Ehksidian

Ehksidian System

@Ehksidian

five of them (five of them)

Xena (🧊), Rose (🌹), Ayre/Willow (🧬), Penny (🐀), Rel (🌊)

• 26 years old (for now)

• 18+ only, might reblog spicy things

• System of five nonhumans

• Trans WLW

• Icon by batnoise/UnholyLykoi, banner by pawberri on tumblr/twitter

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i'm a scientist

🧊xenoblade fan, m:tg lore fan, tabletop roleplayer, ff14 player, bionicle nerd. loves to worldbuild to a detrimental degree. main fronter. a dragon who moonlights as a partially-scaled jakkai. she/her, shi/hir

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🌹Magic: The Gathering gameplay fan, Fortnite player, Gundam and mecha fan. Loves awful puns and foxes. Secondary fronter. Zoroark/Braixen/Dragon hybrid, taur-adjacent, fine with just being called a dragon. She/her.

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🐭robotic lab rat. enjoys scientific pursuits above all else, though also likes being small. desires total world domination but only in the sense of turning everyone into rodents and doing nothing else. third most common fronter. she/they/it

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🧬Deer-shaped robot chassis carrying a nonhuman intelligence. Don't ask about the name, please. Also into mecha and sci-fi in general as well as nature, surprisingly enough. Rarely fronts, extremely grumpy when I do. Would be very horny if not for problems with the body. Is the main one who directs what we wear when being fancy. They/she.

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🌊Aquatic dragoness who's part rat. Tabletop player, fan of tinkering and mechanical things of all sorts. Eternally upset magic isn't real, purely because that means I can't mess with it. Shi/hir, she/her

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this happens a lot actually, pejorativization and the reverse is a thing, hyperbole and irony means that colloquial terms for "good" and "bad" are always shifting. Think like, calling things "sick" as a complement

This is genuinely a completely normal linguistic process that happens all the time

thecybird
@thecybird

I was always under the impression that "mid" was short for "middling," and that word had had a negative connotation for as long as I can remember. Akin to "mediocre."

lorenziniforce
@lorenziniforce

yeah like that negative connotation towards words for "middle of the road" has always been a thing its not a new phenomenon at all

Ehksidian
@Ehksidian

i mean i've always heard it's worse for something to be boring and middle of the road - thus forgettable - than outright Terrible.

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Exameter
@Exameter

I swear it's an attitude that trickles down. From the top "there's no reason any of our contractors should ever get less than five stars, if they get a low review then cut their hours." To "even the games worth looking at are dull, video games are so cooked."

Like this attitude where you only accept "exceptional" work because you feel like there's no reason to "settle" for anything else. Everything is ranked and anything that isn't something good enough to wrap your sense of self around gets devalued.

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nxh
@nxh

I wonder if it's cultural honestly (on the Japanese restaurant review site Tabelog for example, very few restaurants average more than 4 out of 5 stars and anything above 3.6 is probably already very good, and very often you see very glowing reviews that rate their experience a 4 out of 5 or lower)

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