#gateway system

[genderqueerdykes]

btw 'syscourse' and plural infighting isn't accomplishing anything. back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the only communities and resources for plurals that were widely available were for and by non-traumagenic systems. the only people who were advocating for normalizing and accepting plurality on a large scale were non-traumagenic systems. if you did research into plurality 10 - 15 years ago, most of the results that came up would have been experiences written by spiritual and natural plurals.

many people at the time were expressing their dislike of forcing every single plural to identify as if they had trauma- many found this insulting to themselves, and rightfully so! no one should be forced to identify in a way they don't agree with just to rightfully be a part of a community they already occupy. this obsession with "you can only be plural if you have trauma" has only come about extremely recently. i found out about plurality through the otherkin community. i was actually told about DID by someone in the spiritual plurality community. people don't seem to understand that most non-traumagenic systems have respect for traumagenic systems and don't gatekeep their spaces to prevent us from entering.

older plural spaces on the web like healthymultiplicity accepted all plurals. the goal of the community was to show that you can live as plural and not have it be a tragedy or something to "fix". if anything, folks with dissociative disorders owe a LOT to non-traumagenic systems for pushing to normalize plurality without implying that we HAVE to integrate our headmates and try to stop being plural. a huge part of the early online plural community was there to push that plurals can and do live happy lives and shouldn't view their plurality as a bad thing

it's not going to make singlet society see us in a better light. it's not going to get people to understand plurality better. it's not going to get us better mental health resources. it's not going to improve the quality of care for dissociative and traumagenic systems. all you're doing is bullying someone else that you don't understand simply because you don't agree with them.

you're not going to recover from your trauma or understand your own plurality better by denying the existence of other types of plurality. you're not "making the community safer" by gatekeeping. telling other people how their brains work is policing their identities. whether or not you want to accept it, if you forcefully kick endos out of plural spaces, you are the cop you claim to hate.

fighting with people on your own team will never net you a victory. to every other dissociative and traumagenic system: endos are on your side. you are wearing the same jersey. you are made of the same flesh and blood. enough. come together to share your similarities instead of fighting over differences. celebrate the diversity that plurality offers. don't take someone else's identity personally. someone can share the space with you without having to match exactly how you identify. diversity is what makes a community thrive.

[wayward-tides-collective]

anti endos thinking they're punk. lol. lmao even.

[dreamcatcher-of-pro-endos]

I love you spiritual systems that are also psychological

I love you walk-ins of any kind

I love you soulbonds and charabonds that get upset how they're displayed and treated by their source (ot waste writing term you use) fandom

I love you spiribonds (+ other walk-ins) who struggle to take care of a human body

I love you intrabonds

I love you exobonds

I love you walk-ins who have relationships with non-spirutual headmates

I love you walk-ins who get told your relationships aren't real because you're with a non-spiritual headmate (more directed to our system's walk-ins, but this goes for any out there)

I love you mixed origin systems with spiritual headmates

I love you mixed origins who have been told "you're either a spiritual system or you're not/you can't be both" (or have had thoughts of someone saying these things)

I love you systems/headmates that have spiritual practices and those who don't

I love you walk-ins who wish to see more people like you and get upset when you don't

I love you bondsystems

I love you cosmagenics

I love you gateway systems

I love you metaphysical systems

I love you psychgenic systems

I love you soulbased systems

I love you seelegenic systems

I love you all

[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.

[kthecritter]

coining a new system term! (to my knowledge there isn’t a term for this; if there is please tell us)

Travelmate: A headmate who will “travel” between your system and other worlds. Refers to how a headmate will walk-in, stay for a while, and then walk out—but will eventually return. The time that a travelmate will stay and leave can vary greatly, but they cannot permanently stay or leave.

This is different from terms like interflux, as these members physically leave the system instead of going dormant.

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[navelgazed]

✨️ Gateway system/plural ask game ✨️

Note: a gateway system is a system connected to one or more other worlds they can come and go freely from and to.

🪐 - what are the worlds/world you're connected to called?

🛩 -how do you travel? Is there a physical element, or is it all mental?

⏳️ - does time pass differently in the world/worlds you're connected to?

📏 - are there different units of measurement such as units of time, distance, volume etc?

