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Is it possible I am intersex if I apparently have a very wide female pelvic bone and everything else is male?

Other comments aside, humans have at least 4 different kinds of pelvis shapes (Caldwell–Moloy classification). If you decide to look further into the research, we actually have no idea which pelvises are most common for any sex. Any research done has largely been "which best for woman give birth" and that's it.

We have no data to give a proper average of what should be expected for those assigned male at birth. We have no data for those who are intersex either but worse because even many modern practices do their best to hide everything.

No idea where you live, but to give you a start:
https://isna.org/
http://www.ukia.co.uk/

Best luck to you finding your answers.

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What is an idea you've been kicking around for a while and would really like to start...

One I've held onto too long and have recently told myself to let it go was a crossover of Waiting for Godot and Pokémon. However my brain just could not plan it out beyond the initial meta joke of "fandom in denial about TPC respecting their time/money".

As for ideas I'm still clinging to...

Crossover of YGO: Duel Monsters and CRAWL. I have a bunch of ideas doodled out and notes but don't have it properly organised. The narrator of CRAWL is absolutely King Thief they are one and the same to me lol.

Writing some wlw for Sakuna of Rice and Ruin. Sakuna and her best friend Kokorowa have a lot of fun potential! (I also need to state that I'm the only person to have written anything for this game in English. Pain.)

Pokémon GS/HGSS but specifically about the power the player (once upon a time) has over the rival's name and using that as a tool. Pokémon but what is the golden/pure heart Ho-Oh is looking for (which is now wrapped up with the other idea explaining what had happened to the Brass Tower). Fixits of all of the massive plotholes SwordShield and ScarletViolet have.

Fixit of the massive horrible mess of Pacific Rim: Uprising. So many good ideas that should of been separate films but instead they choke on each other in one.

What if Jurassic World kept the heart of the anti-capitalsim of the original book and first film. What if we explored the coolest idea in Jurassic World that was just a news clipping shoved in the background. "the worth of allowing once extinct animals go extinct again" and compared to other animals we once thought to be extinct and we are studying in real life today.

(Insert 50+ more ideas here lol)

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Fanfic Summaries

My favourite ones are:

  1. Make me laugh
  2. Make me question (either breaking preconceived notions or fun new mystery)
  3. State that its a character study/focus on making someone do something OOC but find a way to do it IC

I have no issues if its direct quotes from the story itself or just a traditional "sell" summery. Summaries that make me laugh despite the work warning that its going to be a downer does not deter me. My sense of humour is very picky and thus if someone can make me laugh I usually can safely assume that I will enjoy their style of writing even if it's main goal is here to make me cry.

However, despite me saying this I'm one of those that can forgive meh or nothing summaries as long as there is proper tagging. I will accept no summery with well written tags. However I judge HARD on "I'm bad at summaries" ones. 99% of us are amateur writers too what does stating this add? (That said, if the tagging states all of the flavours of a meal I want to eat I will check it out anyways.)

For myself I usually write traditional-styled summaries but in the briefest manner hhhhh. Suggest the question this story is here to solve and that's it. I'm not great at suggesting what the theme/genre is so I tend to lean hard on tagging for that.

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Where Do You Connect With Your Fandom?

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I very rarely share the popular headcanons too. But I just have fun hearing and helping others figure out how to tell their stories. As long as they aren't possessive/cultist about their headcanons I can have fun even if I think their ideas are OOC. It helps that at large one of my favourite things is fixing plotholes (which Pokémon has in all forms) and its just so fun to hear how people decide to fix things.

There is something special when dealing with fandoms as big as Pokémon. A lot of niché ideas have a chance to have their own subfandoms. My biggest fancomic project is full of stuff the fandom at large does not care about and have seen 90% of the subfandom declare they hate BUT here I am in a couple of Discords! (though I largely only talk in one because it's smaller and I get overwhelmed when there are too many people chatting at once despite it being in separate channels lol hhhh). When I was on the subreddit, I too often had a take considered a little too spicy at times. Oh well!

However, when a fandom is small enough usually people tend to be so thankful for content that they will check out genre/ideas they wouldn't usually if there was a bigger buffet. But often enough the small fandoms I get into are so small that I'm still the only fanfic writer for that fandom. The only conversations I've had about Dino Run have basically all been people who read my fics fandomblind lol.

So yeah, 100% me too on wishing there was more of the kinds of works I want to read.

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When's the last time you revisited a fandom?

