#queer wizard council

[thequeerwizardcouncil]

In light of it being Transgender Visibility Day today, the council has a message for all of the transgender beings out there:

We know the pain of living in a world that seemingly wants you dead and gone more than you to be you, we know the pain of living day to day second to second in a body not your own.

But, know this, it does get better. There will come a time where you can freely walk the earth as you, walk side by side with us to continue fighting for our rights. We will be able to guide new generations of young queers, we will live to be in a world where our identity is not blight.

We just wish for you to hark these words, "Persist, as the evil cannot as long as you do. There are many more fighting for the betterment of this world. Live to see it come to fruition, and tell the tales to new generations on our battle for this freedom, help guide them even".

Happy Transgender Visibility Day. You are valid, you know you best. We fight every second for our collective freedom and safety. We just ask for you to continue persisting and existing

- The Queer Wizard Council 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[opheliablackpotter]

Every Marauder/Marauders fan be like:

however I'm bi, actually :)

[hyper-lynx]

I heard you joined the MEB for the council!

I heard that too! Is that like... safe to just generally talk about though?

[dread-is-decaying]

Wizardblr blog in the works!

[frogpantsthebloodgod]

dear terfs

FUS RO DAH

Also

I CAST SUFFOCATING SPORES

be trans, do illegal magicks, fireball terfs

[malicious-spellcaster-420]

Casting an HRT spell on your fruity little body, the Wizard Council sends their regards

[dragonofeternal]

Guys I'm trying not to hang my hopes too high but every time I think back on the interview I had last Wednesday I get all giddy and excited like yes! Yes let me come be your office goblin who tames the event management software and helps to develop better archival standards for your stuff so that the rest of you can focus more time and resources on your important work educating health care providers on how to provide more equitable services for queer people sjdjdhehbdvdbd

[gay-----pisces2]

yoooo one of my posts were approved by the The Queer Wizard Council my silly trans man ass has finally made it big

[skyethebisexualwolfwizard]

can i join the queer wizard council, trans or poly (if poly is an option) also

WIZARD BLAST *a bunch of wizard hats fall down from a random location near you*

Would you want to represent both or just one?

Also- that's a lot of hats

[elizmanderson]

queerness in The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher

book description

when you’re an old woman armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. no one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. after all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spell. and everyone knows the Council of Wizards always chooses a teenager—like the vengeful girl ready to snatch Edna’s destiny from under her nose.

still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. with a son long dead in the Knights’ service, she’s determined to save dragon-fighters like him & ensure other mothers don’t suffer the same loss she did. but as Edna learns about the abuse in the ranks & the sorcerer’s history, she questions if it’s really the sorcerer that needs stopping—or the Knights she’s trying to save.

find it here

okay let's talk about queerness in this book

did a thread on twitter in which I said "cishet" five hundred thousand times so will probably get banned lmao but anyway I wanted to share it here too

especially since it's late in Pride Month and I have yet to post anything anywhere about it BEING Pride Month and me being queer and my books being queer, bc I've been burnt out af. so what energy I've had has gone toward planning and writing

anyway

I say "queerness in" rather than "queer characters in" because I want to talk about queerness in the book more broadly, not least bc I'm a queer creator & this is a queer book, but I've had a lot of impostor syndrome about both those things.

I figured out I was queer later in life & am a woman-presenting person w/a male-presenting partner. I've questioned my gender & sexuality repeatedly & ID'd differently over time, which is why I like "queer." I don't have to re-explain myself a dozen times. I'm queer. that's that.

but having figured out my queerness later, and having a relationship that presents as cishet, it took a long time for me to overcome feelings of ~not being queer enough~ (and sometimes I still struggle with them).

similarly, my MC is an apparently* cishet woman, unlike the MCs of many books that appear on queer book lists at this time of year. just like I took a long time to start really engaging with my community bc I worried I wasn't ~queer enough,~ for a long time, I didn't call this a queer book bc I worried it wasn't ~queer enough~. if people asked if the book was queer, I'd reply with a laundry list of explicitly queer characters rather than saying yes

fuck that though lmao. this is a queer book. let me count the ways

1. found family

as found family is so important to many queer people - by connecting us to our community, by welcoming us when bio family casts us off - found family is central to REMARKABLE RETIREMENT. while there are queer romantic arcs, the found family is the most important relationship in the book.

