#collectivity

[soulsartuniverse]

Collectivity

Tumblr decided not to let me do alt text halfway, so I hope stuff is readable. Basically everything I wanted to express is in the "comic" but this is just me talking about my experience with, uh, internal dialogue? Myself? Being weird? But yeah, this is me and these are all different parts of me but also not completely but also not a different thing from me.

Regardless, you have Hope to thank for all the art I make, it wouldnt be here without her encouragement. And she deeply thanks all of you who have encouraged us and supported our art, it means everything (especially because some parts of me are very adamant in their negative beliefs over our art, and positive comments really help) <3

A little extra information

Soul - ey/she/he

Hope - she/her

Angel - he/him

Jási - it/its

Willow - none (just use name)

Dottie - it/they

Cynere - hy/hymn

Ferret - it/its

Baby - li/lil

B. (Stands for Brain, Blue, but also Bitch bc our brain can be very much a hassle, less of a specific voice and more of a collection of automatic thoughts) - it/its

Designs are more a way of representing them that fits/feels right/works than literal.

Lastly, to everyone of my mutuals and friends who are systems, I hope this doesnt come off as insensitive towards you, I mean none of that. Im just me and I wanted to talk openly about it.

[philosophybits]

Relations between the collectivity and the person should be arranged with the sole purpose of removing whatever is detrimental to the growth and mysterious germination of the impersonal element in the soul. This means, on the one hand, that for every person there should be enough room, enough freedom to plan the use of one's time, the opportunity to reach ever higher levels of attention, some solitude, some silence. At the same time the person needs warmth, lest it be driven by distress to submerge itself in the collective.

Simone Weil, "Human Personality"

[gezesnailbell]

Plushygenic Flags

Made 3 plushygenic flags, term not coined by me, but I made these flags. Plushygenic refers to an alter that is based off of a stuffed animal, usually one that they own and are comforting to them. Different flags do not mean different things, it's just dependent on your alter's aesthetic

!!!Syscourse will be deleted!!!

[jungquote]

"Collectivity is practically always shadowy, always inferior, because the more people there are together, the more they become inferior."

— C.G. Jung, 18 January 1939

[tamarindfever]

He always told me, “You have a responsibility to live in this world. Your responsibility is not just to yourself. You are connected to everyone.” He drilled this into us, to my siblings, “You have each other only. So, if you don’t get along, you fucking work that shit out because we’re not going to be here all the time, and we’re not going to be here forever. You have each other.” So we are close, close, close my siblings.

But then the second thing he said was, “You are interconnected to everyone, because the world doesn’t work without everyone.” You may think that you’re alone, but you’re never actually alone. This was really important because at a very young age that made me understand the importance of collectivity, and that we can’t do anything alone that’s worth it. Everything worthwhile is done with other people. So that became the soundtrack in my head.

- Mariam Kaba, in this interview.

[feydravthaa]

The deeper layers of the psyche lose their individual uniqueness as they retreat farther and farther into darkness. 'Lower down,' that is to say, as they approach the autonomous functional systems, they become increasingly collective until they are universalised and extinguished in the body's materiality, i.e. in chemical substances. The body's carbon is simply carbon. Hence 'at bottom' the psyche is simply 'world.'

Carl G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[eelhound]

"The title of Berardi's book, And, is meant to address a conjunction between connectivity and collectivity. Connectivity does not necessitate collectivity. This is one of the reasons why our little precarious communes may not deepen connections to others outside or to a greater collective sensibility. Connectivity has to do with a sensible relationality, whereas collectivity only develops 'when conscious and sensitive organisms enter into a reciprocal relation of mutual transformation, and continuous questioning and ambiguity.' So while connectivity may be a prerequisite for collectivity, the former does not guarantee the latter. With technology, it is easier to achieve constant connectivity without creating any enduring collectivity. Technology may be the best place to see that connectivity is not collectivity. Therefore, being connected ensures nothing in terms of love, political action, social movement, or insurrection."

- Richard Gilman-Opalsky, from The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value, 2020.