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  • Rar? Eugh, feels today. Also head kinda still messed from yesterday*. Hmmmm lessee.

    So, feels. Emotional 🧠y strugglifications are happening in various ways. Not sure I'm capable of really bonding or feeling belongy or anysuch :-\ Having weird feels about where I'm at in life (also see * <.<;) aaand Idunno even what else. Had a lil sad about the kitty we were kittysitting for like a day having to go back with his "owner" :| Clearly the lil grey fluff belongs here on my bed :3 ... Where he did actually stay pretty much the whole time he wasn't either chewing up my electronics cablestuffs or fighting/playing with the other lil ones. What a sweet lil fuff :3

    *

    So it turns out it's possible to trip on weed if you manage to use too much and also apparently I became a lightweight (regarding everything??) overnight before yesterday. Ask me how I kno- just kidding I know because I got knocked into a trip from one lil gummy and maybe a couple lil dabs <.< :| This was a very weird experience (my first trip! Woooo I guess 😅 ) that's kinda been on my mind 😅 Anyway one thing it did was put me through a bunch of different perspectives and I saw myself as a previous self and was... disgusted, afraid, alone, felt like I was lost far from home 😅 Rough, weird, unpleasant... so that BS is clattering around mucking up 🧠 as if the poor thing weren't already kindof a mouldy puddle of sludge or something.

    ^ So that experience was a whole bundle of strange and I wanna talk about it but I don't even know what to say 😅

    Also cops stopped somecritter right out front of this place, just now :| Bleeeh!

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  • ...Okay you're sharing this bread, yes? :3 . 🫴

  • 2 tanks were destroyed at once in the Kursk region of Russia.
  • I wonder what's happening to munitions markets and makers whilst we're all watching drones (sometimes down to the sort of cheap shit one can find at Wal-Mart for $15 or whatever) be as effective as very expensive missiles and bombs and whatnot 🤔

  • The annual gender census of 2024 is now open
  • wiggles censusly! Is specifically for people who aren't strictly binary, bytheway.

  • Who has been your biggest support during your transition?
  • Weird answer maybe buuut... myself, and my dream families and friends. Sometimes I spend all' my time daydreaming and I often come up with critters who end up close to me, sometimes even very close. Between their love and support and my own disregard or outright disdain for various useless opinions of who I'm supposed to be... I'm getting pretty firmly into the DGAF region of my mindspace: I'll be me on my terms. I'll try to be my best me, the Keris in my dreams, but that's my journey to make.

    ... I'm kinda busted so it's hard to connect with real people any more :-\ 🤷 Was really shocked when I found out the hard way I'd really bonded with some dream critters. Thought I'd gotten the risks managed but nooooope Misery was building a bigger batch of sad. Anyway, wordsy wordses blar blar blar et ctera 🤷 😴

  • Russian T-80 tank is destroyed by a "TOW" ATGM missile fired from an M2 "Bradley" IFV.
  • Daaamn, TOW blew the whole top off' that poor thing. Didn't know they were that badass.

    I'll smile extra for you. I hope you can find something here that will lift your spirits. Maybe a whole-ass ammo depot becoming a crater or something? :3

  • I'll never understand this kind of mindset.
  • Almost instinctively downvoted after reading what's gotta be a bot post or a bad joke. Gross.

  • How's your week been?
  • Sends huggles and muffins :3 🫴 🫂 🧁

  • How's your week been?
  • sends headpats and huggles and muffins (apple cinnamon and/or lemon poppyseed!)

    (Also could somecritter tell me what "sepfem" means <.<)

  • How's your week been?
  • Maybe looking up? Afraid to jinx it but these critters I'm staying with seem to have expectations compatible with I can do. I don't think I've actually relaxed yet, but, well, y'know, maybe there's a chance I can start living here. Also they have more time to chat and hang out and even go with me to places sometimes 😅 Ooo, just remembered there's orange juice in the fridge 😅 Couldn't find any Simply Mango at the shop though v.v Grr-hmph.

    Anyway I'm doing better. Haven't had any panic attack thingles, haven't even fallen off' the bed. Nervous about life but there's been a little progress and maybe a chance at more. Hoping Duluth has what I need 😅 Rough if it doesn't. Oh, ordered a Tello SIM card. Phone started working sometime on the first, which is when I was headed up here so Idunno if something in Minne (which is a cute name so I like calling it that :P ) was blocking my phone or it was some kinda roaming thing or just they had blocked me but that expired or what, but I'm not looking to play that game again so I'm getting my own phone service. Cheap, shitty phone service but shouldn't leave me stranded because some assholes in Oklahoma did something or didn't do something or just the phone got locked off 'cause I was out of state too long or whatever happened rantble! Bought a bunch of crappy food because it's easy for me and I mostly won't feel like I'll have to ask anycritter anything and I have somewhere to put it and someway to carry it (was driven there, no six-bags-on-a-bus mess >.<; ) and an expectation that I'll likely still be here to use it all. I think that probably means something 😅 Maybe I'll even make it to the bus stop (and Taco John's!! 😻 ) soonish.