🗺 - talk about a locale/city/country from your world/worlds. What do you like best about it?

🪄 - is there anything magical about the world/worlds you are connected to? Any interesting tidbits about how they work?

❓️ - do you see your connected world/worlds as a real place, something mental, or something in between?

📎 - are there any parallels between this world and the world/worlds you're connected to?

😟 - is there anything you'd like to change or wish was different about your world?

👤 - are there other people in your connected worlds/world? If so, talk about someone you've met from there.

🧪 - how scientifically advanced is your world?

☕️ - talk about a food or drink from a locale on your world. Do you like it? Does it taste similar to something on earth?

[knifedog-machina]

Daemons To Systems, And The Ways They Intertwine

Hey, I’m Max, he/they - I’m the host of our system, the guy who lives in the front and has only ever lived here, the one who identifies our body as my body specifically. A few nights ago, we realized something about our system origins while talking to some other systems, and I’ve honestly never heard of it happening before, so I thought I’d talk about it.

I used to think that I was a singlet before Jude and Gavin walked in. Now I’m pretty sure I wasn’t. See, before I was the host of a system, I was a daemian. I had three daemons, over the course of my time practicing daemonism, interacting with the community. And they were all a little weird.

The first one was Charlie, affectionately longformed as Charlemagne. Xe appeared in January 2018 as a red fox, said that was xir settled form, and never changed from that. That’s an option for daemons - I know other daemons who chose their forms, independent of how well that form represented their daemian, and stayed that way - but it was in contrast to how most people seemed to do it. I never really felt the need to find a form that fit my personality, not when xe was so confident that this was what xe was.

I didn’t try to make xir do anything, I didn’t decide to give xir faux autonomy - xe just did things xirself, with or without my prompting. Xe was playful, optimistic, a cheerful presence always willing to race around and perk me back up. I really needed xir, back then - I was going through a lot of stress in high school, and I needed someone around to remind me of the whimsical little joys in life. Xe fronted sometimes, and I loved when xe did, conjured phantom tail and paws and big fox ears and an unstoppable zest for life.

My next daemon, Martin, appeared in May 2019 after a fever dream. Really. I was sick and tired and miserable, and I didn’t want to do anything, including things that would make me feel better, and a new internal voice appeared in my head. She told me to drink some water and get to sleep. The next morning, she was still there, lounging around as a large black dog, and she stayed.

This became her role, her purpose in our mind, being a shepherd for my needs. She ran our faulty executive functioning, told me to take care of myself when I forgot important things, encouraged me when I failed to meet expectations. She raised her hackles when anyone tried to overstep our boundaries, and advocated for doing what we needed to protect ourselves, regardless of whether it was nice or polite.

Charlie and Martin overlapped in existence for a while. Charlie loved having a big sibling to play with, and Martin was fond of xir. So I had two daemons for a while, and the arrangement was nice. As I transitioned out of high school into college, my circumstances and environment drastically changed. Charlie was sweet, but xe stopped having a function in my life, so over the months, xe popped up less and less, until xe faded away entirely. Xe wasn’t upset to go, and xir memory is a comfort to me - xe served xir purpose, brought me joy, and had a life well lived.

In October 2021, I created a new daemon, compartmentalizing my emotional dysregulation and disordered anxiety into something that was Not Myself, so I could talk to it and understand its needs without being overwhelmed with distress. This became the feral shadow of a dog that we named Cortisol, nicknamed Court - and if Martin was our Freudian superego, who provided guidance for my decisions and stability when I got stressed, Court was our id, feeling all the explosive emotions that I couldn’t externally express and curling up for scritches like a beloved pet when it got what it needed.

We stayed like that for almost a year, getting familiar with the rhythm of life together. Then, in August 2022, my current headmates walked into my brain. My daemons vanished for the duration of their stay.

They only stayed around a few days, that first time - I was moving to a new place and having new people in my brain simultaneously was overloading our mental RAM, so I was forgetting a lot, and I decided that I’d rather live with them some other time. They understood, we said our goodbyes, and they walked out the next morning. (Recounting this to my friend Tanix was hilarious, by the way. “what the fuck (positive)” he said, his own headmates unable to do this. The joys of being a gateway system.) Once the headmates were gone, my daemons returned into my life.

