Nikko. Late 30s. BIPOC. Transmasc Lesbian. Aromantic. Solo-Poly. Pronouns: They/Him. Writer. Professional Dork. Intersectional Feminist. Radical Inclusionist. Left of Chomsky. Give me your fic prompts.
"Then allow me to offer you some advice: Take a thousand [shirtless] pictures of yourself now. You may currently think, "Oh, I'm too spooky." Or, "Nobody wants to see these tiny boobies." But, believe me, one day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, "Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!"" -- Moira Rose
Hello, my messy iguanas, we are back with the first 10 chapters to our magnum opus. This story is something we have been working on for over a decade. It has gone through a lot of changes since but this version, I have a good feeling about. So please enjoy a story about a bunch of teenagers trying to survive the Zombie Apocalypse set in the Summer of 2000. This is for the young Gen Xers and Elder Millennials and for those of us who didn’t see the late 90s and early 00s through same rose tinted glasses others might.
Stay Messy. And check back here every other Friday for updates.
Rating: Mature
Genre: Zombie Apocalypse
Summary:
The tales of the survivors of Pandora, Washington during the Great Apocalypse of 1999.
A pack of parentless teenagers.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Substack (Chapters 1-10)
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Did I stop writing fan fiction? No. Did I stop writing original fiction? Also no.
Hey, y'all it would be super cool if you queer fanfiction and you've always wanted to see more queer characters in stories... maybe read this. I don't know, it would be cool if you did. Thanks.
Hey fellow Americans, I hope everyone knows that there is no going back to the way things were before. They broke democracy. And they started this decades ago.
It's going to take more than a large turnout for the midterms to fix it. It's going to take years of work. It's not just voting. We have to change what the Left is even if that means (and it does imo) leaving the Democrats behind.
This isn't "vote for a third party" thing. None of the parties that I've seen or been a part of has the kind of power we need to fundamentally change things.
That power lies with us. It's not just creating a leftist party. It's also establishing and maintaining systems of mutual aid. Not everyone is a solider. I'm saying this as someone who is not a solider. But there are other ways to work toward this goal.
Food Not Bombs is good organization to help. If you want to do something, feeding people will always be needed.
If electoral politics is your thing, you need to get in there (starting at the local level) and get yourself elected. I don't care if you smoke weed or are a furry or have done sex work or have a criminal record, if you think the Republic can and should work for us, get yourself elected (that isn't shade, I'm serious). If you're a leftist who gonna do the work, you've got my vote.
But thinking we can give this issue to the people who either caused it, or did less than nothing while it was happening isn't going fix something that's broken.
They've got modern day slave catching patrols roaming the streets. And yes, before someone asks, "Didn't they only go after Black folks?", they did murder white folks too. Because if you align yourself against white supremacy, you're not white to them anymore. Whiteness is a privilege because it comes with power but there are caveats. If you step out of line... even as a white person, whiteness will not protect you. And you gotta be ok with that. Take it from someone who is often cast as the model minority (until I open my mouth) have the type of energy of someone who will ruin Thanksgiving every day in every part of your life.
They didn't first come for the Immigrants.
When I said "Hey, this transphobia is the carny in the coal mine" in 2015, I was told I was fear-mongering.
But I've been hearing the voices of people most ignore for more than a decade. And only now when things are irreparably broken people remember that poem but they're still missing the first few lines.
Because first they came for people with disabilities and we did nothing. First they came for people who are homeless and we did nothing. First they came for refugees and we did nothing. First they came for Black and Brown trans women, and we did nothing. First they came for Trans kids, and we did nothing.
tl;dr: Waiting for the midterms isn't going to help us.
American fascism is here. And the only way to see the other side of this is to [redacted].
A/N: Dammit DarkSwan for haunting my dreams with your sexy evilness. Well yeah. Lemme know if I should make this into a multi-chapter thing. ‘Cause I don’t know if I should and could use some encouragement.
Fandom(s): Once Upon A Time (TV Series)
Pairing(s): Regina/Emma (Because reasons)
Rating: T (If there is gonna be more to this, I’ll bump up the rating.)
