The horrors persist, but so do we

Hey, this was almost my exact experience in my early 20's!

I LIKED being "mistaken" for a boy, but I didn't mind being referred to as a girl, even if I really didn't feel like I was a REAL one. So I settled on 'genderfluid' and honestly I still kinda feel like this nebulous nonbinary space in-between it all

But then I figured. Well, hell, I'm not just gonna wake up and BE old one day. But if I really, really cannot imagine myself being an old woman, then all I can do is get to work on being an old man.

I don't think I have anything AGAINST being an old woman. I think I'd be a pretty cool old woman. I've MET cool old women. But I'd be a happier old man, and it's not really my job to represent Old Women Of Planet Earth anyways, so why not be what will make me happy?

And if we were to define that by the concept of being "for" or "against" anyone anyways, you'd also have to ask yourself, "well. Do I WANT to be an old woman, or do I just have something against old trans men?"

Which is a decent question to ask yourself as a self-examination technique but a bit silly to do with every choice you make about your own identity all the time forever

I had a sandwich for breakfast. Do I have anything AGAINST eggs? No. I just wanted a sandwich

They will then violently insist that this version is superior to the canon one and act like they "fixed" them and it's like. Buddy that's not the same character anymore. That's just your own oc commiting identity fraud. Like. I get the desire to experiment with different interpretations of a story. But first of all it's okay to just make an original character if that's what you really want to do. And second of all, are you even really a fan of the character you "fixed" if they're a completely different person afterwards?

some cat commissions

no. he doesn't use emojis. i'm not kidding when i say i have seen him use one once in two years. everyone was shocked.