& I Contain Multitudes

A tumblr blog for the Forestside System. We're don't engage in syscourse. Host probably won't post much here since she has her own blog. Apart from her, we're all fictives and the occasional OC. Feel free to ask us questions! We're new to the system community, but we love sharing what we know and educating others! Pro-endo, by the way.

[meow-moment]

it fucking sucks that shinigami eyes' moderators started marking people based on petty discourse instead of actually being transphobic but its honestly also kind of funny, in a dramatically ironic way

[meow-moment]

The moderation team whose stated goal is protecting their community from harmful influence began leveraging their power against those who disagree with their personal ideals? If only there was a show out there that could demonstrate to them why abusing power like that is bad

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

breathe. this will pass. breathe. you are okay. breathe.

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

i forget this yik yak from my former college isnt like a viral meme because i say it so fucking much. trying not to shidfart my panta

[fictive-culture]

Not source separating fictive culture is actively trying to be more like your cannon self because it makes you feel more like you

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[keikoyume]

Can we normalize this?

Like please please please??

[psychotic-tbh]

Me irl, but like actually

[plural-culture-is]

plural culture is knowing a language the body doesn't know and getting irritated that you cant understand or speak it when fronting

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[fetty-fazbear]

“Stop thinking of alters as separate people” this and “alters are each there own different entities that shouldn’t be blended” that

How about we let each system decide what feels best to them and stop policing systems that are already dealing with a very complex and varying disorder

[great-and-small]

Really bothers me what the climate crisis is doing to albatross marriage

[great-and-small]

Basically, the “divorce” rate of this albatross species (which typically mate for life) has nearly doubled in recent years and scientists suspect that climate change may play a big role in this phenomenon.

As is almost always the case with climate change, the negative effect is largely multifactorial. In regard to the albatrosses climbing breakup rate it’s theorized in part like this; with warming waters, decreased nutrients in the water column have caused a decline in the fish and squid that albatrosses eat. The more time they spend looking for food delays the albatross breeding window, and results in less success in hatching and raising chicks. Losing a chick is a major cause of breakup for these birds, hence the climbing divorce rate as fewer babies survive to adulthood. Even couples that are able to raise a chick together may still split up, potentially due to the high stress hormones caused by pressure to find food.

The problem isn’t exactly the albatross divorce rate itself, more that this odd little data point could signal the beginning of a collapsing food web for the Black-browed albatross and other species in their ecosystem :(

Source

[bewbin]

kid: hey daddy can you read me a bed time story?

dad picking up "doggy goes to school": how about this one?

kid: sorry cant really read that one yet cause first we need to read "doggy rides a bike" and then "doggy vs cat: last hope"

dad: im sorry i dont think ive heard of that one

kid: yea it was during the dark era of doggy books but since then cat has become more of anti hero and helps doggy sometimes

dad: oh didnt even know that

kid: thats pretty fucking embarrasing father. i recommend you read "Kitty: origins" and "Doggy: year 1" to catch yourself up with the canon and then we can really get started on the bedtime stories tomorrow night

[evilkitten3]

#warrior cats I think

i'm sorry this one needs to be out in the open

[y2kplaysthetics]

Nintendo DS

[lindleland]

i should fuck my ds

[1buk1m1d04]

“We need more weird people” ya’ll can’t handle non truamagenic systems

[king-system]

SYSTEM ASK GAME!! FOR SYSTEMS OF ANY ORIGINS!! SYSMEDS DNI!!

Which headmates are the iconic couple

Which headmates are the unlikely couple

Which headmates were enemies at first and now best friends and/or a couple

Which headmate is the most different from the body?

Which headmates are city folk

Which headmates are country folk

Which headmates have the most unique music taste?

Which headmate has the most specific role?

Are there any headmates from a specific state/country/etc different from the body?

Which headmates are emo/punk/goth etc?

What are some pet peeves headmates have about other headmates?

What headmate was the biggest surpise?

What headmate has a skill that the body doesn't usually, but when they front the body gets it (or almost gets it)?

What headmate makes the most typos?

What headmate has the weirdest (/pos) way of talking/typing?

