The Olivia Set

A set of people stuck in one body trying to survive. Our carrd. Check our pinned post for more details on this blog specifically.

[livseses]

Our New Blog

So our old blog has been glitching out a lot recently. And now we're finally making a new one (since it's been months with no response from staff).

We are the Olivia Set!

About the Set

We are an adaptive plural system of about 8 members (it depends on how one draws the lines between us, and which of us really count as members). We're autistic, dealing with CPTSD, and none of us are binary.

We are very pro plural and inclusive (to spell it out, that means we are inclusive of all plural system origins). Some of our frontrunners have plurality as a special interest, so expect syscourse here.

Do Not Interact (DNI)

If you would need to violate your own DNI to interact with us. Seriously, don't abuse your DNI to shield yourself and then go out and interact with others that you specifically request to avoid. It a) has a negative impact on the use of a DNI similar to how "triggered" got watered the hell down; and b) it's really unhealthy to go out of your way to interact with those that cause you distress.

We will probably yell at you and block you if you violate your own DNI to talk to us.

Boundaries

In addition to anyone and anything that just happens to be bad for our current mental health, we will block for the following things (also probably chew you out):

Misgendering (mistakes happen we know)

Insulting people's intelligence or general mental capabilities (which is ableist as fuck)

Calling us parts or alters (the term we use is headmates)

Assigning any of us alter roles (our only job is the one we get a paycheck from)

Fakeclaiming

Otherwise, we block on a case by case basis. Seriously it's so easy to hit that block button.

Check our carrd if you want to know our members, what our name means, or some basic ettiquette for us.

[theoliviaset]

We're finally switching blogs since this one has been glitching out for a while (can't reply to posts, can't view our messages, and seems like it's hit or miss if other people can see our notes or asks).

If you find a new follower that looks like us and are worried that our identity has been stolen or something, this is what's up. :)

[livseses]

Our New Blog

So our old blog has been glitching out a lot recently. And now we're finally making a new one (since it's been months with no response from staff).

We are the Olivia Set!

About the Set

We are an adaptive plural system of about 8 members (it depends on how one draws the lines between us, and which of us really count as members). We're autistic, dealing with CPTSD, and none of us are binary.

We are very pro plural and inclusive (to spell it out, that means we are inclusive of all plural system origins). Some of our frontrunners have plurality as a special interest, so expect syscourse here.

Do Not Interact (DNI)

If you would need to violate your own DNI to interact with us. Seriously, don't abuse your DNI to shield yourself and then go out and interact with others that you specifically request to avoid. It a) has a negative impact on the use of a DNI similar to how "triggered" got watered the hell down; and b) it's really unhealthy to go out of your way to interact with those that cause you distress.

We will probably yell at you and block you if you violate your own DNI to talk to us.

Boundaries

In addition to anyone and anything that just happens to be bad for our current mental health, we will block for the following things (also probably chew you out):

Misgendering (mistakes happen we know)

Insulting people's intelligence or general mental capabilities (which is ableist as fuck)

Calling us parts or alters (the term we use is headmates)

Assigning any of us alter roles (our only job is the one we get a paycheck from)

Fakeclaiming

Otherwise, we block on a case by case basis. Seriously it's so easy to hit that block button.

Check our carrd if you want to know our members, what our name means, or some basic ettiquette for us.

[theoliviaset]

We're finally switching blogs since this one has been glitching out for a while (can't reply to posts, can't view our messages, and seems like it's hit or miss if other people can see our notes or asks).

If you find a new follower that looks like us and are worried that our identity has been stolen or something, this is what's up. :)

[livseses]

Our New Blog

So our old blog has been glitching out a lot recently. And now we're finally making a new one (since it's been months with no response from staff).

We are the Olivia Set!

About the Set

We are an adaptive plural system of about 8 members (it depends on how one draws the lines between us, and which of us really count as members). We're autistic, dealing with CPTSD, and none of us are binary.

We are very pro plural and inclusive (to spell it out, that means we are inclusive of all plural system origins). Some of our frontrunners have plurality as a special interest, so expect syscourse here.

Do Not Interact (DNI)

If you would need to violate your own DNI to interact with us. Seriously, don't abuse your DNI to shield yourself and then go out and interact with others that you specifically request to avoid. It a) has a negative impact on the use of a DNI similar to how "triggered" got watered the hell down; and b) it's really unhealthy to go out of your way to interact with those that cause you distress.

We will probably yell at you and block you if you violate your own DNI to talk to us.

