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Our first pride together went really well :D

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Kinda nervous because I&'m going to pride parade with Manifork today. It'll be our first together :D I& might not stay for the whole duration because it's going to be physically exhausting and I& definitely dressed too warm for the sake of the looks. I& put on a bunch of pretty necklaces on her tho <3 might take pics later

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YOUR WIFE IS SO HOT!!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU TWO!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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am i allowed to say that your wife is hot

Yes because it's just straight up true and I& want everyone in the world to love my& wife as much as I& do and see how cool she is

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triple t designs + hcs (ft manifork)

jack uses he/she pronouns and is a transmasc bigender aromantic objectum boygirl (who is married to manifork, who uses it/she)

tommy uses she/it pronouns and is unlabeled and transfem

tubbo uses any pronouns and is a transmasc cinthean enby

(drew these for artfight which is why they suck)

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TRIDENT GIFS! SOURCE: X

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TRIDENT GIFS! SOURCES: X / X

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since you're the tridents guy. thoughts on the lightscsle trident from the legend of zelda: breath of the wild?

10/10 unparallelled raw sexual appeal. Beautiful gorgeous stunning showstopping brilliant amazing. They nailed it they understood the assignment this is peam

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based on a true story

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You’re like me with my musket I think that’s really awesome

YAAAAAY WEAPON LOVE FOREVER AND EVER

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Objectum State of the Community

Here's a few musings about the current state of the objectum community, what may be contributing to certain issues, and possible fixes. This is a rather long post under the Read More. Please put in your thoughts in the reblogs/replies, and feel free to discuss, since I'm just one person and I would love input from other people in the community.

I'm prefacing this to say that I enjoy the community a lot. The various objectum discord servers I've been in over the years are an unparalleled delight and I love socializing and interacting with the folks in each and every one of those. I do still think that, overall, being objectum in 2024 is much better than being objectum in 2018, and probably better than in 2010.

However, there are still issues in the community, and plenty of folks have brought them up before. I wanted to point out and discuss them here before any drama breaks out with unaddressed discontent in the objectum tag.

And some of that is already affecting people. The objectum community has a bit of a high "turnover rate"-- lots of new people joining, but also many people leaving/no longer interacting with the community at all, either no longer being attracted to objects, ditching the label, or loving their own thing on their own time but purposefully avoiding the community. Some of this is to blame with "eroticism of the machine" having been a trend on Tumblr for a while with people mostly just popping into the tag, and leaving relatively quickly, just content to post their "hear me outs" but not really interested in interaction. Which is totally fine on an individual level! But not great when you're trying to build a community, and it can make those that have been in here for a while feel isolated and like no one can relate.

Overall, this is contributing to the objectum community currently skewing very heavily individualistic on the individual-communal axis. It's difficult to pass down information, have a consistent social base, etc. when you aren't sure who's sticking around and who's just in here to express a quick crush.

It is tougher for objectum than most other identities, though. Our experiences are very varied--and if I may be so bold and post a possibly hot take, it's of my opinion that there's more difference in the (average!) relationship someone has with a train and the relationship someone has with a plush than the difference in relationships and ways of approaching that relationship between mlm and wlw.

The current social media activity is currently skewing toward fictional robots as well, which is a common discontent I'm seeing in the tag. While it's of my opinion that loving a robot is objectum, it's also an edge case of objectum, at least if you define objectum by the standards of the 1990's German emailling groups run by Eija-Riita who first coined the term. This wouldn't be an issue in moderation, but when fictional robots dominate the tag, it does mean less cohesiveness between the people who want to, say, [REDACTED] an airplane off who normally have no other space to safely express their desires. It's harder to find other people when you feel like this space is no longer really your own, co-opted into the more mainstream robophilia.

I want to be clear, though: I do NOT blame or want to gatekeep the people in love with fictional robots in the tag, and I'm not really interested in having a debate spark if x or y is objectum-- I think the heart of the issue lies moreso in social media being set up in a way to reward as much visibility and engagement as possible, and therefore rewarding popular blogs tagging their posts with as much somewhat-related tags as possible hoping for a broader audience.

