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i consider this a microagression /j

(bonus comic under the cut)

(this is a real interaction i had, by the way)

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When I was a very suicidal trans activist in Texas, Benjamin Sisko saying “sure, you would [die for your people]. Dying gets you off the hook. The question is: are you willing to live for your people?” changed and possibly saved my life. It’s up there with “if we are going to be damned, let us be damned for who we really are” from Picard. Star Trek not only shows us a better world, it teaches us how to make it there

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my beautiful wife "open link in new tab"

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Dragons are basically fish, when you get down to it.

There’s no such thing as fish. The word doesn’t have any taxonomic meaning. It’s a word we’ve used to describe everything from hagfish to goldfish, even though a coelacanth is more closely related to a camel than a salmon. But because they inhabit the same ecological niche of “vertebrate animal with gills and fins,” we call them all fish.

Likewise, there’s no such thing as dragons. We call anything that fills the mytho-ecological niche of “dangerous animal that blocks the way” a dragon. And that’s why any kind of argument of what does and doesn’t count as a dragon is moot — wyverns are dragons just as much as a jabberwock or a jaculus or a tatzelwurm, not because they’re closely related in a biological clade but because they fill a narrative niche.

Dragons are also lobsters, but that’s for unrelated reasons.

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My poor, sensitive nervous system... 😭

Gotta make sure to get plenty of rest!

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friendly reminder to plurals that you don’t owe the world anything

be messy. be organized. be aesthetic. don’t give a fuck about the aesthetic. be simple. be complicated. be weird. take up space.

you’re allowed to be a person, too.

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accepting that you’re objectively weird & owning it is infinitely better than being constantly desperate to appear normal to people who don’t even matter to you

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Society would rock so much if you could be open about being alterhuman and it was just a normal thing to be. I like to fantasize about a kinder world like that.

Like we could go see mermaids perform in those tail covers (mermaid performances are a thing but imagine if it was way more common and normalized and full of actual mermaids!)

The gym could have group quadrobics sessions for different species (canine, feline, rodent .ect)

Angels could meet up at custom built “cathedral” like buildings full of pearl strands and stained glass and discuss their lives amongst humans over tea and cake.

Toy/doll/stuffed animal people could sew people sized clothes that look like doll clothes and play dress up together.

Zombies and ghosts could clean and maintain graveyards and honor the dead.

Bird folk could mix albums of their calls and wear wigs of faux feathers.

Grocery stores would sell kibble shaped snacks.

Furniture stores would sell nests and pet-style beds in person sizes.

People could publish memoirs of past lives or kin memories.

All plural people would be treated with respect and accepted as normal people too of course.

You could ask anyone if they identify as another species and they would understand it and maybe they would say they aren’t human either.

The fight against other forms of oppression will lead the way to a world safe enough to begin advocating for alterhumans. Society needs to first accept those who are queer, disabled, culturally different, neurologically different, and visually different.

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plural dysphoria goes crazy literally none of this is right this isn't my body at all. I want to look like me none of this is right

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(repeated like a mantra while rubbing my temples) i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i wi

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About My Species

by Rooster of the Atlas System

I call myself a dragon because it's the closest English word to what I am, and it's relatively accurate, but there are also a few differences.

I have feathered wings, four legs, a tail, and a long neck; my body is roughly the shape of a traditional dragon, but I have thin fur rather than scales. I don't breathe fire and I'm not very big - I'm about the size of a small horse. My species is from the Veir, which is the world our system is connected to via a gateway. In that world, "dragons" are one its peoples, and thus live as part of society.

The biggest struggles I have with this human body are being smaller than my true size and not having wings and being able to fly. I consider myself an extranthrope (a nonhuman member of a system). I am also machinekin!

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not huge on anime and i’ve never heard a vocaloid song in its entirety but every time i see miku i’m like yeah baby it’s miku that’s my friend miku

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lets normalize alterhumans/nonhumans who are having trouble explaining and talking about their experiences. its not easy to pinpoint at experiences, its so hard to describe what i feel.

when someone asks me what my experiences as a therian are i am simply not able to give an answer, i cannot describe it properly without thinking abt it for hours.

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Curiosity poll today. Read all the options!

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Earth and Moon from Saturn(x)

l Cassini l 2013 l from a distance of 1,445,865,990 kilometers

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okay, another poll because theyre fun and i like to make them. this one is about the amount of predator vs prey 'types in the community.

if you have multiple 'types, please vote for the majority of them. so for example, if you have 3 kintypes and 1 is a predator but the other 2 are prey, please vote for the prey option. if they are equal, please vote whatever option you see fit.

obviously if your 'type doesnt eat food or isnt part of the food chain, vote n/a (unless you see fit to vote otherwise).