If you are trans, non-binary, autistic, amistic (ADHD), disabled, plural (of any type), and/or therian/otherkin/alterhuman and enjoy novels with science fiction style settings, you might really appreciate our stories! If you want to practice using neopronouns, we've also got you covered.
Below is a guide to what we've done so far:
(we have no idea how this compares and don't want to care)
A little risappoinyed with how s3 of picard ended. I rhink rhe rng crew gor a great dendoff, but I rhink the whole show would have been better served if Jean-Luc gave Beverly a whole:trust me" speach and then called juratiqueen to come in and offer the changeling a collective. "We are the dominion , resistance is futile," from a shape-shifting borg would have been a banging line, and Jack wanting to go join as well, would be amazing,as would have the conversations between picard and crew. I think k it would have given JL a better path to accepting his Borgness, too.and rounded out the season and ahow, better
“spicy pillow” jokes aside, I think @flowerkrone’s tags deserve a serious reply:
#my old phone looks like this on my shelf lmao #im too scared to touch it to throw it away #idk what trash this even goes into when its at this point
The pillow-shaped object here used to be the phone’s battery. It’s not a battery anymore. Now it’s a balloon full of corrosive, pyrophoric chemicals and hydrogen gas and it’s one puncture away from burning your house down. I am 100% serious. You should be scared to touch it.
But you gotta touch it, because you gotta get it out of your house before the pressure builds up to the point where the balloon pops. This isn’t going to happen soon – there is no need to panic – but it will happen eventually.
And, indeed, it doesn’t go in the ordinary trash. You put this in the ordinary trash and you’re gonna set the garbage truck on fire. Don’t do that to the garbage collectors, their job is hard enough already.
The first thing you need to do is get a fireproof container. The most common household item that qualifies as a fireproof container is a cast-iron cookpot with a cast-iron lid – often sold as a “Dutch oven.” Any other cooking container that’s unreactive, has a very high melting point, and has a lid made of the same materials will also work: enameled or stainless steel, Pyrex with glass lid, etc.
However: Do not use a pot with a PTFE-based non-stick coating. If the battery does explode, the fire will probably be hot enough to degrade a PTFE coating, producing toxic smoke. (Not that you should breathe the smoke from the battery fire either, but PTFE breakdown products are worse.) Do not use a pot made of aluminium or copper. The fire might even get hot enough to melt those.
Whatever container you use, you might have to throw away along with the phone, so don’t use your good Dutch oven for this. Go to a thrift store and buy a cheap one.
Once you have the fireproof container:
Reblog to save lives.
These batteries so need to stop being made and sold.
Put your height in the tags
There is something really interesting going on with this test so far. Take a look at the number of votes vs the number of notes.
Shorter people are apparently more likely to vote and then not reblog for some reason.
Attention ship captains galactic federation council has determined that, effective immediately, the drink" plasma fuel" is a non reimbursable item in the "entertainment category of form H, and is only reimbursable under the "PowerPower plant and weapons categories. With prior agreement and appropriate licensing
Worded another way:attention HUMANS do not use fissiable materials to make moonshine and get shit faced on the shuttle flight deck at galactic federation stations
[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]
Framing “girl” and “boy” as separate genders from “woman” and “man” is such an amazing take. it’s a framework that accommodates and explains so many trans experiences. Some trans people never were their AGAB. Some feel like they were their AGAB, but that that changed (usually when puberty hits, which is when you start “becoming a man/woman”. The accepted societal path is that girls grow up to into women, and boys grow up into men. But some girls grow up into men, and some boys grow up into women. This guy was a boy who grew up into a man, which generally works out pretty well for people. Some boys and girls grow up into people who aren’t men or women, even! It’s like this random cis guy skipped right over transgender 101, 102, 201, etc. and stumbled directly into Transgender Nirvana.
We’ve been espousing this take vocally since 2015.
We noticed this in the early fucking 1990s when talking to various peers and older adults.
Boy and girl are not exclusively childhood genders. There are lots and lots and lots of adults who still identify with the words boy or girl over man or woman. And they often have no explanation for it other than “it feels right.”
