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gold-snek-hoe · 2 months

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Hello and welcome to Opinions from an Internet Nobody. Today's essay:

"Ger therapy" is the new "You need Jesus": One Weirdo's Navigation through Cultural Shame

This is a supposedly well-meaning sentiment that is often weaponized against people who are behaving outside of perceived cultural norms. It's a favorite of homophobes who see queerness/transness as a mental illness, but I've been seeing it used to demonize kink (which historically is often linked to queerness), and more generally any "weird" behavior that makes people uncomfortable.

For example, otherkin, systems (especially those with fictives), and people who take fictional characters as partners. Y'know, "weirdos" who "can't separate reality from fiction." And, sure, sometimes there can be a problem with that distinction, but I know as well as you that most internet strangers saying "get therapy" don't actually give a shit about the mental health of those they target. It's code for "your behavior makes me uncomfortable, stop it."

Same sentiment as "you need Jesus."

This has actually taken me a long time to figure out. I've been in therapy for my entire adult life, working through various traumas, severe depression, anxiety, all that. Those were the biggest problems as they negatively impacted, and often endangered, my life. It was only after my hospitalization in 2020, where I was finally put on much needed medication, that I could start to grow into myself.

I changed my name. I top surgery. I came out as polyamorous. I finally got my official autism diagnosis. Now I'm fuckin' married! But... there are still things I'm working through in therapy. Mainly, shame over my "weirder" behaviors. My current therapist has been a huge blessing in helping me accept the things I was too ashamed to admit.

Now, I feel comfortable enough to share.

I'm otherkin. Always have been. My connection to my humanity is tenuous, and I'm sure that's connected to my autism. When mad, I feel phantom horns sprouting from my forehead. I have a tail that swishes back and forth at the base of my spine. In my soul, I am monstrous, and years of therapy has not erased that.

I feel like I'm only half in the physical world most of the time. This doesn't hinder my real-world success (I graduated college Summa Cum Laude, have an IMDB page, and am on my third book), but informs the way I look at the world. There's a whole other universe in my head that hums along with me in my day-to-day. That's part of why I'm so skilled as a writer. To ask me to divorce from that is to tell me to stop existing. Sorry, it's how I've always operated.

Lastly, and this is the one I'm really anxious about, I have a fictional husband. Now, looking at my blog, you might say "yeah, no shit," but I don't just ship myself with him. I mean I practice pop-culture Witchcraft, and the Goblin King is my patron. I mean I have a Labyrinth-themed tarot deck that I talk to him with. I mean I held a ritual to spiritually marry him. Basically, I Snape-wived myself.

And guess what? My therapist isn't concerned. It's not hurting my ability to live my life. I have other interests, hobbies, and goals outside of him, which he actively encourages in all our tarot sessions! I wouldn't be doing this if he didn't support me. My IRL spouse is usually there for whatever magical shit I'm doing, and supports me! Some of my closest friends know, and the only complaint I've gotten is "this guy seems important to you, I wish you told me sooner." Hell, my MOTHER knows and supports me, which is huge, because our relationship was pretty damaged after I came out as trans.

If you have a problem with the way I live my life, when literally nobody else does, take a good long look at why. You don't give a fuck about my mental health. You just don't like that I'm weird.

Tl;dr: My mental health is better than it's ever been since embracing the weird, so leave me and my imaginary husband Marak Sixfinger alone.

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transmascpetewentz · 8 months

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why do TIFs like you feel the need to call LITERALLY EVERY cool male fictional character "transmasc uwu"? like shut the fuck up or i'll fucking kill you.

newsflash ayyden, he has a PENIS! and two TESTICLES. and a PROSTATE. and produces SEMEN. and makes SPERM. and has an ADAM'S APPLE. and a FLAT CHEST.

and, for god's sake, STOP drawing those ugly fucking scars on the chests of canonically male characters. if i see one more trans hc for my fave male characters, i'm gonna fucking LOSE it.

STOP TRANSING BOY CHARACTERS YOU STUPID FUCKING GENDIE.

every time a TEHM acts stupid in my inbox a fictional male character gets his tits and boypussy.

#asks #transandrophobia #long post #anon hate

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hollowtones · 2 years

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Hey, is Dr Coomer trans?

I do not feel like any definite "yes or no" answer I could give would really mean anything, for a lot of reasons!

It's not something that comes up in the videos at all. I've been adamant about the whole "Coomer is bi" thing because there's substance and intent to that (he talks about having an ex-wife & he flirts with men at multiple points in the series in his own weird way) but nothing wrt his own expression of gender comes up. I don't think I could have done anything interesting or funny with that, given the context.

Everything I make is, in a way, shaped by my transness, but that doesn't necessarily mean everything I make is A Trans Thing, y'know? Sometimes I'll see this sort of thing come up in a buncha circles I'm in-or-adjacent-to, where like, someone who is trans & making things will IMMEDIATELY be reduced to "the TRANS creator", when it might have no bearing on their work, to the point of basically outing them in completely unrelated circumstances! Sometimes to complete strangers! And it frankly feels suffocating & reductive & kind of creepy!! I am a trans woman, I'm pretty open & proud about it, it's a very important part of who I am and why I am, but I'm a person & there's lotsa different facets to me, just like anyone.

I cannot stand when authors and creators do the shitty hand-wavey Off Screen Representation thing where they go "oh yeah and BTW this character was DEFINITELY gay #representation" when that's something that does not at all come up in the narrative (and/or isn't alluded to in any way, in the case of we-want-to-but-the-execs-won't-let-us). At best, it feels lazy and boring. At worst it feels entirely self-aggrandizing and masturbatory. I hate it. I refuse to do that. (Yes I am aware there are exceptions. There are exceptions for anything.)

At the end of the day, your interpretation of a piece of fiction is as much about your reading of it, your thoughts and feelings and ideas, as it is about the intent and actions of the authors. There's nothing directly saying Coomer is a trans man, but there's not anything saying he can't be, or wouldn't be. I like talking about the things I make and the characters I come up with, but at the end of the day: You do not need me to validate or discredit any theories / ideas / headcanons you have about my character, and I do not need to go around telling people that they're Experiencing The Half Life Funny Moments in some arbitrary right or wrong way. Experience can be transformative!! You don't need my permission for that, you just gotta reach out and grab it.

Doctor Harold P. Coomer is a virtual entity based off unspecified American scientists born in the early-to-mid 1900's. Sometimes I like to think he wouldn't know a goddamn thing about gender, and sometimes I like to think he'd be the type of person to just be very private about that sort of thing. This is the least important bullet point, & as per some of the above ones, you can just ignore this if you want LOL

Sorry that got kind of long. I'm passionate about stuff like this. Thanks for letting me ramble on.

tl;dr: Do you want him to be? Would that mean anything to you? I cannot (& do not want to) stop you.

