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We are a quoigenic gateway plural collective of around 400 (as of April 2026). We sign our posts unless we don't, in which case you should assume it's either Artemis or just the Collective in general.
We are not a roleplay blog.
Other stuff about us and plurality behind the cut.
What is Plurality?
Plurality is, simply put, any state of being more-than-one in some way. For us, that means that we have many fully-formed (and some not) people living within one body, and we often switch who is controlling the body at any given time. Don't worry, we're all nice.
These people are not other selves of one person nor are they parts of one person. Plurality can manifest this way, but it is not how it works for us. We are all real people with different interests, ways of communicating, personalities with depths and different sides, and the ability to grow.
More about plurality
What is Quoigenic?
Quoigenic is an origin label for plurality. There are many origin labels, but quoigenic has several meanings: it can mean we don't know or don't care about our origin, we don't want other people to know, or in our case, we reject the idea that origin is the most important question you could be asking. For us, origin is much less important than how we work together and exist as a system in this moment; we reject the idea that this has to be a defining feature of a system at all. (Yes, it's hard to understand if you're not part of the community, because the term itself was spawned in the context of a lot of community discourse.)
Gateway Collective?
We identify primarily as a collective and are trying to filter out the term system; we used to identify as a system, but we no longer feel like that word is the best way to describe us. Therefore we are the Starfall Haven or Starfall Collective.
Our inner world is connected to a planet we call Divisus, which has its own cultures, civilizations, and history. A few of us are from that planet, but most of us come from elsewhere. Although we might occasionally talk about it, we tend to keep details of our inner world off tumblr.
Stuff we Do
We do:
Art! '#lc arts' is our art tag, and we have a more complete gallery over on deviantart.
Religious stuff! We have an eclectic mix of religious beliefs in-system, but our host and many of us are polytheists. Artemis runs Per Inpw, a twitch channel where they broadcast Kemetic rituals and education. There is also an associated discord.
Writing! We have an ao3, and a writing blog for shorter, less finished stuff.
Tarot and lenormand! We do tarot and lenormand readings for pretty cheap, and sometimes do free card pulls on tumblr.
Art commissions! Check em out here.
We play FFXIV on the Seraph server, Dynamis DC and we also play Genshin and HSR. If you want to play either of those with us, hit us up!
SCA stuff: we participate in Society for Creative Anachronism events and meetings. We have an early 13th century Gaulish persona and are working on archery, illumination, and heraldry. May also get into period cooking when we get the chance. We are in the kingdom of Calontir.
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Executive function's broke. We (not necessarily I but the stuff I wanna do isn't really accessible because of the heat) wanna paint but we cleaned our bathroom and swept the floor instead because those, somehow, were easier.
Might just need to give physical painting a little break and do some digital stuff instead even though it isn't as satisfying.
Every work of art says things the creator hasn’t considered, but if you’ve really thought about what you’re trying to say then generally the additional dimensions you didn’t know it had are in alignment with your purpose, whereas if you think you’re making no cultural comment at all you are actually making a LOT of cultural comments, most of which will be unflattering to you
“I don’t want to make anything with cultural dimensions. That’s why I only write within the genre that is legally sequestered away from every other kind of storytelling because of my culture’s attitude towards depictions of sex.”
you can write porn for no other reason than Horny. you can read or watch porn for no other reason than Horny. but none of that will stop your porn from containing cultural commentary. just because you don't want to engage with the work on that level in that moment doesn't mean that level to the work doesn't exist.
Sometimes these online mental illness quizzes will ask certain questions and it's like, no I am not answering this the way you think this disorder should answer it because I have mastered the art of masking.
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I am trying so hard not to judge my family but what the fuck do you mean you can't do fantasy or sci fi because having a premise not based on regular earth is 'goofy'. breathes deeply it's okay to have a preference. That's fine. But like what do you MEAN
Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.
"The nonbinary afab who goes by she/her, dresses femininely, and uses a push-up bra when I—" when you what? What's wrong with her?
Is she not nonbinary enough for you? Is the way she experiences her queerness and how she presents not perfect enough for you? Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny, right? So why is she the exception? Why does she have to hate herself to appeal to your standards? Why is she any less trans—any less worthy of respect—cause it's "not visible"? Queer solidarity my ass. Don't spout this bullshit on Pride, man.
"Whether someone understands it or not, these are the consequences of the political views they're espousing" is a pretty important analysis tool for online movements because quite honestly, over half of everyone engaging in politics online have no foundations for the stuff they're saying and are just saying whatever makes them feel like a member of an in-group.
If your in-group is "the left" you're very much not immune to this. In fact, trying to do left-wing politics without even trying to build a foundational political understanding is a great way to end up as a neo-nazi with a tumblr accent rather than an effective left-wing advocate.
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To myself, raised in an environment that glorified and romanticized restriction and suffering:
There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.
There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.
There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.
There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.
There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.
There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.
You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.
It’s okay to live abundantly. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to indulge. This paralysis of self-punishment, self-restriction, self-loathing is not healthy or good for you.
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The real trouble is whether or not I'm going to try to clean out my palette when I get the new nice paints (it would be such a pain I already cleaned it out once when I started doing watercolor again and most of the wells still have plenty of paint in them) or do I just keep practicing with my shitty paints until I use them up???
I want to keep the cadmium red on there and probably the alzarin crimson because 1. Putting toxic chemicals down the sink is bad and 2. They're still decent but I really would like to at least clean out the yellow and blue wells to start fresh
Notable that I probably also have most of those split primary colors in my stuart semple watercolor palette, but the thing about that palette is that I really don't like that it doesn't have a lot of flat mixing space and the paints came in pre-dried pans which is like, fine, but I think we in general like the tubes better and think tubes are more economical for what you get. We have used our Semple palette when we desperately needed a color we couldn't mix or a more pigmented color, usually mixed with our reeves paint, but in the long run I think getting artist quality mixing paints will help us utilize all our paints better.