#very system friendly

[watchful-crown]

went to a coffeeshop close to Victoria Station to really get that sasha james when she first met michael vibe and told them my name was sasha so they could call it when the drink was ready

then I sat there drinking my chai latte and listening to mag 26: a distortion

tl;dr I'm a fucking nerd /pos

- Elias (🦷) he/it/eye

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[hymenoptera07]

i love plurality 💖 *camera pans to several little homunculi of me running around in my brain*

[ribombee-lapidarym]

Possible revelation!!

We're facets! We already knew that but we're not full headmates!!

We've been trying to discern anything about ourselves to differentiate ourselves but we're facets!! We're not complete people!! There IS nothing to discern!!!

We can just give ourselves traits!! We can just make is up because there ARE no pre-existing facts or traits about us!!!

We can choose!!!!

[pluralquotebook]

Someone outside of the system: so what made you pick The Syndicate as your collective name?

Host: oh, it just sounded cool... no other reason...

Our Technoblade fictive sitting in the corner:

-The Syndicate

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[statesys]

me trying to fall back into an unproductive pit of despair:

the headmates who js wanted to bake cookies:

[buntress]

Posting here bc i posted a banger on my main and don't wanna derail my sick posting with discourse.

If it's not known, I'm very firmly pro endo right. Like I have good friends who are endo systems, those are my home boys.

So what has me rackin my fuckin brain is like, as a traumagenic system who as constantly been told that I'm not actually a system by too many people, why are we doin that to other people dude. Like look at yourself man, you're a system yourself (or at least I'd hope so) and you've been told your whole damn like that your experiences are invalid, not real, whatever bullshit and you're just like, doing that to other people y'know? You're perpetuating this cycle of systemic abuse on others based on, what, what you think they might be experiencing? The harm they might be doing? Like you're actively dictating what you think is going on in someones head for whatever reason ya might have (I ain't gonna assume, that makes me no better) and for what? Who does it serve?

Like every anti-endo thing I've heard has only really helped people who oppress systems to do that more, to do it almost easier. This rhetoric I constantly see bopping around our community actively harms not only this grand standing enemy you've made endogenic systems out to be but like, it's basically a form of self harm to the system community as a whole. By creating this weird divide between the "real" systems vs those deemed "fake" we are fueling some really bad and bigoted shit towards our community. Is that what you want to do as part of this community? Is weeding out these supposed "fakers" worth the actual harm this stuff is doing?

Sorry to discourse on mogai over here. But 1. this is my biggest account so I think it'll reach the most people and 2. It's been a problem I've had for a while with the mogai community as a whole. I feel like we can do better than this.

[cerebralabyss]

when u want to do a big project but ur an alter that doesnt front a lot so theres like a 90% chance u will forget abt it next time u front and u cant finish it >:( lh

- 🖤

[mossycakes]

underrated bcs moment is when howard beat the shit out of jimmy after jimmy took the piss out of howard for even suggesting a figjt

[splattergai]

could we get a headmate based on these emojis?

🎵 🎶 🎧 🎤

Emojis (🎵 🎶 🎧 🎤) Headmate Pack!

[ PT: Emojis (eighth note emoji, music notes emoji, headphone emoji, microphone emoji) Headmate Pack! /end PT ]

Note: Headmate may not form exactly as described. Anything can be changed to fit your system.

Dividers by @/thecutestgrotto Left Photo by Adrian Korte on Unsplash Middle Picrew by @/SODAPVNK_ on twitter Right Photo by Mink Mingle on Unsplash

Name (+ Sign-Off): Lyre, Synth, Radio (📻🎶)

System: musiorma, musicnaut

Species: Human

Age: 26 (bodily), lofichronal

Pronouns: he/she/they, beat/beats, mell/mello, mix/mixes

Gender: genderfaer, kenochoric, nightmusgender, cosycafeic

Attraction: Harmonic attraction, omni salvaen

Likes: Music, string instruments, synth instruments, singing, karaoke, concerts, open mic nights, rain, puddles, thunderstorms, nighttime

Dislikes: Complete silence, major distractions, strict instructions, having to wake up early

Description: Fairly social, works well with others and is willing to always try to come to a compromise when there's a disagreement between herself and others. Will act as a mediator between other headmates at times. Keeps a pair of headphones/earphones with mell at all times so that he can listen to music in the background while they do things. Enjoys taking walks in the rain.

