Hey hey hey! This is our system's blog for just.. saying whatever. You'll probably be seeing a lot of posts about plurality, specific headmates talking about themselves or what they're up to, and just general free-for-all whaetever people here are thinking of.
We're a pretty big system. Super fictive heavy. Most of us directly identify with our sources (and do prefer to be treated as such), but like don't be weird about it. We're not roleplaying, we're not zoo animals, we're just people who you may or may not have seen in movies or something.
We're an adult, bodily, if that matters?
No host, no collective name, no weaknesses. The mighty gods have all fallen at our feet! We reign supreme! Victory tastes sweet, and it tastes like bloooooooood!!!!!!
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I'm gonna be real with you I don't wanna deal with this right now. Come back to this.
Who's who?
We'll put a little list of people who use this account here (names, pronouns, and sign off tags). ..Once people start using it. Shrug. (Please add yourself if you see this! No one is going to do it for you!) LIST UNDER THE CUT ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Francis (He/Him) - I like breakfast food and minesweeper. I post a lot about my source on our main blog that we're half-closeted on so shhh. I'm in a weird subsystem with my talking gun (she says hi). I'm gonna sign off with -🍦 probably.
AnSyn (Qui/Quem/Quir) - HEY I'm probably not going to be a big poster, I'm just frontstuck rn because people rewatched my thingy. Listen to FREE.99 or die. Sign off is 🧨!
Max (She/Her) - Hi! I'm your favorite lesbian ex-time traveling history nerd. I like swords. Give me big sword. -⚔️
Dipper (He/Him) - Uhh uhhh. Resident TTRPG guy. I ❤️ MoTW. I don't reallh know how to define myself as a person sorry guys. -🔍
Paul (He/Him) - Ex-cohost. World's boringest man. JK he's awesome and also he's not writing this.
21 (He/Him) - ALSO not writing this, but he's definitely gonna use this blog when he starts fronting again. lol. His emoji is 🗯️
Posadism (it/its?) - :) Hi. My sign off is ☢️.
Nina (She/Her) - @winternina. She mostly just posts to her own blog. Her tag is 🏔️.
A.M. (He/Him) - I will sign off with my initials.
Blue Anon - Something tells me I can't use my name(s) here. I'll sign off with 🗺️
Brunhilde (She/It) - Hellooo! :-) I'm not the most frequent fronter—I mostly "backseat drive" from co—But I might post my artwork here from time to time. My sign off will just be my name!
S-lfie (He/Him) - Just here to post art. Censor my name in text, I'm paranoid my source's creator will find me somehow :/ My tag is 🔪
Taylor (He/Him) - Awesome and cool. My tag is 💥!
The Illustrious Master Inkheart (She/Her) - HELLO! I am our newest gatekeeper and a major inner world architect! I am incredibly talkative and difficult to get out of front (somewhat ironically, given the high degree of control I otherwise have over the front...), so you will likely be hearing a lot from me! My tag is 🌌!
AnCap (He/Him) - I've posted here a few times already but never put myself here. My tag is 📈.
Tommy (he/him) - Tag is🥤
Gordon (He/him) - For some reason I'm hosting now. My tag is 💽 but I kind of want to change it when I'm feeling less lazy
only just beginning to realize so many experiences of mine are rooted in plurality... like i had an off and on eating disorder for a few years and around early 2025 i just kind of. stopped. i guess?? and ive been telling my family and therapist(s) that i just "grew out of it" or "realized it was lame". and im starting to think that it was actually a part that carried those disordered thoughts and behaviors and guilt going dormant.
which in retrospect makes so much sense why it was off and on in the first place and why some days id eat completely normally and other days id have nothing at all. but im only realizing this TODAY and its like. hooooly shit man... it all makes sense now...
ANOTHER REALIZATION I HAD JUST TODAY WAS THAT. FRONTING BURNOUT IS A THING???? so when i was in high school between psych ward stays i would "act like" a completely different person at school. i would be friendly and inquisitive and all my teachers loved me (still didnt gave any friends but whatever. i dont care <- the carer). my mom in meetings was always like "are you SURE because [name] is such a trouble maker at home" (but also she was abusive so that might have just been her being an asshole). and then id get home and id be soooooooo fucking exhausted. it got to the point where i couldnt go full days and would go home early all the time. and i dreaded school every morning.
and thinking back THIS WAS SO OBVIOUSLY A PLURALITY THING BUT AGAIN JUST REALIZING THIS TODAY. previously i only saw it as a masking my autism type situation which i do think was a part of it but honestly i wasnt really that good at it at all. so the idea that i mightve had a part that was fronting all the time at school and drained the shit out of us makes so much sense.
