I Wonder How They're Doing Now...

Name: Demonica/ Shadow/ Erica / Frullista

Honorifics: The Dishonourable, The Fiery

pronouns: She/her he/him they/them it/its/itself demon/demonself 🌹/🌹s/🌹self 😈/😈s/😈self 👿/👿s/👿self

gender: Demongender. Void gender, Demigirl, demiboy

orientation: Sapphic, beunosexual, cupiogex, beyondsexual,

Trans IDs: transDevil transharmful transbully

species: demon/imp

age: 130+

personality: chaotic, unpredictable, self-absorbed, tricky, and often loud. They refuse to admit that they care. Or that they’re an empath. They don’t want to be an empath.

role: Cynic, delight(only for herself), Denier,

sign off:😈🌹/👿🌹/👹🌹 depending on mood.

the system experience

>type did system into youtube search bar

>first option is "did system cringe"

>go onto reddit and type did system

>first option is fake disorder cringe

>feel fucking awful

>do a did presentation in medical class

>someone raises their hand and asks how to know if someones faking

>feel fucking awful

>tell someone you have did

>they ask if you're faking because you have a fictive

>feel fucking awful

>feel fucking awful

>feel fucking awful

>tell a close friend you have did

>they get disgusted when you say we instead of I

>look at tiktok compilations

>did cringe compilation

>follow a funny youtuber

>video on people faking did

>feel fucking awful

>try and look for resources

>psychiatrist making a presentation on how did systems looking for community is a sign of faking, uses system content without their consent

>psychiatrist making a presentation on how did systems being open is a sign of faking

>go onto tumblr

>type plural

>find post about how "the future is plural" is traumatizing children and should never ever ever happen because fuck plurals we don't need acceptance that bad right?

oh my god when does it fucking end

@funnier-as-a-system

TW!!! BLOOD + KNIFE

Name: Alia, Britta, Cyrus, Dree, Karla

Honorifics: Warrior, Bodygaurd

pronouns: she/her they/them They/Them She/Her she🩸/her🩸 they🩸/them🩸 she🛡️/her🛡️ they🛡️/them🛡️ 🩸/🩸s/🩸self 🛡️/🛡️s/🛡️self strong/strongs/strongself

typing quirks: short and to the point

gender: Paragirl🛡️ https://pin.it/yApsZeHRk , horrorangel🛡️ https://pin.it/5N7zsVIuF , Vulcuric🛡️ https://pin.it/6hztdUkQ6 , angrysongic🛡️ https://pin.it/51rd8FdRs, voidwound🛡️ https://pin.it/7gqYDQjRf ,

orientation: Lithoromantic🩸 https://pin.it/2XqTAiUNF , Nebulasexual🩸 https://pin.it/5UFQ6qvJF , Caligosexual🩸 https://pin.it/4HCov1IpH ,

other identity: Scarenvyic🛡️ https://pin.it/6YRBJ5ESm , humanish🛡️ https://pin.it/4qk1aM4cy

species: Unique species, nonhuman

age: 27

personality: Mature, wise, close-guarded, quick to anger, hard to calm down.

quirks: swishing her tails when angry, ears twitching when she’s amused.

likes: Daggers, butterfly knives, dual blades, big need for these things.

dislikes: most everyone

role: Auxiliary Protector🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Auxiliary_Protector , Avenger🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Avenger , Defensor🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Defensor , Dvalen🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Dvalen

sign off: 🛡️🩸

plural lawyer call that a justice system

"Changing a term isn't that hard"

Problem 1 - A divided community

Any attempt at making a new term would be met with resistance. Not from everyone, but by most. It's likely that those who use other terms would move away from the tulpa community. So instead of actually getting tulpamancers to change their term, you would be just be making a new community outside of it.

But maybe you can manage to stick around in tulpa spaces, get other people to as well, and somehow slowly change the language from the inside. But what is that language?

Problem 2 - Finding a word for everyone

Thoughtform is a bad term because its connotations are too spiritual. There is also an active spiritual thoughtform community out there right now that this will be stepping on the toes of, smashing together two largely disconnected communities.

Many feel parogenic is too broad. And willogenic presents the practice as just "willing" a headmate into existence. Both also would result in the tulpa community losing its identity, becoming yet another xeno-origin and being assimilated completely into the endogenic community.

Senpia is just never going to happen.

None of the alternatives are going to be universally-agreed upon. And having the community divided amongst multiple terms exacerbates the first problem.

Problem 3 - Domain shifts

Anti-tulpas like pointing to the shift from "natural multiplicity" to "endogenic" as an example of how you can change terms. For those that are unaware, "natural multiples" were basically the precursors for endogenic systems. Many argued that the term was ableist because it suggested systems formed from trauma were "unnatural." Which is a silly and bad faith way of framing it, since the opposite of nature is usually environmental in this context, as in the nature vs nurture debate.

But regardless, the websites that existed at the time didn't include the terms in their domain names. They could change their terms without ever worrying about this. Furthermore... most of these communities were already dying as the plural community migrated to Tumblr. The whole internet landscape was morphing in the early 2010s.

