jatravess

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plural culture is "ive been fronting for quite a while, i should probably take a break" (doesnt leave front for several more days)

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if youre autistic and transgender and you live with your parents you just have to remember soon you wont live with your parents and nothing will ever be as bad as this ever again. im fucking serious

Hey, system originals and hosts--or whatever word you'd use. And anyone else who needs to hear it.

It's ok if you want to put your headmates first, before even IRL connections you have. It's not wrong. You're not "cringe". You're not evil or selfish or "worsening your condition" by default. You share your body with your headmates. Whether you view them as parts of your'self' or not, you share a singular form you all have to coexist inside of. People outside your body shouldn't get a say as to what you do with it.

It's ok if you want to do things for them that you wouldn't otherwise do with your life. It's ok if you need to make compromises together about what path you wanna take, and change up some life plans until you can all agree or at least be okay with them. It's ok if the closest connections to anyone you have are those within your own body. It's ok to not want to be close to people unless they accept everyone in your system.

You're not anti-recovery. You're not "giving up" your body to some evil parasite. You're not "throwing your life away because of an illness". You're not bad if you "make everything about your system" because those people are a part of your life as much as any other friend or partner or coworker, you should be able to talk about them.

If you want to make decisions about your body as a collective, please do. You can live a happy and fulfilling life, connected closely with your headmates and all being happy together. It doesn't have to be a struggle 24/7. There will be good days, there will be bad. You won't always agree easily. Things can be difficult, but you aren't wrong for wanting your system to be as big of a part in your life as you yourself are.

my castmate, getting emotional on closing night: do you ever think about how we might be in this play again... but this is still the last time we'll ever be in this production, with these people at this time? and even within that, each show is the last time we'll ever do that specific performance. even within a given unique production, there are a thousand little things that are different night to night. different performance choices, different audience, different thoughts in our heads and ways we play off each other. it's like. theatre is by its nature ephemeral and there's no way to ever go back and experience that specific version of a play ever again.

me, who's lived through the time loop of this night 300 times: y'know--

oh god dont give them ideas /lh

-Jessica

Bapping your host with newspapers is an effective way to stop them from spiralling!

being plural means a headmate pulling you into headspace to cuddle with you and help you go to sleep because of your& insomnia

being plural means smiling and laughing at a joke one of your headmates made, or having witty banter with them as you make a meal that you'll both be able to enjoy

being plural means a headmate going "its okay, you don't have to do this, i can do it" and you thanking them because yeah, you cant do that, and thats okay

being plural means thinking about your headmates when buying new clothes, or seeing a shirt or pair of pants for sale and going "they'd love that !!"

being plural means making one of your headmate's simplyplural profile, and spending lots of time perfecting it so that it fits them to a T

being plural means knowing you aren't alone

being plural means knowing that your headmates, your friends, your family, are always there for you

being plural means love.

THIS POST IS INCLUSIVE OF SYSTEMS OF ALL ORIGINS !!! DO NOT BRING SYSCOURSE ONTO THIS POST.

how fitting for this to be answered while we've got a really bad headache.

plural culture is headache

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its so nice to take a break from fronting all the time. im always so much more relaxed when i come back.

its great and i really have to do it more.

Me when I was a "singlet": I wonder if my system friends think it's cheesy when I say "ya'll" or "you guys" to them.

Me knowing I'm a system, after someone just referred to us as "you guys":

A comic about flying in our system.

yes i know they are absolutely amazing i love them so much already

leaned that we can basically shapshift in headspace if we want to.

of course i immediately used this new power to give myself massive wings

-(pilot)

HEY EVERYONE CHECK OUT MY MASSIVE P-

-air of wings

leaned that we can basically shapshift in headspace if we want to.

of course i immediately used this new power to give myself massive wings

-(pilot)

In Stars and Time fictive culture is realising that you suddenly have all the information you could ever want about stars and constellations and excitedly going outside to stargaze,

only to also discover light pollution exists now.

(its not as bad as it could be were we live but its still so blinding annoying)

-Siffrin

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Host: *plays cool game once* That was fun

Fictive from said game: Yeah it wa-

Host: AAAAH

My superpower is there’s a bunch of people in my head

My weakness is they all have ADHD

Submitted Prompt #166

[character A] makes a deal with a supernatural entity, giving up their ownership over their body.

only after the deal has been made does the supernatural entity realise that [character A] is a member of a system, and as such isnt actually the sole owner of the body. leaving the supernatural entity now trapped in a body they dont fully own.

i never asked to be plural, but i wouldnt change it for the world.

i cant imagine a better group of people to share my life with.

-(pilot)

Parasite and Girl

i dont like the term host,

i mean it is what i am, but i dont like the connotations connected to it. the idea that im the "real one" or that im in charge somehow.

or maybe it just makes me think of the word "parasite" when i hear it.

either way, i think i much prefer the using the term "pilot" to desctibe my place in the system.

i think that it describes what i actually do without the same negative connotations (and also our fronting room is a literal cockpit so it fits)

Host: why do i feel so worn out right now?

Caretaker: its two o`clock in the morning

Host: im sure that unrelated.

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Hello systems.... You're real.

sometimes being plural is comforting each other during our hardest moments,

and other times its a passionate argument over question of "what is the biggest rock in the solar system?" that ends with the conclusion that the earth is a cream egg.

yes absolutely,

we first discoved our system about 6 months ago, and yeh it seemed scary at first, but getting to know each other and learning to work together as a team has honestly been the best experience of our life.

i love how we all support each other in whatever we need, how we work together to better care for the system as a whole. i dont know what i would do without everyone else in here with me.

we love being plural and wouldnt trade it for the world.

question 15: Do you enjoy being a system?

(submitted by anon)

Two sentence horror story (warning very scary 😰😱😨)

"I have a new hyperfixation!" I said happily.

(Three days later) sigh…pk;m new

You gotta be silly and whimsical and full of joy sometimes so baby systems know they have options. Remember: you, too, can be a random blogger of shitposts on the Internet, or an editor for nonhuman romance novels, or someone who carries a turtle down several blocks to release it into a small lake because otherwise it's going to keep trying to walk into the road. Just because you're a system doesn't mean you're locked into one strict way of life – and it definitely doesn't mean you're doomed to be miserable all the time, forever. Despite it all, we stay silly

having crushes on my fellow headmate is so bizarre. like... my heart is racing at the other voice in our head. i want to hold our hands together, i want to wrap our arms around us so you can feel the sensation of us embracing. i want to share meals with you and see what your tastebuds like or dislike compared to mine. i love us because i love you. ✧ julian

Plural culture is buying a tub of microwave Mac and cheese that serves 4 then calling 3 other alters to co con to eat with you

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@funnier-as-a-system

'I always wanted to fuck him' caption under a picture of a dark room with nothing in it

Introjection, the Highest Stage of Kinning