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Meli Bendeli
Gender: Transgender woman
Sexuality: Queer
DOB: Born 1989
Ethnicity: White - Turkish
Occupation: Actress
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The canon queer character of the day is:
Tressa Smith, AKA Catalyst, from Apex Legends, who is a transgender woman.
#tressa smith#catalyst#catalyst apex#catalyst apex legends#apex legends#respawn entertainment#electronic arts#meli grant#female trans characters#female transgender characters#trans characters#transgender characters#canon queer characters#canon trans characters#canon transgender characters#trans#transgender
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lmao imagine thinking this shit is gonna fly on TUMBLR of all places. DWAMPYVERSE TUMBLR.
this is another reason why it makes me sad that Dan keeps using the wrong pronouns for them. it makes people in the fandom think it’s ok to say shit like this, making it a more toxic environment for the MANY queer and trans people in the dwampyverse community.
(please don’t go on this person’s page and instigate them. i’m just putting the username here so ppl know to block them)
#ursa.txt#dwampyverse#dwampyfandom#dwampyverse fandom#dwampy#mml#milo murphys law fandom#milo murphys law#hamster and gretel#hng#h&g#meli povenmire#dan povenmire#important#fandom#transgender#trans#queer#queerphobia#transphobia#transphobes#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbtq community#lgbtqia#lgbtqa#tw lgbtphobia#nonbinary#they them
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first endo appointment done today and damn, is it good to actually have an actual, precise path on what I have to do
also, apparently there's potential for increased thrombosis risk? didn't know that, but should be good if exams are good
alsox2, breast cancer, especially with my mother's history but I knew that and I'm gonna be extra vigilant 👍
alsox3, I'd love to know why my sexual orientation was needed in the questions, but whatevs
#personal#i did have almost a full on panic attack before getting in#but the er fandom has an angel that likes whales in its ranks and also i petted lil meli's head so much i thought i rubbed the paint off#and i made it past it pretty quick#hmm hmm#now to get the exams#and i should have my body aligning with my mind soon#exited and scared at the same time#scared cause of the inevitable coming out in the hellhole named greece with no support system#but really exited about all the rest#random tag:#i'd love to use the 'trans' tag for those kinds of posts#but the times i've used it i got barraged by bots#and a couple chasers#so no thank
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meli grant as poison or bust
#street fighter#poison#final fight#(if you don't know who meli grant is she's a trans woman voice actress who voices REALLY good Yuri Stoic Girls and also screwed up sadists)#(she's got an IMMENSE range)
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It's the post that everyone hopes they never have to write.
My wife and I have gotten a lot of curve balls this year and we've run out of Games Workshop figures to sell off. (The wall of shame takes up a lot less space now)
The tl;dr version is that we've been scarping by shut off notice to shut off notice because I was out of work in April, Meli's had several doctor's appointments, and on Monday one of the front tires on my truck blew out. And because it's all wheel drive all four tires have to be replaced at the same time.
Any help is deeply appreciated whether you can donate, or signal boost.
(Penny gets to be the cover model for many reasons, primarily my wife is trans and doesn't feel safe posting her picture on line. Also Penny is much more photographic than us)
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Discord Stream Drawings lolol
@cattivedonne @hello-not-me-11 @hihopelessromantics
Thanks for sticking with me and watching me fight my tablet for a solid hour 😭
They suggested I draw Trans-fem Meli and I think she turned out so pretty ❤️ We also got sum memey shit too so it was fun
Love you all🫶
#4koa#four horsemen of the apocalypse#4kota fanart#mokushiroku no yon kishi#seven deadly sins#sds meliodas#meliodas nnt#nnt meliodas#meliodas
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introducing - our tonsi flag ( len sitelen pi kulupu tonsi ! ) 'tonsi' is a toki pona word that, roughly, means "a gender experience not fully described by 'mije' [man] or 'meli' [woman]." context + design explanation under the cut 🌈❤️
🗣❗️ : toki pona is a minimalist conlang, which this post assumes very basic knowledge of. if youd like, u can read the wikipedia page (linked above), or this article from the atlantic, "Toki Pona: A Language With a Hundred Words."
some background on the creation of 'tonsi' - toki pona started development around 2001, and was 1st published in 2014, with 120 "canon" words - including the 2 gender words, meli & mije. however , toki pona is a living language, + words come about as the community needs them - the community came together to create 'tonsi' in a grassroots effort c. 2019 to fill a lexical gap that existed for describing ppl who fell outside the meli-mije duality.
etomologically, the word is from mandarin 同志 'tóngzhì' (meaning "comrade", & commonly used to mean gay / LGBTQ - though "tonsi" itself is generally agreed refer to gender.) some people use it exclusively to mean "nonbinary / genderqueer" , but expanded usage to also include all trans & gnc people (who choose to identify as tonsi) is very common, + is a definition i endorse ( & created the flag in mind with ! ) the word was officialized as an essential word in 2021 w./ the release of the toki pona dictionary
the sitelen pona ( logographic / hieroglyph writing system ) glyph for 'tonsi'
as for the design & symbolism of the flag - the central blue symbol represents the sitelen pona glyph for tonsi (shown above), in the blue of the toki pona logo - the 3 segments (colored pink, green, and purple) were roughly inspired by colors on the trans, gq, & nonbinary flags - as a whole, the flag symbolizes the way the tonsi community unites people of all different gender experiences & primary-language terms.
