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I see one (1) box TV and go apeshitt fucking feral like oh yEA babey lemme turn this bitch on and view STATICC... white noise. minecraft shape. cool pattern. i am EASILY AMUSED -kennith s(ans)immons

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(Warning: this post contains mentions of homophobia, transphobia, bullying, and emotional neglect, as well as general issues with ahistoricism and cultural ignorance within the fictionkin community. Also, this only applies to sources that are meant to take place in a relatively realistic setting or are based on a real-world reigon/time period! If that's not you, feel free to ignore this.)

Hm... I was scrolling around and saw an ask from a really long time ago, and it made me want to say something.

Obviously I'm okay with people using whatever labels and pronouns they want for their kins! It's their kintype, so it's their business, sure, fine, all cool with me. However, even if you do remember being LGBTQ+, you have to take the time period and location into account.

For example, hello, I'm Kennith. I was born in 1969 in an average suburban town in Michigan. Nowadays, in this life, I'd say that I was demigreyromantic, gay, genderfluid, transmasc, and generally gnc, and I would've used he/they pronouns.

However, back when I was still alive as a teenager in the 80s, I knew the word gay and... yeah, that really was about it. If you had asked me then, I would've described the rest of that stuff as "I'm not really that much of a romance guy" and "I'm a guy who was born as a girl and hated it, but I still don't mind looking like a girl sometimes", and I used strictly he/him back then since "I'm a guy and that's what you call guys", because again, I was a teenager in the 80s, and I had no idea any of this stuff was even an option.

And, quick reminder, this is a relatively modern time frame, and it's in the United States. You may have all of these really cool microlabels and neopronouns to describe yourself now, and there's nothing wrong with that! It's never too late to discover who you truly are/were. However, you have to realize that you sure as hell weren't using those labels as, say, a member of ancient Japanese royalty. In terms of both the time frame and the language itself, that's just not how that would've worked.

Also, not to get overly negative, but chances are, if you are from sometime back in the day, even if it's as relatively recent as I was, people would most likely have not been accepting of you. I know people weren't accepting of me. I was bullied ruthlessly in school by nearly everyone for being gay and presenting myself femininely despite being transmasc. "Pretty Boy" was actually the tamest of the awful names they would call me, and it didn't even stop at insults. They would deliberately misgender and deadname me at every opportunity, bump me into walls and shit like that, and I even remember them beating me up a few times. My teachers and counselor did absolute jack-shit, and basically told me that I deserved it since I was so "different" (which is the word they used instead of calling me slurs! fun!). My parents were never much help either since A: I wasn't out to them, and B: they never gave a shit about literally anything else. The only people who respected me at all during that time were Stephanie and Greg, but I was barely able to see Greg outside of the gas station he worked at, and I've already gone into what ended up happening with fucking Stephanie... ugh.

Anyways, once again I say, this was in the United States in the 1980s. If people didn't accept me there and then, the chances of people accepting you for who you in another place and/or an earlier time are next to nothing. I'm sorry, it fucking sucks that it had to be that way, but it's true. I'm obviously not saying that you're not valid if you did have people who accepted you, I'm just saying that it's highly unlikely, given historical context.

I'm sorry for ranting once again, and I'm sorry if I said anything hurtful. The last thing I want to do is invalidate anyone. This is just something to consider, I guess... Ah well, who am I to tell you guys what you can and can't do? If I was still alive I'd be like 54 years old. Old Man Yells at Cloud.

-Kennith Simmons

Hey. I guess I should probably stop using this blog as my personal kin-memory complaint bin, huh. /rh

Anyways, as a break from all of my negativity, here's what I got. Fellow canon-divergent kins, what's the biggest difference between your memories and your source?

I actually created the AU I'm from lmao. For context, my source is separated into "Cases", and each Case has a different character meant to represent the in-universe storyteller. Case 1 has Ray Barnett, Case 2 has Evelynn Jacot, and Case 3 has Nathan (just... Nathan, I guess). I'm from Case 2, in case you're wondering.

Basically, the point of the AU is that I took each of these characters and put them in different Cases, and I slightly rewrote each Case accordingly. So, basically, in my canon, Ray's there instead of Evelynn, and he's the one that made me help with setting up the broadcast (and unfortunately I ended up falling in love with him and he took advantage of that and did some really horrible things to me and I just went along with it because I was terrified of making him hate me like everyone else did... okay now I'm just getting negative again sorry).

So I guess that's all I have to say? Idk, I'll stop right here before this devolves into a rant about how Ray somehow managed to ruin my life even more than it already had been 😔

...Have fun with this ask game, I guess. Be as specific or as vague as you'd like.

-Kennith Simmons