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Cripping Interior Design

Mori: you know how some people got really into sourdough or birding because of COVID? Well, Biff got really into interior design.

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https://www.newwhirlingschool.com/index.php
I'm not a big Elderscrolls fan, but I stumbled across this site that was made solely to house The 36 Lessons of Vivec. And not only to display them, but also to provide annotations both with lore-dependent context as well as the presenter's insight. Cool for those that are into the series, but for me personally, I'm linking it because I think his site is well-constructed and has nice features for annotation, something I'd want to study for its codding.

https://fontsinuse.com/
A fun website archive that shows spreads and other things of specific fonts in use in the wild.

https://www.tumblr.com/fontseeker
Similarly, tumblr blog, font seeker, has a little hobby of identifying fonts in adverts.

https://christmas.musetechnical.com/
A few days ago I was thinking about how one of the highlights of my childhood was getting the Christmas JC Penny Catalogue in the mail and scouring through the toy section and wistfully covet things in there we knew were too expensive for us to ever own. Out of curiosity (and a desire to put a name to a specific item I was curious about) I went looking to see if there was any archive of the catalog and lo-and-behold!

Not only did I find at least one catalog from the 90’s, I found a site that contained several catalogs over the last 80 years from multiple department stores.(And for those curious to know what specific Item I was looking for, it was #6 on this page.)

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geekdom:tech

Where LB Goes For Fun On The Internet

"LB, you're not on social media, and you live like some weird austere godless monk. Do you even have fun on the Internet???"

Oh, don't worry, friends. We have fun on the Internet:

Archive.org (for old music, old multi stuff, old website research, weird niche research... what DON'T I use Archive.org for? Seriously probably the website we spend the most time on)
Archive of Our Own (for prose fiction and porn--most known for fanfic, but its tag system is so good that we sometimes trawl the original fic archive for stuff)
the Anarchist Library (what it sounds like)
Bandcamp (for new music--I have YET to figure out how the fuck iTunes works)
LotusPrince's Let's Plays (this is the only Youtuber I really watch anymore, been watching him for over ten years, he is a softspoken, straightfaced completionist who tries to be positive about every game he plays, no matter how clunky or goofy, and he is still my favorite parasocial companion for when I am so brainblasted I really can't handle anything more complicated than "go to the right, fight boss.")

We use an RSS reader to stay on top of blogs and artist accounts scattered across the ether, but if it can't be RSSed, then we don't bother. Lotus Prince is the only exception; he's a self-limiting, Gatorade activity, something I only want when I'm badly depleted, and once I recharge, I'm off to the races again, digging around in 1998 soulbonding websites on Archive.org.

I only play one game now, hack103 (and we use our local offline copy. Our shoulder only allows it on occasion, but fortunately, Hack is from 1985 and pre-poopsocking, so it's a very easy game to put down for years at a time and pick up again.

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Oh hey I did a lot of things today

- Worked on the purse I'm knitting for myself, which is about 75% done with the knitting
- Searched my stash of fabric scraps for a potential lining fabric (to unsatisfying results, I was sure I had some fabric left over from the red prototype skirt, but I couldn't find it)
- Consequently, refreshed my memory about dyeing fabric with tea
- Took photos of items we are getting rid of, to post online to give away or sell
- Put nice new silver ear-wires on a pair of cheap earrings that were irritating my ears
- Added a thingy to the necklace Sparkly gave me a while ago, to keep it from getting twisted around while I'm wearing it
- Made a pair of red and yellow earrings to match the Maya Kern poppies skirt that Sparkly got me a while ago, because I didn't have any jewelry to wear with it

I mostly stopped wearing jewelry a few years ago, from a combo of not-practical-for-work and not-practical-for-covid, but I used to have several things I wore every day and I'm trying to get back to that now that it's practical. I'm also realizing that I really like how dangly earrings look on me.

Oh and also! I started reading one of my books from the

thestoryinside July book suggestions last night.

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LB is tabling TONIGHT at the Brickyard Bazaar in Lynn, MA!

