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This catalog purposely takes a very broad, ambiguous view of what constitutes "plural." Make our day! Story types that have been accepted in the past include:
* Spirit possession
* Imaginary friends
* Spirit marriage
* Exploring geographies of the mind, imagination, and fiction
* Bodysharing symbiotes
* MPD/DID
* Plural stories
* Telepathic bodyhopping shenanigans
Rules for submission (changed 5/17/2024):
Does the story qualify? Then submit it using the form below! (Feel free to use the tags page for pointers.)
[Title] by [Creator/s] ([genre] [medium], [year released])
"[insert a cool quote from the work here]"
Blurb:
Why is it worth your time?:
Plural/1+ Tags: Choose from the ones on the tag list, or add your own!
Content Warnings: please include spoilers! I have this comm set up so that individual posts have only plural tag spoilers (because that's what folks are here for!), while content warnings will be in the comments. That way, people who want to remain spoiler-free can read the post itself and be fine, and the people who want all the warnings can scroll down.
Accessibility Notes: See the tag list for examples. Also note how you can get it. Is it an easy library book? Has someone digitized it and put it elsewhere? Is it backed up anywhere?
Misc. Notes (if any):
Is it long, medium, or short?: I wrote the standards here.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?
This catalog purposely takes a very broad, ambiguous view of what constitutes "plural." Make our day! Story types that have been accepted in the past include:
* Spirit possession
* Imaginary friends
* Spirit marriage
* Exploring geographies of the mind, imagination, and fiction
* Bodysharing symbiotes
* MPD/DID
* Plural stories
* Telepathic bodyhopping shenanigans
Rules for submission (changed 5/17/2024):
- Only submit stories. We're willing to play with what defines a story, especially for personal experience accounts and experimental work, but self-help, philosophy, 101 and such do not belong here.
- Don't submit your own work. Boost your fellows!
- Please do not submit more than four titles by the same creator/s. When this archive gets bigger, we'll expand how many entries one creator/s can have.
- The story must be made by an adult (or at least not easily identified as made by a minor). This is to prevent malicious submissions and harassment of kids.
- The story must be publicly available. No unrecorded LARPS, rare books, or stuff on account-locked websites.
- If incomplete, the story must at least have a decent stop point. No just-started webcomics, please! They may not endure!
- You must have taken in the whole story (or at least all that's available at the time of submission). This is for complete content warnings and stuff.
- Spirited/many-selvedness must be core to story or main character/s. If you can remove it from the work without the whole thing falling apart, then please do not recommend it. (If you're not sure, ask! Make our day!)
- You must say why it's worth plurals' time. It doesn't have to be good, exactly, but it's gotta be worth it. This is to avoid completionist spam.
Does the story qualify? Then submit it using the form below! (Feel free to use the tags page for pointers.)
[Title] by [Creator/s] ([genre] [medium], [year released])
"[insert a cool quote from the work here]"
Blurb:
Why is it worth your time?:
Plural/1+ Tags: Choose from the ones on the tag list, or add your own!
Content Warnings: please include spoilers! I have this comm set up so that individual posts have only plural tag spoilers (because that's what folks are here for!), while content warnings will be in the comments. That way, people who want to remain spoiler-free can read the post itself and be fine, and the people who want all the warnings can scroll down.
Accessibility Notes: See the tag list for examples. Also note how you can get it. Is it an easy library book? Has someone digitized it and put it elsewhere? Is it backed up anywhere?
Misc. Notes (if any):
Is it long, medium, or short?: I wrote the standards here.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?
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Date: 2024-08-12 08:15 pm (UTC)“Seeing is believing in the things you see
Loving is believing in the ones you love!”
Blurb: A sweet song about being friends with a unicorn, the northern star, and someone who lives inside of you.
Why is it worth your time?: It’s cute and it’s about love!
Plural Tags: plural:abuse:not mentioned, plural:people:imaginary friends, plural:people:nonhumans, plural:relationships:friendship
Content Warnings: Discussion of facing ableism and lack of understanding, which is shrugged off immediately. This is a happy song!
Accessibility Notes: The audio and lyrics are available for free on the singer’s website. The songsheet is $5.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Medium (~4 minutes of music, 3 verses with a chorus)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Everybody!
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Date: 2024-08-12 08:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-08-12 09:05 pm (UTC)“Vern reached out to squeeze Lucy’s hand. Lucy squeezed back. In her mind, Vern said the words, I love you, I miss you. Lucy put down the book, turned to Vern, and said, ‘I like living inside of you.’”
Blurb (written by me): Everybody in Cainland is used to hauntings - visions and night terrors supposedly caused by withdrawal from white people's toxins. But in Cainland, everything is connected and nothing is what it seems. After fleeing the Cainland cult compound pregnant with twins, an exoskeleton develops on Vern's disabled, teenage body, a passenger that saps her energy but connects her to something greater than herself. Meanwhile, she learns to communicate with her hauntings and develops loving relationships with some of them.
Why is it worth your time?: It’s a fast-paced thriller with some of the most unique and creative science fiction elements I’ve seen in a while (did I mention the exoskeleton?). Definitely read the content warnings first, though!
Plural Tags: plural:abuse:high-focus, plural: people:the dead, plural:people:children, plural:type:setting-specific, plural:relationships:family, plural:relationships:friendship, plural:relationships:intimate, plural:visions
Content Warnings: The author includes the following content warning: “I hope that even as Sorrowland delves into the pain these colonial states have wrought, one might see the joy, triumph, and humor of those who resist, resist, resist. That said, there is no mincing words about some of the darker themes in this book. Note discussion and instances of racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicidality, and homophobia, inclusion of animal death and explicit violence, and references to sexual violence that have taken place off the page.”
In addition to this, the book also includes the death and sexual abuse of children, the forced removal of children, poverty, homelessness, cults, medical experimentation, and drugs. Pregnancy, childbirth, and consensual sex also appear.
