name is Wilbur, or with people who know me from a certain discord server or pre-name-change, Tommy. If you aren’t sure, ask me about it either in pinned post comments or in my askbox
I’m nerdy about DSMP (barely remember any of it tho), Plurality, and my OCs (always a rotation of who I’m obsessed with at any given time). I used to be into PJO and Steven Universe as a kid, I might reblog posts about them every so often for nostalgia points. (Feel free to send asks about bolded topics. Mutuals can send asks about any topic)
‘DNI lists’ are parasocial (boundaries are for interpersonal communication, not some blanket ‘don’t touch my posts’ when it is impossible to tell what it is if your posts don’t continuously include them (which is often annoying since so many lists are hundreds if not thousands of words (mild exaggeration)).
I will say that no, I don’t like William Gold (though what good does it do when neither you nor I know him personally), and system origin discourse has, in the past ten years, evolved to be inherently abusive.
hurg. Tagging system
#og post—posts where I am OP
#askbox—ask bog posts. I do not tag these as ‘og post’ unless I particularly want to save them as such
#bugs for my bug (all ‘bug’ tags), #mutual tag (and all mutual-specific variants), #worm tag & #bnuuy tag(?), and a few others are social tags of various varieties and groups
#the sacred texts, #the sacred mcyt, and #the sacred dsmp—Old posts with various expiration date brackets that I like to collect
Various DSMP-related tags—DSMP. I do not add bang-modifiers between ‘c’/‘cc’ and name, and usually don’t use ‘cc’ at all and just tag as their usernames instead.
I do not feature tag plurality tags on my blog for a reason—I don’t want people to search my blog purely to check for “stances” on previously-mentioned-as-abusive discourses, and I honestly don’t want to give easy access to people digging around for largely personal posts. Unless your ask specifically refers to an old ask game I made on plurality, I will ignore+delete asks outside of established mutuals.
Current filtration tags that I’m actually consistent with— #cats, #cw blood, #cw syscourse, and #eye contact. I try to tag #bright colors and #flashing as well, if something needs tagged, please tell me
2008, and I'm getting ready for my government job fresh out of college. There's a suddenly bright light as a tear in space appears, and a bright haired female version of myself steps through it.
"Foone! I have an important message, from your future self!"
"oh wow, is it that I'm a girl and need to transition immediately?"
"no, you'll figure that out yourself. This is more important"
She steps closer and takes my face into her hands.
"never read homestuck for a boy you have a crush on. Farewell!"
There's another flash and a momentary smell of ozone, and I'm alone in my apartment again, more confused than ever.
I don't believe in christian babies. I believe in babies, i believe in christians, but a baby doesn't have the agency and cognitive abilities required to chose and/or live a faith. There's babies of christian parents, of course, as well as babies that have been introduced into the system that is the christian church, but that does not make them christian yet.
Long story short, i did not hit a christian baby into the stratosphere, officer.
I hate how every time a kid-friendly game that includes romance comes out (recent example: Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream), and fans express a desire for polyamory in the game, polyamphobic people come out of the wood works to say "Don't do that, that's a game kids play!"
Minors can be polyamorous. Minors can have polyamorous parents or other relatives. Minors are not harmed in any way by exposure of polyamory. I knew I was polyamorous by the age of 12. I felt extraordinarily othered by the lack of representation.
Polyamory isn't inherently some super explicit NSFW thing.
It's literally no different from the "don't let same-gender relationships exist in video games!" argument.
"But polyamory is sexual!" It can be, yes. But so can monogamy. A person can have a monogamous sexual relationship. Just like how not all monogamy is sexual, not all polyamory is sexual.
People act like group sex, swinging, and sexual open relationships are all that exist. But polyamory can occur in non-sexual manners (romantic, queerplatonic, etc), and monogamy can occur in purely sexual manners. Neither are "inherently" sexual.
How great would it be to have characters tell you "I want to pursue [insert character]. Should I talk to [current partners] about it?" and then you can encourage or discourage them, and if you encourage them, then you get a little cutscene of them talking to their current partners about wanting to add a new member to the relationship?
