#Hate the ones that are trying to gatekeep

[thejimmycultoffical]

Jimmy's Official Stance on @/officalverse-offical.

Jimmy doesn't support @/officalverse-offical in any way.

Honestly, some of the behavior is that of a dictator.

She is trying to gatekeep a community while not listening to the people of that community.

Saying @sappho-offical is stupid for basically saying "we accept everyone" is disrespectful and rude.

If she's our "leader", she certainly isn't a good one and I suggest we look at the French revolution.

The leader was mistreating the people.

So what did the people do?

Off. With. Her. Head.

We know that occurring to her "rules" (which are clearly disregarded and for a lack of better wording, moronic) this account isn't offical,

but the people have spoken.

Jimmy is worshipped, and from what we can tell somewhat canon.

Additionally, what kind of good leader would say, "I'm Right and You are Wrong"? Certainly none that we've heard of.

"Everyone else is excluded" yet, the people who often are in these communities are people who are excluded from other spaces or discriminated against.

Also, @official--eve existed before the officalverse, if our memory is correct. We don't understand how someone can be excluded when they existed before this universe as a whole.

Ignoring the people is something current law makers in America are doing, and let's not forget that they too are excluding people.

She does not get to silence the people. She "preaches" that we only exist inside of her, but that would imply that she has a soul, or the souls of the lovely accounts in this fandom inside of her.

Dictators, people who exclude others, and people who ignore the people do not have souls. Therefore, she doesn't contain us.

Jimmy believes that she is content with the attention she is receiving from the hate, which is why she fuels it. Disengaging would be best, but we're afraid that she craves too much of that attention and would go after other accounts.

@/officalverse-offical is no longer canon. We'd like to believe they never were.

Fight for Eve. Fight for those being silenced. Speak up. Anyone who speaks up against officalverse-offical has Jimmy and The Cult's full support.

Free The Offical Verse.

Justice for Eve.

Exclude No One.

A Voice For All.

Please tag other offical verse accounts.

@grim-reaper-offical Please tag more accounts from the officalverse. Jimmy sends her regards.

@commrade-void

@bunnyinakangolhat

@kr-st-ph-g-v-n

@mariorat

@u-haul-jesus

@albert-offical

@thestrangedazebouquet

@zeroxisadumbfuck

@knife-offical

@homosexuality-offical

@leviathan-offical

@willowanomaly

@hadesbestgod

@the-aftonsparv

@gayfarmgal

@autistic-lizard

@grandma--official

@chaoticandlucky

[alllgator-blood]

I need to ask, because of it I CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT.

How do you make, not only long comics, but also VERY FAST. Like- I read one part that has 2/3 like pictures and then next day are again 2 or 3 and I'm like grabing my head and just screaming HOW??? (Also these comics are very yummy and I feel like getting stabbed after each one but in a good way cuz I like being stabbed (Kallamar got a bit too relatable in that one comic 💔))

THAT'S REALLY IMPRESSIVE AND ALSO SHOCKING FOR ME. Like- what is your secret??? 🤨🤨🤨

HAHAHA OH GOD I DID NOT THINK I WAS VERY FAST BUT- I'll try to do a list of tips I thought of off the top of my head, in case any of these help you or anyone else??? I try to not gatekeep anything I do because I think the world needs more comics honestly, so I tend to ramble a lot when giving advice.

click the read more to unleash many paragraphs of tips:

Okay these tips aren't 100% about being fast but also being efficient/keeping a good pace, I hope that's okay!

