#like you technically Can trans your gender by magic

[foone]

I love trans fursonas. Like, this is not a person who lived a life. They aren't AMAB or AFAB because they weren't born: they were drawn or modeled or written or whatever, and what parts of their non-life that covers are entirely up to the creators. They can't be "trans" in the traditional sense because they didn't exist prior* to being a person who is trans, you know? They aren't transitioning from anything, there's no from to transition from.

They could look cis, in their appropriate gender. But they don't. They look trans, in all the forms that can take. Wolfgirls with bulges and catboys with top surgery scars... And that's why it's amazing. They could look like anything. Infinite possibilities and they look visibly trans. It's such a celebration of the trans experience because it's saying "this isn't just an unfortunate period between looking like my AGAB and passing perfectly", this is how I look, this is a valid way to look, this is a beautiful way to look, and there's reasons why you might want to look this way. This is can be a desirable way to look, in both non-sexual and sexual ways: you can want to look like this, and you can find looking like this attractive.

It's about the wish-fulfillment. It's about how it's explicitly saying "even in my wildest dreams where I can be a wolf who is a secret agent ninja with a billion dollars and five girlfriends... I'm still trans, and that's fine."

Cause like, there's no reason why your fursona couldn't just be cis, or trans but using magic or future science to pass perfectly! You could totally do that, and it's completely valid if you do want to do that.

But the fact you had that option and didn't choose it is what gives me such hope and love. It's the explicit confirmation that this is how you wanted to be that's so great.

* technically there are some cases where this isn't true: some people had a fursona that was the same gender as their AGAB, then they realized they were trans, and they transitioned their fursona alongside themselves. Those people are awesome, btw, and probably braver than any marine.

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

Propaganda:

For Orufrey: "They're tragic wlw who have devoted their lives to each other since they were kids. They live together, they cook together, they're raising four girls together and they're doing the best they can. Olruggio would do anything for Qifrey if Qifrey would just Let Him 😭 but Qifrey is dead-set on protecting Olruggio and keeping him safe and in the dark no matter what it costs... i cant 😭..."

"Man I don't know they just have the vibes. They have toxic yuri energy but they are two grown men. They've known each other since their apprentice days and have stuck together ever since. Qifrey's main magic type was something he took up because Olruggio proposed that he learned to control the water he feared. They live together away from most of society with Qifrey's four apprentices, living the sapphic cottagecore (ateliercore???) dream. Qifrey, due to the fact that his eyesight is very much failing, something which is very problematic when it comes to witches, who need their eyesight more than most, is getting very desperate to get all he lost to the Brimhats, the witches who took one of his eyes and his memories, and Olruggio ends up noticing this pursuit and is implied to have done this more than once. Qifrey does not want Olruggio to know about both his failing eyesight and his goals, so he ends up completely wiping Olruggio's memory of those things, and laments that Olruggio is a kind person, and one who would most likely forgive him again, but also one who would try to save him, even when he didn't want to be saved. He also apologized right up until the moment Olruggio's memories of his secret were gone. In general I think chapter 40 is the somewhat toxic guy yuri chapter ever. I'm very tired so I do not know how to explain any of this, I just thought "wow Orufrey reminds me of this one poll I saw on Tumblr" and then spent three days straight hunting for your blog before completely forgetting my reasoning for Orufrey being yuri right before I submitted this."

For Joongdok: "Well first of all Yoo Joonghyuk has a whole arc that is transfem coded as hell (has a power/technique that can technically only be used by women but somehow he can also use it, for a time he even turns into a woman to wield it and it's. Actually just let me get the quote "The ines of the face had changed but it was clearly Yoo Joonghyuk. No, it was even more than before.") that just kinda happens,, and doesn't get brought up again but anyway. Second of all just look at them. You see the vision. Also a bonus observation is that these two often get shipped in a poly ship with Han Sooyoung and whenever I see people make a "regular couple, yaoi couple, yuri couple, I see no difference love is love" meme with them the combination of which pair among these three is which of the categories is always different"

Note: This submission also mentions Han Sooyoung, but I decided to count this polyship submission as guy yuri as well.

"They love each other, they pretend they don't care for each other but all their actions prove they care too much, if you remove someone from the trio then the resulting duo is extremely dysfunctional, as evidenced by more than a million words of canon. Is it technically guy yuri? Well, Han Sooyoung is a woman, but in a way she's one of the guys. Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk are men, but the text heavily hints that Yoo Joonghyuk is a trans woman who's just too busy and stressed out to transition yet, and Kim Dokja has just never thought about his own gender a single day in his life. They made the world for each other, they went back in time countless times and waged countless wars for each other, they wrote and read and lived a story, their story, for each other and that's what saved them all. The way Han Sooyoung writes Yoo Joonghyuk's story to save Kim Dokja and loses herself in the process, the way Yoo Joonghyuk voluntarily lives the story to the point of losing himself too and even forgetting why he originally decided to do it, the way Kim Dokja read Han Sooyoung's story which was Yoo Joonghyuk's life and that's how he found himself, they all took so much from each other and gave so much of themselves to each other, this is all very yuri."

"they're so yuri you have no idea. they have every staple of a yuri ship. unwavering devotion. waiting dozens or thousands of years for each other. dooming themselves and the world for each other. so much yearning. i also see them genderbent a lot (including inn canon in the case of yjh) and they're right both of these people are women. i genuinely can't even see them strictly as men at this point they're just yjh and kdj and they are yuri do you understand."

"they're so yuri. the abscense of yuri is the presence of yuri etc etc. these two guys are all ABOUT abscenses. also one of them is a part time woman. the other guy is a guy but like in the same way a square is a rectangle. anyway they're so guyyuri to me. bonus points also because they have a mutual girlfriend and when she's present they're girlyaoi but that's not relevant to this specifically"

[anthurak]

One thing that always feels so funny for me when it comes to the Rosebird Parents Theory isn’t when people simply disagree with the theory, but rather people apparently seeing the prospect of a ‘Raven is Ruby’s real father’ reveal to be this totally unthinkable thing and how could anyone ever think this could happen?!