Accessibility Notes: Available in e-book, audiobook, and print.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Medium
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? It’s aimed at adults. The reading level is likely to be accessible to a teenager; the content may or may not be.
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Date: 2024-08-12 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-28 08:47 pm (UTC)"I wanna say, that your value is much higher than your assessment. It shouldn't be measured in terms of data..."
Blurb: An android, subject to horrific experiments, finds himself part of a network of clones. He fights to set them free along with the other victims of experimentation, and succeeds--at the cost of his life. Those 7 clones find new life together with their human partner, but the threats to their existence are far from over...
Why is it worth your time?: Season 1 is a set-up for the bulk of the plural content in Season 2, "Eclipse of Sybil", in which the androids act as an external system connected via their own network. (Yes, the title is partly a reference to that Sybil, whose name was used for the computer term 'Sybil attack'.) Although they each have their own body, the way they cooperate, share memories, and talk about each other is nevertheless very plural. It's cool seeing what a system could look and act like on the outside.
A particular heartwarming scene: one member tells the system's partner how each of them have their own unique thoughts, but laments that they must be indistinguishable due to being the same model of android. The partner, upset, responds with, 'of course I can differentiate all of you!' Just like how a system might feel as though only the body is known to others, but a loved one can tell the difference between members.
Ending Spoilers: through trials and tribulations, the system ends up becoming plural in the traditional sense by sharing one body/brain, complete with an example of switching!
Also, the artwork is gorgeous.
Plural Tags: nonswitching, switching, setting-specific, on purpose, teamwork, nonhumans, enmity, memory work
Content Warnings: abuse (adults and children), blood, death (dismemberment, decapitation, shooting, falling, fire, car accidents...), experimentation, gore (machine), graphic violence, strong language, suicide (attempts and one who chooses to shut down), trauma (flashbacks, anxiety attacks)
Accessibility Notes: Lots of translations! The entirety can be read in Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, and Russian. Season 1 can also be read in German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Spanish.
There are plain text scripts in English, but they don't distinguish between who is speaking.
Misc. Notes (if any): This is a Detroit: Become Human fan comic that goes off the rails with the artwork being a main draw (heh). Massive spoilers for the game, of course, but since most of the story is its own thing, it can (probably) be read without any knowledge of the source.
Format: Digital comic
Is it long, medium, or short?: Long; all together, it is 509 pages.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Adults
Available to read on Archive Of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53427262/chapters/135226435
Also available for free download by the creator (where all the translations can also be found): https://x.com/SunsetagainD/status/1667866938360623104
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Date: 2024-08-30 11:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-08-28 08:56 pm (UTC)"Don't be afraid, Alyssa..."
Blurb: Teenager Alyssa Hale is trying to start over in a new city after a horrific incident at her previous school. She is haunted by someone named Bates who has been taking control of her body against her will. Things go from bad to worse upon reaching her uncle's house and finding a dead body shortly after. The reason why Bates exists will be revealed, but she must learn to accept him in order to find that truth and, most importantly, survive the night.
Why is it worth your time?: Alyssa and Bates switching is a game mechanic that can be used to solve puzzles! One can do or find something the other can't, and vice-versa. That itself is pretty cool, especially for a PS1 game.
That said, the game's got a lot of issues. The English version's box claims that Alyssa has an 'evil split personality and she is thirsty for blood oh nooo' without acknowledging Bates as his own person. The Japanese version at least makes it clearer that they are two separate souls in the same body. In both versions, Bates, the so-called 'evil' one, is really more Chaotic Neutral.
Spoilers for clarification: Alyssa shares a body with her deceased twin brother. Said brother forcibly switches in to protect her from danger, but he can be more violent than she wants. He talks big but doesn't indiscriminately stab people like the 'killer alter ego' stereotype goes. There is an audio drama where the story goes in that direction, but in terms of the game, Bates is just a jerk who loves his sister.
Plural Tags: spiritual, teamwork, enmity, switching, the dead, family
Content Warnings: death (child and adult), bodily mutilation, strong language, parental neglect, medical experimentation
Accessibility Notes: It is a PS1 game long out of print with two language options (Japanese and English, separate releases); the English version is prohibitively expensive to acquire secondhand. Fortunately, playthroughs can be found on YouTube and Niconico.
One example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGD4dVnmsls
Misc. Notes (if any): Honestly...the game kind of sucks lol. But this system appreciates protector tropes, and Bates very much hits that trope. Plus, in the English version he's voiced by Roger L. Jackson who is so very fun to listen to!
Format: PlayStation
Is it long, medium, or short?: Short, beatable in ~5 hours with a guide (extremely recommended)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Adults
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Date: 2024-08-31 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-29 09:13 pm (UTC)Short background: it's a podcast about medical child abuse (popularly known as "Munchausen's by proxy"), and season 4 focuses on Jordyn Hope, a survivor the host met through her activism while making earlier seasons. It's basically a biography-documentary. Jo is introduced as a nonbinary person who uses singular they, and this season reveals that they're also a plural they. Their multiplicity is only discussed in any detail in episode 7, but symptoms like dissociation and amnesia come up elsewhere in the season -- and obviously they're plural the whole time, even when it's not getting focused on.
If that qualifies, let me know, and I'll do a full writeup!
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Date: 2024-08-31 10:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-10 07:47 am (UTC)"If all physically possible universes exist, so do all physically possible girlfriends… including the one you’re imagining who’s imagining you."
Blurb: Ana’s parents, who hadn’t heard that it wasn’t game-theoretically optimal to punish her for dropping LSD, packed her away to a troubled teen camp. During the day, Ana faces the harsh Utah desert, near-starvation, and torture in the name of “therapy.” At night, she seeks desperate comfort in the arms of her alternate-universe girlfriend, Yuya, one of three hundred wives in the harem of the Emperor of Every World. But as their respective prisons wear away at their very selves, both girls face a choice: to become the monsters those in authority want them to be, or to die trying to escape.
