#source seperation

one of our alters is technically from the dsmp but he's so far separated from his source he barely looks like the guy and doesn't use the same name anymore - hasn't in almost two years

"Aren't you a ped-" I am not my creator "Do you groom kids-" I am not my creator "Fandroid is still run by Griffinilla btw" I am not my creator "Fuck you pedo" I am not my creator

most of us are very source separated but sonic is not. he sees the image of himself being sexualized and glorified all the time and it makes him absolutely sick - because how would you feel if a character that was modelled almost identically to you was some sort of nsfw it's-okay-because-i-imagined-them-as-an-adult icon???

It’s me, ya boy back

We were in a server where if a user had a certain discomfort towards a media (ex: DSMP, Genshin Impact, MCYT to name a few), the staff would inform any alters whose source was one of those media that they were not allowed to talk in the server. Like at all. Not even in bot channels. I’m happy the server got nuked.

So, we have an introject from a webcomic, and we were in the Discord server for the webcomic. The headmate, Fern fronted and wanted to talk in the Discord server. The author of the webcomic said that introjects, especially ones from the webcomic, were not allowed to speak in the server despite it being "system friendly." This pissed us and a few of our friends off to be honest. I understand that the author was uncomfortable but if it's a system safe space then introjects of all sources should be allowed to speak. The worst part? Some of the other members in the server were like "Where did Fern go? Where is he?" We left the server after that because Fern is extremely sensitive, especially to source and system related topics. They deleted all the conversations Fern and the other members had. Fern isn't even very attached to the universe their source, just the character, and even then their personalities are very different. I've attached some screenshots of the conversation Fern and one of the mods had.

Jeez sometimes I wish the normalization wasn’t 100% total source separation = everyone and anyone’s goal, ever, sometimes, especially since it seems so unfair who gets targeted with it. I’ve been in servers where I specifically was told to go by another name, not talk about source stuff, etc, because of my own identity. I get people being uncomfortable around me at times but when even ex friends were being all “who invited J” “Who let J fill out that quiz?” “Haha, why is she here?”

My take on source separation: it isn't a moral issue and it's dumb as hell that people are trying to make it that, but I think it would be in the best interest of the introject and the system at large to source separate if the source is causing a lot of personal distress. I've seen a lot of Wilbur fictives going down devastating guilt spirals simply because their formation and existence is connected at its core to the actual Wilbur Soot, and that honestly doesn't seem like a great place to keep your mind in.