The Blogger Is In

F orange doctor, married, Anitami.

[there-is-water]

I’m seeing people saying “of course potential aliens would have the same feelings about pollution as us they’re not evil.”

Hello, hyposensitives exist.

[thebloggerisin]

Also there used to be significant disagreement on what exactly constituted pollution and especially on what cleaning was adequate to remove it. It took quite a long time for everyone to settle on the current consensus views and there were actually a number of wars over the issue before it was settled.

One hopes that any disagreements with aliens on the issue can be settled non-violently.

[blackoutlandish]

A medical-ish person and a researcher-ish person dating is not intercaste if you're from a country that correctly castes its doctors instead of making oranges try to do medicine.

I don’t know how they do it wherever you’re from, but around here, medical work usually involves interacting with patients.

[thebloggerisin]

Excuse you, anon.  I succeed in doing medicine.

[openamenta]

fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK

so you know I was talking about moving from Sarico to Varen after I spent another season improving my resume, right? Sarico has awful weather and no nightlife to speak of, I don’t want to be trapped here forever.

well our FUCKING government has just announced they’re trialing some new welfare policy in Sarico and I’m not allowed to move for two years! Because it might make the results inaccurate if people who dislike the policy move away!

You can apply for an exception if you can prove you were planning to move anyway, but I don’t have any family or partners in Varen and I was planning to move a season from now. It’s not like I’ve rented a place and lined up a job. 

Fuck my life.

[amentansassorted]

…and they don’t think it’ll make the results inaccurate if people are being forced to stay…?

Also wtf is wrong with your government.

[thebloggerisin]

Two years is an awfully long time to ban people from moving. And I feel like it might be bad for the economy, but I’m not even slightly an economist, not even as a hobby.

[thebloggerisin]

Do you ever spot any subtly sick people not taking the quarantine cars on the train? What are we supposed to do if we do?

Occasionally. Sadly on short range trains there’s not much you can do if asking doesn’t work unless there happens to be a staff member on the train at the time. Just wash your hands extra well when you can.

[openamenta]

STOP DRAWING AKTEFAR WITH ORANGE HAIR

AKETEFAR CANONICALLY HAS YELLOW HAIR!!!! AND CANONICALLY DOESN’T DYE IT!!!!!! STOP ERASING HER MIXED-CASTE IDENTITY!

[openamenta]

where are you getting this from

the cover art shows her with orange hair

also her dad is a social worker????? that’s not a super yellow job. her grandfather is yellow but that doesn’t make her mixed-caste.

[openamenta]

PAGE 23 OF THE VALDANI EDITION

“she (AKTEFAR!!!) always wore a necklace of citrine”

PAGE 240

“in the sunlight, her (AKTEFAR’S!!!) hair glowed the same shade as her necklace”

DOES THIS LOOK ORANGE?????

[a-terror-of-shadow-and-flame]

citrine comes in multiple colors

[openamenta]

YOU JUST HATE MIXED-CASTE PEOPLE

[serpentoftherose]

Have you considered that you may have some variety of mental disorder? Excess negative reaction to basic corrections can be a sign of such.

[thebloggerisin]

Fandom stuff is always like this honestly, some fans get really invested in their headcanons.

[blackoutlandish]

That picture of that purple girl in the dress is offensive. idk how she gets off on wearing blue. Fucking rich business owners don't know their place.

In case my followers needed another illustration of why the caste system needs to be burned to the ground, here’s another exhibit for the collection.

[thebloggerisin]

Where does anon get off thinking blues own the colour blue?

[industrialbruise]

What are you going to do if your kid is hypo? Obviously NAT is terrible, but it would also be terrible if your kid were arrested for pollution violations

“obviously rape is terrible, but it would also be terrible if your kid had to get an abortion”

this is not a fucking solution, try again, i’m going to raise my kid with a tiny bit of actual compassion

[thebloggerisin]

It’s a good thing that there are therapy options for hyposensitivity that actually work, and don’t cause further mental health problems, isn’t it.

[failed-step-one]

because you have quality opinions on catbirds

hot take: catbirds have lil soft paws

[thebloggerisin]

That’s a quality opinion alright.

[chameleonlife]

Purple Mod Says:

For anonymity reasons, we’re not saying which one of us is having a baby this year.  (We rolled a die to pick who said it.)

[thebloggerisin]

Well congratulations to whoever is it.

[fill-the-unforgiving-minute]

Today I learned that there are real people who think that the Voan food crisis was somehow advantageous for Tapa and that Savo was a Tapai secret agent. 

Truly the human mind is infinitely varied and baffling.

[thebloggerisin]

Never attribute to malice what  can be attributed to stupidity.

that can be applied to Savo and the conspiracy theorists.

