#hyperspecific positivity post

[mrbrojangles]

Okay hijacking the 'hyper-specific' trend but shout out to any big, fat, muscly, masc-appearing non-binary personages. Especially those amab.

You might have a beard. You might look like a small building that has gained sentience. You might be really fucking good at all the quote-unquote "'manly'" activities. You might just look like Jack Black.

I'm telling you now it doesn't matter. How we present does not define us. If you know in your heart that you exist outside of any binary: that's all that counts.

Be you. Be the youest of yous. Fuck everyone else. We know who we are and you are beautiful and wonderful and rare and you are exactly as femme or butch or whatever as you want to be - just by being you.

Split that wood. Wear those heels. Sing that song. Grow that beard. Love that pushup bra. Fucking slay!

Yeah some assholes will call you Conan or Gimli or fucking Hagrid.

Embrace that and use that energy they have ascribed you to tell the world to go fuck itself.

[starstruckloves]

* scary dog guard privileges is just when someone looks scary n intimidates others (whether they are actually scary or not)

[sobbingscripter]

⋆.˚🌷༘⋆this is an mdni blog so... You know, viewer discretion

⋆.˚🌷༘ you can call me... Later *rubs hands deviously and rizztastically*

⋆.˚🌷༘ she/her

⋆.˚🌷༘ 19

⋆.˚🌷༘ writer for mlw and wlw

new!⋆.˚🌷༘ i write fluff, smut, crack and from May 15 to September 1st, I write angst. (Very specific but it's winter by me, and I have seasonal depression ❤️ also, I write angst on October 26. Specifically.)

⋆.˚🌷༘ i get to requests when i feel like i'm in the optimal position to complete that specific request so i don't always complete them in the order i receive them

⋆.˚🌷༘ i don't write: scat; minors; beastiality; noncon; vomit; genderbending nor do i do hyperspecific works because more vague = more people can enjoy

⋆.˚🌷༘ please don't be a dick. this is a safe space

⋆.˚🌷༘ i can do: one shots; drabbles; or just headcanons

⋆.˚🌷༘ my only weakness? *sighs nonchalantly* I'm just... Too hung. Like, it's actually a problem. My wiener tends to drag against the concrete, and it leaves delves in the pavements (i lowkey need to be attracted to a character to write them so like, i go watch a bunch of edits, do some research and go use them on character ai to see if i can envision a life with them)

all of these works are my own creations, except the characters (except riot. he's from my brain) please do not plagiarize, steal, copy, translate or post elsewhere without asking for consent. i work really hard on these and i've got the tears to prove it.

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ dc comics

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ invincible

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ jujutsu kaisen

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ hellsing ultimate

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ marvel (coming soon)

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ star wars (coming soon)

⋆.🦩࿔*:･ call of duty (coming soon)

⋆.🌺࿔*:･period playlist

⋆.🌺࿔*:･ seasonal: 11 days of christmas 2024

⋆.🌺࿔*:･ seasonal: my funny valentines 2025

⋆.🌺࿔*:･ seasonal: 7 shades of pride 2025

⋆.🌺࿔*:･ seasonal: kinktober 2025

⋆.🌺࿔*:･ seasonal: no nut november 2025

⋆.🌺࿔*:･ seasonal: 11 days of christmas 2025

These are drabbles so... They're in a display case :3 because they're tiny and little displays of the writing style that's in my more... Wordier works

⋆ neighbours (frank castle)

⋆⋆ morning glow (damian wayne)

⋆⋆⋆ beastly (garfield logan)

⋆.💮࿔*:･⋆.˚💮༘⋆⋆.💮࿔*:･⋆.˚💮༘⋆⋆.💮࿔*:･⋆.˚💮༘⋆

Add yourself to my taglist: ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪˖ ִֶָ🐇་༘࿐

link to my commissions post: ⋆.˚🦩༘⋆

⋆.💮࿔*:･⋆.˚💮༘⋆⋆.💮࿔*:･⋆.˚💮༘⋆⋆.💮࿔*:･⋆.˚💮༘⋆

ᴀʟʟ ɪɴᴛᴇʟʟᴇᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ᴘʀᴏᴘᴇʀᴛʏ ᴏꜰ @ꜱᴏʙʙɪɴɢꜱᴄʀɪᴘᴛᴇʀ

[sabertoothwalrus]

years ago I’d made a post about how tumblr should add polls, and then they added those, l so now I’m saying they should add a mute button.

iirc you used to only be able to search tags, and they had to be verbatim or else the posts wouldn’t show up, AND only the first 5-10 tags would show up.

