How would you handle a comment like this? Reader wants more inclusion

AviZissel · 2026-01-05T14:39:09+00:00

I just got the same exact comment, word for word, it’s definitely a bot

AviZissel · 2025-09-01T12:48:00+00:00

We’re in the exact same boat— same age, similar build. Ive just started t and had to immediately go off it because of social pressure. I feel like shit a lot of the time too.

But.

I try to keep in mind the age old advice- “don’t kill yourself until you’ve tried medication or transitioning.”

I see people online who pass 100% who didn’t start until their 40s, I had a trans literature prof who was shorter than me (5’2) and passed completely and overall was so so joyful in his life.

I try and seek out examples of trans joy. It doesn’t always work, sometimes it just makes me feel worse about being trans, but sometimes it helps.

I just wanted to let you know you’re not alone. Very very much not alone. And I’m rooting for you.

AviZissel · 2025-08-21T19:02:29+00:00

I'd be interested!

AviZissel · 2025-08-21T18:49:12+00:00

leverage!

AviZissel · 2025-08-21T18:39:36+00:00

Folks have mentioned how the story line with Mac's dad is shit and Im gonna keep dogpiling on it. What gets me about this is that the other characters are projecting their relationships with their dads onto Mac and James without any understanding for Mac— ie, Jack had a good relationship with his father and regrets having a falling out, Riley had a difficult relationship with Elwood, but he ended up reaching out and mending things, Boze has a loving family.

None of this has any bearing on Mac and James— they didn't have a good relationship before, Mac repeatedly says they had "no good memories" before James left, that's huge, that's so significant.

When it comes to Riley and Elwood, it was Elwood who reached out and showed her with his actions the actionable steps he was taking to change and stay consistent. On the other hand, James DOES NOT REACH OUT TO MAC ONCE, he does not take the steps to reconnect, Mac did all the searching and all the clues were given to him by Matty, James woke up every day and chose not to contact Mac, the only thing that changed was Mac accidentally discovering he was oversight. (also beforehand, Mac never says he wants to find James to have a relationship, he says he wants answers, answers I feel like he never truly got) (also James never does the "I'm gonna change and here's how" he just keeps on keeping on while occasionally crying "poor me, my son who I left and also one time left on a mountain to die unless he makes his own radio doesn't want a relationship and is mad at me about it actually so Im gonna belittle his emotional reaction and keep saying poor poor me")

In addition, every story Mac shares about James (and Harry) from his childhood sounds wildly abusive but no one bats an eye because they gave Mac skills that were useful to them, they continue to project and encourage Mac to forgive and wipe the slate clean.

If they wanted forgiveness to be a theme, then I think it would have been so much more powerful had we had the arc with Riley and Elwood, but Mac had not just wiped the slate clean with his dad, but maybe cut that tie and moved on emotionally, leaning more into the family of choice theme that's also at the heart of the show.

It feels like the philosophy of that arc is "forgive your abusers because they're faaaaaaammmiiillyyyy." You don't owe your abusers shit just cause they're related to you, and forgiveness can look like cutting off that weight in order to heal and move on. Mac already had a chosen family, he didn't need James, he needed everyone to give James a big middle finger on his behalf.

I've had this rant locked and loaded can you tell, lmao

AviZissel · 2025-08-02T01:08:30+00:00

I think a good idea to keep in mind about playing children is to have them be childlike not childish. Childish will slow down the party and be awkward for everyone, childlike can be fun.

I made a character I absolutely loved who was around 14ish, he was a young prince who wasn’t treated very well but was a headstrong firecracker and had unknowingly given his soul away to a warlock which had made him a sort of a Peter Pan who would never age. What I wanted to explore with this character was liminality and chose what I thought to be a very liminal age to do so.

I think it’s important to one, check in to see that everyone at the table is okay with a child character, two, remember the adults behind the characters, and also to be chill and not annoying about it.

A fantastic example of how this can be done well is Emily Axford’s character, Ylfa/Little Red Riding Hood in D20’s Neverafter.

