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If you are nonbinary and on testosterone, I love you.

If you are nonbinary and not on any HRT, I love you.

If you are nonbinary and seeking affirmative surgery, I love you.

If you are nonbinary and don't want surgery, I love you.

If you are nonbinary and are both a man and a woman, or a man but nonbinary, or a woman but nonbinary, or any combination thereof, I love you.

If you're nonbinary and want nothing to do with any "man" or "woman" aligned gender, I love you.

If you don't have a gender, I love you.

If you have a million genders, infinite genders, an unknowable amount of gender, I love you.

If you are nonbinary and intersex, I love you.

If you aren't sure where you fit in to the vast spectrum of gender at all, I love you.

But please don't. It's technically correct, but also a terrible response in that situation. Judging a person's worth by their capacity to love, in any type of way, is dehumanizing. Not everyone feels love, or even strong emotions in general, and it doesn't make them a bad person. Same as feeling love doesn't automatically make one a good person.

Don't say you're "going nonverbal", say you're having a verbal shutdown. Nonverbals do not like their language being misused to treat nonverbality as a temporary thing.

So I was thinking of joining this until I read the directions...

WDYM the whole point is to Blackwash white characters and be as racist towards white people as possible?! TF is wrong with you??? I thought you agreed that changing the race of characters is bad regardless of what race they are?!?! Like to "correct" ones that are meant to be Black makes sense, but to take white characters and make them "be Black once you're done with them" is just plain racism. Changing a character's race is racist. Sorry, I don't make the rules, that's just how it works.

Next time, just come out and say you're anti-white, coward. And before you call me a coward for using anon... So sorry I don't want to be harassed for simply speaking up against ALL forms of racism against ANY / ALL races, instead of just one.

Check out this link for updates to this year's run! I'm geeked to see what we'll create together this year ❤️

This is in part due to climate change messing up the balance of the dry and rainy seasons. The floods have a ripple effect and are also causing landslides and other disasters.

People have died, and will continue to do so. Here are some news Articles: The Guardian RFI The Sun Nigeria PM News Nigeria Here are some charities you can donate to to help: Nigeria: The Borgen Project Ghana: NADMO Côte d'ivoire: Disaster Relief

Togo and Benin are also severely affected. Please consider donating if you’re able or helping spread the word. I have a slightly longer post on my blog that I'll be updating if anyone needs more information.

Back when I was first working on Beanstalked, I was in highschool, Blacktober wasn't even a thing yet, and many of my OCs weren't even Black yet. It took me a long time before I found other Black creators and became more comfortable telling Black stories without holding back.

Anyways here's an updated timeline of Jack getting blasted with the Black beam.

Shout out to that one tumblr post that was like: "You know it's not just trans people who ponder their gender, it's healthy for cis people to take a look inside and be like! Yep that's all good!" And I read this post and was like.... like what do you look at inside though T O T??? I asked my boyfriend how he knew he was a boy and he said he just felt this unexplainable intrinsic feeling he was a boy... and I'm like... I HAVE GENUINELY NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WTF 😭😭😭!!!!!!!! So apparently its like. Normal for people to feel this inexplicable 'Gender' feeling or whatever,,, I feel like how asexual people feel when they discover people around them aren't making up the fact they experience sexual arousal T O T

Obviously all my sciency stuff is just speculation! But I'm the type of person who believe that everything has a rationale behind it, and like an adopted child who is curious about their biological parents, I am just interested in my origins! The field of genetics still is mostly just like,,,, hmmm we think this whatever MIGHT be a contributing factor to a person turning out this way... maybe. If you are more interested in the topic I discussed, just look up 'epigenetics' and there should be some more stuff OuO!

Almost all of my lessons still apply so read them 👍🏾

READ FANTASY BY BLACK WRITERS

Just because race and racism isn't real inside your narrative doesn't mean it isn't real in the eyes of your viewers, that still exist in the real world

So yes you still have to be aware of stereotypes when writing, yes even when the characters are coded

If you describe your characters well enough we'll know they're Black even if you don't say "Black", same way you never have to say someone is "White" and no one is ever confused

Especially if you give them culturally specific names or clothes (respectfully!)

Fantasy racism allegories are a bullshit idea unless you're willing to commit to what racism really IS, otherwise let it go and write something else

If fantasy magic applies to your white characters and their customization (hair, clothes, hygiene) then it applies to your Black ones as well

Please give Black characters something other than straight or wavy hair I'm tired of visible wigs on Black people in these fantasy shows

If you can find infinite ways to describe white people in flowery ways, you can too with Black people (that don't have to be chocolate related)