MOGAI Experiences

3 of the Militant 400 follower event - What's at least one thing you associate with the mogai/liom community? And why?

Probably bugs, that's probably like a little silly comparison but, think about it. Bugs come in all shapes and sizes, and the most diverse thing on earth is, well, bugs. They can be shiny, dull, colorful, dark, loud, quiet, destructive, helpful, etc. Bugs are truly all one of a kind, and we continue to discover more species of bugs every year! Liomogai is much the same, it takes all different kind of shapes and types and is endlessly growing! I think that makes liomogai so bugs.

Buggiest of bugs, the bug of bugs.

Eternica And Biblione Experiences

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As if I couldn't be more annoying than I already am, I am going to ramble about my experience with these identities. I absolutely am always thrilled to be able to speak about all of this any time of day because it's so fun to just ramble about my identity.

Eternica paved the way of happiness of figuring out things for myself. I have always seen teu as a part of my identity since it's very beginning as an idea. A special interest that became too intertwined with my identity that I can't seperate it.

Now with biblione existing, I've found another important aspect to my identity that I couldn't quite pin point or find a term for because it didn't exist 2-3 years ago. I felt as though i was the only one who has this unique experience of having something so integral to my being it's not JUST a gender or a mogai term. It's tied to my atypical dysphoria and my love for books. It's tied to the existence of teu. It's tied to everything I am. And finally having a word to this experience has me feeling seen and finally being able to speak of an experience that makes sense to me. Hence why I made biblione a general all encompassing term.

I have atypical dysphoria over not being in the teu world. I belong there. That is my home and it hurts so much to not be there. It's this gut wrenching feeling I can't quite literally put into words. It's like torture for me. Biblione is that term where I can say that i am biblioteu. Where I long to be home.

I don't care if biblione never gets traction. I don't care if no one likes it or vibes with it. It's a label that speaks to me and my experience. And I'm happy with it.

I can legit ramble about this all day because it makes me happy. But I don't want this to be too long. So I will leave it here.

See also; Eternica [ link ], Biblione [ link ]

Tagging; @radiomogai @muttchive

Talk about either your favourite identity term of yours or a random one that applies to you! Why is it a part of your identity, how does it apply to you?

i'll talk about a few :)

lignutumary first! my identity, unsurprisingly, ties very deeply into the concept of houses and homes. i think quite a lot about how our homes are reflections of us, and how we leave our mark on them as much as they leave their marks on us. the house i spent my teen years in was a farmhouse put up a century and a half ago, and seeing my bedroom marked with generations-old fingerprints brought a pleasant comfort

next, snake aromantic. for me, interpersonal love is deeply about trust, something that's built upon. sometimes that love isn't necessarily in a "human" or romantic way, and it's pleasant to be able to embrace that

Third, I'll go for something a bit more individual. I, Destin, am a rosary/femme and mainvamprin. My nonhuman existence as a vampire is inherently tied with my gender identity and presentation, and my manhood is also deeply tied to my feminine self.

03: Talk about either your favourite identity term of yours or a random one that applies to you! Why is it a part of your identity, how does it apply to you?

It's definitely hard to choose just one! I guess one term we coined which is a combination of a bunch of terms that describe us collectively- dracoolflyfloren (link). While we do view our collective identity as something impossible to completely describe, we love this term because it captures a lot of aspects of our identity. We view each aspect of the term (blue, green, teal, purple, turquoise, dragons, butterflies, genderfloren) as being things we associate ourselves with or we feel are connected to us, which is why I love it!

04: How do you express your identity though your behaviour or clothing? How does this relate to your identity? If you don't currently, would you like to in the future?

Being “Native Enough” isn’t, never will be, and never has been a real thing. Clinging onto this idea (Native or not) is a white colonial idea, even if you aren’t visibly Native, even if you didn’t grow up in the community, if you make the effort to connect, to learn, to take criticism, etc makes you as Native as the next one. To educate yourself and to become a part of it is what makes you Native.

