gull &a.

Hey all! Sorry for our relative silence, we just don't have much to post-write now that we don't already just shake out in our friendcircles and we don't reaaaally feel like writing fiction or trawling through the archives. Y'all are great at blagging and fiction though keep the writing a-coming

That said! Something we think about sometimes is how we as a collective kind of kicked off properly with me splintering off - the kind of fundamental mismatch in identity that you stumble upon without realizing. "If I'm Alice, I'm not Gull, but I have to be Gull so what does that make me" felt like a bizarre question to ask myself when - as far as I knew - I was a single indivdual, but it was just something really important to pull at and figure out

And it's something a decent chunk of the rest of us have asked ourselves when starting to congeal, too, and every time it feels so weird internally? It's just still a strange thing to look at yourself internally, say "I am not who I was, but I'm nobody else I know I am", and go from there

But it is something important! Can't just let the brain brain itself into a hellcorner can you

something we collectively have been doing a lot internally lately is kind of... absorbing recently-surfaced undercooked alters? i guess something the whole of us is in a kind of concordance about is that we're kind of big enough as it is. there's enough of us in here to really be enough until something really... *gives?* even the less formed bits of us surfacing don't, like, mind - we really are ultimately all the same person, mostly, and this is something we together just kind of acknowledge.

if one of us does end up coming along without feeling like glomming back into another one of us i mean. we'll be waiting. but until then i guess this is kind of an era of variation and expansion upon the me-s that's already here.

god fucking dambn it gets hard to discuss the superposition of one and many that comes with our flavor of plurality haha oops!

(Alice here! Icon just for demonstration! <3)

We're gonna be using this one to file our present writing (and perhaps art?) under since we usually get pretty blendy while doing it, as well as use for any one of us without an icon (or who might just not be active enough to need much of an icon?). It's... a very cluttered and messy portrait, but it IS a good enough representation of the kind of layout of Where Our Thoughts Are In Our Head to please us which is I think the point of the exercise

Hopefully this will help lead us to actually... doing some present writing!