Definition: The theoretical curve that surrounds a black hole; if you are past it, you are sucked into it and crushed into singularity.
[pt and tag guide below cut!]
We are The Event Horizon Collective.
Collectively, you may call us Horizon, and for pronouns, they/them.
We are (likely) an OSDD-1B system. Though we mostly identify as plural in any way that fits. We are a fictive-majority system of over 100 logged.
Boundaries/Stances:
Askbox is open for questions, prompts, and BaH requests.
We are pro non-traumagenic (pro-endo, pro-willo, etc)- Do not bring up syscourse. Any asks, questions, or reblogs regaurding syscourse outside of designated posts will be deleted.
Follow your own DNI.
Do not interact with me if you are a darkshipper (or proshipper with darkshipper qualities), or pro-contact/pro-harm radqueer/xeno satanist. I have no issue with the radqueer community, however I don't like people who encourage contact and harm. My stances on the radqueer community is neutral.
Adding onto previous point, I also have no issue with transID and contradictory labels and fun labels and the like. Your right to swing your arm ends at the tip of my nose; as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're fine in my book.
No flirting unless you're doing it jokingly and are one of our friends!
Have fun, for goodness sake.
Thank you for reading through this, if you've made it this far!
Sincerely, Horizon
[pt: Welcome to the Event Horizon.
(Definition: The theoretical curve that surrounds a black hole; if you are past it, you are sucked into it and crushed into singularity.)
We are The Event Horizon Collective.
Collectively, you may call us Horizon, and for pronouns, they/them.
We are (likely) an OSDD-1B system. Though we mostly identify as plural in any way that fits. We are a fictive-majority system of over 100 logged.
Boundaries/Stances:
Askbox is open for questions, prompts, and BaH requests.
We are pro non-traumagenic (pro-endo, pro-willo, etc)- Do not bring up syscourse. Any asks, questions, or reblogs reguarding syscourse outside of designated posts will be deleted.
Follow your own DNI.
Do not interact with me if you are a darkshipper (or proshipper with darkshipper qualities), or pro-contact/pro-harm radqueer/xeno satanist. I have no issue with the radqueer community, however I don't like people who encourage contact and harm. My stances on the radqueer community is neutral.
Adding onto previous point, I also have no issue with transID and contradictory labels and fun labels and the like. Your right to swing your arm ends at the tip of my nose; as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're fine in my book.
No flirting unless you're doing it jokingly and are one of our friends!
Have fun, for goodness sake.
Thank you for reading through this, if you've made it this far!
Sincerely, Horizon /end pt]
Tag guide:
#-(who post is from)
#-- main tags ->
#event horizon collective // Our main tag
#horizon comics // Comic tag
#horizon rambles // Ramble tag
#horizon rants // Rant tag
#horizon builds // BAH tag
#horizon questionnaire // Answering an ask/prompt list for an ask
#horizon reblog // Self explanatory.
#-- featured headmates ->
#(headmate name/codename/emoji and pronouns)
#headmate intro
#-- misc tags ->
#(any plural related tag) // this is for reach among the plural community
#syscourse // Rarely used, but self explanatory
#oomf // you know the drill
#-- old tags ->
#theplumbingcrew
#hostpost / #host post
#headmate post
truly sometimes "third" feels more like the collective consciousness of the system than a person. and maybe this is somewhat true but it could also just be depersonalization. who knows. what i do know is we've hit category gay as fuck in the system. -432
I. Read this as "fuck the system" and went HAHA WOW YEAH PLAY ON WORDS AND TRUE!! and then I saw "bisexual" and went... Fuck... The System.........? WHAT SYSTEM.
ive drawn this chart like 3 times now i just kept closing it by accident... whatevarr. we don't stick with the same words 100% of the time, but we definitely have preferences lmao
wife gave us an interesting thought for a comic but I need some extra input so, fictives with problematic sources, what is your experience like? Like- How do you go about separating yourself from your source if you choose to do so? Do you even choose to separate yourself? Are you trying to be your own person or are you fine with being seen as this character? Do you wish you had a different source?