toki pona philosophy is all about capturing universal concepts in a way that allows for clear and simple communication, and gender variance is absolutely a universal concept. tonsi is a beautiful + necessary word, & with this flag, i wanted 2 focus not on granular inclusions of which groups fall under tonsi , but rather the unity the term presents, and how it allows us to unite by what we have in common , rather than pick over the terminology we choose.
a version of the tonsi flag made in a 16:9 aspect ratio 4 convenience
to my knowledge, no one else has made an effort 2 create a dedicated tonsi flag, but reception to having one has been positive thru the toki pona speakers ive shown the design - much thnx to the people on discord who gave their thoughts, as well as @epikulupu for consulting - sina ale li epiku mute a ❤️ ( ill also be posting a lili version of this post on r/tokipona soon + will add a link when i do 🌈 )
im passionate about toki pona + its community, + am an advanced speaker myself - if you have questions / comments , dm me, send an ask, or leave a reply - id always love 2 chat in/about toki pona 😁 if u.r interested in learning, i reccomend using this free course (lipu sona pona) & joining the discord , ma pona pi toki pona. as always, my flags are free to use, w./ credit appreciated but not required - stay pona ❤️
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sigil of be more trans i just made
[id: hand drawn sigil in black and red fineliner, made of two large circles, interupted by one interlocking smaller circle and several partial arcs. one part depicts a anchor scar or wound typical of breast reductions. the sigil contains many sitelen pona symbols transcribed and translated from toki pona below. end id]
the central symbol is a stylized ante meaning change
sitelen pona in the outer circle:
o pali e sina: make yourself
sijelo tonsi li sewi: trans bodies are holy
pilin sina li lon: your feelings are true
o kute e kon sina: listen to your spirit
sijelo sina li kasi, o kama suli: your body is a plant, grow
sina o sina: be yourself
o olin e soweli insa sina: love the animal inside of you
o pona: be/do good
the couple symbols in that arch are meli li mije li tonsi: women are men are genderqueer
#wizardposting#toki pona#trans art#wizardblr#sigil#anyone can use any part of this for any reason <3#shrimp shrieks#ulysses doodelies
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Master List part 2 (WIP)
( if see any posts not on this list please DM me the link I will add it)
Key
⭐: original(mostly written by me)
🌹: smut
🔪: yandere
🍷: some kink cw
🧨:darker Cw's and Tw's
Submas +Volo
Ingo
Virgin Warden🌹⭐
Alpha primal ingo🌹🍷🧨
Yan!ingo giveing s/o aphrodisiac ⭐🌹🍷🔪
Jealous W!Ingo pussy slapping🌹⭐
Subby alpha ingo⭐🍷🌹
Ingo sneaks into your room while you're sleeping⭐🔪🧨🌹🍷
Priest!ingo stealing his brother's wife🌹⭐🍷🔪🧨
Sub!ingo with his bunny⭐🌹
Stuck with Yandere!Warden Ingo ⭐️🌹🔪
Ingo with Neko!reader Hcs⭐️
Warden!Ingo breeding (Trans ftm reader)🌹⭐️🍷
Ingo a breeding kink🌹⭐🍷
Emmet
Emmet fucking his rival🌹⭐🍷
His rival fucking him🌹⭐🍷
Feral Alpha! Emmet🌹⭐🍷
Twins
Twins with introvert/physically affectionate reader⭐
Pinning for you⭐
Poly relationship+Elesa 🌹🍷⭐
s/o on their period⭐
Twins with small reader🌹🍷⭐
Emmet slapping your pussy 🌹⭐
Au idea: villain submas🌹⭐🍷
Villain au: twins reaction to a new hero instead of reader⭐
Twins cock drunk⭐🌹🍷
No nut November twins ramble⭐🌹
Volo
Volo sneaks into your room while you're sleeping 🌹⭐🔪🧨
Tarzan!Volo⭐🧨🍷
SM/USUM
Nanu
Alpha!Nanu hcs🌹🍷⭐
Alpha!Nanu-Pushing him to his limit🌹🍷⭐
Stalker!Nanu🔪🌹⭐🧨
Incubus!Nanu🌹⭐🔪🧨
HGSS
Morty Headcannons sfw & nsfw⭐🌹🍷
B&W
Colress experimenting on reader(old post)⭐🌹🍷
Colress Uno reverse getting experimented on( old post)⭐🌹🍷
X&Y
Alpha!Siebold⭐🌹🍷
SWSH
Kabu
Pussydrunk! kabu🌹⭐🍷
Multiple
Galar men having audio accounts⭐🌹🍷
Pokemen reaction to pillow princess S/o⭐🌹🍷
Paldea men having gwa accounts🌹🍷⭐
HasselxreaderxBrassius poly mini🍷🌹⭐
BDSP&P/Hisui
Mer!Meli develops a crush on his savior⭐
Mer!meli his Crush comes back (part 2)⭐
Cyllene
Cyllene breaks your back⭐🌹🍷
ORAS
Maxie
Maxie General romantic head cannons⭐
Vampire!Maxie Hcs
ScVi
Brassius
Yan!brass hcs ⭐🔪🌹
Hassel
Pegging hassel⭐🌹
Rika
Daddy Kink!Rika fucs u wth strap⭐🌹🍷
Rika&afab reader period headcannons⭐
