#293.vent

[thepluralmaster]

All the junk we’ve seen in our recent doomscrolling phase gave us this meme idea

Text: We being a sort of “we don’t fit neatly into community-defined boxes” vibe to the online communities that exclusionists don’t really like

[thepluralmaster]

We still have plans on writing something longer about this so this definitely leaves other nuances out but

Our opinion is that if you’re a fictive/fictionkind you have all the rights to use your name even if it’s foreign, we dgaf, there are more pressing issues than a white-bodied person using a japanese name or whatever. It’s hypocritical of us to say otherwise since we keep our (usually very japanese) source names

Can you tell how we’re afraid of even saying something like this on tumblr. This is the thing that we have fears of being cancelled for. Partially because of our country of origin not being the US or whatever and therefore not relevant to most people in the community (or so we fear).

EDIT: It's here, don't let syscourseblr know. The last thing we need in our notes are boolays interacting in bad faith

[thepluralmaster]

If we want to come out as plural to someone, we have to be sure that they’re at least ok with:

Gay or otherwise non-straight people

Trans people

Nonverbality

People identifying as fictional characters

Plural folks

People around us tend to fail the first 2 steps, and it’s not helping our pessimism. Successful offline coming out stories are basically in a completely different world from ours. Doesn’t help that the majority of those stories that we’ve seen are likely not even from our continent.

If we can only reveal the more “palatable” parts of ourselves to others (example, only say we’re plural but hide the fictional identities), what’s the point in coming out then? The fictional (+ fact-IDs for the factives) identities are the most central parts of ourselves. Trans acceptance is also an important thing because we’re not an all-cisfem system. If we can’t also reveal these more important aspects of ourselves, it’s better to just keep the closet shut tight.

(Open to comments, but if there are rebuttals to this, we don’t wanna hear it from anyone living in the global north. We prefer hearing those from the same country as us, or maybe fellow SEAsians)

[thepluralmaster]

Gotta love being haunted by an incoming period that you can’t predict at all because you have pcos, not helped by a high possibility that we’d be mega exhausted in the near future because it’s almost peak season at work and the (pre)menstrual problems are very likely to affect you at that time! /s

[thepluralmaster]

Still can’t get over how some communities think bullying is not “bad enough” to form a system or whatever when we grew up hearing fucked up stories about kids pulling deadly pranks on their classmates

[thepluralmaster]

Do you ever see bits of discourse around here that tires you out because you can only go “why are we fighting about this. Why argue about who’s more oppressed or trying to ‘sneak in’ to your circles. We can’t even have pride parades here. Even coming out as gay is unsafe here what are you talking about. Have you forgotten that our oppressors see all of us the same”

[thepluralmaster]

We really hate to be pessimistic to the point of saying “of course our country doesn’t have its own local plural/alth community” but it’s really hard to think otherwise when we have never even tasted queer acceptance here

Nothing against people from there that we know of, but we can’t help but feel a bit jealous of people from the global north because they seem to be more visible. A lot of them can come out and be accepted as they are. We’re still stuck in “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” land. Even coming out as gay has a huge risk because to others, gay people are either weirdos or sex pests. Rainbow capitalism couldn’t even exist here because pandering to queer people here is the easiest way to nuke your company’s reputation

Even with us knowing about the horrid discrimination those other countries have faced, at the very least places like the US have experienced pride parades or rainbow capitalism at some point in their history. Pretty sure ours have never even been there to begin with

[thepluralmaster]

Thinking about how we want to talk about our opinions on plural stuff related to being not white but we have the feeling that tumblr would destroy us no matter what we say. Dreamwidth exclusive post it’ll be, then. Smaller chance of being lynched. If it’s on tumblr we’re putting the language barrier up, taking advantage of how most of tumblr don’t speak indonesian