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citizenoftmrrwlnd · 1 year ago
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fashion for : mary (ib; fictive) in a feminine style with a few warmer elements requested by 🎼🎨anon
necktie/scarf | shawl | shoes | earmuffs legwarmers | hair clip | petticoat | dress
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buntress · 6 months ago
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❝ Fabricworldhearthic // hearthome ❞
[PT :: Fabricworldhearthic // hearthome]
A hearthic term for when ones hearthome is the Fabricated World from the horror RPG game, Ib.
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For :: @cocajimmycola's 1k coining event! Day 6 :: bastardcore / dollcore / liminal space Hearthic By :: @astrophellian Note :: Been thinking about Ib a lot and specifically the character Mary. It was one of my first ever horror games I played and I felt an immediate connection to Mary as a character. So I wanted to make something for all my Mary's out there, ily <3
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Archive Tagging :: @radiomogai @kin-flags
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Taglist :: @genderdenied @mimiscoiningcafe @discrophy @horrgores @smilepilled
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the-skybrary · 9 months ago
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Systems with food allergies/sensitivities, where you at?
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pi-kin-ic · 2 years ago
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Mary ( Ib ) stimboard with baking and science stims foar anon !! :D 💛 🖼 🌹 💚 🖍 🩵 📚 🔪 🎨
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solitairesys · 1 year ago
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mary (ib) mood board
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ccruelgods · 1 year ago
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i dont need the paintbooks, the dolls and the dresses
just tell me why youve left your pictures and gone
(w.i.p)
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ruifictiveapproved · 1 year ago
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is there water you can easily get to drink from where you are? it may help with the vomit. (if there is, take small sips of it)
tthere isnt, sorru
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st4rvinginpiltover · 5 months ago
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I've slain greater, and moved on.
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˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Ashley, any pronouns (including it/its and vi/vir)˚ · . 16 years old fictive in a DID system. disabled, queer Puerto Rican currently in America. strong opinions on most discourse, but anyone is free to interact if you don't fit my DNI below. I'm back after a re/lapse. I am 100% pro recovery, and will post harm reduction content. stats/tags under the cut!
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(MDNI/NSFW blogs, anti-shippers, 18+ and/or pro-c MAPs, and anyone in recovery please block me <3)
⭑ ✩ black widow - main text tag ⭑ ✩ I ain't gonna scream - asks ⭑ ✩ shed your knuckle velvet - vents, usually 3d related ⭑ ✩ pale shadow of a woman - b/c tag or just selfies ⭑ ✩ the devil I know - @c4rnaleyes ⭑ ✩ to be in heaven - Belladonna (friend tag)
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height : 5'3.3/163cm cw : 90Ibs hw : 99lbs/45kg lw : 82 Ibs/37 kg gw1 : 80 Ibs/36 kg gw2 : 70 Ibs/31 kg gw3 : 60 Ibs/27 kg ugw : 55 Ibs/25kg
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himitsu-no-kyori · 2 months ago
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HELLO EVERYNAN ☆
I’m Mizuki aka Amia aka Cutest Girl In The Whole World <3333 Welcome to my side blog where I’ll probably just talk about cats and bother my groupmates (especially Enanan) because why not!!
Pro endo anti syscourse etc
I’m a fictive & I like sourcemates!!! Psst psst talk to meeeee!!!!
Call me a femboy and I’m killing you with hammers.
Anyway here are my tags!!
#MIZUKI.TXT - speaking tag
#MIZUKI.RB - reblogging tag
Outside of cats I also love fashion, anime about magical girls and RPG Maker games (especially if they’re horror-related; think of IB, The Witch’s House, etc)
Main is @the-outer-wilds :))
My gf is @the-stellar-pianist 💕
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somniativesect · 11 months ago
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introduction:
hello...! we're the somniative sect, a pluralpunk chimeric traumaendo + creagenic system. we're 23 irl, and diagnosed schizoaffective. we have dissociative symptoms that we're discussing currently with a therapist and psych soon in case they're diagnosable since they do cause us struggles, but overall we believe that plurality can be a wonderful experiece of internal teamwork and partnership, and we accept systems of all types + dislike harassment.
our main poster is reva (they/it), a facet of sammie (she/he) who is a frontstuck median with a few other facets who we'll be doing intros for too.
here we'll generally be posting about ourselves in a journal-y manner, posting about system and alterhuman stuff, and maybe some fandom content thrown in.
