#actuallyplural

[plural-culture-is]

plural culture is the euphoria of being called your name for the first time. (YOUR name, not the host or singletsona's name!)

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[multiplicity-positivity]

Here’s some positivity for proxy systems!

According to Pluralpedia, proxy systems are “where one functions as a singlet (or approximately close to one, such as a median system) due to a frontstuck host, yet all members of the system are completely distinct in the headspace.” Many systems may find that they function in this way! This post is for all the proxy systems out there!

🧡 Shoutout to willogenic, paromancy, imagian, or other willfully created proxy systems!

💛 Shoutout to systems who are writers, artists, or other creators whose headmates are characters who are unable to switch or front!

🤍 Shoutout to proxy systems with headmates who wish they could switch!

💜 Shoutout to proxy systems whose members often cofront, blur or blend together, or are coconscious!

💙 Shoutout to proxy systems who love, embrace, and celebrate the way their system works!

🧡 Shoutout to protogenic proxy systems, or those who have always been plural even if no one but the host has fronted!

💛 Shoutout to proxy systems who identify as specutien or have some other specific labels for their experience as proxy systems!

🤍 Shoutout to proxy systems with vast, complex headspaces, and to proxy systems with no headspace whatsoever!

💜 Shoutout to those who are questioning whether or not they are a proxy system!

💙 Shoutout to hosts of proxy systems who work hard to help their headmates live the lives they want to live, even if they can’t fully front!

🧡 Shoutout to proxy systems who prefer to present as a singlet in their daily life for their own comfort and/or safety!

Proxy systems have always been and will always be valued, cherished, and integral members of the plural community! To any proxy system who reads this, please know that your system is real and you are valid, regardless of how you experience plurality or the ways in which your system functions! It’s okay if most of your system members interact with the world through your system’s host. That doesn’t negate the validity of your system in any way, shape, or form!

We hope that every proxy system out there can have an amazing day today. Know that you are so loved, and you make the world and our spaces a better place simply by existing in it! Regardless of how your system came to be, you are special, your system is beautiful, and we are so pleased to be able to share this wonderful, diverse community with you. Please keep you chin up, have some pride in your system and how it works, and do you best to take care of each other!

[orange-orchard-system]

POSIC community 🤝 plural community

"everyone keeps writing about us and our experiences without ever using or knowing the actual words for us/them"

[plegg-culture-is]

plegg culture is having an imaginary friend when you’re 11 and then finding out about plurality four years later and still taking another year and a half to figure out that your imaginary friend was never quite imaginary

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[eeveecraft]

Stop "Selling" Systemmates

Hey, if I see you "selling" systemmates, consensual or not, I am going to whap you on the head with a rolled up newspaper. That sh!t is fucking YIKES.

You're "selling" PEOPLE, full fledged people, which, I don't think I have to spell out why that's so fucked up.

How the fuck do you "sell" a systemmate? I personally think system-hopping is a load of bullsh!t, and whoever is "selling" systemmates is using that belief to scam people. (No offense to spiritual systems who have those beliefs, but in this case, it's being used to scam people).

Making systemmates for the purpose of "selling" them is just... god, imagine how YOU'D feel if you were brought into existence, just to be sold to some someone you've never met.

Why the hell would you pay for a systemmate? Tulpamancy is 100% free. That is such a scam. I get selling services like setting up Pluralkit bios, commissions for systemmates, etc, but not this.

So yeah! If you're "selling" systemmates, stop it! Just stop. If I see anyone follow me who partakes in that sh!t, it's a block on sight.

Can't even believe I need to make this post.

4-27-2024

[interstellarsystem]

Someone in our discord found this helpful, so we're posting it here with a bit of added wording.

You can be incorrect about your experiences but that doesn't make you fake, it just means you misunderstood either what you were feeling or what a term meant. And that's okay as long as you don't lie once you know you're not a [insert identity here]. You're never morally wrong for being incorrect. Faking is a conscious choice, being wrong about your experiences is not.

You're not faking if you don't sit down and think "how can I make this seem legit" or "I want to pretend to be this today". It can feel bad and confusing and all brands of horrible when you realise you were wrong about a label you placed upon yourself, but it's more beneficial to you and everyone else to admit that you were wrong, you're able and allowed to make mistakes just as anyone else is, and now you can learn from them and know yourself better.

No one knows what they are from the moment they're born, give yourself some space and time to relax and not get caught up in worrying if your experiences actually fit into a nice little box or not. In the end, they don't even have to fit into anything.

[funnier-as-a-system]

[ID: Screenshot of text reading "Always use the term ‘we’ (never ‘I’.) Science is a collaborative effort, no-one ever truly works on their own in science." / End ID]

[thatoneendogenicsystem]

It’s super duper hard to follow other systems on here when nearly everyone we see is anti-endo!!

If you're a system related blog and you're pro-endo please, please, PLEASE interact!!

