#imo bringing up the ace thing made it weird. like i wouldn’t have considered that line to be aphobic but now it does a little sdjhgsfl
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aroaessidhe · 1 month ago
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2025 reads / storygraph
The Incandescent
academic fantasy
a powerful magician who’s the director of magic at a magic boarding school, whose job involves keeping up the school’s boundaries against demonic incursions and teaching the four students taking A-level invocation
when something goes wrong and the powerful demon living around the school is is unleashed, her life is thrown out of balance, even after she deals with it
bi MC
#The Incandescent#bisexual books#Oh this was really good!#really interesting take on the magic school subgenre that focuses a lot on the day-to-day responsibilities of trying to be a good teacher#with the added danger of powerful demonic entities#I loved her love of being a teacher/ magic and her students.#I loved the way magic’s interaction with technology was considered#and the concept that demons can inhabit anything given personhood (including how people often call phones or cars or printers ‘you’)#I thoroughly enjoyed the introduction of this through the demon possessing the photocopier#“no demon in history had ever acquired a drivers license”#(vague spoilers) I’m obsessed with how nobody notices about the phoenix bc it’s really obsessed with learning and teaching#we love a butch love interest but it is also kinda like. the marshals are not cops but also they kinda are cops#and then doesn’t really go into that? idk. I feel like that could have been at least explored a little more#considering the other systemic critiques.#direct from my notes: she’s butchhhhhhh but she’s a coppppppppppp :(#that's the only real ? I have about it. good book#there's also a dude love interest for a lot of the middle section but that's more like 'you know what i can have more of a social life#and casual sex if i want; i can be more than just a teacher'#tho also I noted there’s a bit that’s like:#‘straight guy; over 40; not ace but no wife or ex wife; not even an old girlfriend; there must be something seriously wrong with him’#(this is also in the context of him being a rich wanker; not soley on the fact that he’s unpartnered)#imo bringing up the ace thing made it weird. like i wouldn’t have considered that line to be aphobic but now it does a little sdjhgsfl#(anyway definitely a nonissue. I’m just. sometimes things need a reword not a shoved in *except for asexuals lmao)#(I *think* the author might be aspec too? so really more of just an awkward thing lol)
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volatileukulist · 5 years ago
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slightly late but you reblogged after i went to sleep, ssshhhh. ten facts bout cirocco and eider plz~
Ofc ofc!
Cirocco
A X O L O T L  F R I E N D A A A A A A
Anyways heres some facts about my baby~
Cirocco never knew their birth parents, they kinda had Cirocco and then vanished (they were probably eaten by Crocs ngl.) They were raised by their adoptive grandfather though, a cranky old crocodile named Katoua who loved and cared for them and probably wanted to eat them? But he was too old to do so.
They were raised in a swamp, with mostly crocodiles and birds. None of the swamp people knew the human language and instead talked in a more guttural language, so Cirocco's fragmented English/Common comes from them taking the time to learn the language themself.
The reason Cirocco loves humans so much is because there was this pretty human couple who would trek the swamps looking for rare herbs for healing potions. They'd follow the couple everywhere out of sight and eventually their natural curiosity caused them to hyperfixate on human culture. Their hyperfixation grew into an actual genuine respect for the good parts of the culture.
Cirocco is very talented in magic - specifically Lightning/Storm and Wind Magic. I think it comes from their energetic nature and their impatience when it comes to things. So they use Lightning to unleash all their pent up energy and wind to get things going.
Cirocco is Aro/Ace and has no intentions of ever being in a romantic relationship, but they do want a lifelong companion to go on adventures with! I think that's their definition of love, just a friend who will be there for them through thick and thin and will give them cuddles sometimes but like, platonic cuddles of the friendship varied.
