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1. lesbian fashion is iconic

2. if you’re going to be read as a woman, might as well be read as a cool one lmao

1. clothes are clothes no matter the identity of who wears them. like, the only "lesbian fashion" is clothes with the lesbian flag on them. what the hell is "lesbian fashion"? cishets are the most common type of people in the world & guess what? they all have completely different fashion senses so what could you possibly mean by "lesbian fashion"

2. ah yes because only lesbians are cool women, not trans women or bi women or pan women or literally any other type of woman ever. the only uncool woman is a karen

it's not fucking lesbophobia to want to be seen as what you are instead of something else. there's nothing wrong with lesbians & i have no ill-will against them but i'd be mortified to be mistaken for one because... no.

besides, lesbophobes & transphobes are usually the ones who call trans men lesbians because a) they act in disgust when seeing a perceived female presenting masculine traits & assume they're a lesbian, not in a flattering way & b) they're even more opposed to transgender people & call us "confused lesbians" which i guess isn't as bad only because it means at least they seem to semi-accept lesbians?

having no gender or body dysphoria in any way, shape, or form but trying to transition socially, legally medically, or physically is like going to the optometrist & asking for high prescription glasses even though you have twenty twenty vision & you’ll get migraines, dizziness, & poor vison (the very thing glasses are supposed to correct) except it’s not so easy to just take the glasses off because the symptoms will persist & might never go away & you make the optometrists & anyone who heard about your stupid decision doubt anyone with glasses.

There’s so much to unpack here and it’s all garbage. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of both gender dysphoria as a diagnosis and optical issues work so!

First of all, there’s no differential diagnosis of “gender or body dysphoria.” The diagnosis is gender dysphoria. Here are the criteria, with full contextualization. The gender dysphoria diagnosis in itself was established (and standardized in 2013 along with the rest of the DSM-5) to replace “gender identity disorder” in order to differentiate between identity and pathological traits. It is a very new diagnosis and, by the admission of medical/psychiatric professionals, not representative of all people who identify as transgender - which was a core purpose of changing the diagnosis and criteria to begin with. The entire second section of the criteria hinges on clinically significant distress, which by nature causes impairment and severe disruption to one’s life. This is not in any way a universal experience of transgender people, including those who medically transition. (This diagnosis also cannot be retroactively applied to the many transgender people who transitioned prior to DSM-5 being released who do not necessarily meet the criteria.) To be a nondysphoric trans person literally only means to not meet the criteria for a gender dysphoria diagnosis, which again was designed to not pathologize transgender identity, but to specifically address those whose distress is disrupting their lives. This doesn’t mean nondysphoric trans people do not need to socially, medically, and legally transition in order to live happily.

Since you compared this to going to an optometrist (shitty analogy as it is, I’ll entertain it) - I’m visually impaired, and see an optometrist at least one per year to keep my worsening vision in check. I wear glasses daily. I am required to wear glasses to drive. When I first got glasses, I had headaches and other side effects that are literally normal whenever you first get a new prescription and go away - it didn’t mean I didn’t need my glasses. If the prescription were wrong and I had to get it corrected, wearing the wrong prescription for a short period of time also would not do permanent damage to my eyesight.

My mother, father, and brother also wear glasses and have identical experiences. My wife wears glasses. We’re all visually impaired, though we each have different needs. My mom has an optical condition which requires specialized correction and means she is more likely to experience motion sickness, whereas I am only nearsighted - but we both need glasses. The fact that we have different needs and I am not as severely visually impaired has not made our optometrist doubt me, and if it did… they’d be an awful optometrist. Some people even wear glasses because they’re fashionable, yet optometrists and folks with vision impairments don’t harass them for “faking” or being “visiontrenders.”

