Stormy's Lounge

A bunch of dumbasses in a trenchcoat

[stormy404]

intro post

Heya, we're the Stormy Collective, and collectively we go by it/its. As a collective name, pretty much any of us are fine with being called "Stormy", although using our individual names is preferred. We have around ~16 members (estimates tend to vary. this whole being a system stuff is confusing)

Besides that, here's a list of our headmates (this is isn't a comprehensive list, just a list of the most common fronters):

Ceroba (they/she/it/xe) 🤍 - Dumbass fox lady, resident transfem enby, and the host of the system. Void (it/they/she) 🌙 - Co-host of the system. kinda weird but very nice i guess

Chujin (she/her) 💜 - Yet another dumbass fox. Also one of the only (relatively) optimistic people in the system.

Sara (she/they/he) 🍀 - Technically two people in a median subsystem, but we'll be listing both in one entry for general convenience. Both are ben drowned fictives and the dedicated backseat drivers of the system. Luna / Ben (he/they) ☄️- Anthro espeon. Tends to laze about in headspace most of the time, but is pretty down to earth. Ceroba (they/she) 🏮 - oh yeah for some reason there are two cerobas in this system. don't know much about this one, doesn't tend to talk much.

Anyways introduction's over, go outside or something idk

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[inkmothnexus]

the thing is they really do let you hit because you're goofy.

[inkmothnexus]

i say shit like "whuh oh!" and it makes girls want to kiss me under moonlight for some reason

[strawberry-crocodile]

not only am i pro self diagnosis, i am anti-getting an official diagnosis. only get that shit formalized if youre getting accomidations and/or controlled substances out of it, otherwise the legal system and the psychiatric system do NOT need to know that shit

[strawberry-crocodile]

having legal access to perscription strength stimulants doesnt make up for everything else about having ADHD but it is a decent consolation prize

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, why the long face?"

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

The horse says, "I think I'm about to be homeless." The bartender, who now feels a little bad about the joke, says, "Oh, man, that sucks. What's going on?" The horse says, "It's the job market. It doesn't matter how good I am at SEO optimization. No one wants to hire a horse. The moment they look at my resumé and see the name 'Brushstroke', into the trash it goes." The bartender says, "Really? I had no idea." The horse says, "And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking why don't I just apply for horse jobs instead? Well, for the first few months I wouldn't. It was a matter of principle. I didn't become the first in my tailine to get a degree in computer science just to end up pulling a cart. But lately, I've given in. Because my saving's are running out, and my kids can tell that something's wrong. So now I'm doing interviews to let drunk tourists ride me, and the pay is peanuts, and you know what? I'm still not getting any offers! It's all going to younger horses!" The bartender says, "That must feel awful." The horse says, "You can't imagine! It's eating me up! People are trying to help, but they can't. They can only offer a couch for a few weeks or only a place for me, not for my family. It's like, every morning I have to come home to my husband and my two kids and tell them I'm not good enough to support them! I'm already having to juggle debt to handle his medical expenses, and then... then there's just the shame of it. I was sired for this! I was bred to do it! And I can't! I just can't pull it off!" The bartender says, "Wow. I don't know what to say." "I know," the horse says. "I just need to find a place that's stable."

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[red-katari]

Y'know i wish the arguments regarding disability didn't derail into treating us like "future investments" with more quirky requirements.

[red-katari]

Like yeah, a group of people with more resources secured has a bigger chance of devoting itself to more varied things but then some caregivers and supporters looks at you like that statement owes them a ROI from you.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife. hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think orwell’s homophobia bleeds into one of his books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[gremlingyaru]

roald dahl was also racist. seuss was ALSO also racist. and these people are dead and we aren’t supporting them by consuming their work but their CHILDRENS BOOKS reflect this. so consume consciously and don’t give racist books to kids and not read it critically with them (and if you don’t it better be bc you know they’ll be able to do it on their own)

[yunabot]

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[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

this is the trans womanest character of all time

how are we even still talking about this

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

he just threw a “welcome to being a man” at his ABUSIVE FATHER FIGURE on the subject of being CONSTANTLY SUBJECTED TO CORRECTIVE MALE VIOLENCE if you cannot see that that is some TMA SHIT then you are FUNCTIONALLY MEDIA-ILLITERATE

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

stop and ask yourself, really ask yourself, how many of jesse’s problems are so inextricably linked to his status as a man in a world of men and the question of his worth vis a vis a masculinized concept of personal value that if he renounced his status as a man and simply abdicated the question of what he is “worth” as a man in the currency of masculinity, if he did that how many of his problems would just fucking go away. not all, perhaps, but these are the issues on whose ground he keeps getting hooked back in when he tries over and over again to get out

for fuck’s sake in the sequel film where he finally gets away, the final plot element that allows him to succeed is that he IGNORES THE FAIR RULES OF A MAN ON MAN DUEL, USES A HIDDEN GUN WHICH NOBODY EXPECTED HIM TO HAVE CONCEALED, AND FINISHES THE JOB WITH A SMALLER PISTOL WHICH GETS EXPLICITLY CALLED OUT IN THE TEXT AS AN EFFEMINATE WEAPON AS CONTRASTED WITH THE HIGH CALIBER PISTOL OF HIS OPPONENT. HOW FUCKING ROCK STUPID DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE TO BE NOT TO SEE THIS

[im-mender]

[ivipl1]

girl who never got to fight back x girl who never got to be vulnerable

[dankxsinatra]

[foone]

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.

[toxicknightyuri]

i fucking hate the collective neglect of children. i’m really tired of adults refusing to engage in polite conversation with teenagers or assuming it’s impossible or inappropriate to have friendships with people at different stages in life than you. christ. #myyouthlibliveblog

the other thing is that my peers and mentors remember a time before this. they remember when there were malls and parks and internet forums *for* teenagers. there is nothing left for the youth. i hate that minors are right on the same dni page as nazis and terfs. it’s such a virtue signal built out of a collective culture of trans people being pedo-jacked. it’s like the people on tumblr still doing kink at pride discourse breached containment.

if you want to “think of the children” then you need to think of the fucking children you need to talk to youth. you need to combat the collective culture of delegating children and teens as Undesirable As Who No Adults Should Ever Talk To For Any Reason by talking to the children

i’m really tired. i’m begging mdni fuckers to spend one day with an anarchist shitpunk 16-year-old and realise children are capable of profound thought

[toxicknightyuri]

i dare say you need to talk about drugs and sex with children! early! and often!

i dare say you should be able to have profound dialogue with children you don't own (because that's what it is, really, in america - youth are the property of their guardians, and the transient possessions of their teachers, shift managers, etc.)

[toxicknightyuri]

this, then, is one of the core features that allows child abuse to run so rampant in america! - it is entirely up to the parents to be good to their children, and if they do not fulfil that responsibility, their kids are shut out of luck *because* our culture treats children so poorly and kids are dependent on the very adults that deprive them!!!

[dogpuppy]

[filmphotofranz]

[filmphotofranz]

I would hunt her too, for the record

[txttletale]

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