Boundaries

In addition to anyone and anything that just happens to be bad for our current mental health, we will block for the following things (also probably chew you out):

Misgendering (mistakes happen we know)

Insulting people's intelligence or general mental capabilities (which is ableist as fuck)

Calling us parts or alters (the term we use is headmates)

Assigning any of us alter roles (our only job is the one we get a paycheck from)

Fakeclaiming

Otherwise, we block on a case by case basis. Seriously it's so easy to hit that block button.

Check our carrd if you want to know our members, what our name means, or some basic ettiquette for us.

[theoliviaset]

We're finally switching blogs since this one has been glitching out for a while (can't reply to posts, can't view our messages, and seems like it's hit or miss if other people can see our notes or asks).

If you find a new follower that looks like us and are worried that our identity has been stolen or something, this is what's up. :)

[theoliviaset]

Reminder that we're over here now in case anyone missed it. :)

[liberalsarecool]

"Freezing a human being to death, then lying about" is exactly what a cop would do.

Firing the correctional officer is exactly how institutional policing protects bad apples.

You can't reform this. #ACAB

[theconcealedweapon]

This is why I don't believe people who say that their family member is a good cop.

Good cops get bullied by other cops. Good cops lose their jobs. If your family member can find out about stories like this and not be constantly worried that they're next, then they're not a good cop.

[pluralpolls]

How many of you are introjects?

We have no introjects

We have one or a few introjects

We're about half introjects

We're mostly introjects

We're almost entirely/are entirely introjects

Voting ended onFeb 16, 2023

[pastel-hazey-dreams]

[fozdoaa]

Everybody talks about cutting ppl off but nobody really talks about the grief that comes with having to stand firm on that decision knowing it’s not what you wanted but what was necessary for your well-being.

[mhaccunoval]

[tweet]

[cleansingreflections-deactivate]

very sad that the website stopped working because of my fuck up, but since the "random number generator" i scripted was actually supposed to be some sort of poem/conversation between you and the generator, i might as well post the entire text here, also cause barely anyone found it

[scaryarcade]

this is a petty semantics issue but. if you call yourself anti endo and then get pissy when people assume you think endos are faking/shouldn't exist thats entirely on you lol? i see a lot of people complaining about this and insisting they're just against misinformation/against the things they dont like about endogenic communities/etc but "anti endo" explicitly implies you are against endogenic systems themselves in some way shape or form

i have problems with and am rightfully wary of traumagenic communities/spaces, but it would be totally unhinged to call myself "anti-traumagenic" unless i considered myself somehow morally opposed to traumagenic systems or did not believe in traumagenic plurality.

"most anti endos don't even care whether other forms of plurality exist/if endos call themselves plural/etc!!" then call yourself something else! good lird!

[nothorses]

tbh I think the most off-the-rails take re: "transandrophobia" discourse is the argument that trans men receive male privilege because we are perceived as men.

like. okay. ignoring the fact that many of us very much are not seen as men, all of us are not seen as men for at least part (if not most) of our lives, and even those of us who are seen as men are only perceived that way until we are outed as trans,

yall realize this argument implies that trans women receive male privilege too, right?

like if the entire premise of your argument is "people perceived as men receive male privilege (and are therefore Not Oppressed)", you are making the same exact argument that TERFs make to justify the exclusion of trans women from women's spaces. you might be focusing on trans men here, sure, but there is nothing whatsoever in your argument to suggest that it doesn't also apply to trans women.

I sometimes see the follow-up that because the goal of all trans men, and ultimate lived reality of all trans men, is to look like and be perceived as men by society at large (a massive fucking assumption, btw). which just implies that either

only the presumed "goal" of your transness Actually Counts, or

if you are ever perceived as a man, you are Not Really Oppressed.

like either you need to fully reject the majority of most trans peope's lives in order to make your argument, or you also imply that trans women are Forever Tainted By Maleness as well.

or y'know, alternatively, we could just accept that most trans people are going to be perceived as men at some point, that many cis women are also perceived as men at some point, and that this extremely conditional and generally unintentional-on-the-part-of-the-system "privilege" is not actually all that relevant in structural analyses of oppression.

[leepacey]

if you tell your kids you love them they WILL use pronouns

[terror-billie]

not to be joyless but I’m honestly reeling from how mask-off this comment is

“if i show my kid unconditional love they might do shit like be trans, better emotionally abuse them instead”

[anarchblr]

good tags only

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Honestly it’s like the parents who don’t vaccinate because they’d rather have a dead kid than one with autism.

[brightlotusmoon]

Came here to say that. I have had people say to my face better their kids be traumatized than autistic or queer.

