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Some lighter, more positive System stuff, if you saw our last post. We would love to get more support for this cool mystery System!
My Headmate and I made fanart/propaganda for Contestant 44, the System with white hair and trauma! Above is a little sketch of their body/default look.
Then we drew how some of their headmates might dress- the first two are based on our System!
Vote for 44, they have so much potential!!
you all heard them! contestant 44 needs your support!
Petition: Upholding Plural Rights and Plural Voices
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) recently had a panel conference on “DID and social media,” featuring harmful and offensive content denouncing self-diagnosis and spreading the narrative that most systems online are faking it for the attention. In this conference, they showed footage of several Systems, without their consent, in order to publicly shame them and use them as examples of the “Imitative DID” that they claimed was rampant online. As a non-disordered System, we stand with those with DID and against those who would spread harmful claims that a majority of Plurals are lying about their Plurality for online clout.
This petition was created by The Plural Association, an organization created by and for Plurals, including those with professionally diagnosed DID.
If you wish to donate, donate to The Plural Association. DO NOT DONATE TO CHANGE.ORG! THEY DO NOT PUT YOUR MONEY TOWARDS THE PETITION YOU SIGNED!!!
Okay wait I just had an epiphany about my role here. Bear with me.
Was thinking about how many of us are demons, demonic, demon related and how funny it was that I’m vibing here amidst all these demons when I’m an exorcist in source.
Then I thought about my demon bf from the canon divergent memories and it clicked like. My best friend in system is a demon and I just vibe with these guys that be struggling with humanity and feeling lovable and I think that’s my role here.
I’m the demon bitches emotional support dog. Lmfao.
if i didnt have headmates then who would remind me i can take paracetamol to fix the headaches caused by my headmates?
We're plural.
Now I finally have courage do say it... we are the Midnight Generals!
Now I'm going to introduce each one of us:
Nowah: It's me, my color is purple and I don't have so much to say about myself...
雨(Ame): Yeah... His name is a kanji (it means "rain" in japanese). He's a bit stressed and we all agree that he's a parasite. His color is dark blue and he's not a bad person, but is very common he talk being very dry... He's VERY tall.
Apollo: The newest one, he looks like a child but he's not that inocent. We think that he's a kind of sobrenatural creature but we're not sure, but he's very silly! His color is red.
Everyone have a blog, here is 雨 and Apollo's blogs. We use no color In our own blogs, but when we'll use the color, for example, if Apollo post in 雨's blog.
Someday I will draw everyone to show what we look like.
That's it... I hope we can be accepted...
Hii I’ve recently discovered that we’re a system and was wondering what your favorite thing the person you like or your friend you mentioned has done for you!! I’m kind of scared to tell our friends but your blog gives us hope
hey! welcome to the community! one of the best things one of our friends have done to accommodate us is by doing their own research themselves! i am absolutely blessed to have them, haha. they have also made sure to respect our boundaries, including not interacting with particular alters such as littles due to our own hesitance, and other forms of assistance!
if you have supportive friends, it’s definitely great to tell them about it! we were apprehensive at first as well, but they ended up being one of our most supportive people. :) something i recommend is allowing them to ask questions and explaining the basics! and if they’ve already heard of systems before, especially from ‘cringe’ posters, make sure to re-educate them and point them to more informational places or sites to correct any misinformation.
of course, they won’t understand, at least at first, but the important thing is they are willing to learn and try and understand, even if they cannot at first.
figuring out that the trauma holders weren’t lying to you when you discover physical evidence of the trauma occurring……… like bitch i thought you were saying that shit for shits and giggles?
auhhh your blog is so pretty. basic template, either dealers choice headmade or a dsmp fictive of your choosing if that's okay!!
cutter+alex, he/him
YEAHH thank you!! i will do my best to do the dsmp fictive, but ive never actually watched it, so it may be a little off LOL i hope its okay though!! i read a wiki page for it LMAOO feel free to take what fits and leave what doesnt :) also SORRYY if any of this doesnt fully fit! i had a hard time thinking of some stuff...
