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shellphones2025-06-07 11:36 pm
indispensable) wrote in shellphones2025-06-07 11:36 pm
text; follow up survey
Type: Text
Sender ID: vulturvolans (Alhaitham)
To: Public
Subject: Follow Up Survey
Warnings: Subtle unsubtle bragging, and Gay
This is Alhaitham.
I have a survey for people to respond to. Those who have filled up my previous survey from last year may consider this as a follow up of sorts to it—those who have not are free to respond to this one all the same. Regardless, there are similarly no restrictions or stipulations to the nature of the responder; the only thing that I request is for honesty when filling this in.
1) Are you currently in any sort of romantic relationship? (Arrangements made purely for physical reasons do not count.)
2) Does an institution of marriage exist in the world that you come from? Does it play any sort of significant cultural role? Feel free to describe as much or as little as you want.
3) Do you consider the idea of marriage important? What is the primary endgoal in any romantic relationship that you pursue?
4) What do you envision as your ideal future with a partner?
5) What does the concept of 'home' mean to you?
You are free to leave your answers in this post or direct them to my inbox. I will follow up on whatever answers that I feel are necessary.
Thank you for your time.
Sender ID: vulturvolans (Alhaitham)
To: Public
Subject: Follow Up Survey
Warnings: Subtle unsubtle bragging, and Gay
This is Alhaitham.
I have a survey for people to respond to. Those who have filled up my previous survey from last year may consider this as a follow up of sorts to it—those who have not are free to respond to this one all the same. Regardless, there are similarly no restrictions or stipulations to the nature of the responder; the only thing that I request is for honesty when filling this in.
1) Are you currently in any sort of romantic relationship? (Arrangements made purely for physical reasons do not count.)
2) Does an institution of marriage exist in the world that you come from? Does it play any sort of significant cultural role? Feel free to describe as much or as little as you want.
3) Do you consider the idea of marriage important? What is the primary endgoal in any romantic relationship that you pursue?
4) What do you envision as your ideal future with a partner?
5) What does the concept of 'home' mean to you?
You are free to leave your answers in this post or direct them to my inbox. I will follow up on whatever answers that I feel are necessary.
Thank you for your time.
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(Not to mention... who would want to? The only person who has ever been interested in them at all was already about to dump them for being a villain: she'd be disgusted if she actually knew the full truth.
Not only are they not likeable, they're not even real.)
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[He doesn't really care if anybody wants to, its just a hypothetical that he's asking in the end, since the other party brought it up first.]
CW: Mentions of homophobia, stuff with legal personhood, etc.
At least he's not being a total asshole.)
I'll try to explain it in a way that's easier for you to get.
Look, you and your husband are both guys, yeah? For a long time those kinds of marriages weren't recognized either, and that meant same sex couples weren't legally family. So when someone got hurt or was dying, the hospital wouldn't let their spouse visit because they weren't family. Wouldn't let them make any decisions about their loved ones care. Wouldn't let them share benefits they got from jobs, and if the one who owned the house they lived in together died the other could end up entirely homeless because the house wouldn't necessarily pass to them. Most institutions wouldn't acknowledge the relstionship...
And that's with both people in the couple having legal personhood. I don't even have that.
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But that aside—]
While I can agree on the benefits of a governing body granting rights and other such things, at the end of the day it doesn't have the power to dictate what is and isn't a living, sentient being. You're obviously talking, sentient and freely expressing your opinions, even if crudely. Most people would count that as enough.
[In other worlds things are probably different, but they're not in any of those worlds now. So it doesn't matter, as far as he's concerned.]
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...Almost.)
Yeah, you'd think that, right? Turns out, it really doesn't matter what the truth is when you're a product made by some shitty corporation that sells superpowered slaves to the government. Thoughts and feelings are little more than inconveniences when it comes to the pursuit of power and profit. Not that it matters anyway: as far as most people are concerned we're just weird fleshy machines. Any appearance of being more is just an aberration. People can do whatever they want to us ...and a lot of them enjoy it too.
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You can't control where you come from, or the past events that have shaped you, but there's no reason to let it dictate how you should be now—especially considering you're on another world entirely.
[They already said they didn't want to go back, didn't they? So Alhaitham sees no reason why they should remain hung up about this.]
The people here clearly hold none of the same prejudices that you once suffered. Thus there's no point on lingering on it.
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Does being like this help their cause? No. But then, how often does anyone who feels thry're stuck in a deeply frustrating situation stop to think about optics? When has pointing out something like that ever made anyone anything but angrier?)
You're right, people don't have the same prejudices here. Now instead I can't go five minutes without some asshole assuming that the inescapable sensory hell I live in is a sign of me deliberately acting against them!
(Oh Chris, you absolute fucking self-sabotaging moron.)
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But all that aside.]
People are always going to assume what they want, based on their own preconceived notions. It's up to you to decide if its worth the effort to explain or let it continue.
[It's Alhaitham's own choice to not bother explaining because he has never once desired to make himself palatable to others. But he knows that's not something which other people may want for themselves.]
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They're not even thinking about how they're lucky he doesn't give enough of a shit to put things together as they bitch about him to his... not his actual face, but you know.)
I think people should learn to mind their own business.
(What an ironic thing to say, considering their problem is literally that they're incapable of minding their own business.)
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If that's what you want, then sure. See ya.
[...and yeah he's just gonna end the conversation just like that.]