#sector-v

[librarycards]

Hello! Sorry if you’ve posted about this somewhere already/if it’s redundant, but I thought your coinage of “transMad” was very cool and I’m wondering what that term means to you? I’m really happy to see other people talking about madness being intertwined w their gender/transness and looking forward to checking out your reading lists :))

thank you so much for asking about one of my favorite things to infodump about!! rather than rehash a bunch of stuff, if it's okay, I'm going to borrow a few quotes from past!me that i've published in different places // offer you some things of mine to read.

broadly, though, i use transMadness as a way to explore the identificatory, epistemological, methodological, and theoretical implications of an orientation (to use Sara Ahmed's term) toward bodymind noncompliance and self/selves-determination. this orientation refuses to delineate diagnostically between Maddened / transed experiences of the world/our many worlds, and instead takes this shared/overlapping ground as a jumping off point for solidarity and speculation - that is, something that allows us to imagine otherwise worlds / make them manifest through creativity and collaboration.

(Ha, and I claimed i wouldn't talk too much...famous autistic last words)

ANYWAY. here are some clips that might help explain more dimensions of transMadness. note that, in my dissertation-in-progress, i'm focusing on xeno/neogender and/as self-diagnostic cultures among queercrip and transMad internet users. i'm interested in the anti-psych liberatory potential of this digital community work, especially as it centers forms of knowledge and scholarship devalued within Academia Proper, especially because so much of it is made by and for disabled, Mad, queer, trans people, esp. youth. Onward to quotes!

On transMad epistemologies: citation/power/knowledge:

I’ll spend most of this piece looking not at what transMad is, but what it does. First and foremost, transMad cites. Even its name alludes to other portmanteaus: neuroqueer and queercrip being the best-known among them. Many people have offered many different (ever-“working”!) definitions of these terms; today, I offer co-coiner Nick Walker’s (2021) definition of neuroqueer: a verb and an adjective “encompass[ing] the queering of neurocognitive norms as well as gender norms” (p. 196). In terms of queercrip, I also return to its coiner, Carrie Sandahl (2003), who for whom the queercrip (as person and as method/movement) confuses the diagnostic gaze, bears sociopolitical witness, and performs glitchful[4], incongruous, confusing in(ter)ventions into possible community. At base, “queer” and “crip” appear as analogous, reclaimed slurs signifying marginalized transgression. When combined, they describe a loop, perhaps a Möbius strip: crip (ani)mates queer, queer tells-on crip. The specter of crip haunts queer—and even more explicitly, as we will see, trans—and the crip(ped) bodymind holds, moves, and fucks queerly. Who knows where “queer” stops and “crip” and “neuro” begin? Likewise, transMad, whose citational style leaves little room for diagnostic clarity amidst a pastiche of noncompliant text.

On transMad epistemologies: multiplicity (h/t @materialisnt):

They encourage us to remove others’ names from our bodies, to reign in unruly citations, to set “boundaries” which violate Mad, crip ethics of care (see Fletcher, 2019). In truth, any framing of individual authorship in which the body text is “mine” and the citations gesture “elsewhere” belie the inherent interdependence of all intellectual life, and particularly of transMad intellectual life. transMad plural scholar mix. alan moss (2022) argues in relation to the pathologization of multiple systems: “all people, indeed all that exists, is a system that itself is constantly enmeshed in several overlapping and interconnected systems.” In short, I am full of Is, and will continue as many more. Just as disability justice helps us understand all life as interdependent and deserving of access, a transMad approach sees our selves as numerous and fuzzy. We have permission to dispense with the need for tidy texts, with our interlocutors, edits, and iterations either obfuscated entirely or exclusively relegated to a bibliography. transMad citation may thus be considered akin to visible mending[6], creating flamboyantly messy, multiplicitous work that does not seek to pass as objective or discrete.