name: ranboo, boo, ran, ender, allium / allie, quill, rainbow, raine, riley, vinyl, clue, mystery, seeker, sage, asher, lucas, eugene, cedar, charlie, olive / oliver / oli, crypt, grim
pronouns: end/ender, end/ends, love/loves, red/reds, green/greens, heart/hearts, kind/kinds, trance/trances, walk/walks, peace/peaceful or peace/peaces, dual/duality, purple/purples, pur/purple, boo/boos, book/books, page/pages, particle/particles, eye/eyes, glow/glows, tape/tapes
age: ageless, appears as young adult
role: protector, emotional regulator, insomnia holder, dissociation holder, anxiety holder, conflict resolver, caretaker
genders: genderfluid, nonbinary, enderwalkic, cryptidcatgender, liminalic, vimemorin, reidrovex, lostpoeic, panicgender, endposgender, lossgender, endrian
orientation: asexual panromantic
species: half enderman, enderwalker, cryptid
personality overview: loving / caring towards friends, can be assertive when needed and usually in the defense of close people, likes to talk things out whenever possible and resolve conflict, protective of anyone considered close, forgiving, honest, wants to help others, forgetful at times, i could also see this alter taking up poetry / writing as a hobby :)
notable traits: insomniac, hard time making eye contact, dislikes being in water, verbal stims when stressed, likes to fidget with random objects and potentially collect things, loves animals... maybe has innerworld pet?
general aesthetic: softer, black and white, glitchcore maybe? or darker cottagecore / dark nature
add ons: ranboo introject
I HOPE ITS OKAY! sorry it took a bit, i was doing like actual research LMAOO
in addition to the last post (different anon here) claiming they're "invading THEIR spaces" is so funny to me.... no bb you saw a similarity within stereotypical tiktok DID and the concept of tulpamancy and the only thing related in these two posts is that they share the plural tag...
YEAH LOL "non-traumagenics are claiming to have DID!!! DID is caused by trauma!!!" no actually they just... claim to be multiple! they dont claim DID in like 99% of cases, the only times ive seen it is for mixed origin sys
anti-endos worshipping the DSM and citing it as proof that plurality has to be caused by trauma / disordered: Rahhhh you're a liar because this book only used in america has it!!!!!
the helpful ICD, which apparently recognised non-disordered plurality in one of the iterations (not sure which one) and used across the entire world:
SORRY i am just now seeing this but YEAH i actually think i know what ur talking about. im pretty sure there is an ICD document / article about dissociation that mentions non-traumagenic plurality somewheree in it? but dont quote me on this because i saw it like... last year LOL
also the DSM never even says that plurality has to be disordered either? it just says that DID/OSDD-1 are not caused by spiritual or cultural practices, which honestly if anything validates non-disordered plurality? because like that means it acknowledges that identity alterations CAN be caused by things other than DID/OSDD-1
"i love attention so much i might as well be an NPD symptom holder!! ..........wait a minute"
me when co-con alter has the NPD awakening
made a meme for anyone else out there who gets stuck in the "it wasnt that bad!" or "maybe im not traumatized!" loops because trauma denial sucks ass!!! you all are valid!!!
spirituality as a system is so funny because now i have to worry about introjecting a random deity. like what do you mean i can just be minding my business and now loki is in mybrain like PLEASEEE
gonna get a bit syscourse-y here, but... recently noticed kind of a weird hypocrisy in anti-endo arguments and wanted to point it out to see if others agree
for extra context, i have DID and im pro-endo id say?? my mindset is basically just "i dont get it personally, but live ur life dude(s), its not my business and im not gonna tell u what u are / arent" because like. i find it super hard to believe that DID and OSDD-1 are the ONLY possible causes for systems LOL... also i will be using the terms endo / endogenic as umbrella terms for all plurality outside of DID / OSDD-1 throughout this post
ANYWAYS THOUGHH... most harshly anti-endo spaces (or at least those that are pro-recovery) really emphasise that DID and OSDD-1 are more than just "alter disorders", which i absolutely agree with! DID and OSDD-1 are both complex dissociative disorders that include identity alteration (alters) as a SYMPTOM, but the disorders both fundamentally involve dissociation and impairment in daily life to some extent
BUT... then they are also so quick to say that endos MUST have DID / OSDD-1 if they have alters... but what about all the other symptoms? most endos i have met do not experience dissociation or other DID / OSDD-1 symptoms. claiming someone MUST have DID / OSDD-1 because they have alters would kind of be reducing the disorders down to just "alter disorders", right?
plus, it seems to be entirely ignoring the fact that you can have a symptom of a disorder without having the disorder / being disordered... lets use ADHD as an example here since its the first thing to come to mind LOL, someone can have a short attention span or be distracted easily without inherently having ADHD. it would depend on the presence of other symptoms as well as degree of life impairment. this logic also applies to any other disorder ever... so why dont we apply the same logic to DID / OSDD-1?
most endos i see dont claim DID / OSDD-1, and the ones that do are generally mixed origins. if we apply the logic that symptom ≠ disorder and that DID / OSDD-1 are more than just "alter disorders", why would someone not be able to have alters without a dissociative disorder?