Because once you get past the whole ‘two ladies making a baby’ hurtle, Raven being Ruby’s dad really fits into so many well-known fantasy/sci-fi tropes. Many of which RWBY notably has not done yet, or have already been tied to Raven herself.

I mean, the mysterious villainous and/or anti-heroic loner with ties to the family pulling an ‘I am your Father’ reveal on the protagonist? That’s a fucking CLASSIC. Hell, let’s consider a few things about Raven:

Big, intimidating helmet.

Clear Samurai inspiration.

Wields a katana-like sword that technically has an energy blade (dust=energy) which is generally RED-colored.

Possesses mysterious and terrible over-worldly powers.

Has a mysterious past tied to our protagonist’(s) family.

Was probably in love with our protagonist’s (apparently) dead mother.

Yeah I’d say Raven makes for a pretty good Darth Vader-expy.*

Beyond that specific case, we’ve already seen the story connect Raven to a BUNCH of ‘mysterious and angsty deadbeat dad who left their kid for unclear reasons’ tropes when it comes to Yang. Why not have those apply to Ruby as well? People have been clamoring for years about wanting to see Summer’s narrative dynamic with Yang explored as much as the one she has with Ruby, so why not have the reverse be true with Raven and Ruby as well?

After all, it seems that the story has now given Ruby a reason to seek Raven for answers just as Yang once did.

And as I’ve noted in previous Rosebird Parents posts, No I don’t believe Raven also being Ruby’s deadbeat dad would be somehow ‘redundant’. Particularly because the context is completely different: Yang has known that Raven is her birth-mother for most of her life, whereas Ruby would only just now be finding out that Raven is her birth-father. Far from being redundant, this would allow the story to explore two very different responses of kids to an absent parent: One who has had to live with the knowledge of that absent parent for years, and one who hasn’t and has to deal with this NEW information suddenly getting dropped on her.

Plus, as I alluded to earlier, it’s rather notable that RWBY hasn’t done some big ‘dramatic parent reveal’, given how much of a staple it is to the genre. And given how reimagining, twisting and flipping classic and well-worn fairytale/folklore/fantasy tropes (often via playing with gender-roles) is basically RWBY’s bread and butter at this point, I’d say giving the series heroine an ‘I am your father’ reveal from a woman would fit PERFECTLY in this series.

And if you’re going to ask ‘but how do two ladies make baby?!?’,

Raven can be intersex. Boom. Done.

Alternatively, magic.

As an aside, yes Summer being trans is a perfectly viable alternative. I just think logistically speaking, Raven being intersex and being Ruby’s ‘father’ makes a dramatic reveal a bit more streamlined. Also, the idea of Raven managing to be BOTH a deadbeat mom AND a deadbeat dad is just too funny XD

*Of course, this comparison gets even more fun when we consider Summer having her own Vader-parallels, ie; Summer almost certainly being taken by Salem and given what we can probably assume to be a Vader-esque makeover via grimm-hybridization in setup for a big reveal. So when we combine this with Raven, I think we can view what happened on their last mission as ‘What if Padme/Obi-wan got turned into Vader INSTEAD of Anakin?’ Like Raven in the present is basically Anakin doing Obi-wan’s traumatized hermit shtick, except all angry and edgy because it’s still Anakin.

[system-architect]

no one tagged me in it but i rlly wanted to do a character tag meme like ive seen ppl on my dash doing so,,, :"") here's the one that's been going around, for plex!

personally obsessed with the fact that his ingame visage is extremely babied boy and then when i draw him it reveals the fact like oh this is a very tired, awkwardly built, angular guy who's nearing 30. ok anyways, stuff below the cut!

-- B A S I C S

Name: Plex (fully titled: Infotechnist Plex)

Nicknames: (none. his handle on various console software is pl3x tho)

Age: 28

Birthday: 63 Scion 1308

Race: Asura

Gender: trans dude of some kind, he/him

Orientation: gay

Profession: he is an Inquest Technician very literally! minus the wiki bit mentioning magic since the stock npc is an ele lmao. ingame he's an engi, but as a character he has no combat skills whatsoever other than basic required training on how to use a firearm (which he hopes to never have to use)

-- P H Y S I C A L A S P E C T S

Hair: white (technically very very platinum blonde, natural)

Eyes: they're technically black with permanent yellow nightshine going on in his pupils. or irises. whatever the yellow dots are. don't worry about it.

Skin: albino (w/ light cream-tan stripe markings)

Tattoos/Scars: he's got a Y-shaped scar across his chest, and a couple of metal ports embedded on the right (viewer's left) side of his chest near his sternum, which have scarring around them

-- F A M I L Y

This section of the report has been obscured from view by the Inquest Legal Bureau at the behest of Redactor Trejj. Please contact your krewe's Overseer to initiate the proper clearance check measures if you believe this was in error. If you do not believe that it was in error, and instead that your ability to access this report whatsoever was unintended, please close the report at your earliest convenience and report to your facility's Inquisitor to be disciplined for reading this far.

-- S K I L L S

Abilities: Adept programmer with an eye for detail, and a photographic memory for numbers/strings of code specifically. Excels at combining complex pieces of information.

Hobbies: Gaming, movies/animations/shows, putting together model kits. Gets in a lot of arguments on programming and golemancy forums.

-- T R A I T S

Most positive generally helpful traits: Hard working (....usually), fast + thorough at things he puts his mind to, prefers to stay out of other people's business, good at keeping secrets, relatively open minded, has a pretty big capacity for empathy (even if he doesn't always show/use it)

Most negative generally unhelpful traits: Has a big mouth/isn't able to suppress his opinions about certain things, picky/fussy/whiny, socially awkward, tends to make interactions tense quickly, deep insecurity that bleeds over into how he acts around others, wants to 'win' things constantly, easily gets an inflated ego from said 'wins' that leads him to bite off more than he can chew after that

-- L I K E S

Colors: black LOL. also yellow (matches him!)

