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the potluck (system) | 26 | he/him [icon ID: a digital drawing of my OC randy, a korean-american man with a black grown-out mullet and a beard. he's wearing a purple sleeveless top and holding a cup; his other elbow is resting on a counter. he is looking to the right and smiling. the background is pink with light pink squiggles. /end ID] [header ID: a picture of a coelacanth edited to have sparkling glitter over it. credit: daz-e. /end ID]

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Welcome to the Potluck!

You can call us P!

26, autistic, plural, queer, and transgender—collective pronouns he/him, and we use "I" and "we" interchangeably.

Our system, the Potluck, includes:

➣ Pippi/P, he/him, #bugbuttonmashing, #pippicore

➣ Dante, he/him, #🐦‍🔥

➣ Mike, he/him, #mike here — mike-sienna

➣ Rhett, he/him, #–r. — rhett-cambray

➣ The Batter, he/him — dramaticcrescendo

➣ Cricket, they/them/Cricket — dancingcricket

➣ Elim, he/him, #e.g. — e1im

We also have several other sideblogs!

☆ pillbugpotluck — aesthetic sideblog (mainly used by P, Mike, and Rhett I think)

☆ tvdreamz — undertale/deltarune sideblog

☆ pipscillaneous — miscellaneous sideblog for untagged reblogs

☆ coolbugifound — silly sideblog for my OCs

Some of our interests are:

child development/education/teaching/parenting; marine biology (especially deep sea); paleontology; evolutionary biology; speculative biology; entomology/bugs/creepy crawlies; language & linguistics; media/literary analysis; undertale/deltarune; steven universe; knights of guinevere; pokemon; star trek; the elder scrolls: skyrim; fallout: new vegas + fallout 4; jerma985; my OCs; your OCs (show them to me!); ...and lots more!

Note about plurality:

At the time i discovered my plurality (10+ years ago), I was exposed to a lot of harmful ideologies and opinions online that led me to mask, reject, and punish myself for it. I'm trying to let myself simply exist as i am without trying to force myself to change, and I want to explore my plurality and hopefully become more comfortable with it. That said, I will block fakeclaiming or any other kind of identity policing. I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, and that it is no one's place to dictate who may and may not be a member of the plural community.

Last updated: January 17, 2026.

[ao3legendarium]

how the fuck does one achieve these heights

[verdiris]

He's gonna iron that lung so good

[duckngk]

a simon

[buttered-milky]

You know what they shoulda left Yao saying “I won’t have anyone on my crew who doesn’t want to be there” in the movie. I think it’s integral to the themes. Yknow, there’s always someone in your corner when you least expect it. People are willing to defend those they know relatively little. Love is a powerful force etc etc

Like having dictator of the world tell u ur fucking going to space whether u like it or not is scary and then thinking god fucking Christ no one will even protest this bc they too must all think I’m a coward is even scarier but no. One guy did protest it. Stratt even directly addressed that the amnesia wasn’t even just for graces sake but to prevent Yao and Ilyukhina’s anger at that act from disrupting the mission. Okay bye

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I actually think I like the film Betrayal Scene better.

Like don't get me wrong, the book one is good (the idea of Grace having to spend multiple days locked up stewing about how he's gonna die before they even knock him out is deliciously angsty, as is Stratt's last attempt to beg him to understand why she has to do this) but fuck.

He like literally starts climbing the walls.

Like he came in there relatively composed. He had a rationalisation for what he was going to do, he probably rehearsed his little speech. He's putting the walls up because he knows he's not doing The Right Thing, but he doesn't want to let on that he knows that. He's probably pretending to himself as much as Stratt. He's doing it For The Kids.

And then the switch to just pure, animal terror when the doctor comes in. Like there's a degree of comedy to it. Grace is always slightly goofy, slightly immature (probably why his students like him so much) and now he's climbing and running like a kid playing tag. Except its not a game and it's not working.

Eva's tone when she tells him to “sit down, we'll do it different”. Like I know I'm murdering you, I know that you're not capable of seeing this any other way, but please at least see sense and spare yourself the trauma of having to be literally dragged kicking and screaming. Please.

The resignation when she says “he's running.” Like, she doesn't have to say who's running, or why. She knew this was a possibility. She knew this was a likely possibility but why couldn't he just fucking be the guy she needs him to be? Doesn't he know how hard this is??

The realisation that, if Carl is by the fence, then it's probably because they were concerned that Grace might actually outrun the guards and would need to be ambushed. The possibility that Carl specifically is there because, in that scenario, Grace would be more easy to catch if he trusted his pursuer.

Like I think one reason I'm attached to Ryland Grace is that I honestly couldn't tell you that I wouldn't behave like that in that scenario. Like sure, we all like to say we'd bravely sacrifice ourselves for humanity, but like it's not like I'm currently chaining myself to rainforest trees or throwing soup at paintings in museums or kidnapping oil execs or whatever it is I'm supposed to do. I don't even really attend protests.

There are significantly more things that I could be doing right now to make the world a better place that I don't do because they would involve upending my life and putting myself at more personal risk than I am comfortable with. I have no room to judge Ryland Grace.

I mean, just look at how scared he is.

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[molabuddy]

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

[molabuddy]

we all need to take better care of our selfs or we might Pass away

[swagpaws]

god i hate how normalized diet culture and shit like bmi and calories are. bmi is based on eugenics. calories are a measurement of how much energy something gives u and not at all of how much weight or fat ull gain. diets have been proven to be harmful and ultimately unhelpful in actually losing weight. fatness has been largely proven to not be inherently unhealthy and doesnt inherently cause health issues.

if anyone has more good links to add on then please do and if anyone knows more on this stuff than me then dont hesitate to correct me!

[more-beanies]

FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD. FOOD IS GOOD!! if you’re eating, ever, and even/especially if it’s hard, know that i am personally SO SO proud of you

[normal-horoscopes]

The BMI was invented by Adolphe Quetelet, the 19th century statistician who invented phrenologist anthropometry. He wasn’t just a eugenicist, he was one of the founding fathers of racist pseudoscience. Please do not listen to anything he has to say about your body.

[uglymelon]

“And get this: While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35 percent for adults and 18 percent for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs.”

Source: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/why-bmi-big-fat-scam/

Why BMI is a big fat scam

Body mass index is used to sell weight loss drugs, set insurance premiums, and counsel patients. There's just one little problem.

[bogleech]

I always thought everyone knew this by like the early 2000s but instead I see more people than ever believing this stuff is real medical science

[whatbigotspost]

Man if y'all folks up thread thought this situation was bad back in 2021 (as I did too) you won’t BELIEVE what the 2026 cultural convo on these topics is like.

[wildminti]

Rocky was going to say "fans of PHM" but Grace panicked! 🏳️‍🌈

[kaidenchii]

Revelations 16:3

“Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man; and every living creature in the sea died.”

[andromeda-64]

My dealer: Got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “cookie clicker”🍪👆. You’ll be zonked outta your gourd. 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: I gotta invest in my Antimatter Condensers in order to maximize cookie production

My buddy the News Reporter, pacing: The grandmas are lying to us

[transgenderization]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[roycohn]

there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.

[breakbeatbun]

im so hungry i could eat a dinner

[breakbeatbun]

im so hungry i could lay a dinner egg

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog