Hi! We're the Indigo Symphony. We have a pinned post we recommend you check out! Header edited together through art by arianzackril (blogger on Tumblr), bluryyyblu (blogger on Tumblr), and Hristo Fidanov (photographer on Pexels)!
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Hello! We're the Indigo Symphony. This is our blog, which is primarily centered around plurality, but other common topics are disability and alterhumanity. Our collective name is Ambrosia (Ambi for short) and our collective pronouns are ty/tem/plur/plurs/plurselves and it/it/its/its/itselves (conjugated like she/him/her/hers/themselves).
Who are we outside of our names? We're a mixed origin, hybrid, polyfragmented plural system with DID that likes to philosophize and write about plural related topics, such as news articles and plural characters. We run four other system blogs: funnier-as-a-system, plegg-culture-is, factive-culture-is, and pluralprompts. We discovered our plurality a few years ago and have been working to become a cooperative collective ever since then, with a mix of fusion and healthy multiplicity.
If you want to support us, you can buy us a coffee here!
Under the cut are some quick links to posts of ours that we especially like, as well as miscellaneous resources, some extra facts about our system and blog, and then some userboxes about our system.
Have a nice day, remember that any hate sent to us will just inspire more positivity posts, and feel free to send us asks about anything on your mind. Most of us don't bite.
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Resources and Links:
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art of Emmengard's Plural Rings
discourse disclaimers
multitasking and the innerworld
News Summary: "The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see"
Endogenic and Non-traumagenic Resources/Studies (Masterlist)
Buddhist opinions on tulpamancy
Directory of various alterhuman resources
French plural vocabulary
Letters: Am I Plural?
More Than One
New Alter Carrd
No one owns the word "tulpamancy"
Partielles (French Plurality Site)
Plural Etiquette Questionnaire
Pluralpedia
Plural Soapbox
Primer to Plurality
Resource Index – healthymultiplicity.com
The Plural Association
The Plural Playbook
Tracking the Tulpa
"Tulpa" and Cultural Appropriation
Tulpanomicon
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BYF/Other Info:
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We don't want those heavily involved in shipcourse to interact with us. This isn't so much a discourse thing as it is a personal issue we have regarding that sort of thing; for our own mental health we'd like it if we could just avoid each other.
We use a mix of terms to describe ourselves/our system members, though not everyone in our system is comfortable with every term out there. For followers or visitors of our blog, we ask you use "selves" or "instruments" when referring to us.
We're also uncomfortable with being called "friends" by other people unless we give permission. Nothing personal, we're just largely aplatonic.
We try to avoid hosting discourse on this blog, but vents may reference it on occasion, or we may reblog a discourse post if we think it has relevance outside of discourse (ex. social commentary on how people view systems).
We'd also like to say, for the record, that we fully support endogenic, self-diagnosed, and non-traumagenic systems and plurals here.
You're free to use our collective name and pronouns when referring to us if you're not speaking about anyone specific in our system, or don't have or know anyone specific you want to talk to.
Finally, to answer a frequently asked question, the flag in our icon is our system flag, designed ourselves to represent us. The treble clef is a nod to our system name and the symbolism behind the treblesand (harmony and manyness), and the stripes have specific meanings, which we are still working on.
Indigo: TBD
Purple: TBD
Reddish pink: TBD
Yellow: TBD
White: TBD
Black: TBD
Any other questions? Send them in an ask or DM.
[Description for first image: a divider showing a line of Emmengard's Plural Rings with a black line connecting all of them together in the background. /End ID]
[Description for the rest of the images: four userboxes, each with text on the right side and an icon on the left side. The userboxes, in order, are:
[One: a blue userbox with miniature gray and blue star charms as the icon. The text reads: This system's tags on posts are not always indicative of who is fronting.
[Two: a pink userbox with a fluffy pink rabbit toy as the icon. The text reads: This system is almost always using "I" loosely.
[Three: a pinkish-purple userbox with a pink flower as the icon. The text reads: This collective has trouble knowing when conversations are over.
[Four: a lavender userbox with purple flowers as the icon. The text reads: This system has difficulty feeling and understanding emotions, please be patient.
Had this thought that would probably go on a "probably bad writing advice" blog, but since I don't have one of those, you're going to just get the advice on its own. Please imagine this post in whatever voice you would hear a post from the aforementioned blog idea as. *clears throat*
Do you have too many characters and need to slim down the numbers, but you're too attached to all your bastards to just get rid of them? Not to worry! Simply combine all those unnecessary characters into a single (or "single", lol) character that happens to be a system! Now you get to have your bastards and a lower body count! It's flawless. Satisfaction guaranteed.
You've heard of "I forgot my system existed because I didn't hear anyone for a while", now get ready for: "I forgot I existed because I heard so many folks from my system that I just got lost in the background noise"
I know it can come off as more medical or whatever, but honestly, I really like the word "amnesia". Makes me feel like I'm some badass protagonist on a quest to discover what happened to them.
