Rowan

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

-Dysmetria

-Ataxia

-Dysarthia

-Nystagmus

like i swear too many of of them will say they support nonhumanity, they support nonhumans who aren’t human at all, they support physical nonhumans… but then they’ll turn around and go “but therians still know on some level they are human” or “but holotheres still recognize they have human bodies” or “but you can’t behave and act like an actual animal” or “but you can’t call yourself the same thing as the theriform animal because you’re actually human(-bodied, -socialized)”.

it’s all the same. “but you have to actually separate yourself from theriform animals still, right? right???? you know you’re not actually the same as an animal, right????? you know you’re human, right??”

pisses me off. why are we constantly trying to separate nonhumans from the animals they identify as. why are we constantly trying to drive a divide between them and their species identity. why are we constantly insisting they are different than “real” animals. it’s inherently anti-nonhuman to me, especially anti-physical nonhuman, and borderline ableist.

reminds me wayyy too much of transphobes who pretend to be trans allies whilst snidely going “but you still know your body is female, right? you still know you can’t change your biological sex even if you say your gender is different, right?” STFU!!!

[PT: Trisspecies recoining / definition coining]

This is both a sort of recoin of the term trisspecies, while simultaneously attempting to create a solid definition for trisspecies because I haven't been able to find one. Feel free to make flags; transspecies isn't as popular in the mogai community as other nonhuman labels.

My definitions are anti-radqueer and/or radqueer-critical. I am not radqueer.

Transspecies: identifying as and/or transitioning toward a species that is not the one you were born as.

Cisspecies: identifying as the species you were born as

Trisspecies: being both transspecies and cisspecies; and/or being somewhere between transspecies and cisspecies; and/or fluctuating between transspecies and cisspecies