Your middle aged Aunts lead the first online charge for yaoi and your great Aunts lead the first conventions for fandoms and wrote yaoi fanfiction on paper. (It just wasn’t called that at the time)
Sometimes they didn’t even show anyone. Sometimes they showed a few fellow fans.
You simply live now, following in their footsteps path they laid.
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We didn’t have a word for our, as you guys call, gay/lesbian people. So we coined that word as an umbrella for all our tribes. We never said, “Well, you’re transgender. You’re bisexual. You’re lesbian.” We never knew those terms. Those are all from Western culture, you know, LGBTQ and all that. So on some level, it’s about getting rid of labels. Those terms were forced upon us.
This is easily the most interesting take I've ever seen discussing why the older generations seem to struggle so much with the discussions and changes with gender identity, and I think it's absolutely worth reading.
Obviously it doesn't cover 100% of intolerant people, but I think it explains a decent chunk tbh.
Transphobia is about to be signed into law in the UK. We can fight this.
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.
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand be
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:
Worried about what to say?
Bring your personal worries about transphobia being signed into law, and trans friends being excluded from public spaces. You are a living person who deserves dignity. Remind your MP of that. You will also get guidance and brochures from Trans Solidarity Alliance that outlines our demands. This is mine from last year.
Money issues?
Trans Solidarity Alliance provides a travel bursary that you can sign up for via the link.
Got a refusal or no response from your MP?
Come anyway! You can request a same-day appointment with your MP through a process called greencarding. They will come and see you if they’re already in Parliament. Even if they don’t, they’re made acutely aware of your cause because you showed up in person. This is my greencard from last year.
Here is the EHRC Code of Practice in full. It's a tough read, but some highlights are:
Organisations can’t provide trans-inclusive, single-sex services, or they risk being sued for discrimination.
e.g. domestic violence support for women including trans women, men’s rugby group including trans men (12.68).
Trans people will have nowhere safe to pee.
If you’re a trans man, businesses can't allow you to pee in the men's, and you can also be ejected from women’s bathrooms if you’re perceived as a man. Vice versa for trans women. EHRC suggests a ‘third space’ bathroom, which is discriminatory and unworkable for most businesses. (13.130-133)
Sports organisations must exclude trans people from single-sex competitions (13.73).
A women’s only sports competition must exclude trans women because of their biological advantage or face potential lawsuits (13.74), but a trans man who has undergone testosterone treatment can also be excluded based on fairness rules (13.81).
Trans women are stripped of the legal definition of ‘lesbian’, and therefore no longer have legal protections if they’re discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. (2.50, 2.92).
Here is the Good Law Project's better explanation of the EHRC Code.
I have also made a PDF printout of QR codes for the government petition, email your MP tool, and mass lobby link to pass around your communities. DM me and I'll send it to you.
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I hate how nonbinary and trans intersex people are left out of trans discussion.
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.
Talk about the lesser represented trans people, PLEASE. Talk about people with unconventional identities. You don’t support trans rights unless you support those of us with more complicated or conflicting identities.
I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.
"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.
Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup
aint it crazy how many people realize they're queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????
right at the beginning when she's like how do I help my son feel loved and accepted I'm here shouting
"QUEEN YOU ALREADY DID THAT BY TAKING HIS SIDE AND LEAVING THAT NO GOOD HUSBAND FOR HAVING THE AUDACITY TO KICK YOUR BABY OUT!"
And Good for her! this is the only response to a man who kicks out a child.
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Since it's pride month, what are your original characters sexuality's, or haven't you decided what their preferences are..?
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
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
Soooo I hear ur a fan of dashton? 😏 understandable, i agree, it is a delicious classic . . . Sooo are they a couple in ur au? Become a couple? Dating during the story arc with the Octonauts?
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!)
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My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”
And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out”
I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”
I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”
So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess?
*if you want an honorary grandma, that is
Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone