Posts by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
(DIR) Post #B3WBaE3RS882N9D5o8 by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://social.coop/@cwebber/116099888954080904just in case I have cis readers who don't have the context to get the full picture, not having trans healthcare leads to literal, actual deaths of trans people I've way or another, and that's why the cw is trans *genocide* :cat_frown: even something basic like using a trans person's correct pronouns at home cuts child suicide rates in half it memory serves :bear_shrug: and no, even as adults, we can't get out of the country since we're disproportionately poor and disabled (which countries don't like, it turns out)
(DIR) Post #B3kFKygnPyEyP62dc0 by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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In light of the continued enshittification of Youtube, I've finally scrounged together the energy to get files shrunk down and uploaded to a peertube account :frog_blush: @octaviaconamore@vid.northbound.onlineIt won't include any full streams since there's a 20GB total data limit, but I've uploaded every stand-alone book reading I've recorded :bugcat_nod: Most of them are still waiting to be transcoded server-side, but the whole YT library will be up in a few hours~ :hug_love: oh, and despite the potato video quality (only 1500 kb/s), the audio quality is a full 320 kb/s :shiba_love: add. if you follow the peertube account from your Fedi account and turn on notifications, you can get a notification every time a new video is uploaded~ :furret_excited: #ElderScrolls #Vtuber #Reading #Bookstodon #Books
(DIR) Post #B42z3txzofNBZSA2Ay by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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gah, why can't parts of the screen designated as black pixels just but emit light? :not_like_this:
(DIR) Post #B4a70F12pD1bXr1uc4 by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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while using my walking stick, now and again, my hands get an urge to go back to muscle memory, and sometimes, I let them do a few motions and the walking stick gets to go back to being a staff for but a few moments...the sound of my hand rubbing over the smooth shaft, the feeling of balance manipulated for efficient motion, even the rest of my body trying to do motions I drilled into it over so many hours...it's not until I experience them again that I remember how much I miss them, and I hope one day, I'll be able to allow my body to indulge in more than a few seconds of those motions it knows so well without the catastrophic cost it currently incurs :shiba_please:
(DIR) Post #B4az823kH9CbCdSP9U by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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:boosts_ok: I finally got all of the things to align for a reading stream~ :panda_yay: Come join me for some bedtime Elder Scrolls books actually read from bed :leafeon_giggle: (in 5ish minutes)https://www.twitch.tv/octaviaconamore#ElderScrolls #Books #Vtuber #Streaming
(DIR) Post #B4eEUArWJDmPf5dQ5g by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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TMI: Too Much Information :ditto_yikes: TMI: Tell Me Immediately :neofox_hyper: ... ... ... :stitch_confused:
(DIR) Post #B4mo1WDqxqkX7rOaxs by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116306864901750880
(DIR) Post #B4p78DnY9OFxSLvE6C by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://sakurajima.moe/@literalgrill/116324391231970022
(DIR) Post #B4t8eE3VbdE46k3Dyy by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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Since yesterday was international trans day of visibility, let's talk about visibility :zerotwo_learn: Being visibly trans (and more broadly, queer) is dangerous. I don't mean "you'll get nasty messages", I mean you risk getting doxxed, or mobbed and cut off from communities which are our very lifeline (in every sense of the word), or having random fuckos fantasizing about bashing your head in with a baseball bat, shooting you up with an ak-47, or sending credible threats of violence (all examples I've personally seen from "pillars" of certain communities of marginalised people here in fedi :cat_facepalm: )Part of this is the insideous, incessant idea that having a 2D profile pic (pfp) means you're a bigot or even a Nazi.Being able to use a real face as a pfp (and, relatedly, real names) on an account is a privilege. There is the potential harm from others mentioned earlier, but there is also the fact that we trans people often are unable to even look in a mirror without severe distress, and having our faces on a pfp can be even worse :not_like_this: Judging people who have a 2D avatar (almost always called an "anime" avatar by these types even though most 2D pfps aren't from anime) as a bigot without ever knowing them is a direct form of anti-trans discrimination (and anti-queer discrimination). This comes up fairly often on fedi, and if you'd like to do an allyship, you can not only dismantle this idea in your own mind, but also speak up for us when ignorant people trot this idea out for the umpteenth time that year :hug_love:#Trans #Queer #SocialJusticep.s. Oh, I forgot to mention this tangent: trans-fems get the most visibility out of trans people generally, which doesn't mean we get more power; it means we have the brightest targets on our back, that we have one less layer of defense (see the survivability onion), that we get the most scrutiny. Visibility isn't a boon, it's a curse for us. Trans-fems you see that are highly visible on purpose are doing so despite the risks and detriments that come with it in the hope that it might help those who have yet to hatch, but demanding use of that visibility from us is demanding we take more risks :frog_sus::vulpix_relaxed: Survivability onion from outer to inner layers of defense: don't be seen, don't be acquired, don't be hit, don't be penetrated, don't be killed.
