Arc 💭

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[paracosmicarchipelago]

Welcome to our blog!

We are Arc (He/They/It)

🎵 Bio Lyrics: Stranger by @seemingmusic 🎵

Profile pic: Art by our friend Jitter

If you suck you'll get blocked. No DNI necessary.

This blog belongs to a plural system. We discovered our multiplicity around 2019. Be cool, and feel free to ask questions. Don't worry about them sounding offensive. If we don't like them we just won't answer, and we'll message you an explanation.

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Who is Arc?

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[dawn-in-asphodel]

Doing evil alter things, like showering because our host was too tired to. But evilly

[kropotkindersurprise]

We salute an absolute icon 🫡

[gaylor-moon]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[ladyofspoons]

this blog supports punching fascists

[drmajalis]

Matt Frank (@mattzilla85.bsky.social)

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[notthegrouch]

This is so important though: "You're gonna get in trouble for that" reveals so much. He was planning on nobody doing anything, not because nobody stands up to him, or nobody objecting to what he says. He expects good people to be goody-two-shoes rules followers, and he expects the rules to protect him no matter what he does.

Important lesson to learn from this standing up to fascists means getting into good trouble. Get into trouble if it's worth it. Fascists will never expect it.

[theskydoesgreatthingsnow]

🪩 🎶 🦀 🦀 🦀 🎶 🪩

[tsunflowers]

red cross questions before you give blood are like

do you have the bubonic plague (also known as the black death)

were you a member of an Armenian monkey juggling troupe between the years of 1985 and 1997

have you ever even SEEN a gay man

[paracosmicarchipelago]

Funnily enough one question is about family history with "CJD" and a fun fact about us is that we DO have a blood relative who died of CJD and thus should not donate blood. From what I understand about it, it's a rare prion disease (like Chronic Wasting Disease in deer) that can be genetic, but can also be contracted, primarily via surgery with contaminated tools. No idea how grandpa got it but it killed him before I was born. Maybe a not so fun fact. When the DID started presenting a bunch of us were scared shitless of dying young of an extremely rare brain wasting disease

[paracosmicarchipelago]

Sometimes I think about having the body of Christ stuck in my teeth after service, I hope He doesn't mind being in there for a bit cause I forgot a bottle of water at service this morning

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[musithical]

having the brain go "nope" when accidentally stumbling across a memory you arent supposed to know about is like the mental equivalent of walking face first into a glass door

[genderkoolaid]

we need more stories about high femme prom queen types who become weird faggy guys. you haven't seen Behaviors until you've seen a repressed closeted tboy holding on to socially acceptable heterosexual femininity by the skin of his teeth

[thatflutefaggot456]

Me before I came out, when I did pageants and modeling.

Me after I came out, cut off my hair, bought comfortable clothes, and decided to actually wear my glasses because fuck contacts.

[crematedequally]

This was me the day of my junior prom. The dress weighed around 20 lbs, was the first one I tried on, and my makeup was done by someone who still thought brown lip liner looked good on white people. I spent the entire day being photographed and generally hating how I looked and wishing I could figure out why, when everything was technically perfect.

And this was me about eleven years later- two weeks after I started T in the first photo, and at around 5 months on T in the second. Much happier, married to the love of my life, and finally looking like myself!

[sisceal]

Such girl, very wow (pro ballet, modeling, and my first wedding)

Came out in 2016, here's nine years of transformation (in reverse order, sorry)

Turns out I'm neither a Normal Guy nor a woman, but a much weirder type of faggy masc thing.

And that's pretty great.

