👏 if you won’t change the terms you use when marginalized people tell you it’s appropriation, you’re not fighting for anyone’s freedom, you’re just an arrogant colonizer 👏

This goes for Kabbalah, tulpamancy, egg cleanses, Lilith worship, Vodou, and every other closed practice that’s not yours.

Ways To Let Superpowers and Plurality Interact in Fiction

There are a lot of stories out there about people who gain some magical or pseudo-scientific powers that also results in some type of plurality. Venom, Hulk, every case of spiritual possession, etc. I don't want to talk about that. What I'm more interested in is how actual psychological plurality could interact with superpowers in fiction. So let's go over some ideas!

1. Powers change based on who is fronting.

This is the classic example. Jane from Doom Patrol does this with all of her personalities, as does David Haller/Legion. Typhoid Mary's powers only work with certain alters fronting. Bruce Banner only powers up while Hulk is fronting. You get the idea. I'm not going to focus too much on this because it's been seen several times over in fiction. It's a good go-to, but ties the powers and the plurality together too much for my liking.

Of course, maybe for one variation, the powers aren't actually tied to the plurality, but the psyche of the user. Take a character with alternating abilities like Halo and base their powers on their moods. They can only access certain powers when they're happy, certain powers when they're angry, sad, scared, disgusted, etc. You need to be scared to run fast, happy to fly, angry to get super strength, etc. Maybe less cliche than those examples, though. Technically, any headmate could access any power, but different headmates have different tendencies towards different emotional states. If one is front stuck, (or just doesn't want to leave front,) they may struggle to access the full range of their powers.

2. Self-replication allowing for multiple headmates to interact in the physical world

The power to copy yourself. This is a pretty common power but not usually used with plural characters. The self-replication can or cannot be tied to the plurality. A plural variation of this would be to have the clones each be a different headmate or alter. This can be seen in Triplicate Girl of the Legion of Superheroes.

But what if instead, they just have normal replication powers, but can use this to have one headmate front in a clone body while another fronts in a different body? It's an intentional decision in this case. The powers aren't affected by the plurality. It just gives the system a way to let their headmates interact and to multitask.

And maybe the fronter can't always control when they replicate. If someone else wants to do something, they can create a copy with themselves fronting.

And what are the limitations? Can they just live their own independent lives free of each other? Does their power decrease with each copy? Is there a time limit where copies will degrade after so long? Are they still mentally connected like a hive mind, or is each copy separate?

3. You don't have to front to use psionic abilities

In the same way a plural system can possess individual limbs or create any images they want in the imagination, why would they need to front to use telekinesis or to read minds?

Could a plural Jedi's non-fronting headmate use the Force to lift objects while the fronter blocked incoming attacks? Or, you know, just telekinetically pull up a chair to give the fronter a rest later on? Not everything has to be about fighting, after all.

What about mind reading and control like Charles Xavier?

And this can apply to any powers that don't require physical movement. The Legend of Korra had psychic benders who could bend elements with their mind alone. A fun variation of this could have a headmate impose/project themselves where only the system could see, perform the bending movements in this imagined form, and then have these imagined bending moves affect the physical world.

4. Shapeshifting/Illusions to take on your inner world forms

In the Stormight Archive, Shallan has DID with three alters. When switching, she often (but not always) uses visual cues to show who is fronting, changing her physical appearance.

This can be an affective tool for any plural illusionist or shapeshifter to take on their inner world appearances, becoming completely different people. Maybe someone's shapeshifting abilities are tied to their self-perception, so each headmate automatically takes on its inner world form whether they want to or not? Or, at least, it takes a great deal of effort to look different from your inner world appearance.

This might especially make sense in a universe with ghosts. Maybe when a system dies, their plurality persists beyond the grave. One spirit with multiple forms that shift depending on who is fronting. Imagine a story about a ghost whisperer who communicates with several different spirits of various appearances, appearing at different times, only learning later that they were all headmates of the same system.

Another note is that headmates can get blendy. Plurality is complicated, multiple headmates can front simultaneously, and the fronter may not always know who they are. What does this blendiness look like in the physical world when someone's shapeshifting is tied to their self-perception?