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arniesepicchocolatefactory · 4 months

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Ok I REALLY don’t wanna be a party pooper negative nancy but like. Can we stop being matt and trey fans and acting like they’re silly innocent guys when like, you know, decades of transphobia exist but nope it was just little slip ups that they wont apoligize for because stupid sensitive pc trannies trying to cancel their humor boo hoooo like I’m just sick of seeing them have so much support like it’s fine to like their works but just genuinely support them and turn around and say people cant like harry potter because of rowling? When fucking south park had the men barfing over the thought of sleeping with an intersex woman? Mr garrisons fancy new vagina? Eek a penis? Don’t fucking hit me with the “oh they hate on everyone” or “what about the cissie?” Because yes they satirize other minorities but, you know, in a way that doesn’t dehumanize them, and in a clear way where you know it’s a joke, but with trans people they just are full on expressing their discriminatory beliefs and don’t say that’s not true because you just need to compare them together for a millisecond. And with the cissie while a little better still presents trans people as just cis people going through a phase. I am of the belief that fiction and reality are seperate, but it can still affect real peoples views of things. And I’ve seen many people say how fucked up their view of trans people has been from watching the show, and caused them to repress their own transness. If you’re wondering if I watched the Lily simpson video on this before this post, I haven’t, but just seeing someone finally speak up about this inspired me to say my thoughts. Again, not saying you can’t like the show but just don’t make trans headcanons for the characters and then say how much matt and trey are your silly uwu boys. They are not good people. I’m done man, I’m done.

#south park #matt and trey #cw t slur

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theemmtropy · 9 months

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In the gentlest, most patient and loving way possible- you have to stop writing the ONLY genderqueer/nonbinary/trans characters in your stories as aliens. I don't know how to explain to cis queers that no, Double Trouble from She-Ra is not the best nonbinary rep ever. No, I'm not satisfied with Jadzia from Deep Space Nine being the only instance of moving on from a deadname. No, Loki being marked as genderfluid in his TVA file is not adequate rep in the slightest.

These aliens have the luxury of changing their bodies however they want and being seen as how they truly feel. I cannot empathize with that. I, a trans human, cannot fundamentally change my body of my own volition. I, a trans human, am not accepted by my species or culture.

And what's more, these characters do nothing to challenge the beliefs of conservative viewers. Why? Because they are aliens. They are inherently fictional. You are associating the reality of transness with the fiction of aliens. That's not to say these characters can't be inspirational, but if the ONLY ones that are trans are also aliens, then that's not really representing the vastness of the human experience.

#using trans as an umbrella term here obvs #trans #nonbinary #nonbinary representation #trans representation #queer #queer representation #st: dsn #loki series #she ra and the princesses of power #my stuff #representation #writing #writing tropes

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softness-and-shattering · 3 months

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Two mini reviews, partly brought to you by tumblr autosaving - Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. I wasn't sure what to expect; I really liked The Sunbearer Trials (Ive not yet read the sequel), and DNF'd Lost In The Never Woods because it was the wrong type and intensity of dark and spooky for me at the time. Cemetery Boys is a freaking delight. Maybe my least favourite part was the villain reveal, it made sense but either it wasnt foreshadowed enough or I just wanted better for that character? idk. But this isnt primarily a plot book, its a romance, and its a story about community and acceptance, and figuring out how you fit into the world when you're not the shape you're expected to be. And it did really well with both those aspects. I also appreciate that with so many stories, real and fictional, about people who have to leave their communities to find themselves, I appreciate a story of someone who never once thinks maybe I need to leave, and instead forges on to create space for himself in his community and his heritage. That's not everyone's story and thats totally fine. Our experiences are diverse and we deserve diverse stories. Its all good. As for the romance, its really believable. Its quite an opposites-attract situation, from Julian's aggressive queerness and non-issue with Yadriel's transness making his albeit and unexpected presence a breath of fresh air to Yadriel, to their growing understanding of each other's lives and admiration for the strength of each others convictions. (When Julian is upset about his friends and Yadriel nevertheless pauses to set that boundary about ghost-safety, that was hot.). And the ghost aspect! (this is not a mini review anymore lol). I was not really sure how that was going to go, and then cheering for them, and then wondering what the heck they were gonna do about ongoing ghost-itude and the finiteness of that situation, and actually I really liked how it went. The romance and how they push each other and grow to understand each other is fun, romantic, sexy, heartfelt. Remarkably sexy given that one of them is a ghost who cant be touched. (Spoilers for a sec - the scene on the car where Yadriel reaches for Julian's jacket to pull him closer and there's nothing there to grab? Oh that feels like grief.) The book is quite a bit about grief. Missing parents, missing support networks, missing opportunities to be yourself and be accepted. Its about a guy who can communicate with ghosts and its set around Dia de Meurtos, there's grief themes.

I also really love Maritza, showing off another aspect of (gender) non-conformity, that its not only trans people who have trouble fitting fairly strict defined roles. (Julian's friends do so similarly). Almost all the Spanish I picked up from context, but how Julian refers to Yadriel at the end I knew I had to look up that word specifically and oh my heart. Overall really enjoyed. probably 9/10 second, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. I havent read the books/comics, I have seen the movie. This show....for at least the first half I had no idea what the rules of the universe were or what exactly was going on or what themes exactly were being explored. I was definitely entertained though. The last few episodes manage to make sense of the first few and deliver on those themes in ways I quite liked. I liked that Ramona is the "manic pixie dream girl" and then almost immediately gets upstaged for that role by Envy Addams. I normally am annoyed at stories in which some boring guy "gets" the manic pixie dream girl and certainly doesn't appreciate her - you know the kind who goes on reddit and complains that she wont stop talking about slugs or decorates their whole house in anime? And I know scott pilgrim is a comment on that trope. I like how its about scott but its not really about scott. Largely its about Ramona and her friends (and her exes). And the others recognise that scott isnt so great, or so smart, and also that if Ramona likes him thats cool. He can be a "lovable idiot" and shes not automatically making a mistake with him. If they're happy they're happy. (and of course the ways that *could* go wrong, but arent destined to). Plus the music is fun, the visuals are bright and pretty. It might lean overstimulating for some people, I had to stop and think about my spoon levels between episodes. Thats what I got for today. Two very different fun stories I recommend like 8-9/10, not perfect but a damn good ride.

