#xenby

[drakkensystem]

My Personal Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Headcanons

Section 1: They're all queer as fuck

Part 1: All of the turtles are trans/genderqueer in some fashion

Real life facts: For most turtle species- including alligator snapping turtles, box turtles, and red-eared sliders but NOT including softshells (we'll get around to ol' Donnie boy in a minute) you can determine the sex of an individual by looking at the shape of their plastron (aka chest/stomach).

Males always have concave (inward curving) plastrons

Females' plastrons are convex (outward curving), flat, or bumpy. For most species the shape varies from individual to individual, but female plastrons are never concave.

Tldr: concave (inward curving) plastrons = biologically male; any other plastron shape = biologically female

Now, let's look at our 3 (non-softshell) boys' plastrons

First, Raph

Raph's plastron is flat with a bump on top (aka, not concave). Therefore he is AFAB (or should I say AFAH- assigned female at hatching?).

Now I headcanon that he is a binary trans man. When Raph was very young, Splinter realized that Raph didn't like something about his deadname so he asked him about it and eventually got the turtle tot to admit that it felt wrong for him, that it felt more like a girl's name. To which Splinter said, "Are you not a girl?"/genuine and Raph said no, he feels more like a boy. So Splinter was like, "ah, my mistake. I guess you need a boy name then- how about Raphael?" (this would match the Renaissance name he gave his other son) The little turtle thought very hard for a moment. It felt right. "Raph likes that name". Splinter chuckles "Raphael it is"

Then when Donnie and/or Leo had trouble remembering to not use his deadname (Mikey was just learning to talk at the time, so she only ever remembers Raph's name being Raph), Raph would subtly remind them by referring to himself in the 3rd person, and after a while the habit stuck.

Speaking of his brothers:

Mikey, the youngest but the second one to change names and come out.

Here is Mikey's plastron

Flat = Not concave = Mikey is also AFAH.

I said "come out" but Mikey has always known that he was neither a girl or a boy, but rather- both? Or neither? Honestly she doesn't bother to try to figure it out and usually just identifies as "queer as ginger beer, baby!". If pressed for more details about his gender she shrugs and says "genderfluid". Mikey uses mirror pronouns.

When Leo began teasing Mikey about how girly her deadname was (Leo dealing with his own gender dysphoria in an unhealthy way, as per typical of the slider) Mikey decided to change his name for 2 reasons 1)on some unconscious level she understood why Leo was teasing her about the name and he thought if he had a different one it would make Leo less uncomfortable and 2)she was in the middle of a hyperfixation on (the Renaissance artist) Michaelangelo's art and the idea of being named after one of the best artists of all time made him do a happy-stim dance. Incidentally, Mikey is the only one who doesn't care whether anyone knows his deadname (it's Kitsu- a Japanese name meaning "tangerine/orange" because "you bring the sweetness and brightness of this sunny fruit into our lives every day")

Splinter found out that Mikey wanted to change her name and, not having any kind of concept of genders beyond male and female, (and thinking back to his experience with his eldest) came to the conclusion that Mikey was a boy. Mikey tried to explain it to him once, but when Splinter's eyes glazed over Mikey decided she didn't care if his Dad thought of her as a weird kind of boy.

He once had a phase where she decided he wanted to come up with his own neopronouns and landed on "orangeh/orangir/orangehs" (pronounced identically to the english words "orange", "oranger" and "oranges"). Honestly Mikey only kept it up for as long as orangeh did to see the twitch on Donnie's face every time Splinter forced the softshell to use the correct pronouns for his little brother ("But those are ALREADY REAL WORDS with a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MEANING!" "Nuh-uh, I made new ones! :P" "They are pronounced EXACTLY THE SAME!" "Purple, respect your brother's gender identity and call him what he- I mean Orange- wants to be called or I'm taking away your soldering iron for a week!" "GAAURAGH! FiiINE! I will use orangehs DUM-DUM little words to refer to orangir even though orangeh is only doing it to annoy me >:( !!" *Mikey grins smugly*)

Incidentally, this was when Splinter started referring to them by their colors because his neurodivergent ass had trouble remembering to not use his sons' deadnames and if the pronouns were going to change too? That was more than he could handle. But Splinter was dead-set (get it ;) on respecting their gender identities so colors it is (thank God he had already color-coordinated them)

Ah, Leo. Leo Leo Leo

As we can see here, Leo's plastron is not concave, ergo he is also AFAH (also biologically male red-eared sliders' markings often fade as they reach adulthood and their skin produces more melanin, while biologically female sliders retain the same bright coloring they had as hatchlings. But since some male sliders don't get darker skin, we're not going to count this as proof of his gender assigned at hatching. Evidence? yes. But proof? No)

When Raphael came out to their dad, Leo became extremely jealous of his older brother because of Raph's name change because of the extra attention Raph got from their Dad. And, ironically, this only made the red-eared slider firmer in his insistence that he wasn't an "icky boy :P"- he was NOT (!) going to copy his older brother even though he kinda wanted to.