1: Originally the first tip was "draw every day even if only a little bit, so you don't lose steam" but I'm sure everyone has said that at some point. So I'll just say I Pavlov myself into drawing better by having little "rituals". Liiike...the only time I have energy drinks is when I draw. Or the only time I light candles is when I draw. I have specific songs I put on when I START drawing to get me into the Zone. I find that when certain circumstances are met, it helps the time fly by 'cause I stay focused enough to keep a steady pace. After a while of doing those things when you start drawing for the day, it tricks the brain into going "oh shit, we're drawing now? aight bet" and then you just. Go

2: SETTING DEADLINES FOR SURE HELPS. It's definitely nice hearing from people that there's no Real Pressure on me when I post comics...for free...of characters I have no obligation to draw...just for the enjoyment of doing it. BUT I work best when I have a fire lit under my ass, so I set deadlines like "I need to post this on saturday/sunday at noon so the algorithm will actually let people read this comic". I usually slip those into a description so it's a very casual announcement and I feel okay with postponing it if necessary, rather than making a text post like "NEW COMIC SATURDAY!!1" and then feeling terrible if I can't finish it in time. Lmao

3: I just fuckin GO when I make a draft. Like for this new comic I'm working on, I just sat down and started drawing like the world was gonna end; there's a lot of panels with very off model characters/wonky anatomy because I just wanted to sketch enough for future me to get the idea. I try not to look back on my progress for any reason besides continuity, because then I see how long the comic's getting and I sweat bullets. Literally so many comics have been ditched because I got spooked thinking about how hard it'd be to finish them. So if you just shut your brain off and don't think about the technicalities of it, just keeping mind the story you want to tell- it's SO much easier to complete. Breaking comics into parts is ABSOLUTELY necessary for completion :')

4: Maybe the most important piece of advice I learned from a published comic artist, is that people are gonna look at your comic panels for an average of like 10-20 seconds and will move on to the next. You don't wanna spend hours on a single panel that basically only exists to convey a tiny bit of the plot. So I like to draw just *enough* to convey the general environment/mood, but not feel obliged to put in a million little extra details. I really hate doing backgrounds but my art, to me, feels incomplete without them. So I'll add like PART of a room or a general Nature area just to say hey, this takes place in the temple/outside/whatever! As long as your story is engaging and the pacing is comfortable, I don't think people will mind (or notice) if you take shortcuts.

5: I listen to specific things to help maintain a good speed while not being distracting or understimulating. During the sketch stage, I usually have something slow/instrumental going so I can focus on the little movie that plays in my head and draw what I feel like a scene would look like. It also helps not distract me from what they're saying. For tasks like lining/coming up with color schemes/reworking dialogue, I have something more stimulating playing but not like distracting, so a video essay I've already watched or fast music I already heard a lot of times. THEN for the absolute fucking slog that is the coloring stage, I blast shitty breakcore or put on an actually interesting video so I can zone out while I click my mouse ten billion times to fill in all the colors >:)

Basically, comics are funny to me because it's like a frantic fucking race to the finish line before your motivation completely abandons you. There's been a few comics where I was ABSOLUTELY sick of even looking at them, I think it was specifically "in little ways, everything stays" where the comic itself is sweet and inoffensive but OMFG. I WAS SO TIRED OF DRAWING GRASS AND REWORKING DIALOGUE. KALLAMAR AND LESHY JUST HUG IT OUT ALREADY SO I CAN STOP DRAWING.

This post probably reads like "I HATE COMICS!! I HALF ASS THEM TO GET THROUGH!!" but I really do love making them and it's kinda the only thing I like doing nowadays, so the other aspect of why I get them done fast comparatively is just that it's what I spend all my free time doing. Some comics take weeks of me working on them daily to finish them, because working on them is my main coping skill rn so it always feels worth doing. I know it can't last forever so I try to just get as many stories as I can out before my circumstances change! Maybe don't be motivated by fear of the future though. Just do these because it's fun and people love reading your comics :') I KNOW I DO

In any case- here are the lines for the beginning of the new comic, I KNOW you love the funny squid so here's mine as a kid flexing on narinder for being able to summon his crown weapon:

[fairy-spring]

The new fandom discourse has certainly been, uh… interesting.

“All LU fans are the worst and can’t read! I hate how they dominate the fandom!”

