So I usually don't make posts like this but I'm really feeling pretty rough rn.
My dysphoria has been pretty manageable for the past couple of years despite my circumstances (not out to anyone I live with, no hormones, no clothes I like).
Turns out! That's not cutting it anymore! Turns out I actually have to do things to feel better (evil).
With that being said, I'm having difficulties figuring out how I should view my body. Like on the one hand if I was my agab I'd be very happy with it. But since I'm not I have a lot of issues with it.
I also am having a hard time reckoning with the fact that I may never look quite like I want to. But is that okay? Is my idea of what I want to look like all too rooted in cisheteronormative ideas of beauty? Too rooted in fatphobia? Too rooted in whiteness?
Basically, I just want to feel happy in my body, but I'm having difficulties differentiating between valid gender dysphoria and societal standards of what looks good.
i have decided to be the change i wanna see, so lets do a nice little thing for each other, as a community full of incredible and talented writers. yes this is writer specific only, but thats cause thats where the main problem of people not interacting with creative works lies in this fandom as far as i can tell and have seen people talking about it especially in the last couple of months
if you read this, please add links to your written works. it can be just a single fic youre really proud of, your writing blog, your writing tag, your ao3 account, anything where your works can be found
and if you leave your link here, PLEASE check out someone else that has left their works, and interact with them. leave them a comment, even just a kudos, REBLOG their fic, etc. interacting is the keyword i want to emphasize here, along with building a sort of a masterpost of where to find people writing in this fandom
and if you are not a writer, youre still highly encouraged to interact with this post and share it and show love to the writers in this fandom, obviously!! i think that should go without saying, but adding it in anyways
a bit more about my vision and resources and such under the read more, but thats the gist of it. happy linking and please be kind and supportive to each other!! 💜
nobody is too big or too small to add their things on this list. if you write and post anything in this fandom whatsoever, be it fics or drabbles or headcanons, any companies or any kind of ships or reader inserts or any content whatsoever no matter how 'dead dove dont eat' or hell even if its just meta, we welcome all here and nobody can say that one thing is less valid than another. just please tag your content accordingly, especially if theres content warnings, and feel free to mention what you write, who you write, any info you wish to leave that would help people before they click on your links. but even so, that should not and hopefully will not deter people from interacting, no matter what it is. someones trash is another ones treasure, i promise you
and unless the amount gets really overwhelming, im personally going to be checking out everyone that leaves something here. unless it squeaks me out, but even then, i'll spread the word. and i just wish as many people as possible will do the same, and not just use this as a potential board to only get eyes on their stuff. ofc thats also the point, but you should give as much, if not more, than you get. we need to be kind and supportive of one another (besides, from personal experience, if you show love to someone else, they are more likely to do it back than without you taking the first step, so... pay it forward)
as for resources, heres a few links that should be helpful in leaving comments and feedback. of course everyone does their own thing and no comment is too big or too small to leave, but for those who need them. if you have anything you'd like added to this list, dont hesitate to get in touch or drop it in the post yourself!!
101 comment starters
ao3 floating comment box
kudos html
dont know how to comment? easy solutions
a quick hot guide to commenting (by yours truly)
an overall guide to appreciating fanfic writers
and just in general.. leave people comments. leave them asks about their projects. just go over and gush about their work. i know it sounds embarrassing but writers love nothing more than to hear that someone likes what they are doing. if you find a fic that hasnt been updated in forever, comment on it. it might just be the spark the author needs to continue. while kudos and likes are nice, and just as valuable to some, its definitely in the words the people leave for them that matter the most. im not saying this to put pressure on anyone, its just how it is, and i feel like unless people are writers themselves, and even then sometimes, thats just hard to grasp, especially if the writer is a smaller and less popular one who doesnt get a lot of traffic in the first place
i think thats all. just be nice and considered to everyone, reblog peoples works, this post with others add ons and so forth. and if i find anyone talking shit here or at other writers for something they share, you'll be blocked and im probably taking your kneecaps. be fucking nice. we are all struggling here and we need to stick together
Twitter has really rotted how people view serious and complex situations holy shit.
Fuck you mean "lack of awareness". Even before Niki finally made a tweet about it it's. Pretty fucking obvious that she likely was also a victim of his to an extent too. Especially after other people, some of which even weren't as close as Niki and the other 2 mentioned in their second tweet, also spoke up about their past bad experiences with him.
"Need to speak up" yeah they all probably should eventually but I don't think it's that fucking shocking that they haven't immediately said anything? They all knew him beyond his content, either he hide this from them well or manipulated them too. Or a combination.
And depending on how much they already knew or experienced, either this is an extreme shock to them because of how close they were to him or they're realizing that he wasn't just like that to them or that believing something like "oh that's just how he is!" Wasn't a healthy mindset.
Anyways what I'm getting at is there's a whole laundry list of reasons it's not that fucking weird for it to take a while for people who were closer to him to say anything about it.
Also saying "I take back the Niki thing. So glad her and tubbo have spoken up <3" when this is literally Niki's tweet
Is wild. How do you read that tweet and your emotions coming away from it are "oh so glad she's finally spoken up about it!" Like bro. She's literally talking about how thinking about all this is causing her to physically shake. What the fuck are you "<3"ing at. Have some self awareness.
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Non exhaustive list of course. Many more such cases, in fact feel free to add
I love it so so so so much when a character is like the Smart One in the group, who is always the one who remembers the details, analyzes every piece of informationen, makes the plans and is always the first one to understand or notice something. And then I love it when that same character is so incredibly oblivious to one thing. (Especially people being nice in any way.)
Am I the only one that every time I get myself into new fandom I just sigh, knowing fully well that I just got next 20+ x reader, y/n, x Oc!whateverthefuck or just any form of self insert tags to blacklist?