PluralWiki: the Soulbond Code
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Created By: Amorpha
Time Created: 2001
Location: http://soulbonding.tripod.com/sbcode.txt
Circumstances of Creation
"The SBers' [Soulbonders'] Code was inspired by seeing the Multiple Code [...] and thinking that it would be useful to tailor something like that specifically for SBers. (For the record, while we also have a Multiple Code and many multiples also SB, we thought it would be useful to have a code with specific information on the SBing aspects of the system.)" (Amorpha, n.d.)
It was created in 2001 (Eclective, December 25).
Original 2001 Version
This version prefaced itself with SBC to declare itself a soulbond code. (Eclective, 2001 December 25). It contained sections for the following criteria: system size (N), body and bond genders (G), origin of soulbonds, such as insourced, outsourced, from what kind of media (O), bond species (S.), involvement of bonds in the bonder's life (i), opinion of self-insert fic (SI) how into roleplaying they were (R), how social they were (S), and how much they liked to draw (A) or write (W).
There were also modifiers ? for unknown, or * for variable.
Undated (2004?) Revised Version
This version has no date; however, seeing as soulbonding.tripod.com was declared inactive by 2004, the edits must predate the abandonment (Eclective, 2004 June 6). It is also unclear whether Amorpha or Eclective are responsible for the edits. Among the changes (all from Amorpha, n.d.):
- It tweaked the range for number of bonds, changing from 2-50+ to 1-100+.
- It added the following modifier to the origin section: "#- Not an SB in the most traditional sense; represents some aspect of the Bonder (for example, a younger version of the self)"
- Added mechanical beings to the "species" section, and the modifier, "The Bonder's conception of this species is extremely different from the 'common' idea." It also fixed a problem where a different modifier had the same value as a global one.
- It recategorized the "involvement" section to "bonds' fronting ability" (F).
- It deleted the self-insert section.
Citations
Amorpha. (n.d.) The Soulbond Code [web page]. Retrieved 2019/03/24 from http://soulbonding.tripod.com/sbcode.txt
Eclective. (2001, December 25). the soulbond code [web page]. http://childofmana.tripod.com/sbcode.htm Internet Archive. Retrieved 2019/03/24 from https://web.archive.org/web/20011225183245/http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/sbcode.htm
Eclective. (2004, June 6). we're leaving here tonight.... [web page]. http://soulbonding.tripod.com/ Internet Archive. Retrieved 2019/03/24 from https://web.archive.org/web/20040606093747/http://soulbonding.tripod.com/
Neither the Soulbond Code nor the Multi Code have been really updated in fifteen years or more! I found myself wondering, maybe it'd be neat to try and smoosh them together and overhaul them into a plural code! @_@ What do you think? Do people even use those codes anymore? I guess it'd just be for fun...
Oh wow; embarassing teenage photos! (Or not)
Date: 2019-03-25 01:26 am (UTC)Wow I only barely remember creating this. General common memory suggests that at that point, some of us were still going back and forth over whether we were "really multiple" or "just a soulbonder," and spending time in both communities trying to figure it out. (Which wasn't really the best solution, as we... never found any large forum or group where we felt "at home" in either direction.) Eclective were one of the few other groups we knew who seemed to identify both as multiple and as a soulbonder at the time, so as proof that it was possible to maintain both identities, their page was helpful to us at the time.
Although... it's not too bad, actually, looking at it years later? I tried to keep it small and compact on purpose, partly because I remember feeling like the Multiple Code had some sections that were really just extraneous to the experience of plurality, to us (like diet, job, sexuality, etc etc). I tried to make the "Species" category as simplified as possible because I remember being kind of overwhelmed by the huge number listed and wondering if some of them had ever even been used, and replaced them with basically "fill in the blank if these categories aren't specific enough for you."
ETA: Unfortunately, I can't say whether we or Eclective were responsible for the later edits!
Saffron: One of the neat things about the oldschool Codes (which seem to have started on Usenet) was that a lot of them had pages where you could paste in the code, run a little script, and get a "translated" version instead of having to look up every single tag and abbreviation so it wouldn't be gibberish to you. If anyone does want to revive them, I could try to make a page to auto-translate plural codes.
Re: Oh wow; embarassing teenage photos! (Or not)
Date: 2019-03-25 03:18 pm (UTC)I really liked the comparative compactness of the soulbond code; I agree, the multi code was sprawling, overcomplicated, and extraneous, especially since Astraea only added, never streamlined or subtracted! On the whole, I think the SBC holds up pretty all right, especially since you/Eclective edited it DOWN over the years, not up!
OMG a translation page would be so cool!
--Sneak
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Date: 2019-04-06 01:12 am (UTC)Oh yeah, I know who they are! I would love to see what they came up with!
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