Jacq
Nsfw hcs⭐🌹🍷
Larry
Larry using your body as stress relief⭐🍷🌹
Yan!Larry hcs⭐🔪🌹🍷
Larry hcs🌟🌹🍷
SDV
Shane
Shane hcs PART 2⭐🌹
Harvey
Harvey hcs⭐
Harvey patches you up ⭐️
Alex
Alex hcs⭐
Sebastian
Alpha! Seb⭐🌹🍷
Ocs
Silas The dragon 🐉
Marriage headcannons⭐🔪🌹
Never Escape, not with a baby in you🔪🧨🌹⭐
Rough fuck, use you like a fuck toy🔪⭐🍷🌹
Reading a book, thinking about you⭐🍷🌹🔪
Fell Dragon!Silas corruption🔪🧨🌹🍷
Cole the werewolf
Halloween22 Slasher!Cole⭐🧨🌹🔪
Daddy kink Cole⭐🌹🍷
Missing you⭐🌹🍷
Wolf Drider Salem 🕷
Halloween 22' Reaper!Salem headcannons⭐🍷🔪
Consensual non-con roleplay⭐🌹🧨
Zero the wasp hybrid🐝
Alpha zero thirst🌹🍷⭐
Human!Zero x Wasp!reader🌹⭐🍷🔪
Zero steals you away from the Beemas⭐🧨🔪🌹
Zero's picnic date⭐
Noah The Leopard MerShark 🦈
Date sfw hcs⭐
Virgin to Pussy drunk 🌹⭐
Halloween 22' nekomata!Noah🌹🔪🧨
Prof. Sterling 👓
Nsfw/sfw hcs🌹🍷⭐
My dream
Dom Sterling⭐🌹🍷
Fucking in the classroom⭐🌹🍷
The boys
Cat boys (All)⭐
Halloween final threesome🐝 👓⭐🔪🧨🌹🍷
Boys and their scent (All)⭐
Bug boys take care of you when you're sick🐝🕷️⭐
Ro's Au hoard
Beehive Submas #BeeGearStation
Tarzan!ingo, #Tarzaningo
Bull farm Au #Bullfarmau
Anon submissions
More Omega!Melli 🌹
Bully Melli hours🌹
Voodoo Doll submas part 1 prt2🌹
Villain submas reaction to other hero ⭐
Random shit
Birds of paradise harpies bfs⭐
The Ring of Lovers (fan scp)⭐🔪🍷
Dol fav LI call Out Post lol⭐🌹🧨
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Hello, this is the same anon who had the discussion about Namy Gaga yesterday.
Just thought I'd add a few small addendums (i.e. corrections or clarifications) to my previous ask.
Content warning for discussions of:
Abusive relationships and victim-blaming
Potential queerphobia (and misgendering/deadnaming of a trans person)
The 'google drive' Namy made in December 2023 - you can find the link on her Facebook - was purely regarding Mely (basically the former trying to paint herself as the victim but ending up proving the latter's case even further). I should also mention that, after Evan cut ties with her, Namy had occasionally vague-posted about him through Twitter for a few years - both victim-blaming him and defending her relationship with him. However, my point about Namy talking about Evan and Mely through Facebook and in some of her recent YouTube videos still stands.
Screenshots of the anonymous interview (where Evan explained his relationship with Namy) circulated on Instagram to my knowledge.
On the subject of interviews, in January 2024, Evan made a statement on Facebook (see the last 5-10 mins in BioTex Raccoon's latest video on Namy if you want). Firstly, he said that neither he nor Mely want to continue to be pestered into giving their side when it's none of the public's business. I absolutely respect his decision, especially given: a) Mely's lawsuit against Namy (and the potential harassment that Namy has incited against Mely), b) Namy lying about both victims to her audience, and c) both victims not wanting their stories used by people exposing Namy purely for internet clout. Secondly, since Evan is a trans man, he called out people for deadnaming/misgendering him when they used old drawings Namy (which depicted him pre-transition) as evidence for Namy being an abusive creep. Again, I hope both victims can heal from this.
The aphobic comment Namy made was made in April 2021, but I forgot to add this in the original ask.
For those who are wondering about the "outdated lesbian flag", I'm referring to the 'lipstick lesbian' flag (the version without the kiss mark). This particular flag was proposed in 2010. However, to my knowledge, many have criticised it for focusing exclusively on feminine-presenting cis women (and the creator for making transphobic comments) - which is why the current lesbian flag was designed to encompass cis/trans women (both feminine and butch/gender-noncomforming) and gender-diverse folk (e.g. non-binary). Photos posted on Namy's twitter (2022) initially showed her with an old keyring in the 'lipstick lesbian' flag colours. However, Namy posted photos of her and her current (OF AGE, THANKFULLY) partner at a pride parade in 2023, with the former having the current lesbian flag. More about this specifically in relation to Namy's FNAF AU can be found in BioTex Raccoon's videos.
Hope those help!