Cirocco is very affectionate towards their friends, very touchy feely and very cuddly if you let them. They are very small and will cuddle up against you and fall asleep in your lap if you let them.. I think they just like the warmth of humans too? Since Axolotls are cold-blooded, so having a friend to steal heat from is just….. very good but also Cirocco just… likes connecting platonically to people and likes doing it with hugs~ nwn
The cutest form of affection they give imo, is to Deirdre, their best friend and basically their adoptive big sister? Since Deirdre is touch sensitive, the two of them pap each other with their magic tomes, just….. little harmless boops. It sounds weird but, it's just……..very good and they really put a lot of trust in each other, which Deirdre has a lot of trouble doing so it's one of my favourite friendships to write nwn
Cirocco is always fascinated to meet new people and thought they might look naive and overexcitable, they were taught by Deirdre about how to establish boundaries so they wouldn't get taken advantage of. Its a cute little mirror between Deirdre's parents, since Pip is a lot like Cirocco in terms of naivety and Rafe is a lot more cautious around others, mirroring his daughter.
Before they met Deirdre, and when they first left the swamp to explore the human world, they came across the cottage of an old grandmother, who they assumed mistook them for her grandchild. The grandma fed and clothed them for a short while before they went on their way. Whenever they are around that area, they do their best to come visit their grandma and give her cute gifts.
Cirocco should probably be wearing glasses? Since Axolotls have bad vision and are sensitive to light, but also, its my fantasy anthropomorphic axolotl and i can do what i want… but also cirocco stealing people's glasses to wear them and being astounded at how pretty the world is when its not blurry? Good shit.
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Next up is.....
Eider
BBWBF. Aka big buff wolf boyfriend nwn
I've been RPing him with a bunch of the group and I,,, I love him a lot nwnwnwn
Technically a first generation Faunus in the original 'verse he was made for. His mother is an infamous human mage who was just… very good at what she did, and his father is a wolfman and an excellent hunter. He was the son of the Chieftain and was set to becoming the next. His parents gave up their prestige and jobs to be together in order to start their family, though every so often, small rumors are whispered about a powerful arcane spirit who watches over the city by night…
Eider was an incredibly overexcitable kid and had a tendency to hyperventilate and faint because of it, especially when running around with his siblings. His parents got really worried about their son passing out every time he played outside? So his dad forced him to sit down with him every night for a month straight and taught him all these different breathing techniques that his tribe used when preparing for a hunt. He's a lot older now, and while Eider has mellowed out significantly, he might still get a bit over excited in certain situations he's less familiar with..
I…. Liked Eider with glasses so much I gave him bad vision just so he could wear them… sorrynotsorry  but also, realistically, he's prolly farsighted and colourblind to green thanks to his wolf pappa. 
He's got a sigil tattooed on his right thigh that his momma actually discovered on one of her adventures as a mage! She asked him to get it, but he was 19 and wanted a tattoo anyways, so he used the sigil design she found. He traces the symbol whenever he's nervous and believes it gives him strength. 
Has 4 other siblings; Tethys, Sterling, Urias and Argos and a niece, Brianne who is Sterling's kid. Eider's the middlest kid of the five. Because of his gentleness, Eider's often babied by his two older siblings and Urias, much to his displeasure and oftentimes, Tethys and Urias like to hop into his lovelife. His relationship with Argos is pretty good, considering his more eccentric siblings. Eider is very much the person he goes to for advice.
Eider is actually a pretty good chef! He picked it up as a hobby and it sorta became a passion of his to cook for his friends and family. Though he'd never do it as a career, because he knows how high intensity a culinary career would be, so. Eider just likes food and stuff because it brings people together!
Eider is very much a gentle giant and is pretty shy, but tries his best when it comes to other people to be amicable, but also….. he just really likes showing off his body. He's confident in his own skin and He's proud of how hard he's worked on himself and he's a bit touch-starved so he likes it when people ask to touch his arms or chest.
Usually, Eider is very calm around others and will often mask his feelings with his gentle boy personality, so seeing or hearing his tail wagging is a very good indication of how excited or happy he is. 
Eider gets very easily flustered, especially around guys he thinks are attractive or if he's being embarrassed by his siblings. He speaks very slowly usually, pads out his sentences and uses 'uhm' a lot, but when he's flustered he either: can't speak words or stutters over words and repeats phrases. His face is very prone to blushing.