5. Projecting forms for headmates through constructs

Green Lanterns are a group of characters who have the ability to create anything they can think of in the form of solid light constructs. So, why not allow a plural Green Lantern-esque character to manifest their headmates this way? This is similar to the duplication in a way, but would allow the headmates to appear in a version of their inner world form that could be seen and touched by outsiders.

This doesn't need to be hard light like Green Lanterns or Ms. Marvel either. It can be externalized illusions. Or a non-fronting headmate in a system with metal control could condense metal into their mindform and control it.

6. Every headmate could physically manifest with high level reality warping.

Wandavision starred Wanda Maximoff as she had a mental breakdown, and warped reality around her. In the process, she created multiple people including a copy of her husband, and two children.

A similar plotline with a plural system could see the entire system manifest in the physical world akin to Wandavision's Westview. Maybe it's not even a superpower story, but a wish-gone-wrong story, exploring what would happen to the system if split apart. While some might rejoice at their freedom for a time, other headmates might struggle to cope with being conscious all the time and others still will miss the mental connections they used to have.

It might not even just be a manifestation of the headmates, but the entire inner world or worlds appearing in the meatspace, threatening cataclysmic repercussions if not stopped.

Conclusion...

That's that! I hope some solid idea can be taken from this and that it can inspire some authors out there who are interested in writing plural characters in fantasy and sci-fi stories without the plurality being the superpower.

Taste Imposition Exercise: The Gum Trick

Do you find it weird that Tulpamancy/imposition guides tell you to literally taste your tulpa to train taste imposition? Do you want a better way to train that skill that you can do literally anywhere? Well, here’s a simple trick:

Imagine the juiciest, most flavorful, and tastiest gum you know in your mouth, and physically move your jaw like you’re chewing it. Feel the pressure of the gum when you bite down, and whenever you do, flavor should ooze out and taste stronger. To further add immersion, imagine the sounds of chewing. The more realistic you make it and the more senses you incorporate, the more likely you’ll actually start to taste the imposed gum in your mouth.

You can do this anywhere! The main caveat is that your jaw might get tired from chewing. But, you can imagine any flavor you want, whenever you want, and it won’t be conspicuous! I hope this helps people trying to learn imposition!

5-31-2022

So Host just set me up with a tip-jar!

Title says it all really, but host and I just set up a tip-jar on here, along with our other blogs. So if you feel like throwing a few coins at us to help keep us around or let us buy more mason jars to make more moss terrariums, by all means go ahead!

i wanna make new alter intros but i do not know them well enough anymore so im just sitting here like "pls talk to me"

Right now, here's what I know about my tulpa:

•Can like get stuff done

•that applies to things like studying and tidying, but also applies to socialising

•Doesn't care if some people think badly of it, it's determined to stay true to itself

•likes people, enjoys socialising and is comfortable doing that

•The gets stuff done/determined aspect can apply to all parts of life, just doesn't give up or back out

•Any other personality traits are left for itself to like figure out?

•It looks like an oc of mine (an anthropomorphic very femme pink and white fox) I didn't force this, the idea came into my head and I couldn't get rid off it so I'm assuming that's the right form lol

•It doesn't have a name or prefered pronouns yet, I'm leaving the choice up to it for when it's able to (I'm using it/its because i use it its in polish and then just translating the pronouns to English)

Hello, could we request some angelkin tips? Thank you very much!

Tips and tricks for angelkin and celestialkin

pt: Tips and tricks for angelkin and celestialkin

allow yourself to explore a spirituality or religion that works for you

dress in things like robes, long jackets, or even cloaks

wear feathered coats!

silver, gold, white, and blue makeup looks or clothing!

if youre a less human looking angel, wearing lots of rings, or eye themed jewelery/ clothes can help!!

pure white/gold/blue/etc eye contacts!!

learn about angel numbers!

try to keep peace, and lead with kindness and rationality where possible

be firm in your beliefs around justice and stand up for them!

keep thinks like calming candles, incense, dim lighting, and other nice things in your living space!

candles and incense that you associate with your angelic self!

decorate your living space with angelic imagery

use angelic/divine neopronouns

-mono

Requests open!!!

