Note: Was going to do the blogpost about walkins, spiritual phenomena, awesome humans, and whether or not you can refuse to forgive evil-doers in the world from [livejournal.com profile] meepalicious's topic but an entry on [livejournal.com profile] multiplicity made us decide to write about headspace instead.




We consider our headspace to be a cross between the World Gating Facilities in the Young Wizards series and Howl's Moving Castle[The Miyazaki one]. A lot of the way both of these work is fairly similar.

Most of our origins were in soulbonding. This is how each "gateway" was "rooted" as they say in the Young Wizards series. Of course, gateways can be de-rooted and off-set, but it tends to make things very troublesome. Least of which because these gateways are stubborn entities in themselves. Once something makes itself known it doesn't really like being brushed into a cupboard, you know.

Each gateway for us links into the entranceway, a long hallway with many doors branching off, a staircase up and a trapdoor into the floor that opens to reveal stairs going down, at the end of the hall is a large wooden door and a dial-turn for each verse:

America also known as The Front. Generally if you see us referring to "American Names" this means "Front name" which is usually only used by those of us who are fictives with really obviously fictional names.

Multiverse A which consists of Kingdom Hearts, Disney, and Final Fantasy Verses, and the Modern World, as well as a subset of universes known simply as The Waking World.

Multiverse B which is the YuGiOh! verse crossed with the Modern World crossed with Harry Potter. (Vivian and Bakura can explain this one at another time.)

Loveless Verse

Princess Tutu Verse

The Pretear Verse

The Castlevania Verse

The Bridger-Crawford Verse

The Kingdom of Rossiya

The Willers Verse

and the Naruto Verse with some historical differences from the canon.


Anyways, each floor of the common house also contains something.

On the first floor to the left of the "entryway" there is a room called the "Candle Room". This is basically a mini chapel to honor the dead and to pray for the living. The reason it is named such is that rather than use religious artifacts each prayer is typically done by lighting a candle or a stick of incense or both. The room is filled with shelves of lit and unlit candles and seems to always have room for more prayers.

Across from the doorway, is another room with another big door. That is the library. Lots of shelves of books on just about everything. From fiction to alchemy to old portrait books to biographies. There's also an upright piano and an old record player in this room with a shelf of music books & records. The library furniture consists mostly of velvet-y arm chairs and sofas surrounding an Oriental rug.

Then further down the hall from these too rooms is a doorway on the left to a more "modern" gaming/TV room with a TV [with a videogame system], a tabletop gaming system table, and a crafts table. Across from this doorway is the doorway to the kitchen/dining room. The dining room table looks vaguely like King Arthur's feast table only not quite as long and it doesn't have that fancy chairs. There is a bar with storage cabinets where you can find beer, red wine, and rose wine, as well as mixing materials for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

And the kitchen is pretty much like a normal kitchen, though its fitted similar to a mansion's due to the number of mouths needed to be fed... and you'll find some interesting things in the large fridge and pantry due to a few members with very specific diets. Everything foodwise is labelled.

Now back out into the hall way. We're going to go downstairs first.

Down here there are two things. One is the "gym/training rooms". Zetsu gives taijutsu lessons down here and Soma practices his swordsmanship. There's also a tunnel towards an underground spring.

THe other thing in the basement is the labs, which are used for weaponry restoration, alchemy, and some herbal-type chemistries for medicines.

Upstairs are rows of bedrooms, each decorated to suit the roommates.
The bonfire dances as a crowd enters the field.

There is a sign in the clearing:

Take 3 pinecones from the basket. The first pine cone is to burn away the old year. The second is to wish in the new year. And the third is a gift to the world.

You may do what you wish with the pinecone if you don't have something to match with its representation -- keep it or toss it in the flames without a guide.

Have a happy New Year!




Approach the fire and toss in a gift, something you want to send out into the world.


Click Here to Burn

Click Here to Wish
The bonfire dances as a crowd enters the field.

