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3 years ago
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Freeze a liquid. You know, real gentle. Not like the brutal instant freeze-fest, no it's really important it hasn't realised yet it's frozen. So go gentle, go slow. Let it keep up the illusion of liquidness.
Then suddenly, make it flinch! Give it a disturbance to the force, make it's ears bleed, and it'll suddenly actually start acting like frozen, as if it was compensating for something. I warn you, this change can be brutal. But was it really liquid in the first place?
*mumbles something angry about gender perception in current western society*
Yes this is a real phenomen, and people can act quite angry about it. People don't like sudden changes, lots of latent heat gets released that way. Some might choose to stay fluid, even if they know they're deep down just a solid. Others will be percieved as some kind of latent solid, but guess what? They don't have to be. Others are just mixed fluid and solid. And so forth... there are so many layers to this onion, peeling it would be a pointless exercise.
If you know anything about photography, you might know polaroids almost as a meme now. Of course, polaroid was a sunglass company before making camera's, and guess what? What made these glasses so great was what made the camera's so good. They couldn't see the sun!
A spectator watching a cylinder from above might think it's a circle, whilst another watching from aside might argue it's a rectangle. They can start endless political discussions about it, because they'll never see the same point of view.
A polarised visor works just in the same way... Light is a wave, and waves wave from one side to another. A grill has an orientation too. And if the waves hit the grill in the side opposite to the slices, it won't get through. Result: The sun won't go through the sunglasses, but your pretty pictures would!
Where were we? Oh wait, perception... Just like the grill can be oriented one way or another, people can see you in vastly different ways depending on who oriented the grill in the first place. Who orients it? The grill master, i.e. the one first impression, maybe even before you two met. Can be as simple as a "He" or a "She" in a mail. Does that explain a bit why some people are so adament about it? and why others don't really care?
The thing is, if a solid has always been percieved as a liquid it's sudden solidification can deep down imply it's still "some kind of liquid acting as a solid" to the perciever. This does not even have to be ill-intended, it's natural! But what even is a solid or a liquid? Isn't it just all on this site about what holes you can fill and which you can puncture with like a hammer...
Anyways, that's about it, folks! I just wanted to write something for pride month, but remember everybody's experience is different and it's not because yours doesn't match mine that it suddenly becomes invalid! In the end these are just labels we attach to ourself to describe ourself and to find others with similar experiences about sexuality and gender.
I decided to write a second one because I am too fucking broke for a ych right now (if I say I can't afford a 5 dollar one I'm not even exagerating, I have about 4.15 on my bank account right now of which 2 is already reserved) and I don't have the time and can't be bothered to draw one myself. The tone is quite different too... I intentionally kept it vague just like these ideas are right now still so vague in my head. Oh well... the time shall come
Then suddenly, make it flinch! Give it a disturbance to the force, make it's ears bleed, and it'll suddenly actually start acting like frozen, as if it was compensating for something. I warn you, this change can be brutal. But was it really liquid in the first place?
*mumbles something angry about gender perception in current western society*
Yes this is a real phenomen, and people can act quite angry about it. People don't like sudden changes, lots of latent heat gets released that way. Some might choose to stay fluid, even if they know they're deep down just a solid. Others will be percieved as some kind of latent solid, but guess what? They don't have to be. Others are just mixed fluid and solid. And so forth... there are so many layers to this onion, peeling it would be a pointless exercise.
If you know anything about photography, you might know polaroids almost as a meme now. Of course, polaroid was a sunglass company before making camera's, and guess what? What made these glasses so great was what made the camera's so good. They couldn't see the sun!
A spectator watching a cylinder from above might think it's a circle, whilst another watching from aside might argue it's a rectangle. They can start endless political discussions about it, because they'll never see the same point of view.
A polarised visor works just in the same way... Light is a wave, and waves wave from one side to another. A grill has an orientation too. And if the waves hit the grill in the side opposite to the slices, it won't get through. Result: The sun won't go through the sunglasses, but your pretty pictures would!
Where were we? Oh wait, perception... Just like the grill can be oriented one way or another, people can see you in vastly different ways depending on who oriented the grill in the first place. Who orients it? The grill master, i.e. the one first impression, maybe even before you two met. Can be as simple as a "He" or a "She" in a mail. Does that explain a bit why some people are so adament about it? and why others don't really care?
The thing is, if a solid has always been percieved as a liquid it's sudden solidification can deep down imply it's still "some kind of liquid acting as a solid" to the perciever. This does not even have to be ill-intended, it's natural! But what even is a solid or a liquid? Isn't it just all on this site about what holes you can fill and which you can puncture with like a hammer...
Anyways, that's about it, folks! I just wanted to write something for pride month, but remember everybody's experience is different and it's not because yours doesn't match mine that it suddenly becomes invalid! In the end these are just labels we attach to ourself to describe ourself and to find others with similar experiences about sexuality and gender.
I decided to write a second one because I am too fucking broke for a ych right now (if I say I can't afford a 5 dollar one I'm not even exagerating, I have about 4.15 on my bank account right now of which 2 is already reserved) and I don't have the time and can't be bothered to draw one myself. The tone is quite different too... I intentionally kept it vague just like these ideas are right now still so vague in my head. Oh well... the time shall come
