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Old multi stuff from 1997ish
Nov. 4th, 2018 07:45 pmWent with my friend Anna to the local grand re-opening of the zine library! We used to volunteer there years back.
Going through the stacks (alas, no checking-out allowed), I was delighted to find a very early comic of Jess Fink's, plus a couple early issues of Kinships, an otherkin magazine that ran from 1999-2007. I was surprised to recognize a couple of the names, and since there's a fair amount of overlap between the otherkin and plural communities, that sent me on a huge records trawl, searching for other older plural resources. Here's some of the stuff I found:
Tips for Managing Triggers, by karra/Caryn Stardancer, from 1996. Kinda simple, but I do appreciate it exists!
The Magic, by Pam In SC, from 1996. An interesting small thing discussing the concept of... I think it's the healing power of headspace, using their own terminology of The Magic, "a world in the unconscious (but extending well beyond the individual unconscious) where my soul survived during the abuse." Considering the work we've been doing recently, relevant! It's hard to find stuff discussing headspace other than in terms of, "this is a thing I need to ignore, it is Bad" and "this is my perfect utopia that I want to live in and never leave." Still really abbreviated; I wish there were more!
Coping with Overwhelm, by Vickis, from 1997. It's exactly what it sounds like. Good to know I reinvented the wheel doing the exact same thing. (And this is also why I'm piling up all these old resources; why should we reinvent the wheel over and over when other folks had it sorted twenty years prior?)
A Tip to Defer Body Memories, by Vickis, from 1998. Ooh, this is a new one on me! I might try it, since the biggest impairment I have in my daily life right now is getting surprise-sandbagged by memories and having no way to defer them. Worth a shot!
How The In Crowd Came Into Being, by Amber, from 1998. Interesting take where headmates are described as generated originally as "characters" via creativity, which is highly relatable for us and doesn't seem uncommon, but also doesn't seem to be discussed much, except maybe in some old soulbonding circles.
Basically, the whole domain of asarian.org was apparently originally made to be a multi-friendly domain run by a multiple, so a bunch of multiples used it for a time. (Indeed, the domain "asarian" looks to be a reference to the Usenet group alt.support.abuse.recovery, one of the old Usenet groups that had a bunch of plurals on it at the time.)
I admit, I'm kinda liking the old mid-'90s habit of calling multiples "households" instead of "systems."
Going through the stacks (alas, no checking-out allowed), I was delighted to find a very early comic of Jess Fink's, plus a couple early issues of Kinships, an otherkin magazine that ran from 1999-2007. I was surprised to recognize a couple of the names, and since there's a fair amount of overlap between the otherkin and plural communities, that sent me on a huge records trawl, searching for other older plural resources. Here's some of the stuff I found:
Tips for Managing Triggers, by karra/Caryn Stardancer, from 1996. Kinda simple, but I do appreciate it exists!
The Magic, by Pam In SC, from 1996. An interesting small thing discussing the concept of... I think it's the healing power of headspace, using their own terminology of The Magic, "a world in the unconscious (but extending well beyond the individual unconscious) where my soul survived during the abuse." Considering the work we've been doing recently, relevant! It's hard to find stuff discussing headspace other than in terms of, "this is a thing I need to ignore, it is Bad" and "this is my perfect utopia that I want to live in and never leave." Still really abbreviated; I wish there were more!
Coping with Overwhelm, by Vickis, from 1997. It's exactly what it sounds like. Good to know I reinvented the wheel doing the exact same thing. (And this is also why I'm piling up all these old resources; why should we reinvent the wheel over and over when other folks had it sorted twenty years prior?)
A Tip to Defer Body Memories, by Vickis, from 1998. Ooh, this is a new one on me! I might try it, since the biggest impairment I have in my daily life right now is getting surprise-sandbagged by memories and having no way to defer them. Worth a shot!
How The In Crowd Came Into Being, by Amber, from 1998. Interesting take where headmates are described as generated originally as "characters" via creativity, which is highly relatable for us and doesn't seem uncommon, but also doesn't seem to be discussed much, except maybe in some old soulbonding circles.
Basically, the whole domain of asarian.org was apparently originally made to be a multi-friendly domain run by a multiple, so a bunch of multiples used it for a time. (Indeed, the domain "asarian" looks to be a reference to the Usenet group alt.support.abuse.recovery, one of the old Usenet groups that had a bunch of plurals on it at the time.)
I admit, I'm kinda liking the old mid-'90s habit of calling multiples "households" instead of "systems."
