#this plural

[highway-userboxes]

Hi! Can I request a user box that says “This system has POTS” please? And maybe one that says “This system has chronic pain” if you’re up for it. I haven’t found any out in the wild yet, and want those represented on my blog! Thank you!!

-🫐

I hope these are good!

text: This system has POTS

text 2: This system has Chronic Pain

text 3: This plural has POTS

text 4: This plural has Chronic Pain

text 5: This collective has POTS

text 6: This collective has Chronic Pain

#apparently POTS awareness is associated with a teal ribbon and chronic pain is a royal purple #so i decided to use those colors! #also: plural pots gang!! #ꈨ⤷ user-billboards #ꈨ⤷ user-billboard request #ꈨ⤷ requested by: 🫐 #ꈨ⤷ ask the highway #userboxes #system userboxes #custom userboxes #this system #this plural #this collective #pots #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #chronic pain #purple #black #teal #blue #water #sky

[airprime7]

@funnier-as-a-system

#plurality #plural system

[rustybutterknife]

Microdosing polyamory by dating a system

#my bf does not have DID but I like to tell him that he’s microdosing polyamory #system tag #did system #plural system #osdd system #traumagenic system #sysblr #dissociative system #system stuff #dissociation #dissociative identity disorder #actually dissociative #other specified dissociative disorder #complex dissociative disorder #dissociative amnesia #dissociative alters #dissociative identities #did memes #did #did osdd #did alter #did community #actually did #hc did #plurality #pluralgang #plural community #plural stuff #plural memes

[justalittlesolarpunk]

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

#solarpunk #hopepunk #tidalpunk #cottagepunk #bright future #climate justice #environmentalism #optimism #social justice #community #solutions #pluralism #I know stuff like EVs and vertical farms get a bad rep #they are certainly overhyped and slight techbro solutions #but I think all avenues are worth exploring even if inevitably some will be less efficacious and just than others #sorry for the long tags lol

[plurpaws]

Two Halves of an Imperfect Whole

#my art #plural #rainbow #furry #sparkledog #sparklefur

[interstellarsystem]

Nonhuman expressions of affection are great. Purring. Exposing weak points as a show of trust. Head bonks. Preening and chewing. Nuzzling. Biting. Intertwining tails. Feeding each other. Little chuffs, chatters, beeps and squeaks. Fluffing up of feathers, fur or other things. Dancing to impress. Cleaning their fur, scales, feathers or skin. Sharing body heat. Ears pointing toward those you care about to show your full attention is on them. Slow blinking.

#we need to write a longer post on this but for now have this #otherkin #otherkind #alterhuman #nonhuman #plural #plural system #plurality #endo safe #pro endo #system #therian #therianthropy #didosdd #actually did #fictive #extranth #theriolink #animallink #otherlink #copinglink #pluralgang #op #merlin (xe/he/they) #everything althu #althu experiences #nonhuman identity #animal identity #althu expression

[oursystemblog]

"was it dishes again" Yes

#osdd system #dissociative #plural #comic

[collectivewarmth]

one of the most important things about dissociative identity disorder and generally being a system that i wish people would understand is that it truly isn’t as cut and dry as it may seem for member count.

you’ll see people who say they have “six alters” and then immediately assume it’s six fully fleshed out equal individuals with no confusion or fuzziness regarding identity. that’s simply not true in a majority of cases, as i have seen.

most systems still VERY much deal with confusion regarding potential splits, go through dissociative episodes where they’re unsure of who they are, sometimes feel no attachment towards any identities, feel like they might have split and then suddenly that person is gone, unsure if alters they haven’t heard from often have gone dormant, not sure how to react when alters do come out of dormancy, etc.

it’s not a fun feeling and it’s genuinely unfair in certain situations to force systems to list every single alter to you with full certainty, as if it will never change. because it will. for so many different reasons, systems will grow, they will shrink, they will fuse, they will develop. you can’t expect the person with the dissociative disorder and lack of core identity to be able to keep up a perfected list of forever, it’s simply impossible. you may have alters who stick with you, but that doesn’t mean changes won’t happen.

and systems who may be reading this — please don’t feel bad. you are not a hassle, you are not a headache, and you are not an inconvenience for simply coping with something like this. it’s out of your control and the only thing you can do is continue to cope to find ways to help yourself retrain from these reactions. please don’t allow yourself to be harmed by others who don’t understand what you are going through. there are people who will accept and love you for who you are, all of you.

past, present, and future.