*deep, gravelly voice* My clues are a tab my phone was open to and a pair of scissors in my hand. I know where I am, but not how I got here or why I came. I have no clear time limit for solving this mystery. May the games begin.
The goal of this survey is to gather information of on incidences of species-based misgendering within the Alterhuman community.
Please do
Introducing a survey on Species-Based Misgendering, hosted by Duranos of The River System.
Species-Based Misgendering: the assumption of one's gender and/or pronouns based on the expectations of one's species, stemming from biases, when the expected gender does not match the individual's gender.
Gendered Expectation: the expectation set for a species' gender, whether this bias comes from a cultural or folkoric background, establishment in a media, a linguistic framework, etc.
The survey is open both to the identities underneath the alterhuman umbrella, as well as nonhuman/human+ folks within plural conglomerates.
While this survey is primarily looking for responses from those who have been misgendered based on their species, those who have not experienced species-based misgendering are welcome to complete the survey as well. Interpretation of what counts as species-based misgendering is open to interpretation by each individual, and there are long-form fillable responses throughout the survey to accommodate this.
The survey is set to close on July 31st, 2026.
I welcome folks to share the link to the survey wherever you are active in the alterhuman community.
To speak very seriously for a moment here. I do hope all queer Jewish folk are able to feel safe and comfortable here. I've seen a lot of queer Jewish people talk about feeling unsafe or uncomfortable in queer spaces due to rising antisemitism, or even having to leave for their own safety (or getting forced out of their local community). Saying it is awful doesn't even begin to describe it. I want this blog to be a place where all Jewish people are welcome. This pride month, I hope to see many queer Jews being able to enjoy the celebrations in safety and surety that they belong. Speak up for your fellow queer folk and protect them. Go out of your way to make sure Jewish folk feel safe and welcomed in your space; go out of your way to listen to them when they are speaking on the issues they face, including (and this month, especially) in queer spaces. No one left behind.
Thinking on it, I'm surprised this website doesn't see much celebration of other queer pride months. That is, other countries have different pride months, and I'm surprised I don't see much out there on Tumblr about those months. Like yeah I get the reason is American centrism but you'd think that "the queerest place on the Internet" would take advantage of any reason to celebrate queerness. Maybe I'm just not tuned into those corners of Tumblr enough.
Anyway. For those who celebrate queer pride month this month, happy pride! Remember to bite the hand that beats you, take care of yourselves, and find little joys where you can <3
One of my more minor gripes about the "serial killer alter" trope is that I think there is opportunity for genuine, well-made stories about a system that kills. You could potentially write some really interesting stories involving internal conflict over murder in a system – for instance, if a system killed once in self-defense, and one of the headmates is keeping that memory from the rest of them. Or if an alter came back from dormancy to find out the world's gone to shit and everyone knows "them" as the one willing to kill to protect their group of survivors. Hell, fuck it, have some kind of "no, I'm being literal when I say the version of me that you knew isn't present anymore, this isn't some metaphor for how I've become ~evil~" conflict! So long as it's done in a way that gives the system in question nuance and reason for their actions, I'd be willing to see where the story is going with this!
But nooooooo, it's all stock-standard "this one alter kills others for no good reason" shit with a dash of "don't look too long into the implications that this plural superhero/anti-hero just killed a bunch of people, just accept that they do this" hand-waving that makes people think we're going to stab them if they look away for too long. It's always "this imposter is pretending to be our loved one for nefarious reasons" angst and never "oh shit we treated this alter like shit for just being different than the host" angst. There's not even any originality smh smh. We've already gotten a thousand of these horror plots that use plurality as a one-size-fits-all villain cap; I'm sure horror, whump, and angst writers can do better if they really want to write about a system that kills others
I've had this story idea for a bit about a plural gentleman thief, like stereotypical "robbing expensive jewelry from museum" kind of guy, except they're a system. And none of the "Oh, some of the system members don't know the others are criminals!", none of that. They're all in on it like a one-body crime family and all have different skills useful to their "occupation". The drama would come from stuff like "Oh no! The guy who knows how to pick locks hates flashing lights, so he won't front unless we turn off the alarm!"
Okay, maybe there's one guy with severe dissociative amnesia who's (new) purpose is that he genuinely doesn't know what he was doing if they get questioned by the police. But he's also in on it, he just constantly forgets. So they have to figure out how to let him know without leaving very obvious "Hey, don't forget we're a top tier robber :)" stickers around the house.
And the police can never string together their crimes because they all have different mannerisms, writing styles, ways of speaking and modus operandi. It must be a group of thieves! How are they so well organized?! But the trick is they all share one body. They're not even like stereotypical bad guy personas. Guy who picks locks is like a pokemon introject or something
you don't inherently have to answer for the crimes of your source, no matter what. even if you are a created headmate. you are your own person and you are only inherently accountable for this life, not for source.
If it's okay to add on - this also goes for if your memories are from a past life, you're a soulbond, or your memories are otherwise real to you. This is a new life, a second chance, a new beginning. You have the choice to do something different; it's okay to move forward.
