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DULDUNSTIYN

Dull + dunst (German, haze) + iyn

A gender that is small, hazy, dull, and feels like something withering away. It may also feel somewhat aloof and lifeless.

IDs

FIRST IMAGE - [ID: A four-striped monochromatic flag with a slight static-y texture, similar to a TV screen. From top to bottom, the colours are: Dark greyish brown, dark grey, concrete grey with a tinge of green, light greenish grey. In the middle, there is a swirl which all stripes merge to create. END ID]

SECOND IMAGE -  [ID: A four-striped monochromatic flag. From top to bottom, the colours are: Dark brown, dark grey, concrete grey with a tinge of green, light greenish grey.]

Flag Colour Meanings

Dark brown - Grime and or dirt, decomposition

Dark grey - Clumps of dust

Concrete grey with tinge of green - Dread, stillness, lifelessness

Light greenish grey - Particulates and fog/mist

Misc.

Coined by one, for no one. Anyone is allowed to use this term.

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MONDSTRAPUERIC

Mond (German, moon) + astra (Latin, star/constellation) + puer (Latin, boy) + ic

A gender related to the moon, being a boy, how someone’s boyness may shift similarly or comparatively to the moon's cycle, as well as twinkle, shine, and or burn more or less intensely, or burn so much for a period of time that it fades out, and stars. It also may or may not be connected to comets, depending on the entity and how they use the term.

IDs

FIRST IMAGE - [ID: A four-striped pastel coloured flag. From top to bottom, the colours are: Purple, blue, light blue, and baby blue. The first and fourth stripes are wavy, and not completely a straight stripe. Along with this, a crescent moon emblem sits in the middle, slightly to the left. In the middle of the moon is a comet with the boy symbol within it. Two sets of three yellow stars sit in both the bottom left and top right corners. In the middle of the flag are small white stars, dots, and twinkles. END ID]

SECOND IMAGE -  [ID: A four-striped pastel coloured flag. From top to bottom, the colours are: Purple, blue, light blue, and baby blue. The first and fourth stripes are wavy, and not completely a straight stripe. END ID]

One is not the best with IDs, so one apologises—but one makes an effort to try!

Flag Colour Meanings

Shades of blue represent fluctuating intensity as well as stars. Purple represents fading/burning out for a certain period of time, and remnants (think of a black dwarf!)

Misc.

One hopes this is alright! this is one’s first ever coining post. Coined by one, for one! Anyone is allowed to use this term. [EDIT:] Slightly edited for clarification reasons + inclusitivity (changed person to entity). If anyone has questions, feel free to ask!

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ayo i found 2 pages with head angles of humans and animals, could be useful to anyone reading this

hoomans

animals

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[ID: Series of Tweets by Hogan @Hogan698 “American tank mechanic here. Some advice. Tanks are bad at urban combat. They need infantry support. Without boots on ground they're just big targets with poor visibility. Rifles should aim for the periscopes, but most importantly the sight unit on top of the turret. Take down street signs. Don't let the enemy know where they are. Move signs to the wrong streets. Tanks are super heavy, so try to direct them to streets that can't hold their weight. They can't move if they break through to the sewer. Break the tracks if you have explosives. Tracks are also terrible for catching stuff like barbed wire/concertina wire. Line the streets with anything that can get sucked in and tangle up. The engine needs to breathe, so throw your molotov cocktails at whatever looks like an intake for the engine. It has rubber belts, hoses, and fuel lines. Tanks are a logistical nightmare. They need a supply chain a mile long for service parts, and especially fuel. They can usually only go about 300 miles on improved roads on one tank of fuel. Stop the supply line, and a tank is just a giant pile of useless iron. Visibility is rather poor from an armored vehicle. If you paint dinner plates to look like mines and set them upsode down in the street, the tank crew won't be able to tell if they're real or not. The U.S. ARMY likes to fight at night because we have thermal imagers. Thermal picks up heat, so you can not hide behind a bush, but anything that is ambient temperature just looks like a black square. They can't see through windows because the glass is ambient. Cut up cardboard boxes and put them everywhere. The cardboard is the same temperature as the environment. Hiding behind anything that obscures vision only works if they don't have thermal. Sheets of cardboard in every bush, tree, etc. Will just be a square in a thermal imager. Set them up everywhere as distractions. Make a chaos terrain for the enemy.”]

