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There sure have been changes to this blog

First and foremost

This blog belongs to the D.I.D system known as the star system.

Second

Our alters either have or will get their own sideblog. This is so that they each get to shine. Not all alters want a sideblog, and we don't want to force them.

We'll update this post when we've made all the sideblogs

#didosdd #traumagenic did #did blog #did #did community

c1rcus-of-the-stars

🌈🌈🌈NON-INVASIVE SYSTEM ASK GAME YIPPEEEEE 🌈🌈🌈

❤️ - What is your system name? How did you choose it?

🧡 - Do different alters have different favorite games? What would you say is the most popular game among your system?

💛- Pick one (or more) alter(s). If they were a cereal, which one would they be and why?

💚 - Do you associate your system with any colors? Why those colors?

🩵 - What’s one thing your grateful to your system for?

💙 - If you had a million dollars, how would each alter spend it?

💜 - what’s something you thought was normal pre-syscovery that you have since realized does not happen to most people? (Can be as silly or deep as you want)

🩷 - Does your system play any sports? Are any alters better at that sport than others?

🌈 Bonus, non system related: Do you have any pets? What’s their name? Show a picture!!

ohfugecannada

To my uk trans people and allies out there.

dadbot

Just in case

sappire-charizard

I’m actually going to reblog a thing just because this is really important.

As someone who has epilepsy and used to have several grand mal seizures a day, I’d also like to add that “offer help” can range anywhere from keeping the person calm to explaining to them where they are and what they were doing to even just telling them they should sit and rest for a while longer (lack or coordination is common, and it can be hard to walk straight or see clearly).

It’s okay for them to take up to a half hour to fully regain their bearings and sort out what they were doing prior to the seizure. Just answer any questions calmly and be there for support.

If they come around and you start to panic or shake them or ask them what the heck is wrong with them they are going to freak out and panic too.

I cannot stress it enough that this is bad.

If someone has a seizure and they come out of it, please. please stay calm. They are likely disoriented and confused, even if it’s only for a minute or two, and you don’t want them panicking on top of that because they can have another seizure as a result.

felicityredbarrow-blog

IMPORTANT

happylittleblogger

IMPORTANT because last year a kid in my class had a seizure, none of us even knew he was at risk for them either so just cause you don’t think you know anyone doesn’t mean you don’t

stay safe

kyuofcosmic

I have to stress how important it is to time a seizure. If it lasts more than a few minutes, call an ambulance.

DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. I’m dead fucking serious. I had a grand mal in public once and the POLICE were called and imagine coming out of the seizure, feeling like you got smacked in the head with a sack full of bricks, confused, dazed, in desperate need of some sugar to boost low blood pressure and some DIPSHIT has called the police and I was being threatened with being ‘drunk and disorderly’. It took a phone call to my doctors office to get them to back off. The police cannot properly deal with sick people.

Offer help can be:

assuring person where they are/what time it is

getting them something to drink if they can; seizure burns so much energy and does cause a blood pressure drop

getting them safely to transport or a carer

getting them some dignity like a blanket/towel [loosing control of your bladder and bowels is fucking horrifying]

ensuring they have a way to get home. Someone who has just had a seizure should NEVER DRIVE straight after

calling emergency services if you notice any of these symptoms because they may have stroked out.

Why you shouldn’t put anything in someone’s mouth: they will choke. Yes, they may bite their tongue but I can assure you it’s less traumatic than cracking your jaw on someone’s greasy wallet or choking on a spoon.

DO NOT HOLD ANYONE DOWN. Example: someone pinned my right shoulder mid-seizure a few years back and how I have a permanently displaced and clicking shoulder. Let the person flail around, those muscles are out of control and restraining them does cause more damage to the patient and you.

j-stararts

bbyinblu

reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

zemathememequeen

Take me down to transgender city where the tboys venmo the tgirls titty

gaywebcorenostalgia

Homophobia Sucks

germplush

do what u want live ur life

star-system-main

True story. I carried a Blåhaj around in public for 2 and a half hours the day I passed my driving test

#did little #driving with did

lesboymolloy

this is actually so fucking disgusting especially coming from the official ACT account.

For those who don't know there is a new bill that has been proposed in NZ that will have significant negative impact on māori in this country. For more info on the bill and jts potential impacts read .

