Super Antics by Kerry Callen (link to FB):

I need Saitama to be in the background of these panels, in his PJ's, drinking a canned coffee.

For Aaron.

Deleted the original poll because I forgor 💀some lmao

Rath: Oh no. If I'm an Evil Dragon, I am 100% either a creature of Sapient Slithering Vines that Breathes Bees and Wasp swarms, Or a Mycelial Network Dracolich that breathes clouds of Spores.

Kalok: I am A Nightmare Dragon, and I breathe Alien Symbiote Slime like whatever primordial shit drips off of Eddie Brock's Butt Cheeks.

Daemeon: Oh, I would never be an Evil Dragon. I would be a Dragon Knight, and Eat Bad guy's Faces. Maybe I have a cool Breath Weapon like a Shriek that Stops Time for ten Seconds.

Derrik: I AM a Dragon, and I Breathe Smoke that disinhibits my foes.

Ayla: If I were an Evil Dragon I would Definitely Breathe Ice.

Can some pro-endogenic blogs interact with us please?? unfortunately we keep seeing antis on here and its making us frustrated :(

There are more of us than you think.

my gender…? I was supposed to bring my- ? *grumbling* no one told me I was supposed to bring a gender to this thing

Kalok: Lol, It's Aight Friend, you can borrow one of ours.

just having some fun with interesting fantasy imagery! Give it a reblog, if you play, please? And tell me WHY you picked what you picked if you want?

I want the bitey swan. I have always liked clockwork birds.

talking with my boyfriend about the local cult and i’m curious

something something reblog for sample size

I live in the Seattle Area. Of Course there are Cults Here.

Some involve Kale. Others involve Satan. Still others are Political.

I scammed someone off Facebook marketplace for mine, how about the rest of you?

I bought one intentionally and got over 200 more free of charge

I adopted a woodland creature or two and their families just keep moving into my house

I am pretty sure it was some kind of reverse isekai situation, I fell in through the first guy's sky light and he had a bunch of hot room-mates.

using public transport as an alterhuman:

I have seen many Coyotes like this. He's just a little guy. He's scrungly even. He doesn't want any trouble. He's just trying to get back to the suburbs after a 12 hour shift down at the port and it's faster than trying to get through traffic at this hour.

I am feeling not at all motivated to go cut more asphalt roofing shingles.

I got most of it done. It's sunnier today, which has made it easier by softening the asphalt.

On the other hand, it's sunnier today, which has made it harder because I can only take so much sun.

Untidy things are happening in the garage.

I only kind of have a plan. Might need some more serious glue.

Untidy things happened in my house today as well.

I ended up cleaning out Two whole closets that haven't been properly turned out and gone through in years.

It is all fixed now, and one of the closets is Completely Empty.

so I'm not particularly well versed in the working or drama of the internet- I've learned a lot about online discourse from my friends but something I'm interested in learning about and am currently educating myself in is systems (DID, OSDD, etc.). I have some basic knowledge of how and why most systems come about, but I'm learning lots of terminology and as I'm learning these things I'm also learning about some things that appear to have a lot of negative reception.

I would appreciate it if (actual diagnosed systems, Endo/trauma/quoigenic systems, or someone with reliable information like a scientist or therapist) someone could inform me of the problems with endogenic/quoigenic/forced systems? From what I know, they're non-traumagenic and have a lot of very negative reception within the system community.

I am not a system, but I do have an understanding of how and why systems come about and lots of systemic terminology.

If someone within this community could also tag some good blogs/systems that would be willing to help, that would be great. Anything is helpful, whether it be anti-endo or pro, anyone that can give me input. If you can tag anyone you know it would be awesome.

Much obliged,

liv (just someone trying to learn more about the world)

Hi! So this discourse is a poison hellpit. Its worse in certain spaces, but the community is predominately inclusive outside of it because bullying and harassing and fakeclaiming people for having an Unapproved Theory for material experiences is batshit to anyone who doesnt have discourse poisoning.

First off- CDDs (DID, OSDD, UDD, P-DID, etc) are disorders. Disorders have exclusion criteria generally that only allow you to be diagnosed if you have clinically significant impairment or distress because of the aforementioned symptoms. As CDDs have these exclusion criteria- if you are not disabled by your experience of being 'more than one', then you are subclinical for the thing. If its part of a cultural or spiritual practice, you are subclinical for the thing. IE- You dont have it.

