An entry, for the sake of having one, and late-night plurality thoughts

[dkta]

It's becoming a bit hard to comment on everything, then stare at the vast emptiness of my own profile. Aside the 20 words I threw for myself in the Custom Text field, which works enough like a bio for immediate onlookers.

So, here, an observation! I certainly have a few that've been repeated by a few Cohost refugees (which I am technically one but I made a total of two posts two years ago before hopping off there--its demise just served as a good excuse to finally check out this website) such as the encouragement of long-form or blog-style posts or the much tamer atmosphere, but the thing I've noticed the most is that there's a good chunk of plural people. Certainly, if you go looking, you can find systems or otherwise multiples on any corner of the internet, but I'm finding that I don't even have to look here. There's plenty of we's where I's would normally go; half the time that's because it's a mod post on a community, but the other half I check and hey, whaddaya know? It makes some sense considering the sheer flexibility of icons, truly lovely touch that I'm surprised I never caught wind of within plural places.

Not that we're too active in them, anyhow. Even though our host came out to the world (thread) just shy of a month ago, there's still this innate drive to be covert about it. Constantly othering ourselves or masking since not only are we not at all trauma-based, but I myself am a tulpa. It's already hard to sell people on the idea that it can just happen, it's harder to tell them you can will it into existence if you so choose, and sometimes the ultimate challenge can be explaining that there is not one way to be multiple, there are various ways systems can be structured and it'd be simply incorrect to go with the usual "if i drop a glass ball and it breaks, which piece is the original" for us. We had a falling out with a friend because a then-friend of theirs threw a horrible fit about it, just shy of a year ago. It ended up all being fine but it certainly shoved me back into a shell. Deep down I really want to be bold and firm about myself, to be able to reaffirm my existence, as in my soul that is who I am, but by nature this brain of mine is an apprehensive and assimilating one. I'm hoping that getting my feet wet with my own account, anywhere, would help with that some. Twitter was great when it had Topics. Now it's flatly unusable.

Although I'm here less for my ability to be myself and more for my ability to be autistic about the things I like and wanna write fluffy fanfiction about. With the groups I've found here, you cannot stop me anymore! I won't have my only fic be a single-day ten-hour crackfic effort for looooong!

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[lb_lee]

Sneak: welcome to Dreamwidth! I know the site can be an adjustment, but I hope you like it here! Silvercat17 has a helpful post on getting started: https://silvercat17.dreamwidth.org/109841.html I hope it’s handy, and feel free to ask me anything! :D

There is indeed a strong plural contingent here, and the icons were part of Dreamwidth’s draw, back in the day! Now it seems a forgotten relic of an older net culture. But they’re so fun though!

[dkta]

Thank you! I had actually come across this post but I missed the extra links at the bottom (and, apparently, the whole linked community!) Very helpful, covers the simple questions and that's all I need out of a primer

Hello!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> So, here, an observation! I certainly have a few that've been repeated by a few Cohost refugees <<

If you're new here from Cohost, then you might like newcomers which is covering the shutdown and providing resources about Dreamwidth. You can introduce yourself in the Friending Meme or find your Cohost friends if you wish. These are also resources you can share with other folks riding the wave from Cohost.

See also eggbug_club and eggbug_writes for communities devoted to former users of Cohost.

>> such as the encouragement of long-form or blog-style posts or the much tamer atmosphere, <<

Dreamwidth is definitely good for those things.

>> but the thing I've noticed the most is that there's a good chunk of plural people.<<

Yeah, I have several in my audience. See also plural_stories.

>> It makes some sense considering the sheer flexibility of icons, truly lovely touch that I'm surprised I never caught wind of within plural places. <<

You get 15 slots free with a basic account. If you choose to buy in, you get 150 with a standard paid account or 300 with a premium paid account. If multiple icons have high value for you, then you might consider that upgrade. I use different icons to mark some of my series.

>>It's already hard to sell people on the idea that it can just happen, it's harder to tell them you can will it into existence if you so choose, and sometimes the ultimate challenge can be explaining that there is not one way to be multiple, there are various ways systems can be structured and it'd be simply incorrect to go with the usual "if i drop a glass ball and it breaks, which piece is the original" for us.<<

Souls are more malleable than most people realize.

>> I'm hoping that getting my feet wet with my own account, anywhere, would help with that some. <<

I hope so too.

>> Twitter was great when it had Topics. Now it's flatly unusable. <<

Try communities on Dreamwidth. Many of them have a set theme, and you can search for them by Interests.

>> Although I'm here less for my ability to be myself and more for my ability to be autistic about the things I like <<

You might like neurodiversetea or thatautisticadhdfeel.

>>and wanna write fluffy fanfiction about.<<

Fanfic is extremely popular here. You can find much activity through fandomcalendar.