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.
Some types of switching for us
I figured out how to have sex with a couple of my headmates recently and I’m still super fascinated by it. I can’t really explain how it works, especially since I tend to be frontstuck and can barely go into the inner world, but I tend to overlap a lot with the ones who cofront, and me feeling sensations while also feeling their sensations while they were feeling my sensations was kinda insane. It’s also nice that in that level of cofronting our thoughts overlap some so we didn’t have to put things into words to discuss what we wanted, we just mutually agreed on what the dynamics were/what we were doing.
Journaling Together(sending letters to another, conversation, love notes, feelings)
Listening to Music together
Watching movies or shows together and talking to another about it
Gaming together, maybe spectate another or make decisions together
Going on walks or exploring nature together
Cooking and baking together
Working out together, maybe one will possess the body while the other helps encourage
Drawing or writing together
Getting a physical representation of your relationship, like a ring
Meditating together
Divination together(tarot)
Letting your partner make decisions for or with you
Planning and doing a Morning or Night ritual together, like helping another get dressed or brush their teeth
Self care time together
Eating together
Clean and organize together
Shopping together
driving together
reading together
show/save images and memes your partner might enjoy
"Texting" another throughout the day (using simplyplural chat or pluralkit discord)
Mental check-ins, if you have fronted and haven't spoken to your partner, just call them up and ask them how they're doing
Encourage another throughout the day
Help another with homework or work(If one is tired, maybe take over for them, or help guide them through studying or not getting distracted)
the future should be plural
children should not be abused to the point of their brains physically altering itself and shattering itself to protect itself. Children should not have trauma. Children should not have to go through this. When we say the future is plural it means having a society that supports plural folks and works to make sure people have spaces to heal from trauma. No one is obsessed with traumatizing children to make new systems. Anyone who thinks that doesn't think very highly of children. Just no.
I just heard someone go "Oh yeah Onyx is a cool name" after seeing the name... It didn't sound like a familiar voice... Uh oh
There's a high chance it might've just been some guy we already know but-
We'll see
Keeping the Simply Plural app installed is such a hassle for us because the host keeps jumping rapidly between believing we're a system to not believing we're a system. Like?? WE'RE RIGHT HERE!!
It’s so much work to front when you haven’t in a while
Like, I’m glad to be back around, but Jay built up Bureaucracy (wow I didn’t know how to spell that) and I had to navigate like four things 😭
Idk man I’m just here to miss goats and wear tank tops I don’t wanna spend all my time formally joining and running The Council
But heyyyy if having a Council keeps us communicating it’s a good thing, so I can’t really complain
Can we get a very polite “fuck you” to people who intentionally trigger others? Especially ones that cause a split. /slightly targeted
-Bive
Not super active because plural communities intimidate me (the host, Jay) but trying to be more open so I don’t suppress things Again. No clue how my system formed, but I’m definitely endo supportive.
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