉

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM TO SEE THAT ALIX HAS RETURNED FROM THE VOID (the time?? Void??) everyone shut the hell up ALIX IS HERE!!!!

I WAS RIGHT TO BE EXCITED ABOUT HER THIS IS SO SWEET alsooo is she like,,, picking up on vibes?? IS ADRIEN GIVING VIBES???

SHE IS DEFINITELY PICKING UP ON VIBES

I’m just pausing my yelling because I just realized Alix is totally a time traveler and might just know

OH I SEE SO YEAH I WAS PROBABLY SUPPOSED TO INFER THAT FROM THE START LOL AND I FELT SO SMART FOR WHAT

ALIX IS BEING SO OBVIOUS LMAO HOW IS NO ONE PICKING UP ON THIS (like Plagg said, people are blind) same energy as very single “MO-MA’AM” in the show

But also we love to see this room full of lesbians some of which with boyfriends but whatever thrive

ADRIEN YOURE ALWAYS PRETTY IM YOUR NUMBER ONE FAN I LOVE YOU

Me and Buggachat hand hold emoji making our trans/genderfluid Adrien's wear green nail polish at the start of their exploration

OKAY THERE IS NO ARGUING WITH THAT PUT THE MAKE UP WIPES DOWN THIS INSTANT

SEE LOOK WHAT YOU DID MARI

This is a TRAVESTY

I guess you’ll have to make her a dress to make up for it

I am sensing a nonsense

I know this ISN'T a Doctor Who reference but I love the idea of referring to real things that happen in real life in the future as spoilers and it is my favorite thing about River Song

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD ADRIENNE YES THAT WOULD BE YOUR MARINO NAME

MY Adrienne says hello and that she hopes you figure it out and to invest in a cheese den for Plagg it's worth it

I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THAT SCENE WAS REAL SOMETIMES alsoooo princess as a nickname for Adrien is ABSOLUTELY incredible

MEOW IDJJFJFHHH I CAN'T BREATHE HE IS THE CUTEST IN THE WORLD

WOW DIE DIE DIE

This is so terrifying I'm???

THE NONSENSE IS COMING

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO MAKE ME LAUGH NOT CRY OH GOD THIS IS SO HARD TO READ I WANT TO GIVE HIM A HUG

Oh my god it's THAT level of repression ADRIEN TAKE THE ROCK OUT OF YOUR SHOE

I don't have anything clever to add except that this line made me cry laughing

and then Nino was genderfluid

GENDERFLUID MARC IS SUCH A GOOD HEADCANNON I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED IT BEFORE????

YES YEES YES PRINCESS AS A NICKNAME IS STICKING

Conclusion: Read this right now read it a million times I am going to reread it again

Also feel free to suggest another one for me to read (even your own) I am always looking

[meander1995]

A moment of reflection

It has been a long time since I paid any mind to this account. I am here to make a gigantic life announcement.

On July 11th, 2023, my life changed forever when I asked my sister if I could put on her black dress (in the photos below). In that exact moment, I felt a cold rush of euphoric bliss as the dress fit me--something unlike anything I felt before. On a whim, I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror with my phone and took the first photo below--I saw her. I knew from the cold chills right then and there that my egg had cracked and that I am a trans woman.

From there, my ADHD hyperfixations had spent most of the time since in an intense focus on getting to the bottom of things. And once it was certain (self-doubt be damned), focused on getting my ducks in a row to transition socially and physically. I came out to my family less than a week after I realized myself--I simply went to sleep in a dress and didn't give a fuck who saw me. I figured that if I was half-asleep, I would have time to make myself spill the beans before processing enough to put myself in a panic. Not that I had cause to panic much since I am grateful that my family is either supportive (my mom; one of my younger brothers) or part of the LGBT+ community (my other younger brother and my two younger sisters) themselves. As such, all of them supported me the instant I came out and picked my name of "Adrienne." Hell, my sisters even got me dresses and taught me how to do makeup for my 28th birthday on July the 19th--and later took me thrift-shopping for even more dresses (my favorite photos of which are included)

