dewdrop-collective: I think a big part of the reason that I went from anti-endo to endo-safe was absolutely due to how starkly different the communities felt. Anti-endo communities were hard to engage with. Sure, some of them would focus on their support for each other more than their hatred of endogenic systems. And that’s great! However, when you are brought together by your dislike of a certain group, you can’t help but feel the hate permiate into so much of it. It always happened eventually. Anti-endo communities had such a focus on systems who were “fake” that I couldn’t help but worry I was one of them, no matter how much they told me it was “just endos” they were concerned about. The endo community (at least the parts I’ve engaged with and were easy to find) were so kind and respected me as a system, no matter how I felt or my plurality presented. Simply knowing we could find joy in our plurality allowed us to strive for so much more than we had thought possible before. As a traumagenic system, we’ve improved so much with our symptoms and communication as a result of the positivity and acceptance we recieved. When we joined communities where we could be authenticallly ourselves (no matter what), we came together and faced so much less conflict between each other. And the conficts we did have, we realized that we could solve them together rather than alone. When you are constantly doubting if you are “actually a system”, you start to push the others away, and that made our dissociation and amnesia so much worse. I understand being careful of self-misdiangnosis, it can put you on the wrong path for how you learn to manage your symptoms. At the same time, the sentiment I often heard from endogenic systems when I was struggling with doubt and denial was very simple: “So what if you’re not a system?” In short, it was okay to be wrong. And that was huge for me. I realized that, no matter if I was a system or not, the techniques I used to improve ourselves and communicate with one another beneficial to me. At the end of the day, even if I wasn’t a system after all, the skills I had found we invaluble to my health and well-being. So when I fall into denial spirals, no matter what I think about myself, I now know that I don’t need to deprive myself of what has helped me, even if it is a “system thing.” I don’t feel scared to use these skills anymore (even in denial spirals), beacuse the line between what systems and non-systems or singlets can/can’t do suddenly wasn’t a big deal or a battle of “who can do what.” Our plurality is no longer a burden or a scar to us. It is simply who we are. We’ve learned so much about each other and ourselves since we’ve been accepted in full, and since we’ve learned to accept others. Endogenic communities have helped us (a traumagenic system) probably more than they’ll ever know, and we’re forever grateful for that. So thank you, endogenic systems. goes for basically anything too, not just plurality. if your community is founded on hate, of any kind, it’s going to be a shitty place to be. you, individually, can dislike or hate people, whatever, but the second it becomes a community centrepoint it’s going to twist and pervert every interaction

a-mosaic-of-stars: maybe plurality is keeping different wallpapers ready so different folks can feel more at home in this life. Maybe plurality is gently taking someone’s hand in yours, even though both hands belong to the same body. Maybe plurality is calling out goodnight to the person that’s taking over for you as you slowly slip out of the conscious for the night. Maybe plurality is putting on the perfume your headmate likes because she’s definitely going to be helping you get through the day. maybe plurality is kindness. A kindness of the brain extended to a tiredness of the soul. maybe it’s casual. Maybe it’s gentle. Maybe we’re all still learning how to live with each other. Maybe we don’t have to be anything complicated and explainable. Maybe plurality just… is.

vexwerewolf: sharkfiinn: bro thought he was safe from the headcanon beam WRONG I continue to get blasted with therian feels

helixrainn: st4rsh1p: helixrainn: Keep reading I know this is about plurality but this is how I feel about gender actually, thats exactly the point of this comic! thats why i scribbled out words in the speech bubbles like “plural” and “trans”, i feel like this can be applied to so many different situations, just like the rest of our comics :D

hemipenal-system: vexwerewolf: snepril: vexwerewolf: hemipenal-system: vexwerewolf: So I think I’m just straight-up a wolf therian now? happens to the best of us Okay this is primarily @xeansicemane’s fault but I’m also laying some of the blame at your door I’m sorry, but given that I started following you for Lancer stuff, I immediately had the mental image of a normal fucking wolf in the cockpit of a mech. With like. Paws on the levers. I feel like you’d love these icons I commissioned from @frostfyrezero their ass is NOT mech pilot certified

i hate how my art suffers because I’m working again i barely get anything done and I’m not proud of what i do anymore

lawyerdog: if you like my art and want to see more you can support me by printing it out and eating it

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questions-within-questions: Being a ranger I spend a lot of time alone in the wilderness for hours in the company of one of four co workers. One such worker for the purpose of this post we shall refer to as Dave. Dave is a very quiet man. He confesses that if conversation happens too quickly and for too long he gets tired so we often work in silence. He’s very polite and good natured but it’s obvious that he would happily live and work alone for the rest of his life given the option. He’s very much in the previous generation of ranger, a practical man in his fourties or fifties happy to be kept physically busy for a day and then be sent home with some pay. I had to show him how to use a work issued smart phone. Meanwhile the rest of the team is made up of the current generation of rangers; openly nurodivergent queer women in their twenties or thirties who work this job because it’s the only setting where we can vaguely look sane. So Dave sticks out a bit. It’s really nice when he opens up though because he’s an impulsive individual when left to his own devices and has plenty of stories to tell if the mood takes him. I really like working with Dave. Anyway, one day we’ve got a job that takes a three hour hike to get to and early on the topic of deer comes up. I hadn’t realised this was the first time we had discussed deer, but blatantly it was. Dave’s entire demeanour changes, there’s a bit of passion in his voice, but it’s also hushed as if he’s talking about something sacred. “Deer are my favourite animal.” He says. I’m also eager to hear Dave talk about himself, so I encourage him to say more. “I’d love to be a deer myself.” And more “If a genie offered me the opportunity to become a deer I’d take it. I wouldn’t even stop to ask what the price was.” And more “Sometimes I feel like I’m a deer having a dream about being a human.* And there I am, a long time commuter to the therian/otherkin community keeping up the encouraging face of someone being politely interested, knowing that this man is straight up a therian with no frame of reference. And I decided that I wouldn’t push the subject outside of the bounds of what Dave is comfortable with, I wouldn’t try to teach him the terms "Therian” or “Otherkin” but absolutely I would talk with this man as if he’s a deer. And it’s a bit magical really. He’s an impulsive individual so I have to talk him out of some risky choices every so often and “this is why deer like you keep getting stuck in fences” has become this magical phrase that allows him to step down from a mistake with a bit of a smile on his face.

i desperately, desperately wanted to reblog this but op has them disabled; please go like and follow them here. post will be removed immediately on request. i tried to reach out but messages are disabled. below is the original post in full, with tags I DUNNO! IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE BEING ALIVE TO ME!