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Thought Experiment: Gender is complicated

Take a baby with one gendered set of genitalia (ISO standard male or ISO standard female, either one works), and raise them as the opposite gender. (e.g. raise the ISO standard male as a girl or the ISO standard female as a boy)

If they grow up and never question the gender you assigned them (they may question why they are different from other kids, but won't think about if they are the other gender any more than an average cis person would), are they trans?

If they grow up, wonder for a time if they are the opposite gender, but ultimately conclude that the gender you raised them as is correct, are they trans?

If they grow up, wonder for the time if they are the opposite gender, and ultimately conclude that they are the other gender, are they trans?

I'm not writing this with an intended "correct answer" in mind; I'm not entirely sure myself. Being cis (and not raised as a different gender like the person in the thought experiment), I'm not sure if I'm the right person to give the correct answer. I just want to share something I've been thinking about.

I think I know what my answer is, but I'm not going to claim it's the single correct answer.

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

Goals for the tabletop space battle game I'm working on

Complex ship design with lots of math and crunchy bits

Fast, simple gameplay that doesn't require massive amounts of record-keeping.

I like ship design processes, but sometimes, I just want to get to the part where things explode. So I'm making something with both.

It's warhammer. All human bones come from the Holy Human Form, and are therefore holy bones.

sisters collecting some potentially holy bones

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.

We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an o

uk people, sign and share

non uk people, share but don't sign

terfs, get in the bin and stay there

Hoshino Takezō, Shogun (chapter master) of the Emerald Wings

Finished painting the chapter master for my homebrew chapter today.

The model is 3d printed, with some parts having been edited a bit to fit (since they were originally for Terminator models). The STLs came from a kickstarter I funded last year, with parts of the captain, jump pack squad, and Terminator units.

Paint is a mix of Citadel and Army Painter, plus whatever the yellow I used for the eyes is. I will never not find it ironic that my homebrew chapter is a Blood Angel successor and the paint I use the most when painting them is Caliban Green.

He's intended to be used as a Dante proxy (since the Emerald Wings are a Blood Angel successor). I may or may not homebrew a datasheet eventually.

I like this perspective on what a dream job is. I'd probably still do what I want to do now: find new, improved ways of blowing up massive amounts of explosives in a vaguely controlled manner with people on top of them.

The people who say shit like "I don't dream about labour" when asked about their dream job make me sad. It's not their fault and it's an obvious conclusion to come to in the environment that we live in, but they really do seem to make no difference between work, and being exploited. You do want to work, it is inherent human nature to want to do things, you just don't want to slave for shit wages while making profit for someone else.

If art wasn't an option and I didn't have to worry about being profitable, I know what I would be doing: Keep a little shop selling secondhand-thirdhand buttons and buckles.

Thrift shops and secondhand stores could dump (or sell, whatever) their unsold and unwanted goods to me, and I could spend all day going through the heaps and picking them apart, plucking the still-perfectly-good buttons, zippers and buckles out of discarded things with threadbare fabrics and sell them.

Probably also making those little trinket storage boxes out of hollowed-out books. By hollowing out books that nobody wanted or read.

Last night I realized that Emperor's Children will be my sixth army.

Slaanesh would be pleased.

I like the bearded Ferrus, and I think it's hilarious how half of them look so done with everything.

We drew the primarchs and Big E in a video chat!

links to everyone below

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Alna Dark

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Knyaz Nochi

Moyra616

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SteelWingSkar

Alna Dark

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Bläck

Moyra616

Deborgant

ByDR

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NozhKnife

To my uk trans people and allies out there.

I was going to look up the raven equivalent to "duckling" to make a pun on The Ugly Duckling, but apparently that's just "chick", and that doesn't work as well.

Need a fanfiction where a Night lord Neophyte spend the Horus heresy in stasis, for whatever reason, and is then found and adopted by a few Raven guard as their own,

just imagine the angst potential,

They look relatively alike, because their Primarchs looked a lot alike, but the Night lord is very well aware that he is basically a rotten version of those that call him brother now, he may look like them, but he is not like them.

call that shit: "A bat in the Raven's nest" or sum

Don't worry, Dante will be the best older brother any Astartes could ask for for a long time.

Well that sucks

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

I can imagine Fulgrim looking a little uncanny (to quote a forum thread not even slightly related, he should be "straddling the line between alluring and disturbing"). But he shouldn't look ugly. He should be beautiful, but with this creeping feeling underneath, that something isn't quite right.

Did you see Snek Fulgrim back? This is a masterpiece! This is why Lucius, Saul, favius etc. has beautiful arses 😄

Yeah, I've seen this and to be honest, I don't really know how to feel about it.