    Aaany-anyway! I have a lil hope now I think. Am not expected to have everything solved by next week, so I can get some things done when it works for me rather than getting practically nothing done because it's got to all be settled and I can't. Idunno what all that stuff up there is about but wiggles maybe-okayly!

  • Two kinds of cowardice
  • "No bullying!" students disagree with genocide "Police, police! Get those fuckin' nerds! We've got lockers you can stuff them into if you want!"

    'Course, "anti-bullying campaigns" seem to have a tendency some places to either have some serious cracks or actually make things worse at least some of the time. Same with other "student protection" initiatives, some schools just mysteeeriously have interestingly high rates of traumatized students going out compared to coming in.

    (In case it's unclear, I'm complaining about shit schools letting students get attacked in various ways but trying to pretend they're not just letting it happen or quietly encouraging it. In the US at least, the "education system" being gross or outright vile does not stop at/after high school: it's top to bottom bullshit same as what at this point feels like every other "system" around here)

  • "Silencing tactic"? I wish it worked lol
  • Ah, a "designated free speech zone!" Weird, it's cool when they do it 🤔

    Yeah, really going for the low-hanging fruit of pointing out that the right is violently dishonest. (Also no, it's not actually cool. It's fucked and gross. Just clarifying in case somecritter thought I was being non-sarcastic there 😅 )

  • When you try to have a discussion in any forum run by American Democrats
  • I've found the enemy! GET THEM!!! raises pitchfork, sets fires 🧑‍🌾🧨 🔥

  • I'm the Duluth Critter
  • Idunno, might be weird to be cuddled by some strange attic-creature 🤔 They could probably get used to it though ba-dum tssh! 🤣

  • I'm the Duluth Critter
  • [Joke] Halp I'm locked in the basement he makes me eat only Spicy Nacho Doritos!

    Wait, that's fine, the basement doesn't have a lock, and the dogs ate the Doritos 😅 Also I live in the attic.

    Apparently I've joined the family via the approval of the cats and dogs 😅 One of the dogs isn't bad, even! Other one's a hellacious pest 😅 Distracted by Star Wars @.@ Maybe yap more later

  • Police shoot rubber bullets at UCLA protesters as encampment cleared
  • But I heard that all cops are benevolent!

    🤔 Wait no, that's not right. Anyway I'm sure it's somehow not their fault. (Edit: nor the school's fault for calling the fucking cops)

    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7JkrJUAg8aI

  • New developer
  • I kinda wanna upvote this but it's horrible so I'm posting this instead 😅

  • New developer
  • <.< When I was a teenager (maybe early teens? Idunno, I'm not super old 😅 🧓 ) that's just how we made websites 😹

  • M2 "Bradley" IFV dismantles a Russian MT-LB near Avdiivka.
  • Ahhhh... where are you gonna drive to, that Bushmaster will eat your entire lunch. Dunno whether the smart ones already ran or that one was doing the "I'll draw their attention!" thing.

  • Maybe-un-doomy update (or, "A crab is making me post!")

    [Lie] Okay so, cowboycrustation says I have to post or he's gonna pinch me 🙀

    I currently seem to be somewhat less doomed than previously seemed likely. Turns out a kind critter contacted another who called for helps and yet another popped up like "Hay, we have a room just for critters like that one!" So now I'm here in a lil room of a four-critter family's place, in neat lil area @.@ It's gonna be awkweird but I've got somewhere to be other than frozen Minnesota street doom and there are critters trying to help me so I've got at least some kinda chance of getting by up here. Am sleepy now but the looming threat of crabby pinchings and/or pinchy crabbings compels me to post something so here it is :P 😅

    Lots of new experiences, too. Hanging out playing board games on the floor of my hotel room with my new friends, who didn't even know each other... that was neat 😅 Neat day. Better than the previous one. I think. I don't really know what happened that day. Anyway, some things are happenifying. Also it's kinda cold here 😅

