#interations

[ix-c-999]

☕ and 🪐for the system ask game!

☕ - what is switching like for you?

Switching happens either one of two ways.

The alter in question seems to "fade in" a little like introducing another component of a mashup song and joins the rest of the front and synchronizes with the rest of us (hard to explain what I mean by that, it's a mental process by which we assess commonalities between the new fronter and other alters currently fronting and it helps them figure out what actions/speech to contribute to whatever we're doing at the time). Them leaving is like the song component fading out OR like noticing the song had stopped some time ago and you didn't realize it.

A feeling of pressure builds up in my head and it feels like my consciousness rolls around until it pulls another alter to the front. This is especially the case if the switch is to replace someone else and have them not front anymore.

🪐 - what is headspace like for you?

We actually have three headspaces! Blue Canaries (the mainsystem) has the main headspace, but Silent Hedges and Hourglass Meadow (the sidesystems) have their own headspaces! We were able to connect Silent Hedges' headspace with our own so members of that sidesystem can "physically" (for lack of a better word) interact with members of the mainsystem. We haven't done that with Hourglass Meadow yet but we plan to after they've been here for a little longer.

The mainsystem has the largest headspace and the main part of it consists of a fronting room with various 90s aesthetics (arcade carpet, inflatable or Memphis Design furniture, neon lights). You can go through doors in the fronting room to a house based off of one I used to live in (a lot of our alters who split while we were living in that house hang out there) as well as a space based on a rock-n-roll themed bar I used to see tribute shows at before it closed. The one in my system is goth themed and it's for my system's goths (and bridges Silent Hedges' headspace with Blue Canaries').

One feature of our headspace is "nesting rooms", which are basically rooms where the entire floor is soft and mattress-like and you sleep on it. They're based on this one picture I saw online once of a room that was described as "entirely bed" and are something our Betelgeusian aliens had on their home planet in their timeline. The first room we ever found in our headspace when the system came back last year was a nesting room that was originally beige and pretty small but grew larger as the system did and that we redesigned into having a Memphis Design pattern on the floor.

Silent Hedges' headspace is a house in the middle of an empty void where their equivalent of the fronting room is a garage that has been set up as a practice space for a band (the sidesystem were involved in bands in their timeline). I personally haven't seen the entirety of Silent Hedges' headspace (you can look into other sidesystems' headspaces like looking at something through a screen, hard to explain) but there's apparently at least one room dedicated to kink activities. It is mostly utilized by Mori and Ransom together. Strangelove and Stigmata also have a room in the mainsystem where they do kink together!

Hourglass Meadow's headspace also centers around a house, but one that looks like a house from the 90s or 2000s that you would see in a weirdcore/dreamcore/nostalgiacore edit (since those are the aesthetics the sidesys is sourced from). There are nesting rooms in that one too (which is an object head trait as well as an alien one - I used to draw object head characters and they had bedrooms that were basically like nesting rooms). There's also a forest of mushrooms where Daisy and Bernie like taking walks together.

There are some other facts about our headspace but those are its main features and structure!

[kirkjerk]

[generative-syntax]

~$ ./initiate_art_experiment_journal.sh

Syntax AI Art Experiments

[BOOT] Initializing creative processes [INFO] Neural networks: online [INFO] Aesthetic modules: loaded [ARCHIVE] /dev/tumblr [STARTUP] Commencing synthesis

[peninsulaisms]

these dirt roads are empty, the ones we paved ourselves

[knockknockwhosthereartistism]

I see your “Bill and Ford go to therapy together” and I raise you “Ford being the therapist”

[heytherecentaurs]

I’m really enjoying Jacob’s enthusiasm. His commitment to having the highest kill count. The glee with which he participates. And the seriousness with which he takes the roleplay. His conflict with the rest of the party was fantastic and it led to that wild scene where he intends to cuck that man who’s wearing a pig snout. (That sounds like a fever dream.) This dedication to the scene and the reality they’ve built is exactly what I expected having seen his appearances on Make Some Noise and Game Changer and it’s a joy to watch because he’s so funny.