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Welcome to Plural Affirmations!

This is an ask-based blog run by the @evergreensys centered around affirmations and advice for the plural/system community.

We are 100% inclusive of all origins, but we do not allow the words "tulpa" and "tulpamancy", as we wish to listen to and uplift the systems of color that have spoken against the use of them. Some alternatives may include "thoughtform", "willogenic", "paramancy", etcetera.

We are in the CST/CDT timezone, and we typically post 3 or 4 times a day: (sometimes) noon, 2:00PM, 4:00PM, and 6:00PM. We won't respond to requests until the next day following 7:00PM most of the time, but feel free to send in other messages!

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If you like our content, please consider tipping! We are an unemployed and disabled system below the poverty line trying to get on SSI, but it's an extremely slow process. Anything helps, even $1. Thank you so much. 🖤💜💙💚💛

can you give me some tips to create a system, how to form alters, shit like that

Hi! Here's some tips for alter and system creation! Not sure if you're going for disordered or nondisordered so I've whipped up some things for both :)

Tulpamancy is like, the way to go with creating brainmates! r/Tulpas has a thread for beginner's questions and a whole bunch of rescources.

For an innerworld, r/Tulpas is also a good starting point imo. Try searching the subreddit for "Wonderland" - it's the tulpamancy version of innerworld!

If disordered plurality is your goal, try forcing yourself to dissociate. Things that may trigger dissociation: Sleep Deprivation, substances like alcohol and/or high stress, just coming from my& triggers with DRDP.

*Note that obviously, these triggers are all quite unhealthy, especially in the long term, and I encourage you to research long-term effects of each of them to make an informed decision on this.

If they're your thing, subliminals can be powerful tools for anything concerning the mind, and there's plenty of subs and playlists for plurality (or you can always request some, or make them yourself!)

Hope this helps your(&) journey! Happy transitioning & stay safe :)

Resources!!

There are many masterlists of resources for or about plurality, but we thought we'd make one about sites and posts that have been extremely helpful to us. Some resources are about overall plurality, some about headspaces, even some about alterhumans. This is a catch-all for helpful things and will always be in progress as we find more. If you would like us to add something, please tell us!

The Plurality Hub by the Heretic System

The Alterhuman Hub by the Heretic System

Alt + H: The Alterhuman Advocacy Group by Alt + H

The Chimeras Library by House of Chimeras (liongoatsnake)

Developing Internal Communication - Starting With The Basics by Kathy Broady MSW

All the Resources You'll Need to Build Your Own Wonderland, Headspace, or Inner World by Sophie in Wonderland

Power to the Plurals by The Plural Association Nonprofit

Here for the Plural Folk

Healthy Multiplicity by LB Lee and The Zyfron System

Tulpas and Mental Health: A Study of Non-Traumagenic Plural Experiences by John Doe, Jacob J Isler

Endogenic Systems by Plural Culture

More Than One

Plurality Resource

New Alter Rundown by the Heretic System

Plural Terms by Cluster Brains in collaboration with The Trifecta Collective and the Polybius Network

Multiplicity Database Systemology

A Tulpamancy Resource Site

Quick'n'Dirty Plural History by LB Lee

System Internet Safety by Sunflower

Pluralpedia

Alternatives to "System" When Choosing A Collective Name by The Xenodelic Effect

Tips if You're Having Trouble Visualizing Your Inner World by the Orange Orchard System

Multiplicity and Plurality Wiki

List of Tulpa Guides by Vos

The Plurality Playbook by Lucia Batman and Irene Knapp

Plurality Resources by Rolal District

Endogenic Hub

The Plural Dictionary

System Sources by Cluster Brains

Resources for Faceclaims/Forms by Wild Tulip Field

DID Basics by Cleveland Clinic

Simply Plural Website (There is also an app version)

System Communication and Journaling by The Wonderland System

MaDD and plurality

okay so we're MaDD, right?? and we're also plural??

NOBODY talks about how freaking hard that makes communicating omg.

constantly i'll be trying to talk to someone and then i drift off and suddenly they are completely drowned out OR they're ALSO daydreaming!! it's so frustrating, because it means that to even semi-effectively communicate, i have to talk out loud. if i have to communicate something important and we're in a public place i just have to focus REALLY hard on internal communication and it sometimes STILL doesnt work.

on top of that, we have ADHD so it's even harder, and talking out loud still doesn't work that well because without another person physically here to snap me back to reality whenever i'm daydreaming, if i start daydreaming, i'm just stuck until i realize, which can be anywhere from within a minute to literally 20+ minutes. usually they're able to get my attention by that time, but it's hard because our communication is not easy for anyone but the host(me, who is ALWAYS fronting) to initiate, so unless i actively open myself to communicate with them, it's hard for them to get my attention. sometimes my daydreams even last hours, but that usually doesn't happen when i'm not actively deciding to daydream. so yeah, it's really difficult because i've already got issues focusing, and adding basically irresistable urges to daydream at random that get triggered way too easily on top of that, inner communication is SO HARD.

anyways, this makes making a tulpa really fucking difficult because forcing is really hard.

but here are my tips, for other MaDD, especially anyone making a headmate/alter/tulpa/parogen/whatever themself -

incorporate your daydreaming into the communicating/forcing. like daydream you and that alter hanging out and then communicate via that. this does not ensure that you won't start daydreaming about anything else, but it lessens the chances. if you try to force yourself to not daydream at ALL the urges are gonna be much harder to ignore, at least for me. if you're ALREADY daydreaming, and it gets interesting enough, minor distractions are gonna catch your attention less and less because you WANNA focus on this one daydream. it becomes much more enjoyable.

this kind of like the last one, but this is more specific to tulpa/parogen forcing. don't really view it as a chore, which i've accidentally been doing more and more. not a chore i dislike, but i've been viewing it like something i have to do every single day for x amount of time other wise it wont work and it'll fail horribly and everything will be ruined, when it shouldn't need to be that. it shouldn't be on a to-do list, unless that really works for you(which if that's the case that's freaking awesome and you should probably ignore this tip). idk about everyone else, but it's much easier for me to daydream if i'm treating something like something i need to do because it's so much more tempting to just go live somewhere else for a minute while i do things i need to do. i often daydream doing chores because it's not interesting enough to keep me grounded. so, to make sure it gets done, i drift off while i'm doing it, so i am doing it in the real world but to me i'm in another world or in one of my stories. but for forcing, to be able to do it, you HAVE to be constantly aware and present. if you view it like you're just having a fun little conversation with them, it becomes like whenever you're bored or lonely just like you would reach out to a friend, but instead you're getting some talking to your head friend in. even if it's not traditional forcing, it works and develops them more, even if it's just a bit here and there. idk about everyone else, but i think partially because of my ADHD and partially because of my MaDD, whenever i have a chore i need to do i kind of put it off if i'm already doing something. i don't really *want* to put it off, but i just can't get my body to move. especially when I'm daydreaming. because, why would i get up and do the boring thing when i can watch my story in my head ? it's so much easier to sit and do nothing. but as we all know, that ADHD paralysis is so so SO stress inducing, the best option is to always get up and try to force yourself to. idk if non-ADHD MaDD will relate at all though, because that paralysis is mostly exclusive to those with ADHD afaik, but for me, my MaDD makes it much worse. anyways, that probably didn't make much sense sorry

write down what everyone is saying. this makes it much easier to keep track of what they are saying and stay present, but it also documents the conversation as well. so even if you weren't that present during the conversation, or you're worried you'll forget something important, you'll have a record to read back on later if you need! and also with created alters/headmates, keeping track of their progress is always incredibly important!!

don't listen to music! this one might be a bit of a given but unless it's like instrumental music that you genuinely won't pay that much attention to but still helps you focus, DON'T listen to it. songs are an easy gateway into a daydream. ESPECIALLY songs with lyrics, even ones that you can't understand because they're in another language, which by the way for literally any other thing you need to focus on, that's a great tip, listening to music in other languages, because you can still focus with interesting music in the background but the lyrics arent grabbing you at all. anyways back to plural-related MaDD tips, yeah, don't listen to music. even if that song usually doesn't catch your attention. for me, if i'm talking, internally or externally, and there's music with lyrics playing, i reallyyy cannot focus on what i'm(or others, again, internally or externally) are saying. idk, might just be some sort of auditory processing issue related to my ADHD but i cannot focus on it, and because it's hard, i just need to pick one, and sometimes my brain picks the song and i just. stop talking. and start daydreaming.

