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@fireboltsystem
☄️🎪 Welcome to the Firebolt Circus System's Blog! 🎪☄️
You can call us Bolts or Firebolts (They/them). Bodily 25, Collectively aroace and genderfluid. We're pro-endo and traumaendo ourselves - we prefer anti-endos to not interact.
Interacts from @sonicaspeed123, but our art/personal blog is @jax-ass.
Stim blog: @fireboltstims
Plural Sexuality blog: @system-sexuality
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Non-comprehensive member list below! (Updated 3/25/26)
Hey we've got a question for the plural artists out there!
How Dose your system do art?
1 designated artist member who dose everything
division of tasks: Someone dose linart, someone colors, another shades ect
Idk, we have an idea and then I find it done lol
Everyone draws but they all have their own style so who knows what well get
Feel free to reblog for reach! We personally have been embracing the bottom option but we relised that noone remembers doing the line art and rn our current piece feels like a coloring page 😭
im going to make a poll about something im curious about but idk how much it’ll reach the targeted audience
if you’re plural, do you all experience a shared dream simultaneously or do you dream separately?
we dream together
we have separate dreams
not plural but curious (please rb for reach)
we always dream together so im not even sure if you could have separate dreams but i want to find out
do you have a frontspace?
yes, it's very detailed
yes, it's got a good amount of detail
yes, it's got a little detail
yes, but it's not detailed at all (example a void)
no
How its going
Got very excited about new glasses prescription and bought 4 pairs so we can have a fun selection available . Perhaps impulsively
You won't get selfies for privacy but you will get to see these Yay
Got very excited about new glasses prescription and bought 4 pairs so we can have a fun selection available . Perhaps impulsively
Shoutout to our dad who upon learning just how many tad/c introjects we have said something along the lines of "It's amazing that this show has been there for you like this" Everybody get this chill with fictive-heavy systems immediately.
Intentionality does not equal faking. Is an autistic person learning to unmask "faking autism" by forcing themself to act differently from usual? Is a trans person "faking their gender" by modifying their presentation to give themself gender euphoria, and not just naturally exuding it without any transition? Is putting therapeutic skills into practice to heal from trauma "fake thinking," because it takes effort to break from those patterns? Does any friction during any process indicate being on the wrong path?
Choosing is a vital part of accepting yourself. Choose yourself. You'll rarely just stumble into yourself. Do it on purpose.
I love seeing posts from long-dormant alters of ours still getting notes. You were here. Someone read what you had to say. Thank you for leaving your mark on our life. We remember you.
metadata is part of your message. your name, your avatar, all communicate things about you. if your message was sent by a different user it would often be interpreted differently.
this is even more true for plural systems, who, with tools like PluralKit (or even just emoji signifying), have to decide for each message who to indicate said a thing, or whether to indicate such information at all.
with an established rapport, a lot of meaning can be conveyed with the use of a proxy. something that would be rude out of one headmates mouth may seem friendly from another (see: calibration). but less positive associations can be built too. "oh god you're in front is everything ok?" is not necessarily a nice association to have with your existence (although perhaps useful for some).
tightly built rapports with other systems can convey a lot. "oh you immediately fronted when i talked about this fantasy, is that good for you~?". "you two are in front together a lot, do you like each other or something~?". there is space to build very intimate understandings of a system's inner workings.
but this creates a dilemma with more distant relationships. if someone doesn't know your system well enough to pick up on the extra information provided by a choice of proxy, how much do they need that? oftentimes systems will end up offering headmate explanations, system diagrams, simplyplural accounts, etc. early on in a relationship to frontload this information and open up those communicative potentials right away, rather than letting someone learn over time. but for large systems this can also be overwhelming, a lot of information for someone to internalise at once.
a tension is created, between plurality as a model for understanding yourself, and as a tool for communicating with other people.
do you show a full system diagram? or only a simplified version with the headmates you think someone is likely to meet. how much do you elide variations between similar headmates to simplify yourself for other people. it's often a terrible plural anxiety, to think you're too big or complicated for many people to care to understand. but these are also decisions made every time someone "lies" about a proxy, choosing to hide the fact a more vulnerable headmate is in front, or when someone chooses a less accurate but more socially appropriate avatar for public spaces.
models of plurality as a socially realised identity, and as a form of internal self understanding will probably always be in tension. but it's worth thinking about their interactions
Adonis Blue (Lysandra bellargus) butterflies basking in the sun.
PLURALS: do you consider your collective transgender? Why if yes?
Yes; because the body is
Yes; because the host is
Yes; because the majority of headmates don't align with the body's sex
yes; some other reason
No
How can I learn more about this disorder?
Depends! As far as the medical perspective goes, my understanding is that the DSM-5 and ICD-11 are the primary diagnostic tools used. They've got lists of criteria and symptoms in a very medical context. I know there's studies out there about complex dissociative disorders (CDDs) as well, but we haven't really read any of them.
We mostly hear from other plurals and systems here on tumblr for other perspectives.
Resources about dissociation in general can also be quite helpful, whether you're disordered or not.
I'd steer clear of insular places like discord servers or subreddits - at least as a single source of information. Take in lots of information, not just from a single place! Remember that systems (as a whole Or just CDD systems) are not a monolith, and there's exceptions to every "rule" people try to put in place.
Honestly, looking at the tag #plural comic might be a good place to start if you want to know what it's like to be a system! Lots of folks use art to express and explain their experiences over there.
We're far from an authority on the subject to be honest - so feel free to ask around!
I feel like the system community treats "how similar are your system members/how much do you share with your system members" as one clean, whole thing when like. It'd probably be easier to talk about if you broke it down into different categories.
Maybe your skill sharing is high, like 80%. Meanwhile, your speech patterns vary wildly, so you say they're only about 30% shared. Maybe your episodic memory sharing is at 65%, your semantic memory sharing is at 95%, and your procedural memory sharing is at 75%. Maybe your values are 85% shared, maybe your life goals are 20% shared, maybe your identity is 90% shared. There's a lot of different variables and things you can share, you know? I could go on.
Trying to turn all of that into one average of "how alike are all of you" doesn't seem very helpful, but for some reason, we expect it of so many systems. So, if you struggle with answering "How similar are you all?", maybe try this out and see if it's a more useful framework for you.
Whatever you do don't forget to get stuck in front while missing your wife or other beloved sourcemates
