The more I get back into liking, loving and lusting on people, the more I’m reminded what a sanitized, segregated lie queers have been built into.
I’ve met the sweetest, prettiest queens who tell me “Well, I’m a transsexual. Sometimes I call myself a transman because both my trans self and my manhood are me.”
New friends tell me about the sexcapades their closed polycule gets up to that they just watch because they’re a kinky ace.
There’s staunch lesbians who helped the love of their life transition as a transmasc, gay men begging to be topped by trans men with the fattest tits.
Older queers don’t hesitate to shout “oh, like Prince!” when I tell them I’m androgyne. Vanilla questioning men will text me day after day before shyly confessing I’m their dream guy. Closeted trans women ask to kiss me because I’m their dream girl. Doms and subs who melt when they realize I’m both and neither, and they didn’t know somebody like me existed.
There’s vanilla lesbians on Grindr and acearos who have shown me love deeper than I thought possible and guydykes kissing girlfags and MtFtMtX elders and throuples that have so much affection that they just collectively parent babygays who got disowned.
Everybody is so beautiful! There is so much love! It is no wonder a cruel world has a vested interest in suppressing queerness when humanity is so expansive to us.
i find it so cute how a lot of robitgirl fantasies we share are things with humans equivlants just without the health risks
“i just wanna be repaired by a cute robot engineer~” is getting nursed from an injury without any actual injury
“when she sees you and her cooling fans go off~” is social anxiety with a built in treatment for the stress it causes
“when you need a system reboot~” literally just a blackout without risk of brain damage
“i gave you admin privileges~” no different from making a deal with the moon-demon gythazah, who will take your soul for eternaty in exchange for limitless plessure (dont lie we’ve all done it)
Did you guys know the “Sickos” artist made a Sicko thats a WGA screenwriter on strike (said comic artist is a The Onion satirist comic artist and his name is Stan Kelly)
Cacynen feirch: a livestock connection, so I’m guessing it’s a farmer name from frustrated agricultural workers in August trying to keep their animals unbothered. But also, there’s the etymology of ‘cacynen’ itself - from cach (shit) and ci (dog). Ci gets used fairly generically with Welsh animal names, but possibly the cach is from the old belief that bees, wasps and flies were born via spontaneous generation out of faeces, corpses and mud. Perhaps in Wales it was specifically believed to be from horse shit?
Cacynen felen: not much to say, they are yellow. Ooh, although, a fossilised example of a gendered colour term; you only see these in nature names now
Gwenynen feirch: the stinging fly that bothers horses. The verb gwanu means to stab/penetrate, so referring to the puncture-like nature of a wasp’s sting
Cacynen y geifr: as with entry one, but goats instead of horses. I expect these came from farmers who worked different livestock
Cacynen fach: slightly odd because the common wasp is not that small. But it is smaller than many common species of Welsh bumblebee? Certainly smaller than hornets. Or possibly it’s just a standard generic term.
Cacynen y cythraul: well WHAT a fun name. Cythraul is like… a demon, a devil, a creature from hell. Very evocative. Clearly, whoever came up with this one had a picnic ruined and was fucking livid about it.
Picwnen: from 'pig’ (thorn) and 'cwn’ (dogs). The ’-en’ ending shows it’s singular and often creeps into Welsh words that technically had alternative singular/plural forms. A big example of this is fish, which used to be pysgod/pysg (singular/plural), but over time got hyper corrected to pysgodyn/pysgod because it sounded more correct
Piffgwnen: a corruption of the above (remember the cadno/canddo thing)
Piffgi: a further corruption of the above that has remembered the word 'cwn’ is correctly singular-ised to 'ci’.
Cacynen frith: brith means, like, speckled/brindled/striped. Colour-marked. So referring to the stripes. Quite an old and poetic term that crops up a lot in nature names, just like cacynen felen, and also in old cookery terms (e.g. bara brith)
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Okay! That’s all you get! As ever, these are all true EXCEPT one. Also, I use a random number generator to decide where the fake one should go and how much explanation to give; and several people have started talking about red herrings, so remember! There are no red herrings. I’m not picking and choosing, these are genuine words except one. Beware of thinking you’re seeing patterns in the options in these! It’s you Vs etymology, not you Vs a standardised test. My logic ONLY plays into how well I can hide the fake, and I am randomising a lot of that process.
Good luck and happy clicking!
Back to a more even spread! Though I’m surprised by how low the votes are for some categories. I really thought piffgi would get more
Also I’ve just realised that I translated 'meirch’ differently between options 1 and 3 - I went stallions with the first and horses with the second. Sorry lads. It can be either depending on dialect - it’s probably meant to be horses, but to my hwntw eyes that is stallions, so that’s where we’re at. But they’re the same. I doubt this will affect anyone’s Choice, but apologies if you based your entire logic on that as a load bearing pillar
Astarion in Early Access: “Hahaha yes I’m very charming and deceptive and evil and sex is so much fun and I really don’t care about anyone.”
Astarion in the Full Game: “I haven’t had bodily autonomy in 200 years and I’ve forgotten how to be intimate with someone beyond using it to lure people to their deaths and I have so much trauma regarding sex and I seduced you because it’s what I’ve had to do to survive for literal centuries and I needed you to be on my side but I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with you but you’re so kind and amazing that I fell anyway and I’m terrified of real emotions but I want *us* to be real because you deserve it and I really care about you but I need you to help me because this is all so new and I’m so scared but I want this to work and I-”
never let kids get into stories about shapeshifting first theyre pretending to be wolves on the playground then theyre getting radicalized by animorphs then theyre realizing the human body is an impermanent and malleable thing then theyre discovering you can take a potion to change your gender in real life
ALT
