#cl writes

[chatonlune]

Something shimmered in the alcove, between the old bottles and broken ship parts. Curiously Marinette squinted into the darkness . . . an . . . Orb?

The glass surface was just catching the light of the afternoon sun. Reaching forwards she plucked the fist sized sphere from its nestled perch. The second it passed into the light there was a flash of frantic movement and she nearly dropped the orb in surprise. Sparkling black and green scales spun wildly within the glass before two tiny black clawed hands slammed onto the inner surface. A face with bright green eyes, framed in a halo of golden hair, stared up at her in slitted suspicion.

A merman!

[cl-writes-poetry]

Journal entry #1

I am a year and a half on testosterone.

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I've got silly little groups of hair smattering my chin. I still smell like a teenage boy regardless of the showers, soap, deodorant, and overall, good hygiene. Acne continues to take up space on both my face and back. My voice still cracks from time to time and though I'm in my mid-20s I still get called "boy."

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But I'm being called "boy" and respected as a peer in a male-dominated workplace (that's another journal entry for another day, being a woman (trans or cis), being an openly trans man, and being anything other than a white, cisgender, heterosexual man in STEM in the US....). The woman that took my ID last week stopped and laughed nervously at seeing a feminine name and a female gender marker. I confidently laughed, joking that a wig was all I needed to assume a new identity. Inside I prayed, I could make it a few more months until I could legal change my ID to match what people assumed.

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Being trans and making a visible transition...it's a joy and a privilege I never knew could be mine. But while I no longer struggle with the pains of being 'in the closet,' a new set of pain, trials, and roadblocks fill my future.

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I can only hope that one day I'll get to live as my ideal version of myself. Being able to be open and honest about my trans label without being afraid of...something else.

[champagneleftie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/15 Fandom: SKAM (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Even Bech Næsheim/Isak Valtersen, Noora Amalie Sætre/William Magnusson (past), Eva Kviig Mohn/Noora Amalie Sætre, Magnus Fossbakken/Vilde Lien Hellerud, Yousef Acar/Sana Bakkoush Characters: Isak Valtersen, Even Bech Næsheim, William Magnusson, Eva Kviig Mohn, Vilde Lien Hellerud, Magnus Fossbakken, Jonas Noah Vasquez, Noora Amalie Sætre, Christoffer Schistad, Sana Bakkoush Additional Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Lawyers, Slow Burn, More tags to be added but I don't want to spoil too much Summary:

Maybe there’s a world where grown men can wear bandanas and skinny jeans and like Gabrielle and be fine, but it’s not Isak’s. In Isak’s world men wear suits and tame their hair and listen to hip hop, or rock, or classical music – he’s pretty sure those are the only options – and it’s comfortable, and Isak knows how it works.

It's a good time to be Isak Valtersen.The up-and-coming Norwegian authority on matters of freedom of press, several Supreme Court wins already on his resume - and still barely thirty. He's carved out a place in the world that he never thought he'd reach, but sometimes that place just feels a little too small and rigid.

Enter Even.

[cl-writes-poetry]

Top Surgery: A Haiku

I need you to cut

my chest deep and make me free

lest I lose myself

[champagneleftie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: ¾ Fandom: SKAM (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Yousef Acar/Sana Bakkoush, Even Bech Næsheim/Isak Valtersen Characters: Yousef Acar, Sana Bakkoush, Even Bech Næsheim, Elias Bakkoush, Linn Larsen Hansen, Isak Valtersen, Eskild Tryggvason, Balloon Squad (SKAM) Additional Tags: Pining, Misunderstandings, Alternate Universe - College/University, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

Yousef is 21, in his first semester of university, the most recent member of Kollektivet - and ridiculously, embarrassingly, stupidly in love with Sana.

Or: a university AU where Yousef pines, Sana is oblivious, and the lack of communication threatens to ruin everything.

[champagneleftie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: SKAM (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Yousef Acar/Sana Bakkoush, Even Bech Næsheim/Isak Valtersen Characters: Yousef Acar, Sana Bakkoush, Even Bech Næsheim, Elias Bakkoush, Linn Larsen Hansen, Isak Valtersen, Eskild Tryggvason, Balloon Squad (SKAM) Additional Tags: Pining, Misunderstandings, Alternate Universe - College/University, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

Yousef is 21, in his first semester of university, the most recent member of Kollektivet - and ridiculously, embarrassingly, stupidly in love with Sana.

Or: a university AU where Yousef pines, Sana is oblivious, and the lack of communication threatens to ruin everything.