Okay Because Neopronouns And Xenogenders Are So Fucking Cool. Honest To God I Think They're The Best

Okay because neopronouns and xenogenders are so fucking cool. Honest to god I think they're the best shot we have right now at gender abolitionism. Not terf gender abolitionism, but real gender abolitionism. Where we can decenter gender and its constructs as the most important basis for identity and like actually identify with things that are meaningful to us and give a sense of personal fulfillment.

I want you to look me in the eyes and tell me that a teenage gamer boy thinks being a boy is more pivotal to his identity than being a gamer. Obviously being a gamer is more important to him! Now, if someone took away from him the fact that he was a boy or attempted to undermine it, being a boy would become pretty fucking important to him. But hey, removing those external factors he might just identify as a gamer.

I feel like neopronouns and xenogenders are our transition (heh) state to that world. It reminds me so much of when they/them started to become popular on tumblr in like 2013 (i'm sure it was before then too, that's just when i got tumblr). Everyone flipped their collective fucking lid, cringe compilations were everywhere, and people cried the death of empiricism and western society. And now I get gendered as they/them, entirely unprompted, by cis people who don't know me.

So much of the criticism I've seen of these identities is that "they're just hobbies!", "that's just your special interest not your gender", or "that's just an aesthetic you like". and, YES!!!! That's the point! All of those things are equally as important to someone's identity and sense of self than arbitrary gender boxes we've made!

Gender abolitionism is a long term goal like any other anarchist principle. I personally like my gender, I like being called a man and referred to as he. Fuck anyone who says I can't. I'd also like for that to not have to be so important to me. I wish I could just be a writer, or someone who really likes the color green, or a gamer.

So what I'm trying to say is keep fucking with gender kids!! Make more of them, find pronouns that don't exist yet and use them with your friends. Have fun! Keep going! A better world will be made because of it.

alters who don’t front often or never front are completely valid and are still real alters

we still perform duties for the system, it’s only from the inside instead of the outside. and even if you don’t perform a “duty” that you deem important you’re still serving one. even if it’s something hyperspecific or strange. even if you don’t know what that duty is.

hosts and protectors and other alters that front often get most of the spotlight, so let’s all remember to be thankful for our system managers, the internal self helpers, and other alters who perform duties almost completely internally as well. :-)

-moth

and for the love of Gd please reblog, I did not tag this with queer tags because it would be selectively biased

Mechs Miscellaneous Headcanons

they’re immortal. they’ve amassed far too much liquor. ashes has decided to make a fun game where they swap half the bottles for rocket fuel and space alchohol is so weird that it’s anyones guess which is which until they die four shots in

100% of the time if anyone says “give me a hand” whoever gets there first pulls a buzz lightyear joke, but it’s someone cutting off their hand on the spot and chucking at them. this never happens around marius cause they don’t want to give him the satisfaction

they have had Aurora tow one moon to another moon to see if they’ll mate and make Moon Babies (this is not the moons that were in love. that gave them the idea)

by doing so they infested both moons with the other moon’s invasive species and threw off their gravity entirely, completely disrupting their ecosystems and forcing the moons to form an entirely new ecosystem, which raphaella insisted meant they technically DID make a moon baby, just on a larger scale than expected

tim has the same relationship to his guns as that one penguin does to his trophies in surf’s up. you know the one i’m talking about.

due to the Mechanisms being semi-narrative powered, they’ve become somewhat superstitious about storytelling. the phrase Once Upon A Time is to the Mechs what Macbeth is to theatre kids: you will get tackled and forced to participate in strange rituals to counteract this. the most common of which is just airlocking

brian’s second pair of eyes are in his hat and that’s why the goggles are stupidly positioned on top of the hat

ivy has used book glue in her tea without noticing. nastya uses cyberian vodka on purpose.

at one point ashes returned to malone, only to learn about what happens when you burn an ecosystem and second growth forests- the planet is teeming with life. in any other story this would be symbolic of rebirth and possibly an emotional turning point. but this is the mechs, so instead there is a LOT of cussing and they burn the planet down again but WORSE- Fire 2 Arson Boogaloo

jonny has spurs cause he’s a cowboy and also Kicking: It’s Like If Your Feet Could Bite

there’s a planet they have sworn never to return to that’s just populated by naked mole rats with machetes. the rats have decapitated several members of the crew. on separate occasions.

i’ve decided i’m objectively the hottest person in the system, actually (/lh). having the personality of a raccoon in an on fire trash bin just adds. - 🎶 (Jonny D’ville)

mom said its my turn with the meatsuit