Hello! We’re Paluimbel, a monoconscious and median system. Our origin(s) would probably take a solid paragraph to explain. So. Not doing that.
Not gonna take the time to make a full dni. Assholes and anti-endos will be blocked. This isn’t a syscourse blog; we aren’t here to debate whether or not we and systems like us exist; we’re just trying to chill.
That being said, if we see something syscourse related and decide to chime in, this is probably the blog that that’ll end up on.
Also we might be posting some stuff in fandom tags, so if you’re a singlet who found this blog that way and have questions about system stuff, feel free to ask.
We will probably label who makes what post with emojis for our own sake, but I don’t really wanna go into to much detail about individual members rn. Some posts might be tagged w/ multiple emojis bc we’re blurry.
Stuff we like includes linguistics, history, writing, etc. Current main special interest is mcyt. (Not like. All of it at once. But yknow.) This is our plurality/system sideblog, so idk how much of that’ll end up here, or how much we’ll post at all tbh. Probably at the very least we’ll be posting plural headcanons and stuff that we don’t feel comfortable with posting on our main. Other than that, we do have a handful of mcyt fictives, myself included.
They/them pronouns collectively. Or it/its or she/he ig. Our system name is like. The name of a city in our headspace. So we don’t really mind singular 3rd person pronouns, like how people usually refer to a city with singular pronouns with the understanding that you’re referring to a singular thing that contains multiple people. Honestly most of us don’t give a crap about pronouns in general.
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
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
Okay like. Technically they/it pronouns are the correct pronouns to use for me. BUT I need you to understand I am saying that *purely* based on my grammatical intuitions as an English speaker, not from my personal preferences regarding my own gender expression.
According to my personal preferences regarding my own gender expression, you may use whatever pronouns you want to refer to me, idgaf.
I am a fully diagnosed DID system - I used to be anti-endo until a number of months ago when I had a startling realisation that made me reconsider everything:
Restricting the definition of who a label/concept can be applied to falls under the same philosophy that the systems that oppress the disabled fall under.
That is to say - restricting access so that imagined invaders and "appropriators" won't get in.
The endo "invaders" are not oppressors in any fashion. Hating them because our oppressors "won't take us seriously because of them" is joining the war on the side of the oppressors. It's only fighting ableism until the oppressors call out a target that's easy enough to punch down on.
We, as a community, can be better, more compassionate than that. Is this truly what being "radical" is? Stop punching down. For your own sake, too. Is this really the "good fight" you want to win? To remove all the "weirdos who don't belong?"
To my friends who still feel hurt, I understand. But the people you are fighting do not want to hurt you. They just want to understand their own individual human experience. If they are angry at us, they are not in the wrong. You know that rage, too, at being told that what you are is not real, or is impossible to take seriously.
You have been taught to value an idea of a "real" experience based in science. But that science is so limited. The DSM-5 is not a bible, it is written with the intent of treating us, making us more palatable, "worth our place in society". It is not something we should be thumping to ward off "impure" things. We do not need purity. We do not need sanctity. We need safety and community, so we need to build it.
If we view endos, willos, or any type of system as a pest, we will choke ourselves with pesticide to eradicate them. This is not kindness. This is not acceptance. It is cruelty.
Do not give in to the desire to punch down. It will kill you.
We were discussing the distribution of reflexives in my Intro to Syntax class, and we were looking at a lot of the same example sentences across multiple days, and I think our (as in, our system's) syntactic intuitions around this vary by headmate, which is super exciting!
Next up on The Demons In My Head React to Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Bizarre Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez (aka H's public health and epidemiology special interests suddenly become more relevant than expected)
H (demon): Just a quick heads up, we've already read the Wikipedia page on this one. Definitely bizarre, but I don't see how it's unsolved.
Me: This is from, like, 2016. Maybe it's out of date.
*later*
Shane and Ryan: *discussing hospital's response to nurses feeling sick after exposure to Gloria*
H: I mean, they probably have a procedure in place for quarantining patients. I'd guess they just followed that.
