What do you take me for. No, seriously, what you take me for? In passing, what traits do you decide are those that matter? Do they make you smile or grumble under your breath about kids these days and Internet tenderqueers? Do you account for a margin of error, do you allow even in this briefest estimate the possibility that this is just one facet of a nebulous multidimensional personhood, or would it bring you more comfort to think of me as a background character, face half-erased and one prominent feature exaggerated to distinguish me from the crowd of stick figures? If I got so close I could see the reflection in your eyes, whose reflection would it be?
Would it have my smile? Would it make me flinch?
What do you take me for
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i just wish literally ANY of my debunking posts made it past a handful of likes/reblogs. i'm not looking for plaudits or brownie points on this stuff, but i've spent a not-insubstantial amount of time tracking down the source of some popular rumors/conspiracies and have managed to piece things together by crowdsourcing info from ppl who were There in addition to my own internet dives.
i'm not even really begging for notes tbh, i just that i wish the info could get out there. it just gets annoying to see the same things that are honestly not that difficult to debunk keep getting spread around and see new people latch onto them and spread them, bc repeating conspiracies is more fun than fact checking (unless you're a freak like me who loves a good internet spelunk)
i'm not even mad at ppl or anything bc i get it! conspiracies are fun! i've even bought into a couple! but then when i went to source them, i realized that oop! there's not a good source or it's been taken out of context! sometimes it's stuff that's been distorted via fandom telephone! and sometimes it's a complete fabrication or intentional misinfo, which is wild!
i guess i'm just bummed that The Truth Is Out There and yet we're still seeing the same debunked things circulate within the fandom.
maybe i'd get more traction if i was confrontational about this stuff but i try to come from a place of curiosity and good faith and give ppl benefit of the doubt and assume that others are coming from a place of good faith as well unless/until proven otherwise. i'm also happy to revise my stance if folks can offer a decent rebuttal - for all the research i may do, i can still be wrong! i encourage other ppl to fact check what i'm saying!
there's plenty of stuff that i have theories about that are wholly vibes-based and don't even have anecdata to back them up, so i just... don't talk about those publicly so as not to spread them. or i make extremely clear that i am just spitballing or spinning a word salad conspiracy as a joke.
and yeah, this is specifically about spn fandom but it applies to the real world as well. misinfo spreads so easily and it's extremely hard to stop it spreading or debunk it once it reaches critical mass and/or it gets the illusion of truth by coming from mainstream news sites (or popular blogs). it just feels like ppl are becoming more and more fundamentally un-curious and refuse to exit the echo chamber both in fandom and irl.
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OC Transfem Swag Bracket Application
@transfemswagbracket
Eli, short for Eliza, is my first proper original character. She started out as my muse for a canon male character, but the more I roleplayed her, the more feminine she became until eventually I couldn't view her as anything other than a trans woman. It wasn't long after this that I severed her ties to her original fandom as she'd just developed so far from her source that I wanted her to be her own person.
She's gone through many phases and worlds and stories as my main muse for so long that it's hard to pin down a proper backstory. I love her so much that she's been growing and changing with me for almost a decade now because I just can't let her go. Though I admit, as a fan of dark and dramatic stories, she does tend to fall into the trope of "main character with a tragic backstory" whenever I put her into a new world. As of this moment, I'm working on and off on a book where she is, in fact, the main character.
Some things have stayed consistent though. She's always been transfem since I couldn't just erase all the development we went through together. She was born albino (cliché maybe, but the character she was originally based off of is frequently headcanoned that way) and grew up with a single, emotionally distant yet controlling and possessive caregiver. Whether she ran away as a teen or moved out the day of her 18th birthday varies, but she quickly goes no contact with her caregiver and has to face the world unguided and alone - or with her twin if he's present in that version of her story.
Her life after leaving home isn't easy, though, and it's at this point, sometime in her mid-twenties, that she meets a vampire who courts her in a way she hasn't experienced before. He supports her financially, a secret bid to increase her dependence on him beyond just emotionally, and eventually turns her as well.
While all the hardships she's experienced throughout her lifetime have made her cautious and slow to trust, they've also made her fiercely loyal to those who show her kindness and willing to go to extremes to protect them or anyone she views as vulnerable. She has a particular soft spot for kids and teenagers and will try to care for and/or protect them whenever the opportunity arises in the same way she wishes she had been growing up. While socializing with her own peers, she tends to pick between being notably closed off and intimidating or flirtatiously friendly depending on what she wants, both being shields to protect herself from vulnerability. With friends and younger people, though, she's sweet and funny and somewhat motherly, though she tries not to be overbearing about it with younger folks. She has an unfortunate tendency, despite her caution, to fall in with bad people or into bad relationships because of the familiarity they bring.
I'll leave the details of how I prefer to handle vampirism in my worlds (or really any further details) for if anyone wants to ask, but for now, art!
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I'll be honest I do hate that genre of post that's like, "the actor vs their characters" or "can't believe these parts are played by the same person", because like, it's almost as if they're an actor playing a character that is not who they are as a person, you know like an actor does, for their you know, job.
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my other cousins are getting here soon i think, which i am actually extremely excited for, because i’m like 70% sure their parents (or at least their mom) is somewhat transphobic. last time we were here her oldest still deadnamed me and called me his female cousin (there’s a difference of gender in portugese), and when i confronted his parents on it, they explained that it was “too hard to explain it to him since he knew me pre-transition” despite my other cousin, who was the same age as him (aka like, 3) had no problem. he didn’t know me pre-transition. he was 2. he can’t remember shit from back then.
anyways they have another son, who i only met when he was less than a year old or so. so i’m super excited to see if they pull the same bullshit again. uh-huh, i get it. you can’t explain that i’m a boy because your six-month-old remembers me when i wasn’t. except he doesn’t because i’d already started transitioning when i met him. it’d also be especially funny because i’m so far in my transition now. yeah, i’m sure that explaining why his supposedly “female” cousin has a deep voice and facial hair is a lot easier than explaining trans people, susan.
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