I don’t consider vision problems to be equivalent to being transgender to begin with, because one is a medical condition and one is merely a state of being. I’m a nondysphoric trans person who’s been on HRT for a year, and out as trans for about twice as long. My needs are different from that of a clinically gender dysphoric trans person, who needs support not only for transition it itself but dealing with the severe negative emotions that characterize the gender dysphoria diagnosis - but we still both need access to trans healthcare. I have a mental illnesses unrelated, but I wouldn’t stop people dealing with a more minor condition or even situational depression/anxiety from accessing mental health resources even if their needs are, again, different from my own.

personally i feel the definitions & criteria of gender dysphoria (pronouns/name/gender role comfort levels) & body dysphoria (genitals/hormone level/secondary sex characteristics) should be properly outlined using the definitions widely accepted by the transgender community (in parentheses above). seeing as the definition itself would be broadened, clinically nondysphoric actually dysphoric people would be technically dysphoric. if that makes any sense.

assuming the above was comprehensible in any way, nondysphoric would mean being content with one's perceived gender & body without having experienced dysphoria & transitioning in the past. In essence, a cisgender person.

i too am visually impaired & have been wearing glasses since age 9. my vision was steadily worsening but glasses corrected it for the most part until i needed a new prescription & couldn't get it because of financial bs. my eyesight deteriorated at a faster rate & the optometrist determined it was because of wearing the wrong prescription for too long. i had all the symptoms i listed above & they never completely disappeared because it screwed my vision. if you don't believe me i dunno what to tell you because i ain't handing over my medical history lmao

going back to what you said, i'm not talking short term. i'm talking absolutely wrecking your eyes by wearing a very strong prescription enough for it to have lasting effects & the discomfort to be going on long past the adjustment period. the part about the optometrist doubting people was actually a sarcastic jab to the assholes who get hrt for the hell of it & the doctors whose entire opinion of trans people is changed by that one dick. it was not serious but perhaps i should've added /s tags?

also i applaud your pun in "gatekeeping trans healthcare and the transgender label based on a gender dysphoria diagnosis is shortsighted" lmao nice one

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Beloved

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)

The Call of the Wild

Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)

The Catcher in the Rye

Fahrenheit 451

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Gone With the Wind

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Gatsby

Howl

In Cold Blood

Invisible Man

The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print

Leaves of Grass

Moby Dick

Native Son

Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)

The Red Badge of Courage

The Scarlet Letter

COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)

Stranger in a Strange Land

A Streetcar Named Desire

Their Eyes Were Watching God

To Kill a Mockingbird

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)

Tyrant king Gilgamesh oppresses his subjects enough that they pray to the gods to stop him. The gods create Enkidu, a furry with a sense of justice, to be Gilgamesh’s opponent and teach him humility. Enkidu gets laid and goes off to fight Gilgamesh, loses, but impresses the king enough that he decides they should be Best Friends Forever. (“YOU’RE buff, and I’M buff… with our powers combined, we could be DOUBLE BUFF!!!”)

Gilgamesh and his new furry boyfriend traipse around having adventures, being ludicrously buff, killing monsters for fun, and pissing off gods. The goddess Ishtar tries to seduce Gilgamesh, but he rebuffs her because she’s notoriously a terrible girlfriend, so she sends another monster after him and he and Enkidu rip it apart. Gilgamesh throws part of its ass at her and the gods decide Enkidu should die as vengeance.

Gilgamesh is devastated at the loss of his furry boyfriend and mourns over the body for a full week, until a maggot falls out of its nose. He’s so traumatized by this and the entire concept of death that he embarks on an Epic Quest to find the secret to immortality. At this point the plot starts to get confusing and big chunks of it are missing, but he has more adventures, meets some surprisingly friendly scorpion people, hears all about how terrible the afterlife is, etc. He maybe dies and gets buried eventually? It’s unclear.

Gilgamesh: “Utnapishtim! Tell me the secret to immortality!”

Utnapishtim: “Okay, well, first you must overcome sleep—”

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Growing up with your starters

Bulbasaur: Somehow, nomming on my clothes… has become a weird habit of theirs.

Venusaur: That hasn’t changed now that they’ve grown, but they’re very gentle.

Charmander: It’s my first attempt, but I made a plushie so that he wouldn’t get lonely.

Charizard: That plushie seems to be his favorite even now.

