Mint 🏳️‍⚧️

"Oh, I thought you were trans in like a she/they AFAB enby kinda way" is the first time someone has called me enby and made me happy as a trans girl.

Huh, my spouse was asking when it took place, and I realized I had no clue. Two years is weird, but not as weird as it could be.

I really want an Earth overrun by xenomorphs out of this. Timelines be damned.

An ad for the trans stories on Itchio collections

A screenshot of the Trans Dudes in Gay Situations collection.

Just had someone tell me my trans collections on Itchio are disrespectful because I'm "reducing" characters by their gender.

So hey, if you're looking for some "reductive" trans romance/erotica, check out the lists!

The full lists are here: www.darkchibishadow.com/post/my-tran...

How to be girl

(One sec, grabbing my ereader to see what I liked.)

I'm going to keep an eye out on case it comes back =)

I had a purple with some teal a friend put on me, but it wasn't quite right? So I tried Stardust by ILNP, and it's interesting but not the real and purple I wanted. (Kinda green/gold in direct light, even.)

This looks perfect =)

I don't want to sell Terra short. (The two genders, GIRL and NEON PINK GIRL MONSTER WHO IS A PROBLEM.)

But I never related to any male video game protagonist, then we got Terra and Celes like it was made just for me. Especially Celes' sadness.

My siblings have herb middle names, but my deadname did not. I loved mint as a name, but it felt nonbinary? Then I learned the plant was named after Minthe, the nymph beloved by Hades with powers of death and contraception, and I may not be they/them but I am she/her (nymph) and it/its (herb).

Though I'm also realizing ChronoTrigger's Schala made me wish I had a sister, which became wishing I could be the blue-haired tall magical sister.

SNES RPGs sure were something.

I don't think I've ever seen Planescape Torment's box art before, despite how often I've heard friends say they love it.

Also, FF6 definitely rewrote parts of my brain for what video game stories could be as a little girl.

Celes made me feel seen for the first time.

I will accept any and all transfemme F/F romance recommendations =) It would make me very happy after all this cislit.

Oh! And thank you =)

Ooooooooh

Oooh, what's that nail polish?

Feeling this in my reading lately something fierce. I'm happy F/F has so many indie authors writing it, but for some of these genres, I would love to see what they'd look like with a transfemme author or at least a cis author who writes us well.

Living on scraps these days =(

Yohi! <3

I'd love the safety of passing, but lesbians seeing me exist in the world seems to being them happiness, and if the day comes where that stops happening, I'll be a little sad.

At the grocery store, a girl with a wolf cut and lesbian pride paraphernalia had a serious look on her face until she saw me walking down the same aisle, then her face lit up with a smile.

I slow blinked, and she blinked back, happy.

This is how the world should be as a trans girl.

Still there for me =)

*Insecure cat girl*

Ugh, my ears are so clocky

Religious in-laws looking at us, a T4T transhet couple, trying to figure out when the sex was gay and therefore a sin versus when the exact same act was straight and therefore hashtag blessed.

(Before 2016: straight. 2016-2022: gay. 2023 onwards: straight again.)

Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.

Amen.

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

I am full of tuna and progesterone and don't want to go to the vet today. I just want to sleep.

Hey! I resemble that remark.

two frigs with the caption, "there's nothing left but mouth-to-mouth combat."

when there's nothing left but mouth-to-mouth combat

I'll work on my eye makeup!

My desire to have bangs and pretty dresses versus my danger sense telling me I leave three weeks of my mother-in-law's finishing school training as a tradwife instead of a feline puppygirl.

(I took my husband's last name when I became Mint, and it changed something in how his family sees me.)

Shopping? "I need Mint here so I can see how she looks in this."

Haircut? "Has Mint had a real haircut since 2018? We need her here."

Recipes my husband doesn't want to learn? "Well, I'll bet Mint would want to learn to make Yorkshire pudding."

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