#how do i offend something in plural

[plumonthemoon]

THEY. CANCELLED. OFMD.

ill commit a fucking hate crime

[love-belle]

us and our cats !!!

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ in which he is streaming and being a simp simultaneously.

or

for when it's just you both and your cats. ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚

real life // lando norris x fem!reader

warnings - language.

author's note - this one made me want to be in a relationship SO bad :/// i really hope you like it, thank u so much for reading, i love you <3

≡;- ꒰ °real life ꒱

"hello everyone!" lando exclaimed as he started the stream, adjusting his equipment. "hello! hi!"

he watched as more and more people joined the stream, feeling excited because this would be his first stream in a few weeks and he clearly missed doing this.

"sorry, i'm just having a bit of a technical issue here," he apologized, leaning down and messing with the wires. "i think one of the cats messed with the wiring or something. they're always fucking up one thing or the other."

lando looked up at the screen, his eyes taking in all the comments, trying his hardest to read the most of them. "show cats? you want me to show you the cats?"

he looked back towards his room, eyes sweeping across as he tried to figure if at least one was in the room and when it became that he was alone, he huffed, shaking his head slightly. "i think they're with y/n, always favour her over me."

his tone turned slightly offended, as if the prospect of the cats, fish and casserole, loving his girlfriend more was simply out of this world. he paused for a second, before leaning forward to grab something off the desks and holding it up for the stream to see.

"that reminds me," he started, placing the headphones on top of his head carefully and smoothing out the crocheted piece in the middle of the band with a proud look, "look at what my girlfriend made me."

it was a simple thing, really. just two crocheted leaves tied in the middle of his headphones, green providing a stark contrast against the black and it almost looked like he was wearing a crown or something. all in all, it was just simply adorable.

now, it may have been simple but to lando, it was everything. he had almost burst out in tears when y/n first showed him her creation, a proud yet nervous look on her face that faded away as soon as he saw what she was showing him. he'd hugged her, kissed her, told her that he loved it more than anything else he owned and sent more than 50 selfies of him wearing those damn headphones to every single person he knew. simply because his girlfriend made that for him and he'd be damned if he didn't show it off.

"how fucking adorable is this, huh?" he chuckled, proudly looking in the camera as the two leaves sat upon his head. he'd been doing this as soon as he'd gotten them, always wearing them whenever there was an online meeting or when he was facetiming someone — he'd wear them any chance he could get. "god, i love her."

the comments were full of love, adoration and support for the couple, fans screaming about how much in love lando was and the said person couldn't help but agree.

yes, he was so in love.

"thank you, guys," lando blushed slightly, chuckling as he read through the comments. "you're all really sweet — no, i cannot fight. thank you for asking, though."

"who's trying to fight you?"

lando jumped slightly in his seat, turning back around to find y/n standing by the door, raising an eyebrow at him.

"just one of your fans," lando laughed, beckoning her towards him as he turned back around. "nope, not just one. plural, they're multiplying."

"well, can you?" y/n teased him, walking towards him as lando rolled his eyes, fond smile on his lips.

"for you, of course, i can," he turned to face her and shot her a wink, a cocky smirk on his face that had her shaking her head and laughing. "come on! don't laugh at me."

"sorry, baby," y/n leaned down and kissed his cheek, lingering for a few seconds before pulling back and straightening up. "i'll leave you to stream, now."

"what? no, stay," lando looked up at her, his eyes pleading for her to stay. "please, it'll be fun and the viewers love you."

"lando — "

"y/n, please?"

y/n sighed and lando couldn't help but grin, knowing that he had won her over. with a smooth move, he had grabbed her waist and was quick to pull her down to sit on his lap.

"woah, okay," y/n chuckled nervously, her hands holding onto lando's as he worked on whatever he had to. "this is nice."

"i know, right?" lando glanced at her before kissing her temple, his smile never leaving his face. "this is fun."

"i bet it is," y/n chuckled, squinting her eyes to read the comments flooding in. "'you're both my parents,' thank you angel. oh, another one that says 'y/n is so mother' that means so much to me, you're all too kind."

"i am so confused right now," lando mumbled, laughing slightly when more comments came in, mostly about y/n and their relationship.

"it's okay," y/n tilted her head to look at him, shifting slightly on his lap which made him tighten his hand around her waist. "i should start doing this with you more often."

"if you sit like this, you're more than welcome to join me everyday," lando whispered to her, a cheeky smirk on his face that melted into giggles when y/n hit his arm lightly, feeling flustered because hundreds of thousands of people could hear them at the moment and that thought was — well, it was scary. "sorry not sorry for speaking my mind."

"oh my god," y/n muttered to herself, grabbing onto the desk in front of her as lando leaned forward all of a sudden, his hands adjusting the computer screen before he settled back, a soft 'sorry' leaving him as he made sure she was comfortable. "i should get my own chair. it's hard."

"it sure is," lando retorted almost immediately, snickering as the innuendo registered in his girlfriend's brain, her mouth agape as she stared at him. "what? c'mon! the opportunity was right there. this one's kinda on you."

"i swear, it's like i'm back in high school," y/n mumbled, standing up and leaving to get another chair, her voice echoing in the hallway as she called for their babies — their cats.

"love you, darling!" lando called out, the grin never leaving his face. once again, the chat went wild with the interaction between the couple, red hearts flooding in and uppercase letters making lando blush slightly. "sorry guys, she distracted me. back on the stream — 'do you have any plans for tonight?' yes, we do! we're going to this art gallery that y/n had wanted to check out for a while and after that we'll be having dinner, so, there's that. i'm excited, it's always fun to visit galleries with y/n because she knows stuff, like the real stuff about art, paintings and sculptures and all and it's so cool because it's like having your own little personal guide — except this one calls you a dumbfuck way too often."

lando had a lovesick smile on his face as he spoke, laughing in between sentences. it was always like this, someone — anyone would ask a question and he'd somehow manage to link it to y/n and then there was no hope for any further continuation of that conversation because if there was one thing lando could talk about endlessly, it was y/n.

sometimes it would be about what she had baked for him, what she painted in her free time, or this video of casserole slapping fish she had sent him and other times, it would be about y/n being upset about something and him asking for advice or when she had crocheted him those two leaves and it was all he could talk about for weeks.

"'how long have you been together?' we celebrated our two year anniversary a few weeks ago!" lando answered happily, smile never flattering at the thought of their celebration. "we started dating in october, though she wasn't my girlfriend until late december, so yeah.

"'how many cats do you have?' we have two cats, fish and casserole," lando replied, rolling his eyes fondly at the thought of their little demons. "they're little pieces of shit, i swear. they're always out to get me like — i always knew they liked y/n more than me but you should see them when i'm around like — it's like they're calling me 'bitch' over and over in their kitty language and it's so — "

a soft meow interrupted him, a confused on his face as he looked behind him to see where it came from. a few seconds passed before he heard it again, this time it was clear that it came from under the desk. with a hesitant push against the desk, he pushed his chair back and leaned down to see under it and saw two eyes blinking back at him, almost twinkling in the dark.

"fuck."

with a careful grip, he carefully pulled casserole from under the desk, holding her against his chest and he turned towards the stream, a nervous look on his face.

"y/n's gonna kill me for calling her precious baby a little piece of shit with her present in the room."

"you called my baby a what?!"

