The Shimmering System

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A collection of critters, characters, and/or headmates. Words are weird, even for a writer. We're "furries" in that we're various anthros, yet few have fur. We like various lewd things. We just want people — including ourselves — to live the lives they want. If it harms none, do as you will.

✒ If you're looking for our writing, see @ShimmeringSpectrum

Who Are We?https://shimmering-spectrum-roster.carrd.co/
Where Are We?https://linktr.ee/shimmeringspectrum
Pronounsshe/her, usually
IRL age40-ish
Icon Byhttps://www.furaffinity.net/user/klippy

We are restless.

It feels like we should be doing something. We are not. This is making us deeply uncomfortable. What are we forgetting? What could we do, right now, to improve how we feel?

The uncertainty is anxiety inducing.

@Ianmcgecko
I don't know if you need to moisturize me like that. Or like a plant. But it's still appreciated.
Given how bad we are at self care, maybe we do need to be in a terrarium with a large water bottle, food bowl, and such.

Turns out that the majority of our overall malaise could be easily explained by severe dehydration. How severe? We're showing some of the earlier signs of shock without quite falling into a medical crisis. The lack of energy, trouble sleeping, low blood pressure, high heart rate (up to 110 when sitting still)… all of it points back to that as a likely source.

We're gonna somehow have to drink a lot more water and other things. We know not to overdo it in a single go, but we might have to drink three or more liters a day to start addressing the balance.

Ah, we're back to feeling lightheaded and dizzy when we stand up, with a heart rate north of a hundred when sitting still, and difficulty maintaining a consistent body temperature. We wish this feeling wasn't as familiar as it is.

re: last boost

Turns out that processing abuse sometimes takes the form of responding to a prompt meant for writers. We apparently needed to say all this.

The Shimmering Spectrum (@[email protected])

Content warning: (CW: Extreme abuse, partially sexualized) Word Weavers for March 10: Antagonist POV: Imagine you achieved your goal. What’s next? To the extent we *have* a clearly defined antagonist, it would be an anthropomorphization of the abuse we’ve suffered at the hands/paws/wings of some people we’re glad to no longer be in touch with. This typically means two specific people, whom we will only identify as a dragon and a bird. # Under the Dragon The dragon’s goal would have been my complete submission and subjugation. He’d want me to be his unquestioning slave, thinking only of his pleasure, with all of my lusts and desires trained away. He specifically said my arousal and pleasure were turn-offs for him; any scenario should involve his pleasure and his alone. To call his actions rape would be a misnomer, in his opinion: I’d be an object incapable of granting or withholding consent, no different than a sex sleeve. Once that was achieved, we could envision one of two outcomes. ## Almost Normal I continue to work a normal job, with the expectation that I pay for everything he wants and needs, even if it’s to my detriment. I wouldn’t have disposable income of my own; it would be his to spend as he sees fit. I wouldn’t be allowed to have any sexual interactions with anyone else; I might not even be allowed much contact with other people. My only reward would be the honor (as he’d put it) of continuing to be abused by him, as opposed to being simply tossed aside and left to rot. After all, I’d be his ## Permanently Enslaved I give up any hint of a life at all beyond being his 24/7 slave. This would certainly not be a healthy BDSM relationship; this would likely amount to some kind of torture. Food and drink would be permitted only if he felt like it, and he would not be fair about what I’d have to do to earn sustenance. There’s a chance he’d try to have me amputated, or at least near-permanently in bondage that rendered my arms and legs useless, so that I’d be a better fuck pillow for him. Contact with other people would be lost entirely; I’d be nothing more than an object and treated accordingly. And he’d insist he *deserves* such a slave by virtue of being a dragon, and that knowing my place beneath him, suffering whatever Sadistic whims he has, is something I should be thankful for. # Under the Bird The bird is a much more insidious and subtle creature. They were crafty, both granting and denying pleasure to condition my behavior. They wanted an unhealthy degree of co-dependency; we were expected to be in contact with them almost every waking hour unless they were busy with something else. Even when I was at a convention they weren’t at, it was very clear they were thinking about what I’d do or get for them. Gaslighting was common; they’d often ask “Is it?” even over relatively obvious things, as if we shouldn’t trust our own senses and, instead, defer to their perception. To the extent we can articulate their goal, it seemed to be this: To have us think of them more than we think of ourselves. We wouldn’t have been a slave; we simply would have been less than them in a way that ensured our perpetual dependency. The ongoing control would have, likewise, been subtle. We’d be encouraged to spend more time with their friends and less time with ours. Their lack of interest our hobbies would have made us quit certain things in favor of doing what they enjoy instead. In case of disagreement, we’d be expected to defer to them even when it conflicted with our own perception or emotion. Expressing a need they approved of would be fulfilled. Expressing needs they disapproved of would be scorned or ignored. Expressing unhappiness with them, in any way, would have led to personal attacks intended to make us believe we were wrong to have those thoughts at all. Frighteningly, we’d probably believe we were happy about that result, too. #WordWeavers #Abuse #Amputation #Toxic #Abusive #AbusiveRelationships #ToxicRelationships