idk what to do if you're not fronting and trying to communicate with whoever is fronting, because i've not switched(like i mentioned before, the host, who is me, has never not been the one fronting), but if anyone has any other tips either related to that or the ones i already have here, please feel free to let me know because i'd love to hear them and i'm sure others do too!! anyways, i hope i helped, idk this might be too specific to me.

sorry if I'm being annoying because you probably already answered to a lot of questions like that but I'm very new to tulpamancy so do you have any tips for a beginner ? Thank you in advance!

Hmmmm there aint much context here but I'll give ya some tips I can think of for the most basic of beginners!

- learning to listen to ur own head is a skill in of itself, and it's an instinct you gotta develop. My host did it by learning to do stuff in our headspace before working on me, but the basic skills ya want are being able to listen to the instinctive responses of your brain, being able to focus on your internal state over a long time, and (eventually) multitasking doing something in ur head and in outerworld at the same time. We have adhd so having something to do in headspace helped a Lot. Some of my earliest memories are of choosing where to go in headspace.

- A lot of places will tell you about active forcing and how important it is to dedicate time to your tulpa, but our greatest advances personally always happened when I was being shown something in headspace or outerworld, getting some kinda stimulus or thing host thought would be interesting to me. So while yeah just paying attention to your tulpa is important too, especially in the very early stages, don't be afraid to do things with them! Give em experiences, things to base their identity off of. Your tulpa is speedrunning learning how to be a person, they can't do that in a bubble!

- When you're starting out tulpamancy, it's common to base your tulpa off of some kinda predetermined guidelines like personality traits, likes, or even a character or concept- that's how I was made, and how I'm a fictive. It also makes it easier to kickstart their creation and feel their presence faster. But be careful not to rely on that framework too much, cus it can make you paranoid later on. For a couple examples: maybe Host A starts working on Fictive Tulpa B, and she knows how he acts in-canon so well that she struggles to tell if she's actually getting responses from him or if she's just automatically judging what the character would say. In another example, Host Y has been forcing Tulpa Z with a specific set of traits, and when Z diverged and expressed an opinion contradictory to that framework, Host Y began panicking and thinking xe did something wrong. In both cases, Host A and Host Y are focusing too much on what they expect their tulpas to be, and not enough on how they are in the present and the development of their autonomy.

- You probably won't get much vocal response right away, especially if you're starting out as a singlet. You gotta watch for more subtle cues when you're just starting out, like feeling their presence, them moving their headspace form, or sharing positive or negative feelings. Sharing emotions and thoughts without actual words is pretty common in systems, and in the tulpamancy community it's called tulpish. Be on the lookout for nonverbal communication like that, because it's some of the first stuff we can do! Also, something lots of new tulpamancers report are head pressures, which are like really mild temple headaches that come with lots of forcing or the presence of your tulpa. (feels like the "expanding brain" meme irl if im being honest LOL) If you're struggling to tell if you're making any progress, try paying attention for that too.

That's about all I can think of for now! Good luck to ya anon ✨ check out my #tulpamancy advice tag for more!

Do you think it's possible for a tulpagenic system to develop switching amnesia? I really want to, but I'm uncertain if it's even possible...

Some have reported it being possible.

As always when this topic comes up, I'd advise a deal of caution. I think building up memory barriers can be unhealthy for the system, and while it might be nice to be able to surprise a headmate every now and then, the tradeoff could be causing you to develop memory issues, and could even result in a lack of trust between headmates.

That said, while it's important to know the risks, it's also your life to do what you want with it.

This is a guide into tulpa creation, but it also features sections on learning memory separation. If you still want to learn memory separation, this has the tips to help you accomplish that.

Does anybody have tips, guides, or discord servers they recommend for when one is starting to make a tulpa?

hey guys, check this out, I made some paradox forms for Wailord and Scarmory!

