asks and submissions open!! (avatar ID: a light brown bunny sleeping with a blanket over it. text on the picture reads: "it has gotten better before/and it will again". end ID) (header ID: a twitter post by owch @/lilowch reading "just got my disassociates degree". end ID)
hello!! this is a blog for protector culture and experiences, for plurals!! inspired by blogs like @plural-culture-is @introject-culture-is @multiplicity-positivity @caretaker-culture-is check them out!!
this blog is endo-safe. please don't bring discourse. sysmeds aren't welcome
to send in an ask about protector culture, just start with "protector culture is" and say whatever u want!!
you can ask for anything to be tagged for any reason (as in, tagging for triggers, which will be in the format of "tw [blank]") (trigger tagged things will be listed in the tagging system post)
this blog is run by @couchie
tagging system, taken anon sign-offs and trigger tags: (link)
you can take an emoji as an anon and we will tag it the same way we tag non-anon asks. you can take the same emojis as the mods since you will be tagged as, for example, "💕 anon"
posting as asks come for now. if they start being more in number, we will set up a queue
click on here for the spotify protector playlist link!
this blog is for fun and for sharing our experiences!! hope you like it :)
protector culture is gettin a second source to better protect innerworld. so now i’m from a sitcom and also a really minor character from tma and i can go all spirally at will. ain’t that just the way.
welcome to demigender-culture-is! i'm molly, tyler, robyn or slushii (she/they, @live-through-thiss) and i have been running this blog since july 2021, during the inital influx of culture-is blogs. although i do not post often, i do try to keep this blog active.
before i delve into the most well known demigender terms, i want to point out other active culture-is blogs for anybody who wants to find them! (if you want to be added, removed or untagged, please let me know!)
this list may never be fully up to date or accurate; i found out there is a culture-is catalogue @cultureiscatalogue !
(last updated: 22/06/2026; i cannot have more than 50 mentions per post, so some of these cannot be tagged directly. additionally, i may need to add to this post from time to time, and as a result some blogs will likely be retagged and notified. apologies if either of these happen to you)
- (some) demigenders -
note that you can identify as any demigender regardless of your assigned gender at birth.
i am putting the identities under a read more because it is a lengthy section of this post. at the very bottom i have included some sources that i used, for if anyone would like to read more about these :)
demigender
feeling partially, but not fully, like any gender. demigender and deminonbinary share the same flag, although there are some variants of the deminonbinary flag, one of which i will post with the deminonbinary explanation. the flag was created by deactivated blog @/transrants.
demigirl
feeling partially, but not fully, like a girl/woman. both flags were created by transrants.
demiboy
feeling partially, but not fully, like a boy/man. both flags were created by transrants.
deminonbinary
feeling partially, but not fully, nonbinary/enby. as stated earlier, demigender and deminonbinary share the same flag. deminonbinary has a few variants, including the second flag below. both flags were created by transrants.
demiagender
feeling partially, but not fully, agender. the first flag was made by enbygsrd, while the second was created by goatsjourney.
demigenderqueer
feeling partially, but not fully, like a gender outside of the man/woman binary. it is unknown who designed this flag.
demifluid
someone whose gender is partially fluid with the other part(s) being static. both flags were created by the deactivated blog @/pride-flags-for-us.
demiflux
someone whose gender partially fluctuates with the other part(s) being static; this differs from 'demifluid' as '-flux' indicates that one of the genders is neutral. it is unknown who designed this flag.
sources:
pages i used for many reasons, such as for flags, definitions, and oldest known information about certain identities.
the demigender page on the nonbinary wiki, which also shows variants of a few demigender flags, and lists some notable people (both in real life and in fiction) who use any of the identities listed above. (nonbinary wiki link)
the nonbinary wiki also has a gallery of demigender flags. (nonbinary wiki link)
the lgbtqia wiki has also compiled some demigenders. i used these as partial sources too. (lgbtqia wiki link)
the demiboy, demigirl and deminonbinary flags. though i did find these in my other sources, i am linking the post here because transrants, the creator of the demiboy and demigirl flags, has since deactivated, though druxydeity, who made the deminonbinary flag, is still active. (tumblr post link)
five demigender definitions from 2014. the nonbinary wiki used this as a source in some instances. (web archive link)
finally, @/pride-color-schemes has made some posts on demigenders with their alternate flags; demigender, demigirl, demiboy, deminonbinary, demifluid, demiflux and demigenderqueer.
the lgbtqia and nonbinary wikis have brief history sections and plenty of sources of their own as well :)
protector culture is: you have expended all of our energy today. we can not switch tasks. no we will not do one more chore for you, you have expended all our energy. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.
MEAN protector culture is hearing your parts BITCH and WHINE about how unproductive we were today boo hoo we deserve to die :(((( and going FUCK you, I'll do it MYSELF. and proceeding to organize our entire closet and wash our clothes and organize our bag and prepare our outfit for tomorrow and work on our battle jacket because boo hoo everyone else is SOOO depressed, while I do things out of SPITE.
FUCK the rest of you, you BETTER be grateful, I HATE my job!!!!!! /j
Persecutor-protector : a headmate who has both persecutor and protector traits, or who identifies with both roles, either alternating or simultaneously.
protector culture is being sourced from a sitcom but now you feel like some kind of scared and angry dog. i’m tired and i’m sick of being surrounded by the people who hurt us. one day i’ll get us out of here.
not protector culture but i just saw the blog's pfp & for a brief moment, confused the bunny for a budgett's frog. these frogs are the funniest looking frogs in existence. look them up. you will laugh.
oh my god. coin purse of an animal
[ID: Three pictures of a pale green frog with small eyes pointing outwardly in different directions and a wide mouth. End ID]
Protector culture is hearing an alter/crew member (the term I use in place of alter) that is also a source/canonmate talk about his source memories and going "damn, you lived like that?"
(external) protector culture is me (host) telling my friend the protector exists, it lurks for the whole like. 20 minutes that my friend is asking about it and if they can meet it. it goes into confront as soon as we walk into a crowded hallway and starts behaving as a crowd buffer walking right beside my friend
hey! not a protector culture thing but we recently talked about being a system to our therapist and we're so lost on how to even introduce all the system members, we don't really have a good support system (hah) who knows we're plural to help with this so we were wondering if you or anyone here had advice or tips 🥲
the last time we went to a therapist we were 13 ^^; so we dont really have much advice about this that we personally used. one i can think of is if u keep any logs of your members, you can send that document to the therapist and wait for the next session to see what they say about it? sjhsjshd
Protector culture is only now realising youre a protector as you fight with the others to do things beneficial for you guys, yeah I dont want labels but damn bitches you live like this?? Stop!
hh, protector culture is snapping at them someone that means a lot to the system because there were kind of triggering my in-sys partner and not letting me do what i needed to. and now i feel like i fucked things up for the rest of the system.
protector/persecutor role is well FUCK yall if you dont want me to help actually. like dear God I am just trying to help us and they go "but its hard to do those :(" FUCK YOUUUUUU if you want us to get better youd work as hard as me!!
(i understand that this is an unfair way of putting this. i simply am tired of my job and am attempting to vent here instead of taking it out on them as mych)
