Alex has been learning to get past The Filter even when he's not super riled up. Don't get me wrong; it's useful at times. I'm such a doormat I need him to stand up for me ( Read more... )

Had a dream last night where "I" was Alex. I couldn't see myself, but I knew it was him because of the words coming out of us. There was a horde of tiny dogs running around the car, and Alex was complaining that we were driving too slow. The driver was like "It's because of all these dogs." Alex said "Run them over, then." When the driver explained ( Read more... )

A quote from a conversation about Alastair from Many Faces of Harry Potter, and our own Alex, that I felt bore repeating here:

"Our Alex is a sarcastic, bitter, angry, occasionally mean and nasty son of a bitch, but he's OUR sarcastic, bitter, angry, occasionally mean and nasty son of a bitch. He fits well the "system protector" role, and Alastair ( Read more... )

OMG everyone, check out this site! Put in some text you've typed, and it analyzes your writing and tells you stuff about your personality! It was pretty accurate, the parts I could understand. It thinks I'm more open than I am, probably because I am more open on the Internet than in person. And I do volunteer, even though it thinks that unlikely ( Read more... )

Sometimes I think about things that happened days or even weeks ago. Last night I was thinking about something
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One of the cool things about being a multiple is that you always have the benefit of that old "two heads are better than one" thing. Case in point ( Read more... )

For years I've known that if I want to make the body a little stronger, I can shift into Alex or Pi, because they're stronger than the rest of us.* And for pretty much that whole time I thought it was their masculinity. (Can you say "internalized misogyny"?) But then Alex began identifying as non-binary/gender fluid, and Pi began to identify as ( Read more... )

So this was a Tumblr post I made, I think it bears repeating here. First part is a quote from "Blindsight" by Peter Watts, which was the original post:

( Under the cut, of course. )

(Started writing this about 8:30 am ( Read more... )

Alex explains something about us that explains a few things about him. (And the rest of us, to be honest.)

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