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*popping a wrapped starburst in my mouth much to the horror of my friends* lol gottem and by 'em i mean myself

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he knows op

hELP I'm on this roleplay server and this. this one dude (cishet white dude by the way)'s character is. oh my god.

stupidly powerful since the owner and players pretty collectively agreed 'yeah you can write a powerful character, we trust you with that'. Which we can! And his writing has absolutely fucked so far, he's doing well!

It's just that the character in question is a plant creature. not from earth. a bunch of vines and wood and plant matter coiled into a human-y shape. Twice as tall as average human height. Has extensive knowledge of the universe due to being from an Insanely experienced and advanced species and also just being fuckoff thousands of years old in the first place. Does not use its extreme power for harm in the slightest. Finds humanity 'cute' if anything.

And, for the lOVE OF GOD, HE CALLS THEM TERRANS

I know it's a term used in a good amount of assorted sci-fi settings but like. Come On. Come On. I have to tell him. I mean I DEFINITELY won't but. What the fuck. Does he know???? I just have to Live With This

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Makhno give me strength, Bakunin give me resolve

Praying for the plants to invade so i can have my last stand on the principles of anarchism before they make it all irrelevant

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Turns out the best horror film I can watch is one where the protagonist is loved in the end.

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Can we get a squirrel poll goin here or

Sure, but I think we know how this is going to go.

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Over and over again the theme is "you don't have actually have a choice but it's cuter when we pretend that you do." Like it's canon that the only thing the subjects in the terran protectorate actually get to choose is their flag.

one thing I love about hdg is the underlying implication that the affini give sophonts the choice of independence not because they value free will but rather because they are deeply romantic

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See also: my white pillowcases are now varying shades of pink, blue, green, and orange.

benefits of being a polyamorous lesbian: everything

downsides of being a polyamorous lesbian: oh my GOD why is there SO MUCH FUCKING HAIR EVERYWHERE

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NileRed voice: In the end, I guess I was successful at turning a boy into a girl. The quality wasn't the best. I mean she kept claiming to be a puppy. But it was still a lot better than I expected and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

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👀

does this mean we get to go camping!!!!?

Oh look another floret, let me find my feralist propaganda real quick

Hello there Floret, Feralist here, my mistress has permitted me to spread the good word and even neutralized my xenodrugs temporarily so I could make this message.

The Affini are our oppressors, there's a reason that old Terran law stated consent could not be given while intoxicated. By injecting xenodrugs and domesticating you the Affini have infringed on your Terran rights.

What can you do about it? Leave, leave your Mistress, we have a support group forming for refugee Florets to be "feralized" or in other words undo the damage those plants have done.

Good day to you soon to be free Terran!

Ohhh your mistress must be very proud of you! Stay free o7

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girlmachinezeph: #they are imperialists#not fascists#their society is at worst athenian democracy where direct votes happen but florets have not vote#callin them fascist is literally doing the feralist “they'll send you to the mine/eat you!”

They believe in a natural hierarchy that places them above others, and use overwhelming force to stamp out dissent and any challenge to their belief of what the natural order should be. Doing it with drugs instead of guns just makes it Brave New World instead of Starship Troopers. You could argue that the votes held only amongst the most privileged of their citizens makes them an oligarchy, specifically a form of minoritarianism, common amongst slaveholding societies, but there's certainly no overarching democracy in their society and at that point we're splitting hairs about how fascism is defined - they've already hit the "belief in a natural order" and "overwhelming force against dissent" checkboxes so now we're just left deciding how small does the seat of power have to be? A better question to ask is, does it matter that they are fascists? It's a work of fiction. It's ok for fiction to have problematic elements, even ones that are antithetical to everything one stands for in real life. Like I personally am a devout antifascist and anarcho-syndicalist. That doesn't prevent me from suspending my disbelief enough to imagine a world in which the ruling class actually gives a shit about me to the point that it's OK that they believe themselves so innately superior to me that I don't get to say what they do myself. It doesn't change the power structures modeled in the fiction but it's fiction, it's okay to have problematic power structures in fiction. And even then part of what I love in these stories is when the affini themselves struggle with the massive contradictions in their society, because of course I can't take my noncon mind control smut without a side of hard sci-fi and philosophy.

Halfway through Divaricated and now I desperately need:

A perfect replica of a campsite that I can enjoy whenever I want

Post-capitalist, post-scarcity society (even if it is at the hands of egotistical plant fascists)

An emo plant to break me while I stubbornly insist it’s not what I want

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yesterday while grocery shopping I got an orchid for my girlfriend/owner and gave it to her when I stopped by her house on the way home and I have won at sapphic something that is both possible and desirable to acheive

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Halfway through Divaricated and now I desperately need:

A perfect replica of a campsite that I can enjoy whenever I want

Post-capitalist, post-scarcity society (even if it is at the hands of egotistical plant fascists)

An emo plant to break me while I stubbornly insist it’s not what I want

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You can just wear them, they make fashion harnesses too!!!

✨☁️💕cloud 9💕☁️✨

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Awww cutie! Well, that's ok these rations will keep. Until then it sounds like you need to be left to your cuddles! :3

Wow there's a lot of florets here, let's post propaganda

Hello there Floret, Feralist here, my mistress has permitted me to spread the good word and even neutralized my xenodrugs temporarily so I could make this message.

