#Also i remembered the name of the place i was trying to describe in tge headcanon post

[punchitime]

I just thought of a thing referencing this post and how exactly Ster found out about the Bruiser bros being from the midwest

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Sterling : "I honestly miss the Old Market."

Rick: "Is the Passageway still there?"

Ster, not realizing what he just said but knowing what he means: "Yeah why?"

Nick: "Is it still full of plants?"

Ster, slowly processing that they know where they're talking about: "Yep, and every time i go in I'm instantly hit with my allergies"

Rick, chucking slightly in response:

Nick looking at Rick; "Didn't we get ma a gift at that one art store on the top floor?"

Rick: "Yeah i think so a couple of years back"

Sterling suddenly processing the whole conversation: "Wait hold the fuck up-"

[ablednt]

hey this is probably a v common ask but if i were a system, how would i know for sure? im already autistic, and i suspect i might be plural bc my parents tell me abt what my friends say is a "horrifying and traumatic" childhood that i dont remember experiencing, they tell me abt conversations i dont remember having with them, i end up on places i dont remember walking to and i am congratulated on achievements that i dont remember doing or punished for things i know i wouldnt have done. i sometimes feel like i am in a fishbowl being carried around by someone else, or like im between radio channels hearing both at once and tgey respond sometimes and i thought they were just thoughts, like that was a normal way people thought but people i ask say its not normal. im sorry for tge length of this message im just not sure qhats going on with me

Oh you're so valid

At this point I'm going to go ahead and say that if you do feel plural or more apt if you feel like interacting with the plural community and identifying as plural will help you then you should go ahead and do it. Personally the fact that you're responding to your thoughts like that seems pretty inherently on the plural spectrum to me.

With the memory loss and dissociation I'd suggest doing some research into DID. If you don't feel comfortable diagnosing yourself with it that's perfectly fine but you should be able to find resources that can help you.

Here are some activities that can help get you started in the questioning/syscovery process

Try and get in touch with anyone in your brain. Find a quiet spot you can just think without too many distractions (you can do it other times but it's going to be much harder) and ask "is anyone there?" or introduce yourself or something. Because it's very likely your system mates are just as confused about all of this as you are, you might ask and get back an answer like "No one's here" or "I'm not real" or "I don't know" and if you get that it means there is someone there but they are very confused themselves. If nothing happens that also doesn't mean you're definitely singlet it's also possible no one is up front when you're asking.

If you have places that you imagine clearly when you picture the inside of your mind it's possible that you have a headspace. Something the sometimes works is trying to go there. What I did was meditated one night and told "wait til a house shows up" which was oddly specific anyway it sort of worked but I found out that I'm not able to see or move anything when I'm fully "in" headspace so it was mostly just disorienting I found out that I can physically hear stuff from there if I'm disconnected from front enough (really I have to be on the verge of falling asleep) but it's just as valid if it's solely a place you're imagining rather than giving you any clear senses, you can kind of tell whether it's you completely making everything up or if others are there/it's a metaphorical space because the latter just kind of...flows naturally? When you're imagining stuff intentionally that takes effort and conscious thought, if it's all happening to you naturally, people respond without you thinking of their responses or they make their own choices separate from you, etc. then that's different than regular pretending. This is probably written confusingly sorry this stuff is hard to describe.

Journaling! You can do this on paper or do it in a discord server created just for yourself (if you want to you can add pluralkit and people can create their own profiles on it and have their own icons/names/etc that way but that's optional) or something else there's apps you can use as well Antar is a good one but really you could do it anywhere you can write or type. You can write messages for other parts of you who take over, ask them questions for later, or you can do that to pass on important notes of what's going on when and scheduling and stuff. Basically, the idea is that you're copiloting a body with a bunch of people who haven't been able to properly speak to each other so you need to find a way to keep important information the others might need accessible.

Hopefully this is helpful if you have any other questions feel free to ask you can also message us if you'd like but no pressure to! Good luck!