IDK i hope this makes sense. feel free to reblog with any comments or anything i want to see others opinionz
Talking to one of our dogs while we’re having a bath triggered some memories of pre-system discovery things that make so much more sense now.
Let me explain.
Valor very much enjoys stealing my towel while I’m bathing. He’ll dig around in it to make himself a little nest and then nap in the towel while I bathe.
So today I’m getting ready for a bath and I say “Oh boy, Valor! It’s time for your Favorite Thing!” referring to stealing my towel. But I know this is not actually his Favorite Thing. It is probably not even in his Top 5 Favorite Things. But because it’s something he definitely enjoys, I call it his Favorite Thing.
But that’s not what “favorite” means. A favorite implies a single thing that is liked more than all other things. People have favorite colors and movies and books and meals. And this struck me today. Examining my use of the word, I realized that I have always treated “favorite” in this way - as a way to describe something I “really really like” not necessarily more than all others. I’ve always had “multiple favorites” in just about every area of life. And I’ve always just written it off as an inability to be decisive or a quirk. Other people, at their worst, have described it as me being weak-willed, wishy-washy, or conviction-less.
But it’s none of those things.
It’s the fact that I’m plural. Of COURSE we’ve had multiple favorite movies for as long as we can remember. “The Care Bears Movie” has always been Madison’s favorite movie. That didn’t make Howl’s Moving Castle any less Aina’s favorite movie. Nor did Leigh developing an obsession with Frozen 2 make Aina’s favorite movie and less her favorite movie. But before we knew we were plural, it seemed and felt like we had multiple favorite movies. Or multiple favorite songs. Etc.
Now I’ve got thirty years of using “favorite” inaccurately to undo in myself. 🤣
So after so many times of singing "Warrior of the Mind" and Athena going "I wish Ody (in our partner's sys) would high-five me." He did it and she high-five him so strongly she knocked a sticker off the top of our car (their just pinned to the ceiling). Like she was really fucking excited because her son actually high-fived her... She tried playing it off as the cool girl after that excitement
Being a sys is realizing you watched Young Sheldon for the Coopers cuz you have Sheldon Cooper being a silly little guy in your head
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Can't sleep so I decided imma work on pronouns.cc (or whatever) stuff
So we were looking at dna2023's art of Casita and Pedro. You know like one does. And suddenly deep in headspace something tugged to use one as a pfp...
Did we really just get a fucking house as a headmate??? Because of Mirabel??? Because headspace wasn't fun enough??? Wtf???
-bj
Man Psych needs to have a comeback. I want to go buy stuff off me and my husband. Also criminal minds so I can get stuff of my boyfriend... Though that's more active
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(he's immediately running to Etsy now -Rob)
Sitting here, wearing down from tonight, out Shaun the Sheep on... And that little fucking sheep pulls up on a bike, pointing at us... Help????
Anyways now we're reading Shaun/Bitzer fics lmao
Ah man getting bitched at by Lance cuz we're so harmfully selfless but feel so toxicity Selfish.
Let us explain.
It's a recurring pattern. Anyone wants something (say a movie or show) we watch that, hint we wanna watch something new or we get in the habit of seeing reels of a show/movie and our brain goes "yes watch that" but we all still win in that stupid "No, THEY want to watch [said other show]"
Happened today with music too. Think lance took control of Peter Parker to make Stark listen to HIS playlist even though we had one or teo more STAR KID musicals his son wanted to hear...
We don't know how to get out of this stupid loop. We feel selfish when we have a bad mental day/sick day/pain day or Tony has a *horrible* narcoleptic day (trippy how that effects the body honestly. Like WTF) see cuz we could be doing so much right?
Us and BM have made a sticker chart and reach enough you can get something you want... We... Want Moriah Elizabeth stuff but... It... Feels too expensive... And yeah ik BM will see this, tell us to get it, we're going to feel like always cuz why not just tell them or something... The problem is we have a hard time telling anyone what... WE want... We're not... Well... We feel like we're not... For US you know?
It's like Lance is the only one physically upset about it...
