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[hydor-soa]

I could have been such a heart throb if I was a normal celebrity

[hermesseus]

[[ VENGEANCE SAGA SPOILERS ]]

I definitely believe it was Ares who aided Odysseus in Six Hundred Strike because Jorge has said that Ares has a power similar to Athena's quick thought that comes with heightened anger and adrenaline and Odysseus definitely sounds more rageful in the song.

Also I don't think Athena would have suggested torturing a god with his own weapon/symbol, even if Poseidon is her rival.

(I have not read the Odyssey so if the answer is known, yk, I didn't know that)

-- Fin 🍾

[hermes-helpol]

Sitting outside during a storm, watching, listening; enjoying the rain and the lightning and the thunder and thinking of Lord Zeus.

Thinking about his stories; what I know and how much I know I'm oblivious to. Wondering what I can learn from him. Reminding myself to research him later.

Thanking him for the storm. For every drop, every flash; every rumble.

Thunderstorms are something we have always adored both collectively with my system and together with our family/mother. But this one was truly magical because I got to experience it with Lord Zeus in mind.

I love religion 💜.

[definitelynotaweirdo]

[hydor-soa]

Every time you reblog This a TERF has an Amazing day because of an amazing person and when the TERF finds out that amazing person is trans they rethink their values on trans people because they've already decided that person was awesome.

Everytime you reblog this a terf has a bad day

[hydor-coining]

Noticing a lot of old big blogs we used to follow that are now archived or moved. Hypnosiacon, crying-roses, kenochoric... did something happen? Is kenochoric still here and where do we find him?

[ursiday]

You're an angel, I'm a dog

[krazieka2]

Fe3h did not have a beauty pageant sequence, but if it did I'm 99% sure this is how it would go

[hydor-soa]

Normalise these types of resources being used by everyone who can benefit from them, not just those they were initially intended for.

Let genderfluid folks and kinshifters use PluralKit. Hell, my nieta (in-sys) has four proxies for genderfluid reasons. Star they/them, Star/Morty they/he, Star/Morticia they/she and Morty/Star he/they, all with not only different display names, but different avatars as well to properly reflect how they're feeling and show that. And someone else, Decay, has a hypnosiskin proxy, with different name, pronouns and avatar. But they should be able to use that regardless of whether or not they're headmates in a system. Just because they are, there's never any problem with them using PluralKit this way, but before syscovery our old host refrained from using PluralKit for kinshifts and copinglinks even though that would have helped him a lot. Instead he switched base accounts which actually confused people. And you know what, let people use PluralKit and Tupperbox for roleplay. It's not like there's a limited amount of members the bot can have, the developers can and will make more.

Use PluralKit to keep track of information without talking, too. We have 'members' for a copyable text wall of characters and symbols we don't have easy access to away from our mobile, two with a height conversion table from centimetres to feet and inches since such a large percentage of the folks we interact with online use US measurements. We have one to list all of the Picrews we use. We have one with the template for our descriptions, and one with a list of random symbols in what PluralKit considers to be alphabetical order, for group sorting purposes. And in the past we've had ones with lists of our Tumblr blogs, our carrds, our pronouns.pages, our Spotify playlists. This is all fine, because we're a system and we use PluralKit as intended. But let non-systems use PluralKit this way too.

Let people use Simply for non-system related reasons for everything OP said and more. Again, we also use Simply Plural to communicate our boundaries and symptoms, but non-systems should be able to too. Right now ours communicates that I am verbal, we are sick, numb and going through it and to neither flirt nor touch. It would be great to see singlets take advantage of what the app is capable of offering too.

Use pronouns page to list things other than intended. List symptoms, disorders, services you offer, etc. Use it to make a DNI/BYF, get creative.

These things are harmless and I would love to see people be creative in this way more often. Take something old and make it new, make it fit you and what you need. This is how new things are invented. And then, maybe people will see these things being used this way and make something to let you use it the way you've been using it. An app that is meant for telling your friends your symptoms when they come up, a Discord bot that is meant for pulling up pre-saved information with a simple command like info!c "Picrews".

These are not stealing resources. This is not a cisgender cosplayer getting a free binder from a place that issues free binders to young transgender folks who can't procure a paid one themselves. That is an actually limited resource, and that is actually stealing it from the people who need it. Using online resources in unintended ways is not stealing.

