bethofthewild

Streamer Ch. 27.3

Nik was tall, with slightly awkward posture and shoulder-length curly hair. As Sage approached, they looked up from their phone.

“Hello,” they said. “You look better than your photo.”

“Uh, thanks,” Sage said. “You wanna head in?” she asked, gesturing to the restaurant they stood in front of. “They’re supposed to have good vegetarian options.”

“Sure,” Nik said.

After they were seated, Sage tried to start a conversation. “So… you work at a t...

possible oneshot thingy

“You probably figured this out before I did, because I’m kinda dumb,” Kelvin said, “but I think I might be…”

“Yeah?” Liz said in a calm voice while internally screaming.

“You know… trans?”

Thoughts raced through Liz’s head. Thoughts such as Jesus Christ thank god finally the densest egg I’ve ever seen and Wait fuck yes hell yeah and I thought it was never gonna happen at this rate, why now, but I’m not complaining. Inste...

still feeling pretty burnt out on online cute gay romance eggy fic but ive been reading a lot of Discworld lately so here's something kinda like that

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tkLRcW_wZzSX_3lJ8vNiAuYFNn1U8vjX3WTx5atjMOA/edit?usp=sharing

there's a bit of gender in a shakespeary sort of way

flash fiction

“I'm  just trying to get my gender changed!” Ashran erupted. “This is the  fifth meeting I’ve been to this week and everyone keeps telling me I'm  someone else’s problem.”

“Well, here's your problem,” the Bureaucrat signed by wiggling its  wheel of eight feet around a huge central eye. The small imp on Ashran’s  shoulder rapidly translated and gibbered into Ashran’s ear.  It had  dark, heavy lashes. Ashran idly wondered if it used m...

Making My Friend Roleplay Yuri

“I just wanna experience the yearning, man!” Elliot exclaimed. “Just once in my life I want that experience of a yuri protag.”

“We literally don’t know any girls who will talk to us and also you’re a guy,” Owen pointed out.

“Yeah, well, there’s some manga that’s basically yuri but between two crossdressing guys. Close enough,” Elliot said.

“Send me a link?” Owen said. “Also, no, dude, I’m not gonna dress up and go on a pretend date with you.�...

update: gonna take a break

I’ve been struggling with depression and anxiety lately and I’ve been putting a lot of pressure on myself to write and yet have had a really hard time actually writing because lately it’s been feeling like a chore rather than something I do to express myself.

I think I need to take a break for a while until I get into a better headspace about it and don’t feel so much obligation. I’m going to pause the Patreon for at least a month (not exactly sure how long yet) because the fa...

Streamer Ch. 27.2

“Maybe we’ll actually meet up,” Sage said. “Although to be honest people keep flaking out on me or canceling at the last moment or putting things off forever. I can’t help but feel like people don’t want to admit they’re unwilling to date a trans girl, but they’re not actually willing to meet up with one either.”

“Bleh. I feel that, honestly,” Mel said. “Thank god for T4T. Anyway, speaking of, you wanna go, uh, do some stuff in the other room.”

Sage glanc...

quick update

been feelin real crappy in various ways lately. haven't been able to write much. sorry. 

Magic

“I’m sorry, but it’s about the principle of the thing,” the middle-aged bureaucrat explained. “The way she transformed you was illegal. There are processes for these things, you know. There are processes.”

“But I didn’t want to be changed back!” Nigel protested. “I liked being Nigella! I told your cops that.”

“They’re not ‘my’ cops, thank you very much,” the bureaucrat said, “and that’s just standard procedure. We can’t be making exceptions fo...

Streamer Ch. 27.1: Two Years

“I’m a little more hopeful for this date,” Sage said to Mel. “Nothing about astrology or Myers-Briggs in their bio and they seem relatively gender-y and chill and lowkey.”

“Gay,” Mel said. “I do love to see my girlfriend enthused about potential future homosexuality. Poggers.”

Sage felt vaguely relieved that Mel seemed actively in favor of her dating other people. Even though the two of them had talked about it, she still had a little voice in the back of her hea...

i'd repost this here but i feel like it needs the css nonsense

extremely short thing

been feeling sick recently (sinus infection i think) and just kinda having writer's block/mental health stuff so i haven't really been able to write much but here's a really short thing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WTzNaW4MiWHWJFN7kNwF70dmyJwecierNSoPhILHp40/edit?usp=sharing

AAA: Accidental Anime Assassin | First Kill

A rare Beth thing without any gender! Somewhat unhinged and queer-coded tho. CW: Death, blood, vomit

Akiko was a terribly clumsy girl and she often found herself in difficult situations due to unlucky accidents. Today, she was starting at yet another new job. Hopefully this time she’d make it at least a day before getting fired.

She felt like she’d already done a bad job. She had tried to pick up a pan by its hot metal handle, and ended up burning her fin...

Physical paperback of Crossplay

We ended up having to give up on Amazon because they kept sending us the same useless form email over and over and never responded to all the evidence that I'm the actual copyright holder, so we ended up going with Lulu.

https://www.lulu.com/shop/e-j-martin/not-technically-crossplay/paperback/product-6pmq7v.html?page=1&page...

New Year's Resolution

“I swear this year I’ll actually follow through on my resolutions,” Max firmly said to his image in the mirror. Unfortunately, his mirror self looked somewhat skeptical. “No, really.”

He glanced down at the list he’d written in his leather-bound bullet journal–one of the first things he’d actually written in it, after an aborted attempt at keeping a daily diary.

