You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. You are now forced to live in the forest as a cryptid.
we're not kids anymore.
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You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. You are now forced to live in the forest as a cryptid.
The best thing about neural implants is that you can “block” people, effectively rendering you non-existent to one another. But you’re being blocked by more and more people every day, and everyone you ask about it blocks you.
During a robbery you’re surprised when the criminals seem to recognize you and retreat in fear. Only later you learn that your high school sweetheart now runs a global crime syndicate and has you placed on a “no harm list”. You decide to pay them a visit after all these years.
Basically any time I decide to say “hey nonbinary people get treated like shit and people in my position specifically get left out in the cold a lot” I lose a number of followers. I’m pretty sure I’ve had people block me over literally just saying that. I hate that nonbinary issues often relegated to the status of “discourse” instead of, like, actual threats that we experience and the only people I can talk to about it are other nonbinary people.
I’ve lost count of the number of death threats I’ve gotten just for, like, existing, so I’d really like it if folks stopped acting like being nonbinary is ezmode
Just thinking. Wonder if the reason why not a lot of people seem to care when AMAB NB people are treated as though they’re just men is because a lot of people just silently see AMAB nb people as men 🤔🤔🤔
Like tbh its something that keeps me pretty secretive about it irl. I feel like I’m going to be treated with less suspicion if I just let people assume I’m a man and only bother correcting them when we get closer. All of this stuff has made it incredibly difficult to even get to this point in understanding my own identity. People are so fucking shitty about it. The fact that “abusive man who pretends to be nonbinary to hit on girls” is a thing I’ve seen people believe and crack jokes about within trans spaces really illustrates the problem.
You open your delivery of party supplies to find masks, dynamite, duffel bags, rope, and smoke grenades. Meanwhile, across town, some bank robbers are about to have a very creative night.
…which has absolutely nothing to do with your delivery. You are a gender reveal party planner and you’re about to blow some shit up.
A Selkie and a Mermaid meet on dry land. They hide their non-human origins from each other and become close. Fascinated by humans, they do their best to demonstrate human knowledge to one another. Hoping that the other doesn’t suspect anything.
It is absolutely vital that this story have a third, normal human character that quickly figures out what’s going on but doesn’t tell them and instead subtly feeds them extremely false information about the human race every time they are present
Articles I can use against truscum
I have got your back. Here are those damn sources
There is not enough difference in male or female brains to tell them apart
A gender-neutral pronouns other that they/them has existed since 1858, thon
There are more than 2 genders (tons of sources in the description that if i tried to write them all here i would die of age)
“””Transtrenders””” aren’t actually transitioning and then regretting: 1 2 3 4 5
Biological binary sex isn’t a thing: 1 2 3 4
in the wikipedia page for social construct of gender category sex and sex category the sources are 7 27 28
He indeed is
Being trans is not a mental illness/ you don’t need dysphoria to be trans: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (this one is massive) 8 (also if you want a living example of a cis person with dysphoria search godflex here on tumblr, careful it’s nsfw)
From here
This might be updated in the future
fantastic
Simply because the link about the gender neutral pronoun “thon” leads to a google books page (gross) in Portuguese, it may not prove particularly useful for English speakers. Instead, here’s a link to a Merriam-Webster post about it. While they don’t have links to their sources, they do include all the titles to the publications referenced, most of which are surely public domain.
'Thon' was a singular, gender-neutral pronoun in our Unabridged dictionary. Until it wasn't.
In addition, if “thon” (or “þon,” for any literary nerds) doesn’t suit you, here is a list of proposed gender neutral pronouns regardless of whether or not they have seen usage.
It even has usage notes! Please DM me if the links don’t work.
