Add a Story to the list!

[lb_lee]

If you have a story you want to add to the list, leave it in the comments below! Anyone can do this; you don't need an account!

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?

Comments

not to plug our own work but im gonna plug our own work (dw it fits the submission criteria)

[thesaltinstitute]

Title: tales of the Raven King

Creators: The Salt Institute

Medium and Genre: written (available on AO3), hopepunk prose poetry, at the intersection of fictional and autobiographical (it's explicit-selves-insert autobiography through allegory a little bit in our world and mostly in other, fictional, worlds)

Year Released: 2020

Blurb: A piece of prose, poetry, and prose poetry; about identity, plurality, and memories. Written by three of us& during NaNoWriMo 2018 - we pantsed it that year and ended up writing a half-fantasy half-earnest journey of selves-discovery. Also known as: the Salt Institute goes on a journey throughout the multiverse by interacting with weird trees and encounter various places with Mysterious Vibes as well as a couple(-ish) interesting folks.

Why is it worth your time?: so i am a little bit biased considering i took part in writing it and it's allegorically autobiographical on the topic of Existing As A System And What That Means For Our Shared Life. but we reread this piece on occasion when we remember it exists and think it still holds up after all those years -- we still think the Message is Important, the world and visuals are Pretty And Nice To Imagine, the writing itself is Enjoyable -- and the whole vibe of it is Reminders We Much Need that Not Everything Is Fucked Up Actually and Authentic Connection Is So Important On Many Levels. we have also received two (2) reviews not by friends or acquaintances on it, including one that said things to the effect of "This is beautifulll and I'm so glad to see more writing about plurality (even though it only has 20 hits WHICH [...] IS A CRIME!!)" and "Might-definitely share this with like literally everyone I know because it absolutely deserves to be seen", so it's probably not just us who got something from it even if they're not necessarily the things (or all the things) we actually meant to put in there that i just talked about

Plural Tags: fictivity/soulbonding, plural creator (maybe also potentially realitymashing given the rest of the stuff in that tag?)

Content Warnings: just to be safe, exploration of (the effects of) abuse and ableism, on a deeply allegorical level with 0 graphic or detailed depictions. the most there is are a few vague mentions + a couple lines said by a cartoonish-type over the top villain

Accessibility Notes: N/A

Re: not to plug our own work but im gonna plug our own work (dw it fits the submission criteria)

[lb_lee]

Added! Thank you for your submission! :D