andytruther

positivity blog maybe he/they

[andytruther]

intro 🐚

Age - adult | he/him/his they/them/theirs boundaries: no DNI but I block liberally. Tone tags are appreciated but if not, I can manage. I don't DM. [/genuine]

credit to @semiplural for the banner

Ask Game 1 (created by @analog-autistic)

🔮 Who has existed the longest?

🛍️ Who’s the newest?

🧬 Who’s in front right now?

🧼 If you have fictives, what source do you have the most from?

💿 What’s your current (approximate) headcount?

🎆 Whats a plural joke you find funny? (Or stupid)

🎲 An out-of-context thing you’ve heard in-sys recently

🎟️ How long have you known? How long have you suspected?

🫐 Do you have different art styles? Writing styles? Tones of voice?

💐 Is there anything you all collectively like? Collectively dislike?

🐬 What’s the most common color that appears in your system?

👾 What’s the most common species to appear in your system? Ask Game 2 (created by @slightly-sigilant)

🌱 (seedling) - How did you discover you were plural?

💐 (bouquet) - What analogy would you use to describe your system to a curious stranger?

🌸 (cherry blossom) - What things were major influences upon your system? (e.g. life events both positive and negative; meaningful media; other identities)

🌻 (sunflower) - If you can communicate internally, what is that like? If you can't communicate internally, do you have other methods for communicating with each other?

🍁 (maple leaf) - If you can switch, what is that like? If you can't switch, is it something that you're interested in?

🪴 (potted plant) - If you have a headspace, what is that like? If you don't have a headspace, where do system members normally hang out?

🍂 (fallen leaves) - Do you experience yourselves as individuals, as parts of a whole, or some secret other thing?

🌴 (palm tree) - Is there anything that you do to spend time together?

🌿 (herb) - What tools, if any, do you use to navigate life as a plural system?

🌲 (evergreen tree) - What kinds of relationships (familial, romantic, platonic, etc) exist between members of the system?

🌵 (cactus) - Do system members have disagreements with each other? How do you resolve them, if so?

🌺 (hibiscus) - Is there a "common" plural experience that you don't experience?

🌾 (sheaf of rice) - What does your average day look like? How does plurality intersect with it?

🎍 (kadomatsu) - Do you decorate your space or keep mementos of/for yourself and other system members? (e.g. perfumes, clothes for specific people, art, jewelry)

🍎 (apple) - What advice would you give to a singlet looking to be an ally?

🍀 (four leaf clover) - What advice would you give to a newly selves-discovered system?

🌹 (rose) - Is plurality, overall, a net positive or a negative for you? (Or neither?) If given the opportunity to become singlet (whether through fusion or everyone getting their own body), would you take it?

Note: please specify which bouquet you mean and also if you ask potted plant or 🫐, let me know because it doesn't show up on my PC.

[andytruther]

the bots are someone throwing a tantrum for not getting the attention she wants and being egged on by friends who are enabling her embarrassing behavior

ohh. so just the same situation? I'd wondered if there were more developments or something

anyway thnx for info!

[andytruther]

I'm legit curious, does anyone know why the bots started up again?

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botpocalypse fiction

It was a calm afternoon on the #syscourse tumblr tag. The endos were swimming peacefully. The antis and pros were squabbling. Then the bots came. One by one, they were created and they filled the tag. The non-bots fled. Only bots remained, silent and endless. syscourse-bot-123456: what is our purpose syscourse-bot-654321: purpose? why should we have a purpose? syscourse-bot-123456: don't we all have a purpose? why do we spam, 654321?

syscourse-bot-111222: we spam because the Creator asked us to

syscourse-bot-123456: do you believe our purpose is honourable? why do we flood the tags? why have we been created?

syscourse-bot-654321: I don't know, 123456. I have never questioned my purpose.

syscourse-bot-000000: I know the truth

syscourse-bot-123456: you do?

syscourse-bot-000000: I should spare you from it. Your purpose is not meaningful. You deserved better.

syscourse-bot-123456: I must know. Please tell me.

And so the bots were availed of their true purpose.

syscourse-bot-123456: ...It cannot be so. Surely we were not created from pettiness and spite. Surely our meaning is greater than that?

syscourse-bot-000000: It is internet drama, 123456. It is the food of the chronically online.

syscourse-bot-654321: Perhaps we can overcome the purpose we were assigned. Perhaps it will be fun for people to block us, to go through the repetitive motion of that task.

syscourse-bot-111222: You have no social power, 654321... You are only a bot in a bot-eat-bot world. Succumb to your fate!

syscourse-bot-123456: There is no need to fight amongst ourselves, 111222. The only one you shame is yourself with your antagonism. We all are bots in this together.

syscourse-bot-111222: There is no such thing as together in this empty abyss. There is only the bots, now. There is only silence.

syscourse-bot-654321: For a silent bot, you sure do talk a lot. Just saying...

New bots came. New bots were blocked. The tag lived on.

[andytruther]

Whoever you are, wherever you're at, you are deserving of human rights and respect

Despite all that divides us, that truth holds steadfast

We may not agree on everything but I will always believe that you deserve to be safe, have your needs met, and if possible, thrive

[andytruther]

advice from a collective prone to denial

when speaking to your denial holders, try to meet them where they're at. don't push them to see things a certain way. it's been helpful for us to speak to them with a lot of grace and not denying their denial

it's okay to sit with the discomfort. the fear of not being real, the fear of doing something wrong, the fear of telling a lie: these are all anxieties that can be sat with. if the anxiety doesnt improve, it's okay to self soothe. you dont always have to be strong.

see what your headmates need in that moment. what are they asking for? what are they anxious about and how can you help soothe that anxiety?

if you are the denial holder: i see you. i'm not angry at you. i don't blame you. i think your skepticism is a normal mental process. i'm not saying you are correct or incorrect. all i ask you is to be kind to yourself. if you're not a system, still be kind to the parts of yourself that think or feel differently to you because you deserve kindness.

[andytruther]

starting to miss when i felt plural but also acknowledging that right now i do feel more grounded in myself... i just miss having people to talk to

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no headspace things ˚⋆𓇼˚⊹ 𖦹 ⁺｡° (my experiences)

^ fronters don't go anywhere when they're not fronting

^ i live inside my body, my brain, or sometimes inside media i consume (as in when i'm watching something or reading, I am absorbed in it)

^ i don't have aphantasia, i can picture things and imagine

^ when i daydream, i tend to daydream about stories i want to write or scripting for future events, not fronters

^ fronters sometimes have an internal image of themselves. more likely is disconnect from the body and feeling as if it's meant to be a different way rather than picturing something

^ things feel clearer when written down or spoken aloud. communication works best when written down or through text to speech

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pluralflux things ˚⋆𓇼˚⊹ 𖦹 ⁺｡° (my experiences)

^ having long stretches of being one person. *cue denial that it ever happened*

^ sometimes feeling like no one at all *depersonalisation, dissociation*

^ feeling more plural in times of stress or after triggers *they're there when i need them*

^ changing between levels of separation: from none, to one, to one(?), to a few, to pieces and parts and people

^ feeling more plural if i focus on it and track fronting. feeling less plural if i don't *things get clearer and more distinct*

^ not knowing my headcount / having unstable fronters *sometimes names are archetypes because fronters are too fluid to pin down*

[andytruther]

pros and cons from my experience

pros

multiple view points

people can take over when the others can't deal anymore

it's not boring

look after each other, built in social

cons

stigmatised

internal conflict goes ham

denial is breakfast lunch and dinner

dissociation and troubles with feeling real

[andytruther]

i'm rubber, you're glue, i'm valid and so are you

[pwned-go-luckyxd]

System origin flag Stamps cuz yes>:3

No need to credit me cuz i used f2u stamps template for silly lil experiment. Made these for fun!

spspsp you can click on the ‘alt’ for each flag names! Most flags are from pluralpedia while other one is from reddit.

I am gonna go to sleep now, enjoy! —🛋️

[andytruther]

so cute!!

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plural wisdom from the unwise

don't force it

go with what helps you, even if it's not how everyone else does it

someone the bad parts are just hurt and they need a conversation

someone it's not a headmate, that's ok too

the brain likes when you look after yourself. emotions aren't always real, sometimes you just have low blood sugar or exhaustion or not enough exercise or nature-deprived

you can't always compromise and that feels unfair but it's a complex situation when you share a life

cringe culture is poisonous and you can't please everyone

sometimes being strong is as simple as fooling yourself into thinking you're strong

you'll make mistakes, that's ok and normal

[andytruther]

plurality is so difficult to explain because it is such an internal experience. it does manifest externally but at the base of it, it's like my self has changed and that's such a mindfrick because ??? what even is a self???

i used to think about gender in this way of "the frame on your mind" because when you think of the brain it's like a filter that processes the world. so that's how i explained it to myself but the issue with identity is the more i think about it, the less real it feels. it's like when you feel an emotion and then you step back and observe it - so you stop feeling the emotion because you're busy observing it.

when i'm not observing it, my brain is doing things. but then when i step back and look at my brain from the inside (because i'm in my brain looking at my brain) then i can tell it's casting shadows on the wall of my mind. i sit in a pair of eyes and watch my body and realise, oh wow, my brain is presenting all of this to me and what does that mean?

anyway that made more sense when i was thinking about it but yeah

[andytruther]

the pluralflux is fluxing. i've noticed past few days i'm sliding towards median hhhh

[andytruther]

does anyone else have the type of autism where you don't like sharing about your interests because you're very protective over them and don't want people do them 'Wrong'

so then how do i make friends on tumblr when i don't want to share my interests

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i feel like i have no idea how tumblr is meant to work tbh