It would teach children and uneducated people SO MUCH about consent and communication in polyamory.
"Well, I wouldn't want my miis to be polyamorous" then make them monogamous? In a hypothetical like this, the options would be:
-Closed monogamous (wants a monogamous partner)
-Open monogamous (doesn't mind having a polyamorous partner)
-Ambiamorous (fine with polyamory or monogamy. Add a partner amount or a "no limit" option for the possibility of polyamory occuring.)
-Polyamorous (and then you'd select how many partners the character is interested in having, or a "no limit" option.)
Its literally no different from having the "what genders will they date" option.
"But I like the cutscenes of them fighting over the person!" That could still happen, if the miis dislike each other, or one of them has the "closed monogamy" setting on.
(Also, it would be nice if the game had a "don't date this person" option in the "real life connection" settings, so you wouldn't have to make everyone you don't want to date into "family" and play mind games with the system to try and avoid unwanted partnering.)
And before you get on my ass about how this would be hard to program in the game now - I know. I'm talking about FUTURE representation. I'm talking about how nice it would be if games started to actually think about us! I know it's likely not even possible in the game with how it was programmed, but it would be WONDERFUL to be thought of in the future.
As other queer rights progress, people with non-monogamous orientations still get left in the dust.
The game has a lot of progress compared to its previous installments. I really appreciate that it allows you to make characters nonbinary and allows you to make characters gay, m-spec, and non-partnering. But there's still mononormativity and heteronormativity rooted that needs to be torn out from the ground, and there's still a limited perspective within the game of what it means to be non-binary, male, and female.
Other queer issues with the game:
1- You can only have a character be nonbinary in the creation menu. None of the babies of miis are nonbinary unless you edit their profiles - they reinforce the idea that everyone is born either a "girl" or "boy", and that non-binary is something that comes "later." And while that may be true for some enben, a lot of enben also feel they were *born* nonbinary!
2- All babies are born straight and gender conforming, unless edited in their mii menu.
3- When you select a mii as "male" it automatically selects their dating preferences as female, and vice versa for when you select a mii as female. When you select a mii as nonbinary, it leaves their dating preferences blank. Yes, you can change their dating preferences, but it's weird of them to have a heteronormative "default." Same thing happens with pronouns and clothes worn during events.
4- There's no ability to select multiple sets of pronouns. There's no it/its pronouns. And worst of all, there's no customizable pronouns! That especially pisses me off, because they literally have customizable sentences throughout the game! Its not unfounded for the games programming! How hard would it be to have a menu where you type three words (ie; xe/xem/xers) and it inputs the pronouns in the correct places? The game is so close already with the customized phrases!
5- You cannot select multiple genders for a character. You cannot make a character female and nonbinary, male and nonbinary, female & male & nonbinary, etc. I get that they probably did this because they wanted an easier time determining what characters would be attracted to who, but I pose that if a character is attracted to women, and another character has "woman" as one of their genders, let them get a crush! (Or if you're so worried about it, have it where only people attracted to both women & enben can get a crush on someone with both those options selected.)
6- There is no "don't date this person" option. They have tons of relative options (mom, dad, sibling, etc), and they obviously don't allow characters who are related to date each other, but there is no option that just says "don't date." I can't always set everyone as siblings or related, because sometimes that fucks up the family tree in ways where it won't let certain miis I *do* want to date to get together, because they become categorized as step/half siblings (ie; if I say person A is siblings to both person B and person C, because I don't want A to date either of them, B and C won't date each other because they think they're related.)
[ID: the first image is a screenshot of pearl from double life, squished vertically to act like a banner. the next 3 images are various screenshots of pearl looking at the viewer.
the bottom image is a drawing of double life pearl (mostly skin-accurate except for wolf ears on her head and fingerless gloves) with her hand on her hip and a determined expression. there are sparkles over the image and glittery pink text that reads "Sparkle on! It's Wednesday! Don't Forget to" and flaming text reading "EAT SOME SOUP"]
I'm literally working outside of work hours rn (taking a lil break) to enter plover data bc these little buggers are so busy rn I spend all of my time in the field
yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