H: I should look that up, actually...
I (also a demon): Oh no.
H: *vaguely offended/disgruntled vibes*
K (not a demon, just chilling): Dude, we know about your epidemiology hyperfixation.
Me: I don't wanna fall down another research rabbithole right now.
H: ...fine.
I: Can we get back to the show now?
*later*
H: Yeah, those seem like sensible quarantine and contamination protocols. This sounds like it could've gone a whole lot worse.
*later*
H: They didn't find any hazardous chemicals? How carefuly did they check?
Me: *rewinds 10 seconds*
H:...They only looked for two chemicals?
Me: Yeah, no, that kinda seems like a bad call, tbh. At least take some more samples so you can run a bunch of additional tests later.
*later*
Me: Has anyone bothered to run a mass spec or anything on those samples?
H: I mean, idk if you could. All our knowledge of mass spectrometry is like, contextual stuff from your dad talking about work. We don't have enough expertise to know if that would work on this kind of sample, or if there are chemicals it can't detect well.
Me: Fair point, I guess.
*later*
I: That sounds like a fun subject for a dissertation.
Me: You sound like dad.
I: Yeah, that was on purpose.
*later*
H: It's a volatile chemical, you would not still be able to smell it.
I: Also, cemeteries aren't creepy. I like cemeteries.
Me: *nods in agreement* Lots of moss.
*later*
Me: They closed the case??? That early???
H: Yeah, that seems like a stupid move from a public health standpoint.
*later*
Me: Yeah, theory number one sounds bullshit to me. I am *highly* skeptical of any claims involving "mass hysteria".
H: Yeah, fair. Sounds like they needed an explanation to tell the papers and just pulled something out of their ass.
Me: Any use of the word "hysteria" in a formal context is highly suspect to me tbh.
H: Yeah, it was definitely that pesky uterus that caused it. (/s)
Me: Exactly!
*later*
H: No identifiable agent? Multiple people referenced a chemical smell! That's a clear sign of a volatile agen... Ooh, the dancing plague!
H: *looks up dancing plague on wikipedia*
Me: What did I say about research rabbitholes? Ooh, ergot!
H: I mean, the psychogenic movement disorder thing makes sense, from what I've seen.
Me: Yeah, but that's a lot more specific than just "mass hysteria".
I: "Mass hysteria" sounds like the "ritual purposes" of weird historical events.
Me: Yeah, that and ergot.
H: All right, back to the episode!
*later*
H: The mind is a powerful thing, but also, there are multiple signs of some sort of toxic volatile compound! That clearly needs to be investigated more thoroughly!
Me: *writing this tumblr post* Sorry about how long this is going on, H is just really passionate about proper public health measures.
H: Public health is important! You can't just write off a potential problem like this!
*later*
H: *in response to theory 2* What do you know, a volatile, toxic compound with the exact properties and exposure symptoms described in the incident.
H: See, this is why you have to actually study shit like this. If medical professionals know what to watch out for, they can avoid doing stuff like accidentally creating literal poison through chemical reactions between treatments.
*later*
H: *faceplants into pillow* please tell me someone actually looked into it.
Me: I mean, if the third theory is right, that would explain why they never did. It does sound like something shady was going on.
H: Somebody should look into it! Theories one and two aren't mutually exclusive! I'm definitely leaving a comment on this.
Me: You mean you're getting me to write a comment after this.
H: You're better at explaining shit.
*later*
H: Alien abduction? Who the fuck would...? Actually fuck it people are stupid like that.
This week on The Demons in My Head React to Buzzfeed Unsolved: "The Chilling Exorcism of Anneliese Michel"
Ryan: *talking about the girl who was supposedly possessed performing feats of extreme strength*
H (demon): Ever heard of hysteric strength? Human brains are just fucking weird like that.
*later*
Me: Do you think we could crush an apple with our hands?
H: If it was rotten, maybe?