Why is it worth your time?: It's a really good exploration of the ways being in awful situations can make you a worse person, and also how you can help lift others out of it even if the other people are arguably 'only in your head.' It also contained a wrenching dialogue about multiversarial philosophy that made me cry.
Plural Tags: abuse (high focus), romantic relationships, type: on purpose.
Content Warnings: Institutional abuse including forced exercise torture, abusive therapy, moral injury, attempted child murder.
Accessibility Notes: Available as ebook on Amazon. Also available on hoopla in some libraries.
Misc. Notes (if any):
Is it long, medium, or short?: Medium
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?: Adults
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Date: 2024-09-13 02:09 am (UTC)Moon Knight by Marvel Studios (superhero TV series, 2022)
Date: 2024-09-19 06:31 pm (UTC)Blurb: Steven Grant is an ordinary London retail worker, with an interest in Egyptology and a problem with sleepwalking. Marc Spector is a mercenary-turned-superhero, fighting evil as the Avatar of the god Khonshu, on one last mission to stop a divine genocide. And they were headmates (oh my god, they were headmates).
Why is it worth your time?: Possibly the most mainstream DID rep to get a ton of positive reviews from IRL systems. The headmates start out disconnected, spend some time aggressively clashing over their different values/priorities (not to mention Steven's instant crush on Marc's wife Layla). Then they need to lean on each other's skills to survive a classic superhero world-saving quest, get dragged through some magical trauma-processing, and ultimately figure out how to understand and appreciate each other. Oscar Isaac plays both of them, and (with the help of an amazing crew + diligent FX team) has amazing chemistry with himself. Avoids the usual Marvel settings to bring us to London and Cairo; it's the rare Egypt-centric series driven by IRL Egyptian creatives, and it shows.
Plural Tags: abuse intermediate-focus, cofronting, dissociation, memory work, otherworld, people: imaginary friends, relationship: friendship, relationship: teamwork, type: medical, type: switching
Content Warnings (lots of spoilers): Genre-typical violence. First episode is all Steven's POV with uncontrolled switching and no co-con, so he keeps waking up in the middle/aftermath of superhero fights without knowing why. Genre-typical character death: temporary for Marc+Steven in episode 4, permanent for a range of henchpeople/monsters/bad-guy victims.
The villain is a cult leader, with all the manipulation that implies, and repeatedly discredits Marc by describing him as broken/insane/dangerous. Khonshu is an abusive boss; YMMV on how much of that is him being out-of-touch with mortal human needs, and how much he's just a dick. Marc lies to Layla and Steven a bunch (for what he thinks are good reasons). Layla, reasonably, starts off treating Steven as an exasperating act Marc is putting on (she catches up pretty fast).
Fantasy medical/psych ward abuse starting in episode 4; the afterlife reflects their past experiences, including bad mental-health treatment. Memory work in episode 5 that revisits a series of childhood traumas, including sibling death, emotional abuse (on-screen), and physical abuse (just off-screen). References to Marc being suicidal. Steven has an existential crisis when he realizes their system has an original, and it isn't him. The end of episode 5 has a cliffhanger over whether Steven's existence is an "imbalance" that Marc would be better off leaving behind (don't worry, Marc doesn't accept that).
Accessibility Notes: Streaming version has multiple translations, subtitles in multiple languages, and a couple of audio tracks with voiceover descriptions included. Also available on DVD.
Misc. Notes (if any): When the show's portrayal of DID gets criticized, it's mostly over aspects that have been simplified or dramatized to keep things clear for the audience. Example: at first, when we see Marc and Steven switch, it's physically exaggerated, like they're having a seizure...because new viewers need the visual cue that something disorienting and unusual is happening. The guys have more subtle and realistic switches later, when the audience has gotten the hang of how it works.
Meanwhile, the series takes care to get a lot of important dynamics right. Like "if one headmate is doing distressing things behind another headmate's back, it doesn't mean the first one's a horror-movie villain, it means they have different ideas about how to stay safe." And "friends/loved ones don't have to be perfect experts, or to disregard their own needs, to be a good supporter for a system." And "sometimes alters are based on fictional characters, it's fine." And "trauma holders deserve to be told the trauma wasn't their fault." And "healing with DID doesn't require keeping The Original and getting rid of everyone else, it's about everyone figuring out how to work together and support each other."
Is it long, medium, or short?: 150+ minutes, but at 6 hour-long episodes, it's short by TV-season standards
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?: Teens/adults (TV-14)
Re: Moon Knight by Marvel Studios (superhero TV series, 2022)
Date: 2024-09-19 10:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-28 11:28 pm (UTC)"I often imagine what my neighbors think as I am rushing huge catering trays into my car, and then the next day I have a full drag outfit made all of synthetic hair that I'm rushing to my car, and then the next day I'm covered completely in blue paint because I'm doing a Violet Beauregarde drag number. [Both laugh] You know, I think about it. I'm just kind of embracing. For me, it is about gender. It does relate to gender, because I just think of myself as a house for many different beings, and they all are employed. [Both laugh] They all have jobs. They have all different jobs, they have different outfits, they have different likes and dislikes, and they're all trying to make this human vessel their home. Sometimes chaos ensues. [Laughs] That's how they’re all tied together: they all live in the same house."
Blurb: A Nigerian-American trans artist and chef discusses his work, feelings about top surgery, and experiencing his body as a house for multiple beings.
Why is it worth your time?: An interesting discussion of drag as an outlet for plurality, and a very non-sensationalized/chill presentation of Amabebe's experiences (imho).
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Plural Tags: plural:abuse:not mentioned, plural:spiritual
Content Warnings: Discussion of the loss of Amabebe's father, as well as non-specific discussion of his difficult childhood and how he used dissociation as a coping mechanism. (Abuse is not specifically mentioned.) Brief mentions of angry family responses to his top surgery.
Accessibility Notes: Available for free in audio and transcript form.