[redflagshipwriter]

Nest Swap 8

Masterpost

He did not go to bed. He went to the computer and he searched up Batman. Wikipedia had the same article. He clicked on it and scrolled down to the list of associates. It was… 

A really long list. Tim’s eyes crossed. There were a whole bunch of boring irrelevant people in other states. But more importantly, there was a list of speculated Robins. Robins, as in plural. 

“Four or five, depending on who you believe,” Tim muttered incredulously to himself. The original Robin, one next, then a girl, and now a short one. That was so many Robins. It was perhaps too many Robins. There should have just been the one. The others were fakers. He scowled at his screen, a little offended for Dick.

At least he knew, now. That was what Oracle meant by ‘the birds’. Tim put his face on his hands and tried not to feel small and silly. She meant the robins.

Tim closed the tab and tried to feel ready to search up the Waynes to confirm his theory. 

The second Robin would have been Jason. He had no idea about the girl or the new one, but doubtlessly Bruceman BatWayne had adopted them. If he searched Bruce Wayne’s name, he’d see it.

Tim closed the laptop. He didn’t need to see it to know that he was right. And honestly, he was tired. He dragged a lap blanket off the back of the couch and made it into a cape for comfort. He trailed around the empty, quiet apartment and tried to feel better. He would not be able to sleep if he went to bed like this; he just knew it. 

‘Why didn’t Jason come?’ He hugged his blanket to his body and wished he felt warmer. ‘You’re supposed to like your boyfriend. I’ve been here for days and no one tried to see me before those two. Why did he not come home?’

Maybe they were fighting. Maybe that request for surveillance meant something. Tim craned back to remember Jason’s exact wording. The first relevant thing he’d said had been…

 “I picked up on something - I think one of my ongoing cases dips into your patrol area. You gonna come out tonight?” 

Then Tim said no, because he was 9 years old. Then Jason said a bad word. Then he said “Fair enough. Uh, think you could do some surveillance for me?”  

Tim ran it back and forth a couple of times. He didn’t see any subtext. So… No. he decided no, Jason hadn’t been communicating anything that indicated a particular problem in their relationship. Maybe he was just out of town.

He poured himself a glass of milk and challenged himself to drink it as slowly as possible. By the time it was gone, Tim sort of felt better. He went back to the guest room and crawled into bed. 

Despite his feeling that he wouldn’t sleep, it was like he just laid down and blinked to see it was the morning. Tim snuffled and pushed his hair out of the way. He sat up slowly. Man, he felt crummy. Unenthusiastically, he swung his legs over the side of the bed and scooted down to the cold floor. 

Bleh.

“I want Mom,” Tim said. No one answered, because the apartment was big and empty and there was nothing to indicate that anyone who loved him lived there. He felt kinda empty in his chest as he walked himself to the kitchen. He wasn’t even hungry, but it was just the law for people that you have to eat in the morning. 

He put bread in the toaster. He got out the pan but it just seemed like too much work. He left that on the counter and then climbed onto the counter to dig out the peanut butter from the cupboards. 

Okay. Peanut butter toast. That was pretty good. Tim snagged an apple off the counter and started peeling it. 

“Ow!” He dropped the peeler with a clatter. The apple landed on his foot and rolled away. He was too busy sucking on his finger to do anything about it. Tim danced in place for a minute, tearing up in pain. It hurt so bad! He ran to the sink and put his finger under the water, scared to see how deep he had cut himself.

In the clear stream of water, he could see that it was a cut that made a flap of skin. There wasn’t any bone or anything. It was fine. He was fine. He just needed a bandaid.

Tim burst into genuine tears. He sat on the floor and cried his heart out. He didn’t want to be here anymore. He wanted to go home. He was tired of being too small for his life. His sobs gradually petered off into sniffles. 

He picked himself up and wrapped a paper towel around his finger so that it didn’t bleed on anything. He hunted down the apple and threw it away. He unpeeled a banana instead, because a banana never hurt anyone aside from the pain of it tasting bad. He poured himself milk and juice and he put peanut butter on his cold toast. He ate it all, feeling numb. He had to, because no one else was going to. After that, he went looking for bandages. At least big Tim had a lot of them. Big Tim was really prepared to get hurt and have no one to help him.

So lucky.

The apartment felt a lot less fun now.

It was hard to even work up enthusiasm for Miss Tamara, but it was his job. So Tim reluctantly dragged himself to the laptop and opened the email to see if she’d said anything.

She had. She said to call her.

Tim went looking for the phone. It turned out to be under the sofa for some reason. He didn’t remember why. He hit the power button, discovered it was dead, and then he plugged it in. He waited around and fidgeted while it charged enough to turn on. He called Miss Fox right away.

She picked up on the third ring. “Tim, good to hear from you,” Tamara said easily.

…It felt nice to hear that. Tim swallowed. “Is there a situation?” he asked. 

“The opposite, thank you for that documentation,” Tamara said. She sounded like the pretty version of a shark somehow. “I confronted the employee with it and they did admit to some malfeasance. They were hiding an earlier error. Of course, I went and confirmed that mistake made sense. Thank you for including your exhaustive list of theories.” She sounded amused by that. “Never change, Tim.”

That hit him in a weird way. Tim rubbed at his chest, wondering what that meant. He’d just been thinking that he really needed to change and grow up. “I’m glad that I could assist you,” Tim said. “Thank you for telling me how you resolved the situation.”

“No problem,” she said crisply. “Will I see you in the office on Monday?”

Tim looked at his wall. He could see his reflection in a picture frame. It was mostly blocked out by the bright colors in the photo behind the glass. It was just obscuring enough that he could imagine how his face was going to look when he met Miss Fox. “I hope so.” He didn’t know who Zatanna was, but Oracle seemed efficient. She had probably made the correct staffing decision, just like Miss Fox would. 

The day seemed a little brighter after that. Tim picked himself up with a new feeling of determination. He hadn’t ruined things. Sure, he hadn’t been totally successful. But so what? Who won every game they played?

He went back to studying. He barely registered it when the bell rang.

When Tim lifted his head, he was mostly just grabbing around for the phone on autopilot in order to make it quiet. “Shush,” he said, trying to shut off the alarm.

He hit ‘accept’ on the phone call instead.

That woke him up. Tim stared at the timer counting up from 0 seconds to 1, 2, and then hastily lifted it to his ear.

“Hey?” 

“Jason,” Tim breathed.

“That’s my name,” Jason agreed, sounding weirdly uncomfortable. “You’re still sick? Jeeze. You aren’t dying or anything, right? You’ve been out of the field for a while.”

“I’m perfectly healthy,” Tim said. “I will see a specialist, though.” He left off any estimate of time, since Oracle hadn’t said how long it would take. “I apologize for my failure to make progress on your case. I’ll get it done today.”

“...That’s not terrifying or anything.” Jason sighed. “I thought this was a cold. I, uh.” He cleared his throat. “There’s some chicken soup outside your door. Take it or don’t. I don’t care.”

“What?” Tim asked.

“Back off,” Jason snapped back. 

…They sat in silence for a couple of seconds. On Tim’s end, it was a confused silence. But he felt a little warmed. “You made me soup,” Tim said aloud. “Right?”

Jason said another bad word. “Eat it,” he snapped. “I just don’t want you to waste away before you do that surveillance. I know you don’t eat enough. I’m going to bed.”

The dial tone rang out in Tim’s ear. Dazed, it took him a couple of seconds to lower his phone. He put it on his lap and recalibrated. 

“He loves me,” Tim said, choked up.

He cried about it a little. But it was a good cry this time! Tim was happy that someone cared about Big Tim. The idea that he was going to grow up to live in this big empty place with no friends or family around had been scaring him. The fact that he was wrong sent so much relief through his body. 

