Idk, I’m bored, thought I’d make one of those posts ppl pin at the top of their blogs
Hello! This is the main blog of the paluimbel system. We're a median, monoconscious, mixed-origins plural system of uhhh... too many people for individual introductions to make much sense. The name Fencer works for all of us, and we generally don't care that much about pronouns, but would prefer if you use they/it when referring to our system as a whole.
Feel free to ask us as many questions as you want about systemhood/plurality! We like sharing our experiences.
What is a plural system?
(EDIT: I've just had like 15 new people follow me for the tumblr poll conlang thing, so I thought I'd put links related to that somewhere easy to access. Masterpost/Intro is here.
Currently Active Polls: On hiatus for a bit due to exam season T-T)
My current hyperfixation is hermitcraft but also pokemon. Linguistics and conlanging are basically permanent special interests but we don't always post about them.
Oh and here’s this, just to be safe, because I’ve seen too many posts accidentally come true. Not putting any more DNIs, because I don’t wanna spend ages trying to list every possible group of shitty people. If I don’t like what you’re doing, I’ll just block you.
Some fics I’ve written under the cut, just in case you’re interested.
The Adventure of the Sphinx’s Riddle
Complete. ACD Johnlock, pre-relationship, mutual pining. It’s basically a Percy Jackson au, set in the same time period as canon Holmes. Most of the fic is Holmes figuring out that he’s a demigod.
The Adventure of the Buried River
Complete. The sequel to The Adventure of the Sphinx’s Riddle. I plan to write a third part and turn it into a trilogy, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
‘Till All That Remains is the Arms of the Angels
Complete. Eternal Duo enemies to queer platonic partners slowburn for the teen titans au. Each chapter is probably gonna be really short, just a scene or two. It’s kinda inspired by that one episode of Good Omens that’s mostly just a bunch of scenes of Aziraphale and Crowley throughout history, showing the development of their relationship. I put any necessary context in the author’s notes, so you don’t really need to know anything about the ttau for this to make sense.
TTAU Season 1
Technically a series, not an individual fic. It’s kinda an intro to the above mentioned teen titans au, set up like episodes of a tv show. Currently Includes:
Pilot- There’s a breakout at Essempei City Prison and the Titans (Sam, Ponk, Bad, Puffy, and Ant) must work with the Syndicate (Techno, Niki, and Phil) to prevent all of the city’s most dangerous prisoners from getting out.
Who Am I That I Should Get to Hold You?
Incomplete. Flower Husbands angst with a happy ending. It’s another TTAU fic, but like with ‘Till All That Remains is the Arms of the Angels, you shouldn’t need any background knowledge on the ttau to understand the fic. Basically, 3rd life happened in the ttau, but it was a simulation and everyone got returned to their bodies safe and sound after they died. Everyone except Jimmy and Scott, who, because of a glitch in the simulation, ended up actually dying. Scott’s scientist coworkers managed to upload his consciousness to a computer before his body died; Jimmy wasn’t so lucky. So now Jimmy’s dead, and Scott’s basically immortal. This should be the end, right? Wrong. There is always hope, they just have to find it.
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i think the funniest thing rocky does in the phm book is straight-up refuse to believe grace for multiple hours when grace explains relativistic physics. and then finally accepts it in the face of evidence but stays really pissed off about it. i wish we could’ve seen that shit like “where is einstein now, question, rocky just want to talk”
i think the funniest thing rocky does in the phm book is straight-up refuse to believe grace for multiple hours when grace explains relativistic physics. and then finally accepts it in the face of evidence but stays really pissed off about it. i wish we could’ve seen that shit like “where is einstein now, question, rocky just want to talk”
it's really really funny to me that eva stratt's list of crimes canonically includes piracy. do movie only fans know they tried to take her to court for pirating everything ever published and she ron swanson'd her way out of it. i need you all to know this.
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So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I'd finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.
I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.
Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.