(DIR) Post #B4tWaMHvSB3TNkU1Tc by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://mastodon.sakura-star.net/@KitsuneofInari/116336733010511672
(DIR) Post #B50rWRxfsO8oxmhx9U by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://social.xenofem.me/objects/ef5af212-ea17-40a4-b719-ad592c662af6
(DIR) Post #B587upy5ELlJk2Gl8q by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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"The moment someone believes their mission exempts them reflection, they stop being a force for good." ~Loose Threads (Luke) youtube video linkThis line was uttered in the context of analysing Ghibli villains that, in other contexts, might have been the hero, but it seems to explain my experience of seeing people purportedly fighting for social justice commit lateral violence :cat_think: Often, they will have some sort of actual track record, but have teetered off the path, or be dismissive of others, or have a world view that, because they are marginalised, they are incapable of being the one doing the marginalisation.We all grow up in societies that marinate us in their bigotries, and unless it's concerning a bigotry you're directly targetted by, it takes conscious, often life-long effort to undo those effects and be a force for positive change.In that pursuit, self-examination and reflection are a key ingredient that drives everything else. Without it, knowledge is difficult to find and even more difficult to absorb. Empathy will lack the knowledge to drive it to positive action. Even empathy may become worn down by the cruelties of the world.I know "check yourself becore you wreck yourself" is beyond meme status at this point, but it points yo this same truth: continued self-reflection with unclouded eyes is paramount to continue to change the world for the better :hug_love:#SocialJustice #Musings
(DIR) Post #B588cdVGw2W1pBg6JE by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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pain means I'm still alive... pain means I can still fight :frog_sus:
(DIR) Post #B5LWRbMZTaHrxKMHz6 by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://lgbtqia.space/@Elodie_lyra/116409432832047044
(DIR) Post #B5ReR0PUpZu9vkiGfo by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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If I do nothing else in this life, I want to impress upon as many people as I can the importance of words. I know they're easy to throw around... "they're just words", some will say...But words have meaning, history, baggage, context, *consequences* :frog_sus:While I don't believe magic exists in our world, I get why many magic systems are based on words, whether that be incantations, curses, true names, or whatever else...Whether they be multisyllabic monstrosities from the depths of a thesaurus or internet slang, words have real weight to them, real effects on real people :cat_frown: Using words is a responsibility, and the more we forget that, the more harm they can cause :jellyfish_sad: #Musings :boosts_ok:
(DIR) Post #B5efshPjg3b48H4bSq by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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what was that German word that means "you're right but still an asshole" again? :psyduck_confused:
(DIR) Post #B65FTq6ItNGwIGO4xc by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://lgbtqia.space/@enbypirate/116537564021681697
(DIR) Post #B65KYXnqqiCWlNor8y by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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@tlapka how about Golshi's Mejiro genes giving up on suppressing her Gold genes some time between childhood and academy age? :leafeon_giggle:#Umamusume
(DIR) Post #B6ZEhctwUcBUCNPhoG by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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https://goblin.camp/@umalkosh/116609884996247304
(DIR) Post #B6benRlrm2r0XZzYzA by OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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@Stellar is there something special about Android 15? :drgn_confused: