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Hey guys!

It’s been quite a while since our last update, and I know many of you have already spotted the new icon and banner! The truth is, we’ve been navigating a really difficult period in our life — dealing with homelessness and having to relocate due to domestic violence. Throughout that time, we made the choice to put our energy into researching all the features our wonderful community has been asking for, and building a prototype to get a real sense of what we’re working with going forward. It’s honestly been going great so far! We genuinely thrilled to show you all what we’ve been working on, and I really hope it resonates with you the way it has with us!

Alongside that, I’ve been looking into how to make sure Concordia can be hosted on servers capable of handling high volumes of users, while also keeping everyone’s private data secure. There’s so much that goes into running a platform like this that most of the plural community never sees, and honestly, the devs behind Simply Plural (may they rest easy after all they gave this community) and the other apps currently holding fort for our community deserve a huge amount of credit for everything they put into their work — because wow, it really is a lot!

So please know: Concordia is not going anywhere! There are no plans to end this project, and no reason there ever should be. This is something we’ve been thinking about — and even working on in bits and pieces — for a while now, and we’re genuinely passionate about its future for the long haul. Progress may be gradual, and some stretches will move slower than we’d like, but we’ve always been upfront that Concordia was never going to come together overnight. It’s meant to help close the gaps in stability that apps like this haven’t fully addressed for systems yet, and stability takes a lot of planning.

Over the next few weeks and months, you’ll be hearing from us far more regularly. Alongside this, we’re archiving all previous posts on this blog, and will be rolling out new ones covering everything from Concordia itself, our new star-themed branding, planned features, and even some early looks at the current prototype. We couldn’t be more excited to introduce you all to the new Concordia!

Thank you so much for your support so far. You’ll be hearing more from us soon! ✨

🥩🦴　—　MADE BY KEI …

HOMICIDIUM — A neogender relating to homicidal ideation and related themes …

— 1 ;; HOMICIDIN — In nature equivalent — 2 ;; HOMICITY — Neutrality equivalent — 3 ;; HOMICITRAL — Neutral equivalent — 4 ;; HOMICIDI — Neu equivalent — 5 ;; TRANSHOMI— Transneu equivalent — 6 ;; HOMICIDA — Individual equivalent — 7 ;; OCCISOR — Enby equivalent — 8 ;; LESSER — Minor equivalent — 9 ;; ASSASSIN — Adult equivalent — 10 ;; HOMI4HOMI — x4x equivalent — 11 ;; ACCOMPLICE — Partner equivalent — 12 ;; MURDERMATE — Spouse equivalent

— 1 ;; Tagging ;; @radiomogai — 🦴🥩

-1; Homicidium - in nature equivalent

-2; Homicity - neutrality equivalent

-3; Homicitral - neutral equivalent

-4; Homicidi - neu equivalent

-5; Transhomi - transneu equivalent

-6; Homicida - individual equivalent

-7; Occisor - enby equivalent

-8; Lesser - minor equivalent

-9; Assassin - adult equivalent

-10; Homi4Homi - x4x equivalent

-11; Accomplice - partner equivalent

-12; Murdermate - spouse equivalent

copycat !

I've seen a few of these before, but it doesn't hurt to make more. Especially when we're seeing a lot of radfem rhetoric popping up in LGBT spaces from people who might not know better.

the best defense against bioessentialism and terfism is education. so, here’s a place to start.

SCREENNAMES: these are terms that commonly appear in radfem usernames across the web

rad or radical

fem or femme

vulva, clit, uterus, womb, ovary, vagina, etc.

febfem

anything along the lines of "angry woman"

xx or chromosomes

wombyn, wimmin, womyn, etc.

LGB

feminist

BIOS: things that show up in radfem bios

♀ or ⚢

febfem

female separatist

female, human female, adult human female

xx

something along the lines of "the scary feminist you were warned about"; being an angry woman, being sick of being silenced, being an evil woman, being an angry lesbian

detrans (NOTE: detrans people are absolutely not always transphobic)

dysphoric female

males/men do not interact

LGB✂️

misandrist

feminist (NOTE: again, very few feminists are actually terfs, but this is commonly in terf bios alongside some of these other terms)

femcel

TERMS: terms that radfems use in their circles

TIM - trans-identified male, a way of saying transfems, trans women, and other trans people

TIF - trans-identified female, same as above but the other way around

DSD - disorder of sexual development, a way to avoid saying intersex and to categorize intersex people as "still male or female" (you might see "males with DSD" or "females with DSD" for example)

females or males instead of women and men

alternatively, women and males to dehumanize men

"peaking" or "peaked" - referring to becoming radicalized as a radfem or TERF

womyn, wombyn, wimmin, wo**n, and any other spelling that takes "man" out of the term woman

mentally ill men/women

sex-based oppression

gender critical

"TIRF" - trans-inclusive radical feminist (don't be fooled by the name, they're very much not)

TRA - trans rights activist, derogatory

sex-based rights

female separatism/"women's land"