content warnings + discourse opinions:
we dont tend to tag for triggers so be warned that there is a blanket content warning on this blog for possible discussion of irl trauma of multiple types (incl. sexual assault/rape, of which we r a survivor of multiple instances), irl homelessness (also a survivor of this), hard drug recovery (we r sober now) as well as potential discussion of hard kinks like consensual nonconsent. due to the amount of subjects such as these, as well as general personal preferences, we prefer that minors do not engage with us.
we believe that as long as you're not actively trying to &/or actually causing harm to ppl then you're fine to do as you please. we are profiction/proship, pro-endo, anti-harassment, anti-terf, anti-sysmed, and pro-para + anti-contact for harmful paras.
it is your choice whether you follow us or not, so if we dont want you interacting with us we will simply block you. thanks for understanding..!!
read more about us below:
members of the somniative sect:
[ median subsystem ] sammie 🐶🔎 (she/he): I've got a wonderful irl partner system named Maxine (he/she) and I love him with my whooole heart. Other than that, I mostly spend my time studying psychology, the occult, and religion. I'm an energy worker, and agnostic-ish.
[ facet ] reva 💜💤 (they/it): hiii...im pretty fun i think. i like to listen 2 lofi, read a lot, nd i'm always very sleepy eheh
[ facet ] honey 🌞🍯 (she/they): hello. i'm the one who tend to push us towards healing and growing here, tending towards introspective hobbies such as journaling and engaging in productive dialogues within our system or with our partner. i always try to be compassionate and a good listener.
[ facet ] gears ⚙️⛓️ (they/she): gatekeeper mechanism who decides who gets to front or if any new system members can be formed. slowwwwly learning how to relax about that, heh.
[ headmate ] nephrys 🦄💙 (she/her): hehehehe i fINALLY have a place to post nowww. i'm nephrys!!! i'm like if a unicorn was a loli :] i like nature and cuddling!!!
[ fictive ] dirk 🧡⚔️ (he/him): Welp. Giving this a shot. I don't usually like announcing when I'm fronting. I do a lot in the background of the system here, such as holding negative/childhood emotions, being the voice of reason, and helping everyone else express themselves in a way that is most suitable to them.
[ tulpa ] murphy 💗📞 (she/they): hi.........i like reading problematic stuff, i'm a lil shy about it though eheh. i'm slowly learning my way around life, but i'm pretty optimistic !
[ fictive ] techie 🐷🗡️ (he/they)
our main blog is @quoiperson and follows/likes will come from there!!
fandoms that we like:
homestuck (incl. hs^2, pesterquest & hiveswap friendsim)
hazbin hotel & helluva boss
inside out & inside out 2
ib
the magnus archives
dsmp
the ghost & molly mcgee
gravity falls
murdered: soul suspect
ace attorney
omori
sam & max: freelance police
steven universe & future
undertale
we know the devil
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killjoyrequests · 2 years ago
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Welcome to the Zones, killjoy!
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I'm Riot, the one and only mod of this blog as of right now! I use lots of pronouns, but my go-to are it/its and hy/hymn. I'm starting this blog to mainly fulfill requests for age and pet regression, fictionkin, otherkin, and fictives, but any sort of character or animal themed request is a-okay! I will mainly focus on shufflemancy, playlist requests, song suggestions, Pokemon teams, validation/positivity, and name/pronoun suggestions, but may occasionally do moodboards, stimboards, and icons! More info including the rules and source blacklist are under the cut.
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My top kins are Party Poison, Sal Fisher, and Karkat Vantas, so expect some self indulgent things being dropped onto the blog relating to those occasionally.
Blacklist: Hetalia/countryhumans/etc. Proship/comship/similar beliefs or ships Kobra Kid x Party Poison Age play/ABDL/DDLG/etc. Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss (for personal comfort) Alfred's Playhouse You treat the killjoys like they're the band MCR (personal comfort again)
I have no set source list, and asides from the blacklist I'll do whatever I can for any request I get! However, below are the sources I'm most aware of and therefore will be able to complete most quickly and accurately: Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys Homestuck Sally Face Cats Musical Lego Monkie Kid Bendy And The Ink Machine Cuphead Sonic the Hedgehog Yu-Gi-Oh! Ib MILGRAM Ghost and Pals Pokemon Vocaloid Madoka Magica Fullmetal Alchemist Tags you should be aware of: #⚠️ | the radio : for anything that isn't a request! Chatting with people in the asks, rambling, etc etc. #⚠️ | important broadcast : for news about the blog, including announcements about the inbox, current status on requests, and anything else that might be important #⚠️ | answered call : for any completed requests! #⚠️ | on hold : for any requests I am denying for the time being until I am able to complete them. Will usually supply a reason for the wait And more to be added! Asides from those, all requests will be filed under the tag corresponding with that specific request (ie; "#⚠️ | shufflemancy")
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All that aside, welcome to the blog and thanks for dropping by the Zones! We hope to see you around, tumbleweed.
