#transmav

[sammythedogee]

pre-transition + icemav - pete mitchell

maverick is exhausted. sitting with a cold drink in his hands, ice freezes the soft layer of skin covering his shaking fingers.

“it can’t be.” he says to himself, mind drifting to his weekend.

they were all playing some stupid board game and maverick went straight for the male character, forcing goose to be the woman. it’s as it’s always been. his best friend didn’t push back, but instead gently chuckled, “he suits you, mav. maybe you’re destined to be a guy.”

the rest of the time, the group all referred to maverick as a man. they were joking, of course, poking fun at “mother” goose in equal measure. but, it made mav’s heart leap into his chest. it’s the same feeling he gets every time ice calls his name.

maverick’s elbows sit upon the sticky bar table, his shoulders hunched, chest minimized. it’s not a behavior he’s picked up on, but goose and ice have.

so, when he spotted maverick drowning in his own thoughts, completely curled over; he easily guessed what was on his mind.

“mav?” ice’s statement was far too quiet for maverick’s hazy mind to pick up on. instead, he slid his hand over maverick’s trembling.

maverick’s eyes snapped to ice’s, his fingers flexing under his gentle yet unwavering touch.

“ice?” he scans his blonde counterpart’s expression, searching for understanding.

“hey, man. you look really… off.”

man. every time ice talks to him, without fail, he uses some form of masc terminology; whether it be bro, dude, or man - he always makes a concerted effort to do so.

and maverick’s only just noticing.

“oh, no, just thinking. i’m fine.”

ice doesn’t buy it. he calls out maverick’s bullshit constantly, in the air and when he’s being a little shit. but this is different. far, far different. that troubled look in his eyes is something he’s only seen once before, and that was when maverick got so wasted he spoke about his father.

“mitchell, you’re a piss poor liar.”

he winces. sometimes, he forgets people genuinely understand and watch for his emotions.

“i can’t… i can’t talk about it with you, dude- i think, i think i’m fucked. fucked up. like, there’s something so goddamn wrong about me, i don’t know how to explain this without sounding fucking insane.”

ice’s fingers lace between mav’s. he’s never heard mitchell so shaken, his own heart is racing.

“breathe, mitchell. you can talk to me, i promise i won’t judge. no matter what you think it is that’s so wrong.”

“no, tom, you don’t understand. i could get fucking dishonorably discharged. i can’t- oh my god, i… what kind of woman…”

he’s trembling.

“maverick. baby, please, breathe.”

the endearment slips out before he can stop it. but lord, it doesn’t matter. not when maverick’s tears have escaped the confines of his eyes and dripped down his many-size too large t-shirt.

his watercolor eyes evade ice’s as the words spill from his lips, his tone pure terror.

“what kind of woman wants to be a man?”

AN:

it’s been like a year since i’ve written ANYTHING but jesus christ it’s been forever since i’ve hyper fixated like this AAHSJDOCPDKSKDLDL

i mean i now go to flight school because of these stupid movies and maverick is my biggest kin

anyways i’m probably going to write multiple parts of this even though there is no plan and the writing is poor quality but idc transmav + icemav makes me tweak

[needforspeed161]

You’re perfect just the way you are 💙

Some TransMav comfort with Ice tonight because I’m in my feelings, anyways ENJOY!!

[your-bigender-big-brother]

The Recontextualization and the Disidentification of Gender

(essay under the cut)

Maverinity is an autonomous gender quality that lies outside of masculine, feminine, neutral, and null - this makes it an outherine identity. While it is obvious that the intrinsic categories that maverinity falls into are autonomous and outherine (both at the same time), there are two very distinct features to this autonomy that are specific to the maverine experience: The recontextualization of gender and the disidentification of gender.

Autonomy starts with a separation from any governance, which is why maverique - a “maverick-like” gender - gets its name from being a maverick of sorts. It stands out, existing separately from any pre-established gender category. It isn't masculine, feminine, neutral, or null but is a distinct gendered feeling based on the “personal inner conviction” of one's gender. What this means is that our gender is defined by ourselves with none of the stringencies that come from conventional gender. Maverinity, the gender quality tied to being maverique, exists outside of the norm just the same.

When we recontextualize gender for ourselves, we reshape what it means to be a specific gender and shake up the expectations connected to it. If I were to use my own gender as an example, I would say that my malehood is of a maverine quality. While it may look like traditional malehood from someone else's perspective, its experience is far outside of the binary and is more comparable to abinarity. But it is the reshaping of my malehood that makes this gender experience an autonomous one, not simply an abinary or outherine one.

Maverinity is also the recontextualization of gender itself, rather than relying on existing genders as the context. Most people might think of gender as binary, nonbinary, multigender, neutral, and genderless (as very broad terms for several corresponding genders.) A maverine gender does not fit in with any of these terms, giving us a brand-new category for genders that doesn’t look like typical genderedness. This means that maverinity can recontextualize existing genders as well as gender as a whole: How this manifests will change from person to person depending on what maverinity means to them.

Disidentification is the other part of gender autonomy. It is the rejection of gendered expectations and of the rigidity that comes with being forced into a box. For example, one might have a gender that is not binary, but they may elect to not call themselves nonbinary or abinary either. Just because that person technically fits the definition of nonbinarity or abinarity doesn't mean they should feel obligated to use those terms - they are removed from the categories they would normally be forced into that would correspond with their gender. As for myself: I'm a transgender man but I reject “transmasculine” as an identifier. I am not transmasculine even though the general consensus supports that trans men automatically fall under that category. My transgender identity - my masculinity - is maverine-in-nature, which is why I call myself transmaverine instead.

Disidentification is what makes maverinity not feminine, not masculine, not neutral, and not genderless. It is defined, in this context, by what it is not. It establishes itself as a quality that cannot be forced into any one of these categories and is often not comparable to such. It is removed from specific identifying categories and is, instead, within its own category. Disidentification does not start and end with breaking expectations of specific genderedness, but extends to the idea that maverinity by default and on its own cannot be categorized using conventional means.

It's important to note that maverinity doesn’t just exist as a way to transform or transcend gender conventionality. It is very much outside of existing genders and of any comparison to such and because of this, it doesn't have to use midbinarity to establish itself nor does it need to even be compared to abinarity. When someone is maverine, that more than likely means they have an outherine identity with no proximity to the binary or binary-related concepts. There are plenty of singular maverine genders and specific maverine qualities that are simply based on one’s personal belief of their own gender that can’t be compared to any other gender. The variability of the maverine quality is why it works so well for so many people. Recontextualization and disidentification is only one fraction of how that quality presents itself.

[themaveriqueagenda]

what's this blog about?

this blog is about maverique visibility, pride & celebration and anything else related to the maverique identity. vesper's (the person who coined the term) maverique blog has been inactive for a few years, so i decided to make one to give some visibility to something that a lot of people only treat as a hypothetical. for maverique culture, please go to @maveriquecultureis.

on this blog, you're welcome to ask questions, be proud, be visible, be you.

who runs this blog?

i'm Delta and my pronouns are they/them. i'm asexual, omni, fat, disabled, white and of course maverique. i've been out as maverique since 2018.

what is maverique?

in short, maverique is a gender that is disconnected from manhood, womanhood, neutrality and anything derived from them, without being genderless. for further reading, i recommend the coining post.

[transgendere-gone-away]

maverinity is a very new concept to me (only found out it even is a thing though your post)

I absolutely have no idea what it means, and looking it up confused me more, can you briefly explain it?

hi! so maverinity is defined by "the quality of being maverique".

maverique is a gender coined by @queerascat in 2014. it is defined as "a gender characterized by autonomy and inner conviction regarding a sense of self that is entirely independent of male/masculinity or female/femininity or anything which derives from the two while still being neither without gender nor a neutral gender."

tldr; maverique is a gender completely on its own. not masc, not fem, not neutral or genderless. nothing relating to the binary. it's similar to aporagender, if you've heard of it.

some good blogs that post about maverinity / maverique stuff:

@demimaverique

@themaveriqueagenda

@the-delta-quadrant

feel free to comment more if you find them, and feel free to ask any questions you may have abt maverinity / maverique!!

