#tendra rambles

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My wife has informed me that needing to be pushed around the botanical garden in a wheelchair while shielding me from the sun is not helping with my "frail and delicate little princess" vibe

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Unsure if the t-girl posting is supposed to be horny or just general positivity but I'm viking either way boss

Both? It's probably both. I love trans women and I love being a trans woman, and I love seeing positivity about it. It's a wonderful thing that deserves being spoken about.

That said, apparently my love of trans women can come across a tad obsessive, as both of my girlfriends have told me that I am "a trans woman who is somehow also a chaser", as if it's my fault that trans women are just hotter and more attractive than cis women. Like, yeah, I only ever date other trans women, but why wouldn't I? Not only are they more relatable than cis women, but I also have direct access to a demographic of the most attractive women, some of whom have dicks! What's not to love?

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Rarepair tag game!

Rules: List the top rarepairs that you like outside of your OTP, and why you ship it! (Criteria for what makes a rarepair is up to your own discretion.)

HP edition.

@youknowmevj said anyone can have a go and we’re mutuals so I’ll count that as a tag.

My favourite rarepairs:

Harry Potter/Tracey Davis: Tracey is just as much of a blank slate character as the oft-shipped Daphne, but has less fanon tropes applied to her, and her status as a halfblood could put her in some interesting positions.  Alas, she’s rarely used as anything besides a foil to Daphne, let alone shipped with Harry.  I personally enjoy headcanoning Tracey as having severe ADHD, making her a foil to my headcanon of Daphne being autistic.

fem!Voldemort/Bellatrix: Honestly, Bellatrix does tend to read as more of a lesbian to me, and I think that a lesbian version of this ship would be really good.  Alas, most fics that genderbend Voldemort do so with the sole intention of shipping her with Harry.  I don’t have any problems with that, but I do want to see more variety.  My fic, Unseen Perspective, is probably the closest I’ve seen to this pairing existing.

Harry/Delphini: There’s a lot of fun to be had here.  It puts Harry in a similar compromising position Tomarry but without potentially defusing the entire plot by removing the antagonist.  Unfortunately, Delphini would need to be born earlier for the fic to really juice it for all the drama it’s worth, and Delphini’s origin in Cursed Child is already contentious enough that many authors would rather ignore her than explore her character in different circumstances.  It would be fun for more fics to just use the “Voldemort’s daughter character” without necessarily tying her to Cursed Child.

Lily/James/Sirius: idk what it is, but I LOVE seeing these three in a triad together.  I like it a lot in the backstory for To Reach Without, and I remember Malarkia alluding to it as well, which really excited me.  I think it would be fun to see more often, either as backstory or in a fic.

Hermione/Daphne: I’m not sure why these two aren’t paired together given the relative popularity of Harry/Daphne fics, but I’ve only ever found a small handful of good fics in the pairing.  Despite the tropes associated with the Haphne pairing not always being the best, there’s a charm to a lot of them and I’d love to see lesbian versions with Hermione as the female lead instead.

fem!Harry/fem!Draco: Only seen this one two or three times, but it’s been consistently enjoyable each time.  I thought I had an issue with Drarry for a long time, but I think I mostly just disliked the way most slash fics are written, since they made me feel vaguely uncomfortable and sometimes a little dysphoric.  Making the pairing into a lesbian one made me realise that and I’ve kept a casual eye on the pairing.

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My most niche skill that I've cultivated is that I'm very good at interpreting for people with brain damage. It's a skill I cultivated from interactions with my best friend, who had undiscovered brain damage for years due to undiagnosed Multiple Sclerosis. I got very good at finishing sentences for him whenever he would get "stuck" on a word, and I got very good at deducing what he was talking about from context clues and general familiarity with his speaking patterns. While I sometimes get something thrown at me that's too much even for me to interpret, I like to think that I'm pretty good at it overall. Examples of phrases I've had to translate include "old man flavour hand square", "unraw dough", "the blue ball sphere give more juice", and "polish hamburger scarab". One of the few that I could not translate was "land fish from that one pointy stick" (he was talking about a spider skill granted by a dagger).

The funny thing is that this skill has served me really well in the long run, since several other people I'm extremely close to also have brain damage! My wife has brain damage from a TBI it suffered in middle school, and my closest metamour had a stroke several years ago and even thanked me for my ability to interpret for her shortly after we started speaking. It feels good to help the people I care about like this!

The downside to cultivating this highly specific skill is now I tend to come across as rude to other people since I'm in the habit of finishing people's thoughts for them if they pause for too long.

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fellas is not gender neutral, it's derived from fellows which is typically masculine similar to guys

It is? I mean, it's obviously derived from fellows, but I didn't think that was a gendered term either, nor do I think I've heard it used as one in my life. I thought it was just a shorthand got "fellow people", akin to the infamous meme:

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Oh my gosh!!!! Is there a Pyrite from Magical Starsign in your profile pic??? I absolutely adore that series

Yes, it is! I loved the Pyrites when I played Magical Starsign, and I shittily drew a yellow scarf on one in MS Paint when I was in high school and used it as my avatar for years. I actually created the fandom wiki for Magical Starsign (Wikia at the time), obsessively documenting information in notebooks while busy elsewhere and uploading them to the wiki when I had free time to do so.

This is actually one of the few sites that still has the old pyrite avatar picture on my profile, as I remade most of my accounts with new images around the time I started my transition.

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I have not seen a porn spam from you in several hours, are you feeling ok?

Yeah I just dissociated for a week or so. It happens.

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Genuinely inclined to start horny posting on main because maintaining a sideblog is a pain and I want this to be the authentic Tendra experience, because I am horny all the damn time.