Anti-endos, please don’t be mean, we won't tolerate you meanies coming in to argue with us about being an endo system!! You will just immediately be blocked!! >:(

-Lunar

[ozwynstars]

being an autistic person that scripts out interactions 24/7 but is also plural is so weird- i keep accidentally scripting what my headmates will say then backtracking and being like- “why would they ever say that?” or just generally feeling weird that i’m scripting a scenario for them-

[xenodelic]

There is so much shame that comes with having amnesia and other memory issues.

As someone that has multiple conditions that cause memory loss (DID, TBI, ADHD, etc) we can't even begin to describe the shame and guilt that is conditioned into people who are """forgetful""".

Having memory issues does not make you a bad person. It doesn't mean you are uncaring, lazy, or immature.

Memory is simply one of the many things that people can struggle with. It has nothing to do with who you are as a person. We are conditioned to think otherwise because being "forgetful" makes people less productive to a capitalist society. Society is arranged to make life a living hell for people with memory issues. This is an aspect of structural ableism. People in power do not want people like us to exist because we are less useful to them.

Dont get me wrong - it can absolutely hurt when someone you care about forgets something that's important to you. You're not wrong for feeling upset that someone missed an important date, event, detail, etc. That makes sense and feeling that way is not inherently ableist.

All we ask for is for compassion to be extended to people who struggle with memory. We ask for people to stop assigning moral value to how effective someone's memory is. We desire for social structures to accommodate people of all cognitive functions, not just those who are most productive to a capitalist machine.

And if you are someone with memory issues, know you do not need to be ashamed. We've been conditioned to hold negative beliefs about ourselves and our struggles for somebody else's benefit. Guilt and shame will not resolve our struggles. You are worthy and valuable as you are.

[plural-culture-is]

median monocon culture is every time we talk to each other its like those cartoon scenes where one monologuing character zips around the screen replying to themselves, but with the brain focus jumping to each of us. we share a single collective braincell and take turns using it, literally

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[multiplicity-positivity]

Here’s some positivity for fictives of player characters!

Every introject is unique, special, and wonderful in their own way, and this absolutely includes fictives whose source is a player character from a video game, tabletop rpg, or some other game! To all the fictives of player characters out there, your life is precious and you are worth uplifting and celebrating! So this one is just for you!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters from video games who kept and identify with the default name of their source!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives from TTRPGs whose source is someone else’s player character!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who formed consciously or unconsciously due to their system’s special interest or hyperfixation!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who feel strongly attached to the game, work, or world they were sourced from!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives of player characters that were created by their own system!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters from let’s plays, podcasts, livestreams, or other instances where their source is a player character created by someone outside their system!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who are trying to distance themselves from their source for any reason!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives of customizable player characters whose appearance regularly shifts as a result of their source!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who have never interacted directly with the work they are sourced from!

Fictives of player characters are valid as fictives and introjects, and are important and valued members of their systems! It’s okay to be a fictive of a player character, regardless of how you feel about your source. Your experience is real, you are real, and you deserve to be supported and uplifted as you are!

If you’re a fictive of a player character, we hope you can take it easy today and find the time to do something that you love. Rest assured the plural community and our spaces are made better by your presence in them! Know that we’re rooting for you, and we’re wishing the very best for you in all that you do. Thanks so much for reading, and have a great day!

[orange-orchard-system]

Someday the average experience for a system discovering their plurality is going to be joy and understanding. Someday it is going to be commonplace for systems to introduce themselves as systems. Someday it will be rare for a person to not know a single system in their community. Someday we are going to have so many role models that young plurals will be able to pick and choose their favorites for every field or hobby they express even a hint of interest in. Someday we are going to have grandparents reminiscing to their grandchildren about what it was like to be a system back in their day. Someday this community will look back and be astonished that we ever lived like we did now. Someday plurality will be so well-known it will be common knowledge and a casual topic. Someday systems will be able to talk about their plurality casually and without fear. Someday support will be given without hesitation, accomodations without hoops, and acceptance without question. Someday we are going to get that damn pride parade, those abstract murals on the walls, those colorful posters in the classrooms, that tacky jewelry with our symbols, those flags hung outside homes, and so many other shows of victory and progress, and plural pride week will be looked forward to by so, so many as a time of celebration and community.

The history we are creating today will be valued tomorrow. Thank you all for being part of this wonderful community; your presence alone makes a difference and is valued beyond what words can express. The future is plural!!!

[plegg-culture-is]

plegg culture. is. sometimes. speaking patterns. just change. no reason. just different.

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[the-aspen-collective]

Its always "support alters with problematic sources" up until an alter has a genuinely problematic source.

Dont be a bully. Stop shaming alters for their sources. It's not okay and it's not productive.

-Rhodney (he/she/xe)

[interstellarsystem]

That moment when you're talking to yourself and it becomes a bit too much "talking" for it to be "yourself".