Thanks 👍
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ROUND 1 SIDE A
1: Killhare of Caerbannog (@caerbannogs) v Kasha Sho (@r04ch)
2: Mayhem Moondrop (@ecosystem-administrator) v Shio (@the-littlest-kojin)
3: Meli Iliakos (@thefreelanceangel) v Posey (@motley-ember)
4: Eleutherios (@trans-estinien) v Katarh Mest (@katarh-mest)
5: Merle Rouge (@vamp-galactica) v Hali Aloke (@starrysnowdrop)
6: Sori Salbari (@khajiitclaws) v Koh'sae Windwalker (@rexstorm)
7: Sage Marigold (@imyour-marigold) v Vishnya Vanil Kola (@voidgearrr)
8: Surdal Demilish (@apessimisticjackass) v Hide-a Lyn (@when-angels-come)
9: Shura Kuroyanagi (@shishido-shiho) v Nira'sae Mian (@sae-mian)
10: K'rona Bahmu (@hikaruhoshina) v Heliox Kha (@windup-estinien)
11: Chuchu Chura (@spaceace144) v Archon Valusk (@dapperpea)
12: Flidais Oakclamber (@selnyam) v Alutheia Vythica (@alutheia-vythica)
13: Adih'ra Fudei (@adihra-fudei / @meromiro) v Galvin Foixewesfv (@elizabethrobertajones)
14: B'rsh Bran (@boileddogchicken) v Angel (@afflatusviscera)
15: The Moomoo System (@cryoriku) v Qadan Gal (@sword-of-the-dragon)
16: B'eatriz Nightstar (@kagehiraaa) v Eisha Pantera (@umbralaether)
#💎 shout#there's a couple urls i could not find for the life of me#so i'm sorry to the two who aren't getting an @ but the listed url doesn't seem to follow anywhere?#also- if any names are wrong please let me know it's very late at night and i need to go to bed
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[id: cropped discord message reading “if yes, are you tonsi? [emoji of a wug/bird looking thing] yes [emoji of a shiba inu blushing] no, i’m mije anu meli”. the message has been edited]
note: tonsi is the toki pona word for nonbinary, meli = woman, mije = man (anu = or)
anyway idk if this counts but the assumption that you are nonbinary OR a man OR a woman really bothers me as a nonbinary trans man(-ish), like it’s exclusive. BIGENDER PEOPLE EXIST!!! AND SO MANY OTHER PPL WHO DON’T FIT INTO THIS!!!
this is exorsexism.
it's exorsexist for the very reason you said. "nonbinary", "male" and "female" aren't mutually exclusive categories. nonbinary men exist, nonbinary women exist, and people who are both men and women and are nonbinary because of this exist. erasing only a subset of nonbinary people is still nonbinary erasure.
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Diversity win! This bird trying to overthrow the monarchy of heaven is voiced by a trans person!!
(according to the cast list from the first eng dub episode, Peng is voiced by Meli Grant!!)
THIS IS THE GAY AGENDA
#i did look into the actor but i aint seen the cast list. thats just cause i havent looked it up tho#mk#i dont think this is spoilers bc its just. news? you cant keep news from ppl bc then how will they know when the seasons out and stuff#ask#i can tag afte r if thats not the concenus?
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A Charming Carol
For Meli @perhapsblues for the 2023 Charmed Secret Santa. Happy Holidays and I hope you like your story! (Sorry it's a little late, I ended up with a ton of family stuff, plus this story got a little out of hand length-wise.)
Note: I am not Wiccan or Pagan and have never celebrated Solstice, so I did a little Google research while writing this story to get an idea of Solstice celebrations. They seem to vary a lot, but I made sure to include candles for light and acknowledge the importance of the shortest day of the year. Any outright errors are entirely my own.
Christmas Past
Prue didn’t know how it happened. One minute she was standing in the kitchen, checking the Book of Shadows to make sure she’d added all the potion ingredients right, and the next she felt a blast of heat at her back and was hurtled forward, just managing to catch herself on her hands as she fell to the kitchen floor.
“Ow.”
She scrambled to her feet, ready to yell to the rest of the house that she was fine. But there was no inquiring shout from either of her sisters. In fact, the house was oddly still, with the only sound she heard now being the distant notes of … was that the Trans Siberian Orchestra?
Perplexed, Prue glanced behind her at the kitchen’s island counter to see if the potion had exploded.
The potion was gone. So was the pot it had boiled in and the smattering of leftover ingredients.
And so was the Book of Shadows.
“Oh no,” Prue said. “Oh no, no, nonono. PIPER!”
She stood frozen, staring at the empty counter. How had the Book of Shadows disappeared so quickly and how had she not realized it, and was it the potion or was it a demon or was it….?
“Hey, Mom’s not here right no—who are you?”
Prue whirled around to see two tall young men, one blond, one brown-haired, and instead of bothering to ask them what the hell they were doing in her kitchen, she just raised her hand to throw them out.
Only the blond one immediately brought up a shield of blue light, which seemed to deflect Prue’s powers. Both men—boys really, she could see now how young their faces looked—stared at her with wide eyes. “Aunt Prue?” the brown-haired one said.
“Aunt … Prue—what now?” Prue blinked several times.
“Oh, I think she got blasted here from the past,” the blond one said to the other. “Did Mom ever mention anything to you about this?”
“Rules of time travel, Wyatt, how do you always forget?” the brown-haired one said. “If it goes right, they don’t remember anything when they go back to their own time.”
The blond rolled his eyes. “’I’m Chris and I know all about time travel because an alternate version of me went back in time and saved my big brother,’” he said in a mocking voice.
“Well, I did. You’re welcome.” The brown-haired one turned back toward Prue. “Aunt Prue? How you doing?”
“Not good,” said Prue. “Because I’m not your aunt. I’m not anybody’s aunt. You’re just two demons who shimmered into my house and stole my book and now are trying to trick me by claiming to be family, which, by the way, get a better story next time because I’m not convinced.”
She punctuated this with another sweep of her hand, which she hoped would toss them across the room. Instead, it just made their shield flutter a little.
Even that seemed to alarm them. “She’s powerful,” said the blond in awe.
“Yeah, we knew that already,” said the other. “Listen, Aunt Prue, we really are your nephews, you’re just in the future. In the year 2023. And the Book’s upstairs in the attic, like always.”