In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years

This specific post that Seymour made is referencing a conference that was being about this bill where, during her turn to speak, Hana Rawhiti began a haka which was then joined in on by many of the other people in attendance. David Seymour, one of the main proponents of this bill then posted that on his party's official Instagram page trying to paint Hana as an uncivilized thug. This is a common tactic for racists and seeing an acting member of parliament openly say something like this makes me feel genuinely sick to my stomach.

bucketofdeltav

One problem is that as far as my understanding of tikanga Maaori goes (which is not very far, perhaps someone can correct me), starting a haka that your supporters then join in is a completely reasonable and civil response to an existential challenge like this bill.

David's problem is that he's forgotten (or chosen to ignore) that he is in New Zealand. Which is nuts because he can also whakapapa Maaori (his iwi told him to sit down and shut up or stop doing the 'I'm not racist my iwi is such and such' thing, if I'm not misremembering).

Also 'conference', no, this was the first vote in Parliament.

barryogg

Why don't you tell us what the bill is and what specifically they're protesting and how it's impacting them negatively then.

samueldays

They were protesting an equal rights bill, because it would remove their racial privileges.

Apropos of specifics, it bugs me a little that so many of Rawhiti's defenders want to treat the haka as generic Maori-noises with no specific meaning.

But a haka is not some abstract melody or geometric symbol, it has a series of specific words. One can translate those words to English. In the particular context of this woman chanting the haka, it translates as something similar to the Navy Seal Copypasta.

The haka is a boast of combat prowess, calling for rage and blood, threatening death in purple prose. The haka's "I defy the storms of hell! You will be food for dogs! It is death!" has the same vibes as the copypasta's "I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target."

Rawhiti does not have that combat prowess, she's a tiny yapping dog. So yes, theatrics and thuggery, and stolen valor too.

locked-keye

I reiterate: the left has a bad case of Noble Savage™ going on here.

mucking-faori

None of you can speak maori and none of you understand anything about Maori culture. The left does not have "a bad case of noble savage", you have a bad case of racism and cherry picking.

That is not what that version of the haka translates as, which is an amazing mistake to make because it's the most well known haka of all time, and that is the version everyone performs. Almost as if you (or the person you're parroting) went for the most offensive and misleading mistranslation possible. You picked the /full version/ to translate, the one with a preamble te pati Maori DID NOT USE. There is no mention of storms, blood, food for dogs, or killing of other people in the words the Maori party haka. Even if you can't speak maori, you can easily hear them /not saying the preamble/ in the video.

Some people /do/ say "upokokohua" and "Kai a te kuri" /after/ the haka, but those are individuals, and they're saying more or less the only insults or "swears" that exist in maoritanga, and when they're used it's usually not for the literal meaning of those words. It's like how calling someone a fucker isn't literally insulting their sexual proclivities. How do you feel about coalition politicians saying they'd like to blow up the ministry for pacific peoples or calling others "stupid bitch" in parliament? Or can we not take things literally when it's people you like?

This haka is about a man who fled people trying to murder him through the help of his allies and then emerged into the light. The main chorus is "I will not die, I will live!" (Or, literally, "I die! I die! I live! I live!"). Therefore, it is an effective haka both for sports events or political threats, because metaphors exist. If you did this haka in a war you would not be threatening the enemy but asserting your own strength and survival because /that's what the fucking words translate as/.

Also, stolen valor doesn't exist in Māoritanga. Even if it did it would not apply to a haka like this because this haka, as with most haka, is not only for warriors.

As for the bill- it is not an "equal rights" bill. It redefines the treaty so Maori have none of the rights from the treaty /they and the government signed/, and ensures that the government do not have to make any sort of reparations for breaking those. It is not removing "racial privileges" because Maori don't have any. They have things under the treaty they can use to make the government treat them equitably- for example, under the treaty the government shouldn't have been able to force children to only speak English in schools, ban Maori religious practices, or confiscate land Maori were living on only to sell to developers. Maori have not been treated equally for years. This bill tries to pretend they have, and pretend that the things done to them by breaking the treaty have had no consequences despite pakeha doing better than Maori on almost every QOL statistic. So many Maori sources have explained this. But you clearly don't want to fairly listen to anything Maori have to say.

locked-keye

The exact version of the haka being performed is irrelevant. Bringing it into parliament is an act of aggression against Anglo traditions—and if you aren't going to respect our traditions, why should we respect yours?

>Also, stolen valor doesn't exist in Māoritanga

Doing a terrible job of disproving my Noble Savage contention here. The isn't a cultural difference issue here, it's a moral one, and you taking the relativist position is a bad look.

>It redefines the treaty so Maori have none of the rights from the treaty

Yes that's what I said.

>they and the government signed

On the one hand it's bad to break deals, on the other hand a lesser power can't dictate terms to a greater one and that's just how politics works.

>for example, under the treaty the government shouldn't have been able to force children to only speak English in schools, ban Maori religious practices

Well then it was a bad treaty.

Allowing multiple languages in schools objectively impedes students from learning, and all non-Christian religions should be suppressed.

>pakeha

Don't think I don't know this is a slur btw.

>But you clearly don't want to fairly listen to anything Maori have to say.

True, I don't care what the resentful descendants of cannibal savages have to say.

tetohe

Class is in session everybody:

1 selective reading of history

"act of aggression against Anglo traditions" recognises that the institution of Parliament is inherently European, but ignores that it was established over top, through war, of existing governments in this country.

2 setting terms for the argument

"this isn't a cultural difference issue, it's a moral one" no further argument about why their position is morally right. Same language as David "let's just have a debate" Seymour. They're trying to pick their battleground, because they lose when it's about history or facts.

3 lying

"remove their racial privileges" is a lot different to "remove their contractual rights" (words changed to make it clear). If your boss changes your contract without asking you and cut your pay, you'd be pissed. That's one of the things happening here. It's a lie to say it's about "equality" and it's a lie to say they mean the same thing.

4 fascism

"lesser power can't dictate to the stronger one" our whole democratic system is based on putting checks and balances on the strongest power. It's why the opposition exists in parliament. Thinking that this is "just politics" is admitting you'd be fine becoming a dictatorship.

5 "I'm a racist"

Normally, it's a lot less blatant than this, and tries to mask itself with convoluted logic. But this is the point where much of everything else said ceases to matter, because it reveals that they truly believe that racism is the way the world should work. Everything else is just an attempt to lessen how vile their worldview is.

6 snowflake

Funny how quickly revealing oneself to be a racist is followed by being butthurt at getting called names. Almost as if they know name-calling hurts, and the reason they do it to others is to hurt them.

7 pointless arguing

Also normally not said so clearly. Anything said here won't be listed to by them. So none of this is for them, but for anyone else coming past this.

This is what racists sound like. This is amateur work that's easy to see through, but others are a lot better at it. Racists like this want to be the ones to define the status quo, be the ones who sound reasonable and content while everyone else is screaming.

So don't let them set the terms. Name them for what they are. Call racists out so their voice isn't the only one. Help others to see through them. Block them, shun them, don't let racist's horriblness destroy your hope.

plural-culture-is

plural culture is learning to drive and hearing your alters cheer when you make a good turn

star-system-main

REAL

#soooo true #driving with DID

tetohe

Hana-Rawhiti's Haka was entirely appropriate, not only given the situation, but in keeping with the way Māori do things.

In formal situations, such as a pōwhiri (English might be something like a welcoming ceremony?), speakers always end with a haka or a waiata (song). This is exactly what she did. She spoke when it was her turn to speak, then started the Haka. It is also keeping with tradition that others joined in, including those in the public gallery. While it's the speaker's duty to lead the haka, or nominate someone to do it for them, it is then open for anyone else to join in and support it. The haka and the speech are attached, so supporting the haka is also supporting the speech.

Approaching Seymour is a little more unusual, but that's only because most formal situations like this are between peaceful groups. However, it also makes an important point. The speech and haka were not against the space, not against the mana of parliament. It was against Seymour and his supporters. So approaching him makes that clear where it's directed.

Given this, the speaker's response show utter ignorance and contempt for Maori ways. If he had any understanding of how any of this works, he could've simply waited for the Haka to conclude, then called on the next speaker. As the Māori Party were keeping with tradition, they would've had to respect that, and sit. Instead, he closed down parliament and cleared the public out. He made this contentious, and took what is traditional as in insult.

Seymour's response is no better, complaining about wanting a "reasonable debate" instead of a "dance", ignoring that the Māori party has been debating this, along with almost every other institution in the country, since the draft was released. This was the party's final word, their final push back against his racist bill.

This, in a nutshell, is what the government thinks of Māori. Ignorance and contempt. No attempt to blend traditions, or even basic understanding. Just constant demands to conform. It's hidden behind manners, but it's the same civilised vs savages racism that's justified colonialism for centuries.

Hana-Rawhiti acted with amazing poise and mana. Toitū te Tiriti!

smolfrosted

Feels like a

ALL HAIL THE GLOWCLOUD

kinda day

thebadchoicemachine

dxmedstudent

This is how you do a meme. I don’t want to tell anyone my name or my bra size or my date of birth on the internet. Why can’t we make memes using useless and non-personal data points?