He retrieved the soup and ate it. He cried a little more when he realized the dumplings were homemade.

When he was done wrestling with big feelings, Tim knew what he had to do. He went back to his studies with renewed determination. He was going to get Jason the right information about the Sausage man, no matter what.

[sophieinwonderland]

r/FakeDisorderCringe doesn't know what biblical canon is, atheists are offended by saying God is plural, and other people casually throwing out some blasphemies and ableism!

👎

For uncreative title.

Atheists Pretending To Be Deeply Offended...

So, let me guess, you're not actually Christian are you?

Those guys sure aren't.

So weird how people pretend to be offended over a religion they aren't even a part of.

(Let's be real though, that's most of the tulpa discourse.)

Oh... you considered converting.

That clearly gives you a say in this conversation. /s

Meanwhile, my host actually lived the religion. He was Christian through his teenage years, and as a child helped his mom teach Sunday School and went to sleep every night on a Noah's Ark pillow.

Sorry, I distracted from your point. We're thieves stealing from a religion. 🙄

Okay, let's talk "canon!"

I just... I LOVE this whole conversation! 🤣

THIS is actual cringe.

Does anyone see the issue here?

I'll let u/AdSuccessful3533 spell it out. Possibly the only person with sense in the thread.

It's not just Catholic Canon either, but Biblical Canon! Like, there's a whole Wikipedia article on it!

The sheer self-righteous ignorance of r/Fakerdisordercringe (and r/systemscringe) never ceases to amaze me.

All of these people so bent out of shape over the use of "canon" to describe biblical text as if that's not been in use for hundreds of years!

"Something a middle schooler would say."

The Heresies!

That's correct. This is NOT the modalism heresy.

Modalism suggests God is a single unified being who reveals himself in different forms. God being plural would mean that God is three beings in one. This is completely in-line with the views of Trinitarianism.

An example of the modalism heresy would be more like this...

Comparing God to Optimus Prime, arguing that they're just different forms like Optimus Prime in a truck form vs him in a robot form, is modalism.

But if modalism isn't enough, we've got some tritheism too!

Besides the tritheism... it's really hard to take people who are calling tulpas appropriative seriously when they don't even know basic facts about the most popular religion in the world.

Also, the part about System not being a term for a person with DID is technically correct. System is, rather, the term used for the total collection of all the alters. But it is very much a term used by psychologists and it's accurate to refer to the Trinity as a system in this way.

Also, if the Tritheism bothers you, don't worry! We're going to go right back to modalism.

The H2O metaphor is controversial for the same reason as comparing God to Optimus Prime. It suggests God is simply changing form to become these different things.

Miscellaneous

Can you show me that rabbit hole?

I'm the one who Tweeted that, and have NEVER been on the OSDD sub.

Who do you think I am?

No... it definitely doesn't sound right. Religion shouldn't just be a thing for neurotypicals.

If one believes in God, then surely God made all people, including those of us who have mental illnesses. Why should Christianity and biblical references be kept away from people with mental illness other than ableism?

I mean, if by in peace, you mean without endogenic systems, then no. You can't.

We're here and we aren't going away. Ever.

And we exist in all spaces, including in your churches and your religious communities. And Christian systems shouldn't be expected to hide who they are because our existence bothers bigots like you.

We're going to share this world, and we're going to share spaces. And that includes churches and religious spaces too. Deal with it. 🤷‍♀️

Acknowledgements:

I would like to thank everyone at r/fakedisordercringe for giving me the free material. For a subreddit that's designed to laugh at people for supposed "cringe," you all sure are a goldmine for it! 😜

[somepoetwannabe]

You don't have to answer, but I'm just curious:

What, to you, makes DID/OSDD more "proven" then non-disordered systemhood? That seems to be the point you keep coming back to.

Because OSDD/DID weren't always medically recognized. Does that mean before they were medically recognized, plurality itself wasn't real?

You INHERENTLY can't "prove" a subjective experience, and to apply that logic to anything psychological in nature is to ignore the limitations of psychology as a science, which is itself anti-scientific.

I don't have dyslexia. If I suddenly declared that dyslexia isn't real because I don't have it and nobody can objectively 100% without a shadow of a doubt prove to me that it is, regardless of how much supportive evidence there is, I'd still be wrong.

I will never experience the same experiences as a dyslexic person. Doesn't mean I can't acknowledge that the patterns in the wider human population heavily suggest that it's a neurodivergency that exists, because hey, there are all of these people with dyslexia symptoms!

Similarly, there are all of these people claiming to have symptoms of plural experiences without trauma. Not my experience, but ignoring it would be stupid.

And the idea that it must not be "real plurality," but that it could be something else is... I hate to say it, but that's ableist. "Ableist" in this case being used as a word for prejudice against neurodivergent people, yes including those whose neurodivergency may not be a disability in a vacuum but very much is within a societal context, such as endogenic systems.

(^ I could write a lot more on this point in particular, of why the word "ableism" actually is applicable in this situation, but that's ultimately not the point of this ask.)

First off using people with psychosis as your argumentative scapegoat just alienates psychotic systems, and yes, those two things don't cancel out. Even if it was psychosis that doesn't rule out systemhood as a possibility, and the possible interactions between psychosis and plurality definitely aren't studied enough to make that claim.

Also you're inherently promoting the idea that neurodivergent people should not be trusted to speak on their own experiences, which is ableism. I don't think there's any room to argue on that fact.

Especially given that plurality as a subject is extraordinarily under-researched. Even OSDD/DID are far from fully understood.

- A (traumagenic!) system member with a passion for psychology who doesn't really appreciate how y'all have presented psychology as a field.

(Sorry if I come off as rude, I speak rather bluntly but I'm not trying to offend. I am genuinely trying to engage in productive conversation. /Gen)

DID/OSDD is medically recognized, with an accepted theory of how it is formed and a known way/ways to treat it. That is what I regard as “proof” so to speak. You are right, DID/OSDD were not always medically recognized, and I would not claim they were not real prior to medical recognition. However, I do not claim endogenics are completely impossible or definitely do not exist, nor do I refuse to treat them with empathy and respect. I simply offer alternative explanations for endogenic experiences, and possibilities more medically supported than the idea of them being systems. Because of this, I am not entirely sure what your point is here. Just because something might be possible doesn’t mean I should immediately believe it. What I am saying is, without substantial evidence, I have no reason to believe in the idea of endogenic systems being possible. You cannot expect me to trust claims, and I hope you can acknowledge why I may not. Especially online. The idea you cannot prove a subjective experience is…interesting. I am no expert on matters of psychology – I have no qualifications and am simply a high school student with an interest in it – so I am not qualified to speak on that. However, I am yet to see psychology support the idea of endogenic systems. I am also unsure what you mean by “anti-science”. Again, I do not actively claim endogenics are not real, as there is as little evidence to support that as there is to support that they are real. It is not that nobody can 100% prove to me it is, but rather nobody can prove to me at all (as far as I have seen). “Regardless of how much supportive evidence there is"…there is no (or at least none I have been exposed to) evidence for endogenics, but please feel free to give resources if you have any. I am open to be proven wrong. “I will never experience the same experiences as a dyslexic person. Doesn't mean I can't acknowledge that the patterns in the wider human population heavily suggest that it's a neurodivergency that exists, because hey, there are all of these people with dyslexia symptoms!” People lie. That is a reality of life. There is proof of dyslexia [neurobiology supports the idea of dyslexia and there is an understanding of how it occurs in people, though not what causes it] and they are medically recognized. I do not ignore endogenic experiences, as that would be irrational. I would be screaming into a void and arguing against a blank wall. Listening to endogenics is something I must do to come to a reasonable conclusion on whether I believe there is a possibility it is possible to be endogenic. I’d need you to elaborate on the ableist point. I’m not quite sure how it is ableist to propose that there may be other explanations for endogenic experiences. For me, this would only apply if endogenics were supported by psychology and had a suitable theory on how they occur but I was simply choosing to ignore the already fitting explanation. That is not what I am doing. I am not claiming to know other people's experiences better than they do, I am not saying for a definite I know what causes endogenics to experience something akin to plurality. Also, you cannot be ableist to someone who is not disabled. You may say or do things that stem from ableist belief systems, but you cannot be ableist to an abled person. I don’t understand what you mean by “may not be a disability in a vacuum but very much is within a societal context”, you are either disabled or you are not. While someone’s disability may not affect them every second, even when their disability is not affecting them disabled people are disabled nonetheless. Please do feel free to elaborate on these points. (1/2)