(If you really want to argue that x or y is objectum, please just make your own post. I will delete the replies of anyone that starts that debate on this post because I'm not interested in moderating that)

This is also a symptom of the term "objectum" being so broad. A possible fix could be allowing #objectum to still be broad, but having additional terms for those who are looking for a more specific experience to relate to. The German emailling groups that later became OSI did this in the first place, with the term "objectum" being meant to describe a more animistic love of objects while "mechaphile/mechanophile" being more for the fetishistic side.

However, there's some of this already with stuff like techum, amusurum, pygmalionists, etc., and aside from roller coaster lovers I am unaware of any of these sublabels being organized at all. POSIC is, conversely, a success story of this. In a worst case scenario, however, this can end up completely fracturing the community into microlabels. OSI was, after all, elitist about their animism.

On a short term scale, a way of making our community more of a community and less an individualistic fandom is having visible, ongoing, community projects, ideally things that people could contribute to without much commitment. Something that would incentivize talking to other people in the objectum space and finding common ground. Every friendship needs a bedrock, and having a shared project to care about means more foundations for that bedrock.

I do also want to suggest hanging out on r/objectum_sfw and the objectum side of bluesky. While Tumblr is the safe bastion of objectum, it could be good to connect with other parts of the community on other platforms. Different social media platforms will prioritize different ways of interaction and that may mean a healthier community overall.

The closest thing to a silver bullet solution would be moving the objectum community off from social media, but this is NOT simple or easy to do in practice. I am firmly of the opinion that it's currently not safe to have an organized IRL presence, at least in the United States, given the political situation, but I have been kicking around ideas on how to subtly signal on a poster on a light pole or something that there's an objectum person around in town. I will exalt the idea of forums until the day I die but they are Very difficult to moderate and would require monthly donations to exist unless some madlad has their own server they are willing to use.

As a word of caution, any shift toward a more communal objectum space would mean a risk of high-control groups forming. This is a risk that comes with any community becoming less individualistic. A possible pre-emptive fix would be ensuring multiple separate groups with different organizers, no single spokesman, and if there's any overarching main organization it would need to be democratized, decentralized, or extremely transparent and constantly held to that standard. OSI ended up being a toxic, gatekeeping, and drama-prone mess toward the end, with rampant islamophobia and transphobia, and would actively try to sabotage other groups and ice out anyone who didn't join OSI from the broader community. There is always a risk of that repeating again.

A more active and organized objectum community would mean more backlash against us. If there is a big forum or whatever, no matter how private it is, expect people to get in just to take screenshots to post on tiktok. It's a miracle that this isn't happening in any notable capacity already.

In summary, I think the community is suffering from the way social media is set up to promote individualism, and I've mused about a few possible ways of coming together despite that. Everything has consequences, however, and whether we should change the community, or what the actual issues are and how to fix them, is up to discussion which I happily welcome.

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Computers robots cool but what about rifles

These are conventionally attractive objects i fear

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For Valentine' I& made a small zine

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scaled-up versions of the red fence as shown on objectum-sexuality.org

additionally, i made SVGs of the first two, which can be viewed here

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genuinely the fact that it's marketed as "wow you can date objects" is very disappointing to me. from an objectum standpoint it's removing the attraction of an object - you know, being an actual object. you're not really dating a toaster, you're dating a human inspired by that toaster. that's just a normal guy. it's like trying to make a human person out of a nonhuman character - you can do it, and maybe the character acts like their usual self, and maybe it's fun, but you have lost some qualities of the original character. form affects function, humans and objects are wildly different and now there is no recognizable quality of the object beyond what the characters are wearing. like sure some of the designs are cool but you're not dating the object. you have removed the object-ness of the object. thats a cosplay to me

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Guys is it normal that I& have such a big crush on my& wife

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Had such a good and slow fuck with Manifork uuuugh she's my& everything I& could not be happier in life I& swear