Links: AO3 & FF.Net
Warnings: If I continue this it’ll probably get darker. Because I like the dark. And Dark Swan is totally doing it for me.
Summary: Set after “The Price” in Season Five, after saving Robin Regina summons the Dark One in a secluded part of the forest.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, universes or situations. They belong to Disney, ABC etc, etc. I claim no rights to copyrighted material and this story is purely for entertainment purposes.
“Emma Swan…”
She shouldn’t be doing this. Summoning the Dark One wasn’t the brightest of ideas.
“Emma Swan…”
And yet here Regina Mills was, standing the forest, alone, hesitant, but determined to do just that. Why? She wasn’t certain. But then again, when was her encounters with the former Savior not wrought with doubt and insecurity?
“Emma Swan…”
With a flourish of dark smoke, Emma Swan stood before her in all of her dark glory. Dressed in black leather, white hair pulled back into a tight bun, lips stained bright red, skin shimmering in the moonlight. She didn’t look like the Savior anymore. She didn’t look like the infuriating blond, the mother to her son, the sheriff of Storybrooke.
Hi, sorry to bother you, but did you use to help in running the SQWeek event?
If so, do you have any tips or advice to offer me? I would like to start a similar event for sapphic ships in a much smaller fandom, but I've never done anything like that before, and I remember SQW running pretty smoothly, so I was wondering if there's anything you think I should know before starting, or really any advice at all :)
I hope you have a good day 😊
TIA
I apologize for the super late reply.
I did. I did a very poor job. But I do have some advice and hopefully you will do a better job than I did.
Get someone to help you. It's a lot for one person. Especially when you're trying to have a go at it. Even with the smaller fandom. A bud to help will be invaluable.
Try not to stress. Everyone there is there because they love the fandom. And whatever you do is appreciated. People know that a fandom week is a labor of love.
Keep the themes simple and open to a variety of interpretation. It allows writers to do their own thing with the theme/prompt while not exhausting readers with the same version of a fic over and over again. Now don't get me wrong, fan fic writers are the most creative frakking people on the planet in my not so humble opinion and they'll be able to magic happen regardless just for the love of the game, but you want it to be fun and engaging for everyone.
Mistakes will happen. There's a learning curve to these things. And it will stand to reason that things won't go perfectly. But that's ok. Refer to tip number 2. And remember that everyone appreciates what you are doing.
This is the most important, have fun. Don't let it feel like work. The second that happens people will see that you're going through the motions.
I hope that helps and like... lemme know what fandom it is so I can at least follow the blog and boost the participants' works with reblogs.
i need to know who is in your icon... for uh. reasons. thats you though probably right?
I apologize for the late reply but yeah that's me. It's a few years old.
I needed to know what I would like with a beard for... other reasons. Sadly, HRT only gave me the ability to grow facial hair. But I'm still related to people who can't grow beards. So that is not the beard I have in real life. Which is not a beard.
Dark Academia Nikko -- permanent five o'clock shadow because my beard is full of secrets.
Real Life Nikko -- has the facial hair of a lead singer to a punk pop emo band and has no secrets.
Anyway, that's probably more information than you were asking for. But that's the kind of autistic ramblings I bring to the table.
The Island of Aeaea but there's just one very confused trans guy.
Circe: You fools, you'll transform into a creature that reflects how you have treated the women in your life.
Trans Guy: Oh? Oooohhh... Oh. Well, this is gonna be bad. For them. I think I'm ok.
(Transforms into an adorable little satyr)
Trans Guy: Honestly? I mean yeah I get it.
Circe: 🤨 Fine, we won't eat you.
Trans Guy: I mean I'd be ok wi-- wait... you weren't saying... you mean to wage a war against patriarchy, which, big fan of your work, and continue.
Circe: You are an odd little man.
Trans Guy: I have heard this said about me, yes.