He secretly really wants to go to a pride parade and just lose himself in the festivities. Eider wants to feel good about himself and his sexuality after hiding in the closet for like, 24+ years, and I think he'd love to make a bunch of cool LGBT+
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vrainsrewatch · 6 years ago
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episode 11 thoughts
me: i shouldn’t have too much to say about this episode, since it’ll be mostly dueling! me, 25 screenshots later: 
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(see what i did there. i’m funny i promise)
a lot of the early episodes i’ve seen twice, or at least use regularly in amvs so i’m somewhat familiar with what happens in them. that is not the case for this particular episode, so even though i sort of remember the beats of it, i’d forgotten a lot of the juicy stuff.
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like this.
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i’ve seen people bring this scene up before, but it’s really interesting. AI don’t need to sleep, but does the existence of free will inside of them give them the option? sleep is something animals do because they have to. humans sleep way, way longer on average than most other predators, and while there’s certain animals that sleep upwards of 15 hours, those are mostly prey animals -- or at least, animals who don’t really hunt. sloths, koalas, etc.
people do, however, sleep sometimes when they don’t technically have to. people take naps when they’ve had a stressful day, or are staying up late for an event, or even to get through a class that bores them. does that make it an activity?? that one can choose to do?? it’s kind of a weird thought lol.
anyways though,
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i don’t talk about emma too much, but she’s a pretty cool gal. she’s obviously incredibly intelligent, she’s an expert hacker, but i love her ability to put things together quickly. she’s an information broker and a bounty hunter, so it makes sense she’s good at putting clues together to form a conclusion fast. i just like that they bothered to have her think this one out so we get to see that, since she doesn’t get much screen time past this season.
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i also had forgotten how often dr. kogami shows up in these episodes. for some reason, i only remembered him being here or there throughout the first season, up until rev vs pm round 3.
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there’s people in the fandom who like to demonize revolver, mostly because of the tower i think, but honestly, he’s a respectful opponent. he really did not have to explain anything to playmaker -- at the moment, all revolver knows is he’s some dude going around kicking his lackeys asses in duels, and has an ignis attached to his duel disk. he doesn’t know he was a LI victim. he doesn’t have any reason to suspect that, as of right now, but he still goes out of his way to clear things up for yusaku. 
it’s an important aspect of his character that i think people who dislike him tend to forget, and like, you do you -- like and dislike whatever characters you want, i mean -- but you shouldn’t erase parts of them just because you’re not a fan.
anyways though,
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it’s really interesting to me how revolver talks about free will. he’s more spiritual then i would’ve guessed, as we find out from his duel vs. soulburner in 115-116, but it shows here, too. 
the ignis have free will, but he thinks of them as below humans; creatures that will only cause harm. if they have free will, they have the choice to be good or bad, and yet he is so dead set in his thinking. he has all the pieces right there, but he just won’t put them together. and with his changes towards ai specifically and what he says to soulburner about flame in their duel, you have to wonder if it’s a willful ignorance.
however that follows up with:
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which like, again shows how spiritual revolver actually is in some ways, which is interesting considering how rooted in science he is a lot of the time, but also,
the way he phrases this makes me deeply sad for him. i’ve talked a lot about revolver’s thoughts on his father already, so i won’t talk about it too much here when i’ve got so much else to cover, but really. he deserved an actual father, not an asshole who wrongfully put himself on a pedestal to be admired and worshiped.
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i feel like the fandom is so used to the concept since it was introduced so early to us in the series, but seriously, this is kind of a crazy thing. despite how advanced den city is technologically, clearly this has still never been done before outside of the hanoi project. that is a lot to take in and process.
