#innerworld shenanigans

[theglassdragoncollective]

Learning that because we have no sense of direction (curtesy of various neurodivergences of the body), our innerworld doesn’t run on the laws of physics.

It’s spooky.

[cambriancrew]

So we've always used Earth years to denote the ages of people in our system. But a lot of the time, that's still really an approximation and I'm not talking about mental age. I mean more like, how do you state the age of someone who spends a good deal of time using portals that take you somewhere and you stay there for however long then you come back through the same portal and return a moment after you left? Or in some cases, before you left?

How do you estimate age when you're talking about a person native to a planet where the years are longer than Earth's? And with time flowing faster on that planet than on Earth, how do you handle it when someone goes back and forth between Earth and that other planet?

Makes me glad our innerworld and the outerworld are more or less connected, timewise. We can stretch it a little - connect with Jas in the innerworld but she's busy so we try again a moment later outerworld time and hours later innerworld time. And sometimes we check in and it's been a few days since we've checked and they're still watching the same movie/doing the same thing they were last time we checked. This goes the other way too - sometimes they'll check in on us and it'll be a bad time and so they check back in a few hours later for us and only a moment later for them. Per tests, the most we can stretch this out in either direction is about a couple Earth months of experienced time, local to the Earth time of the main universe of the paracosm.

And there's one further wrinkle in all of this, relating specifically to portals. When you go through a portal, your body is broken down inside and reformed as you leave based on the pattern of it that exists in the Void. This normally isn't an issue - if you stick to your own universe. Which Jas doesn't, nor does Doc. (Though Doc we don't even try to estimate his age.) When you leave your home universe, a copy of your pattern is placed in the Void of the universe you go to. You use that when you teleport in that universe. But when you come back, you get reformed based on the pattern of you when you left. So if you go and spend months in another universe, as Jas did a lot growing up, you come back into a body that hasn't aged at all. But you still, heart and mind and soul, have the lived experience of being that other age.

Kinda like Narnia - the Pevensies grew up into adults in Narnia before coming back to Earth as children again.

So some of our ages are more just educated guesses than anything else lol.

Kinda makes me glad that at least for me, my inner age is basically just "I feel younger than the body. By how much varies."

[onismsys]

*gets an "i miss you" text*

nyx: *replies "i miss you too" to be kind

angel: killer fanservice!

luciel: sometimes i wonder about our ethics and morals..

[cozy-corner-system]

Me: Geez why is sleeping such a big fronting trigger for some of y'all? I mean, Sebastian, Mary, Lucas, Marcus, KP, and more??

Marianne: Well, you sometimes tend to spiral into immense bouts of anxiety and existential dread when on the cusp of sleep, and so some of us want to help pull you back from that.

Lucas: also you have adhd lmao

Me: .....I mean....yeah

[cozy-corner-system]

This happened like ten minutes ago jerfnjern

[cozy-corner-system]

“Why the FUCK do so many of us have names that start with M!?” “Cuz mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm”

[cozy-corner-system]

“Lucas whenever you do a Picrew you always make your face look like you’re lowkey high” “these memes are called dank for a reason b lmao” - Lucas 2021

[cozy-corner-system]

Every damn time we have cereal for breakfast it always becomes a heated topic in the innerworld on whether we add cereal or milk first and I feel like this will be one of our villain origin stories /kj