#gender explanation

[sharkface]

If there are supposedly hordes of trans women sniffing out shy moody androgynous goth boys and turning them into extroverted freaky raver puppygirls explain why hasn't it happened to me yet. Am I not pretty enough

#This is a joke but seriously you guys are weird as fuck for thinking a 'guy' who hangs out with a lot of trans women eventually becoming #one herself is some evidence of being 'turned' instead of the simpler and more reasonable explanation that the reason that #she hung out with mostly trans girls and was ok with them talking about her becoming a girl jokingly OR serious is probably just that #she already wanted to be a girl and the trans girls she hung out with helped her become more comfortable with that idea and #gave her the tools and confidence to pursue that. There is no prime directive because closeted trans people are not fucking aliens who #have nooo idea what's going on with themselves and should be isolated from people who could help them figure themselves out #and support them through that realization and their transition. You are straight up parroting conservative talking points about protecting #our vulnerable cis people from the big scary trans agenda that seeks to corrupt their beautiful god given genders. Get a grip #talk

[ineffectualbookseller]

The way Azirphale is underestimated and practically infantalized by heaven is so closely tied to his femininity and I think we should talk about it more because I just want to shout about how relatable the way he's treated in his workplace is as a woman working in a traditionally male field

It's in all the little niggling comments from your boss about personal things that hold no bearing on your work

and the assumption that what you're doing must be simple if it was assigned to you

your work is trivialized

and you get these the placating smiles when you're told plans and proposals are rejected and passed over

or when your complaints are dismissed

and you get more of the same from upper management

it all feels so frustrating and draining but you're at work so all you can do is take a breathe put on that mask and move on with your day

It is all so deteimental to your emotional well being and textually, so much of this is tied to Aziraphale's softness, his gayness - his femininity

The thing about working in an environment and gives you this feeling - of being simultaneously destrought watching your belief in yourself get chipped away but also just so irate becuase you know you don't deserve it - is how it builds. It sinks under your skin and feeds into this indignant dejection until you can have a moment of release - but Azirphale doesn't get to bitch about it over drinks with friends, he doesn't get a lunch break where he can go for a walk and listen to an angry scandi death metal playlist, he doesn't even get the chance to cry about it in the bathroom for 5 minutes before confronting it again

(And I talked a little bit about it in the tags of this beautiful photoset but this all comes into play whenever Crowley dismisses his plans or calls him an idiot. These are purely emotional reactions; I really don't think Crowley means much by it - he respects Aziraphale's opinion and genuinely thinks he's brilliant - but Crowley is so quick to use this terminology when Aziraphale is making a decision Crowley thinks is wrong and he doesn't know how much this hurts Aziraphale. Just like Aziraphale doesn't understand the true impact the Fall had on Crowley, Crowley doesn't understand the ways heaven has been tearing away at Aziraphale's self worth)

Aziraphale has been facing this constant drip of denigration since before the beginning of time and has never released the pressure valve. At this point, he's a bomb waiting to go off

#(I want to note that I am coming at this from my personal experience as a woman #but I know femme neurodivergent and disabled folks of all genders face these same issues) #along similar lines I have tons of feelings about how often Aziraphale hides his hands when talking to other angels #to hide his stimming #and look I try not to tie everything back to explaning why Aziraphale ended s2 the way he did but apparently I can't #its just the juiciest character moment to me #also thinking about how angry Crowley was at Gabriel when he was treated like this once #granted shut up and die already IS the worst thing Gabriel has said to Aziraphale but if Crowley knew how much of this was going on... #aziraphale #good omens #go2 spoilers #good omens meta #Thanks to folks who responded to my tags on that post because you really motivated me to find these screen caps #and finish this post which has been sitting in my drafts for ages #also sorry so many of gabriels faces are funny I cant help that jon hamm is comedy gold - i refuse to let it undermine my point

[umeji-writes]

Okay, but let's talk about Balam's hair for a hot second

(Yes, it may have become one of my fixations) You know, the guy not only cut it radically - and we know it's because of Iruma - he also let it grow back, and now he grooms it much better than before. Why? While my wishful thinking headcanon is that Kalego offered to brush it after they declared their feelings for each other (they are definitely introduced as best friends, but c'mon, look at them here)

...I also recognize this is not canon, so it can't be the actual reason. So I was wondering: why this difference? IMO it signifies personal growth, but what caused it, if Iruma led to the haircut? And then it hit me. Meeting Iruma, again - but in a deeper way than I thought at first. According to Balam's own words, he decided to cut his hair to appear more approachable. But why not brush it and style it as he's doing now? Everything we know about Balam's past points to him being treated like a weirdo and marginalized, not only because he likes picture books, he was also hyperfixated with the existence of humans.