On the value of (crip) failure and/as "virtuality":

Don’t get me wrong: Zoom PhD work is a failing enterprise. That is to say, it is a queercrip, transMad enterprise, which is to say, it is a beautiful, beautiful project. Mitchell, Snyder, and Ware describe such “fortunate failures” in the context of “curricular cripistemologies.”5 Coined by Merri Lisa Johnson, the term “cripistemologies,” refers to “embodied ways of knowing in relation, knowing-with, knowing-alongside, knowing-across-difference, and unknowing,” ways which frequently exist outside the purview of mainstream academia.6 Curricular cripistemologies, then, refer to an intentional, queercrip deviation from normative pedagogical approaches which trades the corrective impulse of “special ed” and other rehabilitative programs, and offers instead a generative noncompliance.7 That is, rather than trying to identify, isolate, and ameliorate difference, curricular cripistemologies lean into difference as it is experienced by disabled students ourselves, querying how atmospheres of in/accessibility shape normative approaches to education and how the embrace of “failure,” not as a last-resort but as a first choice, poses potentially transformative possibilities.

On transMadness and fat liberation: (for @trans-axolotl's Psych Survivor Zine)

A transMad, fat approach to disorderly eating requires making connections with humility and understanding, and, as I discussed above, engaging in compassionate, critical interrogation of our own anti-fatness.

[...]

A transMad, fat, abolitionist politic is one that makes room. We imagine beyond the cage, even if the details of that imagining are not yet clear. Just as we have carved micro-sites of support within violent digital and in-person contexts, just as we have learned to think about our lifeworlds beyond the paradigm of “recovery or death,” we can also reconceptualize fatness not as the enemy, but as another form of bodymind noncompliance in alliance and/or entanglement with disorderly eating practices. For thin disorderly eaters, this requires us to fundamentally challenge the way we view food and embodiment, even while maintaining a Mad respect for alternative ways of approaching reality.

On xenogenders, virtuality, and self-determination:

It is this very “irrationality” –– the “unrealness,” the “you’ve-got-to-be-kiddinghood,” that is most frequently weaponized against xenogenders, as well as their newly-coined sets of xenopronouns. The perceived and actual virtuality of xenogenders is often placed against the notion of “actuality,” in this case, of “real” (or “practical”) genders and pronouns to be used in one’s “real life.” Disabled activists have rightly resisted the distinction between online and (presumed-offline) “real life,” given that this categorically excludes homebound bodyminds, as well as those without IRL social and support circles. That said, I believe the virtual –– as almost, not-quite, proximite, making-do –– is incredibly useful in thinking about xenoidentities as transMad tools –– particularly, as transMad tools of underground collaboration / co-liberation.

[...]

What if gender was a project we wanted to fail? That is, what if trans- was a process not of getting better, not of moving-toward a bodymind more sane, more straight, and more cisheteropatriarchially desirable, but rather a line of flight on a longer trail to illegibility? Indeed, what if we replaced pathology’s narrow “path” with a trail lighted by the language of our comrades, whose linguistic interventions make and break gender in ways heretofore unimaginable? Xenoidentities, both individually and as a trans-gressive M.O., are fundamental to a broader transMad project of crafted, collective illegibility; intersubjective citation (imagine what it feels like for someone to be the gender that you coined!); and collective care that refuses a politics of cure. Crucially both virtual and digital, xenoidentities are furthermore a manifestation of the power of trans, predominantly disabled digital counterpublics, who overturn the hierarchy which places the IRL-real above the digital-unreal, making unruly, Mad space in which (with apologies to Donna Haraway) a hundred xenoselves might bloom.

On Maddening queer "diagnosis":

In her indictment of all “Kwik-Fix Drugs,” Gray further indicates the practice of forced treatment as in and of itself as a project of violent normalization, regardless of specific target or reason. The intentional ambiguity between her narrative of Madness and her narrative of asexuality disrupt mounting demands for a healthy (sanitized, neoliberal, and consumable) queerness. A Mad ace approach identifies these demands as, indeed, comparable with cis heteronormative notions of sexual maturity and responsibility – the idea that participation in culturally-normative sexual practices is a prerequisite for health (Kim, 2011, 481) and thus, personal autonomy (Meerai, Abdillahi, and Poole 2016, 21). By fusing the “lack of sexual appetite” attributed to her medications for bipolar disorder with her asexuality, Gray destabilizes the binary between healthy-sexual-diversity and unhealthy-psychopathology. She is once again disrupting contemporary queer impulses to dissociate from ongoing histories of pathologization. Here, Mad and queer/asexual activism are as inseparable in text as they are in Gray. Gray and her comrades collectively refuse both sexuality-as-“rehabilitation” (See Kim 2011, 486) and asexual acceptance predicated upon normative “health” (Kim 2010, 158) – that is, they Madden asexuality. Twoey, in her own voice, remixes the sources of her own pathologization, staggering the supposedly-divine pronouncement of the DSM across pages and bookending its extracts with her own writing and art. In this undermining of the DSM’s epistemological polish, Gray disrupts the domination of written prose over poetry and visual art, while also critiquing the role of the DSM in commercialized health “care.” Her zine opens with the lines “sex sells and sex is sold / sex was being sold and i didn’t buy” (Gray 2018, n.p.). Gray indicates a pathology perceived not only in a refusal to practice sex, but also in a refusal to buy (into) it. After all, a refusal to buy into existing sexual paradigms is for her also a refusal to buy into a feminized reproductive mandate.

