Feles System

System Intro

Hello we’re the Feles System! A plural polyfragmented system of 250+ system members. We collectively use they/them pronouns and are trying out using neopronouns like xe/Xem collectively as well. We are MOGAI/LGBTQIA+, disabled, trans/Nonbinary, autistic, and chronically ill. We aren’t sure if we’ll really use this much, and are currently more active on twitter.
We have a big system and it isn’t very practical to make big system member intros for each of us but you’re welcome to ask about us individual system members if you want, we will probably sign off our posts with our different names. Pronouns, gender identity, sexuality, and interests can vary quite a bit from person to person.

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weirdlandtv

Finnish illustrator, Aleksander Lindeberg (1917-2015).

national-shitpost-registry

ok but every single one of these is a reaction image

national-shitpost-registry

me when the refrigerator is empty bc the idiot I live w/ forgot to buy groceries but that idiot is me:

Source: weirdlandtv

curiouscalembour

feynites

Coco and Moana both teach kids the rare-but-important lesson that sometimes parents who love you, but who have been through traumatic things in the past, can make bad decisions for you out of fear.

This is an important distinction from the usual varieties of parents where either they are evil and do bad things to their children, or are good and it turns out that their actions were right all along, even if the child didn’t understand at the time.

Loving parents, families who genuinely care about their kids, can still end up stifling them in an effort to keep them safe. It’s hard to shoulder the responsibility of protecting and guiding another human, and so it’s easy to mess it up from time to time, even when you don’t mean to. Chief Tui didn’t want Moana to drown in the ocean. Mama Imelda didn’t want Miguel to abandon everything else in pursuit of music.

Their fears came from understandable places. From genuine trauma, and bad things that had happened to them.

But they were also both wrong. If Moana hadn’t sailed off to find Maui and restore things, she would have died on the ‘safe’ island along with everyone else. If Miguel had been forced to give up his music, he would have only continued to resent his family, and would have lost the closeness they had through another, different kind of tragedy.

It was important that they learn where their loved ones were coming from. But in the end, they were right to change things, too.

tolkienblackgirl

I’d like to point out how common these types of trauma are for POC/colonized descendants as well. I found that interesting & so important 💜

Source: feynites

cardentist

catnippackets

when we try to befriend cats we mimic their meows and get down on the ground to their level and try to gently coax them to interact with us right

that horrifying entity mimicking human noises at us maybe just thinks we’re cool and wants to pet us?

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had to draw it

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a few people pointed out that they probably wouldn’t understand what they were saying and just mimicking whatever sounds they happen to hear so I wanted to add this