    Oh, the city looks super different than my initial impression. I suppose part of that is riding in a car versus riding a bus or train, but it looked much more familiar on the way here. Also being daytime probably helped a lot. My initial impression was like, dark and enclosed and often a lil bit lost, riding light rail with a bunch of smokers, trying to navigate Mall of America with eighty bazillion hunams in it @.@ D: 🙀 ... That sort of thing. Muchly different! Anyway, I'ma nap or something now. @.@ 😴

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    Need somewhere to stay and somewhere to go (OK->MN or other friendly state)

    (Or, hell, another nation while I'm dreaming 😅 :-\ ) Walls of backstory (possible to make a cross-instance link? Doesn't seem so): https://pawb.social/post/8062162 https://pawb.social/comment/7374899

    Short backstory: Broken critter, 34 Earth-around-Sol-goings old, probably agoraphobic (as in fear-of-crossing-thresholds, not fear-of-public-spaces) and AuADHD. Stuck living with "family" but now they're abusive and near-violent. Called cops on me, tried to throw me out with nothing miles from the nearest town, threatened to cut off my Internet access as if keeping me from working out how to leave is the best way to make me leave. Hatefool logic stuff 🙄, bullies both.

    This-post story: Is there anycritter who can -Pick me up when I figure out where to go and/or give me/point me at a safe place to stay (am currently in northeastern Oklahoma, outside of a little town about forty minutes from Tulsa), or -Help paw-holdguide me through figuring out how to settle in somewhere safer, even a decent* roommate who can maybe help me find the best places to go/be/work/eat/live/etc.?, or -Just straight-up flee somewhere with me and help work stuff out together? Weird scary idea, sure, but... whatever I guess. Not as scary to me as going it alone, I think maybe. May be able to help financially, even. Probably ridiculous to even think any of this but it's a nice dream to just hop on a bus/plane/silt strider and piss off with somecritter to greener pastures 🤷 ...Presumably flipping every single bird at where we came from.

    If not that, some advice on how much things even cost could be really useful. What does it cost to move these days? In time and US Dollars, particularly. And phone calls. Those are terrifying. Anyway Idunno what kind of budget to expect beyond single, discrete things. $100-350 bus fare to Minneapolis, $150-400 air fare depending on when. $60ish per night for a cheap hotel room near here, plus a $100-200(?) deposit I may not get back that apparently isn't mentioned very upfrontly. Those I can just look up but getting a full mental picture of like, a 25-hour bus trip including food/drinks, the bus fare itself, stuff I've not even thought of yet...??? I'd prefer to fly if I can, but then maybe I need a hotel somewhere because of a cancelled flight, and either spend twice as much on the ticket or have to find somewhere to stay for a bit over two weeks, and cab fare to get to the hotel if I need one (or more!), and... ugh!

    PS: Sorry this is all really weird and maybe creepy. I'm really weird so maybe it's not unfair to be upfront about that 😅 but also I'm "a little" unsettled by this mess so I'm just kinda blurting things out hoping something makes sense and maybe helps :-\

    \"Decent" in terms of interpersonal respect and whatnot, not like... "not weird" or something. Certainly not the video game, that's Des*cent.

    Update 27th March, 03:36 CDT/08:36 UTC Just gonna talk to myself for a sec, I guess. Probably nocritter else up at this hour. 😓 Welcome to my diary! Or rather, you now are my diary. Congrats! It's an odd role. So, every day's a hell of a trip, and not a fun one. Hours of bad followed by struggle. Just now finally got around to doing some work. Bets on whether I make it? 🤷 Helps to talk...don't wanna drag anycritter down 🤷 Bleegh. Anyway, turns out stuff is big and space for packing stuff is not. Gotta figure out how much I can handle carting around, maybe see if I can find (and get) my carry-on luggage-thingle. Easiest just to cram what I can into a backpack and big-luggage I guess. Already have a couple of each in here. Was using them as catchalls <.< What goes, what stays... ugh. Very ugh. Triple hyper ugh! And the checked luggage fees... damn. Hurts being alone, in every way. Chatting yesterdayish was nice, just sad and quiet now. Am just crying out loud I guess 🤷

    Could still really use:

    1. Somewhere to stay: for a week or a day (or until mid-next month when air fare's better, but who's wishing for miracles? Oh, it's me.)
    2. Somewhere to go: could be somecritter's weird wiggly wroommate 🤷 Else maybe advice on where to look for an apartment. Idunno if "cheap and walkable" is a thing that exists but Idunno how the hell I'm gonna be able to get around 🤷 Currently just assuming I'm going to Minneapolis. No freaking clue what to do after that beyond looking for a box to hide in and snatching up like, a bowl and something cheap and edible to put into it. ... What a ridiculous "princess experiences real life" movie I've got going on here 🤦‍♀️ Anyone want a weird ugly pet to take care of 😅
    3. Maybe even just some company? At this point even a voice call sounds great. Fair warning: might just cry the whole time. Am already doing that, in fact.
    4. I still wish somecritter would just come rescue me but I totally didn't say that 'cause it's scary I guess 🤷 😶‍🌫️

    Will even accept cis people! Only asked here because I'm a little bit familiar around here and can't bring myself to ask anywhere else.

