Wow...

[bladespark]

I have discovered a fascinating thing! There are a LOT of people out there who are "plural" in some way. (No, this is not the fascinating thing, though it is fascinating I knew it already.) Apparently a fair number of them have gotten annoyed at the need to say "this is so-and-so speaking" when posting lj posts, so they have made a journal for each persona/personality and then created a community locked so that only their personas can join, and then each posts as his or herself, and thus their friends can readily watch everybody by watching the community, rather than needing to friend and keep track of a heap of individual journals. (I know this can be hard, because I've had multiple journals for one "person" friended before, and I kept forgetting they were attached to the same person.

This is a neat idea! Of course it'd be of little use to me, as I'm too integrated. The personas speak up from time to time, but they mostly address me, or eachother, they are generally content to let me do all the interacting with the rest of the world, since I am them and they are me, so none of the other journals, were I to make them, would get much use.

But still, a really interesting idea.

Comments

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

I think I read your post about 3 times trying to understand that there are people who make communities for.. themselves.. You must know some very interesting people, it's a little too multiple personality for me.

I can understand saying this part of a person's personality is personified in this character and so forth, but... no matter what character I am today... I'm still just me, a singular being..

I guess I just don't get it, maybe you can explain... If I am talking in another community or feeling a certain way, an avatar switch does me nicely...

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Some people are a bit more... what's the word? Enthusiastic? Fanatical? Something. They're quite insistant that they are an "us" not an "I" and go to great lengths to support their multiplicity.

I'm not quite a plural person, I'm a "me" but I do have my inner voices, and I can see how it's possible to have them become strong enough to become actual individuals. Some of them do have, or consider themselves, to have multiple personalities, but most refuse to tack the "disorder" on the end of that, because they don't think there's anything wrong with them.

I find it really interesting.

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

I agree. It IS an interesting idea.

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

Huh. And I always though I was unusual because I use the royal "we" when talking to myself :P I can see now that I've not even scraped the surface..

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Oh no. Not even close! Particularly when you run into Otherkin, Walk-ins, Gateways, and Soulbonds. There's some seriously strange stuff out there.

[silveradept]

That's a neat idea, indeed. And one of the more creative ways of trying to keep things manageable. For some of the more multiplied multiples, there's really no way of keeping them all in check or in one place.

Were I to have a sufficient volume of separate, wanting-to-post characters in my head, that idea would probably be a godsend. Since mine seem content to make fun of me and not venture too far out beyond that, I don't have much use for it, either.

[xpieces-of-usx.livejournal.com]

We all have seperate journals. This journal serves as our main 'What's-Going-On-in-The-Fragments'-Life' journal. Nearly everyone in our system has their own LJ. All FLocked, of course. Everyone friends their own friends, I don't just go in there and import *my* FList, if you get what I'm saying.

Someday we should make a community, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to us; as we use our individual journals enough to make up for it...And everyone that matters has Us friended on those LJs.

For that matter, if you'd like to get to know any of Us better, just let me know. :)

Your last few posts about this topic are inspiring. It's nice to see someone talk about being functional and multiple at the same time. -- Us

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Well thanks. I don't feel I'm mutilple in the same way you or others I know are, given that none of my other selves are independant of me (at least not enough to have their own friends or journals and such.) But I find the whole idea really interesting, and it's easy to see, from where I stand, how it's possible to be plural and still carry on with a fairly "normal" life.