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golem girl, maid of clay

@ayellowbirds / ayellowbirds.tumblr.com

polyam autistic jewitch librarian, transbian. Not remotely attracted to people who aren't attracted to trans women & nonbinary folks. Born 1983. Social Justice Necromancer. Transformers, webcomics, cartoons, superheroes, manga, many animals. Call me Rainbow, or Bow.

state of the system, edit 2022/12/4

@ayellowbirds: Rainbow Taylor, she/her or they/them. Lesbian demigirl golem.

@dzhukhe: Kerys Freeman*, it/its or she/her. Pansexual lumin gyne.

@faxedstar: Shavit MiBeyt-Halley, co/com or they/them. Asexual nonbinary coronis.

@fraylin: Aidel*** MJ, she/her. Near-human woman, possibly bi?

@neveyleh: Miriam** "Bone" Bowen, any pronouns. Genderfluid human (corpse), sexuality is "yes".

@urukuduk: Sylviandrine Augustina Attercop, fae/faer or she/her. Bisexual woman, orc/halfling mix.

*: Kerys didn't have a surname, so it asked its husband Haskell for his. This caused Haskell to briefly bluescreen, it was cute as fuck.

**: Fuck yeah! That's me, I'm not new but the realization that I'm my own damn person is.

***: Aidel is a fictive but felt anxious about using the name she had in her source media since this body is of European/Mediterranean Jewish ancestry and she's from an anime/manga/LN franchise. She showed up completely unexpectedly on December 2, 2022.

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funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls

Tags were too good to ignore.

it's kinda interesting how like

Ehlers Danlos seems to be unusually prevalent among the population of transgender jews with autism and/or ADHD diagnoses, even factorin' in conversion. Like, there seems to be a higher than baseline occurrence of EDS among any one of those groups, but you bring it all together?

this is just a very odd cluster of traits to occur with noticeable frequency

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

“if you really cared you wouldn’t had forgotten it”

is a sentence i hate. there are so many reasons to why someone has a bad memory; disorders that cause amnesia / memory loss such as DID/OSDD or head injuries, disorders that cause a bad memory in general such as ADHD or mental health conditions. even a bad diet or a lack of sleep could cause bad memory. these are just a few examples.

it’s really unfair to be accused of not caring over something you have no real control over.

i haven't seen Across the Spider-Verse yet, but i've seen enough spoilers and fanart to think people might be amused by the cover to the very first Spider-Man comic i ever owned.

(a computer virus/supervillain attack made Lyla and every other networked computer program in the city behave the opposite of their core programming, which basically just turned her yandere)

“It’s not like I like you, Spider-Baka....”

That's tsundere. Yandere is sealing your boss's fiancée into the shower as you turn the water to literally scalding temperatures, while siccing security droids on said boss and telling him that a flesh and blood woman could never love him the way you do:

“YOUR MINE, SEXY FLESHLING”

This is the only spider man 2099 c9mic I had. I think they make fun of his nose in it also

Actually, Miguel makes fun of his (own) nose, trying to throw his mom off from connecting him Spider-Man by claiming he's really short with a huge nose.

anne carson: simple moving poem about awkward dinners with not-quite-friends and the ennui that comes with realizing this mundane unhappiness is all adult life is sometimes

insane people on twitter: has she ever tried being happy? i like going to dinner with friends, what’s wrong with her? she can afford to go out to dinner, she shouldn’t complain. just be a cooler hang, skill issue. this isn’t my exact experience (i like my friends) therefore this poem is bad and unrelatable and pretentious. she can’t debone a fish? loser.

going through the quote tweets with my jaw hanging

The poem's about feeling disconnected and rejected, and the audience stumble over themselves to avoid connecting with it and to reject it. I kind of like how closely the sad fictional world of the poem and the callous reality dovetail together 💔

#i would never be sad i would never be sad i would never be sad <- internal monologue of the commentary

This misses the funniest part of one of the stupidest things I've seen on Twitter in a long time, all the zoomers who thought by "Nick and Nora" she meant "and the Infinite Playlist"

more and more of the '"if you don't have fun the way I do then you're a joyless monster who hates fun" crowd, i see. I'm guessing (but might be wrong) that the bit about the fish is because fish is often served boneless to older diners as a safety precaution?

i haven't seen Across the Spider-Verse yet, but i've seen enough spoilers and fanart to think people might be amused by the cover to the very first Spider-Man comic i ever owned.

(a computer virus/supervillain attack made Lyla and every other networked computer program in the city behave the opposite of their core programming, which basically just turned her yandere)

“It’s not like I like you, Spider-Baka....”

That's tsundere. Yandere is sealing your boss's fiancée into the shower as you turn the water to literally scalding temperatures, while siccing security droids on said boss and telling him that a flesh and blood woman could never love him the way you do:

Tips for returning twitter users:

-If it cannot break its egg’s shell, a chick will die without being born.

-We are the chick.

-The world is our egg.

-If we don’t crack the world’s shell, we will die without being born.

-Smash the world’s shell! For the revolution of the world!

redditors take note

you know what's a really neat linguistic phenomenon?

rebracketing via juncture loss

a pretty relevant example to this hellsite is how 'weblog' was shifted from its original meaning as a fusion of web and log, to blog. We don't weblog, we blog.

other examples of this in English resulted from how many articles and pronouns used to take a form with a terminal N sound before a vowel sound—you still see this with a/an, but my/mine used to be used this way as well, and it's why i doth get tetchy when i espy someone misusing thine afore a word what hath an initial consonant.

"newt" started out as "eute", but "an eute" got mistaken for "a newt". "An apron" began as "a napron", "an umpire" started as "a noumpere", and "a notch" was originally "an otch".

this is also why you might sometimes see "my nuncle" in works of media set in a period when "mine uncle" would have been a valid way to identify a man

aren't languages neat? Humans are so fun. I wish i could be around to see how things will change next.