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seriously. i don’t blame yusaku and everyone else for being so skeptical. it doesn’t sound possible to us, even though in the real world, it’s been something we’ve talked about since we started developing AI, basically. 
it brings so many moral questions to the table, too, because if something has free will, if something is able to think and live like us, would it be wrong to continue to make it do things that might be against its will? would it be wrong to delete the program, if it’s capable of forming connections with others?
moving on to something less serious, though:
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everyone’s favorite meme scene LOL. seriously, this is so stupid and nerdy, i hate it and love it so much at the same time.
originally i wasn’t too fond of revolver’s first avatar, but it’s really grown on me tbh. not really relevant, but things like this actually made it grow on me lol.
next up though we get a flashback of yusaku’s backstory. at the current moment, we really have no context for these scenes, but they’re still shocking to look at in their own right:
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and of course, we have little ryoken’s words of encouragement. 
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not only do we find out why yusaku does the three things mantra, we also now have the clues that revolver was the one who told this to him, way back when, since we see him use the same tic in an earlier episode.
i’ll try to keep my thoughts on this brief, since i have a lot to say about this, so bear with me.
firstly, the last line. not only is it one of my favorite quotes in the whole series, as it’s simple, powerful, and holds meaning in my own life, but it reflects back on what i was saying about revolver having all the pieces but purposefully not putting them together about the ignis.
it’s a concept that’s hard to grasp at their young ages, and yet ryoken puts it eloquently and yusaku takes it to heart, turning those words into fuel to keep him going. 
three things to live, three things to go home, three things to defeat the enemy. 
these are not normal words of encouragement, and it’s very clearly intentional. this is something a child can cling to, which is exactly what yusaku does. he clings to it so much, even ten years later these are still the words he hears when he needs to get through something. even ten years later, he thinks of three things for everything he does.
ryoken wanted that child -- the one that he lured back to his father, the one that kept losing and kept screaming in pain -- to have a reason to fight back.
and boy, does yusaku fight back.
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anyways though.
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a lot of people, myself included, love the irony of this. the person he hates, the person he wants to save, the person he’s dueling right now, they are all the same. he is right in front of him, but he doesn’t know it. ah, it hurts so good lol.
a lot of people don’t consider ryoken to be captured, but i do. just not in the sense that yusaku is thinking of.
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this is where everyone gets the confusion of firewall being his ace, and i mean like, i get it. but it’s the same way as like, salamangreat pyro phoenix or violet chimera are soulburner’s secondary aces, becaus heatleo is his true ace.
at least, imo. maybe i would’ve been wrong had firewall not been so overpowered it had to be axed from both the OCG and the TCG lmao. 
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okay, but why? why just you, seemingly? i touched on the fact that it’s possible jin and spectre also have link sense, i think, but takeru doesn’t. miyu seemingly doesn’t -- or does she, with her ability to sense aqua on her chest during her coma? so really, it’s just takeru, then. why is he the odd one out, here? and was this a byproduct of the LI or were the children chosen on purpose because of this ability? was it something that just had to be awoken inside of them? 
g o d 
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have you seen it before? were you even there when revolver took down cyberse????
anyways.
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this is so cute. i love them. his little smile. but also, it’s interesting to note that he does this not believing ai has free will. i saw a few people complaining that yusaku’s attachment to roboppi (like the flashback of him petting her head like a dog or smth) was out of character, but it’s clearly not.
he clearly gets invested in the AI around him, probably because he knows he doesn’t have to worry about them hurting him or anything. it’s... sad :(
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honestly, i wonder if revolver would’ve won this duel had he not been using his father’s strategy with fire prison. they’re very evenly matched in skill, so i wouldn’t really have been surprised.
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this screenshot was just taken because CR called them varrets instead of rokkets but still changed the monster names to rokkets and when i first saw this episode i was like ??? ultra confused lmao.
i’m so glad the subtitles get more consistent as the series goes on. though i harp on CR a lot, i really am grateful they have the whole series and were able to simulcast it throughout it’s airing. 
anyways, that’s all for right now! i started watching this episode like, an hour and a half ago almost LOL so i’ve gotta get some stuff done before watching another. see y’all
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anotheroverwatchwriter · 9 years ago
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g//ency is not a bad fandom ship, but i think to make it work in canon you’d have to change some things, because right now (at the risk of sounding like I hate anything “””“straight””””), it would fall into the trap a lot of fictional straight romances do, no matter how much we may h/c them as pi/pan/ace/other.
