#headspace stuff

[the-fictive-haven]

So I just had my first experience with fully switching out (voluntarily, in a non crisis situation) and... wow. That was easy, actually.

I've always been tethered to the front with anxiety and whatnot but since Surge arrived my anxiety and OCD are noticeably diminished. I was kind of just joking around with one of our Sonics that I was going to take a nap and leave him in charge, but then it actually just. Happened? I took a whole ass hour and a half long nap in the innerworld, Sonic was alone fronting the whole time, and I am just astounded that it's THAT easy to do after all once I trust in my sysmates.

Yeah I'm definitely taking more breaks from now on 😭

-Yami

[the-lunacy-system]

Headspcae Info (outdated)

Layer 1 - The Bright Field

A white void with a few small structures, such as the Control Dome (fronting room), Library (memory storage), and the Tavern (layer hub)

Layer 2 - Origin

A more confined white void where new headmates are made, and where dormant headmates reappear from when coming out of dormancy. The only structure is a door to the Tavern

Layer 3 - Fiction Space

A layer made up of all of the fiction the system consumes. Mostly populated by NPCs

Layer 4 - The Dead Zone

A layer made up of dark, empty streets running between massive concrete blocks. Causes anxiety to any who enter almost immediately, and tends to draw them in further, causing them to lose their way. Possibly where dormant headmates are located.

[navelgazed]

We aren't actually sure if anyone connected to the Haven *can* die, actually.

Rhea got rescued from her impending death via Haven intervention; she was having a heart attack and becoming 'part' of the Haven just stabilized her immediately. I've taken a couple of tumbles on Divisus but I've never been seriously hurt; you definitely can get hurt, Alastor says she's been burned on accident at the forge, but like. Would you die if you fell off a cliff?

You can't really test something like that, but we aren't going to be beating the demigod allegations on Kaltrix if we're actually unkillable.

(Literally just trying to convince Divisians that yes we descended from an island floating in the sky, yes we can teleport, yes we did save someone from dying just by being associated with us but so help me god if you start calling me divine I am leaving this party right now. Like come hang out with us on Earth and see how lame we actually are)

[thestuffedalligator]

Hmmmm hm. Okay. Worldbuilding/story idea.

One million years after humanity disappears, octopi and ravens have independently developed sapience. And one day an octopus child and an elder raven meet at the edge of the ocean.

Where is your mother and father? asks the raven. I have no mother or father, says the octopus, blushing pale. All octopi are children. Once we’re grown, we will mate and we will die. It is the first and the last thing our mothers tell us.

But that’s horrible, says the raven. It’s not all bad, says the octopus. We play, we hunt, we make games for ourselves in the deep. Yes, but who remembers your songs? the raven says. Who passes down your stories?

What is a story? the octopus asks.

And the raven thinks about this question. And finally it says: A story is how you remember things in the past. It is how you know where you come from, and what happened before you were born. A story can be a warning, or it can be advice, or it can be a silly joke told to make you feel good. Someone remembers the story and tells it to the next generation, who remember the story and tells it to the generation after them.

And the octopus thinks about this answer. And finally it says: Can you tell me a story?

And the raven tells the octopus a story. And it’s a good story. And the next day the octopus returns and asks for another. The next day it brings its octopus friends, and the raven brings its raven friends, and many stories are shared on the edge of the ocean.

Months later, the octopus returns to the raven. I am grown, it says. I am returning to the sea to find a mate and lay my brood. I will not be coming back. I’m sorry.

I will miss your company, says the raven.

I have one thing to ask you, says the octopus. In time my children will come to the edge of the ocean. I would like you to tell them a story I have made. And when they have stories of their own, I would like your children to remember them and pass them down to my children’s children.

Of course, says the raven. What is your story about?

And the octopus thinks, and says: It is about an octopus child and an elder raven who meet at the edge of the ocean.

And this story has been passed down to this day.

[thewanderinggraveyard]

Here is a quick guide to our Multiplex. I'm not convinced anyone but us will actually refer to this, but I think its fun to show how insanely huge our system truly is, plus its helpful to have a chart of some kind that we can easily edit if the need arises :]

CW: unreality and references to potentially psychosis–triggering topics.

➷. dray <3

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KEY:

★ : Main System

☆ : Sidesystem

↳ : Sparsystem

✦ : Subsystem

⌃ : Subsystem within a Subsystem

↪︎ : Subsystem in a Subsystem in a Subsystem

↯ : Attached System (Attasystem)

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THE MANY GATES MULTIPLEX

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★ ｟The Wandering Graveyard｠

↳ The Outside

↳ The Mansion

✦ The Unknown

✦ Laptopia

⌃ the amanda cybratien

☆ The Singularity Complex

☆ The Side Ways System

☆ ｟DEADCRIME｠

✦ The Haunted House

✦ F.E.A.R. of P.I.E.

