bug

welcome to my liomogai blog! you can call me bug 🐛 i mostly coin judean terms, but i make other self-indulgent things as well. if i forget to put alt text on a flag, please let me know, and i will add it! i am aplatonic and not interested in friendship, so please avoid DMing me for things like small-talk

thanks for stopping by!

are there any important dates when it comes to your identity? when did you discover the MOGAI and/or queer communities, or that you were MOGAI/queer?

i think i discovered the MOGAI community about two years ago, through stumbling across radio's archive! i lurked and hoarded for about a year, and then started this coining blog in january of 2025. it has been quite the journey!

i realized i was bi in 5th grade, came out as nonbinary just before 8th grade, and then discovered tumblr my junior year iirc which is what led to me finding MOGAI

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how do your views (on the world, on society, etc.) affect your identity, especially your MOGAI identity?

i've kinda already answered this prompt regarding gender, so i'll yap about other aspects instead

i view experiences like intersexuality and disability as community labels instead of "disorders" that need to be gatekept by the medical field. this impacts my intersex/mesosex identity and some mad-related terms i self-describe with. i don't plan to seek a "diagnosis" for several experiences i have, specifically because i don't see inherent validity in any given medical professional's opinion. that ties in a bit with being anti-psych and embracing labels like mad, insane, crazy, etc.

bug destoral

what are your feelings toward the MOGAI community? do you consider yourself part of it?

it's complicated. i used to be so confused and angry when someone would be like "i'm bisexual but i'm not part of the LGBTQ community" because that genuinely made zero sense to me. i am still wary of that, but i do understand it more now, since people often speak of the LGBTQ community as a monolithic belief system instead of a group of experiences that are marginalized in similar ways. people outside of the community do this (e.g. "they teach LGBTQ in schools now!") and people within (e.g. believing all LGBTQ people are leftists, claiming it is impossible to be LGBTQ and homophobic or transphobic)

as far as the MOGAI community specifically, i think it's even harder for one to say they're not part of it if they use MOGAI-specific terms, but to each their own. some people are very emphatic that opinions on syscourse, shipcourse, contradictory labels, transIDs, and more can deem that you "don't belong" in MOGAI, but i find that hard to accept since many of us do not choose our identities. perhaps we choose labels to an extent, but (for example) an anti-endo mspec lesbian isn't somehow less mspec lesbian because of their syscourse beliefs. so to me, it follows that they are no less MOGAI

what terminology do you use to describe yourself, and/or what others refer to you as? is it typical of your gender? does it vary by what setting you're in?

it honestly varies so much yeah, based on both how i'm feeling and who we are around. "bug" is basically an omninoun for me so there's that. most people irl use neutral language when referring to me if they remember, which is nice :) my aunt and uncle call me their nibling instead of niece/nephew. folks online are much more likely to use my preferred terminology because i usually make it easy enough to find by linking my pronouns.cc

how do you approach relationships, romantic or otherwise? what does an ideal relationship look like to you?

i usually prefer that relationships are more transactional or circumstantial as opposed to "deep bonds" and such. it's easier for me when a person wants something from me (e.g. information or assistance) and i can ask for those things in return, instead of just "natural conversation"