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Reanna: We should make an academic discipline analyzing the plurality of media and plurality in media. We should call it Plural Theory.
well, we just came out to our mum as plural.
it seemed to go well, she seemed accepting of us. still very nervous of how shes going to act about all this tomorrow tho.
but honestly im really feeling exited to be able to use "we" and "us" without question and to proxy for everyone else in here openly.
it feels nice to be out.
our communication is pretty unreliable most of the time, but yesterday we had a full day of absolutely brilliant communication.
we spent the whole day playing fallout london together, laughing together, taking turns making dumb jokes, it was great.
the best bit was when we all went back and forth mocking the general in charge of the tommys (forgot his name but if youre playing it and have seen him you know who he is), it was amazing just all laughing together and feeling the happiness radiating from everyone else as we all brutaly roasted this moron. just pure joy.
i think that was our best system experience so far, i love being part of a system and hope our communication continues to improve like this.
Hii :) need some positivity rn, what are your best memories with your system?
honestly, i think the best part of our plurality is the emotional bleedthrough we have. it happens more the stonger the emotions are and it feels exactly like im feeling my own emotions, but im not the source of it.
if one of us is feeling bad, like stressed, sad, anxious, whatever, well now the others know exactly how they feel and can help to comfort them so much better than they could otherwise, also its great to just feel them calm down as you help.
but its gets better, it happens with joy as well. it really is an amazing feeling just bounceing pure happiness off each other, and theres been a few times we've gotten into a bit of a feedback loop with it.
im not sure were we saw it but i remember seeing a quote along the lines of "shared pain is halved, shared joy is doubled" and thats exactly what is like.
we love being plural and wouldnt trade it for the world.
about a month ago when i started to question if i was a part of a system i was really panicing about it and i remember thinking to myself "i could still repress this"
i know it probably wouldnt have worked, but even so im glad i didnt. im so very glad i didnt.
as weird and as difficult as plurality can be i like the others in here with me, i like the conversations we have and how we work together as team. i like being a part of a system.
the future is plural and so are we!
So random update on the whole creating packmates thing. Hit the "keep reading" if you want to.
We have 2 packmates that have shown up after we were thinking about creating them, and we didn't really do much to "actually go about creating them." We wrote down stuff about them and did a little bit of "role-playing" in our head with them (we do this for tons of ocs, some of which we have introjected or gotten kins of but we have ones that neither of these things happened for). So that's fun.
We have Arden Cat, who is a minecraft fictive and kin (they use both terms for itself). Thir source/canon is a bit different than the "traditional" minecraft. Iv are an ender cat nether wolf hybrid. Ixs technical source is specifically Stampy's Lovely World [anyone who thinks this is cringe or whatever, get off our blog], and they hold our special hyperfixation for both Minecraft and Stampy's Lovely World.
We also have Nile Conley-Wayne, who is a DC and batfam fictive. In their source/canon, it was the second adopted child of Bruce, being adopted not too long after Dick. They had 3 partners [all ocs] in its canon. We are planning on trying to introject at least one of the partners. Nile is nonhuman. Not sure what else to say about Nile.
We have 2 that we planned out a bit for that we haven't gotten to actually show up yet.
We have Rylo, who isn't supposed to be a fictive or anything, but they could end up being one. We are planning for them to be an "anthro golden jackal dhole maned wolf hybrid + working dog (no specific breed and doesn't affect appearance)." We are hoping to have these be their roles (taken right from our thing for them). "Assidumate, motivator, nummica, spoon generator, worker, and maybe cohost(?)" [Link to where we found the roles]. This is all we are gonna mention about Rylo for now.
We also have Curren Woolley, who is a DC fictive sort of based around the Arrowverse. They are the partner of Nile that we want to introject. They are a part of team Flash and see that team as their family. Curren is nonhuman. This is all we are gonna mention about Curren for now.
We also have an idea for a packmate that we wanna create, but all we really know so far is what role(s) we want them to have. Here are the roles: "Somnoian, sleep soother, sleeper, and drowser." Basically, we need a packmate to help with sleep. We are thinking maybe a cat could fit them? Cause cats like to sleep a lot, but we don't know. If anyone has any ideas we would love to hear them!
- Shay 🐾
Gonna talk more about this.
For this post, we/us/our/etc. is being used for just the Shay Subpack unless otherwise stated.
We are all different "sides" or "facets" or "parts" of Shay, which is different from the rest of the pack.
They are separate from us in a way that's different. They are their own beings through and through. We aren't.
We are mainly just different lives that Shay has lived. Though there are some things that are slightly different between us. For example, Zuki is definitely cupioromantic, while both Cyan & Akay definitely aren't (and Shay [this life's version] is totally confused on their romanticity & sexuality). But overall, we are mainly just different "parts" of Shay.
We don't quite know if this makes us median or not, and maybe it's not that important to know, but we still would love to hear what others think.
Edit: [Also, we are pretty sure all of us had Shay in our names (middle name) in all of our lives, so there's that, lol. It's how Shay came up with using that online from having Shay as a middle name as Zuki]
- Shay Subpack 🐾🪶🩵🖌
We'd love to hear more about median plurals.
Cause we are kinda wondering if we (Shay subpack) are a median subpack cause we are technically all parts of Shay.
We are different from our other packmates. They are distinct. They are their own beings in a way that we in the Shay subpack aren't.
We'd just love to hear more about median plurals and their experiences.
- Shay Subpack 🐾🪶🩵🖌
We'd love to hear more about median plurals.
Cause we are kinda wondering if we (Shay subpack) are a median subpack cause we are technically all parts of Shay.
We are different from our other packmates. They are distinct. They are their own beings in a way that we in the Shay subpack aren't.
We'd just love to hear more about median plurals and their experiences.
- Shay Subpack 🐾🪶🩵🖌