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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?
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
Date: 2024-11-01 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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: 2024-11-04 03:05 am (UTC)no subject
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: 2024-11-25 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 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 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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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