Ammunition against fools
you gonna bac up your claim that cisgender straight people who lack sexual attraction have always been queer? or is speaking out your ass all you can do
Sure! Let's go! I'm always up to stretch both my lgbt history muscles. Sorry if it took awhile but I am passionate about this stuff and wanted to do some good writing and find some really great sources for you! 😊
In 1869 a humanitarian and journalist named Karl-Maria Kertbeny published pamphlets to oppose the sodomy law in Prussia. In these pamphlet he is widely regarded as beginning the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" in the academic mainstream; though, it is likely these were lgbt terms used long before that time. In this same pamphlet advocating explicitly for gay rights, Kertbeny refers to those who engage only in masturbation and not in sex with others as seperate from straight people, coining an entirely different term: "monosexual." Now, this term is outdated and widely used the m-spec sub community to refer to straight, gay, and lesbian folks lacking multi-gender attraction, but he states very explicitly in all his work that this term is meant to refer to people we would now understand to be asexual.
A little later, in the 1890's we have sexologist, founder of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, and an openly gay man himself, Magnus Hirschfeld. He published his work "Sappho and Sokrates": a pamphlet he wrote with the task of explaining the lgbt community to straight people. He makes multiple references to and defences of what he called "anesthesia sexuals." Again, an outdated term, but as you can see, both gay advocates and straight allies referenced us as being part of the community like it was nothing.
Meanwhile, we have the lovely Emma Trosse, an academic peer to Hirschfeld. She discussed gay rights—especially the rights of lesbians and non-binary people—very openly and wrote multiple papers on the subject. But at her heart, Trosse was a researcher, and so her most famous work, naturally, was an indepth study of what she referred to as "counter-sexualities" as stand in for what we now know as the broader lgbt community. In this work she coins the phrase Asensuality, stating "the author has the courage to admit to this category" officially coming out in her own study! Damn lady! We love her. The Schwules Museum (literally the Gay Museum), a famous German LGBTQ+ museum dedicated to collections focusing on the history of lgbt research, features her work prominently. She also holds the distinction of having been banned as a "degenerate" author in Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, and Russia for that very work. On top of that, she was the first woman on record to have a treatise in defense of lgbt people and our community published in 1895, even before her colleague Hirschfeld had his first works published.
As you can see 19th century Germany was a hub of lgbt theory, research, and activism still studied by lgbt historians today. It is widely credited as being a period of time that brought our history into print and the mainstream. And ace people, as I noted before, have been involved both in mention and in activism from the beginning according to both prominent allies, gay folks, and ace folks who were scholars during this period.
But, now lets move over with a bigger hop to the sexual revolution in America; which mirrored the German one in many ways! This is the period of time a lot of people, especially americans, think of as the start of our mainstream history—which as you can see a very americancentric idea, but I digress. Even here we have asexuals represented among the community by diverse members of the community.
You've probably heard of the Asexual Manifesto, written by Lisa Orlando and published by the New York Radical Feminists. A very important document to ace-spec people, it defines us as a sexuality seperate and distinct from straight; but you aren't interested in what we have to say about ourselves and our experiences so lets move on to other lgbt people validating us.
Kinsey—himself an m-spec or multisexual person—recognized us in his research, which he picked up from at the point our lovely Hirschfeld left off, basically. This was later expanded on by Michael D Storm, author of Theories of Sexual Orientation. He reimagined the Kinsey Scale as a two dimensional map, which became the beginnings of the modern Kinsey Scale used in the lgbt community today. He posited it was better able to distinguish asexuals from m-spec people as it defined them less based on sexual preferences, or lack their of, based in gender (which would put both sexualities squarely in the centre of the 1D scale), and more on their self described experiences of attraction. So that's right, you read correctly; the latest rendition of the Kinsey Scale was created in response to a piece that was published after Kinsey's original studies specifically to better include asexuals who were already featured in the study and scale.
Then we move to the "The Sexually Oppressed." Published in 1977, it was a book that did exactly what it set out to do: describe people who were oppressed by heteronormative society and their struggles. It was published by social worker, Harvey L. Gochros and featured the work of Myra T. Johnson in a piece describing the way in which mainstream culture affected asexual women specifically, and how straight feminists often shamed and gatekept them from liberating movements, while straight men continued to be an omnipresent threat via corrective assault and forced institutionalization. It was actually a text book in my college, very good read—goes into the ableism present in sexual oppression as well. I highly recommend it.
