Maybe, idk. I’m very much a realist, just in a very, idiosyncratic way I guess. But “anarchism of perception” is appealing to me.

Well. “Soulism” sounds very much opposed to my own worldview and politics, to a point where I’m not really interested in participating in that. But you can do what you want, obviously, it’s just a link to a pdf!

Based on the manifesto, I would suggest that soulism is just another model which divides body from mind (“matter” and “information”), and that it doesn’t account for the way political forces are involved in producing subjectivity, identity, desire, and the individuated bodymind. I had something like a psychotic episode related to mind/body dualism a few years ago, and I try not to engage with or involve myself with ideas like that now, cause it brings back feelings of like, chaos and instability.

This is a good read on the topic: Crimes of Perception: Individualism and Consensus Reality

Neopronouns are cool. The fact that they’re less legible to cis people than more “respectable” forms of address isn’t a bad thing, and your friend shouldn’t make fun of them. But being in that position means they are more conspicuous and draw a lot of negative attention. I use it/its pronouns sometimes, in addition to she/her, but the cis people I know really do not like or cooperate with that.

Bad habits and poor decisions

I actually had no idea Ethel Cain was trans. Never listened to her music, but I’ve heard of several trans artists that I don’t listen to, and I’ve heard people talk about her music, so it’s kinda weird that that detail never came up

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I’ve been using Openreads recently, it works pretty well. It’s an open source app, all just on your phone, but it pulls info from open library. I also use storygraph lol, but I’ve been reconsidering it a bit because of the AI features

I am like this even online lol

not surprising, I remember watching spider move when I was a kid and thinking they were obviously intelligent. sure they creep me out but I hate killing them for no reason, same with literally any other living thing