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nimi mi li soweli kule. mi lili. mi wile e ni: jan olin li jo e mi, mi soweli ΘΔ ---------------------------- my name is soweli kule. im smol. i want to be a loving owner's pet, im an animal ΘΔ

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@soweli-kule
ma, o open
nimi mi li soweli kule. mi lili. mi wile e ni: jan olin li jo e mi, mi soweli ΘΔ ---------------------------- my name is soweli kule. im smol. i want to be a loving owner's pet, im an animal ΘΔ
kasi Apini li pali e ijo ala li lukin sama kasi tomo ----------------------------------------------------- affini that does nothing and just looks like a regular houseplant
About Affinification
I normally don't bother getting into quote-unquote "HDG Discourse", but I was recently falsely accused of doing so on anon on Ao3 (which was funny as fuck) so I figured why not take the opportunity to *actually* discoursepost, since this is a subject I have some pretty strong feelings on
My stance on affinification is it should be allowed & not discouraged. Right now it is allowed but heavily discouraged, and I think this is both unnecessary and unkind- particularly to members of the community who have affini headmates. I've seen some arguments about affinification being bad because it undermines the disability narrative at the heart of HDG, but, imo this is only true if you take a very limited view of the capacity in disabled people VS abled people.
Disabilities come in all shapes and size, ranging from things like being unable to walk and needing a wheelchair, to having autism in a world that isn't suited for autistic people (google 'social model of disability' if this doesn't make sense.) However, "disabled person" =/= "person who can't do anything at all", it just means "person who can not do/struggles to do some things."
I get that the general take here is "the affini are The System and disabled people are never part of The System", but disabled people are actually - very fucking occasionally - able to become part of the system.
The US has a non-zero amount of trans representatives and presumably at least some of those are disabled; likewise, I have no doubt there are disabled non-trans representatives that I'm not aware of.
I think, basically, affinification is fine if your character has to work for it in a story. It is true that yes, you cannot overcome physical disabilities irl- but it may well be possible in some cases to still do a job you wanted to do, or get a position you wanted to, with enough hard work anyway. I do recognise this is not always possible, but to be clear I'm approaching this from a mental disability perspective anyway because that's what HDG means to me personally, and things are a bit different there
To be clear, I fully acknowledge trans people/disabled people/other minorities should not need to work to get this kind of recognition. They do, though; that's how life currently is, and it's fine for people to want to explore that in HDG stories. It Takes Time is on some level about my self-insert wanting to fight to be accepted and seen as an equal by a bunch of people who are more able bodied than her, even if she isn't capabilistically their equal (or it will be when I get to that arc in 50 million years lmao).
The reason it's about that is that, as an autistic person who has spent their entire life being thought of as stupid, inept, and incapable by the people around me, but is not actually, my life has been all about fighting to get people to stop viewing me that way. This is also why ITT isn't an actual affinification story; I don't need my self-insert to physically become an affini to feel validated, I just want to be treated as equal to them in the ways that I care about (which is not in the ability to micromanage 50 vines at once.)
so yeah there's my 5 credits on affinification: basically I think you can write it without undermining the disability narrative if you do it properly. also I am not at all trying to say "disabled people should just work harder to get what they want" no one should have to work if they don't want to: I just so happen to be the type that naturally enjoys having responsibilities and being in charge of stuff and I would actually be okay being in the social role that the affini have within the compact (which I realise separates me from like 99% of hdg's reader demographic already lmao)
I am merely trying to acknowledge that some disabled people - such as myself - do willingly go down the torturous path to trying to at least sort of "fit in" in society, and having a way to represent that in HDG is good I think
pilin sina la, toki pona li pana e pilin pona anu ike anu seme tawa kasi Apini?
pilin mi la pilin pi kasi Apini li ni: kasi suwi li pilin pona tan ni la ona li pilin pona kin
kasi suwi en kasi Apini li lon poka li kama sona e toki pona, ni li suwi...
a, mi sona ^w^
mi pilin sama. ken la, jan li ken toki pona taso lon kulupu Apini :3
pilin mi li ni: kasi Apini ken kama sona e toki ale ante ni li lon: kasi Apini ken kama sona e toki pona tan jan pi toki pona taso
meow meow :3
mu mu :3
pilin sina la, toki pona li pana e pilin pona anu ike anu seme tawa kasi Apini?
pilin mi la pilin pi kasi Apini li ni: kasi suwi li pilin pona tan ni la ona li pilin pona kin
kasi suwi en kasi Apini li lon poka li kama sona e toki pona, ni li suwi...
