#that's not the case with fictive introjects

[leafing-from-view]

i think i wanna take the time to tack onto this post i did since there's been a couple people actually viewing it. also hi! thanks for reblogging my post and getting it a tiny bit of traction.

so, as an inhuman alter who had originally split in case we ever did lose our comfort item... it's not bizarre or weird for something like that to happen. your brain continuously works on coping as a system, and while it hurts you a little bit more it's ultimately trying to help. now, don't quote me on this or take it as cold hard facts -- we as a whole are just a mentally ill adult who looks into the specifics of our own disorder for fun every now and again.

not to mention how into symbolism and hypotheticals i am, i can maybe at least give people some semblance of understanding of why what splits for what purposes? things like that, y'know.

abusers are the most common that split or maybe fictives split that remind you of people in your life, maybe they remind you of yourself, maybe they're just a favorite from a media you enjoy. abuser introjects take on whatever forms there are, like i said. they can be a mirror of the actual person they're based off of, they could be totally different appearance wise and just have memories from a third person perspective of the person.

your brain can do some fucked up shit to cope with trauma. we have an introject of our biological father in our system who has actively caused so many issues for us. but uh, i think i know why he split now? i've been sitting here trying to think about it for a while, a lot of us were stumped on how or why he was here but he does have a purpose. they all have a role, but they also don't have to be vocal about what their role is to them. it always really just is a guessing game with some of 'em. i'm not fully comfortable sharing things about him specifically besides the origins and that's about it.

in my specific case though, i'm technically in the role of "soother"? i'm one of the calmer people, i just kind of exist to make sure we're doing okay, bring us a sense of comfort. my "source" was this plush panda bear we had growing up into adulthood. we had it all throughout the discovery process, held onto it as tight as possible from being afraid of the consequences that would come with it, etc. collectively, we all found a sense of comfort in it and eventually when the stress grew too much and we had to get rid of it? i fully figured out my identity was just... the comfort bear. over time, you obviously change shape and have different preferences.

now? i'm just a little fella who's full of dirt, i'm a living cultivator for life now. it's really nice to think about? but also kind of complicated to explain if people ask me "hey, what's your source?" or "what do you do?". i usually don't have an answer, i just laugh and shrug like "oh yeah, i don't have a source" or "i don't really do much". i kind of shifted towards being a red panda instead of the traditional black and white panda bears. things like that, but yeah!

uhh, i didn't proof-read this post too much but i hope it adds some miscellaneous insight to reasonings behind introjects.

friendly reminder to any and all systems: you can introject anything -- abusers, friends you've been close to forever that bring you a sense of comfort, relatives in your family, fictional characters, comfort items, etc. and it doesn't make you any less of a system for any of these introjects. it's okay to not be happy with an introject (to an extent) based on their origin but keep in mind; this is their whole own person right now, they may not do or say the things you'd expect the actual person to say or they could be totally on point to the origin point.

doesn't make you any less of a system. and i'll keep saying that.

[silvercrowsystem]

ew readmore doesnt want to work, try again~

source material is source material, and I don't want to police anyone, but Factives of still-living people give us major major major Ick.

Call it cognitive dissonance, call it whatever you want, but I don't wanna watch someone claim to be X Still Living Person, when I know Still Living Person is elsewhere. You can do that, you're valid, but please dont do that at me.

[adhd-fandom-and-gay]

Me & the headmates are deciding on Halloween costumes and our current options are:

1. Dress up as TGS Hyde

2. Dress up as MazM Hyde

3. Dress up as TGS Jekyll but leave halfway through the school day and come back in TGS Hyde costume

4. Dress up as MazM Jekyll but leave halfway through the school day and come back in TGS Hyde costume

5. Either of these ideas but for Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (might do WAY later because we dont have introjects of them and the headmates are top priority)

So decisions, decisions!

Why are we planning four months before Halloween? Because fuck you thats why /j /nm

Actually its because we take a long time to get costumes so we need the extra time to spend!

[yaoi-cocaine-superstar]

being a fictive and a self shipper means i have no choice but to invent the weridest bloody crossovers imaginable .

