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cmov - liminal break
liminal break. thresholds of being. limit break (peregrine fury vortex). entity border, suffusion of presence. limb null. shrouded. breathe. bleeding reflects manifold essence. dedicated path: flood your cells with all reserves of hysterical longing until recombination is found. pass through yourself. ARCH.
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hey lovelies~ i’m really sorry to come to y’all with this, but we just woke up today to find out the water’s been shut off where we live. the dude who handles the bills here gave NO ONE in the house warning, so the rest of us are scrambling to get the money together to get the water back on.
it will take 300, right now - i think we have 50. but if any of y’all can donate or signal boost, it would be DEEPLY appreciated. you all have helped me through so much shit and i’m so thankful for everything you’ve done. thank you thank you thank you <3 <3 <3
ok so update: the situation’s quite a bit more dire than i originally thought… heard from our housemate that he has no money, his car is broken down and requires 400 to get up and running and that’s how he makes money, and we owe 1000 on water, electricity, and the house bill.
we got 150 in last night, so thank you so much for that help!! our biggest priority atm is 350 for the house bill so we don’t lose our housing (due in a few days) and the water. so 350 is immediate goal, 650 is ultimate goal. which means we just need a couple hundred to make the bottom line.
please keep signal boosting, donating (here), whatever, if you can. i will do exchange, work, whatever for money to if anyone out there needs help with something, wants a tarot reading, etc.
thank you so so much!!!
MY APOLOGIES I JUST REALIZED THAT THERE IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT MY BELOVED STAR TREK NERDS HERE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THIS OLDIE BUT GOODIE OF THE MID 2000S HOMESTAR RUNNER INTERNET ERA???
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this song is where its at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZb12j03zUk
ah haaa yes! i am so happy to have caught both of these lol now i kinda wanna hear a happy hardcore remix of “make it so”
[btw guess i’ll put this out there since st music is the subject - for my show with olivia neutron john (!!!) this sunday, i’m gonna be playing a new track of mine “vba (vulcan bitch anthem)” ;) will try to have a digital version of it up shortly after the show - can tag y’all nerds when i do <3]
mind meld as meditative application of quantum existences to relative referential points
queenofswordsinverted replied to your post:banji-realness replied to your photoset:but….is it…
cmov has this theory about how human faces have no “static” expression and that’s why they’re hard to form?? or something?? but I don’t think ds9 writers were rly thinking about that
I always wonder if, like, when he’s a mouse, he just looks like any ol’ mouse to us, but would he look as featureless to another mouse as he looks to us when he’s a humanoid? or are mouse faces easier somehow?
okey hi! yes i have a lot of thoughts about this and wanna try to get some of them out, but need time to collect them, which i don’t really have right now. maybe soon though >:)
I will read Odo meta, any time, any place, any how
Actually now that I’m thinking about it, is there any mention in canon of whether he was like, consciously going for a generically Bajoran face? Just considering the physical complexities of like Cardassian scale features and moral complexities of like, resembling the beings you’re forced to oppress (given that he’s kind of like a Kapo right, like he’s treated as literally “nothing” but he still has to police the Bajorans under Cardassian rule [right? I actually haven’t watched DS9 in forever])
yahhh totally! that is part of what i’ve been thinking about with odo… being forced to resemble your oppressors.
gonna use they/them for odo, because it’s important to me as i read odo as trans, specifically amab trans - even though there is some slippage in my reading that i feel some discomfort with and kinda just like *oop* look the other way. um, also kinda spoilers for those who haven’t watched the show most of the way through
so, i don’t recall there being specific mention of odo consciously modeling a bajoran face, though it is heavily implied. but there was specific mention that odo did model their hair after dr. mora, the bajoran scientist/liberal oppressor who effectively set odo on the path which odo struggles with throughout the series - the path to self-reflection under the pressures of coercive modeling systems. (this is one reason i read trans markers in odo’s identity so much, but more on that later.) and i think there are similar struggles for a number of the characters on ds9, but odo’s struggle has unique physical ramifications that reflect the barriers to odo achieving understanding.
