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and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"

CHAPTER THIRTEEN OF APPABATE IS OUT YAY

When like

That phrase was created by, I believe indigenous Americans specifically, as a result of white people dressing up as indigenous Americans for Halloween, and treating their cultures as disposable and with disrespect

And now I’m seeing goth people use it. Yes, goth is a subculture, but that phrase was not made for subcultures, it was made to call out racism.

Hell, I even saw a white person use it in reference to people faking ADHD. A FUCKING DISABILITY.

The cultural symbols that should be added into the subculture should be meaningful and personal, such as how I've seen so many black goths incorporate parts of their culture into their looks (and it looks STUNNING).

But unfortunately, our symbols and cultural additions to our own customization of what and who we are is slowly becoming mainstream to the point non goth people are using Egyptian symbols to be quirky. I don't want to have to embarrass myself thinking that someone online is an Egyptian because they use the ankh or the eye of Ra or Horus in their username in a "quirky" fashion.

When like

That phrase was created by, I believe indigenous Americans specifically, as a result of white people dressing up as indigenous Americans for Halloween, and treating their cultures as disposable and with disrespect

And now I’m seeing goth people use it. Yes, goth is a subculture, but that phrase was not made for subcultures, it was made to call out racism.

Hell, I even saw a white person use it in reference to people faking ADHD. A FUCKING DISABILITY.

I am having strong paternal feelings over Silas. I am crying for him

ONE I am so curious, what about that big ol man is causing paternal feelings but TWO…

I think my stance on it comes down to the specific person, you know? If they're trying to act like we have the same experience, ew. If they're minding their own business I don't care. I'm also close to some systems who's parts identify with the polymind label.

the tl;dr is it's a discourse that I find pointless. people can have their opinions, but as a CDD haver, I don't feel personally harmed by polyminds who're minding their own business.

shit posting to make up for yesterday’s post