ThunderPride

A Thunderbirds Event dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community within the Thunderfam! icon by @mrmustachious and banner by @squiddokiddo

[thunder-pride]

HAPPY PRIDE!!🌈✨

This year all of our muns have been very swamped with irl stuff so unfortunately we haven't had time to come up with any new activities for y'all this year. We are however, recycling old activities and games for you to play from the previous years and we will still be reblogging any queer Thunderbirds art and fics that pop up.

We hope you all have an amazing pride month. Stay safe, drink water and bind safely!!✨

[spectre-0ne]

Good afternoon Thunderfam. Have this creation from yesterday.

[icomb-ici]

This is gonna be my pfp, at least til pride month is over cause I'm feeling silly about it, okay?

[thatkidwholikesthunderbirds]

The rest is easy baby~

[icomb-ici]

He makes people gay.

[icomb-ici]

He makes people gay.

[squiddokiddo]

Seen plenty of "He would not say that", never seen "He would not write like that" before...

Also hard agree that he makes people gay

[somnousbutler]

So he makes people happy, lol!

Gotta remember how they worded these things back in those days 😆

[mrmustachious]

No actually gordon tracy personally made me gay

[squiddokiddo]

[violet-fire-cat]

Holy moly I spent too long on this fghj

Happy Pride everyone!

Here we have Virgil, Magenta, Ochre, Grey, Alan, John, Green, Scarlet, Blue, Scott, and Gordon, all just having a good time! Flags are personal headcanons and what not. I always have so much fun drawing characters with different pride flags though haha

I wanted to draw something for Pride month because I didn't last year. I had this idea in my head for a while, didn't quite realise how big it'd be until I actually started sketching but hey! I knuckled down and did it! And I'm really happy with it! So yeah, take this and I'm gonna stop rambling lol

[viridian-snow]

Happy pride <3

(mildly suggestive art under the cut)

[quasar-concept]

trans fem gordon sketches!

i'm taking suggestions on what to put in the small gap there lol

[quasar-concept]

Finished off my trans fem gordon sketches <3

i love her

dedicated to @mrmustachious and the thunderpride ask you sent me two years ago that i never did

[icomb-ici]

STAY PROUD!

She's trans and a lesbian(for Kayo, of course)

Thanks for the like animation can we stop banning transwomen now?

[quasar-concept]

trans fem gordon sketches!

i'm taking suggestions on what to put in the small gap there lol

[princesskayjay]

a little pride month self indulgence: There's an 'au' of sorts I play with where the only real change is I get to write Alan as Transfem. She figures it out sometime post canon, because she wanted so badly to be one of the boys that she ignored the possibility for years, and just figured that she must be doing something wrong when it never seemed to click for her. It doesn't really come loose until she's an adult and actually looks at the fact that it's kind of. Not necessary? To try to force herself to fit into a box that no one else asked her to? And that she was a part of this family no matter what being herself meant. She goes throw a couple of names before landing on one she actually to keep, coming back to Allie in between. She ends up getting the name Kathryn from Scott of all people.. Because it used to be his name, and he doesn't need it anymore, hasn't used it for years. Surely, it'll make his sister happier than it ever made him.

First proper fullbody piece, received as a gift from @viridian-snow!

And then this was the first properly piece of her period, drawn by @xsilverberryx!! The red stripe serves a purpose I promise. (I like it and also she was playing with her hair by adding extensions and why not play with color at that point.)

More stuff copied directly from discord under the cut:

^^^ First things first, a chat between me and Silver from when Scott helped her figure out her name finally... Side note: Yes, Jeff has feelings about hearing this name again. Not only did he get to indirectly help Kat with her name change... Lucille did too, from well beyond the grave. May have been part of the reason Kat latched on to the name so hard

... Meanwhile Gordon thought picking on his sister by making silly nicknames was the next step when he was told.

Self Explanatory.

I will probably inevitably come back and post more when I think about it but I want to throw her into the void for people to look at.