Smells: fresh coffee, cool rain on concrete, lemon, pine, canned air

Textures: leather and suede, soft fabrics (but not 'plush')

Drinks: coffee of course... also novelty flavor energy drinks even though they make his stomach feel like it's caving in on itself every time

-- O T H E R D E T A I L S

Smokes: lord no he'd start coughing on it

Drinks: his alcohol tolerance is about -2 so this is also a no. the man's veins and stomach lining are made of like.. tissue paper

Drugs: what do u think

Been arrested: no.. aside from being in the inquest (Which Is In Itself Literally Not A Crime) he's a fairly law abiding mild-mannered citizen lmfao. i mean he probably torrents things under a vpn but that's very low on the list of concerns for the peacemakers,

[damnfandomproblems]

This is the person who wrote fandom problem 3657 about gn!readers

Love how everyone assumed I hate gn/nb!reader fics rather then taking five seconds to think and realize that I hate the fact no one tags them -_-

I'm not mad that people are making gn!reader fics--make them all you want, if if makes you happy then hell yeah keep doing it--I'm mad that they won't show and ounce of consideration and just tag the fucking thing as a gn or nb!reader! I have to fight every goddamn day to get people use she/her for me because people will constantly undermine my gender and use they/them instead as a way to advoid fully calling me a women, so yeah, they/them pronouns being used to refer to me in any way is triggering because they are used to constantly to misgender me!

I am not asking people to stop making gn!readers, I am asking people to tag them! How the hell does me complaining about people not tagging their shit correctly in anyway make me a bad guy?

"Oh you're a loser!" HOW!? I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO READ X READERS WITHOUT GETTING SUICIDAL BECAUSE NO ONE WARNED THAT THIS WAS OR TAGGED IT AS A GN!READER!!!

WORSE YET SOME PEOPLE WILL PURPOSEFULLY TAG IT AS A FEM AND/OR MASC READER BECAUSE IT CAN "be read either way" or "it's gn so it's technically both"!!! How the hell am I suppose to avoids those!?!?! Why should I be expected to magical know and avoid those fics rather then the writers being expected to just tag it as a gn!reader???

"Oh but how do you keep reading so far in if it causes you dysphoria" a causally use of they or them is fine, but once I realize that's all that is being used, I feel like stupid idiot who just been misgendered for the past X minutes that I was reading and was too fucking dumb to realize it, and that is what makes me dysphoric! It's the realization itself that cause the dysphoria, not the actually reading of it!

I lost count of how many times i went into a fem!reader x fem character tag only to realize that it's actually a gn/nb!reader x fem character fic and get so upset (because y'know dysphoria is inherently a nonsense but extreme uncontrollable feeling but go off on how I'm over reacting, it really helps /tone tag:fuck you), and have to go on a walk so I don't hurt myself because I despite looking into the fem!reader tag, blacklisting nb/gn!reader tags, I still got some prick decided to post their gn!reader fic untagged and unwarned in the fem!reader tags because its "inclusive"

Guess transfems who have dysphoria over being misgendered with they/them pronouns constantly shouldn't be reading x readers though, my fucking bad. how dare I want people to just tag their shit correctly though, so lame and selfish and weak of me. So fucking lame and childish of me for not feeling included in these 100% amazing "inclusive" fics and wanting them to be tagged

Fuck all the pricks who help confirmed my beliefs on how fandom refuses to accept "undesirable" queers. God forbid not every trans person is comfortable with they/them

Just fucking tag your gn/nb!readers, I'm not a bad person for wanting that

And in advance, double fuck you to anyone who still wants to agrue about how inclusive gn!readers are and that it isn't a big deal when they're untagged because they're so super duper inclusive even though they are often dysphoria inducing and unavoidable when not tagged. shit in your hand and swallow it asshole

Posting since this is a response to a previous problem.

[demondamage]

I'm sorry if you've already answered in another ask, but I haven't seen it: if your angels and demons have (largely unrestricted) regenerative and healing capabilities, how can they maintain their gender-affirming alterations (whether masculine or feminine in nature)? Did they receive their gender-affirming care while human? If a demon or angel determined they were trans after death, how would they alter their form appropriately? Generally - how does this part of your lore work?

Anon I love you for this ask holy FUCK-- Because I have like-- the first bit of this figured out and then you throw a whole ass wrench in my lore?????

So- when a human dies and ends up reincarnated, if they become an angel they are made a brand new body separate from their human one that is aligned with how they see their ideal self. Because of this, a lot of angels who were trans in life and wanted to fully transition on the Male or Female side of this are basically reborn in a cis body (this is what happened with Haziel!!). For NB angels or trans angels who did not want to fully transition, or who's ideal self carries visible markers of being trans, their new bodies will be aligned with their ideal self in that sense. Same sort of thing with disabilities and body types- an example being Kotarou, albino and not the best vision, never considered himself having a life with great vision and as such his afterlife involves him using magic and other skills since he does not technically see the best. Its rooted in personal choice I guess?

Demons are a lil different, since instead of being gifted a new body upon reincarnation, they instead have their human body changed and "corrupted" into the demon form. A similar rule applies, their body will change to reflect their gender/other aspects as they see themselves, however the transition is less perfect, with heavy scars/body horror stuff and may appear more "trans" than an angel would (hence why Aziphem's top surgery scars are dark and visible). I haven't drawn many demons, but when I do, I love to take inspiration from wild displays of gender and a love of trans bodies for how they differ from cis bodies? IDK a lot of this aspect of the lore is born from my personal relationship with my own trans body and how I am perceived by others/vs myself? I wont dump my own personal lore here lol yall didn't ask for that-

Anyways, these forms are what they revert to when they heal, and as such, any gender affirming modifications would be considered inherent to their form.

