#switching and fronting

[interstellarsystem]

Music as a Switching Method

We have mostly voluntary switches, but that doesn't mean it's easy. Sometimes it's hard to stay in the front when the body really wants One Particular Guy to front for the next week straight. It has a habit of latching onto one person until they get worn out, then shoving another guy into front--rinse and repeat. No one likes it. It's not productive. Sure, we can switch, but we feel absolutely horrible and blurry if we do, if the brain decides it doesn't want whoever switched in.

But we've learned ways to make it easier for other people to hold onto the front using certain methods. One of the most effective ways to do it? Music. A lot of us have our own playlists, favourite songs and music tastes, and those get so associated with us that they're almost inseparable from us. Like our own list of theme songs that we have playing in the background when we're around. And what do you know, it grounds us and keeps us from blurring too hard.

Your identity gets so merged with your playlist that years after your last front, you can hear a song from it and be rocketed straight into the fronting area from wherever you were inside. Some people share songs across playlists and those don't tend to be as strong of a front trigger, but sometimes they lean more toward being a switch-in trigger for one person than anyone else. Sometimes it depends on the overall playlist vibe and takes a few songs in a row to summon someone from the headspace. Sometimes it's as simple as the first few notes of a favourite song.

It's almost literally like we have our own theme songs that follow us around like videogame characters. If the song plays, you know we're there or we'll be there soon. It definitely helps with times where our brain is being difficult. It means that sometimes switches happen out in public if we hear a certain song playing on some speaker somewhere, but that's better for us than not having any way to combat identity-blurring.

[the-wallflower-system]

I’m kind of in a similar boat. Someone outside the system asking for someone else kinda works, but I can’t really bring them to front myself, least of all because it would be really rude to just bother them until they acquiesce, y’know? - A

"can [headmate] front so i can talk to them"

[malone-fanart]

kerdly slop

yes image quality is shit on purpose lmfao i felt like that added to it

chapter 4 weird route spoilers!!

alternatively, if you’re a berdly hater, then don’t worry i got you covered too 🔥🫡 /silly

og images and normal quality + no text version of first image under cut

[sleepylapa]

Max: oh no no, here comes Charles!

Checo and Daniel: calm down, act natural

Max: yeah, okay

*Charles comes closer*

*Max panics and pours a bottle of water on himself*

Max*gets embarrassed and says without thinking*: ughhhh, how clumsy I am. oh, hi, Charles! You made me wet

Charles*winks and takes Max's hand*: Hi Maxie!You make me wet too, let's go big boy🤭

*they go behind the garages*

Checo and Daniel:... well it worked in the end

[tidetower]

The Prince of the Hightower and the Heir to High Tide

Artist: erchitos

[interstellarsystem]

We have a lot of people who are more sensitive to light, myself (Crowley) included. Quite a few of us need to wear sunglasses outside even on cloudy days because of it.

A lot of us have different tastes for food--Mystery hates the fruit drinks we normally buy. Some people have preferences for brands of chips. Some of us like certain meats and some of us don't really like meat at all. Taste and texture enjoyment really, really varies.

We also have different pain tolerances--Vince is good at dealing with pain and some of us feel it more than others. We're all affected differently by temperature which also messes with pain tolerance.

Overall? There's a lot of subtle ways we differ and experience things differently when fronting.

#Fifty-Six

[pt: #fifty-six]

Do your system members experience the world differently? Do the colors feel brighter or duller? Does taste and light affect you differently depending on who is on front? Does someone freeze easily while others don't?

[altruistic-meme]

im sitting here wondering how the ADA would react to skks dynamic in canon. cus like..... I don't think ANYONE from the ADA has ever actually seen Dazai and Chuuya in the same room. and the way Dazai talks to and teases Chuuya is SO DIFFERENT than how he behaves with the people at the ADA that I feel like they'd get fucking whiplash from it.

[fyllophobia]

[sarahtarth]

if eddie's shirt was open when he answered the door to buck, buddie would be canon by now

[oltammefru]

Once again thinking about 🐇⬆️.

[interstellarsystem]

Any other alterhumans out there have pets/animals react differently to you, depending on shift or similar stuff? Maybe depending on who's fronting in your system? Some other alterhuman related thing?

One of our cats absolutely loves Cinnabar. She's indifferent to most other fronters but once Cinnabar walks into the room she's all over him. It's the same for Soul, except somehow all of our animals just seem to love him more. Yet, the cat that loves those two hates me (Vital) and will not let me touch her.

We haven't noticed if our animals behaviour depends on shift (kintype or otherwise) or not yet but with headmates it really seems to make a difference. Maybe it's subtle differences in our body language, maybe it's something else, but they definitely act differently to a point where even other people around us notice.

[weaverofink]

punk douxie redesign!!! i just think he should have had an undercut tbh

+ bonus doodle:

i feel like they for sure wouldn't let him wear his whole punk getup at his cafe job so i put him in a uniform. for fun.

[tvntheatre]

💥fanart💥💥

Vine boom I still don't understand the bug man (how to pose)

@king-candybug-backup haai I love your portrayal of angry bug bitch.

[claraoswalds]

So what's wrong with Clara, then? There's nothing wrong with her. Why haven't you made her immortal? Well, look how you turned out.

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

Viktor started topping and Jayce was like well this is not our dynamic at ALL and therefore that’s the moment he was like okay gotta see how I can reverse this back to the way it was

[lollipopmixclo9]

For my delulu, I like to imagine Harumasa reenacted a similar scenario from one of Lighter's trust event as an apology for Seth running around the square

This twt account isnt mine but it's the scene I was referring to!