sparrow roguetelepaths — ey/em or they/them - read my DS9 postcanon fic where Odo adopts a Vorta daughter
used to be enbygesserit, follows from helplessnessxblues
old enough to remember when neopets breakfast cereal was a thing
aroace to a terrifying degree. not the cool kind that writes smut and passes out water bottles at the orgy, either. sorry
intersex (nCAH) (diagnosed professionally at 15) and currently working through medical trauma and neglect related to that
no gender we die like [tv static]
psychospiritually nonhuman, but I don’t talk about it here — DM me if you want to know where I do
vaguely anarchist & emphatically against all forms of punishment as foundations for interpersonal relationships
on bluesky! @justiceforlyta.bsky.social
I also have a more serious™ blog off of tumblr, you can find it here
psychiatric survivor and ex-patient. madpunk, psychpunk, neurodivergent in the original radical anti-pathologization meaning of the term. the social model isn’t ableist you guys are just willfully misinterpreting it
on team “believe others about their subjective experiences”. yes, this includes that subjective experience you’re about to send me anon hate telling me is absolutely just kids roleplaying for attention. wishing medicalists of all kinds a very merry go fuck yourselves. yes this includes sysmeds, what part of believe others about their subjective experiences don’t you understand
my stance on proship/anti discourse can be summed up as “fiction may not literally be reality but it also can’t be separated from the context of reality and it’s good to foster an environment where that context can be openly talked about” and “freedom of fiction doesn’t really exist without freedom of response” and “dislike and disgust are not indicators of morality but they also shouldn’t be ignored or repressed, especially since they can teach you useful things about yourself” and “criticize ideas and works, not people” — some people call this neutralship but I’ve been known to describe myself as a pro-disliker or a pro-critic. that being said if I see you shipping weyoun and odo in a romantic/sexual way I will block you so hard and fast that your ancestors will feel it. same goes with snowbaird. I am a tolerant person but I do not want those things in my space
other important stances: occupied peoples have the right to armed resistance. the pandemic never ended, we just all stopped talking about it. all trans people face unique oppression based on their identity and positionality within society, and all trans people have common struggles.
update to unreality tag policy: I will be tagging things that usually get tagged as unreality as #surrealism going forward. this is a compromise to respect both my personal belief in the multilayered nature of reality and the needs of vulnerable people to be protected from content that doesn’t align with shared reality. please block #surrealism if you have #unreality blocked.
fandoms you can expect to see (I care about themes and analysis over shipping, and when I do ship, it’s always an extension of the themes I want to explore, so be prepared for me to be a pretentious piece of shit about all of these):
- DS9 (especially the Dominion) (I have a discord server for this)
- Babylon 5 (mostly telepaths but not exclusively. NOT a psi corps apologist in any way, just a season 5 telepath commune arc liker, which is almost as bad to some)
- Dune
- Severance
- The Hunger Games & related media
- Cult of the Lamb
non-media interests (may or may not post about these, honestly, it’s anyone’s guess, but feel free to tag me in these):
- fucked up unethical pseudoscientific social experiments, the more fucked up unethical and pseudoscientific the better
- relationship anarchy
- aroace, trans, and intersex issues
- disability rights, psychiatry criticism, and cognitive liberty
- community building
- apartment solarpunk
- Scouting and related youth organizations
- worldbuilding and writing advice
- Heathenry and Norse mythology (though that’s more likely to go on @heathen-starspawn)
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Why would anyone trust First Felon?
Anne and Christopher Rice's (her son's) deranged Twitter interactions over the years
One of the funniest ways older Star Trek shows its age is when they beam down to some lush utopian planet and it is. A golf course.
Yes, run your tricorders over this unspoiled frontier. Just offscreen alien velociraptors are mowing Eden with their scythe-shaped claws, and they also have a fervent religious objection to any broadleaf plants (which they enforce by shooting industrial-strength weedkiller out of their mouths).
what's fun about the trickster in sja is that for all he claims to love chaos, what he actually poses is the threat of normality. sarah is weird. both as a person, and for someone of her age - she skipped all the typical milestones of adulthood; she never married, never had kids, you get the idea. what does the trickster present her with? an alternate version of reality where her life is normal. in whatever happened to sarah jane?, sarah is literally replaced by a woman who lives in her house but acts far more like what you'd expect from a woman her age. in the temptation of sarah jane smith, sarah is presented with the opportunity to replace her childhood as an orphan raised by her aunt with a childhood raised by her parents. the wedding of sarah jane smith speaks for itself - an opportunity to replace a life spent perennially single with marriage. crucially, each of these occasions is a path to certain destruction - course correcting her life to be normal will literally destroy the world. the trickster is an outside force threatening to impose social expectations on sarah's life; it is perhaps telling that it is otherworldly forces, in particular the doctor - long a symbol of nonconformity and weirdness - that counteract and ward off the trickster. the trickster is tempting because he offers what seems like a better life. but equally, the trickster only has power over reality if you let him.
#also something something true destructive chaos coming from being forced into social expectations #that girl is so autistic
conformity may be tempting but it will literally ruin your life and also possibly send you to the weird white void of nonexistence
do you ever just suddenly feel the weight of more years of exhaustion than you’ve been alive
#yeah except i lived through it #i may have been a kid but 2000 was traumatizing
i regret to inform you that this was george h.w. bush, 1988
'netizen' cutest word for internet user. It's the net and we're living here together ....
“People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of coffee tables and dashboard Virgin Marys that glowed in the dark. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.”
— Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No 1 (via elesheva)
the way outiemark says “ms. cobel says you like someone down there :)” with that little smile like he’s talking to his 7 y/o son whose teacher said he has a crush on his classmate. didn’t even bother to remember her name because it is so frivolous and insignificant to him