❧ Hi! We are The Coffee Collective and we go by Coffee online, they/them or ask for current pronouns, and we are a queer, alterhuman, neurodivergent & disabled mixed-origins plural system. This is our place to reblog silly posts about our interests, which include activism, queerness, neurodivergency, disability, plurality, art, writing, nature, animals, and most of all whatever (usually fictional) media we’re hyperfixated on at the moment. We don’t say much on here, but we are always happy to interact with mutuals and make new friends!
We have no DNI/anyone can interact, but we curate our own space and block liberally. We will block anyone who is bigoted in any way or has discourse stances we don't agree with (we do not participate in any discourse and try to avoid it as much as possible). We are anti capitalist, anti-censorship, anti gen ai, anti genocide, anti radqueer/transid, pro endogenic systems + all forms of plurality, and we think shipping discourse is dumb + that everyone can engage with whatever fiction they want however they want forever.
If you don’t know what a system is: text resource, video resource
For simplicity we try to tag all common triggers and such as tw [thing] or [thing] tw, sometimes both, but we don't always remember to do this.
Our Tags, Plain Text, + Image IDs under the cut
Tags:
#coffee talks; posts by us
#[name] talks ; posts by one of us in particular, we don't use these often
#coffee chats; for when we (very rarely) interact with other people
#save for later; things we want to save (for later)
#vent post; for any venting we do/negative posts we make
Image IDs:
[Banner ID: screenshot from the show Psych, featuring the main character, Shawn, chasing the second main character, Gus, around the front of a parked blue car. In Gus’s hand is the sleeve from Shawn’s shirt that he just ripped off, whipping in the air as he runs. Behind them is a shrub wall and in the background is a faint suburban city skyline. /end ID]
[Icon ID: picture of Wumuti from XLOX from the waist up, with long blonde hair in a braid and a sleeveless dark red shirt. they are wearing an earpiece microphone and standing on stage under warm lighting, making a heart sign with one hand and smiling. /end ID]
[Userbox IDs: in order from left to right, top to bottom:
light purple userbox with an image of light purple flowers on the right. on the left is text that says "This system uses both "I" and "we" to refer to themselves collectively"
dark grey userbox with an image of the NPD and AvPD pride flags split down the middle with only half of each flag visible on the right. on the left is text that says "this system is neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled"
light yellow/creme userbox with an image of a solid red 5-point star shape on the right. on the left is text that says "this user finds comfort in fictional characters <3"
light lavender userbox with an image of the lesbian flag on the right. on the left is text that says "this user is lesbiab,,"
dark grey userbox with an image of the sunset aroace flag on the right and on the left is text that says "This user is aroace"
light purple userbox with an image of slivers of many pride flags of contradictory labels side by side to make one full flag on the right. on the left is text that says "THIS USER LOVES CONTRADICTORY LABELS"
purple userbox with an image of a simple black outline of a human head with clouds coming out of it on a white background on the right. on the left is text that says "due to personal reasons this user would rather be in their imaginary world"
black userbox with an image of a stylized set of human teeth with very long canines on the right. on the left is text that says " This user is a vampire"
bright pink-red userbox with a primary colored clown plush on the right. on the left is text that says "This user is so tired so so tired oh My fukkiinhniggg gooooooddddd"
white userbox with an image of a light purple heart shaped gem on the right. on the left is text that says "this user struggles to maintain online friendships, but appreciates their followers and mutuals!" /end ID]
Plain Text:
[Plain Text: - Hi! We are The Coffee Collective and we go by Coffee online, they/them or ask for current pronouns, and we are a queer, alterhuman, neurodivergent & disabled mixed-origins plural system. This is our place to reblog silly posts about our interests, which include activism, queerness, neurodivergency, disability, plurality, art, writing, nature, animals, and most of all whatever (usually fictional) media we’re hyperfixated on at the moment. We don’t say much on here, but we are always happy to interact with mutuals and make new friends!
