#source talk

talking about source… sorry. but i remember i used to go on walks with p-chan. i’d go out into the city and just watch people. it was weird that they didn’t know who i was, but having moments of being small was sometimes relaxing. much less pressure.

It’s quite common and totally normal for fictives to have complicated, conflicted, or confusing feelings about their source! Most introjects cannot choose our sources, and it’s okay if we don’t know how to feel about them or have difficulties engaging with them for whatever reason. If you’re a fictive who has complicated feelings regarding your source, this post is for you!

🌀 Shoutout to fictives with exotrauma that makes it difficult to enjoy their source!

⭕️ Shoutout to fictives who both love and hate their source at the same time!

🔆 Shoutout to fictives in trauma-formed systems whose source reminds them of their trauma history!

🌀 Shoutout to fictives who are both uncomfortable with being compared to their source, and want to be viewed as their source!

⭕️ Shoutout to fictives who feel like they should separate from their source, but don’t want to die any reason!

🔆 Shoutout to fictives who often go back and forth on how they view their source!

🌀 Shoutout to fictives who love some aspects about their source but dislike others!

⭕️ Shoutout to fictives who have complicated feelings about their source due to being very canon divergent!

🔆 Shoutout to fictives whose ideas about their source would be considered strange, uncommon, or unorthodox by others!

🌀 Shoutout to fictives who wish they could avoid thinking about or interacting with their source entirely due to their complex feelings about it!

⭕️ Shoutout to fictives whose exomemories don’t align with their source, making it difficult for them to understand it!

For any fictive, there is no one right or wrong way to feel about your source. It’s okay and it makes sense to have complicated, complex, confusing, or conflicted thoughts or feelings regarding it! These feelings don’t invalidate you at all as a fictive, introject, or beloved member of your system. You still belong in your system and in the plural community just the way you are!

If you’re a fictive with complicated feelings about your source, please know that we are rooting for you and care about you in all that you do. You should never feel obligated to think or feel a certain way about your source! We hope that you can take it easy for a while and treat yourself and your system with kindness and gentleness in the future. Thank you so much for reading, and have a lovely day!

A lot actually, a lot! I'm not going to make a yapperfest but I'll say some of the more interesting not shown in canon memories. :v also thanks, You're cool too

My yapping is under the read more thing because this is gonna be longish

[Text: This actor factive doesn’t like talking about their source out of embarrassment, please don’t mention it.]