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Sometimes they didn’t even show anyone. Sometimes they showed a few fellow fans.

Obviously it doesn't cover 100% of intolerant people, but I think it explains a decent chunk tbh.

I am begging the UK trans community and its allies to attend the Mass Lobby at Parliament on June 25th, 11am-4pm, organised by Trans Solidarity Alliance.

The new EHRC Code of Practice pushes trans people out of toilets, hospital wards, and community spaces. It normalises gender policing based on appearance and stereotypes. It becomes statutory guidance in the UK by the end of June.

Trans people are now legally their assigned gender at birth and must join gendered spaces accordingly, but if they are perceived as their lived gender, they can also be ejected from those spaces. The guidance says: either break the law, or don’t pass too well.

A mass lobby is where you invite your MP to discuss your concerns with you in-person. Ask your MP to:

Demand full parliamentary scrutiny, debate, and use their free vote on the EHRC Code of Practice.

Support any motions rejecting the EHRC guidance. As of June 4th, Labour MP Nadia Whittome has submitted a prayer motion - Early Day Motion 240, please ask your MP to sign this.

Write to Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities about our concerns

Your MP does not have to be an ally, they do not have to respond to your email for you to show up and greencard them (details below the cut.) What matters is that as many people as possible show up.

I cannot stress this enough: Showing up in person matters. It is much more effective than petitions, emails, and letters.

It is a horrible, stressful time, and I am so sorry if you're trans and live in the UK. But I was at last year's mass lobby and the line for greencarding alone stretched around the back gates. It was a record breaking mass lobby and made us impossible to ignore. Let's do even better this time. Details under the cut:

When signing the Gov.UK petition, DON'T FORGET TO CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, OR THE SIGNATURE WON'T BE COUNTED

We can’t be sorted into TMA or TME easily, so people who use those labels tend to sort us based on our assigned sex.

Labels commonly used by intersex trans people are called useless.

Nonbinary people aren’t even included in trans rights posts half the time.

Intersex people are used as a way to prove that trans people exist.

Nonbinary people’s identities are disregarded and we are either considered basically just our assigned gender/sex, or basically a trans man/woman, depending on which thing makes us easier to hate or disregard.

It feels like binary and perisex trans people don’t give a shit about us, and it also seems like they don’t think the specific oppression we face is real. If they do, they don’t fucking talk about it.

Accepting and supporting trans people means accepting ALL trans people. Not just the binary ones, not just the perisex ones, not just the white ones, not just the abled ones, not just the ones you’re comfortable with. ALL OF US.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Kwazii being carried unconscious (perhaps by a certain marshmallow like friend)

OR

...

Kwazii being a cozy little kitten

If thou desires

Holds him with the same care as holding vegimals.

I THINK THIS IS WHO U MEANTTT MAYYBE YOU MEANT PESO ? But enjoyyy

I might make this a fully rendered drawing. Or the other request a rendered drawing….

Okay so let’s go over all the queer characters I’ve created!!!

Adelaide the Maiden of Spring

While not many queer characters are present in this series there are two I can immediately point out

Quillon Auburn is a bisexual man

And a character who still needs to be drawn, Nico is a gay character who does end up with another gay character.

Any further LGBTQ+ characters will have be settled at a later date

Secrets of Barrington Manor

Again not many well known, but I’m very certain of

Luna Barrington is bisexual but leans more towards men

James Dracula is also bisexual

The ghost chauffeur (the driver) is a gay man

Dorothy is a lesbian but learned that much later in life

Tobias (the pumpkin man) and the werewolf have some bisexual tendencies but are either married or in love with someone (maybe bi-curious)

The Adventures of AJ Sol

The main character is straight HOWEVER her best friend Summer Whirlwind is a lesbian and has a girlfriend!

Reggie and his friends

There are two canonic queers.