If you’re the palest person in the room with pin straight blonde hair and blue eyes, you’re Native enough. If you’re the darkest person in the room with an afro, you’re Native enough. If you have green, hazel, light brown, dark brown, grey, or blue eyes, you’re Native enough. If you have blonde, red, black, brown, curly, straight, coiled, braided, natural, dyed, short, long, mid-length or shaved hair, you’re Native enough. If you have a nubian, greek, roman, snub, bulbous, hawk, fleshy, bumpy, straight, downturned or other nose, you’re Native enough. There is no look to being Native.

Blood Quantity is a white idea to deny, to restrict and to bar, even coming from other Natives. Because Natives (as much as the next) can cling onto white Colonial ideas, tribal superiority and the likes because one is “purer” than the rest isn’t a valid argument. It never has been, never will be, it’s hate filled.

And any individuals that read this and say “I’m x% Native, am I Native enough?” Will you educate yourself on that tribe/nation? Or are you just going to use that as a “Gotcha.” or an “I’m so exotic.” feeling? Or will you use it to understand? The practices, the community, the dressage, the food, the language/dialect? Will you stand with landback? Will you fight for other Native voices, including ones not from the same tribe/nation? Will you use the identity of being Native more than some pretty jewelry you can show off at parties?

I ask that Non-Natives don’t add onto this, nor any derailment of this post. Thanks.

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So this has been a question at the back of my mind for a bit, because I really like the musitation label

I'm aware that at the end of the day, the answer to this could boil down to 'it's up to user interpretation'. However, I know there's folks (myself included) who like having some frame of reference for things like this.

I think there's different ways one could go about it

1. Song meaning/symbolism. Art is up to interpretation, so this one can be tricky, but some songs are assigned a specific meaning by the creator. Ego Renegade Boy by Flavor Foley, on the surface, is about a boy who is put on trial for killing an innocent girl, but it's clearly meant to be a metaphor for being a trans man. Someone may present as masculine in the specific context of this song. For songs that don't have a clear 'meaning', I would say how someone presents as it is up to how you personally interpret the song.

2. How the song sounds. Things like how a song in major key sounds happy/uplifting/bright, while songs in minor key sound sad/serious/scary, could play into the presentation. This can also be shown through different instruments: pianos/violins being associated with elegance, guitars being associated with being brash or outgoing, etc. Fast songs could pair with a more bright and chaotic presentation, slow songs could pair with a calmer one.

3. Song context. This can kind of overlap with song meaning sometimes. Some songs are specifically made to sound like a particular emotion/sensation/environment, which can play into the presentation. (Ex: snow/winter levels in video games sounding 'cold.' More about this in this video ) Or, if a song is apart of a video game/show/movie/etc, when and why a song plays can play into presentation. I'm not sure how to give examples for this without spoiling plot points in specific medias, but a general example could be a song that plays during a character death could be paired with a grunge-y or somber presentation. An album that's themed around love can be presented through love-core aesthetics and such.

These are all suggestions, not a rule, none of these are set in stone because everyone interprets music pretty differently. At some point I plan on posting presentation ideas/suggestions for specific musitation labels (once I get the energy to).

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what do we accept?

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we accept positivity towards the general community, positivity towards specific coiners / archivists / etc., positivity about terms, or any other kind of positivity! we will not accept "callouts" of any kind.

who is the blogrunner?

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Talk about either your favourite identity term of yours or a random one that applies to you! Why is it a part of your identity, how does it apply to you?

2 of the Militant 400 follower Event - How did you get introduced to mogai/liom? How long have you been apart of the community? What's some terms you use of mogai/liom?

We got introduced to mogai (as Liom didn't exist then) through Amino back when we were around 10 or 11 (which makes it almost 9 or 8 years now) as we've seen the usage of xenogenders quite frequently there. We joined a couple mogai aminos to make friends, though this also allowed us into the understanding of neopronouns and such. Lgbtawiki (before it ate away at itself and mass deleted a bunch of pages because they weren't "real") basically carried our understanding of xenogenders for the longest time, then tumblr allowed us to build our identity due to the large coining community.

