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Aaa thank you so much!!! ;v;

Ooh, I’ve thought about the aquatic thing before, but I never actually decided how waterproof he is… I feel like it would only be reasonable for the robot Kiko to be waterproof, because Kikos are amphibious, but Viarnne is like, an off-brand modded prototype robot Kiko, so I’m not sure how waterproof he actually is. I think he’s probably safe in shallow water, but going too deep could cause some problems related to water pressure that other robot Kikos might not face- I’m not sure he’d be able to visit Maraqua, for instance. Although… who isn’t aquatic who CAN visit Maraqua without like, magic spells… huh.

He probably should get a screen protector… I’m still not quite sure whether he actually sees through the screen, but it would make the most sense. It probably would be a lot like glasses, where you don’t always notice when they’re dirty but its definitely easier to see through them when they’re clean.

I love the idea of robot pet accessories because I love that kind of thing in real life, like when people make special cases for their Tamagotchis… I dunno how practical it’d be though, just because there’s so many robot pets and they generally resemble their non-robotic counterparts in body plan close enough that I’d imagine they’d just wear regular clothes if they wanted to accessorize. 

I feel like you could definitely do spooky pink.

I respect not everyone wants the label. I tend to only use it for myself. I think ops point was that saying it’s a slur as an attempt to stop them reclaiming it is a problem. It’s still used as a slur, but someone telling me I should feel ashamed/avoid language I am reclaiming for myself is just taking away a label I strongly identify with and (even if indirectly) does help terfs/transphobes who want us to feel ashamed/isolated :c

Yeah I think certain parts were just... not very well worded to put it lightly. Like no its absolutely not fair to even very indirectly accuse trans people that don’t like that term of helping transphobes. Like... no they aren’t. We could definitely come up with a new inclusive term that lacks the slur use history. Its not an X or Y scenario.

Not that I’m saying to you “don’t use that term you evil bad person you!” I’m saying “don’t tell people that were abused under that word they shouldn’t say anything because that somehow that hurts us all.” that’s bullshit mind game fuckery right there. Transphobes don’t benefit jack shit in regards to my feelings towards that word anymore than ableists benefit from me not wanting to reclaim the word psycho.

I miss my Neopets plushies. In 2004 McDonald's had Neopets toys in happy meals. My friends hung out at a McDonalds a lot (as we were teens and it was an easy place to meet up)... So they kept getting me the toys. I literally had over a hundred, all different types... But when I was 17/18 I was homeless... So I gave them all to a charity because I couldn't keep everything/carry it all around... That's part of why my neoblog is Plushie-Neopet. Fixation on lost gifts.

The second half of the original post goes yeah, it’s still used as a slur! But to randomly show up on someone’s post and spout “qu**r is a slur” without considering the context or that people have been reclaiming it for decades just comes across as a silencing/shaming technique. You don’t have to be a terf and assuming everyone who says it is one is silly, but it’s still doing a thing terfs gave been doing since people started reclaiming it imho.

Yeah. I treat the word as both? If someone says it’s upsetting to them I treat it as a trigger - and I avoid using it around them from then on. I just resent being told I’m not allowed to use it for myself when it’s the label that’s felt best describes me for ~15years, a word that summed up how my gender/sexuality was ‘other’ to most when more precise labels failed and could be used by other friends who reclaimed it to group us together.

But as a label it connected a shared frustration of my friends and I as teens, if that makes sense?