and miles to go before i sleep

idk why so many people treat plurality like a curse?? now that we realize we're plural we're like 10x more stable than before because we can calm each other down when we need it

n i mean it's a brain coping strategy that exists for a reason. we're working together

also this has just made me even more strongly pro endo. like nah you're all just uniquely weird im staying on this side still lol

Its probably because to us singlets, we are deeply engrossed in the mentality that our body is ours and nobody elses.

The idea of sharing one body is a completely foreign and often frightening idea. Combine that with common stereotypes (evil alter egos in particular). And people end up getting the wrong idea about it.

Yeah I'd like my body to myself, sharing it sounds exhausting and tiring and also like torture

Shout out to all the systems for managing this, I could never

mm dont really love how you're phrasing that. it's not torture it's just how we are

idk why so many people treat plurality like a curse?? now that we realize we're plural we're like 10x more stable than before because we can calm each other down when we need it

n i mean it's a brain coping strategy that exists for a reason. we're working together

also this has just made me even more strongly pro endo. like nah you're all just uniquely weird im staying on this side still lol

Its probably because to us singlets, we are deeply engrossed in the mentality that our body is ours and nobody elses.

The idea of sharing one body is a completely foreign and often frightening idea. Combine that with common stereotypes (evil alter egos in particular). And people end up getting the wrong idea about it.

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Big moon what killed me, but don't worry bc it also killed Burnet uvu

The whole setup for this scene I went back and forward on like 87000 times, so I hope it's kinda clear what's happening (even if why might not be obvious yet). Next update is half-comic/written again, but this part of the scene in particular works better visual imo!

The bear is watching the last panels while eating the salmon like popcorn btw uvu

Kindred of the Mammoth is on Comicfury as well!

"Gold Flowers"

Finally, time to talk about Daffodilcloud! I love this girlie real badly, and I was looking forward to writing about her future. In it, I wanted to re-examine some of the insecurities she'd shown early on in the story, and show both how they still existed but also how she's grown outside of them. She's a lot more comfortable in her own skin now, and is finding better ways to cope with disappointment and grief.

I also wanted to focus on how she's been figuring out what she wants from other people, too, and teasing it out of those expectations she drilled into her head to 'have kittens'. Really she wants gentle affection and a guarantee of safety, of somebody who is able to give her as much or more love than she gives away.

I hope you all like Duncan, I think he's a sweetheart. He's named after a cat I had when I was a little kid.

The title for this epilogue is taken from Theodore Sturgeon's story "Baby Is Three": “She made me go ahead of her into a room as big as our swimming hole. It had books all over and leather on top of the tables, with gold flowers drawn into the corners.”

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oh this art teacher hatttesss me lol. okay well im not complying anymore

"you really need to follow directions" you say the directions once verbally and throw a fit when i dont memorize it immediately. eat shit i dont care what you want from me anymore

Okay but burn was only a real threat to our protags, she'd probably be a damn good queen. She understood a lot of things about responsibilities and she's not stupid.

Blister wouldn't be good for the continents and Blaze wouldn't be good for the sandwings. Burn isn't good for five dragonets and the occasional hatchling who looked weird.

...didnt she literally kill whoever she wanted and put their heads on pikes

Semantics

...but yes I did forget that part

i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me