#systemhood

[mindotaur]

I love systems who make picrews and pinterest boards and playlists for different headmates, systems who have different styles of clothes and makeup depending on who got ready in the morning, systems who are unapologetic in their plurality and joyful in their expression.

[drakesvalley]

The wildest part about being a system and having known you are a system for a while (6+ years for us) HAS to be seeing people who are just figuring it out fall into holes that you've long left behind.

Like. Yeah. We also thought we needed to keep tabs on everyone to increase communication. In the end it became too unwieldy. Especially since DID evolves with what you experience all the time.

Microlabels are cool and I fully support anyone who uses them, but figuring out what to call every single structure in your system isn't for us anymore.

Another thing we notice is people who try their best to know who is fronting at all given times. A lot of that comes naturally to us nowadays, but it's also... OK not to know. Especially if you're not focusing on anything system related at the time.

I guess a lot of this boils down to, it's okay not to care. It's okay to go with the flow of things and figure out at your own pace. Identity is fluid, especially if you have a dissociative disorder. You don't HAVE to have everything figured out 100% of the time.

It's okay to take it slow. It's okay to not know. It's okay to just exist for a bit. It's okay to live and experience things beyond being a system.

To all the people who are just starting to comprehend this. You do not need to know and label exactly what is happening in your head all the time. Fuck, we sure don't. And we're happier for it.

It's okay to just be you.

[turnitsysclusive]

One thing I don't see talked about dissasociation is how it messes with your other senses. For example:

Becoming so dissasociated we lose our sense of our surroundings

Inability to process sounds / some sounds becoming "blocked off"

Dizziness, lack of balance, scattered thoughts

Which is pretty damn cool that the brain can just-- DO THAT. But also it can be TERRIFYING.

[attentionneedyqueen]

Shout out to alters and systems who were made BECAUSE they wanted attention! Who thought it would make them more interesting. Nothing wrong with wanting validation. Attention makes the world go round, babe! 🩷

No this isn't satire, I fucking mean it.

[crash-bang-boom-corp]

If you wanna write a story with a plural character or protagonist(s), litearally just WRITE IT. WRITE IT!!!!!

I mean, the idea of writing a completely perfect, wholly representative piece of plural media when there's practically nothing like that out there yet for which you can base your references on is a standard you should not hold yourself to. Just write it. Put it on tumblr, put it on wattpad, put it anywhere. please. i beg of you. i desperately want something to read that isn't JUST fnaf daycare attendant fanfic (though it is great highly encourage)

like- asking for advice is great, and I wholly encourage it, but what matters is that it gets written, even if its mediocre rep or mediocre writing or both. Don't think you need to fully understand every plural experience out there before you even try. Like, be educated, be open minded, be flexible, but also be WRITING. (or drawing, or coding, or scripting.)

it is damn near impossible to find media that doesn't exemplify the evil alter stereotype (or at least put a twist on it). i. i just. uuuuugh

please just go, write, code, script, be free, write that plural story, make that plural OC, add that plurality into that fanfic. make that character have a plural game mechanic.

Run wild.

The bar is, and I cannot stress this enough, currently in hell.

I promise you can't fail that hard if youre at least trying your best.

Also, if you need an editor or a peer reviewer, I'm here for it. I don't have a massive writing portfolio, but I at least kind of know what I'm doing and if all you need is a second pair of eyes I can probably do that for ya.

Hell, even if its just for yourself, add a little plurality into it. Every story i write has some plural character in it, and most have a plural protagonist plus plural side characters. Not that they're *good* stories, no, they're terrible, but what I'm trying to say is just write it oh my god WRITE IT.

