Talking To One Of Our Dogs While We’re Having A Bath Triggered Some Memories Of Pre-system Discovery
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. 🤣
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Whoops, Tumblr Lockout
Heyo. If you were following @quiltedsystem, I got locked out of my account. Google deleted the email that the Tumblr was associated with, so the main blog and all the system's individual headmate's sideblogs have been lost to the ether. We're trying to rebuild here.
We'll still be going by Quill collectively, but our new system name is the Galactic Quilt System. Still has the quilted feel and that was important to us.
We'll have a sideblog list up soon.
We’re rapid switching and blurry so we aren’t sure who is who in the following. So everyone is just “me”
THE TALE OF MOVING HOUSE: PART BATHROOM
Way Past Me: I will gather all the bathroom items in a handful of bags so it will be easier to get that room functional again quickly.
Past Me: I need more bags than I thought. I’ll need to empty a few. Good thing the bathroom stuff is all together! I’m going to dump it all INTO the bathtub so that I can’t avoid putting stuff away in here when I want to bathe.
Slightly Past Me: CURSE YOU, PAST ME. I JUST WANT TO BATHE BUT I HAVE TO PUT ALL THE BATHROOM STUFF AWAY FIRST.
Current Me: (in the bath, having plowed through everything in about a half hour) …Okay, Past Me. You win. That was smart.
“Hey Quill! How are you doing?”
“Oh doing alright! Thanks for asking!”
Narrator: They were in fact the farthest thing from alright.
Us, watching the hbomb Oof video:
Someone in headspace: HOW DARE TOMMY TALLARICO DISRESPECT MY JOJO BEANS?!
Oop
me a few years ago: why do i feel like i just came into existence when i was 12 or 13? why do i not really remember my childhood very well? why do i have such a horrible memory in general? why do my identity and behaviors vary so drastically?
me now: oh
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Previously known as the Quilted System. Polyfragmented DID System of 250+ The body is 35. Follows are likely from individual headmates with their own sideblogs!
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