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dont mind us. We're just blurred the fuck out, listening to Paul by Patricia Taxxon, and fantasizing about being held in the arms of our long distance boyf

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Whenever i tell a very very close loved one about this suspected Dissociative Disorder of ours, and they respond with "well yeah, i wouldn't be surprised", i feel an immense amount of. Petty joy. Fuck that one guy who said "well it would be obvious, wouldn't it?" everyone else thinks it's kind of obvious!!!

-Jon

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Generally, Patricia Taxxons music matches the amount of stimulation i need to be able to work. Thank you Patricia, your textures are life saving

-Jon (Henry helping, i know Kitty agrees)

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taking over and just, doing the work is so easy to me. I get almost confused thinking about how tired the rest of us seem to be at all times? Henry seems worried, i wonder if i am just a state of hyperfocus? We are still so very much getting to know ourselves like this.

-Jon (Henry Helping)

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So... i've been fronting for a while longer than expected. I think it's about time i add myself to the intro post.

-Jon (with Henry panicking in the background)

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we've started feeling more comfortable using the word system for ourselves...

It feels. Weird. And I'm scared we'll be attacked for it. But also it feels, suddenly more correct than Collective or Union..but I won't change our pinned post just yet. Out of time for discovery, and also consideration

-Henry??? Maybe??

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we've started feeling more comfortable using the word system for ourselves...

It feels. Weird. And I'm scared we'll be attacked for it. But also it feels, suddenly more correct than Collective or Union..but I won't change our pinned post just yet. Out of time for discovery, and also consideration

-Henry??? Maybe??

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TERFs couldn't keep Posie Parker out of their movement. They tried, like some of them really did think of themselves as feminists and cared about more than just exterminating trans people, some of them expressed concern that their movement's figureheads were ceding ground to Matt Walsh, but there was never going to be any meaningful resistance to fascism in the TERF movement. Their movement was fundamentally anti-feminist and racist.

I mention this, because it's already happening to this new online movement of TMRAs. There's moderate ones, I got a few in my inbox. "Come on, no one's saying that transmascs are more oppressed than trans women, we just have a right to recount our unique experiences." and those ones are already expressing concern that their movement is housing open transmisogynists. People who say Kiwifarms is a necessary evil, who expound the validity of sex-based oppression and outright deny the misogyny that transfems face, who sexually harrass and threaten transfems for sport and content.

See, the issue is that there was never going to be any resistance to transmisogyny in this movement. Your premise is flawed, you chose bad axioms. Even in its most moderate form, your movement is one skeptical of intersectionality, of the very concept of being oppressed on one axis but privileged on another. Enjoy skeptic-youtube 2: transgender boogaloo, you made your bed for it.

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god kitty wants to write an album so bad.

Considering if getting back into creating music might be important for our healing.

-Henry

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Kitty's making itself a pony sona :)

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kitty is going crazy about my little pony again. She really is us like, a 12 year old

-Henry (Jon)

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4 + 8 for the system ask!

@cytochrome-system

HAIIIIII

4: How much control do you have over your headspace (if you have one)?

We're currently trying to manually establish a headspace as a tool to better identify our internal dynamics :3

Currently it's very dreamlike and not very well established. We've been taking a lot of inspiration from the tiny boat our family had when we were little.

8: How do you feel about system roles, and do you use them?

While we're still new in all this, i think system roles can be a great tool for identifying parts strengths and weaknesses! We don't really use them yet. Henry does kind of see himself as in a bit of a caretaker role, so thats really the only one who has grabbed a role so far :3

But other than that we're not using it, we're too early in discovering our dynamics to really put roles on too many parts ^^

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Long system ask game!

Because it's been ages since we made one and we felt like it.

What type of system are you?

How many people are there in your system?

Do you have more introjects or non-introjects?

How much control do you have over your headspace (if you have one)?

Do you have any subsystems?

Do you have any in-system couples?

How did you discover your systemhood? Or did you become one on purpose?

How do you feel about system roles, and do you use them?

What are your thoughts on Pluralpedia?

Do you use anything to keep track of switching?

Have you ever had a change in hosts?

Do you have a system name? How did you pick it?

Do you have any nonhuman members? Feel free to list their species!

Do you have any headspace pets?

Current fronter/fronters, share some random info about you!

Do you have a partner system? How did you meet?

Have you ever mistaken a character of yours for a headmate? What about the other way around?

Does anyone have any skills that the others don't?

What's something y'all tend to agree on?

What about something you tend to disagree on?

Do symptoms of neurodivergencies/mental illness tend to manifest the same way or differently among headmates?

Do you have any syskids?

Share an in-system joke!

Has how you view your plurality changed?

If you have fictives, do they participate in their source fandom? If yes, are they open about who they are in fandom spaces?

How do you handle headmates having different spiritual beliefs?

How do you decide on major life decisions (where to live, what to study, what work to have, etc)?

Do you have any system traditons?

Current fronter, do you have your own playlist? Feel free to share it!

Do you have any art of anyone in the system? Feel free to show it off!

How do you handle it when people in the system don't get along?

Current fronter, is there anything that makes it obvious you're the one fronting? (Voice, accent, body language, typing style, etc)

If you have syskids, how do they feel about stereotypical "babby tawk"?

Share something about your newest member!

Do you tend to have collective or separate interests and hobbies?

If you have introjects, what source do you have the most from?

Are you out as plural to anyone irl?

Do you know any systems irl?

Which headmate was the biggest surprise?

Do you have a singletsona?

Do you have any collective labels?

What's the most common gender in your system?

What's the most common sexuality in your system?

What's your favorite app/website/etc for plural stuff?

Do you tend to have the same taste in food or not?

Is it hard or easy for you to switch?

Do you experience system-related amnesia?

Share something weird a headmate has done!

Current fronter, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?

Share a silly fear someone in the system has!

Current fronter, describe your aesthetic!

If you have outworld pets, do they tend to act differently around different headmates?

Has anyone ever figured out you were a system without you telling them?

When it comes to syskids, is there anyone in particular that takes care of them?

Does anyone in the system identify as otherkin, therian, or fictionkin?

Have you ever switched in an awkward moment? What happened?

Do you ever switch without realizing it?

Are you ever blurry? How do you handle it?

Has anyone ever treated an introject badly because of who their source is?

Current fronter, share a pic of your "face claim!"

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its a little hard to engage in online plural communities, because almost every single piece of info found, has been deemed misinfo by someone else at some point.

Some of it has slight flat-earthy vibes, right?

Like the end standpoint (plurality is vast, or plurality is very specific) informs the standoints on individual issues

-Kitty

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i will, no kidding, die of embarassment if my suspicions about a twilight sparkle fictive turn out to be true

-Henry

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my word for when an alter is present but not fully in control is "helping." eg: im avery and olive is helping right now

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Think I had like. Kitty, very very far in front. Like as far in front as it's ever been. But, it was a little weird, because damn, that was. The smallest kitty had ever been. Like. Very young. It would not have happened had the situation not been like that, I don't think I'll experience feeling that little out in any old weird spot.

But woah. Was it. Sure something ..

Henry