07/08/26
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READ THIS PLEASE. ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SYSTEMS IN GEN.
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Once again, I must rely on nobody. Once again, I must remind myself of the people.
God I can’t wait to be dead, or out of this nightmare dimension. Unlikely since it seems I’m responsible for all your lives. It all comes down to me…
Switching is the process of changing who controls your system's body, mind, or other central resources. A switch can be voluntary or involuntary, and controlling and managing switching is a learnable skill.
Switching isn't a universal plural experience, but when systems do switch, they might experience it in a variety of different ways. It doesn't always feel like "changing places"!
This chart can't cover all possible experiences of switching, but it does talk about some of the more common switching experiences that we've had.
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Some (but not all!) systems experience switching. Switching is when the system member in control of your body changes.
There are a lot of different ways that switching can be experienced. It doesn't always feel like "changing places"!
Many nicknamed examples of switching experiences are given:
The light switch, which is the stereotypical idea of switching. One person is immediately and cleanly replaced by another.
The becoming, which is more of a gradient or slider than changing places. One person slowly shifts until they become someone else.
The "two hours later"- sometimes switching can take a long time.
The "when did that happen? Apparently we switched?", where someone has been in control for an extended period of time but only realizes much later.
The possession ("mine now!"), where one system member shoves another out of control to take it for themselves.
The trigger, where a trauma trigger causes one system member to freak out. This prompts someone less affected by that trigger to switch in to handle it.
The vacuum filler, where one person ditches front and someone else is pulled forward to take their place.
"Pikachu, I choose you!", where one system member pulls someone else into control.
The revolving door ("Hello! Goodbye! Hello!"), where system members rapidly trade control of your body in quick succession. If you experience amnesia between system members, then this can be pretty disorienting.
The ensoupening- sometimes, you switch and it's not really clear who you are anymore.
The "what the fuck? What were you even doing???" where you suddenly find yourself in a very unexpected, disorienting, or bizarre situation that you weren't entirely aware was happening a few seconds ago- for example, finding yourself sitting at a desk while your headphones play incredibly chaotic music that you wouldn't pick personally.
At the bottom, the image is credited to semiplural.tumblr.com and na.beepbird.net/comics.html. The image is dated July 2026.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH! even when I'm not that much active-
@crimsonchili @arthurs-puppygirl @mxrmaid-poet @hariet436 @elidoesart @obeymetalesandikemen @welp-back-on-my-bs OTHERS BUT THEY WERE ALREADY TAGGED HEHE or I don't talk that much to them-
A lot of mine are already tagged but thank you @lostsnowflake3 @natimiles @my-om-blog @lonelymikoto @shepherd-of-pink-sheep @levisotakugf who weren’t on here already. Sorry if another one of your blogs was already tagged!
my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE
the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides
also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.