i’m back in the fucking building again
bonus:
yes it is. and i haven’t even told y’all about the time a girl i met at a bar told me i looked like tim stoker yet
boyfriends who hate your friends should be shot on sight in the national interest. friends who hate your boyfriend are a necessary part of the ecosystem. this is called symbiosis
So over on Bluesky yesterday, Ian Haramaki posted this prompt: 'Hey! For no reason at all, tell me about your trans characters again, especially if you're a trans author!'
And I liked the description of Sabbat I gave in response to it so much that, hells, I'm going to put it here as well (as always, the art is by the wonderful @illustratedjai):
This is Sabbat. Sabbat is a bastard, and I love him.
(Assassin, thief, ex-pirate, practical magician, trans guy, and powered almost entirely by the kind of stubbornness that picks itself up off the cobbles, spits out a tooth and a mouthful of blood, and says 'right, what else've you fuckin' got?')
ALTAlso, because this is now getting outside the usual readership for this blog (aka the folks who already know the serial Sabbat's from because they're reading it), if he sounds like someone you'd like to know more about, you can find the introduction to the serial he's from here:
Or jump into the first chapter via the index here:
Or, if you'd prefer a short story, start here (though mind the content warnings):
every time I hear overly vague “therapy speak (i.e “I’ve been at capacity recently I want to honor those boundaries so please respect my desires as a community member and re-analyze how your positionality has affected your place as someone in community with me, I’d like you to do some decentering” type of stuff) I think of my old Italian professor who’d say “I love the term “taking accountability,” it’s so funny, it’s so American. What does it mean?! Are you going to do anything? It means nothing.” She was so real for that.
"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book
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Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”
I was like. Doubled over incapacitated laughing the entire time. He was really good and a big sweetheart and I felt kinda bad but I couldn’t stop thinking “why the am I getting the beatboxing puppy unskippable cutscene at the bdsm club”
all these arguments about the new harry potter casting but all i can think is that every person involved in the series has willingly signed up to work with such an outspoken transphobe
reblogging again in light of the uk ruling that trans women are not ‘real’ women. jkr has been the most high profile supporter of the campaigners who took this case to court. the money she earns from the harry potter franchise goes directly to harming trans rights