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fictionkinfessions · 2 years ago
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Hehe I don't normally send anything to this blog but Hii I'm Ib!!! I love Garry and Mary but you wanna know who I love just as equally.. the ant!!! I love him soo much I think he deserved more justice than one scene! I've always liked bugs cause of him and I try to save every bug that I can cause I think they all deserve compassion and love just like we do if the bug isn't trying to harm you, just like people :3 I wanna kiss every bug but they are so small and I am so big and I don't wanna hurt them so I just gotta watch them go and live in spite of it all, just like people :3 (please tag as fictive! Thank youuu)
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schizoclock · 2 months ago
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I Love how all of my other clockwork fictive friends (it’s like 2 people) are also schizophrenic ocd IBS bpd npd System Warriors 🔥🔥
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galrakit · 3 months ago
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🩵🎐 ៸៸ little fishie ' s nursery ៸៸ 。 。 。 ☆
hi hi hi !! um !! this is a post that's just gonna be me gushing about my fictional cgs n how i see them n our relationship. im a little shy about them tbh ,, if you want a full post on anyone lemme know n id be honored to talk more about them !!
the text format will go name ( fandom ) 🐚 relationship type n then below that will be my babbling hehe. since this s a personal post, reblogs r off on purpose!!
i mght add onto this post over time... but no promises c:
☆ last update : march 22 / 2025 !
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korekiyo shiinguji ( drv3 ) 🐚 romantic f/o , caregiver
WAH... KIYO I LOVE YOU KIYO.... kiyo's been a big BIIIIG comfort to me ever since i started kinnin shuichi (which was over six years ago now. omg. points @ myself in a mirror. old /j) n got more into danganronpa in general... i see him as a very comforting, calm, rational cg... the kinda guy i can bawl my eyes out too n he'll let me cry it out n then he'll wipe my tears and make me sip some water while he talks the problem out with me ,, <3
i call him kiyo or kiki or just ki, n i like to think ab him callin me his little detective, or blueberry, or smth cute n simple. little one, little light, dear... he strikes me as the kinda guy that would say darling too ehhfehgeh<333
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thel 'vadam ( halo ) 🐚 familial f/o, caregiver
ik that in halo sangheili dont raise their own children. however. thel would be soooo good with kids. hes patient and kind n even though im not one of his kind, he'd never let anyone treat me differently. he'd make sure i know to honor myself n the land an people around me, n whenever he has to be a diplomat or is busy, he reminds me that he'll always come back. customary attempts at assassination have NOTHING on the arbiter who took down an intergalactic cult!! i think id call him thel or arby, n he'd call me youngling or little one. maybe little human but i dont see myself as particularly humanoid so that ones iffy. but little one and youngling for sure <3
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brant ( wuwa ) 🐚 unsure type ,, but caregiver !!
ok. so. brant's a new addition... but i wanna like. shake him like a ragdoll I LOVE HIM SO MUCH?? hes good for when im feelin adventureous! we go on walks together and he'll carry me on his shoulders or on his hip. we dance around to music he knows and will sing me, n he does funny tricks to cheer me up. whenever i fall he doesn't panic, he laughs and asks what happened, so that if i cry, he knows its because im hurt, not because im scared. no matter why m cryin though, he wipes my tears away and gives me a kiss on the forehead, n promisesme that it'll be okay <33 i call him baba or just his name, n he calls me little one, seastar, or any number of show/theatre related nicknames hehe, i think he'd really like showstopper n little light or little star... hwafhehah<33
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akechi ( p5 ) 🐚 um. complicated. but cg/babysitter ?
