One of my favorite things to do as a sub is start the class by mispronouncing everyone's name when taking attendance. Call out the names one by one, but catch them all off guard by saying every name as wrong as possible. Like the famous Key and Peele sketch, but it works for names of every heritage.
Here's a few I did today:
Kierstyn -> Kaiersteen
Lilyana -> Li'l Yana
JayKwon -> Jake Juan
Owen -> Ohven (German pronunciation)
Angelly -> Anhelli (was actually correct and we were both surprised)
It's great because there's always kids whose names are mispronounced by every sub or new teacher and this way they aren't singled out. And the kids love it. Especially when they aren't sure if you're doing it on purpose on first and then start catching on to the joke. Especially especially the really little kids who laugh but also think you just don't know how to read names very good so they volunteer to help you.
Added bonus, they always correct you and you can get the actual pronunciation of their names without bugging them for it.
Megs, OP do ya think Starscream wants to reach out? And that's why he does all this? I mean, he stole a giraffe for Megatron, and wanted to help with the garden, but you told him off. He likes bumblebee, who hangs out with him and plays video games with him, maybe try including him in your guys hobbies when he comes back! Maybe it'll help! Idk tho.
Anyways. I hope you all are doing ok, is Megatron recovering? (Sorry if I'm asking too many questions!)-🦖
I had not thought about that. I suppose the garden should be for everyone...
That's what I said!
Is it? I believe, Prime... ksssschhhh! Kssshoooooooooooschhh! Snf. I believe you said that you needed somewhere to "bounce a ball". That does not sound much like "the garden should be for everyone".
Well... that was what I meant.
Ha! Snf. Anyway, I shall try including Starscream in my hobbies. I have noticed that he enjoys watching television with me... for all his derisive "watch with Megatron" comments. Ksschoooossschhh!
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Today’s prompt: System Communication and Innerworld!
Hope you’re okay with a simpler post today. I’m low on spoons and it’s been a rough one.
Innerworld Shit:
Our innerworld is incredibly complex while being completely straightforward.
It started as a round, grey room with golden circles on the floor. There was a white door that led to Rice, and me and Sierra would just take turns at the “fronting screen.”
Once Sie and Numb formed, the circles got a use. Whoever was in the middle-most circle was fronting. If a switch was incoming, that alter would move up a circle, until they were then in the middle, and the one who had been there moved back.
After some really fucked up shit in high school, the entire system just. Blanked out for awhile until College. We've got next to no memory of the last two years of high school, and the start of college is blurry.
Once we all came back from that big ol' dissociative barrier, the innerworld had expanded a lot. We were still in this huge circular room, but now there were two hallways. Those two hallways somehow connected back to each other, despite the fact that they went off in different directions, but whatever, innerworld physics and all. Down the hallway was the bedrooms (which all looked the exact same), but also a locked white door. That door was mine. It's heavily trauma related, cause I'm a trauma holder, so yeah I'm not going into that shit in a tumblr post lmao. Let's just say I went there when stuff went bad.
As time went on and we got better at talking to each other, our innerworld shifted some. The first big change was the jukebox, and the fact that oh shit there's walls now? Yeah that was a big stunning one, cause the "circular room" was just kind of... nebulous before that. Now there were concrete grey walls.
Once Deb came back from dormancy, a window opened up to the outside, right where she planted her garden. There's a whole city out there, though we don't know how to get to it.
Once LED formed fully, Sie and him got the Pillow Pavillion! It's this little wooden pavillion with pillows all under it. It's super great and cozy and all their toys are there and I stay there a LOT to play innerworld Stardew.
Curtis and Numb got their bedroom together, but it still looks the same as the normal ones. But when me, Deb, and Sierra all hooked up (me with deb and deb with sierra), our bedroom got expanded and changed CONSIDERABLY. Sierra's got her vanity mirror in there (it's fucking ridiculous) and our bed got MUCH bigger. Softer too (fuck you numb)
Once Ve formed, we got a cloud layer above the main room, where she lives, and has a goddamn TV. Wtf.
Now, the most up to date version of our innerworld features: The main room; Rice's room; Numb and Curtis's room; Me, Deb, and Sierra's room; bedrooms enough for like a million more people (plz no); the pillow pavillion; Deb's garden; Ve's cloud layer; Tavi's forest AND his library (WE STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACCESS THE FOREST AND I AM UPSET WITH THIS FACT); Roy's weight room (and apparently, just learned this, he's sharing that with Avery, so that's nice).
Whoo! That's a lot. Onto the next topic.
System Communication
We've always been baller at this. Okay, not FULLY true, but we've always been better than most. We like to refer to our system as "always co-conscious" because. Well, we're always a LITTLE BIT in the headspace at all times. No matter what, I can turn inward and see what everyone else is up to - unless they are VERY PURPOSELY blocking me out, or unless they're Rice.
Back in college, it was a lot harder? We had much higher dissociative barriers then, and we really saw ourselves strongly as multiple different people. Now, we've grown a lot, and our dissociative barriers are a lot further down, meaning we can see each other much better - we're all parts of a whole, and weirdly enough, that's made us so much more individual than we used to be. It's almost like not having as much amnesia between switches means we have more time to figure out who we are. Who knew? Lmao.
It's always been a little funny cause... A lot of the resources I've seen are stuff like "how to communicate with your alters better!!!" And I'm like. "Got that one down, next issue: how do I shut them up?" And uuuuh I usually just get a "that's unhealthy >:" in response. Which is frustrating but valid. But also, I see a lot of resources for systems who get frontstuck a lot, or systems who struggle more with amnesia between switches, rather than just amnesia always. And for us... We've ALWAYS been able to switch more-or-less on command. And that's always been a concern for us, because so few systems we meet are able to do that, and usually they say they can only do that with a lot of therapy.
For us, we talk to each other, and we figure out who's best to switch in. This happens about 85% of the time - the other times being triggers and such. Back when college started, that percentage was MUCH lower, but we were also super stubborn about "getting our time to exist" back then. Nowadays, we just... exist in the innerworld when not fronting, so it's fine.
IDK where I'm going with this - but it's technically Day 4 already, and I"m tired, and this has gone on for awhile. Just some thoughts for today's prompt!
So, I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I wanted to share because I believe it might help someone like it has helped me listening to other people’s experiences. I’ve been dealing with thanatophobia since a very young age and honestly it has been a very difficult journey. For people who don’t know this, thanatophobia is much more complex than just “fear of death”. I’ve always been afraid of losing loved ones and having to deal with that loss (something that scares me more than my own death). Losing people and regretting all those times that I wasn’t good enough to them or gave them all the love they deserved. Afraid of dying and having not lived enough. It took me a LOT of time to learn to cope with those fears. So, here’s my advice or what helped me:
Learning to appreciate life more. And no I don’t mean that “live your life to the fullest” shit because we all know that that can induce even more anxiety. Instead, try to appreciate the small things. Admiring that butterfly with the colourful wings. Talking about that good movie that you love so much with someone. A small doodle that you made.That comfortable silence with your favourite person. The kind cashier at the supermarket that always gifts you a smile. And so so many other things. Feel free to add more <3
