Canon universe but a little to the left

a blog about a self-indulgent AI The Somnium Files AU made by me (WolfKid05) and my mutual Mothicalspoken/datesleftaiba, pretty much all the art is done by them including this pfp. Story spoilers for AITSF inbound, so tread lightly if you care about that sorta stuff!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[demilypyro]

Anyway this conversation is my smoking gun for transfem Date. Aiba looks very similar to Boss, so most people interpret this conversation like "Aiba knows Date has a crush on Boss," but what if rather than a crush, it's... gender envy? Consider how Aiba serves as Date's avatar within Somnium. Play with me in the space.

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@mothicalspoken @datesleftaiba

[tolerateit]

women in STEM (shitty posture, tired all the time, eyebags, miserable)

[meimihaneoka]

LESSON 1: madame president

[douglasdaelquor]

(via @socksual-innuendos)

[irreparableinnocence]

I love characters with tunnel vision. False dichotomies. The sunk cost fallacy. Characters who are convinced of their utmost rationality and can even lay out their entire philosophy in logical, impersonal terms and convince others even though the whole of their actions, rationalised to hell and back though they may be, are spurred on by something entirely emotional (and this doesn't stop them from being right on the money about some things). Characters who are at once the most and least self-aware people ever. Characters who know the ins and outs of their psyche like a map they've memorised but can barely tell when they're experiencing a feeling.

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Kestra and Kaname

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Schrodinger's gender

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Another fic!

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Art by Moth

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Pewter, re-explaining psyncing to Reika: Imagine an egg.

Mothi in her eye socket, trying to help visualize things: *displaying a photo of Dissonance Id Reika instead of the egg analogy slideshow*

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As stated in a previous post, three things guaranteed to make Reika cry are genuine praise, personal reassurance, and gender euphoria.

...Unfortunately, Reika doesn't seem to get that it's okay to not be by yourself to cry, as giving an apology for somebody else seeing her get all teary and emotional wreck-y is commonplace, even if it's Mothi.

[rustyfoxxo]

AUs are so fucking funny. Here's my blorbo. In an alternate universe he fights everyday to keep himself alive against an uncaring world. In another universe he sings sometimes.

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@mothicalspoken @datesleftaiba

[tlirsgender]

Thinking about characters changing their names.. characters changing their names to run from the past or to reclaim their selfhood or to deny something. Characters who don't remember their names. Characters who can't forget. Etc. And yes of course because they're transgender

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