gonna miss the trick that jombo taught me

i'd edit him to this entire song if i had the energy. olaf is so important to me.

like the recent estrogen legislation. estrogen should never be made a controlled substance. everyone should have easy access to gender affirming care, including DIY. but when people try to spread awareness for this serious issue by acting like trans men arent as affected by institutional transphobia, it just becomes an argument about disinformation, because testosterone is ALREADY a controlled substance. I want estrogen to remain an uncontrolled substance because I want to save trans women from the bullshit than trans men have been having to deal with for over 30 years. and then you have a bunch of people arguing about this bullshit with each other while the law just plods on thru the government and everyone loses.

I made this meme

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[PT: “Rick is a trans woman: a headcanon infodump”]

disclaimer: this is a headcanon based on my interpretation of the show. It’s perfectly fine if you see him as a cis guy or a trans guy or any other gender.

Evidence

- The main thing people would point to for a headcanon like this is his cross-dressing. There’s the obvious example in Nasty (S2E3), where Neil is forced to borrow a dress from Rick’s closet (which is definitely Rick’s, since it has his name on the tag), but there’s also a lesser-known example in Bomb (S1E4) where he responds with “Well, someone’s got to” in response to Vyvyan joking about him “burn[ing his] bra” in the name of activism. Interesting how he doesn’t really deny owning undergarments but is desperate to convince the others the dress isn’t his, even betting money on it. Also, in the Bachelor Boys book, he makes a very specific denial about owning a “blue and white gingham frock with a fabulous pink satin belt” (page 40).

- Vyvyan repeatedly calls him a “girl” or “girly” as an insult. I like to think Vyv’s got a transdar (like gaydar but for trans people) and he clocked Rick as a transfem egg, so maybe this is a form of egg-cracking

- He pretty much acts like a gay stereotype. He’s always crossing his legs when he sits down, he has his hair braided, he reads Cosmopolitan (a women’s magazine)

- When the guys are on the way to University Challenge (Bambi, S2E1), Rick insults Neil for studying “like a girl”, and boasts about not doing any study because he’s so “hard and street and cool”. Note that he doesn’t call himself a man or anything, which is probably the expected follow-up to calling somebody a girl as an insult.

- Actually, Rick has never once affirmed himself as a man. Not in the above example, and also not in Interesting (S1E05) when Vyv calls him a girl. The closest thing we’ve gotten is his line in Summer Holiday (season 2 finale): “I am a boy! At least I was the last time I looked!”. This seems to imply that he has to make an effort to ‘remind’ himself that he is male. Hell, it’s probably also the same logic behind why he refuses to redecorate his bedroom at home (this is also the context for the quote before: “I suppose it is a bit childish to have aeroplanes on your wallpaper. But they are blue, and I am a boy!”); he keeps these stereotypically masculine images (blue aeroplanes, a ‘boys’ color’ and a ‘boys’ interest’) as a constant visual ‘reminder’ of his societally imposed gender.

- When Rick is talking about his parents, he’s happier when he’s talking about his mother than he is about his father. It’s a noted phenomenon that children often prefer the parent that is the same gender as them. Either that, or there’s some Freudian stuff going on

- In Nasty, when he finds Neil by the bathroom door, he immediately gets paranoid about him listening to him bathing.

- There’s that one quote that always circulates in the fandom comparing the four main guys to a nuclear family: Mike the father, Neil the mother, Vyvyan the son and Rick the daughter.

- In Interesting, Rick’s classmate Sue shows up to the party and she has a similar jacket to him, with pins all over it and everything. We don’t see any of his male acquaintances dress similarly either (Fisher just has a plain leather jacket, Sue’s male companion just has a white blazer with no pins, Dr. Morrison doesn’t wear pins either), suggesting that either Rick is following Sue’s fashion style or that they’re both getting their fashion from the same source. Regardless, it can be seen as a symbolic lean towards womanhood rather than manhood.

Headcanons & other stuff

- Estrogen would definitely save her. It’d also do wonders for her acne. Androgens (testosterone, DHT, etc.) are linked to acne, so if she starts taking estrogen and anti-androgens, then the acne could get better.

- Is probably more dysphoric about her top half rather than her lower half. She’s comfortable taking off her trousers in Neil’s presence in Oil (S1E2), and in the 1986 Comic Relief stage shows she’s more than happy to show off her underwear and even attempt to expose her genitals to the audience but when she shows off her nipples, all she does is just undo some little pockets on her shirt. I know realistically that the nipple pockets were probably the most practical thing for the stage show so Rik wouldn’t have to fuss around with his shirt buttons, but still. She even keeps her shirt on while she sleeps (as seen in Time, S2E4, and Sick, S2E5). Also, if she isn’t wearing a shirt, she always has a tank top on. Even when she’s in her bathrobe, she has her tank top on underneath (see Bomb and Nasty). That’s probably also why she’s fine with wearing a bra but keeping her masculine-style briefs. Oh and I almost forgot: in Bambi, when she’s correcting Vyv on his sexist language, she says “They’re called breasts, everybody has them”, which maybe implies that she sees herself as having breasts

- She’d probably change her name; I can’t decide whether she’d pick Carrie (after the Cliff Richard song) or Felicity (after Felicity Kendall, “the woman [she] love[s]”)

My most recent drawings of Rik and Ade characters

also in the cuddling drawing, me and my bf both drew that :33