Now, any word in the post or tags is searchable. So now, if someone wants to complain about xyz, and only intends for their followers to see it, someone else that’s trying to find positive stuff about xyz are going to see those complaints.

I actually do like the increased visibility of the search filter, but I also think it’s been leading to needless drama. It seems silly at this point for tumblr to not have a mute button. Just because I don’t want to see someone’s bad takes or “technically-sfw” hyperspecific kink art doesn’t mean I also want to permanently bar them from interacting with my posts.

[militantcoining]

For day 14 and the final of the Chronically queer coining event!

Gonna, firstly say, so much love to the mogai community. We've been apart of it since elementary school (or very early middle school)(which, is crazy information to reflect on), and coming back to interact with the wider community after, like, five years of not really interacting with it much has been a bit of an eye-opening experience. It's crazy seeing so many of our favorite mogaiers inactive, and no longer posting, but, I've definitely had the chance to see plenty of other mogaiers out there who've definitely won us over in the long run.

Long post btw.

To the archives first!

@radiomogai and @mogaiwarchive, I love my fave (and really only) archive blogs I interact with. Thank you Radio for being the sickest, most organized archive blog we've ever seen in our lives (like WOW!! [Positive]).

And thank you warchive and your beautiful BEAUTIFUL blog for existing. I thought I was going batshit trying to find military terms, and then appeared like a ray of light, praise be. I'm always here for the more controversial (is it controversial? It isnt by our personal definition, but, 🤷‍♀️) of blogs and the organization of terms.

To the individual blogs second!!

@rabidbatboy - Actually one of two that inspired me to get into coining. Its content actually made me feel very not, alone in my experiences with our identity. His blog was kinda, like, stepping into a warm kitchen with a hot meal waiting for us. I appreciate you, and your content, it has the biggest place in our heart of hearts.

@francicide - The second one of two that inspired me to get into coining. I greatly, appreciate, just, how unashamed you are in the content you make. Like, How fiercly devout you are to your own interests. I say that because I found your blog looking for stuff related to The Thing (because the movie is our heart), and your blog felt like a thing of kinship, honestly. A breath of air.

@xenicfruit - It was so crazy to find out from rot I was inspo for evils blog, because rot was actually sort of one for ours once evil started to appear on our feed. We have SO much appreciation for your blog, omg!! Definitely shown us we should lean into our hyperspecifity more at times when making terms and make our flags prettier (ugh, i love your flags 💔). Your blog is definitely like, once I come inside after playing around in a hot summer day. Chugging down a cup of koolaid and fucking up some fruit.

There's definitely a lot of other mogaiers out there I love (platonic) and appreciate, though, these are the main five I automatically think of.

Also, sorry if my words are lacking on any of these points. I never feel as if there's enough words to conceptualize how I feel about things, especially in positive ways.

[wtfanworkclassification]

Giro d'Italia 2025 Fanwork Classification Results!

The results are in at last- and the mods would like to thank everyone who participated in the 2025 Giro Fanworks Classification. Whether you created a fanwork, commented, betaed, or cheered everyone one it is a net positive for Cycling RPF as a whole. But we do have some winners of the classifications to congratulate.

First, the general classification and thus the maglia glitterata has been won by a substantial margin by those who chose to post anonymously this classification. While this means the jersey cannot be formally awarded to any individual in particular, it does mean that whoever wishes to post anonymously next Giro is thus helping to defend the jersey. Congratulations to however many authors were involved in this- it was an impressive GC campaign!

For the individual campaigns hoelywritingsx won the hilly (or AU) classification, legendofthefireemblem won the mountain  (or trope) classification and olympiaslover won the ITT (or challenge) classification. For the first of the gauntlets, Hyperspecific Week, the anonymous collective reigns supreme- perhaps another gauntlet will approach in the near future for people to try? Who knows! Nevertheless, congratulations to all our participants and we hope you all had a wonderful time! See you all soon for the Tour!

