Practically every other post I see by a fictive is them apologizing for their source, feeling bad about their source, or laughing at themself for just fucking existing in this world as a fictive. Stop that. Stop insulting yourself. Stop putting yourself down. Stop telling the world that you don't deserve to be taken seriously. Stop telling the world that your relationships, your efforts, your experiences are worth mockery. You are worth more than that. You have worth. You have a right to love yourself, too. You have a right to respect, too. You have a right to be taken seriously, too. You have a right to everything that everyone else has a right to. Every time you feel like you need to make a joke at your own expense, remind yourself of that. You. Deserve. More. Than. Laughter. At. Your. Existence.
Remember that role labels are descriptive, not prescriptive. You do not have to be nothing but your role. Not every plural has every role, not every headmate who performs a task falls into said role. It’s fine to not use role labels at all, even, or only some headmates to use them. It’s fine to make your own terms if you feel they fit better or just don’t like the more common ones. It’s fine to remain completely unlabeled. Role labels exist as an optional tool, they not define headmates or plurals in their capacity.
made a plural pride blinkie inspired by blinkies cafe!! f2u, no credit required :] (all sides of syscourse are allowed!) I submitted it as a custom thing ^_^ ily plurality
So I’ve been working on a literary pet project for quite a few years now wherein one of the major players has DID.
Up until now, I’ve avoided writing on anything in her POV because I’ve been scrambling to thoroughly research DID so I don’t misrepresent the disorder (I don’t have it, myself). So far, that’s meant rereading the DSM-V chapters on DID and PTSD. I’ve also attempted to interview two of my friends who have DID, which has met with marginal success; both view their alters as individuals with separate personalities and motivations, but one has mostly had the same alters since it realized its alters were there, with a few exceptions, while the other experiences erratic melding and splitting and discovery and disappearance of alters on a nearly biweekly basis. Aside from the fact that the former friend claims it can deliberately call on specific alters to front and describes its alters as having interpersonal relationships with one another and having “rooms” they sometimes lock themselves in to be alone, I haven’t learned much else (what for all that they have I Forgor My Name Sometimes Because My Life Was/Is Hell Disorder).
I’m wanting to branch out to get a sense of other peoples’ experiences to the best of yall’s abilities to describe them, so as to get a better idea of what DID feels like from the perspective of someone with the disorder. Do your alters have “rooms” that they can retreat to? Are they always present and giving you their input, wanted or otherwise? Do you have alters that don’t seem to fulfill a “role” (ie protector, persecutor, caregiver, etc)? How do you feel about them? Do your alters have opinions about each other? Do they even know about each other? Do they speak to you with words, or do they mostly communicate through emotions/vibes and pictures? Do they communicate with you at all?
Genuinely, I’m not sure what to ask about because of how little information I have on what DID looks like for people who have it. I don’t even know if the questions I asked were insensitive or not! I’m kinda blind here.
If anyone wants to share their experiences with me, I’d be forever grateful, and you have my word that I will keep whatever information anyone gives me between us, even if explicitly and without doubt given permission to do otherwise. And, for extra security and comfort, I have anon activated if you wish to keep your username to yourself.
Regardless of if anyone reaches out to me, I wish you all the best.
Hello! This is a simple culture-is blog about being a factive! Submit your experiences, stories, and jokes about what your life is like as a factive right here!
Rules:
Follow the format! Start your submission with "factive culture is", or write as if that's being said before your submission starts.
No fakeclaiming or discourse! You can mention those things in your submissions, but don't bring either here.
(That said, quick discourse disclaimer that we support endogenic and non-disordered systems here! Factives are welcome regardless of their origins! It'd be pretty silly if they weren't, given the origin of the term, lol.)
Keep any mentions of NSFT content light! We don't mind it ourselves, but let's try to keep Tumblr from nuking this blog, shall we?
That's all for now! We'll add more later if we think it's necessary. A quick tag list for navigation is under the cut!
factive culture is: for posts about factive culture submissions and original posts
not factive culture is: pretty much everything else
asks: for asks that don't count as submissions
mod post: for original posts about the blog itself or other important matters
submission: self-explanatory
original: for factive culture is posts we make ourselves
Have you ever seen a post or been in a situation and thought, "This is funnier from the perspective of a system"?
We have, too!
[PT: Have you ever seen a post and thought, "This is funnier from the perspective of a system"?
We have, too! / end PT]
That's why we created this blog, which is meant for reblogging posts that may not have been intentionally made with plurality in mind, but are still, as the URL says, funnier as a system (or have any sort of deeper or extra significance as a system, honestly). We take submissions through tags, asks, the submission function, and DMs (though, fair warning, responses for anything other than tags may take a while). We also do our best to add image descriptions to every post we can.
Has one of your posts been reblogged here and you have no idea what we're talking about? See this website for some basics on what a system is! We also give our own explanation right here!
Has one of your posts been reblogged here and you don't want it on this blog? Reach out to us! Requests like these are the one kind of DM or ask we're sure to answer as soon as we see it (but we recommend DMs). As long as we can verify you're the original poster*, we'll take down the post.
* This policy is in place to prevent false claims from assholes. If the post was from a sideblog and you can't DM us from it for whatever reason, let us know and we'll work with you to verify you're the owner of the blog!
Those are all the basics! We have an FAQ and more details under the cut about this blog and its runner/s, if you're curious.
This blog is run by the Indigo Symphony, a plural system with DID dedicated to making the plural and system communities a better and happier place to be! You may know us from our other blogs: the-indigo-symphony (previously orange-orchard-system), plegg-culture-is, factive-culture-is, and pluralprompts. We also go by the name Ambrosia online, and our pronouns are they/them, it/its, or ty/tem/plur/plurs/plurselves.
Here, we support our endogenic fellows who gave us the resources and words for what we were going through when we were first discovering ourselves. This is a place for all systems (and I do mean all), as well as allies, those questioning, and those who just want to look around and learn more about systems. We are against fakeclaiming and will not tolerate hate on this blog. Discourse will be relegated to only light mentions for rare occasions.
Sometimes we get a lot of asks about a specific topic. As such, we have specific tags for these asks, so casual viewers can avoid seeing posts about topics they're uninterested in, and our more interested viewers can look specifically for the content they want more of. Here are our current ask tags:
Asks about roleplaying as a system/plural: R&P (roleplaying and plurality)
Asks about New Year's Eve or New Year's Day: new year new me (literally)
Asks about intrasystem dating: intrasys sweethearts
Asks about financial aid: light the beacon
We will answer asks regarding plurality in general if we feel equiped to, but sometimes we simply don't have the answer you may need. If you want to discuss whether you yourself could be plural, We recommend you take your questions to DMs instead of asks.
A quick FAQ:
What's the flag in your icon?
It's a general plural flag design done by systemaltoclef, created based on Emmengard's plural rings.
What's the symbol in your icon and header?
It's the treblesand (treble clef + ampersand), a plural symbol representing manyness and harmony!
Can I interact/tag you/reblog from you/submit a post if I'm a singlet?
Yep! All are welcome, the only rule is to be respectful of others.
Has anyone ever figured out that they're a system from this blog reblogging one of their posts?
For this blog in particular, it's hard to say. We have had questioning folk reach out to us to ask about plurality, but We've never had someone explicitly say their egg carton cracked due to us reblogging a post they made.
Is it alright for me to reblog so many posts?
Yes. Never feel bad about spamming my notifications. I am used to it and have accepted my fate.
Do you take polls as submissions?
No, we do not accept polls in our submissions. We do not make or reblog them here.
That's all for now! Thank you all for being here, and I hope you have a great day!
