questioning plurality? plural! confident in your singlethood? split a headmate today!
there seems to be another isuggestplural blog but! they have not posted since early february and most of those posts are donation reblogs. so we wanted to make a more active blog... also just because it seems fun and we're passionate about this sort of thing.
tag us in any posts of folks questioning their plurality! this blog can also function as a funnier-as-a-system blog.
we might reblog posts that are explicitly about plurality or made by folks aware that they're plural already. if we do... #sorry!
send in asks detailing your experiences, our advice and insight is NOT the end all be all but we'd love to try and help where we can. maybe hold off on more serious discussions, thiugh...
TAG US IN YOUR PLURAL JOY POSTS PLEASEEE
also send us plural media... whether it be plural-coded games/shows/movies/songs/whatever or media that is explicitly about being plural we wanna see it!!! we'll tag it as #media recs so take a look through that tag for some :)
(how do i become a system?)
(how do i communicate with my headmates?)
(can i interact with this blog if im openly ___?)
some misc stuff below the cut
we are the revenant birds!! we're made up of two systems, the one posting on here is the luminescent orchestra. we collectively goes by halloran or iris, we use she/lyric/he pronouns collectively. please avoid using they/them on us unless in an explicitly plural way!
we prefer the terms headmates, alters, and symphonists.
you could probably guess from second line, but we are pro-endogenic, including willos. we love all disordered AND nondisordered systems here!! we don't care how you're plural, we just care that you're plural... which you are ❤️ i DON'T wanna do discourse on this blog so we WILL NOT. thx
i also want to mention while im here that obviously plurality comes with a whole host of things that many people view as negative, and we acknowledge that. this blog does not aim to paint plurality as the perfect solution to all problems. we just simply wish to normalize the hell out of it - and besides, it solved a lot of our problems too!
if you take issue to any opinions presented on this blog, send us an ask! we're always up for friendly debate & to admit when we've been wrong.
common headmates posting on this blog -
lily OR sal 🌊 she / her
hayi 🪞 he / him
furina ⛲ she / lyric / rain
an OR ren yu 🎙️ she / void
alice 🔥 she / her
ari 🌬️ she / they (warning she is really bad at spelling. slash aff ofc but still)
yuki ❄️ she / doll
and there might be some others that make some guest appearances.
anon signoff list (just ask and we'll add you!)
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pros of having a favorite character youve liked for over a decade: character brings you joy and excitement
cons of having a favorite character youve liked for over a decade: they have become a permanent part of your internal monologue and you cant get them to go away
baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them
I love when people ask us about becoming plural and we get to be like :D good news! you can! :D
(most of these are not inherently plural experiences but they are all ways of talking to parts of yourself or creating mental companions of some sort. plurality isn't always the thing people we talk to ultimately want, sometimes having a self-representing animal friend works better for them!)
Tosya from ZATO really means a lot to us in general as a system...
The protectiveness over your alters, sometimes acting as a sort of savior like in Jammed Signal C hits close to home. We're always having to clean up after the host and each other, help ourselves when others can't/don't want to and when we have the strength to do so. We have to support each other, because if we can't, who will? This also stems from being deeply lonely growing up too.
And especially cause we're endogenic, we can really understand why Asya formed Tosya in the first place. Asya was also always a very isolated child, so we imagine that she probably formed Tosya as a sort of imaginary friend that then spiraled out of her control. We haven't had any imaginary friends growing up, but we always entertained ourselves with voices in our head instead, albeit not to as much of an extent as someone who isn't specifically a median system.
We believe that Jammed Signal C was just the incident where Tosya went dormant after using up too much energy to get Asya out, and also because Tosya and Asya seem to have a history with each other beyond that incident. What sort of pain do you think Asya felt, losing her other half? Losing her best friend, losing many of her own memories, losing herself? No wonder she is how she is in canon.