(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)
(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)
I would like to draw everyone's attention to the bottom right corner, which announces that Donald Stents, 11, spent 5$ ($96-169 or more USD today, depending on when exactly this was published), which was apparently his entire savings, in order to rescue his pet dog from the pound.
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Okay but this is actually one of the most useful things you learn in creative writing workshops! Namely: Not all of the feedback you get is going to be useful! In fact, most of it isn’t! What you’re looking for are the people who vibe with your work and understand what you’re going for. Those are the people who can help you make your work better! But if you try to please everyone? Then you’re stripping out what makes your story uniquely yours. You’re stripping out what’s going to challenge and resonate with your audience. So don’t ever try to appeal to a wider audience! If you want those diehard fans who are going to follow your catalogue, let your work be weird. Lean into what you love about it. That’s what’s going to stick with your audience at the end of the day.
This is what “write for yourself” actually means. Write for an audience that happens to want exactly what you want, and don’t change or remove or water down things for hypothetical readers who don’t like your writing.
Herding sheep, looking after kids, and playing healer in videogames: every day you're surprised of the sheer innovative genius of how they'll find the most inconvenient goddamn places just outside your reach to get hurt or put themselves in lethal danger.
I've been listening to the PHM audiobook, and while I'd seen the posts about how Rocky wears clothes in the book, so movie!Rocky is actually just wandering around naked, a different idea actually occurred to me while listening.
Eridians have clothes, but they aren't the same sort of social requirement that they are in most human cultures. (So basically, people walk around completely naked all the time, and no one cares.)
At the point I am in the book, Grace has described exactly 2 clothing items worn by Rocky: a shirt-like thing covering the top of his carapace and part of each of his legs, and something described as "overalls-like" with lots of pockets and places for tools to attach. I think this leaves Rocky's vents exposed because Grace describes them fairly early on.
Anyway, after this, Grace doesn't really describe what Rocky is wearing, but it's hard to tell if this is because the book is skipping over irrelevant information or if Grace hasn't seen Rocky wear anything else.
The area these two garments cover doesn't *seem* to line up (at least given how I interpreted the descriptions), so it doesn't seem to me like Eridians have certain areas of their body considered inappropriate to show in public, like humans.
On top of that, both garments seem to have some sort of functional purpose. The overalls-like one obviously acts sort of like a toolbelt, maybe with a bit of added protective functionality like an apron? The shirt-like one is a bit more speculative, but I think it might be a comfort thing. Eridians sleep next to others, if not with others outright on top of them. Something a bit like a compression garment with the configuration described for the shirt-like thing could act a bit like a weighted blanket. Other than that, I could also just see it just being comfortable, or else acting as some sort of uniform.
Point is, Eridian clothing might be culturally more like PPE, outerwear, accessories, or comfort items are to humans.
You can wear a toolbelt, but you don't look naked without one. You can wear a welding mask or face mask or safety goggles, but going outside without a face covering isn't usually taboo. There are certain uniform items, like a girl scout sash, for example, that are standard dress in certain specific situations, but have no equivalent that is required for basic day-to-day dress. Someone outside in the snow without a coat might be looked at weird, but only because of their insane cold tolerance, not because they're being indecent. Some people simply prefer wearing pajamas to bed, even when there is no practical benefit to doing so and it is considered perfectly socially acceptable to be completely naked. Items like scarves, hats, belts, and more are often worn purely for personal self expression, not to satisfy a social requirement.
I propose that most Eridian cultures treat clothing like this. Not a requirement, just an ornament or tool.
Herding sheep, looking after kids, and playing healer in videogames: every day you're surprised of the sheer innovative genius of how they'll find the most inconvenient goddamn places just outside your reach to get hurt or put themselves in lethal danger.
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Herding sheep, looking after kids, and playing healer in videogames: every day you're surprised of the sheer innovative genius of how they'll find the most inconvenient goddamn places just outside your reach to get hurt or put themselves in lethal danger.