[plurillean-confessions]

Welcome to plurillean & sysian confessions!

[PT: Welcome to plurillean & sysian confessions!]

This blog is run by plurals, for plurals; it is for anysys who have headmates loving headmates, and who wish to send in confessions or silly moments or heartwarming things, and anyone who wishes to ask questions (mind the social contract of (in)tolerance; see below).

What is plurillean and sysian? [PT: What is plurillean and sysian?]

From pluralpedia, on plurillean and sysian respectively:

Plurillean refers to a member of a system who is attracted to other members of their own system. This doesn’t have to be exclusive, and they can love both system members, and non-system members.

A sysian is a member of a system who is exclusively attracted to other members in their own system.

NSFW confessions are allowed; they will be tagged as #18+ confession. Minors found sending NSFW confessions or interacting with these confessions will be blocked from the blog. Any mockery or shaming will be removed and offending users will be blocked as well.

BYF, mod introduction, and tagging conventions under the cut!

Before You Follow/Interact

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RE: Social Contract of (In)Tolerance

This blog is explicitly pro-endogenic, nontraumagenic, and multigenic systems, including disordered nontraumagenic systems, tulpamancy, and systems who are disordered through something other than a CDD. Sysmedicalists and anti-endogenics found interacting will be blocked.

This blog is supportive of people with any personality disorder. Any who support the idea of "[insert personality disorder, eg. narcissistic, antisocial, borderline, histrionic] abuse" found interacting will be blocked.

This blog is supportive of alterhumans and nonhumans of any and all kinds. Any who cannot respect this found interacting will be blocked.

All good faith identities are welcome, including male / nonbinary /mspec / he/him lesbians, female / nonbinary / mspec / she/her gays, and anyone with "contradictory" identities. This blog is queer and anti-assimilationist; anyone who cannot respect the above found interacting will be blocked.

This blog does not believe in thought crime; someone cannot be a bad person solely for their thoughts, regardless of how horrible those thoughts are, and regardless of whether or not that person enjoys those thoughts. The only thing that determines whether someone is "good" or "bad" is what harm they do or don't commit against others, and--if harm has been done--what they're doing to remedy it. Anyone who cannot respect this found interacting will be blocked. [Edit because it looks like some people don't understand the point of this: this may not be a fandom blog, but this roughly translates to being profiction (and, honestly, goes further than many profiction folks will go). What you like in fiction and in fantasy does not matter so long as you are not harming real people. Okay? Okay.]

This blog is, above all, anti-harassment for any reason, no matter how horrible you believe the other person is. "ACAB" includes vigilante justice. Anyone who cannot respect this found interacting will be blocked.

RE: "Is this allowed...?"

"Is NSFW allowed?" Yes! Copy-pasted from above for convenience: "NSFW confessions are allowed; they will be tagged as #18+ confession. Minors found sending NSFW confessions or interacting with these confessions will be blocked from the blog. Any mockery or shaming will be removed and offending users will be blocked as well."

"Is [x relationship] allowed?" So long as all parties have given informed, uncoerced consent, then yes, it is allowed.

"Is talking about relationships with people outside of our system allowed?" Yes, but please keep in mind that this blog is aimed towards plurillean and sysian folks and is meant for talking about in-system relationships and attraction.

"I'm a singlet/not plurillean/sysian; can I send questions about it?" So long as you're respectful, yes!

"I/we don't call my/ourselves plurillean/sysian, but we have in-system relationships/attraction; can we still send confessions?" Yes! One need not apply the label to themselves so long as you're talking about in-system relationships and attraction.

"I'm a singlet; can I send confessions about my plural partners?" No; this blog is specifically for in-system relationships & attraction and plurillean/sysian folks.

"Can I tag the blog in posts I think would fit the theme, a la @/funnier-as-a-system?" Yes!

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Mod Intro[s]

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Hi, we're Mod Lepton[yx]. We use it/its and ze/hir pronouns collectively, and are also collectively a transsexual male, transgender butch aroallo bi lesbian. We're a polyfragmented mediple gateway collective of 500+ with DID, a werebeast, autistic, and have ASPD and NPD. Our main blog is @lesboylycan and our plurality-centered blog is @leptonyx-constellate if you're curious.

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[johnwilson1st]

It is with a great deal of reluctance that I am once again writing about how Claire’s recent attempt to hasten society’s quiescence to moral pluralism and epistemological uncertainty may prove to be a watershed event for those of us who want to listen, find compassion, and collaborate. My reluctance stems from a concern that she will read this letter and use it as an excuse to inure us to counterproductive, hoggish vandalism. For practical reasons, I have to confine my discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which I have something new to say. How can we trust a dastardly chawbacon who actively conceals her true intentions? We can’t. And besides, Claire insists that everything will be hunky-dory if we let her flush all my hopes and dreams down the toilet. Naturally, she gives no evidence whatsoever to support that parti pris. Perhaps that’s because Claire’s peons have repeatedly been caught attacking the critical realism and impassive objectivity that are the central epistemological foundations of the scientific worldview. I had expected better from her and her vaunted Tartuffism movement, but then again, Claire will do anything to prevent us from critiquing her unhinged, juvenile theatrics. Don’t theatrics that aim to destabilize the norms of traditional society deserve—and in some sense, require—abundant critique and evaluation? That’s why I propose that we prevent the invisible hand of loosely regulated markets from becoming an invisible fist that lets Claire effortlessly pound her rivals into oblivion, mainly because Claire has been known to prove statistically that her decisions are based on reason. As you might have suspected, her proof is flawed. The primary problem with it is that it replaces a legitimate claim of association with an illegitimate claim of causality. Consequently, Claire’s proof demonstrates only that in my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that I was personally offended—and I don’t easily offend—by the value she places on making me feel disconnected from reality. This is not what I think; this is what I know. I additionally know that interpretivism is like fire—both an essential component of Claire’s tirades and yet so elemental that its existence and influence are often overlooked. Similarly, interpretivism can burn badly and destroy if one neglects to consider that every day I wonder, Is this as uncivilized as Claire can possibly get? And every day, Claire figures out some way to take it to the next level. Let me close by reminding you that there’s no time for denial, despondency, or disinterest. This is a time that demands urgent actions from each of us to investigate the development of yahooism as a concept.

