<🌈💎🔦> Welcome to the Tumblr of the Refracted Light System / Lux (our collective name)!
We are NOT traumagenic, but we are adaptive and don't usually consider ourselves endogenic because of that. We coined the term automisiagenic to describe our origin of the original's self-hatred. We are hydraconscious and mediple!
We turned out to be partially traumagenic lol, we just didn't want to call what we experienced trauma because everyone else has it worse and yet it was bad enough to fuck us up. Anyway neurotraumagenic gang rise up!
Most people can interact, the only hard boundaries we have are on people who tell others to die, and on actual pedophiles, whether they are offenders or not. Offenders can go straight to hell and/or prison, non-offenders we just feel really uncomfortable with. If you are not a pedophile, then feel free to interact if your purpose is not to attack or trigger.
System member intro and beliefs under the cut
We are trying not to get into too many arguments on this blog, but we will state our beliefs so that those with those beliefs on DNIs can avoid us! These beliefs include:
Skeptical humanist-adjacent atheism that's agnosticism on a technicality
Anti-censorship of true fiction (fiction that does not represent or contain real people. Fictives are real people but they are not exactly the same as their source, and their source is the one depicted in most fanfictions and not the fictive themself.) This makes us pro-ship on a technicality-- we do not "ship" characters but we do read fiction that would be morally bad if it happened in real life. Do not harass us for this-- the block button is right there.
Anti-contact if harmful, pro-para. We support no-contact pedophiles, we just don't want to interact with you. All other (no-contact if paraphilia would harm people) paraphiles are welcome to interact.
Pro-endogenic and pro-traumagenic systems. We feel slightly uncomfortable with tulpas, thoughtforms, and other created headmates due to bias that we're trying to remove. Mainly, our concerns are about headmate abuse by their creator, but we understand that not every creator hurts their headmates and are trying to get over this bias. Completely cool with tulpas and thoughtforms now, love y'all.
We never tell anyone to die. They can be the worst person on the planet but they still need the opportunity to learn and grow, and death removes that opportunity. Don't tell people to die.
Member Intro (Main Fronters only, system has around 50 80 100 members)
Adrian/Chara: post-canon Undertale fictive and current host, writing the post! Median subsystem. Agenderflux. They/them, xe/xem, it/its pronouns. Neutral terms when possible, masculine terms when not.
Alan Kai: previous host, original. Was median before the Great Differentiation of 2022, and facets were Pink, Dark, Blue and Gold. They are now separate. Boyflux. He/him, they/them, and xey/xem pronouns.
Asriel: post-canon Undertale fictive, Chara and Rafi's boyfriend. Demiboy. He/him and they/them pronouns.
Astara: Meteor Shower songtroject with memories of the setting of Stars Without Number. Lunarian in the Galactian alignment system of non-binary genders. She/her and they/them pronouns with feminine terms.
Frisk (Musical/Musi): an introject of Man On The Internet's Undertale the Musical's Frisk. Different from the Frisk Chara remembers. Appears 10 in headspace, so a little/middle. Maverique. They/them pronouns, neutral terms when possible, masculine terms if not.
The Narrator: Brainmade, refers to himself in third person. Is distanced from emotions--he can feel them, but not strongly. Wife is the Analyst/Sarah, who rarely fronts. Man. He/him pronouns.
Papyrus: a post-canon Undertale fictive, types in all-caps and speaks like it too. His brother Sans is here too. Adoptive uncle of Frisk (Musical). Thinks he's a man but he's not completely sure. He/him pronouns.
Pink/Candy: a former facet of Alan Kai and a partial introject of both the color pink and the song Drop Pop Candy, specifically JubyPhonic and Kuraiinu's cover. Genderfae. She/her, they/them and fae/faer pronouns.
The Dramatist: half-brainmade, half-introject. He is a partial introject of Mettaton, took the appearance of Rouxls Kaard combined with a guy in our AP Lang class, and is loud and dramatic all the time. Man but in a non-binary way. He/him and xey/xem pronouns.
Oliver Dunham: a fictive from Fringe (TV show) who turned out to be trans and doesn't want to put out his deadname, though you could easily look it up. Trans man. He/him pronouns.
Frisk (Rafi): Fictive of a specific fanfic of Undertale, but had an appearance change. Chara and Asriel's datefriend. Maverique. They/them pronouns.