[stormy-talks]

My weird gender pet peeve is being a trans guy but automatically being categorized as transmasculine. I wish that we could reestablish trans- labels and not put trans man under transmasc and trans woman under transfem. This would help emphasize the fact that trans people can be transfem, transmasc, transneutral, transmav, etc. without having to be any specific gender.

I'm a trans guy but I'm transmav. I never considered myself transmasculine at any point in my transition, even early on when I thought I was a strictly binary masculine man.

[ryanyflags]

Trans Flags

I made a post with 4 striped trans flags a while ago, but I wanted to revisit it with some new edits/flags.

(Not all of these are mine, I just like having everything together as a set. I'll also be splitting them into sections, since there are a lot of flags.)

──────────✦──────────

transmasculine/transmasc ★ transfeminine/transfem ★ transnonbine/transenbine/transnbine/transnonbinarine

(Note: nonbine, enbine, nbine, and nonbinarine are words for nonbinary gender quality, nonbinary versions of masculine, feminine, etc. The first 3 I came up with, and nonbinarine comes from here.)

✦ All these flags follow these trans flag formats. The white and grey black stripes are the same for all of them, and the only thing that changes are the center 2 stripes, for the respective gender qualities.

The transmasc and transfem flags are the same as their originals.

Transnonbine was made by me. I used the yellow and purple stripes from the nonbinary flag.

──────────✦──────────

transandrogynous ★ transgenderless ★ transneutral/transneu

Transandrogynous is just a slight colour edit of the original. (I changed the bottom stripe to grey and adjusted the purples.)

Transgenderless is the same as the original.

For transneutral I chose green, as that's a common colour for neutrality. So it's like this variant of transneu.

──────────✦──────────

transmaverine/transmav ★ transxenine/transxen ★ transbine/transbinarine

(Note: bine/binarine is binary gender quality. Binarine comes from here, but I came up with bine follow the same naming convention as nbine.)

Transmav is pretty much the same as the original, though I changed the yellow and orange to be slightly darker, for more contrast.

Transxenine is quite different from the original. Instead of copper colours, I used a light purple blue colour scheme, just because I felt those colours were fitting.

Transbine uses the colours from this binarine flag. (I chose the lighter colours so it wouldn't look too similar to the transmascfem flag.)

──────────✦──────────

transmidbine/transmidbinarine ★ transabine/transabinarine ★ transatrine/transatrinarine

(Note: midbine/midbinarine is midbinary gender quality, abine/abinarine is abinary gender quality, and atrine/atrinarine is atrinary gender quality. I came up with midbine/abine/atrine following the naming format of nbine, and derived atrinarine from midbinarine and abinarine (which weren't made by me).)

Transmidbine, transabine, and transatrine all use the colours from my alt midbinary/abinary/atrinary flags. Besides this transabinarine flag, which uses a different format, I don't think flags for these exist, so they're pretty much new designs.

──────────✦──────────

transaporine ★ transoutherine

Transaporine is fairly different from its original. Instead of using bright red orange, I used the colours from this aporine flag.

Transoutherine is also kind of different from its original, mainly it's the colour configuration. I used this outherine flag as reference.

──────────✦──────────

From here on are combos of the above flags/terms :D

transnbinemasc ★ transandrogynousmasc ★ transgenderlessmasc

(Note: transandrogynousmasc is also called transandromasc. The wiki page lists transandromasc as both transandrogynous and transmasculine, so I assume andro is supposed to be a shortening of androgynous. However shortening it like that just means masculine, so I use androgynous instead so it's clearer.)

Transnbinemasc is a mix of the blues, yellow, and purple from the transmasc and transnbine flags.