There is a sign in the clearing:

Take 3 pinecones from the basket. The first pine cone is to burn away the old year. The second is to wish in the new year. And the third is a gift to the world.

You may do what you wish with the pinecone if you don't have something to match with its representation -- keep it or toss it in the flames without a guide.

Have a happy New Year!




Approach the fire and toss in a wish.


Click Here to Burn

Click Here to Gift
The bonfire dances as a crowd enters the field.

There is a sign in the clearing:

Take 3 pinecones from the basket. The first pine cone is to burn away the old year. The second is to wish in the new year. And the third is a gift to the world.

You may do what you wish with the pinecone if you don't have something to match with its representation -- keep it or toss it in the flames without a guide.

Have a happy New Year!




Approach the fire and toss in what you wish to burn away and bury.

Click Here to Wish

Click Here to Gift
This idea snagged from [livejournal.com profile] upstart_crow. On New Years Eve, we will be posting 3 blogposts on [personal profile] thedreamersunited -- for the Dreamwidth New Years virtual bonfire party. Anonymous Commenting will be enabled and we will be freezing comments as fast as we possibly can if drama breaks out.

anonymous commenting will be on and the posts will be kinda narrative because we feel like it. Each of you will get 3 pinecones equivalent to each post. you can choose to not burn one, if you don't have something to match with that post.

Said Posts will be:

1. something to burn away - anything you want to burn away from the past year.
2. something to spark - a wish - make a wish for the new year and no you don't have to say the wish, unless you so choose. :) I'm not that evil.
3. something to shine - is there a gift you'd like to send out?

On our other journal [personal profile] dreamwriteremmy, we'll be posting a friending meme to [community profile] drawthecircle for the new year [because LJ has a new years friending meme and dreamwidth should too].

x-posted to [personal profile] dreamwriteremmy
first part of system origins and the story that's been told on pretty much all the journal's Bakura's been on.....

triggers: mentions suicide, self-harm, abuse, emotional trauma, adult language )

Later this weekend we will continue with the remaining clusters........
For any people who want to befriend us and question us... This is your post to be interviewers. :) Yeah... it's public.. .and this is an open mirror on all our major journals.

Personal Rules

1. If something gets too personal, we will call you on it-- no ifs, ands or buts.

2. please make sure the following resources have been used BEFORE you come and ask us something.. We tolerate stupid questions more than most people given the body's slow-cognitive processing, but please try and do some research first. We aren't psychology homework or filler for your next novel. I don't care if your a mod at XYZ forum or if you have doctorate in psychology. Please come to us on OUR terms, not yours.



3. Doesn't matter how long it's been since this post has been in session. It's open to comments always. This is your real-time classroom... whenever you arrive.

4. Ctrl + F or the find feature in your browser is lovely please use it! :D
We're the Dreamers United...

We're kind of complicated. We identify as a dual-gateway system -- Two gateways, interconnected to one body, managed as two-different subsystems, the Not Just A Puppet Collective and the Bridger-Crawford Family. Our functioning is somewhere between Gateway, Median and Multiple. Most of the time, whomever is fronting is a team of co-fronters; sometimes it's just simply an unclear blendy of a few people who aren't very recognizeable at the time. And very frequently, the subsystems are blendy themselves.

Part of this constant "life-sharing" we attribute to our miniscule ruleset that underlines something quite similar to the concept of cohousing. A sustainable community focusing on everyone playing a part and being a big neighborhood of sorts.

Our gateway focuses around the Common House (basically a headspace area with bedrooms, kitchen and dining room, library, science labs, gym, study, a memorial/prayer room known as "the candle room" [because there are lots of candles in it], and a parlor area) and has a function quite similar to Howl's Moving Castle. It has access to: The Front which is also referred to as "America" from time-to-time, The Loveless Universe, The Princess Tutu Universe, The Pretear universe, an AU of Kingdom Hearts, an AU of Castlevania, the setting of the Tears of Artamon series, an AU of Naruto, the OS-tan universe, Betony & Company's world, a world known as Paixao, and Ruby & Company's world.

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