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I can provide examples of the shapes that people have drawn:

Transmasc Pikachu with stitched tail: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39071465/

Intersex Pikachu (not fully heart or square): https://www.deviantart.com/twinkel13/art/Intersex-Pikachu-561094460

Flame Tail Nonbinary Pikachu: https://www.deviantart.com/lovelatias/art/Non-binary-pikachu-706846661

Double Triangle Tail Nonbinary Pikachu: https://www.deviantart.com/attemptinggood/art/Gender-neutral-Pikachu-903517742

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I'm not going to remove this post.

Interestingly enough, I'm also a salmacian/aphrodisian (I want a PPV with no orchi), and in Summer 2022 into part of Fall 2022, I was a member of r/Salmacian's Discord server, a place in which there was significant toxicity, and the server broke with EVERY other LGBTQ+ server I've been in, and allowed people to refer to themselves with terms that would get one automatically banned from most LGBTQ+ servers. There were also other questionable managerial decisions made there.

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How is everyone?

I had to deal with a binary-only form at my dermatologist, and I went Costco shopping and I'm drained, especially after the dentist. I have an endocrinology lab tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm fine.

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Where this gets even more interesting is: Some transmasc Pikachu art features the two sections of the "heart" tail stitched together. As for how the transfem Pikachu counterpart to that would work, my guess is that it would involve reshaping of the tail.

As for Pikachu tails on Pikachus that are not male or female look, there are several ways people draw those: Some are drawn in a way that differs majorly from heart or square tails, one example being a mostly-triangular end, somewhat modeled after flames. One intersex Pikachu artwork I saw is one where half the tail is heart, the other half square. A theoretical ADDITIONAL way to draw a non-masc non-fem Pikachu tail is for the tips of a heart Pikachu tail's hearts to be a shape that is not round, so something like a triangle, square (so a notched square tail), or something else, or to have the entire tail end be an arbitrary shape. Or you could have the whole tail end in a circle. There are MANY ways to draw a Pikachu tail that is not masc or fem.

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I joined late-June to early July 2022. Also, I should mention that the "we don't want to alienate people here" was DEFINITELY what was spoken there. But not just in regards to these terms. The server admins got mad at me once when I was a bit "what" at seeing something of a golden nature in the NSFW channels. On day 1 I got DM'd by one of the admins because I was hyperverbal, even though they knew I have ADHD. So I felt like every day in that server I had to walk on eggshells. They even hated when I made an additional salmacian flag version besides their own.

Also, up until later in my time there, the NSFW channels had been named in a way that ace people had problems with.

It was quite a wild server, and not in the best way. I'll just say that (if I remember correctly) there MAY have been people who called me the bad terms, but my reaction did not consist of summoning the mods, given their stance. Because that would get ME banned. Basically, some higher-ups in the server tried to reclaim terms that were derogatorily used to refer to intersex people rather than altersex people, and, to the best of my knowledge, those responsible for the effort were either not intersex at all, or a majority were not. To use a financial analogy: they basically tried to cash a check for money they didn't have, and pulled it off by being a teller. Given how badly my call-outs of people talking to me with the word dude and then claiming "dude is a gender-neutral term" went, voicing anything that could be said about the topic of terms just didn't feel like a good idea. So I learned to just not react negatively if people called me the terms. That was a lesson there that some learned the hard way. Ultimately and in general, people there who used the terms for themselves early on in their journeys, and then stopped when joining mainstream LGBTQ+ servers ended up loving that they could use those terms for themselves again in that server, rather than on a place like SoFurry for example (shudder given its forced use of the bad term for anyone setting their gender as nonbinary). And these people didn't tend to be a small amount of the server.

Anyways, despite all that, I still call myself a salmacian/aphrodisian. Ultimately, I'm intersex AND altersex, AND nonbinary, all their own things, not conflated or anything like that, so don't worry. Understand that this SubLemmy is not something like the Century Club on Reddit. Your post actually helped out this SubLemmy a lot. Oh, and I should mention that the whole "Male/Female-to-Intersex" thing is a perfect example of Not How Intersex Works. This wasn't the wrong community to post in.

Best Wishes, stgiga