#queertag

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

i think the thing about me and any given brand of queer separatism you care to name is that i grew up a queer kid in an abusive evangelical environment, and have spent a very long time thinking about the patterns of thought endemic to it. and 'in the world but not of it' is rhetoric i would gladly never hear again

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

everyone who uses they/them for both bellroc and skrael please have a wonderful day, bless us all

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

tfw a thing about your gender, and the seemingly unfitting terminology you've always felt most comfortable with, FINALLY clicks and you feel like you just discovered a fuckin prophecy twist

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

as a polyamorous person who loves and takes joy in poly ships: if the extent of your advocacy and support for polyam people is drawing three characters holding hands, you are not an ally.

society hates us. show up for us--fight for us--when we're subject to violence and erasure, not just when we give you warm fuzzies.

signed, someone who has cried more over what i face as a polyamorous person than i ever have over being bi, trans/nonbinary, or arospec.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

some dragon rider gender headcanons, in no particular order:

(note: these are primarily for characters from the first book, as that’s the one i’m most familiar with; i may make a second post for griffin’s feather-specific characters at some point in the future.)

enchanted creatures tend to default to either agender, or whatever their creator assigns them; with time and exposure to one set of Gender Concepts or another, they may eventually go with one that they like instead

the ravens are never referred to with gendered language, and largely have either never bothered to experiment with gender or haven’t done so in a way that translates over to human languages

nettlebrand’s a binary dude in human terms, is still Genders because he’s an enchanted agender-by-default creature who pointed at one and went ‘that’s mine now’

if the homunculi had lived to be exposed to Genders(tm) over time, most of them would have been somewhere on the nb spectrum; they’d have used a range of different pronouns, instead of the alchemist’s blanket assignment of he/him. some of them would have been transfeminine with she/her pronouns, they/them pronouns, or sticking with he/him anyway because it’s what they’re used to and they don’t mind it. 

twigleg is vaguely-guy-flavored agender, and only that much because he just goes with it when people gender him male. it started with the alchemist designating all the homunculi male (which, y’know, obviously he’s not going to dare go against that), and then with nettlebrand being so enamored with Being Male that he projects it onto his servant as well. now he just kind of reflects what people expect him to be, and has only started to get more comfortable with his own internal perception of his gender after meeting ben and getting acquainted with his genderfeels.

speaking of which: ben is actually vaguely shrugs about gender, and doesn’t have any particular attachment to it. it’s one reason he’s drawn to (sapient) fabulous creatures--especially before he realizes he’s nb--just because in general they’re so much less stifling and binary about gender than humans usually are. it’s also a big reason he and twigleg connect to each other so much, as mentioned above.

guinevere is a trans girl who was sure about it very early on. the greenblooms happily put their full support behind her without ever looking back

silver dragons are all nonbinary by human standards; instead of lacking gender at all, though, their gender spectrum is just Alien to humans and vice versa. they have both nb and ‘’’binary’’’ trans folks, just by dragon standards and not ours.

firedrake and maia are both the dragon equivalent of binary trans (although they have more than two of the genders we would consider ‘binary,’ so it’s more like quaternary or thereabouts). slatebeard is Dragon Cis(tm)

gravelbeard and petrosius are the token human-standard cis. gilbert and lola are also cis, but they’re valid

sorrel is just the knuckles comic. what’s a pronoun

more to come if i forgot anyone, whoops

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

every single loric, garde, and mogadorian is queer and you can’t stop them

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

reblog this post if you believe polyamory is inherently queer.

not ‘shares similar experiences with the queer community,’ not ‘shares history with the queer community,’ not ‘intertwined with the queer community,’ queer. if you don’t then don’t touch, thanks

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

a big skeksis mood