[gyaruogutz]

👀 i'd be curious... (about your last post)

You’re in luck , I love talking about myself when asked ~

Information is under the cut , mostly for my personal preference ! CW for , well , transharmful things !! I don’t really go into detail until the very end , but still . I’m trigger-tagging this as a vent just in case.

It will probably be a lot lmao !! Be careful what you wish for Anon !!

A lot of my harmful thoughts come from rage . And that sounds very stereotypical , right ? Like “ oh, of course the transharmful person has homocidal thoughts , that’s a given . “ You’re right of course ! But it’s not just homocidal thoughts I get .

I get paraphiliac thoughts and urges as well when I’m in a heightened state of emotion , whether it be a positive OR negative feeling that I’m experiencing . & I’ve gotten homocidal thoughts from excitement or joy before . With heightened emotions these days comes heightened impulse .

I’m very good in retrospect with controlling these impulses , for the saftey of me and those around me . I’ve done nothing that warrants suspicion from those who trust me IRL , and nothing to tip off any mental health professionals , much less anything authorities would be concerned about.

I experience these thoughts near-constantly . I’m either wishing to be violent , aggressive & homocidal , or I’m fantasizing , usually sexually , ( but not always , to be fair ) about one of my paraphilias . When I’m not in these states of mind I’m almost purposefully distracting myself with special interests or hyperfixations . And mind you this is while I’m ON my medications , haha !! Though I doubt I’d be at risk of offending for either side when I’m not , my medication moreso keeps anxious paranoia and depression away .

These thoughts at this consistently don’t just come out of nowhere . To start off with , I’m also cis-traumatized , and had a C-PTSD diagnosis at the chrono age of 14 ( though apparently it’s not a diagnosis anymore ? correct me if I’m wrong ). My specialized therapist and I have determined I have genuine plurality that is either mostly or completely traumagenic , most likely P-DID or DID . I also have reason to be weary of having suffered R4MC04 ( censoring in case of antis jumping my post ) abuse as a child , due to knowledge of some of my alters I have experience with , and how I react subconsciously to certain things .

However , I have also most likely gained these thoughts from doing harmful things in my adolescence , usually impulsively and on purpose.

Disclaimer , chrono-minors ; I cannot and will not recommend you do ANY of these things listed . I’m not your parent and I can’t stop you , I understand that , but I feel obligated to put this warning here . Additionally I’m not providing details on how I did these things myself , and I will not do so if asked .

For one , as a young teen I would purposefully seek out sexual contact with much older men for my own sexual and emotional amusement . This is where I developed a lot of my sexual tastes from , honestly . I never felt bad for doing these things , only shame for getting caught by then-friends who were appalled.

I would also frequently ( with their consent ) use friends in my group for that same gratification . I lost my virginity to a friend I met in my first year of public middle school , years later in our friendship , for example .

I was also ( and still am , honestly ), a stalker of those who gave me enough attention to be interested , whether online or in person . I was also obsessive , checking messages and getting intense emotions when I saw my various objects of affection over the years do something I didn’t approve of .

There were also some things in younger childhood ,

— I ( unintentionally ) scared the absolute shit out of most boys in the two grades below be because I was notorious for harassing them for my amusement as a kid . ( my autistic ass simply thought that’s how people played at the time , but I thought it was also REALLY funny )

— for some odd reason , in my small impoverished Catholic elementary school , my year consistently had the most traumatized kids out of all of them . I was faced with sexual assault stories , parental death stories , physical abuse stories and more by my close friends all before I was ten, and besides the parental death ( which was a singular case ), all of that was normalized and unfortunately almost romanticized by the girls in my grade .

I specifically remember a friend of mine getting assaulted by a college boy when we were in third grade , and recall three girls asking her excitedly about the experience . ( STATING THIS IS NOT TO ROMANTICIZE IT, this is a genuine example of how serious violence was romanticized in my childhood. )

— I can name at least one teacher I know in middle school that clearly had eyes for me sexually . Nothing ever happened with him in my active memory , but I knew , and I think he knew I knew , and I definitely used it to my advantage . There was also one in high school , who , again nothing in my active memory happened with him , but I definitely knew and again used it to play him like a fiddle .

Until I was TOLD that these things were wrong , I wasn’t aware . I saw it as normal , fun , and exciting .

So those are most of my thoughts on the subject . Not sure if I’m cis-harmful or trans-harmful really .

[bookwhimses]

I was tagged by @redgoldblue to post a wip snippet, so here's an excerpt from Self-Imposed, the TMA/DGDHA crossover I've been dabbling in since before the last season of TMA aired. I stopped listening to TMA for ptsd reasons and this fic was planned while (I think) season four was airing. It's written in script format mimicking the transcripts for TMA and its basic premise is "Jon and Martin go to Seattle because they hear that a random little detective agency single-handedly stopped a Ritual and they want to know how". It covers themes of self-matyrdom, isolation, and the power of platonic and romantic love.

I tag @gallantrejoinder @dont-offend-the-bees and also simply you, dear reader, if you have any wips you want to share with the world

HENDERSON This isn’t London, Mr Sims. You don’t have a right to know everything you want.

ARCHIVIST Are you … embarrassed? Someone else took care of it, somehow, and you don’t want us to know who it was because it makes the Usher Foundation look bad – that’s it, isn’t it?

MARTIN Jon! For God’s sake –

ARCHIVIST I’m not compelling him, Martin, I’m just using simple –

HENDERSON We are not embarrassed, and you do not get to come here and make assumptions about the efficiency of the Foundation when you have no understanding of what Dirk Gently and his agency do here, wandering in and out all kinds of classified situations as if he knows something, or knows nothing – like he doesn’t even recognise the Terrors at all –

MARTIN Wait – Dirk Gently?

Henderson goes silent.

MARTIN Dirk Gently as in …?

HENDERSON … We believe he originates from the United Kingdom, yes. As far as we can track him. He doesn’t seem to have any proper identification dating prior to his time there –

ARCHIVIST Wait, wait – hold on, who’s Dirk Gently?

MARTIN You know, Dirk Gently.

THE ARCHIVIST Clearly, I don’t.

MARTIN R-really? You don’t – You mean you never read any of his statements?

ARCHIVIST He left statements? Statements in – in the plural?

MARTIN He left dozens! Mostly dating in the late 2000’s, but he did leave one or two after I was hired. I thought he disappeared. Finally got … eaten, or something. I think he must have had an encounter with just about every single Entity I can think of.

HENDERSON Then you’re familiar with the … issues surrounding dealing with him.

MARTIN I never actually met him, I’ve just … I read a lot of his statements, back in the day. When I found one, I – I actually used to save them for my lunch breaks.

ARCHIVIST He wrote statements that you saved … for light reading.

MARTIN He was kind of funny, alright?

ARCHIVIST Funny?

[sailorblossoms-snowbaz]

Nothing gets me out of a sex scene between Baz and Simon faster than an Agatha name drop. 

