#because fictives are not and never will be their source

[god1sr3al]

Some of you need to remember you are NOT your fucking source, dear god, just. Stop. It's fucking annoying.

You can be attached to it, sure, but you have to remember that you can't be straight up crazy about it and insist to people you are the character. You don't decide what's canon just because of your source. You can't decide what the character genuinely likes or Dislikes or whatever.

You can headcanon it, absolutely

You can't go around telling people you are the character so you decide what's canon

[fossys]

Shoutout to any other introjects who are scared to mention their source in fear of judgement from other ppl from their source or people who enjoy their source

[wonderhorror-sys]

i love talking to my alters

[syunkiss]

i hate that people avoid calling me chuuya in purpose

just like. idc if you dont like the fact i am a fictive fuck you. but if youre going to treat me badly because of that just dont be my friend ???

[selfspinninglies]

Headcanon that Light sleeps with socks on so during Yotsuba when they go bed Light sees L lay down without socks and L sees Light lay down with socks and they're both disgusted at eachother

[systemofshadow]

any other systems / collectives / etc have alters / facets / headmates / etc who come out literally Just to do a bit. like the commitment to the bit is what they're here for

[nexus-nebulae]

ok so like we've spent since easter caring for a little headmate that we hadn't seen in a while. and everybody in the front rotation was a little confused on how to for a bit bc none of us have rlly interacted with children younger than 15. so. for the past three or four days we've gradually had a cohort of 7-11 year old boys from the depths of headspace who haven't fronted in years gathering to all Befriend This Kid like they're just coming out of the woodwork-

[waves-mp3]

introjecting really badly to the point i am curled up in bed because the thought of existing in this world, in this body, and in this mind is too much to handle right now

[the-clowncar]

I can not live laugh love in these conditions

[blue-brain-system]

Help girl (gn) our new headmate is sourcebound and consistently Going Through It

[adoseofdidreality]

also my blog name wasnt to pretend to be you but to make fun of your username because i think "a dose of did reality" (or even a "a DIDose of reality") is funnier than didadoseofreality

genuinely just replace the word DID with "the shot" or something wild and "a dose of reality" can become a really clever pun for antovaxxers. i think if the op is actually an antivaxxer they can steal that idea and try to come up with a better primary title to be followed by the subtitle "a dose of reality" :P

it would all be really silly shouty lies by an old man/woman/erson who's scared of The Furries Oh my Gosh!!! and it's hillarious

[foxflowershrine]

hey, small psa:

fictives are just people. you wouldn't walk up to a person you saw on the news once while they're having dinner and say "holy shit guys it's Jimothy Cumwomble, great job on stopping that armed robbery, sorry your brother died in the process". that would be completely socially unacceptable - you'd be butting in on their life, overstepping not just their boundaries but basic social decency, and bringing up potentially traumatic life events. it's rude, infantilizing, and potentially directly harmful. so why would you do the same to a fictive just because you know, or think you know, their source?

and that's not to say "never bring up a fictive's source to them", plenty of fictives enjoy talking about their sources! but there's a little thing called tact. you can ask whether they're okay with talking about it, or join in on a conversation where they already are, even just a "hey if you don't mind could we chat about your source" would go a long way. but suddenly changing the topic to their source not just without warning but by singling them out as "weird" or "interesting" and saying things about their source that would never be appropriate to say to a singlet about their past is not cool.

TLDR, a fictive existing in a public space is not an excuse to single them out, put a spotlight on them, and bring up potentially traumatic parts of their history just because you think their source is neat. have a little common sense about timing and approach, or just let them exist in peace.

