similar note to a recent ask, how might one tell the difference between mental kin shifts and plurality?

Have this answer we wrote back in 2021: I also sometimes struggle to tell if something is a kinshift or if I'm just fronting with someone else. But I guess if you feel like someone else, you're probably co-fronting, and if you still feel like yourself and only feel like yourself (with the addition of your kinshift of course but like. That stil counts as yourself), then it's probably a kinshift. But if you can't tell, try talking to whatever's there, and if you get a reply it's probably not a kinshift. (source)

We still don't have a better answer than that, so I hope that's helpful!

Technically, if you’re plural, every project is a group project. Give your headmates credit

plural culture is asking yourself, “am i faking it?” and a headmate immediately replying, “i’m real, dumbass”

Cringe culture is unfortunately not dead but we can kill it in major spaces if we all keep being ourselves authentically and unapologetically. What they call "cringe" is actually pretty punk. It's defiance. Keep being yourselves, you're ALLOWED to exist as you are.

I write this as a joke but we found someone new this morning.

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Plural Culture is "I know we just switched. I am absolutely not the person who was just fronting.

But who the fuck am I??"

When you split super easily so one minor inconvenience causes three new pests in your brain

me chilling being a system and then suddenly im pierced with the most body shaking panic inducing primal fear that feels as if ive been stabbed in the heart by an icicle that makes my blood run cold and sends shivers that penetrate down to my bones and then my brain realizes it made a mistake or something and is like "whoops. my bad. fixing it" and then the feeling is gone im fine like nothing even happened and i fail to even properly remember what scared me so badly once its over

I’ve got a question I didn’t rlly know where else to ask but, can a system be to protect one person/alter? like can there be a “core” or “main” per say (even in theyre not host) but the other alters are there for their safety and their care - I’m not sure I explained this well enough so no worries if you’ve got no idea what I mean

Yeah, that's how a lot of systems work

people who think in-sys dating isn't valid are funny to me..... i can't love the fractured parts of my identity? cmon man, what CAN i do with them

plural culture is constantly having to avoid saying “we” when talking to someone you’re not out as plural to

what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.

Plural culture is thinking you’re just genderfluid and abrosexual, and fluid with pronouns, and change interests back and forth very quickly, and just randomly changing names because you just decided you don’t like that other one and this one’s so much better, then changing it back, and-

(even without these things you are still valid💙)

when your productive alter goes dormant

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