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transrph · 7 years

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(semi) hiatus.

so uhh, as you have seen.. it’s been kinda dead here, huh ?? there are still bunch of unanswered asks in the inbox but for now, I think I’ll let them stay there for a while.. as I announce a hiatus.

so much shit’s going on in everyone’s lives, including me & my lovely co-mods. One thing about this blog is that i always wanted to be ready to help people with trans fcs and resources etc. but it is time consuming in its own way. life gets in the way. not to mention the amount of attention it has gained. i just find it hard to contain while battling with personal stuff myself.

i’m not closing this blog. i just need to re-figure some stuff out, maybe add mods && talk to my current ones about the situation.. as long as we are this busy, i doubt there will be much activity around here.

that being said.. i might make my own rpt blog which i publish my resources on that aren’t necessarily trans-centered so if anyone’s interested, hmu.

I’ll probably check IM/ask couple times a week if you want to talk in general or have any questions regarding this blog or us. if my co-mods want to run this blog without me, i’d be happy to give them the chance but from what i know, all of them seem to be quite busy with life too atm.

i hope you lovelies have a great day <3

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transrph · 7 years

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Hi helpers! I hope you can help me with this question and I sincerely apologize if it's rude? But I'm making a directory right now and it has a gender section and I was wondering if is okay if i have a male, trans male, female, trans female, non binary section? Or do I just keep male, female, nonbinary and in the description specify that a fc is trans?

Hello !! I don’t know how long this has been sitting in the inbox but i’ll answer it anyway !!

Unless the directory is centered around lgbt+ identities, i’d recommend not adding the trans male & trans female categories separately. Trans men & trans women ARE as real as cis people, thus going under the male/female section. You should specify in the description that they are trans !!

#Anonymous #answered

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transrph · 7 years

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do you think trans fcs need to be played as trans muses? just asking for multiple opinions because i want to use a trans fc in a rp i'm applying for and i just don't know if it's disrespectful to make the character cis or not!

I do think they should be as making them cis erases the struggles they faced and their identity. I think Josh said it best HERE.

#anonymous #answered #Anonymous

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transrph · 7 years

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Do you have an recs for nonbinary fcs?

Olly Alexander

Gerard Way

Chandler Wilson

Miles McKenna

Ash Hardell

Amandla Stenberg

Anyone on this masterlist by @dear-indies

#toameliiorate #answered

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transrph · 7 years

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would someone be willing/able to make gifs of Jake Edwards?

I’ll add it to my to do list!

#answered #anonymous #Anonymous

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transrph · 7 years

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(re-request anon) hello! okay thank you, I believe I had read Ellis was dropping some requests, I hope they're doing okay! May I request some (recent-ish if possible) gif icons of Adore Delano, please and thank you?

Yeah, consider it added to my to do list!

#answered #anonymous #Anonymous

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transrph · 7 years

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i just wanna say how great you are and how awesome and refreshing it is to see people in the RPC who take a moment to listen to other's opinions and admit that perhaps they misunderstood or were wrong, as well as be so respectful about the entire thing. keep doin' what you're doin!

Gah thank you! I really appreciate this because I was honestly worried that I’d be taken the wrong way. But I honestly feel like everyone should get the chance to learn and listen. I mean I expect people that are a bit ignorant and uneducated about trans issues to listen to what I have to say so I’m going to give others the same respect, you know?

Plus I definitely wasn’t being aware with that whole thing, and based a lot of expectations around how I view religion and spirituality which was definitely not okay, so anon had a complete right to call me out on that!

Thank you so much for them message though! It means a lot.

#mod josh #Anonymous

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transrph · 7 years

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transrph · 7 years

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This is the anon from earlier! I didn’t think your response was rude at all, and hope that my question didn’t come across as such. I wasn’t trying to imply that you were saying that hoodoo and voodoo were dark or spooky, but I feel that that the vibe of Southern Gothic has a lot to do with that sort of vibe. Hoodoo and voodoo are already stigmatized as being dark/black magic, which is due to racist stereotypes during slavery. (1/3)

As for voodoo being appropriated, it’s because it is deeply rooted within African traditions. Voodoo is a cultural form of Afro-American religions that come from West Africa and which white slave owners attempted to strip from slaves upon their arrival to the States. Hoodoo comes from the same background, and both are constantly appropriated even though they are steeped heavily into African, African-American, and Afro-Latinx culture.

Regarding your example of Buddhism, I can’t answer your question there as I’m not 100% knowledgeable about it. But you are absolutely right about the loup garou. I’d completely forgotten about that aspect of the legend, so I apologize for that example. (3/3)

“Hoodoo and voodoo are already stigmatized as being dark/black magic, which is due to racist stereotypes during slavery.”

I genuinely hadn’t even considered this, I’m sorry! I have a huge fascination with religion and spirituality so I don’t tend to judge much of anything (outside of the hypocrisy within radical Catholicism/Chrisitanity). So it didn’t even click that others do view it negatively and have less of an understanding about it all.

I do still feel that anyone can practice any religion so long as it is respectfully and done through true belief and connection with that religion and not used as a way to excuse their own hatred and hateful agenda. However, I definitely see the problems that would come from white people following a religion heavily rooted in African culture. I’m sure it would feel like theft and almost insult to injury given the past history.

The answer has been changed though and hopefully for the better. If there’s anything else that isn’t worded properly please let me know! I’ll be happy to fix it.

#mod josh #racism //.#Anonymous

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transrph · 7 years

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I want to reblog this again as I just found out their binders are NOT SAFE. Buy their clothes all you like but DO NOT BUY THEIR BINDERS. They are the type you would order off amazon and very cheaply made and will injure your ribs. DO NOT. BUY. THEIR. BINDERS.

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hey guys! so this online store is run by a nonbinary person of color who’s started a store that doesn’t use any gender labels on their products.

if you use my discount code “flower” you get 20% off your order (it activates august first, and is useable through the entire month of august) and i get $4 for every person who uses my code.

they have really nice tops,

sweaters,

a pride section with everything from shirts, to flags, to rings, to necklaces,

AND they have a trans section with all kinds of body shapers for both trans male and female individuals.

and there’s so much more on their website.

also, im a trans male and any money i make by people using my code will go towards starting T.

support a couple trans people and support a store that crushes gender roles! shop here, or even just a quick reblog, it’d help out a lot.💘💘

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transrph · 7 years

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support trans owned businesses

hey guys! so this online store is run by a nonbinary person of color who’s started a store that doesn’t use any gender labels on their products.

if you use my discount code “flower” you get 20% off your order (it activates august first, and is useable through the entire month of august) and i get $4 for every person who uses my code.

they have really nice tops,

sweaters,

a pride section with everything from shirts, to flags, to rings, to necklaces,

AND they have a trans section with all kinds of body shapers for both trans male and female individuals.

and there’s so much more on their website.

also, im a trans male and any money i make by people using my code will go towards starting T.

support a couple trans people and support a store that crushes gender roles! shop here, or even just a quick reblog, it’d help out a lot.💘💘

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transrph · 7 years

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[TASK 055: THE NAVAJO]

Shout out to @olivaraofrph for inspiring and helping compile this task! There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 220+ Navajo faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. With 300,460 enrolled members as of 2015, the Navajo is disputed with the Cherokee to either be the largest or second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags!

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transrph · 7 years

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Regarding your post on the Southern Gothic, I want to point out that voodoo is a religion and hoodoo is folk magic/root work. Both come out of the African diaspora and are present in this country because of slavery. The idea that they are both spooky/dark is a stereotype that comes out of racism. There are other supernatural elements from Louisiana that can and should be recommended other than those two things (ex. the loup garou), esp. since it would be appropriating black/African culture.

The ask you’re referring to only mentions that these two were ‘practiced’, and I can happily change the wording of this as I thought voodoo was less like a religion and more about spirituality. However I never said it was dark or spooky? I put it among supernatural as it, as you said, has supernatural elements.

I’m genuinely curious about the appropriating of a religion though. As someone who is learning about Buddhism as that appeals to me most out of any religion/spiritual practice (that’s the best wording I could think of as it’s not exactly a religion). I’m not understanding how it would be appropriating a culture. If done disrespectfully of course that would be awful but people find religions/spiritualities that they prefer all the time and begin practicing within those religions. I guess I’m not fully understanding here.

Also looking into the Loup Garou/Rougarou, that stems from first nations legends, so wouldn’t that be just as appropriative? Again, not an attack I’m genuinely curious and confused on this.

I will edit the ask to phrase things a bit better.

