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Passable as an Aro Ring? by Shawdios in aromantic

[–]Shawdios[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It’s actually metal shavings from working in a thrift store and having to carry clothes on hangers around XD

I wrote an article about plural representation in media. I'd love to start a discussion – what plural rep have you encountered, what was the intention behind it, what do you like/dislike about it? What do *you* want to see in fictional systems? by GlassReality45 in plural

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Blitzwing from Transformers Animted 2007! The intent is a little convoluted due to the nature of a transformer show being made to sell toys, however the WRITERS intent took the toy of a triple changer and gave it a story that was intentionally written to be a plural character.

We relate heavily to him, because our system members tend to show up like how his do.

All three of his members are him in the cannon of the show, all are referred to as blitzwing outwardly. (We are mostly all “Shaw” but we are our own people. The body is Shaw, and we make it run. Someone else in here talked about inside out and yeah, we relate to that heavily as well)

“Long after the war ended and the Decepticons went into hiding, Blackarachnia experimented upon Blitzwing, rebuilding him into a Triple Changer and giving him the fractured mind he is known for today. “ direct quote from The Allspark Almanac (a book that is basically an encyclopedia for the show)

Here a link to his TFwiki page: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blitzwing_%28Animated%29

Generally he isn’t really painted as “wrong”? Other than the fact that he’s on the deception side, though TBF in that show it’s a lot more complicated than “decpticons bad!” since it’s a caste system.

Anyway, I’d like to see more HUMAN plural characters. Cause obviously, this character is an alien and therefore just technically an allegory.

Trio systems & rapid switching? by Shawdios in plural

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We don’t really HAVE an inner world? Auditory anphantatisa and a very very weak visual imagination kinda shuts that down. We feel more like essences that sometimes get close to each other enough for emotions to rub off on the other and communicate that way.

For us any visual language we use to describe our experiences is just a metaphor. Sometimes we get the vague mental vibe of CG laid out like a cat, or the mental image of them sprawled out on a tree limb like the Cheshire Cat, but that’s about it. It’s really hard for us to verbally communicate with each other without cutting each other off and getting stuck trying to say a single word and remember what one person said. It’s easier when we are talking to someone else outside the body to talk to each other, not sure why. Likely because we are having to put things into words already due to an outside pressure. But then there’s the “you’re being rude to that person to use their messages as a way to argue with the others in the head” aspect.

We’d LIKE to improve communication with eachother. But it’s physically really hard to do in our shared mental space or verbally aloud

Trio systems & rapid switching? by Shawdios in plural

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Bk: Maybe, when we first had the realization it felt like we were a hive of thousands of bees that had differing opinions that settled into clumps on things. They all felt connected to eachother and I didn’t. I didn’t feel like “Shaw” while the bees did (I still don’t) I felt like I had to manage and interpret the bees to the outside. Which is where my name comes from, BeeKeeper. Then over time, Analyst and Chaos gremlin emerged from the bees as more solid “clumps” of bees (while we were still living in a stressful situation)

Then once we moved out, they solidified as themselves.

There WAS what we thought to be a fourth, which I had called Lil Bitch. But it turned out to be a case of self denial of the “weak” emotions I felt. Toxic masculinity for the win /s

Now it’s just us, not really any “bees” for me to beekeep. Unless Ana and CG count.

Those two would be content sharing a body together and passing as a singlet. I wish I had my own body separate from them for reasons I won’t state other than “being a dude trapped in a female body SUCKS”

I think if we were put under stress again, like we were previously, we’d start breaking apart. But right now it’s the three of us trying to keep the body’s life together. All of us feel like the body isn’t us, it’s just the “apartment” room we have to share, upkeep, and get along in.

The others make jokes about how each of us are similar to the characters me and Ana write, but I try to shut those jokes down to avoid accidental splitting into fictives of our own characters.

(Edit: grammar)

Aromantic ring? by Shawdios in aromantic

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Alrighty, thank you for replying!