Tell me whatever you can think of on the topic!
Note: I do NOT mean abusive/bad/evil characters, I mean media that has been tainted permanently by its creator's actions
We don't really separate ourselves generally. It depends on the person. The host tends to be much more anxious about people knowing our sources because they're a bit of a people pleaser that hates being seen as potentially problematic.
But for our dear headmates, most of them don't really care. In fact, most of them just dislike being known to exist because of their source. It's difficult. Especially when someone talks about how bad XYZ is, or generally just politely going "i'd rather not interact with this but if u want to thats ok :)" for some reason just irks us so badly. Because now it's known that someone won't like where we come from. Do we know logically it doesn't matter and they won't judge us for our source? Obviously. But it puts us in a weird fight-or-flight.
For those who do choose to separate (of which we have one), they simply just choose a different name from their source. Others unintentionally separate from their source, problematic or not, and it's like... We can tell who you're sourced from but if a stranger had to guess they couldn't fuckin' tell you, lol.
TL;DR-- it of course, like all things, largely depends. But for us, we dislike having sources that are widely hated for XYZ reason. It's a pain and feels awkward for us when someone shows up in the middle of someone going "yeah i'm not a fan of XYZ source but if someone has a headmate from it then thats fine" ... ????? It's a weird sentiment to hear. It makes us feel tolerated rather than respected.
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I think our biggest gripes with the origin label discourse and the general community bend towards "you must categorize yourself under one of two boxes, and the other box is evil" are:
The assumption that experiences have an objective, fundamental truth that allows perfect sorting
The assumption that experiences and understandings of those experiences also never change- that if you can sort yourself into a box, then you should live there forever.
The general "us versus them" of the whole thing.
Point one: experiences of self, identity, consciousness, etc. are all very fuzzy, subjective concepts at the moment. We've yet to pin down what even makes a person conscious, let alone what a person's "I" is. I'm not confident that an objective truth of the self exists.
Maybe some meatspace things do have a usefully objective truth, though more often than not it's filtered through human definitions like anything else- if this desk is a meter long, then how big is a meter, and is a meter truly an objective measurement? Who made it?
What's a person? What's a self? Are those things the same, or different? Where do I end, and where do you begin? Ask ten people and you'll get ten different answers. That's the beauty of it. We don't fully know.
Point two: People change all the time. We are always having new and different experiences in life, and those can shape how you see yourself over time. We used to exclusively see ourselves as a medicalized, psychology-based system. We see ourselves a lot more holistically now, but our life experiences are still just as much a factor as any woo-woo spirituality we experience. That's a change that breaks boxes.
We are not the only system who's changed how they understand themselves over time. Spirituality, medical psychology, and other frameworks are neither mutually exclusive nor fixed in place. Like the framework of plurality, they're a way to understand the world and your experiences in it. They're an attempt to make sense of it all. If it's not working, put it down and try something else.
Point three: it's slowly improving, but the average Joe still has no idea plural people exist outside of horror movie serial killers and shock stories. They don't think they'll ever meet a multiple, and if they do, they're still using Multiple Personality Disorder as a label for it regardless of the system's actual experiences.
We have bigger problems than each other. Biting each other's throats won't help us any more than infighting and scapegoating has helped in any other community. The fact that we're still fighting over this in one form or another 20 years later is depressing.
trying to design a character: "fuck uhhh i know they want gold jewelry??? how you ask? idk man they just told me. ya know how it is. what skin tone are they? what do their voice sound like? what are their political views? no idea they havent told me yet"
This is a bit of a heavier one but we couldn’t stop thinking about that nightmare. Navy wrote a bit more, and because they have rather closed off emotions they kept us from crying or worse which….i can appreciate.