[theforestsidesystem]

host here, i'm the only one in front but if anyone wants to send this blog any boops, feel free lol

(heck, if you want to boop a specific alter, tell us in inbox, maybe we can get them awake in time to reply for april fool's!)

[theforestsidesystem]

this got us the 100 posts badge LMAO

[theforestsidesystem]

host here, i'm the only one in front but if anyone wants to send this blog any boops, feel free lol

(heck, if you want to boop a specific alter, tell us in inbox, maybe we can get them awake in time to reply for april fool's!)

[important-animal-images]

[caats]

[sadhoc]

with rare disease day coming up, i want to say a little about some of the obstacles that i have faced specifically because of the rareness of my disease. i am the 64th case in recorded medicine of my condition.

i do not feel safe naming my condition publicly due to its rarity. as in, this is my most well-documented disability, meaning that it appears on all my medical paperwork and my disability paperwork. my employers all know about it, and how rare it is. my mom tells everyone who will listen about my condition. i've had to tell pretty much every medical professional i interact with all about it. for that reason, if i were to name it online, anyone who rode in a lyft with my mom, or any pharmacy tech who's ever processed even unrelated meds, or my irl former boss, would immediately know it was me. i don't have any privacy about my condition irl. i'm visibly disabled, and it is very hard for me to avoid the kinds of assumptions that people make about my body.

i have to be an ambassador for my condition to every doctor i meet. they look at my chart, and ask me what that name means. i have to explain what it is, how it works, what the impact is on my life, what causes it, and what the treatments are. this includes with specialists in the organ system it effects, because...

because there are no specialists in my condition! there is a specific research hospital that has treated some patients with my condition, but even the doctors who treated me there were actually specialists in a totally different disease! i was actually nearly turned away from their clinic because my tests were negative for their actual specialty, and my mom and i had to repeatedly explain that no we weren't there for that, we were there for one specific doctor that had done some research ten years ago on a condition that nobody else in the hospital had even heard of before. again, being an ambassador for my condition that i was hospitalized for, on the verge of dying from it

insurance. my condition does not have an insurance code. insurance codes are used to approve treatments for each disease. for example, if you have the code for iron deficiency anemia written in your chart, then you can get approved for iron infusions. but there isn't a code for my condition. so when i became iron deficient due to complications of my condition, they couldn't approve me for infusions until my iron deficiency became severe enough that it could be diagnosed as full blown anemia. they basically had to list one of my complications as its own condition in my chart, because at least that had an insurance code, to get me in to see any doctors at all.

medications. medications in the USA, where i live, are protected by patent and developed to be shared on the free market. that means that if you don't have enough "consumers" for your medication, there's no demand, and therefore no motive to sell it. when a medication was developed for my condition, that improved QOL and helped slow progression, it was never even submitted to the FDA, because there was no demand. this means that not only is this medication not listed as covered by literally any insurance company, but it is not produced commercially. i have to order a thirty day supply from a "compounding pharmacy" where they make the medication custom for each order, and then ship it to me every month. i have to pay out of pocket for it every single month.

being a specimen. frankly this part doesn't bother me, because if i can contribute to research, then hopefully other people won't have to suffer from it like i have, but part of my treatment has always been participation in research. i make living tissue donations, where whenever biopsies are taken to check progression/if my meds are working, i donate extra to be used for research purposes. when i die, i plan to donate my body to the specific research team that wrote the one paper on my condition that exists. but there's not much research on my condition at all. when i met with the research team, they gave me a ton of materials for the more common condition that i do not have. i'm worried that when my current doctors retire or move on, nobody will continue the research, and my condition will remain difficult to treat and mysterious to medicine.

i have a condition that i will never see in a positivity post. i have never met another person with my condition, and i don't ever expect to. there are no support groups for people with my condition, no discord servers, no facebook pages. but i'm not in this alone. there are lots of people who also have "case study level" illnesses (illnesses that aren't common enough to do larger scale research on). and hopefully with healthcare reform and disability activism, we can lift each other up.

other people with rare diseases, i love you!

[sadhoc]

forgot to mention when rare disease day actually is lol it's february 29th (28th in non leap years but 2024 is a leap yeap)