We did sort of leave the mogai community behind soon after, with the foreseen foreclosure of Amino nearing, people were moving to discord instead. And that kept me away from the community for about 3 or 4 years, and I was back and honestly, confused with how much change and addition there has been. I still find myself confused with some terminology I feel like I should be in the know about, but I find myself more often lossed in over half the usages and growth in terminology. Which Is far from a bad thing, if anything, it's good. And the way it has grown to make more space (i.e. liom) is beyond necessary. I'm happy for the community, always.

We use a lot of terms honestly... our favorite is Residentevilgender because its (Resident Evil) been our spin since our system split and it consumes our every waking thought. I think about it about 100 times a day. I'm not really going to note anything else because most of the mogai terms we use is ones we made ourselves.

I think its weird saying we've been in mogai for almost half our life now, especially because most mogaiers we've seen when they mention it got into mogai during 2019-2021 and it makes us feel like a mogai elder (which, I'm unsure if that's the right term since we're roughly the same age as most other mogaiers).

pt: day four of radiomogai's event(link). end pt.

How do you express your identity through your behavior or clothing? How does this relate to your identity? If you don't currently, would you like to in the future?

i used to a lot more — 'cus we used to dress up every single day to go to school — but not as much. the spoons, man... but, through our behavior? we tend to meow a lot actually. uh, we're not a cat nonhuman (unless you count lucky cat) but it makes us happy.

we just kind of act in a way that makes it very clockable that we're queer and neurodivergent, you wouldn't know from a first glance i think; well, that's a lie. either way, yeah. we do want to in the future.

if we could, we'd constantly switch between wearing fem, masc and androgynous clothing. that'd be our ideal presentation. generally we tend to embrace our feminine side a lot more, but we've been getting more comfortable with androgyny again and being an androgynous boy. it makes us really happy.

there's also aspects of viet street fashion we'd want to incorporate into how we dress and just being really over the top as a whole. i'm not quite sure how to explain :3

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"i don't. uh, i look good in everything. [...] i did have a recent switch to more androgynous clothing that covers most of my body; like, uh, most pieces of my body that give away my gender. i like androgynous... because it's funny. [...] no one can tell [what gender he is]." he enjoys gender fuckery, but usually tends to lean towards masculinity as a whole.

How do you organize or categorize your identity? If you don't, why don't you?

What are your experiences with names, pronouns, and other referential language? How does it relate or not relate to other aspects of your identity?

I don't know anything about the coiner of misceverse. And it's not like I don't support the term or anything, or have issues with the coiner. I just personally don't use or like the term because it's so easily conflated with fiction.

Any *drama or controversy surrounding the term or its coiner is something completely foreign to me and, quite frankly, I don't think it's something I should engage with. At least not at the moment due to my current mental space. I simply talked about cirnatura as it was a term brought to my attention and thought it could be useful to share. If you personally have issues with either terms or their coiners, that's fine. But, I don't wish to make much of a deal out of this.

(*The only thing I know about is a, now resolved(?), conflict about the coiner of misceanimalis' thoughts on the term and how their term (the misce prefix) is used. But that's about it.)

I was just having a scroll of posts using cirnatura and I’m deeply deeply disappointed and genuinely upset to come across this. Cirnatura is simply a term my system uses. That is it. You can use it or not use it, it’s up to anyone to choose and I won’t force anyone. Despite it being very personal to me I’m sharing it with the world in the hopes of connecting with others.

It is quite frankly shocking and ridiculous that people are going into other people’s inboxes to dissuade them from a word I came up with based on my friends. Yes I am friends with Lapin. Lapin also uses cirnatura. This has no bearing on it whatsoever. I have explicitly stated repeatedly that cirnatura has no ties to any kind of stance or ideology and literally anyone can use it.

I have also always encouraged people to come to me with any questions or concerns so I can resolve them so if anyone has any issues with my “questionable moral behaviours and standings” or those of my friends you can always talk to me about it either here or on discord (same @) instead of pulling stunts like this. Also this will be the last I speak on this.

