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[plural-confusion]

The [WORKING TITLE] System

bodily white, chronically ill, TME adult. Headcount at 9(???), most are nonhuman. system origin is unknown and we don't care. working on slightly more detailed intros for all of us.

Current frequent fronters:

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alter tags

includes links to more detailed bios written by each of us. feel free to send us questions!

#🫧 Lichen (he/him) - human w/ axolotl fursona

#🖌️ Ink (they/it) - Vessel [Hollow Knight]

#👑 Icarus (it/he) - tiny wooden doll prince

#🐈‍⬛ The Meowerrr (he/it) - tuxedo housecat

#🩸 Pyre (she/her) - western-style dragon

#🐐 Ralsei (she/they) - Ralsei [Deltarune]

#🩵🩷 Silly (he/she/they) - bonded subsystem

#🔪 Kris (they/them) - Kris [Deltarune]

#❓ for when we're not sure who thunk it

Sideblogs

@syskids-dot-blog is a sideblog for our younger headmates to have their own space. The twins are the most active there along with Ink on occasion

Kris has a sideblog but it's entirely for them to vent and have unhealthy coping mechanisms so it will not be linked here. :)

Our Comic

Mostly drawn by Ink when they're fronting. don't expect any kind of schedule. It can also be found under #plural comics or #our art

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BYI:

• We are a questioning system and still learning and discovering a lot about ourselves. advice and support is welcome but if you interact with us aggressively or try to fakeclaim us we will block you immediately.

• This is a sideblog. we will not like or follow back to avoid connecting this to our main blog. this may change once we're more certain in our plurality.

• We're bodily adults who experience adult things. we may talk about said adult things here.

• We are not here for discourse. we will not talk about discourse much if at all, however, we support all forms of plurality and that is not up for discussion.

• Transandrophobia isn't real you just hate trans women. grow up.

[plural-confusion]

homesick for a place and people that have never existed

[plural-confusion]

It feels weird that it's been almost 4 months since I formed, that's like a quarter of a year. weird.

[plural-confusion]

breaking news: kris deltarune fictive refuses to use conditioner unless it smells like apples

[cest-mallory]

so we've been in plural spaces for something like 4 years at this point.

and for the last year and a half we've been working on an essay on and off.

and that 7500 word behemoth has finally exited our drafts and is online now.

it's trying to negotiate how to talk about the thorniest parts of plural identity. i think we expressed some useful ideas and articulated a good starting point for having these kinds of discussions.

up now at:

An informal plurality handbook for systems and their aspiring friends.

genuinely interested in productive engagement with the topics therein, but like, make sure ur actually responding to things i said if you're going to try and argue with us on this. it's kind of one long extended argument deliberately building on itself and the similarities and differences between each example.

but just to head off any bad faith readings:

wait did you just say it's ok to identify as an "afab transfem"?

in discussions around "who can identify as transfem" i have sometimes seen plural systems pipe up with "well im transfem but my headmate is transmasc isn't that the same" or similar.

what i have tried to argue here is that these are two entirely different usages of the word (im a linguist, and thus being a descriptivist about this). i very much endorse a strong transfeminist definition of "transfemininity" or "transfeminisation" that centers gender assignment (not necessarily at birth, this is a misnomer in AGAB language, and sometimes pointed to as a reason to reject it entirely by some intersex people who's assignment was changed later in life, but the question is simply what is socially pressured onto you). i think a problem is caused when people who are using this language more metaphorically come into spaces where it is describing a social reality or systems of power and treat this purely as a matter of "identities being valid".

yet there are also a number of reasons a plural system's gender identity/ies may be complicated, and i don't think "it feels kind of like im the other kind of trans because i have to work to present like our assigned gender/i introjected a specific character/etc." is a harmful thing to articulate. what matters is being clear about the lines between internal identity and social position, and what language you are using where and why.

same question but this time about race, are u endorsing racefaking?

similar answer. some people's headmates look different to their bodies. sometimes that includes racialised features. this is different from "race" the socially realised construct. be conscious of the differences and think about how you talk about them.

im obviously not endorsing misleading people about ur race online as a white person lol.

[sleepingdragoninn]

new guest addendum!

short URL is sys.guide/shorthanding

contains discussion of sensitive topics (sexuality, kink, oppression, abuse)

[stunfiskz]

[57papercranes]

I feel like Kris probably might have gone mute fully after what happened with Dess and the bunker and that’s why Toriel took them to the psychologist… and they’re probably still selectively mute/generally very quiet to this day which is why Noelle was soo weirded out when Kris was talking so much

[cross-applesauce]

A lot of people write Kris texting as a shit-eating irony poisoned teen who uses the minimum words possible, and that's fine and all.

But what if Kris types normally online, maybe even over-enthusiastically, because just like a lot of autistic children who are treated as "cold" and "monotone," Kris is just better at expressing themselves online than they are in person.

What about that

[summertimerecordsys]

green and yellow are co-conscious or blending often, so yellow (who is an animal alter) was able to hear one of my partners say this and immediately decide that yes, puppy do want walk

[syscest]

feel free to ignore bc this isn’t a poll blog, but what do other systems consider birthdays for their fictives? the first day they appeared in-sys? when the system first encountered them in source? characters canon birthday? when the character first appeared in source? or do people just not assign birthdays to their headmates maybe in the outlier here

ok yeah sure lets have a one off poll,

plural systems, do you treat your birthdays as:

the day your body was born

the day your system figured out you were plural

the day you specifically unrepressed/appeared in your system/etc.

some other important date related to your identity e.g. a fictional source

Voting ended onFeb 23

[sillyandquiteawkward]

shout out to the sex repulsed asexuals. the asexuals who are asexual from trauma. the asexuals who will not be at the orgy handing out water. the asexuals who are not writing the kinkiest smut youve ever read. i love you.

[sillyandquiteawkward]

you don't ever have to have sex. it's not what makes us human, sex does not define us. you are not abusive for having boundaries nor are you needing to be fixed. you have worth beyond what you can do in bed. I love you.

[plural-confusion]

We don't know who but someone in here is really fucking productive and likes controlling the body without fully fronting to do shit.

[redwood-suite]

Does this happen to anyone else

[plural-confusion]

I don't think we've been super active here recently especially with the comic,

it's mostly because it's only been me and Kris fronting for a majority of the time and when anyone else does it's been really difficult to figure out who they are.

we think that kris may be some kind of gatekeeper but it's not really on purpose. they just really could not stand how loud everything was in here.

[justanotherchangeling]

I love you alters who are cis in headspace but functionally trans due to the body

I love you alters who are trans in headspace but functionally cis due to the body and find that uncomfortable

I love you alters who are so different from the body in headspace that you can't front comfortably

I love you alters with "weird" dysphoria over things most people wouldn't think of

I love you trans hosts who still don't like the body even if it is "yours"

I love you alters with different athletic abilities who feel dysphoric about the body's mobility

I love you alters who don't care about the body and see it as a vessel

Alters I love you

[plural-culture-is]

Plural culture is hmmmm what did we tell that person our name was? Could have sworn it was our main name but... what if...

"Oh hey *name of antisocial part who never EVER willingly talks to anyone*. It's so nice to see you again."

What.

-Aurora

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[harpsichordkeys]