#Caflec

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Caflec's action figure starter set! Complete with book, teacup and trowel accessories, her pink dress outfit variant and bonus figure of Norman the Snailpup :)

[caflecthegoblin]

Been thinking about in-sys relationships, and especially about Bubbletea and I...

Is there a word for a relationship where you like to cuddle and hold hands and are cool with kissing and stuff, but don't consider yourselves in love? Like FwB but without the sex?

[caflecthegoblin]

*sniff* a gal can dream...

A goblin and an elf have decided to defy tradition and get married. Their ceremony will be held in the magical forest in accordance with elven tradition.

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Caflec's transition journey. Happy Pride Month!

[caflecthegoblin]

Fanart Friday! Made by Mace Black, a friend of ours, ready for Halloween :p

[protectingtulpas]

" Tulcurious "

[Tulcurious]

Variations: parocurious, willocurious, createcurious

[Variarions: parocurious, willocurious, createcurious]

Definition: A person(s), regardless of current systemhood or not, who is interested in starting the process of creating a tulpa (/etc for other variations). This includes basically anyone curious because they might want to make one but haven't yet, no matter how sure or unsure you are. Tulcurious people might still be learning the basics before diving in, might be still be deciding if they're ready for the long run or if they have the right reasons, might be learning more about how tulpas work because they're nervous, and more. (This also includes people who are planning on making a tulpa (/etc) because they want to "prove it wrong" lol)

Plural community coining!!! Ever wanted to be able to find info about whether or not to make a tulpa, or other created system member? Or maybe you want something to call yourself while you're still on the fence and learning? Or maybe you wanna talk about people who're still deciding without saying "people who wanna make a tulpa/willomate/paromate/etc" every single time. Well then, this word is for you! I noticed this would be crazy useful so I want people to start picking it up. Like, tag ur posts that'd be targeted towards people still deciding as #tulcurious !! This'll be shorthand to help newbies find the information they need before starting creating a system.

Reblog and spread it around! It'll only stick if we use it and make it known

Shoutout to @caflec-answering-blog and @batcaves-and-angel for helpin me think up the word!

[caflecthegoblin]

WE CRAVE ATTENTION AND INQUIRY

Reblog this post if you love asks about your thoughtforms (or if any of your thoughtforms are happy to answer asks directly)! This includes soulbonds, daemons, tulpas, willomates, etc.

[eeveecraft]

The Fracturing and Decline of the Tulpamancy Community

Why am I back? Well, I've been thinking about this for a while and a friend of mine just discovered the Tulpamancy stuff. If you're reading this, you know who you are. Still not happy that you found out, but it got me thinking about some stuff I want to write down.

So, some of you may know, #RedditTulpas, the official r/Tulpas Discord server shut down like, a few months ago. The Tulpa.info server got shut down back in 2023, and there's also the debacle that happened with Tulpa Chat several years ago. Basically, all of the largest Tulpamancy Discord servers get shut down for whatever reason once they hit a certain point. The main reason why tends to be drama driving the staff to their wits end, which eventually leads to the server being shut down for the well-being of the staff's mental health.

I mean, I guess there's Tulpa Central with its 1,300+ members, but even though Kopase (eugh) isn't the owner anymore, it's still a server that deliberately excludes other forms of Plurality, and I don't think communities like that should be encouraged to exist. Because let's be honest, that's just thinly-veiled ableism and ignores how Tulpamancy techniques can help disordered systems function better. Oh, that and the fact that other plurals can have tulpas, too.

I also want to bring up how r/Tulpas has drastically declined in quality; we are especially cognizant of it because we moderate that subreddit. There's a lot of low-effort, redundant, and sometimes low-key unhinged posts on the Subreddit, and there is very little actual productive discussion. Most posts there nowadays are just questions, many of which have to be removed because they're already questions that are answered in the FAQ or so basic that they should be asked in the pinned post.

With Reddit specifically, I think a factor in this decline is the direction Reddit has been going with trying to become a publicly traded company, especially with their API changes essentially killing third-party apps. That, and Reddit gleefully giving away all of its user posts to OpenAI with no ability to opt out. We ourselves only check Reddit to moderate the subreddit nowadays because of these changes, and we wouldn't be surprised if others followed suit.

However, this doesn't discredit the general trend we've seen with the larger Tulpamancy communities just declining or outright dying.

