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A transfeminist transmasc analysis essay is forming in me and I feel like it has Good Ideas but we will see if it comes to light or is gibberish. Also drawing plush tf porn

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Something that i've been biting my tongue about since literally page 11 of Gideon the Ninth, but that never fails to make me giggle whenever i pick it back up:

Harrowhark's name being, essentially, Behold: the horrors.

Harrow: to cause distress

Hark: listen or attention

Pelleamena and Priamhark really sat down and named their hard-won genocidal spawn Behold The Horrors and nothing could possibly be more on brand for this book or really the ninth house as a whole

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(backseating you at the mortar and pestle) man you aint even squarshing it

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recently in the middle of a bdsm scene, i was about to gag my gf with a bit, and asked them 'sweetheart, do you have anything to say while you still can?'

and my gf, the most unhinged brat on earth, leaned in real close and answered 'yes daddy... i was DB cooper'

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About to go give a few superior officers high blood pressure

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Before January 2025:

If you are a USAmerican in a relationship that might be affected by legislation that dissolves same-sex marriages, who may no longer be recognized as next-of-kin, especially if you have children, get your rights in writing!

Your marriage certificate may not be enough to prove you have rights to make medical decisions for non-biological children or for a same-sex spouse or partner.

Go to a lawyer, get it spelled out as clearly as possible that you have a voice in emergency medical and legal situations.

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Soo, in The Locked Tomb it's been explained that guns are outdated, and nobody uses them anymore (except BoE). But what if we gave guns to the characters? (Spoilers ahead)

Second House: Both Judith and Martha has one military issued handgun. They don't use it, except when Judith starts saying she should take over, bc murders, emperor, etc. Then she howers her hand near the gun. (At the Teacher part, she emptied her gun)

Third House: I think Corona would have a cute gun, and everyone thinks she cannot use it. But she can, and she will. Ianthe has one concealed gun, for no reason, and Babs is banned from having guns.

Fourth House: SOMEONE TAKE THE GUN FROM JEANNEMARY!! SHE ALREADY SHOT SILAS AND BABS!

Fifth House: Abigail has one gun, just in case. Magnus has several, all taken from the Fourth kids. (Seriously, don't give Jeanne a gun)

Sixth House: The book ends 80% sooner if Camilla has a gun. The remaining 80% is Pal trying to take the gun from her. (He also cannot be trusted with guns, btw)

Seventh House: Normally Pro probably had a gun, what he never used, and never planned to. But he wrote 8 poems about it.

Eighth House: I think Collum should have a sawed off shotgun, bc it would be cool. That's it.

Ninth House: Gideon cannot be trusted to have a gun. That doesn't stops her from having a revolver, what Harrow used at THAT part. (You know which part)

Jod: Has one, old gun, what he never uses, but likes to talk about it while he has a tea party with Harrow.

Mercy and Augustine: They had guns, but Jod was forced to take it from them, because they just kept shooting each other in the leg during arguments.

G1deon&Pyrha: Bold of you to assume they don't have at least ten guns somewhere.

Cyntherea: The fight at the end of GtN would be different if Cythy had an assault rifle.

Alecto: Apocalypse Barbie. With a shotgun.

Nona: NONA PUT THAT DOWN!

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Soo, in The Locked Tomb it's been explained that guns are outdated, and nobody uses them anymore (except BoE). But what if we gave guns to the characters? (Spoilers ahead)

Second House: Both Judith and Martha has one military issued handgun. They don't use it, except when Judith starts saying she should take over, bc murders, emperor, etc. Then she howers her hand near the gun. (At the Teacher part, she emptied her gun)

Third House: I think Corona would have a cute gun, and everyone thinks she cannot use it. But she can, and she will. Ianthe has one concealed gun, for no reason, and Babs is banned from having guns.

Fourth House: SOMEONE TAKE THE GUN FROM JEANNEMARY!! SHE ALREADY SHOT SILAS AND BABS!

Fifth House: Abigail has one gun, just in case. Magnus has several, all taken from the Fourth kids. (Seriously, don't give Jeanne a gun)

Sixth House: The book ends 80% sooner if Camilla has a gun. The remaining 80% is Pal trying to take the gun from her. (He also cannot be trusted with guns, btw)

Seventh House: Normally Pro probably had a gun, what he never used, and never planned to. But he wrote 8 poems about it.

Eighth House: I think Collum should have a sawed off shotgun, bc it would be cool. That's it.

Ninth House: Gideon cannot be trusted to have a gun. That doesn't stops her from having a revolver, what Harrow used at THAT part. (You know which part)

Jod: Has one, old gun, what he never uses, but likes to talk about it while he has a tea party with Harrow.

Mercy and Augustine: They had guns, but Jod was forced to take it from them, because they just kept shooting each other in the leg during arguments.

