Emeris

I’m Lili, she/her, 23, trans. I post cooking, 3D art, selfies, random stuff, etc. I have a million aspirations, but not enough will to go through with them. Minors pls don’t follow me, go pay attention in school or something

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[demilypyro]

crazy how many ramifications there are to just being like "y'know. i don't think this "man" thing is for me. I'll have what she's having"

[specialagentartemis]

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

[redd956]

And- And death is intrinsically intertwined with ephemeral beauty. The intricate patterns of one's wings, their new but vibrant colors, their fan-like antenna and larger bodies. How death would be culturally linked to flight too. It kinda reminds me how many cultures link butterflies as psychopomps, carrying the soul or being manifestations of the soul fluttering into the afterlife.

And- and your offspring being the final pieces of your legacy, the last mark and trace left on the world. Family members waiting mournfully outside of one's cocoon, speaking to it like how a human holds the hand of a loved one in death. Two moth-people, post-metamorphasis, clinging to one another, their final moments now fatally intertwined to one another, knowing that fate has brought them together in death and recreation only. A sort of unspoken sacredity in their fleeting connection. Maybe society is set up so that certain moths can choose to die with one another. Or maybe there's a societal profound freedom in the winged ones taking flight and finding one another sporadically.

I... I think it would be fun too

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[scoes]

[justspilledcoffee]

Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

cute puppy what breed is he

[purified-zone]

sideways

[sandmandaddy69]

Pamela Lee

[demilypyro]

I think it's very important we never *see* anybody abstract in the whole series. We always follow the other characters as they *find* someone who's already abstracted off-screen. The closest we get is Jax nearly abstracting in her bedroom but notably that instance is interrupted when Pomni knocks on her door.

Abstraction always happens in solitude. It happens when someone is isolated and beyond hope, and then one day, you check on them, only to find they're already gone. The thing that remains isn't them anymore.

The suicide metaphor is... pretty apparent when you realize that.

[3liza]

hot autistic adult women are always saying they're doing fine really and everyone is nice to them and they just need to figure out a few little things and then everything will be perfect

[3liza]

excuse me for dipping lower and lower into Neurodivergent Exceptionalism here, which I do not like, but the autistic assumption that everyone else is just as well-meaning and altruistic and empathic and informed as you are is one of the most dangerous parts of being Like This and I wish I knew the magic words to disillusion especially girls about this in about 5th grade. because the only other way to get there is through being personally brutalized and frankly not even that always works

[3liza]

hot adult autistic women are always looking up at you from a quarry full of trash and car batteries where they live and like shielding their eyes from the sun and smiling guardedly and saying oh yes I'm actually very lucky. i have everything I need. my life is actually very privileged. and a plastic bag blows in on the wind and clings to their face like a jellyfish and theyre like haha yeah that happens

[3liza]

your homework assignment is to actually get angry at the next person who either intentionally or through callous disregard for your needs makes your life worse. then, if possible through circumstance and safety, either make that anger their problem, or eject them from your life. enough already

[demilypyro]

Hey Demily, you have fantastic media analysis. Can you think of any reason why Mateo in TADC didn't trans their gender in the epilogue? I feel like doing everything expect Jax going "I wana be a women" and then to have their real world counterpart just continue along feels cowardly or like a cop out... But you are the expert, so I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

as if this isn't a level 9 boymoder who's about to prestige

[demilypyro]

i'm literally always right

[btc-official-deactivated2024071]

im gonna fucking cry

[sapphling]

kind of insane seeing the extent to which some transmascs are willing to sandbag and outright lie about phalloplasty and tell other transmascs that if they have bottom dysphoria they're doomed just so they can whine about the "misogyny" of how "underdeveloped" phallo is in order to implicitly cast trans women in the role of men

[sapphling]

i do think you can draw a lot of parallels between trans mras who pretend transition doesn't exist in order to wallow in self pity and those cis guy incels who wax poetic about how a half centimeter of bone is what separates them from chad while literally just looking normal and repelling women entirely off the power of their personality

[butchdemiurge]

in 2026 let’s start actually noticing and taking seriously the true scale and impact of jkrs transmisogyny and how she’s been funneling decades of royalties and ip owner cash directly into anti trans lobbying thats been making the uk hell while gradually worsening conditions elsewhere through impacting the zeitgeist

[shakyfoundations]

A mech discord server with a vent channel where all the messages are just ‘FWSSHHHHHH -heat level reduced’

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse