#bio fluorescence

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VIRGINIA OPOSSUMS GLOW PINK UNDER FLUORESCENT LIGHT?!?!!!

Figure 1. Image of a live opossum about 2 m distant from the UV light....

Download scientific diagram | Image of a live opossum about 2 m distant from the UV light. On this individual, the underfur fluoresced a bri

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Re gender labels i think for me i have a hard time disengaging the experience of being neuroatypical from my experiences transgressing/failing gender. Additionally i like having words to associate my experience w gender with the concepts i associate w it. But also u might notice i dont actually use any of those labels so idk

tumblr just deleted my three paragraph response lol

re: neurodivergency/gender failure entanglement I big relate bc I've been getting shit for wearing clothes wrong and having hair wrong and having wrong interests in the wrong way and going through puberty wrong and doing everything wrong and fucking, smelling wrong since like. mid elementary school/birth. its all connected!

re: liking having words I relate to that too! I very much understand the desire and I don't think it's wrong at all.

re: these labels particularly, I think they're totally valid (defined here as “emotionally understandable and morally defensible”) to use, even the ones where I'm like... I really dk if defining “feeling like a certain gender yet being more comfortable identifying with another” as a whole facet of your being in this way is going to work out great for you. it might be bad for you but it's not bad to do. I think they're often better for like, a sense of “i really do exist” than they are for communication bc they're very little known and a lot of them are kind of confusingly similar, but people memorize more stuff with less reason. probably the function decently well for communication within circles where they're better known and/or people are willing to spend more time cross referencing lists.while I was writing my first response I was like “ok so take the example of the hypothetical uhhhh subvectorsolarian” and then I referenced the list and figured out that it means “mostly agender with some not-exactly masc nonbinary”* and I was like “oh shit! that's me!”

it deleted it AGAIN but I had recently copied so the above text was saved. anyway. 

as cheering as that was, I don't really think IDing as subvectorsolarian would be useful for me. introducing myself as nonbinary at school is already pushing enough of a limit in that arena, and my friends, well, know me personally, and I think know what’s up. online I think people still mostly won't know what I'm talking about unless they look up or are already referencing this or a similar list. I find it mostly sufficient to use more common identity labels and talk about my experiences. that said, I think “people won't know what you mean” is a bad and unreasonable reason to tell someone not to make or identify with a word for themself, and people who use these labels are valid.

*sub = mostly agender with a bit of ___, vector = coming close to but not exactly ___, solarian = masc nonbinary without explicitly referencing “maleness”, IMO a more nonbinary-friendly way to talk about it