[alter-soup]

okay!! could you do bagi from the QSMP? maybe as a cat person too, idk

HEADMATE INSPO

Name(s): Bagi

Role(s): Emotional protector, protector

Pronouns: She/her and maybe they/them

Gender(s): Girlflux

Orientation: Lesbian or Omni w/ fem pref

Age: Age slider (21-26)

Species: Cat-person/neko (whatever term you prefer!)

Source: QSMP

Personality traits/details: Kind, polite but defensive, ambitious, wary, distrusting at times, smart

Kins: Maine Coon, Chinchilla, Rapunzel

Likes: Solving cases, plushies, light/dark academia, reading, frying pans…, being stylish, those fake light-up candles, journaling, flowers, laying in grass, exploring new areas

Dislikes: People talking behind her back, being used, people leaving her behind, feeling abandoned, being tricked, being ignored/avoided, earrape, wet paint, sticky food

Signoff: - 🪐🔍 or 📽📜

Appearance: Pale skin, deep blue eyes, white-blonde fluffy hair with a brown streak in her bangs, light and soft brown cat ears + a matching cat tail or white ears and tail with brown ends.

Faceclaim:

(Couldn't add a tail to the Picrew, I'm so sorry)

Picrew

Everything can be modified and added upon! :D

⚠️FANART IS BY @/Nary_sla on Twitter/X⚠️ (I think)

[ratbastarddotfuck]

new job start 9am tomorrow morning gamers wish me luck

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

fake ass bitch.

[pluralquotebook]

✉: what if i put our finger in the wet paint then licked it off

🐀:

✉: i want to know what the wet paint tastes like

🐀:

🐀: we are not eating paint.

✉: but i need to know. what does the paint taste like

🐀: no.

- the leaf mischief

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[ace-detectiv3]

Psst, you- yes, you ! You ever just wish there are Cells at Work! themed Discord server you can hang out at? Well you're in luck !! I just opened up a brand new server !! (woah ! ) Here's the link !

It may be small and, well, inactive but I believe it will grow as time passes !

[themoonsystem1723]

Truama is subjective.

What was intensely traumatic for me might not be traumatic to you, and it might not have even been traumatic in the moment.

We have did comorbid with autism adhd and anxiety, things that may not have been upsetting in the moment can become upsetting later. Our mother thinks our childhood was good and cool, we remember very little of it and in the past the only bits we remembered with any clarity were traumatic things.

This is why I personally don’t think endos exist, and that’s not me siding with anti endos either. I think that trauma is subjective, covert, and easy to miss, and that everyone has it. Some people are more susceptible to letting it cause problems.

Trauma is not a requirement for did. ptsd and cptsd are not requirements for did. They are commonly found with did, but they are not diagnostic criteria.

I do not have ptsd symptoms (as far as I’m aware)

I have had experiences with alters since i was 13 or 14, I have had a therapist clock it without me asking about it, and I’ve talked to my current therapist about it.

My trauma is not terribly bad, I was bullied as a kid, I had undiagnosed autism and anxiety, emotional neglect (minor), health trauma related to both of my parents having chronic illnesses, and some general being raised in the 2010s trauma shit like having too much access to the internet.

I still have alters, I still lose time, I still have a seemingly ever changing internal image.

I also just don’t think it matters that much. If your playing trauma Olympics what are you doing with your life. Be happy that someone didn’t have as shitty of a life.

ALSO, as an end note to anyone that picked up on the fact that I am young, I only found out I have did because of a coincidence. If I had not met the people I did that day I likely would have gone many many years without figuring it out. DID in the past was assisted in its obfuscation by the lack of easy education, there is a wealth of info now and it is very easy to find stuff out.

-Tara