KCDodger

Kara V. Calhoun, She/Her. 33 year old MTF Transwoman. Demisexual. Musician, Artist, Writer. Head writer of "BEACON" universe. Ásatrú,⠀ΘΔ,⠀Loving⠀Wife⠀of oPashoo!

[kcdodger]

Times change. So do I.

[kcdodger]

My name is Kara Van Calhoun. Scandinavian-American Transwoman, 30, practicing Ásatrú. I'm a budding illustrator, writer and rusty musician - none of that in any particular order. Just as much as that, I'm an activist (as much as one can be in my position anyway) and manage a support network for others. I write a setting called, "BEACON" - easily my life's work from the last ten years to the next forever. Feel free to ask any questions you have about my characters, setting, etc., as I divulge more and more information about it all. If you want to know more about me, my DMs are open. But, fair warning. I have no patience for centrists who sit idly by and enable Fascism by inaction. Oh yeah, DNI if you're below 18 by the way. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your stay..! I've got a lot to show y'all and honestly, it's good to be back on tumblr after so long away. -Kara.

[trashyeggroll]

tumblr is great and all but ya’ll are missing the woman in one of my cat fb groups that has birthed her own tier 1 meme

[kcdodger]

Increasingly want to run into a wall.

[frodoomsday]

ive unintentionally made "yucklet eyes" a term i use commonly so i will define it here. i dont know what anyone else calls this but yucklet eyes are when any animal does this especially if it's eyes dont normally look like that

[naderalanqar2007]

This is the image that Israel is trying to hide from the world. This is Gaza. This is the reality of 90 percent of the Gaza Strip that has been subjected to genocide.

[naderalanqar2007]

The explosives dropped on the people of the Gaza Strip are equivalent to 20 nuclear bombs like those dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Does anyone still doubt that Israel committed and continues to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against us here in the Gaza Strip?

[naderalanqar2007]

We have been through so much, and we are still alive thanks to your help and donations. Without them, we would have perished long ago. The campaign has not received any donations in the last seven days, and the last donation was 14 days ago. Thanks to your donations, we can buy food and medicine and pay for the surgery for his daughter Iman, who was injured in her legs during the war. Iman is a child who needs care; she has already suffered enough during the first three of her eight years. Please don't hesitate to donate now. Please donate now.

GOFUNDME Please give this little girl hope and donate

[socalgal]

Please help Ahed's family and donate if you can, and share this post if you can't. Everything can make a difference in saving an entire family.

Donate to I lost everything in Gaza, but I won’t lose my daughter Iman, organized by Aahed Alanqar

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[naderalanqar2007]

I implore you to support Ahed's family and donate now. Please give whatever you can. The last donation was 6 days ago. Please donate now.

[pmamtraveller]

The Spectral Titans, by Anthony Machuca

[boxes-stims]

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Spearmaster stimboard. They're one of my favorite slugcats.

[kcdodger]

*shoots you with a gun that makes you trans*

I not sure where into the crowd I fired but one of you has to transition now.

The good news is that it's very fun an enriching. It's awesome.

The bad news is, well. Y'know, transphobe govt.

The other good news is that the problem is them, not you.

It's important to note that the gun doesn't work if you're cis.

However,

[calllynx]

i love my beautiful wife ibuprofen so much but i may only see her 1200 times per day

[billfrancois]

Small talk between Scarecrows

[kalivasquezart]

Pardon me if it's been asked before, but what are carriers and donors in terms of your experiment ocs?

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According to C:U lore told via EPDA notes, Expies (and I think all Sawians by extension) are gonosimulistic, meaning they have two fully functional reproductive systems and any two individuals can breed with each other. Apparently they're also capable of asexual reproduction. That last part confused me a bit because I only vaguely remembered like… slugs and one species of lizard doing something like that. I assumed Expies have uteruses and placentas by the virtue of having human/mammalian DNA…

Anyway, I went ahead and read up on agamogenesis. What personally struck me as interesting was the fact that in this and other related articles, the organism capable of producing eggs or copies of itself was often referred to as the mother/female, especially when talked in the context of vertebrate animals (not amoebas or insects). I suppose this is fine if we're talking about biology without societal implications, and funnily this is what the EPDA note mentions, too.

When I first made my Expie OCs I didn't know they should be (?) gonosimulistic… so I decided to just slap the AU sticker on it. Now my AU story assumes that Sawians with single functioning reproductive systems can exist, but they're not as common. Still, I was a little hesitant to use male/female/cosexual (???) to describe their phenotypes, but then I remembered @flickering-nightfall's post on speculative biology of Rain World creatures - this is where the donor and carrier words come from. In the context of my AU, most Sawians are carrier-donors (gonosimulistic, about 50%), while the rest can be sole donors (male, 26%) or sole carriers (female, 24%). The greater genetic shuffling helped expand their natural lifespan from 30 to about 60 human years with much lesser risk of cancer, which was beneficial for the future plans of colonising the Grey Planet. I like to think the Company staff would sooner use those terms over male/female/other in order to not project human gender/sex frameworks onto the freaky test tube creatures, but also to kind of… further dehumanize them by only describing what their bodies can do, rather than acknowledge them as sapient species with identities.

Of course, such a policy absolutely would not stop the company staff from projecting human gender onto Expies. I believe Sawians have no innate concept of societal roles so if gendered pronouns are used it's very likely that the experiments accepted whatever their human caretakers called them, like a child would define their place in society by listening to parents.

[junglejim4322]

Something I think about a lot is when dj khaled spent a day lost at sea on a jet ski literally just because he drove away and got lost and started live posting about it and as he got increasingly panicked he started making like inspirational insta stories about his opps wanting him to fail even though he was entirely responsible for the situation and just started saying shit like “they don’t want you to WIN. they don’t want you to get found when you’re lost at sea in the dark”

[kabukiaku]

Another lesson with a vampire!

[kcdodger]

Mutual who's funny but genuinely insane so sometimes you double take

(none of you guys)

[captain-price-returns]

[werewolf-transgenderism]

this is fucking killing me bro. computah, show me more hot hockey firefighters whaling on cops

[ihearttoys]

Heated Rivalry season 2

[kelocitta]

Once again reminding people that if you want to make something that has both reproductive capabilities and that is the norm for their species, the term you are looking for is NOT intersex. Intersex is used to describe a variance in what "should" be separated sexual development. If a species is meant to have functional reproductive sets of both types, by its nature its not intersex. The term 'hermaphrodite' for intersex conditions was dropped because it was both offensive and deeply inaccurate. Using intersex as a direct replacement for what it means isn't being polite and avoiding offensive terms, it actively reinforces one of the (many) reasons it was dropped as a term by conflating them as the same thing but 'nicely'

[sprawling-reptillian-effigy]

adding in op's tags as an image so they're not lost in reblogs [ID: Tumblr tags reading 't.extpost, this is out of nowhere and was originally a twit post but like i think its important, and a lot of people make this mistake for slugcats specifically, please be mindful of what you mean when you call a character intersex!!, otherwise you are just making the exact same mistake but nicely!,also to save you some trouble since a lot of people end up using alternative terms that really only apply sensically to plants, try cosexual instead,its not perfect and still quite niche but at least it isnt designed around,things having like 10 sets of reproductive organs per limb, h slur, im using it here mostly to reinforce my point that you cant just,paste over the no-no word and pretend like the issue is solved,and also to be explicit in what term is being avoided'. End ID.]