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Shout out to headmates who are sourced but aren't introjects!

This could mean kin identities or even just deciding that you are/look like/are sourced from a thing you like now, just because you said so!

Maybe you are an introject and decided to have another source.★

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Being a V fictive / soulbond is so wild

going from having some asshole in your head to being the asshole in somebody else's head? {I use asshole lovingly, of course}

I don't have Johnny with me, but I can imagine him laughing at this sitch. I guess I now know how he felt, being stuck inside my head like he was. But hey, at least I didn't try to kill my host.

I won't say I miss the dickhead, but I can't say I don't miss him

Again, this shit is... it takes some getting used to, that's for sure. It's nice to know there's others out there like me though.

-- Vale

Hey that's funny, another V. Yeah my past Johnny is different from the one I have in here with me. Like I didn't date other Johnny but I'm dating this one now. Being plural is a hell of a lot easier when you're not killing eachother, and when the Johnny here isn't always trying his best to be an ass to me.

nice to meet you Vale. I'm Vincent.

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Are you fucking serious? You guys are disgusting, I hope all your fictives take you off your damn host role and push you so far deep down you'll be dormant for a year. This has to be fucking abuse "anti recovery bullshit" if my beloved fictives say they are their source, I will love them all the same. Weird how even though I let them do whatever they want we're still healing from our trauma, huh?

Do you do sign offs here? Can I be -⚰️?

Anyway,

People who genuinely believe in source mates pmo. “Source mates interact!! Doubles dni!!!” Please stop dragging other people into your anti-recovery bullshit. Accept you’re not your source. You’ll never recover if you don’t come past that barrier. Stop source dating, stop trying to say doubles dni. Stop it. Alters aren’t their source. When you say that shit, you’re treating them like they are.

Yea sign-offs are fine

I TOTALLY AGREE!!!

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traumagenics, make out with your tulpamancer friend asap!!

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sometimes when I'm having a bad day I remember transfem men and transmasc women exist and then I'm not having a bad day anymore

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Some fact checks about plurality

The "Bible of psychiatry" is the DSM. In 1994, the DSM changed the name of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This was in response to a moral panic where critics claimed that the condition was fake.

The original and current diagnostic criteria do not require trauma for DID (or MPD) (DSM-III, p. 259; DSM-III-R, p. 272; DSM-5-TR, p. 331).

The international counterpart of the DSM is the ICD-11. Its essential features for DID do not require trauma, either.

Both books say that not all cases of multiple personalities are a disorder or a severe impairment. Psychiatry recognizes that medicalizing them is not always appropriate.

Plurality (or multiplicity) is a community umbrella term for many ways of being more than one person in a body. Psychiatrists who know enough about DID are aware of it. Plurality includes but is not the same as DID.

The community has always included plurals who formed for reasons other than trauma. Dividing the community by excluding non-traumagenic plurals and calling them fake is new. That only started in August 2014 on Tumblr, unheard of elsewhere.

When that started, a trauma-caused DID system created the word "endogenic." This means plurals who formed naturally rather than from trauma. The Lunastus Collective coined it in solidarity with them.

(Similarly, the coiner of another umbrella term, "alterhuman," is a member of a traumagenic OSDD system who supports endogenic plurals. The purpose of that word is for plural systems to unite with other sorts who differ from usual definitions of human individual, valuing what we do and do not have in common, instead of in-fighting about who is more legitimate.)

Community historian LB Lee gives several good reasons why-- as trauma-surviving plurals-- they choose not to call themselves "traumagenic" or divide the community by origins. If I may briefly paraphrase a couple of these: If you see suffering as your whole foundation of who you are, then you have a more difficult time envisioning a better situation. If you want others to respect you, a losing strategy is to put down people who are seen as similar to you.

Neither psychiatry nor the greater community of plurals see trauma history as an important distinction in determining whether someone is plural.

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Convinced that Zionists don't understand Blood Libel.

It's not blood libel if we have actual footage we can see with our own eyes.

