We’re Rapid Switching And Blurry So We Aren’t Sure Who Is Who In The Following. So Everyone Is Just

Today was one of the best days we’ve had in ages. We got chores done. Fen got to spent a lot of time with Maeve (her reborn), including setting up her new stroller! Our partner made a lovely lunch. We hung out with a new friend a little bit not long enough that we got over socialized. We got to watch tv with our partner - we’ve been getting through a season of Master Chef. The dogs have been very good. Fritzy was gifted a new dragon plush which meant a lot to him (he’s been having a tough time lately). We got a little high. We got back to a journal we haven’t used in ages that our QPP got for us that we’re using to work toward living more openly and authentically as a System. A big thunderstorm is rolling through right now and the dogs are just sleeping through it while an hbomberguy video plays softly in the background (it’s our go-to sleep video now).

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.

Tired. Exhausted. Overwhelmed. No one wants to front. It’s hot and muggy out today so the body is disgusting and sweaty - even more so than usual. We’re feeling socially claustrophobic but there’s nowhere we can go to be alone. Can’t take a bath cuz there’s only one bathroom and two other people in this tiny ass one bedroom apartment. Can’t be in the bedroom alone cuz partner is there. Can’t be in the living room alone cuz temporary roommate is there. Can’t dissociate with headset on at the computer because one dog is whining nonstop and I am unable to figure out why he’s having such problems today (we’ve had multiple walks, he’s done all his business, he’s had food, he’s had water, and he’s had play time) - and the whining is something I can’t ignore - it’s like when … I don’t know. I’ve run out of spoons for ranting even.

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

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. 🤣

Agere community - when you make your DNI banners, what dimensions do you use? We’d like to make custom ones for our side blogs that want one!

Us, watching the hbomb Oof video:

Someone in headspace: HOW DARE TOMMY TALLARICO DISRESPECT MY JOJO BEANS?!

plural culture is i’m so tired of all this drama with another system but there are so many relationships between us and so much anger to get out and it’s all so frustrating

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We’re gonna update the side logs list today!!

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.