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ORIGINAL CAROLINA REF FOUND. from 2014

looking through my old art just triggered a memory of what I think was one of my earliest "alters"......cis bi man named Carolina. kind of fem with it. he had his own art style and designed a fursona and had a separate DA account from me and everything. one of those many phases where I would just randomly for nooooo reason get the urge to be a completely different person

^^^ his fursona (from 2016). she was a girl....I wonder if Carolina is still in here and I wonder if his egg has cracked LOL

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looking through my old art just triggered a memory of what I think was one of my earliest "alters"......cis bi man named Carolina. kind of fem with it. he had his own art style and designed a fursona and had a separate DA account from me and everything. one of those many phases where I would just randomly for nooooo reason get the urge to be a completely different person

^^^ his fursona (from 2016). she was a girl....I wonder if Carolina is still in here and I wonder if his egg has cracked LOL

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I think dems/liberals are spineless fucks who fumbled the election but you cannot convince me that anyone running for democratic office is on the level of fucked up modern day Republicans are on im sorry. its useless to have this debate anyway

I really dont know why people are still insistent on talking about democrats/Biden/Kamala and how they would be just as bad if they were elected. they weren't elected. it's a waste of time talking about what they /could have/ done.

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I really dont know why people are still insistent on talking about democrats/Biden/Kamala and how they would be just as bad if they were elected. they weren't elected. it's a waste of time talking about what they /could have/ done.

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The Vietnam War was definitely escalated by LBJ but it was NOT started by him. Truman sent advisors into Vietnam in 1950. Eisenhower sent the CIA in for covert operations in 1954. We were involved in Vietnam long before Johnson came into power.

The Vietnam War was wrong and cruel

The Iraq War was wrong and creul

And this war shall be shown by history to have been wrong and cruel as well

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Kazuchika Okada is like Mr Autism to me

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I logged out of my other main because im having such a horrible day but Im getting caught up on aew *smiles so sweetly*

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his flock

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I couldn't talk about my mind boyfriend without feeling somewhat embarrassed anyway. what can I even say. I liked this pro wrestler's stupid evil asshole rich boy OC sooooo much I absorbed him into my brain forever. and yup we're fucking 👍

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the only reason I dont wear the ring I got to represent Max on my wedding ring finger is because it doesn't fit...but that was always gonna be my excuse too like oh its because I dont want to get hit on <3

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2011, matilde_cl

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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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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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My Connection Is With You

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my favorite wednesday routine!

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peonies

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best friend just spontaneously quit our shared job and im trying not to be upset about it because it was long overdue and this place is a nightmare and I dont blame him....but man 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i wish literally any place ive applied to recently would call me back

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bush was lucky as fuck 9/11 happened while he was doing something nice could you imagine him locked up in the oval bathroom with e621 pulled up