• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


"DINKs, Couples with No Kids, Are Living the New American Dream"

who comes up with this crap? and is there conscious propagandistic purpose? it's hard to believe that any editor, even at a place like Business Insider, is rubbing their hands like a Captain Planet villain and saying something like, "We've got to take those childless couples down a peg or two! Give 'em a stupid label and make 'em look like they're wallowing in senseless luxury." and the great thing about living in a society with a huge population and exponential inequality of wealth is that you're bound to find someone who proves your point—there's someone out there, probably a lot of someones, who fit the desired profile of "childless couples who take seventeen vacations a year". ugh. what am I even getting pissed off at, it's pointless ~Chara


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in reply to @pnictogen-wing's post:

mm. a lot of things Business Insider runs just uncritically paraphrase people's press releases. that has always been the formula. like, they do have their own reporting as well, we give them credit for that and all...

I forced myself to chase through the article and a few of its links to try to find out where this "DINK" shit came from, and to my surprise the term is cited from a 1987 article (which itself states the acronym has no certain origin.) So I feel a little chastised here—I assumed that maybe the Business Insider editorialist was passing along a bit of Internet slang as though it was news. ~Chara