Now where you throw a wrench in my lore is what happens when an angel or demon transitions after death--

My best guess (I say as if I do not write and control the lore in this universe...) would be that their form would change as their view of themselves does. With angels it would probably be more fluid and smooth, vs demons where it would be more physical in the sense they are actively performing these modifications on themselves. This would also apply to gender fluid folks if I think about it--

The root of a lot of this world's magic is based in manifestation. The ability to say things into existence (especially for angels since they are derived from the diety of creation-). I've written a lil bit of Kotarou using magic where using commands he can force someone to do something, and that would apply with just about any situation? So with gender being such a strong expression of self, I would imagine that it would be able to alter an angel or demon's true form, even after it was created and even in creatures who are not that attuned with magic.

Anyways- FANTASTIC ASK Anon, I gift you a cookie, a head pat, and send you on your way.

[sapphsorrows]

“Closeted” bookish radfem-adjacent waayyy too into the YA booktwitters side and at one side I do respect Xiran Jay Zhao as like she does call some shit out that needs to be. Like the review bullshit she should be angry about.

But she is setting herself up for failure this way and it will bitr back. Like I have seen this mental superiority call out persona before. There was another “nonbinary” author Rin Chupeco who made a reputation of not being scared and calling out and being Woke, who than got “cancelled” for a take about use of slurs in historical books. Like the thing is everyone has one controversial opinion or did one shitty thing and when that comes out the payback will be bigger than when you… ironically what they say JK Rowing should do… shut up. Especially if you are so loud i wonder what you are overcompensating for and what you have in your own closet like all these peoples are probably the behind your back bullies they call other people out for. I think she did get close to being “cancelled” once as people got weirded out how she talked about her main poly ship. Like her book is YA, older-YA i think the main character are like 19 so technically adult but the border of it and she kept making if I don’t confuse her for someone else sexual jokes/comments about her main character and their poly relationship while they are barely adult and in the YA space which freaked people out. But i might confuse her for someone else and it led to nothing but i have it vaguely into my mind.

Also she is WAY TOO DEEP into gender brainrot like she is nonbinary with a statement “look everyone can be nonbinary if i could be a wizard with a beard i would but i am Not don’t invalidate” as she is like… 100% a woman to everyone who hasn’t heard her say she is nonbinary. I haven’t read her book yet but i’ve seen a passages going around from one of her books in which she is like “oh gender feelings” and it’s a excerpt of if i remember the mc wanting to rip of her breast as that’s the reason she is discriminated in the society she lives in and i’m just like “girlie that’s just sexism… you are describing an opressed persons reaction to oppression not magic gender feelings”.

And her book too is about sexism. I got an arc of it and I remember that she used the word SEX based opression in there to describe the foodbinding she refers to in the novel… not sure that made it to the final edition. But the fact that’s featured already. Also i need to still read it but i’ve heard her first book for being feminist, has barely any woman nevermind positive woman other than the mc. Like they just aren’t there or otherwise “submissive”. She has tweeted that book two has side characters lesbian and is going to go deeper into class solidarity and that it was on purpose the MC thought about woman that way as a deliberate character flaw but that we will see.

As last one beef i do have with her that she once tweeted about a “girls in the turning competitive world are using puberty blockers THAT IS THE ISSUE RADFEMS SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON AND A CRIME NOT POOR TRANS KID USING THEM” (turning like with trampolines if i have translated it wrong) while I’m just like… that’s such gender brainrot for me. As according to your logic teenagers can decide if they want puberty. While it’s a scandal and probably pressured by the coaches… according to Gender Logic this falls under body autonomy right? Maybe these teens ALSO have very intense feelings that they want to not age who are you to judge that their feelings are from pressure but no that is the wrong way to do it and dangerous compared to the pure totally-not-affected-by society trans kid feelings. Like it felt like such a double standard the fact that they could feel it was wrong in one situation but not the other was baffling.

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[pinkhairswagtourney]

has anyone submitted tetia propaganda yet? she deserves some propaganda so I'll do it <3

tetia is one of the four apprentices at qifrey's atelier. she's the first to welcome and accept coco, a new apprentice who's viewed with suspicion because she came from outside the witch community (a rare and technically illegal occurrence). she's bright and creative, and more than anything else she wants to use magic to help people in every way she can. her altruism leads her to be the first apprentice besides coco to start questioning witch society's severe laws and its gatekeeping of magic. this is a major thing for someone like tetia, who grew up her entire life in this strict society.

the manga's still ongoing, so her backstory has been hinted at, but not revealed. however, what we do know reads as rather trans-coded. in one of her most emotional scenes, she talks about how clothing can transform a person's image of themselves as well as how they're seen by others: "i think that being able to become anything you want to just by changing your outfit is a kind of transformation magic." the emotion in that moment is so raw and earnest, and she says transformation through clothing is something super personal to her. the artwork in that scene also plays around with gender roles a bit!

it makes me happy that tetia's gotten this far already. we can do this 🙏

!!!

[iamthespineofmybook]

So, I've been listening to Trope Talks again (I do that a lot), and I had recently been in a conversation about Harry Potter fanworks, and whether we (the participants in said conversation) still interact with them. And these two things have come together in my head to start formulating Better Wizarding World idea.

So, first off, magic in this setting has no power level kind of thing. One is either magical, non-magical, or anti-magical, and which one it is is purely genetic. The world is mostly the same because all sides of any given conflict had a general mix of all three in each society, though the number of visible magic users would vary depending on the society they were in; you're not gonna say you have magic if the law says people with magic will be killed.

This lends itself retroactively to making magic something that only shows up after puberty, because social pressure caused an evolutionary shift so that only magical people who didn't reveal themselves during the emotional period that is childhood and puberty survived.

The way I've set up the genetic side of things is via three markers: M1, M0, and M-1. If someone's got two M1s, they have magic. If someone has two M-1s, they have antimagic. Everyone else doesn't have either. People who are antimagical are indistinguishable from nonmagical people until they come into contact with magic, whereupon they act like Kamijou Touma of A Certain Magical Index, except it's their whole body, rather than just the right hand, automatically and completely negating all the magic (but still susceptible to secondary effects).

Also, there's a lot more acceptance of queer people in magical groups in part because of magic's ability to let people be who they want to be. Transformation magic helps trans people, but it also is the reason for the legend of werewolves because even Ancient Greece and Ireland and such had furries.

Speaking of transformation, modern science in this world determined that being transformed by magic does not actually alter your genetic structure or how your body reacts to things, so you can transform into your gender, but it won't get rid of your peanut allergy nor will becoming a wolfperson give you a theobromine allergy.

As for the modern era, magic people actually are more visible in part because they can just say they're cosplaying or their videos have really good special effects. It's also not technically a hidden world so much as a low-key world; magic exists in about an eighth or so of the population (not a hard number, I'm still thinking on that one), but it can't do miracles (I should probably think of a maximum power one spell can produce as a hard cap for everyone. No Wandas or Zatannas here). In fact, overdoing it can kill the person doing it.

I also don't really have a plot. I have two ideas: one antimagical person is extremely angry that they can't interact with magic at all and is gathering antimagical followers to fight about it, but that feels too... racism parallel-y for my comfort.

The other idea is a basic slice of life story, it's just that there's magic involved and the protagonist is learning all about it thanks to the surreptitious "does this 16-year-old have magic" test done at school that opens up a whole new world of possibilities for what they can do with their life.

[northern-passage]

Is/Will there be bottom surgery in the game? Like, is it something that exists in the TNP world and is it something the Hunter can have?

it is something that exists. just like top surgery it's a combination of alchemy, magic, and medical science.

i'm not quite sure if it will come up in game, though. i do have scenes already written in chapter 2 that make brief mention of your top surgery, or your binder usage and/or hormone therapy.

You press a hand to your chest, a phantom ache as you remember that first conversation with Rodrick - so long ago, now. He helped you through your transition more than anyone else. Jorah, too, of course, but there was always more of a connection with Rodrick - your shared experience. It was his recommendation that led you to the reconstruction surgeon a few years ago, the same surgeon he had gone to, someone familiar and willing to operate on hunters like you.

for future intimate scenes i'll be giving the option to specify your parts, like i did in siren's call, but again i'm not sure if specifying bottom surgery will come up as well. technically the passages i've written like the one above (two different variations for removal or implants) could be interpreted to also include bottom surgery, but it's not assumed by the game - like i said, you'll have a chance later to choose what parts your hunter has, and also just because you've had top surgery doesn't automatically mean you've also had bottom surgery, and you also could have had bottom surgery without having top surgery, as well.

in general the game doesn't assume anything; that's why i have all of the choices separate, like your gender identity, your pronouns, hormone therapy, and the chest options (and eventually bottom options) - no one choice equates automatically to another. no option automatically makes your hunter trans or cis - that kind of language doesn't exist in the tnp world, and also gender/identity/presentation is way more complex than that. cis people can play around with their gender presentation just as much as trans people can, and i use multiple variables to try and avoid implying anything to give as much freedom to the player/hunter as possible.

all of that to say, if there is a chance for me to include a bottom surgery option naturally in game, it's something i would like to do, but it's not something i'm actively Planning, if that makes sense.

[thegatesofinfinitespace]

you. grabs you. popular/staple dishes and/or cuisines in Soul-Bound. how do these vary by region? what about culture? what about class/status -- is there a difference? what is considered a delicacy or luxury food item?

DISHES ASDASDSADASDASAAA

Okay! So,,, to start: the current timeline of Soul-Bound is a lot like that of our modern-times, but with magical elements added in. That means you see a lot of the same foods and meals that we do in our own world and countries (ex: Vesper is technically Welsh, on his mother's side, so he enjoys those kinds of dishes).

The cultural system is similar, with minor differences in how society treats itself more than the foods they eat. I'd say that this concept is common with most of the works Kara and I make, since we'd prefer writing societies where social concepts like queerness doesn't really get mistreatment and confusion, it's just a staple of life and thus does not matter to the environment as a whole. Being a shapeshifter and being trans is like. Basic. There's no hate against whether you like the same gender or something else, gender is a loose concept anyways, you get the idea.

Tangent aside, random foods from pizza, ramen, beef wellington, pasta, to salsa and chips, brownies and cake-- all these things still exist and are still made regularly, but! The biodiversity is what has changed. The ingredients are more diverse. There are plants and animals that may have gone extinct or don't exist in reality, that still exist in Soul-Bound.

So while the recipes and foods conceptually are very similar to the foods here per region, what goes into them may change more so than their general makeup. For instance, a meatloaf, but one of the meats is ground griffon meat compared to simply beef may occur due to a population of said creatures nearby.

(I only recently got into Dungeon Meshi, but I'd say that what ingredients are used in that series are very comparable to Soul-Bound. Things like regular iceberg lettuce exist and can be used towards food, but you could also say, use mandrakes to make up your salad too. As Kara puts it, "You make a familiar recipe with unfamiliar ingredients.")

As for what cuisines are considered delicacies versus normal, that absolutely matters on your species. I'd say humans are the most adventurous in terms of eating odd foods, but demons will eat anything yet absolutely adore things that have an insane level of magical potential in their makeup (souls, being the most obvious thing here, but eating the spells from a grimoire is equally something appetizing for them).

Cannibalism is also, a thing too in terms of like, not everyone has the response humans do to eating their own kind. Some are like snakes and don't think twice about eating other snakes, a demon sure doesn't care about eating other demons. Mers will eat fish despite being half fish. It's also abhorrent to do this with some species and totally fine to others, even varying on the individual level.

Eating another intelligent species sometimes doesn't matter; though it can become dangerous depending on the properties. Something can still be toxic to one species but not to another, and sometimes there are bonuses to eating certain cuisines. A human eating a mermaid's flesh could achieve immortality, but also said human could turn into a grotesque undying monster that lives forever in eternal agony! :) You never know!

Class and status affecting foods also depends entirely on the species too. Centaurs, being larger creatures, may have trouble traversing cities, and thus 'richer' centaurs may value such casual things as human street foods as something that could belong in a high end restaurant. Mermaids may like sushi and land-based meats because how the hell do you get beef in the ocean??? Fae may only enjoy fruits grown from trees that have only been watered using the most purified of water, and the most natural of soil (or they may only like soil that has been using compost from demon remains. crazy stuff).

