Acorns in the Gutter

misc drawings of cofronting !! got a haircut do we like

Compass driving, Gold singing and fidgeting, Rust and Hyacinthus yappin

Compass and Hyacinthus at work (the ambidextirous siblings) because they can work effectively with both hands in unison if theyre both locked in??? This is a new revelation we're as shocked as you are (writing is a struggle but basically anything else is perfectly fine)

Gold telephone-ing our therapist a story from Tyler LIVE AUDIENCE!!

The Yapper.. he shows up inconveniently

So what happened is that we often man the drive-thru, which involved a lot of multi-tasking. When we do that, there's often a point where our some of us... de-synchronize from each other. All of us are very focused on one part of our senses/functions, and have varying degrees of difficulty with the rest, so when we need to multi-task, some of us end up splitting up the tasks between ourselves.

With enough muscle memory, I think what ends up happening is we move slightly independently of each other? One of us is counting money while one of us is taking an order (it takes two take an order, I think; one listens and repeats the order, and another hears what 'I' say and types it in), and occasionally the one counting money makes a drink, or passes out the food, etc.

Today was crazy busy though, so all of us ended up splitting up tasks between ourselves today.

If I had to guess, Justin was taking the orders (he's the best at processing audio and talking, especially with scripts), Tohru was grabbing and giving stuff (she's got great spatial awareness), and Soren and Spica were handling money and keeping track of people, food, and drinks (I'm the best at registering visuals and translating that info; Spica's usually with me when I'm around, although I think she was also helping Justin with his tone).

It's funny because theoretically this is the most teamwork we've ever had to do, which you'd think would mean we were all working together... but it involved being thoroughly de-synchronized in order for us all to contribute. At the time, it felt like we were made of afterimages. Our awareness of ourselves fluctuated a bit, but it really felt like we were working alongside coworkers in the same body? Although I could definitely feel that we were using the same brain to function; things got mixed up every so often.

[transcript under the cut] We try not to think about our memory.

We're in a sort of weird middle ground where we don't feel like we're disordered, we function just fine in daily life, but when we really dig into what we actually remember... theres barely anything. and the more we dig the blotchier it gets. we remember the jist of things, like yesterday we did 6 artfight attacks. anything more specific? ask someone else. I couldn't tell you.

-s