I paint things.

EDIT: Well this got a lot of attention! I got a few users asking to print or repost my art and I am unimaginably grateful to everyone's interest, especially since it's a really simple drawing I made on a whim haha! Anyone who is looking to print these out to hang or hand out or repost on another platform is free to do so, although I ask you to credit me and let people know it's from my Tumblr profile! If anyone wishes to do anything else with my art or post and wants to clarify what I consent to then they can message me privately and I'll explain! <333 all my love to my queer siblings

Frisk: When it comes to Human progress, we've come quite far! Same-gender and gender diverse relationships are legalized globally.

Meth: Polyamory is legalized in 93% of countries. And marriage benefits are no longer a thing - benefits are simply given to those who need them, instead of forcing individuals who wished not to marry into a partnership. Marriage is now what it is supposed to be - an act of affection and dedication, and sometimes a cultural exchange. Not an act of legal necessity.

Frisk: Gender and sex transitions are fully supported in healthcare, t-though there is still the issue with, y'know...classism, and some people being unable to afford HRT and surgery.

Meth: Indeed. There is also some misfortune in how binary-centric manners of thinking have yet to be completely eradicated. Though things are looking up. Gender segregation is no longer present in a majority of countries, with gendered bathrooms being widely turned gender neutral in 81% of the Human population, and sports being sorted through standards such as physical mass and level of practice rather than gender or sex within 74% of countries! And the statistics rise with each passing year!

Frisk: Most countries still have "legal gender," so many children - like me - are still being assigned female and assigned male on birth certificates. However, legal gender can be changed without a fee, and gender assignments are starting to fall out of favor.

Meth: An estimated 66% of babies born within the last year have been unassigned at birth, and around the globe, there are debates to completely rid of the F/M markers on legal documentation altogether!

Frisk: And speaking of gender assignment...mutilation, hormone abuse, and other forms of coercive intersex medical interventions have been illegalized across 98% of the globe, widely recognized as cruelty. Which was a massive step in progress, considering how horrifically normalized it was...

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Meth: Intersexuality is also being taught within sex education and biology to the youth.

Frisk: A-And so are other queer topics!

Meth: And it is standard in a majority of workplaces to ask for preferred pronouns and names upon hire, and to be given badges with such.

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Meth: You may proceed, now, Alphys.

Alphys: OH THANK GOD, I-I was about to burst! There i-is so much I could say! S-So, to begin, M-Monsters have n-never had the same issues with queerness that Humans have. T-This is because of our d-differences in biology. All Monsters begin primarily sexless, a-and only when w-we hit puberty d-do our sexes become clear. The only thing y-you can tell about a Monster's sex pre-puberty is their chromosomes. A-And since Monsters don't have any identifiable sex t-traits at first, we h-have never raised our young with a-any sort of gender roles. W-We've always let them d-decide what they w-want to be called on their own.

Well, I say "never" somewhat loosely, b-because in the past, back w-when tensions were high and our communities began to fall apart, there were some Monsters w-who'd assign their infants genders in order to "fit in" among Humans, b-but this was a rare practice, and u-usually the other way around would happen - Humans l-leaving their infants unassigned, I mean.

A-Anyways! Let me not g-get off track. Um, M-Monsters also have a-a very different form of reproduction than Humans. T-This means that our relationships h-have always been different, too.

We M-Monsters didn't create gender roles, and thus, relationship roles, be-because we never found a need to. And even though Humans have different a-anatomy to us, we tried our best to show them they didn't need to have these roles, either. A-And well, back then, it w-worked! Most Humans accepted q-queerness with open arms, because...well, because they also accepted Monsters with open arms.

B-But when the war began, Humans...they wanted to find a-as many ways to separate themselves from Monsters as they c-could. And that included queerness, because they...associated it with us. Gender diversity, intersexuality, t-these things were considered "too Monsterlike" because o-of our lack of gender and sex roles. Same-gender attraction was unacceptable, because it played against the b-binary they created in opposition to us. Polyamory was unacceptable, because it was common practice in our kind - fun fact, up to five Monsters c-can have a baby together, a-and in rare cases, more than five can, too!

An-And it doesn't need to be done through sex! It can be, but it's not required. I-In fact, soulmingling doesn't r-rely on intimate relations whatsoever! Any soulminglers can reproduce together without consequences, including siblings, cousins, a-and more! An estimated 37% of monsters h-have parents who are just friends or family, and it isn't inappropriate, b-because again, sex isn't-...oops, I am rambling again, haha-...the point is that-that soulmingling doesn't have the same limitations that sexual reproduction does. A-Actually, Humans c-could practice soulmingling, too, if-if they wanted! As long a-as all souls involved are fertile, a-and at least one of the minglers has a functional uterus-

Frisk: Auntie...

Alphys: R-Right! Okay! U-Um, if you have any further questions, p-please ask!

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Chara: Back when I was alive...it was when the war between Humans and Monsters had just ended, when Monsters had been freshly locked away. I was...I was, um, deemed "too monstrous" on basis of my magic, race, and-...and being intersex...everything about me was considered wrong in that era...

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