✦ Nullspace

↯ ｟THE ULTIMATE MEGA-SYSTEM｠

↳ Too_Many_Files

✦ The Flashlight System

✦ No-Name

✦ The Mario Party

✦ ｟The One of Many Autocosm｠

�� The Compendium/The Library (sentispace)

⌃ The Bone Orchard

⌃ Venfinite

⌃ spacetime

↪︎ Switchblade

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NARRATIVISTIC REALITY

(currently known layers)

– See this SCP presentation transcript and this SCP anomoly entry for more information on "Narrativistics"

KEY:

— : Denotes a Layer in Which Realities Reside

⇆ : Equal Level, but Separate Reality

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⎾ The Narrative ⏌

｟The Tapestry of Reality｠

— The Realities Above (see: Narrativistics, cw: unreality), i.e. The Author & The Streamers

— The Mindscape

— The Upper Echelon ⇆ M'Olympus

— Baseline Reality ⇆ Alternate Realities/Timelines ⇆ The Void (also a sentient blankspace)

— Non-Existence (see: Dept. of Unreality, cw: literal unreality)

— Hell

— The Subconcious

— The Fray

— The Realities Below ("fictional" realities/worlds)

[4bs0lut3-s0lv3r]

..im not a fucking danger to anyone..

[beabubb]

Whipped out the ink set to sketch some pages from Jayce's lab notebook :-)

[the-fictive-haven]

In case anyone's wondering what the energy is like in headspace right now here you go

/lh

[kiisaes]

let's be best friends forever! ✨

[navelgazed]

Okay but related to that, I've spent basically all my off-front time exploring the forests and plains around Maharra. I'm thinking of heading to the mountains next. The trees, vegetation and wildlife is subtly different enough to feel alien if you look too closely, but feels homey enough that anyone who has experience with roughing it would probably feel comfortable. You absolutely need a field guide if you're going to go foraging for edible stuff, though.

[sysboxes]

[Text: This host has more than one form in headspace and that is valid.]

Like/Reblog if you save or use!

[samsheughan]

Believe me.

OUTLANDER 3x03 | 7x14

[alterpathy]

Alterpathy: The practice of identifying, categorizing, and identifying with fictional and imagined illnesses due to a disconnect between your external and internal understanding of yourself - while also not intending to appropriate, romanticize, or cause harm to a minority group.

this is going to be a really long post because i want to cover all the basics. future coinings will not be nearly as long.

identifying, categorizing, and identifying with: making flags, coining terms, and posting about your experience. alterpathic conditions can also be divided into a couple of categories, which are detailed later in the post.

disconnect between your external and internal understanding of yourself: for some reason, even though you're aware that this isn't how conditions that affect the body work, you experience a reoccurring condition that is serious to you. this can be because of atypical dysphoria, delusions, alternate beliefs, delusions, or anything else similar.

appropriation, romanticism, causing harm: this doesn't mean that actions you take are automatically excused of harm, but it's a silent agreement and nodding between yourself and others that you're not trying to come from a place of ableism/bigotry.

ignoring/excusing bigotry: examples of ignoring/excusing bigotry would be implying that someone can "coin" a real mental illness/other condition in the same way you can coin a gender, implying you can "transition" into a congenital condition with subliminal videos or otherwise, and anything else that goes against science's understanding of illness and neurodivergence. there's nuance to this, of course, because the psychology field isn't an absolutely perfect field that can do no wrong - it's up to the person coining/the person identifying to look at the situation and act accordingly.

examples of situations that might bring you to identify this way:

being a fictive/kin/introject/etc of a character who had a disease or type of injury that was invented for their media, like zombie diseases, cyberbrain cclerosis, the cutie pox, hanahaki disease, etc, and feeling affected by it in any way

experiencing something in your system's headspace that's like a reoccurring illness

having limbs like wings, tails, horns, etc in your headspace with some kind of damage to them that causes you phantom discomfort

feeling anxiety/frustration because you're experiencing something on a metaphysical level which you know your physical body isn't experiencing, but it's still very serious to you and possibly even hurting your quality of life

grammar:

alterpathy: 1) the practice of naming/making flags/categorizing these, "here's my mogai blog and here's my alterpathy blog"; 2) this kind of condition. "my depression and my alterpathy make it hard for me," "i might have an alterpathy but i'm not sure"

alterpathic: descriptor that describes these conditions. "it's alterpathic," "how to cope with alterpathic..."

inspiration and some context on why we're coining this

this was largely inspired by the r*dqueer term of x*nomalady, because after the system looked into it, we did see a lot of cases of people who were genuinely experiencing something serious, but didn't seem to think that there was any space other than the rqc that would be accepting of someone identifying with a disease that technically didn't exist. these cases were mixed in with genuinely ableist people who displayed the behaviors i listed above in "ignoring/excusing bigotry," which feels wrong to me, and i think that people who aren't intending to harm anyone deserve their own terminology and space.

