The Cardigan System

Hi! We are Kathleen & Winona, the Cardigan System. she/her and it/she/pup for each of us respectively! We're 33, a writer, a game designer, and a transsexual menace. Posts tagged with an aspect are from that aspect. Posts not tagged with an aspect are from us both.

[zaftikat]

Puppy pinball update: These bitches played pinball in a pencil skirt and wedges.

(Ref [Img 1] for ID) We went to Belles and Chimes Toronto last night and had an absolute blast! It was so cool to get the chance to have fun playing pinball with other women. The group was so lovely and so friendly, and we felt genuinely rejuvenated by it. It was magic.

Now for the pinball part:

We placed T-7 out of 10, with 18 total points in a 4-2-1-0 scoring system across 9 games. Mathematically, that means we averaged 2nd place in our games, which is rad! Really, what happened was we won 3 games, which was a HUGE thrill. 2 fourths, 2 seconds, and 2 thirds rounded out a very delightful night! We managed to get pics of all of our wins: Attack from Mars (Bally/Williams 1993) 1,323,387,530

(ref [Img 2] for ID) John Wick Pro (Stern 2024) 3,817,760

(ref [Img 3] for ID) Jurassic Park Pro (Stern 2019) 25,495,560

(Ref [Img 4] for ID) I can't wait for next month's tournament!

Image ID Zone

[Img 1] The cardigan system pictured from a high angle selfie shot. Her eyes are a greyish colour in the pink and red tinged light, and she's wearing a white floral pattern blouse with taupe flowers on it, and a bright red pencil skirt. Her eyes have lightly winged liner, and mascara adorning them. Her ears have trans pride Lego earrings in them. Visible on her arm is an Aurebesh tattoo that says "make brave and heroic decisions. [Img 2] A photo of the results screen from Attack From Mars. It is a dot matrix display in green. P1 has scored 617,582,660. P2 has scored 1,323,387,530. P3 has scored 1,167,241,860.

[Img 3] A photo of the results screen for John Wick (Pro). It is an LCD showing the scores of 4 players and one of the coins from the film franchise as the background. P1 has scored 1,978,360. P2 has scored 2,013,670. P3 has scored 2,295,390. P4 has scored 3,817,760

[Img 4] A photo of the results screen for Jurassic Park (Pro). It is an LCD showing the scores for three players and an empty dinosaur paddock stylized from the film franchise as the background. P1 has scored 25,002,180. P2 has scored 25,495,560. P3 has scored 12,069,900 (nice).

[kibumkim]

If this is real they need to do it again

[segamascott]

thank you dua lipa

[winonaparadise]

having VR sex and she's hitting my amazing digital cervix

[lillihammerdown]

sorry, I made this joke like two weeks ago. Yeah no we're gonna kill you now. Yep, nothing you can do about it, pack it up

[winonaparadise]

[gondorrevealparty]

my wizardgirl keeps mage regressing during the big boss fight, throwing out level 1 Ice Bolt and giggling like we're supposed to find it cute. I know this bitch can do a level 12 modified Frosthammer Vortex. It's not even hard for her. But the Wyvern Queen, who we're supposed to be killing, keeps going "Wow, that was a really big spell for you! good job giving me -1 speed! You're soooo powerful!" and my fuckass mage is beaming at her with those big wet eyes. I don't care if you get "level dysphoria" from your gigantic big-girl mana pool I'm about to die out here

[shivroy]

[soup-mother]

probably should have seen it coming I guess but it's pretty fucking annoying everyone saw a conversation about "people don't understand how difficult it is clothes shopping as a trans woman" and proceeded to show just how much they don't understand it by assuming it's only about sizing and not the constant societal surveillance and inability to use the change rooms and fear of being kicked out of the story and unwillingness even for friends to recognise that there's barriers in your way and try and help you.

even people trying to commiserate with me complaining about the dumb responses assumed that it was just about sizing. and phrased it all like "you're so seen and valid". fucking christ.

wow it's almost like people don't understand how challenging it is clothes shopping even years into transition as a trans woman! who could have guessed??????

[soup-mother]

Not the strongest comparison here but

"It's incredibly difficult and challenging using public bathrooms as a transgender woman and it should be obvious why if you have paid attention to anything ever"

"Girl I feel you, welcome to womanhood. sometimes the seats are gross or someone's left something on the floor, we all experience this, you're so valid for this"

(meanwhile I'm lucky if I'm not immediately stopped upon entering)

with clothes it's like ok cool but you might notice that you are wearing womens clothes from the clothes store that you bought and were able to try on before buying and weren't called a pervert and/or pedophile over it. meanwhile I am not. so maybe this is not actually "something all women experience" or just about sizing yes?

