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@chr @Canageek

The first place flying saucers were ever reported was in Washington state. Now we hardly ever get any reports of them anymore. That's not just because of camera phones. The space needle is working to scare the flying saucers off.

@bunnyjane

Oh, could you give me a link to the original, then?

The gender dysphoria isn't as big of a problem as the gender dystopia.

"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves" currently costs about half the cover price if you buy it for Kindle. (The iBooks version is just as good, but it's full price.) The eBook formatting is superb on all screen sizes, especially considering the complicated formatting in the print edition. It's strongly recommended reading for all kinds of trans folks (yes, it's nonbinary and intersex inclusive) and their allies. It's the trans 101 book *and* several of the advanced texts that I always wanted. If you'd rather wait, they're coming out with the 2nd edition in June 2021.

https://www.amazon.com/Trans-Bodies-Selves-Transgender-Community-ebook/dp/B00KQK8ZNS/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Zen koan: "A monk asked his friend, 'Since your master attained enlightenment, has he changed?' The other monk replied, 'Yes! Since then, when he eats, he *eats*. When he sleeps, he *sleeps*.'"

Me: "Gosh, I wish *I* could eat when I eat and sleep when I sleep."

A footnote to that zen koan: "Some translators say this should be rendered as, 'When he's hungry, he eats. When he's tired, he sleeps.'"

Me: "Gosh, I wish *I* could eat when I'm hungry and sleep when I'm tired."

@mmsword

Yes. All well crafted.

@mmsword

That is an excellent cw.

@fluffy

My guess was "Their name," but these answers are not necessarily mutually exclusive. :3

@dodec

That sounds really good, I'm glad you're feeling better, and that you have lots of supportive connections.

@dodec

It's okay to grieve over a job ending. It's okay to give yourself some time to regain your composure and move on. I hope you can do good self-care and do some fun things to keep your spirits up during this period of time.

@kistaro

Sounds good. What retailer? 👀

I'm ok.

@dodec

You're welcome, I'm really glad my resources were so helpful for you.

The world population is 7.53 billion, and nobody's just alike. Even identical twins are individuals. The motto of one of the big sites about otherkin used to be "harmony and discord," as a reference to how otherkin have some things similar to one another, and far more differences. A lot of individual otherkin/therians/etc don't even remotely have cosmologies or spiritualities in common with one another. It's okay to be different from other people with whom you share a category or label.

The range of diversity in the otherkin/therian/etc communities has always included folks who folks in the communities who let themselves be playful and creative with their identities, as well as folks who take their identification so seriously that they won't tolerate anything they see as undermining their realism and validity. I've been on both sides of that at different times. I've seen that either of them can make trouble, in their own ways. Gatekeeper-ish attitudes are definitely a thing in these communities, but the very heart of the communities is about finding and being yourself, no matter how weird anybody else thinks that is.

@TinyGabe

Champion is neutral... addressing someone as champ feels masculine/butch to me... but it doesn’t HAVE to be masc.

@anthracite

Now this like a new version of the Dragon Code!

@mdmarron

Right on. I wonder how personality associations come about in synaesthesia. If color-letter synaesthesia is often based on fridge magnets or kindergarten wall charts, where are little kids getting personality-number associations from?

Granted, numerology is *all about* associating personalities with numbers, so that kind of thing goes way back.

This is the 20th day of the year 2020.

@peculiarwarmth

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"? It's not about class *struggle*, but one of its big themes is awareness of class differences, and of poverty.

Brought to you by realizing that to me, 251 seems mostly red because 5 is in the tens place, whereas 215 is mostly silvery white because 1 is in the tens place, which changes the 2 to a more intense black and the 5 to pink. I don't know why my brain made up rules that were so complicated. You would think the numerals would stay the same color no matter what column they're in, and what numerals are with them.

Like fridge magnets, which are thought to be how most people end up with letter-color associations: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140611-can-synaesthesia-be-learnt