We are a willogenic system with multigenic origins — our system was created, but about half of our headmates are partially or wholly non-willogenic.
We are bodily a minor, but the majority of our headmates are ageless or fall in the 20-26 age range. This is not an invitation for bodily adults to act intimate with any of these headmates.
We love roleplay, fanfiction, writing, and anime. Our primary fandoms right now are Sk8 the Infinity and Gachiakuta, but other major fandoms we’ve been in include Demon Slayer, Obey Me, One Piece, Hunter x Hunter, Castlevania, and Heaven Official’s Blessing.
⤷ ゛OUR STANCES ˎˊ˗
Pro Endogenic + Radically Plural Positive
Pro Mental Health + Anti Fakeclaiming
Pro LIOMOGAI + Pro contradicting labels + Pro Microlabels
Neutral, leaning anti, on most other forms of transIDs.
Anti-Xenosatanism
Pro Paraphilia, Pro Mental Health, Pro Consent, Pro PDs, Pro Recovery
Pro MUD + MUE + MUS
Otherwise, we primarily fall under the newqueer label.
⤷ ゛DNI? ˎˊ˗
We are a follow your own DNI blog. In simple terms, we do not have an explicit DNI, but do not want people interacting with us if we fall under their DNI. This is because, in our experience, DNI is generally ineffective for the people we really don’t want interacting with us anyway.
If you hold a stance opposite to ours, we are likely to block you if we run across you or you push any boundaries with us.
However, we allow people with opposing viewpoints to send us asks or message us. This is provided you are polite about your communication with us. You are allowed to debate us or ask for help outside of the discourse we disagree on, but please do not start to argue with us.
Sorry if youve answered this already, but how do you willo in your first headmate with mad adhd? I cant ever stay focused on willing and always get distracted. At one point i was trying to listen to lofi and think about them but I kept mind wandering!
Thank you for any advice <3
@leafwing120
Haha we have terrible ADHD too (idk if you’ve seen us mention that and that’s why you’re asking, but) so I absolutely get it!!
The very very first time we tried to create a headmate we ended up getting bored and giving up within a couple days because of our ADHD. Like, 4-5 years ago now, I think? But we approached with less of a strict expectation when we started willoing again.
Your new willomate does not need your attention and effort 24/7, at least when they’re not entirely sentient and separate from you (of course once they are, they’re a new being, so they deserve acknowledgment and attention whenever you feel their presence). If you forget for a few hours or a day or so, you haven’t lost progress. If you sit there for 30 minutes and think about them in and out for half that time, then you still spent 15 minutes thinking about them, it doesn’t matter that it wasn’t entirely consistent.
If you have any sort of daily routine (nighttime, morning, after work/school), then try to work into what’s already built. For example, try to talk to and parrot with your headmate while brushing your teeth or making/eating breakfast. We find it really easy to communicate while in the shower, especially back when we were first forming our system!
Try to make it fun and interactive, too, so it’s easier to pay attention! For example, load up a building game (Minecraft, Sims, Bloxburg, Rooms) and build them a room while talking to them! Or make them a playlist, moodboard, gacha character, picrew, or straight up draw them.
You can also try to find pro-endo friends to hold you accountable to remembering and engaging with your willomate. When I was forming our system, we looked around for a bit and found a partner system on tumblr who was also a brand new willogenic system, and so we helped each other remember just by interacting every day. We’d give our headmates chances to talk to each other as well, which helped a lot.
Good luck willoing, whatever you do and whatever works for you!! Even 2 days of consistently doing what you want to do and then losing interest/forgetting for 5 days is still better and more effective than 7 days of not having done it at all. That goes for anything at all, too, not just willoing!
I want to make this clear. I'm not dismissing any system, Traumatic, neurotraumatic, mixed-origin, endo, willo, undiagnosed, properly diagnosed, etc. These are genuine questions that I think will help me better understand the way Willo alters/systems. I HATE SYSTEM DISCORSE.
