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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? Is it available in other languages than English?

Misc. Notes (if any):

Is it long, medium, or short?: I wrote the standards here.

It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?

Comments

[packbat]

State of the Art / Golden Dawn series by Cloé Anne Sophie Veilleux (sci-fi webfiction, 2024-)

As they began walking away from the market plaza, Kaelyn’s conversation flowed effortlessly. Each time the warrior spoke, she responded with perfect precision—laughing at his jokes, complimenting his bravery, weaving small bits of charm into her words. And as they walked, Ryan could feel her growing confidence, her control tightening over his thoughts.

See how easy this is? Kaelyn’s voice whispered. They all want to help you. All you have to do is ask the right way.

Ryan’s hesitation, that sliver of discomfort, was shrinking. Drowned out by the sheer thrill of success, Kaelyn felt. This was power. Not in the way of brute strength or flashy magic, but in the quiet control of social finesse, in the way people bent toward her without even realising they were being pulled in.

Blurb: In a near-future world where reality often feels like an afterthought, players escape into A Realm Reforged Again—a groundbreaking VR MMORPG offering unparalleled character customization.

Follow Jason, Ryan, Emmy, and Sophie as they navigate personal struggles both in and out of the game. Within the virtual world, they take on new forms: Jason becomes Vaelith, a reluctant but powerful dracan mage; Ryan experiments with power as Kaelyn, a felinae priestess; Emmy creates Elyssia, a sylvani tank embodying who she wishes she could be; and Sophie transforms into Leoric, a towering burrovian ranger seeking freedom from familial and societal expectations.

But when the game's AI Creator-Gods, tasked with ensuring player happiness, begin to meddle with their choices, the players must confront unexpected challenges and questions about autonomy and self-acceptance.

With themes of identity, agency, and transformation, State of the Art sets the stage for an epic journey of self-discovery in a world where fantasy and reality blur.

Why is it worth your time?: Kaelyn's introduction, her relationship with her headmate, and how the two of them navigate their other relationships as they switch are interestingly messy. Part of the setting is the game's ability to implant memories in its players of their character's backstory, and that makes it ambiguous to what extent she existed before Ryan signed up for the game to make a power fantasy RP character - especially because neither headmate was even aware of plurality as a concept before.

Plural/1+ Tags: people: RP characters (should this be classed as a type of fictioneer?); type: switching; creator speaks from experience, voices

Content Warnings: The author lists the following in the preface to the Scribble Hub edition:

• Blood and violence,
• Break-ups and divorce,
• Gender confusion, dysphoria and body discomfort,
• Casual, accidental and malicious misgendering,
• Nonconsensual bodily transformation and body horror,
• Emotional manipulation and power dynamics,
• Public and internalised humiliation,
• Teasing and bullying,
• Transphobia and microaggressions,
• Internalised transphobia and anxiety,
• Mental health challenges, including alexithymia, anhedonia, dissociation, and depression,
• Themes of identity crisis and self-discovery,
• Physical and emotional trauma,
• Experiences of heightened sensory perception, nausea, vertigo and bodily distress,
• Complex family dynamics and strained parental relationships,
• Depictions of isolation, emotional starvation and rejection,
• Scenes involving vomiting, illness and emotional distress,
• Physical discomfort and manipulation of boundaries,
• Manipulation, gaslighting,
• Dystopian themes, including economic disparity and societal collapse,
• Escapism through VR/gaming as a coping mechanism for harsh realities,
• Themes of disconnection from physical reality and the consequences of over-reliance on virtual worlds.

(In the book, this list is followed by a second one labeled "Promise of Hope".)

Accessibility Notes: online (Scribble Hub edition, Royal Road edition), free, screenreadable

Misc. Notes (if any): This series is an extremely slow burn - at the time of writing, two hundred and eighty thousand words in and nearing the end of Book 2, the timeline covers two days in the lives of its four five protagonists. (The series is planned to span five volumes.) Also, the chapters do not have a regular cycle between viewpoints - for example, Ryan and Kaelyn are entirely absent from the first sixteen chapters of Book 2 because they haven't woken up yet - so you can't easily skip through to just their chapters. We like all the characters, but if we didn't, we wouldn't stick it out just to see what happens to this duo.

Is it long, medium, or short?: Long.

It is for kids, teens, adults, or everybody?: I believe it's intended for adults, although I think teenagers could handle it.

[lb_lee]

Sneak: Added to the catalog! Thanks! :D Do you happen to have a EPUB of this one too, since it is so long?

[packbat]

Packing it as we speak - email soon! Edit: sent!

[lb_lee]

Sneak: Got it! Thank you so much, works like this are EXACTLY the kind of things we can't easily take in ourself!

[packbat]

Glad to be of service!