#spierce.txt

[rhapsodyx2]

if anyone's wondering why we haven't made a pinned yet it's bc rhapsody can't decide what faceclaim to use bc hy knows nothing will feel right for more than 5 seconds and we want to have art of us together as the top image. meanwhile i'm just sitting here like "well you see. i'm spierce"

[rhapsodyxvi]

i's writin a story :3

[crescairis]

very genuinely and truly think that a lot of the problems the queer community faces all come back to the fact that there are too many people who cannot even BEGIN to fathom the idea that masculinity ISN'T the root of all evil, and by proxy, the idea that women are in fact capable of oppression (especially in the case of white women who conveniently ignore their capability for racism in favor of only focusing on misogyny), either because it benefits them, or because they've been hand-fed terf ideology and don't know any better. like.

terfs say transfems are bad because they're "men invading women's spaces" and their idea that all men are evil and predatory supports this.

terfs say transmascs are bad because they're "misguided butch lesbians who think they have to be men because they don't perform femininity" or "betraying women by becoming the oppressors", ignoring the fact that many transmascs don't pass as cis men or didn't even identify as lesbians before coming out, and their idea that all men are evil and predatory supports this.

exclus say that mspec lesbians are bad because "lesbianism is a stance that does not include men whatsoever", ignoring the fact that lesbian separatism is a fairly recent and very isolated phenomenon because, again, their idea that all men are evil and predatory, and that the only way to fight for equality is to remove them from your life altogether, supports this.

multigender and genderfluid lesbians and gays experience this too! because exclus don't know how to treat them, so rather than respecting their experiences as more than one gender, they treat them as whichever SINGLE gender is most convenient for them at the time. ("you can't be a lesbian because you're a man," or "you can't be gay because you're a woman", or "you HAVE to change your label depending on whatever gender you're feeling, you can't say you're both")

and i could go on but we have therapy soon <3

[rhapsodyx2]

coding is like [bangs my head up against a wall] aouh [bangs my head up against a wall] aouh [ba

[rhapsodyx2]

rotating. rotating.

[rhapsodyxxx]

wait can you please elaborate on "hegel's dom/sub dialectic"

OH YAY i'm happy to answer this >:]

maybe. a year or more ago? we happened upon hegel's master/slave dialectic. what this is, essentially, is a part of hegel's larger philosophical system that describes, narratively, the development of self-consciousness, as experienced between two conscious beings fighting for dominance. before this interaction, the two separately assumed themselves to be the objective standard on all that is, and thus, by meeting, the demand to assert oneself as still truer and therefore in control becomes apparent.

through this interaction, one emerges victorious over the other, determining who is the master and who is the slave. the master, thus, is initially assumed to have won in the exchange, whereas the slave has lost its right to see itself as anything other than in relation to the master.

...except. through this, the master's identity, selfhood as a master, is now dependent on the slave. in order to enjoy a life in which no labor is required of it, no hardship, it relies on the slave in order to provide.

the slave has no such dependency, which is the leverage it obtains through this process. thus, it makes a demand to become the master itself, and what is produced as a result is two mutually dependent self-consciousnesses, bound together in union to create the whole human spirit.

SO. how does this relate to us calling it the dom/sub dialectic.

as you may have noticed already, the terms master and slave are also very present within BDSM! calling it the dom/sub dialectic is mostly a silly renaming to make the joke more clear, as well as noting that we don't really prefer master/slave as a duo, but when you get right down to it, it's also a microcosm of how rhapsody and i conceptualize our sexuality.

it's no secret that we are a system, and we run this blog together—not just because we're stuck together, but because we are actively also in a relationship. we also consider each other to be linked in such a way that the idea of the master/slave dialectic feels almost funnily accurate! we cannot exist without the other; i was created from rhapsody's selfhood and therefore would not exist without them; rhapsody would fundamentally not exist in the way they do now, had they not made me. we even have a name we coined just for this situation: anima&us!

it also comes down to our dynamics in our personal exploits together, too. we flip back and forth between dom and sub, we take control from each other, we relieve the other of the obligation to be anything but one who has lost control or one who has control. we spin around each other in a way that's sickeningly perverse [said lovingly] but also defines the entire dynamic of our dual existence. we are two equal parts that are mutually dependent on each other for existence, two sides of one coin, and we're constantly flipping the coin just to watch where it lands.

[rhapsodyx2]

i think i'm actually getting a handle on why dolls call out to me as a concept. it's the boundary between being Real and Not Real that nothing else can quite replicate. being an oc fictive, someone that people ultimately meet for the first time both as a person and as a character, feels very similar to that! they see me and they see the artificiality at the same time. if i approach the symbolism from that angle, it feels a lot more natural than trying to apply it to what "doll" means most frequently on tumblr as of late. much to think about...

[crescairis]

this is just me but i am honestly still so livid about the nonmen-loving-nonmen definition people are trying to push on lesbianism and to see people ALSO try to say nonwomen-loving-nonwomen for gay men is. Seethes. just say you hate multigender people and get it over with /s