Stop it. This is getting embarrassing

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when the system stops masking and starts saying “we” “us” etc 😩😩🥴

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"blown to smithereens" but as in like head so good it makes you plural

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hey dont cry. plural boy boobs in your mouth, okay?

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genuinely sad how taboo intrasystem relations are. never seeing anyone talk about relationships with their headmates, or express desires for anything beyond individual headmate hookups (singlet normativity strikes again), can make it so hard to conceptualise or articulate those as things you might actually need.

there are special kinds of headmate bonding and plural affirmation. that can only be found in sharing a front while you share a cock. these things are normal to want and possible to achieve.

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I should be allowed to makeout with my headmate. This is unfair.

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you'll do anything to feel special wont you, including endogenic bullshit

sigh once again we're traumagenic, being plural doesn't feel special at all but it sure is nice, you guys just love to make yourselves look bad, no care for trauma victims ever and at all

when i say its nothing special, its because so many are plural that its just common now, like being trans

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Confession: I love being plural. I love being schizo, both negative and positive symptoms. I often see people say “we are not defined by our mental illness”, and, well, I AM defined by my mental illness! My brain was scrambled since the day I was born, that's how I was my entire life. Yes, it's not always pleasant, but that's me. People tell me how sorry they are and how hard it must be. Do not pity me, the only thing I regret is how our society is failing me and other disabled folks. I don't want to be cured, I want to be accommodated

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Switchy: server-side pluralkit for minecraft

Switchy lets players swap between presets of player data and customizations by utilizing the existing features of other well-established mods in the ecosystem - nicknames, skins, origins, and so on - plus vanilla data like inventory, position, and spawn point.

It's for systems, RP servers, account sharing, genderfluidity, furries, even mapmaking - everything is toggleable on a per-player level and built to be extended with mod compatibility addons.

It works with vanilla clients, but adds the GUI above when modded.

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Yo question about your bio!!

First, what is phoenixgenic? Second, can you explain introversal a bit more in depth with an example? We feel like that may fit us but the pluralpedia definition is confusing.

Hey It's V talking here, think you're talking about Scald's labels. Phoenixgenic is a headmate who died and came back, he loves fire so I think that's why he called it that. As for introversal, Scald is someone from another reality but has a source seen as fictional in this reality. Basically let's say your headmate came from another world but in this world he's seen as a video game character. He'd be an introversal because while his past life was real, in this life he's in now, night city is a work of fiction.

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The future is plural... For plurals who support other plurals...

The problem with system medicalists is that even if progress is made for plural acceptance, they will do their absolute hardest to make sure that only traumagenic systems are accepted.

They will fight tooth and nail to make sure that their voices are the main ones being heard. They will try to keep the focus of discrimination purely on ableism, and how the discrimination is only wrong because of the disability.

If, in the future, a bill went up to vote to offer protections to plurals, I promise you that the most outspoken system medicalists would try to make sure that it only protects people who have CDDs.

We have already seen how they have tried to gatekeep resources that were literally made by the pro-endo community!

I want protections for all plurals! I want resources for all plurals! I want a world that is accepting of all plurals... For their plurality...

But that world cannot be accepting of hate! It cannot be accepting of systematicalism as an ideology! It cannot be accepting of the people who would make sure that any advances in plural acceptance will only help the system that they deem worthy!

If you believe system medicalists shouldn't be stigmatized, that they should be allowed to spread hate, that they should be allowed to spread an ideology that harms endogenic systems, then you are going to be responsible for this damage that you allow them to cause to any plural acceptance movement!

System medicalism is a belief founded entirely on hate and lies! It has no merit and deserves no respect!

They can reap the benefits of our labors. Because plural acceptance will benefit them too, however hard they fight against it. They should not have to be stigmatized for their plurality. Nobody should!

But as long as they believe that some people should face discrimination for being plural, as long as they spread rhetoric that will harm other plurals for their plurality, those beliefs cannot be accepted or tolerated!

A plural future cannot be one that accepts system medicalism.