#and we talked about knights and pirates as the two options for transmasc gender-affirming cosplay lol

[trans-cuchulainn]

watching black sails while having a popular post about knights sure is making me think about pirates and knights as very specific romantic ideals of violent men bound to each other by oaths, one ostensibly within the law and one emphatically outside of it

#when i saw a gender doctor to get my top surgery referral we talked about gender incongruence in childhood and pretty much all i could offer #was the fact that i spent so much of my childhood dressed as a pirate #and we talked about knights and pirates as the two options for transmasc gender-affirming cosplay lol #either conceal everything through bulky layers of armour or wear huge floofy shirts #i am sure there are transmascs who were neither #but because i was a swallows & amazons kid i was a 'change your name and be a pirate' kid and. well. #my cousin however was the knight child among us and i was roped into dressing up and fighting her in the back garden #which i did with glee not least because i enjoyed an excuse to fight my cousin who frankly is quite tiring #so. definitely some knight moments. but pirates came first #knightblogging #kind of. #i don't have a pirate tag #knight-pirate continuum #is a tag now though