Is it long, medium, or short?: short
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Date: 2024-11-01 01:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-11-02 03:50 am (UTC)"I'm so tired of the bad blood between us. But it's hard to let it go. You've hurt me. And I've also hurt you."
Blurb: You're on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.
Why is it worth your time?: Overtly median protagonist where hearing voices is a central part of the narrative, an ever-changing princess whose fluidity of self is emphasized, and it's all amidst a narrative where your choices all have meaningful consequences (despite the time loops). Hearing voices is presented as a strength, not a flaw, and you even have the chance to tell one of them that you missed him.
Plural Tags: nonhumans, the dead, realitymashing, enmity, teamwork, nonswitching (mostly), median, voices, possession
Content Warnings: a detailed list of content warnings written by the developers can be found here (it even breaks it down by route): https://blacktabbygames.com/content-warnings-stp
Accessibility Notes: Game can be purchased from Steam, Gog, itch.io, and on Switch. Dialogue is narrated and the accessibility menu includes font replacement and adjustment, text-to-speech for non-narrated dialogue, and contrast improvements. Game is a visual novel, so it's mostly text, though there are some stunning images that don't give much information that's not also stated in text.
Misc. Notes (if any): Abuse is not related to the plurality; there's never any explanation given for the voices existing, actually. Check the content warnings for sure on this one. It's definitely a horror game.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Standards link is broken, but I'd say long given how many routes and variations there are. One run took about four hours, and this isn't a one run game.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Adults.
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Date: 2024-11-03 11:57 pm (UTC)Out of curiosity, which is the voice you get to say you missed?
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Date: 2024-11-10 09:32 pm (UTC)And I finished it earlier today, so here we go!
(Some of the marketing presents it as a self-help book, but it's 98% memoir, with a few pages of "discussion questions" and "here's how you, too, can write letters to yourself" at the end.)
White Girl Within by Dr. Ronnie Gladden (memoir, book, 2023)
I thought I had this down, you know. I would always be the aloof and inaccessible conjoined twin, the shadowy passenger to your outer life. But now I’m triggered. The revolution is on. More people are coming out and singing their songs. I want to belt out my part before we eddy into eternity.
Blurb (from Goodreads): Two identities struggle to coexist in Ronnie Gladden's body, brain, and soul. On the outside, they are Black and male. Inside, a repressed White female identity begs for release and is ready to break the status quo. Grappling with double-binary thinking, an abusive father, and childhood trauma, they imprison their inner self to stay safe from the world.
Why is it worth your time?: A plural memoir unlike any other I've ever read. A series of letters between Ronnie and his headmate (only identified as White Girl, or WG); although both of them identify Ronnie as the core/original, WG's perspective gets significantly more page time. They don't struggle with amnesia or time loss; it seems they've both been aware of each other since WG's appearance at age 4, the struggle is about validating each other and learning to coexist. Possibly the most in-depth reflection on "our physical body has one race, but this system member has a different one" in existence to date.
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse intermediate-focus, creator speaks from experience, people: imaginary friends, relationships: teamwork
Content Warnings: Descriptions of physical, emotional, and/or racist abuse, as well as alcoholism and racial violence.
Not really sure how to warn for this one, but, Ronnie and WG talk about their experience of race in ways that might raise some eyebrows. (Simple example: lots of waxing poetic about Ronnie's darkness vs. WG's light.) And, well, sometimes they're just objectively wrong about a thing. (Another simple example: they have a moment of daydreaming that Elon Musk might build tech to help with WG's dysphoria, apparently unaware that Musk openly hates trans people.) This isn't to discredit the book as a whole! It's just something I would feel weird about not acknowledging in the writeup.
Accessibility Notes: Print and digital/ebook versions available. Published in 2023, so new copies are easy to get (or have your library get).
Misc. Notes (if any): I didn't tag "type: medical" because Ronnie/WG don't use any psychiatric/DID-related terms in the memoir. (Not clear whether they've actively rejected the diagnosis, or whether they've never come across it in the first place, so they haven't had a chance to consider it.) But the experiences they describe are a typical DID origin story, of a child in an abusive household whose brain instinctively generates headmate(s) for coping and protection.
I'm not sure whether to tag dreamfolk/fictioneers, because none of those are described as full-fledged headmates the way WG is. But they write about internalizing fictional/TV characters pretty intensely ("you—we—brought these characters along in the same way most go and buy clothes"), and transcribe some "dream scene" conversations between them. Wouldn't be surprising if a future memoir said "we now realize those were from a roundtable of fictives having a chat."
Is it long, medium, or short?: Long (366 print pages)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Teens and up
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Date: 2024-11-10 11:24 pm (UTC)EDIT: oh, and er, added it to the catalog. ^_^;
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Date: 2024-11-13 05:04 am (UTC)"...we are a different kind of real. It’s a kind of real that adults don’t understand, so they just assume we’re imaginary.”
Blurb: Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.
Why is it worth your time?: The entire book is told by an imaginary friend, and he's largely treated as a real person by the narrative; he has his own opinions, hopes, and fears independent of the kid imagining him, and he has an interest in his own survival. The power dynamic of being an imaginary friend is a central theme of the story, which I haven't seen explored much before.
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse:intermediate-focus, children, imaginary friends, on purpose, neurodivergence, friendship, nonswitching, audio/dubbing
Content Warnings: Kidnapping, ableism against an autistic child, bullying, claustophobia, death and existential horror of imaginary friends, threats of institutionalization, abuse, grooming, gun violence, cancer and terminal illness, panic attacks and anxiety
Accessibility Notes: Available for purchase; it's been fairly easy to find at libraries in my experience, and it can be found on archive.org for free (https://archive.org/details/memoirsofimagina0000dick). Audiobook versions are also available (https://www.audible.com/pd/Memoirs-of-an-Imaginary-Friend-Audiobook/B008X9YLAU).
Misc. Notes (if any): Unfortunately, the imaginary friend does not survive the narrative; fortunately, he gets an epilogue that still treats him as a person after the fact, which was touching.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Long
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Adults and teens. It was recommended to me when I was 13-14 or so.
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Date: 2024-11-20 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-23 04:27 am (UTC)"As B, I felt very grateful to you for treating me as if I were a "real" person and allowing me to express my own personality. With every one else I had to pretend to be A, and my feeling of gratitude and the fact that you asked for my co-operation -- put me on my honor as it were -- was the underlying motive in telling you so much."
Blurb: An account of the various phases of dissociated personality, written by the patient, after recovery and restoration of memory for all the different phases. Such an account could only be given by a person who has had the experience, and who has the introspective and literary capacity to describe them.
Why is it worth your time?: Possibly the earliest medical-multi memoir! Clear and engaging writing, it makes for a quick, fun read. A reader from the 2020s can regularly recognize "hey, if they were around today they'd call that [term that hadn't been coined in 1909]." The first half is written by an integrated "C" who can remember the experiences of both "A" and "B", though those two struggled with severe amnesia barriers for a long time. The second half is by B, who recounts her own experiences, including co-consciousness (in that word!) with both A and C.
The first half is formatted as a series of letters to their psychiatrist, who requested that they write it all up for a scientific journal. The psychiatrist contributes some prefaces and footnotes, but he largely gets out of the way and lets the system tell their story. When he brings in his own perspective, it's usually to say "this is how my observations corroborate the experience my patient has described."
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse not mentioned, cofronting, creator speaks from experience, fusion/integration, relationships: teamwork, type: median, type: medical
Content Warnings: none. The authors talk about difficult experiences in very general terms (e.g. a "shock" of "an intensely emotional nature"), but say plainly that they aren't interested in going into detail.
Accessibility Notes: Digitized on archive.org. Text version was auto-generated from the scanned pages, so it has some errors, but is overall readable/searchable.
Misc. Notes (if any): Fusion/integration was a therapeutic goal for this system, and they were relieved and satisfied with the results. The "median" tag seems appropriate for both their early experiences (where they describe a "B complex", which was identifiably separate, but hadn't yet "flowered" into "a distinct personality"), and their post-integration ones (where B experiences herself as still existing, just fully co-conscious with C).
Is it long, medium, or short?: Short (under 50 pages of actual text)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?: Everybody
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Date: 2024-11-24 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-25 12:40 am (UTC)"Hi! I’m James, the Bored Work Alter! I come out to promote synergy and provide best-of-breed service to put alimentary products on our table unit to provide sustenance."
Blurb: The Shattered Souls System are the latest guests on Dysfunction Junction, where Hess and Zip support struggling systems in becoming more functional by connecting them with systems who have their sh*t together. Unfortunately, Ellen Barbara, this episode’s advice-giver, has her own ideas of what “functional” means—and the business-jargon-addicted James isn’t helping much, either. It’s a workplace satire! It mocks ableism and two-dimensional views of multiplicity! In short, it’s a Plures House production.
Why is it worth your time?: It’s funny and has some great voice acting!
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse: low-focus, cofronting, creator speaks from experience, relationships: teamwork, type: medical, type: switching
(Edit: Technically abuse isn't mentioned at all? Just unspecified trauma. But that's probably still abuse: low-focus.)
Content Warnings: Mentions of alcohol, plus the topics in the blurb.
Accessibility Notes: Free online audio drama with a screenreadable transcript. Some dialogue is in all-caps.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Long (using the music standards)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Anyone who doesn’t mind swearing, I guess.
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Date: 2024-11-26 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-25 01:54 am (UTC)Genre tags: action/adventure, fanfiction, porn, slice of life, superhero
“Jay wants there to have been consequences, he thinks. It nags at him: the senselessness of it. That Poor Kid, he keeps thinking; he's thought it so often it needs capitals. A proper title. Twenty-something years and a grave so shallow he imagines Barnes can feel it when the wind comes through the cherry trees in Arlington. Or around that rock in the mountains, under that frozen river—or spread thinly between one and the other, a stretched-out restless haunting five thousand miles long. He doesn't know which is worse to contemplate. That Poor Kid. And then there's Jay, turning his back when it's convenient and plumbing memories when he feels like it, pawing over the corpse and checking its pockets for spare change. They'd wrestled, somehow, and he'd won.
“He knows it wasn't like that, not really. Wilson'd implied as much, when he'd suggested that Jay had been born from the remnants of Barnes's healing brain, like the muck in a chrysalis reforming into another creature. But one time Jakob told Jay the story of Ya'akov, his namesake, wrestling the angel in the desert and coming out with a different name, a different identity; as a people—and Jay hasn't been able to stop thinking of it as a battle ever since. Jay wonders what Ya'akov's family thought, when he came limping back and said: my name is Yisrael. Whether he'd felt new. Whether he'd felt that he'd left something, back there in the sands, in the place where his hip had been twisted.”
Blurb: A series of Captain America and the Winter Soldier fanfics exploring the Soldier’s time in HYDRA, his escape, and his recovery, as he slowly decides who he is and who he wants to be. Only the second CatWS fic ever to be nominated to this comm!
Why is it worth your time?: This is really, really good fanfiction. (I think the excerpt above speaks for itself.)
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse: high-focus, cofronting (very rarely), memory work, people: the dead, type: setting-specific, type: switching (exactly once and never again)
I chose the setting-specific tag because Jay was born (as far as we know) because of brain damage that was only survivable at all because of sci-fi tech.
Content Warnings: Extremely graphic torture and murder, including of children and animals. (You can safely assume that everything in these content warnings is extremely graphic, unless noted otherwise.) Auto-amputation. Abusive medical experimentation that borders on body horror. Suicide attempts and self-harm. Vomit. Starvation. Memory erasure. Drug addiction. Forced chemical castration (off-page, but it’s a plot point; Jay isn’t especially upset about it, but he didn’t choose it either). Mentions of death in childbirth. Mentions of rape, including rape of children.