We have no DNI/anyone can interact, but we curate our own space and block liberally. We will block anyone who is bigoted in any way or has discourse stances we don't agree with (we do not participate in any discourse and try to avoid it as much as possible). We are anti capitalist, anti-censorship, anti gen ai, anti genocide, anti radqueer/transid, pro endogenic systems + all forms of plurality, and we think shipping discourse is dumb + that everyone can engage with whatever fiction they want however they want forever.
If you don’t know what a system is: text resource(link: https://morethanone.info/), video resource(link: https://youtu.be/MFEPaFUfsDU)
For simplicity we try to tag all common triggers and such as tw [thing] or [thing] tw, sometimes both, but we don't always remember to do this.
Our Tags, Plain Text, + Image IDs under the cut /end PT]
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people who say they think female characters are fundamentally uninteresting are genuinely the weakest links to me like if you cant even make yourself care about a FICTIONAL woman u kind of need to die slow
sex isn't sexy unless it's a little bit gross. have you forgotten that you are a divine ape? plastic smooth skin, plucked hair, painted faces, scripted reactions, scrubbed til only the smell of perfumed soap remains, proportions that are conflictingly cookiecutter yet unattainable, none of this is even a little bit interesting.
you can laugh at napoleon's "home in three days, don't bathe" letter to his wife, but there's more sexuality in that one line then there is in the entirety of the hypersexualized but painfully unsexy internet.
My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds “the pronouns thing” and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, he’s been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for god’s sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and I’m like oh no oh no.
Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”
“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”
“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”
So we can relax. It’s just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesn’t want to remember anyone’s gender. He’s abolishing the genders.
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I would like to propose a low-ish budget remake of Jurassic Park that's presented as a feature length vlog from a theme park youtuber detailing her extremely disappointing trip to the park.
She begins by detailing the history of Ingen as a fledgling bioengineering company, with a lot of biographical information about John Hammond as the charismatic yet shady founder, complete with the anecdote about his genetically engineered dog-sized elephant ("While it may have wowed investors, Babar the elephant did not live very long, and allegedly suffered from numerous health disorders and a generally poor quality of life. Put a pin in that.")
After detailing the covered-up scandals about workplace "accidents" at the park, the youtuber goes into her own trip, which is notably disappointing, not dramatic. It starts well with her seeing the Brachiosaurs, complete with found-footage style reveal of them that hopefully manages to capture some of the majesty of their reveal in the original film, albeit from a very grounded "real person encountering big exotic animals" vibe.
But then we get to the tour of the park itself. The visitor center is half finished, with a big obvious tarp covering the wall from the reception area that hasn't been made yet. the hokey welcoming video is using scratch track music because they haven't sorted out the rights to the licensed music they want. The automated vehicles are buggy as hell - one of them snaps on the youtuber's thumb when she closes the door, bruising it terribly ("That's what you get when you partner with Tesla I guess. Spared no expense, I guess.")
The dilophosaurus is a no show. The T.rex is a no-show, even when they bring out a goat to lure it. ("Why feed it a live goat? I'm pretty sure most zoos don't feed live prey to the large carnivores both for their safety and ours. And a goat's barely more than a mouthful to a T.rex, isn't it? It's like they're not considering the animal welfare at all - put a pin in that.") The triceratops is sick. ("The veterinarian on hand, Gerry Harding, said this was a recurring problem. Apparently there was a plant in their enclosure that's toxic to them, but because the trikes haven't been spotted eating the plant, the park assumed it was alright to include because it's pretty? Anyway, it turned out that the plant's berries, which are also toxic, were being eaten by the trikes, and that's where their digestive problems came from. Spared no expense!")
Many of the other promised rides aren't in operation, and as she looks into it our youtuber protagonist learns that it's due to inability to manage the animal behavior (despite the staff trying to hide that this is the case). The aviary is closed because the cearadatyluses are wildly aggressive. The mosasaur lagoon is closed because they can't find a way for audiences to view the mosasaur up close that's remotely safe. The river ride is closed because the dilophosaurs SPIT VENOM! at people when they pass by. The velociraptors have been moved to an extremely tiny quarantine pen because of their vicious behavior ("Yeah, keeping predators that are built to run at cheetah speed in a tiny pen is going to do so much good for their behavioral issues. Spared no expense!").