(admire the maglia glitterata below)

[cpvnksabm]

hii, i hope this ask isn't a bother or annoyance, but as an rtc fan i was planning on eventually writing and posting my own fics, most based before the events of the roller coaster accident and I'm unsure of how to write Ricky's parents.

I've read fics that portrayed Ricky's parents as loving and caring of Ricky and acknowledging his needs. But I've seen fans point out that Ricky's parents' choice to stop speaking and use hand gestures only they understand further isolated him, when they easily could've learnt ASL as a form of communication.

I am not disabled myself so i wanted to approach this w/o being dismissive of the issue. I always interpreted as Ricky's parents trying to be well intentioned but ignoring his actual needs and it lead to him being isolated by those around him. But i don't want "write it wrong" or potentially be offensive.

Again, sorry if this ask is in any way a pain or an annoyance, i really don't want to be a bother lol

sorry for taking so long to get to this

i'm answering this less as a Disabled Person or Expert and more as a Fic Writer Myself: i think it just depends on how canon compliant you want to be. or how you want to approach canon compliance. i don't think there's a right or wrong answer here.

the fact is that, when it comes to the canon description of how ricky communicates. if you really wanted to you could write a whole ass hyperspecific situation in which it makes the most sense to communicate using "strange gestures", but the most likely explanation for this detail is that The Writers Messed Up. they wanted to portray ricky's parents as being Supportive And Quirky, and they thought of "communicating in strange gestures" as one way to get that across, without doing any research into how disabled people in ricky's position would generally communicate in real life.

so, when it comes to fanworks (fics, headcanons, etc etc). some people ignore the exact phrasing of that line and go with something close to what the writers intended except more realistic, usually ASL or AAC. other people take what i like to call the "malicious canon compliance" route, where they take something that they know was just the writers being lazy/wrong and say "okay but wouldnt it be fucked up if i took them completely at their word here" - in this case, that would be expanding on exactly what "strange gestures" means (a friend of mine headcanoned it as a family signed conlang) and then exploring the realistic implications of ricky being so linguistically isolated like this.

and then some fans take a third option entirely and, instead of choosing a specific way to interpret what canon says about ricky's family, just make up their own headcanons and have fun with it!

i hope i dont come across as like the "canon compliance police" or anything when i make my long rambly posts about how i think people should try harder to be canon compliant in depictions of ricky's disability. i just think the canon disability rep is really important, and it's a problem how often people casually erase it (frequently by changing it to another disability to be more "palatable"). i dont think all fics should be 100% canon compliant, very few are, and when it comes to stuff that ISN'T important representation or that was just wrong/weird/stupid in canon to begin with, everyone should just go nuts and have fun.

sorry for the long rambly non-answer but the tl;dr is: do whatever works best for your fic. if you're worried about "writing it wrong" then consider getting a disabled beta reader (i am willing to beta read fics btw)

[dovoodles]

Vivit Characters if they had Letterboxd

by suggestion of a friend, because I put too much effort and wanted to post this

ASH: Super fucking dumb reviews. Makes hyperspecific lists (i.e. the shrek and get out one) and reviews based on how funny it'd be. Sometimes shes seen it. Sometimes she hasn't.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆: Justice for the grinch, to be honest. He's literally just an anticapitalist victim of racism raised by two lesbian moms. He did nothing wrong.

☆: The only part I liked was when Morbius said its morbin time and morbed all over the place

MACK: RELIGIOUSLY leaves reviews for everything he's seen. He's super positive about every film, always seeing the strengths even when he doesn't like it. They're always super detailed too, usually a paragraph or two in length. All his reviews scale from 3 stars to 5. Only one movie has ever been given a one star review.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆: I think this is my favorite film of the year :D To start off with the positives, the choreography for the dance scenes was very fun to watch and ... [read more]

☆: I can tell the writers tried to make this really informative! I'm not sure what their sources were, as everything is categorically wrong, but they tried! Here are links to every article that debunks this :o) ... [read more]

NERVA: Only leaves reviews for her hallmark binges. Her litmus scale is based on quality in relation to other hallmark films, and puts a note before every review that in relation to any other film, they would garner two stars at most, zero if it were possible.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆: Surprised me. A hallmark movie has not done that since 2063. It was interesting she stayed with her New York City Boyfriend. Unexpected.

