Hi! We're the Indigo Symphony. We have a pinned post we recommend you check out! Header edited together through art by arianzackril (blogger on Tumblr), bluryyyblu (blogger on Tumblr), and Hristo Fidanov (photographer on Pexels)!
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Hello! We're the Indigo Symphony. This is our blog, which is primarily centered around plurality, but other common topics are disability and alterhumanity. Our collective name is Ambrosia (Ambi for short) and our collective pronouns are ty/tem/plur/plurs/plurselves and it/it/its/its/itselves (conjugated like she/him/her/hers/themselves).
Who are we outside of our names? We're a mixed origin, hybrid, polyfragmented plural system with DID that likes to philosophize and write about plural related topics, such as news articles and plural characters. We run four other system blogs: funnier-as-a-system, plegg-culture-is, factive-culture-is, and pluralprompts. We discovered our plurality a few years ago and have been working to become a cooperative collective ever since then, with a mix of fusion and healthy multiplicity.
If you want to support us, you can buy us a coffee here!
Under the cut are some quick links to posts of ours that we especially like, as well as miscellaneous resources, some extra facts about our system and blog, and then some userboxes about our system.
Have a nice day, remember that any hate sent to us will just inspire more positivity posts, and feel free to send us asks about anything on your mind. Most of us don't bite.
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Resources and Links:
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art of Emmengard's Plural Rings
discourse disclaimers
multitasking and the innerworld
News Summary: "The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see"
Endogenic and Non-traumagenic Resources/Studies (Masterlist)
French plural vocabulary
Letters: Am I Plural?
More Than One
New Alter Carrd
No one owns the word "tulpamancy"
Partielles (French Plurality Site)
Plural Etiquette Questionnaire
Pluralpedia
Plural Soapbox
Primer to Plurality
Resource Index – healthymultiplicity.com
Should I Tell
The Plural Association
The Plural Playbook
Tracking the Tulpa
"Tulpa" and Cultural Appropriation
Tulpanomicon
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BYF/Other Info:
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We don't want those heavily involved in shipcourse to interact with us. This isn't so much a discourse thing as it is a personal issue we have regarding that sort of thing; for our own mental health we'd like it if we could just avoid each other.
We use a mix of terms to describe ourselves/our system members, though not everyone in our system is comfortable with every term out there. For followers or visitors of our blog, we ask you use "selves" or "instruments" when referring to us.
We're also uncomfortable with being called "friends" by other people unless we give permission. Nothing personal, we're just largely aplatonic.
We try to avoid hosting discourse on this blog, but vents may reference it on occasion, or we may reblog a discourse post if we think it has relevance outside of discourse (ex. social commentary on how people view systems).
We'd also like to say, for the record, that we fully support endogenic, self-diagnosed, and non-traumagenic systems and plurals here.
You're free to use our collective name and pronouns when referring to us if you're not speaking about anyone specific in our system, or don't have or know anyone specific you want to talk to.
Finally, to answer a frequently asked question, the flag in our icon is our system flag, designed ourselves to represent us. The treble clef is a nod to our system name and the symbolism behind the treblesand (harmony and manyness), and the stripes have specific meanings, which we are still working on.
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exomemories are like. you died. you're back now. are you? do you count as alive? did you come back wrong? you remember the feeling. you don't remember it at all. it was yesterday. it was a very very long time ago. it hurts. it's kind of peaceful. you can go weeks without thinking about it. you think about it constantly. it shapes you as a person. it doesn't define you. you're alive. you're still dead. y'know?
the idea that people in a system are just as much real living people as the host should not be controversial yet somehow here we are.....
I think that being alive and having a sense of individual identity is more than enough criteria to constitute Being A Person. someone's personhood and sense of self originating from something other than Physically Being Born doesn't make them any less of a real person. if people in a system would prefer to be treated like PEOPLE then I'm very sorry but that's really not a big ask and all that is required of you in return is basic kindness and respect. and I hope that is a managable task for most of you!
also hey. hi everyone. I love you. if you are already trying to be better about this I am proud of you and I'm glad you're trying, okay? if you have yet to start doing this, now is a perfect time to start, and I'm proud of you for deciding to rethink how you interact with others!! don't worry too much. any effort is appreciated more than you could possibly know, trust me.
you know me, robin? guy whose blog this is? I am not ANY MORE of a person than sunny or francis or jasper or anyone else in my system. and they are not ANY LESS of a person than I am. the host of a system is not the "real one" and the rest of my crew aren't "extras". I'm the same as them. I'm a member of a system too!!!!! sunny is in my system, sure!!! BUT I AM ALSO A MEMBER IN HER SYSTEM!!!!! I don't own anyone!!!! when I'm away from front, I am in EXACTLY THE SAME POSITION AS EVERYONE ELSE IN HERE. this might be different for other systems but this is how it is for my bunch. and the friends I cherish the most are the ones who make an effort to understand this. [:
If you experience any changes in body control (switching, possession, etc.), then establish some form of consistent, asynchronous external communication with your system. External communication has a major benefit: you can still talk to each other across switches (asynchronously) even if the inside of your mind is a mess.
You might set up a journal, whiteboard, calendar, a "single user, multi-account" app like Mytter or Antar, sticky notes, etc. Anything goes as long as your system knows to check it occasionally (or at the least, in an emergency).
We recommend choosing an analog method for your fallback communication method if possible, as a power outage could take out a lot of digital methods. A spur-of-the-moment piece of paper left on a table is better than nothing, but it's less likely to work than a pocket notebook or bulletin board that every system member knows to use for communication if needed. You can always add an app or program once everyone knows where to go for your analog fallback.