2. queer labels

some characters get explicit labels. Benjamin is gay. Clem is ace. queer labels are important bc they give us the ability to describe our identities and experiences! however...

3. undefined queerness

while labels are important, queerness isn't about fitting into new boxes. it's about smashing the boxes apart.

even if characters don't have specific labels applied on-page, they're queer. they don't need to claim a specific label for that to be true.*

*caveat that some media avoids using labels to pander to queer audiences w/implied queerness without ~alienating~ cishets by stating "this character is Not Cishet"**

that's not what I mean

I mean e.g. in OFMD queerness is inherent even if WORDS like queer/ace/etc aren't used. OMitB is another example (specifically Mabel) and Good Omens is yet another.

**caveat to my caveat that some media is queer-coded & avoids queer labels rather than being explicitly queer because network execs or whoever won't allow explicit queerness.

this is not the fault of the creators. sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference.

but anyway.

in REMARKABLE RETIREMENT, several queer characters are queer without using specific labels.

in some cases this is bc it doesn't come up or isn't important to them to express in the moment. like Clem is bi, but she's not worried about being bi. she's worried about being ace, because she's still kind of questioning that about herself, and she's worried it might cause problems down the road if her crush is >:[ about her not wanting to have sex. so she uses the word "ace" to describe herself in this scene but not "bi," even though she's both.

in other cases it's bc they don't have the language. Kiernan's sense of attraction and desire is described in a way that seems graysexual or demisexual (or both), and Red's sense of desire is described in a way that seems ace-spec, but neither of them use those terms, because neither of them know those terms. despite the lack of terminology, many ace readers have identified multiple ace characters based on description or experience. the lack of a specific label doesn't make those characters less queer.

similarly, some characters have not yet had this realization about themselves. which leads us to...

4. questioning

okay, back to my first asterisk of the post.

Edna is by all appearances an old cishet woman.

for most of the story, that's how she seems. that's what SHE thinks, even. she's a cishet old grandma adopting every queer young person she can find.

BUT THEN

Clem explains aceness to her

and Edna has a brief crisis bc wait a minute this sounds like her??

ultimately, Edna has too much to worry about right now to spend time questioning whether, at the age of 83, she might be somewhere on the ace spectrum

so it doesn't come up again

but that moment of crisis is THERE, & that too is queer

5. queernormativity*

I write queernorm worlds, largely bc I viscerally hate coming out lmao

it doesn't mean everyone's a queer scholar

like Clem has to explain "ace" to Edna, bc Edna thinks blankly of a deck of cards & doesn't understand what that has to do with sex

but it DOES mean queer folks get to just be and do

*caveat that this is not remotely to imply that a story is less queer if its world ISN'T queernorm

it's just a way in which MY story is queer

6. all the queer characters

not gonna do a list (even though my original idea for Pride Month when I was young and optimistic and thought I'd have energy to do it way back when was a list of queer characters), but virtually every character in this book is queer in one way or another

on twitter this is where I ended because 6 seemed like a good number for Pride since June is the sixth month, but tumblr gets a bonus

7. the author is queer

happy pride, buy my queer book

[flirtyambiguouswizard]

LORE POST

Hey! Flirty Ambiguous Wizard here, you can call me also Lanfear. I prefer they/them pronouns but he/she are fine if you switch them from time to time.

This (side) blog is a safe space for the Queer Folk and is run by a queer person.

Don't be afraid to send me questions if you want to interact! In fact, please do!

I live in a moving castle in wizard island island. I sell paper, ink and other stationary (magical and non magical), i also write cards or scrolls on commission (if you have a request hit my DMs or send a question) but most of all I wander trough wizard island island and stick my nose in other's affairs.

