Blue - 20s - she/her/elle - Canadian (English/French) - artist, writer and all-around enormous nerd - sometimes nsfw
rosiegrey - ao3, korekyane - art tumblr
Multifandom trash - Foundation, Severance, Baldur's Gate 3, The Locked Tomb, Andor & Rogue One, Dune, Star Trek (primarily TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY and AOS), Doctor Who, Torchwood, Babylon Berlin, Pluribus, Disco Elysium, Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.
Non-fandom interests include Classics (especially Ancient Greek language and literature), linguistics, art, mathematics, biology, literature, film and television, knitting/fibre arts, and much more
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List of works below! ⬇️
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Selected written works
Complete
Ἑσπερίς (Hesperis) - Foundation, G, Cleon XXIV & Demerzel, character study (gen), 3k
First Light - Baldur's Gate 3, E, Astarion Ancunín/Karlach Cliffgate, character study/smut, 9k
Lucky - Baldur’s Gate 3, M, Karlach Cliffgate & Eris (Tav), character study (gen), 4.5k
μαρτυρέω (martyréo) - Andor, M, Cassian Andor/Kleya Marki, character study/rarepair, 5.5k
All Yours - Severance, M, Helly R./Mark S., missing scene, 2.5k
Love, Reign O’er Me - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, E, Riza Hawkeye/Roy Mustang, character study/smut, 8k
Dreaming of Ithaca - Goncharov, M, Goncharov/Katya/Andrey toxic triad, character study, 1.5k
Golden Slumbers - Babylon Berlin, M, Gereon Rath/Charlotte Ritter, vignettes/character study, 3k
Ongoing
Waterdhavian Nights - Baldur’s Gate 3, E, Astarion Ancunín/Eris (Tav), post-canon character study, 7k
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Selected artworks
Fanart
Cleon XXV - Brother Dawn - Foundation, digital
Orpheus on the Testing Floor - Severance, Copic markers
The Saint of Joy - The Locked Tomb, Copic markers
Get in line, thou big slut - The Locked Tomb, Copic markers
Mon Mothma - Andor, Copic markers
She will always be here, as she always has been - Foundation, Copic markers
Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.
And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'
but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???
really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core
The reason why "what is a woman" can't have a snappy little, one sentence answer isn't even because that's not how gender works, or how biology works, or how social groupings work
Mostly, it's just straight up, not how words work. And it's an interesting example of the impossible standard that gender related topics receive in how much they need to "define" their terms.
For example. Let's define a dog. Simple, right? "A domesticated canine, commonly kept as working animals or pets."
Cool.
So if I feed a coyote, is it domesticated?
What is a canine?
Does this include cats?
Does it have to be from a particular lineage?
Giving an accurate, fully comprehensive definition of "dog" that would meet the standards placed on gender terminology would require several essays about canine genetics, the history of domestication, the sociology of how we interact with pets, and application of this analysis to similar populations of wolves, coyotes, dingos, and more to make sure that they're all distinguished.
Does that mean we don't know what a dog is? Or can't define dog?
Of course not. "Dog" is a one word summary of a complex concept with a lot of facets. Most people understand what a dog is, just by repeated exposure. They understand how the term can be expanded to include things that are not domestic dogs, or narrowed to include only domestic dogs. More rigorously, we *do* have comprehensive, satisfying explanations for exactly what a dog is, but again, it takes essays.
That's why we have a word for it. It's a summary of a concept that we intuitively get.
So of course "what is a woman" is a rage baiting dogwhistle, and nothing more than a tactic. "Woman" is a complex concept that we synthesize down to something that people have a general, day to day understanding of. If you use the answer that has been flaunted by Republicans, adult human female, you're suddenly left with a lot of fucking questions. Namely, what is "adult"? What is "human"? And the most important and complicated one in this context.... What is "female"? Cuz there's already a sociology and a biology essay waiting to answer that.
But we don't want to be writing essays to define these concepts. Instead, we use definitions up front to cue us in to concepts, and the our pattern recognizing brains to filter in each case until we establish a pattern, or a "vibe", that is a synthesis of thousands of invisible factors. Including, in this case, presentation, someone's *current* biology added by hormones, and whatever information about their identity they volunteer to you.
"but Sierra" I hear you protest, "if we're leaving it down to a general sense of 'intuition', then won't a bigot's intuition reject us?"
Yeah. Of course.
So what's the response?
Well, I'm no activist, and I don't have specifics. But it should generally be to dig your heels in, be unyielding about codified rights, and then, over time, that "intuition" will shift. Through protection and normalization over decades. And along the way, we need to make sure we can survive.
But that's not the point of this post.
What even is at this point? Right. "What is a woman" isn't misunderstanding "biology" or whatever. It's misunderstanding what words are in the first place.
just accidentally leaned in so close to the blade i could feel its atoms reaching out for the atoms of my throat. and yeah okay im a little turned on about it
it’s 2026 i think it’s high time we left mind-body dualism behind us as a species. let’s go into 2027 with the full understanding that we are our bodies and that our consciousness cannot be separated from them thank you