[antisocial-transfag]

In my lifestyle lolita egg era. Somehow getting to dress like a princess gave me the will to get up in the morning

1 year and 5 months on T

[romanticfatale]

[hauntedchronicler]

granted being a big ol goth doesn't really fit the bill of "socially acceptable heterosexual femininity" but i was HYPER feminine when i was closeted, especially in the years between when i FIRST tried to come out (age 16 - around the time of those first photos) and when i actually made the jump (age 19 - about a year after the last photo)

you can tell in that second to last photo i literally got a tattoo that said "MAD GIRL" which was an exercise in many things, including abstract self-harm, a visual reminder that i had given up on myself, and wildly underestimating the number of dudes who would misread it as BAD GIRL and take that as a cue to say gross shit to me while i was at work

anyway never kill yourself

[toyourliking]

haha yeah 🫣

consciously dipped my toes into the gender fuckery pool at around 15/16 but I was pentecostal at the time and well. took them out real quick

i tried very very hard to be “femme” for a LONG time but during covid lockdowns I didn’t have to perform for anyone and I slowly started to let it all go and now I’m a silly little man 😌

[mj-theskywitch]

ahem

these are about 10 years apart, 7 years on t and 5 years post op. it gets better guys

[genderkoolaid]

this too is a poem. these are my favorite kind of tags to see on this post btw. you will be in one of these posts someday <3

[genderkoolaid]

btw now, since this post was marked mature and i cannot seem to get it appealed, there are youth and others in the UK and Brazil are no longer able to see this post.

[our-trans-punk-experience]

this is both an insanely cool post, and also a test to see if you've been affected by tumblr's shit new rules. If you're not seeing this, I will tell you what to do on a different post. But obviously for you that post will be a surprise.

[paracosmicarchipelago]

Same for us, if a little more complicated. The girl who wore a bright fuchsia dress to prom is 💋 and is very much still a girl. Still enjoys dresses and makeup. Still wants other people to view her as a girl. Before our family moved to FL she wanted to get us into pageants.

Eventually, with how many of us are guys, we got everyone on board with masculine transition. 💋 is still a girl. She's always welcome to wear dresses in public-- we're not shy about a "genderfluid" presentation or even necessarily about being a system (anymore-- long story)-- and she does. She shaves if she wants to. She had a wig back when our hair wa short, but she's pretty happy with the mullet we currently have going.

With 🔗 and I (🌲) hosting, we just tend to present as a guy. We're guys and we're happy being masc. It's important that our workplace sees us this way because the blue collar and manual labor contexts we end up in (construction in the state of florida) aren't always the most comfortable places to be trans. For the most part, we pass as a guy, or at least are accepted as "just a girly guy" when we correct people.

We're happy. But 💋 never stopped being a girl and we still have that bright fuchsia prom dress. Now she just has some experiences that line up with trans women. Our body has grown more masculine and our social presentation is that of a man. The default address from our friends and family has become that of a man. Most people assume we're a man at first glance. Yet 💋 is a woman.

I'm thankful for her and I hope every time she's out she gets to be herself.

[orphetoon]

apparently its yugi’s birthday today. happy pride month king

[natalieironside]

There's always a moment of intense cultural whiplash whenever I realize I'm talking to someone who thinks "legal" and "illegal" are meaningful categories and ascribes innate goodness to following the law. It's like meeting a space alien.

[devilishdescent]

nngh... why do my pronouns hurt?

because youve never used them before.

[proudfictive]

If you're a singlet (someone who is not plural), I can guarantee you that you know at least one system offline. Probably, you know multiple systems.

Any of your friends or family members could be part of a system. Any of your classmates or coworkers could, too. Even your partner could be a system.

Plural systems usually do not announce our plurality. Because of the massive stigma around plurality, we try to pass as singlets. My system does this every day. My headmates have friends they've known for a decade who don't know we're plural.

It's said that dissociative disorders are very rare, but they're not. Trauma can and does happen to anyone. And many systems don't have dissociative disorders at all.

Systems are all around you. It's time to start treating us with the same respect you'd give anyone else.

[xanaxfarts]

Religious imagery on assorted vehicles

[rocketbirdie]

you already know what's up

[paracosmicarchipelago]

These people see you. These people see that you matter. These people want things to be better for you.

To the Supernatural fans! Misha Collins knows a good portion of his fanbase is trans and he's trying to look out for us.

If you're feeling like you're at the end of your rope? Just keep this in mind. People see you.

[paracosmicarchipelago]

New hit idea: adblocker but for AI. AI-blocker. Someone get on this.