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Here’s some positivity for fictives of player characters!

Every introject is unique, special, and wonderful in their own way, and this absolutely includes fictives whose source is a player character from a video game, tabletop rpg, or some other game! To all the fictives of player characters out there, your life is precious and you are worth uplifting and celebrating! So this one is just for you!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters from video games who kept and identify with the default name of their source!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives from TTRPGs whose source is someone else’s player character!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who formed consciously or unconsciously due to their system’s special interest or hyperfixation!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who feel strongly attached to the game, work, or world they were sourced from!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives of player characters that were created by their own system!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters from let’s plays, podcasts, livestreams, or other instances where their source is a player character created by someone outside their system!

🎮 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who are trying to distance themselves from their source for any reason!

🃏 Shoutout to fictives of customizable player characters whose appearance regularly shifts as a result of their source!

👾 Shoutout to fictives of player characters who have never interacted directly with the work they are sourced from!

Fictives of player characters are valid as fictives and introjects, and are important and valued members of their systems! It’s okay to be a fictive of a player character, regardless of how you feel about your source. Your experience is real, you are real, and you deserve to be supported and uplifted as you are!

If you’re a fictive of a player character, we hope you can take it easy today and find the time to do something that you love. Rest assured the plural community and our spaces are made better by your presence in them! Know that we’re rooting for you, and we’re wishing the very best for you in all that you do. Thanks so much for reading, and have a great day!

#plurality #multiplicity #pluralgang #actuallyplural #system positivity #plural positivity #plural pride #system pride #introjects #fictives #player character #player characters

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Can you make/Do you have positivity for systems who splits (very) often???

Hiya! We just wrote one, actually! It’ll be posted tomorrow night at 8:00PM EST! :3

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Do you have/Can you make a positivity for systems who split very easily & often?

We fakeclaime ourselves a lot because of it so, ugh...

Please

Hiya! We just finished up a post for systems who split easily and often, and we added it to the queue! Y’all should see it tomorrow night at 8:00PM EST >w<

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Hi! I was wondering if y'all could do a positivity post for fictives of player characters? Understandable if that's too specific

Hiya! This isn’t too specific at all, and we’re happy to make this post!! It’ll be up on our blog tonight at 8:00PM EST :3

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Here’s some positivity for proxy systems!

According to Pluralpedia, proxy systems are “where one functions as a singlet (or approximately close to one, such as a median system) due to a frontstuck host, yet all members of the system are completely distinct in the headspace.” Many systems may find that they function in this way! This post is for all the proxy systems out there!

🧡 Shoutout to willogenic, paromancy, imagian, or other willfully created proxy systems!

💛 Shoutout to systems who are writers, artists, or other creators whose headmates are characters who are unable to switch or front!

🤍 Shoutout to proxy systems with headmates who wish they could switch!

💜 Shoutout to proxy systems whose members often cofront, blur or blend together, or are coconscious!

💙 Shoutout to proxy systems who love, embrace, and celebrate the way their system works!

🧡 Shoutout to protogenic proxy systems, or those who have always been plural even if no one but the host has fronted!

💛 Shoutout to proxy systems who identify as specutien or have some other specific labels for their experience as proxy systems!

🤍 Shoutout to proxy systems with vast, complex headspaces, and to proxy systems with no headspace whatsoever!

💜 Shoutout to those who are questioning whether or not they are a proxy system!

💙 Shoutout to hosts of proxy systems who work hard to help their headmates live the lives they want to live, even if they can’t fully front!

🧡 Shoutout to proxy systems who prefer to present as a singlet in their daily life for their own comfort and/or safety!

Proxy systems have always been and will always be valued, cherished, and integral members of the plural community! To any proxy system who reads this, please know that your system is real and you are valid, regardless of how you experience plurality or the ways in which your system functions! It’s okay if most of your system members interact with the world through your system’s host. That doesn’t negate the validity of your system in any way, shape, or form!

We hope that every proxy system out there can have an amazing day today. Know that you are so loved, and you make the world and our spaces a better place simply by existing in it! Regardless of how your system came to be, you are special, your system is beautiful, and we are so pleased to be able to share this wonderful, diverse community with you. Please keep you chin up, have some pride in your system and how it works, and do you best to take care of each other!

#plurality #multiplicity #pluralgang #actuallyplural #system positivity #plural positivity #plural pride #system pride #proxy system #long post

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Here’s some positivity for introjects of police officers!

Introjects often form for a reason, and many do not get to choose their source. Discovering that your source is an authority figure or member of law enforcement can be a scary, frustrating, or overwhelming experience! However, introjects are not their sources, and it is possible to live a full and happy life as an introject of a police officer without holding onto the beliefs or moral values of your source. This post goes out to any introject of a police officer out there!

Shoutout to police fictives who formed due to their system’s special interest or hyperfixation!

Shoutout to police introjects who have been traumatized by police officers or other law enforcement!

Shoutout to introjects of police officers who are trying to source separate or distance themselves from their sources for their own comfort and well-being!

Shoutout to introjects of police who are leftists, anarchists, and police abolitionists!

Shoutout to those who are factives of police officers their own system knows or has interacted with in real life!

Shoutout to police introjects who are working to let go of harmful beliefs held by their source!

Shoutout to introjects whose sources are not technically police, but are still a part of the law enforcement system (i.e. detectives, federal agents, prosecutors, etc.)!

Shoutout to police introjects who educate others about safe alternatives to calling the police in emergency situations!

Shoutout to police introjects who are afraid to reveal their source to others due to how they could potentially be perceived!

To any introject of a police officer out there, we want to remind you that the occupation of your source does not define you in any way, and you are so much more than the job that was held by your source! You matter, your ideas matter, and you deserve respect, healing, and peace as you come to terms with who your source is and how that affects you. While it may certainly be painful, frightening, or uncomfortable to learn your source is a police officer, we genuinely hope that you will be able to find happiness and a positive purpose in your life. Please do your best to take care of yourself and your system, and have a great day!

#police #law enforcement #police tw #law enforcement tw #trauma #trauma mention

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do you think we could get some positivity for proxy systems? no worries if not of course :)

Aw yeah, our partner system is a proxy system. In this house we love and support proxy systems. I didn’t write this post but the usual post-writers for this blog did (shoutout to Margo and Ralsei, those rascals). I just queued it up so it’ll post tomorrow night at 8:00pm est.

#also on the last positivity request I responded to I actually put the wrong time for it to post #so that one will be posted tonight and this one will be posted tomorrow #sorry about the mixup

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i wish someone would just invent an app like simply plural but where you can easily share it. everyone says use google docs or something else like it where you can't create individual profiles that don't clutter the page. we have a lot of alters and we're getting increasingly frustrated that we can't find anything to list them in a way that isn't overwhelming. our alters also like to visually represent themselves but don't really have anywhere to have like a gallery or anything. we do video visits with our therapist so we can't physically show her our phone. it's so frustrating.

Ah yeah, we feel you there. Our system uses Simply Plural but it can be kind of clunky or difficult to use for our specific purposes sometimes (not knocking the app at all… We love the app and use it all the time, we just agree that there are certain features that it just doesn’t have).

Maybe making some sort of physical journal or binder could help you guys. If you have access to a printer, you could print out little picrews or other images to include, and you could also draw and write in it, too. That way, you could have something to bring to therapy that you could show your therapist without needing your phone for it.

Also maybe consider making a Carrd? Though I think the unpaid version of Carrd has restrictions for the number of pages and images you can include, so that could probably cause some issues.

We know the website Lighthouse doesn’t have an app, and we haven’t personally used it so we can’t speak to its features, but maybe it has some capabilities that might work for you? Could be worth checking out…

If anyone knows of any Simply Plural alternatives that work well for outside sharing, please let us know!

#simply plural #lighthouse #system organization #external system management

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hey have yall (including viewers of blog, not just mods) ever experienced this thing where you're not sure if theres a new alter, or if someone already there just has a new identity?

it feels kinda silly, cause like, guys, changing ur identity won't help us avoid the irs :P

Hey, we (and specifically I, the host) have definitely experienced this. It happened a lot more before our syscovery (I used to think I was Ralsei fictionkin before learning about my alter, Ralsei, for example). It doesn’t happen nearly as much these days, but it does definitely still happen to us from time to time. It can be tricky to tell whether a particular alter is discovering a new kintype, gender, sexuality, or other aspect of their identity, or if there actually is a new alter that we’re interacting with.

We also experience this sometimes with like, well established alters who have been in the system for a long time. Like occasionally I’ll be like “wtf am I werewolfkin? Am I actually mlm and not a lesbian??” But in reality I was just cofronting or blending with Toby and just didn’t notice lol. Usually when we start having thoughts like this, one of us will speak up to clarify the situation.

