The Rockwood Collective

system diary blog / interacts from @rainycolorpatrol / banner is "Candles" by Leah Gardner

[gemmie-crew]

DNI + BYF

Intro -

Hello! We're The Rockwood Collective. Formerly known as The Gemstone System, our username and personal tag remains the same! We were discovered in September of 2022, though we had issues before then. We made this blog to try and improve communication and memory for all of us and to interact with other systems. We use the collective pronouns They/It. Please use these when it is unclear/unknown who is fronting. Alter info will be made known at the individual's discretion.

DNI -

Sys-course - we have no intention to engage. We in particular are traumagenic.

Racists

Cisheterosexists

Ableists and Sanists

Evangelicals

ED, SH, and SA focused blogs

BYF -

This blog may contain triggering content, though there will always be a warning. Some of our alters hold conflicting views. Please remember that this is a side blog. The tag for posts related to our system is #gemmie crew. Questions are welcome.

[homunculus-argument]

Your first spark of power as a kid is when you realise that other adults think that your parents are insane, too, and whenever they do or say something embarrassing in public, you can find an adult glancing to you, make eye contact, and do that raised-eyebrow-tight-lipped nod going "eeyup, you heard that right. She literally just said that."

[thattheater-kid]

Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

[jaybird3756]

Things to call headmates other than "my Alters"

Headmates: solid 8/10, clearly a system term though

The Others: 7/10 kinda mysterious, not much pizazz

Family: 9/10 yeah replace those sorry ass relatives of yours!

Brothers/ Sisters: 8/10 personally I like calling them my brothers and sister, but tbh kinda sounds like catholic priests/ nuns. -2 points

Roommates: 9/10 Basic like headmates, but phrased in a way singlets understand

Friends: 10/10 Wholesome, although I am definitely not friends with everyone in here

The Voices: 3/10 People gonna absolutely think you're crazy

Greek Chorus: 5/10 It's funny when someone actually knows what you're referring to

Peanut Gallery: 7/10 Similar concept to the above, only more understood by the average person

Backseat Drivers: 9/10 The most correct one on the list, especially said with just a touch of contempt. Might make someone upset

The Collective: 8/10 very ominous, better when talking about the system as a whole singular unit

Comrades: 10/10 Like friends, but commier! Perfect!

Coworkers: 10/10 very accurate representation of how it actually works in here

The Council: 9/10 The Council has decided that it's really entertaining to refer to ourselves like that

Chat: -10/-10 How is it so perfect, yet so awful, yet so awfully perfect?

[transgendz]

Emergency!!

I am the main provider of two disabled roommates, one of whom is currently on the other side of the country getting cancer treatment which was denied locally via a ridiculous circle of denied referrals. I doing what I can to help her from here, and continuing to take care of our other roommate.

Seperately, I have my own health issues, and haven't had a liscence for years due to neurological issues. I have recently gotten my license and I need to get a car.

We live in an area where doing just normal errands, costs $100+ and that is our only option for the foreseeable future if I don't get a car. Additionally, a car would allow me to do delivery work while my online job is slow.

I have been looking locally and found a decent car for $1,700 that the guy will hold until tomorrow evening. It needs a little work, but I have friends that will work on it for next to nothing.

Right now, I have $600 of this and intended to save that for rent, but this is the cheapest price I have seen on a car in this decent condition. Anything helps especially because we domt have much time. I am making the goal $1,500 because I am unsure how much of rent I'll be able to make back after this.

Dm me for proof or more details abt our situation.

$0/$1,500

PP--$C--V--kofi

[transgendz]

My only chance for a non-uber ride to check out this car is today in a few hours. If we've not met this goal by then, we will be unable to get the car. This is desperate and more urgent than I can express.