I’m not telling anyone what to do or how to live their lives! Feel free to ignore my ass. But I decided to share this reflection I’ve kept to myself (worrying I might offend someone or coming across as an insufferable know-it-all, which isn’t my intention, sorry!) in case anyone gives a fuck or finds it useful when plotting. (I also feel the need to clarify I don’t for a second believe I get it right when I write or something. I can’t stress this enough: at no point do I know what I’m doing. My practiced ability to analyze media is where my confidence ends lol). I don’t know. Here’s a word vomit anyway: 

Bringing up Agatha without a strong reason (and I really mean strong!) related to sharing something about Simon is, in my humble opinion, completely unnecessary, and it’s not picking up on how Simon behaves around this. This thought it’s actually what lead me to figure out what that paragraph in awtbw is doing: Simon brings up Agatha when he’s deciding to have sex with Baz. Why? Because it’s telling us the difference between an unwanted experience and actually wanting. It’s telling us (quite cleverly) that with Agatha, it didn’t work. With Agatha, Simon wasn’t turned on, and he wasn’t in love. He wasn’t turned on. Look at that shit. Compelling, isn’t it? And we’re told that without Simon actually saying it, because Simon can’t think of doing shit with Agatha. He can’t. He avoids it! 

Simon turns it into something so abstract, he actually thinks past sexual partners at one point before correcting himself, in plural, which is both a pretty clinical way to think about it and shows how he’s removing the experience from Agatha (making it plural makes it harder to connect it to the one obvious person! which he avoids!) The existence of that paragraph communicates how Simon felt about it without betraying the way his minds works. This is why I think that paragraph in awtwb and find it a moodkiller in other instances, because it’s doing some serious heavy lifting (albeit somewhat subtly) in the book whereas I think certain things can be expressed without bringing her up at all in other places. Because I think it’s crucial to the way Simon’s work that he can’t think about it. He’s not at all casual or normal about this. He brings touching her up in the context of survival (SFC) or when he’s pushed by Baz’s wrong assumptions to process why he’s bothered by Baz thinking it’s something to congratulate him over, or that he was into her, or that it must have been good in some way. He can’t think “I’ve slept with her but...” or “sex was underwhelming with her” even though it’s the easiest writing choice. If it’s about saying Simon doesn’t have experience in certain sexual area, I think it makes more sense for him to just say he doesn’t have experience, rather than to say that he didn’t do those things with Agatha because 1. Simon is not an over-explainer, it’s more like him to give you small hints and leave you to fill in the gaps 2. He purposely avoids being alone in his head and bring up doing shit with Agatha 3. He avoids being direct. When he is direct, he’s not alone, and we’re not in his head.  

The only reason Simon brings up Agatha in that awtwb is because it’s about firsts. This is the first time Simon is consciously deciding to have sex (the previous time was spontaneous) and goes through with it, and he can’t help to note how different it is when you do want it. That’s a strong reason. And he can’t complete the sentence! The second Agatha’s name comes up, he’s pushing the thought away and saying it doesn’t matter. He’s unable to complete a coherent sentence about it – this isn’t an experience Simon is cool with or wants as part of his life and memories or whatever. To me, it doesn’t make any sense that Simon would be in front of vampire’s dick and bring her up to say things he could say without bringing her up, or that he would be able to complete the thought without being weirdly elusive. He wouldn’t be direct. 

And then there’s Baz. Good ol’ Bazzy-boy. I feel the need to say this: Baz isn’t actually surprised at the confirmation of them having had sex. He brings up the question in a way that assumes the answer is yes. He can put 2 and 2 together: he thought of Simon sexually and was horny for him while they were teens, so he mistakenly assumed Simon would feel the same about his gf (he says in CO that he believes Agatha is the only person Simon has ever wanted, a thought Simon corrects in WS by saying Baz is the only person he has ever wanted.) The reason Baz chokes all over rat’s blood is because, well, why wouldn’t he? I mean, yikes. But mostly: there’s a difference between assuming something is true and hearing it being confirmed. And Simon says it at the exact moment Baz is the most vulnerable (drinking) and while Baz is doing something he associated with self-loathing and shame. And I think this is on purpose, because Simon feels the same about this experience. (I have other posts about this, but I honestly don’t feel like digging for those links. I doubt anyone is still reading lol)

My point with Baz is: why would Baz think about anything Agatha did or didn’t do with Simon when he’s in front of Simon Snow’s hard cock? Why? It makes no sense, folks. The only reason he brings it up is in the interest of helping Simon understand himself (because Baz is kind! because he’s willing to get really fucking uncomfortable if he thinks it’s going to help Simon!). It’s not something Baz is going to think about on his own, unprompted, because why would he? (Why would anyone want to? The only reason the bitch speaking here keeps thinking about it is because something comes up that has me like “wait... hold up... I don’t think this is in line with the hints Simon puts down”) Especially not during sexy times with Simon? When Simon is naked, that man is busy. Simon took off his little pants and Baz was speechless. His brain (and insecurities) are not working like that, you know? 

[riverstardis]

series 32 episode 27:

jac's back

reallyyy don't understand how they expect ethan to find out who the blogger is?? and wouldn't they rather he spend the time doing his job???

robyn's complaining about everyone being tired and david puts on an american accent and goes "yeah but we must follow our commander-in-chief, and make this hospital great again!" nahhh that's not fair😭😭😭😭 ethan walks up behind them but stops to listen and robyn's like "you really need a holiday david. don't worry about it, as soon as i see ethan, i'm gonna have a word." and ethan walks away😥😥😥😥😥 well at least robyn hasn't forgotten that he is their friend

poor ethan :( i was gonna say he's really going through it but he's been going through it CONSTANTLY for like 2 years at this point😭

aw cal mention! ethan's speaking to alicia in his office after he's told everyone that he's going to find the blogger today and they'll lose their job and he's like "'i will find you, and i will kill you' did you ever see that film? cal used to watch it all the time" and she says she watched it with him once but she is VISIBLY NERVOUS like stroking her hair😭

"'the idiots have cancelled all locums for the foreseeable future' so that's me? the idiot." 😭 alicia tries to convince him that it means everyone in charge because it's plural?? bestie he IS in charge??? it was decision to cancel locums and leave so who else could that possibly mean😭😭😭 yeah she didn't start the blog with the intention of hurting ethan but THAT was DEFINITELY a direct attack

he asks if it's her and she gets SO offended like "you really think that of me??" making him feel bad for even thinking it, that's actually horrible >:( and then he asks for her help in finding who it is and she says he must think a lot of her to think she'd rat out one of her colleagues and says she's not gonna be responsible for somebody losing their job... but ethan will lose his job if he doesn't find who it is soo you'll be responsible either way??? well really it should be her losing her job ofc, not that i want her to

rash and bea sjkskjfsj

rash is still scared of resus🥺 bea going "you can either walk into resus, or you can sit out here and fill your pants. either way is messy." LMAOOO I LOVE HER

ethan's investigating the patients mentioned by rage in resus and he asks charlie about one of them and charlie notices alicia listening in looking worried sjsjdjd

lmao rash runs away from resus to be sick again and ethan's like "well it's no wonder people are writing blogs if that's how the f1s are behaving"😭😭 he's going to be your best man one day bestie can you believe that!

oop alicia accidentally says "her" when referring to the blogger to duffy💀💀

ily rash <333

i want bea to be my girlfriend

ethan getting mad at noel for not doing what he's asked him to and as he walks off noel's like "where do people go, eh robyn? he used to be such a decent bloke" and i'm pretty sure ethan was still in earshot judging by his expression :( also sorry but "where do people go"???? what kind of a stupid fucking question is that?? his brother died less than a year ago did you forget already???? and robyn's like "i know. and to think, i used to fancy him. i mean, not a lot, but he had potential" not a lot? reaaally robyn?? i remember the scene with the doughnuts after dixie left you can't fool me

rash leaving to run after a patient when ethan asks him why he isn't in resus and then ethan gets the notes of all the patients he was investigating and they're all rash's patients and he shows charlie who's like "noo, that can't be right" and ethan's like "it's basic psychology isn't it? can't do their own job properly so complain about everyone else doing there's."😭😭

aww rash's patient is scared so he gives him his glasses and he says they're plastic or glass or something and he wears them because they make him feel like he can be something he's not🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