The most prolific one I keep returning to I'm not sure really counts because it never had a full fandom. Dino Run by PixelJam was very popular when it came out (2008?). But aside from a few fanart pieces there was never any fanfic. So I would have this cycle where my brain would be consumed by this game for 1-2 months and then go dormant for 2-3 years. Every time left sad/disappointed that there was never any fanfic for it. Then in 2021 I was finally inspired to write for it. Only 2 people who have played the games have read, everyone else has been fandom blind lol.

Any of Minekura Kazuya's work. But purely for fanfiction as I have never meshed well with the artists nor general fandom. Her work while very pop also has a lot of emotional density so whether I want to or not I have to take years long breaks. But once and a while whether I'm updated or not on her stories I will check out what is out there fanfic wise. I'm usually not there for long because the most popular dynamics are not the reason why I read her works.

(will think of other examples later but these are the major 2 to come to mind)

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What Are You Reading/Writing This Weekend? (8/11)

I'm finally, finally posting my PMD/Klassen crossover! I'm playing it a bit dangerous because I haven't finished all of the pages yet. But 12 out of 17 isn't bad. I think I have finally nailed Jon Klassen's artstyle so I should have the other pages done before the 12th page finally posts. I'll find out if I regret this decision by next month.

As for reading? My usual fancomics to read (aside from a couple that finished recently!) are there. As for fics, aside from one writer everyone else seems to be on hiatus right now. Clearly this means I should start going through my Marked for Later list. Um. Well...

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What's Something You Like to Write, But Not Read?

I am very picky about my romances and for hyper-specific genres I looove reading them. Heck, I'll happily read pairings that aren't my OTPs. But I hate writing them unless there is something there to make me laugh.

I'm generally very open to reading all kinds of endings. However I cannot stand writing endings that are closed. To me that immediately makes the story too unrealistic.

One genre I have a very mixed relationship with is horror. Years of getting into unfortunate conversations with others who would be, "why wasn't this tagged for horror" or refer to me as a horror artist made me veeeery upset and it still kind of stings.

The issue with this comes from the fact that certain subject matter that are popular in the horror genre brings me a lot of comfort (most common example: existentialism dripping in voidpunk) however for a lot of people that is terrifying regardless of the goal of the work. To me, it feels like lying if I tag something as horror when the last thing I am interested in is spooking people. I also have a deep, deep hatred for the body horror tag. It's massively depressing and enraging as fuck that people who were born with or end up in a situation where they now have unconventional parts are suppose to be defaulted to the "your existence is now tragedy" genre.

Heck, in general I find the horror genre very annoying. There are works I get into but it was because of some other element. I'm not here to be scared, I'm here because that monster design was beautiful or the worldbuilding did something cool.

These days I do my best to tag warnings for elements so no one comes unprepared. However, I still don't call my work horror because that isn't the goal.

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Genres/Themes/Styles you Love, but cannot/struggle to Write

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The trick to (most of the) Mystery genre is that you have plan/write it out of order. Instead of starting and being with the main characters you start with the source of the mystery the main characters have to solve.

Because of this any writer who pants their story (and/or enjoys to also be surprised by the story they are writing) the construction of writing a mystery hugely clashes.

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What are you reading (or writing) this weekend? (7/28)

If I am fortunate I will finish another page or two of the most recent comic I'm working on (a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon that started as a parody of a classic kids book but in around 10 pages it derails very hard).

I want it to be about 80% done before I start posting it so no one has to wait as long as I have for it to finish. Wrote this script like 2 years ago at this point and the art style shouldn't of been hard to do brain whhhhhhhy

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What are you reading this weekend? 7/14?

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Usually I can be painfully patient. Just sometimes some works tease me in the right way to compulsively look up to see if they have updated random hours in a day.

However, thankfully, the works I'm being impatient on are written by people who love (and are able) to keep a schedule. As long as my brain remembers that I only have to look up those works at said specific times.

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What are you reading this weekend? 7/14?

I follow so many fancomics (most of them Pokémon) that there is always at least 10+ that update per week. For those not familiar with comic updating formats though, majority just update a page at a time. So aside from a couple it makes for very fast update reads.

Fanfic wise I'm being very impatient on waiting for the next chapters to a YuGiOh story. If my brain would be kind to me I'd doodle some fanart for it ugh.

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Is there a type of media you favor for fanfiction?

Like a_mac_and_con, my thing has often been the story's original media. Most often that is comics and games.

The greatest exception to this is the Shin Megami Tensei series and it's many spin offs. I originally got into the games. Didn't touch the original novels for a long time. I eventually got to the first one but. Oh god. The original novels are very painful to read. The kind of pain that makes me wonder how the heck did it get sequels. Why. HOW anyone was inspired to make games based off of them. The main character is no less disgusting than the villain but the narrative is all, "what a cool tragic hero this man is don't you want to be him?" NO.