#Pro thoughtform

[brightside-brigade]

Alright. I'm probably gonna lose moots and followers for this. But I've kept quiet about it since I became host and I don't feel right not saying it for multiple reasons.

I, and this system and blog, support systems of all origins, including non traumagenic. We consider ourselves mixed origin, for multiple reasons. I know some (a lot) of you don't agree with or are uncomfortable with this stance, so if you need to unfollow for your own comfort, that's fine. But do not announce your departure unless you want us to unfollow as well.

I feel like by hiding this, I've been lying to all of you and hindering our own ability to talk about our experiences. Overall, I cannot in good conscious keep it quiet.

This is not an invitation for debate. I hate syscourse and always will, especially with our previous hosts involvement.

If this is where we part ways, then farewell and I wish you the best. And I'm sorry I couldn't be honest sooner.

Plurals of all origins, you are safe with The Brightside Brigade

[moonpool-system]

Created systems are important and an essential part of the community! Created systems are amazing and have helped forward plural understanding so much. We're lucky to have fronting guides written by created systems, communication guides written by created systems. Intentionally created systems are impressive! Accidentally created systems are unique! Created headmates are as much their own people as they want to be, they have their own autonomy and deserve to be respected. Solely created systems are cool! Mixed origin created systems are awesome! Mainly-traumagenic systems with created headmates are important! Psychologically-based created systems, spiritually-based ones, and every system in between are wonderful 💙👥

Created systems are still multiple. It's okay to want to be plural or to have become plural because of creation methods. Whether it be through psychological or spiritual methods, if one claims existence/personhood and wishes to be seen as multiple/separate, they have a right to that no matter what.

[funeral--pyre]

What's with all the created system discourse lately. Like yeah created systems have been yelled at for being endos for a while now but we're seeing it separately from that and specifically targeted a lot lately.

Like okay, you don't believe someone can create a system willingly? That's cool if you're not an asshole about it. The same as an otherkin may not believe that past lives exist and only see them as psychological, yet they still respect and don't dismiss otherkin who feel their kintypes come from past lives. They're as valid as anyone else with the experience, they just don't see eye to eye on how it was formed--but that doesn't matter because they have the experience shared between them.

Sure, there's differences between created and noncreated plurals in their experiences. But largely it literally boils down to still being plural. Why does someone else having different beliefs and living that experience affect you? Why do you have to comment? Why do you have to come at em on anon? Why can't you have the decency to just... Block them if you really hate it?

You can think literally whatever you want about the brain and what it's capable of. You can even ignore the literal actual studies done on tulpas if you want. I don't care WHAT you do, have your beliefs if you want to hold them. But it crosses a line into you actually being the harmful one when you decide to harrass people you don't agree with. ESPECIALLY when there's literal studies that have been done on tulpas--a common form of created plurality. Learn to block things you don't like and move on like a person with any actual self control, instead of throwing tantrums when you can't fathom someone being a little different.

[interstellarsystem]

could someone make a tulpa when they were a child but not realize it until their late teens/early twenties???

Oh, absolutely. Ourselves included, and actually quite a few other systems we've spoken to.

Making an accidental tulpa is a thing that honestly introduces a lot of people to the community. Usually, you start out with an imaginary friend as a kid, but you give them so much love and attention that they develop agency of their own and become a tulpa!

We made some Pokemon tulpas as a really young kid, and only in the past 3 or 4 years realised they were in fact sapient, and managed to bring a few of them back from dormancy as they weren't fully dissipated. We stopped interacting with them as we grew up (mainly due to bullying), and until we really got into the plural community we didn't realise they could've even been people of their own. We later on got traumagenic headmates and other types of headmates, but yeah! It's definitely a thing we know other systems experience.

There'd definitely be other experiences around this that don't involve imaginary friends, but we're sharing ours as the example for now. I believe we've also heard of some people making religious figure tulpas accidentally while they were younger by giving them so much attention, but I wouldn't remember where I've seen that--though that would be another example.