Note: the views expressed in this post are brought to you by me, a 40 year old trans masculine non binary person and are not meant to reflect trans masculinity as a whole. We are not a monolith and however you exist in your identity as a trans man or trans masculine person is valid (unless you've bought into some internalized misogyny bullshit, don't do that, that's not valid). Anyway, I wish there was more representation that reflects the whole of our community. And I just hope this post gave you at least a "heh" reaction. Thank you for your time.
Ancient Sumerian Cult of Trans femmes who worshiped the Goddess of War and Love, Inanna.
[Note: I want to do a history of the dildo and strap on as part of that series. That requires a lot more reference citations than this little blurb I'm going to do right now.]
Inanna or Ishtar was an ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, love, and fertility. Her domains included: divine law, power in a political sense, sex for all reasons (pleasure, work, procreation), war, and love.
She's believed to be what the Greeks took inspiration from when Aphrodite appeared on the scene. And there's even hints in the Iliad that Aphrodite was still being worshiped in some parts of Ancient Greece as a war goddess. But Homer (proto-incel) had some thoughts on that. And there are whole scenes where Zeus is telling her to sit the Trojan war out because a love goddess has no business on the battlefield.
Inanna worship was far-reaching and it started in Uruk one of the oldest cities in human history. Meaning that conceptually the idea of Inanna is very, very, very old. Not as old as the strap on which is older than cities, the wheel, and writing (true story). But still pretty fucking old.
Anyway, we've got the bare bones of what Inanna was about. War, Sex, Love, and Being Fertile. And that her worship goes far back in human history.
[Fun aside: The Hittites worshiped her as Išḫara and might have called cannabis the Herb of Išḫara.]
Well, she also had a cult full of trans femmes. Wikipedia and I'm guessing academia (if you look this up), will say these priestesses were men. And then spend paragraphs explaining how these priestesses would change their names and their pronouns, dress like women, do sacred sex work with men who treated them like women, and perform war dances in front of her temple so... I don't know like even historically if someone tells me their pronouns, I'm going to do my best to respect their identity.
These priestesses were called gala in Sumerian or kalû in Akkadian.
According to myth, they were created by the god, Enki to sing lamentations for Inanna. The language used around them suggests that being a gala was a highly gendered role. And when they sang, they used eme-sal, a Sumerian dialect used for their lyric poetry and typically reserved for female characters.
During the Akkadian period, the goddess Ishtar had priestesses called kurgarrū and assinnu, who did the same thing, only they also performed war dances in front of her temples. And there's also an Akkadian myth where Ishtar does gender affirming magic for trans femmes.
People who would disagree with my assertion would probably point out that many galas were also cis women and that the trans femme galas sometimes married cis women and had children as if they've never heard of lesbians before. So I won't be entertaining that.
That being said, when someone says that being trans is new, point out that there's been evidence dating as far back as the 3rd Millennium BCE of trans people being dope as fuck. Or just call them a fucking loser and save your labor for someone who would think this information is fucking cool.
You know I asked myself some questions last night and I finally get it. The flashback story of “Enter the Dragon” was the equivalent of the flashback in “Breaking Glass”…but for Regina. It establishes, no matter how subtle, the fact that Regina could have a same-sex love.Even the regular non shipper viewers could sense Lily and Emma’s relationship being slightly more than platonic. Regina and Maleficent’s relationship also pushed borders. (“Hope you had fun last night”,”just you and me tonight”) Also, just like Breaking Glass, Emma was again up in arms about Regina. Constantly worried about Regina (though she went a step further with GPS) All this leads me to believe….SwanQueen is definitely endgame. Or else the writers are writing an amazing slow burn love story by accident.
I’ll go so far as to say that at this point I believe they’ve tipped their hand with 4b. There is no way I can see this trajectory not ending in Swan Queen. I believe we’ll have loads of angst and stumbles (Robin’s back! Unrequited love! Who realizes and who resists!) but it will be where we end the show. They’ve done such a good job of denying, gaslighting and obfuscating that they have us questioning everything in front of our eyes. But come on. This parallel alone (not even all fifteen speeches of following each other to the ends of the earth) is obvious.
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