i wouldnt know anything about this bc the only people ive seen in my circles criticize this essay are other transfems. and the essay is in fact very liberal. while im not gonna say theres been no transmisogyny involved, maia is as you note a pretty big blog and pretty well known in communist spaces for its work hacking and stuff. those anarchist essays usually stay in more niche spaces; maia (and punkitt) are larger blogs with a bigger less strictly political reach. idk. i havent seen anyone being weird like this though so idrk

24: Talk about something someone told you that meant a lot.

anytime a friend or mutual has told me that i make them feel safe thru the way i try very hard to be as up front and communicative as possible w all conflict like. always means a lot. ive had a lot of people take great offense at the fact im very direct in telling people how i feel/if theyve upset me, so its nice knowing that it ultimately results in people trusting me more and knowing that i WILL tell them if theyve done something hurtful so that we can both moveon from it :)

woah cmon man you dont have to yell at me.

32: Talk about a place you remember from your childhood.

i lived in this suburb neighborhood surrounded by arroyos and would play in those a ton as a kid bc it was mostly just Desert Wilderness and there was this one huge tree in particular that made a crazy good shade area/little bubble kinda that some teenagers had nailed up some wood planks into so you could climb up and sit there. spent a lot of time there just fuckin around and making dirt soup and shit

36: Talk about your guilty pleasures.

i dont have much "guilty" pleasures but i guess i shamelessly watch a lot of reaction youtube and horror lets players. like im talking grown men react to steven universe and matpat plays fnaf fangames. and obviously markiplier.

oh yeah. no the online presentation of DID is um awful to be honest. most of us are covert and dont experience it like that! myself included!! most of the time im just me, or Me But Kinda Different

hi anon!

i wish i had more to say here. i'm plural but i'm very very private about that for a variety of reasons and my system is pretty covert either way, but i do want to say that it's not something to be scared of, at all. i like being plural! it's scary when you don't have all the information about your brain yet, but it's nothing to be afraid of! your brain did something so cool and special to protect you and take care of your needs, and you get some Bonus Friends as a result!

you're going to be okay, and you're not alone. statistics say that DID/OSDD is more common than schizophrenia, and up to 8% oif the population has some kind of dissociative disorder. and we all mostly live super fulfilling lives! youre gonna be okay and ilove you.

this is so fun anon you're like the fifth person to have this realization with me. yes she's white <3

yeah at this point i'm pretty used to it! like obviously i'm not really a victim of colorism (anymore at least; my skin tone has varied wildly over my life based on my age and how much im outside) and i'm rather privileged for not having grown up on a reservation compared to my more local indigenous brethren where i live, but like. holy fuck! light skinned or not indigenous people here are, like, pretty universally not considered white regardless of our skin tone! and i'm very aware of the privilege i have as a light skinned and nonblack individual and anyone who knows me personally KNOWS that i am; and that PERSONALLY there is sort of the main point.

none of you know me. you know what i look like, sure, and i'm sure some of you have a fairly decent idea of the part of the world i live in, but you do not know me! you don't know my life, my family, my day-to-day experiences with racism, my upbringing - none of it! and it's also none of your business!

i'm conditionally white passing because people where i live - including and, frankly, especially - other latine people are wildly racist to indigenous folks bc there's a rez here. even if i am not personally being victim to a singular instance of Directed Anti-Native Racism i am surrounded by that shit at every moment of the day and i do not need it online too lmao.

okay that's great, maybe she should've mentioned the word "christian" or "family units"??? acting like sexual violence or misogyny or familial abuse didn't exist before christianity is so CRAZY untrue for so MANY different reasons! it perpetuates a noble savage stereotype and also COMPLETELY ignores places like, say, india, where the bulk of structural religious abuse and control is done thru the hindu caste system in that case - not an invention of "white people" at all!

there is a discussion to be had about the ways things like misogyny and incest intersect with white supremacy and patriarchy and colonialism, sure! of course! but that's not what that post was about! that post was about a transmisogynystic boogeyman that doesnt exist (trans women saying pedophilia is innately transfeminine lol??) and then elaborating that those things are White Phenomenon. complete and utter bullshit that many other people have elaborated on.

sexual violence, on a personal OR structural level, was not invented with christianity. not even remotely!! nor was the family unit! nor was incest! ancient greece and rome had it, the americas had it pre-columbus, places mostly untouched by christianity had and continue to have it! this is like! really simple shit!

and, for the record, i didnt mention a word abt the transmisogyny claims in that post like she is insisting i am doing. i very specifically talked about the racist bullshit tacked on the end, because i am not transfem, but im also not white, and it's very common for white people to cast people of color - but especially indigenous americans - as having had some Pre-Colonial Purer, More Enlightened society. which is racist bullshit lol!

well that's a shame because i don't drop urls when im complaining indirectly about somebody. sorry.

ive been really thinking ojn this one anon. i think i gotta go with deepseaful metroer

yeah unfortunately the only way in is through the trapdoors i have installed in every inche of myh flooring. so. *PULLS THE LEVER*

so i used to do this on occasion back when my insomnia was like. REALLY really bad. i'd lay down on the couch or somtimes in my closet (its a walk in lol) and on super bad nights itd work.. unfortunately my EDS is at a point where doing something like this would be really uncomfortable at best and prolly result in me pulling something at worst ~_~

youre mad at me for my real and true vocaloid opinions

i think its fun and undoubtedly a step up from TOTK but anyone praising it for having dungeons is full of shit. the dungeons are there and again - certainly a step up puzzle wise - but they are EXTREMELY NOT the zelda puzzle box dungeons we are all crying out for. its mostly one room combat encounters or platforming puzzles and its a real damn shame they didnt bother trying to actually make cohesive multiroom puzzles again!

i think id be dead if it was cumulative! no, i just havent gotten more than 6 hours in any one night for 2ish weeks now ToT

like i realize its a joke tm... i get it.... i just do not think joking about inventing a new kind of racism against a hypothetical future sentient group of people is . funny? and NO people in the notes of that post i DONT think racism against fake people is worth more outrage than real racism or whatever other bullshit people are saying; i just think its. not a good joke! seeing that post devoid of context (ie the poster being black) as a fellow person of color was just disconcerting and kind of upsetting; the "mechanical-american" bit was especially bad because im mexican american and the similarities there are.. yknow. IDK man its one thing to make jokes like that in private company but its another to post it on your Big Art Blog idk.