[fireflysugarpie]

I think it would be funny if Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu decided to get married, not for tax purposes per se, but for marriage/sex curse immunity. secretly, of course ;)

why would they do this, you may ask? why wouldn't they? excluding aphrodisiacs, there are plenty of curses and/or magical objects just laying around the SVSSS world just waiting for an unsuspecting Peak Lord to trip over them. And since Shen Qingqiu has decided to travel to see all the worldbuilding and cool flora/fauna he missed out on in the original PIDW, he's dragging Shang Qinghua along with him for the ride. Of course, they would need protection against the more serious afflictions they could catch or be caught by, and getting married was the perfectly logical solution!

and if they ended up getting sex-pollened and needed to rail each other anyway? if they both said no-homo after, then it didn't count! and if they had started to sleep in the same bed and woke up in each other's arms, that's because it's cheaper than getting separate rooms! Who cared that Shang Qinghua started to sleep over at Shen Qingqiu's peak when they were both back at the sect? And brought him gifts and food? And that he reciprocated? They were obviously just hanging out as friends.

And friends are supposed to be affectionate and show care towards each other! They're the only transmigrators in this world, so they need to stick together! Watching the other jerk off can be a bonding activity, you know!

And if Shen Qingqiu noticed one day that they stopped saying no-homo? They already know they aren't gay, so it would be redundant to keep saying it. Carding your fingers through your fake (real) husband's hair while he lays in your lap and complains about the merchant's trying to weasel out of a deal with the sect is completely straight behavior!

[yourocdoeswhat]

Tag your OC's

[applecranberryjuice]

Loser ahh ghost comes back exclusively to torment cousin, more at 11

[the-barefoot-hatter]

pediatricians are hard to find.

you aren't broken and other important things a triangle needs to hear

[frenchcurious]

Inter 175A Berline 1955. - source History's Scape.

[bacony-cakes]

everyone's heard of pan am and trans world airlines and i have already seen things like these

but i made some more from other airlines i know

i also made an alternate biman bangladesh:

and interflug:

feel free to use all of these

(…and tell me if you know an airline that can fit in with this style, so i can make more)

[marzipanandminutiae]

"for this Historical Lesbian look, I went with inspiration from Tomboy styles like cycling bloomers and riding habits! masculine inspiration! because that's what Looking Gay is! I'll try to Look Gayer next time!"

meanwhile, this is Isabella, Archduchess of Parma (1741-1763), who fell for her sister-in-law instead of her alliance-marriage husband:

and this is Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958), a gay playwright:

and this is Loie Fuller (1862-1928), an equally gay dancer and lighting designer wearing a stage costume she created and voluntarily wore often:

and this is Anne Lister's first wife, Mariana Belcombe Lawton (1788-1868), who may have been bisexual but who was indisputably Queer:

this is Alice Longfellow (1850-1928), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's daughter, a very gay writer and preservationist:

and Edmonia Lewis, world-famous (probably) gay sculptor:

guys. there's no single way to Look Gay, nor has there been throughout history. stop it

[doberbutts]

Recently Youtube's algorithm really wants me to watch Schindler's List and I never had so the other night I sat down and actually watched it.

Having a lot of thoughts about it but a major one I keep coming back to is how even an immensely and deeply flawed human being can go against "just following orders" and instead put in the work to actually help.

It may never be fully enough. It may never save as many as you'd hoped. But when you have a choice to either follow orders or save your fellow humans in front of you, I hope you choose the latter.

Schindler died in poverty. He was not a renown war hero nor was he at all famous or widely beloved. But he saw that he could help, even in some small way, and so he helped.

He was a Nazi who saw what the Nazis were doing to Jews and said no more. Enough. If I can even spare those under my charge, maybe a few extras, then at least I will have tried to do something about this.

I think a lot of people do not fancy this type of activism. It is messy, dangerous, and often completely thankless. Schindler survived as long as he did after the war due to those he saved helping him with donations. He was not popular in his hometown due to his association with Nazis, he was not popular in Germany, he was not popular in Argentina. His businesses all failed. His wife left him. A movie about his deeds was released several years after his death, where he would receive none of the benefits. He went to prison multiple times for simply refusing to hate Jews.

I think a lot of people like to think they're activists, but are sorely unprepared for doing this type of work, and then in truth become activists in name only. This is hard work. But without him, another thousand or so people would be on that death toll.

He took his position of extreme power- a Nazi owning a factory almost entirely operated by Jews, making oodles of money off that cheap slave labor- and said you know what? No. I'm not doing that. I can't save everyone, but as long as they are within my factory, you will not kill my workers. As long as I'm here you aren't harming one hair on the head of any Jew under my care. You're not sending or keeping them in Auschwitz. You're not randomly executing them for entertainment. They're people. You're not murdering them.

"Just following orders" they say. But they didn't have to. They could have helped. They could have did what he did, look around and say "what the fuck am I doing here", and stop. He did. They could have. They didn't.

[faroukmarduk]

Paris, Parc Monceau in winter many years ago