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My shoulder angel: take off your binder, my child. It is the middle of the night and you are alone. You have been wearing it all day and you need to be taking breaks. It is a wonderful thing and you will wear it again. This is not the last time you will be able to wear it.
My shoulder devil: hnnggghhhhhh perpetual gender euphoria machine go brrrrrrrrrr
Me walking around my room alone late at night getting shit done with my binder on and no shirt: I am literally the coolest sexiest mf on the face of the planet rn
[Video ID. A personal animatic with audio from the first episode of Smiling Friends. It’s a drawing of me wearing boxers, a binder, and an open button-up flannel shirt. The caption says “Me deciding to fuck around and wear men’s boxers, a binder, flannel, and men’s body spray:” “That…felt…good” is heard from the audio as I slowly start to smile. Next scene. I stand smiling looking down. There’s a whiteboard behind me with “my gender” written over it. There’s various symbols and pride flags on it with short messages on them. The female symbol has “not really???” written on it in red. The male symbol has a red X and “nope” written on it. The genderqueer flag has a green circle and “sure…I guess” written on it in green. The agender, librafem, and demigirl flags all have “maybe???” written on them in yellow. As the musical sting is heard on the audio, the whiteboard gradually changes to show the nonbinary flag with a green smily face next to it. I start to suspect something is amiss and turn my head right as the nonbinary flag shows up and my jaw drops. I stop to think for a moment before shrugging and going “lmao aight I guess.” End ID.]
[Image ID. A version of the “I guess we makin circles now” meme. A drawing of me is standing smiling with my hands on my hips in front of a conveyor belt coming out of a machine called “gender factory.” There is one genderqueer flag but then the three most recent flags that have come out are the nonbinary flag. I say “I guess we doin nonbinary now” End ID.]
[Image ID. a drawing of me with a wide tooth smile giving an enthusiastic thumbs up with the nonbinary flag behind me. A caption says “Lost my personal connection to womanhood!!!” End ID.]
so within the universe of Dune, gender roles abide by a rigid false dichotomy created by the bene gesserit - men lead the noble houses, while the women may join their order, and the powers of both are kept intentionally separate. at the same time, the plot demonstrates repeatedly that the role of paul atreides as a character is that of the border between the concepts juxtaposed within dichotomies: he is both an outerworlder and fremen, both harkonnen and atreides, both a duke and a disciple of the bene gesserit.
as such, it follows that within the in-universe gender structure, he occupies the roles of both male and female, thus being functionally and societally nonbinary. in this essay, i will -
This post did not go where I thought it was going to go but I’m down hell yeah socially nb Paul
Pride flag text things I made like 2 years ago
Part 2/?
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feel free to use with credit please :)
If you have requests for other flags let me know and I can make it (its easiest with flags that are only stripes but I can try to make something work if it has other stuff)
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Feel free to use, credit is appreciated but not required
Ok y’all, I need you to drop links for free binder services. It’s November which means that parents won’t think it’s odd for their children to request that they not inspect packages. They’ll simply assume it’s a present for whatever holiday they observe. So please do your part by dropping links in the reblogs and trying to get this seen by those who need it
edit: k, so I mean this in nicest way possible. Liking isn’t going to help anyone. This isn’t just for me, other people need these links. If you if you can’t/don’t have the energy to find and post links to ACTIVE donations. Please at least reblog so someone who follows you can. Please and thank you <3
Master list version: I will be editing and adding to this version where possible.
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First off: Y'all be safe! Links on how to activate incognito mode on an Iphone and an Android phone and on chrome on a computer. Remember to delete your Youtube history after watching!
If you'd prefer to sew your own binder, you can find a free pattern at Ureshii design
Links to lifehacks from the Transgender Equity Network Ireland for tips when binding or tucking for the first time
And here's a link to a Tumblr post showing a step-by-step guide on how to wash your binder. <3
https://uquiz.com/quiz/8hL5Xi/what-problematic-queer-trope-would-you-be
here have a uquiz uwu
Lmao I got “bury your gays” which I think is kinda funny because I’m a recent cancer survivor 😂
Gays look what I found on Instagram 👀
I think maybe I’m C4 or C5. Not sure if I’m more in the enby corner or the agender corner. Idk we’ll see :)
Happy non-binary day friends!
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