William Elisabeth Cuthbert

@willofwands.bsky.social

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Nonbinary transmasc writer/journalist with a trauma-informed Lord Byron novel WIP. Away with the fae since ‘92. Disabled (AuDHD + Fibromyalgia) | Pansexual | Ace/aro spec | Pagan witch 18+ only

Mr Chapman began to talk in a loud voice about the situation in the House of Commons. He guffawed at his adversaries. The word doctrinaire - word full of terror to the British mind - reappeared from time to time between his explosions. An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. He hoisted the Union Jack on the pinnacles of thought. The inherited stupidity of the race - sound English common-sense he jovially termed it - was shown to be the proper bulwark for society.
From a BBC news story: Parents should be involved in the "vast majority" of cases where a child questions their gender, according to new government guidance for all English schools. The legally-binding advice says schools should not initiate steps towards social transitioning - when pupils change their name, pronoun or clothes to reflect their gender identity - and should instead consider carefully what other support a child might need. In primary schools in particular, full social transitioning should only happen "very rarely", it says.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2026 Teachers should respond to social transition requests with caution under new gender guidance for schools * Guidance for gender questioning children is clear schools should take a careful approach when a child asks to social transition * Builds on the Cass Review by embedding gender questioning guidance into the statutory safeguarding framework * Sector backs clear and pragmatic guidance for schools and colleges to engage with parents Schools and colleges will soon have clear and pragmatic guidance instructing them that they must take a very careful approach when a child asks to socially transition. Legal duties will be absolutely clear after government embeds guidance within Keeping children safe in education, the established statutory safeguarding framework schools are expected to follow. Backed by Baroness Cass, whose review warned that strong evidence about the impact of social transition remains limited, the guidance says children's wellbeing and safeguarding must be at the centre of every decision and schools cannot take a one size fits all approach. It clearly sets out that single sex spaces must be protected. Without exception, no child should be made to feel unsafe through inappropriate mixed sex sport, and there should be no sharing of school and college toilet facilities over eight years old or mixed sex sleeping arrangements on trips. It is also vital that schools and teachers are aware of any child's birth sex to be able to take appropriate action where needed, so the guidance will also make clear that this must be accurately recorded in school and college records.
Screenshot of a tweet, text as follows: "Another victory for [hashtag] common sense in Kent - my brilliant cabinet member Cllr Paul Webb has just got this trans material removed from the children's section of all Kent's libraries. Telling children they're in the 'wrong body' is wrong and simply unacceptable." The book being referred to is The Autistic Trans Guide to Life by Wenn Lawson and Yenn Purkis
I’m a white trans masc with blue eyes, and curly light brown/auburn hair and beard. My hair’s greying gracefully and I have deep smile lines around my eyes. I wear a silky shirt with large pink flowers on dark blue background over a grey tee. Also have on an acrylic art necklace that looks like blue and white ocean waves, framed in a black circle pendant on a black chain.
A lush, if faded Elizabethan tapestry. Two central make figures in romantic Ancient Greek armour and garb embrace and look adoringly into each other’s eyes, as if they’re about to kiss. They’re surrounded by fabulously dressed revellers, cherubs, and maybe a small leopard
I’m a white, autistic trans masc with curly light brown hair, wearing my black bomber jacket with cream wooly collar. I have several trans flag coloured badges pinned to my collar. My two Trans+ History badges say ‘Always Been Here’ and ‘Trans+ History Week’. I also have my name and pronouns badge (pronouns sadly slightly outdated) and my Literary Tarot card pin with happily accidental trans-flag-ish colours. Trans+ witches represent!
Bunches of cut forget-me-nots and bluebells in a painterly bee-patterned bowl. They’re displayed on a mantelpiece next to a small amethyst obelisk, with statuette of stag-antlered Cernunnos blurred in the background. Cernunnos holds a large torc, and a snake’s wrapped around his other arm. You can just see his cute little baby deer friend peeking around him too.
Me, a white trans masc with blue eyes, curly light brown hair and facial hair. I smile gently into the camera. I'm wearing glasses with clear frames, and a navy top with brown contrast lining inside the collar, patterned with multicoloured leopards, flamingoes, and blue and white flowers. Under the collar of my top I'm wearing a necklace of spiky pink, green and black shards of gemstone.