#mod josh #Anonymous

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transrph · 7 years

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♔ PEPPERMINT (VARIOUS VIDEOS) GIF PACK ♔

Under the cut you will find 25 gifs of PEPPERMINT in VARIOUS VIDEOS, to make for a total of 25 gifs of PEPPERMINT made by me. All these gifs were made by Jason, please credit correctly. PEPPERMINT is a TRANS WOMAN and uses SHE/HER PRONOUNS and is AFRICAN AMERICAN (UNSPECIFIED), please cast them correctly. Please enjoy these gifs, like and reblog if you find them helpful, and request more HERE.

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transrph · 7 years

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★ Below the cut are #100 gifs of the musician Shamir Bailey as Himself in multiple interviews (2015-2016) and a music video (2014). Shamir is Black and agender, and goes by he/him and she/her pronouns, please cast him accordingly. All gifs were made by me and are only intended for roleplaying purposes. Do not repost, claim as your own, edit in any way, or include in gif hunts. Please like this post if using or saving any gifs and reblog only if you’re an rp related blog.

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transrph · 7 years

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Seven Deadly Fight Scene Sins

Below, we’ve listed some common sins that can detract from enjoyment of a fight scene. As always, rules are made to be broken. It’s also worth understanding something, before you try though.

Why Are You Thinking? We Should Be Fighting!

When working on a fight scene, it’s best to write the sequence as it happens on the page. This way, the action is immediate and in the moment. A common mistake, though, is for the character to become distracted even when it’s just within their head. The author may insert thoughts, description, and even dialogue that slow or pad out the action. This can be very frustrating as it often can lead to the feeling that both the author and the character in question are not taking the fight seriously. After all, if the character does not believe they are in serious jeopardy then how can the reader?

Commonly, this may happen during rewrites or if the author gets distracted with making sure everything is clear. However, it’s also an easy mistake to correct. So, just be sure to stay on point and when you read over your fight ask yourself: does this feel like it’s happening right now? If not, cut the fat.

Talking as a Free Action

Fights are like sprints, they are moments of extreme physical exertion that leave us breathless with little room for chit chat. Lengthy, chunky dialogue inserted as two characters pound away at each other is unfortunately as common as it is unrealistic. Whether it’s Chris Claremont’s Wolverine flying through the air as he delivers a paragraph of text or two characters mouthing off witty banter in the middle of a sword fight, talking while entertaining can quickly become the means by which a fight sequence devolves into the ridiculous. As we, the authors, are not experiencing the fight sequence as it happens, what the characters are physically experiencing can be easy to forget.

Here’s a solution that both Starke and I recommend: talk before and talk after. If your characters must talk during limit yourself to ten syllables. That is not ten syllables per character, that would be too much. Instead, limit yourself to ten syllables maximum for all your characters who are fighting. This way, you can easily count it out and you’ll know that the dialogue itself is serving it’s place in the scene without detracting from the sequence.

Five Minutes is a Long Time

As authors we have a tendency to exaggerate for effect and those of us who are inexperienced at a specific kind of physical exertion have a serious tendency to overestimate. For reference, five minutes is a long time. It is a devastatingly long time. The average street fight, by comparison, only lasts twenty five seconds. A fight can end in seven seconds. The maximum of movements that even an experienced combatant can make before simply failing due to overwhelming exertion is eight. The more unequal the fight between two individuals, the faster it ends.

Characters who overestimate like this, especially those who are supposed to be experienced, tend to look very foolish and it undercuts the sequence. There’s a limit to how long a fight can go before the reader starts to lose interest and to sell your characters, it’s important to make the attempt to be accurate.

However, translating time into text can be very difficult and while we can count a single page as a minute in a movie script, the same cannot be said for a novel. A simple solution is to limit yourself by counting it out through the number of moves instead of guessing how long. The longer the fight extends, the more exhausted a character is going to become. If you limit yourself to eight moves per character, then you will get into the acceptable range for keeping your sequence punchy and quick.

Remember, the wider the experience gap, the faster it will end unless the experienced character has a reason to keep it going.

