Hey, we're the Aviary System. We have a lot of fictives. And birds. We have an intro post now if you wanna see more about us
We’ve been putting this off for too long it’s time to make something. We’ll edit this as time goes on, if we remember. For now, basic info and a list of current headmates.
It’s gonna get long so I’m gonna drop a read-more here.
Feel free to ask questions about our system :)
ty for tagging me cobra!
I had fun doing this (old reblogs removed bc it was a long post <3)
me an me as child :)
anyone can join.
“Sounds fun,” he says, proceeding to make it depressing. But we can’t really remember most of it. It’s mostly just the bad stuff that sticks.
I thought about giving our adult self purple eyes since I’ve been considering contacts to look less human, but I haven’t gotten around to it and I don’t even know if I’d be able to wear them without getting squeamish so eh.
-Emyr (he/it)
🪐 We've got a question for systems with fictives, since we've got one and she's...a lot: she claims that she can communicate and interact with her source (an AU we made over a decade ago) and what we're wondering about is if she can "pull others through", basically making other characters from there headmates
The much shorter version: have any systems gained a fictive and then gotten even more from the same source because of the first one appearing?
Depends on how your system works, but it’s very possible to get a bunch of fictives from the same source like that. Ours tends to be somewhat picky and only yoink one or two characters from a given source so this doesn’t really happen to us much- our system is somewhat small and only tends to split once a month or so.
Kris intentionally introjected Susie recently because they were lonely, but I’m not really sure if that’s the same thing/what you’re asking about.
An argument could be made that having one fictive causes you to think more about that source, which could then cause the brain to make more fictives. That might be what happened after we got our Michael Afton because I don’t think our brain would have introjected his younger brother otherwise. Unlike with Susie, that wasn’t intentional and he showed up completely out of left field (usually we can tell when the brain wants to introject, but not always)
Hope that helps
- Emyr (he/it)
Random thought/ramble- Tumblr has made us a lot more comfortable talking about plural experiences and also just being plural because of the way that it works.
To elaborate, I’m referring to a combination of a tag system, the fact you can filter tags, a lack of dislikes, and hell, even the way the comments work.
At first I didn’t like the comments because it’s hard/annoying to have a back-and-forth conversation there like I was used to with Reddit threads but that also means I can’t get into arguments like I used to all the time on Reddit, which has been good for our mental health.
But to go back to tags, what I mean by that is it’s really easy for us to talk about something exclusive to a fictive, and while we’ve been cautious about tagging any fictive posts with their sources… the fact is that we can, and if people don’t want to see fictive posts in their fandom stuff, they can just filter the tags. Win/win. It’s made us a bit more confident because, usually, people will just move on if they see something they don’t like.
And of course, the filtering is useful for us- we can filter tags like “anti endo” so we don’t accidentally interact with those kind of people as much on an otherwise normal plural post. Additionally, we’ve blocked quite a few “[character] x y/n” or “[character] x [character]” tags or similar… we have nothing against those works, it just makes some of our fictives uncomfortable, which is why filtering is so nice, because those people can keep posting and we don’t have to worry about it :) meanwhile in subreddits, we’d just be confined to whatever happens to show up on the fandom’s subreddit, even if it made our fictives uncomfortable (but our fictives like seeing stuff from the fandoms so they don’t wanna stop looking entirely!)
And also, tags are just so much better than subreddits because you can’t post to multiple subreddits, kind of- you can crosspost, but it just isn’t quite the same thing. You can find people by tagging multiple versions of something (one issue is that sometimes there’ll be two subreddits with similar names and the same theme but they’re considered completely different which splits the audience). You can ramble about whatever without having to worry about being on-topic because you can just tag everything that you discuss.
And overall tumblr just feels really nice and the higher emphasis on following users rather than subreddits and the culture around mutuals gives it this cozy, communal feeling that we like. Even though we’re a bit reclusive and don’t interact with our mutuals that much, we like seeing them around and the more user-focused style makes this place feel a lot more familiar. But we also like following tags because then we can find new users we like! So having both is like the best of both worlds.
Reddit is better at some things like getting answers, and man is r/HeroForgeMinis a great resource for learning how to improve on the site, but overall we’re much happier here (and besides, there’s nothing stopping us from having tumblr be our main social and just popping onto Reddit when we need it)
But yeah basically tumblr is great, we like it here and I’m glad the Reddit blackout gave us a chance to try it, we haven’t turned back.
- Emyr (he/it)
During my panel at this year's Othercon, I promised to publicly release the script I read from. This is that script: this is what I said before the Q&A and discussion portion of the panel. Once the recording of the panel is live, I will reblog this with a link, as quite a few people expressed interest in it. (I have been informed that my voice was paramount for proper enjoyment of the panel; I don't know if that's quite true, but it's what people said.)
