#genders are for nerds anyway

[itsnixderlol]

Random questions since you have the book of Bill

Does it mention the axolotl having a gender?

I keep seeing people mentioning the axolotl in he/him pronouns and I can't tell if that's a head Cannon or a fact because I tried searching it up and I literally have nothing it just said the "axolotl has a confirmed gender" and it did not tell me what it was

This is for art purposes by the way I want to draw the axolotl in a pretty dress

Well.. from my quick look through the end of the book, I found only two mentions of any gender terms for The axolotl.

"Frilly guy" & "He"

But, Since the axolotl is a god being, I don't think it really matters that much.

I mean, the god christians believe in doesn't have a defined gender, but many still call it with he and him prounouns.

But IF we were to go based on these two words, I guess The Axolotl could go by he/him pronouns. But for what I know, its not really confirmed what Gender The Axolotl is.

Just draw The Axolotl how you want, in the end, I don't think anyone would really care if you "made it the wrong gender"

[songofwizardry]

it’s actually such a difficult time to be someone who’s unironically and genuinely and wholeheartedly into space travel, and believes in space for everyone, and thinks it’s bonkers that we have had zero (0) people who aren’t white American men who have set foot on the moon, but also who hates Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. (but also tbh it’s been hard for us Elon Musk hating space nerds out here for a long time.)

like I’m 100% not a fan of this billionaire Katy Perry space tourism… thing, but also. you don’t gotta write off space travel as a concept entirely as always imperialist/the realm of billionaires/pointless/etc. it doesn’t have to be this way come with me and I can show you a better world.

[lucabyte]

transfem loop + siffrin... you agree

i does agree.... i does in fact ... write a 7k word essay on the subject..... if you would like to perhaps click that link and read it if you were not already aware...... kisses u on the forehead......... sorry its that long but i had to cover all of my bases you know how it is with textual analysis when you're trying to draw a distinction between "headcanon" and "reading of the text" because those are different things.... to meeeeeeee.......

[waffliesinyoface]

On the subject of that last reblog, I was thinking about possible trans characters in yugioh earlier and I think the best possible character to hit with the transgender beam is Ryou.

For one, their intro chapter has this page:

(note: when I first read this chapter, this page caused me to feel indescribable pain for reasons I could not fully articulate at age ten.)

And the other reason is: Ryou & Bakura's relationship is so much fun, and I love imagining ways it might be more fucked up.

So, the train of thought is as follows: Ryou has extreme gender dysphoria but does not realize it due to the environment she's in. The idea of "growing into a man" is extremely viscerally unpleasant for reasons she cannot articulate. But also everything about Ryou's life is shit so she doesn't even recognize the discomfort as being there in the first place.

But Bakura has direct access to her soul, and can recognize it as A Problem.

And Bakura is just so helpful to his "landlord." If the idea of "growing into a man" is so awful, why not do something about it?

So Bakura possesses Ryou, breaks into a pharmacy, and steals a bunch of estrogen and t-blockers.

The doses are slightly more sporadic than normal, on account of "It's hard to possess his landlord every night" and "Bakura doesn't know shit about proper dosages", but it gets the job done. Ryou's skin gets softer. Body hair isn't as much of an issue. Her voice never cracks.

Ryou has no idea why, and assumes that she just got lucky. She still has to wear the boy's uniform, but, she's seen some of her classmates. It could be much worse.

And then, she meets Bakura

and Bakura reveals that puberty didn't just pass her by.

"You say you want me gone, but where would you be without me? Did you really think you avoided puberty by chance?"

And Ryou is suddenly. Extremely conflicted. She wanted that but she didn't realize she wanted that but also he didn't even ask before doing it and she feels violated but she also feels grateful but also she's terrified because she's possessed by a ghost with absolutely zero compunctions about permanently modifying her body without her knowledge.

Events proceed as normal - Bakura challenges Yugi & Co. to a game of Monster World, Ryou eventually breaks free and sabotages Bakura, causing him to lose the game and be "banished", etc.

A few weeks later, Ryou turns her room upside down and finds the HRT that Bakura had hidden from her. She's still extremely conflicted about it, but not having it means her hormones aren't being kept in check anymore and it is hell. She doesn't forgive Bakura at all, but... maybe this was fine.

Unfortunately, Bakura was only able to steal so much. There's not much left. And Ryou has no idea how to get more.

So when Bakura shows up again... Ryou is starting to get just a little bit desperate. She doesn't want Bakura to hurt her friends, but now... it turns out she does need his help.

[nyancreeperpony]

I hate when fellow queer people do gender essentialism, even if accidental.

"Men and Women just think differently" TF WE DO NOT! Men and Women are more alike than you think.

You'd just rather say "oh they're just like that" without understanding the complexities of the system we live in.

