#trans characters?

[mybookhaven]

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

Fantasy - Asian - Queer Rep

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Thisss book!!! I know I pretty much sound repetitive at this point, but this was definitely one of my favorite reads of 2022. It was so easy to fall in love with the world created by Shelly Parker-Chan and i can't wait for the release of the second book in the series.    

Cover art: JungShan

I was fascinated by the characters in this book, i think it's one of the top things that made reading it so incredible. It was beautiful to watch the characters unwind their inner gears as the storyline unfolded, which within itself presented a complicated narration that was incredibly pleasurable to experience. The history behind the storyline is delivered in a light chinese style which i think is better suited for a wider audience (also good for Chinese novel lovers like myself), where we go through time as various characters that revolve around the two main drivers of the story.

Reading the way Shelley Parker-Chan wrote the first section of the book, when Zhu Chongba was then simply referred to as the girl was really interesting. I loved that part as much as it hurt me. We got to see the resilience that got her to commit all the atrocities required of her for her continued survival, which later on became beyond the need for survival. And then watching the incredible parallels between her and Ouyang and all the pain that he holds within his mutilated body. It was just too good for my angst loving heart.

And it's worth mentioning the beauty of the romance within the story, however light it was. It was refreshing to read such a real description of love, so very combined with pain and regret, yet so soft and fragile.

I'm really looking forward to the continuation of this series, and anything Shelley Parker-Chan might release in the future.

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Some spins on the "mostly male team with a token woman" trope:

The woman is trans and stayed in her old circle of bros even after transition

The woman is the only one in her circle of "girls" who didn't turn out to be a trans man

[shattersaurus]

All of the Prehistoric Pride guys in one collective post to celebrate pride month. Choose your fighter and have an awesome time :D

More suggestions are always welcome, I sadly was not able to cover everyone, but I will do more of these in the future!

I am going to add more and more to the collection as I get them done :D

If you would like to support my silly little dinosaur art, then you can buy any of these Prideaurs as stickers from my Etsy shop, which I just set up recently. I am pretty new to this entire business side of art things, but I am trying my best :D so a like or a reblog would go a long way. Thank you guys so much for all your kind words and support!

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

We're gonna be okay

[beebfreeb]

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[areyouscaredyet]

im not particularly religious but i think it’s very cute that Trans Day of Visibility and Easter are on the same day this year :)

its no question that something like this could be triggering or upsetting to a number of queer ppl given the current sociopolitical climate, so i want everyone to remember that u are loved! Regardless of what u or others believe, there are ppl who will love and support you always. Give yourself patience and treat yourself with care!!!

happy and peaceful TDOV everyone!! And Easter to those who celebrate :D

[queerism1969]

[spitblaze]

I guess Chilchuck has brought us right back to 'adults who are short are child-coded and if you like them you're a pedophile' discourse huh

[makenna-made-this]

Okkkkkk so where is Chicken Miku?

Anon the way i dropped everything when i saw this

HATSUNE BEAK-U

(based on the Onagadori chicken breed)

[itsjesscapade]

Poor girl's CPU is being worked so hard...

[my-midlife-crisis]

[porcelainnpines]

putrid air

[wis-art]

lesbian, trans and proud

ko-fi

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.