The #MutualAid Housewives of Bluesky County

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

She wakes at one-forty-five. You hear her in the bedroom. She makes a small sound which is the sound she makes when she is up. You go to her. She holds her arms up like a child. You lift her into a hug and she cries for a few minutes into your shoulder about a dream she had in which her mother was disappointed in her. You stroke her hair. You tell her she is safe. You make her toast. You make her tea. You take her laptop out of the bedroom because the night before she had asked you to take it away from her so that she wouldn’t scroll. She has not done any work today. She is not expected to. The polycule has agreed that her freelance graphic design work is impossible right now because of her dysphoria, and so until further notice she is “in a resting period.” It has been fourteen months.


HOLY SHIT THIS ARTICLE

[simiansmarts]

She wakes at one-forty-five. You hear her in the bedroom. She makes a small sound which is the sound she makes when she is up. You go to her. She holds her arms up like a child. You lift her into a hug and she cries for a few minutes into your shoulder about a dream she had in which her mother was disappointed in her. You stroke her hair. You tell her she is safe. You make her toast. You make her tea. You take her laptop out of the bedroom because the night before she had asked you to take it away from her so that she wouldn’t scroll. She has not done any work today. She is not expected to. The polycule has agreed that her freelance graphic design work is impossible right now because of her dysphoria, and so until further notice she is “in a resting period.” It has been fourteen months.


HOLY SHIT THIS ARTICLE

this must be authored by a secret birette

[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

[benji]

annihilated    

[simiansmarts]

this substack article hit like a truth nuke goddamn

[Besticus Maximus]

i got an email saying "can puppy wait for a follow up," do not fucking call me that. That is disgusting coming from you. Your edited article is no better. And it disgusts me that instead of taking any of the backlash to heart, you're calling people who take offense to this work puppies. It's as though in your mind, there are two people, the strong, virtuous people who will understand your work and agree with you, and the other camp. The degenerate, malebrained, puppies, who can't lift a finger due to their learned (malicious) helplessness, save for jumping to the defense of their lifestyle. But that's not how this is, you are just dragging an ex through the dirt. This is all on you. Grow the fuck up.

Reposting my comment from the original work, because nothing has changed enough to warrant a new comment:

this is pretty fucking vile, tara. the most charitable way I can see this article is that you endlessly enabled this person while keeping a mental tally of the things that you were actively enabling. and then you use this mental tally to write about how much you hate your ex, and manage to make it a hit piece about disabled girls in the process. i'm sorry you had to perform so much emotional labor, I know its hard and draining. but you never had to do any of this. you could have been principled, and stand up for yourself some, and set some boundaries. instead you just convinced yourself that this person is an evil man wearing the mask of a woman, and doing gendered violence on you.

[Boredfrom]

It sounds like she should have left the original article intact.  

Is creepy how many people are identifying with the puppy.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

this article is a great example of online discord trans folx and those who actually participate in the real world.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

It’s incredible that the trans community can recognize male weaponized incompetence but have to filter it through multiple layers of cognitive jargon to even speak about it.

This is exactly what I’m talking about when I say that trans ideology prevents males from recognizing social issues and fixing them, trans ideology prolongs sexism in those that wish to be rid of it.

Of course the trans community having seen this thought voiced has chosen to attack the author instead of accept the commonality of the problem.

great comment from the article.

[simiansmarts]

WE. ARE. NOT. BURDENS. 
 
We are simply in our resting period trying to store energy to survive this fucking genocidal capitalistic hellscape.  
 
 
 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

hit puppygirl hollers

[benji]

Ah, you have criticized me for my behavior and choices, but have you considered that I identify as vulnerable and disabled? Checkmate, lib. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

yes I bother my discord poly at 4 AM when I have an emotional breakdown and if they don't reply to me I will literally threaten to kill myself and emotionally blackmail them if I do not get any reassurance.

Sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry!

I am not the problem, I deserve to be loved, love me or I will kill myself!

[benji]

"my ex wife weaponized the concept of learned male helplessness AGAINST ME AFTER I TRANSITIONED"



Incredible discussion:

[benji]

This fucking dude  

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

how can someone make melody look more sane by comparison

[Boredfrom]

"my ex wife weaponized the concept of learned male helplessness AGAINST ME AFTER I TRANSITIONED"



Incredible discussion:

How can they write this shit in public and still want to lecture others?

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

It sounds like she should have left the original article intact.  

Is creepy how many people are identifying with the puppy.

*describes a terrible, but hypothetical person*

"How dare you describe me accurately!"

[Besticus Maximus]

This hypothetical person who only exists in the writers head should not be spoken of, because they're like me even though they're not real 

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The melodys and violets of the world are real pissed about being called out by this
https://bundleofstyx.substack.com/p/dump-your-puppygirl

"unable to contribute anything but your love to relationships"?

Jesus Christ.

Love is a feeling, not a commodity you store to hand out as necessary.

This motherfucker gave up his marriage to live as his true pathetic self, and when she accurately calls him out, she's the villain? Fuck you dude.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

The last two benji posts are just full of blue "imgbb com uploading this content requires registration" squares.

[filler]

   

[NekoFever]

WE. ARE. NOT. BURDENS. 
 
We are simply in our resting period trying to store energy to survive this fucking genocidal capitalistic hellscape.  
 
 
 

“A hatchet job on a type of person that exists mostly in their head”

Meanwhile,

“This article is literally me!”

[Snoopy]

That sounds awesome. How do I become one of these puppygirls? I would love that

[jooseloose]

benji fix your image tags or something 

That article  Do a search for it on Bluesky and you'll be entertained for hours.

[filler]

benj uploaded so many screenshots to image bb that they banned him 

[Potato]

I just want to know if Melody's throat fucker ex has reacted to the article yet...

[filler]

throat fucking a puppy? 

these people are sick 

[benji]

The last two benji posts are just full of blue "imgbb com uploading this content requires registration" squares.

benji fix your image tags or something 

benj uploaded so many screenshots to image bb that they banned him 

I think it must have triggered some kind of auto spam protection.  

I actually signed up to see if it that'll stop them from treating my precious images as if they're Jeff's tweets.

[benji]

Since I had to redo all the screenshots, I skipped this one initially, but lol because of the alt text:


"very uncomfortable man" "trying not to look dead inside"



"smiling genuinely"