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Rogan: This post is brought to you by Phosphor of hungryghosts nerd-sniping me again. He knows my weaknesses and he asked, "s omeone in Otherconnect was wondering - when did the concept of system names become a thing?" I plunged into my records and here's what I found! (With the gracious help of erinptah !) The first time I've found what we might call a "system name"--that is, a name for the whole…
Rogan: TL;DR, we’re going to have to read that three volume Fischer case, or at least the first two volumes. This case sounds fascinating and possibly the most thoroughly documented single multi case that’s publicly available. ( A little background about the Society for Psychical Research, the people in it, and what they did. ) Anyway, F. C. S. Schiller was a German philosopher. Schiller gives a…
Sneak: Bob and me are doing work stuff and we're hanging out on IRC while we do it! If you want to come chat, we're at #LBparty on FreeNode ! It'll be like the old #pluralcafe days. ^_^ EDIT: I am hanging out in a random Linux IRC chat room, and a Portuguese man is telling me excitedly about the eclipse he got to see, and sharing pictures, and there is also an older American who is listening to…
We have started trawling through bookscans of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, printed and stapled some of the articles, and guys, this stuff is amazing. In chronological order: - “ Multiplex Personality,” by Frederic Myers , 1887 (pg. 496, in print). Myers is a British delight; his premise is “the mutiplex and mutable character of that which we know as the Personality of…
Today in adventures in library cataloging: thanks to the big honkin' donations, we have big stacks of "replace battered old library paperback with shiny new hardback donation," and I decided to go through one of them. Early in the stack was Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Moon Men . There was only one problem: the paperback and the hardback, though identically titled and authored, weren't the same book…
Welp, that post sure wasn’t meant to be public. Whoops. Filtered properly now. Sorry. comments
Sneak: last night, we dreamed of neat alien linguistics! ( Name linguistics of parasitic bird people! ) comments
Sneak: it’s tax free weekend in the USA! Perhaps you would like to buy a book? _ @ You can check out our work at our shop page, but more locally (and pressingly), the sci-fi library we volunteer at is throwing a used book sale! You see, we have recently gotten multiple HUGE donations, and a lot of the books, we already have. (Everyone donates stuff like Heinlein and Tolkien.) Our shelves are…
We have been reading Deborah Blum's Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death , and it's opened up whole new chapters of multi research that we're very excited about! ( I'm glad I waited to dig into Spiritualism until now, because I feel way better prepared for it! ) comments
Sneak: Hello, everybody! Bob and I are testing a new thing involving our ebooks, trying to make them more screenreader-friendly and smaller file size! Would you like to help us user test? :D? First of all, I am experimenting with doing our prose ebooks as alt-texted HTML files, rather than PDFs. (I unfortunately do not have a set up for creating EPUBs yet, sorry. <_<) So, here is the test file for…
Sneak: Hello! Our desktop computer failed and we are working out a new working way, and we are experimenting with new ways to make our ebooks accessible! Til now, our comics ebooks have come in two files: the comic PDF that has only images, and the text-only version on a separate file. Most people probably don’t even notice those little text files, but they are vital to blind folks, screen reader…
Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month! As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes. (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here ! (You can also…
Sneak: I have uploaded with Death Watch ( text-only version here )! I also a couple weeks ago realized that there were a bunch of things I THOUGHT I had uploaded which I had not, so I fixed that up and then computer breakage meant I only just now told it to you, oops. <_< Regardless, it is now up! The HTML pages should reflect it there on healthymultiplicity.com too now. EDIT: computer crashed…
Cross-Ethnic Headmates I: A Brief, Woefully Incomplete Historical Overview Summary: Spirits, lwa, headmates, controllers, personalities, and alters from all sorts of ethnic groups their vessels aren’t. Briefly touches on 1791-present, vessels from the USA, Haiti, India, Chile, the Holy Roman Empire (now Germany), Brazil, and England. Series: Essay Word Count: 3659 Notes: Winner of the fan…
Sneak: We have been having computer trouble, which is why we have been scarce online! We can still do our work, it's just getting it from BSOD to the Internet that's tricky. Hopefully everything should go smoothly and y'all won't be effected, but as usual, the easiest ways to contact us are phone, email, and here on Dreamwidth. Me and Bob hope to have it sorted out soon! comments
Canon doesn’t really exist. It’s a made-up concept made to define which fiction is more legitimate or “real,” and nobody should take it too seriously. ( Read more... ) comments
This essay, "the Empowered Multiple," was originally printed in Kinships Magazine, Vol. 1 Issue #3, from 2001, pg. 8-9 (numbers on paper, not the PDF). Pyatthemouse digitized the issue but it wasn't screenreadable, so I decided to copy it here for posterity so people could read it now, off the Wayback Machine! Yes, this essay was also posted on www.darkpersonalities.com and in December 2000, on…
(Many thanks to rax , who told us about it!) Someone has digitized Issues #0, 3, and 4 of Kinships Magazine , the magazine "for people who exist anyway." These issues run from 2000 to 2001. " Kinships was the first in print magazine for Otherkin [people with nonhuman identities, namely mystical beings like elves, angels, etc.] and other 'people who exist anyway'" (Joyner, 2006 May 10a). It was "a…
We are working on [SECRET PROJECT], which involves looking at a bunch of really, really old back-up files of [REDACTED]. Said files included 361 mysterious, unopenable .art files, an extension we'd never even heard of. Turns out it was a proprietary AOL image format that hasn't been supported in twenty years. Even BSOD was too new to open them. But Obsolete, our doughty little Windows 98 laptop,…
Rogan: Con went well, but three days is a lot. By con end Sunday, all I wanted was to relax, so I went to the sci-fi library to paw through and label some boxes of donations, pulling books that jumped out at me as non-genre, obvious duplicates, or things I absolutely KNEW we did/didn’t have. (If any of you have been dying to get your hands on works by Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, or C. J.…
Sorry for getting behind guys, it's a bad mix of computer breakage, [SECRET PROJECT], and also preparing, because we are tabling at ReaderCon from Friday, July 10 through Sunday, July 12, at the Boston Marriott Burlington in Burlington, MA! Hope to see y'all there! comments
Rogan: last night, I had one of those extremely cogent, cinematic, screaming nightmares, but the story annoyed me so much I refuse to make it a real story. Instead, I post it here. There was a people who lived in a cold green land of forests, hills, and snow. The winters seemed to last forever, and the snow was so heavy that they had built a roofed-over compound where they would retreat for the…
Our oldest computer is a AST laptop from 2000 named Obsolete. It runs Windows 98 and had long since retired from duty, on account of it being so old that it was unable to do much besides run Office 97 and play MS-DOS games. It could read CDs, but not write to them, so data could only exit via floppy or zip disc. However, it turns out Obsolete is PERFECT for inventorying periodicals at the sci-fi…
Hey Boston folks! Copy-pasting from Reddit: The Air Conditioned NESFA [New England Science Fiction Association] Clubhouse (504 Medford St, Somerville) IS open today Friday July 3 from 12 noon to 9/10 pm. Feel free to stop by and read a book, grab a snack or cold one (water and soft drinks), or just hang out. You don’t need to be a member. It will also be open: *Saturday 4 July from 12 noon to 6 pm…
Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month! As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes. (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here ! (You can also…