#gsrm

[cerulity]

People often complain about "how many genders there are". When you go through school, you learn that there are three states of matter. You also learn that there are two genders. Of course, this is not the reality. You may learn that plasma is a fourth state of matter, and that there are transgender or nonbinary people.

Let's take a look at the true number of states of matter...

I feel that if Bose-Einstein condensate is a valid state of matter, then girlflux is a valid label.

The real world is FAR from simple. Not even matter is binary (or quaternary).

[thefalloutwiki]

Say hello to the new and independent Fallout Wiki!

Greetings to all of you lovely wastelanders, mutants and robots alike! We come bearing an important announcement, one which might even pique the curiosity of all you nosy prospectors out there.

We’d like to introduce you to the shiny and brand spanking new, Independent Fallout Wiki.

Now, I know, you may be asking to yourself, “Wait, there’s already a Fallout Wiki out there! Why’s this one so dang special?” 

Well, if you’d bear with me for a moment, I’ll tell you why!

What is the Independent Fallout Wiki?

Well, the Independent Fallout Wiki is just about as straightforward as it sounds! We all used to be members of another wiki dedicated to Fallout, which is hosted by a company that shall remain nameless. Now, if there’s one thing you should know about this company, it’s that they have very little regard for the community, introducing changes that no one likes, hosting tons of ads and even buying out wiki editors to work for them. We find this (among other things) to be antithetical to our beliefs. We feel that wikis should be in the hands of the community, not a company that refuses to listen to us!

This reached a breaking point earlier this year, along with some events out of our control, which led to the bright idea of forking into independence and starting a new wiki! A wiki that’s truly in the hands of the community. A wiki that is self-hosted and safe from harmful, corporate interests. We don’t have shareholders to please and we don’t answer to anyone. We don’t have ads and we don’t need them, hopefully ever. Content is created by fans, for fans

We are simply wanting to provide the most reliable and accurate source of all things Fallout. We’ve even broke bread with some of the other fantastic independent wikis out there, such as Doom Wiki and Combine Overwiki whom we recommend you check out too!

What kinds of new features are we offering?

We’re glad you asked! As well as offering a trove of accurate, well sourced content about the Fallout franchise (with strict guidelines to ensure the best possible content quality, as all wikis should), we’re offering a new Community space. This will be a place for the community to host all kinds of fan works, such as fanfiction, fan art, creations, roleplaying and tabletop games, pen and paper games, Fallout 76 player CAMPs and, much, much more.

As mentioned before, we have affiliated with many other independent wiki projects, including the Doom Wiki, Combine OverWiki, JoJo’s Bizarre Encyclopedia, StrategyWiki, Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, and even Halopedia! We’re also proud members of the Gaming Wiki Network, and soon, we’ll even be affiliated with NIWA, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. These affiliations will offer mutual aid and support that will help every wiki in the short-term and long-term. We are looking forward to working with them, for we all share the same goals!

How can we help and how can we be apart of the community?

We welcome anyone who wishes to join our community. It doesn’t matter if you’re an editor or reader. We are all fans of Fallout and we encourage you to join our community! If you are a non-editor and are only looking for information about something from the Fallout franchise, click this here link! https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout_Wiki/

If you are interested in becoming an editor and want to fight the good fight to help rewrite content and smashing misinformation and head-canon, click this other here link! https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Special:UserLogin

While you’re there, check out our LGBTQ representation page. It was written by the lovely robot, C0NN1E here on Tumblr!: 

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/LGBTQ_representation_in_Fallout

We welcome all members of the LGBTQ+, MOGAI, GSRM, Plural and Otherkin communities with open arms!

Last, but not least, if you’d like to be apart of our wider social community, you can follow us here on Tumblr, on Twitter, check out our Instagram or join our Discord, right here below, right now! We even got a fresh, custom invite link!

https://discord.gg/falloutwiki

https://twitter.com/thefalloutwiki

https://www.instagram.com/thefalloutwiki/

Well, that about wraps up this little segment of ours. We hope you enjoy this project as much as we do. We put a lot of time, effort and care into it and we want to give back to the people that we love the most, the community. Have safe travels out there, and we hope to see you around!

END OF BROADCAST

[thec0ub]

Which acronym do you guys like for discussing queer people, both in general and in legislative spaces?

I think LGBTQIA is pretty good written down. But it can be a mouthful when speaking. LGBT+ has some mainstream acceptance. LGBTQIA2S+ seems the most inclusive, but it runs into the problem where the more inclusive you are, the more leaving out other identities seems like pursposeful exclusion.

I tend to lean towards LGBTQ when speaking and maybe LGBTQIA when writing.

I heard onetime from a gender studies major that academia prefers GSRM? I kinda like that.

[seeyatellite]

[lattedecoffee]

Once when I was in 10th grade physics, I was showing off my new file folder to my friends before class. The folder was rainbow, with each tab being a different color, so of course I happily declared that it was gay.

“Don’t say that. It’s rude.”

I looked at my physics teacher, confused, until I remembered that “gay” used to be used as an insult.

I couldn’t help but laugh a little which she didn’t take well until I clarified: “I’m literally gay though. The folder being gay is a good thing.”

She didn’t really know how to react and just kinda walked away while my friends and I laughed quietly to ourselves.

Remembering this story makes me appreciate the progress we’ve made, even just within my own lifetime. I’ve been openly gay to everyone in my life except for one set of grandparents, and have faced little to no negative consequences for this. My friends and family have supported me, anyone who didn’t kept it to themself.

I know this isn’t true everywhere, and I am incredibly lucky to live in a supportive environment, but it makes me so happy to think that “gay” went from being a go-to insult for teens and tweens to being an identity some can wear proudly.

[ohsozo]

Random thought for the day.

GSRM (Gender, Sexuality, Romantic-Attraction Minorities) is my preferred term over LGBT+ because it is complete and doesn't suffer growth (i.e more and more letters being added), but perhaps we don't need to focus on the minorities part? I'm thinking we should replace the M with a D, for diverse/divergent, like NeuroDivergent.

[forgottenthreads]

As an Ace/Aro person who likes music I have a solution to some of those love songs:

I believe in a thing called Lunch, just listen to the grumble of my tum

I would eat anything for Lunch but I won't eat tha...ah...ah...at

The Lunch shack is a little old place where we can eat together

You.... Your Lunch is on Fire

Well, I wanna eat with you on a mountain

I wanna dine with you by the sea

I wanna lunch like this forever

Until the sky falls down on me

I Lunch myself, I want you to Lunch me

When I'm feeling down I want Lunch before me

Shit through the cloth and you're to blame

You give lunch a bad name

Indigestion starts when I ate your game

You give lunch a bad name

Yeah you give lunch a bad name

Don't need money, won't take fame

don't need no credit card to ride this train

it's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes

but it might just save your life.

That's the power of Lunch

Unfortunately you can't do it for all songs but the few it works on are amazing.

[themaveriqueagenda]

what's this blog about?

this blog is about maverique visibility, pride & celebration and anything else related to the maverique identity. vesper's (the person who coined the term) maverique blog has been inactive for a few years, so i decided to make one to give some visibility to something that a lot of people only treat as a hypothetical.

on this blog, you're welcome to ask questions, be proud, be visible, be you.

who runs this blog?

i'm Delta and my pronouns are they/them. i'm bi, asexual, demiromantic, fat, disabled, white and of course maverique. i've been out as maverique since 2018.

what is maverique?

in short, maverique is a gender that is disconnected from manhood, womanhood, neutrality and anything derived from them, without being genderless. for further reading, i recommend the coining post.