[theswiftheartsystem]

Guys who cares if ppl create headmates, like we always tell people do tons of research before purposely creating a system, but it’s those people’s lives, often people are doing it because they feel the positive outweighs the negative and will help better their life.

personally if something will better your life, who cares what others think, do research of course before creating a system as there is both a lot of bad and good, but if creating head mates is what you want, you have done research, and especially if it’ll make your life a bit better, then it shouldn’t matter what others think, anyone can be plural and it’s not a bad thing to be plural, the future is plural.

it is not making you less of a system somehow because people can become a system by choice and at any age, you are just gatekeeping something ridiculous to gatekeep

-Indigo and a few others probably, randomly rambling

(Apologies if comes off mad, I am a anger holder, I am just like this)

[protectingtulpas]

#Tulpa life

One of the biggest things that stands out to me about the tulpamancy community on Tumblr is how alienated everyone seems to feel. You've got some advice blogs, some discourse blogs, but that's about it- which is wild to me, cuz tulpamancy is all about community and learning from each other! Even more than that tho, there's something important about seeing other tulpas & created systems doing what we want, making our own choices, LIVING our lives. It's a reminder that we're real people too- it's important and validating for others like us, and it's great for non-tulpas to see that we're just as much real and people as they are. The best part of tulpamancy is that we get to enjoy our own existence, decide for ourselves what we want, and live as US!! I wanna bring that energy to Tumblr.

That's why I'm starting a tag I want any other tulpas (and their hosts too, but don't forget this tag is about our autonomy) to join in on;

✨✨ #tulpa life ✨✨

the new tag for expressing yourself, living your life, and sharing your existence with the world!! What kinda unique experiences do you have as a tulpa? What hobbies and skills have you learned, what friends have you made?? Share your favorite memories, the gift you got for yourself, the food you cooked, anything that pertains to YOU and your existing as a separate real being. Not only for sharing yourself, but for connecting with others too! Imagine how great it'll feel to scroll through a tag full of other tulpas' experiences. I wanna make that a reality!! So help me out by posting things about yourself and your life as a tulpa under the tag #tulpa life, and let's see how many people we can reach by just being ourselves!!!

[tulpa-ceramicist]

🪸 Shapeshifting Seashore Seaweed Friend 🍄

[ 🪸 Lovely Shapeshifting Seaweed Friend 🍄]

{ The following denotes a range of possibilities to use as a base or to draw inspiration from, for you to form a tulpa or other created headmate. Please be sure to support healthy divergence and not unwillingly force any particular traits or roles onto your headmates! }

" An eager and explorative sea creature crawls up onto the shore, and shapeshifts workable legs to tromp through the forests. They can't wait to see more of this new world. "

💚 Info Below 💙

Names: Venus, Scallop, Cora/Coral/Coraline, Seasea/Sisi/Cici, Reef, Harbor, Skipper, Nori, Moss, Lichen, Algae

Pronouns: it/its, they/them, she/he, sea/seas, mo/mon, xe/xem

Genders: Demigender, Gendersea, Harboric, Plae-roteus, Genderflight, Goblincoric, Woodlandgender, Mossgender, Mosscoric, Seaweedgender (no link 😔)

Species: Shapeshifter, mermaid, sea creature, anthropomorphic fish, anthropomorphic cephalopod [+kintypes]

Age range (in human terms): 19~28

Orientations: grey-asexual/grey-aromantic, pansexual/panromantic, asexual/panromantic, demisexual/polyromantic, etc

Other Identities: N/A

Other Alterhumanity: conceptkin, oceanhearted, linktyper/'linker, plant multikin, scaleykin, dragonkin, pokékin, plantkin

Preferred colors: deep sea green/aqua, yellow, blue, most greens

Associated emojis: 🪸🍄🌲🍂🌊🦎🐢🐟🦑🦪🐚🏖️

likes: Plants (specifically ocean plants and ones by the seaside), Animals (specifically amphibious animals and small scaley creatures), exploring new places, lighthearted music, people & socialization, obscure things, small spaces, fungi and algae, the sunlight, the water, the bubbly feeling of ocean waves on the beach shore, relaxing environments (inside or outside), creepy-cute things (and just creepy things), Pokémon probably

Hobbies: Exploration, travelling paths & nature trails, gardening, foraging, crafting(jewelry making, weaving, molding clay), collecting (sea glass, cool rocks and shells, nice branches, etc), hanging out where people gather, socializing

Disposition: Friendly and bubbly, with a chill undertone. Is curious about others and the world around it, and enjoys talking with other people because of this. Sees things normally described as gross or dirty as cool and interesting. More focused toward how things & others look/feel/taste/smell/sound/etc and what they're doing than how they feel.