#review #mine #scott pilgrim takes off #cemetery boys

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nokingsonlyfooles · 7 months

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Head-Wigs and Not Even an Inch

Abigail Thorn made me cry last night.

I mean, I knew this was not outside the realm of possibility. I presumed she would produce a work of stunning artistic beauty and overwhelm my jaded brain with some Profound Meaning. Or, fat chance, maybe she’d trip over something I’d written and tear it to pieces like a hamster going to town on a cardboard tube. Or maybe I’d go back to London, and spill my drink on her shoes in a dark club, and she’d thrash me with a riding crop — that’s slightly more likely than someone with a decent platform noticing my writing, at this point.

But, uh, no. That’s not how it went.

We pay money to get the bonus episodes of Kill James Bond. You should too. In fact, if you don’t, you’ll be lacking some context for this. But most of my work goes out into the void without context, so to hell with it. You can watch a theatrical version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch for free, on YouTube. Or you can probably pirate the film version with a clean conscience, I don’t think any of those performers are seeing much compensation from sales at this point.

We haven’t been listening to the bonus episodes in order. We often try to watch something close to the version of whatever-film they’re doing, and then listen to the episode with context. We’ve heard them mention Hedwig, and it seemed to be a profound, emotional experience. I really wanted to see Hedwig first. Well, we found a Hedwig available for free and we watched it. They tried to update it a bit, and I found that off-putting. A lot of the tropes in play are dated — “#problematic” in some ways, and genuinely hurtful in others. If you’re going to update something like that, you can’t just throw in a reference to Harry Potter and Title 42 and call it good. Preserve it in its original messy form for us, or rewrite the whole thing — if they’ll let you.

The way the actor playing Hedwig moved and sat in her (the character uses she/her and I have no idea about the actor) short skirt bothered me too. She had shorts on underneath, but I don’t think we were supposed to know that yet. “Nobody has ever told this person how they’re supposed to sit in a skirt,” I said to the spouse. Like, it wasn’t even as if she knew and had decided to ignore it. If one were transfeminine, or faking it to get out of East Berlin, someone would’ve mentioned it. “Maybe it’s for the character,” he said. Maybe it was. You could read it that way. But there’s a read on this where transness is artifice, and I don’t like that read very much. I hope that wasn’t what they were going for.

The ending could be read that way too. It’s all very surreal and that has the potential to be read a lot of different ways, but a male (or male-presenting) actor winds up bare-chested in shorts and the female one ends in a wig and a dress and they both seem very happy about it. One could say, “Well! Glad all that gender confusion’s cleared up! Now they’ve stopped pretending to be something they’re not!” I don’t like that the possibility is left open like that. It feels slimy and centrist.

But the music was great and there were some excellent moments and I was eager to hear the whole thing get dissected by some trans folks.

About a half hour into it, they were discussing John Cameron Mitchell, who identified as a gay man at the time and has since refined it to nonbinary with he/him pronouns. Hedwig’s gender is messy — she’s a fictional character written by an enby who was still in egg form, from a time before people were expected to define their transness as binary or nonbinary. Abi acknowledged the nonbinary actor/writer/director, and mentioned that there’s a lot of pressure to define your gender neatly these days… And said, “No.” That’s not it. Hedwig is a woman like her. Period.

I had been saying to the spouse (we talk over the podcast; we get excited) that I saw a lot of myself in Hedwig’s disaster gender, and in that way you could read the ending as her deciding to stop splitting herself between her popular, cis-passing, sellout persona, and the real, messy her. And then Abi cut me off, and I said, laughing, “Oh my god, just hip-check my identity right into the orchestra pit! What… What…” And I started to cry.

I didn’t have my guard up. I didn’t expect it. And I’d never taken a hit quite this way before. This wasn’t being denied the validity of my existence, this was the validity of my artistic merit. Abigail Thorn, a demonstrably smart person with a lot of theatre experience who loves writing and acting, will not be requiring me or John Cameron Mitchell for her interpretation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Not even as a possible read. Please, go find yourselves in some other character, enbies. Let the transwomen have her.

…To the point where “Hansel” is treated like a modern-day deadname of a real person, when all we know for sure is that the character got rid of it to get out of East Berlin and she doesn’t use it anymore. It could be like that, but by the end of this, “Hedwig,” another name and gender she did not choose for herself, might be a deadname too. I’m not saying it has to be like that, but it’s not so ridiculous that we need to dismiss it unsaid, is it? Especially given that the goddamn originator of the character has been on a similar journey and decided to keep “John” and he/him for the moment. A person can do that and still kick their assigned gender to the curb, you know?

I didn’t need Hedwig to be about me and only me, I just needed the possibility to be left open and discussed a little bit. Another trans egg movie, but perhaps a nonbinary one this time. Like Speed Racer, it went hard and fell short! That’s all. I didn’t even know I needed that! Until Abi said I couldn’t have it.

The spouse stopped the podcast and comforted my surprised tears. He gave me a nonbinary read — which is not hard to do! — and said I deserve to be seen. I said, “I know why she said it. I do. It’s too close to their (hers and Alice’s) own experience and they don’t want to see anything else. It’s emotion-based. But… But… Nonbinary actor (and writer/director/producer/singer)! …What about Dev?” Dev really took a backseat on this one. They saw themself in Yitzhak, and Yitzhak isn’t the main character, and Abi and Alice were so into Hedwig, and they’re all friends. Yeah. I mean, I understand that too. Back off and let your friends have this one, it’s clearly important to them both.

I wanted to hear the rest of it, because it made Alice and Abi feel seen, and a lot of other trans folks too. Yeah, there’s a lot in it that aged like milk — cringy and outdated even when the film was made — but there’s a lot of valid queer experience in there, too, warts and all. I was surprised as hell that, in the end, Abi supports the “Tommy isn’t real” theory and believes this is a story about uniting one person and making yourself feel whole. And yet, she reiterated, “No.” It’s not about being nonbinary. It’s about reconciling with the male-gendered stuff you try to cut out of you when you transition. Dev and Alice were at least willing to allow that nonbinary was possible, if not quite willing to delve into it, but not Abi. Splitting yourself in two is a binary trans thing! As are many, many other things about Hedwig that I related to.

As an enby who came up with the “splitting yourself in two” metaphor while still in egg form, for a fictional character of my own who is also still in egg form, please let me tell you — please let me tell someone — that that’s not true. I didn’t meet Hedwig until last night, but I know about performing your acceptable, cis-passing, assigned gender and hiding all the “garbage” that doesn’t fit. I know what it is to be crammed into a false persona that gets a lot of love, while the real you, when you let it out, is only worthy of snarling punk lyrics into a mic at a dingy seafood restaurant with a hostile audience.

