**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
Talking about pronouns from a linguistics point of view
A lot of people try to pull some kind of "but that's not actually how it works in the language" shit at people regarding pronoun usage.
First off, they/them has been used in obviative singular contexts for centuries, expanding that to plain singular usage is an absolutely normal and unproblematic evolution, stop trying to say it isn't.
With neopronouns, there's an even *cooler* linguistic shift going on.
Every part of speech is said to either be "Closed", meaning it consists of a set, unchangeable set of words, or "Open", where any word can be added to it given correct context, adfixes.etc
Traditionally for English, and most languages, pronouns are a Closed class.
Neopronouns represent a very interesting shift towards making pronouns an Open class.
It's fucking amazing from a linguistics point of view and anyone trying to tell you it's wrong or invalid needs to shut up!
swing by the post office on my way back from the grocery store? no problem
manage chronic mental illness with sleep, diet, and exercise? okay Karen, I’ll do that next time I’m literally made out of rocket fuel
re: cyberpunk plural superhero concept, PG for peril and action sequences //
imagining their origin adventure as like,
they're in a session with a well-intentioned, but kinda oblivious therapist. suddenly a jet engine or s/t falls into the building; they grab his hand and leap out the window just before it explodes. They hit the ground running and don't look back, system protector absolutely focused on getting them to safety as the rest of the plane crashes down around them.
Therapist is like, "holy shit there's so many of you, you're full of stars, how do you function, I don't --" and The Snarky One like, "six isn't that many, really, also why are you choosing just now to notice and not any of the times we changed voice/posture/affect in front of you??"
and then they realize they left the therapist's body behind by the office building…
and! it turns out the therapist used to be a sidekick for a superhero; he retired & found a safer way to help people when she died in the line of duty… but he still knows the access codes to her underground base, stash of tech & spare costumes intact…
cyberpunk plural superhero concept //
superhero who (as a last ditch effort) can rescue people by uploading them into their own personality matrix. (either because the person's body is about to die, or they need an untraceable body switch to escape what's chasing then.)
Most of the rescues are offloaded in short order -- to new bodies, or a digital existence -- but every now and then one decides to stick around, adding their own skills and experiences to the struggle to save humanity.
your utility to society has absolutely nothing to do with your intrinsic value as a human being
Hi! I'm gay. They/them. Transfem.
Follow requests / mentions welcome.