Scribbles and Bits

Rogan: First of all, we are not Kelly Turnbull on Bluesky. We aren't on Bluesky and never will be. We just linked her post as a silly multi joke.

In all seriousness, though, "People live in my head and I want to make it everyone else’s problem" is a significant reason why we write. (And as kids, it was like, almost ALL the reason. Now it's just a little over half.)

Rogan: I have been working on an essay about being a cyborg, and it's led me to a lot of interesting readings! So since I am sick and don't have a lot to do, nonfiction cyborg linkdump! (With bad citations because I am dumb with plague right now.)

( There are a lot more of these than I thought. Including one plural citation, We Other Fairies by Xavia Publius at the bottom. )

Inspired by a conversation with monsterqueers.

Even though we came to plurality by way of soulbonding (that is, artists who talked to their characters), over the years, we got into the habit of downplaying our own fictivity.

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More pluralwiki!  This time it's the soulbonding community on LJ, for folks who had relationships to fictional characters.

"A Robust Connection to Fiction" --from the community's subheading (2009, January 1).

The primary LJ comm for soulbonders; it was created on January 2, 2002 (soulbonding, 2009 January 1), and deleted between January 18, 2018 (soulbonding, 2019 January 18), and June 20, 2018 (Lee, 2018).  Its archive appears to have no back-ups, except for a few stray archives in the Wayback Machine; it is lost.

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Created by: ???
Time Active: 2002-2018
Location: Livejournal

 

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This code was for soulbonders! (That is, folks who felt emotional resonance with media characters.  This ranged from feeling like a character "wrote itself" to said character being a fronting system member like any other.)

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Created By: Amorpha
Time Created: 2001
Location: http://soulbonding.tripod.com/sbcode.txt

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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...

The LJ soulbonding comm has been purged recently--within the past year, tops.  But since I've had to trawl through it for records pretty regularly up until now, it was probably within the last six months or so.

I'm kinda sad, honestly.  There was a lot of community history there, and now it's mostly just gone.  As far as I know, there was no archive made here on DW.  Obviously we've scraped and downloaded about everything there that we wanted, because we're records-hoarding paranoids, but other people probably didn't have a chance to do so.

On the other hand, I guess now our first explorations into plurality via soulbonding are gone, which might be just as well.  I didn't have the heart to delete them, even though they were embarrassing and my opinions and such have changed a lot in the ensuing decade plus. (Random factoid: we ended up on Encyclopedia Dramatica from some of that stuff, which is kinda hilarious since what we ended up on ED for was kinda random and silly?  Nothing for me to really be ashamed of.)

--Rogan