☆: Another copy-and-paste plot. The third act misunderstanding occurs at one hour and thirty-five minutes, as it does with every movie. The kiss happens twenty-six minutes later: A minute more than usual. This means I had to sit through an extra minute of this movie. Oh well.

SAMUEL: Only really updates it to say he has a letterboxd. Posts a review every so often when watching a film he enjoys, spending most of it rambling about his personal analysis than anything else. Oftentimes surprisingly good though.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆: Another masterpiece from this director as always. No surprise there; with his nihilistic worldview, the character study of ... [read more]

☆: I came with an open mind. Regrettably, I'm disappointed. My child encouraged me to watch this, and though the low age demographic was a warning sign in itself, this truly exceeded my expectations in the worst way possible. To present this sorry excuse for a "story" to young impressionable minds ... [read more]

VIDA: Posts a review for every single movie they watch, and there's a lot. Like, one a week, at least. They post full essay length reviews, broken down into sections. They've got it down by a science. They also regularly make organizational lists based on tone or situational enjoyment. They have more 1 and 2 star reviews than not. They've unknowingly posted Mack's reviews off site to bully the shit out of them. Their meanest reviews are towards cliché "classical" movies, because that's what Samuel made them watch.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆: Alright, let's not beat around the bush: This thing is great. I know everyone's like, "blah blah blah, this was going to be terrible" — but they were wrong, so eat shit. As always, we're dividing this between cinematography, writing, acting ... [read more]

☆: That's it. No fancy formatting because what the hell is this. I genuinely think the person who told me to watch this hates me, because if you enjoy THIS, you're braindead. Objectively braindead. Anyways, I want to meet who worked on the color grading for this so badly, because I am convinced they're COLOR-BLIND. Actually, is that offensive? Because color-blind people can still see values, right? And god, there is NO contrast in this garbage ... [read more]

AMATUS: Only gets into it because Vida suggested it. He has a lot of thoughts on films, but he prefers verbalizing them anyways. He doesn't care to influence peoples opinions much on this front, so he really just leaves objective reviews that are fairly short. Sometimes he does leave monster reviews if no one will entertain his thoughts, but thats few and far between (because Vida keeps goading him into rants always). Loves reviewing indie, arthouse films the most.

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆: This was enjoyable for both me and the group I watched this with :) If you're looking for a lighthearted comedy, I would highly reccomend.

☆: I think I was the wrong audience for this. I'm not sure who this movie is for, in that case, but maybe it's someone... Probably not.

[a-nicer-picture]

Finished the PMMM series. Thoughts below. Following that is an unedited draft I wrote after watching episode six and didn't post for whatever reason. I would say, tentatively, that PMMM is the fastest zero-to-"that stage of Liking Something so much I should probably wait a couple years to talk to people about it irl" media experience I've had. Six to seven episodes? That's crazy. But I believe this might be another special case of watching something at just the right time for it to click.

Spoilers after the read more.

1. I was betting on the tragic gay sacrifice angle from the beginning and shouted "YES" when Homura first showed her entire hand to the audience by throwing a tantrum in Madoka's direction... but the way I got the tragic gay sacrifice was more well-executed and interesting than I anticipated. Homura's drive for self-improvement was also way more directly related to my 2024 than I thought it would be, which spooked me, given that I'm 35. Love that it turned into cosmic lesbian romance. Cosmic lesbian romance should have a comeback. Even if the central PMMM romance seemed unrequited outside of the whole, like, "we are together and you will join me again, because I am everything and everything is me" angle. Speaking of this...

2.I haven't watched Rebellion yet but oh boy. It's obvious the central conflict had no true resolution for at least one of the parties involved. I think in Madoka's heart, Homura has more in common with Sayaka than Homura would prefer. Of course they're different: Sayaka sacrificed her future to acquire one easily reversible thing for somebody else one time, one and done, you're dead on arrival, congratulations. Homura's wish had at least two conditions-- it was about herself AND someone else, and happened to have reality-breaking, sequence-breaking consequences-- so it's still not fulfilled. Didn't she say something like "strong enough to protect Madoka instead of being protected by her"? Uh-oh! I'm going to enjoy this, I fear.

