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[sparkssystem]

Dude, the story has killed 6 of my favorite characters in the last few writing sessions. The story needs to let me write it, because the twist villain that I DID NOT SEE COMING is going on a murder spree. Please, please let me control how the story goes, you can't just keep killing people. What the hell are you doing? Where is this going? What is even happening?

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

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I don't have anyone to tag though, so whoever wants to add on can.

Everyone post a random picture from your gallery,this is a tag game yes

@fymo-blogs @the-real-gmail @totally-china @dhampirdreamerz @france-unofficial

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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Exotrauma

Having exotrauma from a "cringe" or "silly" source sucks. It feels like you're taken infinitely less seriously than those who have trauma from grittier, adult-geared and/or "acceptable" sources. Which in and of itself just isolates you and makes it worse.

I'm not just a silly little thing from your silly little Roblox game that could never show signs of trauma because it's 'just a kids game'--and I'm not your blorbo either. It feels like there's 2 common options for how people treat fictionkind with exotrauma:

Oh my poor little scrunkly, my little cardboard box meow meow.... Going to hold you because I love babying you and treating you like you're not even a person because I see you only as my favourite character. (Mind you, this is distinctly SEPARATE from actual friendly support, you can tell the difference.)

You're not a fictional character, get over it lmao. Yeah I know you are them but like you didn't ACTUALLY live through that, stop claiming it, it's disrespectful. Why are you upset at my memes about your death lol. Get a life.

So like... Maybe fictionkind are people. Maybe I don't want to think about the worse parts of my source. Maybe I don't want my trauma shoved in my face as a little funny joke, even if the context is changed. Maybe, just maybe... Leave alterhumans with fictional sources alone. Even if their source is lighthearted, even if it's for kids, even if it's the most "cringe" media you can think of.

Sonic the Hedgehog might've seemed fine in-source but maybe he's fucked up from all that he's been through. That warrior cat alterhuman isn't just being edgy, maybe they're suffering from the memories of fighting to survive day in and day out. Bluey is allowed to be not okay, and their source shouldn't dictate their experiences. Do you ever think that some Pokemon or trainers don't have amazing, adventurous lives travelling around with their best friends? Mario might have nightmares and flashbacks from his source. Mickey Mouse is allowed to be hurt, and allowed to express that. That MLP alterhuman isn't always going to be just a happy colourful magic pony with no issues whatsoever.

We are PEOPLE, and our sources being "happy", "for kids", "light-hearted", "fun" or anything of the sort should NOT dictate how we are treated here, what our experiences are "allowed" to be, or how we are expected to act. Treat fictionkind--of all sorts--like PEOPLE.

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Reblog with your score

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Sorry you came onto my boyfriend's personal experience post and claimed it was potentially harmful advice when it was not advice in the slightest and had dozens of disabled people agreeing with their own experiences. Sorry you haven't developed reading comprehension and felt the need to misconstrue everything we've both said (like nowhere did I say that hallucinations aren't harmful) and are now playing the victim in the drama that you started with your unnecessary comment on a personal positivity post. Sorry your brain seems to be in the minority of how it handles hallucinations, I honestly didn't know that minority was possible because all the research I've seen says acknowledging hallucinations/intrusive thoughts makes them easier to deal with (also, I kind of want to say maybe your therapist isn't great? But maybe I'm jumping a bit, I just know a loooot of therapists are actually judgmental pricks that have really really bad advice, none of ours have done more good than harm and that unfortunately seems to be the norm, the wording you used of "power" just seems rooted in that mindset). I assumed you were an non-psychotic telling psychotics to "watch out for the horrible hallucinations!!" because that's what the majority of non-psychotics say and you had NOTHING pointing to you not being one of them. It's not fakeclaiming you if you never claimed to have the experience in the first place. It read like an abled person telling disabled people to not "live in their delusions", which is really shitty, so I responded accordingly.

But, I understand you're 14. We were all 14 once, I know I was a regular stupid 14 year old always picking fights. So no hard feelings! But an apology to my boyfriend would be nice.

Honestly, talking to our hallucinations is hilarious.

