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Reminder to all the headmates/alters out there that developing a distinct style of talking, an accent, a sense of style, a sense of individuality, aside from the rest of your system, takes practice a lot of the time. You don't need to feel like you're not distinct enough, figuring out who you are can take time, and figuring out how you are most comfortable talking and existing is a process of trial and error. Don't fret about it– you'll figure it out eventually.
realizing i have magic in me changed my life
Fictives who identify closely with their source, who talk about their source/exomemories like it's their life, who engage in the fandom of their source, who "blorbo-ify" themselves, who want to be treated like their source, who read fanfiction of their source, you guys are awesome & valid as fuck.
it's almost laughable the way that sysmeds will go to extreme lengths to try to prove that they're "really a system," to the point of sharing their personal trauma and experiences to complete strangers, meanwhile fakeclaimers will see anyone publically presenting as plural in any way and ask them to "stop faking DID" like. it's the exact same situation as that one meme about the queer community. you can try to separate yourselves from us all you want, at the end of the day some 20 y/o cis white guy on discord is still going to call you a faker.
How Moon Knight #26 Opens Up a Conversation About Spiritual Plurality Alongside DID
Moon Knight #26 (2023) came out 3 days ago, and gave us the long awaited focus issue on the recently introduced character to the franchise, Dr. Yehya Badr, aka Hunter's Moon. In this issue, Dr. Badr is shown in a therapy session with Marc Spector's therapist, Dr. Sterman. In this session, he explains that after the last time he was resurrected by Khonshu, his consciousness began to merge with that of previous, deceased fists of Khonshu.
[ID: two comic panels from Moon Knight (Volume 9) #26. In the first panel, Dr. Sterman sits on a chair in her home. She says "One moment, please. You're telling me that the... persona of a dead fist of Khonshu took over your body?" In the second panel, Dr. Badr faces the wall and responds to her. "Yes and no. It was more that... we became one." end ID]
Badr is experiencing the memories and identities of these former Fists of Khonshu, as if they are his own.
[ID: two more panels from the same comic, both characters are in the same places. Dr. Sterman says: "So that is what you meant by a flawed resurrection. The chorus that Khonshu imbued you with, the memories of all the firsts who came before you..." she trails off, and Badr picks up with: "Yes. The levee has broken. And at times, I cannot tell where I end and they begin." end ID]
What Badr is experiencing here is by all definitions a plural experience. Religious and spiritual plurals are very much a thing in the real world, and it is not uncommon for plurals of all origins to have blurred identities and memories, as Badr does with his system.
While Badr is definitely not the first case of spiritual, religious, or non-disordered plurality in the Marvel Universe, because Moon Knight is a book with a protagonist with Dissociative Identity Disorder, this gives Marvel the perfect opportunity to have an explicit discussion about plurality existing in other forms beyond DID.
The majority of representation for plurality in media centers around Dissociative Identity Disorder, as does Moon Knight. Plural representation that is not textually described as DID is usually a supernatural experience, such as possession by a ghost or some other supernatural entity. As we have already mentioned, spiritual and religious plurals do exist in the real world, though probably not in cases like Badr's, they still are very much real and deserve to be represented just as much as people with DID do.
While the plural community at large has become more accepting and aware of plural experiences outside of DID in the past couple decades, we still need to break this barrier in media representation. Marvel would be a great place to do it, as they have such a vast universe of so many diverse characters, and already have plenty of characters with DID. Badr may not be exactly the perfect candidate, as his system's origin is not very realistic, but he is still a huge opportunity to open this discussion.
Badr and Marc are already textually described as brothers, they have a complex relationship that could be strengthened further by their shared experience of plurality. There's plenty of conversations to be had about the ways their plurality differs- Marc, Steven, and Jake have very hard memory and identity barriers, while Badr and his system have quite the opposite.
As a system ourselves, this is something we've long waited for, both in Marvel and in all forms of fictional media in general, when it comes to portrayals of plurality. Let's hope Marvel gives us this arc!
Krakoa era tumblr discourse.
fuck-charles-xavier Follow
no self respecting mutant supports Krakoa!!
🔁mutie-lover Follow
fuck you, my grandma's life was saved by Krakoan medicine.
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x-kid-3894 Follow
if you still call Arakko "M*rs" you're getting blocked.
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demon-fae Follow
I was a mutant lover until now. I mean why are we just sitting around letting Magneto claim they're gods? And did they really have to colonize Mars?
🔁anti-mutant-gay Follow
preach!!
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flatscans-die-mad Follow
im sorry but you can't say shit against Krakoa until you've been hunted by the government for having an X-gene.
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purify-the-world Follow
Krakoan medicine is a scam! The muties are trying to gain control of the human population, but we won't let them!
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russian-mutant-mayhem Follow
can tumblr be normal about mutants living in states that don't recognize Krakoan sovereignty for two seconds
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toxic-sludge-mutie Follow
some of us just don't want to, or can't go to Krakoa. I can't go out in daylight without drying up, and it'd be hard to avoid on an island paradise. I'm a Morlock, and they welcome the Marauders, the people who massacred us, there. I have no interest in living in a state in which the man who tried to kill my people is offered a seat on the government. Plus, they've been attacked so many times already, I'm probably better off staying in the sewers. I can't imagine I'd feel any safer there.
🔁metalgirleatsmetal Follow
fr, living on Krakoa is a PRIVILEGE that some of us mutants just don't get, ESPECIALLY those of us who are POC, disabled, and physically mutated.
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Whatever they're implying here, whatever is going on, I want none of it. Fucking kill me off for all I care, or just GET ME OUT OF THIS DAMN BOOK. PLEASE.
Hey hosts.
please listen to your headmates when they tell you they're real. please listen to them when they tell you they want to talk to people. just please listen to them.
