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Hello everyone! I've decided to try opening WigglyPaint commissions, which you can order here on Ko-Fi!

anyways here are some of my best wiggles yippee!

Wow! Here’s something incredibly personal.

This is Good Bi Gender. A comic I made to express some feelings I have about my gender. I don’t really have that much else to say about it. Here it is.

[Image Description: A digital comic made with sharp, angular abstract lines and only the colors white, blue, pink, and black. The featured character is all white, except for facial features and hair colors, which changes from panel to panel. The comic reads: Cover Panel: The text “Good Bi Gender”, the words colored with the trans flag. It shows a glitchy person’s face, half pink and half blue. Panel 1: White text reads: “Hello. My name is apparently irrelevant. And my pronouns are he/him and she/her. But you can’t call me she/her. And here’s why.” Someone with a half-pink and half-blue shirt looks to the side. One eye is covered with hair, and the other eye is pink while the iris is blue.

Panel 2: The character sits happily, imagining facial hair and a masculine voice. “I don’t want top surgery. I love my chest. And I dream about being on testosterone someday soon.” The character looks at a phone, frowning. The phone shows the male symbol with an “X” through it. Text next to it reads: “People don’t seem to think that the features I dream of are very pretty though… Or they think even worse of them than that…”

Panel 3: The character’s features are all pink, and sits in a blank frame. The character reaches over to a blue frame, frowning. “I don’t like the animosity. I really despise it.” A photo of the character shows an all-blue frame and blue hair, with pink outlines and facial features. “To be a boy… I aspire to be one. I aspire to be masculine in all its handsomeness. All its prettiness.” Panel 4: The character sits in an all blue panel, but reaches back out to the pink panel. “And I’m still a girl too. I was so excited to have both. To love both. To have handsome femininity. Beautiful masculinity.” The frames break and connect, and pink and blue swirl together. The character smiles in between the frames, with one pink eye and one blue eye. “So excited. And yet I get asked…”

Panel 5: Two hands hold out two different pills to the character, one blue and one pink. They ask “Male? or Female?” using the male and female symbols.The character, facial features an array of pink and blue, looks between the two hands, distressed. “It’s both! I’m both! They’re not opposites. Not narrow boxes. I say I’m both despite the insistence that I can’t be. And I know what I look like. I know I look like a girl to most. I know that if I say people can call me she, that’s all I will get from most. Because it’s “easier”. It “makes more sense”. To have my masculinity, I am often forced to be unflinching in it and it alone. To never use she. Because if I don’t, I will never get to have he.” [The words “she” and “he” are italicized.] Panel 6: Text reads: “I’m still very happy to be so comfortable in my identity. To know, despite all that, that I am indeed a boy and a girl and both. But you know. Telling people to only use he/him for me. Guarding my masculinity all just to have it. All at the expense of the part of me who is happily and unashamedly a girl.” The character cries from one pink eye, the other hidden. The character holds a pink girl in a sea of blue, the girl crying out. In the midst of the blue, text reads: “Well, it fucking breaks her heart.” End ID]

Alas, if you lose this post, you must endure the long journey of searching for where else* I have linked them.

(*The updated description of the zine page.)

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Conlanging

PolyGlot: Spoken Language Construction Kit - Free software for keeping track of multiple conlang projects in a single database.

Quothalinguist - The personal website of Jessie Peterson, the professor of linguistics who created the well-known Conlang Year question set.

Dedalvs and The Art of Language Invention - The personal websites of David J. Peterson, also an accomplished linguist.

Language Construction Kit v.2 - A website that walks you through various aspects of conlanging. See also: How to create a language by Pablo David Flores and Essays on Language Design by Rick Morneau.

Neography.info - A website dedicated to constructed writing systems.

The World’s Writing Systems - A link hub for web pages about different writing systems.

The Language Creation Society - The designated conlanging society, with a number of hosted conlangs sites and educational pages available. 

ConWorkshop - A combination wiki-and-forum; this is a solid resource for looking at conlanging projects made by others, as well as sharing your own.

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building by David J. Peterson

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Conworlding / SpecBio

Speculative Evolution JCINK - A general-purpose forum focused on speculative evolution, including their surrounding conworld projects.

The CBB - A forum for conlanging and conworlding, as well as discussion of natlangs.

After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon

Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon

All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen

Alien Worlds by Wall to Wall Media

Future Evolution by Peter Ward

Scavengers Reign by Titmouse

Runaway to the Stars by Jay Eaton

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel

An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi

Like, in some ways, intersexuality DID make my transition easier than some perisex transmascs. I don't need phalloplasty like many perisex transmascs do, since I've already got one. Doctors widely accept my gender transition since I was reassigned male, and that's what I'm supposed to be to them. I don't experience as much legal troubles as some perisex transmascs might since most legal documents of mine say "M". My testosterone is given to me very easily, I didn't need to fight for it.

But in some ways, my transition is made MORE difficult because of my intersexuality. I used to be forced to take estrogen and progesterone before I was reassigned, which is something perisex people typically don't have to go through. My T being natally incredibly low, and my E being natally incredibly high meant I was never really seen as a man by my peers in childhood. I have pretty severe gynecomastia which I'm seeking to remove, and in my experience, the second someone sees you have breasts is the second they stop seeing you as male, and it fucking sucks. I may be able to pass while binding, but passing is much more of a gamble when I'm not. And binding sucks.

Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