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Welcome to Our Blog!

[Last Updated: 06/03/2023]

We are DG (they/them), a polyfrag plural system! Bodily we are an adult, and most of our system is comprised of nonhuman entities.

This is where we will post most of our alterhuman related things, including a variety of post types that just fit our individual niches. If you want to see an extended version of our DNI, please check the link in our sidebar (on desktop) or check it out [here]. The truncated version can be found below the read more here, but the extended version offers a bit more context.

Because we're such a large system, it doesn't really make sense to introduce anyone. The only person with a sideblog is Heit (he/him) - @demonicgod is his sideblog for alterhuman stuff. Go check it out if you want to.

Our spirituality sideblog: @pluralgang-practitioners

Sky Squad's Digikin Blog: @apocalymons

We also don't bite and are okay with people asking respectful questions. Be nice or your ass gets blocked~

Common Tags:

#systuff - Self explanatory. System stuff.

#musings - Stuff where we talk either in the body or tags.

#kinstuff - Self explanatory. Kin stuff.

Okay! That's it! Short DNI below:

#new pinned even though we've had this blog for five years #-if11 #i'm finishing this up because i have nothing better to do and am avoiding spoilers by not scrolling dashes rn #-va

i love how being too opinionated about a thing is a signifier that there might be someone else lurking in the system

#musings #systuff #“wow i paid attention for two seconds to the legends za playthroughs i was watching”#“why do i feel so angry”#i can articulate it from the “lit prof wannabe” standpoint but the emotional disconnect is wild to notice #-sky

paluimbel

Interested in helping spread plural awareness?

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.

reticent-fate

ohhh a few quick questions:

what length prose are you looking for?

are you accepting both prose and poetry?

when is the deadline for submissions?

#systuff #tangentially ig #this looks neat #asked my questions in the body of the post so they're more easily visible and answerable #i've never actually participated in a zine #which is to say this probably has all the trappings of showing that i think more in terms of like.#lit mags #LMAO #-sky

casually put on an ep of transformers legends of the microns (karyuudo fansubs; dubbed as armada) and i noticed a fascinating translation difference that did, in fact, cause me to have to look up when the karyuudo fansubs were done

specifically, the translation of shimata to "slag" in ep 4. i might have the jp word wrong but i think that's what it is? i hear it in a lot of anime translated somewhere along the lines of "it's no use" or something more contextually detailed. or like, "in a pinch" i guess? idk our japanese is still a lot rough around the edges.

just a fascinating little instance of "dubtitles" in a transformers series, where the rest of the subs are so far extremely faithful to the words being used in the original.

(i think it would even be disingenuous to call it an instance of "dubtitles" because the most egregious examples i can think of re: dubtitles are like. the official subs of kizuna and 02tb. you hear someone saying "tailmon" and the subs are trying to desperately convince you that's "gatomon." "yamato?" who's that? only "matt" here, i swear!)

#musings #-q

Back in a Transformers kick (rewatched Prime, watched Cyberverse and Earthspark for the first time) and remembered there are a bunch of tie in novels, especially a whole trilogy(?) of Aligned continuity shit and like

wow there just is not an official e-book OR audiobook, is there?

#musings #we're also continuing the long chipping away of IDW comics #i think we're on phase 3 rn?? we've almost finished it up #i know we need to check out the skybound comics too but vol 1 didn't impress me a lot so i'm feeling lukewarm about it #but everyone raves about in the transformers tags so i'll still give it a try #also i think earthrise is probably the best looking transformers show we've gotten like??? ever???#prime holds up for the most part and earthspark has its moments of weird animation #but i think 3d animation has also come a long way in the time since #the inclusion of 2d animation looks like a natural extension of everything going on #also whoever storyboarded i think knew what's up because there are a lot of really pretty shots #i just finished s3 and judgment has a lot of those #mixed bag though i think considering the wasted potential of the decepticons but that's par for the course on earthspark commentary #-arca

squeakitties

#bwic #tc #mega #cyc #sw #bwr #enjoy the psychic damage lads #-sky

incohorace

what studying literature feels like

#sky #apomon #apo #i forget what his tag is here ah well #-sky

also 🔙 — how many headmates have you had in front at once?

damn that's a good question

i don't know off the top of my head but i know quite recently we had a painfully blurry/switchy/crowded front event where we capped out at 6 people in front

i think those are baby numbers compared to the shit the two hosts before me dealt with though. god bless the patience of questy and heit. couldn't be me.

-sky

#systuff #musings #ask game #-sky

🍃 — what colour has the most headmates associated with it?

it would have to be either red or purple, though i think my accidental digimon takeover may have brought way more purple LMFAO

used to be that red was solidly in the lead

-sky

#ask game #systuff #musings #-sky

📴 ?

📴 — how often does the fronting group (however you define that) change?

for the purposes of this ask i'll define "fronting group" as the selection of headmates that fronts in a given period of time.

it used to be that we changed fronting groups fairly often, but since february 2024 (when we got medicated for our adhd), the digimon group kind of took over the system lmfao.

for example, it would often rotate between different fronting groups once every month or so (maybe more often).

i think the digimon fronting group has two to three distinct subgroups within it, meanwhile, which rotate once every month (like the overall subsystem's used to). this would be:

skymons (me and the digimon that share source memories and data with me; this includes folks like archive, satty, and glut)

apocrew (some overlap with the skymons through archive; any of the apocalymons that we've introjected into our system. by default any apocalymon that splits into the system is partnered to me, so i tend to also be a shared element)

satellites (a much more free-range group that includes everything from my partner digimon, shade, to anyone that just happens to be a digimon fictive; defined here as satellites because somehow or another they end up in my quantum timeline bullshit)

-sky

#ask game #systuff #musings #-sky

godgapple

ask game for polyfragmented/larger systems because theres barely any that apply to us:

🏥 — how many hosts have you had since your syscovery?