If there were not systems that would be excluded using this- the exclusion criteria would not exist.

Therefore, you can be a system without having a CDD.

This is a point that a lot of people refuse to understand despite it being very very simple.

If you are wondering why disorderly and nondisorderly systems share spaces, its because the exclusion criteria didnt always exist. We used to ALL be classified as having a CDD until the DSMV. Regardless of theories, regardless of impairment, regardless of religious practice. This is why the community is the way it is.

We are grouped together because we historically have been in the same boat for experiencing being 'more than one', and together we have stayed.

Some gatekeepers are separatists who feel that the community and its language should only belong to those currently diagnosable, rather than its historical breadth. As they insist that we are so very different- but historically this is not really the case.

We all benefited from the same guides, the same spaces to be ourselves. We all came together and carved out a space, and now some people want to kick out the very people who helped built that space.

For 'endogenics'... The -genic labels, among other origin-related words are theories for existence. With the exception of created systems, these are NOT things you can with certainty be sure of in their entirety.

We dont know why two people with similar trauma and similar support after have one develop DID and the other not. We dont know why its possible to induce true plural experiences that show up on brain scans (see the tulpa FMRI study that sophie linked in another reblog). The brain is a black box and we are all just grasping away at what we can see. Everything is theory and because scientific study has narrow scopes due to funding issues and the spectre of the satanic panic hangs over anything to do with DID, research is slow going.

They are theories people have for their material experiences. All of them. Even the professionally backed ones.

People may have these theories for many reasons, and what one person gives as their reasoning for one theory may be the reasoning another gives for a different one.

People get really mad when people have theories for why they are experiencing something that doesnt perfectly fall in line with the current prevailing clinical theory for CDDs. Having an Unapproved Theory to them is grounds for exclusion and license to abuse.

They might argue that its 'setting you back' if you have the wrong theory. But if you are treating problematic symptoms as they arise, its really not. The problem more comes when lines are drawn in the sand about your theories and you feel you cannot seek help for them because that help is not For You. If anything, it gives people who are not ready to uncover their trauma a place to sit and get help first.

Plurality is the only neurodivergency that people claim you are not experiencing exclusively because you have a theory on why you are experiencing it that people dislike or think is incorrect.

So why do people gatekeep?

There are a number of reasons, the biggest one being that they view systems that dont have The Right Theories as an existential threat. This is because they are often taught (in therapy or by the community) as the only way to self-validate their trauma was really that bad is that their experiences were trauma because they have alters.

This causes anything that even slightly tweaks that justification to be an active threat to their mental stability. Thus they get triggered and lash out. Understandable given they arent given the tools to succeed here, but still not acceptable.

There is also the desire to be seen as 'one of the good ones' and 'not cringe' so they want to weed out anyone who doesnt have the Official Seal Of Shrink Approval from the community as well as anyone who isnt a textbook case that has nothing that is currently considered 'cringe' going on. They want to be accepted so they declare open season on more juicy acceptable targets, but respectability politics never work. Or rather- they never work for long. Eventually the leopards eating faces gang will come for 'the good ones' too, and all that.

Misinformation also plays a big role, as does poor reading comprehension and a few other notable things, but this post is already Wayyyy too long.

TLDR- People are BIG MAD people have what they feel are Wrong Theories and lash out, sometimes with a faux concern trolling lilt. Many do this because they have not learned internal validation of their own experiences. People also dont understand the very books they worship and their contextual history. This causes people to decide to try to expel the people that have always existed in the community and helped build it.

Dont listen to them, yeah?

Yeah, This is the take I mainly have. But I have one addition: Outside of discourse, I want there to be positive interactions in and out of the community like some I've had. So I always point to the good. The times I have been accepted. The people who have loved me, loved us as we are.

It is out there.

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit

These movies CHANGED ME

This is one of my favourite parts of the whole trilogy. It’s haunting.

And that Pippin takes actually a happy walking song of his people, because Hobbit songs are generally happy and about food and drink and gifts and things, and *transforms* it into a mourning song.

The song is from Fellowship, before all the heavy plot hits and they’re still in the Shire. It’s about walking, and how eventually all the bad things that scare or sadden you will fade away and you’ll be home warm by the fire.

