Its the multiple community, sockpuppets are like, the point
Do you know about multiples/plurals? They are a group of people, or perhaps a group of groups of people who believe that they have many minds or souls sharing one body. But don't say they have DID, or mention alters, this is "healthy"

multiplicity! The kind that basically comes from spending too much time role-playing.

Now days, the multiple community keeps most of its drama behind closed doors. Drama that usually has to with the people who don't have Sephiroth in their system looking down on those who do, or incessant bitching about who is just pretending, and who actually needs to get some psych help because they really aren't pretending, while the rest of the community is probably only pretending to not be pretending. Its a big old pretend-fest.

But yesterday, some wanker decided to air their wank in public for all to see! They created a journal where all multiples could post anonymously and bitch about the other multiples they hated.

And thus, Pluralanon was born! 100+ comments of bitching, backstabbing and circlejerk.

Its especially funny when the uninivated rest of the community shows up.

And its entirely possible that there were only 2 real live participants, with the rest of them being imaginary!

ETA: Original thread is now deleted, but they are back in a new one in Glorious Technicolor.

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	aaron_agonistes 2011-01-27 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	Let me get this straight. They're fictional characters, pulled from their homeworlds to this enclosed space where they can interact with each other and sometimes with us in the real world, but never get back home? These people aren't soulbonders. They're jamjars. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	overlord_mordax 2011-01-27 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	Jamjars? Like, the little jars you put jam in, or am I missing something? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cyan_aura 2011-01-27 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	jam jars, which when empty can be used to trap butterflies and other living creatures for the amusement of some creepy kid (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	overlord_mordax 2011-01-27 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	ooooh. Well then yes, but the butterflies generally just "show up". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chibikaijuu 2011-01-28 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	:( I had a bug bottle when I was little, but it was a) vented b) considerably larger than a jam jar, and c) I always let them go when I was done looking at them. (Hell, I did basically the same thing about a year ago for school, minus the jars - catch, examine, release.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cyan_aura 2011-01-28 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	well, yes, the operative word being "release" (and sometimes "ventilated") I wasn't thinking about the kids who practice responsible catch and release, which I did too for a time. I was thinking of the ones that put them in the jars, throw a leaf in there for "food" and then either do terrible things to them with magnifying glasses or forget them till they die. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

chibikaijuu
2011-01-28 05:24 pm UTC (link)

If the child is young enough, they may really just not quite understand - I know a couple of times I tried to put "food" in the jar and keep them (I think my parents must have released them when I wasn't looking, since I don't remember anything dying), because I didn't really know what they ate and didn't have much of a grip of consequences. When I was six or seven, I was helping to clean out the turtle tank at daycare and accidentally killed the little goldfish that lived there, too - because I was taking them out of the water for short periods to see what would happen. I was horrified when I realized I had killed them, but when I was actually doing it, I didn't really think it would happen (I also had no experience with death - my grandparents were alive, my great-grandparents had either died before I was born or when I was an infant, my aunt, uncle, and cousin had died in an accident, yes, but when I was a year old - I wouldn't even lose a pet until I was nearly 14.) I had a magnifying glass that I played with, looking at plant matter and insects/arthropods, but I never burned any creature, just leaves. The concept horrified me. I think the difference may have been that I had been burned and knew it hurt, but I'd never felt what it was like to need to breathe and not be able to (I was a swimmer, but I wasn't yet diving deep enough to forget how long it would take to get back to the surface).

Now I study biology for real and would know exactly what to feed a specimen, and don't need to wonder about what happens to fish when they're out of water because I ... have a book that has all the relevant information, oh god, animal phys. So cool. So many tears.

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	tehrin 2011-01-27 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	Like a dressing room RP, but in their minds. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2011-01-27 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty much how I read it too. (The alternative being to back away slowly and then break and run.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sisterelwood 2011-01-27 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	The alternative being to back away slowly and then break and run. Oh, I'm doing that regardless. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tehrin 2011-01-27 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know why I feel the need to clarify myself, but by "their minds," I mean the otherkins/multiples' minds, not the person plus fictional characters minds. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	queencallipygos 2011-01-27 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	...How can you tell? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	repost tehrin 2011-01-28 12:00 am UTC (link)
	It is possible that a minority amoung them may have a genuine disability such as DID and can have a personality based upon a fictional character. However, I doubt it. The majority of these people, if not all, do not and are pretending to have one for entertainment purposes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	blue_penguin 2011-01-28 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	I was thinking the exact same thing. It's one thing to be a roleplayer, but to be an entire roleplay in and of yourself... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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