Jake Powers is a proud pansexual

Mervin is a transgender (female to male) and prefers men (so gay I think is the right way to say it)

Elemental Forces

There’s WAY too many characters for that but I can say Helium is gay. Anyone else will have to be explored a bit more

The Sweet Tales of the Candy Isles

By far the QUEEREST

Princess Gumdrop is a lesbian

Maddie Mint is bisexual

Ginger Sweet Bread is a demisexual bisexual

Dot Gummy is Pansexual

Princess Black Sugar is a demisexual lesbian

Cotton Fairy Floss is pansexual

Deputy Butterscotch Caramel is gay

Autumn Candycorn is bisexual

Cotton has a lesbian sister and her wife

Chuck Chocolate and Butterscotch Caramel have two siblings. A pansexual sister and a nonbinary sibling

There’s a girl group band with two of the band members being bisexual, one is a lesbian, and the leader is transgender (male to female) with the last member being their straight ally and bestie.

Magic of the Christmas Bell

This one is very ambiguous so we’ll have to hold off on them (I’m kinda certain Sam the mail man is definitely bi at the very least)

Pam and Princess Cosette

Only one of the twins is LGBTQ. That would be Pam, being bisexual

Project Olirath

While I haven’t shared a lot about this, the main character Olivia is indeed lesbian and she does get a girlfriend

How'd they first meet? 😳 prolly on the job I'd suspect (when whoever got hired first met the other during their interview perhaps?) 🤔 ive seen a lotta "they were friends in college" HCs around but personally im not a fan of that idea TvT no hate tho, to each their own <3 . . . Sooooo how'd that go in YOUR beautiful au, pretty lady? o3o ✨️

"Coffee Corner"

Dashi and Shellington hadn't ever properly sat down before this. Their training had always taken them elsewhere, and it wasn't until the Octopod was ready to shove off for their first mission that the crew actually had a chance to get to know one another.

They had one final day to go about the shops of London, enjoying their very last interactions with society before being shipped off to heaven knows where. It was a very foggy day, the rain leaving a chill that caused the crew to find themselves in a small coffee shop across the street from a quaint little bookstore.

Dashi was the one to invite Shellington to her table, nursing her raspberry tea while he buried himself in his books. It wasn't until the canine began to ask questions about his studies, that he really began to open up.

As he babbled on and on about a reefs and the impact they had on the ocean, she found herself growing fonder and fonder for this boy she hadn't quite had the pleasure of getting to know. before

For Dashi it was "love at first nerd fact", but for Shellington it took him a little longer to realize his crush on Dashi. The crew was (and still is) very supportive of course, especially when it came to helping Dashi find new "date" ideas.

When the Vegimals entered the equation, it seemed to only strengthen the friendship Dashi and Shellington had created. Of course neither of them have confessed yet, but maybe soon we'll get the chance of witnessing such a sweet and innocent exchange. But of course . . . only time will tell.

[ DO NOT REPOST, ALL ART & CONCEPTS WERE MADE BY ME ]

Digital Illustration Time: 8hrs 24min

This one was both super fun to make and very hard to make at the same time. I ended up creating an entire background scene only to realize that 10% of it would actually be seen through the windows . . .

I've always flip flopped on my love for Dashi X Shellington and Dashi X Paani. Just because they're so wholesome. And I hate to say it (/j) @calamaroo, but it's your fault my Dashton obsession has resurfaced~

(I didn't know Dashton was so popular until recently. I also didn't know about the "college" headcanon until I saw your Ask)

I really only have three other Octonauts based ships, one of which I'm very shy to show because I don't want to upset anyone with another Octonaut X Oc.

I've already done that with Emma and Kwazii, and I know I'm already playing with fire with that one. (Even if it was the inspiration for this story) I just know it's an overdone thing in the fandom so I don't want to draw attention to it unless you guys actually want to see it.

If you'd like to see those other ships let me know, I'm just a little shy about making art for them unless someone asks . . . 👉👈

Not that anyone's been hostile to me on the subject, I just don't want to risk it because I know how some people are and I don't want to accidentally ruin it for myself. Oc X Canon is my favorite thing to make, but I know it annoys some people . . .

(I'm happy to answer any other questions you guys have on my Octonauts, just send me an Ask and I'll do my best to answer it!)

@urautismdiagnosis-wistie / @mildy-vibing / @cacartoon

Happy Pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

And yes I'm a proud Lesbian ☺️

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Get licked, IDIOT (part 2)

Happy Pride my fellow queers !! I shall create many more gay works of art >:3

Kwazii must help keep Barnacles’ chest fluff nice and tidy, ergo, he shall L I C K