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

[beepbird]

Title: What's Left of Me

Creator/s: Kat Zhang

Medium and Genre: Y/A Novel, Dystopian(?)

Year Released: 2012

Is it long, medium, or short?: long (343 pages)

Blurb: Eva and Addie are two souls born into the same body. Everyone is born like this, but it's expected that one soul will fade away and the other will take over. Eva never faded away. She lost control of their shared body, but she still exists, something that could get the girls institutionalized if it were discovered. When Eva is offered the chance to learn to move their body again, she springs for the opportunity... only to be found out. The girls must fight to escape the institution before it's too late.

Why is it worth your time?: The main characters remain plural throughout the entire book, and this isn't painted as a bad thing to the reader. To the contrary, the idea of Eva and Addie becoming a singlet against their wills is painted as something unwanted and immoral despite the world around them doing its best to kill off Eva. It's a bit of a rare find for a book to paint plurality in a positive light despite a society in opposition to its existence. There's also a parallel to the plural pride movement in the form of a resistance movement against the institutionalization of "hybrids" like Addie and Eva. Despite the author not being plural, she did a pretty decent job of depicting plurality in the first person. Switches, co-consciousness, and co-fronting all happen reasonably accurately. There's even a slip-up with plural pronouns.

Plural Tags: Metaphysical

Content Warnings: Forced fusion/identity death, institutionalization and unwanted medical intervention, nonconsensual brain surgery, general medical unpleasantry, general themes of societal stigma against plurality.

Accessibility Notes: N/A

[lb_lee]

Sneak: Oh, we've heard of that one, though we haven't read it ourself! Thanks for the rec! It has been added. ^_^