This went on all his life, from bullies at school to his own students. He was likely wounded, full of self doubt and possibly shame, so he withdrew into himself, and his hair was messy because why bother if people avoid you anyway. So imagine finally having tangible proof that you were right all along. That's life changing, not only because of the discovery itself - it can make you reevaluate your whole story, and yourself. A radical cut was a logical thing to do, to break with the past. But why letting the hair grow back then? I speculate that Balam is most comfortable with long hair after all, and he feels more like himself this way (I mean, he had medium-to-long hair in all flashbacks). I like to think that his personal grooming is a metaphor for his newly found self confidence and self love: he can be himself to the fullest, he likes the demon he is, and he's not afraid of showing it to everyone else now, by making his hair prettier. He was right all along, and everybody else can shut it.

Such a small detail in the grand scheme of things, yet enormous for the single character. I love this manga so much ♡

#m!ik #mairimashita! iruma kun #mairuma #welcome to demon school iruma kun #iruma kun #balam #balam sensei #m!ik balam #balam shichirou #shichikal #manga analysis #m!ik analysis #so i wrote the first draft for this post one month ago #i wanted to show a wip for my hair brushing fanart before sharing this #little did i know that thanks to balam's hair i would have had a breakthrough for my own gender in some weeks lmao #apparently i think about it a lot #so i guess iruma healed not only balam but me too #thanks buddy #butterfly effect #of course the explanation could simply be that nishi changed her mind and went back to long hair #but idk #she writes really well and usually puts down the bases for future developments tens of chapters before #so i doubt this is random #let me know what you think

[plutosoda]

#inanimate insanity #you have fun with your they/them bowbot or whatever im not forgetting abt 'unknown gender freak' #+theres an explanation in the notes for why it sucks

[androideql]

Sometimes, a simple pencil sketch gets a little out of hand.

#by androideql #yugioh #ygo dm #violetshipping #puppyshipping #kaiba seto #jounouchi katsuya #a friend and i have this thing were instead of arguing who's top and who's bottom in a relationship #we argue about who's the mage and who's the sorcerer #it's way less intrusive and it doesn't enforce gender roles #that's my explanation for why this exists #i do not have one for why i decided to start adding colour and lights though

[lekrow]

Self Portrait '23 10" x 8" Gouache

A loose still life of my packer and my man juice 🤠 The colors in the actual painting are way too vibrant for my camera to interpret correctly and despite painstakingly adjusting the colors in ps, every digital screen I've viewed the images on look significantly different so 😂hopefully it looks okay on everyone else's end. (This and CBT were both made for an art show about penises in case anyone is sensing a theme lol.)

#hehe yes thats what i look like wdym #*record scratch* yeah thats me. you're probably wondering how i ended up like this #coming this summer: help im pebis #jk theres actually a lot of thought behind the title but i still laughed when i decided to name it that #maybe i'll actually rb with an explanation of the meaning behind this piece but rn its silly goose time #packer #gouache #testosterone #transgender #masculinity #gender #hrt #hormones #needles #painting #traditional art #original art #transition #trans art #queer art #cw needles #cw genitalia #cw nudity

[kittyprincessofcats]

When you're listening to the very first Bibi Blocksberg Hörspiel ever made ("Hexen gibt es doch" from 1980), and there's this exchange:

Narrator: "And only women can become witches. It's always been that way." Barbara Blocksberg: "And it's always going to stay that way, Boris." Boris Blocksberg: "But mom, if you magic me into a girl, then I could become a witch, right?" Barbara: "No Boris, then you'd only look like a girl. But your soul would be a boy, and you still couldn't do magic."

So here we have the very first Bibi Blocksberg episode ever, from 1980(!!!), explicitly making a difference between physical sex and "what gender your soul is", and clarifying that the latter is what matters for their "only women can do magic" rule.

WE STAN.