[transingthoseformers]

Technically, every single transformer is nonbinary even in canon and here me out on this because I'm going to deconstruct a misconception.

Think about how the the majority of people* interpret the therm nonbinary. In fact, what do you see when you hear the term nonbinary? They/them pronouns, androgynous, an alternative lifestyle... a stereotype? I don't think i have to say on tumblr of all the places that nonbinary people come in a wide variety of shapes colors and personalities. But i think a common misconception is that being nonbinary is some magical third gender. And tbh that always makes me sad because can you imagine growing up thinking there's only two colors, red and blue, and oh maybe you learn that yellow is also a color and you go "cool so there's three colors", then realizing that holy shit wow there's an infinite amount of colors and shades out there! It's one of the things i actually miss about when i first started realizing because that beautiful learning feeling.

This is when I reintroduce transformers into the conversation. The meta reasoning is originallythe audience they wished to sell the cold war propaganda toys to, modeled the characters after the image they created, and only added the girls when they realized how gay the show had become. I believe the various idw comics were the ones who decided that on Cybertron the glyph(s) for he/him pronouns were considered neutral. A headcanon that I'm not sure if it's fanon or canon is that the Cybertronians came to Earth and went along with the genders and pronouns that the humans assigned them. Which I've seen many irl nonbinary people explain their genders like that "oh I'm ____ but I'm willing to let people assume I'm ____" which i admit I'm guilty of and has came to bite me in the ass.

How does this mean they're nonbinary? Well they quite literally do not exactly fit into the binary that human society has created because oh i don't know Robots who don't have the same culture as us. In a way they're all trans as they kinda transitioned from cybertronian gender to the human genders or otherwise alien genders. A character can be a man while also being nonbinary. A character can be a woman while also being nonbinary. A character can be genderfluid. A character can straight up just Not state a gender like Nightshade which is valid as hell; you don't need to sit there and explain your entire set up to nosy people valid valid. They're also you know fictional characters! You can have headcanons and popular fanon and an adopted take you saw one time. One of the major reasons I became an active member in this fandom rather than inactive is because of how much variety there is here.

*at least people who are allies because ofc transphobes are going to just. Not acknowledge us in any meaningful way and think of us in very impolite ways. They'll hear the term androgynous and think "I'll guess what your AGAB is and automatically assume you have the characteristics I associate with that and will refer to you as only that [often insert slur here]* if i have to hear the blue hair thing and the goddamn attack helicopter thing one more time i will end up killing someone and i know where i will hide the body.

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

hi!!! just wanted to ask what were your favorite sims 4 expansion packs or game packs!!

Ooooh, thats a toughie... I have all the packs so I tend to use them all, but I'll go over some of my favourites/most used and why!

Game Packs:

Spa Day

This is actually the first pack I got. I'm a big fan of the wellness skill (does wonders when trying to manage sims emotions) and the spa stuff (massages, saunas, yoga, etc). The aspirations as well can offer some good perks, I remember one of my sims completed a wellness aspiration and got the Calming Aura perk where they can calm everyone's emotions around them. Which is nice, so overall I like both the opportunity for my sims to relax and get pampered, as well as the benefit of wellness that helps with controlling and reducing negative emotions.

Realm of Magic

I'm quite biased to occult packs, since I really enjoy playing as occult sims and have historically had a preference for playing magic sims. Spells in the sims have some great abilities, and I've enjoyed having sims who can repair and clean with a simple spell, or summon food instantly. I think its a good fun pack, and I also like the nonbinary sage Morgyn Ember (I know technically he's not directly stated to be nonbinary or trans, but he has custom gender settings, masculine frame, feminine clothing preference, can't get pregnant or impregnate, can't use toilet standing).

Parenthood

I think this pack is great because it adds great features for parents and kids. New parenting skill, introduction of character values for toddlers-children-teens which can lead to bonus traits, school projects for sims to work on, parenting moments to influence character values, some nice objects for kids bedrooms. If you like having sims families and raising kids, then this pack is great.

Jungle Adventure*

The astrisk on this one is because mainly what I enjoy about this pack is the objects. Since I'm indulgent and like having Mexican or latin American sims, I often use a lot of the build mode objects for builds. The gameplay the pack introduces I'm not too fond of honestly, Selvadorada is a vacation world introduced in the pack, where your sims can go on Jungle Adventures and find relics and treasure in the temple ruins, and you can uncover and identify and sell or keep the artifacts you find. And that personally just feels. You know, more like a colonialist fantasy. And your sim can master the Selvadoradian Culture skill and be Just Like a Local and idk not the vibes I enjoy personally.

Werewolves

I just like werewolves :) It can be annoying managing it though. Werewolf sims have a Fury meter and if it maxes out they rampage uncontrollably, and werewolf sims also have temperaments which pick things that can increase their fury (such as my first werewolf sims first temperament was sensitive hearing, so basically any time a TV or radio was on for more than a few minutes he would get enraged and his Fury would spike). Personally I find the temperaments annoying, but with cheats its pretty easy to add/remove tempermants and fury. The difficultly with gameplay though is worth it because I really like the werewolf sims in the game (Kristopher Volkov, Lily Zhu, Wolfgang Wilder, Rory Oaklow)

Expansion packs:

Get to Work

While I only really ever play the Doctor and Scientist career (because I'm sure as fuck not gonna play a cop), I do enjoy the ability to follow sims to work and do tasks and such. It makes things more interesting to play. A solid way to spice up gameplay. The pack is still buggy, despite being released in like, what 2015? But overall I like the option of playing as a dr or scientist in a way that isn't just a rabbithole career.

