They/them. Gender is a nebulous cloud. Was shewillpunchyouintheface. Part of the America Chavez Network. Art, fandom, Tolkien (Tolkien’s not a fandom. It’s a lifestyle). My own meta, art, and fics when I have the time/inspiration. Title from a poem about America Chavez (She's beauty/ She's grace/ She'll punch you in the face). Icon is a genderqueer space icon I made myself. Background is a compilation of icons by jasontdod.
I think I’d be way more nerdy/geeky about fiction if people like me were more represented. Finding a self-insert is hard when there are so few trans transhumanist poly badass semi-antinatalist consequentialist-leaning characters who don’t like kissing but do like linguistics when there are so many cishet monogamous deathists who are chosen and special but unremarkable in every way instead.
*street preacher voice* My friend, have you heard the Good News about glowfic?
Heh, that’s a good point. I keep *almost* getting into glowfic and then I keep not doing so because Luminosity was really depressing and I didn’t read further than that and Radiance doesn’t even have the same protagonist which makes it harder to get into and glowfic in general is this enormous mass of text that is confusing and has no set reading order apparently and the website layout is confusing.
But yeah, if there are queer female transhumanist protagonists in glowfic that have a good story built around them I would be totally willing to try that.
Maybe if a bunch of people pile on and hold my hand I’ll be able to get thru the initial difficulty?
Yeah there’s a Lot and it’s hard to find specific plots. (I also stopped reading Luminosity partway through, whoops)
https://glowfic.com/tags/2418 has three short and in progress threads that’re all self or OC inserts into Harry Potter, if you want to start with something short? Two of the protagonists are genderqueer/nonbinary with kissing very unlikely (”what they grow to be,” which is mine and Anya’s where my SI replaces Hermione, is currently in the sort of prologue section, and “the next great adventure” where another SI gets teleported into a Gringotts vault), one is female but not super transhumanist
https://glowfic.com/posts/162 has magical girl meets magical elf (a Bell, same protagonist-template as luminosity, and a Luthien) and save the world (is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, but I read it before PMMM and didn’t have trouble).
https://glowfic.com/board_sections/20 has a Bell (as a girl Loki) and various Tolkien characters, the Bell has some elsewhere context but I read it without, is probably at least moderately confusing if you aren’t familiar with the Silmarillion but a lot gets explained. Has a depressing middle and a good ending. Loki is bi, though fraysexual towards women so isn’t a “committed f/f relationship” work
https://glowfic.com/boards/35 I have only read ‘Sunburst’ which is Worm fanfic. These are more explicit (Sunburst has smut) than the others but often include a Sadde, who is genderfluid and very transhumanist. Tbh I’d recommend a lot of Sadde threads, list is at the bottom of here
https://glowfic.com/board_sections/185 has Gay in the world of the Enchanted Forest series, though does include a main romance plot and consensual incest. Is not explicit iirc
https://glowfic.com/boards/58 is PMMM-and-eventually-more threads, doesn’t require knowledge of PMMM. There is romance but it’s not strongly the focus. Characters aren’t all fully at “hey transhumanism for everyone” yet b/c teens with a more in-their-face problem but they’re getting there
https://glowfic.com/posts/2437 is for if you like stories with child protagonists. Currently there’s one (who is aspec + intellectual type) arguing with the gods about how humans are Really poorly thought out and she’s going to become a goddess so she can make a less That species
https://glowfic.com/posts/2299 has massive spoilers for Fallen London, but main characters are queer, female, and transhumanist or getting there
I know there’s more because I remember reading them, am just having “wait what was the name” syndrome but there is definitely a Lot to slog through if you’re interested in the backlog
I can try to explain the web layout some? But yeah it’s a learning curve in some ways
Also in non-glowfic, idk if characters can be defined as transhumanist, but All Night Laundry is a Good (is technically horror genre tho). There’s a lot of “but what is a monster” questioning
I think I’d be way more nerdy/geeky about fiction if people like me were more represented. Finding a self-insert is hard when there are so few trans transhumanist poly badass semi-antinatalist consequentialist-leaning characters who don’t like kissing but do like linguistics when there are so many cishet monogamous deathists who are chosen and special but unremarkable in every way instead.
