It’s so weird that we have a culture that treats teaching pride to children as a bad thing.
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/why-reactionaries-hate-pride-and-narcissists-938d39261f13
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0·2 months agoWhen I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to meet aliens like in Star Wars. I gave up on that dream when I realised how hard becoming an astronaut is. I wasn’t willing to put in the effort. Especially if we’re not meeting any aliens until we invent warp drive.
But after I joined some fringe queer spaces and started really looking at the limits of our experiences, I realised you don’t need to be an astronaut to experience alien life. You can be an astralnaut instead. People like to say we’re all human, we’re all the same, we’re more similar than we are different. No we aren’t! We are so so different, but you have to be open in order to see it. 8 billion lives is enough for a mindblowing amount of diversity. Enough to blow your mind several times over. And the internet means you can meet them. We can connect and form communities for us weirdos. I don’t understand anyone who doesn’t want to explore the infinite diversity of gender, species, and religion. I just don’t get it. People who want to live in a world where everyone is human, and there are 3 genders and 4 sexualities, I don’t get it. I understand they’re the majority, but why? Why would you want this stuff to be simple when it could be so beautifully wonderful and diverse and complex? “Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the stars”?? I felt that way until I realised I was born just in time to explore queerness. And it’s what I always wanted, to explore and to learn and to grow. There aren’t enough years in a life to explore all the diversity of queerness. But I’m going to have so much fun trying.
Thank you for that story. I’m partway through the Vox article on Isabel’s experiences. It’s fascinating. I’d really like to be able to read her story. It sounds like good writing.
My partner identifies as an airplane. It was built shortly after WWII as a prototype to experiment with a new swooped wing design in combination with afterburners. It likes to play War Thunder to affirm its gender. If you care to explore the deep reaches of furaffinity and several websites, there’s actually a whole fetish subculture about sentient airplanes. I’ve met a couple people from within the community who also identify as planes. One of them’s a Cybertronian (a transformer) who turns into a plane. There are artists who regularly draw this stuff and have communities of fans. I’ve never met a helicopter, but I’m sure they exist. I bet they hide themselves away extra-good to avoid being attacked by crusaders. You probably have to fill out an extensive verification to be allowed on the helicopter Discord servers. When I first started dating My partner, years ago, it was so shy. I wasn’t allowed in its cockpit for months. It’s still just as shy, but we’ve known each other a long time now and it trusts Me to fly it. It recognises that its meatspace body is human, but its inside body on the astral plane isn’t. We spend most of our time together on the Astral, where we can be ourselves. The astral plane is used by so many otherkin. I’ve been in discord servers with hundreds of people who used it to be themselves. Mostly otherkin and plurals. Some trans people too. The otherkin and trans people who don’t believe in the Astral and can’t use it, their lives are measureably worse. I want to bring magical literacy to everyone so everyone can use the resources that exist for trans and otherkin people. That’s kind of the point of soulism. To let people choose their experience of themselves.
The key is to destroy consensus reality so that nobody’s left behind here.
nor am I going to kneel before You
Oh, I don’t want you to kneel before Me. A god’s divinity comes from Their worshippers. I only take My divinity from carefully chosen individuals. If I allowed just anyone to worship Me, they could twist My narratives and alter My fundamental nature. I actually have one or two hate cults who revere Me as a Satanic figure, and it’s very annoying. I wish they wouldn’t. I’m a dark goddess, but not an evil one. I fear one day they’ll raise an evil copy of Me from the void.
If it had been the case that physical reality could be altered through belief, then the solar system would be geocentric and the historical data from before the heliocentric model would be inconsistent with our current models.
Well, that’s a fundamentally mistaken premise. Reality has no physicality, and there’s no such thing as physical reality. Reality exists only in the mind. And obviously the mind interprets historical data in accordance with whatever reality it currently believes in, not in accordance with the reality of the time.
If reality is merely the product of belief, then it seems to me that I should start trying to convince myself that animals love being kept in awful conditions and enjoy being killed, and it is only because of assholes like myself who choose to believe that they are suffering that they suffer in the first place.
No, of course not. You’ve misunderstood the nature of the multiverse. Sure, you could create a new universe where animals love being eaten by humans. But all the animals in this old universe would still be suffering. You’d just be running away, you wouldn’t be solving anything. You have an ethical responsibility to the inhabitants of consensus reality, just as I and everyone else does. We need to ban animal agriculture so that the animals get to enjoy whatever new world we dream up too. It’s no good leaving them behind to be tortured and killed.
Actually, it’s a bit like how time travel works in Avengers Endgame. See, in the movie, they invent time travel, and then one of the characters asks “Why don’t we go back in time and beat Thanos so this bad stuff never happened?” As the Hulk explains, that would only create a new timeline, the old one would still have the bad stuff in it. Multiversal travel works according to the same premise. You have to effect change in consensus reality in order to improve people’s lives. It’s no good just making a new better universe without helping anyone here. We have an ethical obligation.
You seem to be switching erratically between different narratives. First you say you don’t want anyone to turn into a dragon, then you say you want Me to face the truth. Well which is it? I’m a dragon goddess, My truth is being a dragon. Well, some of the time, since I’m a shapeshifter. It sounds like you might not have heard of otherkin or goddessgender people before, and you’re assuming I’m a human. I assure you, I’m not, and this body that consensus reality has forced on Me is a cruelty. It has driven Me towards suicidal ideation in the past.
In case you’re uneducated about the minority groups that soulism protects, here are some articles I think you may find useful given what you’ve said in this thread:
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/a-quick-introduction-to-plurality-1f55c5c5d8b0
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/on-spiritual-genders-b4152c4503cb
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/i-was-right-about-rick-and-morty-doing-soulist-science-69a81930054c
The power to reshape reality isn’t science fiction, it exists right now. And right now it’s being used by the bourgeois. You don’t need to tell us it’s dangerous and it could be used for evil, we already know. All of us have suffered because of it. This power exists, and it is being used. It will always be used by some group or another, there’s no possible future in which nobody has the power to control reality. The only choice is whether the proletariat pretend it cannot be controlled, and leave it in the hands of the bourgeois, or whether we all recognise and use our collective power to throw off oppression and create an anarchist future.
Workers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chains!
We’ve been having a lot of fun with this post on our discord
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/hooray-soulists-are-being-made-fun-of-on-lemmy-8a233cea55c1
Can you make more like this?
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0·3 months agoYour very existence is an act of revolt, and I hope it upsets as many reactionaries as possible without compromising your safety.
I genuinely want more dead cops.
Thank you! If I get more reports of paywalls I’ll switch to posting scribe links by default. Hopefully this was a one-off bug.
They paywalled My articles? They’re not supposed to do that, I have monetisation disabled! I can’t see a paywall in incognito mode, can you share a screenshot of the paywall?
Until I get this sorted out, here’s an alternative frontend
Yes, that blog is my blog.
I don’t even think that employee was being a dick. He’s a man, the customer was calling for a woman. How’s he supposed to know she wanted his help if she won’t say so? She was just bad at communicating with her words, not his fault.
Kids really are being groomed by adults into having homosexual thoughts and homosexual arousal. But it’s not the gay adults who are doing it, it’s the homophobic adults. Homophobia causes homoeroticism as a fetish.
Oh yeah you might be right about most of the “homosexuality is a choice” guys. I wrote that article right after Nick Fuentes got caught looking at gay porn, so I was thinking about that cliche.
That’s not true at all. I have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and I care about others very deeply. And My actions reflect that. For example, recently I shut down a cult discord server run by a pedophile who’s dating kids from the cult. This is because I think adults dating kids is bad.