She/her (singular), they/them (plural), other pronouns available as DLC Game dev, programmer, writer, musician | 22-year-old autistic transfem Currently working on: ASWTESCY (send commands!!), Inscrybed, some musical experiments
I'm Meadow, a game dev/chiptuner/writer/pixel artist who posts about that occasionally but mostly uses this blog to reblog things; a proper tagging system might exist eventually
I'm also into a lot of different fandoms, including but not limited to Undertale/Deltarune, In Stars and Time, Magic: The Gathering, and the Cosmere, there are a bunch of others but those are the most active ones, other than that I have some other niche interests that I will gladly talk about given the opportunity
I also run a little interactive web adventure, you can find it at @aswtescy-adventure! It runs on reader commands, so feel free to submit one ^^
Also I'm actually several things, more on that below the cut
System intro
đŸLux (they/she)
The one writing this whole post, I'm one of our hosts and the most active poster, I also have a sideblog at @normalest-lux-ever, be warned because it does have (tagged) NSFW and (tagged) Negative Opinions
âïžSummer (she/her)
Our caretaker, another of our hosts, and my twin sis, Summer is basically a constant beam of sunshine that everyone loves, she likes writing and art the most out of all of us, and she also loves animals and anything else she thinks is cute or pretty; she has a sideblog at @all-that-summer-had-to-say where she mostly posts about writing or reblogs anything she finds cute, be warned because she does think bugs are cute but she tags them appropriately
đAutumn (she/her)
Our third and final host, Autumn was discovered much later than Summer but together the two of them make up the September subsystem; Autumn's pretty similar in a lot of ways but more free-spirited and with more of a backbone, she also likes working on music and UI design, and is better at relaxing than Summer
Autumn here!!! I also like political theory and RPGs, and I have a sideblog that's mainly for posting about my interests at @autism-season (â âżâ ^â âżâ ^â )
đSeptember (she/her, maybe plural they/them?)
We usually have one person in our sub-front at all times and switch infrequently, but sometimes we co-front and merge into a single presence in the front! It's kind of like fusion from Steven Universe, in a way?
Also, we're dating!!!
đJenny/Morgan (she/her)
Formerly a co-host but she's faded more into the background in recent months, Jen is great at exercise, manual labor, kissing me (Lux), and sounding like she swallowed a thesaurus; she's also pretty good at communicating with the current fronter or co-fronting, usually me but she's hung out with Summer and Autumn too
đWinter (any)
Our anger holder, we've had some conflicts but we're generally pretty cool nowadays, kinda the only one to have any masc leanings but ze's indicated some interest in femininity, she hasn't really had much of a chance to explore gender yet tho so he uses any pronouns for now
âšLoop (they/them)
Fictive from In Stars and Time, they mostly talk to me (Lux) and encourage me when needed, they also love talking to other Loops
đMew Mew (she/her)
Fictive from Deltarune, adding myself to our pinned because I formed after it was written! I'd say more about my identity, but I don't want to spoil the game for anyone, mew...
đŒDaisy (she/it)
Ouppy
đViolet (she/her?)
Smaller version of me (Lux), she's only come out a few times, she's kinda me and kinda not, idk I just try to make sure she's safe and happy when I see her
đLuci (she/her)
Missing person, presumed to be some snapshot of our 16-year-old self but hasn't been heard from in a while
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Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
Well there's a whole flame war in the comments about the ethics of copyrighting a fruit (which would be completely unapplicable for reasons I'll get into below) or patenting a fruit (which would at the very least have president but is still a radically stupid idea)
Okay, so copyright protects a likeness. You can copyright a poem or an image. You cannot copyright an orange. Every orange looks like every other orange. Some might taste better than others but that's a matter of random chance and two oranges off the same tree might not taste the same.
Patents protect inventions. If you invented a new drug that eats cancer, you wouldn't get it copyrighted, you'd get it patented. Now, I'm not an expert in patent law, but if the technique for creating an orange is "plant seed from old orange" in the ground I can't see how the hell a patent is meant to protect that. About all you can do is irradiate the thing to stop seeds making it to market.
There are patented plants out in the wild though. There are crops where the farmer literally isn't allowed to keep seeds because of patent bullshit. They are legally obligated to buy fresh seed from the company each time. And if this sounds like grade A bullshit, you'd be right. The American GMO industry is fucking unhinged. If I were japan I'd be trying to keep this ROT as far away from my borders as humanly possible. I do not want a world where you need to pay fucking Syngenta every time you seed your crops.