so. unfortunately this one's kinda hard to explain ,, one of my partners who ive been datin since like. 2021 is an akechi fictive. so in that sense, akechi is very much a romantic f/o to me caus i look at him and i go "omg that's my trickfriend !!!" but also i love the theory of akechi an futaba being half siblings and i kin futaba so. um. do you see why. yea. yeah ok. so im gonna give this guy two (2!!!) sections to explain both dynamics. he's special. god's specialist little dammit doll. he would probably stab me for saying that okay HAFHWEHAFH
when im not shifting futaba, akechi is a very... calm, quiet kind of cg. he'd keep me entertained w little tasks or crafts or convince me to read instead of playin video games or watchin youtube all day. id curl up against him or put my head in his lap and nap while he does schoolwork or stuff for his detective job. he also absolutely keeps me on a very strict meal schedule. this is ib m partner thats an akechi fictive LOVING to cook so i. yea. yeah hed. yup. i think id call him ake, crow, birdie, or kechi... as for what he'd call me.... that's a secret for my trickfriend and i >:3
when i AM in a futaba kinshift, akechi s very. tired older brother who doesnt wanna deal with his little sister but also would yell at ppl for hurting her. those vibes, yknow? akira probably convinced him to take care of me for the day, n once we warm up to each other, i can talk his ear off about video game mechanics n he tells me about mystery novels he's read. we might watch tv or maybe read together. he never forces me to leave the house/leblanc if i dont wanna, but he does make sure i eat n goads me into trying new things, even if i dont realize he's doing it. if i get overwhelmed or upset, he's the first to drag me out of the situation and get me a comfort item and coach my breathing until m calm again. i dont think wed use any cute names for each other, but i might end up calling him kechi or bird boy hehe
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akira ( p5r ) 🐚 siblings , babysitter
MY BROTHERRRR WAHHHH hes so nice to me! he knows how stressed i get leaving my safe spaces n neeeever ever forces my hand! he'll take me to a corner store or smth to buy snacks and fun drinks, and then we go back to leblanc, have curry w our snacks, and then we go watch tv or play games together in his room in the attic >:) or sojiro would let him come over to our place n i tell him ab my collections n we read my books together n play co op games on my consoles until m tired and wanna nap. i call him aki or kira, or key (cause hes my key item!!) n he calls me cherry (because sakura blossoms -> cherry blossoms!) or "ora" as a joke ab my codename mwehehe >:)
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elevatorensemble · 1 year ago
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hi were the elevator ensemble
we're a fictive heavy system and we're here to make singlets mad
here's some quick info
╭━━━━━━☆★ : ELEVATOR ENSEMBLE
╰→ ❥ ₊˚ ♾️꒱꒱ collective info
ㆍ✧ body name﹕Finn
ㆍ✧ body age﹕19 (08/14/2004)
ㆍ✧ collective pronouns﹕they/it
ㆍ✧ orientation﹕white
ㆍ✧ gender﹕afab
╰ ╴╴╴╴╴╴ও ₊˚ ·̩͙。╮
༄ system info˙ ﹅
ㆍ✧ year formed﹕2012
ㆍ✧ type﹕traumagenic, CDID
╰ ╴╴╴╴╴╴⏝꒷۰。╮
꒷ other info𓆩♡𓆪
ㆍ✧ other suspected disorders﹕OCD, BPD, autism, CPTSD, depression
ㆍ✧ misc﹕tics, IBS, nerve damage, ramcoa survivor
ㆍ✧ DNI: basic DNI criteria (homophobia, sexism, racism, etc.), proshippers, abusers, endogenic systems
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our simplyplural is elevatorensemble
our discord is coolputer. , mostly ran by infected
the block button will be used freely ☆
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winreyplace · 10 days ago
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Thank you for this AWESOME rebuttal write-up in regards to that terrible strawpage’s info. You did a good job addressing many of the points, not too dissimilar from some I addressed in my “Soulbonding is not just Metaphysical/Spiritual” post.
I’d love to add some things from my own research, if I may? I've been a soulbonder for over 8 years along with my partner, and I've found SO many archived links around soulbonding, and am also listed as a co-helper on the info carrd that @the-soulbonded-teaparty made.
Multiplicity and Soulbonding So Ib-Lee has a really good post on the history of soulbonding that kind of goes into how it went from non-multiple to multiple. There was originally a decent amount of animosity between the early multiplicity community and soulbonders, with the early multiplicity community making mocking parody blogs around soulbonding and dismissing them, and the early soulbonding community having their own problematic sanist and ableist opinions and misinformed ideas around multiplicity as well.
