#for me it was gender awakening

[consultingcriminal]

okay so I'm trying to see something, if you watched Narnia as a kid and your life changed when ben barnes appeared on screen and now after many years you watch every single thing that he's in reblog and add in the tags your experience

idk I feel like there's a unique experience that a certain amount of people went through BUT I CAN'T PUTIT IN WORDS BECAUSE IT'S 3 AM

#for me it was gender awakening #for some reason this dude is in most of my major fandoms #narnia #dorian gray #shadow and bone #the punisher #like????? #one day you were 11 watching Caspian be pretty on screen and now fast forward to 2022 hes playing daddy darkles #does this have to do sth with the passage of time? #i am unwell #its like when one if your favourite actors is getting old and you can't accept it because you need more movies to exist the same way you #can't go through your day comfortably without listening to music #but also they'll forever be that young in their works #and what I'm trying to get to is that you too will always be as young as you were when you first watched it #once again i repeat it is 3 am sorry for clogging the tag #back to what I was saying #and when you rewatch the movie or relisten to the song (cos I just realized that i also mean it about other types of art and shit) #you get all these memories of younger you flood back #and you were such a little kid back then and now you have to be an adult #i need to go back to writing and vent there instead lmao #ben barnes #prince caspian #sab #jigsaw #aleksander morozova #general kirigan

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is still 18. #besides making the show more palatable; this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im not going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still! #months later edit: want to say im not intending to moralize BL manga from the 2000s either. like gen. no hate on them. #as a gay person i just appreciate when characters who act gay are considered gay textually #and its kind of disheartening how gay-as-identity was treated as something incredulous in those manga a lot of the time #even the mere suggestion of attraction to men as a whole and not just the other male lead...yknow

[romanceyourdemons]

saw a video of a middle school percussion class playing crazy train on the xylophones which absolutely rules, but someone in the comments was saying “this is what kids should be learning in school instead of gender.” sir have you SEEN the metal stars of 70s and 80s?? you could probably learn more about gender nonconformity and drag from glam rock and heavy metal bands than you would in a middle school history class that dedicates half a lecture to stonewall or a middle school health class that dedicates half a lecture to gender and sexuality. i certainly know i did

#long hair on men has nothing to do with gender (and revealing studded leather has nothing to do with sexuality) if it’s a classic metal ban #also to be clear in isolation promo shots of metallica will not teach you queer history and health #and cannot be subbed for an actual education on those fronts #but seeing these extremely cool beloved and successful while also obviously gnc people is much more likely to Awaken something in kids #secondhand exposure to bono was enough to turn me trans. imagine what ozzy osbourne could do. #ryddles

[xylathesilkwing]

a gift to all the trans-jesse truthers from my cousin: he is going to trans your gender

the fadens are transgender trust me I’m Remedy

#ohh the gender awakening of splitting from the same being(?) #jesse is trans and SO IS DYLAN 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ #the hiss is an ally y’all trust me #control #jesse faden #dylan Faden #control remedy #control 2019 #remedy control #remedy entertainment

[tales-of-magic-and-chaos]

#I'm. obsessed. with him. #he's so. #I'm going insane. #where are his underboob scars??????? #i think it's awakening something in me. #he's kdnxjskxhskxhdkxjdj #Stephen strange the man that you are.......... #i need him. #that's it. that was the last straw. #i'm obsessed. #he's so pretty. #he's so gender. #i want to eat him. #twink vs bear/bara btw

[rummikubcube]

I’m rewatching GenV, because of course, and God.

The relief and utter joy in Jordan’s face when they were free from Cate’s head and could finally switch is breaking me. Like- they were so fucking happy you gays (lol I meant to write guys but fuck it that works too). They were so happy that for a moment you can see they completely forgot the deep shit they were in and went back to their true nature, aka, the asshole who shamelessly points at people and says “You have sex hair”.

I just- I’m so not normal about this character.

#I swear my thoughts after this show can basically be resumed in: #hope this doesn’t awaken something in me #while the other side of my brain know it’s been forever altered by Jordan Li’s gender #gen v #jordan li #gen v amazon #marie moreau #emma meyer #the boys

[moeblob]

I'm sorry.