That’s Not Anatomically Possible

We could also label this as “spontaneously develops third arm”. This can happen during rewrites or through the introduction of a new weapon or when the author doesn’t stage it out or think the physics of the scene through entirely. Sometimes, it’s an attack that would do no physical damage were it to connect such as spinning and kneeing (a knee takes it’s power from the body driving forward to the low-line of the body or upwards into the body, it can be lifted to generate a better, quicker spin for another attack such as a spinning backfist, but is useless on it’s own, it is also a single action movement) or multiple actions happening simultaneously like two characters in a death grip punching each other without releasing their hold and you have a sequence that sounds good but makes no sense when your readers step back to put it together.

The best way to solve this is by finding a partner to walk you through it physically even if it’s just bashing at each other with nerf swords. Yes, you may feel a little silly and foolish but the more work you put into it, the better the result will be. It’s important to get a good grasp the physicality and body positions in the scene as you’re describing it and this can be difficult to figure out in just your imagination.

Intuition Does Not Equal Skill

Intuition is nice, and so is “natural talent”, but unless your character is a several thousand year old immortal or a character who is continually reborn and acting on lifetimes of combat experience, then neither of these are a substitute for actual skill. Skill is empirical. It is earned through time and practice, we don’t come out of the box knowing exactly what is needed. When this happens in a novel, it is a plot contrivance and a cheat by the author to push the character along without having to say “how” they know. In short, it’s lazy. Worse, it promotes that unfortunate idea that skill is just something some has as opposed to the reality that it can be gained by anyone who puts in the required time and effort. This promotes the idea, especially for young readers, that if they do not grasp a concept quickly then they should just give up because the only skills worth having are those that come easily. Natural is not always better and no matter how much talent someone has, it will be nothing if they don’t develop that talent into a skill that they can use.

Don’t use intuition to cheat your way past a concept that you cannot adequately explain, instead dedicate time to understanding the profession or skills you are trying to include into your character. Yes, it will take longer and may be confusing in the beginning but the end result will be much better.

Detail? What’s that?

When you write your sequences, it’s important to be clear. If the reader is not grounded in the sequence, is not experiencing the sequence, and following the sequence as it happens then the grand fight or moment in the book will become meaningless. Detail can lend clarity to the image the reader imagines and make the sequence carry through. If your characters strike at the body consider where they are striking to as opposed to just having them throw attacks blindly. Have them focus on their opponent and visualize the body, break the body down into pieces: head, throat, shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, stomach, etc. When a character is knocked back, consider what they do. Do their feet slide? Do they stumble? Think about the body and how it reacts. Think about the environment and how they are affecting it. Be specific and be clear with the sensations you are eliciting.

Make it easy to follow. Read over the sequence with your “new reader eyes”, if you have to reread it a few times to get an understanding of what is happening then a rewrite may be necessary.

Don’t Call Your Shots

Whether your character is announcing to the villains the exact way that they plan on defeating them or calling out the name of their super special technique before they unleash it, don’t do it. It may feel badass to have the character tell someone exactly how they are going to be defeated and then follow through, it tends to ring hollow. One: it discounts the ability of the enemies to adjust to the hero’s plan and react accordingly (which hurts their believability, why should I care if they can be dispatched so easily after being told what is about to happen?) and two: unless the hero is lying or bluffing, they look stupid, overconfident, or both. After all, they just told me what’s about to happen. Unless you’re working within the long anime tradition of announcing a special attack, it just feels like a waste of breath.

Respect your villains and antagonists enough to not short change their intelligence for the sake of trying to make your protagonist more often. Study up on badass boasts and figure out what makes them work. Hint: it’s usually the humor beat afterwards such as Marcus in Babylon 5 when he says “In five minutes no one at this table will be left standing, five minutes after that, no one in this room will be left standing” and after he does so, collapses and says “Great, now I have to wait for someone to wake up” or playing off Superman’s reveal that he constantly holds back his powers for fear of hurting someone in the finale of Justice League Unlimited in the final battle with Darkseid when he says “But you can take it, can’t you, big guy? So, let me show you just how powerful I really am.” (He also doesn’t succeed, but it’s a great moment). However, neither of these outline exactly what they’re going to do but both come with the threat that it’s gonna be awesome.

Say it without saying it, leave room for excitement and the thrill of seeing just what a character will do instead of them telling us what they’re going to do.

-Michi

#guide #guide: writing

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transrph · 7 years

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hello! is it alright to re-request a request that was dropped (it's still someone nb, I just dont want to be a bother) please and thank you!

Yeah, it’s definitely alright to re-request something that’s dropped!

#Anonymous

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