“Why should I believe you?” Prue demanded.
“Believe this.” The brown-haired boy tossed something rectangular shaped, which sailed harmlessly through the shield and which Prue caught automatically. She glanced at it. It had a picture of the two boys on it under the digital time—6:00 p.m. exactly—and in the top left-hand corner was the date. Dec. 21, 2023.
She held up the rectangular thing. “What is this?”
The brown-haired one nodded impressively. “That’s what a cell phone looks like in the year 2023.”
“Well, it doesn’t flip open.”
“They tend to not, anymore.”
Prue looked wildly around her. Now that she was paying attention to something other than the Book being gone, she noticed subtle changes to the kitchen. The egg yolk yellow paint on the walls had been replaced with a soft, muted gray. Piper’s snarky hand towels hanging on the oven had been replaced with different towels that were still snarky but didn’t have curse words. The photos on the fridge were sleeker and featured a veritable herd of mostly dark-haired children she’d never seen before.
“I’m … in … the future?”
“Yep,” said the blond. “Now we’ve got to figure out how you got here and how to get you back.”
Prue tried to sound sternly maternal. Or aunt-like. Whatever. “Where is your mother?” She frowned. “And who is your mother?”
“Piper is our mom, Leo is our dad,” said the blond. “I’m Wyatt, and this is my little brother Chris.” Chris held up one hand in a casual wave. “He’s a pro at the whole time-travel thing.”
“And Mom and Dad are visiting Aunt Phoebe right now,” Chris said. “She’s living in a loft downtown.”
Prue let out a bark of laughter. “Phoebe lives in a loft? Who’s paying for it?”
“She is,” Wyatt said brightly. “She’s a celebrity now.”
Prue opened her mouth to say something sarcastic, but then stopped herself. Phoebe had been working hard lately to get her life on track. If everything Chris and Wyatt said was true, then she was succeeding … had succeeded … would succeed?
The point was, she didn’t need her big sister second guessing her.
And Piper and Leo had made it. Prue felt the beginnings of something warm fill her stomach. “So … so you two are … the next generation? Which means … we survive.”
Wyatt opened his mouth, but Chris stepped on his foot. “Yes, Aunt Prue,” Chris said. “The Charmed Ones survived.”
Wyatt lowered the shield and gave her a quick, cautious smile. Prue didn’t miss the way his eyes darted to Chris’s. There was something the boys weren’t saying.
But Prue knew better to interrogate. For one thing, they were limited in what they could say, due to the whole butterfly effect. For another, she probably wouldn’t be able to remember any of this anyway once she got back to her time. And for the last thing, she had more immediate problems.
“Great, so.” She wracked her brains, trying to think what to do next. “This has been fun meeting you and everything, glad to know your parents make it work—and your Whitelighter shield is very impressive, Ch—Wyatt, sorry, it’s Wyatt, right? But we’re in the middle of a major demon hunt—Belthazor, the Triad, the Source—so in order to make sure you two get born and don’t have demons breaking down the door every day, we need to get me back to the year 2000.”
“Agreed,” Wyatt said brightly. “Chris can help you with that.”
***
It turned out working with her nephew was a lot like working with her sisters, except Chris actually listened to her.
“Don’t worry,” he said grinning when she made a comment about it. “It’s only Wyatt I don’t listen to.”
He also had the same power as Prue did, which he demonstrated by closing the attic door with the same casual hand wave she did.
“Cool,” Prue said, grinning. “Can you astral project too?”
“No, but I can orb.” Chris frowned. “Astral projection. What if it was your astral projection powers that interfered with the potion to send you to our time?”
As they’d headed to the attic, Prue had explained to Chris the spell she’d been working on in 2000. A time management spell—with everything going on, the manor had needed a little organization, dammit.
But Prue didn’t think astral projection would have anything to do with that spell. “I move through the astral plane, not time,” she said.
Chris held up one finger. “But time is different in the astral plane. Especially on nights of concentrated magic. Like, say, December 21?”
Prue frowned. “Okay, I didn’t think of that.” She peered down at the Book. It was much thicker in 2023 than it had been in 2000. She pointed to a passage. “And I probably used too much cayenne pepper, which could have reacted with my powers—”
“—And mistletoe—”
“And all of that together on a powerful night like the winter Solstice caused a time travel blip,” Prue finished. “Ok, note to self: no more cooking with cayenne on Wiccan holidays.”
“Better leave the cooking to Mom anyway,” Chris said, closing the book. “Simple accident should require a simple solution. Luckily, I’m an expert at the spell you need to travel through time.” He took a piece of chalk and began sketching a large, long shape on the wall while Prue watched.
While he worked, Prue opened the book and began paging through it, pausing to look at spells and creatures she didn’t recognize.
“It’s nice to know all this keeps going,” she said. After I’m gone, she added in her mind. It hadn’t escaped her notice that almost none of the new spells were in her handwriting. She was torn between wanting to ask Chris how much longer she had and being terrified of the answer.
She looked up to see Chris had drawn a giant triquetra on the wall. “If you call your mother and Phoebe, we can do the Power of Three spell,” she said.
“We don’t need to,” Chris said. “This is my own spell, sort of.” He frowned as he stepped back. “Unless you want Mom and Aunt Phoebe.” He looked at her uncertainly.
Prue chose her words carefully. “How would they react to seeing me?”
Chris gave her a small, understanding smile. “I think they’d be really happy to see you.”
***
Christmas Past
The last time Phoebe approached the manor with this much trepidation, she’d been twenty-two years old and coming home from New York with no money to pay for her cab.
