#candlelight posts

[discourse-by-candlelight]

Something pointed out in the previous post we made was that since endos avoid syscourse or at the very least the syscourse tag, some pro endos feel the need to fight for them. That is... kind of worrying actually. Let's break down why quickly.

So if the vast majority of syscourse arguments are between pro endo traumagenics and anti endo traumagenics, how can we actually know that the topics being debated accurately represent the current state of the endogenic community or the opinions of the endogenic community? Obviously there is some endogenics in the scene, a large amount of mixed origin systems, and we can generally assume pro endos are interacting with endos, but it does add a bit of a distortion, from our perspective.

There are likely some differences in thoughts and behaviors between an actual endogenic system and a pro endo ally. If only the thoughts of the allies are publicly seen, that might make it harder to tell the actual wants and needs of the endogenic community, and also the potential problems and flaws with the endogenic community, in comparison to the pro endogenic community. We think that should be something that's taken into consideration in some of these conversations especially some of the more recent ones.

Sometimes it can be easy to forget that the endogenic community, and the plural community, aren't necessarily the same things. There could even be an argument made on whether or not they should be the same thing, but let's save that mess for another day.

[thecandlelightsociety]

Happy new year to everyone following our little blog!

2025 was... a year. We weren't very active on this platform and when we were it was mainly on our syscourse side blog. That won't be how it goes this year.

For 2026, we want to effectively retire our syscourse blog outside of major events, and instead focus back on our original purpose of even making a presence on this hellsite: Learning about others experiences with plurality, and teaching about tulpamancy and the actual experiences of the tulpamancy community.

So what does that mean? It means more small guide style posts on tulpamancy related topics. It means updates on personal system projects related to tulpamancy and psychology. It means sharing philosophy, insights and other learnings connected to tulpas, tulpamancy, and the wider web of practices and experiences related to our subculture and practice.

Look forward to interesting content and hopefully some useful insights. Wishing all of you the best 2026 you can have!

[discourse-by-candlelight]

Has anyone else noticed that ignoring Sophie, syscourse is mainly pro endo traumagenic systems arguing with anti endo traumagenic systems? It's been like that as long as we can remember being on this gods forsaken platform.

We rarely ever actually see an Endogenic system in a prolonged syscourse discussion when we don't include ourselves or the other resident tulpa. It's interesting to note and observe. The endos are around, but certainly not in this tag, usually anyways.

[discourse-by-candlelight]

Hello everyone. You might have seen on our main blog @thecandlelightsociety at the very start of the year that we're retiring this stupid little side blog.

This post is just to make it official that it's being archived. That said, there's not much to actually retire it from anymore, as the worst people you know are pretending to be moral crusaders while unleashing bot nets on the syscourse tag and being the usual miserable piles of trash you've come to expect. The tag is for all intents and purposes totaled, and we at least hope it stays that way.

Let Sophie and the rest rot here. Delete your blogs. The only victory to be found here is logging off and spending time in more constructive fulfilling places you know they cannot follow. The deafening quiet is the worst punishment you can give to the chronically online. We regret ever spending time here, and we won't miss syscourse. We're now friends with all the people worth knowing from here in better places.

So long and thanks for all the fish

[discourse-by-candlelight]

At this rate Sophie should just take all the tulpa stuff out of her blog. Beyond the fact that she still isn't really connected to the actual tulpamancy community (post still coming just delayed due to work increase for the 4th), she just doesn't post plural stuff period anymore.

She's become a political slop account seeking to for all intents and purposes troll just like most political slop accounts. It's quite frankly a pitiful and disgusting display from what used to be the largest and while always controversial still generally well liked voice of the endo community here on Tumblr.

We can't speak to the reason as for why she chose to degrade herself like this, but the single best thing you can do at the current moment is just cut off all interactions with her period. No rebuttals, no responses, don't feed trolls. Let her scream into the void and achieve the inevitable result of her current self destructive course.

Leaving herself all alone.

[discourse-by-candlelight]

So Sophie finally lost all of her marbles huh? Maybe it's finally time we talk about how horrifically disconnected she actually is from the real tulpamancy community. Believe it or not but despite all of her increasingly fanatical and ungrounded rants and stunts related to tulpamancy, she isn't as in tune with the tulpamancy community as she thinks she is.

Post coming soon, roughly a week or two. We've sat back and watched an account we used to really respect spiral out of control and misrepresent us for too long. Her reach is almost entirely contained to plural tumblr, a place which is far from the actual tulpamancy community besides the occasional redditulpas crossover. It's about time a tulpa system that mainly interacts with other tulpa systems said something.

[discourse-by-candlelight]

So AspenFrost fans are making casual death threat posts in the Pluralgang tag again, that's just a lovely thing to see.

Just a reminder that the side wishing death or destruction on others is more often than not the one in the wrong. Most of my system's time is spent in more 4chanish spaces so it isn't that big a deal to us personally, but it is a clear sign of the quality of their arguments and maturity. We say this especially since they're coming onto this platform specifically to do it.

We recommend just blocking and maybe reporting, it isn't worth arguing with what we can only assume to be young teenagers and people just looking for a fight to prop up their own egos.

[discourse-by-candlelight]

It's odd to see an older post of ours suddenly spark back up in popularity, but while the small amount of attention is on us we may as well direct it towards something positive.

Hi, if you're here from the Soulbonding post I'd like to ask you to take some time to think about and appreciate them and their contributions to the plural community! Without the Soulbonders many things taken for granted now may never of been brought about or occurred within the endogenic and wider plural space.

From having a significant role in early plural history to popularizing terms now seen as generally plural like the word fictive, soulbonders have offered the community a fair amount. Sadly, in return they've been almost wiped off the map, leading to situations like having their terms used as an attempted replacement for tulpamancy as we discussed during the tulpacourse drama last year.

If you'd like to learn more about Souldbonding, we just recently discovered this well made carrd by @the-soulbonded-teaparty which compiles an extensive list of history, terms, and resources on the matter. It could teach you more than we ever could so we highly suggest checking it out.

Soulbonding information

A site dedicated to soulbonding information

Syscourse is currently a mess right now, so we hope this little offering can make some people on this site think about what exactly this community is and should be, especially in regards to the communities that have been or are being brought under the plural umbrella. We find that many subcultures like Tulpamancy, Daemonism, and Soulbonding are not well understood or appreciated as their own independent groups and practices within this community, with Soulbonding being an especially egregious example.

The individual identities of each of these subcultures are important to us, and they each have something truly special to offer as both their own entities and as forms of plurality if they so choose to identify as such. Take some time to appreciate them, and for everyone reading this, have a good day.