Call me Lenny/Leni

It’s nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (non-natively), and locatable on Reddit as MozartWasARed. The links at https://discord.gg/sEuSSDz6TQ and https://www.deviantart.com/triagonal/art/My-copyright-policy-and-the-impact-it-extends-into-906668443 are pertinent to me.

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  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldWhat's your religion?
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    19 hours ago

    Due to the non-conforming way I have thought about it, it’s complicated (enough that people have asked for a train of thought chart for it), but primary to me and spirituality is the Mune Shinri, reading which for the first time taught/assured me the world isn’t fully without fully pro-equality/pro-marriage-equality groups citing inspiration from God, and I took this as worthiness of looking into and a sign. Adherents, one might say, are known as Aikenites or Aiken Christians, with Aiken being the name for the collection of revelations, but of course you can’t expect churches catered to it to pop up in one’s local area, so when in doubt, I attend the friendly nearby Mormon church (yes, it’s acceptable and even normal to show up and be welcomed at another’s church) for divine connection, with “Aiken” and “Mormonism” said to be “incredibly compatible” and with Mormonism technically being in my ethnic life blood due to being racially a Pacific Islander (yeah, fun fact, people jokingly call the Pacific the second Utah), and even though you might not find me using the term “Mormon” or “LDS member” to identify myself, I honor it enough to inspire awe at what many might call a kind of dual faith system, pointedly with the epiphany or train of thought called Hagothism being relevant if one considers it separate from Mormonism in the first place, versus being a switch of emphasis. I am also influenced by the book of Urantia, which runs in my family, but that’s as far as it’s made to do.




  • Several times, though the grand majority of them are the first type. As an asexual, I’m one of the last people I might otherwise expect others to suspect of “mentally going into the gutter”, but I’m told that, for the same reason (and maybe due to neurodivergence and not speaking native English), some of what I say comes off like the asexual’s equivalent of a colorblind person inadvertently selecting unmatching colors, as in I say things I didn’t know implied something adult. Ironically it’s never the authority figures who could easily punish me for being socially clumsy who jump to the wrong conclusions about what I intend to say, it’s always the other regular people who think they know better, and a few examples of these have followed me for years without the option to explain myself or conversely apologize. For pre-existing reasons, some people just want my head.


  • I don’t know about other countries, but in my own, teachers have their own designated bathrooms. As in there are girl’s bathrooms for girls, boy’s bathrooms for boys, and a third kind of bathroom with a logo not for girls or boys but for teachers (regardless of gender). If I were to use one of these teacher-designated (and yeah it has happened before), I would land myself in more trouble than if I used the boys’ bathroom. This being an age where gender norms are being challenged, being caught red-handed once, I made a remark about “sexually identifying as a teacher” which only caused my punishment to double (I even remember asking if the floor or my skirt would be a better option on a bad bladder day and got a blunt yes). Moral of the story, don’t get between teachers and their bathrooms, no pun intended.