They came back in March 2023, after I settled down into college for a while, and the memory didn’t jam up like it did previously, so we didn’t part ways this time. Martin and Court vanished overnight, again, and looking back on it, I’m noticing some patterns.

Gavin is basically performing the same role that Martin did - he’s the guy reminding us about our responsibilities, talking through the emotions when we feel like garbage, telling me to eat when I forget, or encouraging me to eat when I have enough sensory issues that I can't stomach anything. He consistently fronts when talking to people we don’t especially like, because he feels protective of us and tends to be the most patient with annoyances.

He’s also literally just some guy, just a decent human person who wound up in here because his partner arrived in my brain five minutes before him and understandably got really upset about it, so he followed them in. Somehow. We don't know how it works, but I also don't know exactly where the first two of my daemons came from, so I’m fine leaving it as a mystery.

(He has a lot of complicated feelings about the position he's in, playing a daemon’s role as a completely different person from me, and will probably write his own post about it some time.)

Jude is, unfortunately, kinda in the same role as Court. And since Court held the emotional dysregulation in my brain, Jude also holds the grand majority of the distress and anxiety that we feel on a regular basis. We all really wish it was split more evenly, because Jude tends to not only lose the ability to talk when they panic, they also get stuck in the front, completely unable to talk to me or Gavin.

(It’s not even that they feel the stress that directly affects them, it’s that on top of the stress that we get in our daily life. They regularly had panic attacks over my grades and exams last semester, and they weren’t even the one studying for it at all! It’s fucked up and I don’t love it for us.)

And there are other interesting little coincidences. You know how Court was a sketched-in sort of black dog? Jude only really realized they related to dogs upon arriving in the system with me, and the archetypal form they identify with is, again, a stylized black dog.

It’s really interesting, the ways my brain decided to be plural, because I didn’t think I was a system back then. I had a daemon, then two daemons, and they were daemons because I considered them parts of myself - no matter how autonomous they were, we were bound together in the same identity, as parts of the same person. They were reflections of me, and I loved them like I loved myself, and they loved me with the same ferocity.

With this realization, that my daemons effectively merged into my system, I did have to ask - are my headmates also parts of me, since they’re falling into the same functional compartments in my brain? We don’t think so, or at least, we don’t think it’s that simple. 

They’re completely different people from me, people who arrived here with their own lives and memories and identities. They aren’t autonomous reflections of my psyche like my daemons were. They’re my weird roommates who moved in with me, and my boyfriends, and I guess you could say we’re life partners - because hey, what’s a partner if not someone you share a life with? What’s more intimate than sharing the same body, hearing each other's thoughts and feelings? They aren't parts of me, but we live the same life together, and I think that counts as something just as significant.

[liondrakes]

I think I prefer titling my role within our system as “operator” over “system host”. I front the most, if not exclusively, out of everyone’s convenience. Most of them aren’t familiar with this world or even from it, thus I’m trusted with fronting since I’m more familiar with everything. I also take care of the body’s needs and responsibilities.

At the same time, being an operator is something of a jack-of-all-trades position. I assist in mediation, caretaking, guiding new members, and gatekeeping if need be. What goes on inside is just as much of a concern to me as what goes on outside.

I don’t like how centralized the role of host is, at least with how it’s approached. Operator is more fitting because it’s straight to the point. My job is mostly external; I am operating the body as one would with a machine. I’m not always alone, though. Quinn and Solai co-front on occasion.

Being a “host” includes that responsibility, sure, but my role isn’t hosting guests or residents within “my” home. The body is equally our home.

I’m just the maintenance dude.

[redacted-coiner]

would you make a polyfrag did circle graphic please?

Subsystem, Polyfrag, District(link)

Median, Mediple(link), Multiple

Gateway(link), Side System(link), Layered Front(link)

I wanted to do more so uh, have a lot more than just Polyfrag

DNI is listed within my pinned post. Please go read it before interacting with any part of my content. Ask to tag!

[icthyology-aquarium]

hello every1!!! we & our companion sys just opened a new pro endo discord servr :3 wed rlly appreci8 having u there!!!

