You know, the thing! The thingy thing!!!

Hi, we're the Ant System! We post about a variety of stuff, including chronic illness, LGBTQIA+ stuff, science, memes, and fandom stuff.

[thethingything]

Intro Post

hi, we're the Ant System/Rose System!

this is our main blog where we post about a bunch of our interests and sometimes whatever's going on in our life. original posts are usually tagged with whichever alter made them.

we also have a bunch of sideblogs (a lot of these are run by the system as a whole or by specific groups of alters):

@lemonadeandstims - we used to post kind of stimmy gifs and videos on here but it's not really active anymore

@stumblingthroughlanguages - our langblr

@recovery-academia - various aesthetic stuff. mostly nature, sometimes studyspo, etc

@glitchingandglowing - glitchcore, glowcore, and related aesthetics

@lifeonstarlight - video game sideblog. it's mostly screenshots from games we've played

@beachesandcandyfloss - lots of ocean, beach, and summer themed stuff

@antsgrowingplants - our plantblr

@affirmationsfromants - weird affirmations blog. contains a lot of unreality

@labsafetyviolations - mad science blog. also contains a lot of unreality

@justabunchofants - we just reblog stuff to this one that reminds us of specific alters. nothing on here is tagged as anything other than that so be warned that there might be untagged triggers

@extremelyethicalspells - 🍬's wizardblr. this one also contains a lot of unreality

some of us also have individual sideblogs:

@melliferous-coffins - 🍬's sideblog. it's mostly recipes, candy, slime gifs, and honey. be warned that there's a lot of honeycomb on there so it might not be great if you have trypophobia

@ranunculusandsunbeams - Sylvain's sideblog. mostly self care reminders, wholesome positivity stuff, and photos of flowers and fruit

@inthesupersargassosea - 🦋's sideblog. mostly stuff to do with space, aliens, UFOs, cryptids, etc.

and here are our Pronouns Pages:

collective pronouns: https://en.pronouns.page/@TheThingyThing

🍬: https://en.pronouns.page/@SlyB

🦋: https://en.pronouns.page/@SpookySargasso

and some other social media sites in case you want to find us elsewhere:

🍬's SpaceHey: https://spacehey.com/melliferouscoffins

🦋's SpaceHey: https://spacehey.com/inthesupersargassosea

[ghost-in-the-library]

rest in peace forum thread deleted before its time

[kaijuerotica]

im sensing that someone in seattle drove on the light rail tracks yesterday

[unconfirmed-cephalopod]

i love this photo on multiple levels

[fruitorchardsystem]

ALSO happy pride month to systems with alters that have different orientations from one another I love you all

[cathartidae]

i just want to swim my way home to you // 2026, mixed media collage

[bannertanks]

[trilobutch]

happy birthday to this beetle :)

[starrynet]

that’s his little guy!!

[agentlove]

one of my absolute favorite phenomena in tumblr/twitter/ao3 creative circles with characters that are even slightly nonhuman is the way they'll get ascribed random-ass animal traits even if they make no sense - see every sort of vaguely-eldritch character that gets given pointy ears and hooves and a tail and surprise, they also purr! - and this obviously extends to things people find hot to the point where it goes beyond a trait of xyz animal and just becomes a part of the Nebulous Concept Of A Nonhuman Character so you get shit like this

[freshtokill]

[carefully-packaged-rage]

getting all my sports news from posts on here my moots make means that what I know about the hockey thing (cup???) is

a) its hockey

b) theres lesbians

c) theyre all married

d) theres a tiger involved??? somehow?? a power (??) tiger???

e) the refs suck

[sheepshot]

[seacryptids]

Are we considering the tree octopuses for the coaching job? They're best at playing goalie, but some goalies have gone on to coach

[fial-inka]

the signal catcher 📡

[alliezweihander]

"if you forgot then it obviously wasn't important to you" is an ableist thing to say and i'm tired of pretending it's not

[alliezweihander]

I've forgotten *my own birthday* before. There are several years of my life just straight up missing. In the past I've forgotten silly little frivolous things like NAMES OF LOVED ONES or WHERE MY HOUSE IS. But obviously none of that was important. Fucking awful, ableist thing to say.

[cauldronoflove]

abby roque and cath dubois backwards championship caps chugging beer out of the walter cup. post

[frenemieswithmydoubt]

no one can say that the Mets aren’t funny as fuck

[parabolabear]

"If you can't handle me at my 12 game losing streak, you don't deserve me at my 10-run 12th inning comeback." - Mrs. Met on her finsta probably

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

oh thank god everyone heard that iconic LFG scream I thought I was just really high