[afniel]

I am seized with a burning and sudden need to Get Super Weird With It except I'm also going to meet my partner's other side of the family soon and if I happen to Get Even Slightly Weird With It where they can see it, I will probably get to experience being the butt of uncle jokes, so I cannot do that right now.

But the moment nobody is looking I'm going to be so goddamn bizarre on purpose and who's going to stop me? No one. Definitely not me.

(And maybe I'll declare Fuck It We Ball and paint my nails anyway. Who give a shit. Well, unless my partner specifically doesn't want me to do that, in which case I guess I'll take it off again before meeting anybody.)

[asthmaticplushiedragon]

Friend: So who was your Gender awakening?

Me: ??? I didn't know that was a thing??? Who was yours?

Friend: hmm. Pidge Holt, I think--

Me: --OMG MY GENDER AWAKENING WAS PIDGE

[canisonicscrewyou]

Okay here’s the thing, some of you are asking for the 2019 Aziracrow Cosplay Pics** in my inbox, and upon reflection how could we not. You’re gonna get so much more lore than you could’ve ever asked for or wanted,though. This is a long post, and I almost want to apologize for it. **Pre-HRT baby face pics ahead

For context, Damien and I have known each other since freshmen year of high school, 2012. In fact, we had like no classes together, and whenever one of us mentioned our nerd shit in class the first couple of days, kids kept telling us we HAD to meet each other. We finally met in a history class after they got transferred into it, and exchanged fandom memes back and forth after school on the sidewalk that day until our rides picked us up, and pretty much from then on freshmen year EVERYONE thought and asked if we were two little queer kids dating in our Catholic School.

And of course we weren’t— we just sat in each others’ laps a lot, or grabbed at each other a lot, and were a little inseparable for a while. Neither of us read anything into this. We were also, very importantly, cringey little 14-15 year old SuperWhoLock girlies, only I didn’t watch Supernatural, and they didn’t really watch Doctor Who, and we both thought Sherlock was pretty good. We supplemented our own love for our special little shows for the other. We were so inseparable that Damien’s 1-month-long-freshmen-boyfriend got them a Doctor Who gift for Valentine’s Day. The key to the Eleventh Doctor’s TARDIS. (My favorite, at the time, and also one that I knew they definitely sold at the comic book shop up the block.) They break up with him for giving them chocolates with nuts(allergy), and immediately give my little autistic ass the TARDIS key at lunch. Neither of us read anything into this. This is a common theme.

Damien, at some point, tells me to read a book they love, Good Omens. Due to my brain being the way it is, it takes about 3-4 business years, until college, to read Good Omens at their recommendation.

Damien is one of my best friends throughout high school and college. I also think it’s important to note that they were a jock, and I was a theatre kid. And the only time I convinced them to do something, a haunted house, with the drama club, to share a hobby maybe, they got hit in the head with a lightsaber by a 1st grader and needed stitches immediately after we started.

ANYWAYS.

I get Damien into cosplay a year or so later- 2013? 2014?

But it also takes us years to cosplay together- we would help with each others’ cosplays a lot. By that I mean I built a bunch of their props and they helped by getting the supplies with me and generally just hanging out. It takes us until 2019 to cosplay together.

Good Omens is out on Amazon Prime.

We text each other.

“Do you want to do a couple’s cosplay of this?

Yes, yes of course I do.

And yes, of course you’re Crowley, and of course I’m Aziraphale. And of course I’m Crowley, and of course you’re Aziraphale.”

Pretty much every week that summer, we built our wings from scratch, from wire and masking tape and ethically sourced goose and duck feathers and mall Chinese food. We go out and plan and shop for our gay little outfits. We sit and talk in their car, in my driveway, for ages every time, every night.

Another fun fact: this was the same convention that I painstakingly painted their tits blue for. And also painstakingly helped them wash blue off of in the shower, drunk, later that night. Unrelated, Aziraphale was the first cosplay I felt comfortable in.

Another fun fact: while getting ready for the photo shoot we booked that morning, my family dog scared my cat Almondmilk, and he peed all over my Aziraphale cosplay, and I yelled a bit. Our photographer rescheduled, blessedly, and a few hours later our photographer was asking how we wanted to stage the kiss, since of COURSE there had to be a kiss, but instead we sort of just—

“We’re really good friends— We’ve known each other since high school— We’ve already seen so much of each other this is no big deal— Do you need another shot?”

“Uh-huh,” Our photographer says, knowingly. “I think maybe one more, if we’re comfortable with—“

“Oh yeah, no problem at all-“

“Uh-huh, Yeah,” Our photographer says, knowingly. “Tilt your head up more.”

Not many couples can say they somehow managed to get their first kiss documented and edited in HD.

