Oh thanks for asking! I have a few reasons.

• You'll notice a pattern here that I read alphas as demisexual (or even demirose) coded. Which, well, may be a hot take, but it isn't as much if you remember that raw lust and libido is different from genuinely being attracted to another human as an individual. Alphas may have a reputation for being horny playboys, but I think they're assessing their options; just going through a broad cycle of dates for who makes them feel the most beyond what a rut makes them experience. When they find that person, that person is THEIRS. They cherish every chance to show off how much they love them, and to prove that they can protect and provide for their mate(s) and pack.

• I lean more dominant but am a switch. Basically, I need to trust someone to let them dom me but I often dom others just for the hell of it. Being a dom is my default, like how it probably would be for an alpha in Omegaverse. I like to think it's not impossible for alphas to submit or desire such a thing, but that their pride and ego generally would make it unpleasant, with just anyone.

• A major way I show affection is protecting, guiding/nurturing, and providing for my partner. That means gifts, helping them with their mental health, teaching them new things about life, and going through hard things with them are all really important ways that I show love. Think of how the traditional, stereotypical good father figure (like The Emperor in tarot) shows love by showing the people he loves how to do the right thing, and setting them up for greatness. He models that greatness and encourages others to follow in his footsteps. He also can be a voice of reason and will be direct and honest if he feels his loved ones have strayed, intent on correcting the issue. That's basically how I imagine an alpha would/should take on perhaps the most important role of an alpha - being a leader.

• I view heats as an unavoidable cycle on a timer (like menstruation) but ruts as reactionary. An alpha doesn't just have a rut "at that time of the month" but will be thrown into a rut when they're either aroused or angry/frustrated. Smelling an omega in heat, being alone with someone they're attracted to, having a shitty day at work, and having their territory/mate threatened could all throw them into an angry, horny mindfog. And going back to the demisexuality thing, this is more or less how I experience sexual attraction - it's reactionary. Someone has to show some kind of interest in me first, or spur me into something, most of the time. Otherwise I might go my whole life without being horny about a specific person.

• Territorial-ness. I don't post about many of my harder kinks on Aethy, but I'm a huge sadist. I have a definite Thing for destroying people, or remaking their identity in my image. Verbal degradation (insulting) is probably my top kink of all time. Plus, nonsexually, I kind of get off on the idea that there's people out there who hate me and just can't get me out of their head. I like getting people to like me in general, obviously, because having friends is good - but an undeniable benefit is that the more popular I am and the more people like me, my "territory" expands and the more people who dislike me will not be able to forget I exist. That all sounds really edgy when I write it down, but it's how I think (and is definitely a way of coping with the fear I have of what might happen if someone hates me and Does Something about it)

• God fucked up by not giving me a huge cock.

Anyway, there's probably more to this thought process that I'm forgetting, but this is probably the gist of it.

I've been in poly relationships before that didn't end up well, perhaps because of my age at the time or because the person I was with who was also dating other people was quite toxic. And then I had another experience with an open relationship (only one committed romantic partnership but we were allowed to have sexual/non-committal experiences with other people) which was, honestly, a far more positive experience.

Right now actually since I'm fresh out of a relationship I've been thinking again about how I experience romance which has included some thoughts about how I experience monogamy. I have never cheated on anyone, but I can't lie and say that a big part of the relief from leaving relationships is always "God, now I can flirt with other people again" or "Thank god I'm not limited to only having sex with that one person forever anymore". I think I have some resentment about committing sexually to just one person forever, but on the other hand I like the idea of having that one emotional/romantic partner who I can always go back to.

Right now regarding polyamory I'm not sure, but I do think that I would want to seek out an open relationship again, but also that it probably(?) won't be a dealbreaker if the person wants complete monogamy, if I really really like them and we are really compatible in every other way.

Another thing is that my sexual needs are just very diverse; as a switch I am deeply attractive to both submission and dominance and it's just really hard to find one person who can be both of those things for me.

I also liked sub sharing, that was something I did before when I was in an open relationship with another dom. BDSM polyamory (in its many forms) is probably the most attractive kind of poly/open style relationship to me.

I think my favorite movie is Jojo Rabbit and the thing I don't like about it is that, although it's an extremely well executed dark drama/comedy and does being a period piece set in Nazi Germany really well in my eyes, the name of it makes it sound like a children's movie and people assume that's what it is, so I always have to explain when I say Jojo Rabbit is my favorite movie. Additionally, like I said they do the dark comedy really well and it never feels like anything but Hitler and the Nazis being the butt of the joke, but I can see "dark comedy about a boy in the Hitler Youth" and the idea of seeing 1940s Germany through that character's eyes to be a turnoff where people will not want to watch the movie out of discomfort with the concept, and won't even want to stick around to see how it's executed. It's something that I understand, but basically, I hate that my favorite movie is so easy to misunderstand and make assumptions about

Yeah! So we use pluralkit on discord as of now because that's the main way we communicate with friends. It's often easier to have it in servers with people we talk to often, even if it's just our two accounts in there, because it can keep the conversations we each have organized in a way that helps our memory issues. (Pluralkit if you don't know is a discord bot that lets you set different fronters, give profiles to different system members, and talk through a proxy that makes it clear who is talking).