Squirtle: Squirtle’s a bit timid and hides behind me at the smallest things.

GENERAL

“Can you walk?”

“How did this happen?”

“What the hell happened?”

“I hit my head.”

“Did you hit your head?”

“Can you hear me?”

“Don’t close your eyes, stay awake!”

“Come on, stay with me!”

“No no no no no!”

“You shot me!”

“I didn’t mean to shoot you!”

“You stabbed me!”

“I didn’t mean to stab you!”

“Take the knife out!”

“Don’t take the knife out!”

“It was an accident!”

“That/this wasn’t an accident!”

“That looks broken.”

“I think my leg/arm is broken.”

“That doesn’t look good.”

“Am I going to die?”

“You’re not going to die!”

“Calm down!”

“Don’t panic!”

“I can’t help you if you don’t let me!”

BLOOD

“Are you bleeding?”

“Don’t move, you’re bleeding.”

“Is that blood?”

“Whose blood is that?”

“That’s a lot of blood.”

“Do you know how to get bloodstains out?”

“Why do you know how to get bloodstains out?”

“Damn, I got blood on my shirt.”

“Don’t move, you’re losing blood!”

“I won’t let you bleed out!”

“You have blood on your face.”

“I swear to god, if you get blood on me…”

“What’s your blood type?”

“Why in the hell would you need to know my blood type?”

WOUNDS

“That cut is nasty.”

“You have a massive gash in your arm/leg!’

“Don’t touch it!”

“Don’t move, you’ll only make it worse!”

“I’ll get some bandages.”

“You’re going to need stitches.”

“That looks infected…”

“Did you get bit by something?”

“There’s no exit wound, the bullet is still in you.”

“There’s an exit wound, the bullet went through you.”

AFTERCARE

“How are you feeling?”

“How does it feel?”

“It’s still not healed, but it’s getting there.”

“Let’s go home.”

“I just want to go home.”

“Let’s get you into the bathtub.”

“We need to change your bandages soon.”

“Get some sleep, okay?”

“You need to eat something, you’ve been through a lot today.”

“I’ll check up on you in a bit.”

remember that when picking a DOOR lock, you have to apply a little bit of pressure to your tension wrench (the thing that you use to turn the knob). too little or too much and you wont be able to pick the door open. you can use anything for the tension wrench. a bobby pin. bits of wire. a paper clip. etc.

its best to be completely silent when youre picking locks bc theres this small ‘click’ when youre picking that you might miss if youre using headphones or listening to music.

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if youre picking one of these

you jam something thin and long above one of the rotation dials and you push up on the shackle.

. if its one of these

you get yourself some shims. (or make one. you can make shims out of fucking soda cans), you wiggle them in the tiny space between the shackle and the body of the lock, and you pop these suckers open.

. for a chain deadbolt,

you get something flexible but sturdy and you just push this fucker down

. for one of these rotating combination locks

you can also shim this motherfucker open. jam your shims between the shackle and the body and pry it unlocked. if, for some reason, you dont wanna shim it open, maybe you dont have a shim or you just like a challenge, this bitch can be decoded ridiculously easy. heres what you do:

spin this bitch to the right about two or three times to “reset” it. then you pull up on the shackle a bit, and turn it right slowly until you hear a click. your number is two spaces further. then you turn left 360 degrees until you land on the right number again, and start turning this motherfucker left until it stops. when it stops, turn right. if its loose, its the wrong number, keep going left. if its not loose, you have the right number, and you turn right all the way until this bitch pops

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Sometimes he doesn’t like to take his meds because they make him tired in training but if he doesn’t take them, he can’t sleep and he’s up all night. His late night texts with Bakugo turn very erratic and he switches from subject to subject without even thinking of it. Bakugo can tell something is wrong so he goes to Kiri’s dorm and the other won’t stop talking but his mind is racing so much that his sentences start to overlap

All he wants to do is bake and write and he’s already started three separate Netflix shows but he can’t focus. It’s giving him anxiety because he wants to sort the thoughts but he just /can’t/.