We will be tabling from 5-9 PM on Friday, July 11th (TONIGHT!) at EmVision Studios, 131 Essex Street, Lynn, MA 01902. We'll have comics and zines, including floppy copies of our Crisis Planning zine!

Check out the Eventbrite link here!
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Hope to see you there!

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I'm finished writing up the fruit slice pattern!

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If anyone here would like a copy to test knit, just let me know.

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plural:etymology

Many-Selved Etymology: role terms

Rogan/Mori: Lark of Hungry Ghosts asked me about the origination of plural role terms (which are apparently now this super-rigid straitjacket of How Plurals Must Be?). I dove into my records, and here's what I done found!

It's possible these terms were used earlier than I found here. These were the earliest I could find them in the multi files I have on hand.

Core: This terms looks to originate with Billy Milligan's case, in use by February 1980 in Wallace, Wallechinsky, Wallace, and Wallace's The Book of Lists #2: "In addition to his core self, Milligan has at least nine other personalities" (380) and 1981 in Keyes's The Minds of Billy Milligan. Seeing as Milligan was imprisoned for rape in 1977, it's possible "core" was used in earlier news stories about the case; I'd have to dig in. But Keyes quotes it (and "host") as being used by Cornelia Wilbur on page 50; she also treated Sybil. So: Wilbur, by 1980?

Helper: used by Ross, 1989: "Most persecutor personalities are in fact helpers who are using self-destructive strategies." (110).

Host: first attributed to Wilbur in Keyes, 1981: “the original Billy, sometimes known as the host or core personality” (50). So that explains why "host" and "core" get confused a lot in these things, it's because Wilbur conflated the two in Keyes!

Inner Self-Helper/ISH: Ralph Allison created it by 1977 in Hawkworth's The Five Of Me: "[Phil] was, in the beginning at least, hardly a personality at all, but rather what Dr. Allison refers to as an 'Ish'--an Inner Self-Helper[...] a separate personality whose sole function seems to be to prevent the other personalities from tearing the physical body apart." (20) Allison says he started treating multiples in 1972 (Hawksworth, 5), so 1972-1977.

Original: Wilbur again! She uses it in Keyes 1981 (50) and the term "original Sybil" is used a decent number of times (sorry, my ebook had no page numbers). Flora Rheta Schreiber wrote Sybil, but it seems sensible that Wilbur originated the term? So, by 1973 for adjective form, will have to dig for stand-alone noun. (EDIT 7/10/2025: INCORRECT! This term is older; "original patient" or "original personality" is used by Thigpen and Cleckley (38, 153), so I should dig into older work to see if it's used previously.

Persecutor: Used by Ross (and Norton?) in 1989: "An interesting finding (Ross & Norton, 1989b) was a clinical triad of Schneiderian made-impulses, voices in the head, and suicide attempts. This traid should alert the clinican to the possibility of MPD, especially if the made impulse is self-destructive, and the voice is commanding suicide or is hostile and critical. The triad is indicative of the actibility of a dangerous persecutor personality" (Ross, 99)

Protector: Used by Hawksworth once in 1977 (72), but Keyes uses it more formally, declaring Ragen "the protector of the family" (xv).

"Caretaker" is proving weirdly hard to pin down, so I'm calling it quits on that one for now, but of all these other terms, all of them come from medical contexts. If they aren't outright, obviously created by therapists themselves (Ralph Allison, Cornelia Wilbur), they're cited in books that they were involved in--like Sybil or the Minds of Billy Milligan. These are terms created by medical personnel to compartmentalize and organize headmates like a stamp collection... and often deny us the right to self-determine or grow. There's an icky historical context there; there's a reason these terms were considered unfashionable tools of the oppressor when we came on the scene in 2007!

These therapists are not little tin gods you should worship. There's a reason Allison, Ross, and Wilbur have controversies about them! (And I'm not as knowledgeable about them as I should be because... well, read on.) So here's some information about that, as a sorta "multi beware, worship not your doctor" thing.

( Why You Shouldn't Believe Everything Doctors Say )

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LB Dreamwidth Etiquette

We’re getting followed by folks from elsewhere on the Internet and seeing sentiments along the lines of “eep, I don’t know the social rules here,” so here’s how we conduct this blog!

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