✨🔔The Beahive🎙️🥊

✨ So, honestly? I dug it. I think there's a tendency for a lot of people to A) view endogenic plural systems as 'invalid,' and B) to view merging back into a singlet as a 'failure mode,' but frankly, I think both these ideas are deeply toxic.

Number 1, and I'm gonna just use this to soapbox a bit: endogenic systems are real. They are as real as any other kind of plurality, and if you're gonna be medicalist about this? Kindly fuck ALL the way off. That kind of thing is no better than transmedicalism and has no business being anywhere in a supportive community. Being traumagenic isn't 'more real' than being endogenic, whether or not you have a DID or OSDD medical rubber-stamp. So from the jump, the fact that Peggy exists as a facet created by hypnosis is not 'wrong,' nor does it make that expression of plurality wrong. These things exist on a spectrum, and if you're willing to entertain that gender can be a spectrum, well, so can plurality. The key is making sure you approach these things in a healthy, mature manner that encourages the better parts of your nature. (This isn't really about anything you did or said, question-asker, I'm just getting it on the table.)

Number 2, merging/fusion is... also valid! Sometimes plurality is temporary, and that's fine. Sometimes you need it to express a new perspective that is more functional for the situation you're dealing with, and then reintegrate that perspective once that purpose has been served. It's not what our system would want, but we've also seen it be functional and therapeutically-useful for people we know. I personally think it's beautiful when people become more whole, whether or not that means staying a system or becoming a singlet again. See my prior comments about how there's no right or wrong way to do this as long as it is approached in a healthy emotional fashion. The choice Peggy and Margaret made made sense to them, just like others have made that kind of choice. I'm not interested in evaluating it from the perspective of what makes sense to OUR system, because every system is different.

✨ Oh, this is an interesting one, because we've kind of all got different answers! As for me, I'm pretty easy; anything is as good as anything else, as long as it's a little inconvenient. Maybe that's being weighed-down by something fluid(juice and water are both favorites), rolling around grounded with air, or bobbing along the ceiling from helium, but my preference is really just for being gently-immobilized so I can relax. Even better if my partners can have fun with me while I'm blissed out!

🔔 Well. I'm a cow; you can likely guess my favorite substance to be filled with, and here's a hint: it's typically close at hand. Sloshing, staggering weight that pitches me forward, ideally into the ministrations of a close friend or lover, is my broad preference, although I don't dislike lighter fare. It's just that my favorite option is always going to be the most immediate option as well.

🎙️ Oh, I'm just high on life, babe. By which I mean 'usually air,' although if I COULD do enough lungbuster bongrips to pump myself completely full of weed, I'd probably try it. Either way, air is usually plenty good enough for me; nothing heavy or awkward, I enjoy bouncing around and moving too much to wanna be pinned into place by my body. Helium's solid, though as bouncy as I am I don't usually, like, need it. Oh, but, the BEST way to get pumped up, for the record, is kissing; the feeling of someone else's very breath, their life itself, flowing through you is intoxicating.

🎙 Oh, that's a FUN one! Yeah, so like, I'm a particularly big fan of breakbeat, big beat, trip-hop, funk, post-punk, noise pop, and hyperpop. Really BIG, explosive percussion hits, scratchy punk rock guitars, turntables and synths, all wrapped-up in like, candy-coated pop chord progressions, that's my whole scene. Right now my favorite jam for getting in a 'bounce off the walls' mood is GET ENUF from the Bomb Rush Cyberfunk OST, which is like, classic big beat with a lot of funk influence, Naganuma CANNOT miss on that.

For the more noise pop-inflected stuff, Sleigh Bells, particularly stuff off Jessica Rabbit and Bitter Rivals, is a big favorite; Crucible is currently my favorite, I love the super-cheeky Mario pipe sound-effect it uses after the mid. They're probably my top noise pop act, bar none.

Obviously I'm enough of a spaz that I'm a huge fan of the gecs. Hollywood Baby is an absolute bop; hyperpop stuff is like, Skittles for my ADHD brain.

Post-punk wise, one of my favorite groups is Burning Airlines; they only ever had two albums, but God, what albums; Carnival is one of my all-timers. There's just something so raw and ferocious about their sound that sucks me in every time.

And like, as far as funk goes, there's absolutely no way I'm not gonna give it up to Tevin Campbell; Stand Out might as well be, like, my theme song. Those synth organs just go so hard, right?

✨ Hey, folks, we're all just kinda killing time today until Armored Core 6 unlocks. And, well, we're a little bored.
🔔 So, all things being equal, we determined that we'd ask for, well, asks. If you've got a specific question for one of us, just use the appropriate emoji; that's sparkles for Bea, the bell for Rime(myself), or the microphone for Alex. If none is specified, we'll assume any or all of us can answer.
🎙️ ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT MUSIC I'M GONNA FUCKING RUPTURE IF I DON'T GET TO SHARE SOME STUFF