$50/$1,500

[daggers-drawn-returns]

Please Help a Homeless Transgender Woman Afford Her Hormones and a Gym Membership to Have Access to a Shower and Locker to Keep Her Belongings Safe

November 2nd 2024

Hi, I'm Thistle Ishtar Daggers-Drawn and I'm a homeless transgender woman living on the street. I have been blessed by all of you with support for awhile and it's really been making my life so much better and in some cases just plain possible. Thank you all so much!

Lately, I've been having a lot of trouble with people walking up to me while I'm sleeping and taking my stuff. I've lost a lot of valuable and sentimental belongings like this.

It would help me a lot to have a membership to the local gym which is on the same block as where I sleep. I would have access to a locker, showers, electricity, wifi, and some nice things like the sauna and hot tub which would help all the body aches from sleeping on concrete. The gym is also a UPS access point where I can receive mail. It would cost around $50 for a three month membership.

I also haven't had my hormones in about 6 months and I'm feeling super dysphoric. It would cost about $100 to be able to order a 6 month supply from pharmaceutical manufacturers in China. It means so much to me to be able to continue my hormonal transition!

Please help me raise $150 to afford access to a locker, shower, wifi, electricity, mail, and hormones!

Cash App: $ThistleDD

Venmo: @ThistleDD

Thank you for your support so far! If you can't donate, reblogging and sharing make a world of difference!

[i-the-vezzel]

"why do I always change opinions so quickly?"

The relatable plant cell:

[tryworks]

what they dont tell you about growing up as a very lonely little girl is that you grow up and still a part of you remains that very lonely little girl

[animentality]

[shellrots-deactivated20251213]

Do you guys ever come across to posts made by hosts literally admitting to show controlling behavior to other headmates and make it sound like a funny joke and you stare at it for a second before blocking them because even though you wanna help it's none of your business?

And people reblog it saying "haha thats our host" or "thats me" like that's normal behavior? Guys?

Or posts from non-hosts making jokes about how their host treats them and you have to hold yourself from commenting "that's abuse" because holy SHIT it goes so far sometimes.

And it's always the same kind of hosts that complain and talk shit about persecutors. Like my guy, you're abusing them. Of course they hate you.

I just saw someone post about their host forcing them to follow lifestyles and beliefs they personally don't have for years. No, not masking. Tell me this isn't controlling behavior. Straight up taking things they enjoy from their lives. Restraining them.

Hosts can be abusers too. Stop treating others (especially persecutors) like shit oh my god.

If you wouldn't do the same to an outer person, you shouldn't do it to your headmates too.

—Another host.

[archbudzar]

instagram | twitter | merch

[nexus-nebulae]

shoutout to people who don't have a "before" the trauma.

shoutout to people who don't have any sweet or nostalgic childhood memories. to people who don't remember enough of their childhood to know what the before was like. to people who lost their innocence before they ever learned the word for it. to people whose pasts were too painful to keep around in any form. to people who only knew trauma, and don't have an idea of what life would be like without it. to people who can't long for "the better days" because there weren't any.

you deserve a good future. i hope it's there for you soon.

[august-zip]

DID is more than just having parts. Its also,

• amnesia

• confusion

• headaches

• nausea

• repeated childhood trauma

• anxiety

• spikes in fear. Anger. Or shame

• mood swings from parts

• body dysphoria

• depersonalization

• derealization

• self puzzlement

• loss of control

• flashbacks

• dizziness

And more.

DID is not "friends in your head" its traumatic, scary and uncomfortable. Its not fun it's a terrifying TRAUMA BASED disorder. And it should never be romanticized - Vesper

[only-tiktoks]

[is-this-plural]

rating: plural

[rustybutterknife]

Microdosing polyamory by dating a system

[rustybutterknife]

You. You’re onto something.

[rustybutterknife]

[partywithponies]

When the player character dialogue options in a game all suck:

[astaryuu]

@funnier-as-a-system

[funnier-as-a-system]

[ID: white text that reads: I would not fucking say that / end ID]

[clinicallylycanthropic]

ive got that dog in me (trauma metaphor)