#system speaks

[narcissism-positivity]

I love grandiose pwnpd i love “vulnerable” pwnpd and I especially love people who swing between covert and overt narcissism. It’s so hard to feel like you’re the best but also then the worst (usually bc you’ve been trained into thinking that feeling good about yourself in any way is evil).

You’re allowed to be proud of yourself! Here’s a permanent permission slip, from me to you! Take it and brag!

[witch-crip-is-this]

To be anti-endogenic systems is to be, at the most fundamental level, anti-plurality.

And as a traumagenic system who adores my headmates, whose plurality got them through the most dangerous situations time and time again, I just can’t stand with that.

My headmates will always be my closest family. Anyone is allowed to have that.

[moshieee]

New rule added

do not send sexual or sex related asks unless you are given the notion it's okay

Some of these jokes that are not okay include

- lusting after any of moshie's friends, their OC's or them

- talking about your accomplishments related to sex

- anything involving impregnating others

- making fun of other sexualities

Only one of these boundaries was crossed but we added a few others I feel uncomfortable about...

[systemserendipity]

Hello, everyone! Happy Pride!

GIF ID: waving pride flag (including white, pink, light blue, brown, black, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple)

This post mostly pertains to the queer community; we felt it very important to make this post-- due to the particular intersection between plurality and queerness (consider us as an example).

In light of the first day of pride month, we wanted to share a list of resources for queer folks.

From positive affirmations to important information to crisis hotlines, we've tried our best to make the list extensive, yet as brief as possible.

We'd be happy to make this list larger, if folks want that; but we don't want to assume (feel free to request that in reblogs and/or asks).

Anyway, feel free to peruse. And, as we said before, Happy Pride!

LGBTQIA+ Informative Resources

Self-Care

● Positive Affirmations Carrd https://positiveaffirmationsig.carrd.co/

● General Self-Care Resource-Listing Carrd https://self-care-resources.carrd.co/

● Queer Positive Affirmations, by Anchoridge Counselling https://www.anchoridgecounselling.com/post/embracing-your-queerness-3-affirmations-for-queer-folks

Informative Resources

● Library of Congress' Pride History https://www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/index.html?appid=90dcc35abb714a24914c68c9654adb67

● Early Queer Liberation Protestors https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a43877100/stonewall-riot-leaders/

● "Y'all Better Quiet Down" (Speech Video) https://youtu.be/Jb-JIOWUw1o?si=XSphqXvh66SM5lxg

● Ed Hub https://edhub.ama-assn.org/course/265?utm_campaign=alwayson-google-paid_ad-med_student_dsas&gclid=CjwKCAjwjeuyBhBuEiwAJ3vuoYTJMAbgrF_AWHABt_BDBupwp1JZouV9Wdzv2CPVRO8Se_quTIeAExoCb58QAvD_BwE

● GLAAD Resources https://glaad.org/resourcelist/

Hotlines

● Trevor Project https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

● LGBTQ+ Support https://afsp.org/lgbtq-crisis-and-support-resources/

● International Crisis Hotlines https://www.helpguide.org/find-help.htm

[mafia-kay]

Katherine

[jawbone-xylophone]

When the caretaker alter threatens your kneecaps.

[coffinkin]

mutuals ily

followers ily

[dreamswap-crackhead-council]

If it isn’t too much to ask, could you provide a list of people you feel are problematic (with evidence for your claims)?

This sounds rather aggressive, but it isn’t meant to be. I never notice these things until it’s too late.

Dream: Uhm, I know this was sent a while ago, and technically this is very overdue. But there's a few things? I want to say.

I'm not usually one for blocklists, and us as a system do believe second chances do exist, so if one person did a bad to us, we don't think that should warrant them being ostracized. There have been exceptions, and I'm not here to immediately forgive Foxxism for what he's done to Drew, because I understand being hurt by someone doesn't always warrant forgiveness and forgetfulness, especially if the said person only digs in their heels and continues harassment.

So, for us of all personally, if we were to give out a small craft advisory to those wading the shores, we'd choose only two people; Freyfall and Foxxism.

This will be the last post we make about either of these people, so we won't leave any stone unturned. Especially since we're shooting for the stars with the datemate of the creator of this little fandom. I hope this doesn't sound disjointed, as I'm the new host as opposed to Drew/Mod Felis, whom a lot of this happened to him personally and not to me, but I will have someone here to help.