There's a weird figure in the dark? Dude, get off of my lawn. Go home.

We see a cat for a split second but it was never there? There goes the extradimensional cat, that's a good kitty.

We see bugs that aren't real? Besties you really gotta start paying rent to be in here!

There's weird figures darting around the corners of our vision, never clear enough to be seen? Sorry we looked at you, I totally get social anxiety!

It makes it seem less serious and lets less room for fear to creep in, because when we get afraid is really when it gets bad. "Why are you talking to yourself?" So I don't go insane actually. Deal with it.

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Tell me you don't have hallucinations without telling me you don't have hallucinations. "More power", what are you on about? You're giving them LESS power by turning them into a joke. They're no longer scary, they're just annoyances or even your friends.

Did you know it's been proven that hallucinations being "harmful" is caused by society's view on what hallucinations are? You think they're scary, so when you get them, they're scary. Places without that much media or negative connotations actually report that their hallucinations more often tell them to take care of themselves. Taking the fear out of the symptom makes it overall better.

Honestly, talking to our hallucinations is hilarious.

There's a weird figure in the dark? Dude, get off of my lawn. Go home.

We see a cat for a split second but it was never there? There goes the extradimensional cat, that's a good kitty.

We see bugs that aren't real? Besties you really gotta start paying rent to be in here!

There's weird figures darting around the corners of our vision, never clear enough to be seen? Sorry we looked at you, I totally get social anxiety!

It makes it seem less serious and lets less room for fear to creep in, because when we get afraid is really when it gets bad. "Why are you talking to yourself?" So I don't go insane actually. Deal with it.

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Art Fight attack for @sparkssystem-art of their headmate, Nova. Heard you like disasters, and heard you have a phantom ruby. So my finger slipped.

[THIS IS A GIFT, DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU ARE THE INTENDED RECIPIENT]

Please do not use our art without our permission. Feel free to ask to use for icons and similar things, but we have the right to say no.

Program: Firealpaca Approx. Time: 40m Original Date: 13.07.24 Commission/Trade/Collab status in bio/pinned! Art Of: Nova [Headmate, SparksSystem] (System Member Artist: Cinnabar)

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HIYA!!! i gave super duper CRUSH on my sysmate which is adult, and im a minor??? (Were BODILY ADULT BTW IF IT MATTERS) AND DGEHRHHT i love him SOSOSOSO MUCH. and i think they love me too, but they feel guilty for that. sososo.... can sysmate adult/minor relationships be okay? like I LOVE THEM ITS MY INITIATIVE AHHSHDHDBBBBBB

sorry if it does sound weird im chaotic by nature srs

[Mod note: So long as everything is consensual, that's all that matters! In our personal opinion, as soon as you get into the realms of plurality and people sharing a brain and body, things are bound to get weird and messy and fall outside the realm of traditional meatspace morals & ethics. We ourselves have a family whose family tree is, in the most literal terms possible, a circle, so wethinks we'd be a little bit of a hypocrite to police others' relationships for being 'outside the norm' when we ourselves frequently fall way beyond it, most often completely unintentionally and only recognizable with some scrutiny.

Additional: We will make sure to tag relationships with these kinds of circumstances with things such as #tw age gap [mention], #tw incest [mention], etc to avoid inadvertently triggering anyone since we know these are sensitive topics for a lot of people, and we'll also always add #ask to tag in case there's something we missed!]

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“Everything is ableism these days”

Have you considered the fact that disabled people seeing ableism in every day language and life says more about society and its culture/history than it does about disabled people as a whole?

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the system experience

>type did system into youtube search bar

>first option is "did system cringe"

>go onto reddit and type did system

>first option is fake disorder cringe

>feel fucking awful

>do a did presentation in medical class

>someone raises their hand and asks how to know if someones faking

>feel fucking awful

>tell someone you have did

>they ask if you're faking because you have a fictive

>feel fucking awful

>feel fucking awful

>feel fucking awful

>tell a close friend you have did

>they get disgusted when you say we instead of I

>look at tiktok compilations

>did cringe compilation

>follow a funny youtuber

>video on people faking did

>feel fucking awful

>try and look for resources

>psychiatrist making a presentation on how did systems looking for community is a sign of faking, uses system content without their consent

>psychiatrist making a presentation on how did systems being open is a sign of faking

>go onto tumblr

>type plural

>find post about how "the future is plural" is traumatizing children and should never ever ever happen because fuck plurals we don't need acceptance that bad right?

oh my god when does it fucking end

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Wow, posting about me on main? That's so gay of you.