(and also i’m discussing my reasons without bringing other ships into this, as i don’t really have any big Mercy ships and ultimately i never considered my Genji ships possible with canon anyway)
Let’s look at their stories first -Genji’s got accepting himself, forgiving his brother, confronting his brother, a spiritual journey, travelling with a monk, and all this stemming from an animation and backstory that’s easy to find.
Mercy, on the other hand... has a backstory. A quite simple one. She doesn’t have any big themes to her story yet. She can be an interesting character -you could have her resenting OW for turning her research into weapons, you could explore her feelings on what happened with Genji (and possibly Reaper), you could have her going against new OW, because she believes that the right thing to do is not go against the law, you could take her story in a lot of interesting directions.
But making her first (and possibly primary) storyline a romance with a character who already has a lot going on with them, so cannot have as much time devoted to a romance story without sacrificing interesting elements of his own story... is a huge disservice to her character. And one that is very familiar to female characters.
Give her something else to work with, and I’d probably be a lot more accepting of it going canon, because I’d at least have some confidence that it wasn’t going to be another incidence where a woman’s characterisation is sacrificed for a male character’s.
Personally, as far as the doctor/patient stuff goes, I think it would be weird if something developed during the original OW -but I don’t think Mercy was as involved as fandom tends to think, since she’s primarily a surgeon and researcher, and after surgery it’s likely she only had check-up appointments with him while a team of physios, OTs, and whoever else handles newly made cyborgs took over his primary care.
I don’t think Genji would be in a place for romance, hating himself as much as he did. I’m not sure if this translated into a direct resentment of Mercy, but he was only able to be truly grateful to her after he accepted himself -at which point a romance would still be kinda weird imo, since there’d still be a psychological debt, but I would be less inclined to complain.
(And frankly, I find the master/student romance angle a little creepy too, but I feel like more people find the former creepy because more people are familiar with a typical doctor/patient relationship, and would find it creepy if there was romance in it.)
And the thing is, many of these things are addressed in fan works. Fan works dedicated to the characters -fan works with time to explore each of these themes, or at least one or two of them. Fan works that are able to weave a believable and compelling love story between these two.
But OW doesn’t have a main character, which is most of the appeal. OW relies on it’s diverse cast to appeal to as many people as possible, and while that’s a wonderful idea and it’s working so far, it either means that a romance between two characters will not get as much development as it might need, or it will, but potentially at the expense of every other character.
And yes, you could make the same argument with a lot of ships -but not all ships consist of the writer’s favourite character and the writer’s crush. 
And frankly, any chemistry they have now feels extremely forced -to me, at least. It’s very clear that the writer is pushing it, but a more subtle development could’ve helped. Mercy’s “I was too late” line was perfectly fine, as was Genji’s “Angela!” line. Prior to this, I can only find one voice line that they had together -which indicated a fairly positive relationship, but that they hadn’t seen each other for some time.
But going from that, to the Valentine’s lines (assuming they were meant to be romantic)... doesn’t give us a lot of development of what happened in between.
I wouldn’t mind (much) if it went canon somewhere down the line, but at the very least, give Mercy (and some other characters) a chance to develop first.
(Until we get that, I will aggressively be h/cing everything platonic until I can no longer do so)
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aquarianlights · 7 years ago
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Still the anon about airport security. What would you do if you had to take a flight? Would you go through the full body scanner? Or if don't want to, you can opt for a pat down. You know the pat down has to be done by a officer of the same gender as yours. Would you be worried about being misgendered? I was misgendered once, so I am really unsure if it's better the body scanner putting your biological sex to avoid to find anomalies or the pat down where they could misgendered you.