Uhm, there's me coming out as host, I'll now baton pass to Glitch.

Glitch: Yo. I'm Glitch. Not the same one from the TUSOUD fic, actually. I am partially a DS fictive, and I've been around since 2020 and when all these... issues came around. I tend to overheat when thinking about this issue, so if it sounds like I'm attacking you OP, I'm more referring to Lucian/Foxxism, so don't worry too much about it.

I wasn't always Glitch. I used to be just a fragment, someone without much of an understanding besides "do what it takes to keep going" and "keep us going until we pass out", as we worked a physically draining job at the time and I was a last resort. That was my purpose, and the fact I could understand language was a miracle in itself.

Here, I met Lucian. He was originally called Blue, but because we have our own Blue, we'll stick to the present name. I talked to Lucian a few times, and while I could not really understand or process everything when it came to our conversations, Drew was able to pick up on the fact that Lucian was a little obsessive with me and was the smart 18 year old in not mentioning it and keeping me away from front to protect me in my rather vulnerable state. I am grateful for this, as we all know what can go on in our sources, and whilst I didn't have the trauma source Blue inflicted on me, it kept me from having it occur. Drew couldn't always keep me away; I still had a purpose in the system, and sometimes we were so beat it was better I took front to keep pushing carts up a hill and walking back home in the summer heat, because the alternative was worse.

My name was Error, and I found Lucian to be my friend, until Fox (the host of Foxxism's system) decided Drew's trigger for Freyfall's JMV AU was his issue that he needed to "cure". Despite not being a licensed psychologist or therapist, he certainly wanted to do a crash course on us despite the fact that the main component needed in helping triggers is the person first wanting to do it, hence emphasis on the "crash" of the course.

Freyfall certainly wasn't none-the-wiser; they knew what was going on and still gave the greenlight to Foxxism. (Uh, this is a link, by the way. Cool segway, amirite?)

The stress of the situation caused a small split; a Calculester-esk looking fellow who went by Automation and had the ability to drain our emotions if we ended up far too stressed and triggered. He was created by this situation, and created for this situation. And once everything in this situation came to a roaring end and time passed to heal all wounds, him and I decided to fuse.

It's the definition of ironic and poetic; the person who built me up and befriended me also knocked the rest of us down. And as how Lucian is the current host now and the harassment has continued, it seems we're damned by our sources sometimes.

I once saw Lucian as a friend, and maybe we could have been like a big brother/little brother dynamic. Maybe we could have been great friends, been like a family. But I have more empathy for my headmates then for what-ifs, and since we have our own older and nicer Blue fictive (whom formed about one-two years before we met Foxxism, don't be a weirdo), that I have dated for the better part of a year, I'm happier having my boyfriend around then I ever was as a mere Error fragment chatting with Lucian.

We made peace with the situation, and we don't wish to be friends with any of them and we don't make a habit to talk to them. And while everyone is their own person, if you tend to have bad triggers, have issues with shipping siblings or fantasy not consensual fun times in terms of personal comfort, or generally would describe yourself as someone who could easily let someone stomp over their boundaries, I would say to avoid Freyfall and Foxxism.

We don't care either way if you're friends with 'em either, just don't give us shit too and you're peachy.

[schizophrenicships]

🌼hello selfship community!!! 🌼

It really seems like we are all so disconnected, I mean no one interacts with each other hardly ever from what I see and no one asks each other about their inserts, well I’m here to change that !!!

I would be more than happy to learn about some of your Selfships ( provided we are not sharing for maximum comfort levels )

Please reply to this or reblog it to your selfship account and tell me about your inserts! If you have any art or fanfiction I’d LOVE to read/see those too!!!

I think with some effort, we can become a friendly community again!

[narcissism-positivity]

What's the anthropological evidence for endogenic plurality? (I already believe it exists btw I just like research.)

Hi! Sorry it took me so long to respond, but I’m always seriously thrilled to get to stretch my anthropologist bones.

The anthropological evidence lies in experiences of multiplicity throughout the world! Historically, this has usually taken the form of some type of belief in possession and/or trance state.

One of the earliest publications noting possessive states across a large variety of cultures was TK Oesterrich’s Die Besessenheit (1921), which you can read on the internet archive translated into English here. (Note: contains very racist, degrading language)

There are even works on autopsies performed in order to seek out physical evidence of the “witches” possessing people (Evans-Pritchard, 1937).