Me: I don't know, there are some pretty soft breeds out there. I think I could probably crush a red delicious.
H: *snorts* I'd like to see you try.
*later*
H: "You admit that it's possible that she was possessed." Ryan, the burden of proof is on you here. And I have not seen anywhere *near* enough evidence to prove any cause for sure.
H: Either way, the way her parents and the priest guy treated her is absolutely fucked up as all hell.
C (another demon): Humans are assholes like that.
Me: What do you think, I?
I (also a demon): I gotta agree with Shane on this one. No demonic possession involved. Just some really shitty, overly religious parents.
*later*
H: At least they (Shane and Ryan) agree that she should have been taken to the hospital, Jesus fucking Christ.
I: Yeah, you'd think maybe after the first couple of exorcisms didn't do anything to help, they'd maybe, I don't know, try something else instead of doing it again sixty-something more times. This whole story is horrifying, and not because of the potential demonic possession.
Hello! We’re making a zine/series of zines for our college’s zine fest that aim to increase awareness of plurality and the issues systems face by sharing plural experiences. In order to do this, we want to be able to spotlight the experiences of a wide variety of systems, reflecting the diversity found within the plural community.
Hence this post. We’re asking for systems to contribute stories, art, comics– whatever you feel fits the prompt and expresses your experiences best. You can ask us to put your username (either for this or another platform) next to your work to give you credit, or a system or individual headmate name or a pseudonym, or you can remain anonymous. If we end up charging money for the zines, it’ll only be enough to cover for the cost of printing: We WILL NOT be making any money off of this.
We’re planning on making a small booklet to explain/define common terms in the plural community, so you don’t need to worry about explaining those. Other than that, we’re planning on making a series of zines addressing different topics related to plurality. Each issue will have a separate post asking for submissions.
Each issue will have three main “sections” for contributions: a section for stories based on a prompt, a shorter “question-of-the-week/month/issue”, and a more general section for plural art (visual art, poetry, memes, comics not relating to the prompt, etc.), either related to that issue’s topic or just about plurality in general. You may respond to as many or as few of these as you wish.
The first issue’s topic is Syscovery.
Prompt: Tell the story of your/your system’s syscovery, whatever that means to you.
Question: If you could offer one piece of advice to someone questioning if they’re plural, what would it be?
Art can be either related to the issue’s topic or not.
1) For the story/prompt section, about 1-6 medium sized paragraphs. We're planning on making the zine out of 8 1/2 by 11 sheets of paper folded hamburger style, and it basically just needs to fit on 1-2 zine pages at a reasonable font size. How flexible the upper limit can be will depend on how many submissions we get. For the question, that can be anything from a single word up to about one medium-size paragraph, taking up at most about 1/4 of a zine page.
2) The "story" and "question" sections are meant to be prose, with maybe the option for a comic provided it can be formatted to fit the space requirements described above. Poetry would be in the more general plural art section. Prose unrelated to the topic or question could also go in the general art section provided it's not more than a couple zine pages. If anyone wants to submit anything longer we could probably work out a way to serialize it and/or showcase a preview then a have a qr code or something linking to an online full text.
3) There's not a super hard deadline at this point. We need to get the zine done (including printing it) by March 28th, so we'll probably call it either around the week of March 14th-21st (we'll try to wait longer if there aren't as many submissions), or whenever we get what feels like a reasonable amount of submissions to fill out a zine.
This is sorta a new thing for us, and also we're still figuring out, like, how much interest there is in submitting stuff, so at this point everything is pretty flexible while we figure that out.
We're hoping to make this project a regular/ongoing thing, especially if it goes well, so we might have more concrete guidelines at some point in the future, but for now we're sorta just playing it by ear.
Hello! We’re making a zine/series of zines for our college’s zine fest that aim to increase awareness of plurality and the issues systems face by sharing plural experiences. In order to do this, we want to be able to spotlight the experiences of a wide variety of systems, reflecting the diversity found within the plural community.