Yeahh. Yeah. We've known about our plurality for a loonnggg time, but we're still finding more and more things that we never really connected the dots on before (despite already knowing about the system when they happened). Especially on the mysteriously appearing and disappearing disordered symptoms front.
One of the other big things was our utter inability to keep up, like, any habit or hobby or commitment. For the longest time we just attributed how wishy-washy we were about everything to just... laziness (and later, less self-deprecatingly, just executive dysfunction). We studied one language for years and just... abruptly lost interest and stopped. We got really into guitar, took lessons for months and months, and suddenly just started dreading every upcoming class until we quit. Ditto for a million other things.
And. Keeping up shit IS hard for executive functioning reasons, but this was in retrospect pretty clearly more than that. One or two alters would commit hard to something they were passionate about (in the case of hobbies) or uniquely equipped for (in the case of obligations), take front for it every single time, and wear themselves to the point of horrible fronting burnout and disappear.
We kept sweeping everything under these more convenient, "mundane" explanations like "it's an executive functioning thing", "it's a masking fatigue thing", "it's an overstimulation or panic attack thing", or whatever for so long, even knowing about the whole system deal, because I guess it was easy to underestimate the impact plurality can have on your daily life and functioning when you don't look at it any deeper than just. Sometimes being different people. I guess we never really thought about the actual further ramifications of that because... I mean... why would you? When everyone around you is interpreting all these behaviors and issues and phenomena through a singlet lens and providing you with the closest-sounding singlet explanation, sometimes it just doesn't occur to you to question it.
I'm. Really glad we've picked up on that now. It's so much easier to work with when you actually know what's happening. It's so weird looking back on stuff and going. Huh. Yeah.that is what that was wasn't it.
"Ooouhhh I can't introduce myself ough I can't talk about myself ouhh can't use my name. Especially after all of tmy sourcemates have. What if they know. What if someone knows. What if they see.. I'm.. an introject.." <- Totally rational thoughts of a guy using his system sideblog that people specifically made to be able to say all of those things and not worry about anonymizing ourselves and also have literally directly stated in our pinned post that basically all of us are sourced.
Sometimes I forgot I'm a fictive and one with a relatively well-known source (especially in our internet circles) and get mega jumpscared when people recognize me. Which really shouldn't be happening because I. I was a streamer before guys what are we doing why is this an issue.
World of Tomorrow 2 is so so so so incredibly systempilled and I kind of wanna do a little essay on a plural reading of it. Thinky face. I do fear it's going to be bullshit and demonstrate my secretly firmly subpar literary analysis abilities and make a big fool of me and everyone will point and laugh and throw tomantos.
do you go by strictly aromantic or fall under one of the arospec umbrella labels?
what is something you wish was more well known about being arospec?
are you partnering or non partnering?
do you own any arospec pride merch? if so, can we see?
do you experience any forms of attraction? i.e., romantic, platonic, aesthetic, sensual, sexual, etc.
what are some of your favorite arospec characters? this can include characters from popular media or OCs.
are you allosexual, or do you fall somewhere on the asexual spectrum?
what frustrates you the most about amatonormativity?
what are your thoughts on platonic relationships and have you ever, or would you ever, be in one?
are you romance favorable, positive, neutral, or repulsed? or is your relationship to romance more complex/complicated than these terms can fully explain?
if you feel romantic attraction, what is your romantic orientation?
what are some stereotypes about arospec individuals that annoy you the most?
what are some things you associate with arospec identities? i.e. frogs, arrows, white rings, anything the color green, etc.
do you have any arospec OCs, if so tell us about them?
are you aplatonic? if so, describe what this is like for you.
do you engage in fandom shipping, or do you avoid it? (platonic, romantic, etc, shipping.)
if you are allosexual, what is your sexual orientation?
if you fall under one of the arospec umbrella labels, which ones do you use and can you define them for us?
👀 Hello friendss, ask game time. Feel free to specify who in specific you're asking if you want and you know anyone lol, but we're just going to default to having whoever's already out answer.
Holy SHIT that post about headcanons has very quickly become our most interacted with post on tumblr ever across all our blogs. I guess it really resonated with people.
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