#off-binary

[carapaced]

So I guess I was making things up or pretending 10 years ago when trans masc and nonbinary people who didn’t pass or express their gender in societally accepted ways were called “trenders” and “theyfabs” by the same people who would gladly accuse someone of being a blue haired liberal/sjw/feminazi/etc….Just another example of trans men not being respected as reliable narrators of their own experience!

[minamill]

🔧 Xiu Peng (they/she)

✏️ Devi Kaing (she/her)

[anghraine]

It's silly, but one of my favorite Kirk/Spock things is that they are clearly very much more on each other's wavelength intellectually than most others are, but—

There are so many scenes in which everyone else is baffled or missing something important that Spock or Kirk see in the other's behavior. Probably the peak moment for this is Spock, and Spock alone, realizing in "Arena" that Kirk has the raw materials to make gunpowder just as Kirk himself realizes it. So you get Spock murmuring "good, good...yes...yes..." right there on the bridge as his beloved starts reinventing the bazooka (pretty sure this counts as sex for him), but McCoy and the bridge crew are completely confused about what they're seeing. And there are plenty of moments of this kind of half-unspoken mutual brilliance while their co-workers wish they'd just use their words.

However. The important counterpoint to this is that Kirk and Spock each possess the special ability to instantly incinerate entire neuron paths in each other's brains and become 10x stupider around each other, also. Spock barges into Kirk's quarters in "The Enemy Within" without explanation, sees his naked chest, and his higher functions crumble into ash on the spot; when he regains the power of speech, he asks the baffled Kirk what he can do for him as if this somehow explains what he's doing there, and Kirk is just confused but pleased, and smiles enough that Spock's gay awakening visibly burns through even more neural circuits until he runs away.

And Kirk himself doesn't need to see skin to completely lose track of what he was even talking about because Spock did a thing. For instance, the scene when Kirk looks at Spock with flirty adoration at the end of "A Taste of Armageddon" and bats his eyelashes and says, "Why, Mr. Spock, you almost make me believe in miracles"—yes, it's extremely gay, but I feel it's important to understand the immediate context is a general conversation on the bridge about the horrors of war. But then Spock raised his brows and ambiguously complimented him, so Kirk's entire cognitive process melted into Spock Spock Spock Spock. In S3, Spock sits down beside Kirk to tenderly watch him sleep, without appearing to consider that anyone (like say the empath standing right by them) would notice, and then poorly fakes looking at tricorder readings when said empath picks on his emotions. Surely that will fool her psychic powers! (It doesn't.) Kirk, often a master of performance and theatricality, has to be physically held back from trying to singlehandedly maul a Klingon while in disguise and surrounded by an occupying Klingon force because one guy slightly shoved Spock.

They're a brilliant and wildly successful command team together and they are also so incredibly stupid about each other, it's beautiful

[seahorsepencils]

also can we just talk about the fact that in the Wish World, a woman can get away with calling another woman beautiful without setting off everyone's queer panic, but when a man does it to a man, it tips over the edge? so the Kates of the world are flying just under the radar, but are likely to be more emotionally repressed as a result - and yet, all the queer or queer-coded characters in this world are offered the same security and protection from doubt by the prospect of entering into an opposite-sex marriage...

[supertaliart]

R2-D2 and C-3PO are Mel and Sue in my GBBO/Star Wars crossover.

[silvershadow1711]

There he is- there's the boy!

This isn't actually what I'd had planned for Ray's birthday- I desperately wanted to put out the ending of, plus new art for, Apotelesma. I've been working on it for days, literally converting one of my dad's old tablets into a word processor so I could tap away at it whenever I had a chance, but life has a way of kicking you when you're down and like I said- deadlines kill my motivation.

But I had to make something for this special day. How could I not? Binary Star Hero is one of THOSE pieces of media, the kind that unlocks a part of you you didn't know existed. I had been... so burned out before I found this VN. I hadn't written anything in almost three years, hadn't really drawn anything in almost five. I was coming off another major depressive episode and the thought of creating made me want to die. And then, dicking around on itch.io, I was reccomended a little visual novel that set the spark for all my creative energy to rise from the ashes, born anew. The last time I was this motivated to draw, to write, to learn and hone my skills, was back in 2016 with Fire Emblem Fates.

I have pushed myself as an artist because of BSH in a way I haven't done since my early 20s. I have pushed myself as a writer, writing two stories in 1st person POV, which I vowed to never do again- and I'm proud of them! BSH is the only reason I came back to tumblr after swearing off the site, because I wanted the lore from Concrete's asks. For the first time EVER, I feel like I'm part of a community instead of just standing off to the side at a party, I feel like the people in this fandom want me here. Even with Fire Emblem, I felt like I was intruding every time I shared my art.

So, to @concreteparasite, thank you for what you've given us- given me- from the bottom of my heart.

[littleghostblogs]

I’m going insane

[blusandbirds]

this shot is so dear and so silly to me. the way he's sitting between them and half sharing demetri's blanket. did daniel and amanda leave their child in custody of the binary bros like "here go talk about your dragon lord thing while we deal with the cops"

[etherealhoneypie]

i was put on this earth as a punishment to man

[morverenmaybewrites]

God I love stories that draw on religious/biblical imagery. Something about it just feels so raw and Other (TM).

So, when Ray forces the MC to dig their hand into the wound in his side, in the same place where the Savior had suffered the spear to be driven. I'm--

The interplay of intimacy and violence will always be so unbearably sexy to me.

[aaa-battery-not-rechargeable]

every time someone says 'all nonbinary people are trans', an angel loses its wings.

other people do not get to label you.

[98zone]

Ray but he's a doodle on paper.

Ok so to explain the hair and stuff, This was originally going to just be black and white.

Then I remembered I had coloured pencils. lol.

[emloafs]

i think s6 is proof enough that in college eli is the guy that goes so hard at every party, and demetri is his introverted boyfriend who didn't want to go in the first place, spends the entire time embarrassed by eli, only to drag his drunk ass home at the end of the night (but demetri also loves it)

[silvershadow1711]

I have to figure out what his neck tattoo looks like...

Stupid neck tattoo-having bitch-ass piece of shit...

[mismarch]

my one cobra kai hot take:

anthony larusso did NOT need to learn karate

just make him an actual gamer and have daniel accept his son for what he is

[happywitchesofnewdi]

"Happy Pride Month, gender is fake!"

-Sora & Izumi apparently