Orion Scribner @frameacloud@dragon.style

Tips for using Excel:
- At the top of an Excel window is the "ribbon." This shows that your Excel worksheet is a girl.
- The rows and columns are labeled in letters and numbers, respectively. The name box shows the name of the selected cell, such as "A1," which is what you should shout to sink a battleship.
- At the bottom of an Excel window is the status bar, which tells you how significant the worksheet is in society.

The earliest recorded use of the word "otherkin" for people who identify as other than human was July 9, 1990 in the Elfinkind Digest mailing list. Yesterday was July 9, 2020, so that word was coined exactly 30 years ago! Happy belated Otherkin Day!

Source, where you can read about the history of it: https://frameacloud.com/nonfiction/otherkin-timeline-abridged/

#otherkin #AlterHuman

@rey

Yes, Simba... in the circle of life, we eat the moths... but then one day our bodies turn into grass, and the moths eat the grass

What was that one-page comic where somebody trans pointed out why she didn't like unisex restroom signs being labeled with whether they have urinals, because people end up treating them like they're men's rooms anyway? I can't find it, anyone know where that comic was?

Retoot if the juxtaposition in this museum's sign is your gender

@Goldkin

These were nice, thank you for sharing!

(The other draft of this post said "As a perpetually tired person, I display virtually no behaviors.")

According to philosopher Judith Butler's concept of performativity, our genders are created through our behaviors, rather than existing inside of us. Luckily for me, as a nonbinary person, I never behave.

@anthracite

I don't understand what this footnote means but I like it

@monsterblue @skysailor

I was just glumly thinking this morning about how if I had scales, I would probably have as much of a bad habit of messing them up as I do about biting my nails.

@jake

Yes! But... oh, shoot, there was a manga that was all about this, so I was all excited to say what it was, but I don't remember the title or author, argh! It was about a girl who joins a VR MMO and uses a male avatar, on a dare from her brother who complained about girls getting too many handouts in MMOs. The moderator tells her they usually don't allow that, but they make an exception, and give her an avatar so superhumanly handsome that all the girls and boys try to flirt with her, and she has to keep it a secret that she's a girl. I hope somebody remembers what that was.

There's a part in "kimmie66," a REALLY good graphic novel about a society where everybody spends most of their time in VR, where the protagonist only briefly borrows her brother's ridiculously macho VR avatar, so that she can go talk to somebody who lives in the macho-dudes-punching-each-other VR. She's super uncomfortable about the other players thinking she's a boy.

I've heard that the anime .hack//Sign has a male VR character who turns out to have a female player irl, but you don't find out about it until late in the series. I think it was like, he was just as surprised as everybody else to find that out? It was an amnesia thing, or something. I'm very hazy about that show and I may be totally wrong.

There's probably a whole TV Tropes article on this already, but I'm not sure how to find it.

@Momentrabbit

thanks egon

tired: gender
wired: gander

honk