Use resources for yourself, you don't need to have been in mind when the resource was made.

– Rick Sánchez-Apache C-137 🧪

yk what?

normalize non systems using simply plural. its a great app! people with physical/mental illnesses can use it to track their symptoms, you can use it to track sleep, genderfluid people can track if they feel femme/masc/nb, you can ADD FRIENDS and they can SEE this stuff and even get notifications about it

people who make ocs can keep track of their ocs, you can literally do all kinds of stuff

but the most important thing is that it will destigmatize the app

now if someone glances over your shoulder and sees simply plural on ur homescreen they cant just assume ur a system. now people who are scared to download the app because of stuff like that can. it will be so cool

–zach

[andthatsp1]

Lestappen wheel to wheel action, but it’s 2011 and they’re in go-karts.

Featuring: a Max & Charles front row, a double-overtake on Esteban Ocon, and Charles being a track terror. Max is 214 with the white helmet and Charles is 267 with the orange one.

[macden]

[hydor-soa]

Watching the Minion movie, it says they all have one goal together to serve the most despicable boss they could find.

@daggo-dead-dove --- Where were the minions in the 1940's?

[hermesseus]

[emry-stars-art]

Reintroducing these two Trojans ❤️💛

[aptericia]

Not proud to be here.

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Ok, here goes draft like 5 of this fucking post. I spent 4 hours tossing and turning in bed last night thinking about this, and then this morning I found a tumblr post that really helped me understand what I was trying to say.

The post talks about how aromantic "advocates" claim that "aros don't take up resources, so there's no reason not to include them!" And if that's actually what people believe, I think I can finally articulate why it is that I feel so alienated in queer spaces.

It's because aspecs in general aren't "welcomed" by much of the queer community. We're tolerated. We perhaps get the luxury of not being contradicted on our own identities, or not being specifically kicked out of LGBTQ-only spaces, but that's the whole point: what we get out of the queer "community" is people NOT doing things, not actually doing things FOR us. And that, frankly, is not enough. We deserve conversations about us. We deserve to have others consider our feelings, even when making lighthearted jokes. We deserve varied, respectful representation in media. We deserve the active deconstruction of amatonormativity in society. We deserve to have space made for us, rather than at most being told we should "go take up more space!" ourselves.

Of course, the reality is that my being aspec is a personal matter that does not inherently affect anyone else. But the same can be said for literally any queer identity. Your being gay doesn't say anything about me, so of course I shouldn't hurt you for it, but why should I help you either? Because your happiness and comfort are important. The same goes for aspecs.

And most of the time, I don't even need anyone to make space for or expend resources on me; I can live fine in everyday, non-queer-specific places without mentioning my identity at all. But it's the queer community that claims it will make that space for me, doesn't, and then acts defensive and morally pure if I call out the hypocrisy because "we're queer too, you can't erase our identities to advocate for yours!!!!"

Again, this post isn't about specifics. I have queer friends who are incredibly thoughtful and supportive about my identity, just as I have non-queer friends who are. I find more solidarity in aspec-only communities, as well as trans/genderqueer ones, although there are still many exceptions. This post is also not about amatonormative ideology, which is extremely common from queer and non-queer people alike. This post is about the reason I've felt so betrayed by the queer community.

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On a personal note, I remember being so excited when I started identifying as aromantic (and later asexual). Fitting myself into labels has been a lifelong struggle for me; to this day I still can't confidently say if I'm White or PoC, neurotypical or neurodivergent, abled or disabled, cisgender or not cisgender. I continue to struggle making friends because I don't fall into social cliques. To discover that I officially, certainly, was LGBTQ+ lifted a huge weight off my shoulders. And now I'm just so sad to find that despite that, I'm still stuck in the middle. I didn't get rewarded with a community. I still feel alienated from both queer and non-queer people. I know it was silly to get my hopes up when there's such vast diversity in both groups, but it really was a disappointment. Going to my first Pride parade last year was really the moment where I realized this.

[meii-jasmine]

We stan Filipino Miku! 🇵🇭

She has her own Mikutoda tricycle, eating kwek kwek before the rush hour