However, there is a third type of IP law that can protect the farmers in this case and SHOULD protect the farmers stolen saplings be damned. Trademark law. Lets take the drug acetaminophen. Under the brand name Panadol it costs 43 cents per gram. Under the less prestigious brand name Rowalief it costs 17 cents per gram. Exact same amount of exact same active ingredient. But everybody knows and trusts Panadol, so Panadol gets to charge more than twice as much.
You don't need to copyright or trademark the damn fruit idiot. Your brand name is responsible for that. As long as everyone knows they invented the fruit and not the Chinese knockoffs, they'll make back their investment from the sort of sad loser who's phone needs that apple with the bite taken out of it on the back.
Oh, and to the loser in the comments who said "it's a fruit not an OC", I hope your OC gets fed into the ocean guzzling plagerism machine. As much as I think its stupid and evil to copyright or patent a fruit, at least the fruit is a physical thing. People who make physical things, even the ones on the backend doing the science lab shit are making something of greater value than any novel or movie. The lowliest farm laborer stands above Shakesphere. Know your fucking place.
(I've heard that intellecutals/innovators tend to get unfairly valued above the people actually growing the oranges they invented and I agree. The underpaid chinese laborers who grew those oranges should be considered the real heros, not the people who designed them.
I'm sure there'll be some arguments that the Japanese growers are more fairly compensated for their labor. It would be nice if that were the case, wouldn't it?)
Thatâs a lot of words to say that you still support ip. I donât care what laws say ip is bullshit and even more so for fruit. no you donât have a right to tell someone else they canât a grow fruit. Itâs not a Chinese knock off theyâre just growing the same plant. Just in China.
IP needs to be reformed, but the world as we know it could not exist without it. The Walt Disney corporation is abusing IP. The company that made the GMO orange is just trying to recoup their investment.
If it should be beyond the protections of a patent then the orange isn't special and ergo why would the chinese growers go out of their way to steal it? Why not just sell regular oranges and tell everyone they're from stolen saplings of the three dollar orange? If it is special then the company should have temporary exclusivity on the sales of the orange in order to recoup their investment. R&D is expensive. Got a problem with that? Then don't buy the silly overpriced orange. Nobody's making you. They probably don't even taste that good.
There is of course the third option. You want the 3 dollar orange because it costs three dollars but you don't want to pay three dollars for it. "I know what you're worth but I don't want to pay what you're worth". The neurological deficiency better known as capitalism
No, Capitalism is about when you want things without having to worry about silly things like the cost of labor, or the exploitation of the global south. Well that's less capitalism itself and more the most effective tactic available.
You want the three dollar orange for twelve cents. Your boss wants you to work for three cents an hour. That's capitalism's worst instinct and the reason that when left unchecked it collapses under its own greed.
A) Its not about the global south, but it is the same attitude at play. "me want thing cheaper". That can't happen without exploiting SOMEBODY.
B) Nothing more capitalist than the expropriation of things that aren't yours. That's what America was built on y'know! Its a subtle difference but it boils down to "you don't own that lol" in either case.
Ok so so far we've gotten "capitalism is when you oppose private property" and "capitalism is when there's theft" and "capitalism is when anyone wants anything to be cheaper". We've also gotten "people stealing IP from an imperial core nation is just like if they stole it from a colonized nation".
I don't think it needs to be directly said atp, but you don't know what you're talking about at all
There's no capitalism without it. Its not technically a part of it in the same way that getting sexually abused isn't a part of being transgender. Technically true but it is depressingly difficult to find a trans person who hasn't been
"capitalism is when anyone wants anything to be cheaper"
Wanting things to be cheaper feeds capitalism. Amazon, Uber, Netflix, big box stores. The life cycle of these monopolies begins with undercutting. It used to be illegal in the states for wholesalers to sell at a lower per unit price if you buy more units. This meant a tin of beans in a mom and pop corner shop which provided jobs to the community cost the same as in that big ugly warehouse in the middle of bum fuck nowhere. Three guesses what happened next. And now the mom and pop shop is dying because Walmart and Amazon can undercut them while their employees live on fucking food stamps. There is a causal link in that chain that needs to be acknowledged. This is the world your thriftyness has wrought.
