Happy Birthday Apple in the Orchard!!!! It's the one year anniversary of a very important comic in my life, and in celebration I'm working on a small piece. It's not done yet, but in the meantime, I restocked the zine if anyone wants one! There's 25 copies available.
You can grab one here!
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It's deeply amusing to me seeing all the fanart of the trans!Big Macintosh from MLP:FIM, because my baby sister (who I am not out to, especially not back when this conversation happened) basically assigned me Big Macintosh.
She was all "he's big and strong and doesn't say much! Like you!" and I was like "AYUP!"
And now everyone is drawing him as a trans woman. Not just a girl, mind you: the resurgence in Big Macintosh fanart I'm seeing is not "what if Big Macintosh was always a filly", it's very definitely "big masculine adult man Big Macintosh realizes he's a woman, and starts transitioning". And that's somehow more important to me, especially given my assigned-big-mac-kin status by my sister.
I was never the most masculine "man", but I'm Tall and Fat and just generally Big, and I'm not the kind of person who dresses extravagantly or puts a lot of character into how I speak. I'm a big autistic person who just likes to Do Their Thing instead of talking or visibly feeling much about it. That's why my sister went "you're Big Macintosh!"
So to see people taking that character and making them into a trans person like me, and not doing it in the Magical Genderswap way where suddenly they're a curvy thin short woman with makeup and incredible fashion sense... But as a trans woman, who still has the same traits she had as a man: she's still big. She still dresses like she's a farmer. She still only says what needs to be said, and gets on with the work that needs to be done.
It's touching, you know? And it makes me realize that when I do eventually come out to my baby sis, she'll understand.
(See this post for what inspired this, at least the most recent example)
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what are your thoughts on transfem big mac and transmasc fluttershy?
i personally subscribe to a belief in transfem fluttershy. partly because i’m transfem and she’s my favorite. however, i support all queer headcanons period. even contradictory ones
the episode where big mac goes to the sister thing with apple bloom made me extremely uncomfortable. i felt like it was a gross example of media tropes that sexualize and vilify trans women. invading women’s sports, a man is shown as foolish for pursuing him, it’s shown as being transparent and just a disguise, all this among other things. however, i have since changed my mind after seeing fan reactions. i’m happy with this headcanon, and i acknowledge that other women maybe found something in that episode that i didn’t see
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