The #MutualAid Housewives of Bluesky County

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

If your take away from reading that is "omg this makes me feel so little and sad" then you're exactly the problem the article is writing about.

Literally using the same manipulation tactics the puppygirl did. 

Edit: Still reading through it. This whole story is sad but amazing.

Total expenditure per partner: thirty-seven hours of unwaged labor weekly. In return she receives a portion of the puppygirl’s attention, some affection, the social fact of partnership. Call this five hours’ worth of reciprocal care, generously calculated, the necessary labor *v*, the wage-form, the portion that appears in the relation as the whole of the exchange.

The remainder is surplus labor. The rate of surplus-value *s/v* in this polycule is thirty-two over five, or six hundred and forty per cent. Marx’s English textile workers, in the worst documented years of the 1860s, ran rates of one to two hundred per cent. The polycule clears them by a factor of three.

Across the three partners the puppygirl appropriates ninety-six hours of weekly surplus labor. Just under five thousand hours per annum. Priced at the floor of waged domestic care, twenty-five US dollars an hour, the polycule absorbs roughly one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars per year into the puppygirl’s reproduction. The therapist-equivalent valuation of the affective regulation component alone clears two hundred thousand. The figures understate the case. They do not register the foregone writing, the foregone sleep, the foregone medical care of the trans women who produce them. They do not register her household, her HRT, her rent, her phone bill, her transit, paid by partners and quietly transferred into her existence as constant capital, the means of her continued production as the feminized figure for whose protection the polycule was organized.

What appears in the polycule as the natural condition of loving a sensitive girl is a definite social relation between trans women bearing the form of a relation between trans women and a puppy. Federici named the operation. Reproductive labor performed under conditions that figure it as love is the form unwaged extraction takes when its workers are women. The fetish-character of the configuration is precisely this. The partners cannot see one another for the figure that appears between them. They see her. They do not see the labor that has gone into her, or one another, or the kinship that has been redistributed into her reproduction.

Edit 2: The comment section having puppygirls cry in it is poetic