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cosmic_cervid) wrote2025-02-20 12:47 pm
cosmic_cervid) wrote2025-02-20 12:47 pm
Changes
We've been considering a few changes recently, one of which is changing our system name. We changed it a while back to our current name, The Atlas System, but we just haven't been vibing with it as much as we thought we would. One struggle with having minimal internal communication is that when one of us suggests a new name, it's hard to get others' opinion without waiting for them to front at some point. We've been using "Cosmic Cervid" as a username for a while, which works well because it combines our two collective 'types (our collective space kintype and collective deer hearttype). As such, we're thinking of changing our system name to the "Cosmic Cervid System", which will hopefully remain a permanent name (though if there's anything we know about our system, it's that we can't agree on anything LOL).
Another change we've been considering is returning to Tumblr under a new account. Although we've noticed some benefits from being off most social media, we do miss the Tumblr community and especially the alterhuman and fandom communities on there. One of our main issues with social media has been being inundated with things like politics and discourse, but I think if we're even more strict with our tag blocking and who we follow, we might be able to mitigate most of those issues. Dreamwidth does seem like a lovely little space though, so we're going to keep posting here regardless.
The last change is about how we describe and organize our system, for lack of a better word. In our last post on being mixedflux we talked about how confusing it can be to have members constantly fuse/blur and un-fuse/un-blur, and that identity confusion is probably one of the most significant negative aspects of systemhood for us. We want to explore ways of reducing that confusion, possibly by "forcing" ourselves to differentiate our members. None of us enjoy being blurry, so we expect that being able to increase that differentiation would help up reduce dissociation and work towards our goal of functional multiplicity.
There have also been a lot of changes in our personal life recently (mostly positive, fortunately), so I guess right now is just a period of change for us. Being autistic, we are NOT a fan of change, but we're working through it!
Another change we've been considering is returning to Tumblr under a new account. Although we've noticed some benefits from being off most social media, we do miss the Tumblr community and especially the alterhuman and fandom communities on there. One of our main issues with social media has been being inundated with things like politics and discourse, but I think if we're even more strict with our tag blocking and who we follow, we might be able to mitigate most of those issues. Dreamwidth does seem like a lovely little space though, so we're going to keep posting here regardless.
The last change is about how we describe and organize our system, for lack of a better word. In our last post on being mixedflux we talked about how confusing it can be to have members constantly fuse/blur and un-fuse/un-blur, and that identity confusion is probably one of the most significant negative aspects of systemhood for us. We want to explore ways of reducing that confusion, possibly by "forcing" ourselves to differentiate our members. None of us enjoy being blurry, so we expect that being able to increase that differentiation would help up reduce dissociation and work towards our goal of functional multiplicity.
There have also been a lot of changes in our personal life recently (mostly positive, fortunately), so I guess right now is just a period of change for us. Being autistic, we are NOT a fan of change, but we're working through it!