#tlcposting

[thelunastusco]

As someone who’s both a fictive in a system, and fictionkin with a few different kintypes, the simplest analogy I know how to describe the difference is this:

Being a fictive is like waking up in bed from a long, deep sleep. You know your mind and self was somewhere else before you woke up. Sometimes you remember what, sometimes not. Sometimes it was okay, sometimes it was bad. But either way you’re here now, not there in the darkness, and you can start your day.

Being fictionkin is like going about your day minding your own business, and then slamming your most sensitive toe into a box that you didn’t know was there. And after you go “shit goddamn it son of a b--” you open the box to see what the fuck you just ran into, and go “oh....... that”.

Idk that’s the best way I can sum it up.

[thelunastusco]

So it’s said that cats meowing into adulthood is something they learn to communicate with humans. But having owned 15+ cats over 30+ years, here’s a fact: cats will meow into adulthood among themselves, too. Even without humans present, clearly communicating with each other back and forth.

So, either

Cats don’t just meow into adulthood to communicate with humans.

Cats do meow into adulthood primarily to communicate with humans, but there’s some additional, secret benefit they’ve discovered in doing so, and thus also use meowing to communicate to each other.

Which is a fascinating idea.

Like do they figure this out together? Do they develop their own dialects, like whales do? How aware are they of what humans are saying, do they think we understand what they’re saying, aaaah.

Endlessly entranced with what cats (and any animal really) knows and thinks and how far their cognition goes, and if they’re much closer to human levels than we think they are but it’s just different not less.

[thelunastusco]

Coming into pride month, so reminder--

1. This blog embraces ALL good faith identities. Mspec sexualities, aspec folks, trans people, nonbinary people, xenogenders, whatever. As long as you’re not harming people, you’re fine by us.

2. We are strongly pro-SW and pro-kink. Yes, we support “kink at pride”.

3. We support systems of all origins, with all sorts of gender and sexuality murkiness that comes with plurality sometimes.

4. We support people creating and consuming whatever fictional content they want, and absolutely denounce harassing, sui baiting, doxxing, etc, people over ANY fictional pairings/ships.

5. Existing as queer in public is not a “sex act”.

The queer community, and communities that are heavily queer, need to stick together and not do the work of bigots for them. You don’t need to understand people’s identities, you don’t need to like the things other people like or even look at it. But STOP tearing other people apart.

And if you don’t like, block us and move on.

[thelunastusco]

Also it just burns our buns that sysmeds shriek about how endogenic systems are keeping “real systems!!!” from learning about

trauma

DID/OSDD

community history

misinformation/myths/misconceptions

~healing~

When they can’t even fucking google a term themselves.

[thelunastusco]

Just saw someone use the phrase “pro-endo sysmed” and like... what.

[thelunastusco]

Also, related but unrelated, we found out someone called us “an entitled traumagenic system” and that’s the funniest fucking thing we’ve heard all week.

[thelunastusco]

Well... there goes Twitter.

Let’s see if the lights come back on or not, lmao.

[thelunastusco]

Woof, we really need to set up a side blog for all of our fictive shit, LOL.