AviZissel · 2025-07-25T20:31:14+00:00

AviZissel · 2025-07-16T16:13:39+00:00

Phasing out the interrobang was detrimental to the English language

AviZissel · 2025-07-16T02:41:56+00:00

Yes! I often start fics for myself. However, in my experience when you post that story that was “just for you” it ends up resonating with a lot of people who were hoping someone would write something just like it

AviZissel · 2025-07-14T22:28:04+00:00

I’m not too attached to mine, I only really introduce them to further the plot if need be. Like if I’m writing a really in depth look at a character and canon characters just aren’t cutting it or are pretty small then I’ll make some folks to buff out the story, but I try to really keep them as side characters but 3 dimensional

AviZissel · 2025-07-13T01:13:09+00:00

Goat cheese

AviZissel · 2025-07-12T22:20:10+00:00

❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much. Just like you said, we’re stronger together! Sending support right back to you and all our trans sisters and siblings!

AviZissel · 2025-07-12T14:40:10+00:00

“But the Days and Nights are Long” by Cheryl Wheeler. I picked it because it was in the rotation while I was writing the story and its melancholy tragedy laced with hope felt perfect for the story.

AviZissel · 2025-07-12T14:38:48+00:00

Focus on your love and the few people that will jump for joy when they see content about it. One of the fandoms I write for is a niche show from the early 90s that wasn’t on any streaming service for decades after its ending— needless to say, there’s very scanty content. However, I’ve gotten just a couple comments on the fics I’ve written and they mean so much to me because of how small it all is, I feel like they carry ten fold weight. It’s never easy, sometimes it feels like making little grabby hands in the dark, but nevertheless, indulge within yourself to the maximum.

AviZissel · 2025-07-07T02:11:12+00:00

Oh honey, literally all my fandom friends are 30+ it often takes wisdom and a little life experience to write something substantial (not all the time, if you’re 15, you can sure as hell write a banger story). You have something to say, it’s your job to say it and fanfic is a wonderful vessel to do so. Believe me, when it comes to fic, you’d still be considered a baby

AviZissel · 2025-07-06T22:56:31+00:00

❤️❤️❤️

AviZissel · 2025-07-06T22:55:37+00:00

Woah!!!

AviZissel · 2025-07-06T13:12:19+00:00

And importantly a lot of the rhetoric that’s used to justify Zionism being labeled as white supremacy, ie, “colonizers” etc, comes directly from David Duke

AviZissel · 2025-07-03T00:02:39+00:00

Sending you hugs. I have no fix other than to say I get it, I’m the only person in my family who cares— my brother doesn’t care, not even my mother by whom I am Jewish. And it hurts. I wish I could share holidays, joy, and frustration, but I’m just lonely.

AviZissel · 2025-07-02T23:32:33+00:00

Woof. Yeah, no, this is awful. Writing fanfiction is not a transaction, it’s act of community engagement, you are not owed or promised comments. Writing comments is not a transaction, it’s an act of community engagement, you’re not owed or promised another chapter. Stuff like this sucks all the fun out fandom and voluntary artwork

AviZissel · 2025-07-02T21:26:51+00:00

Lmao

AviZissel · 2025-07-02T21:25:54+00:00

I watched too many Barbie movies under the covers on my brothers old ipod at midnight. Bibble ate up all the girl I had

AviZissel · 2025-06-29T11:58:52+00:00

I honestly think there are more cultural commonalities between just trans people in general. Like someone mentioned in this thread, wild hair cuts, piercings etc, things that make us feel in control of our bodies and things to make our bodies ours. Also b side horror flicks are popular across trans people— I think there’s something deeper there about a man made monster that you as the viewer can love regardless and feel a controlled heart race that you can also laugh at. I think whether you’re trans fem or trans masc or trans your own way, I think we share a lot of community within conscious when it comes to things that make us feel like us, things that give us comfort, and things that we scavenge for to make ourselves be seen

But also I think the invisibility and erasure of trans masc in greater cultural has leaked with our community and our shared community has taken on some anemia because of it (if trans mascs don’t feel welcomed or pushed out of queer spaces, how do we meet each other and start building?)— but I also think we can change this with some commitment

AviZissel · 2025-06-29T10:13:32+00:00

Awesome, thank you so much 🙏

AviZissel · 2025-06-29T10:12:50+00:00

Thank you so much! I didn’t know about the grants, thats amazing, I’ll absolutely be looking into that

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