#astra posts

[discourse-by-candlelight]

Astra: I think one of the things I'm looking forward to discussing most in our upcoming post is going to be the political landscape of the tulpamancy community, because at least in my eyes it has such a wider diversity of political ideas and leanings compared to the plural community. The tulpamancy community has sub groups dedicated to left, right, and center leaning politics and their respective various ideologies. These can be seen between platforms, in the various discord servers, and even just in friend groups made up of tulpamancers and tulpas.

The largest tulpamancy discord currently still active is best described as center-right leaning with some notable left leaning community members. In the past it was very much a farther right leaning discord and back then and now it has ties to tulpamancy's 4chan origins, while other discords which usually lean more to the left have their origins stemming from the r/tulpas subreddit and it's history. It's all so fascinating to me. Despite that however it's basically all unknown information to anyone discussing us and our practice and community on this platform, including faces like Sophie which most associate tulpas with here.

[sunsstorms]

hey I’m procrastinating so find out which gay childhood character you are

[thecandlelightsociety]

Something we find interesting in regards to system dynamics is that we seem to have different pain thresholds and approaches to handling it. This obviously isn't some new experience and we imagine most systems experience it in some form, it just always amazes us when we think on it.

While not the most serious example our most fun way to observe this is hotsauce. Most of us like spicy food to some extent but we have one member, Dawn, who loves spicy food to the extreme. Just about everything she eats is spicy and her threshold for spicy food is atleast 5x most of ours. She'll put scorpion sauce on a sandwich and smile while the rest of us scream and curse about it. It's both slightly annoying and something we love about us.

[discourse-by-candlelight]

Astra: I just saw a blog respond via reblog to a very popular endo syscourser (you'll know the one it isn't hard to find) and tag their response with endos dni. Like bro, buddy, pal, that isn't how this works XD

I'm honestly getting kinda sick of Tumblr dni culture entirely. It's very much a this platform type of behavior that you don't see elsewhere much and feels more and more like just a socially accepted form of echo chamber creation, and one made out of scotch tape and paper at that. If it doesn't actually do its job and barely anyone uses it properly what is even the point in it? This is a genuine question btw I'm fully open to a discussion on the pros and cons.

[discourse-by-candlelight]

Endos are never valid, your bitchass supporting endos is what makes actually people with alters being bullied on shit like r/systemcringe and all of that shit, I hope you fucking delete your account and really reconsider. You failed all of your ancestors who had given up everything for you, just to only see you supporting people who fake mental disorders. You are so repulsive, that when you get into a relationship, that your partner has to break up with you to not deal with your annoying ass. I hope you get off tumblr and this brainrot and consider all of your actions, and not just touch grass but consume some for good measure on your stupid headass. Remember my name because this isn't going to be the last time you see me, consider me your biggest opp to not just you, but all alters.

Astra: Just going to show this to the world and let the people decide whether this is the words of a morally correct individual, who keep in mind is sending this in response to us calling out death threats in the pluralgang tag.

[sunsstorms]

People in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Chile are protesting because they have no food. The government, instead of immediately sending over help, decided to once again repress them with teargas and rubber pellets. If you have been following the Chilean protests since October 2019, you'd know the very same government is directly responsible for the mutilation of over 500 eyes from their own citizens.

This is happening today May 18 2020, I'll keep you posted

[sunsstorms]

47 years ago, Chilean armed forces, with the help and financing of the US, launched a coup that would initiate a 17 year long dictatorship in Chile, known for its forced detentions and subsequent torturing and killings of political detractors (more than 80% younger than 25), of which many remain to be found.

Today, Chileans are still fighting against the repressive system, that still has some vestiges of dictatorship times- the neoliberal system which was implemented by Pinochet during the 80s left us with an incredibly unequal country. Human rights violations are still being committed by the government with more than 20 killed and 2500 injured- 500+ of which received pellets to their eyes during the October protests last year.

It's a day of rememberance and pain for many of us, as we reflect upon the present of our country, the role imperialism had in our affairs and what's to come, I want to leave you with Allende's (first socialist democratically elected president) last words.

[sunsstorms]

My godmother was 11 when the coup happened: she recalls being in school in the centre of Santiago when suddenly she heard the roar of planes and a explosion so big the classroom windows cracked. The teacher looked grim and they were let out shortly after.

When she arrived home, her older brother was frantically going through all their books which had political propaganda in them, burning them as discretely as he could. "He looked like he was on the verge of a colapse, but smiled at me when he got home and asked me kindly to close all the curtains in the house".

She remembers the screams in the middle of the night- a couple of twins who were her neighbours and university students as well as their dad was taken. They never saw them again.

There are a lot of things she hasn't told me but I notice them anyway. She always hated September 19, when the military would stage a giant parade. She would stay home, with just a candle to accompany her, and I would stay at her side because I loved her and I didn't want her to be alone.

In October under the protests, she couldn't sleep- the army was out at all times and helicopters flew so low we were worried it would crash down the house. I stayed with her for a week - I would protest during the day and I'd come home with her looking pale and crying.

September 11 is a day of rememberance and pain. We will not forget what happened and we will fight for those of us who never came back.

Ni perdón ni olvido.