I'm not going to lie we saw our grandma is selling dolls (she makes the clothes by hand... Like... BEAUTIFUL clothes...... Like the ones below)
Silly... We physically are the only grandkid who actually cares and ADORES them... She stops giving them for Christmas at 18.. (body is 21 now) like we physically cried when we turned 18 cuz we knew it was the last doll... We don't talk to them, or our dad, or mom, or her mom (all in all we don't REALLY talk to our family, idk why we just don't) so we feel selfish for wanting one for that reason but... We love these dolls... Have them on display when we're not moving place to place... Like... Tall big glass containers!!! Really cherish them!!! And it threw out fucking vibe off... Wanted Tony's music to try and cheer up but we went "Nah. Peter is listening to the musical" for an hour...
See what I mean by harmfully selfless??? Watch what we want when people are asleep, press home when they wake up so they can watch what they want. Think we have a Barry Allen, HR (The Flash), Lucifer and someone else but we don't watch those damn shows cuz who tf would wanna watch those??? Ngl Shawn was nervous to watch his source... (Turns out Psych is uh... More loveable than I thought... Considering I'm a dumbass -🍍)
It's... Irritating...
We feel like assholes for being fucking human... Ngl we were hoping Tony Stark would be selfish enough but turns out we were dead fucking wrong...
We've kind of lost ourselves too... You know? We're used to certain foods now we don't even remember what we like (and we're adding this here because it ties in to that ↑ -Lance) I know frozen burritos and pot pies but... Those... Aren't... Favorites here lmao.
We forgot shows we like even with damn alters OF those shows. Movies? Uh... I think Pixels? Wonka? Iron Man? Right... Uh... Idk.
And yeah we know this is related to trauma and whatnot or whatever but fuck can we just... Idk... Idfk...
Anyone else get this way or are we just pathetic?
Having silly people in your head yet being lonely sucks. It's literally
Pilot [our Front]: Dude I'm lonely
Co-Pilot: I'm here dude
Pilot: yeah but I know everything about you
Co-Pilot: no you didn't :D
Pilot: ...
Co-Pilot: ...
Co-Pilot: ... You're right... You know all I'll let you know... Let's go bug people/friends online
-Grouch
Being a system is fun and all until someone/thing reminds you why you're a system in the first place.
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We always get reduced to our source except with our partner... Even our friends do it and it's really upsetting...
Sy doesn't like talking because he's reduced to his source but he's nothing line his source... Steve too... Billy was scared Dustin (our friend's) would hate him because their fictive are *very* sourcependent...
-c
Fictives and fictionkind deserve to be treated like normal people.
Fictives and fictionkind deserve understanding.
Fictives and fictionkind deserve to not just be reduced to their source if they don't want to.
Fictives and fictionkind deserve to have their feelings taken seriously.
Okay start this with a song I suppose, shall we-
We're The Wild West System.
Please be patient with us. We kind of discovered we're a system mid 2024 shortly before meeting our partner sys. We're mostly made up of fictives. (If you want to know sources or the difference. Ask and they may tell you!)
Collective name: Eddie
System nicknames: West/Crow
Collective Pronouns: He/They
Collective Orient: Bi
Body Age: 21
Disorders: ADHD, PTSD
Suspected Disorders: OCD...
Hobbies: reading, writing, painting
Hyperfixes: ALWAYS changing
Body/Hosts: Writer, M and Crowly, BJ, Shawn Spencer
Co-Hosts: Peter Parker, Steve Harrington, Wade Wilson, Tony Stark,
We'll post using our SP sign offs and try to tag who posted if not uh... Good luck out there with our posts!
We don't know terms really yet so all your hoodoo voodoo terms makes us
Trying to figure out if a couple guys I know of are headmates or if they’re just OCs. Like yeah, they come with their own Vibes, but is that really enough to go off of? I think one fronted earlier but only for like ten seconds so who knows really?? And the other is just a Feeling I’ve had off and on since I was a kid and I put the feeling into an OC and recently I found a journal entry where I(?) was calling myself by his name… but I don’t know… halp….
Charlie: "what if we're not real and just a part of the imagination"
James: *the loudest slap imaginable* "you're not even fronting or a host how the fuck-"
Takki prefers Tylluan now BUT they still tolerate Takkeal 👍
AND Juno's sign off (which we totally remember to use and not just the tags PFTT) has changed from -🦎🪶 to -🦦🍃