“I hate Zelda fans who say we HAVE to play the games to enjoy fandom! They’re elitist gatekeepers who probably don’t even think BotW’s a real Zelda game!”

There are things about these blorbos that can really only be gleamed from an authentic playthrough, or at the very least watching someone else play it. Screenshots and headcanon and hearsay can only go so far, and it’s a very big reason why a chunk of the fandom (myself included) recommends doing a bit of research.

It’s not elitism, and it’s not gatekeeping. I literally just want y’all to enhance your experience with the fandom by having a greater understanding of the source material.

Engaging with the Zelda fandom solely through LU is, in my eyes, like engaging with Star Trek solely through the newer movies that came out.

Are you able to understand it by itself?

Sure.

Is there a lot of context that’s missing because they’re trying to call back these things that happened in the original series and you don’t understand why everyone cares so much about Khan and these dialogue parallels but something something it happened in the old one so???????

Yeah, it’s gonna be like that, too.

Honestly I can’t even say too much about LU fans not knowing stuff about the games, because I can’t even trust the Zelda fandom IN GENERAL to actually read anything that’s happening in them either.

A good chunk of the fandom honestly takes what “elder authorities” say on it at face value. I don’t think I need to repeat the whole incident I went through last year involving a certain someone and her thesis essay on Twilight Princess full of things that flat-out did not fucking happen.

Yet, hundreds, if not thousands of guests on tumblr have seen that essay, and they take it as the big “holy shit tp was so dark” essay instead of sitting down and actually thinking about the words that were written.

But I digress.

Yeah, LU has dominated most of the fandom. Arguably the reason why we have so many linksmeetau’s is because of how much Linked Universe exploded.

Do I like it?

No.

Do I understand all the LU x Reader stuff I see everywhere or all the fanon that was made just for this AU?

Not even a little.

Does that mean I should dunk on people who do?

Absolutely not!

I of all people am in no position to talk when it comes to weird fandom things. I ship Link with an OC. My literal favorite one is FIRST HERO. Who ain’t even CANON. Everything I have for him is SHIT I MADE UP!!

But ya know what?

I still know how to fucking READ!!!!!

You know what? Fuck it, I’m taking everything back.

I AM gatekeeping!

NOBODY’S allowed to touch the Zelda fandom until they learn some god damn READING COMPREHENSION!!

I’m kidding, of course.

But seriously like. Learn your fandom.

Linked Universe isn’t the source of every headcanon ever, and Linked Universe didn’t kill your grandma, okay?

You don’t have to be freaks like me and my husband, who pore over every in-game and meta detail for the sake of an AU. But I strongly encourage everyone to watch a playthrough of other Zelda games. And if you can play them, that’s even better!

Also like.

The headcanon of ALttP Link and Zelda being siblings doesn’t belong to Linked Universe. That’s a general fandom headcanon.

Just thought I’d clear that up.

[crazywolfsthings]

I feel like people who say that Mizu wants to be a man and enjoys being one are forgetting the fact that Mizu did not choose to dress or act the way they do and was forced to do so as a child because people were looking for a girl, so their maid mom had her behave like a boy for her own safety. This was not his own choice.

And the reason why she gets upset when others insinuate that he's a woman is because women aren't allowed to do pretty much anything in their day and age, as we see when a woman is denied entrance into a town to sell goods to feed herself and her child because a man was not accompanying them.

Being a man provides them with so much more freedom and power to accomplish her goals, and if others discover he's a woman, she'll lose that freedom.

If you view him as trans, then that's fine, but you don't have the authority to say that's canon, and shouldn't get mad when others think about her as a woman or use she/her and they/them pronouns for them. If your argument is that everyone in the show uses he/him pronouns, then know that the creators of the show use she/her. All pronouns and headcanons are valid for Mizu.