Even though I never felt any signs of being trans before 7/11/2023, in hindsight, there may have been quite a few signs in my memories. Such as when I was in kindergarden, I recall saying to someone that "if I was a girl, I'd look forward to being pregnant," something which I said ignorant of how hard pregnancy is on a human body--but perhaps is something that should've been a sign. Or all the times I felt as though I related to women more than men in a social sense--loathing toxic masculinity was normal for me, but even the non-toxic parts of it felt like I was just coasting. Or the times in Uni where my social anxiety (likely a product of my autism) plus my brain fog (which I now know was likely the product of then-undetected gender dysphoria) led me to believe that I was so bad at befriending women that I was a serial harasser--something I blamed myself in a now-misdirected sense of self-loathing that I thought only plunging into my academics (at the expense of a social life) would cure. Or my general sense of depression over much of my post-Uni life that I had no idea of the cause--until my egg cracked and I saw the problem right in the eyes.

Not going to lie, seeing posts on Reddit, Discord, and Mastodon from other transfemmes (especially those with Autism and ADHD--like myself) with similar life experiences to me and befriending them ended up assuring me that I was never broken. Just misdirected the entire time. And little things like dresses, makeup, shaving my legs, stuffing a sports-bra to give myself the convincing illusion of breasts, and feeling as though I am swimming in my pool for the first time in my own body since pre-puberty. Every day since my egg cracked, my resolve that I am a trans woman has only grown more-and-more.

In the afternoon on my 28th birthday (7/19/2023), I took my phone with me to walk to the woods outside the front yard of the lake house I was spending the week with my family on vacation. I was determined to make the call to my local Planned Parenthood to schedule an HRT consultation under informed consent. While I was successful, I was taken a bit aback by the fact that the waitlist for it is so backed up that the soonest I could be scheduled was October 2nd. After I successfully scheduled myself, my immediate thought was "I don't want to have to wait that long." And so later that week (upon returning to my hometown), I was directed by someone on Mastodon to a DIY HRT directory of international pharmacies that I can order HRT from. I chose to order 2mg Estradiol and 100mg Spiro from Thailand and--last I checked--the shipment is on the plane now and will arrive anywhere between 8/15/2023 and 9/5/2023. It is a 3 month supply of HRT--long enough to last until the consultation gives me officially regulated hormones yet short enough that I won't suffer health problems from being unable to check my bloodwork.

Even though I am resolute that transitioning is the only correct choice for me, I will not lie that I have some anxieties about this still. Not with the transition itself, but some things that accompany this. Since I couldn't immediately afford to bank sperm, a major source of anxiety is and was having to make the choice between fulfilling myself or having bio kids. As is, my options for children are hoping I get supremely lucky with some still-active swimmers, hope I can go off hormones and bank sperm at a time where I have a stable income (I'm also using a job coach system to place me into a job now--and the system knows of and is supportive of my transition), adopt children, or end up step-parenting a child of a future date. I don't see adopting or step-parenting a child as meaning that that child is less 'mine' than a biological kid, but I do think having a bio kid would be nice when the time is right to raise them (probably a decade down the road). I hope that future generations of trans people do not have to make this choice. And that isn't even considering that the idea of bottom surgery has crossed my mind a few times--I don't dislike my natal genitals, but think it'd be cooler and more gender-affirming with a vagina (that's just me personally---you are valid if you don't agree with me); it's a thought I'll put a pin in for now and see how I feel down the road.

The other annoyance is my mom. Yes, she is supportive of my choice to go on hormones (I haven't told her the DIY HRT route as she is a stickler for offical pharmacutical medications and I don't want to worry her unless the signs of feminization become too noticeable to hide). However, she is just as surprised about this as I am. She thinks I am going too fast--aka, she hasn't been aware that transition can come from euphoria instead of dysphoric suffering. I'm glad I didn't have to suffer in order to realize my identity and hope it becomes more accepted that that is a valid path to realizing yourself. But mom is slow to adapting her terms. She thinks "Andi" (just one letter off from my deadname) is a sufficient nickname for "Adrienne" instead of "Adri" or even "Addie." And she's also referred to me as "he" or "son" when I am neither. I've gently starting nudging her as of today, but something tells me it will take a little bit to get her to adjust.

Overall, I am excited to begin my body transitioning into a female form. I've made peace that I probably was a woman the whole time. My brain fog may have been caused by years under the wrong hormones (testosterone instead of estrogen). I want my body to run on the correct fuel. Give me no brain fog, give me soft skin, give me reduced body hair, give me greater emotional range, give me girlsmell, give me boobs. And at this point, I love being trans. Because in a way, all the questioning that got me here made me more sure of who I am---almost as though the end-result is an hard-earned victory that I am eager to claim the spoils to.