#Bibi Blocksberg #Elfie Donnelly #Kiddinx #German stuff #German culture #Elfie Donnelly really said 'Yes of course trans women are women and therefore can be witches' in 1980 #(Before you tell me - yes I know Ms Donnelly most likely didn't have trans people in mind when writing this exchange and probably just #needed a convenient explanation for why Boris really can't become a witch #but I still find this exchange and that they're making a distinctinon at all between what gender your 'body' vs your 'soul' is #very progressive for 1980 and I'm pleasantly surprised rn)

[artemx746]

I love how absolutely obsessed I am with the Pjo mortal parents even though like half of them aren’t even characters

#pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #sally jackson #esperanza valdez #But like… if you pull a god how can I not be obsessed #may castellan #Special mention to Ethan’s mortal parent even though they don’t even have a confirmed gender much less a name #Also Damien white has 2 moms I don’t make the rules and shall provide no explanation

[birdricks]

every member of the smith/sanchez family is autistic and queer. see my vision

#rick and morty #rnm spoilers #??!????? kinda #so funny that morty is technically the straightest member of the family now 😭 minus comic content #ALSO YEAH. ILL DIE ON THE HILL OF THEM ALL BEING AUTISTIC #rick is canonically and morty is … kind of canonically? #jerry is pretty obviously autistic to me. he has a lot of typical Dad Autism interests and hobbies #and seems very unaware when it comes to social situations. also the balloon game lol… hes stimming idc #beth is sooo similar to rick. she definitely is lol and her being a weird kid is part of it #literal horse girl!!!!!! #summer is TOOOOOOO. being very obsessed w fitting in #which is obvs like. a Teenager thing but u understand right. #THESE R VERY SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATIONS ‼️‼️ im just lazy rn #but Trust me. theyre all sooo autistic its unreal. a world where neurodivergent is the norm and neurotypical is the minorty… #oh and as for the queer part. well theyve all (minus morty) had a same gender relationship in the show #and ill live and die by rick and morty being trans.

[ffc1cb]

i’ve always found it peculiar how during meeting the chargers cutscene the game just assumes your character automatically understands what krem is talking about when he mentions binding (though, granted, it’s all very unsubtle). like, this is a roleplaying game. what if i want to play a character who just doesn’t get it

#dragon age #cremisius aclassi #inquisitor trevelyan #at least give me an in game explanation of why the inquisitor would Know this right away #it's not like transgenderism is a widely explored topic in da lore. the most you can find about it in inquisition specifically excluding #krem and seras countless transmisogynistic lines is one codex that mentions that some previous divine mightve been a trans woman #and the way it's written sucks ass. the infamous sex in thedas codex also mentions nothing on the topic of transness. so like #whats up with that #art stuff #before anyone says anything i fully realize how i look critiquing a bioware game that came out in 2014 on its faulty queer representation #please trust me i know. im just thinking out loud #ALSO. in case it isnt obvious. parsley transed they gender. the joke is that theyre a nonbinary femme now #its hard for me to show it through art because it would involve misgendering them but they dont actually start going by they/them pronouns #until after halamshiral. so like technically if i made them refer to themselves as he/him at any point before that it would be canonical but #its not like my art is chronological by any means and cannot be taken out of context by virtue of it existing as an individual post online #if someone were to reblog an art of them saying hi im a dude theyd go cool! hashtag male inquisitor. or something #the tragic case of sacrificing narrative in order to not get second hand discomfort at seeing parsley misgendered #ANYWAY..........

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Could a Yoshi kill Macbeth?

Yes, the Yoshi(e)s from the Super Mario franchise could kill Macbeth!

All Yoshi(e)s are shown to be capable of laying eggs, and while often these eggs are used for defensive, offensive, or supportive abilities, some of these eggs have been shown to hatch into Baby Yoshi(e)s, which qualifies the species for the Unconventional Birth Clause!

As for the other two clauses, the gender structure of the Yoshi species varies widely from source to source. For example, the Japanese description on Yoshi's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee explains that Yoshi(e)s are neither male nor female, while the Paper Mario games feature a Yoshi referring to "[his] son," and another referring to "[his] lovely wife." Even characters within the Smash Bros. series express confusion at Yoshi's egg-laying capabilities (namely Solid Snake and Viridi, who are corrected by Otacon and Palutena respectively), so this is clearly a topic of debate.

