sobqjmv_sphinx

A continuation of LB Lee's look into "headmate."

2025-08-25T16:42:23Z

lb_lee recently made a post about the etymology of "headmate" and I, of course, was nerd sniped myself by this topic. (As you can find on the linked post, I already commented with additional information, although in that case I was just referring back to a previous post Rogan had made on Tumblr.) So, using my recent Dreamwidth month-long paid account, I decided to do some more searching for myself. Below are my finds from DW:

strikestwice, a multiple system and dragon, posted Oo, Interesting. dated 7 Nov 2003 and referring to a headmate in a multiple context. Their profile has a link to Four and Twenty's explanation of multiplicity, for community context.

xaq-the-aeron, another dragon, posted funny thing, friendships... dated 8 Apr 2004 and using headmate seemingly in the same multiple sense.

If these posts are dated to their time of posting, which seems likely, that would suggest that the term was used by multiples a few years before it first appeared in DesperateFans.

I'm going to be looking into old websites extensively in the next couple hours, or days, we'll see, so I'll post if I find more.

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Gender Census 2025

2025-07-30T18:41:21Z

It's time for the annual Gender Census!

survey.gendercensus.com/

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gender census!

2024-05-16T19:48:48Z

It's gender census season! I love surveys <3

https://www.gendercensus.com/

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OTW sites are down. Where do I find my fandom content?

2023-07-12T00:54:55Z

Sites like AO3 going down can be very stressful for a lot of people. You don't want to resort to Fanfiction.net or Wattpad or Quotev and struggle to find a good fic. Here are some quick suggestions:

Fanfiction

TV Tropes fanfiction rec lists.
TV Tropes has FanficRecs pages for most works. A lot of these skew heavily towards Fanfiction.net and come with reviews and descriptions to help you gauge if they're for you. More trustworthy than FFN stats.

Fancake and Crack Van
The Fancake Dreamwidth community and the Crack Van LiveJournal community have fanfiction recs for many fandoms, sortable by tags, leaning towards older communities like FFN, LiveJournal, and Dreamwidth.

Wayback Machine
Try your links with web.archive.org/web/ at the start and see what's been saved. You'll have to wait to leave kudos or comments, but many fics are backed up. If they're multichapter, your best bet is either the full work view or to download the work, but sometimes most chapters are archived individually. You can view most tags, flip through results by year, and some filtered searches have even been saved.

SquidgeWorld
SquidgeWorld Archive uses a slightly older version of AO3's setup and hosts over 41,000 works, many backed up from older (now offline) sites. Fans of more controversial ships and somewhat older fandoms will have better luck here than modern or anti-shipper fans, but there's a good variety.

Podfic

Jinjurly
The Jinjurly Audiofic Archive has over 4,000 podfics, browsable by a number of tags, including fandom and ship. It has pretty much all the big fandoms, both modern and older (and including RPF), in the dozens or even hundreds.

Fanlore

If you're nerdier like me, you want to learn about fandom histories and drama. See the Wayback Machine heading above for a quick option (Fanlore links are formatted as fanlore.org/wiki/Title_of_Page), or look below for more engaging options.

YouTubers
The following YouTubers make interesting videos on fandom history: Super Eyepatch Wolf, Jenny Nicholson, Lindsay Ellis, Sarah Z, Izzzyzzz, Eldena Doubleca5t, Red Bard, biz barclay, Ashley Norton, Ana Isabel, David M, and AllironTalks. For shorter and less analytical videos, try ColeyDoesThings or STRANGE ÆONS.

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a collection of old draconic sites and resources (1996 - 1999)

2023-06-25T19:06:36Z

I don't expect to ever go looking into otherkin history, so this is mostly just for any other researchers stumbling on my page.

All Things Draconic

Alt.Fan.Dragons WebRing

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System Travel is not a new concept (apparently)

2023-06-05T20:15:09Z

This is a copy of the history section of the live Pluralpedia page. You know the drill. Last updated June 5, 2023.

Historyedit edit source

The term "system travel" in this regard has been around since as early as 2003, on a now-lost multiplicity site. "It said that sometimes it's possible to visit other people s inner worlds. When someone who isn't multiple visits, it has to be during sleep or a trance-like state because no one is there to take over and control the body."^[2] Dark Personalities had an unlinked heading for "Intersystem Travel" in 2001, which may have been system travel.^[3]

The multiplicity LiveJournal community first used the "traveling & visiting" tag in 2002, when a user asked about souls communicating outside of the system without using the body.^[4] One comment talks about a walk-in who left his host's body and entered a different body on a permanent basis.^[5] One 2005 post says that a soulbond "hopped, skipped, and jumped" between a series of bodies.^[6]

"Body hop" first appears in conversation in 2005.^[7] One reply uses "system hopping."^[8]

The modern plural community's concept of "system hopping" may have been introduced in 2015 and was quickly controversial.^[9] One RAMCOA survivor has claimed the term came from them and was not meant to be used broadly, only in a description of their personal experiences.^[10] A well-known syscourse account has recently said she found spiritual uses from 2015.^[10] The Lunastus Collective claim that the term system hopping was in use around 2007, defining it as "one system in one body, traveling either permanently or temporarily to a different system in a different body." They say they first saw it in soulbonding and fictionkin spaces and that it came up on a regular basis.^[11]

Referencesedit edit source

↑ https://system-dictionary.carrd.co/#terms - System Hopping
↑ This Is Jenny on SaBluRo's LiveJournal (2003)
↑ The Multiple Gateway on Dark Personalities (2001)
↑ Out of body... by _zephyra_ on LiveJournal (2002)
↑ Comment on "Out of body..." by ex-casteylan314 (2002)
↑ I have a problem. by eternalism on LiveJournal (2005)
↑ Comment on "Session 9" by kangetsuhime on LiveJournal (2005)
↑ Comment by kangetsuhime on LiveJournal (2005)
↑ 'System Hopping' by did-system-of-jeff, reblog by multiplicityandme on Tumblr (2015)
↑ ^{Jump up to:10.0} ^10.1 RAMCOA by sophieinwonderland on Tumblr, 2023
↑ Been part of the plural community, directly, since the early 2000s. reblog by thelunastusco on Tumblr (2023)

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A collection of my favorite poems.

2023-05-04T20:52:19Z

Some may require scrolling to locate in the link. Yes, it's a bit weird.

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick (1648)

a magnet poem about werewolves by Lindsey Mosswraith (2018)

Fragment 147 by Sappho (c. 600 B.C.)

Him by (possibly) Bo Burnham (2013)

He Visits My Town Once a Year by Amir Khusrau (c. 1300)

His wife has filled his house with chintz. by jjbang8 (c. 2019)

a bit of code by unknown (c. 2022)

Jesus at the Gay Bar by Jay Hulme (2021)

children by Quecksilver_Eyes (2020)

There Was a Boy Called Eustace Clarence Scrubb by Quecksilver_Eyes (2018)

dragon-turnt by Quecksilver_Eyes (2020)

Nachwehen by Quecksilver_Eyes (2020)

out to the mountains (down to the riptide) by unknown (2014)

'Can These Bones Live?' (Ezekiel 37:3) by Richard Marc (1998)

plain jane and the boy next door. by Pete Wentz (2006)

"i can hardly stand living but im afraid to die" by Pete Wentz (2007)

part two (i forget so much of what i write its beginning to scare me). by Pete Wentz (2008)

The Sensual Experience of Time by George Anderson (2005)

On Seeing My Father's Face in a Crowd of Strangers Nine Years After His Death by John Sweet (2005)

it's about aromanticism by cuuno (2023)

The Dive (Part 1) by Eyedea & Abilities (2001)

Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out by Richard Siken (2006)

the skulls of our masters by Linux (2021)

With this machine by Linux (2023)

Hope by Matthew (2022)

(note for a friend who wants to commit suicide after the hurricane) by Raquel Salas Rivera (2018)

my miracle now by Anita Jeffries (2019)

A Good Day by Kait Rokowski (2012)

some sort of love poem by grendelmenz (2020)

teach me how to be at peace again by j.p. (2016)

my parents are totally right by assaultmystic (2023)

History student falls in love with astrophysics student by Keaton St. James (2019)

diane is dead by chariot wish (c. 2020)

I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin So I Made a New One by Xan Phillips (2022)

As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With by torrin a. greathouse (2021)

Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg (1980)

An Artificial Tragedy by Wilbur D. Nesbit (c. 1904)

The Talk by F. Douglas Brown (2012)

My Masculinity by Sam Rush, Kwene, & Oompa (2016)

After the Threesome, They Both Take You Home by Sue Hyon Bae (2019)

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loose chronology of Newsies fandom

2023-04-23T00:29:03Z

Originally posted in the Newsies Square discord server on April 9, 2023.

1998 - 2003 - Personal Sites/Het/Newsgirls Era
characterizing features: everyone is on the newsies mailing list, hundreds of personal sites, somewhat of a fanfiction.net presence (many deleted later due to policy changes), primarily het newsie/ofc fics, very few explicit works, sarah jacobs hate, small slash communities without too much animosity, lodging houses, fanlistings, webrings, historical accuracy while still being mary sue-approachable, Mary Sue positivity, the occasional weird transphobic fic (looking at you, Davey Gets Even)
(transitional period 2002-2004)

2003/2004 - 2009/2010 - LiveJournal/Slash/The Refuge/Slashers Era
characterizing features: The Refuge, LiveJournal communities like Newsies100, slash ships (including the now-forgotten Snitch/Skittery), earlier influence primarily from Seize The Night (og Newsies slash archive), start of modern era fics, mary sue bashing, similar FFN presence as previous
(transitional period 2010-2012)

2011-2013 - TNC Era
deeply interconnected Tumblr community with a lot of widespread toxicity. not a whole lot of fandom? combination of the brand new stage show and the film, with notable actor interactions. small lodging house revival effort.

