transmasc-wizard

[transmasc-wizard]

i think analog horror youtubers have forgotten what the word liminal means

[transmasc-wizard]

[ID: a tweet by @/byalexcrespo reading "writing at coffee shops is great bc every time i need to add in a minor side character i just steal the name and essense of whoever is picking up their order from the barista in that moment. enjoy your cappucino isaac you are about to die to advance the plot". end ID]

[transmasc-wizard]

Finding some random artists OC and getting so incredibly attached to the character and design out of nowhere like hi. I’ve just met you and your Pet Freak. I’m going to Monitor You so I can one day catch another sighting of your Pet Freak

[transmasc-wizard]

demonic possession wouldn’t even affect me, i would just assume it’s The Symptoms

[transmasc-wizard]

bedtime is a very difficult.

[transmasc-wizard]

might I be permitted to know more about Arthur’s Gender Stuff TM?

YES ^_^

Were Arthur to have a 2025 understanding of gender and labels, he would use they/she/he pronouns and identify with the labels transneutral, transfeminine, bigender, agender, and/or genderfluid. or, like, be accurately described by them, anyway. Arthur herself would probably say "nonbinary" and move on. A public transition of theirs would probably include going by she/they to those they don't know, but privately prefering loved ones mix up pronouns equally. a sort of "i really do still identify as a man (especially a queer man) and it's an important part of my gender but i don't trust random people not to erase my identity" classic bigender problem.

in-story, Arthur is raised in a hyper masculine and repressive environment with the groomed intention of essentially being his father 2.0. their mother wants them to be exactly as controllable but exactly as violent, and both parents find repressive gender roles a good way to make sure arthur's feelings (in general, not just gender related) are never expressed or examined. male intimacy, gender nonconformance, and general emotional closeness beyond sex are discouraged. because of this, just as it takes him about a million years to accept his queer attraction to Alexei, it takes him equally as long to acknowledge a nonbinary gender. the closest she gets in the first 20 years of her life is with alexei, who is a fan of nonconformance in general, and encourages exploration of anything (though alexei also doesnt really have an understanding of "gender identity" as a concept beyond the fact he himself is a man, and doesn't think about it much).

Rosalind (an intersex woman) and Orion (a nonbinary person) just like, existing and being themselves, definitely make Arthur understand gender and bodies better. but at the same time she's scared, because she always is; the idea of being both a *WOMAN* (transfemininity) and being *NOT JUST A MAN* (transneutrality & bigenderism) are both world-shattering in her old life. i think her relationship with rosalind (which feels gay, just like alexei) and how content orion seems being themself forces him to think a lot harder about it all.

im not actually sure where im going to have her be at about it at the end though? i want it very clear they aren't a cis man, but also for it to be understood that *any* binary labeling of arthur's gender is lacking, but i don't know how developed their own understanding will be. im definitely going to put in that they start dressing and like acting (in a cultural sense) more androgynously.

ty for the question ^_^

[transmasc-wizard]

Suddenly remembered that one time I was coming home from the Ren Faire dressed as OOT Zelda, and we stopped off to eat at iHop, and there was a dad with two little girls there. And mentally i was like 'hohoho perhaps the girls will be excited to see A Princess, as I would have at that age' but what happened instead was the dad saw me and his eyes went REALLY wide and he gasped and said "PRINCESS ZELDA??????"

[transmasc-wizard]

[transmasc-wizard]

In case you're wondering what raising a kid in a polyamorous family looks like, our kid just has. Zero concept of monogamy. Like we've explained it to her many times but she just like. Forgets it's a thing and the assumed cultural norm. We're showing her Lord of the a Rings and she was very confused when Aragon rejected Eowyn.

"Wait, I thought they liked each other??"

"She likes him but he's already with Arwen."

"So?? He could just be with both??"

Anyway enjoy this meme I found about it

[transmasc-wizard]

dashboard simulator

mutual 1: house md mouse bites gif

mutual 2: my daddy and my mommy breaking bad song

mutual 3: I NEED A QUESADILLA SO FUCKING BADDDDDDDDDD

mutual 4: dan howell is a women

mutual 5: ouhhh,,,,,tomyinit

mutual 6: [ass shatteringly beautiful painting]

mutual 3: [17 rbs of quesadillas]

mutual 7: i think i hauve covid,

mutual 8: im sick for the 50th time this year

mutual 9: i love juggling #myballs

mutual 10: does anyone wanna get lost in the woods with me

mutual 3: a quesadilla would go so fucking hard rn

[transmasc-wizard]

My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humilliate you if it doesn't work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you.

With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.

[transmasc-wizard]

t-shirt that reads "BE SUSPICIOUS OF THAT WHICH IS LABELLED AS APOLITICAL" on the front and "NOTICE WHAT IS PERCEIVED AS EXPLICITLY POLITICAL" on the back

[transmasc-wizard]

[transmasc-wizard]

to whoever needs to hear this: give yourself the gift of a new pair of scissors. I give you permission to get new scissors. buy a new pack of scissors, even. it is okay to throw away those rusty dull pieces of shit and take $8 out of your budget to buy new ones.

[transmasc-wizard]

>Be me

>Make bowl of panda express leftovers

>Chow down on 2/3rds of it before father calls you over to show you memes

>Leave bowl unattended

>Laugh about memes for a good ten minutes

>Return to room

>??Bat? In bowl? ?

>Don't have anything to grab bat with that are bite proof

>Offer bat the head of the Winston Churchill marble bust to climb onto

>Bat does so

>Slowly carry Churchill and the bat to the window

>Bat won't let go of Churchill

>Pry bat off of him with nearby plastic skeleton hand

>Bat sits on windowsill for a second before flying off into the night

[transmasc-wizard]

unfortunately i do love pompous and pretentious characters. ☝️ WHO get their asses handed to them this is pivotal to my enjoyment of them

[transmasc-wizard]

reading fics placed in the us but written by a non-usian is so much fun because sometimes you can immediately tell they’ve never even been to the us and sometimes they set the scene so accurately that you start to think they actually grew up somewhere in the us mid-west and then you get slapped in the face by a “favour” 50,000 words in. all that detailed world building was for naught. just one treacherous “u” slipped in there and now i know your secret.