Zephyr: Brainmade. Agender, pretty much any pronouns, though he doesn't like ones with 'x's or 'k's. The most sane person out of all of us, bless them.
Karlach: BG3 fictive, hobbies include taking showers and Minecraft. Gender is unknown but some sort of non-binary. She/they pronouns
Queer-Friendly Indie Tabletop RPG #137: This world has no patriarchy or gender inequality, yet somehow evolved exactly the same cultural institutions as every other generically medieval fantasy milieu.
Me: And we're not gonna delve into that even a little bit, huh?
Queer-Friendly Indie Tabletop RPG #137: Here's 5000 words exploring the implications of undead skeletons being fully integrated members of society.
#“now go off into the world and kill 'tribes' of bandits and goblins without moral compunctions” (via @bombussyaffinis)
To be fair, sometimes it's more along the lines of "our goblins have exactly the same stereotypical traits and propensities as their Dungeons & Dragons counterparts, but the text awkwardly tries to spin those as virtues".
(My personal favourite is "yes, our goblins do break into people's houses and take everything that isn't nailed down, but they're not thieves, they're just immutably genetically programmed to be absolute socialists and are literally incapable of grasping the concepts of privacy or personal possessions no matter how it's explained to them".)
Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.
The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there
Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.
And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.
love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears
Mr. Tenna is Kris Dreemurr's childhood imaginary friend and has the most diagetically designed vibes out of any Darkner, making him, as a concept and design, Kris' intellectual property. This of course means that Kris Dreemurr legally owns Tenna's name and likeness and if you've ever written or drawn him, you owe Kris Dreemurr royalties.
I honestly think that nonbinary people should be allowed to be mean* about our genders without getting shit for it more often.
*(Read: Assertive of our boundaries and stood firm on the fact that our identities are deserving of respect)
We should be allowed to make a sour face or take a cold tone with someone when they carelessly misgender us for the fifth time in a row despite multiple corrections. We should be allowed to complain about erasure and ask where our needs and experiences come into play when we hear people reinforcing binary normativity in their discussions of gender related issues. We should be allowed to be visibly/audibly angry with other trans people when they try to forcibly categorize us as fem or masc, or imply that our enbyness is a mere phase that will eventually lead to "real/full" (binary to binary) transition.
Nonbinary people should be allowed to take our identities seriously and expect others to do the same for us, regardless of whether or not we will come off as mean for doing so. Because quite frankly, upon seeing how exorsexist the world has become recently, I think we haven't been mean enough.
do other cultures have a stereotypical musical signature for america? in america, east asia has the Asian Riff. the middle east has Maqam Hijaz Overuse. india has Gratuitous Sitar. do people have anything to badly represent american music
the objectively correct answer for Stereotypically American Misrepresentation Music is The Lumberjack by Jackyl and i want the 35 second chainsaw solo to be the motif for america in every movie forever
happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility
okay i have notes turned off on this now but istg if one more person tells me that it's okay not to transcribe the words because sometimes speaking in a language the characters don’t understand is important to the plot i'm gonna affect the trout population. i’m not saying to translate it in the subtitles, i’m saying to SUBTITLE IT. IN THAT LANGUAGE. SO THAT ANYONE WHO NEEDS SUBTITLES AND WHO ALSO SPEAKS THAT LANGUAGE HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND IT AS SOMEONE WHO DOESNT NEED SUBTITLES WOULD
art is not my strong suit but this is my best recreation of what i saw when i opened the window. i have to emphasize that she was supermodel levels of gorgeous
i had a dream last night that the entire world used a currency (?) called angrypennies which as the name implies are obtained by experiencing anger. the stronger and more intense your anger was, the more angrypennies you'd gain. an all-consuming rage would earn you more than a slight irritation, etc. so people were always searching for ways to fuel their anger and purposefully keeping themselves angry all the time because they wanted to earn angrypennies. unclear if angrypennies could be exchanged for goods and services, or if they were just a collectible.
anyway, as if this wasn't heavy-handed enough, at one point british comedian greg davies appeared and explained that angrypennies couldn't be worth feeling angry all the time. this was a real revelation to dream-me and i was finally able to break free of the angrypenny grind and allow myself to experience emotions other than anger.