GO RASH!!

ethan asks noel to call jac down because he knows who the blogger is and also to tell rash he needs to speak to him so ofc noel puts two and two together and he tells alicia and charlie notices her looking guilty again

ooo charlie's like "you're not just gonna stand there, are you?" to alicia as they watch rash approach ethan's office. she tells rash ethan doesn't need to see him anymore and prepares herself😬

alicia was mentoring rash on all the cases that were blogged about😬

jac going "i usually spend my lunch break avoiding all human contact so this had better be good" sjsjdjfj mood

surely jac realises that he's covering for alicia right???? like he says he knows who the blogger is and looks at alicia who looks like she's about to burst into tears and jac's like "well you hide that bruising bitterness well. it's always the quiet ones who shout the loudest." but then ethan says that alicia helped him work it out and jac appears to immediately believe him that it isn't her??

ohh okay nevermind no i think she does realise when he refuses to give her the name and says he's made a deal with them for anonymity in exchange for the blog coming down because she asks alicia how she worked it out and when she doesn't tell her she's looking between them like she knows😭

why is this even jac's job anyway?? i could well be missing something because i was not watching holby at this point in time but i thought she was just head of darwin? what's this got to do with her??

alicia says she doesn't know what to say but ethan just yells GET OUT😢

ethan telling everyone that he's resuming the standard locum policy and approving leave again and robyn's like "what's brought all this on?" and he's like "i am on your side, robyn. always have been." he sounds SO sad :(((((

alicia writing one last post to apologise for some of the things she wrote "it's not that i was wrong in trying to shed some light, it's more that i hurt some of the people i was trying to help" you don't say

alicia tries to thank ethan for not dobbing her in but he says it was just because they need the staff

"we are dying on our feet. they're crushing us, ethan, at least people know what we're going through now." "do they? no, i think tomorrow they'll just be reading about some pop star or the best way to comb your eyelashes" comb your eyelashes??? ssdhjdfshj

they're both crying :(((

"it wasn't meant to hurt you" "i looked you dead in the eye and i asked if it was you, and i believed you. i even asked for your help." "i know, and i'm sorry, but you've done your little investigation and it's over now so-" "that is not the point! i tho- it's like i didn't matter to you. i was clearly struggling, i was losing friends, you didn't care." "we weren't exactly bosom buddies when it started" "you even tried to make me feel bad for daring to think it was you. it's cold, alicia. it's mean."😥😥😥😥 why is she trying to act like it's no big deal now that he knows?????

"look it wasn't easy to lie but i had to! we are having a nightmare in this ed and that is where my head was at. and my heart." oh her heart😢😢

"i've gotta ask. was it because you still like me?" "like you?" "yeah you didn't dob me in, is that the reason? only i would like to talk about that" i mean you had like sort of just got back together so of course he still likes you?? or he did, anyway. "are you joking? i couldn't like you less." :((((

"the only reason i didn't tell jac naylor it was you is because i'm a decent person, but you're not. you're not, alicia. you played cal. you played me. you're not good to be around." i meannn he's not exactly right, because i don't think she intended to hurt cal or him, but he's not exactly wrong either.

"ethan?" "it is doctor hardy. and that is all i'll ever be to you."😥😥😥😥😥 okay now start the clock how little time does it take them to make up again shdhjfh

george rainsford and chelsea halfpenny though!!! they're sooo good

[sophieinwonderland]

im a bit nervous to say this cause i really dont involve myself in tulpa discourse other than stating im accepting of tulpas, but its my understanding in life that people can't own actions. yes certain cultures and religions may have their specific way of doing something and make it their own, but that doesn't mean they own that action, they own the way they do the action. (im using own kinda liberally im not trying to imply they have some sort of legal ownership lol) but so with tibetan buddhist tulpamancy (i cant for the life of me remember the word they actually use) they dont own the concept of creating another entity in your mind or "self" but they do own the way they do it and their beliefs attached to it. im trying to relate this to something but i cant think of any analogies that would be as specific as this, and i dont want any anti-tulpas to see my general example and think im comparing to very different things.

Yeah, I think tulpacourse can be pretty difficult to wade through sometimes. Personally, I'm not entirely sure I even agree with the concept of owning your own beliefs. Even in a figurative way. Aside from, maybe, actually totally closed cultures.

I see beliefs as things that are meant to be shared, adapted, or sometimes even torn apart and scavenged for scraps. And sometimes, I do think the way these things happen might be offensive to some people who feel connected to them.

I don't really feel like this applies in the case of tulpamancy at all because I think it's so far divorced from Tibetan Buddhism as to not share any beliefs with it whatsoever.

But this was something I thought about a lot during the whole thing about God being plural. Because there, I'm playing directly with people's very sacred and personal beliefs. And I'm doing so in a way that some people are going to find offensive.

And the thing I decided is that... I don't feel like Christians have ownership over their beliefs. Not in a way that they would get to dictate who can use them or how they're used.

Yes, they can complain if they find something offensive or blasphemous. And some will do that very loudly. But I don't think I should feel obligated to avoid offending people either.

Especially when Christianity is itself based on Judaism. In fact, basically every old religion is a permutation of a permutation of a permutation, dating back thousands of years to religions which would look very differently from anything that's practiced today.

And I also think again on certain practices that some might consider offensive, such as the conversation on Godspouses where some people believe they both can communicate and marry certain deities. I don't see that people from those religions have any sort of right to police the beliefs of others. They can be offended by godspouses if they want. But that doesn't mean the godspouses are somehow in the wrong for their beliefs and experiences nor should they feel obligated to change how they worship and connect to their deities to please others.

...

As a side note, there was another fun note to come out of the tulpa AMA that I wanted to share. Michael Lifshitz is working with a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism to write an article on the practice tulpamancy was based on, going over texts that have never been translated to English!

So that's something pretty cool to look forward to! 😁

[nova-dracomon]

Hello, big fan of your content, and I hope this isn’t the stupidest question, but I just want to know so I can hopefully know myself; my body better.

How does one figure out whether their body is a system? Is there a sort of process // awakening that sorta happens with therianthropy and the like? Are there any sort of “dead giveaways” that happen that reveal a system instead of a singlet? How to rule out something as an inner voice vs a headmate or something of the sort?

I am eternally confused and potentially misguided, but also would appreciate any clarification. Apologies if I offended or misunderstood any terms, but I just don’t know right now.

It's not a stupid question at all! It's something a lot of us struggle with because it can be difficult to discern. Especially, if like us, in the beginning our host actively worked to suppress everyone else.

We've met ppl who say they've always known, others have one event that just makes everything click into place, and we just kinda slid down a gradual slope to acceptance and actually talking it out. Every system is different and it's impossible to give a one-size-fits-all answer.

So, we'll do the next best thing and talk about how we personally experience plurality. This is by no means gospel or the trueTM way to be a system.

The biggest difference between headmates vs inner monologue vs a character we daydream about is headmates talk back--they're sentient. They have their own thoughts, desires and feelings where a daydream character doesn't and only repeats what our inner voice tells them to--not unlike a remote control toy.

