#TWO system partners

[bananonbinary]

as a certified Diagnosed Autist(TM) i cannot stress enough that i am not only pro- self-diagnosis, but also pretty anti- legal medical diagnosis. it is, at best, a cruel hoop we have to jump through so privileged people will deign to give us what we need. don't fucking do that shit unless you have to, it was disgustingly expensive, fucking humiliating, infantilizing, and dehumanizing, and would probably actively cause problems in my life if i didn't have some really good allistic (-passing) people in my corner and also wasn't so fucking disabled that it mostly doesn't matter.

literally get that diagnosis if you need it for job/school accessibility shit or SSI or whatever, and otherwise dont tell the government SHIT about yourself. there is zero good reason for them to want that information. that's between you and the people you want in your life.

[eightspringdays]

sometimes im just vibing like a normal well adapted to society individual and then I remember the meronia height difference and I just

[heartful-plush]

oh that's why i feel left out all the time!

I'm not part of the fucking hivemind

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

In The Care of Magic

cozy erotica novella

the only witch in a small town of humans who regularly use her services but are ungrateful goes to her cottage in the woods to get away for a bit

she comes across an interesting book in her library and decides to summon a sex demon to relax, and after a few days they also start to become friends

bi MC, aro agender LI

Blessed By The Cupid Distribution System

romance/erotica novella

follows a woman feeling lonely and left out on valentine’s day who wishes to experience a relationship

and a cupid on her first free assignment - who hears her wish and offers to find her a potential date, or they could spend the day together

and then they spend the day together. etc.

trans demisexual MC

[r0semultiverse]

Hey so Avatar Kyoshi can just physically manifest & take the wheel at any time? That feels kind of over powered??

We’re just not gonna talk about how Kyoshi possessed Aang? 👀

Also feels like the avatar detection statues in Zuko’s ship got retconned already. Iroh asking how Zuko knows he’s on the right path to find the Avatar but neither of them acknowledge the avatar tracking statues that this adaptation spawned in. 😩 It was a little frustrating to watch. Either leave them in & acknowledge them or just leave them out.

[an-droid-girl]

So Serif got a new mech last night.

It is the Horus Balor, because Horus’s approach to mechs GREATLY aligns with her own (crowdsource, use what you got, tinker tinker tinker, make it yours, make it YOURS)

i can’t draw worth shit but all of horus’s mechs aren’t really “models” but “pattern groups” bc they’re open-source and halfway black market, (direct from playbook: As is the case with most HORUS pattern groups, the Balor has a thousand faces. The Balor pattern group, like all HORUS PGs, doesn’t describe a single recognizable silhouette so much as it gestures toward a combination of schemata that share a role in combat. These schemata can be printed according to pilot specifications and applied to a fully custom physical scaffolding) so this isn’t what hers looks like but this IS the image in the play book:

and i love it and she loves it, loves how modular it is. this is her first taste of a full horus build and her other mech, an everest named Atticus, is still close to her heart but god she’s so ready to take this baby out for a spin

Originally I named the new mech Entropy, but i’m debating if she’d give it a name to further exacerbate the verbal confusion of Serif vs Seraph (not helped by the fact her other squad mate’s callsign is Crusader) by naming it Heavenly Benediction (“Benny”) or Be Not Afraid (“Alfred”). many things to think about. many many things

[afniel]

Realizing that I went and wrote a bunch of intentionally aro relationships and my partner was like, "Idk, it seemed like normal relationships to me," and I was like, "I mean yeah it's not that different from ours, I guess, I was kind of going for 45° off from 'normal' romance," and they're like, "Okay, but ours is also pretty much like that," and I'm like, "Yeah, true," and now I'm like, damn hold up, are we both some kinda arospec and THIS is how we figure it out? Because I wrote a long-ass fic about intentionally queer-coded (among other things) robots? Life is weird, man.

Like I've been prone to extreme long-term crushes on a very few (mostly unattainable) people over the years, but I wouldn't have known what to do with them even if they worked out, and cough my ex was not even one of them. I just kind of assumed I was failing to feel a thing I was totally supposed to feel, there, and quite a lot of that relationship emotionally was me going, "Okay, I care like This, but I think I'm supposed to care like That? I'm pretty sure he cares That way. I'm not sure I do, but I mean, there's really only one way*, so maybe I'm just misreading this and actually I do care like That, I'm just bad at it."

*This was me being very incorrect, it turns out. There's all kinds of ways to love someone. It's a very inadequate and nonspecific word.

