Little comics and advice from critter-things sharing a brain.If sending an ask: please ensure that your ask is focused around one issue or question (if possible), and try to ensure that each ask is self-contained. We get too many asks to figure out which anons from yesterday were yours.
Finally felt well enough to polish and publish the first of two EPs - hoping to have the second part out by the end of the year, but we’ll see! I’m just glad to have this chunk done. Pretty explicitly about dissociation; planning to have the second part lean more into plurality and experiences around that.
bright-system : Microsoft Forms Hello all! We’re looking to put together a zine made with contributions from Tumblr’s plurality community. The idea is that each edition will focus on a general topic area, and people will contribute their own pieces that fit into that topic. Contributions can be whatever you can make - art, essays, poetry, humour, just some regular prose on the topic,…
This week sucked.
If you’ve wanted to make your own DIY plural blogging page and you’re comfortable poking the command line (and, optionally, poking JSON or CSS), then you’re in luck- this project gives you a command line-based way to quickly add blog posts to an HTML file of your choosing. Each post can be made under an arbitrary name and profile picture. There are no centralized accounts or…
Switching ALT Switching is the process of changing who controls your system’s body, mind, or other central resources. A switch can be voluntary or involuntary, and controlling and managing switching is a learnable skill. Switching isn’t a universal plural experience, but when systems do switch, they might experience it in a variety of different ways. It doesn’t always feel like…
0rnithographer : wanted to do a similar chart to the one @orchardsys did, but didn’t feel like the single axis gave enough nuance for us This is a really interesting way to map yourselves- we might have to try something like it ourselves.
spacegauze : “ Stratosphere ”
I'm in agreement personally that taking it slow is a good call, but I'm also seeing some missed communication here. Have you actually asked him directly about his interest in sex or intimacy? You might have reason to assume that it could be self-harm from your perspective, but he might geniunely just be a horny guy. It does happen sometimes. Have you told him that you're worried it could be a form…
slightly-sigilant : semiplural : A lot of people in our inbox ask whether their experiences are normal. First: Normal does not equal good or bad, healthy or disordered. Normal means that something is accepted or statistically common for a given population . It doesn’t make an experience more or less real. It just means you might see it more or less often. Second: Normal is relative.…
A lot of people in our inbox ask whether their experiences are normal. First: Normal does not equal good or bad, healthy or disordered. Normal means that something is accepted or statistically common for a given population . It doesn’t make an experience more or less real. It just means you might see it more or less often. Second: Normal is relative. Different groups of people will have…
We interrupt each other constantly , especially folks who have very good contact with each other. We've even done it out loud a few times. If your headmate interrupting you makes it harder to talk to them, then you might consider asking your headmate to let you finish your sentences before answering. They might be able to adjust or work with you to find another solution. Otherwise, you can let it…
semiplural : Spreadsheets! Here’s a simple spreadsheet template for documenting or exploring three things: When did major life events happen? Are any of them potentially connected? (Also contains info on NT developmental milestones to help with any cross-referencing against what you remember- this has occasionally helped with pinpointing the date range of an event.) Who’s in your head?…
Spreadsheets! Here’s a simple spreadsheet template for documenting or exploring three things: When did major life events happen? Are any of them potentially connected? (Also contains info on NT developmental milestones to help with any cross-referencing against what you remember- this has occasionally helped with pinpointing the date range of an event.) Who’s in your head? What…
Advice to New Systems If you experience any changes in body control (switching, possession, etc.), then establish some form of consistent, asynchronous external communication with your system. External communication has a major benefit: you can still talk to each other across switches (asynchronously) even if the inside of your mind is a mess. You might set up a journal, whiteboard, calendar, a…
I couldn't tell you if it's normal ( normalcy is relative , not absolute- normal for what group of people, when?), but I can say that it seems to be pretty common in online plural communities for a system to have a sudden-looking change in headcount shortly after being discovered. Sometimes system members hang back and wait until they feel safe to introduce themselves because it's more comfortable…
“My child has a great memory!” Ma'am, your child was jumpscared by a Pluralkit proxy that their brainmate made as a prank.
semiplural : Diagnosis ALT Funny how we tend to get things once we stop wanting or looking for them. It took so long to be diagnosed with DID that we started resenting the idea of diagnosis altogether (and still do). But here we are. I have mixed feelings. To future us: our therapist also kind of hates the DSM. Mutual “for the insurance” diagnosis motives here. ALT I’m still…
whyenn-reader : part of being an adult is figuring out what eveyone else’s definition of “going crazy” is. to you it is not sleeping for 60 hours, writing 80k words in one sitting and expiriencing enough anxiety to kill a horse. to beth from accounting its buying a ticket to Columbus, Ohio. and to your friend its consuming so much ketamine you lose all of your posessions and wake…
leaving this as an open question, i think i wanna branch out from just polls. Out of the present crew's names: One of us stole our middle deadname, one of us named themselves after their favorite song at the time, one of us is associated so strongly with the concept described by their name that it became their name, one of us just went off vibes(? I don't actually remember beyond it feeling right)…
Diagnosis ALT Funny how we tend to get things once we stop wanting or looking for them. It took so long to be diagnosed with DID that we started resenting the idea of diagnosis altogether (and still do). But here we are. I have mixed feelings. To future us: our therapist also kind of hates the DSM. Mutual “for the insurance” diagnosis motives here.