off-fedi subtoot
"this word means this!" is not a description of your experiences, it's an assertion. if other people have seen it used a different way, that's not denying your lived experience, that's sharing their own as a counterexample.
for fuck's sake y'all, your experiences are not universal, and other people having different experiences does not invalidate yours.
advice/personal experiences with feeling drained
@Lioness i don't know if there's a way to increase your recharge rate for the type of work that you are doing / energy which has been lost
but what i AM able to do (to stave off the depression, which will otherwise slow everything down) is engage myself in other activities (maybe after a day of rest) which use different kinds of energy (not the emotional kind which is drained)
this might be playing games or watching anime, it might be listening to light music, it might be going someplace (which if you have the ability to just like, go to a coffeeshop and chill, i recommend it), it probably involves a lot of sitting and staring off into space with a coffee or tea
the idea is just to stay vertical so that your mind+body doesn't completely shut down while waiting for the parts of you that are drained to recover
then when they DO come back you can jump right back into what you were doing instead of having to build up stamina all over again
good: using y'all to refer to a group of people
better: using y'all to refer to a plural system
best: using all y'all to refer to several plural aystems
someone on twitter (@HECKSCAPER) made a redesigned polyamorous flag and it looks so much better than the current one
also her website is amazing https://heckscaper.com
**i have updated this post with the developer’s correct name** Hey just found out about this cool app called Emergency Chat! It’s on App Store and google play, and is made specifically for when you’ve gone into a nonverbal anxiety attack. It was made by Seph “Persephone” De Busser, an autistic computer science student. You just open it, hand someone your phone, it shows this cool message and then you can communicate via the chat. It’s like texting kinda but you’re both on the same phone. Super handy, right? You can even customize the alert message. Download it if you think it’d be helpful 😊
microfiction
it took a long time to figure out what she liked best. everyone had preferences after all, so you tended to play with your form until you found one that made them extra comfortable
some preferred a strong being to protect them, it seemed, and some preferred something less threatening
with her, it always seemed she liked whatever form you shapeshifted into next more than the last, even when you repeated forms
it took a month or two to realize she just liked seeing all the parts of you she was allowed to see
"your path is right" affirmation
There's no "right way" to be plural, or trans, or kin. Sometimes what you do looks very similar to what other people do. Sometimes it's entirely different. Sometimes it changes over time
Emulating what you see to decide what parts work, forging your own path, and adapting as you go are all commendable ways of discovering your interpretation
Hi! I'm gay. They/them. Transfem.
Follow requests / mentions welcome.