And, oh my god, do I know what it is to have a piece of you that will not come off, and prevents you from fitting fully into either binary gender. It can feel like a broken piece, like a scar, like a botched surgery you didn’t need that was inflicted on you… But it doesn’t have to be literally that. Hedwig, both the play and the person, doesn’t seem to have much use for physical reality. She’s here to unload her emotional reality, and she doesn’t care about any other real things she might damage along the way.

KJB were rather amazed that Hedwig chose to redefine herself by a (medically impossible) surgical accident. How brave of her to own her trauma like that. But I wonder, is it trauma? Or is it the only path a nonbinary egg in 1998 could see to gain an outside that expressed his inside? This isn’t what any of you wanted me to have, this isn’t even what I want to have, but it’s still me. It’s what I have to work with. (All signs point to “Tommy,” as a character, being at least a closeted gay guy who would’ve been fine if the “front of” Hedwig had been a penis, but it isn’t. It’s not quite anything at all, and he flees because that’s just too much for him to handle. Hedwig already is one of those androgynes she envies; she doesn’t need an Adam, she doesn’t need him. But she loves him/her cis-passing self, and she’s not yet ready to let him go.)

I don’t know what it is to actually try living as the other binary gender, I wasn’t active enough in queer circles to really feel that pressure to conform to the binary before I hatched. But I see it now, and I feel the same instinctive revulsion that Hedwig feels about being a divorced housewife in a trailer in Arizona. That’s not me either! Did I spend all this time and energy escaping one box, only to be trapped in another? Must I content myself with this simply because I don’t want to go back to the way I was? Is this only way I can get a green card that lets me access a queer space? To put on an ugly wig and pretend I’m more palatable?

To me, the revelation about wigs is not “I could be happy as ANY woman!” but, “This is a performance… This is all a fucking performance! This isn’t me, this is a hat someone put on my head. It comes off! I can have another hat! I can have all the hats!” And, selfishly, she denies Yitzhak that same joy, because he wears it better and seems happier. Hedwig clings to her suffering so tightly, it’s such a fundamental part of her identity, that she can’t bear to be around trans joy. No. There is no room for trans joy here, only trans spite. This story is about me. I don’t like transwomen, I don’t like transmen, and I sure as hell don’t like myself (yet)! In the end, after a lot more suffering, she’s willing to let that go.

In the end, Abi says she knows a lot of transwomen who seem to model themselves on Hedwig, and she wants them to know that isn’t how they have to be. They don’t have to choose between being just like a cis woman, or being a monstrous, chaotic, damaged other. You can be… Better than cis! Yes, says the cast of KJB, laughing, we are better than you! We are THE FUTURE! Three friends, having a ball on a podcast, trans joy at its finest — but you don’t find humour in feigning cruelty if you haven’t had some of that cruelty directed at you. This joy formed around a grain of spite. Not only does one often feel they have to be better than cis people, but when you’re still unhatched and stuck on the outside looking in, trans folks really do seem better than you. At least they know what their deal is.

I get it. I do. Because Hedwig fits me too. We all have our reasons to put on that perfectly ridiculous blonde wig and take the form of Hedwig, the Destroyer. Hedwig, the Chaotic. Hedwig, the Liar. Hedwig, the Truth. Hedwig, the Unrepentant Disaster. Hedwig, give me strength! But, it comes off. Look. It is literally a head-wig, a costume for your brain. I know sometimes you find a new wig and you really, really like it, and you become very attached and you want it to be just yours forever and ever, maybe even to the point of calling it your real hair, but… Someone else could still wear that same wig and feel just as happy as you, or maybe even happier. Maybe you’ll find a wig you like even better too. Transitioning isn’t just one and done, and Hedwigs don’t have to be forever. We do know this, don’t we?

Gender is a performance. Gender is a Hedwig. A lot of other things that you consider immutable parts of your identity are Hedwigs too. They are as real as any other social construct, but if you don’t like them or need them, you can just take them off. Sometimes it’s hard and it hurts, but I promise you can. Like Hedwig the character, or whoever that is, does. Inevitably, she must pick some new clothes, maybe new pronouns and a new name, too, but she’s not obligated to do that on camera for us. We can’t force her to say “Aha, see? This identity suited me all along!” No. We’re not entitled to know her or define her. She will be doing that for herself, later, as a whole person. What is so scary about the ending, what makes it look like a detransition instead of a synthesis, is that we insist on gendering her naked body as a male head-wig. Wouldn’t she wear something else if that wasn’t who she was? Well, maybe not. Or maybe so, but it’s her decision, not ours. Self-expression is not the Self, it just helps to define and validate the Self. Hedwigs are extremely fucking important for defining and validating the Self!

So, you know, you have to be willing to share.

#hedwig and the angry inch #kill james bond #nonbinary #transgender #deep dives #long post #abigail thorn #alice caldwell-kelly #devon #messy genders #messy is good - messy leaves rooms for lots of interpretation #yours and mine and theirs #you are valid #just - ya know- ow - the orchestra pit is painful #🐸🧠#🐸✏#🐸🎨

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aikoiya · 2 years

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I see a lot of people saying that Danny is trans or gay or some other member of the alphabet mafia & that they're reasoning involves him being half-ghost.

But, I can't help but feel like that's a very poor reason.

For one, you choose to transition. It can't be an accident unless you're coerced, but even then, a choice was made to change your body.

Like, of course you don't choose to be trans, but you do choose to go through with the actual transition itself.

Danny did not get to choose to become a half-ghost. It was an accident where he fucking died! Then he was ripped back to life!

Like, don't get me wrong. I do see the parallels of hiding a major part of yourself from your parents, but it's still not a very good comparison.

In fact, when he first did get the chance to choose, he chose to go back to being what he was before. Then, for everyone else's sake, he chose to help anyway which resulted in him becoming Phantom again, but even then, he still didn't choose to become Phantom, it just sort of happened.

The closest thing I can compare that to is a doctor botching something at the hospital like spilling acid over Danny's genitals at a young age, then he transitions the kid against his will. Danny's miserable & tries to hide this fact for 2 years because, suddenly, he's lost something of himself; before deciding for himself to detransition, then deciding to help the doctor who essentially ruined his life anyway, only to be forced back into transing again, but this time, he's just gonna give up & live with it.

That's like saying, "Transition even if you don't want to & if you detrans, we'll force you to transition again until you give up & just decide to live with the consequences!" 8D

Do you really want that to be the message of your movement?!

