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
This blog has changed a lil bit since its creation to be a lot less fandom-oriented so I'm gonna replace this paragraph when I feel like it
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
👾Lux (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
☀️Summer (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
🍂Autumn (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 (✿^‿^)
💞September (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!!!
📝Jenny/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
🌕Winter (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
✨Loop (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
💖Mew 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...
💣Maddie (she/her)
Fictive. Figuring myself out. Ask me later.
🌼Daisy (she/it)
Ouppy
💜Violet (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
💙Luci (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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Not enough stories with disabled protags who were once independent loners and abled struggling with their new reality of relying on others. Where is the anger? . Where is your rage? Lets scream abt it. Rage rage rage.
Theres too much tip-toeing around the writing of violatile emotions for my liking when its part of the grief for your own body/ability. Grief thats mistaken for ungratefulness. Whatever.
Im gonna be so real i think that people are scared to show anger from disabled people bc they are scared of seeing disabled people through a lense of the average person.
They think the most saintly thing you can do is care for someone disables but don't care about the emotions the disabled person themselves feel. Once you reach a certain threshold of disability, people stop seeing you as on the same level of humanity as everyone else. So the thought of a disabled person actually having negative emotion towards this help is shocking to them.
Sympathy is handed out to those exhausted and hurt from having to care for disabled people (which is fine), but not those whom may be in the process of mourning their own bodies/ability/mind. We can show a nurse/doctor having a breakdown, have entire genres of show and movie and book revolve around it, but if a disabled person lashes out thats seen as something much crueler in the eyes of the typical viewer. Its spoken about in the same vein of a dog who bites and thus "needs to be put down".
Why? Why? One day that could be you. You are not safe from one day becoming disabled. Nobody is.
The fire is drowned in a familiar sea. It is clean, unblemished, dull.
A voice cries out between two worlds. It tastes quite unlike corn syrup.
"It cannot be here, and cannot be with me. So, where is your favored place?"
"...the cave. They say The Basilica is for me, but I see it for what it is. A prison, just for me. In this cave, in this exile, I am myself. I can only ever be myself there."
"You shine with a beloved blessing. Are you not special?"
"I am nothing but a humble guide for my betters. I am no Hierophant, I am no Saint. I am merely a tool. A means to an end. My 'blessing' is not a talent, but merely my lot. I am no one special."
"Many and more are out there, spinning into stardust, dancing in anticipation of your arrival. Are you not excited to meet them?"
"How can I be excited when meeting them is my purpose? I lost what I was made for. I lost that part of myself that is to create. The only path left is to meet them. The only path left is to help them. The only path left is to be what they need me to be."
"I see, I see. You are a possession decidedly dispossessed. Then... is there anything you cannot let go of?"
"...them. Their smile. Their laughter. The way they could control an entire room. Their debates with me. The chess matches and tea and the cricket. How they could strike up the band, and take the attention of the others away from me for a while. How they used to hold me..."
"Do you love the color of the sky?"
"You should know. You should know these skies are only black and screaming. Twinkling with unlight stars in a thousand different colors as it spreads from the foundation into the firmament. It is...beautiful. It is great and terrible."
"But the real sky is not for me..."
"Capricorn, hermit in the dark, seer past the millennium. I don't know how, but I've found your cards for you."
"The first, fate and the turning of the wheel. Infinite possibility, rolling over and over itself."
"The Ruler of Everything"
"Second, what you are; how interesting, the way it turns against you."
"To be alone is my strength. My weakness. My blessing. My curse"
"And the third... oh, that's a mirror. Here, face yourself."
"Ah...quite so...it couldn't really be anything else, could it?"
Don't Forget, I'm with you in the dark.
I found these absolutely stunning renders made by the animator Ilikeducks, and was inspired to make some custom designs using them. Go give them a follow, they make great stuff.
I just don't think it's transfeminist at all to only engage with something when it pertains to you or mentions a group that you're a part of! It feels like a betrayal and it aches to know that transfeminist spaces aren't safe for people like me. I want to have a sisterhood with you girls, but is this what sisters do? Not help the girls that they have the social power to step on?
I've lost count of how many instances I've seen one of my white followers obviously going through my blog and liking/reblogging posts about trans girls, but skipping over posts about racialized people! It doesn't stop hurting.
ive noticed this very thing on my own blog, from friends mutuals and random people alike. where the more generalized the post is the more engagement it has. reblogs likes replies, people discussing the topic and actually Engaging with the post. but the posts about being a black trans woman? the posts SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW I NOTICE DISCUSSIONS ON RACISM GETTING IGNORED?? fucking guess! i am so sick and tired of you people ignoring us. im used to the slurs and the abuse and the fear of living in this skin, but seeing a friend give barely a glance when i talk about anti blackness hurts so fucking bad. why dont you care?? why don't any of you care??? would you care if i told you ignore us is itself racist?? do i have to (RIGHTFULLY) call you racists for you to give a shit?
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After the new patch I added in a new sprite for her!! The Google Drive file has been updated!!
The sprite has been added to the pool of reactions she can do when you poke her face as well as a really small chance for her to do it on her own, if you are too impatient and/or unlucky it's also in her actions list!
A few missing pixels in her climbing animations were also fixed
Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head
Don't think I'm plural but I do read a lot of plural biographical conics and one of the ... things in my head is slowly morphing to look like how one of the alters depicts themselves in this one comic I read a lot AND . AGH. Like why does my thing look like that. Stop. My god, its so embarrassing, I'm hoping they'll eventually morph to look different. I'm not gonna let it get me accused of plagiarising someone else's alter. I guess I can just refuse to ever draw it but that. I dont like that idea.
I know factives are a thing but I'm not letting it.
Truth is that we as people often latch onto existing "templates" as a jumping-off point for defining our identities, doesn't mean that your definitely-not-a-headmate is gonna stay that way forever, just that they resonated with that depiction and comparing themself to it is a useful reference point
And with how many headmates play similar roles across different systems y'all wouldn't be alone in that sense either, every system's unique but there are a lot of repeated patterns among some of 'em
You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.
Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.
this is a statement from victryena, a trans woman of color who was mass harassed by (mostly) white trans women on twitter for reposting a protest sign saying "white trans people are oppressors too". the sign itself was a response to septembersister, a black trans woman and refugee in canada, having her speech suppressed at the vancouver transgender march protest. here is her full speech, made later. i am platforming them because they need to be heard, and the content of their words is urgently relevant to the current state of transfeminist discourse.
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I'm ngl it kinda kills me that the thing that is killing Hank Green and making him go through mass cancellation is him saying that he sometimes uses AI for research.
Like not the horrible video on hrt, no of course not. Loudly and proudly declaring "we don't hire transfems here at scishow"? Nobody gives a shit!
But say "i used Claude as a search engine for academic articles" and every creator on youtube takes turns shitting you as you go into fucking witness protection.
There is a connection here with that post I saw the other day about how being performatively anti-AI can be a way to loudly declare one's commitment to "good values" without actually having to care about uplifting any marginalized communities
#1/10 of my instagram feed is phd students sharing ai tools for research#there’s this professor whose class i dropped who just produces ai slop constantly#unabashedly#super productive but sends out so many papers for publishers and gets rejected constantly#he said ethics aren’t real lol and he works at the school of medicine for bioinformatics#oh and he made all his students upload their code to his own github and stood over them to make sure they deleted it from their pc’s#’its university property since you took this course’#he was evil
ok this is kinda nuts bc while AI tools can be good for quickly locating a large body of SECONDARY sources for your given project and can even be good for combing the occasional website for primary sources, there is absolutely nothing in the technology that can assemble the stuff necessary for a full article (bc you are pulling from openly available stuff so people in your field will have accessed this stuff before you, its not going to be new and pathbreaking primary sources) and two, while it can be helpful to let ai generate a first draft just to see your ideas on a page, you're going to have to make the AI iterate on that thing like a dozen times just for it to be kinda where you want it and even then you will need to spend days going through and editing and rewriting it bc its AI, the writing style will always be straight ass.
idk i just feel like ppl in this dude's field must hate this guy too
presumably they're putting in their own experimental data, people will try to use ai for shit like "here's our 20 measurments, make it into an article". but if it's bioinformatics.....who knows what the supposed real data even is lmao. ime bioinformatics people tend to be very a.i.-positive bc their work is about seeking meaning in huge volumes of information, and that's a process where a.i. produces results. and i guess if youre kind of a dumb guy, you'll start believing that if it can do that, it can do all the rest as well.
Oof. Yeah I'm a historian so honestly I feel a bit extraneous to the convo bc nobody ever even mentions us in AI discourse. Also I think a big part of using it in a halfway decent way is looking at it as a stupid computer that can fuck up and not like, getting so weirdly enamored by its ability to phrase stuff in a generic "smart" way like some people seem to.