[ribstongrowback]

hope this isn't derailing but i think that this is heavily shaped by this condescending attitude people have about trans women's womanhood. they treat us like little girls discovering every aspect of being a woman instead of understanding us as adults who can have fully formed and informed opinions and analysis about our lived experience.

folks assume we have everything to learn about being women, because the idea that they would have anything to learn from us about it or about being a trans woman is simply too ridiculous to even cross their mind.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i keep seeing ppl being like "just get an id, what's the big deal?" about the potential voter registration restrictions, and let me tell you a story i am actively dealing with

i work with unhoused people fleeing domestic violence, and i have a client rn whose driver's license expired in 2024, and she needs a new id to apply for apartments. ok, cool. problem is, she lost all her documents due to the domestic violence

so we call the dmv. dmv needs a birth certificate. like i said, she lost her birth certificate. she needs a new one. her birth certificate is from out of state

we look up how to get a new birth certificate. the birth certificate needs an id to order it. cool cool cool

ok then what about secondary options? well, she needs two secondary sources of identification to order a replacement birth certificate, and she only has one, because for everything else she needs an id. fishing license? need an id. fucking park pass? id. she could have her 18+ child use their birth certificate to vouch for her, except her abuser won't let her talk to her children, so that's a no go

ultimately we land on social security card. this is where we're at in the process rn. ofc she doesn't have her ss card, so we need to order that. social security also requires an id to request a new card, but they'll take a health insurance card with a picture attached (god fucking bless them). she has medicaid but doesn't have a physical copy of the card, so we have to figure out how to get that. then once we do that we have to upload it to the social security website, and if that doesn't work, we have to, god forbid, call the social security office (takes literal hours) and then make an appointment. she doesn't have transportation or cell service, so we would have to figure out a way to coordinate me getting her to the appointment in order to present the document

then we wait 10+ days for the replacement, that has to be mailed to me bc she is unhoused and doesn't have an address

then we need to submit her request for a new birth certificate, which we have to figure out how to pay for, bc it is not free. they're at least a month behind on requests, btw, so we are probably looking at may at the earliest for that to arrive

then we need to take the birth certificate to the dmv

dmv also requires two pieces of mail not from a po box. she doesn't have an address, she is unhoused. she can use the homeless shelter in town, but we will need to mail her stuff there and have her receive it first, and also then the homeless shelter address will now be on her new id, which landlords will recognize and may discriminate against her for

during all of this she is sleeping in a garage. it was negative one degrees this morning. also, forgot to mention, she is terminally ill. some days i legitimately don't know if she lived through the night. every day is a toss up

the absolute soonest she will have an id is probably late may. forget voter registration--most rentals won't let her apply without it. she won't be offered section 8 housing without it. she can't apply for ssdi without it. she is blocked at literally every corner without it, and the absolute soonest she can get it is late may. the dmv literally has her old card on file, and she knows the number by heart, but it doesn't matter. it doesn't count if it's expired, as if she's somehow become someone new

and that's all with the help of someone whose job it is to do this shit. imagine if she didn't have a caseworker. she has a ten year old donated iphone that only works on wifi, she can't even do her own research bc she doesn't have internet half the time. how the hell is she supposed to get anything done on her own?

so yeah, fuck you if you think requiring an id isn't voter discrimination. "just get an id" is privileged af thinking and it infuriates me every time i hear it. lawmakers know exactly what they're doing with that restriction, and it's absolute bullshit

[spamtown-usa]

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[wifehaver103947]

imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

[clothmotherofficial]

I Have Softness For You

[officialwiremother]

i have milk for you

[babymonkeyofficial]

Stop.

[kingsolomonofficial]

Cut the baby monkey in half

[puppiesdoglover]

Puppy is kind today

Tomorrow’s Puppy Forecast: Kind

[halondrus]

[fizzytrashcan]

[dragongirlsnout]

When you drink a minuscule amount of alcohol and still get absolutely wasted: Night of the Hog

When you drink a ton and yet feel nothing out of the ordinary: Night of the Wolf

[dragongirlsnout]

I reference this literally every time I'm at a bar because I somewhat convinced I saw it in a tumblr post somewhere but I have been informed that this is not in fact a known tumblr post in circulation and I was shown a prophetic vision at some point leading me to form the dichotomy from first principals

[mousidy]

you have to get that when someone calls a woman mannish as an insult, that's uncomplicatedly just misogyny

[mousidy]

punishing women for perceived failures to perform patriarchal femininity is not remotely "misandry," because it's not about a hatred of men or masculinity. it's about punishing women for not performing our roles. men don't get punished for masculinity

[herpsandbirds]

Long-billed Woodcreeper (Nasica longirostris), family Furnariidae, order Passeriformes, Peru

Photograph by Edy Goodyear

[pennaraptor]

So they weren't messing around when they named this thing

[caydencrypted]

a few days ago an irl told me about how the alphabet is on the wrong order on the doctor who wiki because in one episode a character recites the alphabet backwards but gets two letters the wrong way around and there has been no other representation of the full alphabet in any other dw media so technically there’s no proof that it isn’t canon and i’ve been thinking about that ever since

[caydencrypted]

not joking (U is supposed to come before V)

[caydencrypted]

actually it gets funnier. there are multiple instances of parts of the alphabet being spoken in episodes. the problem is absolutely none of these have spoken that specific section since the episode that got the order wrong.

[noosferik]

guy who enjoys german class a little too much: ancient slavs had words of power they used to shout mountains apart

girl who collects crystals: that's actually true as fuck

70 year old professor who sometimes calls students "comrade": faggotry is actually good, I don't have a problem with faggotry, Aristotle was a faggot, Caesar was a faggot...

guy behind me: YOOOOO check it out (pulls up beheading video on a chechen telegram previously unknown to mankind)

Professor: ...Galileo was a faggot, I think Napoleon was a faggot, Comrade Tito probably wasn't a faggot but...