Like, sure, Jenny from My Life As A Teenage Robot makes sense to be trans, especially by today's standards. Why? Because she WANTS TO BE HUMAN DESPITE BEING A ROBOT BY NATURE!!

Though, I don't think anyone can rightly say she's transfem because all her mother's other XJs appeared to be female too, so why just suddenly change that?

But she actually is canonically transpecies. Literally, she's transhuman. Canonically!

Not to mention, the creator of MLaaTR went out & said that they were flattered by the comparison, making it more than okay to headcanon it!

Like, it was okay before anyway because headcanon doesn't need to follow canon. But, now it's okay to regard it as canon too!

And that's the difference! Hartman denied it, making it noncanon!

As for being gay canonically? Not once have I ever seen him be interested in a guy! He's been plenty interested in girls, but no guys in that way.

Like, I could maybe flex enough to see him as bi, but I cannot see him as gay because it doesn't make sense as far as his character goes. He likes girls. Full stop! That is canon & you can see that in the way he interacts with them!

You can say he's gay in your headcanon & I may not agree with you, but that wouldn't matter because it's your headcanon & you can do whatever you want in your headcanon! You could make him a 6 foot blue alien with purple spots if you wanted!

So, as you can see. There is a difference!

Like, it's just fine to hc these things. It isn't okay to present them as canon when they aren't though!

You can make your own opinions, but you can't make your own facts.

Truth is truth. Reality is reality. Fiction is fiction. And Danny is not trans canonically.

Like, you can't just say that the sky of Galifrey is canonically green because it's not. The skies of Galifrey are red! Canonically!

You can write a fanfiction where Galifrey's skies are green, but don't say that they're green in the show & try to pass it off as fact because they're not!

That's called lying!

As for you jerks getting onto me about Word of God. I'm an aspie! I find comfort in rules & structure & the rules are that the creator defines canon, fans define fanon, & the individual defines headcanon! By picking on me for that, you're being ableist bigots!

#dp #danny phantom #my life as a teenage robot #jenny xj9 #trans danny phantom #misrepresentation

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smut-wars-exchange · 10 months

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CLAIMED

To claim this pinch hit, please send an email to smutwars(@)outlook.com with your AO3 username.

Pinch Hit #1: ibissal; Star Wars - All Media Types

Request 1: CT-7567 | Rex/Anakin Skywalker; Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker; CC-5052 | Bly/Aayla Secura; Fic; Art

Request 2: Hunter (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)/Original Character(s); Art; Fic

Details for each request under the break as well as on the Auto AO3 App 🔗.

Classic Ships Request by ibissal

CT-7567 | Rex/Anakin Skywalker; Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker; CC-5052 | Bly/Aayla Secura; Fic; Art

My my bread and butter, the ones that are the safest and most consistently wonderful to me. They have longer sections in my letter, but please don't feel limited to these. All my requests are things I wanna see!

General SFW Likes Emotional and physical hurt/comfort; post-op trans characters; romantic/non-platonic partners who are clearly friends first and foremost; found siblings, found child(ren), found parent(s); queer characters of all kinds, especially alloaro and genderqueer; real or fictional culture-specific gender; thoughtful character exploration; gritty, grounded prose; bright colors and dynamic poses; diverse body types, physical styles, etc; physical affection.

General NSFW Likes Orgasm delay/denial; masturbation; first times, virginity, and inexperience; sexual instruction/guiding; pegging, anal sex, prostate milking/massage;trans men topping, trans women bottoming; coming in pants and/or untouched; semi-/public sex; cuddlefucking; non-penetrative sex (handjobs, frottage, dry humping, clit play, nipple/breast play, mental sex, etc.); sex toys to enhance/lead sex; laughter during sex, playful sex, trying something new because the first try doesn't work out, imperfect sex; hand and finger kink; roleplay; kind and loving incest/underage; sexual self-exploration with or without others around; humping a plushie/pillow/body part; "just the tip"; teasing/edging, and slow/prolonged sex in general.

Fandom Likes Trans and queer Clones; Force-sensitive Clones; disabled and neurodivergent Clones (plural Clones, cluster B, etc. are welcome if done respectfully); clones with any type of vitiligo or other melanin affecting condition(s); Clones having a very casual and open approach to nudity, sexuality, etc. among other Clones; Clones with varying personal levels and types of connection to Mandalorian culture from 0 to 100; "brother" as a gender neutral term within Clone culture when exploring transness among said culture; retconning the Tusken Massacre to be a product of false memories or active manipulation by Palpatine; "No Order 66" and "Order 66 Happened Differently" AUs, including time travel and stopping the war before it ever starts; "Jaster Lives" and "Jango Lives" AUs, including time travel and stopping the war before it ever starts.

General SFW DNWs Stereotypically white, abled, neurotypical, cishet, allo M/F relationships; irl bigotry enacted by a character to someone else, or a group, either onscreen or offscreen; inability to eat when necessary, or any other lack of food for any reason; forced detransition; first person POV, omniscient POV, future tense; possessiveness by focus characters or posed as positive.

General NSFW DNWs Violent noncon; on-screen noncon or dubcon of SA survivors; "realistic" pedophilia, dub/noncon, or incest (i.e. focus on trauma aftermath, etc); mpreg; sexual scat, vore, gore, vomit; sexual piss drinking and other large quantities of piss, human urinals (small amounts of piss are fine); "slut," "whore," "bitch," including with any word attached to the front (i.e. "painslut"); bloodplay; unrealistic positions or positions requiring extreme flexibility; anuses described as puffy or abused; vaginas described as slits; sexual degradation; rimming; felching; trans women on top, trans men on bottom vaginally (anally is fine); scissoring (the sexual position).

Fandom DNWs Explicitly including the idea that all Clones are cis men due to being clones of a cis man, even if no individual trans clones are explicitly featured or mentioned; romantic clonecest (close platonic or queerplatonic bonds are super encouraged, this is mostly to avoid stereotypical boyfriend-girlfriend activities and actions); Order 66 as in canon ("better world" AUs are welcome), Anakin permanently Falling, Tusken massacre (unless due to/actually just direct manipulation and false memories from Palapatine); one-dimensional commentary on the Jedi, positive commentary on the New Mandalorians (eg. "pacifism is the answer" etc.), positive commentary on Death Watch/Nite Owls, negative commentary on the True Mandalorians (eg. "being a warrior culture is harmful" etc.) - for all of these I mean both by the focus characters and in the prose itself; whitewashing (albinism, vitiligo, etc. are more than welcome); Echo having a scomp link instead of an actual prosthetic/cybernetic hand; clones (excluding Wrecker and/or his batchers if you write his mutation as intentional) being taller than Temuera Morrison, clones having superhero phyisiques, clones being naturally hairless or very sparse; intersex/dualsex Obi-Wan; Jango being a terrible parent to the clones without some form of manipulation (Sith or Kaminoan or otherwise) affecting his choices/actions; Jango Lives!AUs without him trying to become a better parent, even if he isn't perfect.

