#r/lgballt

[tha-za]

I used to be very active on r/lgballt, guess I will post some of the comic i made for that sub here to

[r-lgballt]

I think it’s only fitting that the first comic here is my own!

(Yes, it‘s no longer Me Monday, but if I don’t make the first post, who will?)

[reesethewolf]

Decided to draw my identity journey in the form of lgballt ^_^

[thexavierbehavior]

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Since the Zigzag Version of my Disability Pride Flag got most of its exposure through an R/LGBallT comic (panels 1 & 2)

I thought I’d try my hand at making my own Ball comic to introduce the new flag.

I submitted it last night (9 May, 2022), but it has yet to show up. I’ve not gotten any word back from the moderators about why it might be rejected, either. So in the meantime, I thought I’d post it here, in installments (there are 7 individual panels) especially since the caption space on Reddit has a limit of 100 characters, but does have an option for including a link. So if it ever does go up, I can post links to here so people can see the image descriptions.

[Image description: Panel one of eight. A “Ball Character” colored like the asexuality pride flag is under an umbrella with the colors of the Progress Flag, next to the New Disability Pride Flag (labeled as such) The dialog reads: “When you’re Disabled, figuring out where you fit under the Queer umbrella gets complicated.” Description ends]

[Image description: Panel 2 of Eight: A “blank” Ball character, in front of the Disability Pride Flag, framed in the visual trope of binoculars on a dark blue field. The text reads: “If you’re disabled, the “Abled Mainstream” Society looks at you as someone without any Sexual Orientation at all. And your Gender is irrelevant.” Description ends]

[redd956]

Posted this earlier today on r/lgballt. Had a lot of fun making it. Don’t worry no transball were hurt in the making of this comic

[flwr-bloom]

ballsona

i missed drawing myself :)

also thing I realized today:

I shouldn't let a fucking subreddit stop/restrict me from drawing lgballtsonas, i get to do whatever the fuck i want

[poststealer]

i took it upon myself to edit this informative comic to have the more muted colors of the new disability flag so its less eyestrainy. i also desaturated the colors of the LGBT balls and changed some of the harder to read handwritten text to a monospace font ♡

[redditreceipts]

https://reddit.com/r/lgballt/s/uT0buDOEuk

wtf is even that flag

ah, it's the aromantic asexual pride flag (side note: Am I the only one who feels like this shade of blue and this shade of orange look kinda ugly together? I think it's because they are opposite on the color spectrum:

but that's just my opinion)

So yeah, back to the comic

good point lmao

WTF?? HOW DID WE EVEN GET HERE???? that came out of nowhere??

I mean, your mom didn't even do anything? why do you now have to joke about FUCKING KILLING her???

these people are in a cult, as soon as someone questions their beliefs, they want to get violent?

[ravings-of-a-mad-scientist]

Meet the Chemiballs: Exposition and Cute Drawings of the Nonmetals

I love balls. Especially Countryballs, aka Polandball, a popular meme format where countries are embodied in this particular art style. Like Hetalia but for not-weebs. I mean, just look at r/countryball. These little blobs are so cute.

Lots of other "ball communities" have spawned from Countryballs, such as Ideologyballs, Planetballs, and LGBallT. One of the little-known ones is Chemiballs. At first, I thought I was the first one to have the idea as I doodled them in my notebook during chemistry class, but no. Someone beat me to it just a couple of years before me. (hecking go check out the subreddit it's a great small community https://www.reddit.com/r/chemiball/)

Anyways here's some nonmetal balls I drew a couple years ago, AREN'T THEY CUTE??

here's an old edutainment blog page I wrote about the these elements if you're interested

[ballsalsda]

Hi there !! I'm currently researching a paper on xenogenders and queer online culture, and I wanted to reach out to a few people in the community to ask about their experiences. If you're up for it, I would love to hear about your gender identity and journey. /pos /gen (And if you answer, are you comfortable with being quoted with credit?) ^^

Sure! You can quote me with credit. But this is a long story that might have gaps where I don't remember stuff clearly.

So. I was assigned male at birth, and I identified with that for a long time. I'm even pretty comfortable with masculine terms now. I think it all started when my sibling came out as non binary. I was confused and I didnt know you could do that, so I was kind of a bitch about it from deadnaming to misgendering.

I used to go on the r/lgballt subreddit on reddit and look at all the funny comics. This is probably where I learned a lot of the labels and basics on being non binary. I started to identify as a demiboy when I was a little 9 year old or somewhere around that. I thought I was non binary, but I was comfortable with my AGAB. I searched around a bit (looked at a single quora thread) and concluded that I was a demiboy.

