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sticks my hand in ur brain and pulls out a handful of ur alters n runs away

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@funnier-as-a-system maybe

writer culture is accidentally giving your character a Thing (kink, trait, habit, etc) that actively makes you want to scream just thinking about it.

and now you're stuck hoping that it will just fade into obscurity after this one scene, but knowing that it is going to come up more, inevitably, because the characters are the ones that run this show lmao.

(this keeps happening to me, its the worst)

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people who remember their childhoods to a normal degree will never understand the feeling of spawning into the world half-formed at age 12

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actually, expanding on my last post for a second.

if we as a community want to liberate all plurals we have to move past attempting to make frameworks and boxes that encompass every system and/or every system member.

there will never be a system of terms that encompasses every single plural experience. there will never be a framework that describes every single plural. this is not a bad thing!

not every system member can be described as either an introject or a non-introject. not every system member can be described as either a part or a person. not every being can be described as either plural or singlet. it's okay to mix and match terms or to opt out of frameworks that don't apply to you. it's okay to be multiple things at once even if those things seem to be opposing.

it's okay to use as many or as few labels as you like. it's okay to subvert the expectations placed upon you to fit neatly within certain theories and frameworks. plurality is so, so messy, and it's plain impossible to try and put everything into nice, clean boxes.

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Externally, there's not much difference. Of course, that makes sense. Theres no physical change in our vocal chords or anything. But theres also not much change in pitch or tone or anything. We've been kinda shoved into being quiet and out of the way for so long that our voice just kinda naturally reflects that as well. I do know Kinich in particular gets pretty bad voice dysphoria on occasion though.

...maybe we should try voice training.

Internally, it's kinda complicated. We actually can't distinguish much between headmate voices. Theres usually slight differences in pitch and tone, but overall we all kinda sound the same.

...with one very overt exception.

Rainbow. Zir voice has been distinct from the moment ze formed. Maybe it's because we watched too much of zir source. Idk. But it is always very clear when ze talks lol.

Hello, creatures! Do headmate have distinctly different voices, or is it usually more similar to the "default" voice?

question 53:

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music recommendation: vsynth music producer dav-p is a system who makes music about being a system (in particular, her songs "doppelgänger" and "biopic" stand out in this regard.)

ooh awesome!

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*no other system has fictives it

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Okay, so it took the entirety of our second hour but it has been done. I can now talk in discord servers!

Okay, you win. (Link to post we're referencing)

We'll update our Discord proxies today during 2nd hour.

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Okay, you win. (Link to post we're referencing)

We'll update our Discord proxies today during 2nd hour.

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hey, small psa:

fictives are just people. you wouldn't walk up to a person you saw on the news once while they're having dinner and say "holy shit guys it's Jimothy Cumwomble, great job on stopping that armed robbery, sorry your brother died in the process". that would be completely socially unacceptable - you'd be butting in on their life, overstepping not just their boundaries but basic social decency, and bringing up potentially traumatic life events. it's rude, infantilizing, and potentially directly harmful. so why would you do the same to a fictive just because you know, or think you know, their source?

and that's not to say "never bring up a fictive's source to them", plenty of fictives enjoy talking about their sources! but there's a little thing called tact. you can ask whether they're okay with talking about it, or join in on a conversation where they already are, even just a "hey if you don't mind could we chat about your source" would go a long way. but suddenly changing the topic to their source not just without warning but by singling them out as "weird" or "interesting" and saying things about their source that would never be appropriate to say to a singlet about their past is not cool.

TLDR, a fictive existing in a public space is not an excuse to single them out, put a spotlight on them, and bring up potentially traumatic parts of their history just because you think their source is neat. have a little common sense about timing and approach, or just let them exist in peace.

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Using the dissociative diagnostic criteria to invalidate endogenics is like reading a book called "How to Identify Hummingbirds" and going "Aha! Pigeons aren't real birds! Only Hummingbirds are real birds!"

Like

The fuck?

There are many types of birds (systems) with their own characteristics, and using a (imperfect) baseline for one specific type doesn't mean the others don't exist - just that they aren't that one specific type

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new year new me

wait, not like that-

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anyways

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Me when I was a "singlet": I wonder if my system friends think it's cheesy when I say "ya'll" or "you guys" to them.

Me knowing I'm a system, after someone just referred to us as "you guys":

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”I want to know your headcount” “I want to know who’s fronting” so do I, get in line