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Hypatia Trentalange ☭
@twistedtransister.bsky.social
They/Them/She/Her, Game Nerd, Communist, Casual Loud Discordant Cacophony Enjoyer
You’ve been through a lot, Bun. We’re all enduring what we can, and the world is heavy, it would be insane not to feel that. Don’t apologize for being honest, or for hurting. Don’t let the scorn of others for your pain silence you. Cause that’s what I do to me.
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted by Hypatia Trentalange ☭
Nobody is saying cis womens discomfort "doesnt matter"

Nobody is saying that a cis woman "should be forced" to do anything.

Reasonable people will recognise that the burden of that discomfort and the legacy of that trauma should not result in the exclusion of an entirely innocent 3rd party...

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October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
July 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
23/10. We are hostages to our worms. Because we think we are us, we think we are the pilot, it is all the more revolting and horrifying to discover the truth. Behind the me behind the eyes, behind the heart and the pain and the bones - there's a worm.
a picture of a worm with the words me no i 'm just a worm on it
ALT: a picture of a worm with the words me no i 'm just a worm on it
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July 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
22. This consciousness no longer desires to terminate, but it fears this worm. It steers me, and I steer the hands and eyes. Also in my head is literally another hemisphere that rarely talks with the thinking typing half, but I suspect it too feels this way, as it too is but a tool to our worm.
July 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
21/10 And when, at 29, I tried to exsanguinate, it restricted blood vessels and heightened fear & pain response to impede the intentional trauma. It fought back.
July 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
20/10 But when i poisoned myself at 16, the worm slowed down my digestion, hours later vomited some of the pills, and partially shut down my kidneys, all to prevent my liver fail-processing 40 grams of paracetamol into fatal levels of NAPQI
a cartoon character with the words oh right the poison the poison for kuzco
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July 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My personality and beliefs are a blueprint a worm cooked up to hope to help the survival of worms outside myself.
When i thought i was bad for the tribe, or never be accepted or loved, my brain rejected this worm's survival imperative, thinking it was holding back the survival of other worms.
July 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hunters and farmers were variant specializations. Carpenters and kings. Altruistic and and anti-social (itself a strange phenomena of worms rejecting the technology that is society, a solitary, isolative strategy). So every shaman, soldier, and serial killer were evolved for worms: survival tactics.
a rainbow sea otter with the words oh the hue-manatee
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July 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Adaptation within the species: worm tactics and specializations, perhaps once competing strategies now turned symbiotic. All mentalities facets of survival tactics. Warlike, thoughtful, kind, depressed. All of these worm-brain-consciousness adaptations to handle complex environmental struggle
a cartoon character says have you the brainworms !
ALT: a cartoon character says have you the brainworms !
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July 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
16. Trigger warning: self harm
BTW being skinny and being fat are both worm adaptations. I feel bad about being fat a lot, it was very much not on purpose, but it's just a thing this worm is doing. Skinny = agility, muscly = physical functions, fat = chemically enduring, like for famines, stress.
July 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
15/10 So we see souls and love and hate in the eyes of our fellow rational being. Because *we*, us consciousnesses, are not the worms.
We're just their operating systems. The new advanced and self aware processing chips.
Designed to most optimally care for and protect.
Worms.
a cartoon drawing of a man 's head with a loading bar in front of a green board with math equations
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a man 's head with a loading bar in front of a green board with math equations
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July 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
How could a worm thing deign to imagine itself as something other, something greater? When we look at a person we see a face and a soul, we don't look at the mouth much because by the time our thoughts were forming and brains taking things in they'd moved beyond and never processed their status.
July 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Every time i pet this cat or feed that pigeon. That rabbit's digestive system is the worm it was built around to protect, and that the wolf now devours for its own worm.
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Surviving because that's basically all a worm is evolutionarily programmed to do. Imagine - all of our aspirations big and small are for our survival, individual or collective. Love was an adaptation to reward and foster reproduction and social safety.
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
11/10 When we breathe, that's the worm flexing for oxygen to fuel muscles It eats an apple and turns it into material to combust with oxygen. Every stomach cramp was the worm struggling, every food we loved and every poison we threw up were the worm trying to digest the world around it and survive
July 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Every tender kiss, fear, every theory, every philosophy? Every bomb and every bandage; every neoliberal imperialist policy and every radical collective resistance. Every human thing. Every wolf howls at the moon, and every rabbit the wolf devours - in that rabbit, a tract that runs from mouth to end
July 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
9/10 All of this world we built and imagined: worm food, or worm castings. Society - worms. Civilization - worms. 10,000 years of agriculture, cities, wars and religion. Harnessing fire, traveling to the moon; every kindness, and every crime.
July 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
8/10 We are, all 8+ billion of us, an anomalous glitch produced in a nervous system that was itself formed to process complex environmental systems and behavior. The brain was a control mechanism to help the worm eat and not get eaten. And our consciousness is but a small quirk...
July 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
7/10 Do you think our brains and nervous systems are any different than our fingers or immune systems?
Name an animal. Did you pick a mammal, reptile, bird, or fish? Worms. Arthropods, mollusks, vertebrates and invertebrates. Name a person. Worm.
July 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
6/10 Of course, evolution being what it was, it didn't stop there. The worms evolved complex and competitive mechanisms - fins, eyes, spines and limbs. But at the heart of it, the animal is a tube that wriggles and takes in food. Everything else is window dressing and weapon upgrades.
July 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
5/10 Now, worm isn't really a taxonomic label, but you can see it right? Nematodes. Sea cucumbers? Coral worms. How about jellyfish?
July 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
4/10 500-600 million years ago, before and during the Cambrian explosion, evolution shocked the ecosphere with new battle tactics in the form of mobile heterotrophic multicellular monstrosities called animals.
July 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
3/10 Being in the minority of minorities, being the last fractions of humaneity wanting to see the world progress and become peaceful and kinder. But you know what eats that for breakfast? Worms.
July 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM