Inkpot Collective

Inkpot | Minor | He/they/it + neopronouns DNI: pro endos/non-traumagenic, anti-xenogender, pro-ship/anti-anti, anti-neopronouns, anti-mogai

[inkpot-sys]

System introduction

Before you begin reading, I am anti-endogenic/non-traumagenic, and so is everyone in the system, we make this very clear. So please, do not interact if you are pro, or are endogenic.

And with that outta the way, hello! We are the Inkpot collective, a system of ~8. We are bodily a minor. We have a tendency of not knowing who's fronting so excuse if we don't tag posts properly lmao. Below are alter intros:

Frequent fronters:

Ozren - host, he/they/it + neopronouns, Ozren

Dimi - co-host/protector, he/him, -⚒️Dimi

Zaharije - protector, he/him, -⭐Zaharije

Nika - trauma holder, she/her, -👑Nika

Others:

Error - caretaker, he/they/it, -🔗Error

Azrael - persecutor, he/him, -🦷Az

Angel - caretaker, xey/xem, -🕊️Angel

If the fronter is unknown, please use they/it for us, sign off is -❔Blurry

[your-fave-is-plural]

Communalism and CultCom from Realicide are Plural and part of the same system!

Requested by @inkpot-sys

[ID: 2 Icons of CultCom and Communalism from Realicide over the plural flag, respectively. End ID.]

[songbirds-of-halcyon]

Fun fact I learned a while ago; feeling as though you “created” your system or “created” your alters is a very common way that DID tries to convince you that you don’t have trauma/don’t actually have DID.

This is what DID does. It tries to convince you that it isn’t there. Feeling like the trauma didn’t cause it means that it’s doing it’s job.

-🌸

[deepsea-mogai]

“dni exclusionists of any kind” and you’re literally a system exclusionist lmao

are you stupid? are you fucking dumb? are you a baby who doesnt understand a thing about the world? should i speak your language? googoo gaga?

we r not exclusionists for not wanting certain ppl to interact bye go suck ur thumb and shit ur diaper or whtvr lol

-Luca

[inkpot-sys]

HELP I can't believe that someone actually thought that, typed it out, re read it and then pressed ask 💀

[starseers]

Reminder that it doesn't mean your faking when your system goes "dark" or "shuts down" (ex: zero communication, can't notice switches, no grasp on what's going on around front or internally), it's (sadly) normal, and yes you're still valid even if it stretches on for months. DID is a covert disorder, you're not supposed to know you have it, so of course it's going to retaliate and build higher/thicker dissociative barriers when you start poking around. It's just trying to protect you, even if it's got a few things wrong, so please be gentle with yourself, it won't always be this hard

[crowcussion]

me : nah my trauma can’t be bad enough to be a system

me : holy shit repressed trauma exists

[introjected-confession]

being afraid to show who I am is so frustrating because I'm scared even our friends are going to fake claim us and make life bad even though they probably won't

Alexander

[sebdoesnothing]

She saw her moment and got glossed up for it

[introjected-confession]

I think the lonely part of my existence is that I scare people. My source, Lisa Rowe, makes others immediately assume I'm some monster. Yes, I'm capable of hurting others, but so is everyone else. My source should not be how you view me, I should not be isolated because my source is 'evil' (She's not, she's honestly just sick). I'm frightened, I'm scared, I've been through hell and back, tortured in various ways nobody can even describe - but I'm the monster, aren't I? I've done so much for our system, I carry the weight of a thousand traumatic experiences, I carry our survival, our story on my back like baggage of bricks. But they'll never see that, they'll just see "Lisa Rowe" and immediately assume I'm awful. That I'm the evil alter, the truth is? I'm terrified, I've hurt people because of this before, but imagine going from one hellscape to another, and tell me you wouldn't be as angry. I feel like I have to play this perfect victim or this horrible villain with no nuance, or else everyone will assume I'm evil.

[lingeringmyc3lium]

Struggling with the fact that in source, I'm dead. I just keep thinking about it and it hurts.

Anyone have advice?

[inkpot-sys]

Hi,

I'm Dimi.

Me and my brother, Zaharije, are both dead in source.

I will be honest, I have not experienced anything like this. But I think that source separation would be very, very beneficial for you.

I will not go on and tell you about how to do it, because you didn't ask. The first time I asked for advice and someone straight up hit me with "you're not him" I cried. How could I not be him? What about my family? It was all fake?

BUT. If you need help with source separation, we are always open to help.

Cheers, hope you're okay.

[fightinggod03-deactivated202311]

hey!! friendly reminder that endo neutral is still endo support, so if your an endo neutralist following us... please block us!! -Tord

read pinned post

[thekillective]

i don't think we really acknowledge how scary it is being a host who doesn't remember the system's trauma. you know about your system, you know you have traumas you don't understand, and you know a couple triggers, but the information is being withheld from you. people having flashbacks inside while you lay there on the verge of tears, stuck in a trance. the system's rushing to cover your eyes but you can still hear the screaming. pushing a little bit too far because you can't stand not knowing and then regretting it because now your closest friends in the system are pissed at you and won't talk to you other than when they're trying to gaslight you. and then you can't even be mad at them because you know they're just doing their jobs and protecting you from things you can't handle yet. but that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

[livinggold]

Feels like "former endo" systems don't get appreciated enough here so shout out to

Systems who thought they were endo at first

Systems who thought they were mixed origin at first

Systems who believed they weren't traumagenic because they didn't remember their trauma

Systems held back in recovery by the endogenic community

Systems who just uncovered their trauma

Systems who are in denial about their trauma

Systems who are still learning about dissociative disorders

Systems who are syscourse neutral due to recently figuring out they are traumagenic

Systems who used to be pro-endo and are now anti-endo

And any other system with a complicated relationship to their trauma and the endo community! It's a rough road, and trauma's a bitch, but we can get through this.

Endo systems and active supporters this post isn't for you, this is for traumagenic systems, endos DNI

[citrus-system]

The old/ageless alter who keeps up with everybody’s friends & social media when they’re fronting:

[raccoon-queer-deactivated202502]

anti-endo system ask game

this post is for anti-endo systems only, endos dni

if you don't want asks from a specific category I would recommend specifying that in the tags

name asks

1. do you have a collective name? how did you choose it?

2. how do new alters choose their names?

3. are there any alters who identify with the body's name?

4. which alter has the most stereotypical name?

5. which alter has the weirdest name?

age asks

6. how does alter age work for your system?

7. does your system have ageless alters?

8. who is the oldest alter? how old are they?

9. does your system have alters who age slide or age regress?

10. does your system's littles want to be treated like children or adults?

queer asks

11. do all alters have similar sexualities?

12. does your system have more male, female, or nonbinary alters?

13. do any alters use xenogenders or neopronouns?

14. which alter has the most gender?

15. do you consider the body to be transgender?

nonhuman asks

16. what alter is the strangest species?

17. do any alters in your system have wings?

18. does your system have any animal alters?

19. what is the weirdest part about being a nonhuman alter?

20. is the majority of your system human or nonhuman?

introject asks

21. do you have multiple alters from one source?

22. are most of your system's introjects connected to their source? disconnected from their source?

23. what is the weirdest source that an introject in your system has?

24. are any of your system's introjects in relationships with other introjects?

25. do any of your system's introjects have non-canon source memories?

syscourse asks

26. do you engage in syscourse?

27. were you previously pro-endo?

28. if you could tell all pro-endos one thing, what would you tell them?

29. does your system have a collective opinion on syscourse, or does it vary?

30. do you think that syscourse is more helpful or harmful?

asks for the current fronter

31. who is your favorite alter in the system?

32. which alter has the most based takes?

33. what is the funniest piece of system drama?

34. do you enjoy being part of a system?

35. what's something you like that no one else in the system likes?

this post is for anti-endo systems only, endos dni

[sysboxes]

[Text: This alter used to miss their source but no longer does.]

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[mildew-mop]

I looked up the meaning of the word “endogenic” because I was kind of wondering where the word came from and its original meaning. I know that words can have multiple definitions, but the one in the screenshot below, is the only one I found for the word “endogenic.” I checked other dictionaries and sites, but this is the only one that showed up. Is it because “endo” mean’s roughly “from within”?

Idk its a dumb name for a dumb idea.

[sysmedsaresexist]

So fun fact.

"Endogenic", before it was "lovingly coined" by its supposed creator, was actually already in use to refer to the Fantasy Model of DID. It's not only a medical term, but also insinuates that DID is a product of fantasy proneness and weak-mindedness.

"The Trauma Model [says that] DID is etiologically related to chronic neglect and physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood. In contrast, the Fantasy Model posits that DID can be simulated and is mediated by high suggestibility, fantasy proneness, and sociocultural influences."

WORSE STILL, the fantasy model implies that even trauma memories are made up.

The term "endogenic" can be traced all the way back to Freud's work in 1956!

"Freud’s theoretical conversion of a predominant endogenic interpretation of trauma and hysteria (sexual abuse→sexual overstimulation, deferred action, repression→hysteria) in an extreme endogenic view (Oedipal sexual wishes→fantasy, repression→hysteria) had major clinical implications."

If you remember, hysterical neurosis was the first diagnosis for "multiple personalities" from the DSM II.

Here's another quote, just showing that there's nothing positive at all about the word "endogenic". “Many World War I psychiatrists also took a one-sided endogenic explanatory route by claiming that soldiers who broke down had a weak mental and moral will.”

As well, the idea of "endogenic DID" was actually used to try to have DID removed from the DSM.

“Another revived historical idea involves a contemporary variety of a particular mix of endogenic and exogenic causes, that is, the idea that dissociative symptoms and disorders are due to the patient’s fantasy proneness and suggestibility (endogenesis) in combination with suggestive, illness-inducing or illness-reinforcing actions of other therapists and the media (exogenesis). These thoughts have been influential, but individual views and facts can be opposite. An attempt by some proponents of the so-called sociocognitive model of DID to erase DID as a mental disorder in DSM-5 failed.”

Seems like someone made a BIG WHOOPSIE choosing "endogenic". NOT COOL, MAN.

And before anyone jumps on this with, "you can use words in multiple ways!!", what's important here is that this word in particular LITERALLY has this kind of history and you're using the same exact word in discussions of the same exact topics.

[cynicalundead]

So "endogenic" as a word originally, in psychology, meant "coming from within rather than from trauma" as a way to invalidate survivors of trauma and pass them off as insane or weak. Interestingly, endogenic as a word in the system community is ALSO meaning "coming from within rather than from trauma" that serves to indirectly invalidate and erase the trauma that actual pw systems have survived. They really didn't change it much 💖

Knowing that the original "non traumagenic systems" movement intended to erase DID just like described here makes it look generally pretty intentional