We see ourselves a lot in Tosya specifically, which is why I'm here, I guess lol. The whole 'born from a wish made in earnest' thing. But even despite the entire system thing, Asya and Tosya are just really relatable. Asya is a sort of comfort character for us, and explorations of her mindset feel comfortable to understand. The real world can be quite unforgiving, but by applying an arbitrary set of rules and pretending we control the variables, it can be less scary, even if it comes with being terrified of things not lining up.
In general ZATO is one of the best games for systems in our opinion lmao. Short & sweet with interesting characters that all have a lot of depth to them. Highly recommend
right made this blog cuz my friends keep telling me I should post this screenshot and tag @isuggestplurality in it? for some reason?
For some, additional context I suppose, I experience semi-frequent IRL shifts and experience significant brain fog and dissociation- Both of which I attribute to the psychosis. My friends, insist that it is not just the psychosis and that I should make this post. Let me know what they're on about I guess? /lh
missing The Character is a strange thing because yea there's always the option to go back to their source material or looking at art or reading fics but it's also like i can't just call them up like i would a friend to see how they're doing and that's the frustrating part of it
dont you think it's weird that every kid you've ever met has a gripe or two or three with their parents? that that's just a a joke, an inconsequential fact of life? don't you think it's unfair that people who treat children like real human beings are the outlier? don't you think it's odd that the thought that people don't deserve respect until they turn 18 is such a common point of view? don't you think it's odd that so many children these days and forever are raising themselves? don't you feel like it's unfair that children are given the responsibilities of growing up and having to do tasks and errands for the family that brought them into this world without any of the freedoms? that the first gift they get upon growing up and that oh-so-sweet "freedom" they were promised for 19 years is typically a mountain of debt? don't you see the pattern over the past hundred years that children are shoved out of any safe space they have, out of parks and roads, out of diners, out of malls, out of the internet? they're trapped in an unsafe world and almost never taught what to do by their parents until their parents are frustrated that they don't know what to do? don't you ever feel like every other parent is abusing their children? so many minors you know despise their parents? everything children, especially young ones say is treated as a joke and nothing more? don't you hate the saying "children should be seen and not heard?' don't you hate that children are time and time again hurt & betrayed by parents, by teachers, by adults, by the entire system, and just expected to take it every time? don't you hate that they're seen as property, as extensions of a parent, as a burden to a father and a weapon against a mother? don't you see adults who both hold their age and their maturity over children's heads and tell them that adulthood is actually miserable, that they're jealous of 'irresponsible' children, that this torture is the best they're ever gonna get? don't you know that so many people hate and hated what were supposed to be the 'best years of your life'? in a society that punishes any outcast and rewards cruel hierarchies, it's every man for himself and you're either abused into being a perfect child and neglected or abused for not being perfect and hounded. don't you know how frustrating it is, to be pushed aside and voice spoken over even where you're the target and the blame and the laughingstock, being told "you don't know better" when you want a freedom but being told "you should have known better" when you make a mistake because you are a child?
don't you feel bad?
don't you remember when you were a child and you thought everything was so unfair?
mip is all my other headmates getting the sourcemates they miss... but me and my other sourcemate don't??? where are our friends!!!! i miss my friends!!!!!!!!!!
i an friends with the sourcemate that is here, but we're not from the same world and we'd be enemies if they were anything like my version of then anyway...
I suggest willoing your friends into existence (hi @isuggestplurality )
more seriously tho I get that feeling. some of us are cursed to never have any sourcemates, like Jester, and while dude grew used to it I think he still gets sad about it sometimes.. -Planet/Exo
made this to remind myself, since i do have an awful memory...
hopefully it reminds you too! <3
this lockscreen, as well as this blog, are directly inspired by/because of @trans-polyfrag-tips-and-tricks , @isuggestplurality , @i-suggest-getting-plural , @addgenic-culture-is , @sugrfilm , and @germygemmy ! :3
i wish everyone the best of luck becoming more plural~ it would be fun to make more stuff like this in the future!
rainbow edit + one rainbow glitch under the cut!
(more varieties available on request)
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