    Also, how does one get, say, a bunch of groceries from a shop to a home without a car to store it in? Just haul a bag or two at a time, make multiple trips if needed? Seems like that'd get unwieldy and dangerous really fast, even with like, only two bags but there are cans in there so they can't both be in one hand so like... 🙀 Kindof a shower thought I guess. Still hoping to get one of those today. 💡 Oyeah, maybe use the rolly luggage thingle.

    Okay, it's been like an hour and a half just... rambling another wall of crap. I hope somecritter can like, study all' this or something. Maybe I can play a part in advancing Brokenology (scientific study of broken things).

    Update 28th March, 04:50 CDT Just booked the flight. I've been looking at things, bus routes, shelters, apartments, hotels. Feels like I'm kidding the hell out of myself thinking I can do this at all. I should just quit. It'll be harder if I leave. I'll get there and I'll have no one and nothing but a big bag of crap someone's going to want to take. I can't do this. Why the fuck would I think I can do this? It's gonna be dozens of calls and days of wandering the city bleeding funds and maybe literally bleeding just to find out how fucked I am. I'm not built for this hell-world. I can barely handle getting a Discord call from someone I like, how am I gonna survive creating a life from nothing in a new city when there are people who've been there their whole lives, who aren't as broken as I am, who still rely on shelters and soup kitchens? I'll just die a slow, cold death instead of a quick painless one I can have here.

    I'm sorry, I know no one wants this crap around. I just feel so damn lost, and like everything's set up so well to make sure I can't possibly be okay, ever.

    Can't just buy a place to stay, even if I can afford it. Could get a hotel for like a week, then be totally fucked. Who's gonna hire me? Maybe somewhere truly horrific. And I'll struggle like hell to even apply. Why even try 😭 This is stupid, I'm just throwing my idiot self at a "nicer place" like it's gonna save me.

    Managed to schedule a Lyft for Friday morning, to get me to the airport. I just feel really sick. Maybe I'll get a fascist driver who'll just shoot me and dump my corpse in the river. Probably a better fate than what I'll get trying to live a dream, like a total shithead. Ugh.

    Nobody's even gonna show, I'll have to freaking scramble up an Uber, then when that falls through just go fuck myself trying to dream up a cab company that'll come out here. FML.

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    Help?

    Heyuh, any hot tips on how I can get the hell out of this abuse house? BioParents have decided that one "no" is far too many and they've decided to try to break into my room. They're yelling a bunch of bullshit and telling me to get out but also they're trying to work out how to break into my room?!

    I'm in rural northeastern Oklahoma; I've got a bit of money (assuming they don't rob me of that somehow) but no real means of supporting myself because I'm autistic and agoraphobic in the middle of nowhere, relying on them for everything. I've finally got just a little bit of help (some medications at least, nothing fancy) and it's just too little too late I guess.

    tl;dr: BioParents threatening, bullying me. Need some kind of lasting escape, need help creating my own life if such thing is possible. Need to never be here again.

    Edit: Sorry, I'm a bit scattered. Sorry if this is the wrong place for this. Couldn't find anywhere that is. Also I may lose "their" Internet connection because cutting me off from help is totally not abusing me but actually a reasonable way for them to "take back their property" (they want all of my keys as part of throwing me out, I've never been able to deal with confrontation and they know it... blah blah BS). May be able to use my phone... ugh.

