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

Harrow The Ninth

[starfallhaven]

Title: Harrow the Ninth

Creator/s: Tamsyn Muir

Medium, Genre, and Format: adult romance/horror, novel, available in print, ebook, and audiobook.

Year published: 2020

Is it long, medium, or short?: long, at or near 400 pages.

It is for kids, teens, or adults only?: adults.

A cool quote from the work: "this was your shell, but it was all filled up with me. God, the double entendres were hard to resist."

Blurb: the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth follows Harrowhark Nonageismus, who has failed to become a true Lyctor--a necromancer who has absorbed the soul of her cavalier. She is being both haunted by both visions and ghosts as she attempts to survive her time aboard the Mithraeum as one of God's chosen saints.

Why is it worth your time?: this book is extraordinarily good if you know what's going on (that is, body and mind sharing). The entire premise of Lyctorhood, one of the novel's defining world building aspects, is based on the idea of a secondary soul residing in a single body. There's even possession.

Plural Tags: bodysharing, mindsharing,interactions with people who are not considered 'real', soulsharing I guess?

Content Warnings: here's a neat list:
-major emetophobia warning
-death
-corpses
-hallucinations
-so much violence. (This violence involves all manners of seemingly impossible gore due to the aforementioned necromancy.)
-just a gore warning in general?
-a lot of religious references. The main character has some religious compulsions.
-self-harm
-mentions of suicide

Accessibility Notes: audiobook available

Misc. Notes (if any): This book is not going to make much sense if you haven't read Gideon the Ninth, and I can't recommend reading one without the other. Although I'm firmly of the opinion that knowing about the bodysharing aspect in advance will only make the reading experience more enjoyable, it is technically a spoiler to know about at least one of the bodysharing relationships in this book.

Re: Harrow The Ninth

[lb_lee]

Added! Thanks guys!

Also, let me know if any of the following plural tags apply?

abuse:
high-focus [15]
intermediate-focus [6]
low-focus [13]
not mentioned [44]

cofronting [8]
fusion/integration [12]
memory work [11]
otherworld [38]

people:
children [18]
dreamfolk [5]
fictioneers [14]
imaginary friends [8]
introjects [10]
nonhumans [32]

realitymashing [15]

relationships:
community [18]
enmity [22]
family [3]
friendship [11]
queerplatonic [2]
romantic [16]
teamwork [18]

type:
median [5]
medical [20]
mindsharing [3]
nonswitching [16]
on purpose [7]
setting-specific [5]
spiritual [14]
switching [33]

visions [6]
voices [2]

Re: Harrow The Ninth

[starfallhaven]

Abuse isn't mentioned--it happens but it isn't relevant to the plural elements

Fusion/integration, technically; otherworld also.

Relationships: enmity and romantic

On purpose, and switching also apply. The tags you added are all good.

Re: Harrow The Ninth

[lb_lee]

*thumbs up* Thanks, friends! Adding now.