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Do you think Bill Cipher is his real name? The book suggests it is since he used to be called Billy but he also tells Gideon that his true name would drive mortals insane. But maybe he was lying! About which we’ll never know.

I personally think it would be really dumb for

an alien

with bizarre alien biology that involves speaking through some organ that clearly isn't a mouth

because his mouth is also his EYE SOCKET and occupied by an EYEBALL

who's not only from a different planet but from a different UNIVERSE

which is so different from ours that the LAWS OF PHYSICS aren't even compatible

because they don't have a THIRD DIMENSION

and who was named ONE TRILLION YEARS before any humans existed

never mind human languages

never mind "common" human names like Bill

to have a normal human name made with normal human sounds.

So I buy the "my name is unintelligible to your species; Bill Cipher is just a dimensional pen name I use because you can pronounce it" explanation, due to the alternative offending my sci-fi worldbuilder sensibilities. The "if you heard my name you'd explode with an expression of ecstasy and agony on your face" part in the Bill Cipher AMA might be a boast to sound cool, but nevertheless I buy that his name can't be spelled, pronounced, or possibly even heard correctly by humans.

The most common explanation I've heard for why he would claim his REAL name is incomprehensible if his name is actually just "Bill" is that he thinks "Bill" is lame and wants people to think he has a cooler name. But, if that were the case... why wouldn't he just... y'know. Give himself a cooler name? Like, who's gonna call him out on it? Birth certificate's incinerated. Parents aren't gonna call him his deadname in front of his friends. The only reason he'd tell people his name is Bill Cipher would be if he wants to go by "Bill Cipher."

When he goes by "Bill" and refers to himself as a child as "Billy" I'm assuming that that's, like... the dub version of his name. Like how the main character of Pokémon is named サトシ but in the dub it's changed to "Ash" because surely American children can't pronounce that bizarre foreign name!! Bill's real name is [EERIE INCOMPREHENSIBLE SOUND] and as a kid sometimes his mom called him [A SIMILAR BUT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT EERIE INCOMPREHENSIBLE SOUND THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO US BUT TO BILL'S SPECIES SOUNDS LIKE A CUTESY VERSION OF THE FIRST SOUND] and when talking to humans he translates those as "Bill" and "Billy."

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fictive culture is splitting a jesus christ of nazareth despite the fact that none of us are expressly religious. what the fuck

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Nari checking up on his vessel some random tuesday morning

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Reminder that your plurality is valid <3

DID/OSD are valid

Endogenics are valid

Tulpas are valid

Mixed origin systems are valid

Unknown origins are valid

ALL plurality is real and valid

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pro endo in the sense that I've studied psychopathology and am well aware that we're all just making up the categories of disorders for insurance purposes and like idk man maybe people can be plural for other reasons I genuinely don't care.

Like yes sure my plurality is trauma-based but I don't give a shit of someone else's isn't it doesn't affect me.

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Tbh inclusive plurality just makes me so happy.

Like I don’t get sysmeds for a lot of reasons but one of the reasons is like…inclusive plurality and the inclusive plural community is just so…comforting and supportive??

Like…why would you have a problem with that??

Inclusive plurality makes plurality something to celebrate.

The plural rings and being accepting of any possible origins or not caring abt origins all together, appreciating your headmates and system as is, not having to see plurality as a disorder, not focusing so much on trauma and the struggles plurality can have, focusing more on the positives, supporting each other, being openly plural, not being ashamed, like…

It’s just so much nicer than fighting and invalidating people all the time.

Like fuck that, I love my system, I love plurality, I love the plural community and I think we should all love each other

-🦩(Jamie, he/they/it)

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People know that the whole "don't portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it" thing is a rule for children's shows right? It's supposed to be shit like "don't show peppa pig playing with fire so we don't get sued if a kid watches it and burns their house down." Not like, fanfiction for adults.

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Defined by joy, Not my pain

While we have moments of pain,

undeniably we have struggled both now and in the past,

defining ourselves by our worst moments will only lead to us struggling further instead of allowing ourselves to grow as a person.

Defining our existence by pain hinders our ability to heal.

I will not be defined by pain, whether my own, or others.

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transfem version → 🏛

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Some pro-endo reminders 💟 Free to use/steal!

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hopefully they never take away the way you can drag the little post icons around the screen on the android app

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America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

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firmly believe that one calvin and hobbes comic perfectly summarizes the two's dynamic

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This is a stolen joke

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Kitty mode Nari, inspired by this post

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Since Plural Pride Day and Moon Landing Day fall on the same date, I have decided that the Moon is plural. Yep, that's right. The Moon is a median system and each of her phases is a different headmate. Aren't we all so lucky to have a celebrity so open and proud to be herself and show off all her headmates' individual styles? We should appreciate her more