Super Specific Trans Headcanon Request by ibissal

Hunter (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)/Original Character(s); Art; Fic

this is literally just to specifically request sapphic trans woman Hunter lol that's it. I also have other requests with all my cis or "pick ur poison i love both" ships if this one doesn't float your boat.

Dear Creator Letter (URL): http://quillandink.neocities.org/letters/smutwars23

"Convince Me" Request by ibissal

I desperately want to be further convinced into hardcore shipping these ships because of how sexy they already seem to me from prior tag sleuthing, please do your worst!

Dear Creator Letter (URL): http://quillandink.neocities.org/letters/smutwars23

#smutwars2023 #smut wars #*pinch hits #*claimed pinch hits

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a self-identified proshipper reblogged this post from me in agreement, to which i just wanna hold up a mirror and say: uh, “the overflowing amount of weird fan art” op is referring to is also... made by you all.

this lack of self-awareness makes me want to verbalize something that i’ve alluded to before, but never really fleshed out, which is that this whole “proship” thing is a redux of early 2010s gamergate talking points, just with the misogyny excised (supposedly). all other arguments have already been done to death by misogynist pop culture bros who feared the encroaching wave of feminism and “political correctness,” including the talking points about how female characters in skimpy clothing is “just fiction,” it’s not actually hurting anyone in real life, how video games are just “for fun” and “not meant to be taken seriously,” oh and also the excessive rape and violence against women are just there for the sake of “realism.”

there’s some kind of cognitive dissonance that “proshippers” will make the same arguments while reblogging posts about the misogyny of pop culture media and its fanbase, blissfully oblivious to the fact that they are not exempt from producing an “overflowing amount of weird fanart.” i’ve been thinking for awhile now that this cognitive dissonance is resolved for them through bioessentialism, in terms of gender but also whiteness. some, maybe even many, “proshippers,” as a part of a heavily self-identified “afab” population participating in transformative fandom, view themselves as essentially different from fanboys, and their engagement with any creepy shit (including making weird fanart of schoolboys) as also essentially different from any creepy shit done by fanboys (making weird fanart of schoolgirls).

large swathes of transformative fandom still fundamentally conceive of internet fandom as being split between “amabs” and “afabs.” no matter how much lip service is given to the idea of trans acceptance, i’ve found that many fandom people (regardless of how they identify) are extremely quick to unite around “afab” terminology, discuss “afab experiences” and cite the flawed premise of “female socialization,” in addition to praising fandom for being “a safe space for women to explore their sexuality” (wherein the women are presumed to be at least white and cis). (this is why i’m choosing to use “afab” as the umbrella term here.) i also feel, with anecdotal evidence in support, that tma people tend to be viewed with suspicion and heavily scrutinized, as are poc who openly discuss racism in transformative fandom. none of this is unique to fandom or even “proshippers” tbh, these are symptoms of transmisogyny and whiteness in general, but it certainly concocts into some pretty noxious takes without a single iota of self-awareness.

it boils down to this belief that “afab” desire is inherently exempt from problematization, that it is somehow inherently unimplicated in oppressive forces while cis mens’ desires are. it’s rightly understood that the cishet man who draws panty shots and weird balloon tits is off-putting and degrading for people who are just trying to appreciate female characters. however, “proshippers” are utterly unable to apply this principle to themselves, even when the object of their desire is marginalized through race, transness, age, etc. this inability to recognize one’s own complicity in oppression is endemic in white “afabs,” who imagine their desires and fears to be pure and sacrosanct—even while proclaiming to rep darkness and degeneracy, they stop short of treating that material as something actually “dark,” as in something that’s sensitive and worth treating delicately regardless of the personal desire to clumsily make it sexy or sensationalist. such a thing would entail recognizing their own potential to do harm, to be oppressors, and even outside of fandom that’s never been something they’ve been interested in doing.

#fandom #creep shit #long post /#several days late response to the phenomenon

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swagging-back-to · 4 months

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saw someone use neopronouns unironically in a fanfic the other day and i wanted to go on a killng spree

yes obviously it was for pidge because why would a woman in stem ever be allowed to be a woman in stem

#it was the zhe zir zim or whatever the fuck #as soon as i saw it i just had to put down my phone and go for a long walk #stop transing fictional characters #pidge gunderson #katie holt

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unsat-and-strange · 3 months

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finished an old sketchbook (which I didn't know was possible????) but anyways y'all get a doodle dump here enjoy (sorry some are sideways my phone is being big dumb)

very brief explanations under the cut

1- character design stuff for an apocalypse-ish character i made. his name is dev and I love him :) he likes maps and starting fights and he transed his gemder

2- random Fullmetal alchemist doodles. I truly believe alphonse would just.... pick people up. also winry has a trash sleep schedule.

3- a dnd character idea! snake cowboy bard names moke, he left home to try and save up for a ranch of his own and he's refusing to admit he's addicted to adventuring.

4- dnd doodles from a few sessions ago. there uh there were some events. I totally didn't jump into the ocean to avoid my party members pestering me for killing my ex-bestie who turned evil. and like I'm not saying she deserved it but she also was 100% down for killing a kid in cold blood and she got me exiled. oh and turning people into weird mind controlled spike monsters. that too.

5- I had this idea for a magical girl necromancer. she's super sweet and innocent but she also raises the dead. she probably has zombie helpers to carry her school books.

6- more session doodles. most the magnus archives honestly. there's a handful of tims (stoker and gunpowder variants) (I do think tma Tim and mechs Tim would be cool with each other. or maybe just instantly kill each other) and some of the distortion and some other random stuff. I really enjoy drawing the distortion. I think maybe the hair is really fun, or the fucked up hands.