On her last day she finally manages to see the Tyrannosaur in its exhibit ("Why did they put it in a paddock filled with thick foliage? It's a nine-ton carnivore, it needs a much more open space! This can't be comfortable for it - hell, I'm halfway convinced the reason it didn't show up the first two days is that it was struggling to find its way through all those goddamn trees!"). She takes note of its odd, toad-like eyes, and its near inability to capture the goat when it stands still, forcing it to roar loudly to make the goat squirm so it can finally eat. The youtuber then recalls a bit of information from the welcome video - "Remember when I said to put a pin on Frog DNA?" - and realizes that the dinosaurs's hybrid nature has severely compromised their basic biological functions, with T.rex, an animal with some of the best binocular vision in the fossil record, being hamstrung by having the vision problems of a toad. "This is a creature that should have eyes as sharp as a hawk's that's now almost functionally blind! Can you imagine how terrifying that must be for it?"
The video then turns into a takedown of Ingen's shoddy genetic engineering work, uncovering a great deal of infomation on the hybridization process and how it's negatively impacted the animals upon creation, and then focuses on how the park exacerbated this by its neglectful approach to protecting their livelihoods, caused by a mixture of stingy over-reliance on automation and a lack of actual experts on staff. "They hype these animals up as miracles of science, and yet they can't be bothered to put even a modicum of effort into considering their basic biological and behavioral needs! Spared no expense my ass!"
Which, of course, culminates in her detailing the disaster at the park, which occurred a few weeks after her visit - how a tropical storm and employee sabotage caused a mass breakout at the park, the many people who were killed in the process, and how Ingen has done everything it can to downplay the disaster and discredit the few survivors, even dragging the names of two children who visited the park through the mud. There's no footage of this - that wouldn't be tasteful, and our youtuber protagonist is a considerate person - so it would rely solely on the actress's skill to convey the story with appropriate dread. "And the worst part is, no one seems to have learned a lesson! Ingen is building a new Jurassic Park in San Diego - not on an island this time, but in a crowded populace! And competing companies like Biosyn and Manta Corp are announcing plans of their own prehistoric fauna theme parks, and they're even shadier than Ingen - allegedly." She ends with a call to action, noting that while she's not one to usually take stands like this, that we should absolutely call our representatives to vote for the law in congress outlawing the creation of cloned prehistoric fauna on American soil.
I think the most charitable interpretation of this is that people connect to characters that are like them, and that the experiences of Blackness is so alien to them that the White characters are the only ones that White people connect with. Combine that with the fact that Tumblr is so White as a platform, and you get this issue.
It’s still bad and racist, but it is understandable. People should still do better though. (I’m not trying to justify, I’m trying to come up with an explanation)
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
It is so fucking funny to me how easily scandalized some people are wym callout post for a cannibalism kink. Grow up. This is the nothingburger leagues and you're throwing up in the stands
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"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.
My Very Little Sister had to move out of 3 living situations because her friends/cousins found romantic partners and didn't need a roommate anymore. She started getting really grouchy whenever a friend mentioned romance after a while.
My cousin lost his best friend of 20+ years because the friend's girlfriend decided he shouldn't see anyone else. For years my cousin was leery about anyone else starting romantic relationships, and acted kinda jealous and resentful.
I had to make clear boundaries with my now-husband, explaining that I was NOT going to be investing all of my limited emotional energy into our relationship, he had to be willing to share. And my emotional energy is VERY limited, so he struggled! If I hadn't been so very very aromantic, and had spent as much time with him as he wanted, my other relationships would have suffered greatly. As it was, people had to get used to a changed dynamic with me - he came everywhere, because it was easier to get out of the house when he was dragging me.
People in platonic relationships have very real reasons to be jealous!
There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.
It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....
*pinches nose*
Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?
All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.
ahhh so you're shown to be capable of recognising that people's trauma can make them act irrationally and unpleasantly! you recognised it in the white man! can you also recognise it in the brown woman? no? she's mean and bitchy and uncaring? i see
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