29 | he/xe (no they) | garrett/Mainframe system | "patronizing dickwad" | queer as in fuck you | radfems/self-identified baeddels, self-hating transmascs, exclusionists, and shitlibs fuck off | assigned shrimpdick at birth | if you're blocked it's probably because I think you're stupid or annoying or because you put that tme/tma shit in your bio
I'm the annoying faggotgender transandro truther they warned you about. solidarity between all oppressed peoples. trans men are trans, transmasc rights are trans rights, fuck off if you disagree.
I don't have a DNI because I think they're stupid but I will block over whatever I feel like. I also softblock minors. I'm realizing I have way too many followers to meaningfully enforce a "no minors" policy, so if you're a minor, just keep it to lurking and please respect my boundary of not wanting you to interact with anything sexual or overly personal that I might post.
I don't remember to tag everything but I do try to get some of the more common triggers. message me if I've been posting a lot of something that you would like me to tag and I'll probably oblige, but I won't be tagging things like "discourse" or "politics" because what counts as discourse to one person is a Tuesday for others.
if you DM me please open with something other than "Hi"/"Hey"/"Hello" unless we follow each other or I will assume you're a bot
I do not post fundraisers except from trusted mutuals, please do not send them to me or tag me in posts/comments. if you message or tag me about fundraisers anyway despite this message explicitly requesting you not do this, you will be blocked. I do not have any money to donate, I can't even afford my own expenses most of the time. Do not ask.
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backup account is @transcyberist
plurality info (ignore this):
- we are a semiogenic system. this origin broadly falls under the quoigenic umbrella. don't do origin discourse. I will block you.
- we prefer the terms "member" or "sysmate" but accept "headmate" or "alter" and have varying feelings about parts language (I[Garrett] am indifferent/sorta identify with the term "ANP," others don't like it so much)
- garrett = primary front of the Mainframe system. if you're not plural or the post I'm making isn't plural-focused I usually just use the name collectively + singular pronouns as part of masking. I probably won't be very open with you if you're not plural. this is not really a conscious choice or something I do on purpose, just a comfort thing.
- host subsystem = Garrett, Jenna, Martin, S, and Ego. [Edit: S has been dormant for several months now and may have merged into Garrett and/or Martin.] Garrett and Jenna are body age (=29), S is ≈ 15, Ego is like 4-5, Martin is... idek honestly, but definitely an adult, usually 30+ and sometimes older. Most of the time it's Garrett posting here but it's sometimes Jenna or Martin in tags. Jenna runs @peepsnuff, Martin runs @shit-hdb-would-say and @entroponaut
- others that are routinely active (not an exhaustive list): Delphi (ageless), Data (unknown age). Delphi runs @deleuzians. Data is pretty quiet but usually he's the one talking if you see some persnickety nerd shit in parentheses.
- Data and Martin are both fictional characters but Data is a fully introjected fictive while Martin's situation is more complicated/something like fictionkin.
- I don't like to get involved in syscourse that much, I don't care why you're like this/what your origin is, I'm not even sure why *I'm* like this and I don't think it would be public information even if I did know. I don't think origin has anything to do with validity and I don't really believe "traumatized" vs "not traumatized" is a firm dichotomy that makes sense to apply outside of a strictly clinical setting. people should have access to whatever resources they would benefit from as much as possible.
- "CDD" (="complex dissociative disorder"; the acronym is actually more commonly used for "childhood disintegrative disorder" which is an ASD-like developmental disability) also isn't actually a defined term that is found anywhere in the DSM just fyi; it's a common term in certain forums but has no official definition per the APA. all dissociative disorders fall under the same section within the Manual, described as a spectrum ordered roughly by typical severity. not that I should need to tell you my diagnoses for you to believe I have credentials to be speaking on this, but I know for a fact I met the symptom criteria of at least DPDR as evaluated by a clinician, and that was without reporting any info about my sysmates because I wasn't comfortable sharing that part of myself in a medical setting at the time. in short, whether or not I have a "CDD" depends entirely upon who you ask and how much "proof" you require and what your agenda is, so I don't want to hear gatekeeping on that basis. I need you to understand that diagnostic taxonomy is clinically descriptive, not ontological.
- Do NOT message/harass us on our other blogs over discourse or other stuff posted to this blog or vice versa. We keep them separate intentionally; if you stir shit in the wrong place we will definitely block you. I post a lot of discourse and for the most part my sysmates do not. Address your problems with us to the one that you have the problem with and leave the others out of it. They'll step in if they feel it's necessary but that's our boundary to set.
I will always support wanting to fuck that old man but seeing people use words like "hunky" or "twink" to refer to a dude who is at least 50 will never not throw me for a loop
in my beautiful dream of the future 'masculine' and 'feminine' will be entirely relegated to describing specific fashion aesthetics and if you try and use it to refer to anyone's actions or personality everyone will look at you like you're a crazy person.
Ok i know this is silly but do you know how fucked up and accurate this is?
Idk if it’s common knowledge how a nuclear energy is generated. But on the assumption it’s not, I had to learn a little in Environmental science A levels.
I shit you not, they are harnessing the power of splitting the fucking atom just to boil some water. It’s just a high tech kettle. When you boil your kettle you are doing the same thing these people are using Uranium for.
All these crazy energy generation methods and almost all of them revolve around boiling water to turn a turbine.
It PISSES ME OFF. WHY ISNT IT COOLER??? WHERES THE LIGHTNING!!
Earth is not just a Terrestrial World; it’s an Exotic Terrestrial: a Water World.
Water is weird, ok? Everything else that’s anywhere close to its molecular weight is very much vaporous gas at similar conditions to water’s triple point. It’s weirdly easy to make carry an electrical charge (we call it an acid or a base when it’s doing this). It’s polarized as fuck, so it’s squirrely, infiltrating all kinds of stuff you normally think of as being solid, like metal and stone.
Water bonds to itself really well, so the transition from liquid or solid to gas, and back, involves a really profound change in volume.
The Water Cycle, whereby Water goes from solid to liquid to gas in all kinda directions, runs a lot of our geologic and mineral cycles, like the nitrogen and carbon and silicone ones. Plate tectonics is partially enabled by lubrication from the ocean infiltrating the earth’s crust.
It kinda… makes sense? That we’d have Water-based technology? As inhabitants of a Water World? From a world-building standpoint I mean.
We hacked one of the driving forces of our world, and use that power to run our civilization.
using your city as a personality trait is such a funny phenomenon thats only allowed when you're from like 5 super well known american cities. imagine if like.. a polish person was like thats how we do it in kędzierzyn koźle
I don’t say this to be inflammatory. This is something I wholeheartedly believe because I see it myself all the time. Violence and transphobic rhetoric about transgender men is so normalized that it doesn’t even register to people and often gets repeated.
One of the most obnoxious examples of this is about once a month I see post/post cast clip/hear from someone irl that they think JK Rowling is an in denial trans man. They’ll take the quotes from her about how were she born in this generation, she would’ve been trans and that “the allure of escaping womanhood would have been too much to resist” and say she obviously a trans man.
But by believing this you haven’t discovered some secret of hers. Rowling quite literally wants you to believe she would’ve been trans to lend herself credence into the trans conversation. And you are agreeing with her and the TERFs that reason transmasculine people transition is because of internalized misogyny and peer pressure.
Why can you understand she’s a lying, manipulative demon when she speaks about trans women or trans people broadly, but take her and TERFs at their word when it comes to trans men? You are dangerously susceptible to propaganda and absolutely spineless.
i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.
