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Opposite story, parents stressed out about a prophesy/curse that will kill their daughter at her 16th birthday, and he comes out as trans and the parents are relieved.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 hours ago

Daughter: Mom, Dad. I'm... I'm a girl.

Dad: MOTHERFUCKING FAIRIES! Not you honey, sorry I didn't mean to yell. You've done nothing wrong.

[–] Leesi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

My mom once got told by a psychic that she'd have a boy and a girl. But then they corrected themself in confusion that she'd have another girl sometime later, and that something was different/special about this correction that they couldn't fully make out.

Turned out to be very true...

Not that I believe in that stuff but it's a neat little anecdote this reminded me of.

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 25 points 14 hours ago

We're cooked chat.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

The Desert Prince by Peter V Brett.

Intersex (and gender fluid) but same deal.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 133 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 37 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

And yet transphobes can write about witches, with unfortunately great success.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 19 hours ago

and add a little anti-semetism and racism into mix in her books.

[–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

honestly it's kinda fitting. if witches were real you just know that harry potter would be a total bastardization of their culture and practices

[–] match@pawb.social 13 points 15 hours ago

just like all the real cultures depicted in harry potter as total bastardizations

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 55 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"You were a fool to challenge me. No mortal man may do me harm."

stabbing my thigh with Estradiol "I. AM. NO. MAN!"

[–] match@pawb.social 18 points 15 hours ago

transing my gender back and forth like ikaruga to bypass the final boss's multiple layers of mortal-man-proof and mortal-woman-proof armor

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

This sound like some Margaret Killjoy level stuff.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

In the short story White Water, Blue Ocean by Linda Raquel Nieves Perez, the protagonist's family suffers from a curse where the women can't lie, and the men can't fall in love.

Except the protagonist is nonbinary, so she doesn't have either affliction.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Haven't read it, but I love the premise. I think it would be better if they had both though.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I can't say I fully understood the story, but I think thematically it played a bit with the resentment some people feel towards the LGBTQ community for "playing outside the rules." Their elderly family kept misgendering them, etc.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think more restrictions on the protag. does make for a "better" story, often.

However, the curse-as-social-gendered-bonds analogy fits much better if they are excluded from both spheres. (From what I've heard; I don't have any experience as nonbinary.)

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, like I'm imagining an epic where the MC goes on a quest to find a way to love, and has to play clever word games with monsters and villains because they can't lie. And at the same time is a slightly more bumbling John Wick character because they have trouble with empathy due to the lack of loving relationships, but they can't quite pull off the slaughter that he can. They don't know exactly what they want, but they can see the contrast between the lives of the people who love and care about it, and the people that don't. And they meet friends and allies that have all flavors of loving relationships, before eventually managing to raise the curse. Details and BBEG are left as an exercise for the writer lol

I'm not non-binary either, but it sounds like a sweet premise, and I'd read the hell out of it. You're probably right about the analogy though.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Enby here, and yeah the analogy is almost spot-on. It's only missing a weird emphasis on everyone else's assumption that one of the curses would apply to them, and their grappling with the choice to either exploit or correct those assumptions in various circumstances.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

If you're interested in the story, it can be found in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023. It came out right after Roe flipped, so a lot of the stories cover gender related issues.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, wait, wait... You can lie? But... Wait. Who is the sociopath in the relationship?

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, like, the only unisex bathroom at work is a 5-minute hike down three floors from my desk but there's a gendered restroom less than 30 seconds away. I can exploit the fact that everybody assumes my gender incorrectly to use the more convenient facilities and nobody but me cares.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, that's a pain in the ass. Sorry you've got to deal with that.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Eh, there are the horrors, but there's joy too. Being invisible to almost everyone means I never get catcalled even when I'm out on a topless hike, and the few who can see me for who I am all seem to love my mixed-gender aesthetic.

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 15 hours ago

Bridget in Guilty Gear XX

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 19 hours ago

I want to read that book.

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 6 points 18 hours ago

This is, in the vaguest sense, similar to how Dreamer worked in the Supergirl show, just with less acceptance by her family. Not familiar enough with the character to know if that's true outside of the show as well.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In the Supergirl tv show, there's a hero called Dreamer. Basically, the powers are passed down from mother to daughter, and while everyone accepts Dreamer as a girl, they're surprised when she inherits the powers and not her sister.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

I think there is a villain in the Flash series that's played by a trans women and (iirc) she has gender bending powers

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Buffy reboot should do something like this with a character. That'd be nice

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 3 points 22 hours ago

I thought one of the twins in the comics was male ...

Yes, Fray's brother was male, and split the Slayer ability suite with her.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I have $5 I'm willing to chip in for an author, if anyone wants to start a crowd fund?

Hell, make it $50. It'll have to wait until payday though...

I would read the shit out of this.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

lmk if you find an author, id read it

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 19 hours ago

I doubt she's in need of commissions, but Charlie Jane Anders could write the hell out of that premise.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Eh, I've had ideas in my head similar to this, percolating around.

I've done retelling of Cinderella through trans lensing as a bedtime story, and have kinda sketched it out for eventual writing down in detail, but I've got three projects ahead of it that are going really slow because that's how I write: slooooooow.

This specific idea is a good one, but I think it would work best as a short story rather than a longer form. Maybe novella length at most. I can kinda see the layout of the story, and without a very clear vision of what happens after they've stepped into their prophecized role, it would fall apart past that point.

So it would be best served as a story with an open ended finish rather than a conclusion. That's not something that satisfies most readers. They don't think "and Rebecca walked out the castle gate, sword in hand" is an ending. But that's what the natural ending of this idea is. Once the girl is her full self, it's just another fantasy trope unless you're really careful, and even then wouldn't sustain very well without some serious passion on the part of the author.

[–] Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 22 hours ago

Came for the recs, stayed because $50 is $50.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Tap for spoilerI, too, have seen Kaos

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 18 hours ago

Spoiler

Was about to mention it. What a shame it was canceled.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

In The Invisibles Lord Fanny is brought up as a girl because he’s meant to be the next in a long line of witches.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Soa similar idea, but reversed?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I'm sure there's something like this in greek mythology.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Wouldn't that be a trans boy? I thought we were supposed to call people what they are inside.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

the prophecy fortold a female, but the child was born a male (assigned male at birth). they came out as a trans girl (male to female) so the prophecy came into effect

don't worry about it. it's kinda confusing at first, especially the phrase 'trans girl' lol

also happy cake day!

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The prophecy fortold a daughter

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 6 points 23 hours ago

i feel like you probably misread the post there friendo.