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EcoSystems is a plurality-focused community server. Being plural is like an ecosystem -- every creature does its part to make the whole system work.

- Pro-endo. Like any ecosystem, marginalized communities are stronger when we accept the diversity within ourselves, rather than trying to police who "counts."

- Open to all kinds of systems, and also singlets, otherkin, age-regressors, any kind of queer person, etc.

- Strictly SFW

we have:

- a verification gate

- diary channels

- venting channel & resources

- plurality info & resources

- channels for syskids and nonhumans

- a bot where you can have a pet rat

[cynicalundead]

started unpacking source trauma yesterday, after a year in this body continuing to repress it all, and damn, they do not prepare you for how relentlessly those memories and symptoms hit. I've been fine for so long with it repressed and now suddenly it's all I can think about. I can't do anything at all without a reminder. it's rough, especially knowing this intense PTSD is from another life and I can't seek help from half our support system.

that being said. shoutout to other soulbonds from extremely traumatizing sources and bodies, especially to those who have started putting effort into healing in this body. you are so unfathomably strong. this shit is terrifying and confusing and invalidating. you're doing amazing and I'm proud of you <3

- Vivienne 💥

[solarz-headmates]

hello!!!

could we get a dazai alter? specifically 15 year old dazai, you can choose the rest :3

-💜

Ahh first fictive request!! Here you go!! -🎀 & 👽

Name: Osamu Dazai

Age: 15

Pronouns: He/Him

Gender: Cisgender

Orientation: Panromantic/sexual

Role(s): Gatekeeper, Protector

Source: Bungo Stray Dogs

Faceclaim:

[voxtekfanclub]

..... so.

we have a laios. in our system. aight.

and uh......... we just introduced him to undertale.

........

let's say he's very autistic about it

ut/dr fictives block tag #tw monster eating if necessary

[plural-affirmations]

Here's to people who used to be/identify as plural, but they're not anymore.

There's a couple different reasons why this might happen (which I'll get to in a minute), but the important thing is that they still deserve love, respect, compassion, and understanding from the plural community.

Shoutout to:

Empty systems, fully fused systems, etc.

Gateway systems that have had all their members walk-out

Systems that have gone completely dormant

Those who have experienced a total system collapse

Rotatien systems [link] or other systems with cyclical shifts in member counts

People who know their headmates are there, but they've lost communication with them somehow

Those who choose to create headmates again after they're no longer plural

The ones who genuinely thought they were plural, but turned out to not be

And anyone else I missed

It's ok to be wrong, it's ok to not stay the same forever, and it's ok to just be you. You don't have to prove anything to anyone, especially not your own validity. You're perfect as you are!

We love you!

🖤💜💙💚💛

[aspenonpawzzz]

HI

This is my introduction

my mewtual(s) in crime:

@justalexisfine

@imhereandqueersuckas (aka @goingtohellwithyou, that stupid fucker/silly/aff lost his password)

‼️‼️‼️I LIKE PINAPPLE ON PIZZA‼️‼️‼️

#c.ai shenanigans for c.ai posts lol

READ AND COMMENT IN MY FANFIC IM BEGGING!!!!

system side blog: @canis-constellation

fictive/fictionkin blog: @phantom-w0lfbane

Writers blog: @yourlocalangstdealer

term hoard/ label coining blog: @aspens-hoard

A-spec mafia: @aspec-warriors

(update: https://www.tumblr.com/aspenonpawzzz/757548899213918208/update?source=share)

Theme song: Throne, or Turn off the lights (panic! At the disco)

(Edit: forgot to mention, I have Tricotillamania!)

Plural Fluid!! (Coined term by me)

[skyedancer-system]

Hi! Sorry- what is a gateway in systems/gen?

No need to apologize! The short explanation is that a gateway system is a label for systems who see themselves as being connected to other worlds, usually through doors or gateways (hence the name). It’s often a metaphysical sort of thing, or at least it is for us. It’s kinda hard to find much info on it since a lot of folks seem to be scared to talk about it bc of anti-endo discourse (which is completely fair, though unfortunate)

Here’s the page about it on Pluralpedia with more info if you want to read it!

If you have any more questions feel free to ask!