Problem 3.1 - r/tulpas

On Reddit, changing a subreddit name is literally impossible. The only possible way to accomplish this would be to have the mods delete r/tulpas and create a completely new subreddit. At which point, a huge number of subscribers are instantly lost.

As is a ton of history on the subreddit, and even some guides that never got posted anywhere else.

Problem 3.2 - Tulpa.info

While it may technically possible to change the domain, that instantly breaks every link to every single tulpamancy guide on the website in an instant.

The whole thing becomes a huge mess. Perhaps they could setup redirects, but that would require paying for the old domain as well as the new one, driving up server costs.

Problem 4 - Visibility

Any new community terms will lose the visibility of identifying as tulpas. For people who are experiencing sentient imaginary friends and looking for a community, this transitionary period will make it way more difficult to find a community to support their needs.

It also makes it more difficult for the tulpamancy community to expand and bring in new members.

Problem 5 - Academic Research

Tulpamancy is currently the primary form of endogenic plurality being researched, including an fMRI study. All other research into endogenic plurality has mostly been surveys. Finding people to take part in FMRI studies is difficult. Not everyone has a lifestyle where they can just fly off to California for a brain scan.

If research continues, there are multiple ways this could hamper it going forward.

Mixing with the thoughtform community could mean a larger spiritual influence in the community, reinforcing the idea that endogenic plurality is only valid if it's spiritual. There are plenty of studies into spiritual possession happening, and it's imperative that we match that with research into plurals with psychological origins.

Losing our identity by assimilating into the larger endogenic community through -genic labels like parogenic and willogenic will end research into tulpamancy as a phenomenon of its own.

And dividing the community means fewer people are going to be found who can take part in these studies.

A term isn't just a term

It's our identity. It's our community. It's our connection to each other. It's our websites and the resources they host. It's our ability to be seen. It's our connection to the academic research into our community and ongoing advancement in the field.

There is no genuine "pro-tulpa, anti-tulpa terminology" side. Changing the terminology as a whole would divide and devastate the tulpamancy community.

If you're fighting against tulpa terminology, you're fighting against the tulpamancy community.

Sometimes you have to be yourself on purpose. What I mean by this is that sometimes we lose touch with ourselves and start coasting and just going through the motions. Which is fine for a while because we get tired and/or depressed and that's fine. Happens to everyone. But eventually it starts to feel bad and you get a specific kind of brainweird that's hard to describe but means that you've lost sight of who you are, what your values are, and what you love.

Leaning really hard into something that makes you go "this is the most me thing ever" helps that specific type of brainweird quite a bit! But maybe you don't know what the most you thing ever is. You are not alone! I get depressed and forget every interest I have. 100% understand that.

When this happens, it helps to remind yourself what you like and enjoy. So what do you do? Well for me, it helps to think about 1. Things I used to enjoy and 2. Things my friends Know Me For.

Like I've been feeling not myself lately and I haven't really knit or created much this month at all. But I'm the Makes Things Guy. I like making things and many of my friends not only know me as someone who makes things but a lot of my friendships specifically come from communities of People Who Make Things.

So I forced myself to pick up an old project, and that helped a bit. But what really helped was coming up with a project that combined my interests (leather jackets, art, and teapots) for me to look forward to and get really into planning for! The most ME I've felt in weeks has been the last hour I've spent planning on painting a famous fine China design on the back of my leather trenchcoat. Because not ONLY am I the Makes Things Guy, I am also The Teapot Guy. I finally feel like myself again.

I wish I had more concrete advice in regards to how you remember your own interests when you get disconnected from them, but a solid place to start is things you used to like and things your friends know you like. If you struggle consider asking a friend what things they know you like. Sometimes friends can see us better than we can see ourselves and it helps to use them as a mirror to see yourself through.

🧜‍♀️💅🪼🦋🕷️✨

Name: Cerulean Grove

nickname: Siren

pronouns: she/her it/its/itself ae/aer 🦋/🦋s/🦋self 🪼/🪼s/🪼self

gender: Paragirl (girl makes up anywhere from 51% to 99% of aer identity), Oceangender (Xenogender with strong ties to the ocean), girlby (nonbinary woman)

orientation: Diomi (omnisexual and omniromantic whose gender preferences vary depending on whether your talking about their sexual orientation or romantic orientation)

species: A humanoid shark mermaid

age: 19

personality: Spunky and energetic but secretly very insecure.

quirks: humming to herself while swimming

likes: hunting fish

role: Any

sign off: 🪼✨

Hey! Do you use terms for your system besides "headmate", "alter", or "facet"? This post is for you!

Shoutout to:

Systems that use the term "system member" or "sysmate"!

Those who choose "part", "piece", or "aspect"!

The ones out there who use "pluralian", "pluralment", and "pluret" are so cool!

"Ceter" is unique and lovely!

"Walk-ins" and "spirits" deserve just as much space as anyone else!

Even the ones who see their members as "personalities" are welcome here!

And anyone else who uses a non-typical system term!

We love all of you so, so much! We wish you& the best of days, no matter what you choose to call yourselves!

🖤💜💙💚💛

I LOVE ENDO SYSTEMS !! i love endo systems who chose their plurality i love endo systems who didn't i love nondisordered endo systems i love disordered endo systems i love transgender endo systems i love cisgender endo systems i love endo systems i love you