absolutely Loved working on this commission for @kobold !!! Byron is a wonderful lad and he loves beautifying his garden.
"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it"
This is such a good article. CW discussion of ableism
https://humanparts.medium.com/amp/p/3af27e312d01
Gods are a lot less Terrifying and awe inspiring when you're a plural shaman.
I was not prepared for Thunderbird to be a wild turkey, for example, but it Tracks.
And it's really easy to know when you're hallucinating and when something Actually supernatural happens when you know all the voices in your head, and know when someone Else is hanging around.
Getting possessed by a Unicorn is a different bag of chips entirely. Especially when the Body is driving a 1 ton dump truck.
Being plural means you don't just have the One gender. Or Name. Or Pronouns.
And parts of you can come back from the Dead and wake up fifteen years down the line and need therapy.
The positive side is that after wrangling this kinda disorder, Demonic Possession seems almost underwhelming.
Il-Chamadoth the Defiler could show up tomorrow in here and all that'd happen is he'd get tranq'd, Tagged, and set up with a therapy schedule.
re: second puberty issue for trans girls
@mxsiege@octodon.social Sure!
My dysphoria is Physical and emotional. I'm off meds right now, and going through a major testosterone spike.
So I get irritable, I get headaches, I'm aggressive, uncomfortable, and suffer from GI tract problems and an enlarged prostate that creates it's own host of issues.
My body has always been somewhat androgynous, I never went bald like my younger brothers, and most of my Gender Role Dysphoria was trauma-induced from my upbringing.
And I'm a Plural system, and one of my headmates absolutely can Not stand man-smell. So that has an aspect of physical dysphoria to it.
Really, HRT gives me a lot of gender Euphoria: My body reacts to even low-dose meds dramatically, my skin softens, I'm not irritated and intense all the time, and I smell the way I feel like I Should smell.
The rest of it is almost a Moot Point, if I wanna "Be a Girl" I can just put Kerithe out front and she just Radiates 'Woman' so hard that Passing isn't an issue.
Hence the 'Hermaphrodite' label. I can do Both, do them well, and some other stuff besides. I can feel totally Fine pulling my car over after hitting a nasty pothole, stalk out and plop down on the pavement and have a full conversation with the mechanic guy who pulls up behind me because he saw the smoke.
And the fact I'm wearing a skirt and leggings is Less important than "Yep, that's a Ford, Fix em with a hammer"
And then I go fix the thing on the side of the road, still in girlclothes. Not optimal, and I tore one of my nice skirts, but the Car got home in one piece.
So when it comes to Dysphoria? I had a Lot More dysphoria trying to get other Guys to treat me like a Man, than just Being non-binary, and wearing what I like to wear. The Hormonal profile is more of a Medical Problem at this point.
Mermaids don't understand why humans value pearls, given what they are.
And humans don't understand why mermaids value soda can tabs, given what they are.
There's thriving industries for artificial alternatives of both.
It's quite ridiculous of course. That's why sensible creatures deal in souls.
Sure, it's a renewable resource, but souls can't be faked and finding one that has aged AND has remained untarnished?
Utterly priceless.
Southern Mass's local machine healer and part time witchdoctor.
Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
#nobot