[the-galaxy-sys]

SCREAMING SOBBING THIS IS SO CUTE the heart on the sneakers!! and the knee caps!!!! this is amazing??????? if i could do that wing flap stim emoji from cjfs on here i would just pretend it's at the end of this message

could we maybe see the heart design even if you don’t like it very much….

yeah sure! i think this is at least a month - month and a half old at this point. and yeah i’m not sure i like it very much ..

probably gonna end up redoing it with a different pose

[frameacloud]

Fictionfolk aren't necessarily fans of their fictional sources

by Orion Scribner, January 24, 2025

For fictionkin, fictives, fictional introjects, fictionflickerers, fictherians, and other sorts of fictionfolk and people who have experiences of deeply personal connections to fiction, one's source in fiction is not necessarily one's favorite story or something that one "vibes" with.

Many fictionfolk feel uncomfortable reading, watching, or playing their source because it feels uncanny to see their truth turned into pretend entertainment, or because the canon feels like it got things half right and half wrong, or how it portrays them. That can feel sort of like seeing something misreported on the news that you know didn't happen like that, or overhearing strangers talking about your private life. For people whose memories from another world turn out to be similar to a piece of fiction in this world, one can feel uneasy about the mystery of how that happened.

Some fictionfolk participate in the fandoms for their sources... carefully. Fans can get uncomfortably personal if you say you are one of the characters, so fictionfolk often choose not to talk about that in fandom spaces, only in alterhuman spaces. Seeing how fans reinterpret you in art and discourse can bring up all sorts of feelings. Some fictionfolk decide they won't look at their source's fandom.

There are fictionfolk who wish they didn't feel that connection to that piece of fiction. There are fictionfolk whose source is a story they always disliked or found offensive. Maybe they have a lot of thoughtful criticism, or maybe it simply feels disagreeable to them. Sometimes recognizing one's connection to fiction starts with exploring why a story bothers you so much.

There are fictionfolk who dislike the authors of their sources.

Some fictionfolk are experts on their fictional sources. There are also fictionfolk who recognized that their memories and feelings have the strongest similarity to a piece of fiction that they have had never even watched and would prefer to never watch. Or they watched just enough of it to recognize it and then "nope out" on watching the rest.

Funnily enough, it turns out that feeling a profound connection with a piece of fiction doesn't have to come along with liking the piece of fiction at all.

[solanumflare]

i don't know if I'm the only one who thinks this but I wish it was normal ettiquite to upon meeting a fictive ask how they'd like to be treated, if they are okay with source talk, how they want to be viewed. because sometimes there's people who equate fictives to their source and some of us don't like that. and then there's people who never mention source and some of us don't like that either. normalize actually asking a fictive what their boundaries and feelings are goddamit

some of us want to talk about source forever and ever and ever. some of us want to lurk while other people talk about it (don't end conversations about source if we show up!! aaa!!) some of us only want to talk about source if we initiate the conversation. some of us don't even want to think about that shit. some of us are okay with parts of source and will throw our phone across the room if other parts so much as get mentioned.

it would be so, so nice if we could share those preferences. or we were asked for them.

[mortarcomments]

fictionkin & fictive ask game!!

/pt: fictionkin & fictive ask game!! end of pt/

i really want to explore my identities a bit more so i decided to make my own ask game! feel free to reblog, please send an ask to whoever you reblogged it from if you can, and enjoy!

this doesn’t follow an emoji/number system because i find those hard to keep track of. questions below!

What do you think of fan works? (Such as fanfiction, fanart, etc.)

What do you think of your in-source family/friends? (A brother, a best friend, etc. that is close to who you were/are!)

What does fandom get right and/or wrong? (Such as gender or pronoun headcanons, or portrayals in fanfiction and fanart!)

Do you like the name you got in source, or do you go by a different one?

Do you own any merch from your source? If not, would you like to?

What do you remember from your past in-source, and does it align with canon media?

Do you dislike your source? Does anything in it bother you? (Such as the portrayal of a friend!)

What does canon media get right and/or wrong about you? (Or, how different are you from canon?)

What did you look like?

How did you find out you were/are this/these character/s?

Is there anything canon never showed that you remember happening?

Do you have any memories you visit a lot?