This, But ATLA

i still can't stop thinking about non-it/its users responses to this post. how an awful lot of people think it's fine to refuse someone else's pronouns because of their own discomfort.

let me tell you a story.

i have been dehumanized almost my entire life. a combination of my race, disabilities, and the mental illnesses that i developed very early in my life meant i was treated like a monster. i started coming out as gay too early for my peers' comfort and that only added to that treatment. my dehumanization is enshrined in christianity. i took on the label of monster on purpose because i stopped relating to humanity. why should i want to be a part of a group who did nothing but hurt me and exclude me in the first place?

i don't need to be protected from my own goddamn pronouns. i don't need to hear about the historical dehumanization of queer people and people of color and disabled people because, like a massive majority of the people using it/its, i fucking know. i have for literal decades.

you know what hurts? telling me i don't know what's best for myself, that your discomfort with my life is more important than treating me like someone who can make its own fucking decisions, and misgendering me because you can't handle being reminded of the things that literally continue to happen to me. i'm not a poor unthinking baby that needs to be saved, and neither are the other it/its users.

if you have feelings about it/its, you can process them on your own time, like every other person uncomfortable with a pronoun set.

and for the love of everything unholy just call me by my fucking pronouns.

beeping. booping, even.

Treat the kin you meet with respect. I don't care if you think their kintype is "childish" or "cringe." You don't know their story and you're not in your head and - I mean, when it comes down to it, why hurt people? Why go out of your way to hurt someone?

Be kind. Have compassion.

If I could communicate to people using only beeps and TV static I would. I hate verbal communication

Why must this flesh vessel require so much maintenance??

I'm hungry but I'm not craving anything specific so I don't wanna eat

I'm sleepy but I have stuff to get done

I literally showered yesterday why do I have to frickin do it again

PLEASE JUST LET ME BE VOID

shoutout to the "cringe" otherkin

shoutout to the ones who have "cringe" sources

shoutout to the ones who have been told they are "cringe"

shoutout to the ones who are still working to release themselves from "cringe culture"

shoutout to this entire community, which has been called "cringe" again and again

yes, there has been so much "otherkin is cringe!1!!!!1" content.

and yet, we still exist.

cringe culture is dead. embrace it.

my big fear is walking into the next life and god or the gods telling me, "oh, that? your whole identity your entire life? yeah, you were just making that up. you're stuck in that human body forever."

and yeah it keeps me up sometimes. i'm not exaggerating. i genuinely lose sleep over this.

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"oh homeless people are just gonna use your money to buy drugs" and? and?? the government uses my tax money to buy bombs and cops, you think I care if someone in a shitty situation uses money I gave them to feel marginally less shitty? fuck off!