Also, just as a bonus, I've included an extra link below to "On the Racialization of Asexuality" by Ianna Hawkins Owen. She goes into depths about how the allosexual vs asexual discourse we see starting in America in the 70's—which has turned into the modern global "ace discourse" of today—started with nationalist discussions that have their roots in white supremacy, the white construction of binary womanhood, and chattel slavery. An offering from my university days.
Anyways, I hope you and any other lovely readers who come across this enjoy and educate yourselves a bit. Knowledge is power!
P.S. I could not find "The Sexually Oppressed" available online for some reason (but mind you, I am very bad at computers) so I linked a website that should show you the nearest library in your area that carries it. It's a very popular social work read.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/asexuality-history-internet-identity-queer-archive.html
http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/Asexual-Manifesto-Lisa-Orlando.pdf
https://books.google.ca/books?id=XbgTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.ca/books?id=IH2GCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA122&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.worldcat.org/title/sexually-oppressed/oclc/925168401&referer=brief_results
What to call your nonbinary significant other, a field guide
Joyfriend
Bright colors
Probably trendercore
Just wants you to be happy
Sundresses
Partnoir
Either a detective or a goth
Chipped black polish
Glad you're here
50/50 chance they wear corsets
Pardner
Leather jackets n cowboy boots
Self repair manifesto saved to their phone
Calloused hands hold yours so gently
Probably an anarchist
Comrade
Firmly believes a society can be created in which everyone is cared for
Big fan of hot drinks n warm cozy layers
Bold colours
Don't care about body hair
Lover~
Interested in old timey fashion, weaponry, or both
Parents don't know about this shhh
100% peacock
Wants to and probably will shower you with lavish gifts
Paramour
Probably taking or fluent in a romantic language
Either into pastels or dark rich tones take your pick
Wants to paint Your nails cause then yall are holding hands and isn't that sweet
Took like 10 years to figure out that ur into them
S.O.
Either really into robots or really into aliens probably both
Metallics/neons
Will go stargazing and makes sure to bring along hot chocolate
Little spoon
Baefriend
IS bae
Probably a fandom nerd
Is excited when you show interest in their interests
UwUs
Fool
Will fall in love with your laugh no ifs ands or buts
Quite possibly a clown fucker but you wouldn't know just looking at them
So many "that's my gender" jokes, also just so many jokes
Is relieved when you take them seriously when they are trying to be serious for real
Beefriend
Very much a spring soul
Flower crowns
Safely takes bugs n spiders outside
Will fight someone. You don't know who, when, or why but you know it will happen.
Local Cryptid
Camera shy
You've tried telling ur friends about them but for some reason they won't believe you until they see them.
Probably lives in the woods
Is just glad to exist with you in the same space, even if that's all you're doing
Girlfriend/Boyfriend
Others think they know but you Know Better
Super secret super spy
Probably a PDA kinda person its cute
About to go Off on the cis
Anyway tag urself
just once I want to see a character have a gender crisis where it’s like
Villain: hah! you fool! have you not heard the prophecy? no man may kill me!
AMAB Hero: *kills the villain*
AMAB Hero: hmm. okay. okay okay okay. let’s unpack that… later.
Please please tell me this hasn’t been done before
I really hope this is original
Reblog if you’re LGBTQ+ and don’t drink alcohol 🌈🤙
I wanna see how many of us there are 👌
just some aggressive reminders
pan’s origin is not biphobic or transphobic
pan at its core is not biphobic or transphobic
pan is not a new identity
pan was not created on tumblr in the 2000s
pan as a sexual orientation is not a recent thing
pan has been a sexual orientation since at least 40 years ago
pan has been in use before the bi manifesto was written/modified
pan is not about being better than bi people
pan is not defined by being attracted to trans people
pan is not defined by caring about personality
pan people are not children who don’t know what they’re talking about
pan people aren’t the ones redefining bi to fit our own personal narrative
panphobia is based in misinformation, deliberate deceit, and gatekeeping
the existence of pan does not harm anyone
the “harm” people claim pan does is actually misinformation and generalizations
problematic explanations of pan from individuals, pan and non-pan people alike, do not represent the pan community or identity