WBW - womyn-born womyn

autistic girls/children

troon - (ridiculous) slur for trans people

moid - derogatory term for men

XYs - another term for men

AGP - acronym for autogynephilia, painting being trans as a sex thing

gyne/gyn - term for women

lost women/girls - trans people they perceive as women and girls who have been “transed”

gendies - a term for trans people and their supporters

RHETORIC: general ideological themes in radfem rhetoric

men are inherently more violent than women

women don't or rarely rape men

being nonbinary is a way to "stop being" your assigned sex while still acting as your birth sex

lesbians are not attracted to men/penises and can never have sex with men/penises (otherwise, you're bisexual)

men can and will never be lesbians

there is no such thing as a bi lesbian, only lesbians and bisexuals. labels are rigid and sex-based

all of the world's suffering is driven by men

women would be better off separate

an all-female society is utopia

sex is binary, and intersex people are "glitches" or "still male or female but DisorderedTM"

men should expect to be feared by women

female/female relationships are safer and more pure than straight or gay male relationships

men and women are more different than similar

intersex people should not be allowed in sports

intersex people and trans men are never in men's sports

terrible world events wouldn't have happened if women were in charge

men are stupid and aggressive

being a man is not a positive thing

men's problems are lesser than women's

penises are disgusting and vaginas and vulvas are beautiful

trans women are performing at being girls

trans men see themselves as above lesbians

attraction is sex-based

porn is rape

porn is inherently violent

watching porn makes you predisposed to inflicting abuse

BDSM is inherently violent and misogynistic

transitioning children (whether socially or medically) are being abused

"bitch" and "cunt" are exclusively slurs against women

only gay men can say faggot and only lesbian women can say dyke

men can only ever benefit from the patriarchy

celebrating men suffering

When you see a few or more of these together, RUN! It's a terf.

Right side, top to bottom:

Original "map" flag, pansexual variant, polything variant, aromantic variant

Left side, top to bottom:

asexual variant, aroace variant, necrophiliac variant, and I believe a plushgender variant? Not very sure on that last one.

Most of the original flags are valid, but "map" variants are not. Always make sure to double check your flags!!

Anthro Basil

I think when a lot of people think of positive queer representation, they want to see the character happy or grow into their identity. Which is extremely valid, we all want to see people like us get the good ending. But a character having a "bad" ending (within the universe, not necessarily from a writing pov) can still be good representation, even if its not a happy one.

Jax is a cautionary tale, she's what happens when you don't accept yourself. The most extreme example of self hatred and dysphoria and how those internalised feelings can then affect your treatment of others. Goose (the creator and a trans woman herself) even said that Jax is heavily inspired by the worst parts of her.

Jax being trans doesn't excuse his actions, but the show never tried to say that anyway. Gangle is conflicted in feeling she should mourn him but yet is still allowed to hate him, she's not expected to forgive him just cause he's abstracted. Nor is Zooble, who is perhaps more understanding of what Jax went through as someone who is trans themselves and is shown to clock her discomfort with gender expression. They are still angry. He is not forgiven.

Pomni and Ragatha are the most forgiving because they were the closest thing Jax had to friends at one point or another, and even they do not attempt to excuse her behaviour- not even pomni with what she learns. She is more upset that she couldn't get through to her and help, but doesn't try to argue when Jax says he is a bad person.

With Leeroy still being alive and out there, we see that things do get better and that (s)he? Can improve with the right mindset and friends. Leeroy continued to live, given the chance to accept who she is.

Jax however, stayed stagnant. He trapped himself in the mindset that nothing matters and theres no point in trying. He never got to learn what happened to his mom, if things got better, if the people he knew back then would accept who she really is. Everything remained internalised. And when Ribbit tried to open those wounds, he doubled down. Shoved everything soft and weak down into the back of his mind and tried to put on a new aloof personality.

And whilst the Jax we meet is cruel, its clear that switch wasn't over night. He didn't become mean just cause, but he kept putting up more and more walls. And when Ribbit died, he did as much as possible to push everyone else away.

This sort of self-hating turned projection isn't uncommon in closeted trans people. You feel othered and different, you have to convince everyone around you that you can fit in, that everyone else is the problem.

Jax in particular is a good example of toxic masculinity and internalised misogyny. We see in the way he speaks about his parents that he was once a much more soft, open person. But the pressure to be more of a "man" than his dad, and to not be weak affected his mindset and the expections he placed on himself. Especially given his mom's reaction to him coming out, seeing being feminine as a weakness and failing.

It does not ever excuse his behaviour, but it does show Why he may act this way. And in the end he does admit it did nothing good. He was so scared of what would happen, he retreated into the idea of the digital world as a safety blanket. Nothing was real, no one he hurt was real. His feelings weren't real. It's a very "its not that deep" sort of deflection.

Jax shows what happens when you don't allow yourself to grow, when instead you retreat into yourself and the way it makes you bitter. Self hatred corrupts, it makes you cruel.

Whereas Leeroy is what happens when you do get that chance. Jax was too late and it destroyed him.