Proxy System Culture Is A Tired Host

my castmate, getting emotional on closing night: do you ever think about how we might be in this play again... but this is still the last time we'll ever be in this production, with these people at this time? and even within that, each show is the last time we'll ever do that specific performance. even within a given unique production, there are a thousand little things that are different night to night. different performance choices, different audience, different thoughts in our heads and ways we play off each other. it's like. theatre is by its nature ephemeral and there's no way to ever go back and experience that specific version of a play ever again.

me, who's lived through the time loop of this night 300 times: y'know--

if i didnt have headmates then who would remind me i can take paracetamol to fix the headaches caused by my headmates?

not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.

this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.

i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless

having crushes on my fellow headmate is so bizarre. like... my heart is racing at the other voice in our head. i want to hold our hands together, i want to wrap our arms around us so you can feel the sensation of us embracing. i want to share meals with you and see what your tastebuds like or dislike compared to mine. i love us because i love you. ✧ julian

oh god dont give them ideas /lh

-Jessica

Bapping your host with newspapers is an effective way to stop them from spiralling!

My superpower is there’s a bunch of people in my head

My weakness is they all have ADHD

hang on let me check,

uhhhhhhhhh.....

@funnierasasystem @funnier-for-systems @funnier-as-a-system

Also while i'm here

why is it so fucking hard for people to conceptualize the human mind making multiple player characters?

You're telling me that there are whole ecosystems of microcritters that make up "me" in my body on my skin, but when the organ that hallucinates on a regular basis makes another copy of sentience it's impossible?? Where's the people studying the ecosystems of the brain?? Why tf are we gatekeeping sentience??

if youre autistic and transgender and you live with your parents you just have to remember soon you wont live with your parents and nothing will ever be as bad as this ever again. im fucking serious

You gotta be silly and whimsical and full of joy sometimes so baby systems know they have options. Remember: you, too, can be a random blogger of shitposts on the Internet, or an editor for nonhuman romance novels, or someone who carries a turtle down several blocks to release it into a small lake because otherwise it's going to keep trying to walk into the road. Just because you're a system doesn't mean you're locked into one strict way of life – and it definitely doesn't mean you're doomed to be miserable all the time, forever. Despite it all, we stay silly