More art, and random questions

[crystalseraph.livejournal.com]

Here are the main members of my group :3





Rough picture of Shad/Dante. The expression is spot on.




Best pic of Sage I have.




Tybface XD. Same pic as an icon. He is rather awesome.

Tyb chose his truename :DDD I was very happy.

Btw, is is normal for there to be quiet days, where you are less in touch with theothers? Also, how do female-bodied systems find their guys cope with period time? XD

Comments

[our-menagerie.livejournal.com]

Also, how do female-bodied systems find their guys cope with period time?

I have learned to deal with it over the years if I absolutely have to but for the most part the guys here, myself included, prefer to stay as far away from the outside as possible during that time. There are so many more girls here than guys so there is really no reason we have to even think about it unless we just happen to front.
~Fish


There are days where it seems quieter inside when i am out here but im not sure if its because im just not hearing them. We are so co-conscious and usually have 2 to 4 people co-fronting at any given time that it never seems completely quiet to me.
~sj

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

yeah.. very normal for there to be quiet days.. specially whe external stuff takes a lot of attention.. least for us

As for dealing with the body's cycle. we've sorta had to get used to it... it's cycle almost never ends.so it was either get used to it.. and eal with certain.. discomforts .. or never be out.. and that wasn't an option.. since we're the majority of the people that front here..

sorry.. probably TMI.
-Darius

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

Everybody has quiet time, it's gonna happen that people in your head have them too.

(I, uh. I don't really bother with things when they're having problems)

[nat-leia.livejournal.com]

Kinder for me and Boys: We do cope quite well, just prefering to not front during that time. If we pop out front, we take care of the body mess to not be messy, yet avoiding it otherwise.

It is natural, just not too funny to have around, we prefer some other things.

Speaking for fronts, one is so otherwordly in thinking he does not even note until being reminded, other is finding it just fine and the third sort of does "squee so I am a girl a little" sort of thing sometimes.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Ha. My males usually cope with period time by spending it trying to talk me into having a sex change. And I must admit they have some good leverage for the arguments right then. Yuck.

[teh-kerry.livejournal.com]

We make all the guys come out around the body's period just to spite them... we're a very feminist system (most of us are female and we have an ex-suffragette, Christine) so it seems fair. We try and share the cramps out evenly, so no-one ends up getting too mistreated.

[shadowmoth.livejournal.com]

one of my boys tends to end up fronting the most during that time of the month because he has the highest pain tolerance and we have very rough periods. He does his best to ignore it or just pretends its a stab wound or something to keep from getting too grossed out.

btw I love getting to see artwork of peoples' others. I hope you keep posting more. I really like that pic of Tyb.
I might post some drawings of everybody in our system sometime soon, too.

[crystalseraph.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D

You're the first one to have mentioned the art XD

[shadowmoth.livejournal.com]

lol I'm just good like that.
and I forgot to mention that I looooooove your icon. I wish we had a cool symbol like that.

[foreverwish.livejournal.com]

I love those pictures!

Oh, and the boys say they just ignore it and just gripe about it. Girls tend not to front much here. We are transgender anyway and plan to put that to a stop.

Darwin

[athousandmoons.livejournal.com]

Those are wonderful pictures. I enjoyed looking at them. :)

We do have quiet days, although I'm not sure if we're less in touch, or if we just aren't talking. It could be either. It seems normal, from what we've seen other persons say.

As for that, I can tolerate it enough to co-run, but I'd never want to be responsible for the body alone. Two of ours hate it, while the rest don't mind so much, and can deal with it quite well.

--Andrew

[20splinters.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Those are great pictures! I especially love Tyb's - he's got that sexy tough guy thing going. Did you draw those yourself? I also liked your new system pic. It reminds me of the cherubim description in one of Madeline L'Engle's books. (I think it was A Wind in the Door, but I don't remember for sure.)

As for quiet days, I've gone months without hearing a peep out of anyone else, to the point of wondering if they've all disappeared, and then there's also times where I can feel them there, but they just don't have anything to say about things or any desire to interact.

Monthlies: One cycle was very funny, back before Anakin fractured out into 4 other boys and a very disturbed female. At that time, we were all very nervous about Malice being out and Anakin seemed to be best at keeping her in check. Then, BLAMMO! Cycle hits, Anakin gets weird about visiting the bathroom, Malice to take care of that stuff in exchange for getting to front for "a few minutes".... Some hours later Anakin comes to again just in time for another trip to the bathroom, with no idea what kind of mayhem might be in progress! As for the other boys, Gage and Mickey don't tend to front very often, Molokai has enough undesirable traits that we keep him suppressed whenever possible, and that leaves us with Wish. Wish has always maintained that he belong in this world, and he's in general kind of blissfully unaware of it even when he's forward. He doesn't consider the physical body to be his body, though he does know that there is a female body (he calls it "the Venus") that he has to take care of. And as far as that goes, he changes tampons and managed to keep us completely clean even when the power (and therefore hot water for showers) was out for 3 days, without ever identifying that body as being something he was connected to! Not only that, but with his dissociation from the physical world, we don't even feel cramps when he's up!