Transandrogynousmasc is bluish purple, as a combo of the blues of transmasc and purples of transandrogynous. Same idea as the original, though I used slightly different colours.

Transgenderlessmasc is just greyish blue, as a combo of the grey from transgenderless and blue from transmasc.

(I don't think transnbinemasc and transgenderlessmasc have been made before, so those are new flags.)

──────────✦──────────

transneumasc ★ transmavmasc ★ transxenmasc

Transneumasc is just a edit of the original flag. (The colours are slightly lighter.)

Transmavmasc uses orange yellow from the transmav flag, and a adjusted blue from the transmasc flag.

Transxenmasc uses the purple from transxen, and the light blue from transmasc.

(I haven't found transmavmasc and transxenmasc before, so these are new flags too.)

──────────✦──────────

transnbinefem ★ transandrogynousfem ★ transgenderlessfem

(Note: same as the one about transandromasc, this one is also called transandrofem.)

For transnbinefem is a mix of the pinks, yellow, and purple from the transfem and transnbine flags.

Transandrogynousfem is a lot like the original, I just used slightly different colours.

Transgenderlessfem just uses a greyish pink, as a combo of the greys of transgenderless and pinks of transfem.

(Transnbinefem and transgenderlessfem are also new flags, as far as I'm aware, I wouldn't be surprised if similar flags have been made before, though perhaps just not in this format.)

──────────✦──────────

transneufem ★ transmavfem ★ transxenfem

Transneufem is based off of my transneumasc flag, I chose a light peachy colour for it. The original is pretty different, it uses a bright red instead.

Transmavfem uses the same orange yellow from transmav, and the dark pink from transfem (which I adjusted the hue of, so it would match better with the orange).

Transxenfem uses the same light purple from transxen, and the light pink from transfem.

(Last note about this, but I transmavfem and transxenfem should be new too.)

──────────✦──────────

transmascfem/transfemasc

Transmascfem flags have been made before, but not in this 4 stripe format (that I know of). I chose the dark pink from transfem, and the light blue from transmasc.

──────────✦──────────

There's also transoutherinemasc and transoutherinefem flags in the same 4 stripe style. I didn't make any though, since I couldn't figure out how to make it look. It's the same reason why I skipped out on making combos with transbine, transmidbine, transabine, transatrine, and transaporine, I just couldn't figure out a good design.

──────────✦──────────

I'll also note about the names, there's a lot of possible names for these terms, I didn't list all of them because there's a lot. So feel free to use these flags for alt terms, or come up with your own terms (as long as they mean the same thing).

✦

Haha I typed a lot, I guess it's a kind of a masterpost / compilation post with all these links, I think it's nice to have everything together in a matching set like this anyways.

[stormy-talks]

Transmaverine, even though I'm a transgender man. I find it ironic that there aren't a lot of transmavs out there, given that maverinity's key distinction is gender autonomy and personal inner conviction of gender.

Tried to be as inclusive with my language as possible, sorry if I failed to do so

If multiple apply select the one that applies most, unless they apply in same strength / amount

[blazingstar29]

Ice remembers the first time he met Pete. He remembers every time after that too.

[database-of-maverinities]

What is Maverine?

Maverine (also called verine) is a gender quality typically connected to maverique, a gender that is outside of masculine, feminine, male, female, and neutral while having a distinct gendered feeling. As such, its maverine quality exists outside of masculine, feminine, neutral, and null - this is known as outherine. Maverinity is tied to personal inner conviction of gender and is therefore autonomous.

Maverine falls under the qualities of outherine, itherine, aporine, and abinarine, but it does not fall under xenity. It is maverine-in-nature, or MVIN/mvingender.

Maverine is, by definition, both autonomous (AUIN) and outherine (OUIN) at the same time, and lacks gender apathy.

Maverine is not a gender quality that is unorthodox by choice (which is why the main maverine gender - maverique - is “maverick-like”, a key distinction that differentiates it from the more voluntary gendermaverick identity.) Therefore, it is not related to being genderqueer or genderpunk.