Copy of ‘James Miranda Barry’ by Patricia Duncker, on our historical fiction shelf
A witch’s altar with sacred and spellwork objects on a black velvet cloth covering (including a black tourmaline orb, barn owl feather, spell jar, small cast iron cauldron and mini broom). At the front is a quartz crystal charging plate, with a red/green bloodstone pendulum and a bright red/orange carnelian heart on top
Our doorway and funny tiny entrance bit, with black mould climbing all the way down the wall next to a shoddily double glazed window
I lick a rainbow sprinkle ice cream cone with Pride festival glitter on my face and wear a gay, purple tiger-stripe pattern scarf, while looking chronically unmenacing
Lord Byron’s bedroom at Newstead Abbey, featuring the poet’s own four-poster bed draped in pale green and gold, topped with golden coronets at each corner. A desk with a mirror stands by the window, overlooking the grounds towards the lake.
A book on a table in a library. Its title is ‘So you want to be a FROG’, in a speech bubble as if a big green frog tipping a purple cap is saying it. A smaller, darker green frog says, “Everything there is to know about frogs!” Author is Jane Porter, illustrated by Neil Clark
Me, a white trans masc with short light brown hair and blue-grey eyes, wearing glasses and a charcoal grey top. I’m sitting in front of a brightly decorated festive tree.
Me, a White trans masc with glasses, curly light brown hair and short beard, and a pink and blue dragonfly tat at the top of my right arm. I’m sitting against a stone monument with my legs crossed. I’m wearing a purple tiger-striped infinity scarf with some silvery accents, a sleeveless black top, long black floaty skirt, and black platform Docs with yellow and black striped laces. I’m sorta smiling but mostly smizing (my face was being autistic about having my photo taken)
Classic illustration of Alice in Wonderland holding the “Drink Me” bottle with the quote: ‘Sometimes I’ve believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast.’
Black and white cat with eyeliner markings, pink nose, and super fluffy belly, sleeping in a near-helix position on a brown throw blanketed sofa. His back legs and belly are in the air, and his head and neck are at a right angle to the rest of his body. The side of his face is smooshed in the sofa.
Scorpius, Chiana, Rygel, D’Argo, Aeryn, Crichton, Zhaan, and Crais from very gay Jim Henson Company-produced sci-fi show Farscape
Me with my moustache, chin and jaw shaved as of night before. There’s a patchy shadow that’s darker around my chin. I have my right arm crossed over my chest’s soft and swirly hair, showing off the pink, blue and orange watercolour dragonfly tattoo on my upper arm and shoulder. My face, neck and forearms are slightly tanned and freckled, but the rest of me is still white as white bread 🍞 😛
A cute little Black kid with cheek freckles in a spider costume, carrying a pumpkin shaped treat bucket with cut-out glowing yellow eyes and mouth. The costume has a black top with a bandage-wrapped effect, black trousers and shoes, and a huge purple head that shows the kid’s face through a hole in the centre. The head piece has long bendy legs sticking out the side, and big oval shaped orange eyes on top.
10 Things You’re Actually Saying When You Ignore Someone’s Gender Pronouns: 1. I know you better than you know yourself 2. I would rather hurt you repeatedly than change the way I speak about you 3. Your sense of safety is not important to me 4. Your identity isn’t real and shouldn’t be acknowledged 5. I want to teach everyone around me to disrespect you 6. Offending you is fine if it makes me feel more comfortable 7. I can hear you talking but I’m not really listening 8. Being who’s you truly are is an inconvenience to me 9. I would prefer it if you stopped being honest with me 10. I am not an ally, a friend, or someone you can trust
Patum Peperium ‘The Gentleman’s Relish’ Spiced Anchovy Relish The Original 1828 Recipe Delicious On Hot Toast
Meme of an anime character holding up a piece of paper with "advertise your BlueSky account in 3 words"
Peter B Parker from Across the Spiderverse in his very trans pink robe, with baby Mayday strapped to his chest in a carrier
A tuxedo cat with mask markings on his face, a cute pink nose and seriously fluffy belly stretched out on a sofa, his head at a silly side angle and back legs in the air
Me with dark pinkish red dyed hair, dressed in a pink and white striped shirt ready for the family dinner 😇
Foxes In Love comic Instagram: @green_fox_blue_fox Twitter: @foxes_in_love tumblr: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com Green fox says “Please respect my boundaries and be nicer to me, or you won’t see me again.” Two grey foxes say “Stop making such childish and unreasonable demands.” Green fox says “Okay” and walks away as grey foxes shout “Hey!” behind its back Green fox finds blue fox and a line of hearts floats above in the space between them Narration: [And green fox lived happily ever after With people who don’t think that’s unreasonable]
A plaque that says (starting with top left) ‘tits - pecker - boobies - cock’ below illustrations of the respective birds
Skin-faded, wide faux hawk hairstyle on a White trans masc with thick, wavy light brown hair, patchy goatee, light blue eyes and glasses. Standing in front of a mirror so you can get the look from front and back 😎
Monochrome photo of me, a white trans masc with tousled quiffed hair, sideburns and a patchy goatee, wearing glasses and a knit jumper
Me with short, dyed auburn hair on top and DIY skin faded sides, wearing my very old and faded Ghost (the heavy metal band) tee and a grey wool poncho tucked back over my shoulders. There’s an expanse of field by a river in the background with a line of trees in the distance.
