synthwave set

Comic we made about our syscovery omg

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People often say they don't understand monoconscious plurality, and it makes sense if your introduction to plurality was classic multiplicity. It might be hard to conceptualise how multiple separate people could have a single train of thought and honestly, yeah. It doesn't help that many of the explanations here on tumblr don't feel totally encompassing of all our experiences either. Most of what I've seen only touch on a few things, leaving the rest under the surface

Often monoconsciousness gets described as "shapeshifting" or slipping into different psychological coats. That's part of it, but it doesn't address the whole multiple-voices-in-the-head thing that most plurals seem to experience. It also doesn't come close to fully describing our experience either

The simplest way I can put our experience is (and I suspect this will also ring true for a large amount of other monocon plurals): There is one ability to think, and everyone has to share it, as pictured above

We have to be in contact with the metaphorical consciousness orb, otherwise we don't think. For us personally this looks like temporarily falling unconscious when away from the front. Some plurals I'm sure have constant voices, because nobody leaves the consciousness orb vicinity unless they're dormant. So yeah, definitely different people, even if we all have to share an ability to think. Doesn't necessarily mean we all think the same thing, or that there's 0 distinction between our thoughts (although there are monocon plurals that DO experience this, and that is also just as much more-than-one)

:טייל פֿון די ווערטער זענען [tr: some of the words are:] switch = בײַטן זיך (lit. change oneself) switch in = אײַנבײַטן זיך switch out = אַרויסבײַטן זיך headmate = מוח־שותּף (lit. brain-parter; analogous to צימער־שותּף "roommate") front = פֿראָנטירן co-front = מיטפֿראָנטירן the front = דער פֿראָנט plurality = מערצאָלקייט אָדער מערצאָלהייט plural = מערצאָליש אָדער מערצאָלדיק system = סיסטעם (אויב ס׳איז דאָ צוויי ברירות, די ערשעטע געפֿעלט מיר בעסער ווי דער אַנדערער) [tr: if there's two options, i like first better than the second]

איצט האָב איך ווערטער וואָס איך קען זיי באַניצן כדי צו זאָגן וועגן אונדזער און מײַן לעבן [tr:now i have words that i can use to talk about our and my life]

I love you alters who are trans in headspace but functionally cis due to the body and find that uncomfortable

I love you alters who are so different from the body in headspace that you can't front comfortably

I love you alters with "weird" dysphoria over things most people wouldn't think of

I love you trans hosts who still don't like the body even if it is "yours"

I love you alters with different athletic abilities who feel dysphoric about the body's mobility

I love you alters who don't care about the body and see it as a vessel