[demiurgicviscera]

i am going to try to hit a lot of your points here quickly. (i am not known for my brevity) (it won’t be quick) (i’m still gonna try) (i cannot care if you personally read this as i have no control over that, but i feel it must be written nonetheless) 

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1. ���this is not a war it is tumblr” so i don’t know if you know this but, social media is full of real life living breathing humans, and we all get together and share our thoughts about the real world we live in. belittling someone addressing fascists in a tag that functions as a communication hub for a part of a marginalized community is certainly strange. 

2. “if radfems are so dangerous why have i not detransitioned or killed myself yet” is not holding a lot of weight with that self flagellating “tif” in your bio. if you are actually trans that is a pathetic level of self deprecation that i would assume being surrounded by people who tolerate you and view you as a woman surely cannot be helping. 

3. trans women who go around calling people theyfabs are people i feel solidarity with on the level of basic human rights that i will still care and fight for because those are my ethics, but otherwise want absolutely nowhere near me. unlike you, i do not tolerate people in my life who do not have sincere respect for who i am and for other vulnerable minorities. this is not a transaction for me, i do not need anything in return for me to give a shit that minorities have freedom, dignity and safety. that is not something to be revoked, period. how flimsy do you assume my ethics to be?

4. there are long histories in both trans fem/women’s communities and trans masc/men’s communities of separatism, gender and bio essentialism, radical feminism, and discriminatory practices, because the patriarchy is a pressure cooker and it takes out the weak ones, devolves them into crabs in a barrel desperately pulling down the other crabs, full of resentment from their perception that other trans groups have it easier. for every “b**ddel” (intersexist slur btw) there is a transmasc t(fem)erf, i mean, look at you. a lot of these “b**ddels” happened to be deeply hurt by trans mascs or men, had negative experiences in the community, and it drove them to exclusionary, bigoted and just deeply hateful ideologies, i’d think you’d be able to relate. 

5. “you even admit there is a ton of them, and you’ve never asked why, or called any of them terfs, or asked why they’d risk tearing the trans community apart over it?” so quick question: do you know me? hm look at that, you totally don’t. the framing you are using here is overly familiar and assumptive, and makes me think you have built up an entire idea of who i am, a stranger, without ever having questioned it, and it makes me think that you aren’t in a very discerning mindset. i have asked why, i do regard them as trans masc exclusionary radical feminists, and am often highly suspect of motivation. unfortunately the answer often ends up as petty and boring human selfishness, lack of ethical integrity, black and white thinking, ultimate victim mentality, and poor emotional developement. as is common with any branch of radical feminism. 

6. full bodily autonomy…..trans exclusive radical feminists….fascinating. so you would call not supporting teenagers and their right to choose the puberty they want to experience advocating for full bodily autonomy? supporting medical gatekeeping is advocating for full bodily autonomy? mourning trans men and mascs getting life saving surgeries and calling it mutilation is being pro bodily autonomy? what an interesting definition, sounds incredibly situational to me. 

7. you make the mistake again of over familiarity. i know radical feminism well, and can easily tell it apart from other forms of transphobia. i held radical feminist beliefs when i was a young terrified teenager who did not know that any kind of feminism could ever be bad, and i trusted it implicitly, until i looked around and saw such severe dehumanization of trans women that it stopped me in my tracks, because i knew fundamentally that no matter what, they are human beings deserving of dignity and basic human respect and safety. i have a lot of understanding for why any marginalized person may fall into separatist perspectives, and very little respect for the ones that do not have automatic breaks that get thrown on in the face of utter dehumanization of another. i did still internalize the beliefs enough that radical feminism encouraged me into thinking i was not a man, and i simply just hated being a woman under patriarchy, and i doubled down, denied myself utterly, and tried to be comfortable as a woman for six more years and at the end of it i got so sick i nearly died. it created such extreme dissonance my physical body started fully breaking down. only since starting hormones have i been getting better. it cost me more than i can say. which brings me to point eight. 