So, we're a diagnosed neurotraumatic system. So our alters form in distressing situations. I understand the concept of Endos, as it's a possibility that their brains just were incapable of forming a full consciousness in childhood without trauma, because, as any true doctor will tell you, as humans, we don't fully grasp what the brain is or can do, mainly because it's far too complex and unique to each person to reliably study.
I do understand it's centered around the idea of Willing an alter into existence. Hence the term: Willo. So, here are my questions:
What does it feel like with an alter form?
Is it painful when an alter form?
Does it often go unnoticed, or just sometimes?
Are you aware they're there when they show up, or does it take time for them to reveal themselves?
How does the process work?
Do you just think of an alter, and it forms, or does it take time and/or effort?
Is it more common to form fictives, factives, or original alters?
oh my god i'm so tired psychotic does not mean violent it does not mean angry or erratic. it refers to a person suffering from psychosis, a loss of touch with reality that includes hallucinations and/or delusions. psychotic people are not inherently violent and y'all need to understand how much stigma you create when you again and again incorrectly use the word psychotic without even thinking about it
i think that some things could be helped if more people realized the concept of "introjects are not inherently their source." also applies to source connected introjects.
This! Because most, if not all, of our fictives are source connected — we latch onto fiction easily as an autistic system, and (contrary to syspolicers beliefs) source connection is actually a good coping mechanism for most of our fictives.
And yet, that doesn’t change the fact that they aren’t inherently their source. They are still living, breathing beings, that — what a shocker! — are sentient with their own opinions, feelings, and boundaries.
Yes, most of them enjoy being engaged about their source media, and most of them don’t mind being treated like their source character. And yet they’re still alive. They’re still real. They’re still not actually that character and not being controlled by that character’s creator. And that still needs to be respected. They don’t have to act exactly like their source, they don’t have to have the same identity their source has, they don’t have to dress how the character would, they don’t have to speak the way the character would— they don’t have to do, like, anything special in order to be valid as a fictive and still be who they say they are. They just exist. That’s all that needed.
I thought.... it was just.. Ibis paint being Ibis paint.. when my lines wouldn't follow my pen.. and when the app just stopped and crashed sometimes........
I thought you meant actual canvases, for physical painting, because yeah? I have done both. I have re-used physical canvases because they are expensive, and a pain to stretch, and take up space, and its not like I'm selling them or anything ...
Edited to add: Since a lot of people are reblogging this original post, I'm adding the updated version I did that incorporates the intersex circle...
I know intersex people are still getting excluded in a lot of LGBTQIA+ spaces (let alone wider society) and I think it's crucial to show this group is included in the statement that we all deserve equal rights.
We're a new willogenic system, currently on our way to forming 2 headmates and while our progress is slow, we had a silly thing that happened last night that honestly made me (the host) happy~!
I think our interest in willomancy have led to a dream of ours last night where I dreamt our older sister to coming out as plural! And for some reason at a twilight sparkle alter~? I don't remember much after though
But I do remember waking up once (mostly twice, I remember our body waking up twice, but I don't remember if it was me, the host, waking up besides the one time), because our two (currently forming) headmates were talking about *something* loud enough we woke up! And I thought that was interesting, but it made me happy in an happily annoying way because it helped us feel more validated, even if progress is slow and we're still new to it all!
Just a tidbit to share, because you're one of our inspos in helping up form our system! And we're incredibly shy, and this is one of our steps to stepping out into the plural space and trying to find others to talk to and help us~! — ☆
~ Bunny ☁️ (Host)
WOAAH THIS IS SO COOL! WOW! I love stories sm. I’m so proud of you guys!! And super happy to hear that we inspired you!! <33
That sounds so cool, we don’t really hear each other that loud personally so you must be doing SUPER good! Wowie, we love the little inconveniences that remind us we’re a system too, they’re somehow sososo much more validating than the happy things, because they’re less of a choice and therefore force us to acknowledge that we’re real. I love how that’s such a shared experience in the willo community!!
Being a partially endogenic collective is weird cause we have headmates that are associated with hyperfixations. So, when we get hyperfixated on a past hyperfixation they front way more cause they are associated with the hyperfixation.
