Breaking the Binary Bubble

Ben/Benjamin. They/them. Gender fluid. No, you can’t take me on airplanes. DNI if you are a transphobe, Racist, Ableist, biphobic, TERF, “super_”, Nazi/White Supremacist, anti-vaxxer, anti-mask, or bigot of any kind. If your blog is blank I will assume you are a bot and auto block. This blog is pro choice and pro union. This is as much a blog about gender in general as it is about my own personal experiences. I am an artist. I write fan fiction on AO3 under TheShortestmanOnEarth. My AO3 blog is @shortywrites-ao3. If you don't really like what you see here, please refrain from commenting. I want this to be a safe space for anyone who wants to discuss the topics I bring up. I am a 35 year old multi-gender fluid person. I love the free flow of gender that I have and I am open to talking to anyone about it. I am also Pansexual/demi sexual and polyamorous. If you have any questions, comments, or if I can offer support, let me know. You are never alone.

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Writing Master List

My Works on AO3 (TheShortestManonEarth)

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The Owl House

Note: Most of my fics are lumity based unless otherwise noted.

One Shots

Salve (AO3), T Rating. Based on S2E14 “Reaching Out.” 

You Are Gold (AO3), T Rating. Post Series AU (written pre season 3). Amity grapples with her identity and her growing feelings for Luz. 

I Wanna Know What It Feels Like to Never Come Back Again (AO3), T Rating. Post Series AU. Pre season 3 alternate ending. 

Wild Disaster Kitchen (AO3), T Rating. Modern AU/non magical AU. Luz runs a food mewtube channel where she experiments with food and tech. 

Between the Magical and Mundane (AO3), T Rating. Post series look at Luz’s life in both the Boiling Isles and the Human Realm. 

Lightning Never Strikes Twice (AO3), T Rating. Set post King’s Tide during the 2 months in the human realm pre season 3. 

The Little Things (AO3), T Rating. Ice cream shop AU. 

Bring Her Home (AO3), T Rating. Alternate ending to season 2 and 3. Lumity and raeda based.

That Time of Year Again (AO3), T Rating. Post series AU with future kids. 

When Everything Feels Like the Movies, You Bleed Just to Know You’re Alive (AO3), T Rating. Set during the 2 months in the human realm pre season 3. 

Where the Lost Things Go (AO3) T Rating. Luz goes on an adventure to solve the mystery of the things she finds in the lost and found bin at school. 

Situation Steeped, All Brewed Up (AO3), T Rating. Tea shop humor AU. Lumity and Raeda based.

Catastrophically in Love with You (AO3), T Rating. Pre season 3 AU. 

Multi-Chapter

Fragmented Pages (AO3), T Rating.   AU. Amity is an author and everything in her life seems perfect. But with every page she writes, she starts to sense something is off. IN PROGRESS (off hiatus 4/3/26).

When You Know (AO3), T Rating.  Modern AU crossover with the film "Serendipity." COMPLETE.

All That Love's About (AO3), T Rating. College/Modern AU. Non-monogamy focused AU that celebrates the wide range of sexualities, gender identities and everything beyond. IN PROGRESS/ON HIATUS.

Arcane: League of Legends

Note: Most of my fics are caitvi based unless otherwise noted.

One Shots 

Hear the Thunder in the Skies But Don't Let Them See the Tears in Your Eyes  (AO3) T Rating: set pre season 2. Alternate take on season 1 ending. 

I Wouldn't Self Destruct For Anybody Else (AO3), M Rating, Based on S2 Act I trailers/pre season 2. Pit fighter Vi. 

My Aim Is True  (AO3), T Rating (see fic for specific content warnings). Time travel AU based on Acts 1 and 2 of season 2. CW/TW: Contains subjects that might be triggering (please check tags prior to reading). 

When No One Can Be Found, May I Lay You Down?  (AO3), E Rating. Post Season 2 Act 3 fic. 

I Won't Be No Runaway (Cause I Won't Run)  (AO3), M Rating. Post series AU where Vi and Caitlyn run the last drop. 

Ask Me What the Hell I'm Looking For Like You Don't Know  (AO3), T Rating. Post series AU where Vi and Caitlyn run the last drop. 

Multi-Chapter

Being a Loser With You Doesn't Suck (AO3), T Rating. Caitlyn is a librarian and Vi is a brawler who crashes into Caitlyn’s life. IN PROGRESS. 

I'm Melting, Darling, and I Can't Let Go * (AO3) M Rating.Firefighter AU featuring firefighter Caitlyn and Vi. Inspired by “Station 19” and somewillwin’s artwork. Vi grew up around Station 19,  she played hide and seek in the halls and followed the firefighters around to learn more about being a firefighter. When the captaincy at 19 opens up because of Vi’s adoptive father, Vander’s promotion to chief, Vi knows she’s going to get it...

