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Do you think the stories from within the community are better shared rewritten through the lens of fiction, or direct from each community member... When it comes to expressing ourselves to outsiders and those wishing to learn? Do you think hypotheticals of our stories do any good in teaching others about our expereinces?

Here's our very first prompt, yippee: What's a choice of words used when talking about TransIDs/Paraphilias/Radqueers (either outside of the community or how we refer to ourselves) that just sort of bugs you, or doesn't sit right? Now, for the positivity; How do you think this could be changed to be more appropriate, or how would you rather people talk about said thing? Or do you think it's unacceptable, and shouldn't be rephrased at all?

Language and writing are such a big part of queer and other movements... From avoiding accidental exclusionary or biased vocabulary when discussing marginalized groups and identities, to simply creating works that express queerness and deviancy, this is a big part of our movement. I figured it deserved it's own dedicated space, and I'll try to update regularly with discussion or short story prompts to get all our minds thinking. I hope this excites some of you others out there. Much love.

I'm pretty sure there's a term for a roller coaster paraphilia, but I lost it, so if someone sees it, let me know?

Anyways yesterday I rode the mummy (universal) and between being necro and a (paraphiliac) coaster lover, I was trying to restrain myself from freaking out too much! I'd marry the ride if I could <3

Anyone else love mechanical things of any sort, rides, robots or animatronics???

So I've been thinking on this, I was originally going to vent about how weird people used to be about me being a lipophile. But ~ no ~ I've decided on ~ love. ~ I love being an oddball lil lipophile. I'm proud of it. Fat! Fat! Wahooooo!!!

So, I want to use the term... But I don't see myself as 'supposed to have autism' nor wanting to develop it. I grew up with an autistic sibling, and developed a lot of their habits and speech patterns. I, because of that, feel safe with other autistics more often than I do with non autistics, and also especially with low empathy autistics due to my ASPD. It's a really big part of my identity and how I socialize, so I'm wondering if using the term in that way would make any sense, or if there is something more fitting.