Assorted Ramblings of an Engineer

Transfeminine | she/her | official internet old person

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you just teleported to the last game you played how is it going? {you're plot involved}

good

bad

great

awful

dead

I don't play games/results

Remaining time: 5 days 31 minutes

Soma 😔

[doyouknowthisbook-poll]

Do you know which book this is from?

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I’ve read this book before, and I like it!

I can tell what this is from based on this excerpt, but I haven't read it

I started reading this, but didn’t finish it (or I am reading it currently)

I haven’t read this book, but I like this except!

I’ve read this book before, and I don’t like it

I haven’t read this book and I don’t like this excerpt

Remaining time: 16 hours 50 minutes

Please reblog the polls, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people read the excerpt with an open mind 💖📚 Title and author will be revealed after the poll's conclusion.

Thank you @only-by-the-stars for the submission! 😄

[jadedresearcher]

ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I want to read your stuff but I need somewhere to start. Give me your best "what the fuck derin" stories if you please.

I'm the least qualified person to answer this. Everyone, what should they read.

[artisticmedley]

Angel, imo, if you're asking for short stories. People react a lot to How to Live in the Well because it feels relateable to their lives, but imho it's not as fucked up as Angel. Copy Paste is also well loved hated loved people react a lot to it.

And of course TTOU, if you want a chonker to read.

[mx-delta-juliette]

Copy Kate is one that my sister and I still WTF over, more than a year after reading it. 100% recommend, it poses amazing hypothetical questions.

[cipheramnesia]

I think we should add extra rights for trans people. We should have equal human rights, plus some other animal, like lizards or horses. Trans rights are human rights plus also endangered California condor rights. We get the extra bird rights. Our breeding grounds are protected sites.

[glitzkomodo]

If a trans woman gets within 50 yards of your boat you have to cut your motors until she loses interest and leaves

[dragon-in-a-fez]

just heard an audio engineer refer to people as "meat baffles"

[brightmouth-deactivated20230417]

My spouse and I just had one of those “wait your brain works HOW?” exchanges, and now I am BURNING TO KNOW HOW IT WORKS FOR OTHER PEOPLE:

Fellow speakers of this feral bastard language (English), rb and tell me in the tags: what is the delineation for you, if any, between evening and night?

[rednines]

I’m putting estrogen in the jet exhaust to crop dust the world with femtrails

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have won a lifetime supply of this

How do you feel?

good!

I CAN SELL THIS AND GET RICH

im drowning in my supply help

Eh it's okay

BAD. VERY BAD

results/other

Voting ended onJul 15

you would receive the supply once a month

the brand/type will vary so you could

you can sell the things you get/give them away but they will keep coming until you die

[caffeinatedopossum]

[importantpics]

[capitalismsbiggesthater]

Gideon and Harrow at Canaan House

[ayinnimaakii]

[azu-mog]

When Rocky finds out earth memes and crabs

Or maybe Grace is having a weird dream

[erinbowbooks]

[natalieironside]

In spite of my constant appeals to science and rationality, and in addition to the whole "I dunno, man, it felt p. real to me" deal which is the final refuge of all mentally unwell mystics, I'll never use terms like atheist or skeptic to describe myself b/c I've got fed up with seeing them deployed as thought-terminating cliches implying (or just outright saying) that the non-existence of something makes it inherently unworthy of further study. I dunno if it's much of a problem in serious discourse but it happens Way Too Much in popular discussions and I'm crabby. A whole lot of y'all are trying to combat anti-intellectualism backwards by just participating in it like some sort of pedagogical Filthy Frank. I'm someone who likes stories, and I'm interested in the history of stories and the roles they play within society, and also I sell them for money, so of course this is something I think too much about.

Like. If you think nobody should ever bother studying or analyzing or writing about things that aren't real and don't exist, then that presents us with a whole lot of very serious problems because here is an incomplete list of things that (I, the nihilist, must insist) aren't real and don't exist: Money. Governments. Countries. The rule of law. Languages. Mathematics. Gender. Music. Consciousness. And so on.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The thing about being trans is that once you come to terms with it it’s really just whatever but The Cis People insist upon being weird about it

[what-even-is-thiss]

Once you’ve been out of the closet for a while and are surrounded by people who are at the very least neutral and respectful about the trans thing it just becomes a whatever part of your life and all these people claiming that you’re ruining society and passing laws against you kinda feels like a swat team storming into your house while you’re just eating spaghetti.

[sometiktoksarevalid]