#or your own interpretations or wtvr

[binglepringle]

I love Pinterest alignment charts, cause sometimes I find gems like this

[noxtivagus]

"in your darkest hour, in the blackest night…think of me…and I will be with you. always. for where else could I go? who else could I love but you?" i'm never gna shut up abt this line from ffxiv

[radiocmyk]

I hate binaries I hate binaries I hate binaries

[OK, full disclosure, before I posted this I had a drowned screenshot of part of a post, but I decided I didn't want to blast someone who wasn't actively having that bad of a take (I just got annoyed by phrasing) or accidentally be disingenuous in cutting off the rest of the post so instead I'm just going to explain: it was an informational post about the different experiences with labels and my frustration with it was the given examples of — paraphrased —"some alterhumans don't like the word nonhuman because they're still partly human, some nonhumans don't like the word alterhuman because they don't like the word human, some beings don't like the word person because it implies they're human."]

"It implies they're human" is not ever a true statement. Please understand the difference between how you or another person feels about a word and its definition and "this word implies/means/says/etc. this." I will not ever complain about those who don't like alterhuman or person for themselves due to their experience of dysphoria, but I am annoyed by the subset of that group who makes sweeping statements like "Alterhuman/person implies you're human!" because

I'm alterhuman and I'm nonhuman. I'm alterhuman primarily BECAUSE I'm nonhuman. I am physically not a human and what makes me dysphoric, personally, is half of the community suddenly deciding that alterhuman/person is for humans and nonhuman/being (or equivalent to being) is for everyone else so anybody who considers themself alterhuman is declaring their humanness first and everything else second. I like alterhuman. I consider myself a person because I'm a thinking being with complex emotions, not because personhood is inseparable from humanness. The alterhuman community is my community. I'm not gonna "ok we will make our own place" anymore. (I also hate having to say upfront I'm physically nonhuman otherwise I'm one of those annoying human therians yapping about misanthropy again amiright but wtvr.) It upsets me when alterhuman is talked about like "word for if you're 'kin but still consider yourself human" because I don't! I do not consider myself a human and I don't want that to dictate what labels I'm supposed to use. I do not want to be seen as a human at all, without having to abandon alterhumanity! I'm sorry for wanting to have my cake and eat it too, but this is a semantic divide, not an ontological one.

TLDR "I'm NOT alterhuman because I'm NOT a human!" Good for you! I AM alterhuman because I'm NOT a human! How cool is the subjectivity of experience? Don't project your dysphoria onto me!

I love the word alterhuman because it is up for interpretation. It is open-ended, and has space for everybody who considers their relationship to humanness or species or embodiment etc. abnormal — "alternative." I love it because my own identity is vague, inconstant, complicated and indefinable, and it can't be separated into niche distinct parts for convenient labeling. Alterhuman isn't just a catch-all umbrella term, it's a word you can use if no other words work, because it doesn't necessitate definitions. It implies nothing about identity inherently; if you have personal implications for it, those are yours, not the word's.

I like "alterhuman" for the same reasons I like "queer." Maybe my identity isn't anyone else's business, maybe it isn't even my own a lot of the time. But I always know where I belong. I find it funny how often both of these words have someone else's personal discomforts projected onto their individual users.

Btw did anyone else notice the word human is also part of "nonhuman." Scary stuff. What else is the government hiding from us

[f4ll3nf34th3r5y5t]

Hi, my birthday was yesterday, and I feel the new need to get back into my hp fixation- to start off I HATE Mrs Weasley. To each their own if you like her but ??? Girl.. girl that's not how you emotionally raise kids GIRL THEYRE TRAUMATIZED ENOUGH LIKE GIRL. GIRL YOU CANT AFFORD ALL THAT THERAPY, WHATS YOUR INSURANCE??? GIRL-

anyway she was emotionally abusive to her kids!! Even if you argue it "wasn't that bad" or "how?" I'll tell you!! Trauma isn't a competition. And how Percy is just shouts favoritism and fighting with your own family for her favor. She makes bill cut his (BEAUTIFUL.) long hair for his wedding, is at first the shittiest mil every to his fiance(WIFE!!) Is more worried about a car and shit than Harry's safety, who's to say what affect the actual starvation would have had on him in the long term if it went on for even a day longer? The sooner you tackle issues like that the better. And besides why was it so easy for Ron to even get to the car like. Get a baby gate or something. But when the twins were so proud of their OWLs score or wtvr she compared them to Percy. I would've cried and fought w my mom if she did that shit man. Overall she sucks as a mom but I also think some time reconnecting and genuinely trying to get better would help her be a wonderful mom. I didn't cover everything here because I have to buy the books n reread them and it's been awhile but this is what I remember!! And it's all my personal opinion, I realize that others could interpreted her actions differently and that she did do many good things as well but her faults still need work. Also she's ginger so I'll cut her some slack ...(/J/J/J/J)