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carith @ The Beths hypethis whole post is great but the last line KNOCKED ME OUT
Philip Setnik@carithlee Yes, that's quite a sentence! Second thing tonight that belongs on a T-Shirt.
Mike Ely@carithlee that is REALLY friggin impressive.
Steven Savage@carithlee "an epitaph you wrote for your own freedom" is epic.
micah ✨@carithlee holy shit
Real QuackReally. If a man can use magic to transform into a wolf/bat/dragon/elf, why not into a woman?
Mauser II@carithlee Didn't we all wear a belt of gender change at some time or another?
"Oh, I can't get it off. Must be cursed." 
Kit Rhett Aultman@carithlee Oh shit I just ate a right hook and am being given a standing 8 count.
12th, Mountebank of the House@carithlee the fking energy this implies to have been on Tumblr at 3am to post this
BlueShiftNZ@carithlee
I mean, the arch-terf herself had a potion in her books that turns people into someone else, including other genders.
I mean, the arch-terf herself had a potion in her books that turns people into someone else, including other genders.
Snap Happy Fox (Kaida)🏳️⚧️@carithlee its true though. Trans people wouldn't exist in fantasy. At least not for long. They'd just use magic to switch genders and life their life.
gingeridot@SnapHappyFox @carithlee I think I agree, but I also believe there'd be a community of people who share that experience of using that elixir. Especially if you only realized later in life and can basically sort your life in before and after you instant-transitioned. But also imagine how you have to make the rounds to old acquaintances and friends to bring them up date. The more I think about it, this opens up worlds of queer fantasy story-telling 😍
@gingeridot @carithlee especially if it's not permanent. Imagine witches are exiled, but it's only because they brew gender fluid in bulk in a big cauldron and exist as a huge transgender polycule called a coven.
Or Cinderella, but the real reason she ran at midnight is because she's secretly the stable-boy. :3
Or little red riding hood's grandma is actually a werewolf who ran out of gender fluid when family decided to stop by.
@gingeridot @carithlee and it has an exceedingly rare chance of failing and turning you into an animal, which is why witches care for their familiars so much.
@gingeridot @carithlee and the reason witches will grant you favors in exchange for your first born child is because it becomes permanent if you get pregnant during use of gender fluid.
@gingeridot @carithlee I'm realising now that what I've described is just the X-change fetish as a potion for a fantasy world lol
Resuna@SnapHappyFox @carithlee Or high-tech science fiction - see John Varley's Ohpiuchi Hotline series and his reboot starting with Steel Beach, where complete functional gender changing is a half-day outpatient procedure.
@resuna @carithlee born too late to explore the world, born too early to visit TitsOvernight.com and book an appointment lol
Whatever Works@resuna @SnapHappyFox @carithlee Or Iain Banks' Culture, where most people are equipped to change sexes at will, even while pregnant!
VaneshiCan you imagine the sheer volume of animal hybrids and teiflings with turbo neon hair wandering around?
Glorious.
@Vaneshi @carithlee *reads the label on the potion i just picked up*
"Potion of Horsecock"
*Squints and reads the fine print*
"Should not be used by pregnant or breastfeeding women. If Horsecock lasts more than 4 hours, please see your disenchanter."
"Potion of Horsecock"
*Squints and reads the fine print*
"Should not be used by pregnant or breastfeeding women. If Horsecock lasts more than 4 hours, please see your disenchanter."
PJ Coffey@carithlee That's a really interesting philosophical question.
You are born in the wrong body, you get given a potion when you express this*, you're biology and gender presentation are now in line with your gender identity.
Are you still trans?
*That sounds like how transphobes claim to think trans healthcare is.
undead enby of the apocalypse@Homebrewandhacking @carithlee you are, because the experiences you had differ from those of cis people. Being trans is not defined by how your body looks.
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @carithlee Did you see the OP?
If _you take a magic potion_ that means you have no memory of being in a different body and have never lived in a body that doesn't conform with your gender identity then, by your words, your experiences would be of being cis rather than being trans.
Being enby and thus trans, such a thing wouldn't have helped _me_. My problem isn't that I'm the wrong gender, it's that the binary options are not correct.
@Homebrewandhacking @carithlee I don’t see where it says it undos the past. And I agree, for me neither of those binary options would’ve fitted as well
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @carithlee
Well as you may or may not know, very young children express not being the right gender. This can become a memory of theirs if associated with a trauma like being chased down the stairs and out of the house by one's mother say. Otherwise... it's something the parents remember.
So, if you don't remember an experience at all, and it wasn't traumatic can that form your personality/identity? I think it's interesting. :)
Cherry Coakes 
@carithlee baldur's gate had a belt that would, after a period of time, just trans your gender magically and that game was made in the late 90s
@deejvalen good for them! we need more of that!
mlem@carithlee Firs thing that comes to mind is Cagliostro from Granblue Fantasy, but that was a soul transfer to a Homunculus body instead of a potion.
Jaycie@carithlee I laughed so hard I got the eye sparkles.
Harp 
@carithlee well that's it, we've got to put "the limits of what you are willing to imagine are an epitaph you wrote for your own freedom" on the list of unexpected wisdom from tumblr shitposts. next to things like that dream someone had where obama told them "violence for violence is the rule of beasts" and so on
John Beresford@carithlee Last line, yeah, but impossible to top the perfection of "Almazar's Gender Fluid." 😂
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@carithlee Damn, I want a gallon of that gender fluid so I can have fun switching my gender back and forth.