Enter the new Captain of Station 19, Caitlyn Kiramman, a transfer from another station, and now Vi’s rival.  IN PROGRESS.

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

One Shots 

Note: Most of my fics are sulemio based unless otherwise noted.

Now You Know Me (AO3), T Rating. Star Wars AU. 

Don't Be Afraid (I'll Keep You Safe)  (AO3), G Rating. Post Series and after time skip. Miorine and Suletta take a honeymoon fishing trip and bask in the love and life they have now.

Closer Than This (AO3), T Rating. Modern AU with firefighter Suletta and EMT Miorine. 

Wherever Life Takes You (You Know I'll Follow You)  (AO3), T Rating. Post series AU shot where permet spreads like a disease across space, taking lives in its path of destruction. Suletta may have to make some decisions that will break one of the promises she made in her wedding vows.

Till I Hear It From You  (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Both Suletta and Aerial catch a cold. 

Wishful Thinking  (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Suletta goes skiing and does some reckless things to get closer to Miorine who works on ski patrol. 

Through Fire For You  (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Suletta challenges Guel to a fire ramen eating competition on Miorine’s behalf. 

My Heart is a Ghost Town  (AO3), T Rating. Halloween one shot. 

Love With Your (Dare I Say Forever) (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Doomed, Forever, Kiss. Based on S1E11. Suletta and Miorine are trapped on Plant Quetta with no help in sight. Suletta will do anything to protect Miorine, even going back on her promise of staying forever.

Every New Beginning Comes From Some Other Beginning's End (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Prologue and Desperation. Part 1 of time loop series. 

In Hindsight (Like An Idiot Summer) (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Summer, popcorn, and stupid.  Humor Shot. Miorine and Suletta work in a zoo. 

Forgiveness, Can You Imagine?  (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompt: Forgiveness. Part 2 of time loop series. 

The Most Beautiful Thing I'll Never Have  (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Date and Supplication. Part 3 of time loop series. 

One Way Up  (AO3), T Rating, 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Pining and Overstimulation. Humor shot. Suletta attempts to impress Miorine on a trip to a waterpark. 

It's Only Dancing (AO3), T Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Miorine and Suletta explore their love through dancing. Prompts: Jealousy, boat, and yearning. 

Missed Connections (AO3), M Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompt: Sky. Alternate ending to “It’s Only Dancing.” Miorine and Suletta reunite after six years apart in an airport. 

Smile Like You Mean It  (AO3), T Rating. 6 +1. The six times Suletta forced a smile or smiled less than genuinely and the one time Miorine made sure Suletta smiled for real. 

Always With You (AO3), T Rating. Post Show. In the aftermath of Quiet Zero, the permet infection damages Suletta’s memory, causing amnesia. Miorine struggles to cope with the memory loss and with the possibility that her groom may never regain her memories of the last few months together. 

Here It Goes Again (AO3), T Rating. Humor shot. Miorine issues a new challenge to her groom: kiss Miorine as much as possible everywhere on campus. And Suletta is nothing if not a good groom. 

One Last Time (AO3), M Rating. The Last of Us AU. Miorine and Suletta have spent the last fifteen years or so since the outbreak going through the motions. Surviving more than living. Suletta wants to believe there’s more to life than that. If only she could convince Miorine of the same thing. 

Long Long Time (AO3), M Rating. The Last of Us AU. Alternate ending to “One Last Time.” 

I Give All of Me (Just to Save You) (AO3), T Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompt: Kaiju. Spiderman AU. Modern AU. Suletta is the local hero known as Spider Girl. Besides Eri, no one else knows Suletta’s secret. Or so she thought. 

When You Lie Down with Wolves You Learn to Howl (AO3). E Rating. 100 Themes of Sulemio Challenge. Prompts: Shapeshifter and Debauchery. Set in the same universe as  “Perfectly Strange.” Halloween one shot. Humor. Braving a haunted house should have been a simple thing. Except that nothing is simple when you're a recently mated werewolf.

Suletta finds out the hard way that she isn't nearly as fearless as she thought. Good thing that Miorine is very into her girlfriend's protectively jealous instincts.

Multi-Chapter

When You're Gone (But I'm Still Here)  (AO3) T Rating. Dead Boy Detectives AU. IN PROGRESS.

Aiming For the Sky  (AO3), T Rating. Cowboy/gunslinger AU based on the film “The Quick and the Dead.” IN PROGRESS.

This Is The Way (Back to You)  (AO3), T Rating, Star Wars AU based on “The Mandalorian.” COMPLETE. 

Chasing Sunsets  (AO3), M Rating. AU where Asticassia is a modern flight school for fighter pilots. COMPLETE.

Perfectly Strange  (AO3), M Rating. College AU. Suletta is a werewolf trying to navigate both the human and supernatural conflicts in her life. Miorine is trying to escape her father and is drawn to Suletta. IN PROGRESS.