So yeah, you’re definitely not alone in experiencing this. And as always, if anyone who reads this wants to share their own experiences with confusing new identities for new alters or headmates, you’re welcome to share.

#identity confusion #identity alteration #blending #new headmate #new alter

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hey this is kinda a weird thing but im one of two alters who formed from Brooklyn 99 and its kinda weird to fully agree with ACAB while also knowing i am/was a cop,,, can we get some positivity for that? sorry that’s really weird

Hey, so this was really tough for us, as a system who is anti-police and who has been traumatized due to terrible interactions with police in the past. We did write a positivity post for introjects of police officers, because introjects of cops are people, they’re not their source, and they do deserve some positivity (we imagine it can be scary and disheartening to learn your source is a cop).

This post is in the queue and will be up tomorrow night at 8:00pm est. We’ve left it out of our usual tags to protect those in the plural tags who don’t want to see posts referencing the police. We hope it works for both you and your fellow alter from Brooklyn 99. If not we’re really sorry… like I said writing that post was pretty tough for us.

#trauma #police #law enforcement #police tw #law enforcement tw

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Here’s some positivity for headmates who have been dormant!

For many headmates, re-emerging from dormancy can be a disorienting, confusing, or scary experience. Many headmates may discover that their system and circumstances have changed drastically while they were dormant. To every headmate who has resurfaced from dormancy, we want to uplift you and show you some support! So here’s to all the headmates who have been dormant in the past!

🌙 Shoutout to headmates who had been dormant for over a decade!

🪐 Shoutout to headmates who are struggling to readjust to life after dormancy!

⭐️ Shoutout to headmates who have missed out on major life events or things they had been looking forward to due to dormancy!

🚀 Shoutout to headmates who are having difficulties socializing and connecting with the rest of their system after their dormancy!

✨ Shoutout to headmates who can’t remember anything that happened to their system while they were dormant!

🔭 Shoutout to headmates who have emerged from dormancy only to find that their system or the world around them has changed drastically while they were gone!

💫 Shoutout to headmates who have resurfaced after being forced into dormancy by another headmate or an outside factor!

🛰 Shoutout to created headmates that went dormant for some time due to a member of their system forgetting about them or being unable to work with them!

🌟 Shoutout to headmates who feel lost and confused about their purpose in life and their system after their dormancy!

🛸 Shoutout to headmates who emerged from dormancy with no memories whatsoever, even if the rest of their system can remember them from before they went dormant!

Dormancy is a morally neutral occurrence and a natural, common phenomenon in many systems! It can absolutely be scary and challenging re-emerging from a dormancy, but if you or someone in your system is going through this, we want to remind you that you’re not alone and everything’s going to be okay! It’s not too late to enjoy the small things in life and try to figure out how you want to spend the time you have.

To every headmate who has resurfaced from dormancy, know that we see you, we understand your struggles, and we are wishing you a bright future filled with comfort and delight. Know that you are so loved, and you are allowed to exist as you are now - even if you don’t know much about yourself or feel lost about your future! Please do you best to take it easy, be gentle with yourself, and have a wonderful day!

#plurality #multiplicity #pluralgang #actuallyplural #system positivity #plural positivity #plural pride #system pride #dormancy #dormant alters

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Here’s some positivity for system persecutors!

System persecutors are headmates who cause harm, either to themselves, their headmates, or their body. Many systems may find they have persecutors, and may be unsure of how best to navigate living with their persecutors and forming positive bonds. But persecutors are still headmates, maintaining a valid, while often maladaptive, role, and they deserve to be embraced and accepted in their system and the plural community as a whole! So this post is for all the persecutors out there!

❤️‍🩹 Shoutout to persecutors who have been traumatized, hurt, ostracized, or bullied by others, whether inside or outside their system!

🔥 Shoutout to persecutors who lash out at their headmates in order to protect their system!

🥀 Shoutout to persecutors who want to change for the better, but don’t know how!

🏵 Shoutout to persecutors who struggle with self-harm, intrusive thoughts, suicidal ideation, and other potentially harmful thoughts or actions!

❤️‍🩹 Shoutout to persecutors who are also symptom holders, hosts, littles, protectors, or have some other role in their system!

🔥 Shoutout to persecutors who are trying out less harmful coping strategies as a way to deal with their negative emotions!

