does anyone have a sample simplyplural export .json file that has some kind of fronting history and members in it? It doesn't matter any of the details as long as it has some members and fronting history about those members in it. We need to dig around in a simplyplural .json file to see how it ticks but we literally can't download it anymore since the servers were killed. this is really fucking important to us thank you to anyone who may be able to help
(for context, we're trying to make our ourcana json match the formatting of a simplyplural json so we can import our front history properly into pluralspace. right now it imports the members properly but not the front history.)
Out of the theater for the final TADC episode... Wow. Watching it live sure was something. I'm surprised how much of it lined up with what I remember. I'm also surprised at how... at peace I feel.
anything else would be spoilers. But regardless, it's surreal to watch your own life up on the big screen. I never thought something like show this would be how everyone remembers me. I probably wouldn't even be here in this system without it? I guess I'm kinda glad. I'm glad I met everyone. And I'm glad I'm here.
Hope that makes sense
- Pomni
More system members as miis!
From left to right: Levana, our dear Sith Lady @wildfire-risk // Pure Vanilla @vanilla-gardens // Space, an Octarian who's been here since nearly the beginning // Casey @kitty-creamie-cookie // Gregory (yes from fnaf) // Chara, aged to adult so they can marry Frisk // Badeline herself @protectingtulpas // and Miles Edgeworth
We've made a good few members of the Prism in Tomodachi Life already - I wonder if we'll eventually have the whole subsystem?
Outside of the Prism we have two other Croissants, another Minato, two other Akiras, two other Oumas, another Madeline(though she may be just a fragment?), and another Link as well. It's like the Prism's inside a separate box within the larger system - we're all connected to each other, and we can't do two different things separate from each other at the same time. Still, it's a comfy little place and we understand each other deeper than anyone ever will.
Hope you get better soon! Also please keep talking about tomadachi life (if you want) I love hearing about it
anon my beloved. these r for you ty
girl youre. youre standing in the ocean . girl your easel
aKIRA PLEASE stick to Akechi and not the bodys childhood friend sys
Accurate Tabi PVP Civilization Behavior
Honestly true beyond words
Casey and her girlfriend Miri's tomodachi marriage tour :D
Miles Edgeworth relaxing by the sea
- moth
btw we've disappeared from tumblr lately because we have not stopped playing tomodachi life since it came out. we've been basically bedridden from actual pneumonia of all things and this silly mii game has been the literal only thing we can focus on
Have some favorite screenshots (which we haven't even had the energy to transfer to our phone properlyyy lmao)
Hi do you have any resources or advice on helping ones headmates get support and help with exotrauma? We're a system host who's been trying our best to support our fellow headmates with some quite frankly extreme trauma; it's becoming incredibly exhausting and draining on the body and we're not sure how to help them or continue moving forward without continuing to burn ourselves out. We're a very disordered system and this is way out of our pay grade to deal with so we're not quite sure where to actually get support.
Hello, anon; we completely understand where you're coming from, we've been grappling with exotrauma for nearly ten years now- before even knowing we're plural. Our deepest sympathies, it can be so stressful and hard to cope with, especially when you're socially expected to treat exotrauma as "lesser than" bodily trauma even in some plural spaces.
We'll give some blogs we know that cater to this sort of thing, along with some suggestions we've found help the more intensely affected by exotrauma of us.
@exosupport - A support blog for exotrauma that posts regularly, we love seeing it on our dash!
@exotraumasupport - A support blog for exotrauma, seems sweet and has reblogged our stuff a few times
@thisisfictomisia - A VERY good support blog for specifically the fear that your trauma is less important than the body's. May have more resources too if you send an ask
As for personal advice...
- Identify specific trauma responses and work with them on an individual level. Exotrauma can feel very big and "unreal", especially when there isn't a good analogy to trauma from this world, but oftentimes the reaction can be eased similarly still. An example very close to home for us is time loop exotrauma; trauma responses from losing all your progress and connections over and over in a time loop, along with the desperation to finally be safe and secure, can manifest similarly to those with chronic housing, food, and/or relationship insecurity. By using that path, you can figure out ways to help them- in this example, by giving them routines and tasks that have tangible impact, by keeping them connected with the people in their lives, and doing whatever you can to reassure them that they're safe and nothing is going anywhere.
- Give them time and space to process things, but don't let them use that as an excuse to completely retreat into themselves. They probably have a lot to untangle, so you want to make sure they have the ability to move at their own pace. try to neither restrict nor force them; give them a nudge sometimes, try and direct them towards socialization and things to do in outerworld, things like that. Let it be okay if they refuse, as long as they have the option
- if they're around front/co-con, ask them about things when you get the choice. Which shirt to wear, which snack to eat, which game to play; it'll help them stay grounded in the moment.