And wait I just reread your thing and Im realizing this is STEM ppl and their weird hatred of writing essays, which like idk to paraphrase one guy "Claude is a great research assistant and a lousy writer." Like that's the last thing I would use it for lol. I had it doing some preliminary research on open archive sites and it kept going back to this concept of "labor-nuclear convergence" as the essence of the research and I had to be like no, whatever pattern you think you are recognizing I need you to shut the fuck up and do what I tell you.
yknow it is still so popular on tumblr to associate japanese media with annoying perversion. even now. i was in a conversaton saying that attitude was prevalent 'at the time' of the late 2010s but. no. new post from today just saw it associating anime with disgusting perversion. racist website
...You find yourself in a vast ocean. Treading water. Are you on the surface? Below the waves? You've got no hair to indicate this.
Someone's swimming beneath you. A microphone, wet and sparking, is held to your face. It tastes nothing like Flamin' Hot Nacho Cheese.
“You're a 'Star Athlete'. What strengths and magics within you make that so?"
* I always play fair and I never give up.
* Those are the two most important aspects of sportsmanship!
"Do you have any passions or desires outside of sports?"
* I've pretty much dedicated my entire life to baseball, but I also think math is fun.
* It's like a bunch of little number puzzles.
"Your coaches and teammates should know you. How'd they describe you, if I asked?"
* "She's reliable", I hope!
"If your team had a mascot, how would you want it to be?"
* Hmm... A mascot for the KNIGHTS...
* I'm kind of imagining a creepy-looking black knight, like the one from that old pinball game.
* Maybe it'd have a baseball bat instead of a sword.
"When I try to open this face... I can't see any women playing in the MLB. What's your plan for when you grow up?"
* ...
* I'll make it work.
* I have to.
"I see, I see... thank you, North Star, knight of the third base, pinch-hitter past the millennium. Before you leave me behind... here. Make sure to bring someone’s justice..."
"...and watch out for cars."
"And the third... oh, that's a mirror. Here, face yourself."
* (You've got your game face on.)
* (Like always.)
Genuinely surprised to see this from Jamie p and super glad as well. I feel like it's become such a pattern of seeing white queer creators casually say some racist shit or something to come out and then never properly apologize.
So seeing Jamie Paige be outright "No fuck y'all stupid racist white teens, she'd rather stop making music catering to you than let you make a fool of her art" is incredibly refreshing and makes me glad that to be a fan of hers and feel both seen and comfortably safe knowing that for once someone has the decency not to be a racist piece of shit!
Also go listen to Slayr right now! I remember hearing a couple of his songs before, and liking all of them, and this one is no different. Honestly I hope we get to see more hip-hop sampling and remixes of vocaloid music because its so so cool and wish it was done more often.
And hey this is also directed at all you fuck ass "rap is overstimulating" idiots on Tumblr too!
Something else I think is important to add to this post as well :]
A bit more self explanatory, but I'm glad he's confident to state it for the people in the back that Vocaloid isn't just a white people thing. It's a bit bittersweet to me in a sense that a lot of black creators online feel the need to hide themselves, but I definitely understand (I'm guilty of this sometime too the way Tumblr acts sometimes) but I'm glad to see that people are being more openly anti racist for once and I hope this trend doesn't stop.
Also I know it's already his most popular song, but it is such a banger too, go listen to this and the rest of his vocaloid music too!
i'm like a caricature in a children's show. "and then Whimsy took a deep breath, made a few polite phonecalls, and everything resolved itself 🥰" fucking hell man when do i get to punch someone hard as fuck in the jaw
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one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard (for myself, at least) is that if you're in a terrible mood and NOTHING is helping, then start doing the chores/responsibilities/job stuff/etc that you've been putting off. Will it put you in an even worse mood temporarily? Probably, but you're already pissed off, so you might as well double up on it at that point 😭 there's no loss. It's not like finally getting around to cleaning the house and scheduling appointments is going to ruin the good day that you aren't currently having to begin with 💀 And then, when the bad mood passes, you'll have gotten shit done and you'll feel a lot better later, even if in the moment you're having The Worst Time Ever about it.
guy with dissociative amnesia voice: yeah i just don't think i have any sort of amnesia with the dissociation. i would remember if i was forgetting something