So Leo dealt with his gender dysphoria in other ways -

becoming ultra-competitive ("just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I can't cream you, DonTon!" "Bring it on then, twin sister" *Leo just gives a wordless scream of rage*)

teasing every single one of his siblings about gender stuff every chance he can (except Raph- the first time Leo implied that Raph wasn't a "real boy" Raph ran off crying and Leo was grounded for a month- with no pizza)

developing that characteristic, deflectingly cocky personality

when things were really bad he became aggressively angry (when this happened he usually got it out by sparring with Raph or Donnie no, not because Leo's jealous, why would he be jealous

When Mikey changed his name, at first Leo became insanely jealous found Mikey to be even more annoying than usual until one day Dr Feelings, in her first ever appearance (*internally* "I only changed my name in the first place to try to make Leo feel better, but now Leo's feeling even more upset! Wait, that's it- feelings. I'll be Dr Feelings") , told Leo that if he was so jealous of Mikey and Raph changing their names, why didn't he just change his?

An argument ensued with Dr Feelings trying to get Leo to tell him what's wrong until finally Leo blurts out:

"Because! It's not like it would stop everyone from calling me a girl anyway!"

"...But if you asked us to we would"

*one existential crisis later*

"Raph, Donnie, Mikey: I have an important announcement to make... I'm not a girl, I'm a boy and my name isn't [deadname] it's Leonardo"

"Did you pick that because you wanted to match how the rest of us are named after famous artists?"

"Or because Michelangelo's greatest rival was Leonardo Da Vinci? :D"

*His twin knew it was because he was going through a Leonardo DiCaprio fixation but other than giving his brother in blue a smirk, Donnie kept his mouth shut*

*sweating* "...Yes, of course that's why"

Raph took it upon himself to make sure that Splinter knew to respect Leo's new name and pronouns and the family has never looked back.

Now, let's swing back around to the autistic softshell.

Now, softshell plastrons are not sexually dimorphic in shape (tangent - is it actually sexual dimorphism when it is actually directly related to mating?) Anyway, our best metric here is shell pattern.

The pattern on a biologically female spiny softshell's carapace (back shell) will change as she reaches sexual maturity. Male spiny softshells retain their hatchling pattern their whole lives.

So, let's look at DonDon's shell pattern as a hatchling and as a teenager.

Donnie's shell still has the same basic pattern it did when he was a baby, so he must have been amah. But don't let those he/him pronouns fool you: Donnie is non-binary.

When his older brother Raph admitted to their dad that he felt more like a boy than a girl and then Splinter gave Raphael a new name, it set gears turning in little Donnie's head.

Donnie asked Raph about his feelings regarding gender and then had a conversation with Splinter- ostensibly to explain why he should call Raph "Raph" and how someone who (from Donnie's perspective) used to be a girl was now a boy. In actuality of course, our little scientist was gathering data about gender and how gender works.

His conclusion? More data is necessary.

So he watches his other siblings. He sees how Leo seems obsessed with gender and is also just, kinda angry, like all the time. He notices how Papá begins to use he/him pronouns for Mikey.

Then when he sees Leo's impassioned coming out speech, he finally arrives at a few conclusions:

1)Your gender is not necessarily tied to your physical sex (and the people who think otherwise are dum-dums whom he will keep away from his siblings at all costs)

2)Some people have very strong feelings about gender.

3)These people's strong feelings about gender are what determines whether they are a boy or a girl

4)Therefore, since he doesn't have strong feelings of being a boy or a girl, he must be neither.

5) Since he's not a girl he sees no point in changing his name and/or pronouns - honestly it would just confuse Papá and besides, with things as they are, he and his brothers' names are all matching.

When Donnie gets exposure to the queer community on the internet he finds out about nonbinary genders ("ah, an explanation for Mikey's confusing babbling about gender") and then xenogenders and suddenly everything clicks into place.

Donnie begins to quietly collect gender labels into a super-encrypted, password protected for-Donnie's-eyes-only document: slowly at first (if he isn't 100% sure that it vibes, he doesn't add it to the document). But then eventually Mikey's carefree attitude about gender rubs off enough that he begins adding anything that vaguely fits (this, of course, necessitates turning his list into a table so that he can add another parameter for each entry- namely, how much does it apply- and then organize them by said metric)

If you ask him what his gender is, he has a spectrum of responses based on how familiar with xenogenders you are.