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Look, i'm not saying that NO ONE is writing these stories. they exist. they're out there. I honestly don't know why I even went on this tangent. just, if you're nervous, if you think you won't do a good enough job, just DO IT.

this is your SIGN

[manyminded]

you have an internal monologue? pussy shit. I have an internal dialogue

[lunadreamscaper]

Oul house fanart for Hunter but also this is art for my headmate's new plural kit pfp

i like to draw on small canvases lmfao 😭 also no reposts or ill get you

REBLOGS ARE OKAY tank u :3

[beingcultureis]

Plural being culture is not knowing who you are and feeling drained…

[positivitycombopack]

Shoutout to systems who experience no joy about being a system.

Your life is… hell. Having a CDD is hell. What we’ve been through is atrocious, and you do not need to pretend to enjoy it for my sake. You’re allowed to be angry. You’re allowed to be miserable.

The positive people around you aren’t trying to actively be malicious, but I understand nonetheless how it can hurt. How isolating it may feel.

This blog is safe for you. If you need to let the hurt out, this post is open. Vent. Bitch. Scream. Get the suffering out.

I hope it can get better for you soon, and that you don’t need to wallow in this suffering. I hope you can reach recovery and positivity like so many others.

But until then, you’re still welcomed here.

[sovereignsystem]

Extremely curious because I have a theory. So, systems;

PLEASE reblog for sample size.

(THIS POLL IS ANTI-ENDO, DNI IF YOU SUPPORT)

This poll was inspired by the time I was in a discord server and mentioned how I was a premature birth and wondered if that contributed to (NOT FORMED) my system forming, and discovering 5 other systems who were also premature. This is not meant to be an airtight, without a doubt REASON for anyone to be a system, I'm just curious how much (if at all) overlap there is!

Thank you!!

-❔ (It/He)

[thecavesystem]

haven't felt very people lately

[voiarc-draws]

you’re my stump!~

hey guys, some fictive art. I wasn’t gonna animate it because I don’t want to but the idea here is that every time the song goes “you’re my stump” a different guy would come up and slide in below the other ones, so someone else is saying it each time. the wonders of polyamory!

ver w/o lighting/background

[sysmedsaresexist]

Terms, from a syscourse perspective

A very long ramble

We're taking this to a new post, starting fresh, and going more in depth. The original post is off course and confusing, and I've seen a few tags confused by the uptick in polls, so this is for them as well.

SO

We're not talking about which is liked by more people, we're talking about which term hurts people less. We're talking about people who are genuinely offended by the term plural because of the history that many prefer to deny happened.

Welcome outside of your bubble.

There is a very nasty history behind all these terms, and the type of people who identify with them.

Some plural systems, to this very day, proudly use the term empowered, despite the fact that empowered multiples were a literal DID hate group. Like an actual organized one, with multiple websites and political activism. Many still deny the trauma basis of DID.

It was the fight for the word "multiple" that sparked plural, an anti psych alternative, focused on personhood and autonomy of their system in a community that largely boycotted the diagnosis and treatment of MPD/DID at that time. There were groups that demonized anyone who identified with the DID label. There were sites about what failures we were as systems.

Endogenic isn't just the alternative for natural multiples, but empowered ones, too. Plural is far more synonymous with endogenic than CDD.

"System" is the current hot topic. Endogenic systems don't have a right to the word, they're not "real systems," just like vickies wrote about the fight over "real multiples".

Some plurals are scared to use system

History repeating itself, over and over.

And all of these words hurt.

I think we should encourage the use of system for endogenic systems, but that's just me. That is a positive step toward an inclusive word that everyone is happy with. I'm finding that I have a lot more words for my disordered experience that system isn't really something I feel a claim over. If you call me plural, knowing I have DID, you're going to hurt me.

Looks like many are back to liking multiple again, so we can look forward to round two.

But which words hurt the most people?

We are discussing two words specifically.

Plural

and

System

We're not talking about alternatives, the conversation was, "plural is safer than system as a blanket term, less people identify with system, plurality is something we all share," and I said, "no, system is safer than plural as a blanket term, plural is seen as offensive to many CDD systems, the priority of my blog. The vast majority do NOT relate to being plural or plurality, system is what more people relate to and are less bothered by."

The why is because of history and genuine offense, whether you like it or not.