2. I am really curious about PMMM, Homestuck, and Steins:Gate coming out around the same time ,and wonder whether anybody has studied this comparatively. Making-unmaking-remaking (and often queer) coming of age narratives about rewriting rules and solving puzzles and not growing up fast enough; how adolescents respond to being doomed to failure in the era of hyperconnected, hyperindustrualized access. A new globalized north spin on "with great power comes great responsibility." With responsibility comes great power? Not necessarily. All are narratives influenced by jrpgs (and possibly also each other, in the case of PMMM and Homestuck) but also unique to their own genres and contexts despite this influence (PMMM takes quite a few cues from RGU, Homestuck from Star Trek).

Okay, older thoughts are unedited below:

I'm about halfway through PMMM, only five episodes left. I had no idea it was this short. Obviously you were all right; it's very interesting and suits my hyperspecific tastes (other than the moe... though it is very much a "don't forget: these are exploited children!!" bid). It took until about now for me to get into its storytelling methods fully. The initial shocking "magical girls can die" moment might have been on the nose for me, but by now it's clear the first death was just the right scaffolding for a more complex ebb and flow in character motives and conflicts.

I do wish I watched Madoka Magica before 2020 since its themes were obviously massively influential on SPOP. But now I'm better positioned to appreciate what PMMM added to the shojo conversation. I liked Utena in my early 20s, and I would say I Got It... because it's so allegorical it's almost universal in its theming. Compare this to something like Oniisama e, which would have been prohibitively offensive to an American audience unfamiliar with the symbolic trappings of the Japanese 20th century lesbian literature it was actively deconstructing within its own context. I understood Oniisama e in 2024 because I have Wikipedia, Utena, Google, and a shit ton of free time to devote toward my hyperfixations. But of course now thanks to my next phase of narrative exploration I'm all about tragic yuri dramatics, lifetime of sacrifice on a misinformed adolescent whim type shit. I don't need a happy ending or even the explicit rep.... look, I know it's a bad time for this kind of talk. But I don't care. My preferences aren't always going to line up with the zeitgeist. In fact, my cultural and emotional understanding is, very often, quite behind.

Homura is clearly there on some sort of doomed time loop mission driven by Madoka's outcomes, though idk much for sure about her specific motives or what's going on with the magic mechanics. She's adamant that she's selfish, like all magical girls (very fascinating, the overall arbitrary (?) economy of magic, and the resulting commentary that magical girls must be selfish to survive). In any case, genre convention tells me she's liable to be the most insane of everybody... I can tell she's going to fail imminently; what will she do lol

It's clear that several people on the SPOP team were inspired by this anime's weird background design and theming. Kyoko's whole thing is very Catra. Hanging out on the industrial overhang, self-preservation vs. "doing the right thing no matter the cost," etc.

Sayaka seems like the character that is supposed to elaborate on RGU girl prince themes the most. In Sayaka's obsession with miracles, responsibility, attachment/detatchment, and saving others for "pure" reasons, Utena, Juri, Miki, and Kozue live on. Or do they? The narrative makes it clear that her ideals are already dead on arrival.... literally even, lol. I've been happy with how limited these direct nods to Utena have been, though, given this is a deconstruction of magical girls, not shojo romance. I think they're taking quite a few pages out of Utena's model of allegorical deconstruction through trope personifications, though. It's great. I'm having so much fun with the sunset and witch talk.

[topazadine]

Your OCs on Social Media

Okay, new tag game - imagine your OCs on social media! What platform would they use, what would they reblog/retweet/whatever, and what kind of horrible nonsense would they get up to?

Orrinir

Orrinir has a Facebook and a LinkedIn. He keeps it squeaky clean, reposting career tips. His Facebook is mostly to keep track of old friends and share perfectly posed pictures of him and Uileac (what an upstanding couple give them a promotion). He's always commenting on peoples' LinkedIn posts in hopes that they can help him get his beloved Infantry General position <3 Networking king we love to see it.

Uileac

You KNOW he is on HorseTok. Hyperspecific horse boy microinfluencer (mostly because he is very handsome). Constant TikToks of everything his horse Erix does, usually her, like, blowing raspberries with his sassy commentary in the background. He documents training his husband Orrinir's dumb horse and gets everyone very invested in how stupid and annoying Bannain is, spooking at everything and refusing to be good. Horse girls everywhere are silently thirsting for him.

