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The vault rangers are always looking for new members

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I love how Morwyn came out. Jill was great to work with on this commission!

Her story is on my website, and it is still being written as it's an ongoing D&D campaign.

Morwyn + alt version for Twilight Dreams on Twitter, such a lovely character to design <3

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You all should read Catnip. It’s a warm and kind hope-punk story with an adorable pair of disaster lesbians. Can love bloom between a cat girl and an AI? Absolutely yes!

hey if you really like G-Witch for the lesbians in space, maybe check out my book: Catnip!

Catnip has lesbians, polyamory, critiques of capitalism, and very importantly: the trans girl gets to be happy and loved. If you liked Suletta, then you might enjoy getting to meet the trans and neurodivergent protag of this book! If you like doting wifeguy lesbians, you'll absolutely love Alexis, a demigirl AI with a collection of yuri and a heart full of gay.

Catnip is available on Amazon, Itch.io (in audiobook format too!) and other booksellers

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Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - FINALS

This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

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She's so pretty! Jill is awesome <3

Look forward to some posts telling Morwyn's stories, just as soon as I have time to write! :)

Another one of the emergency commisisons! there will be an alt version of this one, but she's too cool not to share right away ;) The gorgeous Morwyn mac Tíre for twilightDreams (on Twitter!)

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Sorry I was dreaming of a world where trannies don't have to be inspired creatives or kinky sex bombs or skilled programmers or funny shit posters or successful women in STEM or perfectly passing or (often unwilling) voices for their whole community or perfect saints to get some God damn love and respect from people who aren't also trannies.

I hope one day we can all just be some chick.

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A Gala at the End of the World (Books, Fine Wine and Infinite Terrors, Part 3)

In which Essiala has to slum it in full gravity, deal with people in social situations, and wear fantastic clothes. At least she enjoys the clothes.

Less so the strange visions and painful changes they bring.

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Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Cannabis Works 2

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lycanthropy is a spectrum

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one thing i've always understood as Akira Toriyama's influence on manga, even if just assumption on my part, was how his cartooning came to bear when he started writing pure action manga. when I think of his contemporaries I think of overblown special moves like Saint Seiya or the gory fist clusters of FotNS

to me it seemed what Toriyama brought to the table was the satisfaction of clarity in martial arts

when you read his fight scenes, which may have become notorious when animated for dragging on, there's no question about what's happening in the action

a clear kick to the jaw

a clean line of action on Yajirobe's slice

I first noticed this clarity pretty quickly early on in the General Tao fights during the red ribbon arc, where entire fight scenes playing out with these clear motions on the pages

Even as it got more detailed later on, the clarity stayed

clear hits on clear fight scenes

and dirtier but still completely legible lines of action

And when he started introducing the big over the top special moves we got the same thing quite often in DB: that simple visual clarity amplifying the excitement

i'm not super coherent on it right now, i'm not the biggest shonen action fan all the time and maybe Toriyama didn't introduce the world to visually clear and interesting fights in manga.

but when I see any action manga showing off clean fight choreography or sick ass lazer beams that show off clear shockwaves of destruction, i'll always be thinking of the GOAT

RIP Akira Toriyama

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And here I thought I could not love the Tingler any more than I already do :)

What flavor of queer are you, if that's not too invasive of a question?

question is just fine with chuck it is kind of interesting story.

on LGBTQIA trot i am TECHNICALLY two letters

easy first one is B that does not need any more explanation. that has always been my trot

second way is what i have learned through talkin with my online buds way of non-dysphoric trans. it has taken chuck LONG time to understand this but it has been fruitful journey i think. long ago chuck would post online about becoming other people or things or concepts or wrestling with my IDENTITY as a buckaroo (whether that meant becoming sweet barbara or becoming my reverse twin or becoming the entire seahawks footballs team, very handsome). in fitting with my entire heckin LIFE some buds probably thought these were jokes when they were not at all. they were just personal artistic bubbles tumbling up and popping in ways i didnt understand yet.

but through posting these thoughts and THEN writing trans tinglers and talking to my trans buds online, i started to realize there are all kinds of versions of a trans identity INCLUDING the ones that rolled around deep inside of me that i never had a name for.