(All of the above links redirect to the YB3 Wiki.)

Why "Maverinities"?

Taking inspiration from @/theoutherlings, a blog that discusses outherinities, I find it valuable to talk about maverinities in the plural. Maverinities make up a galaxy of individual maverine experiences as well as neighboring ones. Maveriquinities are qualities and genders specific to the maverique experience. My goal is to pull the focus away from maverinity as THE quality of maverique and delve into the complexities of maverinity on its own. But maverique is not forgotten here!

Helpful Tags

Maverine/Transmaverine - all posts have the maverine tag, some others will have transmaverine/transmav

Ouiaspec/Xiaspec/Agiaspec/Niaspec/Liaspec - spectra of identities; I might forget to update this, but it's likely there's a tag for whatever is missing

Orientation - juvelic terms, X4X terms, and anything involving orientation labels

Firsthand Experiences - people's firsthand maverine experiences

Text Post - no images, just text

Info - informative posts

Coining Post - coining posts for maverine identities

Art - not just art, but also maverine-inspired stimboards, userboxes, wallpapers, and more

Other Websites - links to info and other content from non-Tumblr websites

I tend to prioritize coining posts, firsthand experiences, and informative posts, but you can tag me in any maverine-related post if you want it reblogged here! You can also contact me if you want any content removed.

See Also

Every maverine gender I could find

Every maverine gender coined by me

Maverine coining

Transmaverine flags (coining?)

Maverique FAQ (Tumblr page)

What Does Transmaverinity Look Like? (blog post)

A Deep Dive Into Outherinity (blog post)

The introduction of recontextualization and disidentification (sent as an ask to the YB3 blog)

[friend-lover-traitor-narrator]

Everything just feels wrong today. Maybe I should write some more transmav. I don't know.

[themaveriqueagenda]

honestly, masculinity and femininity are already highly subjective, and so is maverinity and everything else. for example, i'm always presenting maverine, no matter if i'm wearing a dress and dangly earrings or a big hoodie, no matter if people look at me from the outside and think something about me is "feminine" or "masculine". i refuse to ever call myself or my presentation masculine or feminine no matter what some norms say.

but i also know that how people see us is important, and that's the hard part. anything that's not either conventionally feminine or masculine is highly subjective, even for outside observers. even when i dress in a way that most people wouldn't see as overly masculine or overly feminine, most people would still put me in one box or another because they've been taught to put everyone in a binary. it can literally be as simple as "everyone i know who wears those kind of trousers is a man, so this person must be a man" or "most people i know who wear rings are women, so this person is probably a woman". even if lots of people couldn't place us, it's pretty much impossible to nail it with everyone.

and then there's also the problem what you said, that there's no "look" associated with maveriques (which is probably for the better, tbh). in terms of presentation, people only really know (or think they do) what masculinity, femininity, androgyny & maybe neutrality/ungenderedness look like.

most people couldn't even tell apart androgyny (a blend of masculinity & femininity) from neutrality/ungenderedness (the absence of anything that could be easily gendered as masculine or feminine), so either of those would be a good bet (and you can call it maverine, because again, subjective.

if what's considered androgyny has too many masculine or feminine elements for your liking, there are two options: if you don't want to be bold, incorporate as many elements that can't easily be put into masculine or feminine categories because they are quite literally neutral. clothes that don't fit too tight but not too loose, hair that's not too short and not too long etc. and if you do want to be bold about it, present in a way that's so out there that it's essentially almost too alien to be gendered. for me personally, my name and neopronouns are part of that, as well as some of the space themed clothing i have. it's convenient that i'm a trekkie because in certain trek related clothing i feel like people primarily see me as "geek" than anything gendered.