Return to Me  (AO3), M Rating. Modern AU. Firefighter Suletta AU. A tragedy connects the two women and their lives are forever changed, for better or for worse. COMPLETE.

Took Me Around the World to See (You Were Where I Need to Be)  (AO3), M Rating, Modern AU. Miorine and Suletta take a final road trip before they go their separate ways post college graduation. The universe has other ideas when it throws a robot apocalypse and other wild adventures their way. Gwitch meets The Mitchells vs. The Machines AU.  IN PROGRESS.

Queen and Lionheart (AO3), E Rating. Modern AU. Miorine Rembran is the recently elected president of Asticassia. While she has won over many people since taking office, she still has to face the fact that the world is still divided by those who were born on Earth and those who were born in space.

Then there's her "secret" affair with her head of security, Suletta Mercury, that everyone seems to know about. Just a day in the life as president. IN PROGRESS.

If I Go I'm Goin on Fire (AO3) M Rating. Modern AU. Firefighter AU based on “Station 19”. Suletta and Miorine have been friends since their academy days, but neither has managed to admit it that they’ve been falling  for each other since the day they met.

When some events start to reveal things about the past and their families, Suletta and Miorine are in turn pushed into their own heartfelt revelations. IN PROGRESS.

Rizzoli and Isles

One Shots

Note: Most of my fics are rizzles based unless otherwise noted.

In Case You Don't Live Forever (AO3), T Rating. Alternate ending to the season 1 finale. Surrounded at all times by death Maura simultaneously realized and ignored the fact that at any point her job could turn from distantly sympathetic to personal. Then Jane asked the impossible question: What would you tell someone who died if they could still hear you beyond the grave?

The dead were gone once they stopped their vital functions. Maura believed that with absolute certainty. Even if it might be better if she believed in something else.

Steven Universe

One Shots

Note: Most of my fics are connverse based unless otherwise noted.

Sway  (AO3), T Rating. Dance themed prompt.

Taking a Chance  (AO3), T Rating. Steven and Connie go karaoke singing. 

A Familiar Forecast  (AO3), T Rating. When Steven’s car gets stuck during a blizzard, he and Connie bond over some familiar memories of their first blizzard together. 

Everything She Does Is Magic (AO3), T Rating. Post SUF reflection from Steven’s POV. 

Growing Together  (AO3), T Rating. Set before “Growing Pains” in SUF. 

In Your Eyes  (AO3), T Rating. Future fic set post SUF. 

Multi-Chapter

Someday  (AO3), T Rating. AU set post “Growing Pains” in SUF. ON HIATUS.

(MORE TO BE UPDATED).

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[injuries-in-dust]

Forgotten By History

Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.

Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.

Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.

The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.

One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.

Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.

[imfemalewarrior]

Women have always participated in fighting; whether that is in war or in breaking down barriers that have been set in front of us by society. 

Take inspiration from our foremothers and continue breaking down barriers, wherever you are. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[ladylouoflothlorien]

nothing to do with my blog but how could I not reblog this???

[aethelflaedladyofmercia]

Hey, quick point - your image for Onna Bugeisha is actually a kabuki actress. I know, because I’ve used the image for presentations on the subject. In her stead may I introduce Niijima Yae, aka Yamamoto Yaeko.

Born in 1845.

In 1868, fought at the Battle of Aizu. Her father was the gunnery instructor, and she was trained on a Spencer carbine, which she used to defend the castle.

1871, divorced her husband and went to Kyoto to find her brother, who had been taken as a POW.

1871-1898, remarried a western-educated man, co-founded two schools (including a girls’ school), became a certified Tea Master and flower arranging instructor.

1890, following the death of her husband, became a Red Cross nurse. Served in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) leading a team of 40 nurses, and the Russo-Japanese War (1904). Decorated for her service in both.

[injuries-in-dust]

I’m proud of people adding their own knowledge to this.

[paverics]

“but adding women to [insert title] isn’t accurate!” women existed back then too, baby. history was just written by men, for men

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

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[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

Hey, what’s Winnie the pooh’s favorite color?

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

Yellow

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

No it’s red because of his shirt

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No, it’s yellow because he loves honey

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

You have no idea what you’re talking about

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

DID I FUCKING STUTTER?

[voaga]

Things heating up at the Winnie the Pooh fandom

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@hellsite-hall-of-fame

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[thejusticethatissocial]

flesh flesh flesh flesh flesh flesh flESH FLESH FLESH FLESHFLESHFLESH

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[teathattast]

[gardenstatetait]

HAPPY PRIDE! I've been feeling very fired up about how repressed Pride has felt. Allies that ask for assimilation are fickle and will abandon you if you don't look like an old navy commercial! We can't chase societal acceptance at the cost of shrinking ourselves!

[cleo-fox]

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

[maple-seed]

Both options convey that he's horny