ranthimi:

shadowfae:

Don’t you just love it when you’re shifted to two different fictotypes at once, maybe three, and you have absolutely no idea what’s going on?

Hybrid shifts are a fucking trip and I don’t miss them a damn bit. Learning how to keep things separate when they get all fucked up like that was important, I focused on one thing and sorted out everything that wasn’t that shift until things were more normal again. Maybe try that, especially if this is a recurring thing?

My solution was ‘it’s one in the fucking morning let’s just sleep’. I don’t hate them per se, they’re just interesting to deal with because I usually know what shift I’m in by what interests me and what I look like in headspace (I really need to draw out what that all looks like by shifts, honestly), and sometimes I get hit with the hybrid shifts and suddenly I have no idea who I am at the moment. 

Last night was a pretty interesting combo of Yukari, Defteros, and I think Luteia; and when you realize that as Defteros I’m a 6′0″ beefy dude and Yukari is like 5′4″ and a literal stick of a girl, it’s not the most normal of shifts and I think my subconscious got a little confused trying to put them together. Because like, some of my ‘types and ‘links are more ‘compatible’ with some than with others – Yukari/Luteia hybrid shifts are pretty okay, it’s all flowers and demons and none of the Devil powers beating me over the head with a stick. Defteros/Luteia are also pretty good, it’s all power and enough of the cosmos to balance out that Devil and lots of destroying stuff for the hell of it. Defteros/Yukari was not a good combo, and I’ve never had that particular one crop up, so I really only had one choice there and it was to go the fuck to bed.

I end up experiencing more hybrid shifts than shifts to just one, now that I think about it. But it’s really all about balancing my identity anyway and not getting in contrast with myself. Easier said than done, but distractions always fix it in the end.