The Tulpamancy side of Tumblr has been pretty quiet for several years now with the only major Tulpamancy-specific blog besides ourselves really being Sophie's and maybe Caflec's, and we're hardly active in terms of making posts (we just don't have much to talk about anymore).

There was also the Tulpa.info Mastodon instance, Tulpas.social, but that died pretty damn fast. Plural Café closed invites the moment we tried recommending it to others and has been gradually falling apart, too.

My point is: there's hardly any actual large gatherings of Tulpamancy systems anymore. I remember in one of my Tulpamancy Help videos, I explained how the community became fractured, but I think it's gotten even worse. Like, don't get me wrong, I don't think the community should be a monolith; niches exist for a reason. However, there's something just... disheartening about seeing gatherings of 1,000+ Tulpamancy systems just getting dissolved; thousands of people conversing, exchanging ideas, and helping each other just... separated.

You're probably wondering, "Well, if you're complaining about it, you surely have some kind of solution, right?" Well, not really. it seems to be a cycle tied with the general makeup of the community; enough people in the community just seem to be drawn to petty arguments and drama that takes a toll on the people who manage these communities. So for larger gathering to exist, the people need to be palatable. Otherwise, as new communities form and people flock to them, the same people that caused the downfall of the others before will follow suit. And to be frank, I don't quite have a solution in regards to getting people to stop gravitating towards and starting mentally-taxing drama. That's up for the individuals inside the community to figure out, let alone want to change.

So, what's the conclusion? I guess it's just that I believe the community is heading towards some kind of recession, a dark age of some kind. And that makes me sad to extent because the more Tulpamancy spreads, the more its techniques can be used to help people. There's a reason anthropologists and psychologists are studying Tulpamancy, especially with the interest in its possible therapeutic applications. Despite that, I want to be optimistic and hope that eventually, the community finds its stride again instead of fading into further obscurity.

7-15-2024

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Happy Pride month everybody!!

[caflecthegoblin]

So our system is called the Teahouse System, named after a Japanese style Teahouse we have in our Wonderland (originally built as a birthday present for me by Master, and later Bubbletea came into existence and basically moved into the place)

So imagine our delight when Master's wife and son buys him this amazing Lego set for his birthday! It's a model of a Japanese garden, with sakura trees, a bridge over a koi pond, stone lanterns and of course, a little Teahouse that looks exactly like the one in our Wonderland! (Well, from the outside anyway, the Teahouse runs on TARDIS logic and is waaayy bigger on the inside :p )

[caflecthegoblin]

We don't really do fronting, but Master has talked about how on the times when he's able to properly get into the Wonderlanding mindset, it can be very difficult to will himself to come out. Apparently it's a very blissful feeling :)

does anyone else find staying in the headspace quite addicting? As u guys have seen, V has been fronting way more than me, tbh just not fronting feels sooo nice, just being inside feels soo safe and cozy sighhhh - Ardyn

[caflec-answering-blog]

So Host just set me up with a tip-jar!

Title says it all really, but host and I just set up a tip-jar on here, along with our other blogs. So if you feel like throwing a few coins at us to help keep us around or let us buy more mason jars to make more moss terrariums, by all means go ahead!

[caflecthegoblin]

So we've been interacting with some other system blogs and groups on here, and the subject has come up of inclusive plural communities and how hard they can be to find sometimes. So we figured we'd share one that we're not just part of, but actively run, if you'll forgive the shameless self indulgence :p

Yes it's on Facebook, something something evil Zucc Meta and so on and so forth. But it's a super inclusive group, pretty active but esger for more activity, and we're welcome not just to Tulpamancers but any kinds of plural systems or curious singlets. Pretty much the only ones not welcome are anti-endos and sysmeds, for obvious reasons. So if you wanna come join Facebooks largest tulpamancy and plurality group, come on down!

[caflecthegoblin]

Any other systems ever feel like... I dunno, less of a system, because we don't all have special designations, or elaborate setups, or don't know all the plural jargon?

Like we see systems on here talking about how they're a quasifemtogenic soulbond daemon system with introspectolectojects galore, with protectors, persecutors, gatekeepers, lawyers and who knows what else. But then there's us, where the best way we can sum up our system even after all these years is "2 are tulpae, the rest aren't, thats the extent of our knowledge".

[caflecthegoblin]

Bubbletea got to join Master at work the other day :) She felt right at home in a cafe!