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Crew Roster

Willow/The Willows: gestalt person made of the four original facets/persons in the Crew. Assume it's us if we don't otherwise specify who's writing. 30s, she/they

Crystal Lynne Willow: Same age as the body (mid 30s) She/her. Formerly known as Librarian. Primary value: Truth, knowing things

Anna Nita Willow: Slightly older than the rest of the Willows. She/her. Formerly known as Mama Bear. Primary value: Caring for others, protecting others

Sunni Mimi Willow: mid 20s. She/her. Formerly known as Baby Bear. Primary value: Living in the moment

Shiloh Veda Willow: Ageless. They/them. Formerly known as Monk. Primary value: peace

Jasmine/Jas: parogen or soulbond created or found when the body was 15. Roughly the same age as the body. She/her.

Varyn/V: parogen created by Jas at around body age 19 or so. Adult age. He/him

The Doctor/Doc: parogen/walk-in encountered around body age 28 or so. Fictive of The Doctor from Doctor Who. Ridiculously old no matter how you try and count. He/they.

Aeraya/Aery: Walked in with Doc. Roughly body's age. She/her

Ameris/Amy: Tenno fictive from Warframe. Walked in about 6 years ago. 20, she/her.

Morningtide/Morrie: Formerly known as Tai. Age unknown, some kind of young adult. He/him.

Dajhin/Daj: Former Passenger, ~18/19-ish? Hard to tell, he was 15 for 8+ years. Twin to Ameda. Parogen copy of Daj from Tristan&s system. He/him.

Amedalhin/Ameda Grace, goes by Grace: Former Passenger, 18/19-ish. Twin to Daj. Parogen copy of Ameda from Tristan&'s system. She/her

All Crew are held to the same standards of behavior and must adhere to our Code of Conduct, and are held responsible for our day to day life. We also have Passengers who are not held responsible for our day to day life, are not allowed to front unless a Crewmate is fronting with them, and are not expected to adhere to our Code of Conduct but are encouraged to anyway. (Especially for Little Alice who's still too young to really understand responsibility.)

Passengers include Little Alice (7, she/her), Kyra (30s, she/her) Coriander/Cove Presence (Ageless adult, any pronouns except it). Not an exhaustive list of all Passengers.

The Fifth Era Folks are a group of tulbonds/parogens from our paracosm. They are: Kaorlin/Lin. Ending. Maker and Mirth (subsystem). Temaera/Tem. Starsong. Allura.

The Irregulars are another subsystem of seven who don't wish to be known publicly by name yet.

Note: Tristan& are a system in our innerworld who want nothing to do with our system here, partly because they're busy with their life in the innerworld, partly because they haven't forgiven us for how awful we were to our headmates before we learned about plurality and resolved to do better, and partly that they have no interest in joining our system here as they're plenty busy enough with their own system.

#Crew Roster #Updated Little Alice's age #pinned post #Updated last April 23 2026

librarycards

i went to eating enough food world and they're excited to meet you. keep eating lots of meals and snacks and take my hand! we can go there.

librarycards

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH QUEER AND TRANS EATING DISORDER HAVERS COME EAT ENOUGH FOOD WITH ME!!!!!!! <33333333

audley-and-cherry

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

sleepyowlet

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter

🎶People won't stop working! If so, fuck it!🎵

bisexual-engineer-girl

I'll be making sure we still have engineers and machinists haha

the-haiku-bot

I’ll be making sure

we still have engineers and

machinists haha

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

animentality

dovesndecay

Microaggressions against polyamory in interpersonal interactions are important and should be discussed, but I do wish more of the conversation focused on the ways that systemic amatonormativity impact things like family units, taxes, healthcare, inheritances, housing, childcare, etc.

I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.

Amatonormativity and polyphobia are not just theoretical "people are kinda mean about this sometimes" -- they are real and materially impactful systemic issues, and they affect all of us.

idkimoutofideas

Ok consider: Grace is dying on Erid, but his body is the thing that's failing, not his mind. So he and Rocky decide to pull an Avatar.

They find the body of an Eridian who has recently passed away (don't ask me how) and transplant Grace's mind into that body (don't ask me how)

Grace of course has a WILD time adjusting to being an Eridian, learning how to "see" the way Eridians do, how to speak, how to walk around with five legs, but he and Rocky finally get to actually hug! And Grace gets to see all the parts of the planet that he was never able to while human!

Grace is finally getting used to his new life as an Eridian when a human spaceship shows up, carrying astronauts

orteil42

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

foeofcolor

Only day you can rb this

foeofcolor

This post is like a fucking rosetta stone I've had the same theme song tagged in at least 6 languages so far

drpepperwhoree

remember that pride is still a protest

strawberry-seal77

time loop with two people in it but one person refuses to acknowledge the loop and pretends to be looping with everyone else. meanwhile the other person is freaking out

scribbyizhere

@pillowspace

pillowspace

thank you for time loop post. eats it

popp1n

We need to make Rocky Mate Bad as Hell Statement a tag on ao3.

bramblepatch

The thing is you can have a grassy lawn or even a golf course without it being an ecological disaster, you just have to a: be cool about having the occasional non-grass plant in the mix and b: be willing to live in a climate that supports grass without irrigation.

bramblepatch

Golf courses in California are an abomination which is why the sport was in fact invented in Scotland.

abstrusetheorist

I always thought that golf as a sport should be adapted to the local native landscape. I think this will encourage regional pride when local golfers completely trounce visitors at Swamp Golf, Desert Golf, Forest Golf, etc. Rich tourists will be pressured to travel extensively to experience all forms of golf, instead of staying in their backyard country club golf courses. Internet discourse will probably somehow get worse but I think this is a small price to pay.

brainstreams

cheddar-baby

In cyclops world the teens have a trend where they play "we are young" by fun and when he says "give me a second i" they put a second eye on random celebs like cyclops shane dawson

king-monky

Marriage is good and weddings are great but I hate modern wedding culture. You don’t need to bankrupt yourself to have a nice wedding. Stop supporting the wedding industry, stop buying outrageously priced engagement rings, stop spending 10k on a dress you’ll only ever wear once.

tidy-tidings

Coming from a professional event planner - weddings are egregiously expensive because companies openly raise prices at the word “wedding.”

Pro Tip - Never drop the word wedding while planning if you don’t need to. Most things can be for “an event you’re planning.” This obviously doesn’t include things like the venue, DJ (who needs specific wedding songs), and the wedding dress company if you’re going that route versus just buying a dress.

For my wedding I got “discounted” cupcakes, flowers, decor, bridesmaids dresses, groomsman attire, and invitations. I did this by either searching for things that aren’t marketed for weddings or not telling the companies I was working with it was for a wedding. Because honestly, most of the time they don’t need to know why you’re ordering.

These companies target people planning their weddings and markup everything the second “wedding” is said. And it’s said often because people assume the services change exponentially for weddings. They absolutely do not.

The best example are the cupcakes I had for my wedding. I used a designer cupcake store in town instead of spending $1000 on a wedding cake. If you place a large order of cupcakes with a cake tree for display - it costs about $150 for 100 (which is what I did). When you order their “wedding” package - the price raised to a $700 base for 100 cupcakes. The only other perk includes a “tasting.” Forget that. Our tasting was buying a few cupcakes in flavors we thought we’d like and picked three. It cost maybe $20.

What these companies do is scummy and targets people who don’t have information about the event industry.

I will yell it from the rooftops until people realize there’s a better way.