“We need more unapologetically weird people!!” You fuckers can’t even handle fictionkin

choosing to allocate spoons to hanging out and having a good time at the cost of perfectly completing all your work is not a failing it is in fact an act of survival. “too sick to work = too sick to play” is in fact ableist bullshit that you don’t have to buy into. and the fact that leisure time is treated like a privilege is a fucking travesty

Why are so many of you so comfortable with attacking complete strangers on the internet

If you wouldn't approach a random stranger on the street and say those kinds of things to them, but you feel completely comfortable saying those kinds of things to a perfect stranger on the internet (behind the safety of a screen free of consequences for your words), maybe you need to take a good long look in the mirror and revaluate your life.

If the only thing stopping you from verbally attacking strangers or just being unnecessarily mean is the threat of consequences, and not the fact that they are another human being with feelings, then perhaps you should consider why that is and what that says about you.

being turned into a dragon as a punishment is so inherently funny. we’re sentencing you to become a beautiful magical creature that can live indefinitely and breathe fire and kill men with your bite. oh nooooooooo. anything but thattttttt. bad news, I’m a reptile. good news, I no longer have to pay my tithe to the church.

banging my head on the wall BEGGING people on the internet to learn what an Inside Thought is. like you do not need to express every nasty opinion you have, and if you do so publicly, you gotta accept that people are gonna get mad at you for saying shit like "i find gay men repulsive". social media is not your private diary, it is public. there are consequences for saying terrible things, such as thousands of people thinking you're an asshole.

PLEASE learn what an inside thought is. you do not need to share everything that goes through your head. you shouldn't.

once you say something out loud people can hear it and respond. if what you say out loud insults them, they will also get mad at you. the nice thing about inside thoughts is when you don't say insulting things out loud to people, they don't get mad at you.

you have every right to say mean stupid bullshit that pisses people off, but if you don't want to deal with the consequences of that, consider learning some fuckin restraint.

this is why journaling and/or talking to yourself is such a useful tool. you can even make a post and leave it in drafts! it's healthy to get those thoughts out of your brain, but it's important to keep to an appropriate context.

It’s weird that we keep trying to armchair diagnose asshole behaviour with mental health labels and in doing so throw people with mental health conditions under the asshole bus when we could just call a guy an asshole and leave it at that

It just seems far more straightforward, you know

Like yeah I know it’s wild but having narcissistic personality disorder or low empathy isn’t actually worse than or equal to being a straight up asshole, it’s like your choices and actions dictate who you are more than the qualities you’re born with or something

"I want to be a dragon."

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How old were you at the lowest point in your life? Reblog this and put it in the tags, plus your current age maybe. I'm trying to see something.

Othercon 2025 artist and panelist submission forms!

Deadline: June 1st, 2025

Information Q&A

Q: When is Othercon? A: Othercon always takes place on the 2nd weekend of August, which means that this year the dates are August 8th - 10th (Eastern US timezone) Q: Will there be movie/episode screenings on the schedule this year? A: Movies are handled by the panelists as of 2024, so for movies/episodes to be available it has to be submitted as a panel by someone willing to stream it.

Q: Where are the staff applications? A: For more accurate availability guesses, volunteer staff applications will open closer to the con on June 1st.

Q: How will I know if my panel(s) got accepted? A: Confirmations will be sent out sometime in mid-to-late June after applications close.

Links

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On the wings of evening ~

i should post more here about how being plural complicates gender extremely badly because i think we got a bunch of followers who would burn us at the stake for this sinful experience and the rent needs to be lowered

*backyard gunshots* sometimes hegemonic constructs such as gender assignment and enforcement are contextual and plural systems often experience this with an intensity that singlets do not as often

sometimes the state and the clinic and other structures enforce different genders at different times/in different contexts and this relates to how you understand and present yourself in those contexts

sometimes systems are trans in both directions

sometimes system members have more materially in common with trans people of their gender than cis people of their gender even when their gender matches the thing that was printed on their original birth certificate

and sometimes alterhumanity supersedes gender in terms of interactions with hegemonic institutions and the violence and dehumanization someone faces can't be understood through the lens of gendered violence at all

I know that being a system means you're rather different from other parts inside, but that doesn't mean you can't share the same traits or habits:

Some systems don't have distinctive handwritings that can be distinguished from one to another

Some systems don't have a jarring difference when it comes to using clothes or style of fashion

Some systems don't have a separate accent from one another, they all speak the same, and use similar words

Some systems don't have varying amounts of skills or proficiency, they all have it evenly the same throughout, not lesser nor better than others

Some systems don't have their specific disorder affecting just one alter, it affects everyone collectively too

Some systems don't have opposing opinions or ideas from each other, they all share similar life views and perception

Systems being different is true to an extent, but since multiple alters share one brain, it's common to find overlapping qualities among them as well.

What other kinds of traits do you all similarly have, or could be indistinguishable among systems? Join in and share them here!

- j

As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

Applies to everything from BDSM parties to your sister’s godawful interior design choices to weird bachelor pad meals eaten over a sink.

Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.