(and i want to be gendered, gendered as maverique, but let's be honest, that's unfortunately not gonna happen. unfortunately when it comes to outside perspective, we have to settle for androgyny or neutrality and being overall confusing.)

if you're not primarily worried about outside perspectives, just fuck around and find out what gives you maverine gender euphoria, what affirms your maverinity, what makes you look at yourself and go "this is so gender". i've also found that because maverinity doesn't really exist in mainstream society at all that this feeling is more subtle, like "this is so me".

maverinity doesn't have a look, but at the same time it's useful to remind yourself that masculinity and femininity also don't really have looks: more often than not those terms are just imposed on certain objects or people because binaries are normalised. but i have seen lots of people who consider skirts and dresses and nail varnish part of their masculine gender presentation and people who consider ties and suits part of their feminine gender presentation, so maverinity can look like anything.

at the end of the day, maverine presentation is what makes you feel like you.

Question For Maveriques (And Others)

So I find that when my gender is maverique, or leaning towards that direction, I have the urge to present that way, but I have a very difficult time imagining what a maverine gender presentation would even look like. It would be a presentation that's not masculine or feminine, but its own thing entirely (and also not genderless or neutral) but I'm not sure what that would look like (and how it would differ from genderless presentation since I'm also genderless.) My question is, what ideas do you have about what a maverine presentation might look like? Cause I'm struggling here.

[eclipian]

surprised no one has chosen this yet. could you do the monument mythos, for the analog horror keyword?

Monument Mythos Headmate

pt: monument mythos headmate

reminder beings will almost definitely not turn out exactly as described, and these can be edited and changed as needed.

apart of the analog horror keywords

divider credit + picrew credit

“ The monuments…their alive “

Name: Icarcus , Abraham ,  Lincoln , Abe , Adam ,  Abner , Abram , Alex , Lowell , Graham , Gary , Damion

Age: 22

Pronouns: Ae/Aer , Vae/Vaer , Dae/Daer , Aey/Aem , Ahey/Ahem , At/Ats , Bey/Bem , Hey/Hem , Xe/Xem , Xe/Xry , ☄︎/☄︎s , USA/USAs , 🇺🇸/🇺🇸s

Gender: Transmav / Evomav , Idiotgender , Menoverique , Icarusalis , Puraemonium , Cagerapic , Beartrapgender , Chokrypt , Neverendingaesic , Gendercimiterium , Nostalgistoric , Historicagender , Histomajoric , Histologic

Attractions: Fulvian , Gambelier Attraction , Info- , Measured Attraction (Historical Knowledge)

Other IDs: DissoUSA , Dissocountryaccent

Species: Human + Statue Alterhuman

Role: Grounder , Gatekeeper , Protecter

Aesthetics: Analog Horror , Digital Horror , Americana. , Vintage Americana , 50s Suburbia

pt: name , age , pronouns , gender , attraction , other ids , species , role , aesthetics

tags: @bahtive & @drowntowns

[your-bigender-big-brother]

weird flag suggestion question, but: transmav transmasc, masc transmav, and maverine transmasc? mainly all three of them for me but

Top: transmasc transmac Middle: masc transmav (two versions) Bottom: maverine transmasc

I personally like the four-stripe trans flag format, so I used that a lot. Let me know if I should use different flags for these! - 💙💚

[themaveriqueagenda]

4, 5, 6 for the maverique ask game :3

4. do you use any labels alongside maverique? what are they?

gender-wise maverique is my main label. i also use trans, non-binary/enby and xenogender. labels that apply to me and are in my hoard that i only sometimes use are transmav(erine), ftx/ftmv, multigender/polygender/bigender, genderfluid/flux, genderfat, various xenogenders and some disableic genders.

5. i'd usually just say i'm neither male nor female. i know this could also mean agender or neutrois or other genders but cis people at least probably won't understand the difference. otherwise i might say that i'm neither male nor female but have a gender, or i'll say that if male is over here and female is over there, my gender is somewhere in space.

6. sunsets and sunrises, possibly reflected some body of water.

[isobug]

Sensmaverine

A Sensgender in which one relates to the Transmaverine/Transmav/Maverique experience, but only sometimes, temporarily, or not completely.

Made by request for anon