There’s also consensual sex in some of the sequels. (You can skip them if that isn’t your thing.) “I know the afterglow” has rimming and penetrative anal sex. “open your houses and let in the night” has outdoor blowjobs and anal fingering.
Accessibility Notes: Free, online, screenreadable. The main fic has been translated into Russian; the sequels are only available in English.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Long
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Adults
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Date: 2024-11-26 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-26 03:47 am (UTC)Petals of a Rose by Dylan Crumpler (slice-of-life short film, 2023)
"Okay, everyone -- I'd like to have your attention, please. Tonight is a big night, and I want this to go well. Please remember, Jeremy is a great guy, and he loves me."
Blurb: A cute, sweet story about a system getting one of their members through her Valentine's Day date, and ultimately coming out as plural to a confused-but-supportive partner.
Why is it worth your time?: The director's mother has DID, and they co-wrote this short film to be a 101-level primer on "what that means for someone's day-to-day experience." So it's nothing too complicated -- but it's well-made! Works as a story, not just a day-in-the-life walkthrough.
Uses multiple actors and clever camera work to show different headmates switching and interacting. And it does a nice job of keeping things simple enough for an intro, without totally erasing the nuances. (I liked the way it only gives the viewer 4 headmates to keep track of, but refers to the system being much larger.)
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse intermediate-focus, creator speaks from experience, people: children, people: fictioneers, relationships: romantic, relationships: family, type: medical, type: switching
Content Warnings: From the site: "The full version contains a scene of intimacy and a flashback to childhood sexual abuse." A redacted version is available with that part cut.
Accessibility Notes: Available for free online. Includes a transcript, and subtitle options in English + multiple translations.
Misc. Notes (if any): The website goes a little overboard with the self-promotional quotes. C'mon, folks, you don't have to call it "the only accurate depiction of DID ever made" to convince people it's good.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Short (<15 minutes)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?: Teens and up (the redacted version still has some kid-unfriendly language)
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Date: 2024-11-26 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-18 07:38 am (UTC)Blurb: By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of secret routines could she make up for what she’d done. But no matter how intricate or repetitive, no act of penance was ever enough. (Goodreads)
Why is it worth your time?: Bailey writes about her OCD as a separate voice in her head that's been with her since birth. The other entity tells Bailey she is bad and She helps Lily to become good. Pre-treatment, Lily refers to herself in plural, referring to both herself and Her, her OCD, as one. (It is unclear if Lily is plural or not.)
Plural/1+ Tags: type: medical(?)
Content Warnings: Suicidal ideation, involuntary inpatient psychiatric treatment, fusing(?) or disappearance of headmates/voices
Accessibility Notes: Available at my public library(ies) in print and digital
Misc. Notes: I'm not 100% sure if this counts as a plural story but I thought it would be an interesting addition here.
Is it long, medium, or short?: length: medium
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Adults, maybe appropriate for teens
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Date: 2025-02-12 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-14 09:45 pm (UTC)outcasts always mourn by ND Stevenson (autobio comic, 2024)
"he's kind of stuck around since then, mostly as an inside joke, a little bit not. I like having him around. there's something really poignant about looking at the world through the eyes of a gay person from the past"
Blurb: A piece about how ND Stevenson pretended to showing Oscar Wilde around Vegas as a way of coping with overstimulation on his trip there, which then turns into a refelction on Wilde's legacy and how the world has chnaged for gay people since his time
Why is it worth your time?: It's a short, sweet piece about queer history and seeing things through the eyes of other people
Plural/1+ Tags: creator speaks from experience, people: copies, people: imaginary friends, people: the dead, type: possesion(?) type: nonswitching(?), type: on purpose
Content Warnings: References to historical homophobia. Passing reference to sexual harassment. A few suggestive poses/mild nudity
Accessibility Notes: online/digital, free, not screen-readable
Misc. Notes (if any): N/A
Is it long, medium, or short?: Short
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Teens and adults,
might be appropriate for an older pre-teen depending on exactly how saucy you find the aforementioned suggestive poses to benevermind, there's a balloon figure with a penis that I missed on my first read-through, definitely not appropriate for pre-teensRead it here!
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Date: 2025-02-25 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-02 04:30 am (UTC)-"Who'd want to put up with ten of us?" -"Well, if a guy didn't have many friends, it would make a great package deal."
Blurb: Adrian is a chirpy tech nerd on mental-health leave for his severe OCD. Grace is a shy street artist with PTSD and multiple personalities (we also meet G, Little, and Spike). After a meet-cute at their shared therapist's office, they strike up a friendship, which turns romantic as they work through some of their fears together.
Why is it worth your time?: A plural character gets to be the love interest in a sweet, funny romcom. Integration is mentioned but not pushed, and Adrian's care about "keeping track of which specific headmate he's talking to" is presented as one of the qualities that makes him Boyfriend Material. Does a nice job of balancing the dysfunction of the main characters: Adrian and Grace-and-company both have significant struggles, they both have moments of lashing out when their triggers get stepped on...then they apologize, and put in the care and effort to get closer anyway.
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse low-focus, people: children, relationships: teamwork, relationships: romance, type: medical, type: switching
Content Warnings: Reference to Grace's past CSA. Attempted assault towards the end from Grace's current boyfriend Sledge, triggering a brief non-graphic flashback. References to sex work (also non-graphic, and nothing bad happens to the sex-worker characters).
Accessibility Notes: Available on DVD, blu-ray, and streaming, including free with ads on Youtube. Closed captions included.
Misc. Notes (if any): The rare non-terrible fictional therapist! (She's mostly there so we can get exposition through the characters talking to her.)