These people are not age regressors, or into child play, or pedophiles, they just prefer the one word over the other. And society does tend to oblige, at least in the U.S. The words boy and girl are both frequently used to refer to adults, especially in the realm of dating.
for the last fucking time stop policing the bodies and sexualities of real living breathing short women who like “cute” shit
it’s not pedophilia to be a short adult woman and wear hello kitty underwear. it’s not pedophilia to be a short adult woman who collects plushes. it’s not pedophilia to wear things or to collect things at all.
pedophilia is when an adult sexually preys upon a child, end of.
nothing a woman does with her own self will be “pedophilia” or “pedobait”. pedophiles do not pursue adult women who wear striped thigh highs. they prey upon children.
pedophilia is not wrong because children look a certain way, it’s wrong because they are children and children cannot meaningfully consent. there is not a single child on the planet who can meaningfully consent to sexual activity with an adult.
blaming women who are short and like certain things is misogyny, plain and simple. and I see a lot of you fuckers going after Asian women in particular, which is also actually really fucking racist lmao
donating a toothbrush to a child’s shelter would be more helpful to combat child abuse than anything you keyboard warriors are doing
guess I gotta bring this back because we’re still making takes like “it doesn’t matter if it’s a consenting adult, if you’re attracted to an adult that looks like a minor that’s still pedophilia” in the year of our lord twenty twenty-three
what do these people expect short women to do? remain chaste for all eternity? no really I want to hear the solution. what’s the solution. what do we do about short women who “look like a minor”. what do we do. what do you think we should actually DO.
when people say things like this they do not, for a single moment, consider the woman in this situation. all they’re thinking about is the remote possibility that someone’s getting a boner they’re not supposed to get.
this is the problem with basically any and all relationship and sex “discourse”. the question asked is never “is someone being harmed? is someone’s boundaries being violated? is someone’s agency being denied?” but rather “is someone getting a boner I personally believe they’re not supposed to get?”
and I am goddamn tired of it.
Everyone reblog with your most unemployable traits
We don’t look for work and won’t accept any job.
We hurt too much to work.
We have CPTSD from working.
We are plural and refuse to mask it for anyone.
We are transfeminine and use they/them (plural) for pronouns and refuse to mask any of that for anyone.
We are autistic and refuse to mask any of our autistic traits for anyone.
We don’t believe in work anymore, not in this damn country at least, and we refuse to mask that for anyone.
Draconity isn’t solely from ages past, but something that still burns bright in the modern age. This zine will be a collection of pieces created by nonhumans and alterhumans about what it means to be draconic in the present day (or even future). Also, this zine imposes no set definition on what is or isn’t “dragon enough.” If you feel like the label applies, we want to hear from you!
Both fiction and nonfiction pieces are accepted. As long as what you have in mind fits the theme, it’ll probably be a-ok.
Off the top of our head, we’re thinking of:
We welcome you to think outside the box and dig into what it really means to be draconic in the modern era!
@fenmere we dunno we thought of y'all when we saw this. :0
Rad! Thank you!
Plants what now
There needs to be more research done into this, and as of now we can't say why the sounds happen but. WHAT.
I knew they could hear noises but apparently they MAKE noises too
Cats knocking over houseplants just got a lot more vindictive
SHUT UPPPP
Plural culture is -
Okay, maaaybeeee there's more than one person in here.
Oh wow there's a lot actually. Well that should be all, I mean it's not like I'm under the same severe stress as in the past (recent post I'm not over but still).
Aaaaannnnnddddd then two more headmates appear the next time something stressful happens.
Probably doesn't help how poorly most of us handle stress. A quick thanks to both of them for helping to keep calm though.
-the worm collective 🪱🌌🪖
OK, it's like this for us, but it was never stress. The first year of system discovery was ridiculous, because we were already huge by then, and when we relaxed and said, "OK, we're plural" people started coming in droves out of the back to say "hi!" and celebrate that we were finally free! Our facebook memories from that year are hilarious:
"Well, we thought we had only 11 members, but it looks more like 42 now."
"Oop, we've just past 50!"
"We did some estimates, and it looks like we're about the size of a Galaxy class starship."
"Does anybody else who is plural know how to hold a census? Because I think we need to do that."
It wasn't until later, after several incidents of system member creation occurred while making RPG characters, reading books, watching movies, and meeting new people on the street, that we found out we make a new system member every time we have to remember anything about a new person or character.
Population: 4 fucking million as of this last April.
We've had three censuses, each held roughly a year apart, to verify the population number and growth, and they did. We randomly varied the time between each census so that we couldn't calculate the number before hand. We double checked it after we got each number.
It's an average of 230 new members a day. And we've hand counted. When we go outside and ride the bus downtown for a few hours, we see well over 460 people in a day. Add to that all the TV shows and books we watch, and the characters we make up just to entertain ourselves, and it easily averages out to that.
Our brain is on a god damn hair trigger.
I'm always kind of wary of narratives of autistic interaction that are like "well, autistic people just aren't interested in relationships, they don't like meaningless social interactions"
Because I think there is a mix of trauma, alexithymia, and false narratives being pushed by literally everyone else that leads to this being the narrative that even autistic people tell when it might not actually be the whole story
Because, like, my mum remembers me being excluded from play by other kids before I have my first memories
We know that allistic kids can tell something is "off" about an autistic kid in seconds and not want to play with them
And we know that some of the methods used by neurotypical kids to bully neurodivergent kids is winding them up - deliberately setting off sensory issues or using frustration triggers that they've identified - and that leads to autistic kids being told "that's not bullying, that's you over reacting"
And this treatment begins very young
So now you've got an autistic kid who's, say, nine or ten, and they don't play with their peers - they sit with a book or on their Nintendo or whatever
And when people (parents/clinitions/etc) ask them "why don't you want to play with the other kids?", you get the combo of knowing that "other kids bully me" isn't believed and alexithymia meaning that they know that the idea of playing with other kids feels Bad but they can't quite put their finger on Why
And when they try to rationally look for an answer, the first one that's likely to come up it's all of the technical aspects of playing with other kids, like not liking small talk because it's "pointless", that come up instead of the trauma
And yeah, I'm wary of perpetuating this narrative as autistic adults that "autistic kids just don't like that kind of play and autistic people prefer to be alone, actually" because it just kind of reeks of the "the other kids only pick on you because you're smart" narrative that absolutely did nothing to help me deal with the trauma of being bullied or lead to healthy relationships in my adult life
It's funny cause now as an autistic thirty-something a lot of my interactions with other autistic people are playfully, extravagantly, gloriously meaningless
Invader Zim was an unparalleled media experience. Some alien nearly destroys his planet so he’s banished to be a fast food worker. He decides to stop being banished when he hears he can destroy more stuff so they send him to the far reaches of space on a false mission so he dies but earth is there. He decides to collect information on the planet to collect its weaknesses by going to public school. The only people who can see through his disguise are a neglected rich kid 12 year old obsessed with Mothman and his gamer girl sister. Both the siblings are goth. The Mothman kid is the only one interested in stopping the alien but not out of any moral obligation or anything but for that sweet sweet daddy’s love. One time the Mothman kid got a therapist who killed the previous therapist and took his place, and this is a d-plot within the episode at best. The flagship brand of soda in the universe is called poop cola. There was an episode about how Zims entire alien race is more machine than human, and their entire being is contained in the little metal backpacks that are attached to them at all times, and their bodies are more things to carry these PAKS around and if they were to detach they would die while the PAK would attach to the nearest creature, overwrite their mind and kill them. This episode was cancelled to make the Christmas special. Gir is there.
your discord pfp and your tumblr pfp are locked in a room together. what happens?
In our case, we're already, always in a room together, and when it's locked, we're locked in there together.
See this person right here?
That's Eh. That's my parent. So, it's technically not my discord php, it's theirs. But we share a vessel and a system, so we share pfps. They often write to my blog, and I often write to our discord. See my php on my tumblr blog? That's me. Literally me, Fenmere.
Anyway, Eh and I have been sharing the front frequently and working together tightly to keep our vessel and psyche alive and healthy for nearly five decades now.
So, generally speaking, if you lock us in a room together, we're going to be working on how to get out of the room. And, like, if all we have to do is wait, we'll lie down and daydream together, and keep our family happy and entertained. Maybe try to get my mom, Jenifer, out to help us.
i hate slur discourse so much because historically, when was the last time straight people, as a majority, used any word to describe us that wasnt a slur?
they can, will, and do take any word we use, any word we call ourselves, and gleefully turn it into a slur.
because, in their eyes, we are what gives the slurs meaning, what turns those words into slurs. we are unclean to them. repulsive. disgusting. evil, even, in their eyes. so any word applied to us as becomes a slur, instantly.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell tumblr is all getting into a show or whether it’s just two blogs I follow that are mutuals with each other and love each other and are in some kind of folie à deux about some anime that I’ve sort of heard of or a Star Trek show that hasn’t aired for three decades. Your own dash is truly the worst way to put your finger on the pulse of pop culture
It's also fun when you hear about a show because your dash is showing it and you're like "oh is it new?" and you Google it and it's like "it had three seasons and concluded in 2018"
So, we’re watching this show, and though it doesn’t have the lesbians or the mechs, it does have all the spacebound political intrigue, anti-war sensibilities, social awareness, and sudden senseless violence that G-Witch has, and it’s got so many seasons under it’s belt!
It’s called “The Expanse”, and we’re just getting into it.