7- most recent session doodles. mostly npcs, there's one family that has a near monopoly on the town were in, apparently the matriarch had a very active social life. and by that I mean the dwarf who runs the armory and the human who runs the tavern and the driver who runs the tailor shop are all siblings. also me and another party member have accidentally started a war for the driders heart. (IM GOING TO WIN) (FLORA CHOOSE ME PLEASE) is it weird my first experience with romance is a character played by me and a completely fictional npc

8- old design. I have this tattooed now

9- random woods character. I don't know if I ever figured out their name. basic idea is they were a very young immortal when the world ended so now centuries later they just wander through the woods that have reclaimed the planet. every so often these weird extra dimensional shepherd things stop by to check in. they actually stop by earth a lot more often than they used to now that they know this person is here, they were very surprised to find out humanity had been born and died within the span of two visits. bit of dialogue I thought up once: "so young one, are you the first of your kind?" "actually I think I'm the last."

10- old inktober drawing from like 2022 that I never actually finished. or was it 2021.... idk whatever the prompt was bouquet and kaz found inej some flowers. god I still really like this drawing actually. I should redraw it in such a way I'm not scared of ruining it by finishing it

#ebb rambles #ebb's art #doodle dump #thank y'all for indulging me #let's see how long it takes to finish this next sketchbook shall we #alright let's add some more tags I guess #character design #dnd #the magnus archives #fullmetal alchemist #six of crows #alright j think that's all #ebb draws stuff

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if you had to spend even one day as an actual homosexual male in my country, you'd fucking kill yourself out of despair.

i am so FUCKING SICK AND TIRED of evil anglo westerners like you treating homosexuality like an aesthetic! we are not your constume! stop appropriating us!

i'm ANGRY because i experience homophobia every single day despite the fact that i hide who i am from the rest of my society, and then i go on the internet thinking it's the one place i can openly be myself... and what do i see?

gay male spaces being OVERRUN with BIOLOGICAL FEMALES who live under the DELUSION that they are homosexual males! and i fucking slam my laptop shut in anger! i'm fucking sick of you people!

WE CAN'T EVEN HAVE A SINGLE SPACE FOR OURSELVES ONLINE.

you have no idea what it's like to be an actual gay man!

you have no idea what it's like to laughed at, taunted, called "faggot" as you walk through your school hallways.

you have no idea what it's like to be excluded and socially ostracized by the majority of your male peers because they view you as inherently dirty and disgusting.

you have no idea of the PAIN you feel when your first highschool crush — the one boy who isn't repulsed by you and enjoys your company — ends up being a straight boy who never saw you as anything more than a "buddy" and abandons you the second he gets a girlfriend.

you have no idea what it's like to live a LIE, to conceal who you really are, to lie and say you're straight when someone questions you for your own safety, despite the fact that hiding you true self only makes you even more miserable and eats away at you every single day.

you have no idea what it's like to wallow in a puddle of your own misery and loneliness, knowing you are going to die alone & unloved due to the miserable circumstances of your own society.

you haven't SUFFERED nearly enough to be able to understand what being a homosexual male is truly like.

you have never experienced any of these things, because you are not homosexual males, yet you still have the loudest voices in online gay male communities.

it's not fair!

why should you get to be happy and enjoy LARPing as a gay man despite being female, while i have to suffer every single day? you don't deserve it.

and, yes, i know you people not my main oppressors. i DESPISE heterosexual males a lot more than i despise you, don't worry. you're not the ones killing us, but i am still irritated with the erasure of digital male homosexual spaces, as well as the transing of male fictional characters, because those two are the only coping mechanisms i have to distract me from my awful reality — and you people have taken that away from me too.

you might argue that i'm mean or hateful or a bad person because of the way i talk, but can you really blame me? the world left me no choice but to be full of HATE and BITTERNESS.

i am extremely disappointed in, mad at and saddened by your community & how you spiritually degrade, humiliate, disrespect and erase real homosexual males.

your blog is a mockery of us. that's all.

This anon is really funny, because even if I didn't experience homophobia, you act like transphobia doesn't exist. There's a lot to unpack here, so I'll respond under the cut.

if you had to spend even one day as an actual homosexual male in my country, you'd fucking kill yourself out of despair.

The suicide rate of trans people in my country (USAmerica) is 50% lmfao. While I'm currently in an okay place mentally, the same can't be said for most others in situations similar to mine. I try to use the mental energy that I do have to do activism that will help me and others like me.

i am so FUCKING SICK AND TIRED of evil anglo westerners like you treating homosexuality like an aesthetic! we are not your constume! stop appropriating us!

Trans men exist in non-western countries. The reason that you don't know of us is because it is literally too dangerous for us to come out in countries that do not accept us. The only reason I'm even out to a few people is because my gender nonconformity was obvious before I even realized I was trans, so being visibly trans wouldn't change much in terms of how I'm treated. I also lived in a country where being gay and/or trans is illegal before I moved to USAmerica, and I was targeted there for my gender nonconformity even though I didn't know I was trans whilst living there. Even though I live in USAmerica now, I'm not divorced from the reality of what it's like to be queer in a country where things are worse.

I, too, experience homophobia every single day, even though I try to hide my homosexuality. Being AFAB doesn't exempt you from experiencing homophobia. Instead, I get to hear what cishets say when they think no gays are in the room. People like me are treated as jokes and predators at the same time.

gay male spaces being OVERRUN with BIOLOGICAL FEMALES who live under the DELUSION that they are homosexual males! and i fucking slam my laptop shut in anger! i'm fucking sick of you people!

Actually, most gay male spaces are hostile to trans men, which has caused us to form our own spaces. If you go to our spaces and then get mad that you see trans men, cry about it. Also, the use of "you people" is so telling. Don't the people in your country refer to gays as "you people" or similar? So don't do the same to trans people.

you have no idea what it's like to be an actual gay man! you have no idea what it's like to laughed at, taunted, called "faggot" as you walk through your school hallways. you have no idea what it's like to be excluded and socially ostracized by the majority of your male peers because they view you as inherently dirty and disgusting. you have no idea of the PAIN you feel when your first highschool crush — the one boy who isn't repulsed by you and enjoys your company — ends up being a straight boy who never saw you as anything more than a "buddy" and abandons you the second he gets a girlfriend.

Actually, yes I do know what that is like! I've had those things fucking happen to me! Except for me, it's not just homophobia, it is transandrophobia as well. People see me as a predator and potential rapist any time I try to express any attraction to men. Why are cis people trying to educate trans people on what it's like to be socially ostracized? Lol. Lmao even.

...are you fucking serious right now. You, cis person, have no idea what it's like to actually live a lie, to lie and say you're a woman and dress like a woman for your safety even though it makes you even more miserable and eats away at you every single day! I understand that cis gays face homophobia but are you fucking serious right now? I really hope that you're joking.

you have no idea what it's like to wallow in a puddle of your own misery and loneliness, knowing you are going to die alone & unloved due to the miserable circumstances of your own society.