Like our one headmate when we see TAMSY CAINES?? He looks a lot like Tamsy, acts like Tamsy, talks and exists like Tamsy but isn't Tamsy cause he's apparently too complicated to be defined by a character (he's in his main character arc)......his name is Arsene.
-Aiden
Tamsy Caines mention Tamsy Caines mention (<- System with 28 Tamsy introjects) ough we love Tamsy, Arsene is so real for that
Shoutout to all headmates that appear for their beloved characters, u guys are ALL so real (insert Tamsy thinking panel here)
No such thing as too dramatic for Tamsy!! Nor dramatic enough!! We have a fanart folder of 200+ pieces of him and continue to look for more alll the time, and even that’s never enough LMAO
Being a partially endogenic collective is weird cause we have headmates that are associated with hyperfixations. So, when we get hyperfixated on a past hyperfixation they front way more cause they are associated with the hyperfixation.
Like our one headmate when we see TAMSY CAINES?? He looks a lot like Tamsy, acts like Tamsy, talks and exists like Tamsy but isn't Tamsy cause he's apparently too complicated to be defined by a character (he's in his main character arc)......his name is Arsene.
-Aiden
Tamsy Caines mention Tamsy Caines mention (<- System with 28 Tamsy introjects) ough we love Tamsy, Arsene is so real for that
Shoutout to all headmates that appear for their beloved characters, u guys are ALL so real (insert Tamsy thinking panel here)
I'm plural though I'm having a really hard time accepting it. Can you create a system without realizing it? I thought maybe I created it somehow but I don't want to be plural, it makes so many things harder and I hate it. Maybe I created it on accident? Idk dude
(sorry if this sounds like a vent, it's not supposed to be. I just am so confused on how I became one +I have bad memory loss/issues and I don't remember creating one lol)
No worries. It is definitely possible to create a system on accident, there’s even a label for it (Catharigenic.) That being said, if you have a history of memory loss and your plurality is having negative impacts on you, you may want to do research on CDDs and adjacent disorders (if you haven’t already.)
That being said, it’s okay to not like your system or be stressed about it. That’s an entirely valid thing to feel, it can be very stressful and overwhelming sometimes, especially if you have negative symptoms associated with it. That doesn’t make your plurality wrong, it’s just another way of experiencing it. One that ideally should be eased or worked on eventually for your mental health, but that doesn’t have to be now.
Take your time, whatever is on the other side of this will wait for you. You’re(+) not alone.
I know there isn't an "age requirement" as such, but at what age do you think it would be best for someone to dabble in willomancy? Just asking because I'm curious on whether you think that willing could cause stress or other things on younger people.
Depends. I don’t think there’s any sort of concrete age requirement cut-off where it’s like, “yes you should” or “no you shouldn’t,” but it is impeorant to keep in mind ANYBODY below their early 20s is wholly incapable of making fully informed permanently impactful decisions, such as forming headmates. That being said, it’s not like it’s a bad thing. We’re bodily 16, started this 7 months ago, plenty of minors engage in willomancy and it’s not bad.
I’d say those under 13 probably shouldn’t engage in willomancy, just because at that age it’s ESPECIALLY difficult to make any decisions that aren’t wholly in-the-moment. And it’s especially important for younger practitioners to think about it first. Sit on the thought for days, maybe even weeks or months. Preferably, actually. Give your mind enough time to filter it out and drop it if it’s just some silly idea you think might be cool or cute. If it lingers around even after that, then it’s probably more personal and a something reasonably persuable.
Overall, if you’ve thought about it for a while, weighed the pros and cons, done research, thought about your motivation & reason (& other options if it’s smth like ‘coping’), then age doesn’t matter. Go for it. Regret it later? Doesn’t make your willomancy invalid or anything.
hi uhh if you dont mind us asking, hows the bah blog going? :'3
Good question, uhhhmm. Thinking Tamsy Panel. We need to make our blog intro as a whole and give the details of how requesting will work. Honestly, I know how to do it but my motivation is so bad 😅 Hopefully it’ll get done soon. But requests are still okay even before then anyway..