[icomb-ici]

Oc x canon for Pride!!! (More to come)

Lund is genderfluid, Virgil doesn't really worry about his identity, he just loves his partner 💕

[icomb-ici]

This took me exactly an hour???

I wanted to do something a little softer for them! One of my favorite Kayos I've drawn!

A few of the colors ended up a little muted, but I'm too tired to fix it, and I really wanted to post it tonight

[icomb-ici]

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYONE!!! 🏳️‍🌈 🎉

Spend 2 hours drawing my transmasc king Brains!!! Might do a bit of rendering later idk. Please don't look at the hands I never drawn them on digital I almost didn't post this omg

Planning to do something similar with Penny!!!

[katiedido2]

Meet Cute

I'm in the final stages of an international move, but I didn't want to miss ThunderPride Month. I'm reposting the first chapter of my first foray into ThunderPride writing, Meet Cute.

It started as a simple one-shot and then grew into eleven chapters. I have been working on an epilogue, which might become a two-part epilogue (if Stephen remains cooperative).

I love the rare!pairing of Virgil Tracy & Stephen Furnier. I hope you do too.

Chapter One

“Virgil?”

The voice behind him in the Sydney coffee shop caught Virgil Tracy’s ear. He turned towards a familiar person.

“Dr Furnier?”

Stephen Furnier smiled. “Hello, Virgil.” 

“Hello, Dr Furnier.” Virgil smiled in return. 

The men shook hands.

“You saved my life. I think you should call me Stephen.” He remembered how nice Virgil Tracy smelled when the IR operative had carried him onto Thunderbird Two. His cologne scent was light but very appealing. Stephen hadn’t been able to get it out of his head for weeks afterwards. 

“Okay…Stephen.” The two men smiled. “You’re looking good.”

“So are you.”

Virgil chuckled. “I meant since the last time I saw you, but thank you.”

“Oh!” Stephen blushed and then, scratching the back of his neck, chuckled. “How embarrassing.

Stephen Furnier was just as Virgil remembered him. Attractive, trim, and neatly attired, with that full head of blond hair he wanted to run his fingers through. Virgil was a sucker for blonds. Not wanting to get distracted and keen to put the other man at ease, Virgil asked, “So, what brings you to the wilds of Sydney?”

“Ah. I’m in Sydney for work. I plan to be here roughly a year.”

“There are certainly enough spiders here to keep you busy.”

The line moved, and the two men moved forward. 

“There are!”

Virgil chuckled. “Deadly and otherwise.”

“Actually, Australia has more non-lethal spiders than people think.”

They moved forward with the line.

“Oh. It probably doesn’t help that we only hear about the deadly ones.”

Stephen chuckled. “No.”

“Are you looking for any spiders in particular?”

“Not this time. I’m doing work for the Australian government. They’ve asked a group of arachnologists and herpetologists to study the effect of climate change on the ecosystems of spiders, lizards and snakes.”

“That sounds interesting.”

“It is!”

“Will you be working in Sydney?”

“Not the entire time. We’ll be going around the country. We’re trekking into Western Australia for a month in a couple of weeks.”

“What can I get for you two?”

Stephen and Virgil looked in surprise at the barista. They hadn’t noticed that the line had progressed so far. They looked at each other. 

Virgil tilted his head and held out his hand. “What do you say, doc? My treat.”

Stephen raised his hands in protest. “No, no. You saved my life. It’s my treat.”

“But you saved my life capturing the creepy spider.”

“Creeping banana spider.”

“Guys.”

The two men looked in the direction of the voice. The barista stood with their eyebrows raised. 

“Lumberjack, let the doc buy you coffee; you can buy him dinner, but let’s keep the line moving, okay?”

The two men blushed. “Um, sure.” “Yes, okay.”

“What’ll you have, Lumberjack?”

“I prefer Logistical Tree Feller.”

“Yeah, but it’s too wordy.”

Virgil shrugged. “Okay. Lumberjack it is. I’ll have a Long Black, please.”

“Okay.” The barista typed his order into the computer. They looked at Stephen. “And you, big spender?”