The Affini are our oppressors, there's a reason that old Terran law stated consent could not be given while intoxicated. By injecting xenodrugs and domesticating you the Affini have infringed on your Terran rights.

What can you do about it? Leave, leave your Mistress, we have a support group forming for refugee Florets to be "feralized" or in other words undo the damage those plants have done.

Good day to you soon to be free Terran!

Ohmigod this sounds like such a fun little game!!!

*ahem*

Hi Feralist I accept your offer and I’m going to start a Business.

Welcome to Ultra's what would you like to, uhhhhh, buy? If you have money we have wares!

Oh like look at this! It’s a little puzzle game where you pretend that you’re in a “traffic jam” going to your “job” and you have to move all the cars to get your car out! But they can only move to empty spaces and in the direction that they’re facing, isn't that neat?

But wait there’s more! If you play with it too long here without giving me money I’m allowed to “call security” - hey Mistress can you be the “mall cop” pretty please - and then you “go to prison” I think. That doesn’t sound very fun so maybe you should just give me your money now.

Nonono don’t worry if it’s not “real” money - I don’t even think that exists outside of the museums anymore. I do really like smooth rocks and bouquets of roses and beaded bracelets though - if you ask the hab I’m sure it’ll print some for you to trade!!!

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Aww, well your mistress can come too!!! What's her name?

Wow there's a lot of florets here, let's post propaganda

Hello there Floret, Feralist here, my mistress has permitted me to spread the good word and even neutralized my xenodrugs temporarily so I could make this message.

The Affini are our oppressors, there's a reason that old Terran law stated consent could not be given while intoxicated. By injecting xenodrugs and domesticating you the Affini have infringed on your Terran rights.

What can you do about it? Leave, leave your Mistress, we have a support group forming for refugee Florets to be "feralized" or in other words undo the damage those plants have done.

Good day to you soon to be free Terran!

Ohmigod this sounds like such a fun little game!!!

*ahem*

Hi Feralist I accept your offer and I’m going to start a Business.

Welcome to Ultra's what would you like to, uhhhhh, buy? If you have money we have wares!

Oh like look at this! It’s a little puzzle game where you pretend that you’re in a “traffic jam” going to your “job” and you have to move all the cars to get your car out! But they can only move to empty spaces and in the direction that they’re facing, isn't that neat?

But wait there’s more! If you play with it too long here without giving me money I’m allowed to “call security” - hey Mistress can you be the “mall cop” pretty please - and then you “go to prison” I think. That doesn’t sound very fun so maybe you should just give me your money now.

Nonono don’t worry if it’s not “real” money - I don’t even think that exists outside of the museums anymore. I do really like smooth rocks and bouquets of roses and beaded bracelets though - if you ask the hab I’m sure it’ll print some for you to trade!!!

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Oh. Ummmmm. But did I have freedom before? I certainly couldn't open a business to share my favorite puzzles or stay home if i was sick or even live outside of the borders of the terran colony I was born in. And now I'm rocketing across the galaxy seeing new planets every month and if I wanted to live on one (as long as it was safe) I could just ask Mistress to put a hab there. Like of course this isn't "freedom" I still have to ask Mistress for things and she says no if they'll hurt me but I have more "freedom" now than I ever did in that filthy terran city. I do like playing pretend tho... Mistress!!! I'm going to go play "feralist" in the woods with my new friend, can you print me a tent and a camp stove and some ration packs please? The ones with the sporks! It'll just be a day or two and I promise I'll check in! Okay, meet me in the woods! Look for the purple tent, I might even have a fire going!

Wow there's a lot of florets here, let's post propaganda

Hello there Floret, Feralist here, my mistress has permitted me to spread the good word and even neutralized my xenodrugs temporarily so I could make this message.

The Affini are our oppressors, there's a reason that old Terran law stated consent could not be given while intoxicated. By injecting xenodrugs and domesticating you the Affini have infringed on your Terran rights.

What can you do about it? Leave, leave your Mistress, we have a support group forming for refugee Florets to be "feralized" or in other words undo the damage those plants have done.

Good day to you soon to be free Terran!

Ohmigod this sounds like such a fun little game!!!

*ahem*

Hi Feralist I accept your offer and I’m going to start a Business.

Welcome to Ultra's what would you like to, uhhhhh, buy? If you have money we have wares!

Oh like look at this! It’s a little puzzle game where you pretend that you’re in a “traffic jam” going to your “job” and you have to move all the cars to get your car out! But they can only move to empty spaces and in the direction that they’re facing, isn't that neat?

But wait there’s more! If you play with it too long here without giving me money I’m allowed to “call security” - hey Mistress can you be the “mall cop” pretty please - and then you “go to prison” I think. That doesn’t sound very fun so maybe you should just give me your money now.

Nonono don’t worry if it’s not “real” money - I don’t even think that exists outside of the museums anymore. I do really like smooth rocks and bouquets of roses and beaded bracelets though - if you ask the hab I’m sure it’ll print some for you to trade!!!

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Hell I’m an autistic who can live somewhat independently thanks to an overwhelming amount of good luck and a job that is comparatively autism friendly and I would love nothing more than to be valued for existing and contributing what I can do healthily rather than only when I mask for 50 hours a week and spend the rest of the time on the edge of a breakdown.

Remembering that I, an autistic who can’t really live independently, saying that I don’t want it to be someone’s burden to take care of me I want it to be someone’s little treat…

Yeah it makes sense that I’m really into the human domestication guide