#system functions

[septembersanctuary]

Masking Cluster — An internal group of system members that aim to mask a system’s large member count and complex structures.

They are often the first system members one speaks about when introducing the system.

[lovegungenic]

GunsN'Rosesbased / GNRbased Flags. "GunsN'Rosesbased (or GNRbased) refers to a headmate, sisasystem, or system that has a structure based in the 1985 hard rock band Guns N' Roses. This label is not inherently an origin. It means Guns N' Roses could affect headmates, their roles, functions, or other parts of how the system functions. GunsN'Rosesbased systems may be heavy in music-related introjects as well."

[system-term-storage]

MADD System / MaDD System

A system whose formation, functions, headspace, and/or roles are influenced by maladaptive daydreaming (MaDD). This may include having several introjects of daydream characters, having features and/or locations from daydreams incorporated in the innerworld, having daydream holders, etc.

[asteroid-sysblog]

Kin-impacted

[PT: Kin-impacted :END PT]

> Kin-impacted is a term to describe how an entire system is impacted by being -kin, the kin community, and/or specific kin terms the same amount, at the same time. It can be described as a blanket, with being -kin as a concept swaddling the system. If the system is a specific kin, they can tack on fiction-, other-, fact-, etc. on the beginning of the term.

[PT: > Kin-impacted is a term to describe how an entire system is impacted by being -kin, the kin community, and/or specific kin terms the same amount, at the same time. It can be described as a blanket, with being -kin as a concept swaddling the system. If the system is a specific kin, they can tack on fiction-, other-, fact-, etc. on the beginning of the term. :END PT]

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@plural-labels @pluralterms @plural-terms

[mirror-shards-system]

i think we just had an epiphany as to why we don't get introjects. we have triggers, of course. and we can relate to others. but it's always kept at a distance with the caveat "if it applied to me"

it goes like

other people is other people.

me is me.

or not-me is me.

but other people is not me.

it's also probably why we're pretty resilient to just the meer presence of our triggers. it has to be specifically applied to us.

it's almost like computer programming, from our very limited understanding of computer programming. or like baba is you, which is itself like computer programming.

(wait, is it like computer programming? we've only ever coded in scratch when we were 12, we don't know shit about code. someone who knows better, please tell us if that comparison makes sense or not.)

[ellenhenryart]

(via "Lumon System Functions" Magnet for Sale by ellenhenry)

[thesaltyace]

Y'all I did NOT know this about Harris, and I think it's really critical that we all listen and understand as we approach this election. Video at the end.

This creator's video describes how progressive Harris was as a prosecutor -- actively going against the grain to the point she was accused of being soft on crime. Accused of being a social worker, not a prosecutor. She calls it being smart on crime. She's pushing for systemic changes to give real pathways to reintegrate incarcerated folks back into society and prevent their past from continuing to haunt them moving forward.

"Kamala's a cop" is a catchy dismissive response usually used to shut down conversation rather than add nuance. But this kind of reform is ESSENTIAL to work towards a present and future that treats incarcerated people with value.

I fell for it in 2020 and have thought "Kamala's a cop" without further inspection since - and I'm sobered by the realization that (you guessed it!) I'm not immune to propaganda.

A better system only follows liberal democracy, because library democracy allows for exploration of better systems. If authoritarianism takes hold, it will not allow for the exploration of better systems. We will have to fight tooth and nail just to try to get back to liberal democracy, and I suspect we could not achieve it in our lifetimes.

Harris isn't perfect. But she's a hell of a lot better than many leftists have led me to believe. Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. Don't let perfection be the enemy of harm reduction.

We can either help elect Trump and usher in authoritarian fascism, or we can help defeat him and pull things back in the direction we want to go. Not liking the choices doesn't absolve you from participating and doing the most good you can with the options available.

I'll link the original video in the replies. The original video has captions if you need them.

[kaboom--bitch]

Treating your headmates like separate people isn't worsening your condition by default by the way. Treating them with respect isn't making you dissociate more. Final fusion is a fine thing to try and achieve, but people need to understand that functional multiplicity is a thing you can work to achieve in therapy too. Please stop pushing the idea that you need to treat your headmates like a disorder or curse in order to heal. You can be happily multiple if you want that.

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

cang qiong dragon god shen yuan is probably like so old that time doesn’t have meaning? like he transmigrated into pidw as a dragon and and the system gave him a few missions that functionally amounted to ‘claim this mountain range as your territory and defend it from demons’

sy didn’t realize that he was actually laying the foundation for cang qiong mountain sect before its creation. some terrifying demon demigod (one of the first heavenly demons, maybe?) pursues a band of cultivators to his mountain range, and he protects them. they settle his mountains and start cultivating, and because they’re protected by a literal god (who they call lord canglong, and they name the mountains after him) people want to study there.