[artsygirl0315]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THE KND!!🎊💙

This is a redraw of the piece I made last year, Glad to know it's been this long since I've joined the fandom! Happy 22nd Anniversary, KND!!

[irlnumbuh4]

redesigned genderbend sector V (yes again) for the millionth time..

[fallen-gabrielle]

A KND meme for your soul

[squidkola]

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN!!!

So, since I completely forgot about Inktober again and by the time I realized such it was already the 10th and I wasn’t about to try and catch up, I wanted to think of what to do to at least do SOMETHING for this month. Well, recently I got back into KND and there just so happens to be 5 main characters. Then I got the idea to draw said characters as other characters from media I like or think fits them as a count down to Halloween.

With that said, starting off the countdown is Numbuh 5 herself! Tbh I struggled for a little bit on what to do for her and originally considered doing Sasha from Amphibia but quickly realized I liked Katara from ALTA better for her!

Lets hope this time I can actually follow through with something.

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

COLORS!

BACKGROUND!!

KIDDIES!!!

Bonus:

She showed Nigel even if "he doesn't remember anything about KND".

Double bonus:

Nigel shared the photo in the group chat because HE'S NOT GONNA BE DYING OF CUTENESS ALONE TODAY!

[roguephenon]

What happens when you take your kids to get their shots, they’re nervous, and you decide to “get one yourself” to show them it isn’t that bad?

Your doctor friend who graduated from Harvard and won’t shut up about it gives you a shot on the bum to get a laugh out of the kids at your expense.

Nigel will remember that.

(A look at my adult Wally and adult Nigel done by @pinkmeanschaos that I got permission to share)

[sketchingdemonss]

la la lucky guy🍀

[numbuh]

maurice: i'm sad

numbuh 1: i can touch this table with my shoes

[justtrash202]

✨ Sector V Height Chart + Growth Patterns (AU Version) ✨

I've been doing a lot of research and careful consideration when figuring out the official heights for Sector V in my AU. Using their proportions from the show as a reference, I wanted to keep their height dynamics true to the original while adding a bit more realism for their late teen versions! Here's what I've gathered,My frame of reference:

Incase can't read the Height Order is

Hoagie > Abby > Nigel > Kuki > Wally

And based on that i estimated it to be:

Hoagie: ~ 4'11 '

Abby: ~ 4' 10 '

Nigel: ~ 4'9 ' ( he's slightly taller then kuki but shorter then Abby so this works ig)

Kuki: ~4'8' (slightly taller then wally)

Wally: ~ 4'6 '

📊 Growth Patterns Breakdown:

I also tracked their height progression from ages 10-18 for extra depth! From the oeder and the background some see these are my personal headcanons such as Hoagie have a Italian lineage from Grandma side of the family.

So with that here's the official heights/ growth progressions for sector V in my au:

Nigel’s Height Progression

His height progression is based on the typical growth pattern of British boys during puberty. I aimed for a steady, moderate increase in height that plateaus around adulthood.

10 years old: 4'9" (144.8 cm)

11 years old: 4'11" (149.9 cm)

12 years old: 5'0" (152.4 cm)

13 years old: 5'2" (157.5 cm)

14 years old: 5'3" (160 cm)

15 years old: 5'4" (162.6 cm)

16 years old: 5'4½" (164.5 cm)

17 years old: 5'5" (165.1 cm)

18 years old: 5'5" (165.1 cm)

Growth Pattern

Age 10 to 11: Grew 2 inches (from 4'9" to 4'11").