Well, I’m most definitely going to have to take flights in the future. Idk when or how soon. I’m guessing it’ll be 2019 so I’m guessing they’ll not make any progress by then and they’ll not have made any advancements past full body scanners.
Just saying now, most trans people are not going to align with my views on this, but that’s perfectly fine. I have very specific views and very specific reasoning and very specific quirks. And that’s all perfectly okay. So. . .don’t worry about how weird this is all going to sound and how this is all going to be exactly opposite of what most trans people would think. Trust me when I say I am not most trans people. When I first came out about being trans on tumblr (a year or two after discovering I was trans), the LGBT community literally attacked me (trans people specifically) trying to tell me I wasn’t trans enough to be included. Lmao. So don’t worry that I’m going to be the opposite on most people. It’s not you, it’s me. Haha. I’ve come to learn that I am a seriously awesome individual and that I just have very unique quirks and that I just don’t align well with the LGBT community like majority of my fremily, who are all LGBT. Which is perfectly fine. Coz no one needs to. As long as we are all comfortable with ourselves. And as long as you’re comfortable with yourself? You don’t need to worry about being misgendered, honestly. Which is why I’m not.
But anyways. . .
If you’re asking my PERSONAL opinion like I THINK you are, like I said, on a personal level, I don’t worry about that stuff because I don’t have anxiety attached to my dysphoria like most people do. Public anxiety isn’t an issue for me and it never has been and I’m a 200% attention whore. I do worry about being misgendered but I take the opportunity to correct everyone and anyone I see as long as it’s not medically oriented. And since this isn’t a medical issue, I would already have been correcting them from the start and if someone dared pulled an attitude with me (ESPECIALLY a police officer), I’d be talking over them. As I normally do. I correct people on my gender already unless I want something from them (ie; I’m not really outing myself to my professors at school until I can feel around on whether they’re transphobic or not unless they specifically ask. I only make sure to correct them on my name. As for pronouns, I’m only going to tell them about it eventually. Whereas, in a PUBLIC situation where I will only be seeing these people once and it’s a one-time incident? Nbd).
I mean, I’ve seen that people normally tend to dwell on bad social interactions. You mention that you’ve been misgendered once as though you remember in vivid detail this one instance. I just don’t get those effects from negative social interactions. It’s generally intimate, private, negative interactions that have vivid memories for me. I don’t tend to really have vivid memories of negative, public interactions because they don’t stick with me and I think I have less than zero amount of social anxiety. I’m less than neurotypical when it comes to social anxiety. I’m whatever the opposite of social anxiety is. I enjoy the spotlight. I don’t tend to ENJOY it persay in a negative way but I’d rather have it than not have it. I don’t want the spotlight BY CHOICE. But I want it... by chance. If you get what I’m saying? Idk how that exactly works. So if I get picked out for a pat down... I guess that’s all the better?
As for pat-downs...Well, I’m a 200% brutally honest person so here we go. If a male officer were called to pat me down, I would have a hard time not having a breakdown. I have had so much sexual assault and rape history that has lead to PTSD and panic disorder that even if I didn’t have a female officer, I would request one and wait for one. If I had to have a male, I would specifically request that he not be white. All of the males that have sexually assaulted me have been white cis males (and to my knowledge, heterosexual or claiming to be bi and lying about being bi to manipulate me).
Also, if you know anything about me and have followed me for even 2 seconds, you know I’m the brattiest of all brat subs. And I quite enjoy toying with my dommes. So if a female officer were to just COME to me, it would make things a LOT easier, because then I would be able to just automatically avoid all the flashbacks and heart racing and feelings of fear that would flood back from PTSD. And I wouldn’t have any of that to deal with so I would be able to be my normal self and would be able to toy with her and tease her like I normally would and enjoy myself. If you’ve followed me for 2 seconds, then you’ll also know I’m ace. I’m not sexually attracted to anyone. But I do appreciate the female form and I am romantically attracted to females. I consider myself biromantic (or panromantic, I really don’t know) because occasionally there’s a male or other person thrown in there, but it’s heavily leaning towards females. Always has been. But I quite enjoy when females of authority pat me down because it brings out my bratty side and gives me the chance to make snarky remarks and toy with them under my breath and it’s just a lot of fun for me, tbh.