“Yes, um… may I please have a flat white?”

“Right-o.” The barista rang up their order. 

Stephen touched his thumb to the pay pad, causing a soft beep, indicating that he had paid. 

“We’ll call when your order is ready.”

Stephen stopped them. “Wait. Don’t you need our names?”

The barista cocked their head. “Do ya think there are more than one Doc and Lumberjack in here?”

Stephen frowned. “Umm…”

Virgil chuckled. “Don’t worry. We’ll figure it out…doc.”

Stephen blushed and chuckled. “Oh, yes. Of course.” 

They moved away from the counter and stood together. Virgil was enjoying talking to Stephen and wished to continue their conversation. He hoped Stephen felt the same. 

“Shall we find a table? We can keep talking…unless you have to go….”

“No!” Stephen blushed again. He glanced at Virgil from beneath his eyelashes. “No, my afternoon is free…and I want to continue our conversation.” He smiled when Virgil’s face lit up at his reply. 

“Okay.” 

They found a table near a window and sat. 

“I’ve been terribly rude. Virgil, I neglected to ask what you were doing in Sydney.” 

“That’s okay, doc-”

“Stephen, please, Virgil.”

Virgil nodded. “That’s okay, Stephen…I have a few days of R&R. I’m taking in a couple of museum exhibits, and I managed to get tickets for tomorrow to see Ming Ha at the Opera House.”

“Ming Ha? I’m not familiar with them.”

“She’s a classical pianist.”

“Oh. Classical music isn’t really my thing.” Stephen hesitated, wondering if he had said the wrong thing. He cleared his throat and spoke quickly. “Do you like classical music?”

“I do! I enjoy playing it on the piano, but I prefer jazz.”

Stephen’s face lit up. “I like jazz too!” 

The men smiled at each other. 

“Doc and Lumberjack!”

“I’ll get it.” Stephen rose and went to collect their coffees. 

Virgil looked out the window, watching passersby until his companion returned with the nectar of life coffee. An idea occurred to him, and he tapped a message into his phone. A moment later, his phone tinged. Reading the reply, he smiled and looked up in time to see Stephen returning with their coffees. 

“A tall black for the tall black-haired gentleman and a flat white for the spider guy.” Stephen grinned at Virgil while he set the cups on the table and retook his seat. “What are you grinning at?”

“I’m not grinning.”

“Virgil, you look like a cat who’s eaten a canary. What is it?”

“The coffee is called a long black, not tall black.”

“Oh.” The blond blushed. “Australian coffee rituals are very confusing.”

“They are if you aren’t familiar with them. You did okay ordering your coffee. Unless you didn’t actually want a flat white.”

Stephen sipped his coffee. “Mmm, this is exactly what I wanted.”

“Now you’re prepared for next time.”

“And I’ll try to remember it’s long black, not tall.” He sipped his coffee again and noticed Virgil grinning at him. “What? You’re grinning again…do I have foam on my lip?” He swiped his hand across his lips.

“No, you’re fine.” Virgil paused, staring at Stephen’s lips. “Um….” He shook himself. “I checked on Ms Ha’s program, and she’s performing works by Jean-Michel Blais.”

“I’m not familiar with him.”

“He’s a modern Canadian composer. I think he’s still alive. Philip Glass was one of his influences, and some of his works have a jazzy feel.”

Stephen made a face. “Jazzy?”

Virgil laughed. “Oh no, don’t make that face. Okay, jazzy is a bad description. But his work is interesting, and Ms Ha is a talented pianist.”

“You don’t have to sell me on your evening plans, Virgil.”

“Yeah, about that.” 

Stephen looked expectantly at him. 

“I was wondering if you might like to come with me tomorrow night.”

“To see Ms Ha perform?”

“Yes, I have an extra ticket…” Virgil briefly wondered if he had misread Stephen’s interest. “Unless you have other plans, or there’s someone you’re seeing, then….”

“No.”

“No?” Virgil wilted slightly in disappointment. 