Hence this post. We’re asking for systems to contribute stories, art, comics– whatever you feel fits the prompt and expresses your experiences best. You can ask us to put your username (either for this or another platform) next to your work to give you credit, or a system or individual headmate name or a pseudonym, or you can remain anonymous. If we end up charging money for the zines, it’ll only be enough to cover for the cost of printing: We WILL NOT be making any money off of this.
We’re planning on making a small booklet to explain/define common terms in the plural community, so you don’t need to worry about explaining those. Other than that, we’re planning on making a series of zines addressing different topics related to plurality. Each issue will have a separate post asking for submissions.
Each issue will have three main “sections” for contributions: a section for stories based on a prompt, a shorter “question-of-the-week/month/issue”, and a more general section for plural art (visual art, poetry, memes, comics not relating to the prompt, etc.), either related to that issue’s topic or just about plurality in general. You may respond to as many or as few of these as you wish.
The first issue’s topic is Syscovery.
Prompt: Tell the story of your/your system’s syscovery, whatever that means to you.
Question: If you could offer one piece of advice to someone questioning if they’re plural, what would it be?
Art can be either related to the issue’s topic or not.
1) For the story/prompt section, about 1-6 medium sized paragraphs. We're planning on making the zine out of 8 1/2 by 11 sheets of paper folded hamburger style, and it basically just needs to fit on 1-2 zine pages at a reasonable font size. How flexible the upper limit can be will depend on how many submissions we get. For the question, that can be anything from a single word up to about one medium-size paragraph, taking up at most about 1/4 of a zine page.
2) The "story" and "question" sections are meant to be prose, with maybe the option for a comic provided it can be formatted to fit the space requirements described above. Poetry would be in the more general plural art section. Prose unrelated to the topic or question could also go in the general art section provided it's not more than a couple zine pages. If anyone wants to submit anything longer we could probably work out a way to serialize it and/or showcase a preview then a have a qr code or something linking to an online full text.
3) There's not a super hard deadline at this point. We need to get the zine done (including printing it) by March 28th, so we'll probably call it either around the week of March 14th-21st (we'll try to wait longer if there aren't as many submissions), or whenever we get what feels like a reasonable amount of submissions to fill out a zine.
This is sorta a new thing for us, and also we're still figuring out, like, how much interest there is in submitting stuff, so at this point everything is pretty flexible while we figure that out.
We're hoping to make this project a regular/ongoing thing, especially if it goes well, so we might have more concrete guidelines at some point in the future, but for now we're sorta just playing it by ear.
Hello! We’re making a zine/series of zines for our college’s zine fest that aim to increase awareness of plurality and the issues systems face by sharing plural experiences. In order to do this, we want to be able to spotlight the experiences of a wide variety of systems, reflecting the diversity found within the plural community.
Hence this post. We’re asking for systems to contribute stories, art, comics– whatever you feel fits the prompt and expresses your experiences best. You can ask us to put your username (either for this or another platform) next to your work to give you credit, or a system or individual headmate name or a pseudonym, or you can remain anonymous. If we end up charging money for the zines, it’ll only be enough to cover for the cost of printing: We WILL NOT be making any money off of this.
We’re planning on making a small booklet to explain/define common terms in the plural community, so you don’t need to worry about explaining those. Other than that, we’re planning on making a series of zines addressing different topics related to plurality. Each issue will have a separate post asking for submissions.
Each issue will have three main “sections” for contributions: a section for stories based on a prompt, a shorter “question-of-the-week/month/issue”, and a more general section for plural art (visual art, poetry, memes, comics not relating to the prompt, etc.), either related to that issue’s topic or just about plurality in general. You may respond to as many or as few of these as you wish.
The first issue’s topic is Syscovery.
Prompt: Tell the story of your/your system’s syscovery, whatever that means to you.
Question: If you could offer one piece of advice to someone questioning if they’re plural, what would it be?
Art can be either related to the issue’s topic or not.
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