On that note, I am definitely using the picture I've been contemplating using for Wish. It does very strongly resemble him, but the "come hither" expression that makes all us girls drool would never EVER be directed at a female, and maybe only for a brief second at a guy before he blushed and tried to hide and deny it! (Yeah, Wish is 300% gay and incredibly shy about feeling attracted to someone that way.) We've been experiencing a lot of migraines lately, he can not just dull them temporarily, but completely fix them in under 30 min, and sticking that picture up will definitely get his attention and hopefully coax him into fronting, if only to take it down!

Sorry, rambling there. There's been a lot of head noise and internal development lately, so I've sort of been on a mission to get those I don't know very well feeling amicable, and encouraging those I do know to be positive influences to come at least near the surface.

~Shel

[20splinters.livejournal.com]

Hmm, weird. I was thinking about Janna, but I know I selected my icon. Theory confirmed. She has been slipping out without my knowledge. (She's one of those I don't know very well, but there's all sorts of info on that scattered all over my recent entries!) Hehe.

~Shel

[crystalseraph.livejournal.com]

All my pictures are drawn by me, generally with only minimal reference. The cherubim description is pretty accurate: its a Seraph wheel, the 6-winged angels that watch over the other choirs of angels :3

Tyb is tough. He's a pretty big guy XD. The scar is not there, actually: this picture was drawn while he was still superimposing the image of my character over his own (very similar) appearance, so he has some traits of my dnd character there.

[20splinters.livejournal.com]

You are a very talented artist! Lynne's good, but she only does detail and realistic shading in pencil, greyscale. We used to have her drawing of Rhiannon up as icon, with a purple tint by computer, but I don't have that pic on this comp, so had to find something suitable online. Unfortunately, the extent of my computer art skills is confined to cropping, resizing, modifying color, and adding text, with the occasional slight reshaping of a feature.

I understand the superimposing of features. We used to think that Joey had a facial cut or tattoo, but it turned out we were just getting flashes of her in boot camp, when she always added a reddish-brown streak along her left cheekbone with her camoflauge make up. Not sure if I'm dealing with some of that with Gabby. She ran a shape-shifting role-playing character once with her name, and it reptilian form, it had yellow-orange eyes. Her image is coming up with amber eyes (a lot like Tyb's actually), which sounds suspiciously close, but nobody can remember what color her eyes were if not amber. (The icon is nowhere near perfect. I get her eyes all perfectly amber, or even yellow-orange to overcompensate, in the bitmap, but when I convert it to jpeg, it disapates out into sickly yellow. Similar problem with the text on Rhiannon's, but I think she kind of likes the fact that the lettering is kind of inconspicuous.

[linacrow.livejournal.com]

Well, when our male walk-in is out he doesn't have any mood changes and we take medicine so cramping isnt an issue.=P
-Lora

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Like the art.

Periods don't bother me any more. Not sue they ever did, actually. Tehe pain isn't fun, but we're used to that now, and I've never thought of myself as being physically male so that isn't a problem.
We tend to let Durza deal with it now. There isn't much choice there, really; blood brings him to the front.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that should have read "Not sure..." and "The pain..."
There seem to be a lot of pedants around here at present. It's swiftly going to annoy those who are not.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Quiet days: Yes, we have them. I've come to think that the only thing you can really predict in this system is that *nothing* is predictable. You just kind of have to sit down and focus on the moment at hand.

Periods: I don't really find it gross. Granted, we don't do very well at switching on demand, so sometimes people have to stay out anyway when the body is experiencing that or other things that most of us (of any gender) would rather not deal with. However, having a sister close to my age, I did know about it beforehand, and I don't mind blood at all. I always try to keep clean anyway, so it's not as though having to wash is a big difference from my daily routine. (Although I gather that personal hygeine in this culture isn't supposed to be a "guy thing," which I just find utterly stupid.)

-Misu

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Nice art.
Quiet time? Altogether too much of it.
Period time? It's not traumatic or anything -- after all this is not our body. It is a nuisance, however, but it's that to whoever deals with it, Iris or whoever.

You might check the health (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=multiplicity&keyword=health&filter=all) and gender/sexuality (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=multiplicity&keyword=gender+/+sexuality&filter=all) categories in the memories section...

[liliana-warsaw.livejournal.com]

Btw, is is normal for there to be quiet days, where you are less in touch with theothers?

It happens to us. Particularly with the non-fronters.

Also, how do female-bodied systems find their guys cope with period time? XD

Ha ha. Two out of three men in here don't usually front and so just ignore it and aren't affected by it. My other fronter here is male, though, and he's absolutely horrified by the fact that he's now affected by PMS and doesn't think that any male should ever have to go through it. Heh heh. As for dealing with it when it comes... he pretty much just lets me handle that. It's kind of a, "You deal with it because you know what you're doing and I don't want to know." kind of thing. XD