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trying to push past the level of cringe of being so arrogant as to assume someone will see this and go "Gee Fluffbyte, I wanted to get you something for your birthday and this is a perfect way to clearly communicate what u would like that i dont find rude or infantile at all! thanks so much!"
its weird...i hope im not lampshading by pointing out my insecurities but I am violently aware that both closed mouths dont get fed, and softly aware that we use our platfrom both as socilzing tool and as an extension of being an artist on the internet...so its not out of the question for a person reading this to be a friend or acquaintance of ours just as likely its a fan (still kinda hard to believe we have fans but yeah....)

Birthdays feel selfish...and they are. celebrating ours as an adult is really weird in a sense because there is a feedback loop of being willing to impose enough on others (or take up space if u perfer) to even have your birthday acknowledged by other people, let alone expecting something like a gift or party attendance. growing up in the first world, the expectation that your family organizes it without u even prompting is a foregone conclusion. Its a romatizied and often involentary part of childhood. some folks growing up didnt have families that could afford to do something special...but it was expected that if you can have a party then you should...or you would be happier if you did. if a kid didnt want a birthday party it would be seldom assumed that its just that kids preference...the "natural" inclination is to investigate...does the kid have friends? does the kid have low self esteem. Our hyper individualistic culture attempts to ingrain us with the idea that celebrating the self is something everyone wants to do and should want to do.

Now i have two opposing feelings about all this: on one hand we want to step away from worshiping the self like American culture tends to do but we also want to be taken care of and know that if we dont set any expectations for something like a birthday we will go in the opposite direction in an attempt to not impose on anyone at all. So the question is balance.

I cant pretend to have achived that yet, but I'm working on it.
and of course as a disabled content creator asking for stuff doesnt tend to feel out of the question...I just gotta not associate my worth with how much folks are willing (and able) to care for me.

Having been estranged from bio fam, we like many queers are faced with a uncomfortable certainty that many things expected in society arent a given for us. Having family members who prioritize your birthday and make an effort even if you dont make a fuss about caring is a luxury i guess?
of course friends and found family can also do this....but aside from roomates , flesh space friends seen regularly and nesting partners the chances that someone will even rememeber the birthday's of the people around them is low in the internet age. I think its bc of proximity. Generally you are more likely to have more insight into someone's life who you see regularly like a classmate or coworker than you are a friend on the internet...assuming ur not making a point to point it out.

For us,even before coming out we thought about this, bc as we relized our found family was much more important than our bio family we also had to contend with the flip side of the social expectation about holidays: Your family tends to see opt-ing out as a rejection to the commuinty of family. its nice to be rung up on ur b day even if you dont have plans, but its another thing entrily for someone to presuppose your time is spoken for.

Getting older as a queer person was a monkey's paw in that respect. i now dont have to worry neraly as much about friends having an oblogation to their bio fam that other rides all other relationships...but thats only bc most of the folks we know are also estranged from their families...not all for being Queer...but enough.

I know this monolouge probably isnt conducive to getting more stuff for our birthday but copy pasting the same sentiment to multiple platforms we are visable on felt like it was cheapening the whole endevor...But co-host doesnt have word limits so i can naval gaze this post like i cant do on bluesky or twitter. hell the following paragrath is essetially what we wrote on our discord and we STILL felt a need to make it brief and concise....anyway our B day is july 11th (next thursday) but feel pee to support thruout the month,
on the bday we're gonna stream some stuff. hoping to play the murder of sonic the hedgehog with some loved ones and maybe a beat em up...tho any games we get for our birthday we'll try to stream too.

in case anyone wanted to birthday present us we made a little graphic on what we want. ask any questions u want but the long and short of it is, manga, video games, an Air Conditioner and a live2d model for Glitch. The Glitch model is basicly our stream tip/donoation goal for this month (we're already found an artist and reserved a spot since they opened up out of no where this week and dont ussual do comms so we feel a little urgency about it ). also we made sure to split the gifts bewteen different thingies and at different price points. kofi is for contributing for the model, the AC and manga are on Throne, and the games can be steam gifted to us. we wanted to be flexable in case someone did wanna give us stuff and have an easy thing to point to in order to avoid anxiety. ...if u cant help at all no worries! ur worth to this commuinty is not dependant on if u spend money. although these are things we desire we have gotten birthday presents from loved ones over the past few days so please dont assume that if we dont get these things our birthday will be giftless. thank you as always!

https://ko-fi.com/fluffbytepresents
https://steamcommunity.com/id/fluffbyte/
https://throne.com/fluffbyte

Wing-it for MarkMucc

It's not Rylefs' usual jade, but I think Luci's orange looks pretty good on them