Gift of the Faerie

Main blog of Vreliskriri, a Finnish writer, artist & software engie student in their 20s. 🔞. Also on bsky and instagram. Commissions are closed! For just art, see @arts-of-the-faerie.

[vreliskriri]

SANKARITARINA

(ring all the bells, sing and tell the people)

[thoughtsroamguy]

Artelia is a healer, that's why she knows the best places to slice.

[thoughtsroamguy]

We got 103 downloads on the Tears of Xivo demo!!!

Thank you all so much for supporting this passion project of mine and the ongoing love for my characters! A large part of the reason I keep going is because of y'all! So to celebrate, I have some secrets to share, but you have to vote for which one! I haven't talked about it too much (or at all) but the following characters have another form you'll get to see in-game.

Which secret should I reveal?

Katrina's

Muxtra's

Jazza's

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

[flowercrowncrip]

A quick guide for trans people who are using/ forced to use the disabled toilet due to transphobic bullshit in the UK when you wouldn’t otherwise need to do so. From a transgender wheelchair user who has given this topic a lot of thought.

Remember you are a guest in this space. I don’t know a single person who would rather you shit yourself or get assaulted than use the disabled toilet, but please remember that these toilets are built and designed for disabled people after a huge amount of campaigning and activism.

Don’t touch or move things you don’t need to. If you’re not familiar with how things work or why they are where they are just leave it be. The position of a bin might not mean anything to you but it could be really important to a wheelchair user who needs to change their tampon. Don’t touch things like grab rails either – while they’re fairly tough and you’re unlikely to cause any damage it’s not impossible and if you don’t touch it, you can’t break it.

Related, but important enough to have its own point: please don’t touch the red cord. Do not tie it up, do not wrap it around anything, don’t tuck it behind a bin. Don’t touch it (The only exception to this is to untie a cord that’s been tied up) If the cord doesn’t fall freely to the floor it could prevent a disabled person calling for help in an emergency. If you’re worried about accidentally pulling it there’s almost always at least one reset button in there with you. Press that and it cancels the alarm.

If possible allow other people waiting to go first. A lot of disabilities, both visible and less apparent, can cause problems with incontinence, urgency or pain that make it difficult for someone to wait to use the toilet. If there’s someone else in the queue and you are able to do so, offering to let them go first might really help them out.

If you want to get a radar key, get it from disability rights UK or give a small donation to a disability charity (again only if you’re able to). I’ve seen a couple of trans orgs giving away free radar keys and it’s unclear how they are being sourced. Knockoffs are common but only “real” RADAR keys are from Disability Rights UK and any profits help fund their charity work. Bear in mind that most disabled people also have to pay for these keys which are about £5. (Disability Rights UK say their keys are to be sold to disabled people or organisations only, this is a legal thing they have to say about VAT relief. There is no real way of following up how disabled someone who buys a radar key is because you don’t need to claim any benefits to be eligible for VAT relief and keys are a low value item that isn’t worth anyone looking into when things like adapted cars exist. Be gay, do crime, support disabled people having rights.)

Know the difference between a standard accessible toilet and a changing places toilet. Don’t use a changing places toilet if there is any other safe option. These have a different symbol and are bigger and fitted with extra equipment for severely disabled people and our carers. That equipment is more sensitive than anything you’ll find in a standard accessible toilet so if you do find yourself in one touch nothing. Especially don’t move the hoist (lifting equipment) as it can cause it to run out of power and make the whole space functionally useless if it’s not in the right space on the track. (To be fair this is an unlikely scenario as there aren’t that many of these toilets, but just in case)

Don’t suggest renaming accessible toilets. They’re primarily there for disabled people who can’t use an alternative, and disabled people will be looking for an accessible toilet. For most spaces you can look for an accessible toilet and have a good chance of finding a gender neutral space, but that doesn’t work the other way around. Calling it an “inclusive toilet” or “gender neutral toilet” tells me absolutely nothing about whether my wheelchair will fit.

[ledsastray]

^ great advice - especially getting to know the different kinds of access for changing places (which are rare and people plan their whole trip out round) and how we need them to stay called accessible or Disabled toilets to give anyone wanting to use the aids in them any chance of finding them or knowing what to expect.

I see so many ads for Radar keys saying they are special type or whatever on Instagram and always think jeez they must be making a large profit skimming money off disability rights uk to pay for those posts - like Echo says always buy from Disability Rights UK.

Disabled people and trans people have many struggles in common and this is great info if you only belong to the trans side.

[vreliskriri]

TUNTUU KUIN LENTÄISIN

(out of my chrysalis)

[segamascott]

you're not potentially mature content to me you are my friend

[vreliskriri]

SANKARITARINA

(ring all the bells, sing and tell the people)

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[spiralmindz]

white kids get to have quirky racist phases black kids dont get to be kids

[spiralmindz]

black kids get their lives stolen from them if they defend themselves from white kids "going through a phase"

[kotitontunmanaaja]

Kenen ääni kuuluu vaaleissa?

Luodaan vastavoima rahavallalle! Osallistu joukkorahoitukseen ja auta keräämään Finnwatchin vaalivaikuttamiseen 1 % elinkeinoelämän vaalikas

"Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto julkaisi viime viikolla tavoitteensa eduskuntavaaleihin. EK ehdottaa muun muassa perintöveron poistoa ja jo ennestään alhaisen yhteisöveron laskua 15 prosenttiin. Hyvinvointivaltio Suomella ei ole varaa tällaiseen. Elinkeinoelämä on varannut ennätyksellisen rahapotin vastuuttomien vaalitavoitteidensa ajamiseen. Mediatietojen mukaan elinkeinoelämä aikoo käyttää pelkästään vaalirahoitukseen peräti 2,3 miljoonaa euroa. 

Auta meitä keräämään Finnwatchin vaalivaikuttamiseen 1 % elinkeinoelämän vaalikassasta. Sinun avullasi laadimme puolueille kattavat politiikkasuositukset ja haastamme elinkeinoelämän lobbarit. Joukkorahoitukseen on jo osallistunut yli 400 lahjoittajaa, ja olemme ylittäneet puolivälin."

[kotitontunmanaaja]

23 000 euron tavoite on täytetty ja ylikin, mutta edelleen voi osallistua!

[checkyourasianbias]

saw this tweet and like. exactly

[measlyscrapofseafood]

day one of having a fandom mutual: you like The Character too? no way!

day three hundred of having a fandom mutual: The Character probably gets vivisected recreationally. no doubt

[hustlerose]

(first time doing praise kink) you are Useful

[nyancrimew]

how fashion designers look at you when you tell them you wanna wear anything besides jeggings as a fat woman

[shotofchinaco]

Brian McFadden: Is Google Cooked? (via Daily Kos)

[nymph1e]

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

[canisalbus]

I love the fact fact that machete is either aura farming or being pathetic as possible

The duality of man.