Ask A Sysmember allows anyone, singlet or plural, to ask questions to other systems as a whole or specific people across different systems.
You can now do Ask Me Anything posts!
You introduce yourself and other people reply to you with their questions.
Same rules apply, just start your ask post with [AMA] or [Ask Me Anything]
DNI:
We don't have a big DNI policy. Just don't bring syscourse into this, don't fake claim, don't be an asshole. We block freely.
Rules!
0. Please practice internet safety, follow TOS
Don't give out personal information, beware of trolls, bots, scammers, etc. You curate your own internet experience.
And of course don't break the rules of the website.
1. Be polite and respectful
Don't be shy about asking, but please be nice when you submit an ask.
2. Keep it somewhat safe for work, please.
Please don't submit asks with graphic mentions of sex, hard drugs details, or violence/gore details.
Yes: "Dear Character Name Fictives from Video Game, can you talk about the battle?"
No: "Hey Character Name, tell me about the time you squashed that guy dead and there was all that blood and gore and he cried the whole time!"
3. Add Content Warnings, please.
Not everything will be 100% safe for work, so please think about if the content of your message might have something that needs a warning.
Yes: Content warning: Bugs.
Dear, Etymologist Name from TV Show. Do you still have a special interest in bugs? What's your favorite? Please feel free to infodump.
No: Dear Etymologist Name from TV Show, do you like bugs? I know in the show you had Creepy Crawly Bugs! My favorite is The Big Spider!
4. Please specify who you're trying to reach.
If you're trying to find someone specific please put that.
Yes:
To Fictive Name from Book by Book Author.
Dear Factives of Celebrity from Most Well Known Platform [movie they did, band they're from, their TikTok channel, etc]
No:
Dear Random Name with no context.
5. Don't look for specific systems.
This isn't the Lost Connections section of the newspaper. Please don't use this as a platform to look for a specific system.
That is private information without the consent of the other party.
Asks that are seeking to find System Name will be deleted immediately and the asker will be blocked.
6. Not just Fictives and Factives.
You can ask plurals in general questions too. Just be specific if you're trying to talk to a specific fictive or factive.
Example: Dear systems with a space theme, what is your favorite outer space movie?
Example 2: Dear all plural folks, do you have different favorite colors in your system?
7. This is not a source call blog
You'll probably see some folks from your source, but this blog should not be used to find them.
8. Don't Private Message without permission
This is intended to be a public space, for open conversation. This is not a place to find people to DM.
9. Don't argue in RBs or Comments.
Again, this is a place for discussion. If you start fighting you will be blocked.
Also, please don't respond to bots or anyone without a profile picture, or a picture of a random super model. It just makes the bot problem worse.
10. Use the full source name.
Please please please use the full source name. This makes it easier to organize the blog for others to find.
Yes: Dear Fictives from The Alphabet Friends.
No: Dear Fictives from ABCF
Going forward asks without the full source name will be deleted. We do not have the spoons to keep googling and guess what the heck you guys mean when you give us a bunch of letters.
11. NO ADVICE PLEASE
Please do not ask for advice. This is meant to be largely light hearted, to get to know other systems/plurals, Fictives, factives, etc.
To any prehistoric (dinosaur, Neanderthal, etc.) headmates, how do you feel about the modern world? Are you curious about the world’s history and progression? Are you afraid of it?
hhmmmhnhbm. can someone else who gets phantom limbs please explain exactly how they get it? like do you guys COMPLETELY feel them all the time? I’m kinda new to this but whenever walking around I keep having the sensation of my tail behind me but. more mentally than actually feeling it? it’s like I know it’s there but I can’t completely feel it. then usually when sitting it’s just. gone. (to be fair, if I had my tail while sitting it would be crushed and very uncomfortable… that thing is like my whole physical body weight/length.)
Hey there! Nonhuman phantom limbs are different for everyone - my limbs aren't the same as yours! - but I can say that your experience is very common. It's normal to have phantom limbs that waver in intensity and disappear on you. Having them 24/7 or feeling them as strongly as a solid body part are in no way required. You feel the concept of a tail sometimes? Congrats, that's still a phantom tail!
