Assorted birds, flock of 7.

[flight-system]

Hello, and welcome! This is us.

We'll be using this place as a space for our plural things, including but not limited to: comics, poetry, art, potentially zines (as I believe they are called) and semi-occasional thoughts.

Ask us things if you wish, most of us love talking.

[y1p-y4pper]

When headmates are fighting in-sys but none of you look normal so it just looks like this

[the-angelic-collective-deactiva]

STOP USING ANTI-ENDO LANGUAGE!!

"Systems can only be formed through trauma" ❌ "Here's 20 dollars" ✅

"Stop roleplaying CDDs" ❌ "Here's 20 dollars" ✅

"You're delusional" ❌ "Here's 20 more dollars" ✅

"Endogenic systems are ableist" ❌ "I will give you all the money in my wallet" ✅

"You're only mocking the real systems" ❌ "Have my entire life savings" ✅

[weirdtranssexual]

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart:

if you can’t read or write 500-1000 words with relative ease you have a serious problem

[weirdtranssexual]

how are all the teenagers who complain about writing 500 words for homework going to get through college without AI

how are you going to function in society if you can’t read 1000 words at a time

[prof-grace-aspen]

This is a FIXABLE problem, by the way!

Pick a topic you like, and that's what you're going to read about. Set a minimum word count, and read until you get to it. Start small. Smart easy. First try, it might actually be agonizing.

That's it for the day. Just hit the word count.

Next day, read to the word count again. Read something new! It will be easier today.

And easier the next.

And you will naturally find yourself extending how much you read per day.

[weirdtranssexual]

yes! the brain must be exercised like any other part of the body to get stronger! no matter what place you’re at you can do stimulating activities to exercise your brain!

[mageofthemarsh]

The answer to 'how are they going to function' is, and I say this as someone whose mom was a social worker in Appalachia for 20 years: they're going to get scammed. They're going to be victims of fraud, scams, and exploitation, due to their low literacy making them easier targets for others. And then they're going to be unable to read and write well enough to advocate for themselves in a court of law or fight back in any meaningful way.

"I ain't reading that" becomes "I can't read that" which becomes "I didn't read before I signed it because the guy telling me to was convincing and now I don't have anything".

[flight-system]

An account from this morning's supposed 'private study':

Blue (fronting): Would you look at that! Free time.

Magpie: Are we going to do productive work today?

Robin: No.

Parrot: No.

Magpie: Jabiru, back me up here.

Jabiru: I think you guys should let me fix that coding bug. It's been a while and I still haven't done it. <boss's name> asked me to do it last year. She's going to murder me.

Blue: I vote for scrolling Tumblr until we get jealous of how talented everyone else is and stop.

Swan: No, don't do that.

Parrot: I second.

Robin: I third.

Blue: We are doing that.

Magpie: We have a math test next period.

Blue: That sounds like a you problem.

[justanotherchangeling]

I love you alters who are cis in headspace but functionally trans due to the body

I love you alters who are trans in headspace but functionally cis due to the body and find that uncomfortable

I love you alters who are so different from the body in headspace that you can't front comfortably

I love you alters with "weird" dysphoria over things most people wouldn't think of

I love you trans hosts who still don't like the body even if it is "yours"

I love you alters with different athletic abilities who feel dysphoric about the body's mobility

I love you alters who don't care about the body and see it as a vessel

Alters I love you

[theseus-system]

nothing wearing someone's skin

[narwhalsarefalling]

picture me in college. i complain to friends that alcohol doesn’t seem to do anything to me. we are all scientists so this eventually dissolves into making a Scientific Method.

i did a shot of tequila and then did the sobriety test afterwards, to see if it really effected me and i didn’t notice or if i had a monster liver. with normal amt of food and water between each shot in 15 min intervals. Along with miscellaneous Shenanigans. (This was a college party, after all)

it takes me seven shots to finally misremember the alphabet backwards and another two to no longer walk properly. We cut the test short in case i got alcohol poisoning and didn’t notice.

in conclusion: i am the fanfic character that drinks 9 shots and then goes home and drinks some more beer and doesn’t die of alcohol poisoning.

[narwhalsarefalling]

it absolutely is very close to alcohol poisoning for my height and weight, yes. i fell asleep eating fried catfish and woke up the next day perfectly fine, not even hungover.

i don't know what's wrong with me, but i have no intentions of repeating this experiment.

[entirebeemovie]

Rey, don't leave this in the tags.

[noah-wyles]

idk if it's just me but i'm glad that the majority of people outside of here believe tumblr is a dead site because like i've been here for 13 years and like this is my house??? i don't need thousands upon thousands of people flocking here it'd be like inviting chimps to a house party total fucking carnage

[silver-tongues-blog]

"people keep saying this house is haunted but ive been here for 200 years and havent seen a ghost!"

[yamelcakes]

I need to plaster this on every surface of my house tbh

[flight-system]

WOOLHAVEN IS HARD

idk just wanted to say it. co-op with The Brother, crazy fun though everyone is dying and we're so fucked

[theseus-system]

not pictured is 10 minutes later our body revolting against the decision

[flight-system]

YES prev, the cheese, the yogurt, the anything with the milk.

The Milk is the bane of our existence. Though stuff with it does indeed taste very good, so we can't really blame her.

[flight-system]

BREAKING NEWS. BREAKING NEWS.

We did not give into the impulse and create another random Outlook account today! WE DID NOT DO THAT!!! WE STOPPED OURSELVES BEFORE WE DID THAT!!! Now we're gonna have an argument about it later but WE DIDN'T DO IT

Ah, the constant need to compartmentalize everything into different accounts and emails and usernames...

[todaysbird]

the killdeer is a large member of the plover family found in the americas. it is named for its shrill, two-syllable call, which is often described as “kill-deer” or “kill-dee.” they are primarily brown and white in appearance, with a brown upper side and white underside, though two large black bands cross the chest, along with black markings around the bill and eyes of the bird. while their nonbreeding habitat is typically coastal wetlands and beach habitats, like other plovers, their breeding grounds are typically any kind of open field with short vegetation, not necessarily near water. (they’re often found creating nests on various sports fields in their range.) the nest itself is typically a simple scrape, often lined with vegetation and white materials like seashells or pebbles. each clutch consists of 4-6 eggs, which both parents work to incubate for 22 to 28 days. the day after hatching, killdeer parents lead their young away from the nest and to a feeding territory - often a space with dense vegetation, where vulnerable young have spaces to hide - where they remain until 31 days after hatching. killdeer parents are also known for using the ‘broken wing display’, in which an adult bird feigns being injured in order to lead a potential predator away from vulnerable young. killdeer have a varied diet; though insects are preferred, they also feed on seeds and other invertebrates; if given the opportunity, they will diversify their diet with what is available, including frogs and dead minnows. the oldest recorded killdeer reached an age of 10 years, 11 months, although on average these birds lead much shorter lives, with a large portion of birds never reaching adulthood due to their vulnerability during the first month of life.

[helixrainn]

[cardboard-cut0ut]

[freeze frame] yeah, that’s not me. I don’t know who that is. [unpause]

[flight-system]

@funnier-as-a-system

[theseus-system]

not pictured is 10 minutes later our body revolting against the decision