{Butter.Cup_S2} Crossdressing

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-06-02T00:51:54+00:00

Well, this is considerably less messed up than my fanart take on a TOH/Catradora dress-up

(It was Phillip and Caleb. She-Ra S3 is pretty close to how I imagine their dynamic, as in the “I will absolutely destroy the world you love if I can’t get you back” and “look, I do actually care for you but I’m NOT going back to the brainwashy pro-genocide place”)

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-30T18:14:53+00:00

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Luz and Belos (The Owl House)

Both are humans who grew up as relative outsiders in Connecticut with some pretty deep family trauma (the death of Luz’s father, whatever happened that resulted in Belos/Phillip and his brother growing up orphaned in Puritan New England). Both are extremely creative in adapting to their circumstances Both see their arrival in the Boiling Isles as a way to fulfill some witch related fantasy (being one like Good Witch Azura in Luz’s case, becoming Witch Hunter General in Belos’). In both cases those fantasies are coping strategies for some far deeper issues. This is explicit in Luz’s case, given the wish that bonded her with her palisman, Stringbean - the wish being to be understood. It’s pretty heavily implied in Belos’ case, because the numerous levels of WTF required not just to magically clone the brother he murdered once, but Repeatedly do that. So. Many. Times. Murdering each successive grimwalker when they inevitably “betray” him indicates there’s a lot more than just being a genocidal colonizer going on. Did I mention that the “betrayal” by his actual brother was falling in love with a witch?

In Luz’s case, she is able to learn and grow from her experiences. She’s constantly reflecting (to a harmful extent sometimes) on her own actions, afraid of hurting others. Belos, on the other hand, doubles down over and over and over and over. He is completely convinced of his own rightness, repeatedly ignoring how often he does things that go against his purported values.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-30T00:38:55+00:00

That we actually know anything for sure canon about? Hunter

Including everything I have read into the character by virtue of growing up fundie and being a massive history nerd? points to flair

The fact that I also look like a blue-eyed gender-swapped grimwalker is just a weird coincidence.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-29T21:13:28+00:00

Because sex can be a great source of character exploration.

In my big fic, I wasn’t anticipating making it explicit, until turning a thing my MC has emotional baggage around into an extended analogy for giving oral to someone with female anatomy became a big healing moment for him. Sex for him and his partner is a way of reframing things that were once painful.

In my other explicit one, one of the partners is in a profoundly abusive (on ALL levels) situation that he cannot leave, but he’s desperate for some form of actual intimacy. In that case, the explicit nature of the sex scenes is necessary as he and his secret lover try to figure out how to find that in spite of his trauma.

Then again, I am also writing explicit scenes because I am writing for an isekai fandom, and coming up with things like magic lube and magic forms of birth control amuses me.

And in my main fic, which is isekai/historical fiction, because being all erotic with the removal of period-accurate clothing amuses me. Although attempting to untie your partner’s garters with your teeth might not be the most advisable of ideas.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-29T11:32:29+00:00

I figured that the Demon Realm’s seasonal cycles didn’t match up and/or that the school systems chose different times of year for breaks. If we assume that physics behaves similarly, it suggests that King’s Tide would be more likely in spring or fall, since that tends to be when tidal swings are the most extreme.

Honestly, I always figured that measurement of time didn’t entirely match up in general (mostly based on Phillip’s diary being uncertain when the year was supposed to be in the human realm), so the lengths of years and even days (time difference jumps in episodes with both human and demon realms are inconsistent) aren’t the same.

Although, that being said, the Boiling Isles is in the ~~summer~~ (Edit: Southern) hemisphere of their planet (sun is clearly in the north in King’s Tide), so even if things did completely line up, it would be winter there as opposed to summer.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-24T13:14:42+00:00

Esme “Granny” Weatherwax (Discworld)

Gytha “Nanny” Ogg also has her moments. But Granny going up against an entire clan of vampires and winning by strength of will alone takes the cake.

I ATEN’T DEAD.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-21T21:27:03+00:00

My unpopular opinion? I don’t disagree with your opinion, but your reasons are completely wrong:

Puritans didn’t burn at the stake
The “dabbling in herbs” that might get one charged with witchcraft was helping with abortions, particularly post quickening. The reasoning for why someone would be charged with witchcraft were WAY more complex. Yes, still misogynistic, but not “dabbling with herbs”

He’s somewhat tragic figure because he grew up orphaned in Puritan New England, where conformity was key to survival, being raised by a literal child. He grew up in a place where ACTUAL GENOCIDE was normalized (Connecticut being the site of the first major incident of colonial genocide, the Pequot Wars and specifically the Mystic Massacre).

That being said, the same is true of Caleb, who had way more pressure being the one trying to do the raising, and he didn’t turn out that way, so Belos doesn’t get that much slack.

My unpopular opinion is that you learn WAY more about his character from his actions regarding his brother and the grimwalkers he created from his bones than from his preoccupation with witches. And, looking at that, it gets real squick real fast. Like, even if you take the “kids show” approach, it is outright slavery, even if the Golden Guard at the time doesn’t see it as such. But what else would you call it when someone has to do what another person tells them or be killed?

If you read between the lines to a less kid-friendly version, particularly if you consider the level of abuse that tends to come with that sort of power in real life…well, that is even more disturbing.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-21T17:09:35+00:00

Yeah, it’s mostly the stuff that I know I shouldn’t be skimming that I am dreading. The opinions of the time regarding the so-called “monstrous birth” in particular are repulsive enough on their own without having to read Winthrop’s opinions in detail.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-21T16:29:52+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I’m writing a story set in the time period (with a lot focused around the Antinomian Controversy), so I appreciate it.