Here is the blurb I originally wrote for the panel on the schedule:
A lecture followed by questions and discussion about navigating through life with a “problematic” fictotype or as a “problematic” fictive. How to find community, how to cope, what responsibilities we may or may not have, what morality means for us and where the line between choices “then” and choices “now” lies.
Now, for the script itself.
I’m going to be honest, I couldn’t read the whole thing. Not out of disinterest, ADHD is just a bitch like that. One of us will come back and read the rest later.
But what I did read was very well written.
I want to discuss the growth section specifically, about how it was said that “problematic” headmates don’t need to change, because that’s true. Some of our headmates are here because of their “problematic” traits. Like our gatekeeper, Strahd Von Zarovich. A vampire, a conqueror, a man who has probably killed thousands over his lifetime. Some might call him cold or heartless. Is he really? No. But he may seem like it from the outside. And frankly, that’s what makes him good at his job. He keeps his emotions under control, which, while bad for opening up, makes him great at resolving stressful situations. He knows how to lead people. He will do whatever it takes to keep the system healthy and running, no matter the cost, because of this coldness. If he thought our system was in danger he would not hesitate to kill to protect us.
Does that make him “problematic?” I dunno, I’ve always thought that “problematic” headmates were a stupid concept. Some might say it does. But that’s why our brain wanted him here.
Our fictives tend to be very close to their sources in terms of personality and I don’t think any of them will change, especially not if some random people tell them to.
Again, like last time, just pointing out things and ref for drawing. Anything that I don't talk about here probably is in the previous analisis (or I've nothing to add)
I actually made these out of order. In some I was running out of space and others I didn't know how to fill the blank spaces. I think I was able to put everything together but maybe this could have been more organized.
I literally spent a whole night watching gameplays and taking screenshots NO ONE STOPED TO LOOK AT THEIR MODEL. LIKE OH MY GOD. IS THERE. IS RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN LOOK AT IT ALL YOU WANT SHOW ME THOSE ROBOT GUTS-
Thanks to this video I was able to see their endo in detail. Take a look at the channel, this person has showed details of the game models and some things that are impossible to see.
Anyways, I hope this help some people see their design more clearly and draw them easier. The ruin designs are pretty hard to understand in shape. I didn't expect their endo to look like this, specialy the face and dorso.
Oh hey we have some of these! Not a lot though. I’m an age slider and I’m also the host. Is that particularly uncommon?
We also have a Lucifer headmate thanks to our religious upbringing.
And our littles have to mask as adults very often (idk if that’s what was meant by acting older) which they don’t want to. We hate that people who appear to be adults acting young is seen as “bad” or “weird.”
also i got sfm so i can put out a bunch of eclipse refs if anyone's interested
Reblogging bc this is useful, we got an Eclipse headmate about a week ago (our brain wanted to complete the set I suppose) and we’re trying to help draw a repaired version of them so they can get an idea of how they would’ve looked like.
They want to mess around with color schemes and stuff since the color scheme showed in-game is due to their body just. not working right.
i still can't stop thinking about non-it/its users responses to this post. how an awful lot of people think it's fine to refuse someone else's pronouns because of their own discomfort.
let me tell you a story.
i have been dehumanized almost my entire life. a combination of my race, disabilities, and the mental illnesses that i developed very early in my life meant i was treated like a monster. i started coming out as gay too early for my peers' comfort and that only added to that treatment. my dehumanization is enshrined in christianity. i took on the label of monster on purpose because i stopped relating to humanity. why should i want to be a part of a group who did nothing but hurt me and exclude me in the first place?
i don't need to be protected from my own goddamn pronouns. i don't need to hear about the historical dehumanization of queer people and people of color and disabled people because, like a massive majority of the people using it/its, i fucking know. i have for literal decades.
you know what hurts? telling me i don't know what's best for myself, that your discomfort with my life is more important than treating me like someone who can make its own fucking decisions, and misgendering me because you can't handle being reminded of the things that literally continue to happen to me. i'm not a poor unthinking baby that needs to be saved, and neither are the other it/its users.
if you have feelings about it/its, you can process them on your own time, like every other person uncomfortable with a pronoun set.
and for the love of everything unholy just call me by my fucking pronouns.
hes annoying and he knows it
ignore the jump in quality I took a break between the two
This is just what being in a system is like. If you don’t take care of yourself, they will make you.
Our Sun doesn’t annoy us into taking care of ourselves though.
He tends to do the mental equivalent of just picking someone up and going “We’re going to get you some food now :)” and not taking no for an answer.
The “annoying until you go take care of yourself” is more like what Michael does to me if I won’t get out of bed. He once literally shoved me off of our innerworld couch to get me to move. Bastard /aff
