shifter

comic blog yay they/he/it | shapeshifter

[shapesys]

✦ hi! we are the shape system (alias for this blog only). they/he/it pronouns! you can call us shape i guess

✦ we're median & dont like origin labels, but we'd say we're mixed origins (mostly traumagenic). we're nondisordered also.

✦ please don't take us too seriously, we're very lame and just one guys on the internet making stupid drawings

roster:

others:

azure 💤 now inactive

cherry 📚 fragment + subfacet of red

emerald 🧪 fragment

despite our name we have no shape-related theming whatsoever lol (as it comes from shapeshifter)

stances/whatever

we don't have a specific dni in place because theres no way we could enforce it. just dont be weird or mean?

that being said we tend to block radqueers & adjacent

also we support all plurality and are so sick of the fighting!!! we won't be hostile to either side though. and we're trying not to engage in it anymore so

✦ we prefer plural terminology as opposed to system terminology but 'shape sys' is easier to say lol. also gonna say again we are nondisordered and do not consider our plurality to be adjacent to CDDs at all, and consider it to be a seperate phenomenon.

✦ also, this blog used to be more personal but we've since anonymised our posts & will now only post more personal stuff to a seperate blog. mostly because it felt like too many eyes were on us lol. if you remember our names thats fine we arent too worried about it

[leathersys]

IT'S SPAMBOT AWARENESS POST TIME!

it looks like spambots are back on tumblr in droves. so, here's a reminder:

anyone that tags you in a post or comment/sends you an ask/DMs you saying your account has been restricted is a BOT!

anyone that tags you in a post/DMs you/sends an ask/makes a comment with a donation link is a BOT!

anyone that DMs you out of the blue with something like "Hello" or any other vague message that you've never interacted with before is a BOT!

anyone that comments under your post saying they want to buy your art is a BOT!

anyone that comments under your post saying that they can't DM you but have something important to tell you is a BOT! no matter how trustworthy they look!

anyone that DMs you/sends an ask/etc with a link to an OnlyFans or similarly NSFW link is a BOT!

the same goes for accounts posting nothing but IRL NSFW material! BOTS!

do not interact with these accounts! do not click on any links they post! THEY ARE SCAMMERS! report them as bots and block them.

[shapesys]

everybody jokes about plural comics always having the all black ominous figure with funky eyes/mouths but. may i propose to you the mysterious grey figure with a star shaped head

[leathersys-sideblog]

@shapesys

THIS IS SO PEAK!!!!! WE LOOK AWESOME!!! we're kinda giving sonic and shadow and i really like that..... YIPPEE fanart!!!!!!!

[shapesys]

SEIS SIEEETTEEEEE SEIS SIETEEEE

[journal-factory-exploded]

Happy pride to any plural folk out there! Especially for my fellow medians :D

[shapesys]

sorry guys being genderfluid isnt real actually . you gotta be plural instead

[leathersys]

[shapesys]

shapesys vent art counter 2

[shapesys]

inspired by the0peratingsystem posting something similar, our syscovery was kicked off by a gacha youtuber being cancelled for allegedly scamming people and being accused of faking DID

[leathersys]

so... we may have made something.

have YOU ever thought like this?????? i know WE hate the current plural diagnostics!!!! so! WE MADE OUR OWN!!!!!!!

it's 44 questions long, you can receive a total of 50 points!

it's unfortunately hosted through google forms for now unless we find something better...

Plural Checklist

*Due to how Google Forms is built, your "System Percentage" is shown as your amount of correct answers. Plural systems typically get a score

we are not doctors, do not take your result as medical advice.

feel free to reblog with your result!

note: if you're a system and got under 60%, let us know! the 60% minimum is based solely off of, like, five non-system takers. we're working on getting a bigger sample size!

[shapesys]

not the best trio to have cofront i'll tell you that

[shapesys]

me when the derealisation also depersonalises me ? .? why did they do this

[the-indigo-symphony]

One of my more minor gripes about the "serial killer alter" trope is that I think there is opportunity for genuine, well-made stories about a system that kills. You could potentially write some really interesting stories involving internal conflict over murder in a system – for instance, if a system killed once in self-defense, and one of the headmates is keeping that memory from the rest of them. Or if an alter came back from dormancy to find out the world's gone to shit and everyone knows "them" as the one willing to kill to protect their group of survivors. Hell, fuck it, have some kind of "no, I'm being literal when I say the version of me that you knew isn't present anymore, this isn't some metaphor for how I've become ~evil~" conflict! So long as it's done in a way that gives the system in question nuance and reason for their actions, I'd be willing to see where the story is going with this!

But nooooooo, it's all stock-standard "this one alter kills others for no good reason" shit with a dash of "don't look too long into the implications that this plural superhero/anti-hero just killed a bunch of people, just accept that they do this" hand-waving that makes people think we're going to stab them if they look away for too long. It's always "this imposter is pretending to be our loved one for nefarious reasons" angst and never "oh shit we treated this alter like shit for just being different than the host" angst. There's not even any originality smh smh. We've already gotten a thousand of these horror plots that use plurality as a one-size-fits-all villain cap; I'm sure horror, whump, and angst writers can do better if they really want to write about a system that kills others

[the0peratingsystem]

This reminds me:

I've had this story idea for a bit about a plural gentleman thief, like stereotypical "robbing expensive jewelry from museum" kind of guy, except they're a system. And none of the "Oh, some of the system members don't know the others are criminals!", none of that. They're all in on it like a one-body crime family and all have different skills useful to their "occupation". The drama would come from stuff like "Oh no! The guy who knows how to pick locks hates flashing lights, so he won't front unless we turn off the alarm!"

Okay, maybe there's one guy with severe dissociative amnesia who's (new) purpose is that he genuinely doesn't know what he was doing if they get questioned by the police. But he's also in on it, he just constantly forgets. So they have to figure out how to let him know without leaving very obvious "Hey, don't forget we're a top tier robber :)" stickers around the house.

And the police can never string together their crimes because they all have different mannerisms, writing styles, ways of speaking and modus operandi. It must be a group of thieves! How are they so well organized?! But the trick is they all share one body. They're not even like stereotypical bad guy personas. Guy who picks locks is like a pokemon introject or something

[shapesys]

lol got a funny ask of someone tryna syscourse with me but idk if i should post the response i drafted. i dont want people to come here and argue or misinterpret shit.

[leathersys]

"other"

transcript under cut

"i'm not real.

none of this is real.

if i disappeared, no one would miss me.

because i don't exist.

i'm just wearing their skin.

they don't care about me.

they're just waiting with bated breath for them to come back.

i understand, you know. i'm not their friend.

but i'll keep playing along.

until the one you really care about returns."

[shapesys]

OH DAMN I DID NOT NOTICE ... thank yuo guys for 50 followers ya y