- What do you want outside of the scope of your exotrauma? What little things do you enjoy? What activities, what food, what items? Try and give yourself/have your host give you those things when around front; the little things are rewarding, and will help you focus on more than the pain.
- Talk about it with someone your system trusts to take it seriously. Sometimes it just helps relieve the internal pressure to tell everything to another person in a different body, instead of keeping shit inside. It may feel like it won't do much but it can be such a relief
- Write it out. that one agonizing memory that canon doesn't depict, the thoughts that the screen or page would never give words to. It doesn't have to be good, it's not like you need to post it; it doesn't have to end happy, but it can be cathartic to make it if you want to.
If anyone else has any exotrauma-specific coping mechanisms they've found, please feel free to add on - this is definitely not exhaustive. We hope things are able to get better with time, please do take care of yourselves.
... And, just as a personal note-
Your exotrauma is real but so are you. You are here for a reason; every living being is. Your system doesn't want you to live in fear and pain, and you're more than what happened to you. You exist in the present, in this moment, and you have a future ahead of you. Your joy will feel just as real one day, and it will be worth it.
heyy, we remember you all posting something about being addgenic once and, if you have the energy for it, we were wondering if you'd be willing to elaborate on that experience a bit? specifically when it comes to ensuring everyone is getting their needs met! we ourselves have spontaneously grown much larger than we ever anticipated (and there's always the possibility more will pop up in the future) but we're feeling a little overwhelmed making sure everyone feels involved enough in our life. admittedly we're not technically very big (only in the late teens in terms of headcount), but it's enough for us to be struggling and we wondered if you had any tricks or advice as an addgenic system!
fwiw also in case it's relevant: we think part of our struggles come from our awareness/senses of self being connected to fronting, and our brain struggling to render very many headmates at a given time. so it's difficult for a lot of us to have enough time to feel "solid" given the logistics around coordinating front time...also doesn't help that we have a frontstuck host who takes up a lot of fronting energy lol. i hope this isn't too much info, we've sent asks here before i think and they were very helpful for us. you're of course under no obligation to answer and we hope you have a calm day in any case :)
Hi anon! So this is actually a super good question and one that every larger system will find different answers to. What works for us may not work fully for everyone, but making sure our members are happy and healthy mentally is really important to us, so this is what we do!
We're the exact same way with not being able to handle a ton at a time (maybe five people at once before it starts getting too much, but we're usually more around 2-3) and a frontstuck host makes it all the more stressful since you can't just "leave". (Letting go of the body is a worthwhile skill to learn, even if you can't drop completely out and use headspace) The way we've handled things since the beginning has been an extremely in-depth and focused headspace/innerworld/wonderland. If you work enough with your innerworld that it's deeply engrained in the body's subconscious, then it's possible your headmates will be able to live fuller lives whilst in that subconscious/"not in front" state. We have a sizeable city area with different types of home spaces, fields and forests for people to set up their own places, and lots of recreational areas that appeal to different tastes (library, clubs, hot springs, cafés, etc).
This method does take significant time and effort, though, because engraining something into your subconscious enough that it operates in the background takes a long time. But, your headcount is currently small enough that it will be WAY easier for everyone to get accustomed to it than if yall had a lot more than could reasonably practice. For us, it also helps to have a designated "fronting room" that you can't see out of without using a headspace body/mindform, so that headmates can walk out the door and leave front without just kind of poofing. A lot of little mental indicators like this can help bridge the gap to certain mental goals.
I used this amazing audio guide by a tulpamancy youtuber in order to create our wonderland - everything from sections 2 (the fourth video) through 6 is completely focused on creating deeply immersive wonderlands, with objects that have internal structural identity and places that stick with you when you're not actively thinking about them, as well as how to use your own mindform and interact with your own inmer world. You can even get your headmates in on this too, having them interact with the innerworld around you as well in order to help reinforce a sense of space, tangibility, and the feeling that they can reside there when out of front. Especially because you have less people to work with, engraining this early helps later on!
This has been successful to the point where we rediscovered a headmate that had dropped off the face of front for months and months because someone else casually told us he'd had a fling with her in headspace
But hesdspace stuff isn't all you can do! There will be some headmates that are naturally drawn towards your innerworld and some that will be drawn to front, especially with large systems. We've found that a strict "schedule" works out less well than simply having reminders up for who wants to do what when. Like we have a little whiteboard hanging up we can write on when we want to do something (we keep it someplace visible because we have adhd). So if someone is feeling bored or antsy, we can check it and see what kind of activities others of us want to do, and from there see who we can call up to front!
Another thing we do is try our best to ask headmates who don't show up as often if there's anything they want in the future. Something in headspace, something in front, if they need anything, how they're doing, etc etc- some things end up going on the board, but often there are requests to be front summoned more often, so we keep those in a separate list we can try and get ppl from if things are quiet.
We hope this helps out some! Good luck with getting things sorted, and make sure to listen to your headmates' ideas too!