0 - "Sure, you can use he/him pronouns for me"- for those who lack the context of there being more than 2 genders (aka, Splinter)

1 - "I'm nonbinary, which means I'm neither fully a boy nor fully a girl but he/him pronouns are fine"

2 - "I'm a xenby (that's xenogender+enby) with some masculinity in my gender identity"

3 - "I am a mascuon neurogender gendercollector. My other lead genders include, but are not limited to: autigender, purplegender, techgender and vibrogender"

4 - literally just shows them his gender-collection document- only 2 people have ever had this privilege: Mikey and April. The latter of whom accidentally saw it briefly over his shoulder before even knowing that he's nonbinary/trans, but when she was cool about it made him trust her enough to info-dump about his gender to her (as he does semi-regularly with Mikey when there has been a significant update). Unlike with Mikey, he hasn't info-dumped to April about his gender more than once (she tried, she really did. But she could only pay attention for so long before her eyes started to glaze over)

Some of Donnie's other gender labels include (but are not limited to) darkwebgender, deepwebgender, genderwhat, neurbinary, nesciōgender, rouene, stebaonic, stimgender, void hoarder, xumgender

Queer Headcanon Part 1 | Queer Headcanon Part 2

[emoji-shitposts]

cool! can i have an emoji of the owl covered in confetti and holding the xenoboy flag (pink and blue one) if that isn’t too much? btw your work is so good!

Xenoboy owl, plus bonus xenby and xenogirl owls!

btw thank you so much i really appreciate it

[eldorr]

Some "redesigns" ig

Demixenoboy (left), Demixenogirl (middle), Demixenby (right)

Decided to do my own takes on flags for the demigender versions of xenoboy, xenogirl, and xenby. Mostly taking the colors of the original flags and making slight color adjustments when needed.

[rjalker]

An official post for the xenby flag I created:

This flag is for nonbinary or genderqueer people / enbies who identify with xenogenders, and was created by overlaying the nonbinary and xenogender flags, then picking out the colors created, and evening out the stripe widths.

It turned out very sunsetty and nice!

Update December 30th 2023: Added a darker version! :)

[ID: Four versions of the xenby pride flag. The first two are pastel, with seven stripes of orange, pale orange, light pink, pale yellow, lavender, medium blue, and dark blue-purple. The second two are darker, with stripes of: Burnt orange, orange, bubblegum pink, yellow, purple, royal blue, and dark violet purple.

The first version of each flag is shaped like a square, the second is wider and rectangle shaped. End ID.]

Web Archive links:

Pastel version

Dark version If you like this flag and you have some extra money, consider donating to the web archive!

Here's the pastel flag open on coolors.co

This flag, like all the pride flags I create, is public domain, meaning it belongs to everyone, and can be used for literally anything you want, no credit or permission needed.

The only thing I ask in return is that, whenever possible, you include an image description if you're posting it online. You are in fact encouraged to copy and paste the ones above!

[pkmn-edits]

Random Pokemon x random Pride flags edit!

[luigis-mogai-mansion]

Lazy flag combos pt.43

Ft. Aloeian/nullic/x loving none with...

Xenby × nb Man × omni-straight

Nb lesbian × libraGQ × nb woman

WLW × lesbian × gay

No credit needed

[magnficientoarfish]

xenby pride moth!

[genderqueerdykes]

xenic aldernic culture is wishing ear pointing or horn implants were covered by insurance /hj

[imoga-pride]

Is it okay to use flags you've made for Redbubble designs and/or free icons? Someone requested a xenby flag, and I saw you made one, so I wanted to check. Thanks!

Yes. All my flags are on public domain. :)

[imagescuisantes]

[ryanyflags]

xenoman (xenogender man), xenowoman (xenogender woman), & xenoenban/xenban (xenogender enban) flags :D

As far as I'm aware, there's nothing about the xenoboy, xenogirl, and xenby flags and definitions that couldn't be used by people who use man/woman/enban over boy/girl/enby. But the boy/girl/enby versions are the most popular / basically only what the terms are known by, and I feel like in general there's this tendency to more diminutive terms, so I thought it would be nice to have specific man/woman/enban varients. (I personally don't like calling myself a boy or an enby, and the fact that the majority of terms only have boy/girl/enby variants, or are most well know as that, can be a bit annoying. So I think alt man/woman/enban terms and flags are important.)

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I didn't come up with xenoman and xenowoman, but I think I'm the first one to use xenoenban/xenban.

As for the flags, I used dark blues to represent men, dark pinks to represent women, and yellow, purple, black for enben. The other colors are from the xenogender flag. The main blues, pinks and 3 nonbinary colors are also shifted a bit to fit with the color palette/style of the xenogender flag.

Each term/flag has 3 versions: 2 gradient symbol versions (the gradient colors of each are taken from their base flags, and the 2 variations have the gradient in a different color order), and plain stripe versions. They all mean the same thing, I just couldn't decide what looked prettier.

[custom-pronoun-pins]

[ID: twenty one button designs against transparent backgrounds, showing a lavender sky, an unside down crescent moon, and tiny white four pointed stars.

Each design has different black text over top, written in the font demo Black Anemone, in all caps, reading "This is what a / an [blank] looks like, with a different word substituted for each pin:

In order from top to bottom and left to right, they read:

Aphorian, autism, communist, drag king, drag queen, enby, gay, lesbian, nonbinary transexual, transfem, transfemasc, transgender, transmasc, transmascfem, transneu, transno, transsexual, transvoid, transxeno, xenby.

End ID.]

Web archive link where you can download the HD ones: "https://archive.org/details/in-the-cradle-of-the-moon-pin-button-designs"

You can buy these on Threadless here!

[eldorr]

Some "redesigns" ig 2

Demienboy (left), Demigirlby (right)

Decided to do my own takes on flags for the demigender versions of enboy and girlby. Like with the xenoboy, xenogirl, and xenby flags via taking the colors of the original flags and making slight color adjustments when needed.

[rjalker]

Xenofemme. (Web Archive link)

[ID: A pride flag with seven horizontal stripes of: Purple, dark pink, pale pink, yellow, teal, medium blue, and dark purple. End ID.]

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Xenofutch (Web Archive link)

[ID: A pride flag with seven horizontal stripes of: Burnt orange, amber, yellow, pale green, teal, medium blue, and very dark purple. End ID.]

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Xenobutch (Web Archive link)

[ID: A pride flag with seven horizontal stripes of: Dark red, brick red, pale orange, pale yellow, teal, medium blue, and very dark purple. End ID.]

Saved as a draft Dec 30th 2023, like, 10 mins from midnight lol...had to wait for the web archive to load :)

inspired by my xenby flag, I made xenofemme, xenofutch, and xenobutch pride flags! For those who identify as femme, futch, and butch and xenogenders.

The top three stripes are used to represent femme, futch, or butch, and the bottom three are from the xenogender flag. The center stripe changes to match the surroundings.

Like all my pride flags, these are Public Domain, meaning you can use them in literally any way you want! Icons, art (including art you sell!), edits, anything you want! Feel free to edit them and combine them with other identities as well!

Web archive links are included so you can download the HD version. Please consider donating to the web archive if you have any spare change, it's the only reason I can share the HD files with you, not to mention it's archiving them for everyone in the future! :)

If you share the flags to other sites or repost them here on tumblr (which you are welcome to do), please include the image descriptions that go with each! To make it easy, you can copy and paste the IDs below into a document on your computer for easy copying and pasting when you post the flags :)

[monsieur-eldritch]

Planing to coin:

Freak genders: Asti, Salticidae, Hunter

Dyke, Fag, Fagdyke/Dykefag genders: Salticidae, Hunter, Snow, Frost, Blizzard, Space, Void, Eldritch, Lesboy, Turigirl, Bi, Pan, Ply, Omni, Sun, Moon, Jester, Clown, King, Queen, Ruler, Royal, Biohazard, Prophet, Harbringer, Prince, Princess, Cannibal, Cat, Pup, Queer, Ace, Aro, Apl, Abro, Plural, Autism, ADHD, Soda, Aspec, Mspec, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple, Pink, Brown, White, Gray, Black, Rainbow, Rain, Crystal, Raven, Crow, Xip, Hex, Asti, Xen, Keno, Dia, Boygirl, Enboy, Girlby, Xenby, Xenoboy, Xenogirl, Xenboy, Xengirl, Holy, Unholy, God, Goddess, Deity, Goddex, Angel, Devil, Demon, Corrupt, Pure, Ocean, Sea, Pond, Stream, Transbian, Transdian, STPD, AVPD, ASPD, NPD, Demiboy, Demigirl, Demienby, Demihex, Demiasti, GFFS combo genders, GFFS flux, Neptunic, Saturnic, Uranic, Sapphic, Lesbian, Faunic, Trixic, Vincian, Veldian, Floric, Enbian, Cenelian, Toric, Tiric, Diamoric, Achillean, Julietian, Romeric, Lunian, Solian, Stellian

Below the cut are things that have already been completed.

Dyke, Fag genders: Boy, Girl, Enby, Masc, Fem, Neu

[sunkissed-mogai]

nicknames!!!

Kitty, love, darling, Xenben, Mara (from amara) Xen, xenbi, beloved, xenbenten -you can probably guess who I am /lh (⭐)

i knew at "xenben" but "xenbenten" just sealed it for me

also??? mara??? yes

ily beloved <333