🥀 Shoutout to persecutors who are learning to apologize after they’ve lashed out at their headmates and are taking steps to form better relationships with their system members!

🏵 Shoutout to persecutors who have recently relapsed, backslid, or fallen back into old habits or harmful coping mechanisms!

❤️‍🩹 Shoutout to persecutors who don’t want to change - you still deserve respect and compassion as you are, no changes necessary!

🔥 Shoutout to persecutors who have dealt with being jailed, isolated, or otherwise cut off from the rest of their system for any reason!

🥀 Shoutout to persecutors who often feel angry, frustrated, anxious, lost, upset, lonely, or depressed!

All persecutors in all systems are deserving of love, happiness, and comfort, with absolutely no exceptions! Regardless of your past, your feelings, how you view the world and how the world views you, if you are a persecutor in your system, we are wishing you the very best. We truly hope you can find hope and recovery if you need it, something joyful to hold on to, and someone in your corner who cares about you as you are now. If nothing else, please know that we care about you and we’re rooting for you!

We know this might be hard, but please do your best to show yourself some patience and kindness today. You exist for a reason, and change takes time and dedication! You are allowed to take things slowly, breathe, and show yourself some grace today. We hope your future is filled with treats, good surprises, comfort, safety, and a sense of belonging! Until then, remember that you belong here, and we are so happy to share this space with you.

#plurality #multiplicity #pluralgang #actuallyplural #system positivity #plural positivity #plural pride #system pride #system persecutor #persecutors #trauma #self harm #suicide

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could you make a positivity post for alters that were dormant for a long time, or split/integrated and recently reformed in the system? headmates that left for whatever reason, and recently came back to a lot of things changed. maybe they don't remember all of what it was like before they even left, or are struggling to adjust to the changes in the system.

thanks, and sorry if this is weirdly worded or smth /gen

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Hi! So we wrote a positivity post for headmates who have emerged from dormancy in the past, and we tried to include some specific positivity that was reflected in your request! The post will be up tomorrow night at 8:00PM EST - we hope it will work for y’all!

#dormancy

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Hi! I was looking for advice and you seem pretty knowledgeable about plurality so I’d thought I’d ask you.

I’ve started to wonder if maybe I’m plural, but don’t know if my experiences are similar to something someone is neurotypical might experience. I think of myself as only having one headmate, but when it comes to interacting with people I express one of two manifestations of said headmate.

I figure it’s relatively common in people who aren’t plural to show different parts of themselves to differently people, but these two manifestations are so dramatically different to the point of being polar opposites that I’ve started to wonder.

(Some clarifying notes: While I don’t have names for these separate manifestations as they are both parts of the same individual in my head, I will refer to them as 🌟 and 🪐 respectively. I will refer to me presenting either 🌟 or 🪐 as fronting, and the version that exists in my head as the headspace version. I’m using this language just to be clear with what I mean, not to appropriate language used by systems/say I am one)

It hasn’t always been like this. When I was little, I was just 🌟. I was extremely extroverted, energetic, argumentative, and struggled with emotional regulation. I display these traits whenever I am fronting 🌟. 🪐 has always been around in my headspace as well, and sometimes 🪐 would front, but this didn’t happen in any meaningful capacity until I was around 9. My behavior shifted drastically, because 🪐 is very quiet, observant, and logical. My mother has told me multiple times that she felt like I got jaded in the 4th grade. Now, unless I’ve gotten to know someone well or am incredibly comfortable in the environment I’m in, I front 🪐. Around my very close friends 🌟 will front, and 🌟 will also front when I get very giddy or excited. Sometimes when 🌟 fronts I catch myself regretting it, scared I annoyed people or if people hate me, because I can’t control which manifestation of myself people talk to.

But the thing is, I don’t have any trauma that I know of, and they exist together as one identity in my headspace. My worldview, beliefs, and memories remain the same across the board. I think of myself as one person, even if someone’s experiences with me can vary drastically (this ask would be very different if you were talking to 🌟)

I figured since you interact with a fair amount of systems and are one yourself, you could maybe point me in the right direction.

Thanks for your time!

Hi! We won’t be able to confirm or deny whether or not you’re plural, sorry about that! It’s true that even singlets are multifaceted, with different sides of themselves that they show to different people at different times. And many singlets may find that they feel more extroverted and bubbly with people they’re comfortable with, and more introverted and reserved with people they don’t know that well. To us, this is pretty normal, and even some of our parts experience socialization in this way!