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one feels slightly guilty abt this, albeit it was an accident tho one needs to write it out anyway if one has accidentally broken your dni, please let one know one usually tries one’s best to check dnis, but sometimes one may miss something or accidentally click the like button on mobile. so, if one has, one sincerely apologises one usually always removes likes if one notices, but one knows it says in notifs either way one is super sorry to anyone that this has happened to

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// rant, click read more to view. one curses a bit

ppl against xenogenders need to maybe just occupy their time with something else. one hates to say it, but if you are seriously getting pissed at fucking genders you need. you need to do something else. you need to figure out why you feel so threatened by genders that diverge from your expectations, you need to figure out why you feel this way instead of pitting the blame against your own community that you think that you’re��““protecting”” by bashing and making fun of xenogenders

alternatively: just don’t look! seriously! one hates to fucking say that line, one really does, but... if you are seriously getting mad at xenogenders? one’s sorry. don’t fucking look. “b... but its harmful!!!!!” no, what the hell are you on about??? yeah ok, playing and completely dismantling the idea of the social construct of gender is absolutely harmful yep makes total sense /s

telling people to hurt themselves (because of how they identify), to not express themselves how they want to, to not allow them to be themselves, is much more harmful than whatever the hell youre on about you are repressing their entire being. you are rejecting their feelings, you are rejecting their entire core you are causing internalised hatred for an individual are there harmful things? of course! but do you know who makes those harmful things? trolls. trolls fucking do. when something is harmful, it is condemned by the ENTIRE COMMUNITY. remember that “superstraight” bullshit? yeah. everyone condemned that shit because it WAS harmful. either way though, if youre mad at xeno users, make fun of ‘em, or anything like that, kindly fuck off as one has a whole bunch of xenogenders! start crying, boo hoo waah

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(1) Hello everyone. I'm from Ukraine. Please help spread the information about African and Nigerian students in Ukraine. #AfricansinUkraine

I read from @ nzekiev on twitter that the day before yesterday it was very hard for Africans to get on any train in Kyiv, they were letting them in the last, many managed to get in only coz they started pushing African women into the train so they had to allow everyone in. Before that if they managed to get on the train they were sent back outside with the phrase "Ukrainians first", but nobody was checking anyone's passports.

Today, February 27, he says the Ukrainian soldiers at the Polish border were holding them at gunpoint if they crossed the border before Ukrainians. These are students, they can't be fighting this war!!! Other people of color share on twitter that it's harder for them to cross the border, a Nigerian medical student told @ stephheharty they were told Ukrainians go first and were sent to the back of the queue by Ukrainian soldiers on Polish border.

@ Damilare_arah shared a video where Ukrainian soldiers block Africans from getting on trains. (https://twitter.com/Damilare_arah/status/1497654141350522880?t=rkNx-B9TffKopCRtfgZodA&s=19)

I can't figure out how to download videos from Twitter so I'm attaching screenshots. (https://twitter.com/Damilare_arah/status/1497855205098106880?t=gi_dUgx8nFI36KqlH-CeEA&s=19) (https://twitter.com/nzekiev/status/1497805019311218689?t=hz-3gS0hFxwAZQddLZI85w&s=19)

We must help. They can't be denied shelter while every other white Ukrainian gets to cross the border right before their eyes. @ chylady and @ Damilare_arah share all the important information for Africans and Nigerians on where to find help and also donations.

@ korrinesky is actively sharing all the information. This thread increases to this day and time https://twitter.com/korrinesky/status/1496770898019303427?t=oheEMMWK2KecFzPFWb05iA&s=19

They also have a Telegram chat for African and Caribbean students who are in Lviv but I can't seem to be able to copy the link directly so I'm sending the link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/korrinesky/status/1497661192038453251?t=1bzZxfWvu-zf-zQhFk4BMw&s=19

Use the hashtag #AfricansinUkraine and mentions @UN @RedCross @UNESCO @wateraid @amnesty @gatesfoundation @FordFoundation @ActionAid @Oxfam on twitter.

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kind of got invalidated on reddit (r/lgbt, out of all fucking places) for having xenogenders, one would appreciate some kind words maybe if possible

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How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

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I've been thinking about that post I shared the other night about how genderqueer is a misunderstood and ignored identity...and the reason really is the queerphobia.

