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modrinth.com/user/sleepingdragoninn aka "S". aroace transfem plural furries. they/them. mid twenties. writers for sys.guide

[sleepingdragoninn]

A System's Guide

[This website is] our attempt to write an introduction to plurality that also feels like a welcome ... to those for whom it feels like a welcome is long overdue.

We're plural, as are our co-writers, and many of our friends. Their feelings, and the realities of their personal experiences, are what line these pages.

An informal plurality handbook for systems and their aspiring friends.

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[patricia-taxxon]

you WILL develop an all-encompassing & unconditional sense of warmth and empathy for your younger self (no longer asking)

[critterchaos]

it isnt the same but i honestly wanna give my younger self a hug and let her cry into me. they really need it.

[patricia-taxxon]

they're still here

[maskt]

puppy to puppy communication

[patricia-taxxon]

im gonna cry

[critterchaos]

im also gonna cry a lot

[ratliker1917]

I feel a lot of people have moral systems that are completely detached from centering avoiding real harm to real people and are mostly based on completely arbitrary obsessions with symbolic and abstract "wrongs" and gut feelings, and then they join progressive politics and make an absolute fucking mess out of everything with their weird little moralist obsessions that actually don't help improve anybody's life or serve any purpose besides making a few people feel morally superior. This is why for example anti-kink politics went from having a pretense of being about protecting vulnerable women from abusive men to just being very blatantly "if you have ever done kink at all you're ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew".

[ratliker1917]

I think if you cannot describe the mechanism through which an action brings harm to real people then you probably don't have an actual argument as to why you consider the action in question to be immoral, and even if you can, you might find some people don't agree with your definition of harm or find the evidence for the existence of this harm mechanism to be lacking. Secular morality is a lot more complex than a lot of angry social media users might want you to believe it is.

[fleshengine]

We Need More Transfeminists

A Rebuttal to Tara Knight

hey go read my epic substack banger

[fleshengine]

THE. REVIEWS. ARE. IN!!!!

I, and a bunch of my friends who saw it early, thought that this essay was going to get me a bunch of hatemail. But everyone has been so kind and encouraging and has praised my work and aaaaaa thank you all so much. I really couldn't have asked for a better reception, even the few people who disagree with me do so calmly, and respectfully.

[fleshengine]

Reviews, cont. !!!! Mostly comments this time!!

[syscest]

the thing about insisting that plurality (that is, a multiplicity of identity within one body) is an experience exclusive to that of "dissociative disorders" is that it is a fundamentally anti-plural position.

if you believe "normal" or "healthy" psychological development necessarily involves the development of a singular identity, and that all deviations from this are disordered, it naturally follows that the cure to such a disorder would entail the creation of a singular identity (fusion) in its place.

it is not a mistake when psychiatrists start with the assumption that plurality itself is the disorder, and come to the conclusion that integration/fusion must be a part of the treatment process. instead it is a natural conclusion of their premises.

and the vision of this worldview, its ideal future, is one in which plurality does not exist. a world in which every system formation is prevented, or eventually reverted.

thus to deny the possibility that some people may simply be plural or become so over time, that it may even be a desirable state, is to reject the possibility of a neurodiversity approach for plurality.

i imagine some may disagree with this view. those who jump to explain all plural phenomena in a framework of traumatic dissociation, yet claim their personal goals do not involve fusion. these systems might turn to me, declaring their condition as a symptom, yes, but one they are happy to live with. an incurable chronic condition.

i think this is a profoundly sad way to think about the one's systemhood.

to look at a part of me that jumps out at conflict, ready to argue and assert themself, and declare them an "emotional part", a "protector", something that exists entirely as a symptom of trauma, rather than these behaviours as learned trauma responses - expressed across a plural identity yet separate from it. this remains profoundly reductive, objectifying, and wrongheaded.

even more, to assume "psychological integration" necessarily means "fusion" - that a singular identity is preferable to a multiple identity, even with strong internal cooperation, strikes me as wildly misguided. every system i've known who've tried to suppress their plurality, to act as one person, have found marked improvements as soon as they actually acknowledged these differing attitudes within them for what they were. i see no reason to believe a return to a singular identity is actually necessary or preferable to this state.

it is necessary then, as plural advocates, to reject the pressures of singlet-normativity, and to reject the theories that rely upon it. i choose to believe in a plural future. one where we are free to introspect and identify the multitudes within us, without this being taken as a definite sign of unspoken trauma we must then heal from and return to singularity.