Preferred roles: Socializer, Companion, Crafter/Trinket Crafter, Hobbyist, Wanderer, Coach, Swimmer (*Extra reminder here to not force roles onto created headmates. Look into servitors if you just need something done!)

Associated system terms: Exanthrope, Optimist

Sources & Inspirations: Mermaids with more oceanic features, rocky ocean beaches, Seaweed as hair, coral reefs, forest sunrises

Quirks and patterns of speech: Succint sentences, short words, but generally either very eager and invested or calmly absorbing what's happening/what's being said around mon.

Music Vibes: Wild Child - Enya, Come Along With Me - Adventure Time, Ebudae - Enya, Dear Fellow Traveler - Sea Wolf, Another Believer - Rufus Rainwright, The Moss - Cosmo Sheldrake

Preferred outfit styles: [1] [2] (cape only) [3] [4]

Aesthetic: [1] [2] [3] [4]

FCs: [1] [2] [3]

[sillyguyposting]

Sigh

*Plural kit new member*

[mindscapr]

Deny reality

Be who you want to be

Fly high and fly free

[interstellarchaosss]

A silly little guy who's been in our system for almost 15 years now. Figured he deserved a new icon, so here we go. Started as an accidental tulpa before we even knew what a system was, and is still haunting the headspace to this day.

Please do not use our art without our permission. Feel free to ask to use for icons and similar things, but we have the right to say no.

Program: Firealpaca Approx. Time: 40m Original Date: 31.01.25 Commission/Trade/Collab status in bio/pinned! Art Of: Reshiram [Headmate] (System Member Artist: Faint)

[sophieinwonderland]

hey sophie, i noticed you dont really have any resources on accidental thoughtforms, and im worried i accidentally crated them with my mal-adaptive daydreaming. do you think you could help a dubiously singlet out?

Hi! Have you checked out my article on how to know if your imaginary friend is sentient? The same test in it can apply to daydream characters you interact with since they're really just another variation of the same phenomenon.

The one thing about this is that not all daydream characters possess awareness of the outside world. If they don't, you might not want to try this test if you don't want them to be a headmate. In my four essential features of a headmate, I call this type of meta awareness "gnosis."

If you have a daydream character that already has autonomy and its own thoughts and memories but it lacks gnosis, this might be the final thing separating it from a full headmate. On the other hand, if it already has achieved gnosis, demonstrating awareness of the real world outside of the daydreams, then it likely already is a headmate.

Hope these can help you figure out what's going! Best of luck! 💖

[moonpool-system]

We just had such an incredible experience while working on our new tulpa! We're our third active forcing session, and until now we've only gotten a few emotional responses and perhaps an animalistic base for her form. (Xe seemed interested in animals, so we showed xer a bunch!) We decided to go outside this time to do it, since she seemed drawn to nature, and we sat down to start focusing on our tulpa's presence.

Just then, soaring straight overhead, we saw a hawk fly over us, carrying a black snake it'd just caught in its claws! It was so close up and absolutely gorgeous. It almost felt like a sign of some sort, meant to happen where we could see it - because all the sudden our new tulpa adjusted her form to match it! She shifted to have big hawk wings proportionate to the big leopard-like body xe'd chosen, and xer tail turned to look like a green-black snake. Xe can screech like a hawk with her beak or roar instead! She looks like a sort of chimera or griffin, it's so cool. We're so glad we gave her the chance to choose any form xe desired from the start this time. Xe feels a bit like a statue come to life, and it's kinda amazing.

She's still not ready for full sentences, but xe's so much more solid and responsive now, and was able to say yes or no to different pronouns! She calls herself "Roar" right now. She might even be able to hold a form and awareness out of front soon.

Such a good day!

[funeral--pyre]

Might be the first in our system (after a long while anyway) to try daemonism. I think it could help with getting my thoughts together in a way I can't with other people who aren't some extension of my own thought processes. We'll see how it goes?

