#affiniposting

[reallynotafaedragon]

Me: wow I'm not sure about the imperialism or noncon parts of HDG, but I'm really vibing super hard with the Affini. I wonder why?

Also me: spent forty minutes today telling a mentally ill friend how proud I was of them for leaving the house while they soaked up the praise like a sponge (this is a cornerstone of our relationship)

Also also me: spent the entire relationship with my ex doting on them, reassuring them and helping them with rent and food bills

Also also also me: gave to basically every mutual aid fund I saw until I had to start saving up for my own surgeries

Also also also also me: have a persistent fantasy where I buy a house large enough and get all the disabled/traumatized friends I've ever had to live in it together so I can support them all

Me: ...eh, its probably the size difference

[alyra-3rd-bloom]

Some delightful Terran behaviours that make me fall in love with my work every single day

Some cuties have a pass time where they will write un-intuitive instructions on a page and then attempt to attach it to an unknowing target, resulting in the target going on about their business with a sheet on their backs reading something like “kick me”. How deviously clever, although clearly not clever enough to know what kicking a mass of sentiant vines will result in, sometimes I think they do know and just want uppies.

How cunning they try to be without considering for even a moment why I would even think to leave a key to the door just laying in front of their bed without any protection, you’d think by the 1000th time I see a Terran face realising they just feel for a ruse it would make it boring, and my goodness would you be as wrong as the Terran who thought their ticket to freedom was a class A dunked keycard.

The absolute fire in the little dears eyes when they explain something objectively false, I’ve grown to respect how firmly they hold these beliefs in things like “stock markets” with their “capital” and “money that’s not actually real”.

The interesting lines in the sand they draw, if I pick one up without asking they hurl every word in the book at me, and yet when I de-cancerfy their bodies as they sleep and suddenly I’m the goddess from above sent to heal them

How their superstitions never seem to make the leap from speculation into reality, one went on and on to me about how their society was ruled by an evil cabal of shadowy figures and demon creatures, and then swore blind that their ‘war’ with us was for democracy and freedom

[fleshengine]

Boys and girls and other such individuals love me for my caring nature and willingness to violate their consent with mind altering drugs.

[gardenia-nettle-first-floret]

Today’s emotion is: finally realizing just how pet coded you are.

You love when your person gives you commands. You love it when they tell you what to do. You love how you whimper and whine. You love that phantom feeling of a tail you can wag. You love being a pet, don’t you petal~

Why I can see just how far down into the subspace you’re getting~ so cute~ is the little pet getting excited?~ Such an adorable simpering mess~ good pet~ good floret~

-Elmara Nettle, Ninth Bloom

[watercraver]

Imagine a hyper-intelligent quantum computer hidden, within a complex sci-fi super-facility, who's body is technically the entire facility itself. Now imagine that an Affini attempts to make the facility into their floret.

The facility, built and abandoned by the accord, has been alone for decades, and refuses to trust the Affini or even admit to their own sentience.

It constantly tells the affini that it isn't a sophont, and is merely reacting within its protocols. So the Affini wanders through the complex, avoiding the computer's best attempts at killing them, and trying to help the computer through the trauma that it refuses to have. Eventually the Affini manages to get through to it and leaves with a little flashdrive containing their new floret.

TLDR; GLaDOS* gets florted.

*not really GLaDOS, but you get the point

[flortnite]

More Affini should be chubby. That is all

[circuitfurscaleandvine]

🦉"Why would I want a plant to force drugs on me?". There's an intuition gap between abled and disabled, and it's relevant to HDG.

Sometimes, you're in so much pain that you /can't/ figure out what you need.

Sometimes, you're so fuzzy you can't reason out why the drug will help you.

Sometimes, you're so suspicious that the drugs seem like part of the problem.

Sometimes, your memory is gone and you don't know why you need them, don't remember they exist.

Not everyone can trust their brain to have their best interests in mind. If you're abled, you might not have experienced a moment where you realized "oh, my brain nearly got me killed there". Where you realize you can't always trust your own thoughts, or reasons, or emotions, or memories, or all of the above.

Not everyone can trust their body to support them, either.

Somedays, it won't get up when you need it to.

Somedays, the spoons aren't there to do everything you need.

Somedays, pushing through the 5 extra steps needed to use the restroom just doesn't feel worth it.

Somedays, you go to the event and realize it didn't have people like you in mind.

