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➺ We are professionally diagnosed with autism (lv1), ADHD, and DID, among others that are less relevant

➺ We go by he/him unless otherwise specified, and you can call us Firefly or the host’s names: Ptero/Archie. None of these names are our legal name, nor the name we go by irl

➺ For clarity purposes, this post exclusively uses we/us, but we use I/me and we/us interchangeably. You can refer to us in the singular or plural generally, but we tend to prefer singular in most cases

➺ In real life, we have been out as transmasc since preteen years. While not everyone in our system identifies with this, it's an important part of our identity and life!

➺ Our primary special interests are Archaeopteryx, (neuro)psychology, and metaphysics. We have varying levels of interest in the arts, anthropology, philosophy, fandom, and much more, and we're always happy to answer questions or curiosities about any of our interests!

➺ Misc things: Archaeopteryx (paleo)therian, Ashkenazi Jew, minor bodied (high school upperclass), violinist and flutist/flautist, ‘brainmade’ heavy and fragment heavy system

More under the cut!

#system intro #intro post #pinned intro #pinned post #firefly flickers #no image id #no plain text #undescribed #not screenreader friendly

flagtism

flortiae - a general/unspecified term connected to flowers that mean/symbolize death &/or memory, such as adonis' flowers, asphodels, buttercups, cowslips, forget-me-nots, nettles, pansies, poppies (in general, or red poppies), red spider lilies, rosemary, roses (in general, or black roses, dead roses, &/or dried white roses), statices, white tulips, & zinnias.

this may be a mortelum term, but doesn't have to be.

for day 2 of @felidaety’s 500 followers event; for the prompt(s): “overgrown/empty”!

symbol source.

term/flag by us. tagging @radiomogai.

crippled-peeper

untreated reproductive health problems kill trans mascs at a much higher rate than cis women. if you’re not protecting our access to gynecologists and women’s specialists then I care not for your opinion on the subject. “trans men should not be in these spaces!!!!! they’re for WOMEN!!!” isn’t praxis it’s you gleefully siding with the patriarchy and the status quo

tall

local-lesbian-tree-demon

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

rhinco

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

shamebats

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

loveridden1999

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

icantspellthings

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

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

luxiomahariel

fat trans women and fat transfems are so important

thank you fat trans women / transfems ⭐

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

kurulover

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

kurulover

storm-of-feathers

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

storm-of-feathers

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

centuriespast

2000-year-old green serpentine stone mask found at the base of the pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico.

podcastwizard

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

natnormalatall

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

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