Sparxie

1. We introduced the term “endogenic” into the community August 2014, along with some other terms! It was in response to exclusionists (wrongly) complaining about “systems without DID” using “their words”. It was an attempt at creating nonmedicalized terms that any plural system could use. 

2. It was also a way to do away with terms that had fallen into disfavor— specifically “natural systems”, a term that had been in use possibly as early as 1994. It was disliked because people felt it implied that trauma-caused systems were unnatural. “Endogenic” fixed that. 

3. The word “endogenic” was lovingly created to help systems put their experience into words. All it means is “a system not formed by trauma”; it doesn’t imply any other cause, set of beliefs, or experiences. It doesn’t imply the system is nondisordered or doesn’t have trauma. It doesn’t mean any other system’s origins in trauma or dx status is “invalid” or whatever.

4. Though the terms were eventually posted to tumblr, the idea didn’t start there. Tumblr was created in 2007; the concept of systems not caused by trauma has, again, been online since the 90s. Nor was the term created by singlets! We’re a trauma-caused system with DID. 

5. “Endogenic” wasn’t created as an insult or to exclude anyone. We have loved ones who are endogenic. Many of the terms in use now were created by endogenics. They have helped preserve plural history, and defended the community. They are good people, and real systems. The hate they get is completely senseless.

Thanks for coming to our talk. Please stop insulting endogenic systems, and educate yourselves instead, thanks. (Unless it’s just pure malice at this point in which case, fuck off I guess.)

No , we should not kill people that struggle with a paraphilia . it is often ( not always iirc ) the result of trauma , involuntary and not something that you should want to erase . Being "anti" a disorder is stupid — having boundaries is not , you can wish to not interact with them ( for whatever reason ) but wishing death upon them is different ,

This is ableist , as not only people with paraphilias might experience this , but often people with OCD do too , ( and calling them a bad person for something they did not choose is certainly something ) ,

I am not pro radqueer , nor " pro contact " , yet i respect people that struggle with a disorder . Even if i personally don't talk about discourse related to paras or look to interact with them .

Pose is completely botched but I tried.

Your brain is a human brain. Regardless of what you identify as or what you look like in the inner world.

I've been using this term a lot lately, and I'm honestly not sure how many people know it. I feel like it's self-explanatory enough that when I use it, people will pick up on what it is based on the context even if they don't know.

But essentially, your mindform is your inner world body.

You can close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in a chair. Some people will imagine themselves from a third person perspective, in which case your mindform is whatever you see sitting there. If you are imagining from a first-person perspective, then imagine a mirror in front of you. Whatever you see in the mirror is your mindform.

Because this is happening in your head, you should be able to change the mindform at will. Imagine yourself bigger or smaller. Change into a completely different creature.

I think mindforms are most useful as a concept when we are talking about systems because systems tend to use their mindforms more often to interact with headmates.

But they importantly are not exclusive to systems. Most singlets should also have mindforms, but their default mindforms are usually just going to look similar to their body unless they are experiencing some form of alterhumanity that makes them see themselves as something else. Or maybe a closeted trans person might imagine themselves looking like their true selves.

Default Mindforms

After looking at Google, the words "default mindform" have apparently never been used together in human history. So I guess this is also a coining post of sorts.

Anyway, the default mindform is just the form someone frequently defaults to. It's the one they identify with and feel comfortable with, and some may experience dysphoria if they take a different form.

Most of the time, I have a tendency to use these interchangeably, but I do want to make this distinction because headmates are not actually locked to one form. You can change your mindform to try out different appearances the same way you can try on different clothes.

So the mindform is more nebulous. It is whatever you appear as at that given moment. But the default mindform is what you identify with. It is who you are internally beneath the body's meatsuit.

I believe in a plural future. And more than that, I believe in an alterhuman future.

One part of this future that people tend to avoid talking about is sexual liberation.

Radnormals officially claim to be pro-alterhuman. More generally, so do many antishippers. But that's not true. Not really.

There are a few reasons why they fail at being pro-alterhuman. The one I've talked about before for radnormals is the system medicalism. You can't be pro-alterhuman while being against endogenic and spiritual systems.

One that I haven't talked about though is the hardcore antiship ideology. Specifically, as it pertains to depictions of non-human "animals."

In the real world, it's understood that bestiality is wrong because of mental differences. Because animals can't consent. Because of a clear power imbalance.

It is not because of the animal form. It's not because the animal looks different from a human. That would be a pretty ridiculous thing for a person to base their morality on.

The best way to view this is that morally speaking, the problem of bestiality is not with a human being with a non-human animal, but a person being with a non-person animal.

In fictional contexts, some non-human animals are people.

And yet, this hardline anti-ship position is that any sexual depictions of the animal form, even if the animal is canonically just as intelligent as a human being, and the animal therefore would be capable of having a healthy consensual relationship with a person, is morally wrong and inherently problematic.

The moment you've decided it is morally wrong to depict non-human people in a sexual way, you are also oppressing alterhumans.

You are signaling to them that they won't be safe depicting themselves in a sexual way either. They cannot draw what they look like in a sexualized way. They cannot make accurate avatars of their mind forms in VR that are sexualized. They cannot write self-shipping fiction that depicts themselves with their internal appearance. And in the case of plural systems, inner world sex involving non-human headmates becomes a strict taboo, because what headmate in that environment is going to feel safe admitting that they've had sex with someone in the inner world who bears an animal form?

There may be different levels to this too. Maybe some groups would be okay with anthro alterhumans but not feral ones. Essentially, the alterhuman community gets divided up between "normal" alterhumans who are allowed to sexualize themselves and have sex in the inner world, and "abnormal" alterhumans who these communities would deem it acceptable to sexually oppress.

In those communities, alterhumans with feral identities would become second class alterhumans, treated as less than those with more humanoid inner appearances.

Sexual liberation for alterhumans means being able to create a world where people are allowed to find all nonhuman mindforms sexually attractive. Anything less than that would be settling for oppression. It would be settling for a world where alterhumans forever have to repress themselves sexually for the sake of not making non-alterhumans uncomfortable.

Any world where any alterhumans are oppressed for being alterhuman is something that we as a community cannot accept or abide.

Fakeclaiming systems is so FUCKING wild 2 me ?? Are you essentially accusing some1 of not being REAL . What

Normal people don't even know what Radqueer is or means