As someone who doesn't get phantom limbs by default, but can choose to conjure them up - think of phantom shifts like your mind's best guess of where your body parts are.
Your tail isn't physically attached to your spine, not in the way that your legs are attached to your hips, so your brain doesn't have the same amount of practice with knowing where it is. It's had many years of knowing exactly where your legs are in space from seeing, touching and moving with them - it's had far less time to figure out where your tail is, and knowing exactly where it is gets harder when you can't directly see, touch, or move with it!
If you want to make it feel more present, that is a skill you can improve! In my experience, it's a lot like a body scan meditation - you're bringing your attention to a part of your body and increasing your awareness of it.
I can't physically sense my wings to give my mind an anchor, so I practice picturing them attached to me in my mind's eye, in as much detail and as many senses as I want. I focus on how my feathers may look as they glide over each other, how they'd feel brushing up against my skin, the weight of them, the sense of where my wings are in space in relation to the rest of my body, the soft sound of my feathers ruffling, my own familiar scent. Focusing on it can help my brain feel its presence easier, and the practicing builds on itself over time.
Seconding what raptorish said! What you're describing is a very typical phantom limb experience, the sensations are generally felt more in someone's mind since they aren't coming from a physical body part, and limbs sort of disappearing when they're in conflict with an object is common :)
As someone who has phantom limbs 24/7– my ears, tail, and wings are part of my body, but in the same way I'm not always consciously aware of my physical limbs I'm not always consciously aware of my phantom ones, either, and they fluctuate in intensity (that is, in how "real" they feel). Sometimes I just have a faint suggestion of movement when my ears swivel or my tail swishes, and sometimes they might as well be physically present because they have weight and I can feel everything they're touching (which can get uncomfortable in chairs and stuff). Usually it's somewhere in between leaning toward the latter, but that's just me and it's different for every person. No matter how subtle or intense it is or where/how you feel it, if you feel the presence of body parts that aren't physically there it "counts" as a phantom body part!
oportunity to talk about phantom limbs? don't mind if I do! we don't really feel our phantom limbs all the time per se, but for us our phantom limbs depend on the kintype. being polykin, we have our variety of phantom limbs depending on species: cat ears, fluffy tail, paws and claws, magpie wings, and sometimes teeth as phantom limbs because I'm catkin; muzzle, ears, paws and tail phantom limbs because I'm dogkin, etc. for my hearttypes and archetrope's types, I don't normally feel phantom limbs. all of these limbs we feel for various reasons, usually triggers such as seeing or hearing a cat, or a dog, or a magpie. we're minding our own business and poof! we suddenly have ears! or a tail! we don't feel those all the time, they get triggered in.
in the case of my watcher identity, it's pretty interesting. because I'm a physical nonhuman, I have the body of a watcher and I can feel my wings all the time, outside or inside of my body, attached to my back all the time and either trupped under my skin or letting them out through... I'm gonna say transformation. I don't really have a world for it, they just phase through my skin and "go outside". I also get sometimes shifts of pointy ears, little wings over my ears and feathers behind them. tho these are not permanent and rare, they are part of my watcher body. sometimes I get phantom talons in my feet and claws in my hands, sometimes some sort of enderman tail. I'm debating if this limb is part of my watcher biology or just a funky cameo shift that got stuck in this body.
for all non-canon fictives/introjects, what's the experience like for you? do you have any exomemories? is it weird seeing you/things you remember absent from your source material?
from a fully non-canon fictive who wants to hear from others like them!! :)
This question is for non-canon Fictives/introjects, regarding exomemories.
I'm Gri from @starlight-chickens. I am a source-deviant Grian fictive introject, although I am basically an introject of just character Grian's appearance, no source memories nor specific universe. Grian (the character and his player) most notably appears in the Life Series and Hermitcraft, which are Minecraft survival multiplayer series found on YouTube.