There are, and have been for as long as I've been active in the community, people who are very against the existence of genderqueer as an umbrella term.

Genderqueer used to be the most common umbrella term for gender identities outside of the binary and for all forms of gender nonconformity. It's on this website that I really watched that change, and it changed because of people who were anti-queer and who didn't want to be associated with queerness.

I was reminded of this not too long ago, when I went searching for the original post where the first nonbinary flag was created. The nonbinary flag was created in February 2014, and I made this blog during that same week as a response to the anti-queer attitudes on this website around that time.

The nonbinary flag was created by a person who was against genderqueer as the umbrella term, because genderqueer was too "political" and contains a "slur".

The flag creator went so far as to claim that it was a "myth" that genderqueer was ever an umbrella term.

No, really: here's the post. (And for those who have never seen it, here is the original nonbinary flag post.)

Queerphobia is the reason that genderqueer identity is ignored and misunderstood. That, and the fact that most people are completely unaware of the history and origin of the term.

And it's kind of bizarre, because it's recent-in-my-life-time-history and I'm not even 30.

Genderqueer was coined in the 90s, and the person who coined the term is still alive and has a twitter account and blogs??

GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary was published almost 20 years ago. (And is now in re-print, so one no longer has to hunt down a used copy anymore!!)

And yet the general attitude is that genderqueer is a new invention. And the same folks seem to believe that the reclamation of queer is a brand new idea and not a deliberate action that has already been taken by countless queer people for decades.

Genderqueer does function as a specific gender identity label, and it is one of the many labels I use for myself. This isn't the original usage of the term, but one that has developed since it's creation.

Genderqueer is an umbrella term, a very large umbrella term, and this is by design; it is intended to encompass every form of transness, every kind of gender nonconformity, every complex and creative gender identity, and every queer experience of marginalization based upon gender and sex.

The definitions that I see attributed to the word genderqueer are usually far more narrow than that, including simplified definitions that I myself have given the word so that it would be easier for others to understand; the way that the term is used today is not how it used to be used, which is kind of disappointing actually. No other word that we have functions in that way, as a broad and proud banner for all queer people who are marginalized because of gender and sex.

Perhaps the broad inclusiveness of the term is why it's grown so unpopular.

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Yo can I run something by you? You seem to be older than me and more knowledgeable about the LGBT community in general and I've been seeing something on one of the stim blogs I follow about mspec lesbians/gays being harmful? Do you know what that means? As far as I know, that term is something related to the split attraction model so I don't really understand how, for example, a biromantic lesbian could be harmful just by existing

Like it feels very cruel to me, and I'm thinking of unfollowing them, but I'd like to have a better understanding of things first

It's just the latest brand of exclusionist (and, subsequently, radfem) bullshit; same motives, different targets.

The idea is that because lesbians are often preyed upon by straight men who want to "convert" them, lesbians who both identify as lesbians, and might willingly become involved with straight men "set a bad precedent" or some such bullshit. The reality, of course, is that lesbophobic straight men will be lesbophobic regardless of what lesbians do or how they identify, and lesbophobia is never the fault of lesbians themselves. It's victim-blaming, and it's lesbophobic to imply as much.

It's rooted heavily in radfem rhetoric as well; gold star lesbianism, political lesbianism, and lesbian separatism play heavily into these beliefs, with the idea being that lesbians are the Purest and also Most Oppressed group because of their separation from men (who are Dirty and Corrupted). Radfems- and people who fall for their rhetoric without necessarily calling themselves as much- believe m-spec lesbians are "dangerous" or "illegitimate" because of their involvement (or potential involvement) with men.

The ideas are incredibly transmisogynistic as well; for the fact that it feeds into radfem rhetoric & gender-essentialism, as well as inherently transmisogynistic ideologies like lesbian separatism and gold star lesbianism; for the view of being "male-adjacent" as "dirtying" (how must they view butch trans women, non-passing trans women, nonbinary transfems with connections to manhood, closeted transfems...?)

And because it doesn't allow any room for the complicated relationships transfems often have with gender and orientation. It requires them to give up all connection to manhood and masculinity, to erase their histories as people who may have once felt they were, identified as, or been men (depending on their personal feelings about their gender), and to conform to a type of womanhood that makes cis women comfortable in order to be seen as "legitimate" women/lesbians.