We have
Salem - she/her - emotional caretaker, caretakes by being extremely optimistic and cheerful, and spreading that positivity to the rest of us. She's extremely stable and very good at handling feelings, and rarely depressed. She's the only one other than me who has been the host in the past, although I am the core (original identity). Has always had age slider tendencies, but usually hovers around the body's age

Blair - it/he/they (his pronouns change often but this is what they are currently) - protector, often critical of others and the one most likely to disagree with other system members so they kind of have prosecutor tendencies...? but their intention in giving feedback is always constructive, and they just want to keep us safe by being the first to question and the last to trust

Sera - he/they + a bunch of neos - emotional caretaker, caretakes by having a calm and serene outlook that he overrides stress with by fronting, he also often puts us to sleep because he doesn't experience my sleep phobia. He's nonhuman and presents as an angel

Vincent - he/him (subject to change, he's new) - inner child/system little, trauma hider, very sad kid who cries a lot and needs to be taken care of by the rest of us

There's a bunch of fuzziness going on with alters who may or not be dormant or re-integrated into more active alters, and sometimes we still get new ones during periods of high stress, but the most recent addition was Vincent who has actually been around for the longest but we didn't notice him or recognize him as an alter until recently.

As for their social media uses, they might like posts and boost posts. They don't make text posts but will occasionally give short responses to comments while pretending to me, which I discourage because it's confusing to me when I go back and find it.

Everyone is really nice though :D

I kind of don't believe in the efficacy of most recycling practices, but my family does it and so I also do. We put an emphasis on recycling aluminum and glass, which we know will be able to recycle over and over without losing their quality as materials like plastic does. And if possible, we will buy things in aluminum or glass containers instead of plastic, and use reusable water bottles, etc.

Other things I do are try to use energy/resource efficient modes on my laundry machine and dryer. We also do that thing where we save cans and glass bottles to get a dime in return for each!

It's not always possible to be eco-friendly in every situation, realistically, and we are very far from being the ideal "zero waste household", not to mention that our impact will always be less of that like a large corporation with entire massive warehouses full of plastic cups and stuff, but when possible my family does Try.

We also are the only house on the block who requested to have 2 blue (recycling) dumpster bins and 1 brown (general trash) one and we usually fill all 3 before collection day

Yep! I was professionally diagnosed with DID about... 2-3 years ago? But I've had alters since I was at least 12 or 13 (though my mom claims that she witnessed switches when I was a little bit younger than that, which I don't remember, but seems plausible). My suspicion for years was that I have OSDD, but I actually have what is considered, at least by the doctors I've spoken to, to be quite severe DID (meaning the differentiation between my identity states is extreme, my dissociative symptoms are extreme, and my memory loss is also extreme, relatively). The difference between me and my alters is quite obvious and they don't post on my Aethy or other accounts; we try to keep things separate because otherwise our memory issues can cause a lot of problems, and have definitely caused a lot of problems in the past.

I do my best! It's definitely a struggle for me as well. My gf and I started this thing to motivate each other where if one of us brushes then the other has to also. Kind of a way to get ourselves to take care of dental hygiene in the process of taking care of the other person. But yeah hygiene in general is a struggle, it's kind of an embarassing thing to admit but also I truly believe more people struggle with executive dysfunction of this type than people admit to it online publicly.

Something else that helps me brush my teeth is getting toothpaste and mouthwash that taste good (in my case I got kids stuff that tastes fruity or like bubblegum lol!) and I experimented with different toothbrushes in different materials/shapes (bamboo, silicone, U mouthpiece, electric, etc) until I found one that doesn't cause me sensory issues so there are fewer barriers to doing it

I wish you luck in your own journey 🧘‍♂️

I don't block people very often! It's because Aethy folks are so chill, I think. Especially not people I'm already following/mutuals with. I'd say the most common thing I do is block people who are on my DNI if I come across them before we ever interact, to save both of us the headache. Because I sometimes browse my non-local feed, I also might mute someone if they're posting a lot of things I'm uninterested in, but I don't think I have ever muted a mutual or someone I'm following.

If someone is following me, a reason I might not follow back is if a lot of their content is stuff that squicks me out. It's not that I judge them or think they're bad people for it obviously- just that it's not my thing and I'd prefer for it to not be on my feed.