As for fighting the political battle against transphobia, I'm all for it as a liberal and as a human being who is appalled with what is going on. However, I am focusing all my energy on transitioning at the moment. When I have energy to spare, I will fight the good fight. But I have to live life a little bit as me first.

EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention in the large body is that paying for the DIY HRT put me back on my insurance payments and that I will need mutual aid in order to pay my insurance so that I can afford the officially prescribed HRT after the Planned Parenthood consultation. Below are links to my PayPal and Venmo accounts. If anyone would like to donate, it would be VERY much appreciated. But only donate if you can do so without putting yourselves in financial jeopardy.

Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/adrienne-harper-115

PayPal: https://paypal.me/AdrienneHarper7

[fiishingboo]

a lot happened while i played today, so before i go to bed, here's a proper update!

REEDY LEGACY - GENERATION 2 ½ […] > Layne Reedy <–-> Yutaka Miura > Jefferson Goth <–-> Christine Reedy + Thorne Reedy > Adrienne Reedy

So today, both Christine and Adrienne aged up as well! But unfortunately with that, so did Stella, poor girl is getting old :( Christine now has their own house on the property so she has more space for Adrienne, and, soon Jefferson! Layne, in the truest celebration of trans visibility day, as all we trans monsterfuckers wish for, finally got over his fear of his husband's werewolf form! And last but certainly not least, Christine graduated high school, and is hopefully going to begin applying to colleges!

[princess-of-the-corner]

I like the idea of trans Adrien and lesbian Chloe together for an AU; the general gist is 11 year old Adrien confides to his best friend Chloe his feelings about how he doesn’t quite feel like a boy and more like a girl and Chloe, who for some reason she can’t explain starts feeling very happy about it, encourage him to become Adrienne to see if she feels more comfortable that way.

The next couple of years while in public she is Adrien proper son of Gabriel agreste and front face of the agreste brand, with Chloe she is Adrienne, a pun loving, free spoken and easygoing girl, while this double life is a bit stressful for her, with everybody outside of Chloe addressing her as him, her friendship with Chloe grows all the more stronger, she even reveals to her that she feels she is a lesbian a year or so before canon and Adrienne feels also extremely happy about it, maybe they even start try a date or two in secret and realize they kinda click.

As for when she receives plagg, maybe when transformaing into chat noir, it changes her body from male to female (the concept of gender bender when transforming its used in some miraculous fics, mainly about trans Marinette). It might make sense because plagg as destruction, destroys the prisión that is Adrienne male body and frees her true self when transforming, granted it reverts back once the transformation ends, but it lets Adrienne experience the joys of womanhood.

Also Chloe immediately recognizes Adrienne when she transforms but doesn’t say anything because she is too stunned by how beautiful Adrienne is.

hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah

[plaidos]

because trans girls are starting to talk about this again, it isn’t going to be long before a bunch of TME people come in like “um, if Allison Bechdel is a terf how come she said this nice thing about trans women in the 90s? checkmate you hysterical tranny” with a few examples of Bechdel being mildly supportive of trans people’s right to exist, but make no mistake — Bechdel keeps close company with self described terfs and has done basically forever; Adrienne Rich is pretty much her idol & the basis of her understanding of feminism, and she actively attended Michfest for absolutely years and years whilst they were excluding trans women and even whilst Camp Trans protested right outside, and even in her most recent book she talks about it as this magical place that was free of men rather than the symbol of transmisogynistic hate & violence it has been recognised as for years. Some of the trans storylines in DTWOF are actively transphobic imho, and the Dykes To Watch Out For website (also Bechdel’s blog) is still to this day filled to the fucking brim with blatant terf dogwhistles including referring to the trans girl character as “trans identified” in her bio.

People have to stop falling for “but they said nice things about trans people…” stuff. Some bigots are still polite enough to refer to trans people by the correct pronouns & think we deserve some basic respects in society/to be free from violence, but still fundamentally are bigots with transphobic ideas about gender. it is desperately important that we do not let transmisogyny go unrecognised and i acknowledged within the feminism movement.

glad that we’re talking about Alison Bechdel being a terf again. really hoping that fact breaks into the general cultural zeitgeist this time but not holding my breath