• better/more stylish haircut
• deal with acne
• eat better...
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Book on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQLG4Y8B

Decided it wouldn't hurt to try and sell a thing I wrote as a Kindle e-book. I'd really appreciate any purchases or positive reviews so that hopefully it can get actually recommended to people by the Amazon algorithm. Thanks to my sister Amy for handling most of the typesetting and cover and such <3. You could follow her Twitter bot maybe lol 2022-12-20 18:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The Gender Out of Space: Part 1

I was one of several experts on marine biology summoned to that beach in Florida. For the most part, the job was far from glamorous–you’d be surprised how much of my time was spent on boats taking regular measurements of all kinds of data: depth, temperature, clarity, salinity, acidity, and so on. Yet this potential discovery had my hope piqued in a way that it had not been since I was a bright-eyed undergraduate.

I’d always dreamed of a species named in reference to my favorite a...

Streamer Ch. 26: One Date

Sage anxiously checked her phone again. Still nothing. Where the hell was she?

Sage wasn’t really sure if she was looking for friends or for a date, but it should be fine either way. She’d talked to Mel about it and they’d agreed on having an open relationship or being polyamorous or whatever you wanted to call it. Still, with her vaguely Protestant middle class suburban background, she couldn’t help but feel like she was doing something wrong.

She was just about to give u...

fake video game plot

not really related to anything but i felt like making up a fake vidya jame

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11ZaUaiDnAw4XWIGFxaX0qZ1aQFR6W0W95tgRqhtOFY0/edit?usp=sharing

Heterosex Ch. 15.2

Steve

“How are you feeling?” I asked Maddy as we watched her parents drive away.

“I’m okay,” she said. “I mean… I’ve been better, but at least I feel like I can finally relax now. Wait, except I said I’d email them about gender stuff when they got home. Fuck. I gotta write that. Welp, I have immediately returned to being stressed.”

I gave her a hug. “I can help you write it, if you want.”

She sighed. “It’s fine. I feel like ...

Becoming a Vtuber Ch. 3.1

“So snail is katatsumuri,” Taylor muttered to himself. “Not sure how to get a name out of that. Oh, Kaigara is a surname. Maybe I can do something with that?”

After looking at vaguely relevant Japanese words for a while and not finding any inspiration, Taylor decided to branch out to other languages. Scrolling through a list of translations of the word “snail”, one word caught his eye.

“Halazuna,” he muttered to himself. “That sounds kinda nice....

Childhood Friends Ch. 3

Sarah couldn’t have told you pretty much anything that had happened in the sci-fi thriller that she and Olivia had just watched. That was partly the movie’s fault for being a bit generic, but mostly her fault for looking at Olivia rather than at the movie. She wanted to say there was something about a time loop?

Anyway, she breathed in and out again, trying to calm herself down as suggested by her therapist.

“...That sound okay?” she caught Olivia saying.

“Uh, I’...

Becoming a Vtuber Ch.2

Taylor watched as the cute girl on the screen mirrored all of his movements. He was hypnotized.

“–Taylor? Hello? Taylor?”

Taylor blinked, realizing he’d just missed everything Ben had been saying. “Sorry, I… could you repeat that? I was kinda zoning out.”

“No kidding,” Ben said. “Anyway… do you like her? If there’s any specific things you want changed, I can talk to the artist and–”

“No. She’s perfect,” Taylor said. “What’s her nam...

Streamer Ch. 25: 50%

“What’s up with Z, by the way?” Sage asked Mel. “I haven’t seen them in months.

Mel sighed. “Not gonna lie, they’ve kind of been getting on my nerves lately. They probably spend too much time on Twitter and they have their weird rich family background so sometimes they have really weird bad takes. Like, they were furious that the semester at their private art school might not happen and the tuition their parents are paying might be wasted because the faculty was going on s...

Halloween

“What exactly are you supposed to be?” Josh asked.

Sam shrugged. “Either a glam rocker or a pirate, I guess? I didn’t really plan anything so this is just what we had around the house. I think this used to be my grandma’s jacket.”

“Well, it should be good enough to get into Tiffany’s party, at least,” Josh said. “I heard she turned some guy away earlier because he said his costume was ‘guy who forgot to wear a costume.’”

“I mean, yeah, it’s a co...

Trans Group Crush Ch. 2

Robert looked around nervously before entering the small meeting room. Even though he didn’t actually think he was doing anything wrong, some part of his brain felt like people would somehow know that he was going to a campus trans group for what was probably the wrong reason. Admittedly Maya had said that allies were welcome, so maybe it was fine.

He was an ally, right? He definitely thought that trans people deserved rights, which seemed like it should be a low bar but somehow appar...

Heterosex Ch. 15.1

Maddy

“Hi, Mom!” I said weakly as my parents reentered Steve’s house.

“Hi, honey!” my mom said. “Where were you this morning? Your father and I were hoping to see you before we left.”

I shrugged. “I went to go get some work done.”

“Work,” my father said. You could practically hear the scare quotes.

“Yes, dad,” I said. “Art is a lot of work.”

“You’re just sitting there,” he said. “To me real work is movi...

health update

ragweed allergies have been absolutely murdering me lately and i haven't been able to get much done but good news is that i'm feeling somewhat less bad today. hopefully that continues

Lovecraftian WIP

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lfCTT5U26M6BIMGp_fiDXR9mGJ331rTyeBD-7ZRHgoQ/edit?usp=sharing

Becoming a Vtuber Ch. 1

“Seriously, dude, you could make so much money! Just think about it, okay?”

Taylor rubbed the back of his neck and avoided Ben’s gaze, feeling embarrassed by what had just been implied about his voice.

“I don’t sound that much like a girl,” he muttered. “My voice just hasn’t dropped yet but it’s gonna soon.”

“Sure, dude,” Ben said, “although I feel like that should have already happened given that you’re, like, 19.”

“Not for ano...