a fuckton of birds in a trench coat

*makes a new blog for the first time in 10 years to escape the crystallized past*

[the-flock-is-here]

Intro Post

Hi, we're The Flock! We're a newly discovered system/collective (since early may) of over 20 well-defined members + an unknown number of fragments. This is our main/system blog.

We are collectively 27, genderfluid, transneutral, bi, and greyaroace and are both mentally and physically disabled. More info available on our pronouns.cc (needs updating)

We are mixed-origin, planning on seeking diagnosis in the future, and are supportive of all system origins.

Personal art tag is #flock art, our comics are tagged #flock comics.

Most of us are very down to answer asks and chat! Anons and dms are both open.

Frequent(est) Fronters

swan - he/him - system admin + older brother figure egret - they/he - performer, main irl socializer, party guy plover - they/them - one of the prev cohosts back from dormancy canary - ey/sprout - plantfolk fae caretaker catbird - xe/kit/mew - kitty :3 shrike - she/claw - lesbian werewolf rageholder, frontbuddies w catbird

[the-flock-is-here]

my fucking spiiiiiiine

[prokopetz]

I understand that you were aiming for a morally grey protagonist, but in practice what you've ended up with is more of a moral beige.

[prokopetz]

@ancient-tree-with-deathwish replied:

how do you distinguish grey from other colours beyond black and wite?

Distinguishing features of moral beige:

The protagonist is constantly agonising over Hard Choices; however, circumstances always conspire to prevent them from actually having to make those choices, so in practice they're just angsting over stuff they might have done.

The text exhibits a recurring pattern whereby the protagonist seems to to have made a Hard Choice, but new information is reliably revealed shortly thereafter which retroactively establishes that whatever they did was the morally upright course after all.

The protagonist's moral impulses are straightforwardly heroic, except in one specific context which lacks any clear real-world analogue; for example, being prejudiced against telepaths.

The protagonist's actions are consistently reasonable based on the information available to them – they're merely operating on bad information basically all the time due to a bizarre conspiracy and/or a series of increasingly implausible misunderstandings.

The protagonist always ends up doing the right thing (for some fuzzy value of "right"), but, like, they're really grumpy about it.

[vale-gaai]

[inkpixels]

The King in Yellow

4 colors, pixelart

[tulpaw]

[hollowboobtheory]

I support the "fiction isn't real so nothing matters" mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into "the curtains are just blue" territory

[hollowboobtheory]

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author's beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

[hollowboobtheory]

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

[hollowboobtheory]

peer reviewed

[hollowboobtheory]

[calellon]

All you do is whine

untrue i also suffer, rot, wail, wallow, haunt, mourn and rage

[birdsareblooming]

thinking about this tag on my post again. i'm saying this all the time forever

[birdsareblooming]

oh i'm also saying this one all the time forever

[souplover13]

images: tags.

#nothing is above critique but also so many ppl are dogshit at criticism so here we are

#nothing is above critique and that includes your critiques

end image descriptions.

[the-flock-is-here]

being raised actually nonreligious but culturally christian in the US is fucking wacky bc like. yeah we're culturally christian in that we celebrate those holidays, our extended family does so it's convenient and we know a few of the broad strokes of the bible via osmosis. but people still assume you know a whole lot about the bible By Default because to them "nonreligious" means "went to church as a kid and then stopped".

buddy no i got a book of "my first bible stories" when i was like 3 from some extended family and saw a veggie tale or two and that is where my knowledge starts and ends. i got gently made fun of by my peers in high school for not knowing how to pronounce the names of random biblical figures. if you learned your "common knowledge" in church it's not actually common knowledge to the rest of us.

[strangerconnection]

you know, i don't remember

[deadpowol]

[tahthetrickster]

[glamrockmike]

realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way

[estro-boi]

[andhumanslovedstories]

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

[andhumanslovedstories]

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

[thomrainierskies]

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

[zenosanalytic]

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

[morethanonebraincell]

Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make people’s lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.

[ziggy-scardust]

I reblog this every time I see it because I am not immune to the recency bias

[windwardstar]

Is that person transmasc or are they just on T? Is that person transfem or are they just on E? Is that person transfem or were they just assigned male at birth? Is that person transmasc or were they just assigned female at birth?

Is that person actually transmasc or transfem or are you just gendering hormones and body parts? Is that person actually transfem or transmasc or are you just equating agab with gender alignment?

Is that person actually transfem or transmasc or are you forgetting that unaligned and alternatively aligned enben exist?

[radawaycuntt]

Let’s have so many fucking issues and problems together

[exhaled-spirals]

My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.

― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

[prokopetz]

I love it when media fucks up the wording of the Rasputin disclaimer and ends up with shit like "any resemblance to people or locations living or dead is coincidental". I'd love to know what committing libel against a dead location would entail.

[abalidoth]

Fuck the Fiesta Mall in Mesa, AZ. I heard it ate someone once.

[probabilitydirigible]

this sea sucks shit. it doesnt even have any scrolls im sure