I learned about a lot of stuff through Pinterest and all the lgbtq+ wikis. I went through a lot of identities, but the one that really stuck with me was neoboy. If you've never heard of it, neoboy according to lgbtqia.wiki is "a gender with a connection to masculinity, but in a way that's largely different from how most boys/men are connected to masculinity. Neoboy is a non-binary identity that is mostly separate from being male, though it can be described as a gender that is masculine-aligned, neutral-aligned, mingender, and/or miaspec." This was it. I felt like a boy in a non-binary way.

After a lot of switching around, I came to realize that a lot of the genders I was using were mainly masculine aligned, neutral aligned, or really anything not feminine. I found the term gendersatyr on reddit before that, and I remembered that and used the term. Gendersatyr, according to gender.fandom.com, "Gendersatyr is a form of genderfluidity that does not encompass genders that are fiaspec, fingender, or binary womanhood. This identity primarily encompasses xenogenders and uncommon genders, but can/does include other genders as well."

I dont remember when I learned about xenogenders, but it was pretty early on in my journey. I paid no attention to them since I thought they didnt quite fit me. I don't remember what my first xenogender was, but according to Pinterest the first one on my gender identity board was mossgender. I know purplegender was also a big one back then.

My gender board is pretty big, and on my new Pinterest account it's also pretty big. I know a big part of my gender used to be the deep sea. Now that i think about it, abimegender was probably my first xenogender. Instead of quoting the first paragraph in this post, you can read about it here: https://gender.fandom.com/wiki/Abimegender

I also identified as a neoboy maverique for a while before what I'm about to talk about. I mean neoboy maverique as in like I identified with masculine terms and felt "masculine" but I don't really know what it means to be a boy. There probably would've been a better label for that. I think neoboy alone would've accomplished that meaning.

Recently I joined the alterhuman community. I'm an otherlinker and my linktype is a supermassive black hole. My connection to my identity as a black hole seemed to influence my gender a lot. I felt like my gender was tied to black holes. I felt like I was seeing my gender through the lense of a black hole. This leads up to one big thing.

I like to think of my gender as a black hole. I don’t experience my gender the same way my friends, peers, adults, or really anyone I know in real life does. I do call myself a boy, male, etc., but I don’t actually think I am that. Whatever that is. I feel like my gender started simple, I used to identify with the terms used on me, but as I explored what that really means, my gender got more and more complicated that it eventually imploded on itself and now it acts like a black hole. There’s the singularity, with every gender I once identified with compressed into a 0 dimensional, infinitely dense point. This is the core of my gender identity. There’s then the event horizon, that seeks to swallow any gender it can and integrate that into my identity somehow. I think of my gender in points of time. There’s the pre-supernova, before my gender imploded and became this weird black hole. There’s the supernova, which is not really any point, but a gradual shift in my identity. And then my post-supernova self, who I am now, the black hole, and how my supernova and pre-supernova identities affected how the black hole turned out. This is where things get confusing. This is where you have to stop thinking in terms of male, female, non binary, masculine, feminine, neutral, or androgynous to truly understand. My gender is everything and nothing at the same time. My gender can’t be defined in relation to male or female. My gender exists in a vacuum, not in relation to the social constructs created. My gender is a black hole, but it is also a neutron star, outer space in general, it’s the color pink, it’s the color purple. I’m agender, I’m pangender. I'm gender neutral, but I’m also completely atrinary. I’m aporagender but masc at the same exact time. I’m androgynous. I’m feminine. I’m a femboy. This is why gendered terms don’t work on me. At my core, my gender is some weird Thing. It’s a hideous black hole that hurts to look at. It’s mentally damaging to look at, but you can’t take your eyes off it. It’s like the sun in that way. This is my experience with gender, and it’s why I’ve started to shift towards exclusively using xenine expressions to describe my gender ever since the supernova.

That was a really long paragraph that probably doesn't even make much sense, but that's how I really feel in the present moment. I'm exclusively xenine, but I'm only out to like 3 of my friends, and 2 of them I've only explained the basics (that I'm non binary). I don't feel safe coming out around really anyone or opening up about my feelings to anyone except one of my friends. She's the most supportive imo.

It would be a handful to explain my gender to anyone in my classes and I would probably get laughed at. No one really understands how hard it is to figure out your gender when you're autistic with a sense of gender not tied to male, female, or even non binary terms at all since most of the non binary terms describe their enby-ness (is that a word?) in relation to how the gender binary doesn't fit them.

I feel as if it's important to describe my gender as in how it doesn't work with the system we've put in place, but I feel it's also very important to explain how your gender feels, and stop comparing your gender to the binary for a second to explain how your gender feels. I use xenogenders for this and it's really helped me because I can use black holes as a metaphor for my abomination of a gender.

I have synesthesia, and that has affected my geder because it lets me visualise my identity. I think that's the main reason on why I use xenogenders. Because I know what my gender looks like, and I need non-gendered concepts to explain it. My gender is pink, my gender is purple, my gender looks like a black hole and functions like a blck hole, my gender is so much more.

