A Question

[appadil.livejournal.com]

After seeing lots of reassurance lately on other posts that there's no such thing as a stupid question, I'd like to ask something I've been wondering about for a while.

And yeah, I know that it's addressed in various FAQs, but I have yet to find a definition that I really understood... so I was hoping that maybe someone here could help me find a definition that makes sense to me, so I can stop feeling stupid about it.

What, exactly, is a median, and what is it like to be one?



Thanks in advance to anyone who answers.

Comments

[kiya]

Me, I'm neither singlet nor plural; I'm somewhere in the space of both. I tend to refer to it as "living as a hydra": one creature, a number of heads.

If I were more with it at the moment I'd fish up the writeup I did for astraea a while back, which has me nattering on about what it feels like in here. I am not currently in possession of withitude; maybe later.

[appadil.livejournal.com]

Ah.. I remember that writeup. That was one of the ones that left me confused the first time around, actually.... ^^;;;

Anyway, thank you for reminding me of it. I went back and re-read your essay, and somehow parts of it just sort of 'clicked' with some of what I was reading in this thoroughly awful book I was reading, Penny Dreadful... I think the main character is median. I wouldn't recommend the book or anything, but when I went back and looked at your writing again after reading it, it suddenly made sense. I think I understand better now what you were saying... although I still couldn't articulate it very well if someone else asked me the question I asked above.

Anyway, thank you muchly!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/articles/m_median_kiya0405.html This is Lilairens' article as it now stands.

http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/articles/m_midconthistory_temple0902.html

http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html#median

It doesn't say this in Andy's article (which needs updating), but the Blackbirds were the ones to come up with the word "median".

[effrenata.livejournal.com]

The Vicki(s)' page seems to be down.

The original "midcontinuum" definition was actually quite a bit more flexible than the one in Astraea's glossary, which states that there is only one "main" person in a median system. As I recall, the people on the Vicki(s) pages described a wide variety of different configurations, all involving some form of "shared" or "overlapping" identity.