Transfeminine Limit Ordinal

Hi! I'm Tesseract, or Tessa for short. it/they (+ certain neos). transfem enby, ace lesbian, robot person ⎇ joyously married to @wishuponastarion for 16 years and counting. In my 30s. PhD in math; also into: crochet, writing, robots, toki pona, game dev, etc etc etc. Host of a plural system of 5. See @nova-facet, @sparky-facet, and @zenith-facet.

[abalidoth]

Reading a robot poem at a talent show tonight, so I decided to go all out with the circuit board eyeliner.

[mercuraro]

off topic to the absolutely amazing and brilliant new game changer ep, but i just have to say how much i loved hearing jiavani and demi be referred to as she/him and he/they, respectively, so naturally by sam and the cast. i don't think we'll see mainstream media refer to, let alone cast, genderqueer and gnc people with such normalacy.

obviously they have been referred to correctly on other shows but the constant uses of pronouns in the "count the rice" song just made it really prominent. idk im just so happy

[unlikely-course]

Ify is in an episode of Game Changer. Zach and Jiavani are in The Good Place. Anna is in the timeloop. Demi is in a Charlie Chaplin film but that film is also a Mario 64 speedrun. Hannah Pilkes is having the day she always has but in the backrooms, and Catherine McCafferty is of course in As Above So Below.

[asphor]

I really loved this bit

[abalidoth]

I bought an absolutely wild cyberpunk book today.

[buginateacup]

yesssssssss! Marianne de Pierre's is amazing! We have at least two more of her books on our shelf!

[abalidoth]

Oh, that's wild! This was all on its lonesome in a used bookstore in Washington state

[themaveriqueagenda]

the 2026 gender census is open! you can find it here.

if you don't know what the gender census is, it's an annual survey about the language that people who fall outside the gender binary of "always, fully and exclusively male" and "always, fully and exclusively female" use to describe themselves. this covers gender labels, pronouns, titles and more.

[scorpio-system]

infatuated with weird trans girls. rb if you're also a weird trans girl

[abalidoth]

does "not, in fact, a girl" count as sufficiently weird

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[trials-era-sam]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr reply with username blocked out reading: *volunteering at the soup kitchen, holding a bowl hesitantly to my chest* what do you think about age gaps in ships /End ID]

[mookybear12404]

I feel like the first class you played in DND tells a lot about you

Reblog and put in the tags what your first class was

[abalidoth]

I bought an absolutely wild cyberpunk book today.

[abalidoth]

Romance novel idea:

Alex Martin and Bri Silver meet at [legally distinct from Disney] idol camp as teenagers, form a strong bond. Not-Disney is pushing Alex as the next "sensitive boy" teen heartthrob, and Bri is the lead singer of a girl group from a TV show. Nothing quite happens between them because Alex has Some Kind Of Deep Sadness.

Flash forward ten years. Bri's career is imploding -- Not-Disney label dropped her because her latest solo album Starlit flopped (critics called it "stiff" and "insincere") and she's being overshadowed by a bandmate (and just why does she feel so betrayed by a platonic former friend?). Also she feels absolutely no spark for the actor boyfriend she just dumped, as much as her PR manager likes the guy image-wise.

Bri goes to a mixer for an indie label that she's considering signing with and meets Lex -- who is still sensitive, but definitely no longer a boy. Ze disappeared off the map after zir debut deadname album and started releasing experimental queer electropop under the name Lexentrix. Zir latest EP, Subcutaneous, has gotten a lot of buzz from the queer press online (and a pretty sizable transfem cult following -- not a surprise given the lyrics, and the estradiol valerate vial styled like an atom bomb schematic on the cover.)

They rekindle their friendship cautiously -- Lex wants to help Bri find a more authentic voice out from under not-Disney's thumb, but ze is nervous about getting involved in that world again, even tangentially, and getting tangled up with a straight cis pop idol (even one on the outs) is just a bad idea. Bri is captivated by how much Lex has grown into zirself, but she's still straight (right? surely.), and the panopticon of fame still has its hooks in her.

[abalidoth]

Thinking about this one again. This came from two inspirations: one, the career of Teddy Geiger obviously inspired Lex. (Although she makes lo-fi rock now, not experimental synthpop, so there's definitely a dash of SOPHIE in there too. RIP.)

Bri, on the other hand, was inspired by Shanspeare's phenomenal Gaylor video:

Taylor Swift is obviously not actually queer. And also, is pretty objectively an unpleasant person. But Bri is based on the perception that some Gaylors have of her -- what if that fictitious Taylor Swift was a real person? What if the queer angst that Gaylors project onto Taylor formed a character?

I think, if I was going to make this maximally self indulgent, Bri would embrace some kind of gender fuckery over the course of it. I'm a sucker for a trans mentorship story -- what if Lex inspired Bri to realize they're nonbinary?

[t4ffyc4t]

Alien Rumi Design

I’ve been putting more thought into how Alien!Rumi would look and finally finished the redesign! Behold my offering to the Polytrix fandom…

[tigressjasper]

image i am in love with

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

lesbian flag colourpicked from this image

[mdni]

gay flag colorpicked from this image

[keezychid]

trans flag colorpicked from this image

[achilleanauthor]

Nonbinary flag colourpicked ffom this image

[35tr314]

agender flag colorpicked from this image

[u-gotta-go-in-the-hole]

ace and aro flags colorpicked from this image

[starlet-girls]

bi flag colorpicked from this image

[lexa-willowisp]

genderfluid flag colorpicked from this image

[the-motan]

aroace flag colourpicked from this image

[nerdstify]

Welsh flag colourpicked from this image

[aromanticofficial]

official shadow the hedgehog post

[terrismycharme]

@mouse-doubleo100

[albusblonko]

Deo-Miku-xys

[abalidoth]

Guy who has to one-up everything: yeah, well, I had couscouscous for dinner last night

[tobserino]

Oh, you had a nice piece of seared Ahi Tuna for dinner? Well, I had some Ahi Threena, but, you know it’s whatever…

[abalidoth]

Ahi Threena is okay but it's no mahi-mahi-mahi-mahi.

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[chonklatez]

@21st-century-minutiae

[21st-century-minutiae]

The first post depicts what would be considered an excessive amount of sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds are a common (usually salted) snack in the early twenty-first century. Their consumption is not notable. What is notable is the sheer mass presented in the photo. Salted seeds store well, so there is little reason why an individual could not have an "eight month supply", and if they truly consume a larger than normal amount and eat it daily, this supply could be a reasonable size for a single person over the course of most of a year. But humans are bad at estimating volume and do not generally encounter long term supplies of sunflower seeds (usually, they are bought and consumed as desired on a week to week basis, alongside other snacks). So the general response would be to marvel at the sheer side.

The first response humorously links the behaviors of stockpiling seeds to the behavior of rodents and small birds, animals both known for caching large supplies of seeds to eat. Cardinals are not a caching species, per se, compared to other types of birds like Chickadees, but they are known to eat seeds in their diets.

The final response adds to the joke with a humorous visual. Cardinal in the early twenty-first century, can refer to small birds or high ranking officials in the Catholic church. The first is known for their red plumage, the second for their distinctive red garb unique to their specific rank.

The image depicts a squirrel in what is clearly the uniform of a Catholic Cardinal: a Squirrel who is a Cardinal. The implication of the image is that this squirrel cardinal is defensively replying to the second poster, humorously declaring that the accusation is spot on.

People in the early twenty-first century would have the context to understand all this, recognizing squirrels, the bird cardinals, the Cardinal uniform, and the concept of caching seeds.

[abalidoth]

Small correction: that's not a cache of seeds, that's eight months worth of spat-out sunflower hulls.

[warren-keplers-funk-band]

attack for @wattse (wattse)