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[couldtransitionsaveher]

BYRON GORDON from BABYLON 5

JUSTIFICATION:

"Not every character who is irrationally hated by the fandom for having characteristics associated with femininity while being canonically a man is a transfem egg, but Byron specifically has so much transfem egg swag that I do not know where to begin describing it lol. I mean, if you met someone who was an ex-member of an incredibly restrictive organization that probably gatekept transition like all hell, who did things like always try to take as good care of their hair as possible even while on the run from the government, wear a plausibly deniable piece of androgynous jewelry at all times, and intentionally speak in a higher and softer register, what would YOU think?" - @roguetelepaths

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[lucy-is-bored]

Your doctor whomst liveblogs are giving me life, I've been a fan since high school and love seeing people experience it for the first time (this is roguetelepaths's main)

im aware of your existence lol

glad you like the batshit insanity and my endless grief over rose

[mexicancat-girl]

Oh my god thank you for being a THG/TBOSAS fan with some brains in your fuckin head, I'm getting back into this fandom after reading and watching TBOSAS and literally every second post in the tag was Snow thirst. Buddy I am here for Sejanus and Lucy Gray and critiques of our fucked up society. All this is to say I think I wept tears of joy at finding your Sejanus post and I'm following you now. — @roguetelepaths (I follow from a different blog)

Oh hey, I recognize your url from reblogging my Sejanus post! Hello!

Honestly, going into the tbosas tags gives me psychic damage. I've had to block so many tags and blogs because of their overwhelming thirst for Snow and inability to absorb a single theme or motif from the property.

I adore Sejanus and Lucy Gray and love critiques and analysis of the franchise! Hope you enjoy your stay. Block any fandom tags you don't want to see from me outside of thg franchise if you need to

[brightlotusmoon]

"I do not even go to TMNT but every post of yours that I see makes me wonder if perhaps I should."

@roguetelepaths speaks for a lot of my mutuals. Funny thing is, this is how the TMNT fandom had always worked. I know a guy who saw the original Mirage comic in 1984 as a teen and said "I have no idea what the hell this is but I'm in." And he's been collecting indie comics ever since. It was how I got into the fandom at nine years old in 1988 turning on the television to a Season 2 episode and going "I don't know what the hell this is but I'm in love and this will become part of my life."

No wonder Turtlemania literally took over the world.

[televisionenjoyer]

But does Poob *really* have it for me? — @roguetelepaths

for you?? anything. poob™ strives to serve you

[hyperiionvii]

this was meant to be for @roguetelepaths 's dominion week prompt "stranger in a strange land" but i am several days late. oops anyways here is my vorta Varis, on her assignment to Vulcan

[theimaginatrix27]

Fresh from watching a stream of Les Mis with @roguetelepaths and some of our mutual friends.

And the longer I watched and the more I saw/heard of Javert, the more incensed I became that Eddington compared Sisko to him.

Fuck you, you little shit, you claim to love Les Mis so much and you don't even understand the fucking story!

Sisko is NOTHING like Javert, has more in common with Jean Valjean than you ever did, and I really wonder if you mistook Victor Hugo's masterwork for a religious text and cherry-picked the scraps you wanted out of it instead of, I dunno, absorbing the whole fucking message.

You're absolutely an embarrassment to the human race, the Federation, the Maquis, and your own family name.

[swimmingchicken9]

re /swimmingchicken9/760158530255896576/i-want-a-story-with-a-character-who-has-never-felt

Lwaxana Troi and Odo have basically this arc in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! Of course, the writers then drop the ball on it completely by forcing Odo into a romantic relationship with someone else, but the accidental aroace rep is fun while it lasts. He's still aroace in my heart though 🥺

— @roguetelepaths

ooooh thank you! tbh, i've never really been big into star trek but maybe i'll try to get into it one day!

[dawnexpanse-central]

Infrequently Asked Questions

What is the Dawn Expanse, and why does it exist?

The Dawn Expanse is an aroaceagender worldbuilding project created by @roguetelepaths.

It can best be described as an act of radical imagination— if we only ever see ourselves as outsiders in an allonormative, amatonormative, binary world, then we have no choice but to accept our marginalization. If we build worlds with ourselves at the center, we can become confident enough to center our own needs and aims in this world.

Queer worldbuilding projects of all kinds are important and often neglected tools of empowerment, and this blog would love to connect with others running similar projects.

What do you mean, "aroaceagender worldbuilding project"?

The Dawn Expanse can be loosely compared to Aristasia (though without the reactionary and imperialistic overtones of that project) — a femme lesbian subculture based around a fantasy country where femininity and relationships between women were considered not just default, but a fundamental law of nature. I should note that while this subculture has been made up of people with varying and often abhorrently conservative political positions, it no longer really exists and those I've seen talk the most about it these days are mostly left-leaning trans women. There is no real-world subculture based around the Dawn Expanse, or at least, there isn't one yet, however, the basic principle is the same. The Dawn Expanse is a world in which everyone is aroaceagender. More precisely, it's a world in which gender, sexuality, and romance never had a reason to exist, and therefore do not. The project aims both to provide comfort to those who have the specific experience I'm representing here and to explore the unique social structures of such a world.