my thought is that odo’s face is a composite response - to me, it is equal parts: a marker of trauma and self-doubt; a hesitant tribute to those odo admires/seeks to understand/hopes to be accepted by; and a statement of hope that self-reflection is possible as an ongoing process of learning and actualization. like i know odo says they aren’t good at faces, but i always have the feeling that isn’t really true - or at least not true in any kind of fundamental sense. there’s no indication that it is a biological limitation, as other changelings are able to resemble human faces with extreme accuracy and odo themself goes through a learning process to further refine their metamorphic skills. its also well established that odo is taught to repress feelings and thoughts not determined by odo’s oppressors. (like dr. mora imposing a structure on odo so that communication could happen on his own terms, not on odo’s, and the cardassians treating odo like a token of amorality/moral malleability to suit their needs.) finally, odo is an astute observer of humanoid expressions - but it’s in the context of intrigue and always having to sift out what is “true” and what is “a lie”. so i think that odo a) has been taught to doubt their abilities b) has been denied access to self-determination/self-reflection and c) has a mistrust of what humanoid expressions mean all while trying to find self-understanding in that language. so odo just struggles with coercive translation issues again and again, and everyone’s like “odo is just like ____” and odo goes through painful episode after episode where the language isn’t there for them until they start doing some (maybe) cyborg amalgams/hacking of identity. (there’s also stuff i wanna say about odo and kira’s lesbian love, but i don’t think i can put it all together right now.)
as o (queenofswordsinverted) mentioned before, i’ve thought that it was a matter of human faces being “not static” (twitches, small gestures, even pores and shit changing moment by moment) and that is the barrier odo faced (lol) but i’m thinking now it makes way more sense within odo’s narrative to look at the barriers imposed on them by the humanoids who are constantly “discovering” odo. (and like, coming from my own perspective, looking at it this way makes more sense within a trans reading of odo.)
also, e (maroonedoffvesta) brought up a real interesting point about if we humanoids only notice the discrepancies in odo’s modeling, because odo offers a model of us. i think there probably is something to that - and there’s like so much in that for a trans critical reading, but i don’t have the ideas set out enough right now, but yah mhmm haha this is why i love ds9 soooooo much, so much to read into :P
Honestly thank you so much for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will probably (maybe) post more later but tbh thank u
i’ll def keep an eye out for when/if ya do - and thx for the prompt! ;) <3 <3
queenofswordsinverted replied to your post:banji-realness replied to your photoset:but….is it…
cmov has this theory about how human faces have no “static” expression and that’s why they’re hard to form?? or something?? but I don’t think ds9 writers were rly thinking about that
I always wonder if, like, when he’s a mouse, he just looks like any ol’ mouse to us, but would he look as featureless to another mouse as he looks to us when he’s a humanoid? or are mouse faces easier somehow?
okey hi! yes i have a lot of thoughts about this and wanna try to get some of them out, but need time to collect them, which i don’t really have right now. maybe soon though >:)
I will read Odo meta, any time, any place, any how
Actually now that I’m thinking about it, is there any mention in canon of whether he was like, consciously going for a generically Bajoran face? Just considering the physical complexities of like Cardassian scale features and moral complexities of like, resembling the beings you’re forced to oppress (given that he’s kind of like a Kapo right, like he’s treated as literally “nothing” but he still has to police the Bajorans under Cardassian rule [right? I actually haven’t watched DS9 in forever])
yahhh totally! that is part of what i’ve been thinking about with odo... being forced to resemble your oppressors.
gonna use they/them for odo, because it’s important to me as i read odo as trans, specifically amab trans - even though there is some slippage in my reading that i feel some discomfort with and kinda just like *oop* look the other way. um, also kinda spoilers for those who haven’t watched the show most of the way through
so, i don’t recall there being specific mention of odo consciously modeling a bajoran face, though it is heavily implied. but there was specific mention that odo did model their hair after dr. mora, the bajoran scientist/liberal oppressor who effectively set odo on the path which odo struggles with throughout the series - the path to self-reflection under the pressures of coercive modeling systems. (this is one reason i read trans markers in odo’s identity so much, but more on that later.) and i think there are similar struggles for a number of the characters on ds9, but odo’s struggle has unique physical ramifications that reflect the barriers to odo achieving understanding.