CW for talks of harassment.

I've had.. a lot of different experiences with my orientation. It's changed quite a bit over the years, some changes took years, others took months.

My first time I realised I wasn't straight- I realised I liked both girls and boys. I was probably around 11 or 12, and found the idea of bisexuality through a youtube video- one of those storytime channels, in which someone described their experience being bisexual. It felt right, hearing that, so I privately started identifying as bisexual. I became more public about it when I was 12 or 13 at school.

I attended a catholic school, and many students there were unfortunately homophobic. I was exploring my gender privately around this time, and I was starting to realise just bisexual didn't fit- I felt I was a genderfluid, bisexual lesbian. I was definitely more interested in women, both romantically and sexually, but I still had interest in men- but not in a way that was typical. My interest in men was bisexual, but my interest in women was lesbian in nature, if that makes sense.

When I became 14, I was introduced to the mogai community and the concept of microlabels. I was a little confused by them, but I was in a mogai server, which helped me explore my identity a lot more. I realised I was a genderfluid trans man, and that pansexual was starting to make more sense to me, and fit me more around this time than the label bisexual lesbian did. I also started identifying as multigender around this time.

Fifteen is when I fully started embracing xenogenders. I also took in some labels around orientation, but those I was very nervous about. I coined some of my own terms, xenogenders, and had started to find myself more- But then an event happened. I was harassed for being a trans man by a cis lesbian, and she had threatened to 'fix me'. After this, I had lost all my romantic interest in women- especially cis women.

I started to accept myself omnisexual, which took a lot of time, but I'm glad I did. I also accepted the fact I was fictosexual around this time.

When I was 15-16, most likely early 16, when I realised I wasn't *just* omnisexual. I was sexually interested in every gender, with a preference for men, yes, but.. No romantic interest in women. I was Homoromantic. Finally. I felt like I was me- Properly me.

Seventeen.. I think this was when I fully accepted the fact I was objectum. The idea had been brewing in my head for years, but finally, I felt comfortable being objectum. I also believe I felt more confident in my alterhumanity around here, and much more comfortable being polyamorous then I was in the past.

Eighteen: Which is now. I am still an Omni Gay, and I have decided I am comfortable enough to admit to myself that I'm homoflexible, that my attraction to women is dependent on whether or not my partners currently identify as woman at the time or not. There's other bits of my identity I didn't touch on here, like my demisexuality, my aegosexuality, and so on, but this post delves into the main point of my identity.

pt: day five of radiomogai's event(link). end pt.

Talk about some sort of transition you've had or would like to have!

MEOOOWWW!!! we REALLY want top surgery!!!! i want those boobs GONE. EVAPORATED. FLATTENED. STEAMROLLED.

sorry. anyways. :3

our primary goals are top surgery & social transition in some manner or another; we're not super sure about bottom surgery at this point in time. we just wish that we could be socially genderless — not even socially a boy. a genderless thing that's called a boy sometimes.

i also wish that i could socially transition towards being a nonhuman. i mean, i can. but, where i live and with the people around me, i don't think that's happening anytime soon. plus, socially transitioning just feels hard for us considering how vast our identity can be at times.

if we could, we'd want to transition towards having a ton of different nonhuman features. primarily: canid ears & tail and itty bitty angel wings :3 we already physically identify as nonhuman, it'd just be fun to like have those features and have OTHER people also see them, too, y'know?

transitioning is also a difficult topic because we have so many different things we'd want to transition towards - changing our fashion style / how we present, somehow incorporating all of our identity into it, our nonhumanity, our extremely complex gender, etecetera. there's just a lot of factors that come into play that makes transitioning hard for us to talk about as a whole.

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"i wanna... i wanna be a twink. [shows him definition of twink] oh nevermind. uh... (really long pause) yeah, i'm pretty good right now."

How do you organize or categorize your identity? If you don't, why don't you?