crossover

there is some crossover with dissodic, desirdae, intusui, ethix +etc good faith terms related to feeling like you have, internally have, desire, or identify with something you technically don't, and i think that's fine. you can identify with an alterpathic term and the equivalent of it in another term umbrella, that's fine. do whatever fits best to describe your experiences.

so, is this just x*nomalady but Good?

not exactly, i don't want this to be thought of as a 1-to-1 anti rq equivalent, because again, some x*nomalady people are just coining """disorders""" for fun because they think you can do that in the same way you would a gender. this is both an identity/experience, and a silent agreement to be critical of what you're putting out into the world. this is also not focused on "coining" new conditions unless that's really necessary. (not necessary = making up a new illness for funsies. necessary = putting a name to a reoccuring condition you've been experiencing in headspace, etc.)

in the same way that terms like dissomei and intusui aren't 1-to-1 tr*nsid but Good and are separate term umbrellas that have their own nuances and notes, this is a good-faith alternative for people genuinely experiencing this kind of thing.

can i coin my own?

yes, this is open to everyone to coin! though, i will be posting a couple of flags for some alterpathic things in a couple of days, so you might want to wait until those come out so you can see how i format the post.

TDLR: considering yourself to have a condition that's not possible in reality because of some internal identity, but not in a fashion where you ignore/excuse bigotry.

can i post this term on…

wiki/term definition sites: yes, and you don't have to ask, but i would like to be informed.

pinterest/other social medias: no, never, i'm not comfortable with someone else posting my term for me.

subtypes:

when a different self began working on this, he set out two subtypes of alterpathic condition. unlike something like the age ratings in nichelink, these are absolutely optional, and you don't have to include these in your term definition if you don't want to/don't find it useful. but i think that if you're like me and like lots of details, these could be appealing, so i will include what he wrote:

Fiction-based. This is aimed at conditions that are established some way in a work of fiction/media, such as:Hanahaki Disease Slender Sickness Radiation Sickness (as seen in the Fallout series, not the IRL version) Environment-Based. Specific conditions that you can recognize are happening because of things already in your environment, like trauma, alterhuman labels, existing neurodivergent symptoms and so on. As an example, I'll mention the specific thing one of the alters in my system has that inspired me to make this subtype. He is a fictive of an angel character, but from my perspective it is vary obvious that his wings don't work and cause him muscle cramps in our headspace as a metaphor for an injury we had when were a child that gave us severe muscle cramps and required extremely painful and traumatizing physical therapy. That's something that was in our environment, so I'd call it environment-based. Subtypes are an optional category though, and you might not be able to decide/understand if yours fits into one or both, and that's fine. Also, I acknowledge that just two subtypes might not be enough to cover all the bases, and also there are probably tons of conditions that fall into both or inbetween, and that's fine. I want to "cross that bridge as we come to it", and let people who identify with this tell me their thoughts about what other words need to be coined.

flag inspiration rambles

this flag went through a lot of design phases. it was originally much more inspired by the general disability flag, because we imagined that most of the appeal would be to people who are actually disabled (mentally ill people, etc). the final flag became more inspired by existing terms for people who experience a disconnect between themself and their conditions. i saw many examples of shades of purple and pink, scalloped stripes/rounded shapes, and specifically these flags were the biggest inspirations:

dissocogni and dissophysi by @/acetrappolaswife (deactivated)

desirsick/desirill by @shrubmogai

other stuff

tags: @antiradqueerguy | @radiomogai | @archive-of-form | @everythingarchive | @mad-pride maybe? | @plurality-faq | @anti-rq-gumi | @doomsd8ydevice // ask to be untagged

"would (thing) fit this?" ask, there's tons of room for discussion and nuance.

this post was written mostly by nichie.

flag template:

hanahaki disease example:

nonfunctional angel wings example:

[aelirus]

i cant stop myself from making jupiter a fuckin adonis whenever i draw her

anyway, the commanders and their glorious leader.

[north-noire]

assorted henry-charlie/puppet-charlie sketches and doodles for the soul (last one is drawn on my phone) since i really needed the wholesomeness of these right now on my timeline, and maybe some people needed to see it too </3

[the-fictive-haven]

Us: minding our business in headspace

Caine: IIIT'S TIME TO PLAY EVERYONE'S FAVORITE GAME, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE BODY TODAY?"

*spins comically oversized wheel*

*wheel lands on "everything"*

Caine: Ooh, glad I was not planning on fronting today! Well, see you folks later!

(bonus) Jax in the background: you never [boing]ing front anyway