Damien got nauseous at the last day of the con, and the only thing we had to help were these honey sticks from a tea shop booth. They couldn’t open the little sticks themself, with their fangs in, so I took them and ripped them open with my teeth to give to them. Completely, totally unrelated, though, I think this was the summer I began to realize, perhaps realize once more, that I was so absolutely done for for Damien.

Anyways all of that went SO well, that we were planning every Ineffable Husbands cosplay we could. Somehow, our most logical next choice was a fun and very quick, messy little boudoir photo shoot in my college dorm room, while they were visiting me 3+ hours away from their school.

Down so bad you lovingly pack wigs to go to college with so that you can have your best friend sit in your lap for your little ship.

We did that as Just Good Friends, literally in front of an old friend who took the photos and helped us stage the poses a bit.

We went to sleep that night in that bed. It was big enough to fit 3, maybe even 4 people if you were in a pinch. The bed was not treated like it was that big. (Note, we now sleep on a full sized bed, and it’s suddenly too small.)

And we talked for a while and we went to bed and all I could think about was how much I loved them no matter the sense of the word. And how many nights we sat talking in your car in my driveway for way too long, wondering if I should ask if I could kiss you. (A quick pronoun change, because I know you’re reading this.)

And

Nothing

Came

Of

This

For

LIKE

FOUr

MORE

YEARS.

Just good friends. Just good, good friends.

And that’s how Good Omens helped me realize, in retrospect of 2019, how in love I was with my Crowley best friend.

[elv-doodles]

Sequel to this post! I think I finally figured out the cybertronian design :) The alt mode is based on a VW caddy kombi. At least I'm pretty sure it is to the best of my memory lol Not shown in this image is the bumper covered in dumb bumper stickers.

I actually really like this I think :) It's been a while since I made a tfsona and it's so different to my old one lol

[gay-artificer]

Okay I might not have anyone here whos able to contribute to this question but, in the past, I have used 'Hermaphrodite" as a purely scientific word, with heavy stressing that it is not to be confused with the definition of intersex or used to describe actual human beings under any circumstances. This is in part because I've never actually found a good term to replace it, as a lot of suggested terms are... unfitting or somewhat mismatched in a strictly scientific/biological sense. A lot of the suggested terms from more worldbuilding-focused individuals are used more (or strictly) for plants, or at least in 99% of contexts tend to be used for plants or describe slightly more specific things than just "Animal with both sexual systems at once." Plants as a whole have like... god, like ten different terms for various sexual setups because they can be stupidly complicated in a way that you just aren't likely to see with most animals, which tend to be more simplistic (at least slightly, lmao). There's also the slightly more niche issue that a lot of suggested alternatives address the topic from the strict goal of 'replace the word' and thus haven't yet spread to cover some of the specific forms that can apply too, although this would probably be a pretty easy fix if everyone can agree on a term, but at least as it is I still seems like everyone is split 5 different ways on which to use. In terms of fiction/casual use I've generally been defaulting to duel-sexed, which isn't an actual used term as far as I know, just because its pretty self descriptive and also wouldn't have some fringe specific scientific use- which is an issue I'd think you'd only really be bothered by if you were dipped in a lot of discussions about fringe animal biology- which is where I think a lot of suggestions from individuals more on the intersex activism side tend to fall when the terms they raise clash against niche situational biology things. Ive also used non-gonochoristic which is both clunkier and less easily picked up by less familiar individuals, but is also basically strictly 'animal' in use. Recently I've seen cosexual, which admittedly I seemed to have missed because yet again its a term where 99% of its use is isolated to plants, although it seems like there is a handful of uses cases that applied it specifically to animals (But still ultimately fall back on the other term in order to clarify the specifics). At least in terms of recent suggestions its probably the one I think would be most likely to pick up traction as a replacement, but its definitely still mired in the problematic terminology (In that basically everything I've seen use it only commits to using it alongside the other term, rather than attempt to replace it) and also still heavily plant related. Although not to the degrees of some of the popular suggestions like 'monoecious' which is a fairly common and well known word- but its specific relationship with other plant terminology makes it feel ill-fitted for the role when its not going to mixed with plant bullshit. Seriously look at this:

