Recovering techie with an MFA, working on like a kajillion writing projects at once. Check out the Post-Self cycle, Restless Town, A Wildness of the Heart, ally, and a whole lot of others.
Trans/nb, queer, polyam, median, constantly overwhelmed.
Current hyperfixation: SS14
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How on Earth did I find myself so firmly embedded in plural life as a (nominally) singular person? I'm so fucking confused about myself haha
'i'm not plural! im not plural!!', i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a heap of, statistically speaking, 50½ skunks
I've low-key ID'd as plural for a while, but I kinda relate as someone who found a lot of success in IFS therapy, at least. I found much greater resonance in the idea that we are all, to varying degrees, made up of 'parts' and can benefit from checking in and having conversations with those parts.. and plurality was, in a way, my foray into having those inner conversations. Nowadays I tend to think we work best when we do things... as a conversation.
Had to look up IFS therapy and gol dang, that sounds incredibly useful o.o
That's a wonderful way to put it, though! Thank you!
this sounds crazy but you're probably right. I just need to figure out how to have conversations with the majority of my headmates (lmao)
I’ve had similar thoughts, if at a lower magnitude.
Still haven’t had a chance to do any real digging into the idea of median plurality with everything else going on.
im just over here UvU-ing at, statistically speaking, 1.98% of an UvU per skunk
this stuff is a collection of spectra and i think it makes a ton of sense to neither fully inhabit "singular" or "plural," and just take the bits that are useful for you. if at some point those include community or identity labels, awesome! if not, also awesome, imo. the unitary self is kind of a lie anyway, and it makes sense to decide when it is and isn't a useful lie moment to moment :P
Mmhm! I guess I'm like...kinda in that spot where I'm feeling some sort of friction, but don't know what it is, so I'm left in the position of either holding very still and being uncomfortable or flailing out in the hope that I hit something. Ah well! It's a whole big basket of fascination for now.
Controlled flailing in this space can be pretty fun! And as a beat saber player, you arguably have the pre-reqs. Best of luck, however you approach the basket.