It's true that Livejournal was when the two communities truly started intermingling and talking with each other though. There are some good essays that were originally part of Pavillion Hall that talks about the relationships between soulbonding and multiplicity that are worth looking at. Some soulbonders even dropped the soulbonding label altogether and claimed multiple instead (and later on, plural) and that is *how* the terms fictive and headmate (headmate link 2) became part of the plural community even when they both originated in the soulbonding community. I will say, by my research, there were and are some soulbonding experiences that I'd say aren't all comparable to multiplicity. There were soulbonders that had no direct relationship or communication with their soulbonds (as it's an option to pick from in the old SB code). There were some soulbonders with experiences most similar to immersive daydreaming (which some immersive daydreamers might be plural, but that's neither here nor there). There were some soulbonds that weren't sentient or autonomous, having no or only partial free will, but still were considered soulbonds too. There are some interesting experiences on the kurai forum, the Soulbond Sanctuary forum, and on this archive of the SB database that are interesting to read about and cover a wide range of experiences! There is also my old post talking about some reasons why a soulbonder might not identify as plural. Regardless though, soulbonding and plurality will ALWAYS be cousins, siblings, peers, and connected to each other. Anti-endo soulbonders should not be a thing, imao.
Tulpamancy and Soulbonding
I have the suspicion that when soulbonders dropped the soulbonding label, for whatever reason, some did not pick up the multiple/plural label and instead joined up with the tulpamancy community. Regardless, there has been a lot of overlap between soulbonding and tulpamancy. On tulpa.io, a tulpamancy forum that has existed since ~2010, there are a number of soulbonding threads to read from, some that are recent and some dating back to 2012. The r/tulpas subreddit also has a lot of overlap and discussions on soulbonding, with the oldest soulbonding related post going back 11 years ago. Most tulpamancers consider [psychological] soulbonding and tulpamancy to have no or minimal differences between them, as they both fall under "thoughtforms". But those who have both tulpas and soulbonds (whether psychological or metaphysical) seem to discern a lot more differences existing. There is also such a thing and possibility as soulbond-tulpa hybrids, called tulbonds (though only a few have picked up that specific term for it). I and my partner actually have 3 tulbonds as part of our soulbonding family.
Multiverse Theory and Soulbonding
While it is true, as indicated by the soulbonding tripod link, that the multiverse was a theory for soulbonding since even the early days, it was not exclusive, and by all my research, soulbonding, was not intended to be purely spiritual/metaphysical and that there was some regrets in making it sound as such. Fromfiction (aka fictionkin.org aka soulbonder.tumblr.com) does seem to be the one responsible for presenting it as exclusively metaphysical/spiritual for the first time, around 2015-2016. It seems they briefly mentioned the theory of mental originating soulbonds here, but all the rest of their content has always distinguished soulbonds as spirits from 'somewhere else', even saying tulpas are what you have if the soulbond didn't come from 'somewhere else'.
Yumeshipping and Soulbonding
While some soulbonders since even the early days of the community definitely had intimate and romantic relationships with their soulbonds (e.g. the site headvoices talking of their soulbond husband), that has never been across the board the case and was a little uncommon to find. It is a little irksome that the selfshipping/yumeshipping/waifuism community has hopped head first into soulbonding in such a way as to tie the communities more explicitly together and give the implication that all soulbonds are romantic in nature or that they are synonymous with yumeshipping. To be fair, I do see a lot of the new soulbonders try to say "hey soulbonding is not yumeshipping/being a riako" or try to distinguish themselves from that experience, but many of them still openly intermingle with the yumeship community, bring over habits that are culturally a part of the yumeship community (like the concept of "non-sharing" and the aesthetics), crosstag their posts under both communities, and I've seen yumeship Discord servers pop-up on Twitter that accept soulbonds too, so it's all still messily connecting them together.
I don't think discovering you are [metaphysically] soulbonded to your yumeship f/os is wrong or anything, I can definitely see that happening, but optically, I do wish formerly-yumeshipper soulbonders were more careful with optically connecting the concepts, intentionally or unintentionally. But that's more of a gripe than a "debunking" or "rebuttal". ---
So there, just a couple more links and info to support the OP's post. Thanks again for your work, especially that Livejournal mirror 👀 Going to need to look through that for the archives.
I finally looked at that soulbonding strawpage so it's time to disprove it. Feel free to link this if this discourse ever comes up over there I don't really care
This is also highlights why you really shouldn't trust anything presenting itself as an informational resource that doesn't have sources. Don't worry everyone, I spent way too long going through websites that were made for a monitor the size of a shoebox to get them
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so the reason is moreso that the term system wasn't known to the soulbonding community at the time and it's a case of two separately developed communities. Think like otherkin and therian developed separately but started to share terms later.