[beatrice-otter]

22, 40, 73!

For the record, I really prefer when people quote the meme, because I do not always manage to remember that I need to open it in a tab so that I can go through and reference it and figure out what they're asking. It's all good this time, because I did remember to open it in a new tab and it's this one, but for future reference!

22. describe your writing process from scratch to finish.

That varies depending on the story. Let's go with a fairly common writing process when I'm writing fic for exchanges, which I do a lot of because if I don't have a deadline I rarely actually ... finish anything.

My first step is reading through their signup to see what we matched on. If I'm lucky, they'll have given prompts, at least one of which will resonate with me. (Lists of tropes they like are pretty much useless to me; I have never once gotten inspired by a list of tropes.) If they haven't given any prompts, or haven't given any that I groove with, I will let things percolate for a while, going back to re-read the signup.

When I have an idea--and it's usually pretty vague at this point--I copy the stuff from the signup sheet into a blank document and delete the stuff I don't need (DNWs I would never write, prompts I'm not interested in, that sort of thing). With the deadline in bold at the very top. This way I have it all in one place and it's easy to check things. Then I start writing the story, mostly based on vibes at this point.

Usually, once I get actually started writing, my hindbrain will engage and give me stuff to write. Often times in the form of things that have to happen near the middle/end of the story. I will write a skeleton form of those--usually a brief summary of any scene that comes to me--down at the bottom of the document in italics, in the order things need to happen in the story. Once I know where I'm aiming at, I can usually get there with minimal problems. As I get to stuff in my summary/outline, I delete it because it's no longer necessary.

When there's stuff I need to research or decide--names of OCs, canon details I've forgotten, rl stuff I don't know off the top of my head--I put that in brackets and move on, so I don't get stuck. So instead of trying to figure out a name, I just write [CHARACTER1] and then when I'm done with the story I can take the time to pick a name without it derailing me from writing, and then do a replace-all.

When I'm done with the story and have gone back and filled in everything set aside with brackets, I send it off to betas if I can. There's rarely any major changes needed, but sometimes there will be fandom specific stuff (pronouns in TGE fics my beloathed), and also, by this point I usually hate the fic and/or think it is the worst fic anyone's ever written, so I need the reassurance that it's actually fine. Also, I have a problem with endings. As in, my natural tendency is to stop without wrapping things up very well, so I can never tell "is this a decent ending, or does it need something else to tie it together."

Then once I've gone through and made the changes suggested by my beta, I save the fic as a .txt file and do an advanced find-and-replace in Word to put in the html codes and copy-paste it into the AO3 Work Text box (HTML, not rich text). Here's a tutorial on doing html code by find-and-replace, it works with most word processing software except google docs.

Then comes the agonizing part, choosing a title. And usually it stops me cold and I spend hours going through poetry websites and quote websites and hitting refresh on a couple of title generators until I come up with something that I don't hate with the passion of a thousand burning suns. (Sometimes I give up and go with something I hate.)

Then I tag the fic, using this checklist to make sure I don't miss anything important.

Then I hit post!

40. best piece of feedback you’ve ever gotten.

If you mean feedback as in "writing advice" I have no idea. If you mean feedback as in "comment left on a fic" the one I remember most clearly the joy of receiving is this one.

73. how do you visualize scenes? do you see it like a movie in your head, or do the words just flow?

I do not visualize anything, like ever. That is not how my brain works.

I hear the scene--the dialogue--and will pace back and forth saying each character's dialogue in turn. Or lie in bed telling the story to myself, mostly in the form of dialogue.

When I started writing, one of the things that was hardest for me was to learn how to put in the visual things that other people need--scene descriptions, facial expressions and body language, you name it. A very early beta once told me that she felt like the characters were disembodied voices in a featureless white space, and this would not work for most people. They were right.