And Pippin takes it, changes the lines, the key, and sings a song that is truly fit for Denethor’s great hall.

Knowing Billy Boyd gave his own melody to it and everyone had chills after hearing him sing it. This is how you get actors involved with the story and character, this is how amazingly well these films were cast. Fans have been singing that haunting tune in echoing halls and caves and towers for 20 years now and it never loses its beauty.

And even better: Billy Boyd composed the tune to the song and then performed it for Peter Jackson and everyone else while filming. They only did one take! That very first take is the one that’s used in the film! He’s just that good!!

Every now and then I like to pull up this video of Billy Boyd being endearing and silly and choked up about Boromir’s death scene, and then performing this song upon request:

I sing it as a lullaby to my children but I use the original “away shall fade” to make it less sad because they’re just babies. uwu

Not even my fandom and I have chills.

You know what, I’m not done. Every aspiring writer should watch that scene and keep in mind the axiom “every person is the protagonist in their own mind,” because Denethor and Pippin are having TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS.

Here’s the translation of how it goes.

WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: can you sing, Master Hobbit?

WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: I want entertainment and you’re from far lands. That’s a novelty here.

WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I don’t care that I just sent my son to his death. Entertain me.

WHAT PIPPIN SAYS: yes. Well, well enough for my own people. But we have no songs fit for great halls.

WHAT PIPPIN MEANS: yes. But not for you. And our songs aren’t for people who engage in such cruelty.

WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: yes, but I’m embarrassed because mine are simple folk, and you’re very grand and regal. There’s no way I could be of any use to you.

WHAT DENETHOR SAYS: and why should your songs be unfit for my halls? Sing me a song.

WHAT DENETHOR MEANS: we’re all equals culturally. I’m a benevolent ruler, I don’t think your songs are inferior to those produced by my skilled musicians. Let me engage with your culture.

WHAT PIPPIN HEARS: I have literally already forgotten about my son. I’m more interested in entertainment and food, things you normally adore and which I’m making a mockery of by my actions. So sing to me songs of those things you love, entertainment and food. My son doesn’t matter to me and shouldn’t matter to you.

And then Pippin sings.

WHAT DENETHOR HEARS: what a pretty little song.

WHAT PIPPIN IS SAYING WITH THE SONG: fuck you for doing this to your son, who I love. Fuck you for doing this to me, as I mourn. Fuck you for making a mockery of the things I love, when it’s clear you don’t care for them any more than you do for YOUR SON. Your child, who you should want to protect. If you won’t mourn in these halls, by everything I hold dear I swear SOMEONE will.

Pippin can’t say any of this out loud. But his word choices are extremely deliberate. And so are Denethor’s! He does not see himself as a bad person! I don’t know enough LOTR to know if he’s a villain or just an asshole, but the important thing here is HE THINKS OF HIMSELF AS NEITHER. He’s a good guy who’s had to make some hard choices, that’s all. It’s the editing that tells you he’s not actually that at all.

This is a MASTERCLASS in “everyone is their own protagonist” and if this is the standard the movies rise to all the time I understand why y’all love them so much, because holy shit. That’s incredible.

I am trying to see if this gets as many or more votes than the last one so PLEASE I'm begging you reblog.

By Rachel Schragis

All of these things are true. Denying the truth of any of them will not help anyone.

Plenty of highly intelligent people end up getting sucked in to cults because they just wanted people to hang out with. There are antivaxxer nurses. Your ability to act on empirical reason breaks down fast if your social and emotional needs aren't being met.

Like, I reject this idea that people end up becoming tradwives or antivaxxers or cult members because they were dumb. These groups prey on people by filling the social and emotional needs of vulnerable people. They look for people who need help, and give it to them on predatory conditions.

It is important to understand that there is a conspiracy theory that could push your particular buttons and get you, there is a cult that could offer you the right support at the right moment and get you.

Thinking 'this can't happen to me' plays a big role in not noticing when it is in fact happening to you.

"Your ability to act on empirical reason breaks down fast if your social and emotional needs aren't being met."

This is such an important statement. It applies to So Many Things. Vulnerability to propaganda, cults, abusive relationships, and even your own mental habits.