#headmate count

[multiplicity-positivity]

Is it okay that we've never known the real count of our head mates? We have very heavy barriers between us + aphantasia and as a result even though I'm always in front (idk why? I've just never ever been able to leave the front, I'm not always in control though, when I'm in front and not in control t feels like I'm watching the body from above) and sometimes I'm aware that someone is in front with us, I still am not aware of how many of us there are or what most of them do. There have been many times where I can look back and say ohh someone else was in front w/ me and that's why we behaved that way but I cant easily identify anyone at all especially when I don't even rlly know what makes me "me"? All of us refer to the body as "I" frequently but it's more like different versions of the same person with different likes/dislikes sometimes and things like that, and I have some of that stuff in my notebooks but I can just never actually talk to them much at all and have no idea how many of us exist

hey, this is totally fine and tbh we feel like this is a normal experience for many systems, especially those who are newly discovered or still trying to make sense of their plurality. it took us over 2 years to get more or less of an accurate headcount of how many alters we have, and that was with a ton of work internally and pretty intensive therapy every week. and tbh there are probably even more alters that us in the main fronting group don’t know about… it comes with the territory of having dissociation issues.

it’s okay to not know how many headmates are in your system. maybe that answer will come with time and effort, or maybe not, but we think what’s more important is showing respect, kindness, and acceptance to the headmates that you do meet.

if you’re not already, you may find it useful to start using the simplyplural app to keep track of the headmates you know about. you can leave notes in some conspicuous place to urge the other members of your system to use it too. that way, y’all can collaborate to start building a database of your headmates so you can at least start trying to get a better idea of how many members your system has. of course, you could alternatively start keeping track of this information in a notebook or document. hopefully, with time and patience, you’ll be able to get a better idea of the size and scope of your system.

we hope this helps… we know trying to learn how many members are in your system can be a daunting task, especially if you have strong dissociative barriers between headmates. but we’re wishing you the best of luck with figuring this out! rest assured, your experience is pretty common, especially for those of us who struggle with heavy dissociative barriers between members.

[jvpiterstears]

okay. so people have headcanons about oj having different liquids, but what about taco?

we all know she’s a veggie taco. what happenes if we add spices? and meat? what kind of meat does what thing? which spices affect her in which ways?? does it make a difference what vegetables she has????????

if we add paprika and peppers to make her spicy does she get freaky

[marrmora]

Quick question:

Is anyones requests for phone backgrounds/lockscreens open?

I reaaally want to get some of my headmates, but at the same time I dont really know anybody with requests open for that and willing to do homestuck

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Mod Dave you’re a system???? Same lmao

SYSTEM GANG yeah we call ourselves brainstuck. because thats where we are. were In There

i already promo'd the blog before but we have a system sideblog @brain-stuck that we just kind of. reblog plural shit and stuff about our sources (were MAD fictive heavy) and we like doing ask games and whatever. just kind of a Get To Know The Headgang kinda deal

im the tumblr cohost so i do all the posting on main . some other headmates of mine may tag posts on this blog but were always gonna be under 'mod dave' so it doesnt get confusing

-mod dave

[shock-micro]

random idle thought: is marrying a system just legal polygamy

[cold--carnage]

can someone please help end my vicious and unending self-fakeclaiming cycle

[ceruleanterrapin]

I want to talk about my TMNT iteration, but I also don't want to change the direction of this blog. Hm

[jabberwock-islanders]

WOAH? SOURCEMATE???!?!?!? IN THE REAL LIFE??! (I hope Gojos still there and I dont just embarrass myself LMAOAO)

- 🩵 (Gojo from Kojin)

OMG HIII

ngl it wouldve been very funny if you did embarrass yourself but you did not!!! your pride and dignity live to see another day!! /silly

[8-bit-garden]

This is the actual mood chart, but there's a lot of really interesting information in the actual post!

P-treon: 47andcounting

[aria0fgold]

Playing minecraft singleplayer isn't usually this fun but as a system it got really fun in a way where it also simultaneously fixes my horrendous sleep sched by being so lenient with the use of creative mode from time to time.

[pluralprompts]

Prompt #663

A new headmate forms in the system, but can only speak through... bird sounds? Thankfully, the rest of the system can tell what they're saying, but they're all a little nervous about what will happen when this headmate tries fronting.

[qcoded]

Everyday I wish for a dynamic vaguely similar to The Collectors and Belos between two characters to appear because like

I'm going insane I can't hyperfixate on them forever RIGHT??? actually I probably can BUT PLEASEEEE

[jvstcallmespade]

iim not gonna fiinii2h the2e ever

[unending-plague]

i havent been posting AAHHHH omay heres this thing i made last neigft.last jifht night holy fuck. ok imm keeoing that that was funny

these portraits were made for another video i EVENTUALLY made, just witnout any captions and it kinda sucks so i might not post it!

left/right (top, bottom):

plussy, petunia

oakley, ms. game and watch

-stanley/fumigator

[mothicality]

brain stuff is so weird :o we never really felt our age ever in our life, and everyone always thought we were a year older than we were. i dont think it was ever feeling a specific age, jusss not feeling the age we were

but thenn when we weree i think 15? we did feel our age!! and it was like Woa we Are 15!! and then. we stopped being fifteen but our feeling age didnt really move

but noww. mm we mostly think of that as cal i guess, but thats kinda funky to say and explain n such so for simples we'll say cal. Sometimes cal feels Seventeen (real age) and Sometimes cal feels Fourteen. and is kinda just those two. so the feeling age got younger but we are also still ageing

and thenn. idunno what i am :D i am no age. iam jus widdol baby. i am jus. mothy:) eke. i know im sorta child but im not a specific age, and i think thats got to do with me not being a real child

imm childLike, not real child. cause no real child is how i am, theres no um. idunno im more stereotypically child than real child, if that makes sense..? but thats!! again!! how how the brain can only be an imitation of the things it isn't, it can't really be those things. even though the brain Has been a child it Isn't a child anymore, so it can only be an imitation of a child

and i am. an imitation of a child. child as a general category. :)

but theres also lotsa ways im not a child. like writing this post. annd purrobably other things too ehe. i thinkk. when looking at why we're the ways we are, it is very helpful for us to understand the Whys of it. so with My Whys of of why im a childlike, we figured out that it's because children are nonthreatening and things people want to take care of, and we werent taken care of right, so makes sense for us to have a part that has traits that make people want to take care of it

[missazura]

i want!! to rp!! (all my furniture launches away from me in a psychic blast)