Most notably, the work of anthropologist Erika Eichorn Bourguignon delves deep into the world of ritually sanctioned dissociation, trance, and possession, especially among Haitian people. She notes that culturally accepted dissociation in the form of multiplicity “provides the self with an alternate set of roles… in which unfulfilled desires, ‘unrealistic’ in the context of the workaday world, get a second chance at fulfillment” (Bourguignon, Spirit Possession, 57).

She explicitly outlines the non-traumagenic nature of possession trance, noting this perfectly normalized form of plurality as “based on a conception of the human person as consisting of multiple separate elements, body and soul (or multiple souls)” and notes that multiplicity often empowers the individual. (A Companion to Psychological Anthropology, 376).

Just a few of the many cultures that have observed endogenic plurality in the past and/or currently are the Azande people of Africa, the Havasupai of North America, the Jivaro of South America, Jewish folk practitioners especially in Eastern Europe and Ethiopia… and of course, the most well-known examples of possession in the western world come from Christianity.

TLDR Denying the existence of endogenic systems is fundamentally racist, erasing hundreds, if not thousands, of years of evidence of non-traumagenic plurality.

Thanks so much for letting me infodump!

[witch-crip-is-this]

Every day i see Jewish folk spit vitriol on the Palestinians suffering under Israeli oppression, and it saddens me so much.

Yes, I’m seeing more and more Jews realize their mistakes and educate themselves to become fervently antizionist, and that’s wonderful.

But to those sad, scared people fighting against liberation: you are not on the “good” side of history. You are actively harming both your fellow Jews and directly contributing to genocide. You should be ashamed, going against all the core values of Judaism.

Goyim okay to reblog, we don’t need your commentary though.

[moshieee]

New Record added:

The espresso bean incident

Details: confiscated

Main cause: 1 bag of dark chocolate covered espresso beans eaten in under 5 minutes

Contributing factors:

stress

lack of other food

lack of regulation

Inexperience with strong caffeine

recent intake of adhd medication

consequences:

Two hours of varring levels of shaking

Very fast racing thoughts

Poor memory of incident

New tag #hehe coffeee nooment

New fraze coined coffee zoom

Additional rule added: no more coffee

[mafia-kay]

Hint 3

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Current info:

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[ [ 9 digit passcode ] ]

[ [ It’s a name ] ]

[ [ The name means “pure” ] ]

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[coffinkin]

I BEAT THE LYNEL GAUNTLET THE SECOND TIME I TRIED IT. GAZE UPON THE SPOILS OF MY BATTLE...

U BITCHES WISH U WERE ME!1!!!1!!!!!

[narcissism-positivity]

I've heard that someone can have NPD while also not being grandiose, and while having social anxiety. How does that work? /genq

Great question!

So, there are two main ways that narcissistic personality disorder can present. The first type that most people are familiar with is known as "grandiose" or "overt" narcissism. We feel very talented, more special than other people, flawless or perfect. The second type is known as "vulnerable" or "covert" narcissism. This feels the opposite way: like you're the worst person in the world, like you're unskilled at everything, like even if you are talented, no one will recognize it, or even like everything wrong with the world, every terrible issue is caused by you somehow actively choosing not to fix it. Like everyone is staring at you all the time and knows about all the awful things you (think) you've done.

Both forms of npd ultimately revolve around you and what you need to do, as they're actually not that different at all. People with npd tend to worry excessively about what other people think of them, and hold extremely high standards for themselves... So, no matter if you're covert or overt, npd often comes with social anxiety!

The alters in my system swing both ways, and this is pretty common (Revised Criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, @/kindnessoverperfection), even for singlets.

An alter like me (Adrian here~) is definitely rather grandiose, cuz' I know I'm a fancy bitch. But when I, say, try out a new painting style and I realize I'm not good at it yet, I'll crash, and suddenly I feel like I'm the worst person in the world. Absolute bottom of the trash pile. Some people are always covert, some always overt, but most narcs tend to slide between the two rather frequently.

If you want some medical literature on covert narcissism, here's an article from Medical News Today which isn't terrible, but please keep in mind it still suffers from being written from a highly biased neurotypical perspective, and conveys some frequent misconceptions (5 Things You Got Wrong About Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Everyday Feminism) about npd.

Hope this helps, lmk if you have any other questions!

~Fancy Bitch Adrian

[witch-crip-is-this]

The nice thing about insomnia is,,,

*trying to find nice things about insomnia *