Also Some Nonbinary People Don't Feel Comfortable Calling Themselves Trans And That's Okay Too.

Also some nonbinary people don't feel comfortable calling themselves trans and that's okay too.

can we stop acting like nonbinary ppl aren’t trans. we’re fucking trans. we don’t identify as the gender we were assigned at birth (100% man or 100% woman) therefore we’re trans. stop calling us “noncis and nontrans” what the fuck even is that

Will use. Maybe.. Someday...

the suffering never ends

Personally I have a weird:

I ship A and B because people always ship either of them with C but I ship C with myself.

Lesser appreciated varieties of shipping:

I ship it for the sake of narrative or thematic symmetry  

I ship the idea of them, but their actually getting together in canon would ruin it for me  

I don’t ship it myself, but one of the other characters clearly does, and I’m a fan of them shipping it  

I headcanon that they were an item in the past and it ended in disaster, thereby explaining their present dynamic   

I ship it mostly because them being together would annoy a third character so much  

I ship it because nobody else does  

I’m not emotionally invested in it, but the intellectual puzzle of figuring out what bizarre sequence of events would be needed to make it happen is fascinating  

I ship it exclusively as part of a self-indulgent matchmaking fantasy where I’m the one who gets them together  

The very idea of them together disgusts and repulses me, and I’m struggling with how to phrase “hey, your fic really pissed me off” as a compliment  

I ship the AU versions of them that exist in my head, but not their canon counterparts  

I ship it only and specifically if it’s unrequited  

I ship it to spite the author

Amen

thinking that what happened “wasn’t bad enough” is a sign that it was.

your brain wouldn’t be trying to protect itself from the reality of what happened if what happened didn’t hurt you.

questioning if your trauma “counts” as trauma is a sign of trauma.

[ID: Four panels from the manga Naruto Shippuden when Gaï meets Kisame again.

First panel: Gaï is looking surpried, saying: "You are..."

Second panel: Lee looks at Gaï asking: "Do you know him? Gaï-sensei!"

Third panel: Close up on the right side of Gaï's face, sweatdroping, his face is shaded dramatically. He asks "Who are you?!"

Fourth panel: Gaï's chest is in the shadows on the front, Tenten is in the middle of the picture, looking at Gaï with an judging expression. Neji and Lee are in the background, probably with a similar facial expression. The speech bubbles for the three of them just says an ellipsis of 9 dots.

End ID.]

I can just picture Gai greeting everyone by smiling and yelling "Well hello there, potential stranger!"

Also, just imagine Dai only wearing the jumpsuit because his child is faceblind and his idea for him to be recognised is to be The weird jumpsuit guy™ because that's easily identifiable.

HC: Gai has prosopagnosia!

In the manga it was a recurring comedic gag that Gai’s memory was so bad that he failed to recognize Kisame several times, but I ran with the idea and I wanna argue Gai actually has a neurological disorder called prosopagnosia, or face blindness.

People who have this disorder are unable to encode people’s faces, so they are unable to recognize even photographs of themselves. Its not that they can’t physically see them – if asked to describe the person they’re actively looking at, they can say “black eyes, white hair”, etc – but they are unable to recognize who it is because their brain is incapable of storing a cohesive, complete visual memory of the person’s face.

Folks who live with this condition often rely heavily on people’s voices or mannerisms or other similarly consistent identifying non-facial features to recognize them, but if any of these change – like, say, your partner dyes their hair, or if they catch a cold and their voice gets nasally – then the individual with prosopagnosia will fail to recognize them and probably freak out and act as if the person is a complete stranger.

(Imagine waking up next to a complete stranger!! You’d be like WTF GET OUT OF MY HOUSE but it turns out it’s your boyfriend of twenty years, he just has a particularly severe case of bedhead. God, how stressful!)

Gai having prosopagnosia would explain, at least to me, why he naturally gravitates towards Kakashi. In a sea of perpetually unfamiliar faces, Kakashi is extremely consistent – he ALWAYS wears a mask, for one, so if you see someone with a black facemask walking around, chances are it’s Kakashi. His silver hair is extremely distinctive, too, and he really doesn’t have a wide variety of outfits. It must be nice to know that everytime you yell RIVAL!! and flicker next to this black-masked, silver-haired fella you’ve got it right, ‘cause there’s no one else that looks like him in the whole wide world!

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