*street preacher voice* My friend, have you heard the Good News about glowfic?
A and C are friends. Then, they meet B. A decides that B and C would be so cute together. C decides that A and B are perfect for each other.
B then notices that A keeps bringing up C and vice versa on outings, decides A and C’s budding relationship is the cutest thing ever and starts trying to help them hook up
Just. Imagine all the drama. And the hilarious misunderstandings. Perfect romcom material!
*white parent voice* i cant believe kanye and kim named their baby North West!! thats ridiculous!! oh no, its almost 4:30, i need to pick up my kids Mackaylikiah and Ashleighyie from their water polo practice!
I always reblog this post so fucking fast every time it comes on my dash my phone shuts down the tumblr app and reboots
McKarty 64 is my favorite Mario Kart game.
My favorite part is that the blog post the photo was taken from detailed this mother’s decision-making process and chose this name because her husband saw it on a road sign on the way home
She named her daughter after a road sign
a road sign
there was a girl at my school called “zona” cause he parents went on holiday to spain and saw it and thought it was a nice name. IT LITERALLY MEANS ZONE
“47 month old”
this is my four year old rayman origins
“Who’s doing your surgery?”
“Dr. Rayman Origins.”
THE APP REBOOTED FOR ME!!
i met a kid once whose name was “Ryce” and his mum said it was pronounced “Reese”
the best part is she was originally going to spell it “Rice”
My auntie knows a family who decided to name their daughter Owen, but they spelled it “Oin” and they made her middle name the first sound that her big sister made which happened to be “Oogok”. her name is literally “Oin Oogok Puscus”
Oin Oogok Puscus is my favorite dwarf from the Hobbit
I always mention the girl I know named Meiaghann (Megan) but Oin Oogok takes the cake, what the fuck
I know a couple of examples of people being downright mean with names. My mom used to have a class with a girl named Ineda Dick. And one of my teachers in middle school was Mrs Mann, she had a baby girl and way too many people were trying to talk her into naming the baby Laya (luckily she didn’t)
Stands up on soapbox, holds up this article like it’s the opening of the Lion King.
Y’all should read this because it is FIRE, but also because a post from the Time Lady Project was linked in this!
Historically, whenever young women are interested in a form of media,
we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for
liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes
no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause
insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college.
Beatlemania is the province of “the dull, the idle, the failures,“ until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves.
Young women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is
a radical act for a young woman to love something unashamedly. And
transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it
reverses that “lady thing to respectable thing” process.
Emphasis added. It’s so good- go read the whole thing.
“That’s why as a culture we’ve decided that transformative fandom is weird and gross and morally wrong, and that’s why all the articles in the world explaining that transformative fandom is a totally legitimate way to interact with a text aren’t really making a dent in the never-ending stream of repulsed investigations of fandom. Because fandom is the province of young women and, culturally, we find young women terrifying.”
Galadriel in her youth as a student of Aulë, in the days when she also excelled at wrestling and was known as Nerwen: ‘Man-maiden’.
Aulë still thinks the size and shape he gave Dwarves has a lot going for it. He put in a lot of development time!
I’ve been told
Aulë in this painting looks rather like Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac. This is excellent, and makes me think that during the Music of the Ainur,
Aulë played drums.
for people wondering why its ok to make fun of big buzzfeed artists in their mid 20s/early 30s but not kids that may use a popular artstyle, its the same reason gordon ramsey is an asshole to all the adults on his shows but really sweet to the children.
he screams at adults and insults them because theyre experienced and claim to be professionals, but still put out subpar content. an adult with culinary degrees should not be giving out frozen/rotten/bland food.
a child is still learning. they dont have the experience or education that it takes to be expected to preform at that professional level. if a 14 year old kid puts out something that might not be up to standard, its because theyre still learning. and they never claim to be boasting these huge important degrees and they dont get paid to copy/paste the same bullshit over and over again. also, since theyre still developing, its super detrimental to their progress to see hyper critical posts about their art style, especially made by adults or more experienced artists.
so making fun of artists like adam ellis for putting out and getting paid for traced and copied artwork is no where NEAR on par with making fun of new artists that may choose popular art styles just to get into drawing and putting them in cringe comps and calling them out for…….idk..just being new to art?
