Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space
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Glowy Postfurry Gay Coyotter Rave Toy.
Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜
Joined Apr 2017
Gender stuff (more lighthearted)
@KawaSeadrake Bodies are weird! I always heard 'oh it'll be a lot harder to lose weight on E' ...and then lost 100lbs in my first year and a half on it.
@forestservice I relate super-hard to this too actually; this is very similar to the place I was in a year ago; my feelings about my emotional state when my transition started are different in the details but there's a lot of "wait was I wrong, what does this mean, am I okay" that I needed to work through (and am still working on to some extent)
@starkatt It's so much easier when you can just do a +fav or something; I wish I could do that IRL sometimes. ;)
@literorrery It's also interesting; I've heard more than one furry-leaning therian conceptualize their situation as 'contherianthropy' because it implied a fusion of the two, which seemed to go with an anthro form. But my reading of that had always been that contherianthropy implied 'no shifting', and I (for one) definitely feel that sort of phase-change sometime, it's just not to a 'natural animal form'. As always, there seems to be difference and nuance WITHIN terms too.
@literorrery @Fuego Huh, that's an interesting definition of 'animist' unless I'm just reading it weird. Was that their term?
Gender stuff, mild dysphoria
@KawaSeadrake The breasts? I basically never have positive thoughts about them, but I'm never as upset with them as I was about the lower equipment. I guess it varies from *annoyed sigh* to "ugh"?
@literorrery @Fuego For example, I note that both AHWW and WtA originated in 1992 and now I'm very curious, y'know, what the general feeling was about... all that.
@Fuego @literorrery At some point I'd love to pick your brains as far as deep otherkin history as manifested on AHWW and how it relates to other media and fandom streams.
@literorrery @ElectricKeet @Fuego All-respect to AHWW for helping start... this whole thing we do... but yeah, that is a VERY AHWW-type story: shallowly-considered metaphysics meets machismo! ;)
@Siphonay I have a related problem when thinking about a redesign for the flag of my home city; it's named after a local Native leader who is also featured on the flag. Images of people aren't great flag features either but I also don't wanna just erase that.
@Siphonay See, yeah, I think the text and stars are probably the important cultural bits, and I wouldn't know how to treat them well; there may be options besides 'remove them'
(Though text on flags is almost never a good idea at all, IMO)
Indi Latrani
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Yesterday Gargron helped me get his take on the project, so that I can write a mission statement. But, I would also love to hear your take, so I can combine the two into our collective statement.
This is me trying to be more transparent with the process.
Feel free to help me answer these questions:
1. What does Mastodon mean to you?
2. Where do you want to see the project go?
3. How do you talk about Mastodon with your friends?
Gender stuff, mild dysphoria
@KawaSeadrake Wow. 100% same. c.c;
@Siphonay I can see some designery ways to redesign the flag of Brazil.
...It'd be ridiculously presumptuous though, because I know nothing of Brazilian culture.
But I could show you PILES of ideas I have for better flags for Seattle and Washington State. :)
@Siphonay Oooh, flag design. yes. 💜
You might enjoy listening to this, if you haven't heard it: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/vexillonaire/
Plural stuff
@starkatt Oh, yeah, in full agreement there and I didn't think anyone in this conversation was suggesting anything of the sort specifically. I'm just wary of catch-all explanations, even permissive ones, since they can sometimes give short shrift to the value of more-specific beliefs (see also my comments else-thread about chaos magic)
Plural stuff
@KawaSeadrake @Oneironott The wariness I still have around the subject comes from that, from this awareness that some chaotes would look at that and go 'you missed the point, you're making it too complicated, LOL'; paradigm-switching is ITSELF a paradigm, and one that sometimes sets itself as superior to other ones, which is sometimes troublesome. ;)
Plural stuff
@KawaSeadrake @Oneironott There are a lot of techniques that chaos magic stuff tends to teach that I find useful, that I still use in fact; they're easy to integrate into my paradigm, which I suppose is why chaos magic factored them out of other paradigms to begin with. I guess I think of myself as a... post-chaos practitioner? Been there, done that, found a more focussed paradigm that demonstrably works better for me.
Plural stuff
@starkatt I mean, to the degree that it risks getting into situations where my friends think my deities, spirit allies, etc, are actually all in my head, I think it does sorta matter? :)
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pronouns: he/him • ve/ver
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Glowy Postfurry Gay Coyotter Rave Toy.
Responding to @mentions and not much else. 💜
Joined Apr 2017
