plural exclusionism and racism, prejudice against spirituality, syscourse
Their words:
"I think everyone's centered in their own reality, you know. I think part of the thing that's a problem, really, in the world today is this inability to acknowledge multiple realities, and this insistence that there has to be one dominant reality, and everything that falls outside that reality is false and untrue. And that's how colonialism worked in great part — people came in and enforced a reality and said, "Well, if you believe in anything else, if you believe in your indigenous deities, if you believe in these spiritual entities, then you're ignorant and you're backwards, and it's only because you haven't been educated by the West." And you know, there's this [thought that] everything that is outside the dominant reality becomes something that's pathological.
And with my work, I'm not really interested in trying to convince anyone to shift their center, I'm just refusing to shift mine."
plural exclusionism and racism, prejudice against spirituality, syscourse
{P} today, I saw a (diagnosed, to boot!) system get mocked and told they weren't a Real System because of their animistic spirituality, which influenced how they experienced their plurality
(to quote: "just because you believe in fairy tales doesn't mean we all do")
and all I could think of were the words of Akwaeke Emezi, who conceptualized their more-than-oneness through the lens of Nigerian spirituality
mtg
further friendly reminder that you can combo this with lich's mastery to make yourself triple immortal (the game ends in a draw)
@FirstProgenitor yell heah i love being able to play magic with people who don't have literal tonnes of deckbuilding experience
If you're trans or nonbinary and intentionally use the wrong pronouns for people you dislike, congrats, you're fucking transphobic.
There is no difference between a trans and a cis person doing the misgendering, except maybe that it hurts even more coming from a fellow trans person, because you really ought to know better.
i just half-watched the first episode of Eureka Seven and all i can think is 'okay, but why does this have to be het, why can't i have a mysterious ethereal robot girl crash-land into the life of another girl who eventually falls in love with her'
@FirstProgenitor feeling?? attacked???
nsfw
listen, not to be a bottom here, but if a vampire invited me to her giant home with innuendos that suggested her intent was to drink my blood, i would simply say yes
@Terrana frankly kai just started doing it because pressing the button is effort i don't really want to put in. i capitalise things fine when i'm writing by hand (and probably would online too if it weren't for the marginally more effort involved)
@Lumb @unascribed @Terrana somewhat relatedly, that one shitpost that's like "LOWER CASE LETTERS ARE FOR THE LOWER CLASS" / "and here we see a capitalist"
trans..... meta, maybe ?
it's almost like the part of being trans that makes other people uncomfortable isn't identifying with a different gender, it's violating someone's expectations of what gendered behavior they think u should be performing
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own