Χίμαιρα corvids @autistikai@computerfairi.es

I am too tired and sick to go into the full breadth of my thoughts, but speaking as a member of a bodily-PoC system who is becoming ever more weary of Westernization... please remember that DID, OSDD, the clinical, trauma-centric model of plurality, and to an extent, the rest of psychiatry

all of these are concepts largely created and dominated by white Westerners.

meanwhile, there are many non-white, non-Western cultures with their own concepts of manyness - many of which have been overwritten by the advance of "Western thought"

this does not mean that the clinical concepts are invalid or useless, or that people are bad for finding them helpful. but please be aware of what it implies, to claim that they can be the Only explanation (and that everyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant, malicious, fake, uneducated... "believing in fairytales.")

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."

{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

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.

what's up everybody I think spiders should vote

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'

Idea: nonbinary enby.

what the fuck is a computer

you are in her dms, i am in her victorian manor with a low cut dress exposing my neck hoping she will bite me and turn me into a vampire too, we are not the same

Me listening to American Pie at age 11: Ok, I like this song. The chorus is fun to sing along to.
Age 16: Whoa… the day the music died… that's deep, man.
Age 24: This song is about revolution and Marxists fighting Satan. It is the best song ever written.

it's so funny how much of the organizer training was just teaching a bunch of communists and anarchists to fucking talk normal