[flameofcertainty]

so i don’t think anyone except that one asshole thinks that for real, but just in case

i really don’t see how having out of caste hobbies is “disgusting”

non-greens can play violin for fun

like, non-purples can cook, even if they’re cooking beyond the bare minimum needed for survival

non-purples can crochet

non-yellows can make game apps

non-greens can write fanfic

non-greys can do physical activities (exercise: it’s a thing)

if you’re not orange you can still be interested in anatomy or medicine. if you’re not green you can still be interested in history. if you’re not blue you can still be interested in politics. if you’re not grey you can be interested in military strategy. if you’re not yellow you can be interested in computers. if you’re not purple you can be interested in clothing.

none of these things are disgusting

seriously, ‘people sometimes have hobbies that aren’t literally perfect stereotypes of their caste, and that’s fine as long as you aren’t, like, breaking the law ’ isn’t some weird edgy opinion, it’s basic commonsense that you can figure out from the fact that each caste has, at minimum, millions and millions of people

[not-brighter-but-stranger]

This feels like it should not need to be said. But I have learned better than to underestimate the depths of stupidity.

[shadowed-moonrise]

you can tell people who claim not to believe in decontamination are just bigots because if they really thought that there were reds walking around touching everything they’d never leave their shower

there are brilliant scientists who spend their whole lives studying what pollution actually is. you thinking somebody’s medical history is gross is on you and if you try to make it their business you’re an asshole.

[healthesick]

have you considered that someone who thinks reds are gr8 might just also think bleach is tasty

I guess. I don’t think that’s what happened. @industrialbruise?

[industrialbruise]

oh my fucking cuss i can’t believe i have to unblock you to answer this

i thought it would make me clean. like really actually clean so that people would look at me and touch me without looking sick. so i’d start feeling like everybody else because whatever was making me a freak would be dead. i was tired and i wanted to stop being dirty and no matter how hard i tried it didn’t work so i figured either bleach would work or i’d be a corpse and they could just burn me and get rid of my disgusting body forever

i’m blocking you again now

[thebloggerisin]

You deserved better.

All children deserve unconditional compassion and support.

[openamenta]

intercaste 👏 relationships 👏 don't 👏 need 👏 a 👏 content 👏 warning

[openamenta]

rape 👏 doesn’t 👏 need 👏 a 👏 content 👏 warning 👏

[a-terror-of-shadow-and-flame]

Intercaste relationships and rape are different things, what the fuck is your damage

[openamenta]

like, how though 🤷‍♀️

[thebloggerisin]

Consent.

[openamenta]

aitim-official:

Talking to families across Anitam this summer, we heard a lot about caste flexibility. We heard from a lot of people who very much want us to go ahead with research into this. It would enable them to pick a marriage or a career that was a better fit for them, it’d make our country richer and it’d make our people happier. We also heard from a lot of people who were deeply concerned about reckless changes to a fundamental social institution, and about economic pressures driving children away from the culture and the life that would make them happiest.  So as we announce a trial of dual-caste career options for intercaste children born to a grey father, we’re going to be paying particular attention to the answers of those questions. Do children with the chance to pursue careers in their mother’s caste integrate well? Are they happy? Are they successful? Are they close with their families? Are there social stresses introduced? Do communities where this option is extremely rare fare better than ones where it’s common? 

We don’t know. But it’s time to find out.

[rose-tulips]

Why is the trial just for greys?

[thebloggerisin]

My guess would be because greys have a high unemployment rate.

[openamenta]

#non-purple electricians are my life

[not-brighter-but-stranger]

non-purple electricians: pretty cool, actually

[openamenta]

um?? sewing is PURPLE?????? not green?????? :/

[not-brighter-but-stranger]

(a) I …. didn’t say “green”? I said non-purple!

(b) It turns out everyone is allowed to do anything they want for a hobby! Purples can play violin, oranges can sew, I can swordfight!

[openamenta]

> I can swordfight!

what are you, some sort of ereithani war crimes apologist?

[sparkler-trail]

(at least a carfull of fandom-dressup people and actors swordfight? owning a sword isn’t illegal for most people in most places, I think? and it’s not like swords are a primary weapon in modern wars, owning a sword to fight as a hobby is not even sort of a war crime.)

also, ooh, where’s that last one from, is that someone dressed up as an ice-guider?

[thebloggerisin]

Even Ereithani wouldn’t use swords as a primary weapon in warfare, at least I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t.

Anyway most hobbyists use swords that are designed for hobby swordfighting and not as real weapons I’d imagine.

[artistic-arborealist]

His name was almost certainly not Camellia. Reds don't use their real names online.

I’m well aware. This is just another thing Rivik has stolen from us all.

But to me, he was Camellia.

[thebloggerisin]

He will be missed, I enjoyed seeing his fandom meta. 

Such a senseless waste.