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BMO and Football. Touching on plurality, headspaces, and fronting troubles long before I realized what it was. Lol

Best tiny system.

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i learned about two labels from the soulbounding community and i thought it would be nice to introduce them to the wider plural community!

insourced: when a headmate is sourced from inside your head.

outsourced: when a headmate is sourced from outside your head.

a fictive that's an introject of your original character would be considered an insourced fictive. a factive that's based on yourself at a younger age would be considered an insourced factive.

a fictive based on an anime would be an outsourced fictive, and a factive based on a celebrity would be an outsourced factive.

i thought these were cool so yeah! have fun.

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unrelated to system stuff but i like your kpop demon hunters pfp :3

Thanks! Derpy was a HUGE hit with everyone in the system. *Everyone*. Most are trying to rationalize how he could be perfect for system communication. Mostly just to give us a reason to hope the brain spawns him. But, with pretty good communication already I don't think their plan will work. Lol

The movie was so good! Genuinely such a nice surprise and it's not often I crave a lore dive anymore. They left just enough things unexplained to make our brain go *burrr* I need more!

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We call it soft polyamory. So, a polycule label would make sense to us! It's whatever label you feel best describes how you feel for each other and your relationship dynamics.

So question for my fellow plural people!

If you are in a relationship with a partner and one of your headmates also develops feelings for said partner. And you and your headmate both have complicated romantic feelings for each other. (And yes ur partner understands ur plural and has feelings for said headmate.)

Does that make ur relationship a Polycule?

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As far as we know, yes, memories are shared between all members. But, sometimes there is a delay before we remember. Think of it as download time. The farther out time goes the more seamless the memories get to the point we can't always recall who the memory originally belonged to.

question 129: are memories shared between all members? this isnt a yes/no question, feel free to ramble about specifics as much as you want (or dont, if you dont want to).

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You can describe the event as a traumatic event. But trauma Olympics is the devil speaking and you should knock it off.

i fucking hate type A,B,C, etc trauma. that’s so fucking disrespectful? trauma isn’t based on type, it’s based on the REACTION.

separating trauma events based on how severe they are is just inaccurate. someone could be affected by my trauma more than me, someone could be affected less by my trauma.

trauma ISNT the event. trauma is the REACTION. no matter the event, someone’s reaction can, and will be different from another

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it will never not be funny to us how almost 100% of the time, singlets write better plural characters if they have no idea that's what they're doing

singlets who decided to write about systems almost always play into the Scary Evil Murder Alter stereotype or something else almost as bad. singlets who are writing about demonic possession or magic body-sharing very frequently hit the experience of being a system nail on the head

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I keep having cat dreams. The other night, I was mad because I didn't get to pet the kitty. Night after that I got to pet the kitty! Last night? Three different rooms filled with foster kittens.

I never have this kind of repetition in dreams. It's fascinating. There was one night mixed in where I dreamt of a service dog instead. Otherwise, cats are filling my brain.

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Degree of suffering is not a measure of validity.

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I think syscourse can be beautiful

I am not saying it's perfect or even that it's not harmful I just have thoughts.

As people generally start breaking up for summer whether that be students or teachers, or people who have a good amount of holiday there are more of us online and as there are more old topics get rehashed. Big ones like

Are x systems real? Can my littles do xyz? Is x kind of introject really ok?

And this can be completely frustrating to those who go no we spoke about this in February! This is old news. Nothing ever changes here and nothing ever will!

Yet as someone who enjoys the good dip into philosophy it's been nice to see people ask questions. New people explore old topics. Old people find a new way of saying something. After the dozenth time finding that their stance has shifted. I mean sysmedsaresexist's stance changed and that was nice. Functionally these conversations may look the same one person saying x isnt valid and was never valid snd someone else saying x is valid stop being an abelist piece of shit but it's actually beautiful the way you see people thinking.

From this thinking new people begin to think and question and grow as systems. People discovering what they can do. I mean we only realised due to syscourse including our littles in the discussion about consent may be productive. Letting them determine boundaries online and in the real world not around consent may also be productive.

In philosophy I find myself asking questions from centuries ago and finding centuries old ideology to see what I agree with. Modern interpretation and adaptation of fucking Kant (hate that guy) and what fucking Kant has to say about happiness and how in the morden world this centuries old belief holds any kind of meaning.

I love engaging with my comminity in the same 3 overdone discussions seeing if maybe this time I'll consider something in a new light. If someone phrases their stance in a way that sparks joy If this definition of trauma is one I can take and use to help the people around me understand what I go through.

I mean not always. A lot of people are trolls or went off the deep end and clearly need to take a much needed stop to this and they dont feel they can. Many of us get triggered and hurt and can't always tell when to stop.

For me discussing my systemhood is the only time I've ever felt at home. My system think I'm lacking in braincells and yeah, sometimes it does upset me but sometimes I see beauty in it.

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gecko dragon

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controversial opinion but ddlg/abdl/whatever shit you call it has no place in system spaces where there are actual littles/middles that can be put at Actual risk with the sexualization of age regression

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We are all queer separately, but when combined we become the ultimate queer.

I will say because of being a system we are very gender fluid in our presentation to the outside world. But, surprisingly not very outwardly bi.

Happy pride month! To kick things off, here's a question for all of you who are more-than-one in whatever way that means to you:

If your plurality and queerness are intertwined in any way, or you are queer because of your plurality, how does that work for you? Consider this an invitation to talk about all the complexities of who you are and how these two areas of your life connect to each other!

(We also see our queerness and plurality as intertwined, ftr – We just want to hear from others about their own experiences, lives, and identities!)

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Since I've seen more stuff about how different traumagenic CDD systems & endogenic systems are and highlighting differences between them lately:

Other traumagenic CDD systems, what's something you have in common with endogenic systems?

I'll share first

Personally, a few things are me is that I also prefer to see my systemhood as being individuals sharing a body & brain similar to what many non-traumagenic plurals see themselves (although not all do).

I also have spiritual beliefs that affect how I view my plurality & my system has alters who's formation was intentionally influenced, mainly in the way they formed, and who we consider created in a sense. So I particularly feel similarity to spiritual and created plurals even though both those parts of my plurality are still directly trauma based so I still consider my plurality purely traumagenic.

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If you focused on actual issues like how to stop fakeclaiming people who are just trying to live their lives that would be cool.

if syscringe was focused on ACTUAL FAKE SYSTEMS (read: endos and some but not all pro-endos) instead of random ass pwDID just living their lives it would be cool

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Ease of communication. Ease of communication and lack of amnesia barriers is a common theme for endogenic systems, and something I share and relate to a lot.

Since I've seen more stuff about how different traumagenic CDD systems & endogenic systems are and highlighting differences between them lately:

Other traumagenic CDD systems, what's something you have in common with endogenic systems?

I'll share first

Personally, a few things are me is that I also prefer to see my systemhood as being individuals sharing a body & brain similar to what many non-traumagenic plurals see themselves (although not all do).

I also have spiritual beliefs that affect how I view my plurality & my system has alters who's formation was intentionally influenced, mainly in the way they formed, and who we consider created in a sense. So I particularly feel similarity to spiritual and created plurals even though both those parts of my plurality are still directly trauma based so I still consider my plurality purely traumagenic.