Now she was anxious about seeing the same person—but in a completely different way.
Leo was in the front seat driving, with Paige in the passenger seat. Phoebe sat in the back with Piper, who grabbed her hand as they turned into the driveway.
Paige had offered to orb them, but Phoebe wanted some time to ground herself. More than twenty years as San Francisco’s preeminent advice columnist, and never once had anyone written her asking what to do when their dead big sister shows up from 2000 and asks to see her.
Leo parked the car, and they all got out silently. Phoebe was still holding Piper’s hand.
They got to the door. “Should we knock?” asked Phoebe.
Piper scowled, looking for a moment like her old self. “It’s my house, I’m not knocking.” She opened the door.
They were greeted by Wyatt, sitting on the bottom step playing on his phone. He looked up and flashed them a grin as Piper and Phoebe came in, followed by Leo and Paige. “Where is she?” Phoebe asked, suddenly desperate to see her.
“In the sitting room with Chris,” Wyatt said. “He made her stay put because she was pacing so much.”
Phoebe started running.
She skidded to a halt in the living room, causing Piper to nearly crash into her. Prue jumped off the couch and for a moment, they all stared at each other.
It was like looking at a video of a Christmas past. Prue looked thirty years old, her dark hair long and lustrous, wearing a tight t-shirt with cookies and milk on it that said I PUT OUT FOR SANTA. She was beautiful. She was home.
Then the Halliwell sisters all squealed like a bunch of teenagers and crashed into each other in a hug.
“I can’t believe you’re here,” Phoebe said, smushed between her two big sisters.
“I can’t believe I’m here,” Prue said. They all squeezed tighter, giggling and sliding on Piper’s slick floor. After several long moments, they let go and Prue blurted out, “You guys look so old!”
“Hey, watch who you’re calling old, lady!” Piper said, but there were tears running down her face. Prue kissed the top of her head, and Piper fit her head in the space between Prue’s neck and shoulder, looking like a little girl again.
“I heard you finally got your restaurant,” Prue said.
“Yeah, after demon vanquish number 60 million.”
Phoebe leaned her head on Prue’s other shoulder, and Prue brushed some of her hair out of her face. “And you’re giving people advice for a living?”
Phoebe stiffened. “Surprised?”
“Not at all. I … actually feel like I should have seen it coming.” Prue seemed thoughtful.
Phoebe sniffed. “Well, I’m the one with the power of premonition.”
“And … empathy and levitation?”
“Eh.”
Prue finally looked away from her sisters to the rest of the people gathered in the living room. Chris and Wyatt were standing back like they didn’t want to intrude on an emotional moment, but Leo and Paige were in her line of sight. Prue grinned. “Hey, Leo. Looking good.”
Leo let out a laugh through his front teeth. “Thanks Prue. It’s good to see you.”
Prue disentangled herself from Phoebe and Piper and pulled Leo into a long hug. When she released him, she turned to Paige. “And you must be Paige.”
It had been a long time since Paige looked uncertain, but as she cast a quick glance at Piper and Phoebe, she reminded Phoebe so much of the first time they’d met that for a moment Phoebe wondered if they weren’t the one who had time traveled. She gave Paige as encouraging a smile as she could, and her baby sister squared her shoulders and turned back to Prue. “And you’re the famous Prue. It’s … really great to meet you.”
She held out her hand, but Prue shook her head. “Sisters hug,” she said firmly, and Paige laughed as the two embraced.
“So Chris and Wyatt explained everything to you?” Piper said shrewdly as they two women released each other.
“Yes.” Prue pushed a lock of hair behind her ear. She looked exactly the same as the last time Phoebe saw her—thirty years old, beautiful, and much more confident than the rest of them. “I kind of figured it out when I noticed none of the new spells in the Book of Shadows were left by me.” She took a breath and let it out slowly. “I was upset, at first, but mostly I just want to see you guys.”
“What time are you from, exactly?” Paige asked.
“December 21, 2000,” Prue said. “Exactly twenty-three years ago.”
“Wow,” Phoebe said. “We’re so old.”
“Belthazor just killed the Triad, and then you killed Belthazor,” Prue said, gesturing to Phoebe who tried not to wince. Somehow, she had never thought about how the last Christmas she’d spent with Prue, she’d been lying to her. “And now we’re trying to deal with the Source. And Piper and Leo are on probation, but it looks like that works itself out.”
“Yeah, after a couple of hiccups,” Piper said.
Leo held out his hand, and his wife took it with a small smile. “It was worth it, though,” Leo said, bending to kiss her.
“And you’ve got amazing kids! I mean, I can’t believe that Chris wrote a working time travel spell that doesn’t even require the Power of Three,” Prue said.
“Yeah, and that spell is ready whenever you are,” Chris volunteered from the corner where he was standing shoulder to shoulder with Wyatt.
“Oh, you don’t have to go now, do you?” Phoebe blurted out.
“Yeah, it’s Christmas!” Piper said. “You can stay for Christmas!”
“Or at least Solstice,” Paige said. “I mean, the power’s going to be really easy to tap into until midnight, so we have a few hours, and even after that we can still get you back, whenever you want. I mean, if you want,” she added. “I know we all look different and you just met me and you probably want to get back to your own time, but … I’d love to get to know my big sister.”
“I do need to get back,” Prue said. “But I think it can wait a few hours.”
“Then let’s do Solstice and Christmas!” Phoebe said. “I have the candles and all the shopping’s done. I can have the girls bring over the presents.”