Orange and green stripy socks that have button eyes on top, flappy legs and a little tail for the toe, so they look like cute monster lizard critters on my hairy legs. They have red ribbon suspenders too. Trans flag hanging in background for the added gay 🏳️‍⚧️
I have kinda quiffed soft fluffy hair and a goatee. I’m wearing a tee under a floral shirt (and no binder *gasp*) and a multicoloured necklace with concentric circles. My glasses are leaving a shadow across my cheeks and adding to the general moodiness of the pic. There’s some cool art of a transmasc body over my shoulder.
Me with a goatee, long sexy sideburns, and longer stubble on my jaw and upper lip. Also dreamy window reflections in my eyes 🤩
Breaking News: 7 trans protesters in Iowa have been criminally charged 100+ people attended the protest but the only people charged were trans [Image shows a protest with many people holding placards, one reading ‘People Experience Gender Differently’]
“My grass,” cried Mr Fussy. “My straight grass. You’ve bent it!” And he got down on his hands and knees, and started straightening the grass.
Batman Returns poster featuring Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Michael Keaton as Batman, and Danny DeVito as The Penguin, with a bluish tinted backdrop image of seedy-looking Gotham City
Me with no glasses wearing a black binder, a necklace with pink, black and green rough crystal fragments, and a black stud in my ear. I’m smiling and my hair is styled short with a tousled fringe. My red/pink, blue and orange dragonfly tat is just in shot on my right arm.
Me being cosy and doing a funny little snaggletoothed looking smile while cuddling my black and white cat
‘Nut safe’ inside a double teal / pale blue heart
A psychedelic bagel filled with my top Spotify Wrapped genres - permanent wave, progressive metal, electro pop, movie tunes, and modern rock
Kids phonetic reading book titled ‘Short is good’, with a picture of two boys with arms around each other’s shoulders
A bridge over a river in the mist. Old factory buildings and bare trees look almost silhouetted in the background, and low sunlight barely breaks through the clouds.
Farscape poster with just five of the world-endingly sexy main cast
Your sex life is now called the last thing you watched. What’s the title?
Cover for S.T. Gibson’s EVOCATION novel - art by Eleonor Piteria and design by Alice Coleman. Main character David is posed upside down as The Hanged Man in Tarot card style, wearing a black and grey three piece suit. Candles burn behind David, a red demonic arm reaches a hand over his heart, and his blazer lining is detailed with a repeating eye pattern. There’s a teal, black and silver colour scheme - all silver areas will be foiled on physical copies.
Me, a white trans femboy with light brown hair, wearing glasses and a grey hoodie. I’m smiling cheekily into the camera in front of art prints of a purple cosmic angel and a ship on choppy water.
It’s 1987 and you just bought this. What’s the first song you play? [Image of a chonky metallic grey ghetto blaster]
A happy yellow windsock man bent at a very gay jaunty angle in a hand-on-hip pose
Me framed by the light at the end of an arched, grey stone tunnel
A book wrapped in black tissue paper with a wax seal; a small chocolate bar; an Angry Robot bookmark with a galaxy pattern; two votive candles, and a flowering tea packet all with a teal/black/silver colour theme
A low distressed red leather chair