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YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO MESSAGE ME TELLING ME THAT SQUARE ROOTED GAVE THEM A HEADMATE...

anyway, standard boilerplate warning about plurality here. link to the kinhost.org StartHereIndex. link to healthymultiplicity.

but the REAL most important link, the one that helped me the most was... a post about plurality from 1999?

https://web.archive.org/web/19990203194757/http://www.asarian.org/~vickis/label.html

But... you know, "real" doesnt' really matter. What matters is "works". Does it work if you treat those voices as other parts, or alters? Does it work if you listen to what they have to say, treat them respectfully as "valid" points of view? Does it work to let those voices out to tell their own story in their own words, to feel their feelings? Does it work to slowly begin to reparent them, to create an inner sense of safety? If it works, you get to do it. I spent a lot of time saying that to myself, believe me. I would go through phases of feeling like I was making it all up, that I was overdramatizing, that what I was doing was silly, that I was just being influenced by my friends, etc etc etc. And I kept coming back to, "If it works, I get to do it."

for plurality, this to me is the golden rule. if it works, you get to do it. idgaf what the dsm-v says, that's a book that took ray blanchard seriously, i care about what makes people's brains work for themselves. and to me, for me, plurality has worked. and i think if it works for other people too, then that's good!!!! i encourage people to experiment with it just as i encourage people to experiment with same-gender kissing or whatever the fuck!!! try it out!!!!!! IF IT WORKS, YOU GET TO DO IT!!!!

so... yeah. i am sorry for being a deadbeat mom to many davepetas. if it helps, i think between square rooted and no metaphors i am a deadbeat mom to over a dozen davesprites and davesprite variants LMAO 😭😭😭

(being a deadbeat mom to a homestuck character is very Rose Lalonde core........ poor yiffy)

NEVER LOG ONTO TUMBLR WITH A VPN. WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE

anyway i used to be a girl who was bowser. i used to do a classpect pokerap. but suddenly... i couldnt log in anymore! very weird! i sent in an appeal but we'll see what happens.

oh my god. okay. this is absolutely insane. holy shit.

if you're a regular here at etchjetty incorporated uhhhhhhhhhhh. @neostellarjpg did GORGEOUS art of legally distinct dee and pets from my award-winning peggy sue fic Square Rooted. it's like. oh my god. the accessories swap. the sadstuck. it's fucking perfect dogg. AUGHHHH

its crazy bc this is art @flaringk did of dee and pets a full fucking year ago. the accessories swap is so ridiculously canon. im losing my MIND.

anyway. as thank you all here's a brief update. tonight at 8pm the @pesterquestrewritten kanayaroute goes live on youtube. after that i will seriously need to do my homework because im back in college.

but before that. thanks to the ridiculous outpouring of support. i just wrote this literally 5 minutes ago. a little sneak preview of the latest draft of chapter 5:

yeah. like. i didnt think i'd ever update square rooted again tbh. i wrote it like right after/during a breakup and so trying to get back in the headspace i was in when writing it was HARD. but i think ive found a new angle and im really excited about it :333333

and if you like homestuck peggy sue isekai, why not read my fic where Dirk and Roxy are sent back in time into Bro and Momlonde's bodies, respectively?

B33< well mewre plural so that saves me some explaining pawesome n also explains why mew Get It™ so well dope

B33< but like furrom the furry first meowment i laid eyes on square rooted it fuckin grabbed my by the scruff of my souls neck and leashed me to its fuckin beltloop.

B33< couldnt stop thinkin ameowt it, it clawmpelled me, i HAD to read it. the nyarrative pawtential fur lack of a better word was too substantial itd do SOMETHING to me /pos

B33< so last night i got fuckoff high n read it n 1) it was a fucking horror story girl this is a nightmare scenario i was so maddd unclawmfurtable n uneasy and 2) i had so incredibly meowch fuckin fun holy fucking shit

B33< pulled my cawmponents apart like a crowbar to a level they nefur really manage. dave n nep able to really s33 eachofur in a way we rarely get the chance to.

B33< it was extremely fucking nice, a wonderful ameowzing datenight fur the two of us we cuddled the shit outta eachofur, in a diffurent way we go thru life bein davepeta cuddled the shit outta eachofur

B33< helped nep figure meowt meow to meowre distinctly manifest herself sepurrate furrom the davepeta whole, smth shes always struggled with

B33< nyanyways its almeowst 24hrs later meow and were still fucking up to our neck drowning in euphoria n love n psychological post-nut clarity so i wanted to sent an ask to like. thank mew.

B33< thanks fur the ameowzing fic and giving us a wonderful romantic night reading smth thats equivalent to a purrsonalized horrormovie to us, and fur lipurrally facilitating substantial growth within our headspace framework

B33< also while it was meowstly an us night mewr writing really resonated w our jasprose too lmeow good work o7

B33< also also last thing were seriously clawnsidering goin by d33 n pets n jazz at least as nicknames cos those names are fuckin cute as shit

B33< okay thats all ciao thanks again <3

B33< -@apimetheancatnip

thank you for the kind words :))

i might recommend you to my first work on davesprite plurality, no metaphors. it shares some dna with square rooted. but honestly it sounds like you're covered by sqrted LMAO.

i'm glad.... im glad you enjoyed. the response to the fic has been insane, it's like, literally within the top 5 fics for jasprose and davepeta respectively? AND THE NUMBER ONE DAVENEP FIC ON AO3???

Also I can reply and upload videos and have my reblogs appear in the notes and be searched in the search bar and message people in DMs and MAN. stupid website.

I wonder if someone genuinely read my email and unshadowbanned me or if my shadowban just expired or something.

THANK YOU for this fic it is actually crazy and is, indeed, hurting me in new and irreparable ways. BLUHH!!!! exploding you with my mind so bad dude oh my gosh. if i wasn't so burnt out on art lately i'd be making SO much art!!! thank you again!