[zaatanna-moved]

anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

[jackironsides]

Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur

Arthur is a Welsh name. It means ‘bear’. He’s likely derived from a Gaulish bear god

In the form of King Arthur, he is an anti-Saxon mythological WELSH figure, representing the native Brythonic people of Britain against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, dating from the 500s AD

The version appropriated by the English in the 1100s is the shitty boring sanitised version - they did it because they were trying to compete with the romance tradition on the continent at the time but didn’t have anything of their own to romanticise

Merlin is called Myrddin

Percival is Peredur

Kay is Cei, and also was subject to enormous character assassination in the English version - in the Welsh version he’s much closer to Arthur’s right hand man

Guinevere is Gwenhwyfar

There is no Lancelot, no Galahad, no tedious affair story

There is no Camelot. Arthur’s seat was Caerllion - modern Caerleon, putting him into both the region of the Silures (one of the most fearsome and warlike of the British tribes, modern South East Wales) and the old Roman fortress, which would have been an impossibly huge Palace for a warlord at the time.

They all have super powers and get up to wacky hijinks involving hair care, giants, strange giant wildlife, spectral revolving/glass fortresses in the Celtic sea, and a really fucking weird chess match. Also a cloak made out of beards.

What the fuck is the round table

Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.

[may-or-may-not-be-me]

This is so interesting! Does anyone know a good source/reading material where one could get more of the original Welsh versions of the stories?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies is your best bet! It’s got a bunch of big-ass Welsh myths in, but most relevantly it includes Culhwch ac Olwen, which is a full-on Arthurian text (plus a couple of interesting ones).

There’s a whole bunch more that’s survived in fragments, but they’re all in Old Welsh - fully readable if you speak Welsh, but obviously not much use if you don’t (I don’t know if you do or not but from context I’m guessing not lol).

[cythraul]

Trioedd Ynys Prydain (literally “the Triads of the Island of Britain”, though in English they’re usually called “the Welsh Triads”) are a huge collection of lists of three things from Welsh lore, including a lot of Arthurian lore. They’re not stories, but they contain fascinating allusions to stories, to whole strains of the Arthurian tradition, that we may or may not have elsewhere.

Keep reading

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Absolutely fantastic addition, yes, Rachel Bronwich’s Triads are glorious.

[caspercryptid]

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[notquiteaghost]

Why Are So Many Neurotypicals Cisgendered? We investigate a worrying trend in people with neurotypicalism, who often go their whole lives without ever thinking about any aspect of their gender in any meaningful way. Is this another sign people with neurotypicalism aren’t capable of the kinds of analytical thinking we take for granted?

[vitariesocks]

Today the Washington Post tracked down my little brother’s personal cell phone number because my mom is the president of an organization that supports families of transgender kids.

Yesterday (Feb 9 2023) my home state, Missouri, announced a government investigation into organizations providing care and support for transgender kids.

This is after an administrator at Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center came out in a now-viral article about how the Transgender Center was “rushing” trans kids into care and “mutilating” us. She gave away the personal information of many of my trans loved ones who, like me, received care from the center, and she described our bodies as horrifying. Everything she said was a lie.

No goddamn trans person is “rushed” into medical care, especially not trans minors in states controlled by far-right politicians. No one gets medical care for funsies in the only industrialized country without free healthcare.

I received care through this transgender center as a minor and it took over a year and countless doctor’s notes and visits to begin any sort of medical treatment. You can hear this same story from any trans person, especially — AGAIN — minors in Republican-controlled states. I had to see fertility doctors at 16 years old who tried to convince me not to go on T.

My mom, because she’s amazing, joined a support group when I came out. She is now the president. She had to alert the police yesterday after journalists kept coming TO HER HOUSE.

I finally got a call from a Washington Post journalist today to interview me, an actual trans person who received care from the Pediatric Transgender Center. She spoke with me for only 20 minutes and didn’t know the most basic facts about being trans. No doubt my words will be published in a ridiculous thought piece that only adds to the oppression of trans minors.

My medical transition has brought me nothing but joy. I was simply lucky to begin it at 17.

I am so scared. Trans people will be eliminated in the US as this progresses. This is not just a “red state” issue, either. Please extend compassion to your trans siblings and keep up with the trans eliminationist legislation and actions throughout the US.

Transphobes do not touch this post.

[equinoxiansystem]

it's okay if you don't know what type of system you are. it's okay if you don't know if you have roles. it's confusing enough to exist as numerous people living in one body, you can take things slowly and if you never get to figuring that out, oh well... figuring out how to survive as a system is far more important.