The sculptor, who did this model, said in an interview, he made Fulgrim's face ugly on purpose (because Chaos, yadda, yadda), despite him being described as beautiful in the novels (yes, even the demonic version. Terrifyingly beautiful - and the new miniature's mug is anything but beautiful).

So this overdimensional gluteus maximus (that isn't needed for a snake) smacks of ridiculing Fulgrim and pigeonholing him into something, because it doesn't come from a place of love by its creator.

Yeah, I know, I may be overinterpreting things here, but that's just how I feel.

If you love the model - absolutely all the power to you!

But I won't buy it. Those are my Fulgrim-minis and when my hobbyspace is up and running again, I will paint them.

Damn, AI *is* getting smarter!

World's most divorced man becomes first human to be alienated from both biological and digital children.

Big E made sure his sons had the whole human package.

this is what really happens when yall make ship children

I mean, the Chaos Gods do have "good" aspects, only they're a reflection of the galaxy and currently the galaxy is a real shitty place right now.

Personally I really like A Wolf In The Garden's portrayal of their good aspects.

Woke up from a nap, and I'm rotating Not Remotely Possible In Canon™️ warhammer ideas.

What if daemons could be "normal" somehow? I just randomly thought of chaos daemons doing good things that fit them, and it's probably gonna go on my long list of shit I wanna draw.

Chaos Trying To Be Good AU

A bloodletter being a surgeon, and dedicating every drop spilled in the act of saving a life to khorne. Since he's honed his blade (the scalpel) he's known as the best surgeon in the world, making it high demand for him to do ANY surgery, no matter the risk. He has spilled more blood than any other daemon, despite not being on the battlefield often, and dedicated the skulls of organ donors with the highest respect in his own dark heart. Also GREAT advocate for patients, because he will threaten insurance companies and incompetent doctors with being a more traditional sacrifice to khorne. Using his rage to protect the health of his patients rather than destroy. He never gets stronger or any blessings from khorne due to his small but consistent sacrifices, but he does get praise from patients, and letters up until their deaths. He keeps track of the letters, and gives him a pat on the back when they stop at either a reasonable or surprisingly long number of years.

A Changer of Ways, that's a special ED teacher and tutor. Never once using the same way of education twice for each of his students. Manipulating fate to make sure his students get 100% for all their homework and tests. But he never let's his students cheat, always making sure they understand the material, even if they understand it at a different angle. All his students love and respect him more than any cultist he's worked with in the past, and he has entire tomes dedicated to his students art of him, with their pictures on one page and descriptions, his positive opinions, and various ramblings about the young artist on various other pages. When the mortal children reach adulthood, they are able to excel in whatever field they desire, even when their new teachers at college teach them differently than their beloved teacher Mr. Bird, because they merely study their own way and succeed no matter how their professors look at them. So many people say the children who become his students won't ever succeed in life for being "lazy" or physically unable to do their work. He teaches, not just for the love of the kids, but because he thinks it would be really fucking funny for these kids to succeed anyways.

A great unclean one whose a heretic, seeing past his warped view, and seeing how much mortals actually hate disease. While he doesn't understand why mortals don't want the grandfather's love, he actively finds different ways to share it, becoming an anthropologist to fully understand mankind. He runs experiments every now and again, to see what mortals truly willingly receive, and what they give into because of having no other choice. He spent years growing various types of fungus in random places to gauge and write down mortal reactions. Do they collect it to eat? Do they just kick it away in disgust, or with glee? Do they avoid it at all costs? Do they destroy it? It narrows down the species of mushrooms drastically, limiting the "love" he can show through decay, but at least the mortals are feeling the love now. He studies the reactions of humans during plagues caused by his brothers, and starts smaller epidemics of his own, being extremely controlled with how he infects his subjects. He learns while mortals technically NEED plagues, they don't want them all the time, so he starts epidemics in moderation. Making weaker brights and pox to study over the next several weeks, accidentally making mortals more resilient against plagues, which is something they WANT. While all daemons of nurgle "love" all life, this one Unclean One truly loves humanity, and loves them how they need.

A group of daemonettes who work in rehab to try and get mortals to overdo it, only to take great satisfaction in actually helping. They're the only ones who actually do the job right, and treat the people there as people. I could see them in the hospital with the bloodletter, under silent truce of "You don't fuck with MY job, or MY patients, we're fine." They relish in the torment silently whenever their patients are freaking out from withdrawals, then bask in the praise when their patients make a full recovery. They give "false comfort" to their patients when in reality its more comforting than an actual doctor or therapist, because they ironically don't demonize the addicts, since they themselves 100% have had worse.