Discuss how you want to treat each other. Keep it loose and informal for now- don't make any absolute Laws just yet. Think of it more like the quick agreements that roommates make with each other for practical reasons: "I'll do the dishes if you do the laundry".
A few classics: "try not to die, don't kill anyone else, don't get any tattoos as an impulse decision, and don't throw out things that don't belong to you."
Don't force agreements on anyone. If someone disagrees, then stop and discuss their concerns to find a better agreement. See: Consensus Decision Making.
Map your system, if it feels right. This can help you learn about each other, but it can also be soothing to feel like you have some understanding of who's in your head when you're being flooded with new system members.
Again, keep it simple. What do you actually need to know? What would help you in a practical sense? Start there, then branch out if you'd like to get to know each other better.
Consider making a simple guide to your life. If someone had to handle a day in your life with little to no prior knowledge of it, then what would they need to know?
Where should they check to see if you have any appointments? Are they responsible for feeding any pets? Where can they find money if they need it, and how do they know how much to spend? Do you have a job, and do they need to work it? Etc.
Hopefully you never need this guide, but it's a lifesaver for any unexpectedly amnesiac system members.
Focus on building bridges and trust. Get to know the folks in your head. Find ways to talk and just get to know them. Listen as much as you talk, if not more.
Learn to lean on each other for support, if you can. Trust is one of the most valuable things that you can have in a system. Trust gets you through a lot of tough situations. Give your system members every reason to trust you, and try to learn to trust them in turn.
If someone is hostile, then ask what's driving the hostility. Do they feel under-represented in your life? Does peace make them feel unsafe because they don't know where the threats are? Are they bored, scared, frustrated, or routinely unhappy?
What can you do to support them? What do they need to feel comfortable?
Don't worry about knowing everything. You're just figuring this out- give yourselves some grace for not knowing as much as everyone else seems to. (Besides, they know less than you think. I've yet to meet a system without a single mystery left in it, including folks who've known for decades, and many systems are forever figuring things out in one way or another.)
Ask for information when you need it and let your system explain itself over time; let your system set the pace. You'll get better information that way, and your system will learn that they can trust you to respect them when they say "no, don't touch that yet."
Screw plural community labels for now. Seriously. Screw figuring out origins or consciousness or whatever the linguistic dividing line of the month is. Don't worry about it. These words come and go. Get to know yourselves first.
Why am I suggesting this? Community labels will still be there when you've figured out how to work with each other in a practical sense, and your stronger understanding of each other will make it much easier to find whatever words you wind up needing. Hunting for words now is likely to get you stuck trying to cram a bunch of shifting unknowns into someone else's categorization system, and it might cloud your situation more than it clears it.
Given that you're still settling into the idea of sharing a head at all, getting into the nitty-gritty of labels is probably going to be less helpful than figuring out how to handle doubt and denial issues (or getting communication going, or learning to manage switching, or...), hence the recommendation not to worry about it.
That said: do use labels if you need them. Just remember that labels are tools. Don't let the tools use you.
Also, screw the discourse. If you listen to any one item on this list, make it this one.
Plural community discourse tends to be a little bit rancid in the "debating whether your experiences exist meaningfully in our spaces" way, and it will fuck you up as a new system. Get past the worst of your denial or doubt issues first to avoid worsening the "oh my god, am I faking without knowing it" hell brainworms. Please. I am actually begging you. Avoid the discourse until you've dealt with your own existential doubts.
None of these things are obligations, nor is there any rush to do them. It's just a cluster of things that I tend to suggest to newly discovered systems, and I realized that I don't think we've actually rattled these off on this blog yet.
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one thing about being polyfragmented that I don’t necessarily dislike, per se, but is something that’s very hard to talk about due to people’s reactions:
almost EVERYTHING we’ve interacted with, we have introjects from.
like having introjects niche fandoms is hard enough, but that’s not even the whole scope here. we have factives of random bloggers we follow. factives of people we’ve never even had a conversation with, and more often they aren’t even ‘popular’.
same goes for fictives, too - we have a lot of fictives of people’s ocs. not popular ocs, mind you, the ones that people just post on their blog occasionally. we have fictives of people’s ocs that only have one or two drawings to their name. sometimes we scroll toyhouse and get fictives from there.
this isn’t necessarily bad, at least for us - gaining new members isn’t painful - but. it gets to a point, yknow? We dont feel like we can talk about it. More often than not people get Really Weird about factives of themselves or fictives of their characters. All this fear about it would go away very fast if they didn’t do that! We can’t control it!
essentially: if you don’t want fictives from your work, don’t post it
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I want to write a short fic about an author trying to understand plurality through comparisons with books she's read, but I'm kind of blanking on examples for novels and such about plurality/with plural representation. I know I could just make up some books, but on the other hand...
Anyone have any recommendations/suggestions for novels that include plural or plural-ish characters? The representation doesn't have to be explicit, just recognizable if you have a good idea of what plurality is. Any genres are welcome.
plurality really will have you asking yourself things like is it too much to want people to acknowledge i exist? is it too much to ask people to use my name when i'm present? is it too much to ask people to check who's fronting every so often? is it too much to exist noticeably. and then you dont know
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"my woke take" this "my woke take" that. My take is why the fuck are people continuing to memify and water down a term about systemic racism and anti-Blackness. I simply do not think you have to do that to make your point.
After having to take (prescribed) steroids for just a few days I have decided I do not care if athletes are using them to cheat. If the athletes can beat everyone else while battling tummy aches and full body pains they can have the fucking win idc