What we truly believe, is that if the plural framework is beneficial for you, if you are helped or comforted by the idea of being a system, then you are more than welcome to identify as such! Not all systems form from trauma - while trauma is necessary in order for someone to develop a dissociative disorder like DID, there are plenty of other ways to exist as multiple or more than one!

We have a post we wrote in the past with a ton of resources for questioning systems. We’d like to share it with you in case one of the resources there could be useful!

For anyone questioning whether or not they’re plural, the process can be difficult, confusing, and may take a long time (we know it certainly did for us!). It’s okay to go slowly and not rush to any conclusions about yourself! That being said, it’s definitely okay to try out some labels while you’re questioning to see if anything feels right or sticks out to you. There’s no harm in trying out plural labels while you’re questioning - you’re not invading any spaces or appropriating plural language by experimenting with the terms you use to describe yourself!

Finally, we’d like to recommend learning more about median systems specifically. Plurality is a spectrum, and not every system will have fully developed, unique, and separate individual headmates! We understand median systems as those who exist in between a singlet and fully separated multiple on the plural spectrum. It may be worth learning more about if you’re wondering whether or not you’re “plural enough” to call yourself a system! (Note that we’re not saying for sure that you are a median system! Rather, we’re just suggesting it as a potential research option or direction for you.)

We hope this helps! Good luck to you with navigating the waters of questioning plurality. And feel free to reach out if you have any further questions on your journey! Know that even if it turns out that you’re not plural after all, that’s okay! Hopefully the questioning process will still be insightful for you. And plural or not, you’ll always be welcome here on this blog!

#questioning system #trauma #median system #syscovery #long post

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do you think we could get some positivity for bombogenic systems (if you havent written any already, ofc) :3c thanks

Hi! While we don’t have a post for bombogenic systems, we do have a post for pyro systems! Pluralpedia says that these two terms are synonyms, so we hope that this post will work for y’all!

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Do you think it's ok for headmates to fight with each other? The host don't like when we do. But I'm stuck in here with someone who pisses me off all the time. Surely it's ok to have fights with him now and again. Right? Ain't like we don't make up eventually. And we haven't come to blows about it yet. Unlike some of the others in here. But the host really insists that we get along all the time. Is that a realistic expectation? What do you think? I'm not sure where else to send this question so sorry if it don't belong here.

Hi! This question is sort of complex, but we’ll do our best to answer with our experience and opinions!

On one hand yes, it’s an unrealistic expectation to believe that all headmates in a system must get along perfectly 100% of the time. We headmates, alters, and parts can have different ideas about the world and when you’re sharing your mind and body with others, conflicts are bound to happen from time to time!

That being said, we don’t think it’s a good idea to encourage, count on, or provoke fights and arguments. When they arise naturally, it’s better to talk it out and make attempts to understand each other, rather than allow things to get out of hand! We think it’s best to aim for a happy medium, where fights are handled on a case by case basis as they arise, without the expectation that conflicts and arguments should never occur.

If you have a headmate who is often upsetting you, it really could be worth it for y’all to have a heart to heart in order to try and understand each other a little better. We’re not saying to immediately attempt to put a permanent end to all conflicts! Rather, we’re suggesting y’all try to take some time to get to know each other as fellow headmates and system members. Y’all can’t help that you’re sharing a mind and body with each other, so why not try to make some compromises in order to help make both of your lives a little more bearable? And who knows? Y’all might be able to find something to bond over or at least some common ground which could make it easier for you to exist around each other.

These are our thoughts on this, anyway! Every system is unique, and every headmate is unique, so y’all may need to spend some time and energy focusing on how best to manage conflicts in your own system.

I guess a TLDR would be: Fighting among headmates is normal, expecting headmates to never have conflicts is unrealistic, and mitigating harm/working with each other to minimize, resolve, and avoid fights and arguments is always a good move!

Best of luck to y’all with learning how to get along better and have some kindness and understanding for each other in the future!

#if y’all are in therapy and out as a system to your therapist this would be a great topic to bring to them! #fighting #system conflict #arguments #conflict

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We ask it again...

Do you have/Can you make positivity for systems who switch and/or split very often???

We fakeclaime ourselves a lot because of that(

It sucks honestly😭

Hi! We still have your original ask in our inbox, I believe (it was sent in on April 13). We have 7 asks ahead of yours in our inbox, so we will hopefully get to it pretty soon!