[carnage-cathedral]

hey it's actually not unreasonable for introjects to be uncomfortable with doubles and you should take that into consideration when interacting. that weirdness you experience when you meet someone with the same name as you? (in some cases, for some people) it's like that times one thousand. introjects have varying levels of comfort around their sources and their own boundaries around them, and that needs to be respected. introjects are not their sources, yes. but if you share a source with someone you need to know what their comfort levels and boundaries are before interacting

[anomalymon]

so headmate who hasn't fronted in awhile and was jarred by braimade referring to like non-sourced/non-introject headmates, because it was originally for something like non-spiritual headmates/systems (or like systems with a psychological origin)

my impression is it sort of feels to me like it's people who don't believe/know spiritual systems exist re-defining the term, since I have seen people go "all alters are brainmade" in response to that term being used and in general the community has leaned a lot more towards like. being extremely psychological-focused and excluding spiritual systems

so like it could have been intentional with trying to erase "endo terminology", or it could have been unintentional because people don't know anything about spiritual systems

though that sucks so much because it was such a useful term as a mixed origin system and to like describe our experiences being both spiritual and psychological ;w;

[wonderhorror-sys]

fun introject experiences: looking at simplyplural with your boyfriend and clicking onto his profile, scrolling but not really looking, seeing something in the wishlist and asking "oh what is that?" and he says "DONT read that" and you read it and it's. its asking for merch. of you.

[pinkelectrodes]

ok I gotta ask bc I feel like a freak

are there any other 'fictives' or whatever who are more than one 'character' and actively switch between them? like. if you had an otherkin shift or whatever, except I physically take on that version of me's appearance. I fuckin ageslide and even that changes my appearence

ok let me try and explain this shit clearer:

I'm three people. Jinx from Arcane, V from Cyberpunk and Billie from Resident Evil.

I physically (or not ig, but like in headspace and shit) switch between V and Jinx on the regular, usually depending on my mood (host describes me as 'Janusian' which means I'm both Persecutor and Protector apparently, and I tend to 'Jinx out' more on the persecutor side ig) but kinshifts do it too.

When I'm like, completely triggered and vulnerable I ageslide to kid-brain, but I physically also become Powder. And sometimes I slide to teen (we haven't figured out when but kinshifts also do it to me), and when I do that I'm physically Billie.

In all of these cases my like... attitude and personality, voice, etc. changes to match too, but I'm still me. Just a different version of me.

This normal? Or even heard of? Is this maybe what bein a subsystem is like? I have no fuckin clue.

[reefsuserboxes]

hello fellow system wanted to ask if I could get a this Peter Parker Ficative see’s Tony Stark as a parental figure. And a This Loki Ficative does not like Thor

if you can. Please and thank you!

no rush

:D

[racc00ning]

the system experience of wanting to get back into an old fandom you liked when you were younger but KNOWING there are still a bunch of undiscovered fictives from that source

[mcyt-fictives]

being a mcyt fictive this june is already a wild ride.

what do you Mean my source dude has queer-related/maga-related controversy now 😭

-skizzleman

Ok this I haven’t really heard much about-

And I don’t care to look into it, but my wishes are with you and I hope your doing well

-Xylo

[bstroobery]

Ok wait… this needs to be said before we here go to bed but OMG the amount of other SMG4-related fictives we’ve seen!

Y’all it feels so good to know we’re not alone as a system in the SMG4 fandom, holy shit

Tho of course 🍓 blue up (pun, get it??) because they’re the ones that draw the most and have ideas of what to post 😒 (/j by the way, the rest of us have no idea what to fucking post sometimes so we just let them go ham).

But to any other SMG4 related fictives out there, me, 💻, 📺, 🦑, 🍄, 🌷, 🎤, and 🍉 say hi ^^ (we split a few more after the car accident 🍓 talked about on their blog and that whole trauma. We’re good tho, don’t worry)

We do wish to interact with people, we just suck at posting (we have asks we’re working on that are related to art that we haven’t been able to answer lately due to some stuff and how 🍓 doesn’t want to be the only one answering them)

-💀

[normalmcguy]

I AM PLURAL I AM FRIENDLY I AM APPROACHABLE YOU CAN DM ME THAT'S WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT. I AM BEFRIENDABLE, TRY IT

