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Ohhhhhh, this is a fun one👀

Our queerness and plurality are definitely intertwined, but I wouldn't say we have much variation

Collectively, we're genderfluid (she/they), aroace-spec, and pan. Which... encompasses a lot, lol

Now, for headmates, we haven't really figured out all of the labels yet, and we probably won't. It's hard sometimes to distinguish who's who (we're monoconscious and very bad at identity stuff), and some of us don't have enough personhood to fit into a label

For individual labels, we have:

• Cupcake🧁: doerflux (she/they/it/fae), aromantic, gray-ace, pan

• Cyrus🩵: agender man (he/it), aroace. Well, we think. We had an almost-fusion between🧁&🩵 recently, and while it wasn't successful (which in this specific case is a good thing), some changes happened to both of them. So we're not entirely sure what Cyrus's deal is now

• Flowey🌻: coffee bean transmasc, demiboy (he/they), some flavour of aroace (is he loveless aro? is he demi-aroace? is our bpd ever gonna let us have an answer?)

• Sunshine☀️: demigirl (she/they), bi, possibly demi-aroace? I want to say demi-aroace

• Cloud☁️: some flavour of agender. We thought librafem (she/they/it) for a while, but it might've been🧁's influence

• Circe❤️‍🔥: woman (she/her), aromantic

There's also the body's gender. Which is probably demigirl. Anyway, it affects our masc-leaning alters when they front

Happy pride month! To kick things off, here's a question for all of you who are more-than-one in whatever way that means to you:

If your plurality and queerness are intertwined in any way, or you are queer because of your plurality, how does that work for you? Consider this an invitation to talk about all the complexities of who you are and how these two areas of your life connect to each other!

(We also see our queerness and plurality as intertwined, ftr – We just want to hear from others about their own experiences, lives, and identities!)

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I love talking to our friend who is making a game because not only can I give it suggestions, but also some of my headcanons end up turning canon (ambiguously or not). We were talking about one character's traumatic backstory and how his gender got fucked as a result, and ended up with that character being both transmasc and transfem simultaneously

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THIS‼️ Except for us, it happens if we or someone else directly acknowledges whoever's currently fronting

plural culture is thinking you're a system until you interact with other people and suddenly the feeling goes away (not because you're not plural but because you're masking even from yourself)

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It seems we got freaked out and ended up not fusing. Interesting. I mean, I got some of Cyrus's traits, but ultimately, we stayed separate

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Guess I need to find a new name now. Probably. I wanted to, but felt a strong connection to Cupcake and the 🧁 sign off just as I started seriously considering it. But it feels so wrong to cross out Cyrus like this. I don't think we're even fully fused yet

Sigh. This fusion thing is progressing to a point where I want to use 🩷 as a sigh off. Because it's a combination of 🧁 and 🩵. There is no point fighting it, is there?

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Sigh. This fusion thing is progressing to a point where I want to use 🩷 as a sigh off. Because it's a combination of 🧁 and 🩵. There is no point fighting it, is there?

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Sigh. You know what. Maybe we will be making a tulpa. Because the only things I'm getting from this fusion are the things I already had, they're just getting stronger now. And the ones I actually need are getting sidelined. The host of this system needs outside guidance, otherwise we're not getting things done

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This isn't a vent, but might look like one

Okay, it really seems like Cyrus and Cupcake are fusing, and that's... not ideal. But we kinda don't want to separate anymore? But we want to want that, if it makes sense

Did I (🧁) want Cyrus's mannerisms and parts of personality? Yes, kinda. That's a small part of the reason we introjected him. But with how our system functions, it works so much better when we're separate. I (🩵) don't want to go the tulpamancy-as-a-prevention-of-fusion route anymore, as it would strip me of my current personhood. Except this fusion turns me/us into a very different version of myself than what I started as and, crucially, as what we wanted initially. Even if we fuse, it is likely we still wouldn't be comfortable making a tulpa, as it would feel like a mockery of my existence. Despite the fact that said tilpa would've been so much closer to my source than how I am now

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Plural culture is thinking you're fictionkin pre-syscovery. Turns out the co-host is a fictive

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Guess we're collectables now :D

I know this isn't the right time but can I collect y'all

You can, but what do you mean by collect?😅

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I know this isn't the right time but can I collect y'all

You can, but what do you mean by collect?😅

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We have a question. Does anyone have experience with developing/changing their traumagenic headmates with tulpamancy? Do you have any tips on how to go about it? Because one of our headmates seems to be fusing, and 1) none of us want that to happen 2) it would be objectively better for all of us if he doesn't fuse. The tulpamancy was mostly his idea. However, we have almost no experience with it (tried it once when we were about 13, got bored on the second day). So, if anyone has any advice, it'd be greatly appreciated!

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Finally decided to make simply plural and realised we don't have pictures of everyone. We also want to make descriptions aesthetically pretty and that'll take time

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Trying to figure out everyone's queer labels is something some of us wanted to do for a while, so we're doing it for pride month

🧁: she/they/it/fae; doerflux, aromantic, graysexual, pan

🌻: he/they; demiboy, coffee bean transmasc, aromantic(?), some flavour of ace

🩵: he/it; agender man, aroace

☀️: she/(they?); demigirl(?)

☁️: she/they/it; libragender, aroacespec

❤️‍🔥: she/her; aroace, sapphic? bi?

And our body is demigirl, so to some degree, it influences whoever's fronting

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Happy pride month! No one in this system is straight! There are six of us, and we can be colour-coded to make a rainbow!

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does anyone have the foggiest

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plural culture with hobbies like crochet and drawing is 'muscle memory. muscle memory save me'

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