Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

Quote-boosting (with permission) a friend's followers-only toot:

"i think another NB obstacle for people who do want to modify their existing parts is a lot of people have the attitude 'it's not what's in your pants that matters, it's what's in your head'
which is v progressive in a lot of ways! and v true! but sometimes it matters to -us-, and not just when we're having sex."

💯 💯 💯 💯 💯

I'm honestly sorta wondering how much of this is a straightforward terminology problem, at least when it comes to the specifics of my goals (and the goals of a lot of the folks in the aforementioned whisper network). There is NO good, specific term for this. The nearest one is a gross furry porn slur.

Real talk: Non-binary discourse has done a really good job with validating "you don't have to be androgynous" and "you don't have to medically transition."

Which puts those of us who want and need both those things in a pretty awkward place sometimes.

Thinking a bit about basically the whisper network that's I've ended up in when it comes to my own particular corner of non-binary transition and expression.

Realizing this must be what it was like for trans folks in general, a couple decades ago.

Wondering what the emotional toll difference is like, between "all these other folks are getting their needs met in a much more straightforward way" and "no one else even understands that people might have these needs"

And it took a month and a half of nightmarish corporate bureaucracy to get the okay.

Of course, nothing's actually updated yet. So, expecting at least a little more nightmarish corporate bureaucracy to come.

Still, yay!

Woooo, looks like I finally got the okay to change my job title at work. So I can be a UX geek OFFICIALLY.

This is a thing I've been wanting to formally get into for, like, years.

So, the mystery script here is Claw-Speak, from the Exalted First Edition RPG; it's the written language of the Lunar Exalted, who are badass shapeshifter types.

It's a syllabary with the vowel variants expressed by the orientation of the glyph poking off from the central line.

It's neat, and it's part of what got me reading about Ogham, way back in the day.

And hey @typhlosion I know you saw this now and I know you have at least one writing system to contribute. :)

Augh, now everyone's re-found this today and boosting my intentionally wrong ones. XD

Correct(-ish) (phonetically) awooing in Futhark and Ogham:
https://awoo.space/media/1eucAM32HJLeWAuwnvM

(Also I did the second vowel 'right' this time, (phonetically), mainly because doubling the O makes even less sense here than it does in the previous two)

Awoo in a highly appropriate con-script that required some internet archaeology to work out (first image) I'm curious if anyone else recognizes it!

The sample is a bit small so the second image is my name in the same script.
https://awoo.space/media/L6CqQwKh66WGkPI8mH0
https://awoo.space/media/NXSvC4hmi6qk2IInHXE

Also I'm looking at you, @typhlosion, I know you have some. ^.^

You wanna do your own runes, @Oneironott? :)

Hey let's all awoo in different writing systems!

Here's ogham!

https://awoo.space/media/nT187gyUOeVfvCfTBN4

(I don't even know, really; RP-hook, self-expression, random noodling. Make of it what you will. ^.^)