Hello and welcome to the system side blog! As a collective, you can call us the Cryptid System!!! (Or "Cryptid" for short!)
This blog will be a space where we'll be doing our best to share our experiences as a plural system, and where our system's headmates can post as themselves without worry of all the main blog stuff.
For anyone who knew this blog back when it was focused on alterhumanity, this is indeed the same blog! We've just pivoted upon realizing that our kins were actually headmates trying to more or less peek their heads through, so to speak. The alterhuman tag will be kept on this post however due to a number of our headmates still identifying as alterhuman.
As of now, we'll be keeping the list format we had from before for our supposed kintypes and repurpose that for our headmates, however over time facets will (hopefully) make thier own intro posts that will be linked back to here!
NOTE: This list features all of the headmates who have made intro posts so far. This is NOT everyone in our system by ANY means (there's like- over 50 of us now man, there's no way we're fitting EVERYONE here 😭). As more headmates make intro posts however, those posts will be linked in right here!
(Note: if a headmate is not listed and you're not sure what pronouns to use for them, feel free to ask! Nobody who posts here is shy at all lol)
Headmates Who Have Made Intros:
Joey
Winter
Dreamfinder/Blair
Kishindo
Osprey
Gambit/Remy
Moon Knight [subsystem]
Loki/Mischief
Our collective sign-off for asks will be this -> 💥🧠
Terms that we have coined:
Arch/Archmate & Flickermate
And now for ✨tags✨:
If you want to find a post made by a specific headmate, then look under "#posting: [headmate's name]" and you'll find their stuff!
All answers for asks can be found under the tag "#answering asks!!!"
And last but certainly not least, reblogs will be tagged "#rb". They may have a headmate sign-off tag, and they may not; that's entirely up to the headmate that reblogged it and how not blurry we were at the time lol
Taken anon sign-offs!!!
🌊☁️ anon
🪲 anon
⬆️ If you want to claim an anon sign-off (or alternatively want to un-claim one if you already have one listed here), let us know!!! ⬆️
⚠️IMPORTANT!!! -> DM RULES⚠️: Only DM me if you've asked me first with your intentions clear and I've said yes. I'm pretty paranoid on the internet, so I will be suspicious of you if you DM me without warning. All I ask is that you let me know before DMing me! Also know that I likely won't instigate a DM conversation - again out of internet paranoia - so if you want to message me, you're likely gonna have to be the one instigating the conversation! :3
unidentified plurality is personifying parts of your brain and talking to/compromising with them while still thinking you’re a singlet
like “oh yeah my adhd is really unhappy that i’m doing chores rn but i told it that i would play that new game as soon as i finished, and it calmed down”
or “normally i have 0 interest in crochet but the knitting part of my brain really wants to try it, so i bought some hooks at the yarn store for when that urge comes around again :)”
like… did y’all know plurality was an option??? Or was this Olympic-level denial?????? -Dean
When I was a kid my biggest biggest coping mechanism was pretending to be a character I liked. I would write their names on my worksheets instead of mine. I would mimic their mannerisms. I would impersonate their voices. I would answer questions like me, but using their logic.
What in the plurality fuck does this mean for me now
Shoutout to when alters just claim random shit as theirs. Like- okay, yeah, sure thing Dick. You can claim that random stuffed animal that I've had since I was seven. Why not?
we've been rewatching my source (doctor who) and i miss rose. i miss her soso much. rose, my rose tyler!! i miss your chaotic, violent, dumbassery.
god, i miss you so much rose. i love you! i love you, i love you! i'm sorry i never said that as much as i thought it. but i love you. i love you so much
Oh my god, I just saw that Steve had reblogged something a couple days ago and briefly there was a real, genuine, terrifying moment where I thought that we had somehow introjected Steve from Minecraft without knowing 😭
question for holders of emotions, specifically ones that usually people “calm down from”, can you do that? If so, does it just lessen, or does the emotion go away for a while?
This is a question for sysmembers that have the ability to help others with their emotions.
A: Hello. I do this. I have the ability to take away stress/fear/flashbacks.
It doesn't fully go away, and it's temporary. It's treating the symptoms but not curing the illness.
Those are not my emotions to keep, and whomever I'm treating will need to sort out their baggage or my services will start to become ineffective.
I also need to take breaks and can't always be available to support my family, as I have my own things to deal with.
I personally work specifically in emotion suppression. So if a particular unwanted emotion is becoming too much for a headmate to handle, I will be flagged in to nullify it until either the emotion trigger has passed or we are in a situation where we determine it safe enough for the emotion to be expressed. This suppression only works so long as I am co-conscious with the headmate in question.
We have other headmates however who deal more with feeling out emotions, like Jake (more general large emotions) and Logan (anger/rage) who will sit with the headmate in co-consciousness and feel the emotions with them.
-Winter
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I personally work specifically in emotion suppression. So if a particular unwanted emotion is becoming too much for a headmate to handle, I will be flagged in to nullify it until either the emotion trigger has passed or we are in a situation where we determine it safe enough for the emotion to be expressed. This suppression only works so long as I am co-conscious with the headmate in question.
We have other headmates however who deal more with feeling out emotions, like Jake (more general large emotions) and Logan (anger/rage) who will sit with the headmate in co-consciousness and feel the emotions with them.