three events helped chuck understand this

first: the trans buds chuck talked to while researching harriet porber said 'well i always knew if i could press a button and change my body to match my gender i would instantly do this' and chuck thought 'of course woudlnt we all do this?' and they said 'well no, do you feel this way?' and i would say 'yes very strongly'. i will FOREVER be grateful to trans community for these conversations and maybe it is another reason why being anti-gatekeeping is so important to chuck.

second: thought about all the games i have ever played like a dang videogame or a role playing game, chuck would ALWAYS choose ladybuck character. didnt really think this was a unique thing at time but it is a pattern across whole life

third: chuck was trotting around with some buds and they all said 'whose bod would you choose if you could transform into any body?' (this is common topic for chuck believe it or not.) and the buckaroo guys went around naming the usual brats pitt or handsome channing and it got to chuck and i said 'obviously brie larson' and then the dang guys just kind of stared at chuck and then i realized 'oh, i didnt even think my answer was unusual but i guess they were only talkin guy bods'

these three things happened pretty close to one another but they were all bubbling up for decades and expressed in various ways even chuck did not entirely understand

anyway. chucks way is NOT that i feel uncomfortable in my body and it does not bring me grief. i am not upset about it honestly. i do not even THINK about it most days. however, it is all TRUE and in a purely technical and utilitarian sense of A PLUS B then YES, male would not be my preferred gender.

didnt talk on this for a while because there are MANY dysphoric trans buckaroos who go through a lot of hardships and i have gone through ABSOLUTELY NONE IN THIS WAY. it has not made my life more difficult and it does not haunt me, so i do not want to have my voice drown out other trans buds who need space to shout. i am very privileged so even though technically this applies to chuck i do not need or want any bonus points.

that beings said, part of my journey on the autistic spectrum was to recognize that EVEN THOUGH my personal story is not tragic, it is still an important one to get out there onto this timeline. IN FACT there should be more stories of buckaroos who love being autistic like chuck. i am PROUD of my trot and i love my autism (this is also why i wanted to explicitly say my lead character in camp damascus is autistic)

so in the same way, when directly asked, i will say: i am technically non-dysphoric trans ALSO this has not weighed on my life at all. my story is not tragic it is full of joy and excitement. i will not shy away from this because there are all kinds of buckaroos on this spectrum.

anyway that is my VERY LONG TROT hope you enjoyed getting to know chuck a little more thank you for this question buckaroo

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Arrival on Damaris (Books, Fine Wine and Infinite Terrors, Part 2)

It has been a while, but we finally had another session of Rogue Trader. There were many shenanigans with our utter himbo of a captain, but Lady Essiala is a decorous lady and would never record that in her logs.

She just has audio files of it saved for when she needs some amusement or the family needs a little blackmail :3

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Thinking about the fact that almost immediately before the Krakoan Era, we see Alex be prevented from seeking out justice and vengeance for Rahne (a redhead with a missing son to whom he was briefly psychically bound in the 90s, and to whom he was romantically connected in an AU Marvel put out in 2015) when she's murdered in a clear allegory for a transphobic hate crime,

And like, how that is reflected in how Alex is, in the beginning of the Krakoan Era, prevented from being the agent of Maddie's (a redheaded telepath with a missing son, who also hooked up with him again in a canon AU in 2015) resurrection due to the continued refusal of the Krakoan government to recognize Maddie's personhood — she's denied resurrection, a fundamental mutant right, because she is not, in her own words, "a real girl."

curious, very curious, especially in conjunction with the Mystique parallel I've talked about before.

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Justice for predstrogen.

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I don’t think I have the chops for D&D or other tabletop RPGs but I could make a good DM’s assistant. I don’t play the game but I sit and listen and then after the session the DM can ask me for ideas.

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The X Men 97 trailer ending: Oh noooooo what's Magneto gonna do now that he's inherited everything???? So scary!!!!

Us who read the New Mutants: HEADMASTER MAGNETO HEADMASTER MAGNETO HEADMASTER MAGNETO