suli a la, jan seme li jo ike e Nasin Ala Pi Kasi Suwi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- for real tho, who else struggles with Unowned Floret Syndrome
I wanna be in poly family so badly. I wanna have my wife and her girlfriends, maybe they become my girlfriends. I wanna soo badly be able to cuddle up with everyone and feel loved and love them. I wanna tease them about their other partners and help them get all dressed up for dates. I wanna hear them all groan as I yell go piss girl down the hallway before we all burst into laughter. I want to be around people I love. I need that. I wanna make cookies to sit out for everyone to nom on throughout the week. And play dnd as a family. I want a family I can love and who loves me please.
woa shes so cool she should forcibly remove my cock and balls with that sword tbh
musi ala la, sitelen sama ni li pona mute tawa mi suwi + kon utala wawa ------------------------------------------------------ memes aside, i really like artwork like this cute + strong fighting spirit
musi Osu kepeken nena luka luka la, kasi Afini ken ala ken musi pona e ona ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- would affini have an easy time playing 10k in osu mania
robot girl bouncing on it but it keeps making the connect/disconnect jingle and it's really distracting
>THIS IS SO ME IR- [Unknown USB device connected. Descriptor request: FAILED]
mi wile e ni: kasi Afini li len e mi tawa ona kepeken linja kasi ------------------------------------------------------------------ i want an affini to cuddle me into them using their vines
wawawawa
awawawawa
awawawawa!
awawawawa
pakalaaaaa, mi wile e kasi Afini ------------------------------------ fuckkkkkkk, i need an affini
affini compact nightmare blunt rotation: as-yet undomesticated feral (he takes one hit and immediately the indomitable terran spirit has become domitable), floret who is so high already that the weed just does nothing to her, affini that has never done drugs before and so takes one hit and immediately gets vaporized, ???th bloom from the core worlds who just mutters about how 'is this seriously what passes for weed outside of triangulum?', independent who has never done xenodrugs and takes one hit and instantly starts begging to be domesticated so they can feel this way all the time, and the ship ai that's using a code injection to synthesize the effects of being high then spends the next six hours crashing into asteroids (these don't damage her at all but the affini on her deck take the opportunity to bully her extensively about it)
Making friends with an affini as an independent was hard. You had to make sure not to give off the impression that you're a seed, and even so, it's hard not to get the impression that your new friend is thinking about making you a pet. But after a while, you find one who can treat you almost like an equal.
The real problem came when you introduced this affini to your other independent friends. Most of them didn't feel comfortable around an affini, which you understood, and they wanted most of your hangouts to be terran only.
One friend though, seemed a little too comfortable. Maybe she was just too trusting of the affini you had called your friend, but she would let the affini pet her, and never felt the need to insist on her independence the way you did.
Your breaking point came when one day, you were all hanging out, and she ended up sitting in the affini's lap. You're not really sure how it happened, but you looked over, and there she was, looking like a floret. The sight made your stomach twist in anxiety for her, and afterwards, you invited her back to your hab and sat her down.
You explained that just because this affini was your friend didn't mean her independence wasn't threatened. If she didn't start acting differently, she'd end up a floret. Instead of being horrified, like you expected, she blushed and looked away.
She was embarrassed, but not nearly as ashamed as you would have been if you were the one admitting to having already been considering walking into the domestication office. She tells you how nice your affini friend is, which you obviously knew, because you're friends, and is actually happy at the suggestion that she's being viewed as a potential pet.
You're horrified, but not as horrified as you are in the coming weeks, when you realize that your affini spends less and less time with you, and more with her. The realization that you were only ever seen as a terran to be domesticated, not a real friend, and that you've now been replaced, is humiliating.
You feel sick when she talks about how excited she is to get her implant, and describes in uncomfortable detail how good the xenodrugs make her feel during sex. You try inviting her to something, and she asks if her affini (that's how she says it too) is invited, because if not, she can't go.
She invites you to a party to celebrate her getting her implant, and you blow up at her, insulting her, and calling her names. You expect her to burst into tears, but instead, she's totally calm, and tells you that it's okay to be jealous.
Every time you think of the two of them, you're revolted, and then you remember her accusation that you're jealous, and get angry. You don't want to hang out with your other friends, who are way too accepting of her becoming a floret. They're probably talking about how they're also going to be domesticated.
The doorbell rings, and you're told it's a wellness check. You thought your next one was a few days away, but apparently you lost track of time. You open the door, but instead of the usual affini, it's the one who domesticated your friend, and she's there too. "No need to be jealous anymore!" she says, "once we fail you on this wellness check, we'll be a connivent!"
ijo ante la, ma HDG li pona tawa mi ------------------------------------- also, i like HDG