Little bit of wisdom for y'all; basically all you need to do to create a gender is identify the following:
1. What the gender feels like
2. What it's called
3. What the flag looks like
4. What umbrellas it falls under (trans, non binary, pocketgender, etc.)
5. What the culture of the gender is like
Got all that figured out, or even just one or two of those? Great job, you've made a gender. Is it ever gonna be recognised on an LGBTQ wiki? Probably not. But have you made a gender? Yeah. Is there a possibility it already exists but with a different name? Yes, but why would you let that stop you? Isn't everything we create just a soup of a bunch of what we already know with a little bit of spice added in? We do it with art and literature, why not gender?
Before anyone goes "bUt YoU cAn'T jUsT mAkE uP a GeNdEr" literally what's stopping me. What. Nothing. Fucking nothing. Social pressures? Who's that? Never heard of them. Life doesn't fucking matter. Make up a gender.
Watch I'll make one right now. It's called beastgender and it's the gender of not giving a shit about gender and knowing damn well it's a social construct. Its flag is black, neon red, and magenta with a fucking realistic tooth in the middle cause I like biting people. The culture is saying that gender is a scheme made up by bathroom companies to sell more bathrooms and making up genders randomly. It falls under the trans, non binary, and pocketgender umbrellas.
I can say I'm beastgender and people can't do anything about it. If they tell me I can't do it then I just say fuck you yes I can. Nothing's stopping me from being beastgender.
Also: gender and pronouns aren't the same. You can be a cis guy who presents masculinely and use she/they. You can be mega androgynous and identify as transmasc and use she/her. Unless you live in a place where doing this can get you in trouble, the only thing stopping you is your own anxiety.
This is the knowledge I will give you all, whether you're cis, trans, questioning, anyone who hasn't yet discovered that gender isn't fucking real and you can be whatever gender you want. Fuck society. Go identify as a duck. Nothing's stopping you but your own internalised oppression. You've got this.
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thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.
And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.
And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.
And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?
Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.
Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.
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IT’S DONE AND ONLY A DAY LATE
no seriously though, hlvrai is one of my favourite things on the internet . ever and all i really want to say is a huge thanks to RTVS for creating this goofy ass series 🧡🧡
happy 4 year anniversary funny half life :)
closeups under the cut incase tumblr slaughters the quality :D
and i know i drew the lambda the wrong way shush
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this one Fucking woman on inaturalist seems to spam upload observations of this one kind of minnow to an insane degree. theyre clogging up the identify tab because nobody wants to confirm her observing one kind of minnow LITERALLY A HUNDRED TIMES IN ONE BEND OF A RIVER
WHO ASKED FOR THIS
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aside from everything else about durgewyll I am loving how it highlights wyll and gortash as narrative foils. both their upbringings lead them to interact with demoniac entities, both can only become archdukes and join baldurian high society through uldred, both are swaying the dark urge from simply following bhaal (and arguably the dark urge sways them from simply pursuing an ideal and the dark urge can recognise both as their equal)
and by playing your card right in act 3 wyll just...gets everything gortash was trying to get? wyll really is a hero saving baldur's gate from the legion of the absolute. wyll influences gortash's favourite assassin into becoming someone they can defeat the netehrbrain together. they can even become archdukes together! ...or they can turn it down and then they can go to he hells to sneak around and have adventures (like gortash and durge used to) and save karlach's life (the same life that is at risk because gortash mindlessly threw it away).
like. it's a lot, wyll and durge can even murder raphael.
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