Now the catch : I am technically an app installed on a USB stick, which can project a hologram of me if I have the proper technology for it. I can also be plugged into various devices, and pilot things via wireless connections in headspace.
that was a bit long. I'll be happy to answer to any questions on this post. Kudos for reading. :]
This is an AMA from a Grian Fictive.
Ask them anything.
We have a hologram based system member too. Do you consider yourself as a sort of virtual ghost? /Gen nfta
to any factives formed based off of band members, do you consider your band your source? Or would you consider irl in general as your source? (For example, I would consider the Strokes as my source instead of irl since we don’t know me personally and would feel uncomfortable saying “oh yeah his source is real life !!”)
Very early for us, hopefully this is coherent 🙂↕️
-Nick
This question is for band related introjects, regarding source.
Dee: Yeah. I'm a Gerard Way factive. I don't feel like I'm literally him. But maybe somewhere in a past life I was a version in an alternate universe. Cause I can't assume anything about his real life. Which is why I keep my original name that I was introjected with, which is Danny.
Oooo, we can do AMAs now?? Hell yea!! Sign me up, and go ahead and ask us anything >:3
Oh and here's some general info:
We're mediple (median + multiple), audhd, have our own weird groups that kinda act like sidesystems mixed with siasystems (I think that's the term for system within a system?) but aren't, collectively extremely queer, and uhhh well you can learn more from our blog, lol (don't want this to be too long)
This is an AMA from Doodle-Mations, a mediple system.
Ask them anything.
We call system within system a subsystem but we aren't sure if any of us are side systems or not.
Do you all have the same taste in music? Or different tastes among different members?
this has been bugging us for a while and we just got the courage to ask
tw for very brief bug mention
your pinned post says etymologist under rule 3 while talking about bugs. an etymologist studies languages and their histories. an entomologist studies bugs. if you would be able to change it please do thank you and apologies
Hahahaha, omg that's so funny /gen
It's literally this one scene in Phineas and Ferb lmao
The issue has been corrected, and allowed us to notice we messed up the rule numbers too
AMA!!! I'M GEF! As in, Gef the talkingh mongoose! Dont know eho i am?? Ask !!
This is an AMA from Gef the Talking Mongoose. Ask them anything.
Omg omg omg Gef the Talking Mongoose omgokgomsjsjsjsishshwh. :D it's the eighth wonder of the world! Are you introjects from the song or the folklore or a literal spirit possession or or or?
Sorry. We uh.... we're big fans. We grew up with the tale and we believe Voirrey Irving and her family.
OKAY I wanna try an AMA. Off-anon if thats allowed so people can also send asks to my blog instead of just the post (if thats not allowed then disregard that part lol my bad).
AMA: "me" being the many Poppy Playtime (game) fictives/introjects we have !!
This is an AMA for a system that has many Poppy's Playtime fictives!
Ask them anything.
We don't know much about Poppy's Playtime except that it's similar to FNAF. Do you have a headspace that's for Poppy's Playtime universe?
I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experiences with a headmate/alter becoming an introject? My existence far predates our exposure to this source media, but I am finding myself blurring with the character.
This ask is for fictives/introjects/factives of all sources whose existence predates your projection onto the character. How did that process feel? How did you know when you really crossed the line into becoming that character internally?
Thank you,
- 🔒 Jonah
This question is for system members who started out original, but gained fictive/factive source later.
Dee: Yeah I started out original and then later realized I'm a factive of Gerard Way. I kept my original memories and am now also gaining memories of being in a band too. It's a bit weird to juggle two different memories, but we see them as past lives.
hey ummm ok can source memories change. pls im so confused im a new-ish system
This question is for anyone whose source memories change.
Yes. For some people that's normal. You might get new information, or your relationship with your source changes. You might get new source "ingredients."
We like to think of it as past lives and timelines and AUs that are connected to us. Sometimes those past lives stop being relevant, temporarily or permanently. Sometimes we have two or more source memories.
It can get really complicated. What matters is that you're uniquely you, and your experiences are valid.
