alive, and drunk on sunlight

at some point it became a very common talking point that science fiction and fantasy ought to Represent Trans People and that exploring Weird Gender Shit without also depicting characters who are legibly transgender in Normal Ways is passé. and honestlyyyy i don't care give me a hundred more male characters possessed by female ghosts or nonbinary robots or whatever. literally what is the point of the scifi fantasy genre if you cannot connect to the fantastical

if i wanted to read about people being transgender without a wizard being involved i would open my tumblr dash. Representation will kill the reader she needs a guy who accidentally downloaded the memories of a woman on the CyberLine and can't tell them apart from his own to live

sorry for the delay in responding to your message. I was walking around the house with unclear intentions

i’m like a clown that no one hired or pays

im like if a girl was {undefined variable}. im like if a girl was [fragment missing]. im like if a girl was (editor’s note: the author’s invocation of the word “girl” in this context is idiosyncratic, perhaps metaphorical) im like if a girl was im like if a girl draft deleted! im like if a girl You have reached your free article limit! Subscribe now to continue reading. im like if a girl was [THREAD LOCKED] im like if a girl (ENDING EXPLAINED!) im like if a girl Unusual activity detected, please highlight all the pictures of bicycles. im like if a girl I don’t respond to prompts that could be deemed offensive, and so I am unable to carry out the request. im-like-if-a-girldeactivated03092023. im like if a girl we are unable to take your call at the minute. im like if a girl isn’t registered under that name. im like if a girl could give you her date of birth. im like if a girl oh yes we have you under […]. im like if a girl LOST CONNECTION

[not drawing voice] I miss my character.

[not writing voice] I miss my character.

So There's This Open Wound At The Heart Of The Text

This and "masking optional" signs at best without even some free baggy blue procedural masks on a table is why I stopped doing so much stuff in my area. The Pride committee in the town next to me that does a big Pride parade explicitly stated that lawn chairs wouldn't be allowed because they "take up too much space..." So fuck anyone who can't stand for hours in the June heat, right?

i feel like rape as a theme gets a bad rap because of the long history of men writing about women getting raped just to jerk off to the idea of brutalizing us but i do actually want more stories about rape from like, any other angle except that one