This Blog Consists of No Consistency.

You should make a counter or something its so funny

continuing--

⊹ How do they treat people who can't do anything for them? Waitstaff? strangers? people they'll never see again? this is the oldest trick in the book for a reason. It works. How someone behaves toward people with no social utility tells you everything about their actual values versus the values they perform for an audience.

⊹ What's their relationship with their own body? Are they comfortable in it or is it something they carry around like a problem? do they take up space or make themselves small? are they aware of how they look or completely indifferent? Physicality is psychology and most writers forget the body entirely until someone needs to throw a punch.

⊹ What do they lie about and why. Not dramatic plot lies necessarily. the small everyday ones. the things they exaggerate or omit or reframe. Because people don't lie randomly, they lie to protect something. Find what your character is protecting and you'll find what they're afraid of. That fear is the ENGINE!!

⊹ Who did they used to be? not their whole backstory. just: who were they before the thing that changed them. because that person is still in there somewhere, showing up in small ways, wanting things the current version of them would never admit to. The ghost of a former self is one of the most interesting things you can write into a character without ever stating it directly.

⊹ What would make them walk away?? from the goal. from the relationship. from the person they're trying to be. everyone has a breaking point and it should be specific to them, and please not a generic "too much" but the exact thing, the particular betrayal or loss or realisation that would finally be enough. know this even if the story never reaches it.

If your trans activism stops at trans women, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at trans men, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at gender conforming people, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at perisex people, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at monogender people, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at people who label themselves at all, or at people who label themselves in the way that makes sense, and is not "contradictory", to you, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at white people, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at abled and neurotypical people, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at thin people, you're not a trans ally.

If your trans activism stops at singlets, you're not a trans ally.