#did osdd #did system #plural system #sysblr #actually plural #system stuff #traumagenic #traumagenic system #system positivity #osdd #system community #dissociative system #osddid #actually did #actually dissociative #dissociative identity disorder

[ayviedoesthings]

Me/Us

lil vent piece

#art #plural system

[musings-from-mars]

As awareness of plurality continues to spread online, that also means more and more people will realize they are plural. And unfortunately, there will be a response from certain gatekeepy exclusionist types, who will push back against these newfound systems and insist on invalidating them. They’ll insist they’re just hopping on a trend, or just fooling themselves, or whatever other justification they can make up to maintain the idea that being plural is extremely rare and being plural means suffering for it.

Don’t fall for it. Being plural presents challenges and difficulties without question, but being plural also can bring joys and clarity that weren’t possible otherwise. Being plural can be hard, and it can be beautiful.

No two systems present and function exactly the same ways. No two systems are plural for the exact same reasons. So we can’t expect there to be an absolute common trait present in every system. So any attempt to weed out the “fakers” is pointless and malicious.

If someone believes themself to be plural, they have good reason to. No further “proof” needed. If someone comes to us believing themself to be plural, we will help them along without critique or question. And above all we will be happy for them. Even if someday they realize they aren’t plural, that process of being allowed to question and experiment is so important, and they should be allowed to do so regardless of where they end up.

Plurality is a spectrum that encompasses a vast swathe of experiences and outlooks. It can be difficult to reckon with, which is why community is so vital. And as that community online grows and becomes more and more visible, we should all do our part, systems and singlets, to make sure these newfound systems feel safe, seen, and welcome.

#plurality #plural system #pro endo #endo friendly

[thattheater-kid]

Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

#did system #plural #actually plural #plurality #system things #actually did #plural system #system metaphor #traumagenic system #dissociative #actually dissociative #dissociative identity disorder #dissociative system #no syscourse #syscourse neutral

[highway-userboxes]

MaDD userboxes! (mint + purple version)

text: This user has MaDD

text 2: This user has MaDD

text 3: This system has MaDD

text 4: This system has MaDD

text 5: This plural has MaDD

text 6: This plural has MaDD

text 7: This collective has MaDD

text 8: This collective has MaDD

#ꈨ⤷ user-billboards #ꈨ⤷ not a request #userboxes #system userboxes #custom userboxes #this user #this system #this plural #this collective #madd #maladapting daydreaming disorder #purple #green

[tumatawa]

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #falin touden #tumatawart #Okay yeah I think i will stick to their basic romanized names when tagging #Edit: I like to refer to them as sisters in plural form. It just feels right. But by himself Laius is still a brother #Kind of like food that sits in its own sauce until the ingredients just taste like the sauce itself

[tombodabombo]

EVERYONE EVERYONE look

THANK YOU THAT'S ALL :D

#bugs #isopods #plural #plural gang #did #did system #plurality #simply plural #endo friendly #system #anti endo #endo system #endo #actuallyplural #endos fuck off #endosfuckoff #endogenic #pro endogenic

[prokopetz]

Tumblr is the greatest social media platform because this is literally the only site where I can casually imply that the proper plural of "Spider-Man" is "Spiders-Men" and get absolutely zero pushback.

#tumblr #blogging #social media #language #linguistics #grammar #plurals #media #comics #spider-man

[neon-vocalist]

shoutout to my therapist who, upon me telling her i didn’t like the word alter, started referring to my headmates as “my homies.” like “any updates on your homies? have you heard from your homies at all this week” she’s the only true plural ally

#system sillies #did system #plurality #actually plural #pluralgang #system things