When I confessed my feelings (which I'd been sitting on for a year) to my partner, their reaction wasn't to be particularly romantic about it. In fact they told me they'd help me move to California if I wanted to. And after I got over my initial confusion of being kissed on the forehead (which is also not super romantic as a gesture and I couldn't decide how to even read that so I kinda skipped over even trying for a while), I was thinking, Awesome, that is a yes. They have promised to assist me with difficult stuff, and said nothing at all about emotions, because that's not a big deal anyway. The important thing is that I can rely on them and vice versa. Cool. We are basically together forever now. Which ended up being true. I just never moved out and now it's like 13 years later, go figure. But that's not what I think actually passes for reciprocating feelings for most people? Worked great for me though.

Anyway I feel like I have accidentally learned something about myself, lol. I guess romance is okay I guess, like it's not repulsive, but seriously, it's WAY more satisfying to me to guess someone else's Quiplash answer because you know they know you would think it's fucking funny, and you do, and because you think it's funny and you're well aware they know your type of humor and you know theirs and that you wouldn't expect them to use "cum" as an answer because that's not usually how they roll, so of course that is the only answer they can possibly give, which is instantly evident to both of you with no conversation whatsoever on the topic. When you got just one brain cell and it's quantum entangled with their just one brain cell so you have a lot of null discussions where nobody has to say anything but it's fully understood anyway, that's The Dream, if you ask me. And like I don't really think that's romantic by the usual definition. You can have that with friends and family, too. But that is what it turns out I prioritize in relationships, which I'm starting to feel like isn't what the majority of people are here for?

TFW it's hard to tell because I've been assuming I'm totally alloromantic so everything I experience must be typical totally alloromantic stuff too, but I'm starting to think it isn't maybe? But how do I even tell, this is like being colorblind, lmao.

[cuteniaarts]

Wine stains on porcelain

(Alternatively: @katkastrofa and I have created 5 OCs in 3 days and I suffer from chronic “I wanna draw the little guysssssss” disease)

[cozza-frenzy]

Systober Day 23 / 24 - Alter With Older Internal Age / Most Social Alter - "Thirteen" (She/He) (Left) & "Roses" (Any/All) (Right)

Another two for one - as soon as I saw these days next to each other, I just knew it had to be these two. Thirteen is one of the oldest alters in the system who has a confirmed age - she's not human, but is his species' equivalent of late 40s or early 50s, while the body is only 36. Roses isn't the most frequent fronter these days, but is our social advocate - he fronts for scenarios that require us to constantly pay attention to social cues, like tabletop RPGs, formal events, and meeting new people. I can't really disclose too much information about these two; there are certain things about them we can't reveal in public for various reasons. "Roses" and "Thirteen" are pseudonyms, and the way they really look is intentionally left vague in this piece to protect their real identities. But Thirteen fused with Fox a while back, granting her a limited ability to shapeshift - and Roses recently fused with Anarchy, meaning she can wear the "pelt" that's around her shoulders to change her form, much like a selkie's seal skin. They're two very important parts of our system; maybe one day we'll be able to drop the smoke and mirrors. - Terry

[ambreiiigns]

I WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO KNOW I HAVE FINALLY STARTED TIGER & BUNNY SEASON 2 AND IT'S IMMEDIATELY REALLY GOOD.

[misseyres]

Licherally at my limit lads

[gnomewithalaptop]

This final project is worth 40% of our final grade and the other half of my team just told me they haven't even STARTED working on one of the core functionalities. What the fuck.

[martyrdoll]

at no point should fucking Will Wood be the voice of reason but right now he is

[flippedorbit]

no one look at me i know too much about squids

[cybergothvox]

I am now QPP with 12 Voxes. There keeps being more

[your-system-said-what]

"Why the fuck are we white." -every single alter that ever formed here (I wish I was joking)

if it helps you feel any better

sometimes the white alters here, of which there are many, ask why we have color or sometimes outright forget for a bit

I specifically thought I was white until I was 17 or 18. no this isn't a bit. I genuinely thought that my skin tone was the normal skin tone and anyone who was "whiter" had some kind of skin condition.

the logic my brain had behind that was "okay, the average/norm in a data set tends to be in the middle. I'm not black or white, and my skin tone is pretty even, therefore I'm the average/normal color a person can be"

which is a somewhat logical way to look at it, until you look around my area and huh. there's a lot of white people here and I don't look like them.

I still choose a lighter skin tone in games sometimes.