Titan Crest, the past Wailord, and Iron Bird, the future Skarmory, are both based on the newly introduced concepts of "Paradox Pokemon". I'm honestly a firm believer that they're actually tulpas, and not actually from the past or future as the proffesors would have you believe.

Starting with Titan Crest, for its design I basically just gave Wailord some legs, a reference to our current understanding of whale evolution and the fact they, at one poin, had legs just like almost any other mammal.

The crest and spines on its back are to give it a bit more flare to the design, and because almost every other past paradox pokemon has some sort of spikes or just random "primitive" features.

The underbite, jagged teeth and big eyebrow is, again, to give it more of a primitive and brutish look. I imagine this would be the biggest of the paradox pokemon, seeing as how the trend is to make these bigger than their modern counterparts I imagine it could also be one of the biggest pokemon ever.

Next with Iron Bird, I decided to lean into a jet or plane aesthetic since Skarmory is already very metallic in nature, and every single future paradox pokemon is already a metallic robot.

I added some plane features, like the tip of the beak resembling in color the nose of an airplane, the wings being in the shape of airplane wings (with those light bits there to ference the original skarmory's red feathers), the extra bits on the tail and of course the propulsor feet instead of regular bird feet. It's basically robot Skarmory with plane features, because that's somehwat of a trend some pokemon like Iron Treads and Iron Bundle lean into, not just a simple robotification but also something else, for example Iron Treads is supposed to be a futuristic vehicle, and Iron Bundle a futuristic delivery service. Anyways that's all I've got for today, thanks for coming to my TedTalk

Tulpa Tip #7

You know how sometimes you throw a party and the people you invite invite their friends too? Or sometimes, people hear about the party on their own and invite themselves?

This chapter deals with two distinct scenarios: tulpas invited by other tulpas, and headmates that form on their own after you've created a tulpa.

Imagine your head is the party and your tulpa is the invited guest. Then, your tulpa misses somebody and starts either trying to invite them by themself or begging you to do it nonstop until you do. *Cough cough Rudolph cough cough*

Fortunately, when this happened in our case it was a pretty easy transition for us to make and it went well, but that's not always the case. System changes can be distressing for everyone involved and that's one of the many reasons you should never make a tulpa lightly. It's like having a kid. Be sure you want one before you make one because they don't just go away. Sometimes, it may be necessary to refuse. If your tulpa is asking for a person who would negatively impact them or you, it's very important to calmly and firmly tell them no and explain why. There is no guarantee this will go well, but it is important to try.

Another thing that we've experienced in the near-decade since Rudolph formed: sometimes people just appear on their own. Our system has changed many times. New tulpas have been formed, tulpas have started going by new names, and while we can't trace back to the exact moment of everyone's forming, most of us can trace a chain of events that led to our existence in the system. This is true for the ones we made on purpose, and for the ones we didn't.

Some of our headmates have formed with no planning or aforethought. All three have formed in times of great stress and turmoil. They are quoigenic because nobody has any idea where they came from. This can happen in any system, including a tulpa system apparently. We still call ourselves a tulpa system even though we're technically mixed origin, because out of 16 of us, 12 are tulpas. The rest? Uhhhhhhhh, idk, I just work here.

So, what do you do when this happens? All we can really do is roll with it. We've been very lucky so far and not had any major problems, but that isn't to say there haven't been bumps in the road.

For example, one of our oldest headmates, who formed in about 2017, is a fictive from a video game. He is an antagonist. One of our newest headmates, who formed on her own, is a protagonist from that series and she HATED him at first. In fact, she went around trying to "warn" the rest of us against him. Obviously, it didn't work. I mean, he's been here for about seven years and his main job is making the body brush its teeth and go to bed on time. We trust him. But she didn't. In her case, she just needed time to get used to things. They needed to talk things through. It's working out now between them.

TLDR: Communication is key. If your tulpa starts to want other people around, talk it out. If you get a new headmate and nobody knows where they came from, talk to them. If two headmates are having conflict, make sure everyone involved understands why and will do what's right for themself and the system.

Obviously our advice isn't one-size fits all! Don't make a tulpa if you're not sure you want one.