Stephen’s eyes widened at his companion’s obvious disappointment. “No, that’s not what I meant. No, I don’t have plans…and there isn’t anyone at the moment….” 

The two men looked at each other; neither had misread anything. 

Stephen smiled shyly. “I’d love to join you.”

Virgil smiled. “Excellent.” He sipped his nectar of life coffee. It was very good. “So, Stephen, what are your plans for this afternoon?”

“I haven’t any.”

A black eyebrow rose at this information. “There’s an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art I’ve been dying to see, and it’s leaving after this week. Would you like to spend the afternoon with me?”

“I’d like that very much, Virgil.”

They grinned at each other and sipped their coffees.

-fin-

[thunder-pride]

Choose a palette and a character (or ask your followers to do it for you!) and create something!

Many thanks to Persea (@quasar-concept) for making the palettes and the background <3

Works can be completed at any time and interpreted as you see fit - we hope you enjoy creating with these palettes this month! If you’ve never considered yourself a artist before - special shout out to you people and we hope that you get inspired to give even one palette a go!!

Tag using #thunderpride and @thunder-pride so we can share your wonderful works!

Pride Flags are used to represent sexualities and gender identities for many queer people. They are a way of show solidarity both within and between queer identities, and also to proclaim who we are to everyone. Most flags also use colour symbolism to represent what the creator felt was important aspects of the community.

If you would like to explore more flags for #14, you can do so here (sexualities) and here (gender identities).

You can learn more about the flags that inspired each palette below the cut.

1 - The current Lesbian Pride Flag was created by Emily Gwen in 2018. A five-stripe variant is commonly used today.

2 - The current Gay Men Pride Flag was created by Triton in 2019. A five stripe variant is commonly used today.

3 - The Bisexual Pride Flag was created by Michael Page in 1998.

4 - The Transgender Pride Flag was created by Monica Helms in 1999

5 - The Asexual Pride Flag was created by standup, an active user on AVEN (Asexuality Visibility and Education Network) in 2010.

6 - The Non-binary Pride Flage was created by Kyle Rowan in 2014.

7 - The Genderfluid Pride Flag was created by JJ Poole in 2014

8 - The Genderqueer Pride Flag was created in Marilyn Roxie in 2011

9 - The original Pride Flag (now known as the Gilbert Baker Pride Flag) was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978. The six stripe variant (without the pink) is now well recognised as an umbrella pride flag for the queer community.

10 - The Pansexual Pride Flag was created by Jasper V in 2010

11 - The Polyamorous Pride Flag was recently updated by a community vote held in 2022 to a design known as the “tricolor polyamory pride flag” which was created by Red Howell, however the original design from 1995, by Jim Evans, is still circulated amongst many and still well recognised. You will likely see others if you go searching online.

12 - The Intersex Pride Flag was created by Morgan Carpenter in 2013

13 - The Aromantic Pride Flag was created by cameronwhimsy in 2014.

14 – The Progress Pride Flag was created by Daniel Quasar in 2018 and was inspired by the Philadelphia Pride Flag (2017). The current intersex inclusive version was adapted by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021.

Links to info sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[thunder-pride]

Happy Pride Month everyone!!! Reblog and share and send everyone questions to celebrate the first event of Thunderpride!!

Text version under the cut <3

THUNDERPRIDE ASK GAME

Send a number!

Talk about a favourite trans headcanon

Tell me an alternate queer headcanon for a character

Introduce a queer OC to the fandom

Tell me a queer headcanon you'd like to create for

Recommend a favourite queer fanwork

Recommend a favourite piece of queer media

Name a character that helped you love yourself

Name a character that made you feel seen

Describe a fluffy moment for a favourite queer ship

Describe an angsty moment for a favourite queer ship

Create a crossover with media featuring queer characters

Plot an episode where a character is confirmed to be queer

Send a letter and a character!

A - How do they celebrate Pride Month? B - How open are they about their identity? C - How do they feel about labels? D - Who's a favourite musical artist of theirs? E - Who's a queer icon they connect with? F - At what age do they figure out their identity?