Hot Take, But Cis People Have Gender Identities. They Aren't The Gender They Identify As Because Of Their

Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

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"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

i didn't tell you i was scared

Part 3 of a new RWRB Hitman AU series by bananzie for Whumptober 2024

Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Series: Part 32 of stars, stripes, and union jacks, Part 3 of hit me(n) baby one more time

summary: As bizarre as it was for a burglar to sleep in his bed, that didn’t stop Henry from pressing the barrel of his gun to the intruder’s head and flicking on the beside lamp.

“Alex?” Henry stuffed his gun back in his waistband and frowned. “What are you doing here?”

A very soft whine came from his pillow, but Henry would know those curls anywhere.

(whumptober 2024 prompt: broken window + bruises)

Read now on AO3

Well I would give a medieval peasant some spaghetti.

can you imagine chuckling at none pizza with left beef and then living through the death of humanity and resurrecting a chunk of it and becoming a god figure to the new society you create and then 10,000 years later referencing it in conversation to a horribly traumatized teenager who has no possible frame of reference for this ancient meme that no one else alive has ever heard of