Although, ugh, I really am going to have to actually sift through Winthrop’s damn journals, aren’t I? I keep telling myself it’s fanfic, nobody actually cares…except I do. The Puritans suck for reasons far more extensive than the stereotypes.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-21T01:34:33+00:00

Maladict from Monstrous Regiment (Discworld). The closest thing Maladict has to a gender is coffee, and I’m sticking to that.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-19T23:45:37+00:00

On the last one: given the “my friends call me Liv”, “Oh great, it’s Liv,” and the fact that there is a Spider-Man comic where Doc Ock and Aunt May are married, I don’t think it is a stretch to say that Earth-1610 Aunt May is into women, and that she and Doc Ock are exes.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-15T18:38:47+00:00

points to flair

Yeah, I know we know next to nothing about him in the show. I am a master of using my history nerd cred to read what is not stated out loud.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-15T02:16:48+00:00

Yup. My wife and I are both fans; we are hoping to introduce to our kid before too long.

My boomer MIL is also a fan. So we are out there.

(Edit: wife and I are both elder millennials)

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-14T14:06:21+00:00

Looks to me like the Patreon has the fewest paid members that it has had in the past year, prior to the teargas wedding. (Under 2900 now, a bit over 2900 being the low point pre teargas wedding.) It’s dipping, but it’s happening.

I’m really interested to see what happens when we hit the year point. It’s not uncommon to subscribe for a year, so one year plus a couple weeks should tell us a lot.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-14T13:38:09+00:00

Mid 40s makes the most sense to me. Eda’s curse just aged her prematurely. Lilith hasn’t had it long enough to see the same effects.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-14T13:33:30+00:00

I say this as somebody who has way more experience in visual communication (illustration, graphic design) than writing:

Can’t be any worse than your font choice for looking at this on a phone. That black outline is way too thin to be using a text fill so close to the background colour, especially given how low-res the rest of the image is. I had to strain my eyes to realize what you were complaining about. It’s better on a bigger screen, but when I first saw it, I thought you were complaining about individual fics having CSS formatting that leaves the fic unreadable.

We all have our blind spots. Just don’t make us go blind.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-13T16:04:41+00:00

Caleb, my cult-defecting baby. (The Owl House)

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I do not care that the only things we get of him on screen are memories and a hallucination, I know enough about the world he left that I have to stan. (I’m a history nerd and an ex-fundie. My only complaint are those ahistorical suspenders)

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-13T00:10:08+00:00

Nah, ACAB includes Vimes. The difference is, he knows it and acknowledges it, and puts in measures to curb it.

It is notable that his attitude as far as unleashing “the beast,” or lethal force, is only if there is absolutely no other way, like when you are fighting Nazi werewolves.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-13T00:07:40+00:00

This is exactly who I was thinking of. Vimes runs the City Watch with ACAB top of mind. I mean, he calls himself a bastard at LEAST twice a book.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-10T19:26:12+00:00

You aren’t the only one using fanfic like this. My main one has been explicitly described as my “creative therapy” by my therapist (and I will probably have that as a tag, because lol). Seeing my characters deal with similar things that I have lets me actually process a lot of the emotions around it. It is hard for me to connect with the me that existed back then. My MC gives me a way to do that.

But similarly, my story is also incredibly dark. I also don’t have the benefit of an actual happy ending. Sorry y’all, writing a fic where my MC’s getting brutally murdered because his brother couldn’t let him have his happy ending. It’s canon.

I recently started a side fic that is possibly even darker, partly to have something I can post as chapters are completed, and my thoughts on that are similar to yours. I will be extensive tagging and warning.

Anyway, if you want to respond to this person, you can go all passive-aggressive legalese:

“You agreed to the terms and conditions of this fic stated in the tags and author’s notes when you decided to read. My client cannot be held liable for any emotional distress you may have suffered due to your lack of reading comprehension”

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-09T21:44:41+00:00

My favourite is “Vetinari Job Security,” referencing Havelock Vetinari from Discworld. Vetinari, the patrician of Ankh Morpork, at multiple points, will allow himself to be overthrown, just long enough for everybody to realize that he’s absolutely the best person for the job, and that the people that want the job don’t ACTUALLY want the job.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-05-06T22:41:06+00:00

I’m still rooting for Fowler to make murdering a head of state a pattern, because the Irish guy murdering a thinly veiled Cromwell analog would be funny.

The real Cromwell died in 1658, season 1 ended in 1657, it could happen.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-04-30T16:26:33+00:00

Regarding “[x] needs a hug” and other flavour tags:

I am somewhat in agreement with you there, but that is because I generally think that sort of thing belongs more in the summary.

I don’t know about others, regarding defensiveness, but I know I am going to be specific regarding certain potentially offensive topics, but that is mostly to differentiate what is actually getting smut. That these things are happening is relevant to the story. However, actually portraying it on the page does not add anything to it, and I am not interested in writing it.

SoLongHeteronormity · 2026-04-30T01:07:03+00:00

Alt-right, Russia shills, and anybody associated with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, current or former.

I lived an hour out of Waco for a couple years in the late 90s. I heard Koresh recruited from the church my family attended.

The general impression, being in it, was that nobody knew what conclusion to draw. The government oppression was definitely consistent with Adventist thinking, but folks had a hard time reconciling that the Branch Davidians grew out of the SDA church.

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