#fictive shit

[thelunastusco]

The Dracula time loop post is funnier when you have a Dracula fictive, who sees it and is just like "once more unto the breach, dear friends" in the most tired tone imaginable lmao. This is year two for us of Daily Dracula.

[navelgazed]

The problem with trying to find an alternative to the term 'fictive' is that, for us, we functionally don't differentiate between fictives and non-fictives. The more recent term 'brain-made' for non-fictives doesn't sit right with us either. Certain fictives here belive themselves to be psychological constructs, and some non-fictives believe themselves to be cross-world travellers.

We don't like the connection between 'fictional' and fictive. To us, the fiction as it exists in this world is not a part of who we are. It is a mirror reflecting a world much like our own, but it doesn't define us or our home worlds. The debate between 'you are/are not your source' never made much sense to us for that reason. Those of us who believe ourselves to be exotravellers are who we are regardless of the media depiction in this world. I am not the character in a piece of media; it's a fictional depiction of a character that resembles me.* therefore, no, I am not defined by it, but I am also still myself. Saying 'I am not [name of character] would be just as dishonest as saying literally the fictional character I resemble.

All that being said, there is functionally no difference between myself and someone who has no fictional equivalent but believes themselves to have come from Somewhere Else. Fictive is still a useful word to tell someone in shorthand that I resemble a fictional character, but it still makes us uncomfortable. I just don't know if there is any alternative that would communicate what we mean.

*this is not saying I am somehow The Dan Heng or the original, nor am I saying that I somehow originated Dan Heng, the character; there is a clear cause-effect relationship between us seeing the character and my arrival here, and I doubt I would have come here if we hadn't interacted with that media.

[theelectricalcity]

you ever

*stares at my tag bc my birthday is in approximately 3 hours to see it blow up with fanart and whatever birthday things theres gonna be*

or is that just me lmao

[8bitgarden-sys]

We have split another sanders sides alter. It is me. Hello. Logan thus will probably change her name, as I want it and she’s not very attached to it. We’ll see. Give me some luck or however the expression goes.

[livingfictionsystem]

Still thinking about when a dear friend of mine heard what two stories I've absorbed into my soul, (The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Great Gatsby) and he was like, "Interesting how you chose two books that were written explicitly as cautionary tales and said, 'THAT'S an aspiration."

Alskxhajaj OKAY.

-Xanthe 🪶

[s-sextape]

daily affirmations: i am hot there are a shit ton of people simping over me i am adored by strangers i am amazing i am GAY AS FUCK

[secretsideblogshhhh]

The system a few months ago: shit were definitely splitting... God I hope that it's not a south park fictive

(we were hyperfixated on south park at the time)

Me, finally being confident enough to admit that I'm here yesterday: right so like um, sorry. My bad. Oops. I'm here. I'm Tweek. Gatekeeper helped hide me for a bit. Hi.

[moze-xoxo]

i have some "official homestuck merch" but my god does it feel weird to wear

not only is it the whole My Existence Commercialized business that like every fictive probably feels but also it just makes me feel like a kid to wear The Shirt. like i wore that shirt during baby years. the sleeves are even long like they used to be

anyway. this is why i don't wear this shit it's like flashback hour

[thegardenofforkingpaths]

ah, the fictive fear of using your pk profile in a discord server

thank god in some servers I can just sign off "red what's your source?" wouldn't you like to know, WEATHER BOYYY

[sephirocks]

BIG TRAUNA AND ISSUES VENT COMINT UP

TW R/PE MENTION AND DRUG MENTION AND STALKER MENTION AND SUIC/DE MENT I ON AND ABUSE MENTION

So the host has basically given up on fronting and has basically merged with Sephiroth and is living his life as a side partner to Sephiroth and has started merging his memories with him and basically is becoming him it's sort of a mess and sometimes Boba (protector) and Kimblee (aggressive protector and antagonist) front because in the last week I've had someone threaten suicide to me because I called out toxicity, I found out I have a stalker who in the past stole my credit cards and drugged me and tried to rape me,my now ex boyfriend abused me and lied about it despite other ppl being present then told me I ruin everything, and also I lost my job. I think I have become sephiroth but I don't entirely have canon sephiroth it's an amalgam of Canon and weird fanfic type fanon Interpretations.

Description:

He's an angry dude with trauma about his family who wants vengeance for his pain but also is struggling with apathy but also wants to feel something. He js dominant in all ways but in the bedroom he melts into submission because he's touch starved. He craves punishment sexually because of guilt of the hurt he causes lashing out in pain against a world who's lied to him and hurt him. That's my sephiroth and is me.

[divinerapturesys]

If u rp and u also have did, it’s never just as simple as “I’m really in character now” is it

[navelgazed]

I do think 'literally their source' is not the same as believing their memories happened elsewhere--like. A fictional character is incapable of growth beyond what their story dictates and fictives are a person who is capable of growth and change. I think for us the distinction is our fictive's canons happen to resemble their former lives, they don't necessarily dictate their personhood in their entirety.

[theelectricalcity]

im doing silly little guy things (im remaking my source jacket because i fuckin miss it)

[lefluoritesys]

Systems, what are the weirdest introjects (fictives, factives, etc) you've ever had?

I present ours:

Autocorrect. Literally just Autocorrect

Goat from the Goat Simulator (we found out about them like 2 days ago, and I am still just- done. With this entire system. Why the fuck-)

Huggy Wuggy from Poppy Playtime

Mommy Long Legs from Poppy Playtime 2

Any animatronic fictives are their own kind of weird. A good and sometimes terrifying kind, but a kind nonetheless

(All of this is /nfta, stating it even if it's obvious)

P.S. Brain-made work, too!! Brains are weird lmao, go off about their weirdness! I just took introjects as main cause that's the first thing that came to mind.

-host

[secretsideblogshhhh]

Knowing a language in source but not knowing it any more cuz the body doesn't know it sucks ;-;

And ofc we also have dyslexia so trying to learn it again takes so long when in my source it literally took me less than five minutes (I had superspeed in my source)

-⚡

[relaxxattack]

every time someone calls moirallegience just an alien qpr i wilt a lil like YEAH thats more or less the CLOSEST human thing but its also Literally Not That. like a qpr is fundanmentally not romantic and thats not even going into moirails whole Actual Purpose of calming ppl down. its just. aughhhhh pisses me off i see the confusion but, as aformentioned, aughhhhh

OH MY GOD THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME TOO.... but i don't want to get petty at the people in my notes always saying "moirails are QPRs!" because in some ways that is the closest human thing so it's hard to be mad...

i think there's definitely some overlap in some ways. but NOT because moirallegiance and qprs are the same at all really, but INSTEAD because both relationships have unconventional boundaries defined by the people within them.

you know... like every relationship.

like the only reason the two have overlap is because they are both partnerships that emotionally care for each other but can choose to not bang (which is true for any romance anyway, even if it's considered abnormal). they're both just romances* that are unconventional to human norms, which makes people view them as the same thing when they're not.

i think the REAL issue here is that humans insist on using human words to understand things that are just, fundamentally, alien. can't we just appreciate alien romance for being... alien romance?

no, it's not platonic, it's romantic. it's just romantic in a way you aren't quite wired to understand, is all.

*in generalization, most QPRs are not romantic, because they are made up of aroaces who are life partners in a non-romantic way. however i want to disagree with you that none of them are romantic, because that is up to the partners in question.