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Perpetual Motion

@perpetual-moti.bsky.social

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Amateur writer and full-time bird just trying to get by. Genderqueer, He/They, Ace, ΘΔ. I write a web novel about emotionally distressed ex-humans! Check it out here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/98840/transliterated-xenofiction-isekai

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · Nov 18

Announcing the relaunch my web novel, Transliterated! A fantasy novel about identity, adapting to new bodies, existential turmoil, and finding mutual support in an unfamiliar world. Read it on Royal Road here: www.royalroad.com/fiction/9884...

#writing #fantasy #animals #xenofiction #transformation

Artistic rendition of a crow scrawling "I am human" in ink on a piece of paper.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 12h

I can barely string together half of my BnB in an actual match and I was already making people ragequit in casual lobbies after my third game against real people. Mission accomplished.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 16h

Hello, one detransitioner here. I learned more about myself and grew more as a person trying out being a woman and deciding it wasn't who I wanted to be than these jackasses have in their entire lives. I am am not their political pawn and I hope they choke on their bile and hate.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Chloe Cole: The existence of even one detransitioner dismantles the central lie of transgenderism, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 1d

But the part of the story with a bunch of weird errors were was when everyone is separated in the sewers and Arukenimon is messing with their heads. A bunch of the digimon just get referred to with opposite pronouns for that sequence and it really made some conversations confusing as hell.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, that part *did* make sense to me, mainly because of that exchange where he explained that continuing to disguise himself as his partner's brother was more comfortable to him that his natural form after having done it for so long. All sorts of gender identity weirdness going on there.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure time Stranger has a much higher budget for localization that survive did, but mistakes like this really do feel like a localizer just being handed a bunch of text without guidelines for consistency or a script editor to clean up things like that.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 1d

I remember playing Digimon Survive and getting taken out during what was, on paper, an extremely powerful part of the story, because it seemed to have been localized by a different person or group from the rest of the game and it suddenly had typos and incorrect pronouns for a bunch of the digimon.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 2d

Same for mine! What a weird coincidence!

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 2d

The plushie is battery powered and has a vibration/voice box feature that can still contribute mindsound for pack function, but can't otherwise move.

It also has a bunch of pre-recorded phrases baked in that the pack keeps accidentally triggering and now they just have cutesy intrusive thoughts.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

Being able to generate YTP narration in your head is a fun superpower to have.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

They want you to understand why this world is in the state that it is, they want it to anger you, and then they want you to leave and never come back.

And, if all goes as planned, you come out the other end stronger, and a better grasp of the world and why you do what you do.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

These wild and untamed, or corrupted and ruined by the evils of the world, or both. They do not want you there, and they will drive you out through any means necessary. They tell you that if you wish to explore this world, you will have to see it at its worst, not just its best.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

Dark Souls without Blighttown and adjacent areas would be a lesser game. Half-Life 2 without Ravenholm would be lesser. Pokemon RBY without Viridian Forest would be lesser. They’re stressful and annoying and designed to put you on edge, and without them the emotional arc of your journey is stunted.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

Something that Silksong has brought into discussions recently but has been on my mind for a long time prior is the existence of Places That Suck in video games. People complain about them, but IMO it is imperative that any game wishing to depict a cohesive world needs Places That Suck.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

You just gotta make sure to cook out all the toxins, first.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

Episodes where they let Kate Mulgrew loose to give incredibly dark performances was when Voyager was at its best. It's why my second favorite Voyager episode is The Thaw, not for the Psychosexual Clown Matrix, but because of Mulgrew's delivery of "I know" at the end.
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Fear is to be conquered

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

Say what you will about Voyager as a whole, but the ending of Tuvix where Janeway welcomes Tuvok and Neelix back before silently turning around and walking out into a darkened hallway, her face obscured by shadow, is genuinely one of my favorite pieces of emotional storytelling in television.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

It's "easy" in the purely logical sense, but when you have a genuine living person who did nothing wrong begging for their life, it makes it hard on the character who is made to pull the trigger. It's honestly why Tuvix is my favorite episode of Voyager, despite people dunking on it all the time.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

Can't even commission anyone to make something, since my financials won't allow for that, either. It's frustrating.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 3d

So, end of this month is the 2nd anniversary of the original posting of Transliterated's first chapter. Writing this book means the world to me, and I want to do something to commemorate it. I just not sure what I can do, especially since I'm still debilitated by medical bullshit at the moment.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 4d

Getting fundamentally different perspectives from my own is a challenge, especially when I struggle to approach others to even talk about it. Getting to chat in depth about this with you is is extremely valuable. Thank you.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 4d

I apologize for making you do it, then 😅

But I do appreciate what you have to say, genuinely. This is something I’ve explored a lot in my own writing. Specifically what happens when you remove language and human context from the equation without hindering cognition, and how humanity reacts to it.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 5d

It kinda feels like non-human sapience is core to how I view being a bird. I look at them and see a lot of things that humanity falsely claims sole ownership of. Out of what you mentioned here, reflection and abstraction jump out to me as something birds share. I'd shed shame in an instant, though.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, this means a lot to me. Seeing experiences and feelings like this and not relating to them in the same way definitely leaves me feeling "fake" a lot of the time, like I'm just pretending to feel the way I do and backing off the moment anything "difficult" comes up. It's good to know I'm not.

Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes I feel like I could write an entire essay about the framing of sapience in therian storytelling and its conflation with humanity, but at the same time that framing gives a lot of comfort to people I care about and I don't feel like critiquing that would be valuable or helpful to anyone.

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Perpetual Motion @perpetual-moti.bsky.social · 5d

I guess I've just always struggled to figure out what those "human overlays" are, for me. I don't really see any clear delineation in myself where "human" ends and "bird" begins, so when I try to think through letting the former go, it inevitably carves out a chunk of the latter with it.

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