Actually yes I do because I am a transsexual man. Except due to being raised as a girl, I have been taught to accept dehumanization from cis men and women alike. I had to spend years unlearning the misogyny I was raised to accept, and I still have a lot more work to do. The thing is, if I was to say something like the statement above to someone, I would be called an "edgy teenage girl faking depression for attention" because you have to be a cis man for your problems to be taken seriously.

you haven't SUFFERED nearly enough to be able to understand what being a homosexual male is truly like.

The only requirements of being a homosexual male is to identify as male and be homosexual. That's it. There isn't a required amount of suffering that you must go through to receive your gay man card, and even if there was, every gay trans man has suffered far more than whatever the requirement is.

you have never experienced any of these things, because you are not homosexual males, yet you still have the loudest voices in online gay male communities.

Actually we have experienced these things, because we are homosexual males, and we face transandrophobia as well as homophobia. We also do not have the loudest voices in online gay male communities. If you're a user on this side of Tumblr, you are either invading transmasc spaces and acting like they are the entire community, or you are in an echo chamber that tells you that we are the loudest in the community.

why should you get to be happy and enjoy LARPing as a gay man despite being female, while i have to suffer every single day? you don't deserve it.

What is it about my blog that makes you think I enjoy being transsexual? I constantly talk about how awful people are to me, how my sexuality and gender are constantly targeted by others, and how all of these problems are systemic. I do not enjoy facing systemic oppression on the basis of my gender and sexuality.

Guess what—you, as a cis man, are perfectly able to relate to trans male characters. If a character being trans makes you unable to relate to them anymore, maybe you should examine what makes you believe that you are so different from trans men. Maybe it's because you don't see us as human.

you might argue that i'm mean or hateful or a bad person because of the way i talk, but can you really blame me? the world left me no choice but to be full of HATE and BITTERNESS.

You are not a transphobe because you face homophobia. You facing homophobia was not what convinced you that trans men aren't people. You are using your experiences with homophobia as an excuse to be transandrophobic while the root of your bigotry is actually a form of systemic oppression just like homophobia, except one where you are part of the oppressor class.

i am extremely disappointed in, mad at and saddened by your community & how you spiritually degrade, humiliate, disrespect and erase real homosexual males.

And I am disappointed in how your community excludes, ostracizes, fetishizes, and disrespects transsexual men. Except y'all are way louder about the issue of us existing than we are about the regular dehumanization that we face from y'all.

your blog is a mockery of us. that's all.

Cry about it.

#asks #anon hate #transandrophobia #long post

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idk if this is something i’m missing context for as a fandom/ao3 baby, but i’ve realized that for as many fics as i read with trans male / transmasc characters, i don’t think i’ve once seen a character who’s had any kind of bottom surgery. like. not one. and to be fair im mostly reading in one fandom which is a story set in 1718 and i don’t expect people to have Ye Olde Phalloplasty in their canon-era fics, but i read a lottttt of modern AUs, too, and even there, not once.

i have no idea if this is an issue with transfem characters, since again, most fic i’m reading is in a fandom where the majority of the characters are queer men. i’m not gonna try and talk about something i don’t know shit about but. i would venture a very confident guess that there’s a very similar phenomenon for trans women characters too.

and it feels…weird? like obviously it’s not a bad thing to portray non-op or pre-op trans characters, but the fact that it’s SO far in that direction, to the point that i’ve not come across any post-op characters, just feels like…..is a cunt really the only thing a trans male character brings to your story?

like i know that some people are including trans male characters specifically bc they ship an M/M couple but want to write porn that involves a cunt. and if i think about that too hard it feels real weird and uncomfortable, but whatever. but i also know there’s plenty of people who are writing trans characters for other reasons. so why is this true so across the board?

i’m trying to think through the logic of it, and the main reasons i keep coming up with are:

maybe a lot of these authors are trans people who have not had bottom surgery and want to write characters with bodies like theirs. which is. fucking valid. reading/writing a trans character with a body like yours, experiencing pleasure while being treated as the gender that they are, can be SO healing i am so not saying that is a bad thing. i love seeing portrayals of trans bodies experiencing pleasure, of trans people feeling good in their skin, it is necessary and healing and good. and. there are so many ways a trans body can look, and i want to see all those bodies getting to experience pleasure. i want to see someone who’s had phallo getting to experience the pleasure of fucking someone, i want to see someone who’s had meta getting to experience a blow job, i don’t want our collective understanding of the The Trans Experience to stop at bottom surgery, as if the only thing that defines a trans person is the so-called opposition of the gender and their genitals and once those are aligned they’re basically not even trans anymore. which relates to the second reason i can imagine:

“well, if i want to write smut involving two dicks, i’d just write two cis male characters.” and admittedly i am getting into arguing-with-a-fictional-person-in-my-head territory here, but. again. is that the only thing a trans character brings? are there no other parts of trans people’s experience that you find interesting or evocative or worthwhile to write about? how has the character’s transness shaped who they are as a person? what has their experience been with dysphoria, with euphoria, with self-discovery, with rejection, with learning to be comfortable in their own skin, with choosing to live as a self that feels right? all of those parts of a character are still very much there even if they’ve had surgery, even if they pass. and even for pure smut, even if you’re not going on a deep emotional dive, sex is still such a complex experience with so much at play besides who puts what in what hole

maybe people don’t write post-op trans characters bc they have no experience with it and don’t know how. to which i would say, first off, that doesn’t fuckn stop plenty of us who don’t have dicks from writing cis M/M smut out the fucking wazoo. we have imaginations! we can google! but then i think, well, maybe we feel comfortable writing cis male characters bc we read so many other people’s cis male characters, we have a familiarity that’s gained through fiction (although a flawed familiarity lmao, it’s like a game of telephone and some things certainly get lost or added or changed). so maybe people aren’t writing this type of body bc there isn’t existing fic with this type of body, and the cycle self perpetuates. in which case. idk. i don’t know what the solution is except to write some shit and put it out there in the universe, and maybe it changes nothing but hey it can’t hurt right?

idk y’all. this was a big ass ramble and i’m really curious about other fandom people’s experience/thoughts on this. especially, like i said, being new to fandom and not knowing everything. maybe this has been discussed at length! maybe these fics exist and i’m missing them! maybe there are other reasons for this besides what the fictional person i’m arguing with in my head has come up with. idk

#ao3 #fandom #fanfic #fan fiction #trans fanfic #idk how to tag this but i genuinely want people to see this post so i can talk to ppl about this #i have a lot of thoughts bouncing around and want to bounce them with someone else #ztalks

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