The Atypical Collective

Plural Call us Cal or Corey https://atypi-cals.carrd.co/

[atypi-cals]

Pinned Post Time (this is not mandatory reading, just some info on what to expect on this blog)

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Formerly the Calendar Collective, now the Atypical Collective. We like the nickname Cal.

Polyfragmented DID System. The body's an adult. It/Its pronouns are always OK to use for us, He/She pronouns are OK to use unless otherwise indicated. We use both we/us and I/me personal pronouns.

Everything that you physically can reblog is OK to reblog.

I'm not bothered to make a DNI list and no one will probably care to DNI if they're on it so instead, know this: I curate my online experience to my personal enjoyment and safety. This means any blogs that threaten our safety or the safety of marginalized others, spread misinformation, or make us feel uncomfortable will be either removed as a follower or blocked, as we see fit.

This will always include bigotry, such as racism, homophobia & transphobia, and ableism.

We try to keep the blog syscourse-free, but we're very pro-endo.

Do not feel entitled for more information than I have given. This post is so long because I, lightheartedly, like to overshare on the internet, on my own terms. Really want to find out more and you have to sift through the endless sea of meme reblogs to find my untagged 3 am ramblings.

Anyone using the term "narc/narcisstic abuse" will be blocked on sight.

Tags we use if you need to block something (with the exception of flashing gifs or explicit talk about these subjects we only tag original posts): #alcohol ment, #weed cw, #drugs cw, #flashing gifs

You can find our ClanGen Warrior Cats OC Webcomic at @hopeclangen (inactive)

The tag for our actual cat is #naomi

[anexperimentallife]

[chumbyy]

commission for @magichats (◜◡◝)

[mephistopheles]

yall i swear to god if a bitch says her pronouns are she/her then her pronouns are she/her

[mephistopheles]

my close friend from uni was a cis girl who had the audacity to wear pants and cut her hair short and like nobody at this school, a place OBSESSED with ‘respecting everyone’s gender identities,’ would call her ‘she.’ after MONTHS of this she started wearing a fucking pronoun pin to work and i dont even think that fixed it. me, im sorta androgynous; i have shaggy self-cut hair and go by a neutral name, but i always say my pronouns are she/her, and people ive worked with for months and have introduced myself in front of fifty times will STILL reflexively say ‘they’ for me. i respect the progressive circles i run in, but this IS evidence of misogyny. people’s definition of “woman” or “girl” is so narrow and high-maintenance that even the tiniest deviation from the norm gets you forcibly defeminized. but it’s a compliment, right? like who would wanna be a girl anyway?

[mephistopheles]

replacing an inescapable gender binary with an equally-inescapable gender trinary is stupid 🩷

[megacarapa]

ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??

[megacarapa]

don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!

[zmpl]

a lot of the DSM’s very clearly prejudiced diagnoses (e.g. hypoactive sexual desire disorder, gender dysphoria, transvestic disorder, etc.) try to skirt around the prejudice by saying “the disorder lies in the patient’s distress over being this way, not the behavior itself :)” like hmmm do you think their distress has anything to do with societal expectations around “normal” sexuality and gender? or is distress just this magic thing that exists in a vacuum with no outside influence

like keep in mind that homosexuality was in the DSM until pressure was put on the APA by gay rights activists, and they “removed” it in 1973 and replaced it with many different diagnostic labels over the years to describe “this person is gay and distressed over it so we’re treating the distress with conversion therapy. blease don’t think we’re homophobic.” it wasn’t until 2013 that distress over one’s own sexual orientation was removed entirely from the DSM. do what you will with this information and begin to wonder what psychiatry’s actual motives are for continuing to pathologize queerness and gender nonconformity.

[oddarette]

Yep, I made a frutiger aero soft soap alien… 💧🐠🤍🫧🧼

[celaquinn-ichard]

The cleanomorph

[primulasystem]

I think it's important to recognize that the concept of a "little" means different things to different systems.

- Some littles are less responsible and emotionally mature than adults, and some are equally responsible and emotionally mature.

- Some littles don't have access to adult memories and knowledge, and some do.

- Some littles formed in childhood, and some formed later in life.

- Some littles age or emotionally mature over time, and some don't.

- Some littles need to be sequestered away with other littles, and some can socialize with adults both in and out of the system.

- Some littles have childlike interests and enjoy media and hobbies associated with kids, and others have broader tastes in activities.

- Some littles need to be kept away from potentially mature content, and others are fine with seeing violence, swearing, sexuality, etc. in media.

- Some littles need to be kept off of social media for their own wellbeing, and some can safely use and enjoy social media.

- Some littles can't do certain tasks adult members can do (driving a car, cooking, managing money and doing taxes) and some can.

- Some littles need to be frequently supervised and have decisions made for them by older members of the system, and some don't need special supervision or guidance at all.

- Some littles are completely asexual and may find exposure to sexuality distressing, and some have sex drives and can consent to sexual activities.