Is it long, medium, or short?: Medium (94 minutes)
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?: IMDB rates it TV-MA, but I wouldn't stop a teen from watching it
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Date: 2025-03-10 11:37 pm (UTC)Your submission has been added to the catalog. Thank you! ^_^
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Date: 2025-03-07 05:44 am (UTC)Quote: There is a radio in the distance. A radio of the world. Playing sound: Good morning, Elysium. Soon you will return to the world
Blurb (from TVTropes): One miserable morning, you awaken from pain and darkness in a trashed motel room with the hangover to end all hangovers. You have no idea where, or even who, you are, but some details begin filling in as you explore: you are a police detective visiting Martinaise, harbor district of the city of Revachol, jewel of the Insulindian Isola, in the year '51 of the current century. Perhaps most importantly, you were sent here three days ago to deal with a lynched corpse, but instead went on a deranged bender of drug and alcohol abuse.
Now, you must resume the investigation with the aid of Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, a fellow detective from a rival precinct. But of course, it won't be as simple as it seems — the victim, a security contractor for a major international shipping company, stands at the center of a labor dispute involving the local dockworker's union, corrupt businessmen, communist agitators, and foreign interests, with blood on the streets looking more likely by the day. Everyone involved is eager to use you for their own ends — and of course, you're no titan of mental stability, what with the two dozen voices in your head vying for your attention...
Why is it worth your time: The aforementioned voices in your heads are your skills. As you get your skills higher, they become more talkative and interact more with you and each other. Overall the game places a lot of emphasis on crafting an identity and making your own choices. While the player character has a past and a personality that goes along with said personality, the main character's amnesia means that you can choose to follow that past or create your own identity. How you choose to shape your personality also affects your ability to connect with and learn about other characters and engage with sideplots, with certain dialogue checks being easier if you level up certain skills - though there is always a small chance (3%, to be precise) chance of success or failure.
Plural/1+ tags: abuse low-focus, people: the dead, people: copies (you can talk to the victim's corpse if you pass a check), people: nonhumans (you can also talk to your necktie in certain circumstances), voices, visions, otherworld (in the form of dreams), type: spiritual, type: medical(?), type: setting-specific (to elaborate: it's theorized in-game that the skills/voices are a result of some combination of an in-universe phenomenon known as The Pale and the player character's pre-existing mental problems, but it's ultimately left unclear as to exactly why this is happening), teamwork
Content Warning: It's a murder mystery where the player character is a cop who struggles with addiction to/withdrawal from alcohol and other substances. Other warnings are spoilers, see below
Note: due to the nature of the game, compiling a full and accurate content warnings list is rather difficult - I had to ask on Discord for help, and even then I still probably missed some things. Some of these things are unavoidable, while others can be avoided with varying amounts of difficulty
Suicide
Substance abuse and addiction, including the ability to use alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs for stat boost in exchange for health damage
Vomit
Graphic description/depiction of a corpse
Ableism
Fantasy racism that maps very clearly on RL equivalents, including usage of in-universe racist slurs and dogwhistles
Cannibalism (very optional, you kind of have to spec for it to even see the option)
False rape accusations (the first one is a pair of hooligan kids shouting that they're being assaulted by the cops while said cops examine a body, which no one hears [or if they do, they don't care], second one is a lie by a third party and the supposed victim says it was all consensual, albeit done under the influence of drugs and alchohol)
A conversation about an actual rape which is optional and signposted as "don't ask about this"
Internalised homophobia
Regular homophobia, incuding the censored usage of real-world slurs
Kink used to self harm
Child abuse (mostly implications but while I did not pass the relevant check on my play-through I’ve heard it can become more explicit)
If you make the right choices there are heavy implications that a child was forced to kill another child
One character's backstory involves being abandoned as a baby
Police corruption and police brutality
Corruption in general
Capitalism and its failings/the bad things that come from it
The country the game is set in used to participate in colonialism and is now under the control of the in-universe equivalent of the UN or NATO
Cosmic horror and imminent apocalypse
Major character injury (avoidable but rather luck-based)
Minor character death (some avoidable, some not)
The player character can die in many ways, some rather unexpected
In addition, the game portrays fat people poorly, and "autistic" gets used as a prerogative in one conversation
Accessibility notes: All dialogue/lines appear on-screen, and all dialogue and most narration is read out loud, though menus and such aren't. There exist let's plays/streams but I haven't seen any of them and the nature of the game, involving lost of little variations and branching choices, means that a completionist playthrough is basically impossible. Translated into Japanese, Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Polish, Turkish, and Arabic, though audio is only available in English. Available on Steam, Gog, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox X|S, and Switch
Length: Medium - about 25-35 hours of gameplay
Audience: adults
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Date: 2025-03-10 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-03-12 09:16 pm (UTC)(submitted by jsmith)
Skyfall by SangheiliosThel, AKA Thien Valdram (Doctor Who fanfiction, 2025)
'Zhonos interjected "It'll take time to adjust to the fact that you are still out there, yet also in here. And the other Time Lords… they won't treat you like they do now, we're all… an aberration to them".
"But we'll be here for you" Nistri added "And you'll be with us for whoever comes next. For number six".'
Blurb (from AO3): After sacrificing themselves to save the Doctor from an elder god, Yanistriterquyzhonosorkyquiana, a Time Lord agent with regenerative dissonance, barely manages to escape, at the cost of their fifth incarnation's life. Crashing onto Cretaceous Era Earth, they regenerate into a form best fit for survival, a Velociraptor.
Five months later, Yanis VI, aka Skyfallen, has become closely connected with a local pack of Velociraptors who have helped her to survive in her new form. However when the Doctor returns for her help, they uncover a conspiracy that could shake Gallifrey to its core.
Why is it worth your time?: First — the author takes a badly-realised, stereotypical 'alien DID equivalent' from somewhere down in the depths of canon, and hollows out and rebuilds the ethics of it, 'till the story doesn't doubt for a second that being many-in-one is, in fact, fine and awesome… and that you don't trust an ableist fictional society to be just this once correct about the danger somebody must supposedly inherently pose, even if the society's what's handing out your plot hooks. It actually goes through with applying what people say the occasional best things about Doctor Who ethics are… that you trust difference, and that you listen to people's perspectives, over traditions and impersonal systems that would like them to stop
existingbeing inconvenient.The collective at the center of things are vibrant, distinct characters, and they have a great teamwork dynamic, it's fun to read them solve disagreements! The author's also put quite some thought into the mechanics of how this plurality-equivalent's dealt with, and how other things are, the edges of what's possible and what's 'acceptable' and how that affects people living in these contexts.
