"I was there when the universe was created and you're trying to tell me that I'm making a grilled cheese sandwich wrong?" -🌌🐕🦺
"I'm not saying you're doing it wrong, I'm saying it's burning." -🦕
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shoutout to introjects who are so far from their source that they’re barely recognizable. you do not owe anyone “canon-like behavior”
it/its pronouns are not inherently dehumanizing, unless the user wants them to be. it/its pronouns aren't weird. it/its pronouns aren't too hard to use. people who only use it/its pronouns need to have this be respected no matter what your beliefs are. you don't get to single out people with "weird" pronouns and misgender us and use incorrect pronouns. accept someone who uses it/its as you support someone who uses they/them. there's nothing wrong with it/its pronouns. respect its users.
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)
A server I’m on asked the question of which characters from a show everyone related to the most, and I was stumped before remembering that I’m not the only one in here and me an the lads relate to different ones 😭 suddenly all my crises over kinning wildly different characters makes sense
Do any other hosts (especially ones that tend to be front stuck) feel like they don’t have an identity at all? Like, I know that I’m not Shekel, and I know that I’m not Monty, or Tamm, or *insert the list of headmates I know about* but I don’t know what I am.
I want to make a flowchart for when I’m blurry but I’m usually fronting on some level and I don’t know how to make an “Am I Jay?” section when I feel like the leftover scraps of everyone else. I don’t know what I look like on the inside because I figure I look like the body even though I have no connection to it (seriously, the not recognizing ourself in the mirror is bad).
I’m just the default setting. I know I’m a guy because of crippling dysphoria, and I like various things, but I have no way to figure out my identity when so much of it is other people.
I cannot stress enough how freeing it is, as a system, to become chill with not knowing who you are.
There have been multi-week periods where we don’t know who we are, unsure if we’re somebody new or just one of the established people having a Weird Time. Usually it’s the latter.
We tend to front for extended periods of time (like, normally a minimum of three days, sometimes up to several months), and the confusing Unknown times can be just as long.
Like, I have no idea who the hell I am right now. I know a couple of people I’m not, and a few I might be, but that’s it. And that’s chill. I don’t need to know my name, I’m just sippin my cranberry juice and minding my own business. This is normal for us.
I see so many systems on here worried about somehow faking or fundamentally misunderstanding their experiences, because nobody else has talked about it, so it must not be real, right?
Just a reminder to systems with their own Weird Times: it’s ok to have experiences you’ve never seen in anyone else’s journey.
Being plural isn’t something easily categorized or broken down. If anything counts as wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey stuff, it’s the experience of being multiple entities in one brain.
Your plurality is inherently unique, and there is no mold it could possibly fit. Don’t try to make it fit.
In Sys Qoute #1
"I'm going to beat your fucking ass"
"I hope you yaba daba do motherfucker"
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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