Jeff Fecke@LordCaramac @carithlee I'm not trans but I would absolutely flip genders occasionally just for fun.
@jkfecke @carithlee I'm a gender outlaw so hell yeah!
Doug Sheppard@carithlee I despise myself for needing four readings to catch the pun.
whetstonePhenomenal. Adding the Tumblr link back for those of us who want to reblog:
Dec (into the void)@whetstone
As someone who has wasted many minutes looking for the original of a widely-shared Tumblr post (some themes make that job way too difficult) so that I can reblog the actual original (and not a reblog with a cascade of replies in the comments), thank you.
As someone who has wasted many minutes looking for the original of a widely-shared Tumblr post (some themes make that job way too difficult) so that I can reblog the actual original (and not a reblog with a cascade of replies in the comments), thank you.
dAVE Inden || attks th drknss@carithlee Absolutely. It is such a mic drop.
@carithlee cc: JK Terfington
Regular Mouse 🐁@carithlee adding that one to the "raw lines from Tumblr posts" list
dampscot@carithlee I was doing research for my fantasy game world, which encompasses equivalents of Western Asia & the Middle East in the 6th C BCE
Ancient Hebrew law recognised 6 genders. Very into a more fluid interpretation
I started from that viewpoint
@dampscot @carithlee 6 genders?
*eyebrows rise*
@SitekOtaku @carithlee I have seen 6 and 8 cited
Rather than 'genders', maybe "states of being" recognised by the law
- Male
-Female
-androgynos, one who has both male and female characteristics
-Tumtum, one whose biology is unclear - aylonit, who identified as female at birth, but at puberty, develops male characteristics
-saris, who appears as male at birth, but later takes on more typically female biology.
The split to 8 is distinguishing between aylonit and saris who naturally change, and those who change though human intervention
I am not qualified to say if those distinctions were recognised or not
Maybe a good starting point
https://rac.org/blog/what-torah-teaches-us-about-gender-fluidity-and-transgender-justice
Chip_Unicorn@carithlee
Almazar originally created it to figure out who was stealing from his stores of potions. It was cheaper to make than a potion that would turn the drinker purple. The purloiner discovered something about herself -- now himself -- that he wouldn't have found any other way. After paying for the stolen potions, the ex-thief and Almazar started a business that's still going today.
Almazar originally created it to figure out who was stealing from his stores of potions. It was cheaper to make than a potion that would turn the drinker purple. The purloiner discovered something about herself -- now himself -- that he wouldn't have found any other way. After paying for the stolen potions, the ex-thief and Almazar started a business that's still going today.
Trisha Lynn 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 🇨🇦@Chip_Unicorn @carithlee Ooh, I like this iteration.
Mech MouseI'm sure AD&D 2nd Ed had a "cursed" item "Girdle of Gender-swap" or some such.
Looks like a "Girdle of Giant Strength" but swapped your Characters Sex.
I remember thinking "Doesn't sound cursed to me"... I should have known back then, but no representation, no way to have known what could have been.
Max Leibman has moved!@carithlee Love it. I was listening to the most recent episode of @parismarx ‘s ‘Tech Won’t Save Us’ yesterday, and a major theme was the struggle over whose imagination we listen to when we think about the future, and the effect that has on what we accept and what we attempt. That—and this quote—are really resonating with me today.
Fox Lee@carithlee It's absolutely incredible. That sentence is art.
Chris [list of emoji]Also: "Alzamar's Gender Fluid".
manic pixie dream butch (evil)@carithlee flashbacks to having Emotions about the girdle of masculinity/femininity in Baldur's Gate
Dr. Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh@carithlee
This is breathtakingly good. I genuinely expect to see it on those “inspirational” quote websites within a year, mistakenly attributed to Abraham Lincoln!
This is breathtakingly good. I genuinely expect to see it on those “inspirational” quote websites within a year, mistakenly attributed to Abraham Lincoln!
Alistair YoungWhat gets me, TTRPG-wise, is none of said melons remember that the Girdle of Gender Transition was in AD&D first edition. Published circa 1974. Oy.
leading cackle influencerThe last line is a great turn of phrase, but dismantling the boundaries of imagination bears costs of its own.
GI Jack: All American ZeroAs far back as the late 1990s, SMAUG based muds had a "change gender" spell.
Felicia Rabbitton@carithlee
Author: “I wrote a book in the FantasyWorld Universe”
Fantasy Fan 2: “Cool, what’s it about?”
Author: “Well this wizard finds a way to walk through time and space, saves the planet from litterally splitting in half, and she has a talking unicorn as a companion.”
Fan 2: “Wow that sounds awesome! But wait you said she…?”
Author: “Oh, she’s trans.”
Fan 2: “Wahat! You can’t make a wizard trans, it’s impossible to suspend disbelief for such things and ruins my immersion!”
Doggie 
@carithlee then we have Terraria
you shall travel across the world, places both peaceful and of dangers untold, harvest every type of herb, before you can make the Gender Change Potion
you shall travel across the world, places both peaceful and of dangers untold, harvest every type of herb, before you can make the Gender Change Potion
Alexis@lunareclipse @carithlee and then there's Noita's setting, where if you aren't careful you can turn *everything* into gender fluid by accident.