8. i am not like you. living the way you do would kill me. my health and the way you speak about yourself are in total opposition. there is nothing nonbinary in me and my relationship to my sex, i have no connection to a “female identity”, i do not identify with the term “transmasc”, i am a transsexual man plain and simple, and i would never let anything, no matter how horrible, take that from me. it is mine, and mine alone, and no experience outside of me is ever going to change that. i could be rejected by the entire trans community and though it would be frankly excruciating, it would not change who i know myself to be. you cannot relate, and therefor we are not the same. do not continue trying to appeal to me as though we are, you will not find a kindred here.

9. i did not mention you. i mentioned trans rad fems, something known in the trans community, one you are seemingly not apart of in action, as a branch of transfeminism that is reclaiming the second wave in a way that is inclusive of trans women. it trades the act of reducing someone down to their physical sex for reducing someone down to their gender, and just as terfs view trans women as “evil men” and trans men as “lost women”, trans rad fems view trans men as “evil men” and trans women as “lost women”, and in the end, as always, everyone who doesn’t agree with them, trans men and women alike, end up hurt. if you have a coin that is radical feminism, trfs are on one side, and terfs are on the other. absolutely no one was talking about self identified “trans identified females”, but you sure did confidently misunderstand that. 

10. “you all did that” hello! you are speaking to a stranger right now! i have never harassed another person before! i actually am in mad passionate love with the block button and use it religiously, note on that don’t be surprised if you end up blocked down the line, i’ll give enough time to make sure you are able to see this and read as much as you do or don’t want but past that i most likely will just want to toss your account back out into the sea of millions of people and move on. i have a very low threshold for radical feminism. specifically because i know it too well, and no longer have anything new to learn about it, and with nothing to gain, and only my time to lose, well. best to avoid it where i can. 

11. very interesting here to be called reactionary when it seems like your entire philosophy is based on a reaction. it sounds like you knew who you were, and then ended up in a very bad corner of the internet, got severely hurt, and it caused you to run into the arms of people who care about you as a woman, and you conceded as far as allowing yourself to be referred to as a, again, trans identified female. that is, definitionally reactionary. 

12. i simply aim to encourage my community to stray from infighting, and spread an overall message of steadfastness in our ethics so we can all fight for a common goal, which is gender liberation for everyone. which requires people who hate some of the identities under the trans umbrella to be blocked out. blocking is a nonviolent action that helps us keep focus on the greater common goal when voices enter the space with direct intent to cause pecking order behavior. it is not reactionary, through experience and hard lessons i have found it to be wise.

13. and lastly dude, i fucking love trans women who love and respect trans men, they are my comrades, they are beautiful and fucking precious to me, and i would not trade the stunning kind of love and care i have seen them bring over and over again in a million years, for people who care about me just because i was born with a pussy. dear god it sounds so miserable, i’d be missing out on the coolest people, that i don’t have to sacrifice any part of myself to be accepted by, what hell that would be. good god okay, waow, every single interaction i have with a radical feminist, trans exclusionary or not, continues to be ridiculously unpleasant. that’s me done now. off to contemplate how i'm spending my time lately skjhdkd

also perhaps most importantly dude, stop arguing with a child in my notifications, it's weird as shit. they're a kid and you're an adult fucking act like it please.

uvb76fan is posting in this tag talking about all the ways trans men have it “worse”, while misrepresenting the statistic she is citing. most likely banking on no one looking closer or reading the links.

this person is a terf. if you search trans on her blog it is immediately clear, i am not using terf loosely she is literally actually a terf.

