In-system Relationships Can Be So Intimate.

i wonder how they're doing now...

Pspspsps I need a good transharmed to sweetly manipulate

I promise I'll only make it as bad as you want me to, you won't even know it's happening unless you want to <3

This is literally so system coded

Splitting much??? 👀👀👀

@funnier-as-a-system

Sometimes being a system is "yes this one person has been fronting alone for the past five hours"

And sometimes it's "there's like 13 people near front and god knows which one of them is actually in control of the body right now"

yknow what every1 always talks about omegas being the ones to cook but hear me out, alphas in the kitchen

-> they plan meticulously to make sure all the meals are providing all essential nutrients

-> they feel pride knowing their pack is well nourished because of them

-> planning months in advance for holiday meals ("we'll need two turkeys, fourteen potatoes, three salads and a baked alaska." "that seems like a lot" "i'm worried it won't be enough")

-> big strong alpha muscles kneading bread/pita/naan/tortilla dough. you agree.

-> omega's hungry because of the early stages of heat? alpha's already baked three batches of cookies and a pizza

-> territorial grill-off's. arguing over the proper technique for kebabs.

-> cub/packmate has a big test, sports meet or an interview that day? alpha's up at dawn making a continental breakfast loaded with protein

-> the pack eats together. always.

just.... alphas in the kitchen y'all

(brought to you by an alpha who loves cooking for people)

@funnier-as-a-system

pondering my orb

"Changing a term isn't that hard"

Problem 1 - A divided community

Any attempt at making a new term would be met with resistance. Not from everyone, but by most. It's likely that those who use other terms would move away from the tulpa community. So instead of actually getting tulpamancers to change their term, you would be just be making a new community outside of it.

But maybe you can manage to stick around in tulpa spaces, get other people to as well, and somehow slowly change the language from the inside. But what is that language?

Problem 2 - Finding a word for everyone

Thoughtform is a bad term because its connotations are too spiritual. There is also an active spiritual thoughtform community out there right now that this will be stepping on the toes of, smashing together two largely disconnected communities.

Many feel parogenic is too broad. And willogenic presents the practice as just "willing" a headmate into existence. Both also would result in the tulpa community losing its identity, becoming yet another xeno-origin and being assimilated completely into the endogenic community.

Senpia is just never going to happen.

None of the alternatives are going to be universally-agreed upon. And having the community divided amongst multiple terms exacerbates the first problem.

Problem 3 - Domain shifts

Anti-tulpas like pointing to the shift from "natural multiplicity" to "endogenic" as an example of how you can change terms. For those that are unaware, "natural multiples" were basically the precursors for endogenic systems. Many argued that the term was ableist because it suggested systems formed from trauma were "unnatural." Which is a silly and bad faith way of framing it, since the opposite of nature is usually environmental in this context, as in the nature vs nurture debate.

But regardless, the websites that existed at the time didn't include the terms in their domain names. They could change their terms without ever worrying about this. Furthermore... most of these communities were already dying as the plural community migrated to Tumblr. The whole internet landscape was morphing in the early 2010s.

Problem 3.1 - r/tulpas

On Reddit, changing a subreddit name is literally impossible. The only possible way to accomplish this would be to have the mods delete r/tulpas and create a completely new subreddit. At which point, a huge number of subscribers are instantly lost.

As is a ton of history on the subreddit, and even some guides that never got posted anywhere else.

Problem 3.2 - Tulpa.info

While it may technically possible to change the domain, that instantly breaks every link to every single tulpamancy guide on the website in an instant.

The whole thing becomes a huge mess. Perhaps they could setup redirects, but that would require paying for the old domain as well as the new one, driving up server costs.

Problem 4 - Visibility

Any new community terms will lose the visibility of identifying as tulpas. For people who are experiencing sentient imaginary friends and looking for a community, this transitionary period will make it way more difficult to find a community to support their needs.

It also makes it more difficult for the tulpamancy community to expand and bring in new members.

Problem 5 - Academic Research

Tulpamancy is currently the primary form of endogenic plurality being researched, including an fMRI study. All other research into endogenic plurality has mostly been surveys. Finding people to take part in FMRI studies is difficult. Not everyone has a lifestyle where they can just fly off to California for a brain scan.

If research continues, there are multiple ways this could hamper it going forward.

Mixing with the thoughtform community could mean a larger spiritual influence in the community, reinforcing the idea that endogenic plurality is only valid if it's spiritual. There are plenty of studies into spiritual possession happening, and it's imperative that we match that with research into plurals with psychological origins.

Losing our identity by assimilating into the larger endogenic community through -genic labels like parogenic and willogenic will end research into tulpamancy as a phenomenon of its own.

And dividing the community means fewer people are going to be found who can take part in these studies.

A term isn't just a term

It's our identity. It's our community. It's our connection to each other. It's our websites and the resources they host. It's our ability to be seen. It's our connection to the academic research into our community and ongoing advancement in the field.

There is no genuine "pro-tulpa, anti-tulpa terminology" side. Changing the terminology as a whole would divide and devastate the tulpamancy community.

If you're fighting against tulpa terminology, you're fighting against the tulpamancy community.

TW!!! BLOOD + KNIFE

Name: Alia, Britta, Cyrus, Dree, Karla

Honorifics: Warrior, Bodygaurd

pronouns: she/her they/them They/Them She/Her she🩸/her🩸 they🩸/them🩸 she🛡️/her🛡️ they🛡️/them🛡️ 🩸/🩸s/🩸self 🛡️/🛡️s/🛡️self strong/strongs/strongself

typing quirks: short and to the point

gender: Paragirl🛡️ https://pin.it/yApsZeHRk , horrorangel🛡️ https://pin.it/5N7zsVIuF , Vulcuric🛡️ https://pin.it/6hztdUkQ6 , angrysongic🛡️ https://pin.it/51rd8FdRs, voidwound🛡️ https://pin.it/7gqYDQjRf ,

orientation: Lithoromantic🩸 https://pin.it/2XqTAiUNF , Nebulasexual🩸 https://pin.it/5UFQ6qvJF , Caligosexual🩸 https://pin.it/4HCov1IpH ,

other identity: Scarenvyic🛡️ https://pin.it/6YRBJ5ESm , humanish🛡️ https://pin.it/4qk1aM4cy

species: Unique species, nonhuman

age: 27

personality: Mature, wise, close-guarded, quick to anger, hard to calm down.

quirks: swishing her tails when angry, ears twitching when she’s amused.

likes: Daggers, butterfly knives, dual blades, big need for these things.

dislikes: most everyone

role: Auxiliary Protector🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Auxiliary_Protector , Avenger🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Avenger , Defensor🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Defensor , Dvalen🩸 https://pluralpedia.org/w/Dvalen

sign off: 🛡️🩸

love being a traumagenic endo system, like yeah I needed a friend and caretaker to help me through my trauma so bad because others dismissed it and I couldn’t get out much and didn’t get the socialisation I needed so I became plural but in the Tulpa way not a DID way.

Sure love when people say we endo systems are DID/disorder fakers

even when we never claim to have the disorder in the first place…

Even when we use the term “endo” “willogenic” or whatever to specifically say that we aren’t claiming to have DID or any sort of disorder…

sure do love when other systems say we are ruining the community by existing and that it’s our fault not the fault of the people who hate on systems and call us fake, weird, and delusional...

sure do love people saying we’re fetishising disability and mental health when tulpas- for us especially, help with our mental health issues and again, we aren’t trying to be any more disordered than we are. We don’t want DID, we are happy as we are, which isn’t DID.