Nik was tall, with slightly awkward posture and shoulder-length curly hair. As Sage approached, they looked up from their phone.
“Hello,” they said. “You look better than your photo.”
“Uh, thanks,” Sage said. “You wanna head in?” she asked, gesturing to the restaurant they stood in front of. “They’re supposed to have good vegetarian options.”
“Sure,” ...
2023-07-27 22:14:04 +0000 UTC View Post“You probably figured this out before I did, because I’m kinda dumb,” Kelvin said, “but I think I might be…”
“Yeah?” Liz said in a calm voice while internally screaming.
“You know… trans?”
Thoughts raced through Liz’s head. Thoughts such as Jesus Christ thank god finally the densest egg I’ve ever seen and Wait fuck yes hell yeah and ...
2023-07-27 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1tkLRcW_wZzSX_3lJ8vNiAuYFNn1U8vjX3WTx5atjMOA/edit?usp=sharing
there's a bit of gender in a shakespeary sort of way
2023-06-21 21:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post“I'm just trying to get my gender changed!” Ashran erupted. “This is the fifth meeting I’ve been to this week and everyone keeps telling me I'm someone else’s problem.”
“Well, here's your problem,” the Bureaucrat signed by wiggling its wheel of eight feet around a huge central eye. The small imp on Ashran’s shoulder rapidly translated and gi...
2023-05-10 19:10:17 +0000 UTC View Post“I just wanna experience the yearning, man!” Elliot exclaimed. “Just once in my life I want that experience of a yuri protag.”
“We literally don’t know any girls who will talk to us and also you’re a guy,” Owen pointed out.
“Yeah, well, there’s some manga that’s basically yuri but between two crossdressing guys. Close enough,” Elliot said.
“Send me a ...
2023-04-19 18:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety lately and I’ve been putting a lot of pressure on myself to write and yet have had a really hard time actually writing because lately it’s been feeling like a chore rather than something I do to express myself.
I think I need to take a break for a while until I get into a better headspace about it and don’t feel so much obligation. ...
2023-02-20 19:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Maybe we’ll actually meet up,” Sage said. “Although to be honest people keep flaking out on me or canceling at the last moment or putting things off forever. I can’t help but feel like people don’t want to admit they’re unwilling to date a trans girl, but they’re not actually willing to meet up with one either.”
“Bleh. I feel that, honestly,” Mel said. “Thank god ...
2023-02-16 23:48:33 +0000 UTC View Postbeen feelin real crappy in various ways lately. haven't been able to write much. sorry.
2023-02-16 23:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sorry, but it’s about the principle of the thing,” the middle-aged bureaucrat explained. “The way she transformed you was illegal. There are processes for these things, you know. There are processes.”
“But I didn’t want to be changed back!” Nigel protested. “I liked being Nigella! I told your cops that.”
“They’re not ‘my’ cops, thank you very much,...
2023-02-07 07:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m a little more hopeful for this date,” Sage said to Mel. “Nothing about astrology or Myers-Briggs in their bio and they seem relatively gender-y and chill and lowkey.”
“Gay,” Mel said. “I do love to see my girlfriend enthused about potential future homosexuality. Poggers.”
Sage felt vaguely relieved that Mel seemed actively in favor of her dating other people. ...
2023-01-31 03:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
been feeling sick recently (sinus infection i think) and just kinda having writer's block/mental health stuff so i haven't really been able to write much but here's a really short thing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WTzNaW4MiWHWJFN7kNwF70dmyJwecierNSoP...
2023-01-16 07:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostA rare Beth thing without any gender! Somewhat unhinged and queer-coded tho. CW: Death, blood, vomit
Akiko was a terribly clumsy girl and she often found herself in difficult situations due to unlucky accidents. Today, she was starting at yet another new job. Hopefully this time she’d make it at least a day before getting fired.
She felt like she’d already ...
2023-01-03 07:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe ended up having to give up on Amazon because they kept sending us the same useless form email over and over and never responded to all the evidence that I'm the actual copyright holder, so we ended up going with Lulu.
“I swear this year I’ll actually follow through on my resolutions,” Max firmly said to his image in the mirror. Unfortunately, his mirror self looked somewhat skeptical. “No, really.”
He glanced down at the list he’d written in his leather-bound bullet journal–one of the first things he’d actually written in it, after an aborted attempt at keeping a daily diary.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQLG4Y8B
Decided it wouldn't hurt to try and sell a thing I wrote as a Kindle e-book. I'd really appreciate any purchases or positive reviews so that hopefully it can get actually recommended to people by the Amazon algorithm. Thanks to my sister Amy for handling most of the typesettin...
