sorry for making yet another textpost but i came across that post saying they dislike transfem natsume because he "canonically hates being perceived as a girl and tries to erase all sorts of memories related to that" and also went on to shame genderbends of him aswell. So, as someone who not only draws genderbends of natsume but is myself someone who is nonbinary and hates being perceived as a woman, i thought id offer my two cents
first of all; i think its important to note that natsume does NOT hate his childhood. in fact, hes quite happy that he had such an unusual upbringing!
what natsume hates is being perceived as weak. thats why he was raised as a girl after all, it was his mother trying to protect him from evil spirits. he doesnt hate the whole "-chan" or "wearing dresses" thing because he has a hatred for womanhood, its because due to his upbringing hes now come to associate those things as being weak. he begs tsumugi to forget about it because that means tsumugi remembers natsume being weak, and natsume thinks tsumugi still referring to him as "natsume-chan" means he still sees natsume as weak. (iirc natsume did however once say that he is a little sad that he doesnt really know how to relate to young boys due to this in poltergeist, but i couldnt find the exact quote. either way that just adds to the complexity of natsumes relationship with his childhood, because while he is happy to be "abnormal" in that sense, it has left him lacking in some areas)
i have to ask though, should this conflict of his not be something we hope he overcomes? should we not want him to develop a healthy relationship with various gender expressions? should we not want natsume to overcome his belief that feminine things = weakness? i want natsume to reach a point where he can wear feminine clothing and not feel like some damsel in distress because of it. i want natsumes character to grow. i want him to develop a positive relationship with his gender because natsume DOES enjoy some more typically feminine things, like baking! he used to bake with his mom when he was little! and i want him to feel like he can indulge in that side of him without feeling insecure.....
i LOVE transmasc natsume, my primary hc for him is transmasc nonbinary after all, but with all these things considered, shouldnt people be allowed to headcanon him however they want? if they hear his story and negative relationship with femininity and how that resonates with them and they themselves are transfem, should they not be allowed to hc him as such too?
which brings me to my next point; my own personal relationship with gender and femininity. i was raised as a girl and i fucking DESPISED womanhood. i hated everything about it. i hated how i felt forced into a box i didnt want to be stuck in, and i hated how it felt like my whole life had already been planned out for me due to societal expectations, aswell as me needing to present a certain way. i was peak "tomboy" growing up, constantly wearing super baggy clothes and wouldnt even brush my hair alot of the time. but despite that i remained miserable. i frankly hated how i looked and would constantly dye my hair vibrant colors in an attempt to make me like myself a little more. it wasnt until i realized "wow, im actually not a girl at all" that i finally let go of believing i needed to look a certain way (and thus, defying it) and started to dress for myself. i started to dress in clothes that made me happy and feel pretty! alot of which leans feminine, but clothes doesnt have a gender, and how you dress doesnt define your gender either, but it can still be a bit scary yknow? especially since i dont want people to think of me as a girl, and drawing a bunch of femstars has really made me learn to love myself more in a funny way. i can put these characters in clothes i think are beautiful, i can explore the more feminine parts of me that i adore but dont want to express in public due to how i want others to perceive me, but it has also warmed me up to femininity even more. because femstars to me feels detached from the expectations of society because its not a real thing!! there are no canon femstars designs!!! i can do literally whatever the hell i want with it and its been so liberating to me!!
all this to say; i think it really sucks seeing the way this fandom treats transfem hcs and explicit genderbends, because like ive said before; they can truly be something so personal. you dont know why that person is drawing what theyre drawing, so its a little unwise to make assumptions based on ........ Well, whatever it may be. i know very well that women dressing the way society expects them to SUCKS, esp if you have personal ties to it, but you have to realize the issue isnt femininity, but misogyny.
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like i MISSED the time travel aspect of this show so much, i missed cheng xiaoshi having those big genius moments, i missed him using his powers!!! i love love love it when he gets inspired it just makes so much sense. he's the one that lives with those powers, he's the one that knows them best, of course he would use them in creative and fascinating ways. god its so good.
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Listen: if you’re questioning your sexuality or gender and having a really difficult time figuring stuff out, you might wanna try reframing your thinking from “what am I?” to “what do I want?”
If you want to have sex with men, do it! If you want to go on hormones because the physical affects are desirable to you, do it! If you don’t want to have sex at all, (don’t) do it!
Labels can be a wonderful thing, don’t get me wrong, but they can also cause you to second-guess yourself into paralysis if you give them too much importance. You can always label your identity later on if you want to, but, in the meantime, don’t let stress over which label is “right” stop you from doing what makes you feel fulfilled in the here and now.
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Kaveh angst fic idea where you were classmates with him in the Akademiya where you both became close friends and had a secret crush on each other. But your project partner confessed to him before either of you were able to. Kaveh felt guilty about rejecting her because she was already miserable about failing a class or something like that, so he went out with her. And then you couldn't bring yourself to talk to him anymore after seeing him with someone else and then circumstances caused you to lose contact with each other.
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under no circumstances am i going to write it because i absolutely cannot stand fics where the characters like, get involved in Current Events, it always feels cheap and like the writer is too busy being a fan to remember that real life exists. but in spite of that i keep thinking about the stunticons, specifically in the 'verse where i made them decide to convert to judaism really badly so that they could celebrate hannukah really badly, finding out that neo-nazis exist and just being like Oh! We have human enemies now because of our human-religious affiliation! They'll never see us coming
and then just like running over as many nazis as they can find, which isn't many because very few people march around wearing swastikas outside special events. but they're part of an army so naturally they immediately go "oh shit we gotta FIND them, they're in DISGUISE. like US"
and in the course of doing this breakdown, who i keep making into a computer nerd, accidentally becomes one of the world's most effective anti-fascist investigators alive because instead of finding out someone's fash and like leaking it to the public he just tells the affinity group he runs with online and then two weeks later one of the stunticons comes by their job and just runs them over until they die. as they should. he's not that good at the legwork or anything and he keeps having astoundingly weird ideas about what constitutes a fascist but other people work with him and the other stunties get the job done
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Words cannot comprehend how much I want pet rats.
Reasons I should get rats
-very smart creatures, I would make them puzzles to solve
-very clean lads despite what the media tells you
-rats are cute
-I would give them lots of love
-I genuinely love rats so much. They are so smart and so interesting.
-I would make them home made treats
-I would name one Cardinal, and the other would be named Tangerine.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
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The great vowel shift is so funny to me
Like. What do you MEAN all our vowels got up and played musical chairs for no apparent reason??
They just??? Did that???? And linguists are like ‘I dunno man they just decided to shake it up i guess lol’
And now we’re stuck with a horrific writing system cause our long and short vowels aren’t all that important anymore but we still kept the old spelling
You can’t tell me that’s not hilarious, this is peak comedy for me
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i’m adoring your modern!AU choices, it’s very inspiring!!! so i would love to see more of that. also any new AU ideas you might have, ‘cause i love AUs hehe
Working on the modern!AU has been so much fun and i really wanna keep working on it
its consuming my every thought and i love it :3
also it gives me reason to research weird things i wouldnt otherswise
but over all, working on it is fun and im so happy you like it!
im not very good when it comes to thinking up au's and headcannons so this'll probably be the only au i do but all that matters is im having fun
if you have any ideas for some of the characters i'd love to hear them! :D
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