[starscometsplanets]

wow, what a cool minecraft arg! suspiciously king in yellow shaped silhouette appears behind us

[starscometsplanets]

I am trying to go through my character tag and it is infested with self-shippers. I hate this.

[starscometsplanets]

it just occurred to me that it might be useful to have a list of the people we've felt who have never fully formed in the same way it's useful to have, like, a kinsidering list, which means i now get to dig through our discord messages for all the random mentions of them i can find

[reimeichan]

Think systems with a high number of fictional introjects are a new phenomena? Kluft's paper on polyfragmented/extremely complex DID from 1988 includes a patient with LOTR introjects, and another based off of Shakespear's Tempest. Fictional introjects have been a thing for a very long time!

[positivitygenic]

the crimes of your source aren't yours. both in the crimes of the character and the creator of those characters. who you are says nothing about how you feel about where you came from. even if you aren't source detached. you are your own person.

[infinite-curses]

Fictionfolk with ongoing sources are stronger than anyone.

[sysmon]

cringe culture has done so much damage to how fictives are viewed and it's wild when you think about it

you have people who are desperately trying to prevent fictives, especially fictives of their favorite character, for pretty much no other reason than they're embarrassed about it

even if you do feel too much shame about it, you don't even need to share who your fictives are, fictives aren't something you're tainted if you have

like when you really step back it's like damn why are we letting gatekeepers on the internet police what we do in our own heads to that degree

[wejustworkhere]

Being a fictive (especially while having an obscure source) and going through daily life will often make you feel like the "Nobody knows about [x]" image.

[helixrainn]

[dysaniadisorder]

i got it down guys trust me.

[starscometsplanets]

every time we hear lace's theme it makes something feel weird in our brain but we do not know what that means so. just another thing i guess

[starscometsplanets]

helloo how did you discover you were a system ₊ headmates

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./づ~ 🦴

hello! there were a few instances when i was a kid where i had characters and/or imaginary friends who i didn't seem to be able to control. i remember thinking i must have been crazy because of it, but not in a negative way; i just accepted that that was how i was. it was not a big deal to me at all. even now i have a lot of plural-adjacent experiences wrt my ocs and roleplaying; they don't seem to be able to communicate with me directly, but they tend to "push back" if i change something about them in a way they don't like and "write their own" character arcs, if that makes sense. unfortunately none of my childhood headmates are around anymore and i miss them very frequently </3

what really kicked it off was in early 2022 when i was working on a particular character named jax. unbeknownst to me, the universe had other plans, because within a couple weeks this emo guy showed up in my brain and refused to ever leave. note that jax-the-headmate has little to nothing in common with jax-the-character and does not consider himself a fictive or octive. xe just showed up and stole his name (and i ended up changing the character's name later lol). it was just us for quite a while, and its existence briefly overlapped with some of the people mentioned in the previous paragraph (SHOUTOUT TO ELLIOT HE WAS PRETTY COOL ACTUALLY - JAX)

i was somewhat familiar with the concept of systems at the time, but i wasn't sure if it was my identity to claim. it took me a long while to get comfortable referring to us as a system, to be honest. even though i didn't consider myself "a system", though, i never wanted to deny jax's autonomy. the way i thought about it, and the way i still think about it to this day, is that if my headmates aren't real and i treat them like they are, then no real harm has been done. it's normal to realize you were wrong about your identity and for your identity to change over time. however, if my headmates are real and i treat them like they're not, then i'm doing serious harm to all of them, and that's not a risk i'm willing to take. jax was also there to call me a dumbass every time i had doubts about whether or not we were plural lmao.

getting new members is a slow and gradual process for us and we never really know when to expect it. it was just me and jax for years before we ever got anyone else (mid-2024 i believe). we've had more fragments and half-formed people who never properly came to fruition than we have full headmates in here. sometimes we really expect someone and they never show up, sometimes we don't expect someone at all and suddenly they're here. we've learned not to push it and to just let things happen as they happen. thanks for asking anon ^_^

[jukebox-jackal]

Do not date people who do not support you for being alterhuman.

You deserve love that includes every bit of you.

[starscometsplanets]

the fictive machine when we have a hyperfixation or special interest vs the fictive machine when there is a character from a game we know next to nothing about that we watched our girlfriend play in vc once

[angelonxanax]

I see the evil in you and I don't mind

[ahno-nimus]

Is anybody driving at all?

[tspinstarr]

@funnier-as-a-system

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of