"people stealing IP from an imperial core nation is just like if they stole it from a colonized nation"
Yes, theft is wrong. There's definitely some inequalities in who goes to jail for it I have some objections to but until you have a solid plan to implement UBI, we're keeping the property rights because society collapses without them
I don't think it needs to be directly said atp, but you don't know what you're talking about at all
I am four parallel universes ahead of you. I see colours your feeble mortal mind cannot comprehend
Yeah you're so far ahead of me. I like how you make a big deal of talking bad about (what you perceive to be symptoms of) capitalism while also thinking a society without private property isn't possible. The way you've internalized all those hegemonic ideals passively and without inspection is very advanced. I've never heard anyone advocate for Capitalism But With A Safety Net before.
Also why did you even bring up imperialism and the global south if you apparently don't think imperial power dynamics matter?
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halfway through the pink/mad mew mew fight and feeling a lot of joy but also a lot of dread, do the two of them come out of the fight okay? im almost tempted to search up spoilers but i also dont want to ruin it for myself........
I just beat the fight myself, and all I can say is: don't worry but please play this without spoilers you need to get hit by the same emotional truck that I did /positive
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I've been reading Black against Empire, and I'm partway through chapter 3 at the time of writing this post. It's been a very thought-provoking read that I would recommend to anyone who doesn't know the detailed history of the Black Panther Party.
As I've been reading, I've given a lot of thought to the historical conditions surrounding the rise of the Black Panther Party, and comparing and contrasting them with the present day. The reason I'm writing a post now is because the section titled Bootlickers felt especially relevant to conversations I've seen on this website, and surrounding marginalized (particularly queer) spaces in general, at least in the US:
As the Party began to take more seriously its goal of becoming the vanguard of the black revolution, it came into increasing conflict with more moderate black political organizations. In July 1967, CORE held a conference in Oakland, bringing together representatives from a range of black political organizations[...]. CORE asked the Black Panthers to serve as bodyguards for the event but refused to allow Newton to speak or to list the Black Panther Party in the program as a conference participant. The organization took the further step of asking the sheriff of San Mateo County to telephone Newton and Seal to inform them that they could carry guns for that day only as body guards at the event.
The Panthers were insulted and offended. Refusing to participate on these terms, they published a response in their newspaper that articulated their developing role and distinguished this role from that of CORE and its allies. The Panthers argued that black people "must develop the concept of a Foreign and Domestic Policy for Afro-America. . . . We have to start viewing reactionary black leaders as BLACK AGENTS OF THE WHITE MOTHER COUNTRY. And reactionary black organizations can be viewed as BLACK FRONTS FOR THE WHITE MOTHER COUNTRY."
The Panthers were in the right. Standing in support of organizations and leaders whose methods and goals were incompatible with their own, who refused to support them in turn, would do nothing to advance their cause, and would actively subvert it. Giving in to that kind of treatment, even just once, would establish a precedent that would run counter to the Panthers' tactics. A precedent of letting moderate leaders and organizations walk over them and ask for their support without offering any in turn, leaving the Panthers powerless to advocate for themselves.
I see people regularly demand a kind of "unity' in queer circles that would have much the same result, in practice. A "unity" that demands that multiply-marginalized queer people (racialized, (trans)misogynized, disabled, etc) disregard toxicity and bigotry within queer spaces for the sake of mutual allyship, but never offers meaningful support in turn. But unlike the Panthers, these multiply-marginalized queer people seldom have any kind of organization amongst ourselves, and there are several rifts between subgroups who often perpetuate bigotry towards each other as well. Fractured, isolated, and powerless, there often isn't a choice but to take that "unity". So many people are stuck with a "community" that's subtly or overtly hostile towards them, because if they ever speak up they risk losing that and being left with nothing.
In that kind of environment, those who are more privileged within queer spaces have a responsibility to make it safer. Calling out racism, misogyny, ableism, etc. when you see it, and making an active effort to unlearn your own biases and making an effort to support those who are more vulnerable. It shouldn't fall on the people who could risk losing their support network if they speak out of line.
US-based writers: don't miss out on getting into the class action suit against Anthropic / LibGen
Apparently the deadline is tomorrow. (See the Bluesky posting over here for useful URLs.)
...Just doublechecked my entries in their database. They scraped essentially everything I've ever written. And confused Diane Wynne Jones with me, ffs. ...FUCKERS.
If you are US-based, get yourself on that list. Here's its URL:
libgen? library genesis? the largest free library in the world thatâs been circulating on tumblr for decades because of how valuable of a resource it is?
the same site that powers education in third world countries and for working class students worldwide who canât legally buy textbooks?
the same site thatâs a community-maintained archive of as many written works as possible to ensure written works of art will be available no matter who tries to destroy or restrict them?
the same site that allows valuable scientific research be available to the whole world, to those canât afford to pay hundreds for publisher access?
For people saying that this isnât about Library Genesis, itâs about AI:
 Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies
The Authors Guild has collaborated with publishers and the federal government to combat major piracy websites that cost authors millions in lost sales. We took down Z-Library and more than 250 mirror sites, successfully sued Kiss Library, and assisted publishers in actions against LibGen, resulting in blocked U.S. domains and multi-million-dollar fines.
This is the crusade youâre joining. And youâre a hypocrite of the highest order if you pirate stuff yourself or complain about torrents or open access sites going down while signal boosting stuff like this.
âBut AI!â The lawsuit isnât about AI.
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of author
U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that AI company Anthropic didnât break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books, but the company must still go to trial for illicitly acquiring those books from pirate websites instead of buying them.
Itâs strictly about digital piracy. The AI training part was dismissed. For the umpteenth time.
âThis is just ensuring big companies have to follow the same laws as the rest of us!â Yeah, okay. I hope youâve never accessed this kind of site, then. And I hope you wonât complain about, say, a comic getting taken off bato or being unable to find a book or journal article or about 12ft ladder going down. You canât cheer when penalties are issued for using the things you enjoy just because you donât like the people/companies enjoying them or the ways theyâre enjoying them.
Over a decade ago, I was an egg in college, deep in repression, and came inches from my egg cracking. I expressed to one of my closest friends how my sexuality was confusing me. How I felt like I wasn't straight but men were not appealing to me. How the ways I felt attracted to women felt different from the way I was supposed to be as a "straight man" and I couldn't figure it out.
She told me "you can be a lesbian", words I think some small part of me that knew I was a woman had been wanting to hear from another woman for years. I was confused as I was hopeful, and asked what she meant.
She said "men can be lesbians". And went on to explain how if trans men can be lesbians then cis men should be allowed to "identify as lesbians" as well. Reaffirming my manhood even as she comforted me and twisting a rhetoric of bioessentialism and male entitlement into simply pure male entitlement.
I felt sick with that answer, it felt like she was handing me a weapon to hurt women with and telling me it would be so valid of me to use it. I didn't know what I was but I knew I was not going to be a man forcing himself into a dating scene for women who love women. I retreated back into my shell. Resigned myself to straight dating, even forced myself to date men for awhile a few years later. It would be another 8 years before my egg cracked, 9 before I felt "worthy" of she/her pronouns, and 12 before I even dared to consider that as a woman who loves women I might in fact be a lesbian.
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Like, I am just at a loss for words. I don't know how to explain to these people that marginalized white people and men are not oppressed or neglected on the basis of being white/men, so it's quite silly (and that's being generous) to assert that there is any type of intersection between their marginalized identity and their identity as a white person/man that makes them uniquely oppressed. In fact, in positing such notions you lend credence to fascist concepts such as "anti-white racism" or "anti-male sexism." And when I try to explain this, they will ignore me, hurl misogynistic and racist slurs at me, or most bewildering of all bring up white people and men with additional marginalized identities as a "gotcha!" of... sorts. Either you fundamentally do not understand what I'm trying to explain to you or you're being willfully obtuse, but either way you are twisting the writings of black feminists so that they can fit into your incredibly reactionary worldview and I refuse to engage with you ghouls any further on that basis.
There are a handful of "Black Masculinities" scholars who do make the specific claim that black men are oppressed for being men, but, interestingly enough, they are generally actually somewhat honest and open about their opposition to the fundamentals of intersectionality.
IP law kills diabetic people and is constantly used to exploit workers for surplus value so I don't really care if your art was .00001% of the images used to inform the mathematical weights of an image generator, I'm not going to bat for intellectual property, ever