➕️ — largest subsystem?

🔙 — how many headmates have you had in front at once?

🍃 — what colour has the most headmates associated with it?

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 — how many in-sys families do you have?

↔️ — do you have any groups that arent sisasystems?

➗️ — how do you divide headmates into groups?

ℹ️ — what source would you say you have the most headmates from?

🆔️ — if you have a collective identity, how many headmates dont identify with it?

🎓 — how do you schedule things?

👨‍💼 — do you have some kind of officer/person in charge of the rules to enforce rules?

🫦 — who has the most bitches?

🧴 — how many polycules are there?

🥜 — whats the biggest group in-system?

📴 — how often does the fronting group (however you define that) change?

practice reblog karma (send asks to the person you reblogged it from and people who reblog it from you) and please send us asks with these questions. please.

#systuff #ask game

figures we escape the orbit of digimon (at least temporarily) and immediately get run over by multiple sentient airplanes

-breezy

#systuff #musings #br #this is in fact about fate deciding it's a good idea to watch earthspark on netflix #then it taking most of the idiots in front half a day to realize our megs fictive just like popped into front #systuff means that i am now having a great one called #“the 14 year old anger holder child is having to be held back from getting us fired by two tired old men”#(including a 600 foot tall isocohedron that is entropy incarnate and also just. yeah helilopter gramps.)#not exactly complaining mind you but jesus christ it's always a party with us #-br

cautioncreatures

I'm finally starting to see other Cybertronians around or at least beings from the transformers universe but like WHERE IS EVERYONE????? For the love of Primus come out we wanna talk to everyone so badly cause girl no one else can relate. WE HAVE SO MUCH TO SAYYYYY PLEAAAASE

(sincerely a partial Jazz introject and a system who's discovering all their tf headmates)

fellow-queer-birdguy

OMG ANOTHER CYBERTRONIAN!!!!!

(Big hello from a system who also has a bunch of tf headmates!!)

cautioncreatures

Yo!! Nice to meet ya, kid! We're still finding everyone in our head, but it's nice to see more of us coming outta the wood work here 😎

#systuff #we got a few robots in here but they're only as active as we pester them to be #or the hyperfixation bugs catch us #i ain't tryna stir them but the brain is probably leaning towards a mini transformers fix since we still gotta finish IDW #me and the other digimon mighta taken over the joint but we also took over right as we were having a transformers phase last year #so the synapses mighta linked us #only thing is i dunno how much the bots are interested in chatting with others so much as just being relieved to see others #which is fairly funny considering the premise of the franchise #anyways #//salutes//#wishin ya the best of luck finding more botfolk #we'll be here if anyone comes out of the woodwork #-satty

mangotr0nn

step 1. imagine a megatron

mangotr0nn

step 2. megatron in your head. enjoy

risenfromkaon

@funnier-as-a-system

#mega #is that his fucking tag???#i have zero clue #anyways #woe to be any of the cybertronians suffering the period in which they split to our system #i was just thinking today about how fucking confused questy was to find a goddamn jet parked in a part of headspace #that mind you has NO WAY INSIDE for anything the size of a jet or cybertronian #anyways sometimes i accidentally drag megatron out because i'm still trying to finish the IDW comics #and my digimon hyperfixation is closer to that roche limit than i would like to admit #-sky

rachaelismad

There seems to be very little overlap between the schizophrenic and plural communities. So, something I don't think I've seen talked about pretty much at all, is when your Headmate believes in a delusion, but you don't. Like, how do I explain to someone that I don't think this delusion is true, but I also have a person in my head who 100% does believe it is true, and is reacting accordingly.

then that comes into the whole thing of you versus you're headmates emotions. Where I can very clearly tell that I'm not afraid of this thing, but someone in my head is, so it's this sort of detached fear that I am not feeling, but someone else is, but is still slightly affecting me in terms of physical responses, if that makes sense.

#systuff #oh man i'm actually so curious about the intersection of schizospec and plural shit #we have a friend that's schizophrenic but not plural and we relate on so much shit that it means our next therapy sesh is gonna be uh #interesting #anyways whether or not we're schizospec is confusing #and we've just been assuming this shit was like ocd thought loops but that aside #this is something we deeply relate to #just can't fucking tell if it's thought loops or delusions #(and am not sure how useful the distinction is or if there is one because this is a very new research hole)#idk i know these tags aren't worded the most tactfully especially since i am still learning about schizospec shit but like #yeah #yeah.#orz #-sky

skydigiblogs

okay so since tumblr is having behind the scenes shitfits, we bit the bullet and made both a dreamwidth and pillowfort account

i'll be looking into crossposting my longer written works from here to dreamwidth at apocalymon, which is the same username i'll be under on pillowfort, Apocalymon.

if anyone has any advice for migrating an ask blog to either of these platforms, i'm looking into doing that for @ask-apocrewlymons . DW has multiple icons but i'm not sure how well it'll handle posting images or getting community interaction.

i digress, i'll have this in the rotation every week or so to make sure folks know where else to find me if the hellsite does pull a titanic.

'til then, i will be playing the violin with you all on deck.

-sky

#musings