If you can't see the value of HDG through the lens of Kink, or Transhumanism, or Submission, or Little play... at least see it through the lens of Disability. So many people are already living in a world where they're dependent on caregivers. They're already at the whims of merely human "Affini". From that perspective, is it any surprise they might dream of a world with the best caregivers they can imagine?

"Why would I want a plant to force drugs on me?"

Because someone will. If not now, then 40 years from now, when you're old and can't take those drugs yourself. And when that day comes, wouldn't it be nice if it was an Affini?

[fields-and-florets]

My darling floret used to work at this thing called a hotel, back on her home world. Now I can usually tell whenever she's thinking about it because her adorable tail wags back and forth~! The best part being some Class-D's finally got her to explain why, apparently part of her duties was to explain there were to be no pets in the rooms. (What a horrid policy! There weren't any safety concerns!) And then part of her training she went and toured the rooms. So can you tell them what was so wonderful about that job dear~?

I-I went in the rooms, and I'm a pet~!

Exactly dear~! It's adorable how much they like breaking harmless rules, sometimes I set up silly little challenges just to watch her reactions. "Oh no, Petal don't..." "...knock over that ball of yarn from the countertop~" "...put those adorable mittens on~" "...let me collar you~" Dirt that mischievous look and her wagging tail are all I need~!

[saphig-iawn]

Affini Comforts Her Floret from a Bad Dream

A piece of audio fun, leaning into the more caring side of HDG. Enjoy my little florets~

[eleanor-second-floret]

Reasons why you might request a wellness check from the Affini

- your Hab is too hot

- your hab is too cold

- your tummy hurts

- your plushy fell off the bed but you can’t get it because you’re SO cozy

- you lost your tablet

- you are having trouble keeping your habplants alive

- you can’t figure out what to wear

- you suspect you are feeling feralists thoughts

- you are just kinda lonely

- you’re not lonely but you think it would be better with friends over

- you want to talk

- you don’t want to talk (you should want to talk, to the Affini at least)

- you need a bedtime story

- you begin getting existential feelings such as “why are we all here”, or “do I have a greater purpose in life” (the Affini know the answers to these questions)

- you burnt yourself

- you burnt your dinner

- you burnt your cereal

- you are happy

- you are sad

- you do feel cute (the Affini will confirm this)

- you don’t feel cute (the Affini will make you feel cute, and then confirm it)

- you have other sophonts over

- you aren’t sure what to do with your Notice of Intent to Domesticate

- you aren’t sure why you haven’t gotten any Notices of Intent to Domesticate

- you wanna watch a movie

- you want cuddles (mention this in your request so the Affini can bring Class A’s with them)

- your neck is feeling bare and you think a collar might fix it

- your overnet connection is not working (this is critical, it must always be working so the nice Affini can chat with you online)

- you want someone to go out about the station with you

- you are feeling particularly domesticatable

- you are not feeling particularly domesticatable

- you are locked in

- you are locked out

- you find your heart beating at regular intervals

- you are breathing

- you are existing

[transbian-goddess]

Affini Compact? No they're quite big actually

[gardenia-nettle-first-floret]

Today’s emotion is: breaking down in your Affini’s vines. Tears trailing down your face from the overwhelming pain and worry of living.

They hold you tight, reassuring you that you can rest now. That you are a good floret and you don’t need to worry or think. You just need to rest in my vines.

And you want to believe them. You want so badly to let go and rest. But you’re scared.

I shush you and tell you that everything is okay. That fear is okay. That worry is okay. I am here to take away all those things that cause you strife. And if you’re lucky, you might just stay independent.

[auntbibby]

does anybody else hope it's an affini habitation ship?

i wann be a cotyledon in october that wuld be nice

[flortnite]

One must imagine a dragon Affini guarding her floret like treasure

[circuitfurscaleandvine]

🦉Hypotizing a floret into believing she has a little dial on the side of her head.

Click click click, each notch turns down her thoughts a little more.

First it takes away the frantic edge, letting urgency fade into the background.

Then slowly removes complexity, til confusion feels natural and safe, til she's non-verbal, becoming my little puppy.

Click click click, down until she's slower than animal, draining background thoughts away, moving doesn't feel so important, thinking is something she needn't do, until she's a nice empty doll in my lap...

Give it a few weeks, I'll have the biomod on the market soon enough.

[tauon07]

florets just need to sit there and look pretty while i pet them and tell them how adorable they are. <3