Cerie

Cerie has been blocked by half of Writer Twitter because she cannot stop retweeting peoples' poems and tearing them apart in 10+ tweet threads. Goes crying to Uileac about how no one wants to hear her very specific and very "helpful" advice about how bad they are at poetry. Her wife Haniya tells her to stfu and stop fighting with people, so she does it at night when Haniya is asleep. Is personally offended by all hot writing takes, and is constantly fighting for her life in the comments section.

Haniya

An Instagram model ... nothing but trouble. Pics of her perfect royal life, her horse, her fancy dresses, her incredible manicure, a 100-year-old bottle of champagne sitting next to a fast food wrapper. Haniya laying on the beach in the tiniest bikini you've ever seen. Every once in a while she manages to drag Cerie into a photo and is immediately bombarded by people saying she could do better. Cerie is again fighting for her life in the comments section.

Ono

Ono is the Most Normal Person on Tumblr. He likes it because then he can write long-form thoughts about anything and everything, but his blog posts are so horrendously mundane that he gets, like, one like on everything. Sometimes, in the middle of some boring post about swordsmanship or whatever, he'll slip in the most fucking devastating backstory anyone has ever heard with the most casual demeanor ever, and people are like "OP ... OP are you ok"

Mordrek

He is on 4chan. We need not say more.

Open tag!!

[vagonca-rigo]

WHERE. would i be. without people posting images of hyperspecific things from hyperspecific angles because of their hyperspecific position. thats right: NOWHERE

[smosh-fessions]

also the What Would Arasha Do? video made me genuinely sad, because WHAT was that???? i get trevor because he is relatively new and they said in the video that this isn't the stuff they talk about

but everyone reacting with shock to her answers instead of "i should've known that" or "oh yeah!!" made it seem like they barely know her

honestly arasha a better person than me cuz she handled it with SUCH grace

and it hurt more cuz she was so positive in the beginning and was talking about how she loves when people know her

atleast the comments batted hard for arasha tho

She was also making things super hyperspecific, though, largely to her detriment. I think it showed more than anything that Arasha realized she doesn't talk enough with her coworkers in depth because this is a group of people that actively work to remember stuff about people or none of these videos would have done well. Only Arasha's has been like this. I didn't know the answers to her questions either, but I know a lot of them for the rest of the cast.

It's been a while since I watched it, but I don't remember knowing anything except that she has a tattoo, and the only time she showed it to the whole cast was during Beopardy during Sleepover live. If she's only done it the one time, during a game no less, and she wears her hair down at all times, it's not a surprise that nobody there knew since Trev and Amanda weren't at that liveshow.

I also don't see Arasha share pictures of herself much with the cast outside of work, either. It doesn't appear to me that she hangs out with them too much when not at work and that definitely didn't help things either.

Trevor looked the whole time like he was about to cry. I honestly don't really think it should've been posted for that alone because Trevor is clearly upset. They were all distressed to realize that they don't know stuff.

[demystifiedstardust]

Researching Constelic

Cw subjective opinions.

⚠️ This is intended to be an analysis of what I've been able to dig up concerning the topic of constelic identity, and how it exclusively applies to myself. I have no intention of invalidating anyone's constelic experience. This piece contains both positive and negative opinions on stelling exclusively as a framework, and is not meant as commentary on people who use constelic terminology for themselves. Still, I understand that a person very attached to stelling may take this analysis personally when no offense is meant. Use your best judgment on if this piece is appropriate for you. ⚠️

While searching for fresh ideas, I stumbled upon the constelic community. It seemed promising at a glance, except for an important detail...

...is there a community?

I can find lots of flag and coining blogs, but actual constels are nowhere to be seen. I can't find anyone talking about the experience of stelling at the time of this writing, save for an anonymous submission blog (and during my research, I hit the bottom of #actually constelic, wow).

Well, that and... from what scant information I can find about the subculture to begin with, it seems less about experience to begin with, and more about label hoarding.

I'd like to say right now that there's nothing inherently Wrong or Bad about hoarding labels. Some people find meaning in doing so. That being said, I am not one of those people. Label hoarding isn't what I'm looking for in a potential identity-centric community.

Hoarding constels feels like... the aesthetic of an identity, without actually exploring an identity? I don't see the appeal of not engaging with your own identity. I wouldn't have made this blog at all if I didn't feel strongly about that. I don't have a desire to curate and grow a list for the sake of keeping a list. While there's nothing inherently wrong with aesthetics either, for me, the list is secondary to the experience itself.