[thatitch-blog]

I just read the new helmet rule in the nfl. It seems they are trying to forbid players from using their helmets and all when tackling. This os going to change everything. Players now have to be thinking about how they tackle, when they tackle. As someone who once played defensive back, i remember that thinking too much about tackling is what leads to getting embarrassed by someone. It leads to freezing up and arm tackling. This game is going soft. No doubt about it. Would Tom Brady still be playing if this was the game of the 80s and 90s? Absolutely not. You cant touch him now. Troy Aikman had 51 concussions. That is called hyperbole, but he had a lot of them. They hit him helmet right to the head, and other than his obvious disdain for the tampa bay buccaneers, which he makes apparent by openly rooting against them when commentating on their games, none of his post career behavior seems odd.

Soon they will figure out that 300 pound men running into each other at high speeds will never be safe. Will they then do away with pads and make it a touch or flag league? I guess we are going to see more offense since you can no longer tackle people without mapping out your approach, and because ridiculous penalties will keep drives alive. It was agonizing to watch college players being literally thrown out of games and branded dirty players for hits my voach would have congratulated me for making, hits which put ronnie lott in the hall of fame.

Also, as a young fellow playing football, before the now famous missed practice that ruined my entire life until it led directly to the birth of my child, a path i would happy to describe in detail with you over a clear glass of maxwell house, i enjoyed some success on kick offs. I returned a couple all the way, which is my mind, the football equivalent of the home run. The home run is gone in the nfl. There are no kickoff returns. I wouldn't have a place in today's nfl. But then neither would any of the white legends of the 40s 50s and 60s. I could have started in the 40s on any nfl team. They had the same attitude towards lifting weights as me: those are heavy and not at all in my way, why would i go out of my way to pick them up? Shouldnt there be an asterisk by the names of legends of this era which leads to a footnote that reads simply: "didnt play against black people," like all the greats in some other areas might have one nowadays that says "didnt play against malaise (not without holding him down and torturing him first).

Had to get it in, didnt you! This is going to ruin your journalistic integrity

Dr. Sims said not to do this.

Do what?

Split in two, one self judging the other. He said it is a way to slip responsibility for stupid decisions, by pretending to be the one judging the person making the person making the stupid decisions, instead of the person making them, and it can lead to split personalities.

Yes, but you made up dr. Sims. Which was a stupid decision

Dr. Sims: this is precisely what i am talking about.

See!

The point we were trying to make is that football is dangerous. Your kids might get hurt playing it. These fuckers are paid a lot of money, and old age sucks anyway. So you forget to wear pants every now and then, who cares? Beong fully cogniscent as an old person only means you are fully aware of how much life sucks compared to how it used to be. Id rather forget im old and think im still playing the redskins tomorrow. So stop coming up here, james garner, how the fuck did gosling turn into you? Notebook reference, from the female perspective. I am already regretting it.

It was also on a kick off i made the best tackle of my life. I got an angle on a guy on tge sidelines around midfield, so he was going full speed and i was going to full speed, and, helmet to helmet, i knocked him all the way to our bench. My 70 year old physical science teacher congratulated me on it the next day. Really.

Joe buck: and jameis winston got off a nice throw on the run there, wouldnt you say.

Troy: i guess. Buccaneers, should call them the fuckinqueers.

Joe: why the buccaneers? Everytime? Why do you hate them?

Troy: they know.

Dr. Sims: homosexuals, please do not be offended by troy's outburst, queers as it is used here does not refer to homosexuality, it means pussies, wimps, cissies.

Joe buck: yes, but isnt that because of the stereotype that male homosexuals are wimps?

I dont think so

Troy: it rhymes perfectly with buccaneers, fuckin wimps wouldnt

Joe buck: but us it worth it?

Troy: i think so.

I agree

So do i

Joe buck: but youre the same person

Dr. Sims: this is very unhealthy.

Joe buck: jerry markbreit, was it offensive.

Markbreit: i have throw the flag.

Today's pussy ass league!

Cue studio laughter. Show benny hill sexually harassing young girls overend credits to the fun music

Markbreit: blatantly sexism!

Fuck!