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Four-horsegirls-week is HERE, after several months of waiting! We cannot wait to see your awesome creations for this awesome ship! This goes for art, playlists, moodboards, fics, and whatever you can come up with! This week is about celebrating our favourite horsegirls!

Tag us in your post (@4-horsegirls-week-2023) or use the hashtag #4hgw2023! Add your AO3 fics to this collection.

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Mod Badger: @just-a-honey-badger

im still here and still active on my main account, and if you send a confession i will still post it. i just dont have any in the inbox rn. i still love grim fandango so so much, and been meaning to get back into creating content for this community but its been a time

and for anyone wondering, idk what happened to mod hyp, i tried once or twice to get in contact with them but i haven't heard back. if anyone knows please tell me because i hope theyre okay!

anyway peace and love

butch trans women are highly underrepresented in butch/femme spaces, and in general, and afab butches have long dominated the conversation and narrative of what it means to be butch. Obviously, this needs to change. here’s a playlist of videos documenting a panel that took place at the Butch Voices 2011 Conference where butch trans women talked about many things, including their role models (or lack thereof), their personal stories, passing, their experiences with violence (TW for discussions of physical and sexual assault), and more!

bardsexual: what you’ll be once i pass this charisma check

the red represents passion and tieflings, the purple represents magic and also tieflings

A lot of #discourse on this site and unfortunately, even if not discussed with the same terms, in the world around us, wants to pigeonhole nonbinary trans people as either “male-aligned” or “woman-aligned” in order to have any access to orientation labels and communities that we might identify with. The idea of non-binary people finding anything in identifying with a binary term while still remaining non-binary seems to baffle some people so much they had to take opt-in terms made to help some NB people express a binary connection and make them opt-out requirements to forcibly classify NB people into yet another binary. Let me break something down for you. I’m a nonhuman being in a plural system, one who does not have a concept of gender, was not assigned a gender, and who now only experiences any sense of gender because I’ve spent long enough fronting and interacting with this world that I’ve had to, in some sense. And while I’m firm in my being nonbinary and neutrois, Im also a butch lesbian, and whenever you ask me my gender, Im gonna tell you “butch.” Because I’m not “woman-aligned.” Womanhood is foreign and conflicting to me. I wasn’t raised with it*, I do not know womanhood. And being a butch adfeminine person, I’m alienated from womanhood regardless of being raised with its messages or not. But I am *lesbian-aligned.* I came to my understanding of my current working gender through loving a NB femme, through experimenting with our relationship in the terms of being a lesbian one. I related to butch feelings, found myself in butch dress and attitude, felt like I could “keep” my masculinity while allowing myself the freedom to explore a lesbian relationship and find a sense of gender in the butch/femme dance I read about and experienced myself. And to see myself reflected in another butch partner I love deeply is all the more wonderful. My lesbianism has never been about aligning myself with women, and if cis lesbians are allowed to use gender nonconforming language and call themselves “lesbians/butches/femmes/studs/etc, not women” then why can’t actual nonbinary trans people call ourselves lesbians instead of women, too? No more “you must be woman-aligned to be sapphic/lesbian.” Let’s just maybe learn to accept that nonbinary people know ourselves best and make informed decisions on the binary language we adopt to describe ourselves. If we’re calling ourselves lesbians** then trust that it’s because we have a common experience with lesbians and let us just be lesbian-aligned.

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