#about ginger

[reimeichan]

I've been experiencing a lot of life changes recently, and with that has come some major changes in my system. Namely, some pretty major structural shakeups have occurred that are really starting to solidify now.

First of all, the return of the host era. Since our latest System (Re)Discovery in 2022, we haven't had a singular consistent host. We had groups of frequent fronters that cycled between themselves, but beyond that no single alter was really fronting any significantly more than any other. Since starting my new job and since my new partner has moved in with us, though, I've noticed that the Mint version of myself has been more and more present, which is particularly interesting to note as I'm... usually only made to front in emergencies, and thus rarely fronted in the past. To say that I'm surprised that I'm starting to have such a significant presence in my life is really understating how I feel about the whole thing, though maybe you could say that it's an overstatement as I also don't really feel much. Ah dissociation, my old friend.

Speaking of, we've recently started going a lot deeper into a lot of our EMDR work, and I've noticed that I'm consistently more fragmented and dissociated these days, often needing my partners to help ground me throughout the week or otherwise retreating into my room to take care of myself. I'm taking a break from it all this week as I'm on vacation, but it's definitely something to keep in mind for myself. My memory has been all over the place and so has my emotional regulation.

And because I'm somehow the host now, I know that's affected a lot of my online presence. I'm... not a very sociable alter, even less so when I'm not as integrated with the parts of me who do enjoy or are good at socializing, like Green or Purple or Ginger. I've been fairly quiet on all the social media I'm on including here on Tumblr and also the various Discord communities I'm in. At work, I'm much quieter than I'm used to myself being. Even when I talk to my parents I'm just... reserved and quiet, as opposed to argumentative or excitable. It feels almost alien to see "Reimei" acting like this so much because I'm so used to thinking of "Reimei" as a bubbly, friendly, quirky person. Not... whatever I am.

I guess at the end of the day I'm also Reimei, but my perception of myself is so different from how I actually present myself these days that it feels jarring to re-examine who "I" am. I mean, I know who I am, as a part. But I never really considered what that meant when it came to who I-as-Reimei am. And though these two things may sound similar, they're... kind of not at the same time? Mint keeps to himself. Reimei loves attention. Mint is just the version of Reimei you see when Reimei is tired and needs alone time. Reimei... regularly needs alone time? Reimei isn't as sociable as I thought I am? It's strange to think about, I guess, and hard to wrap my mind around fully.

But, yeah, if you noticed I haven't been as active online, now you know.

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

🤓 Ginger Hope?

her film studies elective

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[mysterycitrus]

they saw u from across the bar and hated ur vibe 💔

[blessyouhawkeye]

all interviewers want to ask chappell roan is how she's dealing with sudden fame and what celebrities have reached out to her instead of REAL questions like has she read gideon the ninth. can she please read gideon the ninth. when will she read gideon the ninth.

[goryhorroor]

"we all go a little mad sometimes, how about you?"

[maggiecheungs]

CARY GRANT as Barnaby Fulton and GINGER ROGERS as Edwina Fulton

MONKEY BUSINESS (1952) dir. Howards Hawks

[aria-greenhoodie]

WOE, NEXT SUMMER DESIGNS FOR SOME OF THE GRAVITY FALLS KIDS, GO!

Click for Quality!

Pt 1/2/?

[reimeichan]

weeeee been fronting most of today and it's actually kinda weird! you'd think I'd be used to it being one of the former hosts and the one who's been host the longest, but it's been so long since I regularly fronted that honestly it's a little bit strange to realize I've been out and about for most of the day! p sure Crimsy is exhausted and depressed out of his mind and Cyan is tired from dealing with the whole Ginger/Cardinal/Green fiasco.

(also I haaaaaate not being able to use our Actual Names and use my nickname for Crimsy online, but it is what it isssss)

also p sure our body is now too Old to handle my hyperactive forever 12 ADHD energy which SUCKS ughhhh whyyyyyyy I just wanna do things and hang out with people and talk to people but noooooo I'm "tired" and my friends and partners are all "busy" or "asleep" or "getting ready for bed" >:( HMPH maybe yall just cant handle my fabulosity *hairflips*

and also maybe maybe MAYBE the others in my brain are telling me to also go to bed and stop bothering people fjajfbsnghd

NO I will be AWAKE and HYPER and do my own shit YOU CANT STOP ME MUAHAHAHAHAHA

*forcefully dragged away from tumblr by an exasperated Green* D: #rude #howdareyou

[river-of-wine]

Luck of the Irish

[hunnam]

[dailyheavymedic]

Sorry I had to limit the strawpage because people started sending weird and triggering shit over there, no comic today either as it really made me want to be away from my computer.

[rotomartsblog]

Some EAH redesign brainstorming (though quite a few of them are covered or cropped so you can’t really see their designs…)

[hoofpeet]

Cleanup <3

[chaotic66hummingbird]

"Sublime"

[rewritingcanon]

harry about ginny