Any discourse questioning "can littles do X?" should be answered with "it depends on the little". Individual systems should be trusted to make decisions that work for them. Judgment calls can be made by the little in question if they have that level of maturity, or by older members of the system if they need that kind of help. But I don't think those decisions should be enforced by people who aren't members of that system. (With the exception of the specific people involved in a sexual activity, who can give or rescind their own consent.)

In my opinion rules in online environments should accommodate littles, not make assumptions and box them in. For example, little-specific Discord channels - great! Littles are ONLY allowed to use little-specific Discord channels - not so great.

Ultimately we should keep in mind that while littles have their identified age in common, they may differ from one another in other ways. When it comes down to it, how things work for one system will not be how they work for everyone.

[atypi-cals]

[ID: Four photos taken under a blacklight in slightly different posing of a person in a black robe with fur lining and multicolor neon accents. She also has a multicolor neon staff with a mushroom at the top, a neon green belt, and a hat, shoes, sunglasses, gloves, and necklaces with multicolored neon highlights.]

Outfit for LARP. Call it "Radagast the Neon" or "Rave Wizard"

Staff made by me and @synergy-an-inclusive-queer , hat crocheted by me ages ago, gloves and belt are also crocheted by me, robe handsewed by me using an old Spencer's tapestry, fur from a fursuit WIP, and neon embroidery floss. Necklaces are handmade with shrinky dinks, crochet chain, and neon paint (the medallion one), and embroidery floss and friendship bracelet knots (the choker). Sunglasses are from dollarama i think, slippers are from Costco, both are painted by me. Gloves are also painted by me post-crochet.

Only unmodified items are the shirt from Spencer's, a merino undershirt i had lying around, and pants I got from a local retailer (actually theres some decorative stitching on them I did so theyre slightly modified but its not visible in the photos anyways).

[atypi-cals]

ok the tattoo on my arm is a mouse now due to my no longer liking possums.

nothing to do with the animal itself i just feel a deep sense of shame and inadequacy when I hear the word possum or see images of possum because I go by possum at larp (i desperately wanna change my name but it won't fix anything) and i am ashamed at my inadequacy there constantly so the association has just been slowly building until its this unbearable discomfort with the name and the thing the name was named after.

[wordfather]

being made by vitro fertilisation (IVF) is so funny. my parent didn't have sex, my parents conducted an experiment with a scientist. my humble beginnings can be traced to a petri dish. some person i dont know clocked in to work and then just made me. i was made in a lab and i didn't even get any cool powers or anything. im just a girl that has to work 9 to 5

[wordfather]

a tag mentioned how likely it is for ivf to produce twins and it reminded me of the fact that i ate my twin in the womb. so maybe my secret power is eating people

[rslashrats]

making up characters is so fun because you can be like “this is johnson he came from my mind” and all your friends will go “yippe!!! horray!!! we love johnson!!!”

[rslashrats]

very unfortunate but hilarious side effect of calling the example oc johnson in this post is now people are saying this in the tags

[captainjonnitkessler]

One time my grandfather picked me up from the airport and was driving me home and asked if I wanted to stop at McDonald's. And I was like sure, we can stop at the one in [town].

And he was like "we don't need to go to [town], we'll just go to the one in your town. And I said my town doesn't have a McDonald's. And he was like "okay, we'll go to the closest one". And I was like right, the one in [town]. And he said "that's twenty minutes away from your house, you really don't have one closer?" And when I confirmed that he said "well, it doesn't have to be McDonald's. It can be whatever fast food place is in your town." And I was like there is no fast food in my town. There is no food in my town period unless you want to stop for gas station hot dogs. And he was like "that doesn't make any sense. Then what do you do when you need food?" And I said I drive to [town]. And he said "every single time you need food or groceries?" And I said yeah, that's sort of how the fixed nature of buildings work. And then we drove in silence for ten minutes while this man tried to wrap his head around the fact that I had to drive twenty minutes to town to go grocery shopping.

Anyway a lot of you remind me of this experience pretty much every time the urban/rural divide comes up on this website.

[glowcowboy]

silliness and sincerity are not opposites btw. they are married. bisexually

[melancholic-pigeon]

reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026

[karatekamania]

im terrible at being a real person but i think i'd make an excellent fictional character

[karatekamania]

i want to see the symbolism ppl would weave into the fanart of me. i want to see who id be shipped with. i want to see what discourse ppl would have about me.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

It does actually blow me away that amatonormativity (the societal belief that everyone thrives best in and should desire a monogamous romantic relationship) is not a more frequently discussed topic in activist spaces because it is so fucking useful to describe so many aspects of society relating to misogyny, abuse, financial pressure, medical restrictions, family structures, etc but it's either completely unheard of or treated as a joke.

And frankly, as an aro and acespec person, I am fully fucking aware that the refusal of a lot of people on tumblr to use the term amatonormativity is centered around aphobia because apparently no one else is affected by lressure to be in a monogamous romantic relationship enough to talk about it, right? I am tired.

[aromanticofficial]

official intersectionality post