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To the extent we have a clearly defined antagonist, it would be an anthropomorphization of the abuse we’ve suffered at the hands/paws/wings of some people we’re glad to no longer be in touch with. This typically means two specific people, whom we will only identify as a dragon and a bird.

Under the Dragon

The dragon’s goal would have been my complete submission and subjugation. He’d want me to be his unquestioning slave, thinking only of his pleasure, with all of my lusts and desires trained away. He specifically said my arousal and pleasure were turn-offs for him; any scenario should involve his pleasure and his alone. To call his actions rape would be a misnomer, in his opinion: I’d be an object incapable of granting or withholding consent, no different than a sex sleeve.

Once that was achieved, we could envision one of two outcomes.

Almost Normal

I continue to work a normal job, with the expectation that I pay for everything he wants and needs, even if it’s to my detriment. I wouldn’t have disposable income of my own; it would be his to spend as he sees fit. I wouldn’t be allowed to have any sexual interactions with anyone else; I might not even be allowed much contact with other people. My only reward would be the honor (as he’d put it) of continuing to be abused by him, as opposed to being simply tossed aside and left to rot. After all, I’d be his

Permanently Enslaved

I give up any hint of a life at all beyond being his 24/7 slave. This would certainly not be a healthy BDSM relationship; this would likely amount to some kind of torture. Food and drink would be permitted only if he felt like it, and he would not be fair about what I’d have to do to earn sustenance. There’s a chance he’d try to have me amputated, or at least near-permanently in bondage that rendered my arms and legs useless, so that I’d be a better fuck pillow for him.

Contact with other people would be lost entirely; I’d be nothing more than an object and treated accordingly. And he’d insist he deserves such a slave by virtue of being a dragon, and that knowing my place beneath him, suffering whatever Sadistic whims he has, is something I should be thankful for.

Under the Bird

The bird is a much more insidious and subtle creature. They were crafty, both granting and denying pleasure to condition my behavior. They wanted an unhealthy degree of co-dependency; we were expected to be in contact with them almost every waking hour unless they were busy with something else. Even when I was at a convention they weren’t at, it was very clear they were thinking about what I’d do or get for them. Gaslighting was common; they’d often ask “Is it?” even over relatively obvious things, as if we shouldn’t trust our own senses and, instead, defer to their perception.

To the extent we can articulate their goal, it seemed to be this: To have us think of them more than we think of ourselves. We wouldn’t have been a slave; we simply would have been less than them in a way that ensured our perpetual dependency.

The ongoing control would have, likewise, been subtle. We’d be encouraged to spend more time with their friends and less time with ours. Their lack of interest our hobbies would have made us quit certain things in favor of doing what they enjoy instead. In case of disagreement, we’d be expected to defer to them even when it conflicted with our own perception or emotion. Expressing a need they approved of would be fulfilled. Expressing needs they disapproved of would be scorned or ignored. Expressing unhappiness with them, in any way, would have led to personal attacks intended to make us believe we were wrong to have those thoughts at all.

Frighteningly, we’d probably believe we were happy about that result, too.

#WordWeavers #Abuse #Amputation #Toxic #Abusive #AbusiveRelationships #ToxicRelationships

@Bwee Apologies for our part in that. We tend to be lax with CWs on this account, especially in followers-only posts.
If you continue to use tools you already know are defective, and you can afford to replace the faulty tool, why the hell should we be sympathetic to you when they fail you yet again and you lose your shit over it?
Competitive multiplayer games are not being kind to us today. We just wish we didn't feel so frustrated over that it's making it hard to decide what else to do.