    Edit 2: They called the cops on me. Edit 3: The guy with the Punisher tat explained that no one had done anything wrong but they can't throw me out without going through the eviction process. BioMom has been through that process before (she used to run an apartment complex!) so she damn well knew she couldn't do that, and that the cops wouldn't help her unless they were just hardcore transphobes who'd just as soon shoot me. No shock to me, the only logical reason she called them was to bully me harder or just get me killed. Edit 4: Night now, managed a kitchen+toilet trip. Didn't get thrown directly into jail nor "institutionalized" for daring to disobey my dear sweet loving and supportive (sarcasm) mother and her imaginary right to invade every detail of my life. Still don't know where to go. I'm too old for many things, too young for others. Kinda afraid (ashamed?) to even try to contact any kind of shelter because like... they've got a handful of rooms and I'm gonna ask for one because I'm a thirty-something loser who's broken and getting thrown out? They made me broken and they're throwing me out for trying to keep one single detail of my life from her but... damn, is that really fair to ask, when others have been through so much worse? Besides, probably nowhere has any space available, so I'll just be stressing over a phone call or whatever and get nothing from it but more stress. FML, wish I'd been born to an actually decent family or not at all. (Edit 4b: No-go on the whole family/friends thing.) Edit 5: Still alive! Feels like none of this is even real, like I must've just dreamed it all. I think it's this room messing with my head, like nothing can ever change. Am just yapping I guess 🤷 (Edit 5b: Oh, edits count as bumps. Sorry >.<; ) Edit 6: Now BioMom's lashing out at BioDad too. Apparently she's going to take us to hell with her when/after(?) she dies. What the actual fuck. Anyway, in case he comes and kills me I'd like to mention that the new name I've been flirting with is Keris. Nocritter asked and I'm in no state to be soul-searching right now but I kinda want to say it, I guess. Might as well try to be as me as I can when I don't know if there's gonna be a me in ten minutes. On the plus side, if she decides to still go to her thing on Monday I'll have a window for escape. Just have to figure out how, and where to go. Edit 6b: Okay, not dead yet. No idea what's going on out there; haven't heard anything in a while. Realized I may sound a little insane being afraid of BioDad when BioMom is the one screaming about taking people to Hell with her. She's very movement impaired and can't get to my end of the house on her own. Sad, yes. Complicated. He, on the other paw, is as cruel as she lets him get by with. He's always been physically intimidating (though not yet "violent"), verbally abusive, always looking to do as much damage as he can without her scolding him for it. So if she's not a factor... he's a threat. Edit/Update 7: They taped a seven-day eviction notice to my door. Looks like state law requires thirty but Idunno if I can last that long anyway, given I'm afraid to even cross the lil hallway to get to the toilet. I'm very not okay, I need somewhere safe to go, at least long enough to calm down and figure out what the hell to do but there's just nothing for it. Might be able to afford a hotel for a couple weeks if I don't eat. I'm not eating anyway so maybe that's not so bad. No friends, no family, no space in shelters (and I don't meet anyone's criteria anyway), no place to go if I do manage to leave, no idea where else to even try or ask. Hell, I'm almost out of bottled water too. If any brave adventurers wanna swoop in and rescue me, now's the time :-\

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    Wiggling

    Hi, shower thought time. Are we wiggly? Do we have an official wiggle, or wiggle style? I like to wiggles enbily, to demonstrate but Idunno if any-enby-critter else wiggles at all, let alone whether we've got a traditional/official/typical style of wiggle 🤔 Also, same question but for everything else. Share your favourite wiggles! Discuss the traditional enby wiggles, trans wiggles, weird wigglycritter wiggles... I'll even accept wriggles as well :3 Maybe wobbles too. Case-by-case, that one.

    Late warning: this post is entirely 100% goofness :P

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    Double-hatching

    Firstly, buuuuump! hehehehehehehe

    Secondly, so, my trip to enbyness has taken a bit of a circuitous route, right? It took ages to realize that, hey, y'know... maybe I don't have to be a guy. I can be a girl! Yaaay! Finally free! So I hatched and be'd a girl for a while (... where did the past decade go, please help me get it back). Well, I kindof always expected I'd end up creeping enby-ward at least a bit but recentlish I got to having some feels and it's been getting to the point where I'm occasionally getting bits of a second dose of that hatchy euphoria. Turns out, I can wear through the gender hangups and start to just be me, right? So, double-yay! Kinda feels like I'm cheating, honestly 😅 Most people only get to hatch zero times, and even lucky trans-critters mostly only get to hatch once. So here I am, delightedly double-dipping discovery, digging into my 'dentity and hoping maybe somecritter around here has a story to share :3 That or I'm just yapping into the void. Even still, maybe I can fan the lingering enbers (harharhar, see what I did there? :D ) of this community!

    Also any neat tricks for finding/committing to names/colour schemes/avatars would be nice :3 Actually I should probably just have another poke at making an avatar and just go for it but eep >.<; Triple-eep at making a top-level post 🙀

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    RiikkaTheIcePrincess Keris (They/She) @pawb.social

    Also maybe Riikka, or maybe formerly Riikka. Meep :3 They/She, also transer than a box of transistors! wiggles transly Very cute, but also weird and sometimes kinda sharp May not get to wiggle again. Please rescue.

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