my thought is that odo’s face is a composite response - to me, it is equal parts: a marker of trauma and self-doubt; a hesitant tribute to those odo admires/seeks to understand/hopes to be accepted by; and a statement of hope that self-reflection is possible as an ongoing process of learning and actualization. like i know odo says they aren’t good at faces, but i always have the feeling that isn’t really true - or at least not true in any kind of fundamental sense. there’s no indication that it is a biological limitation, as other changelings are able to resemble human faces with extreme accuracy and odo themself goes through a learning process to further refine their metamorphic skills. its also well established that odo is taught to repress feelings and thoughts not determined by odo’s oppressors. (like dr. mora imposing a structure on odo so that communication could happen on his own terms, not on odo’s, and the cardassians treating odo like a token of amorality/moral malleability to suit their needs.) finally, odo is an astute observer of humanoid expressions - but it’s in the context of intrigue and always having to sift out what is “true” and what is “a lie”. so i think that odo a) has been taught to doubt their abilities b) has been denied access to self-determination/self-reflection and c) has a mistrust of what humanoid expressions mean all while trying to find self-understanding in that language. so odo just struggles with coercive translation issues again and again, and everyone’s like “odo is just like ____” and odo goes through painful episode after episode where the language isn’t there for them until they start doing some (maybe) cyborg amalgams/hacking of identity. (there’s also stuff i wanna say about odo and kira’s lesbian love, but i don’t think i can put it all together right now.)
as o (queenofswordsinverted) mentioned before, i’ve thought that it was a matter of human faces being “not static” (twitches, small gestures, even pores and shit changing moment by moment) and that is the barrier odo faced (lol) but i’m thinking now it makes way more sense within odo’s narrative to look at the barriers imposed on them by the humanoids who are constantly “discovering” odo. (and like, coming from my own perspective, looking at it this way makes more sense within a trans reading of odo.)
also, e (maroonedoffvesta) brought up a real interesting point about if we humanoids only notice the discrepancies in odo’s modeling, because odo offers a model of us. i think there probably is something to that - and there’s like so much in that for a trans critical reading, but i don’t have the ideas set out enough right now, but yah mhmm haha this is why i love ds9 soooooo much, so much to read into :P
queenofswordsinverted replied to your post:banji-realness replied to your photoset:but….is it…
cmov has this theory about how human faces have no “static” expression and that’s why they’re hard to form?? or something?? but I don’t think ds9 writers were rly thinking about that
I always wonder if, like, when he’s a mouse, he just looks like any ol’ mouse to us, but would he look as featureless to another mouse as he looks to us when he’s a humanoid? or are mouse faces easier somehow?
okey hi! yes i have a lot of thoughts about this and wanna try to get some of them out, but need time to collect them, which i don’t really have right now. maybe soon though >:)
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i vow to see my life not through the lens of decline, but through endless recombination. give time to fire - measure its speed from every vantage point, every conception - it is more than energy. give time to water - measure its speed - it is more than stillness. these are the phases of my life - giving my time to the ash, the smoke, the curve of the rock, the blades - heat’s strange movements on the glass as i soak in myself.
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ELECTRIC-LLAMA DID A LIL INTERVIEW WITH ME DURING KAHLON IN BALTIMORE LAST MONTH! THE PICTURES THEY TOOK ARE PRETTY UGLY SO HERE IS A NICE LIL COLLAGE I MADE!!!
been meaning to post this forever, but check out this interview with zubeyda if ya got a moment! her mixes and tracks w/ mmgz <3
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the other night i dreamt of a world created by two deities. one was the bones of a snake, which gave shape to the world. the other was the flesh of a snake, which wrapped itself around the bones so tightly that it sprung loose and its vibrations become the energy of life
this returned to my mind like i had the dream just now
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