Get yourself a partner who loves your nonhuman features and will give you nice chin scritches, appreciate all of your floof, and understand that head bonks mean you want to be pet.

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My favourite part about the post breaking containment is this person who called us adorable and cute. Thank you, we are!

Seriously though, it's annoying how many people think that they know what the post was about and add on writing inspirations or complain that "just because animals do them doesn't make them nonhuman when we do them". We know a few of these things are still human things when YOU do them, humans reblogging this with criticism, but they're nonhuman things when WE do them because of the context they're being done in.

Nonhuman expressions of affection are great. Purring. Exposing weak points as a show of trust. Head bonks. Preening and chewing. Nuzzling. Biting. Intertwining tails. Feeding each other. Little chuffs, chatters, beeps and squeaks. Fluffing up of feathers, fur or other things. Dancing to impress. Cleaning their fur, scales, feathers or skin. Sharing body heat. Ears pointing toward those you care about to show your full attention is on them. Slow blinking.

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Intra-Disordered

We don't do coining posts often, if at all, but this one applies to some of us and we figured we'd tentatively share.

Intra-Disordered: A person within a system with the experiences of having a disorder/symptom the body does not have or is not known to have.

Intra as in "within", referring to within a headmate.

This can be the result of trauma, isolated symptoms caused by trauma-holding, symptoms a headmate has in source, psychosis, or other reasons. This can also include symptoms of a disorder the body has that are not experienced by others in the system, such as a system with autism collectively being okay with sounds of all types, but one of them is sound-sensitive.

To be used with sublabels if you prefer, such as intra-ADHD or intra-anxiety, and can also refer to specific symptoms, such as intra-hallucinations or intra-tics. If you'd like a headmate role-esque phrasing, intra-disorder holder is an alternative, which can be coupled with the sublabels such as intra-BPD holder.

This term is specifically to differentiate from bodily-disordered experiences while also having ways of easily phrasing disordered symptoms the body as a whole does not have, while keeping both validated. Similar in purpose to "exotrauma"--to acknowledge both experiences while they are similar, but separate, and both are deserving of support.

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People in the Sparks System are nice to me, so I wanted to be nice to them and draw them little pictures. :]

[THIS IS A GIFT FOR @sparkssystem, DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU ARE THE INTENDED RECIPIENT]

Please do not use our art without our permission. Feel free to ask to use for icons and similar things, but we have the right to say no.

Program: Firealpaca Approx. Time: 1h 30m (Altogether) Original Date: 11/06/24 Commission/Trade/Collab status in bio/pinned! Art Of:

Azalea [Headmate, @sparkssystem]

Dom [Headmate, @sparkssystem]

Lust [Headmate, @sparkssystem]

(System Member Artist: Mystery)

[sparkssystem]

Depends on who's switching out. Most of us yawn. Some people get hiccups immediately that don't go away for like 10 minutes. A few people do a violent head shake, those freak us out cuz we can never remember who does them until it happens and then it's an "oh yeah" moment, but during it it's not fun with no warning.

...does anyoene else like twitch or do some. involuntary physical action like snapping when they switch or is it just me?

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We've bought 13 of these before, will probably get more later this year. Pins are super good quality. We're using them as fronter identifiers for our system.

Hey, folks! Pride month is here, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to promote the custom name and pronoun buttons I make. =]

I opened my little shop in late 2015 because I was having trouble getting misgendered myself, so I started making these buttons and I've made thousands of name and pronoun buttons for folks since. It's so cool to have been even just a tiny part of so many people's journeys like that. I've even got over 100(!) different pride flags made in the Painted style, too, so whatever your flag I've got you covered.

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