This is all my personal opinion, though. I’m really not your average transguy, as you can probably tell. I’m quite the opposite and no one should ever follow my lead coz I’m a bad example. I mean... I’m your typical brat sub but I’m not your typical person. Like I’ve said many times before, I live the bdsm lifestyle, but I’m not a sexual person because I’m ace. I’m not into bdsm sexually at all. I just live the lifestyle. Which a lot of people don’t understand unless, y’know, they’re in the lifestyle, too, either both sexually/fully or just fully.
I get misgendered on the daily so it’s all part of daily life for me. It’s part of the norm right now. When getting misgendered becomes odd for me---I mean, really odd---then, we can talk. But that probably won’t be for long down the HRT line if it’s all even safe to do what we’re talking about and, er, whenever BRCA testing gets done and the state can pay for my surgery. But that’s hopeful thinking. I doubt if we try out what the doctor and I are talking about, it’ll work. I don’t wanna give out details because if I type it out, I will get my own hopes up and I don’t wanna do that. Coz when I get defeated and have to continue doing what I’m doing, that’ll be really sad. And BRCA testing will probably come back positive, but even if it does, I won’t have the time to go through with the surgery until, er. . .who knows when. :| The only thing that will happen FOR SURE is a name change. Maybe one day I can do what my doctor and I are talking about, but probably not. Ergh. I don’t wanna get my hopes uppppp. Do not want. But if my BRCA test comes back positive, at least I can keep it in my file so that I have it as evidence.
But honestly?
The machine wouldn’t bother me and a surprise pat down wouldn’t bother me. I’m 200% comfortable with how other people see me and how I hold myself. And I’m ALMOST comfortable with how I see myself. Almost. . .
You know what WOULD bother me? A strip search. You know why? Because it’s EXTREMELY uncomfortable to take my binder off. I even wear a sports bra to bed. I take super short showers simply because it’s uncomfortable to not have something binding the girls down. They’re fucking annoying. I barely have a B cup. BARELY. They don’t even really fit into B cups, but they’re slightly too large for A’s. But they don’t fit any A’s. So it’s hard to judge. But then again, any bra that isn’t a sports bra is too loose, imo, coz I’m wearing a binder as long as I can all day, but I wear a sports bra at night. I mean, ever since I started wearing training bras, I started wearing bras to bed. You know what’s also uncomfortable for me? People seeing my belly. That bothers me. That scares me to death. Because of my parents growing up. Which is why I turned to ana when I was a child and didn’t even know what ana was and still keep ana in my life. But having to take my shirt off in front of someone and not cover my tummy with my arm? That terrifies me. Hell, even when I’m sitting down or laying down, there’s always a pillow or blanket or stuffed animal or SOMETHING over my tummy. Even when I’m driving, I keep a jacket or something in my lap simply because it bothers me to not have pressure on my tummy. The only time I don’t have something is when I’m walking, working, exercising, or taking a test. Even when I’m sleeping, I have a long stuffed animal that I keep between my legs that I keep up close to my tummy that I keep pressed to myself because it scares me to not have pressure on it. Because of my parents. Again, thing in the shower. And also why I hate summer. Fucking can’t do layers that help with that feeling of pressure that helps keep my parents voices in my head at bay.
So THAT is the only thing that would bother me. A strip search. A pat down and a machine? Nah. Wouldn’t bother me for reasons stated above.
That is all going on the fact you just asked my personal opinion, yes? At least, that’s how I read it. I’m hoping I explained that thoroughly enough that it all made sense.
I know all my reasoning is kind of weird and I have very, er... specific reasoning for every little thing but. I tried to explain everything without going into too much detail. So, uh... yeah. Not gonna apologize for being me, but I am aware that I am a very specific character with very specific quirks about me and that most other trans people are not going to align with my views on this. And that’s perfectly okay.
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