we cannot let our weariness at not being heard by some of our community push us into the sick and malformed arms of transmisogyny and radical feminism, these people do not care about us at all, they are trying to harm every single one of us. our solidarity with trans women, men and people as whole should cause us to slam hard on the breaks. no matter how many trans women you see being antitransmasculine it does not mean that there are not so many more who are our genuine allies, do not let the algorithm pushing hateful person after hateful person your way skew your understandings. the transphobes want dissent, they want us to tear each other apart. we do not need to contribute to the harm to have ours lessened. (causing harm to a vulnerable minority is never morally correct no matter what got you there in the first place. also straight up trans women are easy to love and are inherently deeply deserving of community solidarity, and fascism (which terfs are) should not have any appeal whatsoever no matter how hurt you are but i digress.)

on another note: we cannot and must not reactively take on the mentalities of trans rad fems, no gender in the trans community needs to be the most oppressed to be taken seriously and given respect in our community, the equality in our suffering is immense and must be acknowledged without each group needing to prove we are the most victimized to get the care and community support we need. this is harmful no matter who is doing it. we absolutely must nip this kind of thinking in the bud.

push back on terfs in this tag everywhere you can, and if there is a reason you cannot comment or reblog to shut them down, block them on sight.

[leviachanbaka]

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[br1ghtestlight]

i like to think fan's cellphone/laptop actually does connect to the Real World internet through whatever meeple nonsense and so post-finale he's like one of their only actual connections to concepts in the real world and learning about it. and every week theyve got him googling some bullshit like "what is kitchen sink" pic related

[sableeira]

once the anime is out if I see anyone talk a bad word about my girl Agott it’s on sight

[sonknuxadow]

I’m honestly surprised that people are saying Keanu reeves is a bad choice despite the popular fan discussions about it. Where I’m at in the internet, he’s considered a good choice and people were excited.

i cant speak for everyone obviously but ive always thought he was a bad choice for shadow ever since the idea started going around 2 years ago. because from what ive heard personally he doesnt really sound like shadow + i hate it when big movie stars are given voice acting roles in movie adaptations just to have a big name attached to the project even if theyre not good for the role. and this definitely feels like that. back in the day people were only saying he should be shadow NOT because his voice actually fits but because hes an edgy action guy or whatever and movie sonic is canonically a fan of him/his movies and they could make jokes out of that. and i feel like thats Still what a lot of peoples reasoning is which annoys me because shadow isnt just an edgy action guy and i dont think his voice should be chosen based on a joke of all things especially if the voice isnt fitting enough to justify it

not gonna say my opinion is the most popular but i know that there are a lot of people who agree with me on this, or at the very least are unsure about it. a lot of people dont want him

[dariasonlinedairy]

today was the last day of some bookfest at school and at this bookfest, you could buy books at a very low price, and also coloring books and lots of kids from my class got themselfs cool books and coloring books at a very low price (less than 5$ most of them) and i am feeling so left out and sad because i didn't had the money to buy any of them and my fucking parents already said that i have enough books to read but most of them are just boring and i wanna cry. why do i always need to be the one who cannot do anything fun or fit in because i don't have the money or opportunity to do anything

[softgothbabe]

We're you actually diagnosed, or did you self-diagnose like everyone on the internet in the last 4 years. There's real people who are actually on the spectrum that feel even more invisible when people start claiming the spectrum because it's trendy

"There's real people who are actually on the spectrum."

Yeah, me, you presumptuous irrelevant asshole.

Why is it that any time someone speaks up about their experiences, people like you crawl out of the woodwork to demand Proof that we're Not Like THOSE People, otherwise we're invalid?

Do you have any idea what kinds of hoops you have to jump through to get an autism diagnosis? It's a process. And people don't owe you Proof, physical or verbal or whatever, regardless. Period.

For your insolent information, yes, I have a fucking autism diagnosis. I was diagnosed as an adult after spending years and years not understanding what the fuck was going on with me. After many misdiagnoses, as well, since I was Going Thru It for years and have a lot of comorbidities. I don't owe you my life story.

Getting your mental health and general brain/body shit figured out is rarely straightforward and often exhausting and can also impact you socially. A lot of people in someone's life may not be understanding. Maybe someone like you, anon?