so cqms is born, and sy takes a nap. when he wakes up, those cultivators he saved bring another group of cultivators, all named 'wen' to his mountain, and they ask his permission to lead the peaks next. another nap, and he wakes up to the wen generation asking his blessing for the ming generation, so on and so forth up until the qing generation. this time he recognizes names: qingge, qingfang, qingqi. this generation's leader, qingyuan. and the one whose bow is shallow and perfunctory, qingqiu. ofc sy isn't super pressed about standing on ceremony or whatever—he's only experienced like six years in this world, and most of them were spent either establishing the mountain as his territory or helping his little cultivators fight off some world-ending cataclysm or other. but he remembers the scum villain’s name, and he’s not a huge fan of the way sqq’s already proving himself to be an arrogant old shit

just like every other time, after he’s met and blessed this generation of peak lords, shen yuan falls asleep. shit!!! he meant to stay awake this time, but the system putting him to sleep is just too powerful! he’s probably missed luo binghe, damnit!!! what’s the point of transmigrating into this shitty novel if he doesn’t even get to meet the only character worth the pixels it took to type him into existence??

but as soon as he sees that fluffy-haired boy curled up in one of his caves, bruised and weeping and wondering what he’s done to be so universally hated, shen yuan knows. that’s his protagonist, and he’s really too pathetic like this. he’s really just a child. and shen yuan might have been easily annoyed by the concept of kids in his first life, but this isn’t just some whiny kid. this is the protagonist. so he does his best to calm tiny lord luo down.

and at first when lbh realizes it’s the fucking dragon god canglong speaking to him, the poor kid falls on his face kowtowing and apologizing for the intrusion, but lord canglong just…asks him what’s wrong. and then listens. and then he allows binghe to…to touch his hand???? not only that, he pats binghe’s head?? and tells him it isn’t his fault??? that one little head-pat is filled with so much spiritual power that binghe almost passes out, and soon after he recovers, lord canglong sends him back down the mountain with a renewed sense of purpose. lord canglong said binghe wasn’t stupid, wasn’t incompetent, wasn’t a failure, and binghe was determined to prove himself worthy of the sect’s guardian deity’s kindness.

and when luo binghe turns to walk down the mountain back to qing jing peak, that google translate voice pipes up in shen yuan’s ear with an update he hadn’t realized he was waiting for.

[Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations! Important things must be said three times! USER_002 has completed the quest {From the Ground Up}! B-points +500 USER_002 has initiated the quest {Master of Masters}! New skill [Shapeshifter] has been unlocked! Would USER_002 like to activate [Shapeshifter] now?]

shen yuan slammed the bright glowing [YES] faster than any quest the system had ever given him. that’s how he learned that he was, in fact, just naked in front of luo binghe, and the [Shapeshifter] skill didn’t come with an auto-clothed setting. thank fuck he’d already sent the protagonist away!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*peering down at my own genetic sequence* uh-huh uh-huh bold choice bold fucking choices my friend

[lovegungenic]

Nirvanabased Flags. "Nirvanabased refers to a headmate, sisasystem, or system that has a structure based in the 1987 grunge alternative rock band Nirvana. This label is not inherently an origin. It means Nirvana could affect headmates, their roles, functions, or other parts of how the system functions. Nirvanabased systems or sisasystems may be heavy in music-related introjects as well."

Nirvanagenic Flags. "Nirvanagenic is a xeno-origin relating [metaphorically or literally] to the 1987 grunge alternative rock band Nirvana, the music of Nirvana, or the members of Nirvana."

Nirvanaorma Flags. "Nirvanaorma is a variant of nirvanagenic referring specifically to headmate origin, using the -orma suffix."

Nirvanadawn Flags. "Nirvanadawn is a variant of nirvanagenic referring specifically to sisasystem origin, using the -dawn suffix."

Nirvanaplex / Nirvana Plurplex Flags. "Nirvanaplex (or Nirvana Plurplex) is a plurplex term which for systems and sisasystems affected by the 1987 grunge alternative rock band, Nirvana. Nirvana heavily affects the whole system's or sisasystem's identity in some way."

[system-term-storage]

Refracting

When a headmate splits into several other headmates or fragments when in times of stress or trauma. When this stress or trauma is over, or has eased, then the refracted members return to a single headmate, which may be the same as they were before or as a new member entirely.

[lady-corrine]

[the-barefoot-hatter]

Pyramid Steve's favourite treat is pre-1982 pennies

(Ford slooooowly starting to realize his muse of infinite knowledge might, in fact, be a dumbass.)

[rocksaltpaperscissors]

one scene i cannot get over in System Collapse is murderbot and ART, both barely functional, staggering their way onto the shuttle to leave the 2nd colony. MB getting ART-drone strapped into a seat, worried about how damaged it is. doesn't even notice Iris getting it strapped into its own seat (as she worries about how damaged it is). MB and ART-drone, their humans' first and last lines of defense, destroyers of hostile secunits, sniping back and forth as they try to keep each other from shutting down. their humans, once again just barely Not Dead, looking after their extremely badass and very nerfed defenders. at least 15% of my brain capacity is dedicated to this scene at all times