New pinned post!!! Hello humans, creatures, and various other beings! I’m Indigo.
• Genderfluid and use any pronouns, preferably a mix!
• The OFFICIAL #1 Envy (by Sparkbird) fan. forever feral about it
• I ADORE ASKS PLEASE GOD SEND ME ASKS PLEASE I LOVE ANSWERING QUESTIONS I ONLY BITE A LITTLE BIT :333 (and have terrible executive function so either it’ll be answered Immediately or like. months later)
• My blog is my dragon hoard so expect Various Things
• I’m an alterhuman! (Dragon, probably cat, and questioning Belgian Malinois)
• I might be fictionkin?? I think?? Maybe???
TAGGING SYSTEM
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#Indigo Yaps - Catch all tag, mostly me talking and yapping and whatever else. My original posts generally
#Indigo Answers - Asks!!
#Indigo’s art - My drawings/animations!
#Indigo is serious - Mostly venting, sometimes politics and etc
#Indigo hyperfixates - Incoherent rambling
tags I need to add: me reviewing things, eepy sleepy posts, music tag
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Content you can expect to find here
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-Alterhuman stuff! I reblog a lot of that sort of posts
-Politics, because wheee
-MUSIC. Especially sparkbird, I talk about them a lot! PLEASE GO CHECK THEM OUT @.SPARKBIRDMUSIC I DONT WANNA TAG THEM. Also some AJR, Elio Mei, Everybody’s Worried About Owen, The Crane Wives, Chappell Roan, Mitski, and lots of other stuff!
-Whatever hyperfixation. Epic, Good Omens (s3 hater </3), and Heathers for sure.
-Media reviews!
-Dragons, generally
-OC POSTS. I love talking about my sillies (#dusk/#general dusk, #oryx, #coriander, #oleander and a few others) PLEASE ask me about them and take this as general permission to draw them
-Random rambles! I talk about a lot of random stuff
-Occasional vent posts.
-Disability and neurodivergence! I’m chronically ill with a whole host of mental stuff.
-Other stuff I’m probably forgetting! A little of everything
-almost entirely SFW, the MOST you’re gonna find is suggestive jokes and those are rare
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Side blogs
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Victor Frankenstein - @the-real-victor-frankenstein (not super active but if people interact and/or offer to draw things for it, I’ll pick it up again)
Oleander/D&D oc - @definitely-a-tiefling
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IDK HOW PINNED POSTS WORK!! I’ll add more as I think of it. I adore comments and notes and reblogs and ASKS. I LOVE ASKS. they MAKE MY DAY. please talk to me im a socially anxious wreck and i dont know social cues but im VERY FRIENDLY!!
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since a couple of you have found me, yes I was super active on the WOF Roblox group wall at one time!! I hosted DoS, iykyk. I’d love to reconnect with anyone who was there.
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Also you will be swiftly blocked if you’re racist/homophobic/transphobic/ableist/don’t like alterhumans/etc. I won’t argue with you, just block. Mightttt also block if you just have bad vibes/a really aggressive hostile negative pinned post. Dont be a dick and I’ll be nice!! I match the vibes but typically I’m a goober :3
I have a couple of free tickets for my NYC show (opening for Fish in a Birdcage) on August 1–if you were hoping to attend but couldn’t afford it, please get in touch (hello at sparkbird music dot com)
by the way—for almost any show I play, I get a few spots on the guest list, and I try to give those to listeners who aren't financially able to buy tickets. it's an honor system and it's first-come-first-served.
so if at some point I'm coming to your town and you're devastated because you're broke, do reach out and I'll see what I can do!
of course I need to sell tickets to cover expenses and pay the bills (and to get invited back by venues/promoters), but I also want my shows to be accessible to people who really want to come.
imagining grace in his first year of teaching kind of automatically introducing himself as dr. ryland grace bc that's what he's used to. and the kids are like O_O dr? and somebody inevitably googles him and finds a video of his final crashout. and because 13 year olds are little menaces, when he inevitably snaps at the class to sit down and do their work at some point (his classroom management skills need time to develop okay) somebody puts on a little pouty face and goes "dr. grace? you don't.....you don't think i'm a.....a staggering waste of carbon......do you?" and grace's life flashes before his eyes.
and next year he's just mr. grace and doesn't tell any kids his first name so it's harder for them to google him (they manage it anyway).
My favourite Adrian headcanon is that they're a biologist/zoologist who has seen so much shit, they're completely unphased by any and every alien habit of Grace's.
I mean full-on khaki-shorts-wearing, traversing-wilderness-with-nothin'-but-a-machete Adrian who yoinks snakes outta trees and pets swamp puppies and will unflinchingly dig around in elephant faeces for signs of a rare parasitic tapeworm if needed.
Oh, humans eat socially? No problem, Adrian has observed many many animals eat. Did you know that an obscure species of small underground dirt creature from the north side of Erid also eats socially? Adrian can give you a not-so-short presentation on them.
Oh, the human has no external carapace and so its internal sounds are absurdly loud, wet and off-putting? No problem, Adrian was just conducting an expedition last month researching the incredible eridian animal, the Wet Loud Worm from the south-east region of Wet Loud Wormland. They're desensitised, it's fine.
Oh, Grace leaks often from many orifices and it can be a bit of a learning curve to get used to? No problem for Adrian, see Wet Loud Worm paragraph again!