And that's without getting into the other issues with m-spec lesbian exclusionism. What about lesbians with nonbinary- and especially genderfluid- partners, who may feel dysphoric with partners who identify solely as lesbians? What about nonbinary- and especially genderfluid- lesbians, who may feel dysphoric identifying solely as lesbians or m-spec?

Not to mention that there are even more legitimate reasons to identify that way: maybe you're technically m-spec, but by choice or by chance happen to lean strongly toward lesbian relationships. Maybe you've identified as a lesbian for so long, become such a part of the community, that a newly-discovered m-spec identity is not enough to make you willing to leave that identity and community. Maybe you're a system, or part of a system, and explaining your identity as either "m-spec" or "lesbian" just doesn't make sense in that context. Maybe it's a split-attraction thing, or maybe it's a preference thing, or maybe it's something else.

Queer people identifying in ways that make sense to them will never, ever be the reason queerphobia exists. Queer people are not to blame for our own oppression. And the entire point of our community, and our cause, is to allow queer people to identify in the ways that make sense and feel good for them.

Creating more rigid binaries and boxes with rigid, palatable-to-cis-&-straight-people labels will not liberate us; it only adjusts our current systems of oppression to allow a few more people a bit more useless respectability.

** I talk predominately about lesbians here because the discourse originated with lesbians, as a TERF and radfem argument against queer and trans people. The inclusion of m-spec gay men in the argument came later, and was mostly an optics thing. These arguments are largely being made by feminist and cis lesbian communities, even wrt gay men.

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please one feels so bad so dumb everything everything why can't one be normal all one did was add tone indicators to a comment one made one made it clear it was good intentioned but one added indicators because educators would say what one said but not actually mean it/say it in a bad way one tried to make it as clear as one could in a post but added them just in case fuck fuck fuck why is one bad at everything why can't one do anything right fuck

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ones friend wanted one to make a maverique pride heart emoji so here it is! a lot better than ones other crusty emojis one thinks HAA it is bigger too! will also make a maverique discord flag emoji if requested (one will edit it to this post, just let one know and one will make it) [ID: A maverique pride heart emoji with two sparkles. One sparkle is on the top left half, whilst the other is on the bottom right. END ID]

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cheez-its go by it/its pronouns. it wanted to let you know so it decided to put it in its name so you know that it goes by it/its please respect and validate its pronouns. never misgender anyone. misgendering people is not cool and is cringe!

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made a pomosexual discord flag emote, feel free to use! one made it for oneself cause one was bored and was like “oh one thinks others will like this too” so yeah EDIT: added heart discord emoji by request

[ID: A Discord emoji flag. The flag is the pomosexual flag. The colours, from top to bottom, are as follows: pink, light pink, white, purple, white, light pink, pink. END ID]

[ID: A Discord pride heart emoji. It contains the pomosexual flag colours. Along with that, it has two sparkles on it. One sparkle is in the top left corner, while the other sparkle is in the bottom right. END ID]

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cw /// vent ? sorry one is scared one is too tired to rewrite all of this so one is just going to copy and paste from where one wrote it but one might fix/add minor stuff one is rlly scared but at the same time one just wants to be in a community with others like one but again one is scared so one doesnt know what to do. all one knows is that one is non human and one wants to be with other otherkin but its like what if one is wrong or fake?? one knows every experience is different but one feels one has to be binded to one specific definition sometimes because of people one worries about this all the time its not funny its scary one is scared this happens constantly with one when one tries to find labels sometimes and one wishes that one could remember things but one cant. one remembers one time when one was on the school bus recently one saw clouds that resembled a forest and a waterfall one had a connection thing one isnt sure why isnt sure how but one thinks thats where one is supposed to be maybe but one feels ashamed because one doesnt know much about their species so maybe that just makes one more fake and one keeps worrying and worrying abt it and one doesnt know what to do and everytime one tries to join a community most of the time people get mad at one last time one got into a good faith id argument (relating to lgbtq+) and one was sent so many links that one didnt understand so one  freaked out and one hyperventilated because of it and at the end the person just went "hope you understand it better now and why this is wrong 😇 even tho you just said you didnt understand multiple times so im going to stress you out more" one shouldnt be crying over this but one isnt sure anymore sorry if ones pronouns bothers you one doesnt mean to make you upset one doesnt want to make anyone upset one doesnt want to hurt anyone one is sorry if this clogs up tags one isnt sure where else to go though