#tw blood #fe awakening #fe fates #fe three houses #morgan #subaki #felix hugo fraldarius #i was trying to do some variety of games and only two from houses got requested #and im like dang bro the feral felix is calling me..... #and i might cave and draw the other req for houses later since the person who asked was rly polite #and it made me feel appreciated so ty to the person who asked #also two people asked for morgan and neither one said a gender #so i opted to go girl since i had two guys #again i just wanted to draw some silly expressions thanks

[kagooleo]

pmex spoilers whatever I’m shaking in my boots rn

RILEY IS REAL THE GENDER OF ALL TIME TO ME IM CRYINGGGGGG

#kagarambles #pokemon masters #pokemon masters ex #trainer riley #stat trainer riley #AFTER MANY LONG YEARS I CAN FINALLY GET THE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME TO ME #my gender awakening to me I think I’m shakign so hard #yknow those characters ur insane abt but don’t talk abt much online #he’s one of em!!!! he’s my favorite!!!!!!! #I haven’t played much but I know what I’m pouring all my gems into #my guy of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gideonisms]

Do it for your next milf boss who won't give you the time of day --wise words from tumblr user cosmictiddies, 2023

#do it for her 💪😔 #(the next 40 year old mother of three to think i'm kind of funny and pathetic) #i will say these women usually love me. nothing like someone who's performing their gender strangely to awaken intrigue in a milf's heart #your mom DOES think i'm charming and funny and harmless #(won't seduce her husband. won't get promoted) #they like to have an ambiguously gay friend makes them feel of the times

[beyblaiddyd]

The genderbend poll really does make me sad like why and how are so many trans people still so fixated on this element of internet culture that we haven't been able to escape it for years.

Like I don't see how people can't understand that it is fundamentally cissexist to treat men and women as opposite categories with defined enough traits that you can meaningfully Bend them along a line.

When you ask the question "what would this character look like if he was a woman" and your answer is to draw the character with a slightly slimmer face and give her breasts then even if you keep her "masculine" and give her short hair you have still engaged in an act of transphobia.

When you look at this question through the transgender lens, you should already know the answer: gender has no inherent tie to appearance or presentation and so the character as they are could already be a man or woman (or both, or any other gender, which also highlights the other problem with genderbends, which is that they again flatten gender down into a binary that can be flipped. You never see someone genderbend a man into an agender person or a woman into a bigender person, I wonder if that says something about the ideology that underpins genderbends?). Any changes you make speak to what you think defines gender.

There are so many more interesting, varied, dynamic ways to explore character gender and presentation in this world without doing this casually cissexist thing that people for some reason can't let go of

I at least kind of understand it when it's the mental exercise of "if the company had designed this character as a different gender from the start how would they look" but when it's just "I want to see how this character would look as the Opposite Gender" it's like oh man we can't even get past level one huh. We can't even clear the minimum bar of opposite genders not existing

#cocoa talks too much #and before anyone gets Mad At Me Online #i understand that for some people genderbends can be helpful parts of your gender awakening #but something being personally helpful for you does not make it objectively good #or erase the cissexist elements of it #and i think we owe our next generation of trans teens uhm #gender awakenings that involve actual trans depictions of characters? #instead of doing this stupid thing? forever?

[atinylittlepain]

It’s a Romeo + Juliet (baz luhrmann version) kinda night

#who had a gender awakening watching mercutio in drag? #it can’t just be me yall

[meanferalbutch]

Since y’all liked the first renn faire look I shared how about some photos of the Dykiest Warrior you’ve ever met (and I’m aware that’s probably a high bar) back from when it was Viking week

MEN, MINORS, AND TERFS DNI THIS AINT FOR YOU

#my pics #butch #butch dyke #dyke #butch4femme #Butch4Butch #Butch4All #butch lesbian #he/him lesbian #gnc lesbian #lesbian Viking #is that tag anything? #this makeup was so fun cause I wore makeup every day for like. 8 years straight. then I had gender awakening #and now almost all makeup makes me dysphoric #but this was fun to do!

[fruityfroggy]

Me after being in the TS fandom for a while:

#shifting my gender preference and everything #this game AND fandom is way too powerful #it was originally just Mhin #but now #Vere…… #something’s awakened in me #I’m too bi for this #touchstarved shitposting #touchstarved mhin #touchstarved vere #to be fair OL2 was also part of the equation #but you can’t blame me for that one

[persephonaae]

Some days I’m like fuck it do I finally put my name on my blog, but I always return to not caring enough and just letting people here call me whatever they feel like calling me

#I think the funny thing is though I have one of those names that sounds like a ‘not your legal name’ anyway #and I don’t think people would really think anything of it if I listed it lol #alternately it’s a very nonbinary chosen name but I had the fortune of obtaining it since birth #my parents: let’s give our child a gender neutral name! me: sure hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me! #riddle me this Batman if my parents didn’t want me to be none gender left beef why did they give me such a neutral name check mate atheists

[currentlyonstandbi]

#comfort movie fr <3 #still so funny to me that tobey and andrew era are all on netflix like . denied by sony #anyway . this movie is definitely up there as top-tier 'oh i hope this doesn't awaken anything in me (gender edition)'

[skechi-kechi]

Rip Goro Akechi you would have loved Will Wood

#persona 5 #p5r #goro akechi #listen you can think what you want about goro and gender #but you CANNOT convince me I/Me/Myself wouldn’t have awaken something in him #AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL