We are the Arcade Nebula: you can refer to us as Arcade Nebula or as Arcade, we don't mind. We use plural they/them pronouns. If you are talking to or specifically about a headmate, please refer to them using their name and pronouns if you know them.
Important: I try to tag for eyestrain and/or flashing lights for posts I make, I cannot reliably do this for reblogs. Please do not follow or browse this blog if flashing lights are a health risk! Stay safe.
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Bonus things under the cut.
Current most frequent fronters:
🔬(it/he/they) - science :) blog: @chemical-vat
🔶🪽(they/thon/she) - art. blog: @apris-roost
Chances are, the one online will be one of these headmates. Not always guaranteed due to unpredictability and us forgetting to update this.
Tags:
#neptune beeps - random text posts
#arcade nebula experiences - writing / other posts about our nebula
We also tag various other things like #gif, #video, media tags (eg: #TMA, #DST, #friendship test, etc)
Side blogs list:
Art and web decor / graphics blog: @loopnrainbows
Loop's stim and stimboard blog (they take requests!): @beetle-stims
- I write image descriptions and I appreciate feedback, this can be given in my blog inbox. Keep in mind that there are unfortunately details of images I will miss, not intentional but will happen sometimes (this is why I also read / use image descriptions). All posts I make (not including reblogs) should have image descriptions.
- We are autistic and this affects our communication. For example, it is hard for us to understand tone so we can misunderstand jokes as serious. We have a slower processing time for certain things, this is related to our disability so don't make jokes about it.
Misc: as some of us are aplatonic (do not experience platonic attraction), please do not assume we are friends based on online interaction. This does not mean we don't enjoy interacting with you, or are against you trying to befriend us.
For terms, we use: headmate and sometimes member. collective or nebula. Do not call us a system or call us alters. We don't mind questions about us as long as they are respectful.
this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .
its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.
IF is any storytelling wherein the storyteller has to change the narrative based on the choices of the person engaging with the story. I write both interactive and linear fiction, and while some stories are better linear, some are better interactive, and it's hard to make a story that is satisfying not just in one way, but in many.
Made a chart of our PCE notcats relationships ! This was made using this. Yellow is friend, orange is best friend, pink is rival, dark green is partner, light blue is family and blue is close family. Litters are not connected to litters from same parents otherwise it would look really confusing :)
the psych industry and society as a whole is not normal at all towards people who self-harm. people view it as attention-seeking. mental health professionals view it as justification to send you to a “higher level of care” aka incarcerate you. it is seen as a bad/negative behavior that needs to be fixed.
in reality, the concept of self-harm is heavily socially constructed and an issue of bodily autonomy. as humans, we seek out physical pain all the time. we eat spicy foods. we get tattoos and piercings. we engage in BDSM. so why do we forbid self-regulation through pain?
when people are told to cover up their scars, when people are kicked out of DBT support groups for self-harming, when people are conditioned to lie about their self-harm to avoid getting sent to the psych ward, you are telling them that their body is not their own.
the last time i cut myself was roughly a year ago. ironically, after adopting a bodily autonomy mindset around self-harm, i stopped having urges to cut nearly as often because i’m no longer engaging in a power struggle with my own mind over trying to avoid doing a “bad” behavior. i don’t feel like doing it today, but if i do tomorrow, that is okay. because it is my choice to decide what i do with my own body.
i love that discord doesn't tell you if someone's read your messages. like genuinely. normalize others not needing every second of your time right away. normalize taking time to formulate a proper answer. normalize this.