[circulars-reasoning]

I think it’s very important to remind everyone who’s on the pro-tulpa (as a term) side in this anti-tulpa (as a term) discourse recently that it’s not about “fighting against those anti-endos!!”

A lot of the vocal voices in this are pro-endo or unaligned individuals. Many of the voices in this believe in and support endogenic systems. Certainly, a non-zero amount have been in the endogenic community, and have called themselves endogenic before.

This is not a war against the “other side.” This is a discussion about racism within an internet culture that is becoming more popularized and well known within the last two decades.

[theswiftheartsystem]

@returntothesoup asks:

“Hi! We’re new to interacting with more systems and are unfamiliar with some terms folks us! Any chance you could throw out some definitions for like plurals and multiples and stuff? We just became aware on a grand sense in the last couple years and are working through a lot of stuff alone. Happy to find systems to get to know🫶🏻🩷”

Hello! Welcome to the Tumblr community! It can be toxic at times, so please take care of your mental health! You can block certain tags (like triggers, or communities and such!

Origin: this is referring to what causes the system to form, the most common ones used are Traumagenic, and Endogenic, however it is a spectrum, and also some systems are multi-origin!

Traumagenic: This is referring to systems formed due to childhood trauma. This does not mean every alter is created by trauma.

Endogenic: A spectrum term that refers to systems who formed without trauma. This does not mean they do not have trauma, or that they are faking, it just means they experience plurality outside of what the mainstream idea of plurality is. A example is religious formed systems! (Also to clarify, when I say it’s a spectrum term, look at it like how non-binary is used, some people use it as a label, and some use it as a spectrum, neither is less valid then the other.

Tulpamancy: although a lot of the time this gets grouped with Endogenic, I’d thought I’d explain it since it is quite different. For one, there is many names that are used to describe this. Obviously Tulpamancy, but also Willowgenic, Tulpagenic and Thoughtform. This basically describes the experience of creating a being in your mind sometimes called a Tulpa. This practice originates from an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice.

Splitting/Forming: Splitting is when an alter splits a part of themselves off and creates a fragment, and/or alter. It is possible to split multiple alters at once. Forming is a term that a lot of Endo systems in our experience prefer. Personally we like to use the term when the alter didn’t split off from trauma, but both can be used interchangeably a lot of the time.

Fusion: This is when two or more alters fuse together and create a different alter that is not the same, but all of them at once in a sense (a good way to think of this, is if you put two things of playdoh together and mush it into one, it’s now both of those colors and together they make a new color! Both colors are still there, but they are now mixed together.) Also this is not the same thing as integration. Fusion isn’t always a good thing, and can be caused by traumatic events.

Integration: This is the process of Amnesia barriers lessening. This leads to better communication and less black outs and grey outs.

Blurry: Blurry is when you cannot tell who’s in front.

Blended: Multiple alters are blended together while in front. This can go hand and hand with being Blurry very easily.

Co-Con: This is usually when alters talk to each other outside the inner world! This describes one or more alter is in front, and one or more alters who are conscious, but are not fronting.

Co-Fronting: This is when two or more alters are fronting, but aren’t blended. A example would be: one alter can control the body, while one controls speaking.

Headspace: So some systems use this to describe that little area in your head where you and alters talk, but some use it to describe that and the innerworld.

Innerworld: This is a world internally that alters often go when they aren’t fronting. Not every alters can enter into the innerworld. It’s very common for host to not be able to enter, especially at the beginning. Some systems don’t even have innerworlds as well.

Alters/Headmates/Parts: These are the most common terms to describe different beings within one body. Alters is used most in Traumagenic spaces, while Headmate is very commonly used in Endogenic spaces. These terms can be used by all systems regardless of origin. (We personally feel most comfortable with alters, which is why we have been using it in this post.)

Switching: This is when alters switch who’s in front.

Anyway, that’s some basic terminology! If you, or anyone else would like more of this, feel free to use the ask box! We made it so you can be anonymous now!

-Anthy

[aubreyzzz]

Really wanting to work on pluralpedia for fun, but kinda confused as to how that works? I'll figure it out eventually! I'm figuring things out about myself, training my voice, letting my traits run through. Unfortunately can't practice too much cause of family, but I'm doing well with what I have! <333