[evelily-deactivated20260503]

@staff @humans @photomatt

Genuinely go fuck yourself,

Salem did nothing besides be a beacon of love, Black positivity, and support for his transfem friends. He made beautiful art to express his Blackness, the experience of being trans, and his desire to make people with beautiful bodies be seen, and I guess we just can't have that positivity here, or were you tired of banning trannies you decided to be racist as well?

After everything he went through, this is how you treat him?

Between this, and the previous terming of Yaybunnies, it must one again be reiterated that Black people being loud and positive about their Blackness is not allowed on this racist site.

And, because the userbase is also just as racist, it can be even harder to drum up as much awareness and positivity for is drummed up for even white transfems.

Don't let them get away with this. Reinstate @wolfertinger66

Again, fuck you @staff @humans @photomatt

Ghouls, every last one of you behind the controls of this.

[sm64mario]

A note from'a the Tumblr team

Well, darn. You'a caught us banning a disproportionate number of'a trans women and people of'a color. These suspensions took ten thousand'a years to reverse, and some of them we didn't even reverse because we'a fucking hate you.

We'a sorry it took so long to address this! We'a really hoping our pathetic april fools gimmick'a distract everyone else to'a forget about the situation! And for most of you, it'a worked! We'a can't discuss our trust and safety issues publicly because the paper on our board just'a say "get rid of all the people we consider freaky" and if we announce that we'a gonna lose our privilaged "Tumblr’s userbase has the highest proportion of LGBTQIA+ folks on social media" claim!

One thing we want to emphasize is that we are stupid, stupid, stupid'a people. Our CEO, Matt Mullenweg, is a pathetic moron who'a try sucking up to'a Elon Musk on'a X despite the tire fire over there. You'a know he searches up his own name and harasses Tumblr blogs whenever they'a say bad things about him, right? We moderate this website with extreme bias and will cry like'a babies when called out on it.

We understand that the communications sent to affected'a users, and our broader silence to'a the community, didn't meet the standard people expect from us. Or rather, it has become the standard and the userbase'a livid with us. We'a plan on announcing changes to how we do this and not actually following through with them, because we'a do not care.

Going forward, we're committed to ruling with impunity: lying wholesale when confronted with our'a faults, and never sharing any information outside of'a vagueposting.

Tumblr belongs to everyone. Except'a minorities, people of color, trans women, and anyone who'a advocates for them.

To the people whose accounts were affected, and to the members of our trans community who felt targeted: eat'a shit.

Tumblr Staff

[katlovesshrimps]

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL AGE REGRESSORS AND LITTLES THAT RECENTLY FOLLOWED ME

Storytime with Blue is starting in 10 minutes

[snapscube]

everyone needs to grow the fuck up and start playing pretend with toys

[sleepcollective]

Comic we made about our syscovery omg

More under the cut

Even if some of us are still in denial, we wouldn't want it any other way.

Don't think I need to say this but ofc some of us are more vivid and distinct than others, but really, so many of us are subtle in the way we present. We also didnt draw aaalll of us at the end, too lazy to draw all of us lmao. Way too many.

[superdodirty]

it ok to not be ready

[kandicritter]

extremely funny and so far consistent thing every pegasus that comes into the system complains about not being able to fly anymore (not me obviously lmao) and every unicorn complains about not having magic but every earth pony is just like damn you guys these hand things are intuitive and useful hell yeah

[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)

[sleepingdragoninn]

you don't know what pluralkit is

i'm sick of the lack of depth in discussions of plural accessibility and multi-ID features within current chat software discourse. here's the problem: you don't know what pluralkit is.

