Walk Along the Edge of Duality

☘️ Eero | 29 | They/Them | Pan + Polyam 🍀Fandom, Aesthetic, Advice, Tag Talker, 18+

[goodlouse]

[cuppydogshane]

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

[hyperlexichypatia]

People in the notes are saying "You can!" referring just to the hospital visitation part, and sure (depending). But people should have access to ALL of the benefits of marriage without needing to be married.

You should be able to add anyone you want on your health insurance plan.

You should be able to sponsor the visa of anyone you choose to move to your home country.

You should be able to name anyone you choose as the legal-from-birth legal coparent of any child you give birth to.

You should be able to apply for student aid on your own at any age.

And yes, yes, ideally healthcare and college should be free, international migration should be unrestricted, and the entire concept of legal parenthood should be rewritten from the ground up. But right now we're talking about marriage benefits.

[gatormelons]

hot take: wikipedia pages for dead public figures should include ALL types of reactions in the death segment, not just the "there was a memorial and these folks said a few positive words" stuff

i want the pages for all those rancid ass politicians and rich folks to mention if people celebrated in the streets and memed the shit out of them online. i think that's important culture to document

[b1rd1e]

not even kidding be SO earnest. Be so honest and forthcoming about your life, your feelings in the pursuit of connection with others, and know being as earnest as possible in your experience is what quells loneliness in those who feel the same way as you do. Is what helps us feel seen. And builds community and resolve within the fact it doesn't have to feel so lonely and insurmountable. we need community and connection. You really are not as alone as you think, we're all scared. we need to hold each others hands

[t4timekeeper]

yeah i just love it when a character is in an escapable torment nexus for a huge portion of their life and it defines every aspect of their existence forever. also whats cptsd

[wheatiewintry]

women deserve to be ugly. and by that i mean they should be allowed to have conventionally "unattractive" features and not be treated as lesser for it. women should be allowed to be fat and lanky and tall and short and have scars and physical differences and stretch marks and cellulite and acne and wrinkles and hair on their faces and arms and legs and armpits and maybe even be a little stinky and gross sometimes. and this should be normal

[stainedinink-deactivated2026041]

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[synthyk]

i do like the idea of the claw hand being a sign of reaching sexual maturity, but i do wonder the impacts that would have on eridian sexuality. like. would it make some kinda.... hands/fine dexterity kink developmentally common? would "freshly moulted claw" be a eridian porn trope/category? is there a scenario where grace rolls a coin across his fingers and rocky has to take a moment to breathe about it

I think dexterity would be a kink even removed from molting. Deft little fingers doing a good job is very appealing to everyone! Everyone will be listening to Grace's soft nimble lithe fingers with much interest when he arrives...

I think a good bit of the interest in freshly molted shell for Eridians might be the danger. Not only are the shells of the freshly molted soft and easily damaged, they are more exposed to the pathogens in Erid's air. They are so easy to potentially harm, so soft and vulnerable and exposed... like prey, or like a baby. Many kinks start from things like this. So easy to damage, the potential for harm or restraining yourself so you don't cause harm... The power this gives you, or that it gives the molted over the unmolted is really interesting.

And then of course the softness itself is hot. You can hear into it so easily! when you touch it, it gives way! Does this leave a permanent impression? Can you mark your partners this way? Harming yourself while soft might be the only time you can feel this specific kind of pain. That might be its own kink!

I really love the idea of Rocky getting completely unexpectedly taken out by little things grace does. Biting a finger or a pen, or rolling a coin through the gaps of his fingers, or even something like typing if he was fast and efficient at it. powerful soft little fingers... so enticing... tap them on my carapace, Grace...

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[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

[the-irreverend]

Here's to hellsite solidarity!

[rockstarcotta]

[thefloatingstone]

Follow up to the rainbow comic which I don't think I will do anything with since I have too many ideas and I like some of them more to focus on;

“I’m not entirely sure how to explain it. A Rainbow is when sunlight hits something like mist or rain in just the right way that is separates the entire light spectrum into individual colours. That’s er... that’s not very helpful is it?”

“So all light pulled apart then put together, question?”

“Yeah kinda! But in... you know... a band... across the sky..”

“hm... difficult. Can’t form echo... uh... imagine.”

“yeah yeah. I guess it’s like trying to visualise what the world looks like to a shrimp”

“what.”

[pause]

“Wait wait!! Echo!! Ok I got it!”

“So, ok stick with me now, a rainbow is like... ok. So humans see the world with light. Light bounces off things and hits our eyes which is how we see what things look like, with colours.

You guys see the world with sound. Sound bounces off things and back to you, so you can tell its shape, texture, size and all of that!”

“Simple explanation. But yes.”

“Now, a rainbow is when something like rain causes the sounds and echoes of the world to separate from each other. Each one is like... it becomes it’s own tone. It’s own note. Clear and bright, held perfectly. On it’s own it’s nice. But when it’s a rainbow, each note harmonises with each other. The all sing together at the same time.”

“Oh! Oh oh!! A chorus!”

“Exactly! A chorus! The notes that we see the world with, all singing together in a harmonised chorus. When the weather is right you can see it far in the distance for a few minutes, arcing through the sky, then it fades away again and it’s gone.”

“So, Rainbow is the world singing.”

“Yeah. Yeah I guess it is.”

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[satanicspinosaurus]

Going through the book and that Grace is so much more food obsessed. I know the ending is him getting fed with "me burgers" which seems like a limited diet.

Anyway, humans have ample varieties of sugar in them and anyone with the right amount of hormones (that all humans make) can lactate.

I'm just saying, a non-custard based ice cream is very possible with a bit of hormone therapy.

[manyblinkinglights]

I’m a gracemilk truther. It wouldn’t even be difficult for the Eridian scientists, not after muscle tissue. They can just grow up a bunch of cells and treat THEM with hormones, there are actual irl startup companies attempting to do this to sell super highpriced Your Very Own Milk to rich people (ostensibly for their babies).

[phmthoughts]

Making Eva Stratt East German in the film is really really meaningful. She grew up (in the 1980s I assume?) behind the Berlin Wall. She came of age in a world defined by scarcity, secrecy, checkpoints, state control. She knew, viscerally knew, from her own life experience, what the whole entire world was going to devolve into when things started getting bad. It wasn't just some abstract academic idea to her (though, as a historian, she also intellectually knew from countless examples of eras of conflict across history). But this she knew in her bones, and she knew that she would have to do whatever it took to prevent it. To prevent, as much as she could, others (the children) from having to go through what she (as a child) went through. Having that personal history tacitly be part of her character's motivation is so, so good. (Also, this makes "It's so insulting" make way more sense, given what she's lived, and how her childhood was different from his.)

[mleprae]

Literal TEARS in my eyes rn

[apparentlyautistick]

IS THAT JESUS CHRIST OF NAZERETH??!?????