City Living

I really enjoy City Living because of the apartments and because of the food. Its fun playing a sim living in the city, there's things that go on in the neighborhood, there are various festivals held that your sim can attend. If you like having realism or putting ur sims through difficult situations, dealing with loud neighbors or pushy neighbors or an apartment that needs TLC or an apartment that's haunted. Plus cheats can help with some apartment issues if you aren't a fan. The one thing I wish existed more was ability to like, edit an apartment building itself (you can change or edit or move exterior windows/doors at all). The other part I mentioned was food, and that's because there's like, 47? recipes introduced that your sim can only learn by eating at food stalls in the city. This includes things like curry, pho, ramen, taquitos, bahn mi, etc. It also introduces a special reward trait, spice hound (which means your sim wont get negative buffs from eating spicy food) and chopstick savvy (your sim wont struggle or be embarrassed when eating dishes that require chopsticks).

Island Living

Sulani, the world introduced in this pack, is really a beautiful place and the only place your sim can have a lot on the ocean. It also introduces mermaids as an occult sim you can play. Mermaids don't really have the same level of perks to other occult sims IMO, but they can be fun. Currently I'm playing through some generations of family in Sulani, so I've had some time enjoying the features of this pack. One feature I realized recently, is that one of the islands begins being rather polluted, with litter and algae and sad looking trees. And your sims can help conservation efforts and restore ecosystem of Mua Pel'am. It takes a lot of work but I rather enjoyed it seeing how the Island changes as you help local conservation efforts.

Discover University**

The astrisks here come from basically, I very frequently put my sims through university (which builds skill and gives you a jump start into careers). I don't utilize a lot of this pack, but I do use the university feature quite a lot! Sims can also live on campus and enjoy clubs and events on the campus, along with rabbithole things like attending classes, sitting in on guest lectures, tutoring students, visiting professor office hours. Largely I enjoy this pack for the story aspect of having my sims go to university, and I like how it builds skills (your sim can take an elective every term which you can select a class unrelated to the sims major where you can perhaps just build a skill you want ur sim to build). There's apparently a secret society somewhere you can join, but I only found that out through an accidental thing involving a mod.

Cottage Living

I might be biased because I'm someone who grew up around farms and graduated from an agriculture high school and I was a member of the FFA, but I really do enjoy this pack. One thing I enjoy is you can have a lot trait of "simple living" which your sim can only make food that they have ingredients for, but then each meal they make cost $0. Having a little farm or garden and ordering groceries every so often can lead to eliminating a lot of the costs of food and I also like the concept of my sims making all their food with ingredients. I also like having farm animals (cow, alpaca, chicken). Its just fun, very homey pack.

High School Living*

The astrsk here again comes from how I mainly like items and clothing from the game and don't care as much for the gameplay aspects. It introduces a lot of fun clothes and furniture and such, and the Social Bunny feature while annoying does give a way to easily increase and maintain relationships with sims without having to have your sim constantly going out and seeing their friends. The gameplay itself is fine, I suppose, following ur sims to highschool gets a bit boring at some point and really only is worth it when I feel like having my teen sim make friends or get a couple % points in a skill. The crushes feature (in which your sim can get a crush) is fine but can be a little annoying. The most annoying and the worst part is that like, sims will now barge into your house and ask to be best friends. Or love interests will barge in and ask to be your boyfriend/girlfriend. Or boyfriends/girlfriends will barge in and ask to marry you. And there's a known bug of adults asking child sims to be best friends and/or date them (it happened to a literal toddler sim I had). So, you know. Not great. Sometimes rather upsetting.

As a final note, I also really enjoy most of the packs but specifically: Courtyard Oasis, Fashion Street, Industrial Loft, Blooming Rooms, and Decor to the Max.

[emsquig]

if you fail to plan, you plan to fail strategy sets the scene for the tale i'm the wind in our free-flowing sails and the liquor in our cocktails.

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BASIC STATS

full name: emma claire squiggle

nicknames: squiggle, em

pronouns and gender identity: she/her, trans woman

sexuality: bisexual

birthday: 15 january, 1956 (capricorn sun, aquarius moon, sagittarius rising)

age: 30 years old

career: investigative journalist at the daily prophet

languages: english, spanish (mother's first language)

virtues: driven, intelligent, confident

vices: narcissistic, exacting, guarded

character inspos: paris geller (gilmore girls), blair waldorf (gossip girl), villanelle (killing eve)

MAGIC

house: ravenclaw

wand: elm wood with a core of phoenix feather, 10.5 inches and rigid. a truly dignified wand that would not easily be swayed from it's beliefs, just like it's owner.

boggart: it's her in the future, sporting sweatpants and deep circles under her eyes, with three screaming children hanging off of her. her friends had laughed the first time she'd seen it (your worst fear is being a mum??) but she knew that it meant a life of wasted potential, of falling into a role she wasn't born to play.

amortentia: ink from her quill, heady and familiar. the almost sickeningly sweet smell of gardenias as they grew outside her family home in the summer. the smooth, dark bite of good whiskey.

patronus: a hippogriff. she's only managed to cast the spell a handful of times, but she hasn't spent a lot of time trying. emma tended towards practical magic. anything further seemed like a waste of time to learn- emma knew her value was in her mind, not in her wand.

QUICK HCS:

emma throws a great party- the perfect balance of a classy affair and a rager.

her parents had her in piano lessons from the age of three- she doesn't have the passion to be truly great but she did achieve technical perfection

she is the master of the passive aggressive insult

her love language is telling you "oh, i just finished a book i think you'll love, let me give you my copy" and then writing a little inscription on the first page

she can be very tactful when she wants- she has a persuasive air around her perfect for getting a story out of an unwilling source- but she finds it takes too much energy and outside of a professional context she's much more likely to be uncomfortably blunt.

WANTED CONNECTIONS- more to be added!

"how'd we end up on the floor, anyway?" you say: a ride or die best friend, a come over uninvited with wine best friend, a trading eyerolls across the room best friend.

trick me once, trick me twice: emma can be ruthless when getting a scoop- in the pursuit of the story, she hurt this muse and they hold a grudge.

he wanted it comfortable, i wanted that pain: your classic ex connect! open to all genders- maybe there's hard feelings and maybe there aren't, but this muse thought emma was far too in love with her work to ever really love someone else. would love some variants too- maybe someone she dumped, maybe ex-FWBs, ect.

my knuckles were bruised like violets: friend breakups are worse than romantic breakups- emma's never had a hard time dumping her partners, but she still sometimes wants to call this person and tell them about her day.

i don't start shit-: emma can't say she's spent a lot of time thinking about her views on blood purity, but she has spent a good bit of time writing about how other people view it. this person affiliated with the order thinks that with her influence, emma could be a good recruit for the order- even though emma couldn't be less interested.