Age 11 to 12: Grew 1 inch (from 4'11" to 5'0").

Age 12 to 13: Grew 2 inches (from 5'0" to 5'2").

Age 13 to 14: Grew 1 inch (from 5'2" to 5'3") – puberty growth begins.

Age 14 to 15: Grew 1 inch (from 5'3" to 5'4") – steady growth continues.

Age 15 to 16: Grew ½ inch (from 5'4" to 5'4½") – slowing down.

Age 16 to 17: Grew ½ inch (from 5'4½" to 5'5") – nearing adult height.

Age 17 to 18: No growth (remained at 5'5") – height stabilizes.

Hoagie’s Height Progression

His growth pattern is a mix between American and Italian influences, given his Italian heritage from his grandmother's side (which I personally prefer over him being fully Italian). His height is above average but not extreme, with a gradual and consistent increase.

10 years old: 4'11" (149.9 cm)

11 years old: 5'1" (154.9 cm)

12 years old: 5'2½" (158.8 cm)

13 years old: 5'4" (162.6 cm)

14 years old: 5'5" (165.1 cm)

15 years old: 5'6" (167.6 cm)

16 years old: 5'6½" (168.9 cm)

17 years old: 5'7" (170.2 cm)

18 years old: 5'7" (170.2 cm)

Growth Pattern

Age 10 to 11: Grew 2 inches (from 4'11" to 5'1").

Age 11 to 12: Grew 1½ inches (from 5'1" to 5'2½").

Age 12 to 13: Grew 1½ inches (from 5'2½" to 5'4").

Age 13 to 14: Grew 1 inch (from 5'4" to 5'5") – steady puberty growth.

Age 14 to 15: Grew 1 inch (from 5'5" to 5'6") – nearing final growth.

Age 15 to 16: Grew ½ inch (from 5'6" to 5'6½") – slowing growth.

Age 16 to 17: Grew ½ inch (from 5'6½" to 5'7") – final growth phase.

Age 17 to 18: No growth (remained at 5'7") – height stabilizes.

Kuki’s Height Progression

Kuki’s height progression is based on the typical growth pattern of a Japanese girl, leading to a petite but proportional stature compared to the others.

10 years old: 4'7½" (141 cm)

11 years old: 4'9½" (146 cm)

12 years old: 4'11" (149.9 cm)

13 years old: 5'0" (152.4 cm)

14 years old: 5'1" (154.9 cm)

15 years old: 5'2" (157.5 cm)

16 years old: 5'2½" (158.8 cm)

17 years old: 5'3" (160 cm)

18 years old: 5'3" (160 cm)

Growth Pattern

Age 10 to 11: Grew 2 inches (from 4'7½" to 4'9½").

Age 11 to 12: Grew 1½ inches (from 4'9½" to 4'11").

Age 12 to 13: Grew 1 inch (from 4'11" to 5'0").

Age 13 to 14: Grew 1 inch (from 5'0" to 5'1") – puberty growth continues.

Age 14 to 15: Grew 1 inch (from 5'1" to 5'2") – steady growth.

Age 15 to 16: Grew ½ inch (from 5'2" to 5'2½") – nearing adult height.

Age 16 to 17: Grew ½ inch (from 5'2½" to 5'3") – final growth phase.

Age 17 to 18: No growth (remained at 5'3") – height stabilizes.

Wally’s Height Progression

His growth pattern is purely based on the typical Australian boy's growth, which tends to be on the shorter spectrum. His height remains the shortest in the group while still reflecting realistic growth stages.

10 years old: 4'6" (137.2 cm)

11 years old: 4'7½" (140 cm)

12 years old: 4'9" (144.8 cm)

13 years old: 4'10½" (148.6 cm)

14 years old: 5'0" (152.4 cm)

15 years old: 5'1" (154.9 cm)

16 years old: 5'2" (157.5 cm)

17 years old: 5'2¼" (158.1 cm)

18 years old: 5'2½" (159 cm)

Growth Pattern

Age 10 to 11: Grew 1½ inches (from 4'6" to 4'7½").

Age 11 to 12: Grew 1½ inches (from 4'7½" to 4'9").

Age 12 to 13: Grew 1½ inches (from 4'9" to 4'10½").

Age 13 to 14: Grew 1½ inches (from 4'10½" to 5'0") – puberty growth begins.

Age 14 to 15: Grew 1 inch (from 5'0" to 5'1") – steady growth continues.

Age 15 to 16: Grew 1 inch (from 5'1" to 5'2") – nearing adult height.

Age 16 to 17: Grew ¼ inch (from 5'2" to 5'2¼") – final stages of growth.

Age 17 to 18:Grew ¼ inch (from 5'2¼" to 5'2½") – height stabilizes.

Abby’s Height Progression

Her growth pattern blends both American and French influences, as she has a mixed lineage. I referenced both regions for a balanced height trajectory, keeping her on the taller side for female characters.

10 years old: 4'10½" (148.6 cm)

11 years old: 5'0½" (153.7 cm)

12 years old: 5'2" (157.5 cm)

13 years old: 5'3" (160 cm)

14 years old: 5'4" (162.6 cm)

15 years old: 5'5" (165.1 cm)

16 years old: 5'5 ½" (166.4 cm)

17 years old: 5'6" (167.6 cm)

18 years old: 5'6" (167.6 cm)

Growth Pattern

Age 10 to 11: Grew 2 inches (from 4'10½" to 5'0½").

Age 11 to 12: Grew 1½ inches (from 5'0½" to 5'2").

Age 12 to 13: Grew 1 inch (from 5'2" to 5'3").

Age 13 to 14: Grew 1 inch (from 5'3" to 5'4") – puberty growth continues steadily.

Age 14 to 15: Grew 1 inch (from 5'4" to 5'5") – nearing final growth phase.

Age 15 to 16: Grew ½ inch (from 5'5" to 5'5½") – growth slowing.

Age 16 to 17: Grew ½ inch (from 5'5½" to 5'6") – final growth.

Age 17 to 18: No growth (remained at 5'6") – height stabilizes.

I based this on both visual references and realistic height patterns for their ages. Of course, this is just my AU interpretation and subject to further tweaks if needed! Let me know what you think

[artsygirl0315]

Teens teens and their dumb shenanigans, Especially these siblings💙

[Finally managed to do their teen designs, Have some Delightful teens taunting Sector V after an argument]

[irlnumbuh4]

[bodriomxx111]

can you draw some Nigel and Kuki duos for them?

[midnight-the-goth-artist]

I actually made these WAY back and completely forgot about them 💀

I was trying to make Sector V alt fashion designs but only got around to making Nigel and Kuki. Nigel is grudge/punk and Kuki is scene!

I wanted time give Nigel more demon features and scars from the delightful incident bc I can❤️‍🔥

And I tried making teen designs!

Only did Abby and Hoagie tho :’)

I sincerely apologize to all Wally lovers, I didn’t realize I didn’t make anything for him at all 😭 I’m gonna try to fix that eventually-

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

Today I asked people to send me pics I can redraw with Sector V 2.0 (because I can't sneakly put them in KND scenes since coffcoff they are from the future, so I had to adapt) and this is the finished result of the lineart I posted and deleted.

A little rant under read more.

Sorry, today was a really heavy day... I got insulted, my art and comics were called "shitty" and "something no one cares about" and it hit hard... it brought me back to times I thought were long gone since people involved are gone for good.

But... here we are. It got me too hard. Idk if I'll do more but if you want, you are free to send a scene you want to see them in. All together or just one or two characters, it's ok (if you wish, you can specify what characters, too).

Adults and Villains can be included. If you sneak a teen in, it might become a Sector V TND member, if it fits.

I already got 3 of them (two of which have the same pic and YES!! I will do it next when I have free time or more than an hour or breathe and people are not calling me names and play victims when I counterattack). And yes, if you sent one and found another good one, send it in too! I will make a separate post for everything!

Anyway... thank you all for your support. This is mostly for you.

I'll be fine. I just need to sleep now.

Enjoy.

[roguephenon]

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Case File: “Cold Reception” closed.

Please report to Kids Next Door Moonbase for soda and ice cream…

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Now loading:

kids next door mission

operation

f.o.l.l.o.w.-.u.p.

Finally.

Overcoming.

Limits.

Looking.

Onward.

Walking.

Uncharted.

Paths.

...and before you go, don't think of this as a goodbye. ...more like a...

(thank you @pinkmeanschaos for the art. It truly means a lot :3)

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