The Dragonheart Collective

Heyo!

Been awhile, whoops! Keep being busy or hanging out elsewhere and then just not updating, alas! Gotta be more consistent.

So life updates; we are trying harder to get on our bad sleep. We think its some flavor of sleep apnea, considering the waking up a lot in the night, sometimes out of breath, and the morning sore throat&dry mouth and headache, and the fatigue and the family history of sleep apnea, and our default breathing being really shallow. Doctor wanted to rule out thyroid with a blood test and that was predictably negative so made another appointment about it. Hopefully this time we get a sleep study!

Website updates; New links have been added and two new essays! Was gonna go for three but lost some steam. Someday we will reach the end of our link hoard that we still need to sort and be finally caught up, but today is not that day haha.

Essay 1: The Scent Thing - An essay about how two of us have our nonhuman identities intersect regarding specific behaviors around scent.
Essay 2: A Formal Critique of Consciousness Labels - an essay about 'consciousness labels' in the plural community and why they are not so great as a mandatory framework.


Considering journal updates:
Weve been wanting to be more active on dreamwidth- but our main issue is that by splitting our blog topics between fandom AND personal-plural-nonhuman stuff we have created a space that if we are more active many people will see lots of posts they didnt follow for in one sector or the other and fandom activity may cause people to be rude about the plural&nonhuman thing. So we are considering putting the fandom stuff (that we barely post here anyway) on another account and manage two personal accounts and the plural media review mirror account.
We feel like this change might actually get us to post more than once every 4 months or more lol.

After a solid month of being away (much longer than planned), we are back home and at a real computer.
Was sick with the flu and had to stay put for a bit, which is why it went longer than planned.
Now to get back on the writing horse.

We also ended up discovering a new headmate while stuck recovering, who is a subsystem itself and seems to have stronger memory and communication barriers and seems to be connected to our miscellaneous memory trouble as Kero(the new headmate- short for Keroberos as it is a three headed dog) knows it 'guards' memories without knowing what they are or choosing what is kept from the rest of us.
We intended to wait to go headmate hunting again till a less busy time as we had Suspicions beforehand, but Kero found us first. As there is still the whole memory mystery left(why does Kero keep them when it doesnt choose to do so, isnt out front in any way, and doesnt know what they are and cannot retrieve them, only knowing that it is 'guarding' them), the theory that there is an additional 'layer' of memory fragments or another subsystem working under the surface still holds water, as does one of Kero's subsystem having this knowledge to the exclusion of anyone else. For now we will leave the mystery be unless it smacks us in the face, as our current priority is improving Kero's communication skills and life stuff.


Also a zine we submitted to got published, it can be found free here: https://pyrotalons.itch.io/inky-paws!

Major To-Dos:
- Update website
- Work on this years inky paws zine submission
- Work on the several WIP documents we have going on
- Do some cleaning of the house now that we are back
- Finish SMTV so we can review it

So we have now used Simply Plural solidly for about a year. Every switch logged as precisely as possible, notes logged on fronting, the whole nine yards.
This post is a bit of a review and a bit of a personal feelings thing and a bit of a persuasive thing all at once.
Because, you see, we decided while it can be a very useful tool for many, its not for us and we wanted to go a bit into why.

Essay under the cut;
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Graduated college!
Trying to work on a bunch of stuff right now, will eventually organize and use this space more and have a pinned post, as I like it far better than say, *twitter*. Its just gonna be a bit because busy. Will get around to figuring out how to use the tiered access thing.

Have two bits of writing done and up on the website:
"How Do I Know if I'm Plural?"  <- document intended to help with those questioning plurality, 9 pages
The Plural Sort of Ego Death   <- personal essay by one of us regarding existential musing both a fictotype & a plural sort of essay

Stuff in the drafts: various fanfic, a 'should I tell my parent/teacher/gp/etc about being plural?' document, an incredibly rough draft version of 'otherkin manners', some other essays