We just uncovered an old forum we were on like 10 years ago where we were talking about our ocs and found a post where we said as a quote (pronouns replaced with the headmates current pronouns) "and I can sort of "summon" up [his] conciousness and get [his] advice on the situation", completely clueless about the plurality and thinking thats just what you do with some characters lol.
Yeah our outsourced fictives are more in line with your experiences- the kind of 'this is just fiction even if I and my experiences are not' relationship to the source. Its always so awkward when we encounter outsource fictives that dont/cant do this.
Weve seen an upkick in the number of fictives (both insourced and outsourced) having this 'the source is 1:1 with reality and everyone around me must treat it as 1:1 reality not not even a little like someones creation they made up' attitude and dont really think its the most healthiest thing to deliberately encourage like some of the plural community likes doing, to be honest.
Some people cant help having the feeling/belief that their source isnt a story in any way but is instead 100% actual reality no one made the canon up as a story its fully real, and thats fine if they can manage it without causing others or their system trouble/distress/harm and it shouldnt be vilified or aggressively reality checked even if its not consensus reality compliant, but to be honest we dont see very many systems who believe this about their source actually have a healthy relationship to said source.
Being in pure outsource fictive spaces you see a lot more of that then spaces that are for both fictionkin and fictives, interestingly! Something about the culture of examining *why* you identify as a character and offering theories to help make sense of things in an analytical way that fictionkin often bring to the table seems to help curb this kind of thinking into a more manageable state.
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Yeah our outsourced fictives are more in line with your experiences- the kind of 'this is just fiction even if I and my experiences are not' relationship to the source. Its always so awkward when we encounter outsource fictives that dont/cant do this.
Weve seen an upkick in the number of fictives (both insourced and outsourced) having this 'the source is 1:1 with reality and everyone around me must treat it as 1:1 reality not not even a little like someones creation they made up' attitude and dont really think its the most healthiest thing to deliberately encourage like some of the plural community likes doing, to be honest.
Some people cant help having the feeling/belief that their source isnt a story in any way but is instead 100% actual reality no one made the canon up as a story its fully real, and thats fine if they can manage it without causing others or their system trouble/distress/harm and it shouldnt be vilified or aggressively reality checked even if its not consensus reality compliant, but to be honest we dont see very many systems who believe this about their source actually have a healthy relationship to said source.
Being in pure outsource fictive spaces you see a lot more of that then spaces that are for both fictionkin and fictives, interestingly!
Something about the culture of examining *why* you identify as a character and offering theories to help make sense of things in an analytical way that fictionkin often bring to the table seems to help curb this kind of thinking into a more manageable state.