“Yeah, Henry can bring over ours,” Paige said.
“But I haven’t done the baking yet!” Piper said.
“We’ll just order pizza,” said Wyatt.
“Pizza? On the Solstice? In my house?” Piper said. “Who raised you?”
What followed was a flurry of activity. Piper went to the kitchen to bake cookies and canapes (though Wyatt still ordered four pizzas for everyone). Phoebe and Paige got on the phone with their respective husbands to tell them what was going on and that Christmas would be a couple of days early this year so they could spend it with Aunt Prue. Within an hour, the house was filled with the sound of children’s shrill laughter and the smell of Piper’s baking.
Witches and Wiccans celebrate Solstice a variety of ways, but since the Charmed Ones celebrated it and Christmas—and since demons still tended to crash any bashes they threw—they kept their celebrations simple. As the sun set, they gathered in the living room to light a candle and pass it around, each saying what they were thankful for and expressing their hopes for the coming season of light.
Piper tried to get Prue to start, but Prue patted her knee. “I think it should be you, since you’re the head of this family now.”
Piper’s eyes filled with tears, but she gave Prue a quick smile and began to speak, talking about the importance of the shortest day of the year. As they moved from the darkness of winter toward the light of spring, she said, it was important to hold onto hope and remember what all they had.
“This year, I’m thankful for our family, like every year,” Piper said. “For my wonderful, loving husband. For my talented boys. For my spirited nieces and nephew. For my supportive brothers-in-law. And for my sisters, who have always been there for me.” She glanced at Prue. “Especially when I didn’t expect them.” She continued. “And my hopes for the new year are that we will all stay together and remember how—” her voice caught. “—how lucky we are to have each other,” she finished tearfully, and then quickly passed the candle to Phoebe.
Phoebe took it and spent a silent moment centering herself, like always. “This year, I’m thankful for the peace and joy we’ve had together as a family. For my beautiful girls. And I’m thankful for this time I get to spend with Prue.” She beamed at Prue, who had tears running down her cheeks. In fact, almost everyone in the family was crying now, so Phoebe decided to lighten the moment. “And I hope next year I make lots of money.”
Everyone chuckled, and Phoebe quickly added, “And I hope that we all grow stronger and more confident in our power and our love for one another.”
She passed the candle to Leo, who passed it next to Chris (“I’m thankful I finally get to meet Aunt Prue so we can bond over our kick-ass power.”) and then to Paige (“I’m thankful to meet Prue and find her as warm and down-to-earth as I always hoped, while still being the hot, bad-ass goddess I was always a little intimidated by.”) and on and on until finally Prue was the last one holding the candle
“I’m thankful for this opportunity to see my family,” she said. “To see what we become.” Her voice caught, just like Piper’s had. “And I know now that I don’t have much longer left, but … I am so happy to see the legacy we have. And I’m sad, but I’m not afraid.”
She handed the candle back to Piper, who said, “So mote it be,” and blew out the candle.
Food and a much less quiet, more chaotic Christmas celebration followed. No one had bought presents for Prue, of course, but she still somehow ended up with elf ears, a sparkly Santa hat, several pieces of both store-bought and homemade jewelry, Parker’s old phone, and a lap full of chocolate coins. Phoebe and Paige’s kids sat around her in a circle listening to her tell stories while Piper filled and refilled everyone’s plates and Wyatt made a circle of white lights float over the Christmas tree.
As midnight approached, the younger children nodded off on the living room floor, while the men started discussing football. The sisters retreated to the kitchen to help Piper clean up.
Prue put an arm around each Piper and Phoebe. “I just want to say I am so proud of you guys.” She glanced at Paige. “And you too, although it sounds like you were always going places.” Paige grinned.
Phoebe put an arm around Prue. “We couldn’t have done it without you,” she said in a slightly higher voice, the kind she used to use when Prue was alive.
“Yeah, not without our big sister,” agreed Piper.
“Also, not to give too much away about the future—”
“I already know I die—”
“But you have some kickass astral projection stuff coming up. Also a demon wrestling match.”
“Ugh,” Prue said. “That makes me feel sore just thinking about it.”
“And Piper’s going to table dance!” Phoebe added.
“Don’t tell her that, it’s bad enough living through it once,” Piper said.
At midnight, the sisters, including Paige, went upstairs to the attic with Chris. To Phoebe’s surprise, Prue gave her nephew a tight hug. “Proud of you, kid,” she said.
Chris grinned broadly.
Another round of hugs went between the sisters. Everyone was crying again.
“I’m going to miss you so much,” Piper said, squeezing her eyes shut and burying her face in Prue’s shoulder.
Prue sniffed and wiped a tear from her cheek, but said, “You’ll see me again. Just, like, summon my ghost or something.” Piper let out a watery laugh as she released her.
She hugged Paige next. To Phoebe’s surprise, Paige was crying too. “It’s been so great meeting you,” she squeaked through her tears.
“You too,” Prue said, squeezing her tightly. “I’m glad to know the Charmed legacy is in such good hands, though.”
Last, she hugged Phoebe. Phoebe sank against her, inhaling the smell of her perfume that brought back memories of being in college and confused and in love with Cole and in awe of Prue. Prue kissed her hair. “I’m so proud of you,” she whispered in Phoebe’s ear. Phoebe could only blubber unattractively.
Finally Prue stepped back and smiled at all of them. “I love you guys.” She looked at Chris. “I’m ready.”
Chris handed her the Book.