I don't normally entertain this shit, but goddamn, this hit a nerve. You're not the Diagnosis Police. I don't vibe with your gatekeeping.

[babieken]

Hi Niki! Questions for you: is there animosity between kmbb and imbb the same way there seems to be for a lot of fan groups in kpop?

hi anon!!!!! tbh I can't say for sure because I haven't been around from the beginning and also I'm not that deep into those spaces where these kinds of conflicts usually happen, so I'm probably gonna tag a couple of older mutuals who might be able to answer ur question more accurately, but I will say my own two cents.

from what i've gathered since ulting mx I can tell you that there is definitely some conflict and tension going on between the korean side and the intl side but in comparison to some other fandoms i've seen i'd say it's a bit milder. i feel like the two sides mostly ignore each other unless there is major thing going on. like for example i think (again, i wasn't there and im just relaying what ive heard over the years) during the whole wonho situation in 2019 was one of the times kmbb and intl clashed bc from what ive heard, the majority of the stans who wanted wonho out were korean while most intl stans were supporting wonho and wanted him to stay/get back in mx. also everytime monsta x has overseas schedules there are a group of kmbb who really whine and complain about not breathing the same air as mx for two days (at one point some members addressed it and kinda scolded them for their behaviour during their world tour).

( @timetominhyuk @lesbiheon id love to hear u guys' thoughts on this if you wanna share them!!! feel free to rb and add to the post!!)

[clearallcathy]

i guess it Is possible to get press on nails to last a pretty long time but like why would you

[slingbats]

tbh ive been stuck in the same spot in my writing for about 2 weeks and if i dont figure something out passively without putting any effort into it soon i'm going to give up, which is even more frustrating

[genderqueerdykes]

btw 'syscourse' and plural infighting isn't accomplishing anything. back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the only communities and resources for plurals that were widely available were for and by non-traumagenic systems. the only people who were advocating for normalizing and accepting plurality on a large scale were non-traumagenic systems. if you did research into plurality 10 - 15 years ago, most of the results that came up would have been experiences written by spiritual and natural plurals.

many people at the time were expressing their dislike of forcing every single plural to identify as if they had trauma- many found this insulting to themselves, and rightfully so! no one should be forced to identify in a way they don't agree with just to rightfully be a part of a community they already occupy. this obsession with "you can only be plural if you have trauma" has only come about extremely recently. i found out about plurality through the otherkin community. i was actually told about DID by someone in the spiritual plurality community. people don't seem to understand that most non-traumagenic systems have respect for traumagenic systems and don't gatekeep their spaces to prevent us from entering.

older plural spaces on the web like healthymultiplicity accepted all plurals. the goal of the community was to show that you can live as plural and not have it be a tragedy or something to "fix". if anything, folks with dissociative disorders owe a LOT to non-traumagenic systems for pushing to normalize plurality without implying that we HAVE to integrate our headmates and try to stop being plural. a huge part of the early online plural community was there to push that plurals can and do live happy lives and shouldn't view their plurality as a bad thing

it's not going to make singlet society see us in a better light. it's not going to get people to understand plurality better. it's not going to get us better mental health resources. it's not going to improve the quality of care for dissociative and traumagenic systems. all you're doing is bullying someone else that you don't understand simply because you don't agree with them.

you're not going to recover from your trauma or understand your own plurality better by denying the existence of other types of plurality. you're not "making the community safer" by gatekeeping. telling other people how their brains work is policing their identities. whether or not you want to accept it, if you forcefully kick endos out of plural spaces, you are the cop you claim to hate.

fighting with people on your own team will never net you a victory. to every other dissociative and traumagenic system: endos are on your side. you are wearing the same jersey. you are made of the same flesh and blood. enough. come together to share your similarities instead of fighting over differences. celebrate the diversity that plurality offers. don't take someone else's identity personally. someone can share the space with you without having to match exactly how you identify. diversity is what makes a community thrive.