So do you hate gender/sex/romance, or people for whom those things are important?

If this blog was devoted to cat videos, would you ask me if I hated dogs?

I'm not aro, ace, and/or agender. Can I read this?

I'm not a cop.

I'm not aro, ace, and/or agender. Will I enjoy this?

I don't know. Will you?

Are you some kind of aroaceagender separatist?

No. The number of different experiences under each of those labels, the incredibly small subcategory of people who fit into all three, and the even smaller fraction of that group that experiences their identities in the same way I do would make an honest to goodness real-world "aroaceagender separatist" position both a laughable one to take and an impossible one to execute.

I am, however, an aroaceagender person who prioritizes my relationships with those who either share my experience or are willing to show that they respect and affirm it.

If the Dawn Expanse doesn't have 🌶️🌶️ spicy romance 🌶️🌶️, what does it have?

Literally everything else? Idk man, is your world so narrow that you think a piece of art has to have that to be interesting? You've got BookTok, 99% of AO3, and many, many sites specifically devoted to written erotica if that's what you're after. Let the rest of us have one thing.

But to answer the question in more detail, the tone of the Dawn Expanse aims to be tonally similar to animated series such as Steven Universe, The Owl House, or She-Ra and the Princesses of Power in its approach to balancing interpersonal conflicts with higher stakes world events. Thematically, it aims to explore community bonds, sense of place or lack thereof, and the false dichotomy of order and entropy.

Can I write my own stories in the Dawn Expanse setting?

Yes! I'll be writing a more detailed post about what to consider when doing this at some point.

Can I run a tabletop campaign in the Dawn Expanse setting?

Absolutely. In fact, one of my eventual goals for this project is a system-agnostic RPG setting guide. (Though, knowing me, it'll probably be biased towards the Cypher System, my favorite do-it-all RPG ruleset.)

You're really mean in some of the replies to these imaginary questions. Why?

I'm tired. That's why. The good news is that if you actually take the time to talk to me in good faith, I'm not nearly this much of an asshole. So the rudeness is probably not directed at you.

[galacticforces]

10 Movies that You Would Watch 500 Times.

The Parent Trap

The Princess Diaries 1&2

Deadpool 1&2

What We Do in the Shadows

Men in Black 1&2&3

Marry Poppins

Annie

Harriet the Spy

Labyrinth

The Princess Bride

tagged by: @ourcwnside tagging: @anchormuses @roguetelepaths

[omamervt]

Figured I'd ask permission since you are the person who inspired this idea - if I did a blog post series (not a podcast, I don't have the supplies for it at the moment) where I made Star Trek Changelings in various RPGs, would that be okay?

— @roguetelepaths

Hey man be my guest. I don't own the concept of taking one specific idea and applying it to as many different scenarios as possible

[10-4ward]

Losing it at @roguetelepaths tags

i'm sorry but this is 1 of the funniest spam texts i've gotten

[roguetelepaths]

enbygesserit -> roguetelepaths

[brightlotusmoon]

Hey, "Severance" is on my Plex account! I can finally watch it! @roguetelepaths didn't you recommend it highly?

[theimaginatrix27]

You know, when I started getting into DS9 fandom back in 2023, and I discovered @roguetelepaths' fic, I was more than a little surprised that writing the Dominion more sympathetically was so rare in the fandom. I had been sympathetic to them all to some degree since I watched the series back in the 2000s. My Galactic Warp AU was partially envisioning a future where there had been a longstanding peace between the Federation and the Dominion, and there was a Changeling on the main roster from the very beginning.

I have since learned, to my chagrin, that most fans of Trek either don't like DS9, or if they do, don't engage with the series' themes in a more nuanced way. Sure, some of that is on the writers (Behr in particular) for pushing the Unsympathetic-Villain-For-Real-This-Time narrative, but if you can't take cues from how the Cardassians and Ferengi and Klingons and the like were made more nuanced, if you can watch Far Beyond the Stars and not fucking see the parallels between how Black people were othered and how the Dominion races were othered, then I'm sorry, but you've missed the goddam point of DS9.

And it's due to this lack of engagement with the series that we get shit like what Nu Trek has invoked, because not even the people making Trek understand one of the fundamental messages of DS9. It made the universe of Star Trek feel lived-in. It made races we'd only ever seen as antagonists before seem more approachable, personable.

And then the writers tried to shove a new totally irredeemable interstellar empire at us, made them juuust interesting enough to hint at there being more than we ever got to see, and othered them anyway.

Not denying the Dominion is a dystopia, or that the Dominion War was terrible, but if you come away from DS9 loving Garak and Quark and still hating on the Dominion, I don't think I'm out of line to say Benjamin Sisko would be very disappointed in you.

(Him being less sympathetic to them was a result of bad writing and goes against his character in any other similar scenario, I disapprove of such slander.)

I can't stop people from focusing in on Garashir—I love those two as well, truly—but fics that actually engage with the meat of DS9 are rarer than I would like and I hope my offerings spark a trend that changes this for the better.

[roguetelepaths]

y'all have NO IDEA how hard I fought to not call this "the craving (lyta's version)". it'll always be an illegal rarepair song to me