Most of the hate xenogenders get is mainly from misunderstanding how they're used. They think using a xenogender means you are that, not your gender. They think you think you are the color purple, not that your gender is purple. And I think thats a difference that's not highlighted enough.

TL;DR (aka: the labels I use today, coined by me or not coined by me): I am a xenine aligned person that uses many xenogenders. They are: blackholegender, pinkgender, purplegender, spacegender, dirkcharic (referring to dirk from homestuck), ragegender, and probably more. My gender is mainly personified by pastel colors (particularly 🩷←this pink) and black holes. In relation to the gender binary, you could say I am maverique/atrinary.

This is my experience with gender, and I hope it was enough and not too confusing. Thank you so much for offering me to infodump my identity, I didn't know I needed this and it honestly helped me figure some stuff out, not to mention I love oversharing on the internet.

[tha-za]

I made this before I realised that I’m a he/him lesbian too

[r-lgballt]

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[our-genderfluid-experience]

I have an image I wanted to share but I don’t see an upload button. So here’s a link to the original reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgballt/s/zXxZgECGae

This is where the link goes to.

Super relatable, also I love LGBallT

[foxfairy06]

u still an exclus or did u leave the echo chamber

To be in an echo chamber you have to be aggressive to and blocking of opposing viewpoints from reaching you. A vast minority within a community working towards the same goals as the larger part of said group cannot operate as an echo chamber unless the completely shut out the entirety of the outer community. However, the true echo chamber is the inclusionist community, as inclusionist arguments are entirely fueled by

Strawmen (the building of a false argument that was not made by your opposition) - (the nonbinary debate [the majority of exclus support enben], the "why do trans people need to be suffering"[no one ever said that] argument, the "fascist" and "transphobic" accusations [no bare in reality and these argumenters obviously don't understand the weight of actual fascism], and the radicalized projected beliefs you place on all of us, such as assuming that we all support harassment or that the common community seeks out people we precieve as cringe to attack, which is false.

Red herrings (redirecting the viewpoint to distract from the discussion) - "there are people suffering", "this doesn't matter", "shut up"

And the poisoned well, which contributes to the aforementioned strawmen.

The echo chamber is the group that kicks everyone with a barely different belief (exclusionists and neutralists) out of mainstream community groups, which should be common ground. The group which is in charge of all lgbt media, and brings lgbt media hostile to said people with differing opinions.

The Exclusionist community isn't about how we believe you are wrong and that you shouldn't be able to believe what you believe. The Exclusionist community is about how you, (the inclusionist community), have continuously treated us unfairly for having dissimilar and harmless beliefs. We exist out of wanting to be able to stand at *equal* with your community. Not above it.

The Exclusionist community is about those who believe that lesbians are women (for example) being treated as equals to the community with completely unscientific, idiotic ideals, that spread mistruths about the community and misconceptions that harm people.

If you are accusing the Exclusionist community of being an echo chamber, you must also point out the inclusionist echo chambers.

r/lgbt, exclusionists are not allowed. You can be banned for being in r/truscum. You can shit talk exclusionists there though.

r/LGBallT, got r/ExcluLGBallT banned for existing, and again, exclusionists aren't allowed and you can be banned for it. Though you're allowed to shit talk them as much as you want on this platform.

r/egg_irl, you can be banned for even discussing that your dysphoria makes yourself trans, without insinuating that this applies for others.

The LGBT fandom and LGBT wiki claim that the exclusionist groups are not LGBT and in some cases label them as dangerous communities, putting them on the same level as literal TERFs. Which is poisoned well and not based in any reality.

I could continue for actual hours.

So again, if you ask which community is more of an echo chamber, especially considering since the entire goal of all exclusionists is to be represented at least a little bit in the mainstream community, and inclusionists are not willing to allow them even close to these communities, it would clearly show that the inclusionist community is an echo chamber. This, again, supported by the fact that exclusionists actively seek out lgbt community in level with inclusionists, and inclusionists are completely starkly against allowing exclusionists in any communities, or having any sort of conversation with these people, or even treating them as humans.

I rest my case.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Since the Zigzag Version of my Disability Pride Flag got most of its exposure through an R/LGBallT comic (panels 6 & 7)

[Image description: Panel 6. A title card reads “And then, one day, I learned Asexuality was A Thing.” Protagonist Ball (Now colored as Ace) is in front of a chalkboard covered in math formulas and graphs. Their thought bubble reads: “Wait, does that mean that “Sparks” are Real?” A caption to the side reads: “So they weren’t Ableists, after all! They were just Observant!” Description ends]

[Image description: Panel 7: Ace addresses the viewer: “I’m still confused by Capitalism.” Surrounding them, in brightly colored shapes are: “Sexy” Chairs, “Sexy” Toothpaste, “Sexy Lamp, under a multi-colored banner that reads “Sex Sells!!” Description ends]