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@maxknightley / maxknightley.tumblr.com

My name's Maxie. amab nonbinary, 29, autistic. She/they. Anti-capitalism, anti-military, anti-cop. I make music and games, and I play a shitty little AI on a podcast.
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newtypenea asked:

Hey maxie. Where should I start with Eidolon Playtest? Start at the start kind of podcast or is there a better place?

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Eidolon Playtest consists of three major storylines:

  • POP/ROCK seasons 1 and 2
  • DISCO/SKA parts 1 and 2
  • EDM/VGM, which is in progress + started only recently!

Paired seasons generally have a sort of "back and forth" going on, which has been emphasized more over time. So theoretically you could listen to most of POP, then go back to catch up with ROCK, but it would probably be better to listen to POP 1, then ROCK 1, then POP 2, then ROCK 2, etc. Same goes for the other seasons.

All of these storylines are self-contained; you generally don't need the context of one to follow the others. Therefore:

  • If you want to follow along as the show updates, start by catching up on EDM/VGM.
  • If you'd rather go through a complete story, I'd say go with either POP/ROCK or DISCO/SKA depending on which premise you like better.
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They gotta invent a way to shower and use the computer at the same time. I hate it when I really want to edit something or work on music but I have to go to the wet world to get the cringe sweat aura off my fail meatvessel

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i understand why the ‘grizzled loner who slowly melts & improves their outlook on life when forced to take care of a kid’ trope is a male exclusive role, bc the optics of a grizzled loner woman healing by becoming a mother are maybe not so good, but every time i think abt a hypothetical female version of that trope i black out instantly. could we maybe just do it one time and all agree to be cool about it

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previous tags and their very valid point:

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[#no no this is totally doable #you just have to make sure she stays grizzled #and has the same like #awkward none of this comes naturally thing #where it goes bad is if shes Suddenly A Warm And Immediately Nurturing Fixed Human #instead of a collection of busted parts going #ah fuck i guess im all you have #so i guess I do my best]

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it's important to talk about how pop psychology sucks ass. but that shouldn't distract you from also talking about how Serious, Official, Legitimate Psychology also sucks ass.

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major issues with psychology/psychiatry as it currently exists:

  • an insistence on viewing different mental types through the lens of "illnesses" that need to be "treated"- it's obvious that different people have minds that work in different ways, but instead of trying to understand the different advantages and disadvantages of different mental states, and trying to help each person reach their full potential with the mind they have, psychology/psychiatry imagines a hypothetical person who's way of thinking never hinders them in any way, and then treats everyone who doesn't fit this imagined model as Sick. because every single person will always have certain situations where their style of thinking hinders them, psychology increasingly pathologizes more and more mindsets and behaviors. in pop psychology this reaches the absurd endpoint of claiming "everyone is mentally ill to some degree", but ultimately this is just an overt stating of what's implied in Legitimate Psychology.

  • an over-focus on neurology which ignores obvious social/memetic factors. you'll see someone who falls into right-wing conspiracy theory hysteria, with the flat earth and the reptilians and so forth, get diagnosed as "schizophrenic", and there's an assumption that it's something innate to their neurology that led them to these beliefs, but like, if you look at the mechanisms of what's occurring when someone adopts these sort of beliefs, the primary thing that's happening is they're getting indoctrinated into an ideology by a group. maybe there are certain neurological factors which led them to be more vulnerable to that, but if you're trying to "treat" them by treating beliefs they were indoctrinated into by other people as though they sprung forth fully formed from their "schizophrenic neurology" then you're missing at least 80% of the picture.
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you’re having same sex marriages. i’m conjuring insane sex mirages. we are not the same

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officiant: if anyone would object to the wedding of adam and steve, speak now, or forever hold your—

me, bursting through the church doors:

SUMMON ILLUSORY PREGNANT DRAGON ORGY

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do cis people know they can radically change their lives, style/aesthetic, and how they relate to the world just like trans people do when we transition. like 60% of transition is gender. the other 40% is other stuff. you can transition, too.

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society demands hyperfemininity from trans women, then if we do it wrong we're mocked and belittled and if we do it right we're "reinforcing gender stereotypes"

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if you're REALLY lucky the state will help you pay for a surgeon to cut open your face and re-arrange your skull so that you stop making cis people uncomfortable by existing

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Fun fact: in Europe, charcoal makers or colliers were considered somewhat of an odd job. While not rejected outright, despite the very specialized skill set and knowledge needed to do charcoal kilns, they seem not to be highly considered. Charcoal making needs constant attention and is often a solitary job next to sources of wood like forests, so colliers were considered solitary men, the German word Köhlerglaube ("collier’s faith") means a person with blind faith on something, because colliers often didn't have time to go to church to learn what they believed in, they just did.

This solitary lifestyle and connection to the forest, at least in Scandinavian folklore, seems to make colliers a favorite 'target' of forest spirits such as the Hulders or Huldras. Hulders are described as beautiful women (sometimes men, huldrekall) with a hidden non-human trait, like a hollow back or a fox or cow's tails. Colliers who left gifts for them and were kind were repaid by the Hulders tending to their kilns.

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Yes, I do have an encyclopedic knowledge about historical legends of fox or wolf girls. No, this doesn't say anything at all about myself.

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