tanadin

It's so strange how one's alterhumanity can seem so intense early on, but mellows out and becomes almost mundane over the years. Tanix and I feel this most acutely, as we have been around for a long time and have fronted quite a bit and become extremely familiar with ourselves. Newer members of the system still experience some novelty around it, and it's interesting to watch, remembering how I felt about it before everything became so normal. I don't think it's better or worse, per se, just a different stage of life. I wonder where it will go next.

-Goratrix

by Medivh Aran Chromatath of the DWW

Far be it from me to criticize how people that were here before I was use (or do not use) our own journal; however, I think it's a potentially useful tool, letting us post without having to worry about it being taken out of context or seen by mass numbers of random people who won't understand what we mean on Tumblr. 

So, a few thoughts for our journal, in bullet point format.

• It would be nice if we could primarily move most of our community interaction and post-reading time over to Dreamwidth rather than Tumblr, as it's a bit more controlled, less chaotic, and less prone to slapfights and dogpiling. I don't know if that's terrible feasible, but it's something to work on.
• The change in hosts and host fronting time over the last year and a half or so has been unusual, especially for those who were here before I got here. For anyone who missed it: we had five hosts for a while, then six once I showed up, and more recently, Tanix quit, because being a host was bad for him, he hated it, and it stressed him and everyone else out. As a result, some of our thoughts and priorities have shifted, like...
• Fucking hell we want to transition. It's just not safe where we live right now, but hopefully, things will get better and we can actually go on hormones and make this happen. Tanix wasn't so sure he wanted to do it, and he was the "default" "main" host for a long time--but now he's not a host, and the rest of us are all men, as are the cohosts (to some extent. Khadgar is complicated) and I miss my beard. How am I supposed to stroke my beard while thinking if I don't have one? Ridiculous. I look very silly when I try.
• We need to sit down and sort out every member's specific origin because it's starting to get complicated. With my surety that I busted in from elsewhere (and Anduin tumbled through as well), Blame being an external entity, Vazera arriving from another system. others clearing Forming in here but with connections to Outside, and everything with Andre and the tower... we need to do some housecleaning and maybe write something about it. It might be interesting to other people.
• We've spent a lot of time insisting that Tanix isn't the owner of the body and isn't the default, but despite our best efforts, it seems that he was treated that way by others and even most of the system for a long time. That had started to falter by the time I got here, and I seem to have stepped into those shoes to some extent, since I started fronting in September of 2024 and haven't actually left the front since. Everyone thinks I'm crazy for it, but I just don't get tired like they do. I'm not sure why.
• We have GOT to figure out what the hell is going on with Jim, why he's not forming right or talking, and why we can't find him most of the time. Lor'themar's arrival helped him out but not as much as we would have liked. No one's sure why he's been kicking around for a couple of months with only a few blurry things to say, but that's how it's been, and we're all kind of stressed about it.
• Moving off of Simply Plural has been a real bitch. We've settled on PluralSpace, at least for now. We like it quite a lot but it's taking some time to adjust.

Look, I journaled! Everyone clap.

Welcome, internet wanderer. The most likely way that you have stumbled upon this account is through alterhuman spaces: predominantly our work in the Fictionkind Dreamwidth community and my panel at Othercon 2022. If not, and you do not know what any of those things are: this may be quite confusing for you.

We are the Draconic Wizard Workshop, a plural system consisting primarily of fictives, most of which are sourced from Vampire: the Masquerade. Our non-fictive members tend to be alterhuman in other ways (other than just plurality, of course), and as such, we each have some level of interest in the community at large. The primary two fronters and posters in this system are Tanix (the host, a dragon and non-fictive) and myself, Goratrix (co-host, vampire and fictive). I run the Fictionkind Dreamwidth, a community for any and all beings out there with fiction-based identities (fictionkin, fictives, fictionlinks, hearthomes, etc) that they take seriously, that are willing to discuss such identities with like-minded people with no fear of harassment or judgement.

Currently, we are working on a personal website, where we will list introductions from and information about each member of the system, as well as any essays or other writings that we have done. Once that is finished, we will link it here for your perusal.

-Goratrix