Larka (Host): I experience all my thoughts as words. If I get hungry, in my head I'll 'hear' a thought version of my voice say "I'm hungry" instead of like, envisioning a sandwich. When I first started hearing my headmates, I'd hear another voice alongside my inner voice. It was unprompted, didn't sound like me, and had an "energy" signature attached to it. Everyone here as a unique one that accompanies anything they say--so even if the way their voice sounds fluctuates, we'll know who spoke.

Communication can also be done by sharing emotions. Even if you want something, if someone else doesn't, it can cause conflicting feelings and indecisiveness. Something we've always said about ourselves is that, it doesn't matter how we feel in the moment, because our opinion is so likely to change anyway.

An example of communication: Larka's speeding again. She's feeling good because she loves driving fast and jamming out to MCR. Thorn is annoyed because this happens everyday. Larka's busy thinking about how much she loves Helena. As a stop sign comes into view, there's a sudden shared bolt of discontent laced with anxiety followed by the phrase. "You better do a FULL stop this time." Larka does a full stop.

One particular piece of media that was the biggest turning point for us being "oh shit that might be us" is I am Dog(s). It's a semi-autobiographical narrative that follows a transwoman realizing that she is also plural and a therian. We highly recommend checking it out! If nothing else, it's an easy and fun read.

[insecateur]

What flaws do you think XY has?

well, it has a lot of common pokémon game flaws, like underdeveloped characters and story, altho it's not the worst offender imo (i think i would probably cite swsh as the worst offender in recent years but i haven't finished playing scavio so idk. it looks a lot better from what i've played so far tho.)

but overall, the flaws it has are compounded by the fact that we never got an additional version (or additional versions plural, i guess) i think. there were a lot of things left unanswered, and a lot of things that felt like they could have been expanded on in another game. there are a few areas, i think in the desert? that are locked off and seemed like they could have been explored... i know people sometimes complain about the post-game being lacking, although i personally enjoyed what we got.

i'm blinded by how much i personally love the game, but i do kind of get what people mean when they say it feels half-finished. we didn't even get to explore the whole region (south kalos when...)

in general, i'm glad that the games seem to have been gradually getting more and more character-driven. i hope it keeps evolving in that direction in the future. i don't really have strong opinions about the game play aspect; a lot of the things people complain about i either enjoy or don't care about (like the xp share being something you have from the start and can't turn off) so i'm immune to this kind of stuff. i also don't really care about graphics, to be honest... i do think the recent performance issues really suck tho.

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

one of my dreams is to be famous enough to be invited to talk shows, and they invited me to talk about my activism or research or something but it comes up that I'm nonbinary and someone is stupid enough to ask me to explain my gender.

"oh, you wanted me to come here to talk about my gender? sure! well you see i usually just tell people I'm nonbinary or queer just cus in most cases it would definitely go too far to elaborate. But you've asked me to elaborate, so I think I should start with -"

*long rant about how gender roles are stupid and we're all just human and i never felt forced into gender as a kid cus my parents are both very gnc and anyway here are specific percentages of genders that i feel myself to be*

Talk show host: *tries to interrupt after I've already been talking for 10 minutes straight* I think that should do now Onyx, I think we've heard en-

me: so and I haven't even gotten into how my gender intersects with my neurodivergence and my plurality, let's do a dive into-

host: no seriously I think we're done he-

me, visibly offended: why, you asked me the question. You don't wanna hear the answer? why would you ask if you didn't actually wanna know. Anyway as I was saying-

*proceeds to ramble for at least another 30 minutes, at length*

And after all of that, no talk show host ever wanted to ask a nonbinary person about their gender ever again. Online versions of the programme cut out large parts of the ramble but plenty of people saw it live and some recorded it and you can find it on YouTube if you're savvy enough. nonbinary people who go on tv now are only asked specifically about the topic they were invited about and won't ever have to deal with silly gender questions again. and you're all so fucking welcome

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. I certainly exagerrated how much fandom takes this as canon I guess. I agree that there are more nuances in all of this than what I wrote. Your reply made me think about something else though. I think sometimes the discrepances in this fandom's perceptions also come from what different people have seen in the sources. Like what books we've read, what quotes we have seen. And discussions often don't include links to the sources, which is understandable, but doesn't help. For example now you say that John has said more things that indicated he was ''more in love with Paul'' so to speak.. and I don't mean to disagree, but I sincerely don't know what you mean. I know John has compared their relationship to marriage many times and he called Paul his estranged fiancee. But Paul has sometimes compared it to marriage too, and he also has literally used the phrase ''in love'', even if he used it in plural. Like when he said ''we were all in love with John'' or in that French interview when Paul was saying how ''John was with Yoko now, and he wouldn't see with me, because I was almost like another woman''. Also to me in Get Back Paul seemed definitely more visibly possibly ''in love'' with John, by being visibly jealous with Yoko (like in that time he was telling them ''get in your bloody bag'') But I'm writing all of this just to give an example how people might get different impressions and not seeing the same amount of sources... I honestly can't think of any quote by John that indicates he was more in love with Paul. I can only think of people saying that Yoko said something like that - that Paul rejected John in some (sexual?) way? But I haven't seen that quote, I don't know what exactly it is, and to be honest, Yoko is much more unreliable source for me than both John and Paul. (but I mostly don't count it because I haven't seen it) And same goes for India. I somethimes think people have read/seen more about it than I have, or we interpret it differently. For me the conversation in Get Back meant nothing! It even suggested the opposite - that nothing awkward happened between John and Paul, only that the whole trip created something awkward between George and them. Because Paul thought the whole thing was a bit fake, and in Get Back John sounded like he kind of agreed, and George was kind of offended. To me that gesture John was doing with the microphone... was nothing... Because Paul was smiling at it, because John was smiley during the conversation, because we don't know even how the movie was editted, but the whole conversation didn't seem like an uncomfortable discussion betwen J&P, but quite the opposite. They were kind of a team about it and George was the other side.. but maybe people have seen different things. Sorry if that was too much talking about that topic. I haven't really read bio books that cover the time in/after India. I haven't read many Yoko interviews either, I probably haven't seen all of them by John either. I might have missed something.

I mean, we can get into a debate over the whole who was in love with whom thing, it's just a bit of a very big discussion and I'd rather not do it just in asks.

For what it's worth, to me the strongest evidence is John's whole "I'm not a homosexual, or we could've had a homosexual relationship" tirade where he seems to say Yoko=good because she's like Paul(/Stu) but she let's me fuck her and holds my hand. Also the fact I don't know of Paul ever comparing Linda to John that directly. Plus John, multiple times, strongly implying that he was in fact into men. I made a post about John's sexuality last December which compiles a good amount of sources, including the Yoko quote you're alluding to, if you're interested.

I understand your issue, though. This environment isn't exactly easy for newcomers and navigating sources in general is hard. It's definitely true that we aren't all operating with the same knowledge and also aren't concluding the same things from available sources. Regarding the Get Back scene I actually agree it's not black and white what's going on there and we do actually have evidence that the conversation was edited (as a lot of the footage and audio – including that particular conversation – has been leaked and bootlegged over the years) in a way that, to me, makes the common blowjob reading more questionable – that being said, I think the common interpretation is a perfectly reasonable conclusion, but not the only reasonable conclusion. People get an awkward vibe from Paul in that scene but I can see your point re:George, as in he might be the person primarily making Paul uncomfortable (if he is).

It's a thing that bothers me a lot on this site when people imply there's only one way to interpret a source and constantly accuse people who disagree of being facetious or bigoted when we're all just using our own view of the world to try and make sense of these things. Also, Beatles tinhatting is a hobby, not activism lol.