2022-12-20 18:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostI was one of several experts on marine biology summoned to that beach in Florida. For the most part, the job was far from glamorous–you’d be surprised how much of my time was spent on boats taking regular measurements of all kinds of data: depth, temperature, clarity, salinity, acidity, and so on. Yet this potential discovery had my hope piqued in a way that it had not been since I was a br...
2022-12-15 01:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostSage anxiously checked her phone again. Still nothing. Where the hell was she?
Sage wasn’t really sure if she was looking for friends or for a date, but it should be fine either way. She’d talked to Mel about it and they’d agreed on having an open relationship or being polyamorous or whatever you wanted to call it. Still, with her vaguely Protestant middle class suburban background,...
2022-12-09 07:38:46 +0000 UTC View Postnot really related to anything but i felt like making up a fake vidya jame
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11ZaUaiDnAw4XWIGFxaX0qZ1aQFR6W0W95tgRqhtOFY0/edit?usp=sharing
Steve
“How are you feeling?” I asked Maddy as we watched her parents drive away.
“I’m okay,” she said. “I mean… I’ve been better, but at least I feel like I can finally relax now. Wait, except I said I’d email them about gender stuff when they got home. Fuck. I gotta write that. Welp, I have immediately returned to being stressed.”
I gave h...
2022-11-23 06:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post“So snail is katatsumuri,” Taylor muttered to himself. “Not sure how to get a name out of that. Oh, Kaigara is a surname. Maybe I can do something with that?”
After looking at vaguely relevant Japanese words for a while and not finding any inspiration, Taylor decided to branch out to other languages. Scrolling through a list of translations of the word “snail”, one wo...
2022-11-23 05:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostSarah couldn’t have told you pretty much anything that had happened in the sci-fi thriller that she and Olivia had just watched. That was partly the movie’s fault for being a bit generic, but mostly her fault for looking at Olivia rather than at the movie. She wanted to say there was something about a time loop?
Anyway, she breathed in and out again, trying to calm herself down as sug...
2022-11-11 05:13:33 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor watched as the cute girl on the screen mirrored all of his movements. He was hypnotized.
“–Taylor? Hello? Taylor?”
Taylor blinked, realizing he’d just missed everything Ben had been saying. “Sorry, I… could you repeat that? I was kinda zoning out.”
“No kidding,” Ben said. “Anyway… do you like her? If there’s any specific things you want changed, ...
2022-11-11 04:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s up with Z, by the way?” Sage asked Mel. “I haven’t seen them in months.
Mel sighed. “Not gonna lie, they’ve kind of been getting on my nerves lately. They probably spend too much time on Twitter and they have their weird rich family background so sometimes they have really weird bad takes. Like, they were furious that the semester at their private art school might no...
2022-11-08 02:08:46 +0000 UTC View Post“What exactly are you supposed to be?” Josh asked.
Sam shrugged. “Either a glam rocker or a pirate, I guess? I didn’t really plan anything so this is just what we had around the house. I think this used to be my grandma’s jacket.”
“Well, it should be good enough to get into Tiffany’s party, at least,” Josh said. “I heard she turned some guy away earlier because h...
2022-10-30 05:33:39 +0000 UTC View PostRobert looked around nervously before entering the small meeting room. Even though he didn’t actually think he was doing anything wrong, some part of his brain felt like people would somehow know that he was going to a campus trans group for what was probably the wrong reason. Admittedly Maya had said that allies were welcome, so maybe it was fine.
He was an ally, right? He definitely t...
2022-10-19 22:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostMaddy
“Hi, Mom!” I said weakly as my parents reentered Steve’s house.
“Hi, honey!” my mom said. “Where were you this morning? Your father and I were hoping to see you before we left.”
I shrugged. “I went to go get some work done.”
“Work,” my father said. You could practically hear the scare quotes.
“Yes, dad,” I said. “A...
2022-10-19 19:51:19 +0000 UTC View Postragweed allergies have been absolutely murdering me lately and i haven't been able to get much done but good news is that i'm feeling somewhat less bad today. hopefully that continues
2022-10-19 18:17:44 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfCTT5U26M6BIMGp_fiDXR9mGJ331rTyeBD-7ZRHgoQ/edit?usp=sharing
2022-10-10 21:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Seriously, dude, you could make so much money! Just think about it, okay?”
Taylor rubbed the back of his neck and avoided Ben’s gaze, feeling embarrassed by what had just been implied about his voice.
“I don’t sound that much like a girl,” he muttered. “My voice just hasn’t dropped yet but it’s gonna soon.”
“Sure, dude,” Ben said, “although ...
2022-10-04 04:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post