Hi!

[Header ID: a painting of a woman dressed in 1870s clothing sitting at a writing desk with a pen in her hand. End ID] [Icon ID: a woman dressed in mid 17th century clothing at a desk, writing with a quill. End ID] Hello! Welcome to our blog, please read our pinned post!

[thearchivesystem]

Hello!

[PT: hello! End PT]

We're The Archive System! This is a sideblog of ours to talk about being a system, reblog posts about it and post some memes. We're an OSDD system and will talk about that at times but this blog is for all plurals.

[PT: We're The Archive System! This is a sideblog of ours to talk about being a system, reblog posts about it and post some memes. We're an OSDD system and will talk about that at times but this blog is for all plurals. End PT]

This blog is a syscourse free zone and all we will say about it is that we have no right to tell someone what goes on in their own head. If you consider yourself/ves to be plural, then you are.

[PT: This blog is a syscourse free zone and all we will say about it is that we have no right to tell someone what goes on in their own head. If you consider yourself/ves to be plural, then you are. End PT]

We aim to make this blog as accessible as possible. To the best of our ability, all bolded/italicized/colored text will have a plain text and all videos and photos will have a description.

[PT: We aim to make this blog as accessible as possible. To the best of our ability, all bolded/italicized/colored text will have a plain text and all videos and photos will have a description. End ID]

The current posters on this blog are;

[PT: The current posters on this blog are; /end PT]

Adelaide: One of two current co-hosts of the system. Uses she/her, they/them and it/its pronouns

Roxanne: The second co-host of our system. Uses she/her, pink/pinks and it/its pronouns.

Nova: One of our caretakers. Uses they/them, star/stars and it/its pronouns.

B: One of our protectors. Uses he/him and it/its pronouns.

Lola: We currently do not know her role. Uses she/her and it/its pronouns.

Adrian: Also a protector. Uses he/him, they/them and it/its pronouns.

Audie: Our gatekeeper. Uses she/her, they/them, he/him and it/its pronouns.

[PT:

Adelaide: One of two current co-hosts of the system. Uses she/her, they/them and it/its pronouns

Roxanne: The second co-host of our system. Uses she/her, pink/pinks and it/its pronouns.

Nova: One of our caretakers. Uses they/them, star/stars and it/its pronouns.

B: One of our protectors. Uses he/him and it/its pronouns.

Lola: We currently do not know her role. Uses she/her and it/its pronouns.

Adrian: Also a protector. Uses he/him, they/them and it/its pronouns.

Audie: Our gatekeeper. Uses she/her, they/them, he/him and it/its pronouns.

End PT]

You may refer to us collectively as Archie (short for, unsurprisingly, Archive.) with it/its pronouns.

[PT: You may refer to us collectively as Archie (short for, unsurprisingly, Archive.) with it/its pronouns. End PT]

Thank you for reading!

[PT: Thank you for reading! End PT]

[thearchivesystem]

Once again, I know this blog has fallen into disuse because. We really need to get on following more plural blogs. But there is a very ephemeral thing I want to discuss.

Identity.

Perhaps it's because we have so much dissociation but sometimes puzzling out identity is impossible and it's always frustrating.

But something I think is even harder is when you realize that you're a relatively new addition to the system but you've just been hiding beneath blurriness.

Twice in such a short span of time this has happened to us.

Then when we finally sort out enough of the identity crumbs and realize it's someone who hasn't established one of their own yet... It's a very strange feeling. It's hard to have an innate sense of identity like some head mates do when you don't realize you exist for days, weeks or even months after the fact.

How do you establish an identity where there is so little? When all you can say is "well, I know I like these things and not these. I know I'm not this person or that one." How is one to decipher a sense of personhood out of only speech patterns and interests? How do you create a positive out of a negative?

It's confounding. It's exasperating. It's one of the hardest things we deal with and there's no one to talk about it with. No one understands. We can't risk telling them about our plurality. Our psychologist may know but we can hardly call her up at any hour of the day.

What even is an identity? Is it simply a construction to separate oneself from all the others? Is it supposed to be innate? It certainly isn't for us. Does it truly mean anything? Or is it only a way to sort out the crumbs of a shattered brain?

Many questions to be had and no answers.

[thearchivesystem]

I know we haven't posted on this blog in quite a while but I must say—after realizing that, well, I exist—I've been having quite a lot of fun figuring out who I am. So far, I'm finding it rather amusing that I, with my mid 20th century name, tend to speak like a victorian period drama character while Adelaide, with an 1890s name, speaks more modernly with older language sprinkled in.

[byjove]

*English man with a mustache in a period drama voice* GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN.

[byjove]

YOU have an angel and devil on your shoulder. I have some sort of WW1 infantry commander standing behind me screaming at me during stressful situations.

[noodledragonsoup]

@funnier-as-a-system

[byjove]

*English man with a mustache in a period drama voice* GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN.

[byjove]

YOU have an angel and devil on your shoulder. I have some sort of WW1 infantry commander standing behind me screaming at me during stressful situations.

[noodledragonsoup]

@funnier-as-a-system

[byjove]

*English man with a mustache in a period drama voice* GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF, MAN.

[byjove]

YOU have an angel and devil on your shoulder. I have some sort of WW1 infantry commander standing behind me screaming at me during stressful situations.

[noodledragonsoup]

@funnier-as-a-system

[within-time]

maybe if i imagine the character all my problems will be solved

[within-time]

NOT WORKING NOT WORKING NOT WORKING NOT WORKING

[bemusedlybespectacled]

shoulder angel and shoulder devil except they're shoulder defense attorney and shoulder prosecutor

[bemusedlybespectacled]

this is not a hypothetical, this is quite literally how my brain works

[moonpool-system]

@funnier-as-a-system

[archival-collective]

gonna doxx an alter

[archival-collective]

brain

[thearchivesystem]

Being ace with allo headmates is really funny sometimes. They'll be yapping about someone they find hot and I'm just nodding my head and randomly saying "listening and learning" despite having absolutely no idea what they're talking about

[thearchivesystem]

I hate being front stuck so much. Like @ our brain why do you need so many of us if you're gonna lock me in anyway

[teathattast]

[purrality]

@funnier-as-a-system

[funnier-as-a-system]

[ID: a diagram of a cycle, drawn with simple arrows connecting each step of the cycle. Text in the middle of the image reads: "how was your day". At the top of the diagram is the first step of the cycle, which shows the man-turned-beetle from The Metamorphosis. The second step of the cycle shows a pink worm on a string. The third step shows a plush clown toy. The final step of the cycle shows a yippee/autism creature covered in blood as if it just mauled someone. The arrows then point to the first step of the cycle, showing it is repeating in an indefinite loop. / end ID]

[heartbeat-sys]

sometimes plurality is

"oh yeah im alone in fron- hey. who is that. who said that"

[thearchivesystem]

Think I've been spending too much time with Teddy..... He just said people whose favorite dinosaur is T-Rex are "boring and trite".......

[thearchivesystem]

Not sure why I drew us as basically ghosts but this is our brain rn

[necromancelena]

Yeah I'm using first person pronouns to refer to events that happened five years ago for convenience though for all intents and purposes I'm actually relaying stuff that happened to the dead girl that used to pilot this body

[neuropri5m]

vessel for change …

we are plural and therefore constantly shifting by nature !! our body is a vessel to express ourselves and our changes