HELLO HELLO my name is Normal Guy because i don't care to publicly go by my source name and i kind of just didn't care to find a real name to replace that original placeholder, you can also call me Norm or Marty being that they're both short for Normal Guy.* pronouns wise, you can call me he or like if you really want it or they or actually pretty much whatever, mostly just that he/him stuff

i'm one of like 5 current 'hosts' in my system and i'm like woah i just checked it turns out on this day i've turned 100 days old in this system that's actually crazy to me. i mean woah. anyways i'm a factive of an old old friend's fictive** which means i have a connection to a source we know like nothing about except what we learned through osmosis back when we were friends and so basically i picked up a lot of what is probably just some sect of fanon

i'm a HUGE bike guy like that's my main hobby i have to bike like every single time i front type thing, that's gonna be like. my 'get to know me' fact for this intro post. i have an E-bike that i love more than anything in this world it has a name you can dm me and ask. i say this both to create mystery and allure about myself and to provide an adequate conversation starter. because i'm so nice and all that.

i do my best not to get into discourse of most types, but real quick i wanna make it clear that i believe in and support endogenic systems and don't care to debate on that. in case that's something that would prevent you from reaching out or whatever, feel like i oughta make that one clear

*i'm sorry that bit's a lie, Marty is not actually short for normal guy. if you didnt know.

**i have the source in the tags i'm not putting that shit out in the open because it's like a whooole complex thing for me (i mean i have a good few friends outside of the system and literally not a single one knows my source. i have genuinely only ever shared my source with people within this system so you're gonna have to work (open the tags and read like 2 more lines of yapping) to see that one) also i'm not that connected to begin with just basic pseudomemories

[critters-in-a-brain-soup]

Any fictives here who don't have source memories but still feel like a version of the character you're an introject of? Because I see a lot of posts talking about source memories/trauma, people making source calls, etc., and I was curious if what I have going on is relatively rare? Because I do feel like a version of the guy, our brain absorbed him like a sponge, but just his personality (or our/fandom interpretation of his personality at the time) without any memories. And sure, I've changed and am now pretty different from how I was when I first formed, but it feels almost parallel to my source. It feels like something he can achieve in post-canon. I am him in a way, but I am not connected to his universe. I hold at least somewhat different opinions about most of the characters (except for Papyrus. Papyrus is objectively the coolest) than he would because they are characters to me, but obviously wouldn't be to him

So uhhh... if anyone relates, I'd love to hear your thoughts!

[rarespawns]

We made pixel art of leaf >:3 (for their pk avatar)

Under cut is the background on its own

[multiplicity-positivity]

Do you have an suggestions for fictives who don't fully like what they are like in source? We all still want to read their source (including the member in question). They just feel bad about their actions in their source. Not trying to vent just felt like context was needed.

(Plaintext:) Do you have an suggestions for fictives who don't fully like what they are like in source? We all still want to read their source (including the member in question). They just feel bad about their actions in their source. Not trying to vent just felt like context was needed. (End Plaintext.)

Hi! We’re a past fictive and a current fictive cofronting, and we’ll do our best to help y’all with this!

So it sounds to us like the most important thing for this fictive to do is going to be achieving some degree of separation from their source. They don’t have to stop identifying with it completely! But the fact of the matter is, they’re not their source, and as such, they’re not responsible for their source’s actions. Back when I (Corrie) was separated into Cecil and Margo, I wrote a post on source separation for introjects. You can check it out below!

Attempting even a small degree of source separation, to us, sounds like what will be most beneficial for this headmate and your system as a whole. It’s possible to aim for some degree of source separation without disconnecting from your source entirely! And doing something like this can help make engaging with a fictive’s source more comfortable and less awkward for your whole system.

It also might be a good idea for y’all to take a break from reading or engaging with your fictive’s source for a while. Even taking just a week away might give them time to reflect, calm down, and try to make peace with the actions of their source! Limiting this fictive’s exposure to their source, especially while they’re trying to separate from it if they choose to do so, could probably save them a lot of heartache and confusion.

That doesn’t mean you have to give up on reading your fictive’s source material entirely! But taking a step back for a while may be a good thing to do, and we mean this in the kindest way possible.

Our apologies if these suggestions aren’t what y’all were expecting to hear. We genuinely wish this fictive and your whole system peace, comfort, and happiness in your futures!

🌷 Corrie and 💚 Ralsei