You say that no one complains, but if you had said this the other way around, "systemhood is something we all share," would anyone have been like, "uhm, ackshually, if you call me a system I'm going to cry." What would those polls have looked like? We get a glimpse in the polls now.

So what are the numbers? It's still early, but there's really only two parts of the poll that really matter. Everyone wants more options, but I'm really only talking about the options for uncomfortable.

Plural vs system.

"Not medical" vs "medical"

Pro endo vs anti endo

Words are the root of syscourse, are they not? How many antis say, "if endos just didn't call themselves systems"?

Based on the numbers, system is the safer term to hurt fewer people. Endogenic systems mind system less than CDD systems mind plural. The complaints you're going to get would be more along the lines of, "endos aren't systems," rather than, "hey, careful, that can be offensive."

Are we finally saying the fight over "system" is over and antis won, plural is better now? Well, then, I don't know that lumping anti endos under plural is going to help the syscourse divide at all. Remember a couple months ago when antis forgot that they didn't invent plural? The big war over pluralpunk? And how much everyone tried to correct them that plural didn't belong to CDDs? Because it IS so synonymous with endogenic systems?

Start at the top of the post, reread, the fight starts again. Don't put antis, mostly CDD systems angry at endogenics, under the plural umbrella. I know we're not prioritizing their comfort, but it doesn't just hurt antis, but pro endo CDD systems, too. Our history is important.

And going to be honest, my memory is not that great. I'm going to forget my friend's preferred terms and I'm going to offend people. I would rather offend them with system. Less chance, less hurt. System is the most popular, across the board. I believe it's lost its synonymity with CDD.

I would REALLY love to hear opinions on this from all sides.

[manyminded]

playing madlibs is so funny cause they’ll say “gimme a plural noun” and I have to hold in an instinctual “me!”

[greens-spilled-tea]

Doing some thinking on parts and people language and just. Honestly I hate that it's framed as dichotomy of one or the other. Some systems have members that prefer one over the other, some systems will use both interchangeably, some systems have a more complicated and/or nuanced relationship with parts and people language.

Me, though? I'm realizing I don't really view any singular alter in my system as either of them. It's why my preferred language of choice is *version* of me. A part implies I'm part of a greater whole, and while that felt true for me when I was more dissociated and thus only had access to specific emotions and memories and stuff, nowadays I'm so integrated I don't really feel like a part of Reimei anymore. I just... am Reimei.

On the other hand, I'm also not all of Reimei. If you only know Green, you're not getting the entire Reimei experience. I am Reimei, but I'm not the only Reimei, yknow?

And that's why I use version, which really encompasses how I feel about myself these days. Sometimes when you're talking to me, the version you're getting is argumentative and blunt and kawaii as fuck, and that's the version of me that calls himself Green. But sometimes you may get a different version of me: someone who's more of a know-it-all, or who's peppy, or who's obsessed with audio engineering, or whatever. And those are all as real as this "me" that's talking and typing.

I don't like part because it doesn't feel accurate for my current experiences anymore- but I also don't like person because I'm only one facet of the complex person that is Reimei. So I'm a version of me.

[lovegungenic]

TheQuickBrownFoxgenic / TQBFgenic Flags. "TheQuickBrownFoxgenic (or TQBFgenic for short) is a xeno-origin relating [metaphorically or literally] to the 2008 speedcore artist The Quick Brown Fox, the music of The Quick Brown Fox, or the collaborators of The Quick Brown Fox."

TheQuickBrownFoxorma / TQBForma Flags. "TheQuickBrownFoxorma (or TQBForma for short) is a variant of TheQuickBrownFoxgenic referring specifically to headmate origin, using the -orma suffix."

TheQuickBrownFoxdawn / TQBFdawn Flags. "TheQuickBrownFoxdawn (or TQBFdawn for short) is a variant of TheQuickBrownFoxgenic referring specifically to sisasystem origin, using the -dawn suffix."