Meanwhile, Rocky is bewildered as to how he's managed to third-wheel both of his relationships, because both Adrian and Grace are nerds who nerd out about things, and Adrian is shaking in their carapace with enthusiasm to learn more about human culture and biology, not to mention everything about earth animals. And yeah, sure, Grace might be a molecular biologist, but he'll be damned if he'll pass up an opportunity to learn about alien fauna from a fellow scientist, and yes, Adrian, he'd love to hear about the small underground dirt creature from the north side of Erid, and he's so excited to learn more about the Wet Loud Worm, do go on.
i love loooooooove the idea of people's reactions to the beetles getting back to earth. just imagine:
teenagers citing his videos and data as primary sources on their school projects (how do you make an mla citation for a home video filmed in space?)
grace's final goodbye to earth getting billions of views on youtube
sexy edits of grace ALL OVER tiktok and instagram
grace becomes a whole scientific field unto himself. teams of scientists dedicate their lives to the study of his research and his contributions. maybe some of those scientists were his students once upon a time.
grace x rocky ALL OVER ao3
books on eridian language and culture hit the shelves and sell out immediately
eridian culture reignites conversations about the construct of gender, eridians become nonbinary/agender symbols
space is suddenly back at the forefront of the public mind. space-travel units are introduced to grade school science curriculum worldwide. entire classes are taught solely on grace and his scientific discoveries. EVERYONE wants to be an astronaut
of course, hollywood makes a big-budget Dr. Ryland Grace biopic. it's a box office hit. a huge online movement results in ryan gosling playing grace, and everyone agrees the likeness is uncanny. stratt is the villain of the story.
a series of heartfelt videos from grace to stratt, in which he says hello and goodbye and i hate you and thank you and i miss you, are found in the database and reposted online. there's suddenly a massive outcry of support for her, which results in her release from prison. some youtuber makes a gritty but surprisingly touching short film about her story
people coming together to make earth better. trying to repair the damages from the sun's dimming, trying to repair the environment, trying to repair global relations. they want to be an earth worth saving, an earth that grace would be proud of
space travel becomes a huge global priority, the nations of the world pool resources and there are huge advances in technology (especially with scientists studying xenonite!)
the project hail mary launch date becomes a huge global holiday. there's a parade in almost every city all over the world in honor of the hail mary. people lay candles and flowers at memorials for yao, ilyukhina, annie, and dubois. murals of grace and rocky cover building sides. people gather in the streets and remember those who saved them, and banners that read "grace rocky save stars" flutter in the wind above the crowds.
coca cola airs a VERY insensitive commercial with some low quality eridian puppets. the commercial is slammed online and company stocks plummet
people continue to live their lives as normal. because of grace and rocky, because of the beetles, the sun is saved. earth keeps spinning.
I work with kids and I've had two occasions where a little boy straight up won't listen to anything I say because I'm a woman. and like yeah he's gonna continue to be raised by terrible role models and probably grow up to be a sexist douchebag but I have three hours a week to get through to him and so far I'm crushing it. I got six year old boys who previously didn't listen to a word I said telling their shitty dads to not speak to me like that. yeah that's right I'm the teacher making your kid woke. go fuck yourself about it.
you left your kid with me and I taught him that women are people. and also to question authority. and also how to kick someone in the nuts. have fun with that.
when a child with chronic or terminal illness or a disability/their sibling is well informed about the condition strangers love to say "no child should have to know that 😢" yeah well i think the world would be significantly better if more children knew about that actually. teach your healthy kids about illness teach your abled kids about disability Please !
and people will say this about the stupidest shit of all time. a diabetic child is like "this is my glucose monitor! these are my ketone test strips!" and people are aghast "no baby should have to know about this!!!!" okay so youd rather his mom just poked and tested him and injected insulin and collected his urine without explanation? you genuinely would prefer this child live in fear and ignorance about the daily routines of his life? because like no amount of pouty faces and prayers and condescending instagram comments are going to remove the illness from the child's life so our options are being informed about our bodies or being confused/frightened by them.
Children are people. Their lives and support needs and dignity matter. People deserve the language to describe what's happening in their lives, the support of community when they want to learn about it, and the dignity to have their reality acknowledged.
When AN ADULT wishes "a child didn't have the burden of knowing" that difficult, sad, or ugly things exist - and especially when the thing is racism, or abuse - they just mean themselves. They mean THEY don't want the responsibility of responding appropriately, making space for the ways people may have different needs, or having to digest and work around how that makes THEM feel. They long for an innocence they are projecting on that child: innocence never serves its possessor. Innocence is the name given to ignorance which serves the comfort and convenience of others. It is disempowerment. It is greater vulnerability to harm.
The child who has been educated and empowered, on the other hand, has been dignified as a full person, and will go on to educate and empower others as a knowledgeable member of their community.
My colleague, helping me unpack my books, finds my Good Omens. "Oooh, I love this. Have you seen the series? I didn’t like the second season, but the first was so good."
Me: "oh yeah, I loved it! Did you see the third?"
Her: deadpan, expressionless stare
Me: deadpan, expressionless stare "ok, let's not talk about it"
[Image ID: Tumblr tags from ligamentGirl reading: *looks a polyamorous triad*, so which of you is the musketeer and which of you is the other musketeer and which of you is the other other musketeer /End ID]
