the destruction of one, the creation of multiple

[nullnova]

hi so we decided fuck it we're gonna give into the urge and make our own plural comic blog. lol

note that our art style can be quite inconsistent and often we won't exactly follow the designs above.

if you know us, pretend you don't. or at least don't mention it publicly (you can contact us privately, though.)

here's the boundaries and stuff about us n such:

refer to us by color or pseudonym.

collectively, we're transfem and use it/its and she/her. and nova as a catch-all name works.

dni syscourse, nsfw, transid, and radqueer blogs. we'll also block freely/as needed.

don't ask about/mention/guess fictive sources. we'll bring them up if/when we're comfortable or it's relevant. - also, for if you know certain sources and you know the history behind them: no, we don't support the creator(s) and would rather not be associated with said sources.

don't ask us for advice. we're relatively new to being a system; we'll point you elsewhere or won't answer at all. hhhh i'll think of more to add as we go. yeap. hope you enjoy our stuff yayyy

[nullnova]

but you can't save everyone.

[leathersys]

switching

[nullnova]

hi we've been low motivation recently but we managed to gather just enough energy to remake the intro post drawing. us :]

[nullnova]

why does nobody like my gland ... :[[[

[nullnova]

in my defense uhh. um. i have no defense actually. guilty as charged,,

[nullnova]

hello! what kinda songs do ya'll like?

uooooouuoo i could go on for ages about music ....

i think we generally have similar music tastes (and we listen to an. Extremely wide variety of songs.) we're really bad at naming genres/styles, but some highlights for us are rhythm game music, video game osts more broadly, chiptune/chiptune hybrids, and drum n bass + breakcore. we also definitely appreciate calmer songs as well, especially as part of video game osts.

as for specific sysmates: although we do have similar music tastes, we often associate specific songs with specific headmates.

for example, we associate chiptune stuff with me (abstract) and compiler more than the others. though the stuff we associate compiler with sounds happier than the stuff associated with me (most of the time, at least.) and chains has probably the most distinct associations (rock/metal type stuff, as well as breakcore) than the rest of us.

anyway i've run out of general things to yap about so uhhhh here's a sampling of songs from each of our playlists. :]

[the-ungovernable]

Explaining Monoconscious Plurality

People often say they don't understand monoconscious plurality, and it makes sense if your introduction to plurality was classic multiplicity. It might be hard to conceptualise how multiple separate people could have a single train of thought and honestly, yeah. It doesn't help that many of the explanations here on tumblr don't feel totally encompassing of all our experiences either. Most of what I've seen only touch on a few things, leaving the rest under the surface

Often monoconsciousness gets described as "shapeshifting" or slipping into different psychological coats. That's part of it, but it doesn't address the whole multiple-voices-in-the-head thing that most plurals seem to experience. It also doesn't come close to fully describing our experience either

The simplest way I can put our experience is (and I suspect this will also ring true for a large amount of other monocon plurals): There is one ability to think, and everyone has to share it, as pictured above

We have to be in contact with the metaphorical consciousness orb, otherwise we don't think. For us personally this looks like temporarily falling unconscious when away from the front. Some plurals I'm sure have constant voices, because nobody leaves the consciousness orb vicinity unless they're dormant. So yeah, definitely different people, even if we all have to share an ability to think. Doesn't necessarily mean we all think the same thing, or that there's 0 distinction between our thoughts (although there are monocon plurals that DO experience this, and that is also just as much more-than-one)

Switching still feels like putting on different coats, and it may literally be an overlay you don if you lean more singletish in your plurality, but for those of us that lean more multiple, this is an important piece of the puzzle. I hope that helps polyconscious systems understand monconscious systems a little better!

[nullnova]

our profile picture on most places is just me lol. we don't change it often.

[nullnova]

sir i don't think hardcore rhythm game music is a lofi hip hop beat to fall asleep to.

song in question btw: https://kyotsugyon.bandcamp.com/track/3c

[nullnova]

[nullnova]

i know how this goes. i know how this ends

[nullnova]

i love being oblivious and unfazed by everything ! yay!