Someone Was Panhandling At A Stoplight I Always Get Caught At Today. And When I Handed Over The Couple

Ugh this habit is so hard to break and the longer you pretend to be the host the harder it is to try to be YOU the next time hrhfieiiwoskfnfb

pretty much

– Elliot

We made it. Barely. But we made it. The weekend won’t be long enough. But hopefully it’s enough to get us through another week.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

We’re bodily 35 - it can be hard to find other systems about our age. But we will keep trying!

Adult Sysculture is looking for system friends that are youre age and arent freaks.

Oh that one likes kids!

Oh that ones an endo!

Oh that one doesnt know how to communicate and doesnt want to learn-

WHERE ARE ALL THE COOL SYSTEMS WE CANT BE THE ONLY ADULT SYSTEM THAT HAS NO INTEREST IN CHILDREN

We are technically an adult system but we're still only 19 so it depends how much you count that as an actual adult lol

But we get that struggle. We get it very much

Talking to one of our dogs while we’re having a bath triggered some memories of pre-system discovery things that make so much more sense now.

Let me explain.

Valor very much enjoys stealing my towel while I’m bathing. He’ll dig around in it to make himself a little nest and then nap in the towel while I bathe.

So today I’m getting ready for a bath and I say “Oh boy, Valor! It’s time for your Favorite Thing!” referring to stealing my towel. But I know this is not actually his Favorite Thing. It is probably not even in his Top 5 Favorite Things. But because it’s something he definitely enjoys, I call it his Favorite Thing.

But that’s not what “favorite” means. A favorite implies a single thing that is liked more than all other things. People have favorite colors and movies and books and meals. And this struck me today. Examining my use of the word, I realized that I have always treated “favorite” in this way - as a way to describe something I “really really like” not necessarily more than all others. I’ve always had “multiple favorites” in just about every area of life. And I’ve always just written it off as an inability to be decisive or a quirk. Other people, at their worst, have described it as me being weak-willed, wishy-washy, or conviction-less.

But it’s none of those things.

It’s the fact that I’m plural. Of COURSE we’ve had multiple favorite movies for as long as we can remember. “The Care Bears Movie” has always been Madison’s favorite movie. That didn’t make Howl’s Moving Castle any less Aina’s favorite movie. Nor did Leigh developing an obsession with Frozen 2 make Aina’s favorite movie and less her favorite movie. But before we knew we were plural, it seemed and felt like we had multiple favorite movies. Or multiple favorite songs. Etc.

Now I’ve got thirty years of using “favorite” inaccurately to undo in myself. 🤣

We’re doing TikTok again. Probably YouTube again soon, too! We’re GalacticQuiltSystem on TikTok if you want to follow us there. :)

I guess we have a BMO fictive who’s like a translator for headmates who don’t speak or don’t speak English.

The thing about being an autistic system undergoing a host change is that now all our former safe foods don’t taste the same and we have to figure out safe foods all over again…

A poetry anthology but the poems are written by different headmates in a DID System. Is that anything?

I got Engineer!

I made a uquiz to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are, take it to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are.