This aestheticization of identity permeates the various terminologies under the constelic umbrella. Orbiting, veiling, constel(ation)s, phases. Why is the core terminology celestial-body-based? Is there a reason, other than aesthetic? Everything not immediately celestial-based is a rebrand of existing kin words, right down to stellie as an alternative to kinnie. Why is all this hyperspecific vocabulary necessary for a concept that has yet to be adopted by a core base of users, if not for aesthetic?

The end result is something that feels derivative of kin, without the organic community and subcultural development of kin. I think it was meant to be a more inclusive alternative to kin, but in its current state it feels forced. That there are posts in the tags at all indicates an amount of success, but it still feels like a sterile environment, like the internet version of a staged home that's never meant to be actually lived in. The lack of discoverable experiences compounds this feeling. It's unfortunate, because there are aspects within the framework of stelling that deserve to be explored.

The lack of separation between "identify as" and "identity with" is the most attractive feature of stelling in my humble opinion, as these two concepts can become fuzzy and fluid between each other. This is something I experience with my relationship to vampires and deep water. I oscillate between both modalities, and while the oscillation itself causes me no discomfort, there isn't much in the way of community that can accommodate a fluid state of being such as my own.

This lack of distinction serves as both an affirmation of freedom of identity fluidity within the label, as well as an anti-gatekeeping measure. I also like the affirmation that a constel can be obtained and dropped at any point in a person's life, contrary to the heavy insinuation in kin spaces that identity is permanent and inherent. It theoretically creates an environment with comparatively less expectations and more wiggle room to parse out an identity without fear of mistakes.

The constelic symbol is also really logographic! I can't say the same about some other logos in the same vein, like the fictionkin keys symbol. Perhaps as expected from a framework heavily concerned with aesthetic, but it still should be noticed and appreciated. I'm a sucker for good graphic design. One more thing I like is the color scheme on the basic constellic flag. I hope the creator is proud of themselves, because they did a great job.

So as a concept, there are many things I really like about the constelic framework of identity. Unfortunately, the hoarding aspect of constels is incompatible with what I desire for myself. I want to understand the different aspects myself--how they influence me on a granular level, how they influence each other, how they paint the picture of "me". I want to play with my identity, and I want to be serious with my identity. Above all, I want to engage with my identity. This creates a conceptual disconnect between me and stelling.

In practice, the constelic community is barren and unpopulated. There's nothing of substance--no connections between other people, no posts to read except endless coinings that may or may not have a practical use. It's disappointing but not surprising, given the constelic framework's leaning toward identity hoarding and not engaging.

Ultimately, I don't have a use for stelling in my life, aside from comparing and contrasting it to my ideals. My march continues onward, but this was an interesting pitstop.

[kindestegg]

If I am to be absolutely fully honest though none of the posts I've seen on that stupid kink issue really hit the nail on exactly how I feel about it n why I do but like I also have no energy to further involve myself anyway nor do I think it would be productive. It feels that doing so would just be to self justify to some invisible hypothetical crowd and if I am to be fully honest the more I observe other spheres of hyperspecific community issues the more I realize that's all anyone ever is doing at all. Just positing their own specific thinkpiece in regards to their worldview and hoping that will make them and others in immediate proximity feel good enough that it'll give them peace of mind (this going for any side even). And I think that's no way to live, I don't need you to approve how I think or feel about this or anything else, nor the actions I take, I'll keep blocking whoever I want and cultivating my circle the way I want to, and in the end that's all anyone will ever continue to do and has been doing up until this point. Ultimately I think perhaps the best thing to do is to stop talking for just a little bit.

[eleemosynecdoche]

I think that if you really believe that sharing political propaganda online is violent revolutionary fighting against Israelis, you're unable to distinguish fantasy from reality, and in such a hyperspecific way that leads you to disappointment when your posts fail to scratch a single Israeli tank or APC. I think that what's really going on is that this person is trying to convince themselves they have more power to affect a horrific situation than they actually do, when they're actually, like any random single individual, caught in the position of a spectator to criminality.

Does this deserve sympathy, or empathy? I'm a USAmerican and I'm not a Leninist, so I am physiologically incapable of experiencing, let alone expressing either! In fact, I'm a demonic entity masquerading as a human! Lmao.