G1deon&Pyrha: Bold of you to assume they don't have at least ten guns somewhere.

Cyntherea: The fight at the end of GtN would be different if Cythy had an assault rifle.

Alecto: Apocalypse Barbie. With a shotgun.

Nona: NONA PUT THAT DOWN!

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@bawdyknocker inspired me to make this, in honor of her providing transport for rabbi in her truck

taking suggestions for the yellow text

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SO for those of us playing along at home, are there any need-to-know bits for updating it with the *ahem* current and proper information? .... asking for a me

If you're trans and you don't have a passport, get one. right now. not in a month, not in a week, get started on it today.

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A long rant justifying one minor parallel of dialogue in Gideon the Ninth...

[GtN, Harrow sees the end, maybe the entire, duel between Gideon and Naberius Tern... After the Response trial, she says a very important thing, imo.] At the end of that fight, when Gideon gets the move on Babs and punches him, pulling back and getting ready to fight again, and Babs bitches about her, Naberius calls Gideon out saying she thinks “she’s some Nonius come-again,” and says she’s more of a brawler than a *real* fighter, like him. The Third’s technique is impeccable. Perfect. Pristine. Clean… preserved… stale… so maybe he’s upset that he lost to someone who was creative while at a handicap. Gideon could’ve taken off her glasses and her cloak. Hell, she could’ve USED the cloak like a net, which would indeed fit with a style of fighting consistent with the Cohort in a real fight, you use everything you’ve got. You stick the other bastard before they can stick you, or else yer dead. (thank you @chuusyfucker for positing the idea of the cloak itself as a weapon that went unused in that duel) and yet, after the trial in Response, when Harrow is babbling gayly about how impressive and incredible it was to see Gideon fight, *through* her own eyes, she makes special mention that Gideon is, indeed, “like Nonius come-again” There is no way she did not hear Naberius Tern make that shit-ass remark at her cav. There is no way she didn’t remember that statement and specifically draw a comparison in the moment she did, explicitly to tell Gideon, “no, for real tho, you *do* fight like Matthias Nonius (no really, you can trust me on this, I have idetic memory, and I have the horrid misfortune of knowing every verse of Ortus’ Noniad… if anybody would know and recognize [who is alive and here today], it may well be me)” I honestly just love how defensive she gets for her here. it's super sweet, and also marks a serious inflection point in their relationship and the overall narrative of GtN long rant summed; Harrow, gone fan-girl post Response, tells Gideon she very well *could* be Matthias Nonius come-again, is super gay for her in ways, and is super fucking proud of her cav

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I gotta settle a debate between me and two of my siblings:

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In a piece for The New Inquiry from back in 2017, George Dust states that when queer people complain about there being a top shortage, what they really mean is “nobody is fucking me the way I want, and I have no agency in that.” Alongside co-authors Billy-Ray Belcourt and Kay Gabriel, Dust suggests that many queer people align themselves with a passive or “bottom” position because they believe that role will absolve them of the guilt of really wanting things. They present themselves as what they believe to be the sexual party with zero power; the receiver, the accepter of action rather than its cause.

This position is drawn in contrast to the bottom-identified person’s idea of a top: the one who approaches, the person with hungers and desires, the person who decides which sexual activities will happen and how intense they will get. The top, from this perspective, is the stronger, more capable, more dangerous person. They’re the only one who can ever be guilty of intruding or harming somebody else. This power is scary, but it’s also compelling.

Dust calls this fantastical version of a top a “brute” — and they are the most cartoonish stereotype of what it means in society to be a man. Because it’s a cartoonish stereotype, no human actually lives up to it — and we’d probably revile a person even if they could.

Though queer people know we are harmed by the gender binary and heteronormativity and all the social scripts those things force upon us, its biases are still embossed on our brains. Without meaning to, we reproduce tired gender stereotypes in our relationships. And so we see expressing a sexual want as masculine, and being masculine as being more capable of violence and coercive control, and thus bad. We see failing to communicate one’s desires openly as desirably feminine, as well as a sign of blamelessness and purity — because on some level we still feel it is wrong to have desires.

But this entire worldview is a complete lie. Desire is not evil. Expressing attraction is not a violation. Failing to express oneself can be just as dangerous as not listening to someone else’s limits. Women can be abusive. Bottoms can sexually assault. No matter our gender, presentation, or sexual role, we are each capable of harm. And the only way to make a safe, mutually pleasurable sexual encounter happen is by going after it, actively, and communicating from a position of inner strength.

So how do you do that, if society’s been telling you all your life that you’re meant to date by acting like a deer passively snapping twigs in the woods, waiting for some hunter to hear you, and pursue you? (That really is dating advice that Evangelical Christian counselors give to women, if you can believe it).

By not fixating so much on what you’re doing or not doing to draw other people toward you, and instead thinking in terms of what you want and what you observe beyond yourself.

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