“Hear these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind,” Prue read slowly. “Send me back to where I’ll find what I wish in space and time.”
The triquetra on the wall suddenly glowed blue, and all the air in the room seemed to hum. Prue gave them one last smile, turned to the portal, squared her shoulders, and walked through the shape on the wall.
There was a sound like a gust of wind. And then Prue was gone.
***
Christmas present
Prue ended up back in the kitchen, looking at a now empty bowl of potion, trying to figure out both what had happened to it, and if she’d just had some sort of dream, and if those two things were related.
She raised her wrist to push her hair back and saw a childlike bracelet she’d never seen before around her wrist. Between pink and purple beads were some with blocky letters that said PEYTON.
“Peyton?” she said.
At that moment, Phoebe walked into the room. Her hair was blond and she was twenty-four. “My finals are supposed to be posted tonight, and I have no idea how I did,” she groaned, helping herself to one of the early Christmas cookies Piper had left cooling on the table after an afternoon of baking. “Are you prepared to continue supporting me if I flunk out and have to do college all over again in another two years?” Prue continued to stare at her bracelet. “Who’s Peyton?”
A small suspicion was growing in Prue’s mind. “Did you cast a time travel spell?”
“No, why?”
Prue held up her wrist and shook it. “Because I just time travelled. How else do you explain this?”
“Usually you don’t remember time travel,” Phoebe said. “Why do you think you went back again?”
“Something about too much cayenne in this potion… maybe? I don’t know, I just have a feeling, that’s all.”
Phoebe sat on the table and dangled her legs. “Do we need to go to the Book?”
“No, I … I think we should fine, as long as it doesn’t happen again.”
“Well, do you happen to have a feeling about my exams?” Phoebe said hopefully.
She meant it as a joke, but Prue looked at her, beginning to smile. She wasn’t quite sure why, but she was absurdly proud of her little sister.
Phoebe reached up to her face self-consciously. “What? Do I have something on my nose?” A small smile crept across Prue’s face. “No. But I think your exams are going to be just fine.”
#charmed#charmed secret santa 2023#happy holidays!#prue halliwell#chris halliwell#phoebe halliwell#as well as others but i would say those are the main three#i will give this another edit and post to ao3 by the end of the day#@perhapsblues#long post
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Hello I am curious about toki pona 👀
rubs my hands together evilly... teehee
ok so! the basics. toki pona is a constructed language made by Sonja Lang made up of around 120-150 words (depending on who you ask). the first book, known by toki pona speakers as lipu pu, which is a sort of an introduction to the language and basic reference document, has 120. the second book, lipu ku, which is a dictionary based off usage by toki pona speakers, adds 17 more words that are commonly used, bringing it up to about 137 "canonical" words. many low-use words exist, known as nimisins (literally "new words") or nimi ku lili (words that are in the second book but aren't part of those 17 common use ones), but these are often very situational and often not well regarded, because the point of toki pona is minimalism! i think linguistic minimalism's a lot more fun than most other kinds-- it forces you to really dissect what you're thinking about. but it also helps trim the fat! some people stick to the words in lipu pu only, which imo is a little wild. where would i be without kijetesantakalu..... (joke)
most words cover extremely broad meanings. soweli refers to most any animal, though generally it's referring to a mammal. something furry, beasty, something like that. waso refers to birds and perhaps other flying animals! i get into discussions about if a bat is a soweli or a waso-- my opinion is that if youre looking at its little mammalian face, or considering its other features rather than its flight, it's a soweli. if it's just something flying around at night, it can be a waso! or maybe even its a soweli waso, or a bird-like mammal.
toki pona's very context-sensitive, like i mentioned a bat can be either a soweli or a waso. what matters is what's important to the conversation. if im using a pencil to draw, it's an ilo, or tool. if i'm referring to the shape of it, it's a palisa, or stick-shaped object.
the name "toki pona" uses two of those very few words in the language-- toki, meaning talk, language, speech, etc., and pona, meaning good or simple. personally i think this conflation of good and simple raises some problems, but i've had this conversation with other toki pona speakers lol. ultimately, if you're speaking toki pona you should be able to see the good in simplicity, which is what makes the idea of pona work.
one of toki pona's selling points is that it's easy to learn. you could probably learn the vocab in a few weeks! but fluency takes more practice-- and one reason for that is that you're having to interpret each phrase and figure out what meaning's important... or you have to stretch your brain a bit to not care what kind of ilo someone is using, it's just important that theyre using some kind of ilo. if it was important what kind, they'd specify!
it makes for a really fun challenge and i call it sort of a "toy" language. it's not going to replace other languages or anything, but it's fun and makes the brain feel a bit better! not worrying about the specifics of things can really feel nice.
also one of the 137 main words is tonsi, meaning trans or nonbinary, so yaaaaay. mi tonsi. plus gender is completely optional in toki pona-- meli (female) and mije (male) are words that exist but quite frankly i rarely ever use them. there is one (1) third person pronoun. toki pona speakers may mix up their headnoun, though! basically all proper names in toki pona become adjectives instead of nouns-- for example, the US is ma Mewika, aka a place called Mewika (America). i use kili (fruit/vegetable) or jan (person, which is the standard/default for people), so im kili Temeke or jan Temeke!
as you can see words also get changed to fit into the acceptable sounds of toki pona, since it also has a very limited sound inventory and won't accept consonant clusters/consonants at the end of syllables except for n. this is also to make it more accessible to speakers of many languages, since all the sounds are quite common cross-linguistically!
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