it’s okay to be proud of being pan
being pan does not harm anyone
it’s okay to be pan
I. I need all the alignment chart memes. All. All of them. My hands are shaking. Please.
AIGHT YALL RB THIS POST WITH YOUR ALIGNMENT CHART BLANKS FOR THIS ANON
I’LL GO FIRST
Shout out to the nonbinaries who:
Conform to sex-based or gender-based stereotypes because it’s easier
Are gate-keeped from being “actually non-binary” because they don’t present “androgynous enough”
Present more femininely
Present more masculinly
Present as your birth sex because it’s easier
Don’t understand their gender either or lack the words to explain it
Have mental disabilities / disorders which cause a lot of struggles
Must have the energy to get up everyday and present the way they feel because otherwise they’ll feel shitty all day and have no energy for anything else
Don’t know if they can call themselves transgender because it always feels like they’re starting a fight or they’re not trans enough
Go by their birth name
Use an average name over their birth name
Choose not average names names like “Twig / Pebble / Stick / etc”
Use names of characters they kin as their name
Don’t know what the hell to call their sexuality
Use neopronouns because they don’t have gender-neutral pronouns in their language
Use neopronouns because they and its and he and she just don’t feel right
Gender isn’t well known
Don’t know if they experience dysphoria and say they know it’s written to be a disorder and they don’t want to self-diagnose
Know they experience dusphoria despite it being a disorder
Are scared to say they don’t know if they have dysphoria because they don’t want to get yelled at
Don’t exactly know what dysphoria feels like because they don’t feel it in suckish extremities that others do and describe
Don’t talk about their dysphoria because it’s not well understood about their gender and how dysphoria works with them and it’s different for everyone and it’s just exhausting
Feel gender is a private matter and will fill out their assigned gender on papers because they don’t feel everyone needs to know
Don’t remember note their gender as something that makes them oppressed because they face many types of oppression
Subtly do things that note their gender, whether it’s making bracelets with the flag, or wearing specific shoes for those who’s gender varies, etc etc
Don’t have the wardrobe to present how they want to
Don’t have the money to present how they want to (including money for haircuts!!)
Experience hair dysphoria but don’t say it out loud because it seems like such an “easy fix” but there’s reasons why you can’t get your hair styled the way you want
Are out to their parents
Aren’t out to their parents
Have marginalized genders
Use non-binary as an umbrella term
Use non-binary as a specific term
Are told “oh you’re probably x” when you describe your gender but you know you aren’t x because some part just doesn’t fit right and it’s hard to put it into words
Need someone to help them figure out the right term
Align mostly but not fully with their assigned gender at birth
Don’t know what they are
Do know what they are
Are confused
Are not confused
Actually read this whole thing / liked / reblogged it
Didn’t actually read this whole thing but smashed reblog / like when they saw non-binary Pride
this was nice to read hello
:>
Glad so! 😁
Share this as much as you can everyone!
Got this from: Friend from discord
It’s astounding how much bisexual men are erased. Seriously. A recent article on masculinity from Them. magazine, all about being LGBTQ in different ways, completely erased bisexual men. It referred multiple times to “gay and straight” men all being affected by negatively rigid roles of masculinity as though those are the only sexual orientation for men.
It literally talked about how rigid roles for men are toxic and then completely erased all bisexual men and any men that aren’t gay or straight.
Like we are left out in discussions of men’s sexuality, in discussions of sexuality at all. Hell, we’re even left out in some general discussions of bisexuality as people assume that bisexual attraction to men can’t be gay as though bi men literally do not exist.
Start recognizing bi men!