Plural Culture is getting a bit upset when ppl tell you "I can't believe you let {this alter} front, why would you ever let them out?"
Because first of all; we don't fucking control who fronts. Not even our gatekeepers have real control over that. Our brain throws whoever it thinks it needs to into front
We may have some influence over it, with positive triggers to try and get certain alters to front
But we have zero control of keeping other alters out of front
I have exactly 1 memory that involved an alter being forcibly removed from front (it was me)
And it was because I was fighting to stay in front during an extremely triggering moment, and it took half the fucking system to get me out of front
I was physically removed, and it drained everyone so harshly the body threw up and had to leave work early.
We do not control who fronts
And second! In a majority of systems, controlling front like that isn't healthy!! Most alters are meant to front!! Even the "bad" ones!!! *
Controlling front is so rarely actually a good thing!
Don't shit on systems for "letting" certain alters front, this isn't some fun quirky roleplay that we have control over. It's a fucking disorder
* I say most and majority, but do not mean ALL. I understand that in certain systems, most often ramcoa survivors, certain alters cannot be allowed to front. This post is not referring to cases such as those.
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side note, but i'm honestly appalled at the way people ask questions for the AMA. rude language, aggressive tones, and general impatience with the team are all super common and it genuinely makes me feel bad for TNT despite my issues with the way the site is run and updated.
people don't know how to speak to others and have no manners and respect istg. would y'all behave this way if it was a face to face AMA and you didn't have the veil of anonymity?
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listen im SO on board with all the new luther fans because that boy deserves love but people saying that luther is so much more likable now that hes a himbo and loves his family is extremely confusing to me. this boy’s wanted to be a part of the family dynamic since season 1. remember season 1 luther carrying five like a baby and trying to convince five that hes still a good person? season 2 luther apologizing to viktor and shielding klaus from harm with his own body??? hes always been like this!!! i keep seeing people go “luthers so different now!” and that is objectively inaccurate! he’s always been good and he always drank his Loving My Family juice!!!
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Holy fuck, man. What a trip Fearne has been on, huh?
You tell her how grateful you are to have her in your life, you flatter her, you tell her you need her, that you have to do this together. You have her make a promise that has this woman, born of chaos and fey, agreeing through shaking hands and a trembling voice.
You make her deceive your friends; you make her follow where they cannot know; you make her help you into this contraption; you make her feed this thing into you despite the fact that you both have been warned extensively of the risks. You make her watch you crumble and splinter and shatter and fracture and burst and implode. You make her watch you die, over and over and over and over, for a minute in agonizing bullet time.
You make her do all these things, because when she tries to back out, when she tries to not be the one who let you do this—how could you do this—
you tell her, "YOU PROMISED."
Because if there's one thing you know, it's that the fey do not break a promise.
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Countdown to Coven of Chaos: Day 424
Wanda: “I AM VERY UPSET AT YOU BOTH! I CAN’T EVEN LOOK YOU RIGHT NOW.”
Y/N: “We’re sorry, we didn’t mean to upset you!”
Agatha: “It was a complete accident, it won’t happen again!”
Wanda: “IT BETTER NOT! DON’T DISAPPOINT ME! NOW I’M GOING TO MAKE TEA, DO YOU WANT ONE CUBE OF SUGAE OR TWO?!”
Agatha: “I thought you were upset at us?”
Wanda: “I AM!”
Y/N: “Can I please have some honey in mine?”
Wanda: “YES YOU CAN!
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what are some xue yang thoughts youve had recently?
one xue yang thought that surfaced while I was thinking about xue yang thoughts for this ask was about feelings and about how I sometimes see people talking about xue yang like he doesn't experience feelings of love or care or tenderness (for instance the "he doesn't actually care about xiao xingchen, just thinks of him as a toy" line of thought, which I personally...do not agree with, to put it delicately).
and I don't think that's accurate! I think xue yang assuredly experiences the whole spectrum of human emotion; I don't think he is very good at empathy specifically (or possibly, and importantly I say this completely without judgment, doesn't have the capacity for it) but I do think, for instance, that he could learn compassion if he put some effort into it (and someone was willing to help him practice a little). what I think xue yang can't do is identify his feelings, let alone process them in any kind of reasonable or healthy way.
some of this is an effect of emotional disregulation and xue yang feeling everything at 110% all the time (all his emotions, not just anger or whatever, when he goes he goes hard), but some of it I think is part of having this sense of a script for what things look or feel like, and a self-image about who he is and how he experiences the world. so when it comes to, say, love, there's a combination of "love looks like this specific thing and that's not what i have/want" alongside "i don't do love, love is for suckers" and those two things combined resulting in not recognizing the feeling for what it is.
he can recognize other things more easily because they fit more into his self-conception and his experience of them is closer to the script - when it comes to anger and fear he knows what they look like and they're more familiar/a part of who he knows he is (even if he would rather deny the fear and transmute it into anger), and he knows what it's like to feel happy, but when he hits the limits of that horizon then he stops parsing things so accurately. he experiences them but doesn't name them, and this is exacerbated by the fact that xue yang does not introspect pretty much at all. he's just not interested in self-analysis. who has the time for that? he's very aware of what other people see in him, and he does have a very strong sense of self, but when it comes to, like, thinking about the how and why of what he's thinking and feeling, he's not getting into that.
and some of that is because it would be dangerous for him, in a sense; both in terms of "getting caught up in your own head is a good way to be not paying enough attention to your surroundings" and also in terms of a more abstract "it might challenge his self-conception and part of xue yang's resilience is in the solidity of his self-conception, being forced to confront his own contradictions and weaknesses would be devastating and, in fact, is part of what kills him when it happens."
i guess the short way to sum up this post would be "xue yang's reckoning of his own emotions is pretty narrow, and he would probably actually agree with people saying he doesn't feel certain things, but the deal is really that he's bad at identifying them and doesn't really put in the effort to try."
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