Lanfear's body is but a mere flesh vessel, it's mostly empty inside (more full of voidness rather than empty), their left knee if made up of alien technology and alien organic matter, I don't really know a lot about it but it reacts weirdly when I'm near Combustion Witch. I am mostly immortal since my soul can easily migrate from flesh vessel to flesh vessel (I have a bunch of them cloned in a secret dongeon in my castle)

I'm also a proud member of the @slutty-wizard-council so this blog will be 18+, i won't block you if you're a minor/ageless blog but I won't interact with you in explicit topics, if you're 18+ for said explicit roleplays I will be using @lanfear-on-a-full-moon . There are older threads that might be explicit or romal RPs that start to become explicit so thread carefully if you don't wanna see them. sorry but I don't tag stuff

More images to better understand my vibes

Golden/amber eyes, with slit pupils, usually with some make up around them. A straight and pointy nose with two gold septums. Pointy ears, pierced as well. Usually use a clownish, red and black make up. My skin tone is naturally pale.

Long, Silver/white hair, sometimes with purple streaks. Almost always in a single bun.

Short, black sideburns and mustache.I generally use some red/purple/black lipstick.

Wide shoulder and a solid build but not visibly muscular. I'm average/on the taller side of height considering humans as a reference.

[thequeerwizardcouncil]

Time for chaos and euphoria!

Go forth! The council decrees all spells are allowed, for we wage war on the transphobes!

We also encourage a healthy amount of gender euphoria spells! And TRANSformation spells of course

Hark all ye bigots, for the council has been awoken. We wage war on all who have done and encourage harm. Whilst also being bringers of gender euphoria!

@skyethebisexualwolfwizard

@im-a-wizard-who-dont-crime

@thebutterflyoficeandwisteria

@bisexualchemistry

@sassy-piece-of-parsley

@sluttyambiguouswizard

@ballisticallytestedwensleydale

@the-moth-wizard-of-mayhem

@aroace-wizard

@serious-tabaxi

@agentldiddy

@parkyrtheelvishbard

@autistic-dinos-and-dragons-lover

@a-goose-in-a-trenchcoat

@sapphicdragons-3

@transgender-wizard

@jhomikle

@cynical-artificer

@anne-androgynous-android

@asheslab

@luminethefoxincabin13-ts

@incrediwizard

@amethyst-aster

@ash-the-tiefling

@shittest-wizard-ever

@bi-gender-sorcerer

@somecallmekay

@be-gentle-with-littluns

@ladyofspoons

@slymewitch

@alchemical-overreaction

@frogpantsthebloodgod

@yourlocalbreadenthusiast

@mango-lord-of-poison

@detectivewizzard

@the-necrobotanist

@lixorloveslicorice

@hyper-lynx

@chaos-wizard-nyehehe

@song-de-lune

@lord-devere

[the-other-evil-wizard-council]

What are your options on the other councils?

I like the Queer Wizard Council, I have major respect for the original Evil Wizard Council, and over all I don't have beef with any of them.

Except the boring old regular Wizard Council, making me pay taxes & crap.

[hyper-lynx]

Are you ready for the mission?

(There's a slight hesitation, but then a firm voice answered.) Yes, I'm ready.

[jaypilled]

HRRNNFFFF IM GETTING IDEAS. I made a wizard's council oc (nell jesterantics inspired me) who's this lady who also works at the knight's academy as the eccentric alchemy teacher who definitely smokes that magical zaza I haven't drawn her properly yet but I PROMISE u guys will love her (ur all queer anyway of course ur gonna flock to the eccentric gay slightly autistic stoner teacher)

[frogpantsthebloodgod]

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uhm hi, im frogpants the blood god.

name: frog/moss/tahiti

pronouns: anything, preferably she/they/it and NEVER he/him

Likey-people direction: sapphic (lesbian) arospike quoisexual

gender: agender transfem

i rp on wizardblr as Mossbag the Street Lich, im learning magic from the eldritch entity, and im a part of the Queer Wizard Council (qwc) and the Illegal Wizard Council (IWC)

(wizard stat block below) (the wizard species is lich just so you know)

political views: anarcho-communist/marxist

Beliefs: TST satanist and semi-theistic pagan

DNI if you are: a pedo, homophobic, a misogynist, transphobic, a fascist, or aiming to religiously convert people.

hyperfixation of current: no idea

ACAB

you cannot justify murder

ones body is subject to ones own will and ones will alone

justice for Nex

justice for the murdered

eat the rich and feed the poor

down with oppression

commit tax evasion