-but i can tell you how it ends: the bad influence counterpart to the above good influence connect! she is a pureblood, from a nouveau riche family, in a 5 year relationship with augustus rookwood- this person thinks it might be a good time for emma to give her talents to the death eaters.

[probablyevilrpgideas]

Making your setting more queer

Obviously, not everyone's gonna want this, but for those who do want to make their settings more queer, less cisheteronormative, I have some thoughts.

Fantasy and Sci Fi

The majority of games deal with settings where there are non-human sapient species that players can play. Since these creatures are explicitly not humans, and often exist in settings where there's some level of phlebotnium going around, there's really no reason to say they must reproduce or experience gender as humans do.

As an example- my take on kobolds has them as natural neuters who use alchemy to reproduce. Because they don't have sexes, their experience of gender is based on the draconic heritage a kobold expresses. My take on orcs makes them a mono-gender race, and all orcs are "orc gender," (something like Discworld dwarves) but also with a variety of additional genders based on how one contributes to their clan, and most orcs identify as both "orc gender" and the gender associated with their contribution to the clan.

Maybe your elves are particularly tied to nature/plants and so experience gender based on parts of nature or types of plants. Maybe your dwarves are particularly tied to the earth and minerals and so they have genders based on, like, stones or metals.

There's also no reason these creatures need to reproduce like humans do. As previously mentioned, my kobolds require an alchemical elixir to reproduce (tho that elixir allows them to sexually reproduce as [the majority of] normal earth animals do). Maybe the plant-elves reproduce through budding, or there's a special plant that they use to reproduce (in whatever way you want that to work depending on the seriousness/smuttiness of your game). Maybe the earth-dwarves are carved from stone in a ritual where two or more dwarves come together for that purpose. Maybe orcs have some kind of innate inhibition in mating, and blood allows them to overcome that. Or maybe orcs are less a true breeding species and more of a magical transformation that uses rituals to turn an existing being into an orc--if you want a setting where there are no baby orcs, this would be a way to do that.

While there are a lot of reasons that humans generally practice monogamous pairings, fictional species who do not have sexes or experience gender as real humans (broadly) do would have much less reason to mirror human relationship dynamics. My take on kobolds has authoritarian warrens that use mating ability as a reward and libertine warrens that hold orgiastic parties when the elixir is made, and neither has any reason to be monogamous. The former warrens probably discourage romantic relationships or, at best, ignore them so long as they don't hinder the effectiveness of the warren, while the latter probably tends more towards polyamoury and queer platonic relationships. If elves reproduce with a magic plant and rituals, there's no reason for them to have romantic relationships of any particular number of members, and ditto dwarves who reproduce by carving new dwarves from rock.

Humans

Whether in fantasy/sci-fi games or "technically the real world" games, humans already express a broad variety of gender experiences and relationship practices. The idea that "cisgender, heterosexual and monogamous is the norm" is relatively recent and fairly Euro/West-centric. While I don't have numbers saying that "not cis" or "not het" are in any way more common than cishet-ism, we certainly exist. And the further you get away from modern Western societies the less cisgenderness and heterosexuality are explicit things. A lot of ancient cultures just didn't think about sex/gender/orientation in the way we do, and a lot of them at least had a recognized place in society for people we would now consider trans/nonbinary/gay/asexual (that wasn't "punching bag" as modern society so often does....). A lot of cultures saw people who were what we now might consider transness or nonbinariness as a mark of divine nature.

Honestly, I would even go so far as saying a lot of cis people are really only cis because they've just accepted their categorization and never thought about how they identify or had a specific reason to identify as other than they were assigned, including people who broadly identify as they were assigned but might well be closer to demigendered. Given that gender is a socially constructed idea rather than something innate, this makes perfect sense, because no one is ever going to perfectly fit into these constructed ideas, and when they do, it's because of social pressures repressing and pruning away the things in a person that don't "fit."

[silver-tangent]

"If the world is magic, or so technologically advanced, so that people can literally transmogrify themselves, why would visible trans people even exist?"

For full transparency, I haven't heard this question in a while, but I as a writer have asked myself this question in the past, and I feel like it's super important to talk about.

The actual answer is honestly pretty simple:

BECAUSE REPRESENTATION MATTERS

Yeah, if you can just magically alter your appearance then technically you could just trans your body ASAP, and that's probably a really nice feel-good fantasy for some... but it's not the case in our world, and if we just make trans people completely invisible in our fiction, we're basically erasing representation for people that need it.

We struggle with being trans in our world. We are fighting for trans rights in our world, and because of that it's important to speak out about it in our writing.

There's a thin line between "A perfect world where everybody can be the gender they want immediately," and "A perfect world where trans people don't exist." and the problem is that transphobes will look at the former and see the latter. The problem is that if we don't showcase our struggles, people being spoon-fed transphobia won't see our struggles.

When I write magical worlds I will often say that people can't permanently transmogrify their bodies until they're legally adults, and provide them with hormone blocking spells and illusions, and other things that make them relatable to trans youth in real life.

I often include transphobic people and transphobic problems that these characters face. It's not because I'm transphobic, it's because kids who deal with these issues deserve to see them represented. They deserve characters they can relate to.

Trans people in fiction need to be visible and need to experience the same struggles that real trans people are facing now. Feel-good fantasy isn't bad, and I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying relatable fantasy is also super important, and it's not out of spite or transphobia... it's because there are people who need to see these characters.

There are trans kids who don't feel represented, who feel bad about who they are, who need to see their own struggles in fiction; and there are people whose starting point in understanding trans rights will be fiction because they're more likely to listen to fiction than listen to a lecture.