#microlabels

[gender-incinerator]

actually microlabels and xenogenders and weird pronouns are cool as fuck and anyone who says otherwise lacks whimsy in their life send post

[bacteriumphage]

Does anyons here also have like a compacted zip file version of their gender and sexuality that they tell to most people they don't know well, and then there is the full version of it with microlabels and everything else

[reasonsforhope]

You don't have ever to choose between being a boy or a girl

You don't ever have to use a specific label or term

You don't need anyone's permission to call yourself queer or nonbinary or trans or enby

In fact, you don't need anyone's permission to call yourself any of those words almost by the definitions of the words themselves

There's no judge. There's no tryouts, there's no membership card, there's no applications or fees (and thank goodness for that!!!)

In fact, because gender and queerness are both, at their core, about the ways people feel inside and want to interact (with each other, with society, with their own concept of self, etc.), there are very few hard boundaries at all

And you certainly don't have to figure out a specific label or a specific gender identity in order to figure out want you want - in life, in queerness, in gender, in general - and start to move toward it

[tmasc-bunny]

idk who needs to hear this: microlabels are so so so so so so fucking important

what makes me say this is aspec microlabels specifically. I have now two friends who realized they were on the arospec and the acespec because microlabels exist

please stop shitting on them, they are such a good way to explain to someone why they are still Identity, even if they don't fit the Identity Criteria

[transgender-wizard-man]

Hot take I genuinely dgaf if a queer person uses "too many micro labels", has a "confusing identity" or uses xenogenders to label how they feel. It's none of my business and if someone feels like any of these clicks with how they feel inside, and subsequently it brings them joy, then who am I to mock them for it?

[prokopetz]

Fantasy novel about a group of photogenic young Chosen Ones who all have oddly specific and faintly culturally anachronistic queer microlabels in a way that initially seems crassly pandering, except over the course of the story it becomes increasingly clear whatever is doing the choosing is trying to circumvent one of those "neither X or Y" prophecies with respect to the principal villain's putative immortality.

[crowdsourcedgender]

[ID in alt text, plain text ID under the cut.]

Trap-happy / Respondent

A term for those who enjoy filling out surveys, participating in research, answering polls, and so on. This may be due to a desire to talk about one's experiences, a love for the concept of data collection, a strong interest in the final results, or any other reason!

Inspired by the wave of LIOMOGAI surveys, but can be applied to any topic. "Trap-happy" is a reference to the same term in ecology/biology where an individual animal is more likely to be caught repeatedly, which could be out of desire for the reward (bait) or a lack of fear. Respondent is an alternate name.

Stripe color meanings: research, surveys, enthusiasm/love/enjoyment, ones own input, & processed/collected data. Symbol by me! Plus bonus content (credit appreciated but not required):

[ID: Five versions of the same userbox. It has dark blue text on warm off-white, outlined in warm browns. The icon on the left is a cardboard box propped up by a wooden stick, which has a string tied to the bottom. Underneath it is a white clipboard with some scribbles and a pen beside it. They read: 'this user loves taking surveys', 'this user enjoys taking surveys', 'this user is trap-happy', 'this user will be such a good data point', and 'mmmmm surveys ,,,'. /End ID]

Tagging @sabzalltheabove , @radiomogai

A five stripe flag with thinner stripes towards the middle. In the center is a symbol of a cardboard box propped up by a wooden stick, which has a string tied to the bottom. Underneath it is a white clipboard with some scribbles and a pen beside it. The stripe colors are warm off white, light beige, warm dusty orange, dark brown, and dark greyish blue.

A version of the previous flag with no symbol.