#polyfragmented

[strangerconnection]

you know, i don't remember

[starryk1sses]

I hate delayed amnesia so much. I’ll go through a whole day thinking I’m “fine” and fully present, and then hours later it hits me like—wait… I don’t remember anything from today. It feels like my whole day just slips through my fingers.

I’d like to think I’m staying relatively co-conscious with our other alters/fragments, but then once they leave, I lose nearly—if not all—of the memory afterward. It’s so disorienting.

[thevoillohiarchive]

a hastily made comic because I’ve been Having A Time. mostly for people who already know what systems are/what polyfragmented means (cuz I didn’t explain it) but feel free to show anyone who you think needs it

[id: on the top is a large box with text reading: "HOW TO TREAT POLYFRAGMENTED SYSTEMS"

a drawn being is shown in 4 panel boxes with text reading:

"being back in plural spaces has shown me some people... do not know etiquette! Which is fine, we all have gaps in knowledge. That's why I'm here to teach you!"

"1. Don't react with disgust/fear/dread/etc."

"How do you live LIVE like that?"

"That's TERRIFYING!"

"I'd kms if I were like that."

"These are real responses we've gotten. Just. Don't. Especially the kys one. Don't say that to anyone. Don't say any of these to anyone Not just polyfragmented systems, but anyone who is unlike you. It betrays a belief that their life is not worth living, that [thing] is so horrible nothing good could impact you outside it."

"2. Don't fetishize it. Fetishize here is used in a non-sexual way, but definitely don't do in the sexual way either."

"Let me study you!"

"How did you get that big? I wanna do that!"

"You have so many friends :33"

"People sometimes presume high headcounts are willogenic. Willogenic high headcount systems exist, but don't assume! For us in particular, it's just... how we are."

"Plurality isn't always sunshine and rainbows. Headmates are a bunch of people shoved in one body, often we have fights or arguments with each other. It isn't some utopia."

"We're just people. Treat us like a normal person."

"3. Don't expect simplicity."

"The whole POINT of the label 'polyfragmented' is that we're COMPLEX. The things going on inside tend to be very complicated and difficult to explain. You don't get it? Great, the system themselves probably doesn't either. That's just how it goes."

"You want a list of all the headmates? It'll take hours. The relationships between them? Don't get me started. Okay, maybe just frequent fronters? There's 20 of them at the minimum. Who's fronting right now? Hell if I know."

"Polyfragmented systems are often expected to 'boil themselves down'. Become palatable, become understandable. But that usually just... isn't possible. Like at all. Or maybe they try and it's STILL really complex, because that's just how they are."

"the point is: we're people, just like anyone else! treat us that way!"

"This guide is mostly for first interactions/acquaintaces. When getting closer to a polyfrag sys (in whatever relationship you wish), it is important to talk out boundaries and how they wish to be treated. Everyone is different, after all. But if you approach most conversations using this guide, I think the chances of it going well with significantly increase!" end id.]

thank you @godofwish for the id!

[system32sys-hub]

I see the occasional bit of positivity for large systems, but the numbers never even get close to what we experience. I get it, but it makes me a touch sad. So, here's to my fellow enormous systems!!

Shoutout to systems with 10,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with 100,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with 1,000,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with 1,000,000,000+ members

Shoutout to systems with infinite members

Shoutout to systems with an uncountable amount of members

Shoutout to systems who are constantly splitting

Shoutout to systems who don't or can't keep track of who's who

Shoutout to systems who are so large they function as one person

Shoutout to systems who are constantly blurry

Shoutout to systems who are so large they can't ever function as one person

Shoutout to systems who are large due to polyfragmentation

Shoutout to systems who are large due to willomancy

Shoutout to systems who are large due to walk ins

I'd like to give a shoutout to very large systems in general :] I'm glad there's such huge diversity in the plural communities. Feel free to share your experiences in the comments! I'd love to hear from more folks like us!!

[snowlilysystem]

"my headmate is evil!"

>looks into headmate

>scared headmate with fight response

[aurora-abyss-sys]

A reminder~

Psst- these are also F2U and made by us <3

There's so much more of course, but too little time and space in one post to list off every single valid experience.. all plurality is valid, don't let anyone tell you otherwise

[thesillybunch]

hello please read this!

what's been gnawing at us lately, besides the everything that is our life, is that i do feel there's a weird "default" that you just ... gotta ... be aesthetic as fuck in the system community.

you gotta have pretty bios, you need icon masks and entirely filled out info with 49735345 fucking symbols screen readers can't read and/or don't work on all devices.

this is purely a me thing. there's no system god pointing their gun at my head to make our shit aesthetic and nice looking but i feel like if we don't we'll die or something.

shout out to the systems that just...cannot... do aesthetics. you're either too big, can't decide, disabled in any form, and/or just don't want to. i get it. you aren't alone.

also extra shout out to systems that will never be satisfied with what they've got documented. we'll never be finished with ours i'm convinced. we're too polyfragmented and caught up in our own thoughts about it all. ugh.

[theanalogsystem]

polyfragmented more like polyfagmented. the majority of us are queer