Image 1 — Brazilian Gaúcho from the Missões region. Results + photo
Image 2 — Brazilian Gaúcho from the Missões region. Results + photo
Image 3 — Brazilian Gaúcho from the Missões region. Results + photo
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Brazilian Gaúcho from the Missões region. Results + photo

These results were very surprising for me!

Firstly, I don't know who my biological paternal grandfather is. My mother also doesn't know, and my grandma refuses to talk about him. I am guessing that those 12% Italy come mostly from him, and mostly of those 11% Western Europe too. My maternal grandma has very strong indigenous traits, but my mother and her sisters of the same father all look much paler and are the tallest of the family.

Also, I was expecting more Iberia than only 47%. Since I didn't know those 25% of my paternal grandfather, I had absolutely no clue of what ancestry he could be, but I definitely was not expecting Italy and (probably mostly) Germany.

And I was also very surprised to see that most of my indigenous ancestry was Andean! But as I thought a bit more about this, I realized it makes a lot of sense, since my whole family is from the Missões region, in the border with Northern Argentina, which has stronger Quechua influence. I am curious about the Amazonian part though, since it only refers to "Amazonia" and not exact peoples.

I wasn't expecting the African ancestry to be so low, less than 3% Mandé. My paternal grandfather had the darkest skin in the family and identified as Black, but I guess I just didn't get those genes from him.

A bit of Sefaradim Jewish was expected, but not a whole 5%. Basque was unexpected. Fennoscandia was a bit of a surprise as well. Sardinia was as unexpected as the whole Italy part. Maghreb was very surprising, but understandable, after all.

u/BranchSeparate7111 — 1 day ago

Infestation all over my neighborhood in central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Pics aren't mine, but my neighbors'.

Today afternoon they were flying all over the neighborhood, which was very strange and unusual, since yesterday was completely normal. I was very confused.

If this context helps, past few weeks have been quite warm and humid here because of El Niño, around 20 to 28 Celsius. Also, they've been demolishing a nearby building and a former restaurant in this neighborhood - the demolition started 12 days ago, though.

Any help is appreciated!

u/BranchSeparate7111 — 15 days ago

Is this Vectordelia or is there a more specific name for it?

Big eyed, "glossy"/shiny characters, made in vector.

"vector drawing before:2012" and "wallpaper before:2012" will show many of these.

So, what is it? Thanks in advance :)

u/BranchSeparate7111 — 2 months ago

Death carrying a soul

Feeling like absolute crap today.

So I was looking through my saved images looking for something to be inspired to draw and think of something else and saw a tweet that says "I hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child and fell asleep on the couch during a family party. I hope you can hear the laughter from the next room"

And this made me have some kind of inspiration to draw this.

I was thinking of drawing Death as the classic Grim Reaper representation, but for some reason, I drew Death "naked", "skin and bones", I think it makes it a bit... "rawer". Anyway

u/BranchSeparate7111 — 2 months ago
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Transness, gender dysphoria, detransitioning in systemhood

Not sure which flair to add, but "vent" feels more adequate.

So, we collectively identify as transmasculine. However, each person in the system has their own specific gender identity. I, the host, am transmasc genderqueer, and it's mainly because of me that we are collectively trans ‐ I'm the host, the shell, the "main" and most frequent fronter, it's clear that I'm as if "higher" on a hierarchy.

However, I'm the only member that really identifies as such. We have:

- me, R., the host, transmasc genderqueer

- A., demi-man genderqueer

- J., woman

- M., agender

- L., man

So it's so complex dealing and navigating gender issues when "you" are actually at least five folks. Appearance-wise, we look like a vaguely androgynous young guy, since we are 3 years on testosterone. We fully changed our legal name to mine (R.) which is a very masculine name in our language/culture, leaving no room for "doubting" our gender. But I don't identify as a man, I think I'm kind of regretting looking so masculine when I don't feel like a man and I dislike being called a man...

And things get worse because J. is the second most frequent fronter, we are getting such bad gender dysphoria on being treated and viewed as a man when only 1 of us is actually a binary man and he barely even fronts.

Idk, we are thinking a lot about detransitioning, but we made so much freaking effort to change our name legally... we collectively have a system name too, which is very gender neutral sounding... maybe we would feel collectively happier if people called us by that name because we all would feel included, not only me, R., when people say my name. The others want to be recognized as valid people too.

Anyway... we're not from the USA, just for context. I wouldn't change anything if I was there because of politics there. We're Brazilians living in Brazil. But at the same time... we don't really have the mental state necessary to undergo to yet another legal name change... but we're starting to think that changing the gender legally was a mistake?

Basically, we are seen and read as a man for our appearance and legal name (which we changed many years ago), but the host is not a man, the co-host is not a man, only 1 of us is a man and he barely appears. So we're getting tons of gender dysphoria with how society is looking at us. We kinda feel regret.

I/we are not sure on anything about all of this. We're just venting, maybe. But any kind of insight is much appreciated. Sorry if anything is wrong or nonsensical, I just need to talk a bit...

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u/BranchSeparate7111 — 3 months ago

Flag of my conlang + meaning/specifications

About the flag:

The Hamétik language flag has a 4:3 proportion, with three horizontal bars of equal height. The top one is a purple of #CC81FC hex code, the middle one is a cyan/blue #95FEFF, the bottom one is a green #79CFA1. There is also an anthropomorphic symbol in the middle of the cyan stripe in pure black #000000.

The green stripe symbolizes the earth and the land, the cyan/blue one symbolizes the sky, the air, and the atmosphere, and the purple stripe symbolizes the cosmos, spirituality, mysticism, and the unknown. The black symbol in the middle represents a human, with its feet stepping in the green land and the hands holding the spiritual purple, as if trying to reach the mystic realm, while existing and breathing the air in the blue sky.

The human figure is composed of a round head, a line for the neck, and the upper and lower limbs are a juxtaposition of semicircles and straight lines. The curved semicircles represent the voiced consonants ("bouba-ish", thus rounded), and the straight lines represent the voiceless consonants ("kiki-ish", thus straight). The circular head and the straight line of the neck represent the vowels (a rounded and an unrounded one).

Edit: for some reason, the colors here on Reddit look somehow different from the original .png I submitted. They look a little muted here. Here's the original: https://inseut.com/images/hametikflag.png

u/BranchSeparate7111 — 3 months ago
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Hey! We want to read more lengthy stuff about plurality and related matters, so far we only know the book For the Many, which we already downloaded to read but have not started yet. We would love to receive some recommendations! Thank you& :)

-R., host

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u/BranchSeparate7111 — 4 months ago