Maybe he could also get into farming, making plagues to invasive insects so farmers don't need pesticides, or he could help food rot faster to make fertilizer. Hell, he could make his own manure, watching what he eats and doing that one attack on a field to spread it around.

Or maybe instead of working in rehab, they could clean houses for free, restoring the simple luxuries, before giving their clients excessive gifts to keep them on their feet. Food in their clean fridges, expensive shampoos and cleaning products, beautiful decorations, and whatever else their client needs. Hell, maybe these could be daemonette groups that work together, restoring the homes of ex-addicts so they have some place more than just livable to return to.

It's fun thinking of chaos daemons doing "good" on purpose, both in the sense they would never logically do that, but also the stank eyes they would probably get from more traditional daemons.

I am not a straight people.

Reblog if you are also not a straight people.

A message to queer adults!!

Stop making queer kids feel like they're going to die. Spread information and help links, please, but never, NEVER make a kid need to experience such existential dread.

Tell them how to be safe, not what will happen if they aren't.

Help them proceed instead of explaining why they'll be pushed back.

Teach them how to survive, not how they could die.

Edit: okay, WOW this actually got some attention!!! Here’s some things I wanna clarify

I don’t like risks should be ignored

kids shouldn’t be shielded from knowledge of potential threats

AND KEEP YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES SAFE IF YOU CAN!!!!!!

I wish I could find that excerpt I though I saw a long time ago about a trans sister of battle. I think there were necrons involved.

Shit, I think the AI got this one right.

You will never escape. (Okay, well, that's not entirely true. You might be able to if you look hard enough.

i hate it when people are writing a long ass thing and start a parenthetical aside and forget to close parentheses it makes me feel like i cant escape from the sentence

That's just regular DKoK. Pain and excess are central to a Krieger's existence. Every one is born dedicated to obsessively seeking redemption, or, more accurately, the *feeling* of redemption.

we have to slaanesh the death korps of krieg

Fulgrim was a factory worker growing up. He participated in strikes and labor protests.

What primarch, or hell Astartes or just legion as a whole, has been flanderized by the fandom/who do you have funny facts about that shatters popular perception? I'll go first.

Leman Russ is only pretending to be stupid and has written multiple books in lore (saw someone say more than Magnus but can't find source)

Rogal Dorn putting his hand on Konrad Curzes shoulder after trying to talk him out of killing some people who resisted the crusade (and Konrad being uncomfortable with Dorns "fake friendship".)

‘No,’ said Dorn, placing a golden gauntlet on his shoulder guard. ‘We are liberators, not destroyers, brother. We bring the light of illumination, not death. We must govern with benevolence if these people are ever to recognise our authority in this galaxy.’ Curze flinched at the touch, resenting the easy friendship Dorn pretended. Bilious anger bubbled invisibly beneath his skin, but if Dorn was aware of it, he gave no sign.

Lorgar (upon having his prayer session with the boys interrupted or whatever) told a custodian "I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire". Lorgar also witnessed some ritual in which a naked woman is turned into a demon. So Lorgar has canocially seen a woman naked.

Corvus Corax disliked poetry

Fortunately, indoctrinated child soldiers robbed of indivuality isn't illegal in the Imperium, either.

Are Krieg guardsmen clones? Why? Is that legal in the imperium?

Nope. Krieg uses vitae wombs (which literally appear to be artificial womb & incubation devices) to grow citizens. Unique genetic material mixed up in a science-fantasy IVF manner. There may or may not be a little genetic material from Commander Jurten (the Krieg commander who bombed the planet) mixed in with some of them, though this still doesn't make them clones.

Krieg HAS natural births, too, for the record. A number of them. Just not enough to meet the militaristic and productive needs of a desolated hell planet. Thus, the vitae wombs.

Are the vitae wombs legal? Yes (for Krieg). Are clones legal? Overwhelmingly no. Which is fine, because Kriegers aren't clones. Tube babies? yes. Indoctrinated child soldiers robbed of individuality? yes. Clones? No.

Lung cancer is all ing your lungs, and it will still kill the rest of you.

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

Military nerds be like "I can suspend my disbelief for psychic powers, artificial intelligence, brain uploading, telepathy headsets, railguns, and spider tanks, but I draw the line at effective tank armor and air defense."

So, what would you have had him do?

MF be like "Leandros should have gone to a chaplain or libarian and handled his suspicions of Titus in-house", and you know what? I get that. There's precedent for it. I remember reading about this big incident at the end of the Great Crusade where space marines handled suspicions of heresy in-house. I don't quite remember the name. Something starting with an "H", I think.