[badly-shuffled-deck]

the bocs thing is pure genius. imagine you have this mysterious source of energy that powers your entire world and the cheeky little narrators keep breaking the fourth wall to say “don’t worry about it! you don’t need to know how bocs work, they just do!” and you go yeah sure i can suspend disbelief for you guys no worries. and after THREE SHOWS they tell you uhhhh turns out we can’t explain how bocs work because the cosmos is literally preventing humankind from being curious about them. no one knows where they come from. deal with it. GIRL???

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 3 days 17 hours

[acemoppet]

Catherine McCafferty you have endeared and bewitched me with your curiosity and your enthusiasm. Also you’re cute as fuck godDAMN

[metamatar-deactivated20250401]

hello mutual before you gossip or vaguepost please send me a 2 page dossier in the dms. thanks. much appreciated.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

[princington]

"no baby i own the plane"

okayyyyyyy. okay. okay. zoerumi can you fight

zoey will

[lenaluthorssuitcollection]

ok guys. to all 2 of you who marginally care. i have decided i need a proper ship name for paula/martina bc i can't go on typing out martina seiffert x paula voss every single time. here are my options. explanations with pros/cons below.

new paula/martina ship name

paulatina

martila

martilla

secret third option/lina button

Voting ended onJul 9

1) i feel like paulatina sounds the nicest. so far it has been used in 2013 and once in 2025 for paulina rubio but it's not like an active tag or anything

2) martila vs martilla comes down to pronunciation. the double l would make the i short (as in "hit"), with the single l it remains long (as in "tina"). short i sounds better i think, but martina has a long i. so that would be more accurate.

3) martila so far has only appeared when people have misspelt martial (as in martial arts). martilla has been my tag for like 3ish older paula/martina posts and i *think* i have seen one other person refer to them like this once but i might be imagining it.

i am open to suggestions!!!!

[johnnyvalance]

mutuals seeing me post about The Character again

[erewile]

alive for this

[evstratt]

EVA STRATT + BOOK QUOTES PROJECT HAIL MARY

[couldtransitionsaveher]

Testing something: who are your favorite canon trans women in fiction?

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

0

1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45

45-50

over 50

Voting ended onJun 5

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[eledsart]

saint of love that goes away

[explodingsilver]

Just started A Memory Called Empire and unfortunately I have to disagree with these ladies: I think Thirty-Six All-Terrain Tundra Vehicle is a banger of a name for a person to have

[nunyabznsbabes]

I love alectopause my roommate and I decided that tlt's happiest ending would be no necromancy griddlehark on a farm somewhere but ianthe is also there. she hates her stupid no-powers no-monarchy no-bitches life soooo much. she and coronabeth used to be the suicide twins even though the concept of death was boring to them but now corona is off galavanting with judith deuteros and ianthe is stuck in the griddlehark happy place. so she just keeps faking her death for attention and hoping someone will care enough to put together a funeral. harrowww will you sleep with me if I'm dead

[rann-poisoncage]

jumping in the murray x king gus ship! ( I know my king gus is shit, he should be way more buff. I didn't have enough time to properly design him between work, ToT will do better next time...