[rustling-wind]

Intro to this Blog

Hello, I'm Wind. I'm a non-binary aroace critter. I'm not sure how you've stumbled upon this side blog (aside from the accidental reblogging of other posts) but you're welcome here. I think. This is my little private-not-so-private area. I put my thoughts out here.

Some posts to look at: Tag guideline / Interests / ...

车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直。

[rustling-wind]

Ricardo's fight marks a change in Limbus where the devs remember that, for the first time ever since the prologue, they can use the in-game battles as a storytelling device (i.e. insta-killing everyone on my team).

Just like how Canto V itself makes the player face different stakes, more uncertainty, etc! Like wow!

[koippeh]

I have always been curious about systems' opinions on Sancho/Don Quixote being a representation of being plural so if you have thoughts opinions anything I'd love to hear it

(sorry if you've probably done something like this before if so send me a link)

UR OKAY ILL REBLOG THIS THERE TOO.

but hiiii i love plural Sancho and i write her very much plural.

taking from my original essay

while Sancho/Don Quixote shows obvious symptoms of DID and being a system, it should be noted that this is enhanced by fantasy aspects. She does have the trauma that would lead to development of a dissociative disorder but the method in which her alter “forms” could debatably be complete fantasy due to memory loss from drinking from the Lethe. But to me, fantasy enhanced or not, Don Quixote is still obviously a traumagenic system.

I think she's a very good representation with all the parts that make a system and enhanced by fantasy which allows nonsystems to also understand and connect. the essay i linked includes a lot of my thoughts still even if its from like canto 7 release lol

i personally like when plurality in media also has a fantasy aspect because as i said it can allow people who dont understand systems to still understand a character. i have a bit of a special interest in plurality in video games to be honest. don quixote joins the ranks as one of my favorite portrayals. i wish they has a bit more evidence that it was there before and simply enhanced by drinking from the lethe but we can't all do it as well as temple/flare warframe

limbus has a lot of other plausible plural characters (LOOKING AT YOU ARAYA)

[earlgraytay]

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

When the ever elusive Fernando Pessoa died in Lisbon, in the fall of 1935, few people in Portugal realized what a great writer they had lost

Doing some research for the shipgirl game today, and was reminded this guy existed.

I really need to sit down and properly read some of his work, but if you're interested in some of the DID-adjacent/multiplicity stuff I've been talking about (like the brain octopus) you might want to look into him. Absolutely fascinating guy.

[angstydevil]

I’m glad to see this post. I hope the plural community looks to Fernando Pessoa & co. as noteworthy historical plurans someday!

I think calling Pessoa& plural — polyplural, even! — should be fairly uncontroversial. From “I Don’t Know How Many Souls I Have” by a Fernando Pessoa, to Alvaro de Campos’ veritable polemics against singlethood as a state of existence, to unattributed quotes like “the multiplication of the I is a frequent phenomenon in cases of masturbation” and “be plural like the cosmos!”, to the fact that these poets wrote letters to one another and (sometimes scathing) critiques of one another, to the fact that certain heteronyms exchanged correspondences while Pessoa-himself was unavailable, it seems pretty clear that the heteronyms experienced plurality similarly to many people in the plural community now.

Pessoa& tell us over and over, I am literally experiencing a multiplicity of souls. Any controversy over this seems to largely exist in the English-speaking world, where the heteronyms are interpreted as masterful satirical characters, without evidence.

Although we’ve had to rely on Google translate for some of our research, Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms seem to be considered a case of dissociative identity disorder in Portugese pop culture, being described as having had Distúrbio de Personalidades Múltiplas or something comparable to it in multiple online Portugese-language encyclopedias and academic papers.

If you’re not sure where to start, I would recommend starting with Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems edited by Richard Zenith and The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa edited by A. Pacheco, two English-language collections. The Book of Disquiet by Bernardo Soares (heteronym) is also very worth reading in its entirety, if you read nothing else.

Content Warning: Because Pessoa & Co. lost an important mentor heteronym (Alberto Caeiro) and wrote substantially about his loss and the grief it caused, major CWs for references to headmate death, dormancy, integration, in-system suicide, and depersonalization/derealization (yes, seriously).

[inchwormcircus]

You mentioned in one of your posts that you're monoconscious. What does it mean?

Kinda lazy explanation but basically we can only speak one at a time

[rustling-wind]

how many nights have i spent scrolling the plurality tag just looking for some resource. i'm not even plural and yet i've been coming to this tag over the past few months, years... it all gets blurry and i'm no expert on this.

i don't really call myself plural but i sure as heck am someone who likes seeing documents of things

[rustling-wind]

Artists whose work I really like:

fourleafisland

Zoe Thorogood

bohemobones

???

[rustling-wind]

Speaking of LCB. My friend was asking me of my opinion on the sinners. I did not expect this game to have TWO plural-coded characters...

[rustling-wind]

Don Quixote / Sancho LCB is the one rare instance of a fictional character simultaneously being my blorbo and crush. for this alone i have been convinced to try out a gacha. i have no idea what is going on

[t4stl3ssh4z3]

[rustling-wind]

though sometimes, i wonder if it's all in vain. maybe they don't care for me or show interest in me the same. can i blame them? we fuck shit up and now's not the right time to mess around. we're busy now, but i keep on.. missing whatever it was that i felt from them. acceptance? safety.

[rustling-wind]

there are a thousand more words and actions that comparably are better than 'i love you', but as time goes on, the simplicity of those words.. sometimes, i miss them.

but i'm also inclined to think that, no matter how they feel about me, whether i'm a comforting presence or someone to avoid; i'll care for them, always, as much as i can still find proof of it, and as much as i'm able to be a stinking presence in their life. i want to make my mark in their life. i can't force someone to accept me, but that doesn't mean i won't try.

[rustling-wind]

Picked up The Girl From The Other Side. I'm hooked. Shiva. Shiva you poor girl. Teacher who are you. Why am I reading so fast. Oh my go

[rustling-wind]

zooby and gangy.. ouhh the abstragedy art.. ouhh gangle's body being entirely ribbons here.. ouhh the art.. $@@#&£_3+-!?!

[alteredpanel]

thank you for being my friend again and again and again and again

[rustling-wind]

I haven't really been unpacking my thoughts... I just feel not. great. like I'm trying to run away from something. I call it 'dissociation' because I don't feel like myself. But like. Mrmm.

[permanenteclipse]

Btw I drew it to immortalize it because it's something I keep thinking about every other month