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Hello stranger.

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Objectum (not exclusively), but my relationships with objects do not... Really fall into typical romantic relationships. Most of them are friends, queerplatonics, or family. So for the same reasons I don't interact with the self shipping community much anymore (feeling just generally very isolated and like no one would care to hear about these relationships), I don't really interact with the objectum one either.

Are you objectum?

- yes

- no

- questioning

- I don't know what that means

- I'm 100% human/results

are you objectum ?

objectum is the attraction to objects ! (romantic, sexual, platonic, etc)

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Humpback Nursery

A mother and calf humpback whale interact closely near the surface just off the coast of Tahiti's island. These whales migrate to the islands of French Polynesia all the way from Antarctica, to mate and give birth. Renee captured the scene with an over-under image to showcase both the whales and this unique environment.

By Renee Capozzola

The Siena International Photo Awards

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hey i just figured out audio files on tumblr do you guys wanna see a compilation of different whale songs

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Dream last night which has given me more memories to think about in regards to the role reversal/mekhanite timeline.

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Werner Plangg (1933 – 1994). The Nomads. Oil on canvas.

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" Come Play With Me " // © Ashley

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?.... escaping out of laboratory along with weapon x is...

BUTCH ALTERHUMAN!

term for butches who are alterhuman; alterhumans who are butch.

alterhuman side flag inspo here!(link)

•⚟ reqs by @petrigrowth !

separate symbol here:

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believe it or not, snake woman monday

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I... Think you're getting a bit confused about what soulbonding is? Because soulbonding and fictional otherlinking are not really similar, besides the connection in fiction.

To start out, soulbonding is when a person is able to communicate with a character. "Communicate" here can mean basically anything, so long as it allows the soulbonder (person) to talk to the soulbond (character). I can talk to my soulbonds 1-on-1 in my own head, but I've also seen people using divination methods (such as tarot cards) to talk to soulbonds. Soulbonds are separate from the soulbonder.

It is usually involuntary, but that doesn't mean someone can't purposefully make a soulbond connection! I'm personally thinking about making a soulbond with a specific person as well. It's just seen more, due to the origins of the term, that soulbonds are involuntary.

Otherlinking, by contrast, is when you make yourself something that you weren't before.

Someone who has fully done otherlinking will have to expand on this, but essentially: soulbonding does not change your sense of self, your soulbonds are separate from you; otherlinking does change your sense of self, and is voluntary. (And so no, the vast majority of soulbonders cannot experience shifts related to their soulbonds.)

To answer your first questions now: that would have to heavily depend on the small artist. Plenty of artists don't even know what soulbonding is, and even if they do, it's not likely that they'll care much beyond "huh, that's weird" and moving on.

And, you can soulbond with a species, there's no rules saying you can't! You can soulbond with OCs, characters that don't exist anywhere in the original source material, characters who only say one line and are never seen again... Or even soulbond with a piece of furniture!

Do small artists get weird about someone soulbonding with one of their OCs? Like (if you know, you know), is it weird for me to soulbond with a character from Jay Eaton's sci-fi comic Runaway to the Stars? What if it's a species from something like that but not a specific character? And is soulbonding voluntary or what? How is it different from a fictional otherlink? And do soulbonders experience shifts? I'm very curious about all this!

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I think I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of saying Fischl and Oz are fictomeres of mine. Not kintypes, not "relatable" characters, not hearttypes, or any other specific identity, just fictomeres.

Part of why I've been struggling to say this is because 1. I like knowing specifics. It's hard to say "I don't know what this thing means to me or my identity, but it's important, somehow". Even if I have to give a rambling explanation for what something is to me, I prefer being able to give that rambling definition, than have what feels like zero definition or explanation. Unfortunately, I've never been able to narrow down what I think and feel about Fischl and Oz in the past years, and it's been frustrating more than anything.

And 2. I've really, really started to not like her source. I can't say I hate it, because I think there's always going to be a bit of nostalgia from when I first started playing the game, and they were one of the first characters I got and became attached to. But... Its flaws are becoming glaringly obvious. And I stopped playing the game a long time ago because I wasn't having fun anymore.

However, despite the fact I no longer play or even enjoy the game, I still do enjoy Fischl and Oz, and they are important to me on some alterhuman level. I just can't put words to that yet, and I'm becoming... More comfortable with that fact.

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faerie thorns, faerie roses ~ journal game release

happy to say that first journal game project by kossai is now complete !

player is put in shoes of faerie , who fall in love with human . faerie must now try to navigate these feelings , and make efforts to form romantic bond .

please heed disclaimer ! given basis in various faerie stories and experiences , some dynamics this game can produce might be toxic and cruel - though whether faerie character stagnate and lose human , or grow and do better for human , is player choice . kossai invite players to reroll traits or skip prompts that would be personally unsafe to play with .

whether play and tell stories , or just read documents and allow imagination to wander , kossai appreciate all those who look :)

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The life cycle of a xenomorph. Happy Alien Day!

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How it feels to be a non-romantic soulbond in a world of selfship soulbonds

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First time at the seaside....