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To Honor our Past

The first thing I had planned after the brackets were finished was a bonus round. This will not affect the 2025 winner — Freezing Cold System Takes took the win, no questions asked.

But there was one individual who was nominated no less than 5 times before I had to make a post about it. And I think it’s only fair to see what happens.

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"I dont care what the fuck you do in the community" then proceeds to bitch in and to the community

Ah yes, this is just for the people to see on your page. Indeed. You do, in fact, care what people do in the community based on this post. You realize the TAGS you choose often broadcast to a community, yes?

No, of course you don't. Learn proper etiquette before being a bitch towards the community who's actions you claim to not care about.

im not a system so i dont really gaf wtf yall do in that community BUT ;

if u think u DONT NEED trauma inorder to

have this VERY REAL , VERY COMPLEX , RARE AND OFTEN MISDIAGNOSED, LIFE RUINING DISORDER called

D.I.D

pls get the fuck off my page

thanks 4 reading🫶

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Happy Mother's Day to all the system caretakers and mothers here on sysblr. ♥️

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I drew the gang,

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Hi super random but I LOVE the idea of doing “faceclaims” with the drink picrew that’s GENIUS!!

Thank you! A friend shared the picrew and we did it for fun, and then realized everyone loved having their own aesthetic drink, so we swapped out our intro portraits. I am sure at some point we will do portraits again, but we will keep doing silly objects in the meantime.

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It is a lot of work for a single person determined to be the thorn in multiple peoples side. Makes sense they ran out of original content after the first anon sent. Trolls just aren't the same as they use to be. No creativity or originality anymore.

Oh, wow, here we go again, another keyboard warrior spouting absolute nonsense like it’s gospel, expecting us to just bow down to their unverified, baseless claims. Do you even hear yourself? "Trust me, bro" isn’t a source, and your word salad isn’t fooling anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together. How many times do we have to watch you trip over your own ego, presenting opinions like they’re stone-cold facts? Did your mom never teach you to back up your nonsense, or were you just raised by Wikipedia trolls? Next time, maybe try thinking before you embarrass yourself (again). But hey, keep going, watching you fail is almost entertaining. Almost.

anon hate used to be believable. at least put in some effort instead of copy and pasting... do I not deserve my own special hate mail? all the years I've been here, and no serious hate anons yet, just one and the only one was also copied and pasted like a dozen times? come on now, do better!

fun fact: some Italian dialects are actually considered their own separate languages! they're often mutually intelligible

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They are a kid, so let's bully and shame them like a kid

Wow

So mature

Oh wow, look at the big bad twelve-year-old over here, thinking chugging stolen sips of mom’s wine cooler and puffing on a vape behind the school dumpster makes them an "adult." Honey, no. Just because you think you’re mature doesn’t mean you’re not still a child whose biggest responsibility is remembering to bring a signed permission slip for the field trip.

At least I'm mature enough to understand I have a 31 year old brain. Y'know since the body is 31. Do 12yo singlets have a 31 year old brain?

I'd rather be a literal child than an idiot, but you do you! In the meantime I'm going to sort out the process of taking our university prelim tests and go look at some porn just to piss you off.

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in terms of whether or not littles are capable of consent, i feel like people don't dissect why exactly children can not consent.

"children can't consent because they're children and littles are always children so they can not consent." that is circular reasoning, i believe.

to put it specifically, children have not physically developed the cognitive functions to fully understand consequences in the long term, as well as the inherent power imbalance that would make it coercion.

when you are physically an adult, engaging with another adult, that removes that power balance. even if you as a person are in ways people deem child like, even if you aren't used to having that power, you do have the power of being an adult.

now, we go to cognitive functions. i'll first bring up disability.

yeah, there are disabilities that do impact someone's ability to consent. disorders of the brain and so on. making it so that they are unable to understand and agree to the potential long term consequences of sex. that isn't because they're actually children, but because they're adults who do not have that cognitive function.

and now we go to littles. yes, an alter may be a child in the headspace. yes, an alter may be child like or a trauma holder or whatever. but all those facts do not change if you are physically an adult. that is how aging works. and so it is time for a personal judgement.

do you and your little believe that they have access to the cognitive functions that allow them to fully consent? to fully understand what is happening, the long term consequences in their entirety, and they would enthusiastically want to do it if the time comes?

if yes, then i do not see the problem. regardless of who you are in your mind, your physical body matters at the forefront. even if an alter has dark brown skin in the headspace, they still have the power of a physically white person if their physical body is so. even if they're an amputee in their headspace, they still have the power of not being an amputee if their physical body is so. an physical adult is one regardless, that is one reason why infantilization is so damaging.

and, disabilities can make it so that one can not consent. it's not consistent across the board. but those disabled people are not automatically physically children, they are disabled adults. an autistic adult is still an adult, even if they can't consent to certain things.

and for alters within a system, it just depends. some can, some can't. everyone should be respected, and no serious accusations should be thrown around regardless. based on the context of what im talking about.

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also, as a response to "my little's lack of consent would have been respected if this other person saw them as a real child-"

my response to that is your little not consenting should have respected regardless. you don't have to physically be a child for you saying No to mean something. it should ALWAYS mean something, regardless of who you are.

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[ID: an illustration of a brown fossa perched on a branch, facing to the right and glaring down at a red-ruffed lemur which is facing to the left on a branch below. The lemur is glancing up at the fossa with its tail curled upward, and there’s a long vine draped on its branch. The background is green with white, orange, and red flowers. End.]

The endangered red-ruffed lemur is endemic to Madagascar, where they are threatened by habitat loss. They live high in the canopy of the island’s rainforests, and eat mostly fruit. They have few natural predators - among them the arboreal carnivore the fossa, most closely related to the mongoose. They feed primarily on lemurs but also hunt small mammals, fish, birds, and wild pigs.

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Sh.. shrim

Sim...

Simp for shrimp

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Our syskid has been trying to make her own daemon. It's going slow, but she has picked two favorite forms to practice with. The white kitten is no surprise to anyone. The fossa baby is cute as hell, so I'm also not too surprised she latched on to it. But, there is something so ironic about that choice for Cereza. Don't you agree, @korya-elana?

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Maybe this therapy shit is working

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She loves being in front so much it's hard to get her to let go. She loves experiencing life and finds joy in so many things that none of us have the heart to tell her it's time to go. Besides, we get to experience her whimsy and joy secondhand, and it is its own type of drug. Can't say any of us mind feeling that good and happy 24/7.

But, even now, while I think she has retreated, I know she is still listening and could swap without any notice. There is no doubt in my mind that the reason she loves life so much, loves being in front as often as possible, is because she gets to spend it with her friends. She loves my partner system so unconditionally and so potently. No matter who is in front, she is overjoyed to spend time with them. But, the little furball is *always* waiting for signs of her two favorite people. I genuinely think she waits every day, hoping to get to play or relax together with them.

I don't remember much of yesterday. But her excitement is *still* hanging around. Seeing the Menagerie retell their time with the kid brings me it's own unique joy and it is so beautiful. It's one of the things I look forward to the most when I return to front.

I know she's safe with my partner system, and especially with Jasper. Their little duo was so unexpected, but she loves him so much.

Sugar and spice and everything nice with more trust and optimism than is healthy. But it works for her.

It's very new for us to exist around a child alter who isn't ours and we're still figuring it out. But no one told us how happy those alters really make us. It's so different to caring for our own child parts. Our partner's child alter is just ... so sweet. The first night she finally introduced herself to us, she just created this beautiful story about sea turtles out of thin air. She hums to herself constantly and she finds everything as something to laugh delightedly at. Tonight I told her that I might switch out to one of her two favourite people in our system and the absolute delight in her eyes at the prospect of her friends showing up made me feel so much joy. And then the alarm and her trying to make sure I understood that she did like me but she was excited about her friends showing up. But then the alarm when she had to then try to convince me that I was a friend too. And her just fumbling and trying to figure out the silly hole she got herself into just made my heart melt.

We've spent nearly 24 hours straight together, I am by no means upset that she's excited about the prospect of one of her other friends showing up. But watching her try to figure it out was just ... very endearing. And she's had a very curious effect on Jasper that we're all amused with. Apparently he refuses to label himself a Protector.

Except when it comes to this kid.