For now, we'll assume that all Yoshi(e)s are biologically genderless at birth, but that their culture has equivalents of males and females that an individual may choose from if they so please. In this version of the explanation, whether or not a Yoshi applies for the Gender Clause or Birth Parent Clause is still a case-by-case basis.

Thank you for your submission!

#asks #unconventional birth clause #debatable character #yoshi #super mario bros #smash bros #super smash bros #this was a fun one to research #i also know they would never make my explanation of yoshi gender canon in the games but like. i can dream okay #also i kept spelling the plural as Yoshi(e)s because both spellings have been used at different points in the series

[fluffydice]

Kusuo: This outfit makes me feel like a girl.

Aren: Good! …Wait, is it good?

Kuriko: …Yeah, actually. It is.

#I need kusuo to be more open to feeling the way he does just because #sometimes things just are nice and don’t have to come with a price or some heavy explanation #esp with gender #supportive boyf Aren #kubosai #saiki k #fluffy cooks a headcanon

[tora-the-cat]

#dragon ball #dbz #db #bulma briefs #trans headcannon #son goku #vegeta dbz #trunks briefs #son gohan #yamcha #OK quick explanation for why later characters are on here since I've already seen some confusion over my reasoning in the notes; #1st of all i suppose there are people who (wrongly) assume that some of them aren't trans so. there's that. BUT (correctly) assuming they #all are- it's about how old they are when they come out. Like sure Bulma has known Goku and Yamcha since she was like 16. but does feral #baby Goku even know what gender is enough to transition yet? Is yamcha secure enough to come out or does he just bs his way #through their relationship pretending he was just such a badass he always had broken (and thus bandaged) ribs? you know.

[cosmichawk]

so i finally caught up w/ recent news about winx reboot and decided to art dump all winx (or black circle) drawings i did. all of them r like... 8 months old? maybe more.

i have more but the rest r unfinished. prob gonna finish them just in time for 1st episode of the reboot lmao

#i was really surprised when i learned that these bitches will appear in the reboot #i thought it will be like 1st season reboot or smth #black circle is my fav antagonist group (not in just winx) actually #black circle? more like bestie circle lmao #ogron and duman still have their strong grip on me even after so many years of me seeing 4th season for the 1st time #gender envy from them both #also duman definitely fried some wires in my upstairs department #there is 0 other explanation as to why i feel about him the way i do :/ #winx #winx club #duman #ogron #winx duman #winx ogron #artists on tumblr #digital artwork #ch - art

[tired-demonspawn]

one thing i didn't expect from this update was old man yaoi, but old man yaoi i got

#warframe #warframe whispers in the walls #whispers in the walls #whispers in the walls spoilers #warframe loid #wait whats human loids tag #because #loid is already yknow loid #with otak scratched into his back #i hope this turns into a human nigel situation if youve seen that tweet #anyway mans wakes up from his short coma and within the first minute i realise him and jotaro entrati are like 200% fucking #(me and my friends call albrecht jotaro because of his jotaro-like drip) #there was some '🏳️‍🌈🤨?' in the cutscene with the fuckin wiping away his tear extremely gently #but there was still some wiggle room yknow #but my mans walks out of his time travel coffin and calls a mf 'my Albrecht' #there is not a singular heterosexual under the sun that would call someone of the same gender 'my' in that fucking tone of voice #in short: #there is was and will be no heterosexual explanation for all of that #by all of that i mean the whole quest

[blackstarchanx3new]

This idea for a later part in Four Swords Returns floats around in my head and I find it hilarious:

So you get to see it. X"D

Vaati (Still being lose) is completely enamored with the lovely princess Zelda, so he kidnaps her to be his bride.

Woops. He kidnapped Vio instead...However did that happen...

So Zelda dons the Vio persona and helps the other 4 (including Shadow Link) save the real Vio before he and Vaati are married.

Hilarity ensues.

#four swords manga #four swords #four swords adventures #loz #vio #Zelda is some sorts of trans/gender non conforming deal with it #There is no cis explanation for sheik no matter how hard nintendo tries #she just has the boy potion btw lmao #I want Zelda to adventure with the boys and this is what I came up with lmao #I wanna give this girl some damn agency she ain't the one being saved. X'D #vio and her have so much in common tho #they're both smart and like archery! #genderfluid zelda genderfluid zelda-