Unfortunately, LiveJournal was being a bitch, and the soulbonding LJ was not archived well. Thankfully I did find a mirror that let me search, and here are the earliest results.
The most blatant one is sourced 08.07.03: "(I have SoulBonds, and one could say I'm part of a multiple-ish system. It's *not* DID, though. I guess most of you know about empowered multiplicity and SBing anyway.)"
You can find a lot more references to soulbonds as systems from around this time too! and nothing really saying they aren't systems (even in early accounts of discourse).
You also have this essay, likely from around that time, that discusses directly this combining between soulbonding and multiplicity.
"If you look through the annals of history, you'll notice that much of the soulbonding community thought itself very far removed from plurality, and the multiple community out there didn't even address soulbonding at all. Recently, all of this has been changing very quickly. Now, you don't have to look very hard to find multiple systems who admit to soulbonding, or soulbonders who have acknowledged themselves as multiple."
(Also "Hopefully in a year or two, we'll be writing another essay called 'Our Thoughts on the New Friendship Between the Multiple and Soulbonding Communities.'" BUDDY I AM SORRY-)
I also actually found a comment on Psych Forums, a DID community, that discusses soulbonds in 2010 and having soulbonds with alters, which was very interesting.
But anyway either way it seems like when soulbonders learned about the term system and multiple, they started using it.
Similar to what happened with fictive actually but that's a whole other topic to explain.
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I wasn't going to acknowledge this because I don't know fuck all about tulpamancy, but stuff about the overlap kept coming up in other sources so here you go.
From Soul Whispers in at least 2004 (context being a semi-conscious creation element to soulbonding): "This theory also has its own basis in ancient spiritualities; there is a belief in some Eastern religions, such as Tibetan Buddhism, that people can create and shape "thought-forms" that take on a spirit-realm life of their own as animals, mythological creatures, or other people."
From Living Library in 2015: "Still other soulbonders deliberately set out to create a soulbond (which often overlaps to some degree with tulpamancy, the practice of deliberately creating new consciousnesses as mental companions)"
So like there is a known overlap, but I couldn't give you anything super insightful on that.
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Not inherently, no. This personal essay from Soul Whispers earliest archived in 2004 points out how complicated soulbond theories are, acknowledges psychological theories ("One theory that once used to be popular, and probably originated from the old Multiple Personality Disorder idea (or else was just suggested because it seems simple and obvious), is that a SoulBond is just you personifying a part of you which you refuse to acknowledge or which might need an outlet"). While it acknowledges the multiverse theory, it also concludes with an imaginary-created world turned real theory against the multiverse theory.
This essay from 2000 also highlights the early writer/muse focus that the community has.
The spiritual-focused view was popularized by From Fiction. I don't have a source beyond "system joined the soulbonding community in 2016", but if you look up anything from them, it is very spirituality/multi-verse focused, and that can also be seen with their fictionkin stuff.
If you want a newer example, Living Library's site from 2015 directly acknowledges this: "Some soulbonders see soulbonding in a psychological light, whether by considering their soulbonds aspects of their own personality or as conscious psychological entities like themselves."
Also from experience, some of it came from other systems seeing the term and assuming soul = spiritual.
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You can see the above essays and sources to see that that's not a universal view that all soulbonders have. Actually a few of those acknowledge the view that soulbonds might be a part of the host.
Though that is true that soulbonds can be anything!
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This is another yes and no thing. If you're coming at this from a strictly multiverse view, yeah, but again not all soulbonders view it like that.
It can also get a little muddy if you have a soulbond who doesn't really acknowledge you as a headmate (i.e. seeing you as just a headvoice on their end).
From what I've seen personally, the divination thing is relatively new in the community, and I think came from the overlap with reality shifting and that bringing in more spiritual beliefs? At least looking through the LiveJournal archive I couldn't find jack shit for divination and soulbonding.
Interestingly I also see this a lot more with the self shipping overlap, which seems to be reinforced by the StrawPage including links for that, but I don't know anything about self shipping culture or yumeship.
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Likewise this is genuinely the first time I've seen it compared to deity worship.
I have seen it compared to pop culture paganism sometimes, but from our experiences having some spiritual soulbonds and pop culture deities... not really? I can kind of see it though? But I wouldn't say it as a universal thing. Cool if you experience it like that though!
Anyway all that aside, the only other terms they have being like self shipping focused is a little annoying, especially since soulbonding actually does have a lot of interesting terms that's developed within it
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