I've also seen bigenital suggested recently, which I frankly think is a much worse/weaker word both in terms of just, terminology and also its finer application. And then a handful of terms that just very blatantly have too much crossover with other things. Also a dozen other words that I've seen floating around over the years, but they definitely exist as mostly peoples personal suggestions/solutions and not ones with any real traction. It's a problem I've seen repeatedly brought up, but have yet to actually see any sort of formal correction take hold. And I think part of that is almost certainly a bit of a clash between nerds trying to maintain the specific definitions of things in an area where theres already a lot of confusing overlap, Activists who rightfully want get things changed but aren't clued in as hard to more niche scientific terminology concerns like "This is specifically for plants who have a specific type of reproduction system organization with their flowers, and thus doesn't quiet work for something that doesn't have multiple sets of genitals in different arrangements as most animals do" and well meaning scientists who want to avoid the word and try using alternatives but ultimately fall back on the one people know and that they know scientifically describes the thing they want to describe even if it also carries a historically negative connotation with it. Which is where I'm realizing I've kinda been sitting, because things really haven't shifted once you sit down and read the stuff that gets put out, and unlike some... other words its specific use case is a bit less easily swapped out with synonyms. So you just fall back in on the less ideal but accepted within the bubble youre working in term. So I guess the question is, has anyone here actually seen something make some ground past just sort of 'this would be a nice replacement'? I'd frankly love if I've just somehow missed a big shift in language in the scientific community, but so often I just see people claim that one term is the new standard when its like... standard in that its used heavily in botany, and there generally is a split between botany and zoology in terms of terminology that people would want to maintain. (God don't let anyone tell you 'male and female' are the only options or bring up that stupid 'its 1st grade biology' bullshit. The world is so stupidly complicated and this would not be an issue if it was so simple but unfortunately we need terminology for all the weird shit exclusively found in three species of cactus) Anyway, I typed this whole thing up kinda just to see if anyone else had yet more terms they've seen around or even used actually properly in a scientific paper, and its a whole mess thats been bothering me with specbio for years and at the end of typing this I'm honestly just hoping more that cosexed/cosexual catches on. I think it forms a nice trifecta with perisexed/intersexed/cosexed. And hey, maybe it has caught on more in the sex and gender side of things (let me know if so, if you happen to be more familiar with that) cause I certainly am more clued in to the non-human biology stuff which is where you get weird things one single species of rose has decided to do we now have to name. On a lighter note. God I hate plants. They give me headaches.

[shepcdr]

sometimes I think about transing yishais gender (and mass effect technology would mean there is no discernable difference whether he is ftm or not at this stage in life if I did go that direction)... but honestly he's kind of just gender indifferent as it is. his body is only a vessel and that vessel is a weapon that he has carved and shaped into a tool to survive. going through the foster system and then ditching his (rather uncaring) foster family and living on the streets as a lone survivor. as little more than a prey animal that just Hopes it'll make it to see the light of day. his relationship with the tenth street reds, the first people to really have his back and look after him (and a gang that he was kind of Forced to join at threat of being beaten to death) treated their rship with him as purely transactional when he no longer wanted to be of use to them as a guard dog and a weapon. he had one relationship that was non-transactional and truly caring, but that was short lived and the death of that one guardian figure was somewhat related to him (gang violence related).

his identity and personal value lies entirely upon the ability to survive and to persist, no matter the cost... and like. there's no problem with the fact he is a man and is referred to as such, but he has no relationship to gender that matters. and i think that's cool

[mcnuggyy]

feel like the older I get the more complex and weird my gender feelings get… I can’t tell if it’s me understanding myself more and more and seeing just how outside of average peoples ideas of gender I am, and how much I do not belong or feel comfortable in extremely binary gendered spaces (pretty much everywhere let’s be honest lmao), or that adulthood comes with its own very specific and weird “genderedness” like being a woman in her mid 20’s is such a specific thing, a specific thing that I am NOT. And yet everyone can only see me in that context that I very much do not fit in any way shape or form and I don’t think even many Cis women do… like idk man. I’m getting older and tired and I just feel very out of place the more comfortable I feel with myself which is kind of weird and ironic maybe? Like I know who I am and what I am is just so not any of “this” and it’s very very hard to exist in a space that is very much flatland when I’m a whole fucking sphere, excuse my high school geometry reference LMAO

[misqnon]

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[zero-is-nebulous]

My dad is a massive nerd (it's where I get It from) so we watched good omens together, both seasons at release

Yesterday he said to me that he found it odd that they had Aziraphale and Crowley cannonically into eachother and in love in season 2, he said "cause I read the book and they definitely weren't like that in there"

He said "that's the trouble with having a season 2 based solely on the series, these days" and dude I respect and cherish my dad but, all the @neil-gaimen ask posts came to mind in that moment and I just said nothing so

Dad if you ever download tumblr, or god forbid read between the lines of ANY good omens media, I have mercy on your mind and soul

[giantkillerjack]

What up I'm married to a tall person who is basically Milo Thatch but agender, and uhhh, basically, yeah, everyone should be jealous and I LOVE MY CUTE TWINK NERD WIFE!!!!! 😤😤🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤👌👌

[nightwhisperstothesoul]

I love you so much for this, especially that the positions are done with the correspondingly numbered House. I genuinely gasped in queer fan-person when I saw them.

— The unknown book pages.