On the "darker" side of being comforted by one's immortality (not in the physical, but metaphorical), I've always been comforted by bone needles.

The idea that even after death, you've still been remembered by how you are used. No, bone needles probably weren't used with human bones, but it's a reminder that you aren't just going to... disappear. I'm comforted in the knowledge that I don't end in a "me" but in a "we," in nature. Everything about me is reused material so much more ancient than I am, and knowing that, I feel so much closer to the world.

do you ever think about how aziraphale fell in love with crowley because of his love for the earth; and crowley falls in love with the earth because of his love for aziraphale?

i think about it often actually.

I made an actual graphic to represent the process behind the greatest thought I've ever produced in my life, prompted by the theoretical question, how to cast a Muppet Dracula?

hey what do you mean pocketcat had daans soul

the fact that some of us can’t talk about our journey with sexuality because it doesn’t fit the cut out narrative that has been given to us in an attempt to prove every single thing our oppressor group says is ridiculous. i was not born queer. i was not always gay. i was not always trans. i was a cishet women are one point. me saying that is not me 1) being homophobic/transphobic or 2) saying i made a “choice” to change my sexuality or gender. i did not choose to be cishet when i was. i did not choose to become gay. i did not choose to become trans. and i can not choose to become cishet again now. and no one can force these changes onto me. if you do feel like you were born gay or born a different gender that’s fine. that’s perfectly reasonable and a real form of existence and expression. but to act like sexuality is inherently static and innate in everyone is alienating, and will slow down and deteriorate the process of building community. it will leave people thinking they are lying to themselves about their gender or sexuality. or that they are faking it. or that, of course they can’t be gay, because they’ve never experienced queerness or only felt cishet before!

not that anybody asked but i do think terms like "cis+" or "cisn't", which i've seen thrown around in relation to the prev post, are a bit unnecessary. to me, it just seems like excessively atomising a fairly common experience, which is the desire to not be subject to the more uncomfortable and restrictive aspects of socially constructed gender roles. and sure, it might never even occur to a lot of cis people to do this kind of introspective analysis of their gender identities, and they might therefore be lacking some of the additional perspective of someone who has, but i don't think we necessarily need need a special new category for it. when you get down to it, "cis person who has previously questioned their gender" and "cis person who has never felt the need to question their gender" are both still cis, which in theory is a value-neutral description and a perfectly fine thing to be.

chat

the great chain of being (1579) / my recreation trying to discuss the concept with my boyfriend after forgetting the name of it and being unable to find it on duckduckgo (2023)

saw an entire xmas aisle in a shop today IT IS AUGUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The cognitive dissonance that says both that humans are inherently superior and also completely separate from the world and everything that's in the world is a very interesting one. It says a lot, I think, about how people view the world and others when they believe these things. The political implications of these ideas are vast and honestly staggering - because people both feel superior and separate from the world, they sometimes start to treat the world in that way.

I wonder how much of this is tied to hyperindividualism which posits that the way to live is to separate yourself from everything around you - to see the world as inherently lesser, inherently something to own and to find monetary value in.

At the end of the day:

You are inherently tied to the world you live in because you live in this world

You are inseparable from Nature™

You affect the world by loving here, just as the smallest wasp or the largest whale does. This is inevitable and isn't good or bad

Your worth is not tied in with how individualized you are, or by how much you separate yourself from the world

Whatever you do to ground yourself in this world, make sure it's something that fulfills you. It's honestly crazy how much this can open your eyes

I don’t have the energy, the time, or the desire to make a whole game out of this nonsense meta disappearing up its own ass essay so have this one culminating concept scene instead

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I wish every ‘humans are a plague upon the earth/we are a disease/it would be best for the environment if humans all died’ ecofascist a very Shut The Fuck Up

I am an adult, I have responsibilities, I can log off at any time, it is beneath me to get involved in or vaguepost about petty fandom disagreements- sees a post ah.

*FOAMING FROM THE MOUTH*

I AM SOOOOO NORMAL ABOUT THEM ABSOLUTELY 100%

hahahaha. you dont say.

in any case i just read chapter 40 of trimax and i am. not the same.

Nothing makes me angrier than someone who can look at the beautiful, grotesque, terrifying thing that is life on this planet and decide that actually we need to waste billions of dollars completely fucking up the foundations of every ecosystem because there's one thing they think is icky. And then still claim that they love nature.