"they're making pluralkit for [chat platform]" are they, though? do you understand what that is? do you understand why tupperbox isn't pluralkit? do you understand why matrix account switchers aren't pluralkit? do you understand why IRC /nick isn't pluralkit?

here's the deal: multi-identity chat is not a technical capability problem, it's a social integration problem. The question is not "can you send messages from different profiles with this software", it's "how does this software avoid implicitly ostracizing plural systems?" and the answer fucking matters.

what pluralkit teaches us is that when multi-ID messaging is naturalised in the software itself, it stops being exceptional to the user. what matters is not the featureset available to systems, it's that pk/webhook messages look like messages, which means users treat them like messages. the shared design language makes plural expression approachable, comprehensible, even intuitive to people who would otherwise struggle, hell, plural systems who otherwise struggle - we've met so many systems who've known themselves to be plural for a long time, but it took seeing other systems openly using pluralkit to show them that there is a way to integrate their plural identity socially, that there is a space in the world they can make for themselves - and that have subsequently become comfortable and open with themselves in other parts of their lives. that's the kind of impact these accessibility tools have - you don't know what pluralkit is.

the catch is blaring - every piece of technical/social friction in a multi-ID feature others its users and fosters their alienation (e.g. copping "wHy iS tHe bOT tAlKinG" due to the discord BOT label) instead of trivialising their acceptance - these are effectively flashing neon signs that say "THIS ISN'T NORMAL" that you could just never install.

"they're making pluralkit for [chat platform]" do they understand the problem they need to solve? or are they copying the list of features beat-for-beat? the more you speak to plural systems on discord, the more you see how much the the medium both enables and limits us, the more "let's set the bar where it already is" is obviously an absurd fucking take.

the tools we use and their friction shape both what's possible in terms of our expression and actualisation, and what's trivial in terms of our ostracisation. you don't know what pluralkit is.

making individual improvements over pluralkit's frictions is good, but without understanding the right problem to solve, you can easily backslide or leave things incomplete: stoat's masquerade feature (for example) has technical improvements over PK by existing at an API level, but chose a name that sows distrust in openly presenting plural systems - a clear lack of understanding of multi-ID as a social integration issue.

you need to be able to think critically and identify pitfalls like this yourself, but here's my list of flashing neon signs to avoid installing:

Impermanence: treating using different IDs as a "change" [irc /nick notifications]

Scoping: removing user agency [tupper perms, bot invites, matrix per-id bans]

Armbanding: displaying multi-id messages unnaturally [BOT/APP labels, different formatting to other messages]

Opaqueness: missing flows that make multi-ID messaging seem edge case or "unsupported" [pk unviewable profiles, usage being confined to a bot or mod]

Complexity: time spent on any action scaling with ID count [matrix room joins getting you IP banned, anything without proxy tag parsing]

Serversidedness: not giving the chat client control over the ID to send a message with [pk deletion jitter, no avatar preview (leading to misproxies)]

multi-ID isn't something you can just "tack on" - remember, in an ideal chat software, ALL messages/accounts would be multi-ID (i.e truly natural messages) - with most users just never setting up a second ID.

so, use the accessibility tools you design - and talk to the people who've used them more than you. and remember: stagnation is not good enough - we deserve better.

- Jynn

[sleepingdragoninn]

now up at sys.guide/chat, complementing the existing plural affordances addendum (tumblr)

[racestarr]

cupcakes but what if pinkie was just plural and pinkamena wanted to finally meet rainbow but is nervous and—

[kandicritter]

On "endogensis" and "exogenesis"

There is a rene descartes living in your head and you must hit him with a shovel. unless you litterally have a descartes factive in which case talking to him is probably better.

Nothing exists in the world or the self exclusively, and the so-called boundaries between them are loose and defined at best by agency. nothing can happen within (endo) without the influence of what happens without (exo) and in turn, what happens without is shaped by what is happening within. it is a dance with inseprable, entangled partners, and to claim that Anything is solely and exlusivley responsible for a piece's lifeblood is truly absurd.

so too it goes for "traumagenic". what the fuck is trauma anyway? can you actually put in a box what makes a wound hurt? an exploration of the world shows there are those killed by papercuts and those unwounded by beheading alike, and so it is not the quality of the wound, clearly. everything is traumatic and nothing is traumatic. trauma is what you call pain that doesn't go away, regardless of where it comes from and what's needed to salve it. otherwise, the world is an ongoing trauma, for it is at all times wounding us and salving us in different ways from all directions.

the truth is, every piece, every self, has a little bit of every flavour of the world within it. certantly, one may dominate enough that it's convenient shorthand to call it out, but it's never the whole picture. in every sorrow there is joy, and in every joy there is sorrow. every alter is traumagenic. every alter is endogenic. this is all a futile attempt to nail the tide to the shoreline.

free yourselves from the hellish gridlines of the taxonomic. they resemble a waffle iron burn for a reason.