hey i'm kaer or as my partner calls me, squonk33 🌻 they/them 🌻 EST/GMT -5

i'm so sorry about how awkward, obtuse, and verbose i am, it's a cursekinda just trying to have a nice day and quiet the compulsions to decompose

about me

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(pisces sun, cancer moon, pisces rising)

  • nonbinary, transmasc, & queer (gender goals summarized: folk metal, jack black, van wizard, pass as a guy, clocked as queer)

  • 💉 10/31/2023!!

  • they/them, ze/hir, Mx., Mr., he/him (interchangeable, but only these)

  • neutral or masculine terms please

  • white; proudly a race traitor

  • neurodiverse, mentally ill, physically disabled, & immunocompromised. (ough owie I won the health lottery! 🙃 working on it with good docs at least)

  • leftist. kinda an eco-anarchist (minus anarcho-primitivism)

  • punk but more for the ideology than the fashion. i gotta be comfy and low effort.

  • polytheist/pagan

  • i don't like to share my face

  • spore-atic artist! 🍄 traditional arts like fiber art, painting, block printing, and sculpture are my favs. now slowly venturing into poetry and fiction.

  • 90.0-95.9% T4T

  • married and happily so since 2018 (closed)

  • im a biology undergrad now 💚

  • furry (not the horny type but the "i'm deeply uncomfortable with my human body and creating an alternative representation of myself" type)

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(loves, likes, interests)

  • fellow trans people! fellow disabled people! fellow queer folx! fellow artists! fellow mentally anguished outcasts! i starve for connection with people who understand being othered

  • trying to love humanity despite all the suffering here

  • death care, funerary practices, & thanatology

  • the incredible diversity and possibilities within life

  • i really miss hiking in the mountains

  • ART! all genres and mediums, i love the act of creation. i love to know others create, i love to partake in your journey as a traveller and friend, and i love to create for myself. art is a shared ancestry and future, time travel really

  • language! learning more about the intricacies of english for poetry, but also other languages. currently studying german, swedish, and trying to recall my french

  • folklore/mythology/paranormal tales

  • gardening, nature, sustainability, permaculture, ecocentrism, bioremediation, restoration ecology, land back, responsible stewardship, native species, etc etc

  • exploring, foraging, collecting little treasures

  • appreciating slow moments and little details

  • ecopunk, solarpunk, goblincore, hopepunk. i love dirt

  • TTRPGs

  • speculative fiction, horror, sci-fi/fantasy, weird fiction, trying to become as well read in "classics" as reasonable, and a whole lot of nonfiction too. i love reading and learning!

  • i love animals so much? and plants? life is amazing tbh (microfauna, mesofauna, arthropods, trees, fungi, and inverts are my favs)

  • thrifting to give things a new home, and appreciate the imprint another life had upon them, visible mending, re-using whatever i can

  • true crime...forensics, justice for victims, highlighting failures of the justice system, and history. (please no fetishists)

  • cooking & baking...trying new flavors and techniques, feeding people i love

  • wizards, especially vintage van wizards

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(games, films/tv, music, print media)

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primarily i crave weird stuff with innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. queer and disabled perspectives are my priority!! i like genre fiction and a bit of camp too. i love checking out stuff from other cultures and experiences! talk to me about art! tell me what brings you joy!please share things like this with me! i wholeheartedly encourage sharing stuff with buds. feel free to convert me to your fandoms and info dump about your special interest!but anyway, here's my attempt at listing the closest i've got to fandoms?

  • games: baldur's gate, elder scrolls, dragon age, resident evil, sky: cotl, fallout, dishonored, diablo, minecraft, zelda, animal crossing, pathfinder, d&d

  • comics: hellboy mostly, but i love reading indies. i'm kinda meh on marvel & dc anymore.

  • authors: impossible question tbh

  • music: glass animals is special to me and my partner, but otherwise i kinda listen to whatever? i love to try new jams from all over and all genres (including country and rap thanks)

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(hates, dislikes, fears)

  • the painful brevity of human life

  • systems of oppression & those who uphold them

  • fascists, cops, politicians 🐷

  • imperialism, colonialism, manifest destiny

  • individualism

  • consumerism

  • anti maskers who want me to stop wearing my mask

  • how bad i am at socializing and making friends

  • TERFs & TEHMs

  • how hard it is to stay informed about global events without consuming biased reporting

  • possessed dolls, porcelain dolls in general that aren't even possessed

  • abusive, discriminatory, and/or negligent medical providers

  • tornadoes are one of my biggest fears, but any natural disasters scare the shit outta me

  • whiteness, white culture, white society, white supremacy

  • AI art, NFTs, crypto

  • capitalism, consumerism, mass production, people being forced to be dependent on irresponsibly produced intentionally defective goods that never decompose

  • serial killer fetishism

  • scabs, strikebreakers, union busters

  • industrial agriculture, irresponsible modern farming/agribusiness

  • waterparks (i had an incident we don't discuss)

  • ableist and anti-homeless design

  • disrespecting, violating boundaries & parasocial relationships

  • destruction of third spaces and fracturing communities

  • lactose and it being in everything

  • politics, tbh. i wish i didn't have to be so involved or care so much about politics. i hate that my existence is inherently political so much

  • non medical plastics

  • fast fashion

  • eye contact makes me uncomfortable

  • videos without subtitles because I literally can't understand them

  • people who refuse to even try adding alt text or img descriptions

  • probably like 75% of cishets? sorry the trust isn't there until earned

byf

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