Speaking of, beautiful, beautiful nonhuman societies worldbuilding… the plot mechanics're dizzying, but I love, too, the moment when it finally clicks into place. (The ending's a happy one, I believe, and the cleverness is one bit of how.) Fair warning, you might need a lot of lore and context to get the most possible out of this fic — I think I caught less than half — but if you can roll with unintroduced elements, or you do know that lore and context, this is the worthwhilest thing…
1+ Tags: abuse:low-focus (not connected to the existence of the plurality-equivalent), nonhumans ('Time Lord', velociraptor), median (sort of, they consider themselves 'the same person' in a way), serially singlet (sort of, people can all act through the body, but their body is always of the latest arrival), setting-specific, cofronting, teamwork, audience:teens, genre:sci-fi, length:medium, medium:writing
Content warnings: Adventure-story-typical violence, predatory animal behaviour, war mentions, death; ableism/pluralphobia, a lot; some mentions of ~abuse — there's nothing that's called abuse, but you could very easily interpret it anyway.
Access notes: Read it on AO3, here! (https://archiveofourown.org/works/62280748)
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Date: 2025-03-13 11:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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From:Legion
Date: 2025-04-24 11:46 pm (UTC)"“The formal definition of insanity,” I said, “is actually quite fluid. Two people can have the exact same condition, with the exact same severity, but one can be considered sane by the official standards while the other is considered insane.""
Blurb (taken from the back of my copy): Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion,' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his aspects are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society.
Why is it worth your time?: Despite being framed as hallucinations, Leeds' aspects are treated as fully autonomous people who make their own decisions, sometimes surprising him. It's nice to see them treated as rounded characters of their own, let alone rounded characters with independent relationships with each other.
Plural/1+ Tags: abuse not mentioned, realitymashing, friendship, romantic, enmity, teamwork, nonswitching, visions, voices
Content Warnings: character death, gun violence, terrorism mentions, kidnapping(? Debatable about whether it counts, but they do get knocked out and wake up tied to a chair at one point), debate about wanting a "cure"
Accessibility Notes: Physical book or ebook (legitimate or otherwise); audiobooks are available on audible, Amazon, Google Play, etc. I'd assume that it can be found at libraries given that I found it at a library sale. All text, so screen reading shouldn't be an issue for ebooks.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Medium.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Best suited to teens and up.
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Date: 2025-04-26 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-14 12:52 am (UTC)Blurb: In 1970, a young college student is introduced by his roommate to jekyllase. Based on the recently rediscovered formula created and then thought lost by Dr. Henry Jekyll a century earlier, it's all the rage on campuses now: it will show you your inner, repressed self. What will that look like for Scott and his friends?
Why is it worth your time?: It's a cool story in a classic kind of speculative fiction style, and explores a lot of aspects of its specific fictional form of plurality through it - notably relationships within jekyll-hyde pairs, how the introduction of hydes changes jekylls' relationships with others, and the power dynamics and logistics of the drug-induced switching.
Plural/1+ Tags: enmity, friendship, teamwork, setting-specific, on purpose.
Content Warnings: alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use; homophobia; transphobia; attempted sexual assault; period language we wouldn't use today. Also, it's possible for a jekyll (jekyllase user) to use jekyllase to the point where the hyde (the alternate identity created by the drug) becomes their body's base form instead of transformed form and jekyllase would be needed to revive the original; the idea of doing this deliberately is discussed.
Accessibility Notes: online, screenreadable, free. The author has posted it to multiple archives, but the Scribblehub edition is our recommendation.
Misc. Notes (if any): The way it explores gender is probably not a clear match to plural gender issues, but it's definitely interesting. Also, while the story takes place in the 1970s, the framing device is that this account was published later (presumably around the mid 2010s when it was written), so things like the period-appropriate theories of gender and transness that the protagonists look up are given commentary from a more modern perspective.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Medium.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? For adults.
Possible alternate blurb if the above is too long:
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Date: 2025-05-18 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-14 03:22 am (UTC)Blurb: It began with an accident, or maybe a miracle is a better term.
Three souls dying by different strokes. One died in glory and blood; One died, betrayed but glad it was over; One died poor and alone.
Then on the child’s fifth birthday, the three sleeping souls awakened. Three souls, one body, two desires, and containing all the powers each had in their last life.
Were they destined for greatness? No. But when the past comes to haunt them, their home taken away, they have to make a decision… May it be as simple as a majority vote.
“Let’s squash them!”
“...can we just run away?
“Were you never taught to aim for the eyes?”
Why is it worth your time?: Okay, so you know the fantasy stories where someone gets reincarnated and ends up powerful because they still have the knowledge and abilities from their past life? It's one of those, except three people get reincarnated in the same body and they have the power of all three working together. It's not, like, a deep exploration of plurality, just a cool body-sharing fantasy adventure story.
And also the protagonists' new parents figure out that their kid is a plural system and are super supportive and loving. Which is really sweet and heartwarming.
Plural/1+ Tags: closeting, cofronting, otherworld, the dead, teamwork, spiritual, setting-specific.
Content Warnings: violence, injury, poisoning, and death; murder, kidnapping, arson, child endangerment, and animal death; grief and trauma.
Accessibility Notes: online, screenreadable, free. Scribblehub link.
Misc. Notes (if any): The way dialogue is formatted for completed sentences, with both periods inside the quote and commas outside, is unusual, if pretty clear and comprehensible. The first part of the story goes up to Chapter 63, but it's ongoing and it sounds like there's a lot of plot still to go.
Is it long, medium, or short?: Long.
It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody? Teens and adults.
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Date: 2025-05-18 08:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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