2015 - 2019 - Livesies/Fansies Era
characterizing features: Tumblr, AO3, Modern AUs huge, memes in the funny sense rather than earlier fannish osmosis, Javid- and Sprace-centered slash, more gen fics, -sies suffixes, Live show-centric, some Jack/Sarah shippers, start of newsbians and Sarah reclamation
(transitional period 2019-2020)

2020 - present - COVID/Post-COVID Era
characterizing features: Sarah Jacobs love, Mary Sue-positive (though not popular), Delancey fans, more interest in historical accuracy, UKsies, TikTok, Discord

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Blanket / Slider (Newsies)

2023-03-24T01:16:53Z

This is a copy of the fandom section of the live Fanlore page for the character Blanket. Reference links go to the Fanlore page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 23 March 2023.

Fandom[edit | edit source]

Unlike Tumbler, Blanket does not have a well-documented history of presence in the fandom and most modern fans do not know his name. FFN user SilverShoes17, who posted the first fic currently available online to feature Blanket, wrote that, "I am labeling Blanket as the first boy we see sleeping in the lap of the Horace Greeley statue." They had seen him mentioned on a fansite but did not know his identity.^[1] User mayday321 was able to provide context for his origins in the reviews.

Blamket waas named by the TNC (Tumbler Newsies Community). NML (Newsies Mailing List) named him Slider. At the reunion, the actor, Brian Friedman, said his name was Carzy Legs. NO one will ever use that name. He was in the very beginging of the Sieze the day reprise, the one Bumlets was leaning on. He was also the last to leave the nun's, and people also say he was the boy 'Patrick' the mom was singing about, because they look identical.
mayday321^[2]

Usage of the name Slider is supported by a profile on the Newsies-Sim Home Page, which was active in 2000. He is identified by his appearance in "Seize The Day," as mayday321 referenced.^[3] The Happy Newsie Minivan suggests that the name Slider came from fan Snickery.^[4] TNC, the blog mayday321 cited as the origin of the name Blanket, has gone offline now, but a post was archived from September 2011 which provides a similar background.^[5]

You surely recognize Blanket. Many have speculated that Blanket is Patrick and one backstory is that he is indeed Patrick. Well how can he stand next to his mother then? Good question. Many say that his mother is blind.
Blanket is played by Brian Friedman, who is now a respected choregraper. He was at the Newsies reunion and is quoted as saying that on set his character’s name was Crazy Legs.
We ignore this.
spotconlonsterritory^[5]

A more popular post by movienewsies which listed Newsies characters as a fandom reference material in 2013 is still online and gave a brief description aligning with TNC's.^[6] YouTuber Anya Naylor's 2021 video essay/reaction included a recognition of Blanket and provided the movienewsies post as a source, as well as explaining that Patrick as a side character was often Blanket.^[7]

References[edit | edit source]

^ Blanket by SilverShoes17 on Fanfiction.net (2011)
^ Reviews (2011)
^ Profiles of the Newsies-Sim Characters (c. 2000)
^ Our Tribute to Some Unnamed Newsies at the Happy Newsie Minivan (2002)
^ ^{Jump up to:a} ^b Names You May Not Recognize by spotconlonsterritory (TNC) on Tumblr (2011)
^ A Nice Newsies Reference Material by movienewsies on Tumblr (2013)
^ I Love Newsies (1992) by Anya Naylor on YouTube (2021), 09:05 - 11:10

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sobqjmv_sphinx @ 2023-03-14T19:16:00

2023-03-14T23:17:25Z

always interesting to find old commentary on soulbonding
https://web.archive.org/web/20020805201155/http://noises.mooncalf.org/archives/ has a couple things

a reincarnation forum found through numerous connections between sites including the above
https://web.archive.org/web/20021202133051/http://www.promethianweb.com/fae/index.php

D.I.D. You See Us Fly?
https://web.archive.org/web/20001117230200/http://eserver.org/cultronix/paradise/default.html

MyStical Children and Stone RoSeS Message Board Archives (archives communications from 1997 and 1998, plus link to forum)

https://web.archive.org/web/20021016112651/http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/2330/

Multiple Personality Disorder

2023-03-10T19:18:27Z

This is a copy of the live Pluralpedia page for the term fictive, which I add to almost daily. It has the same formatting for simplicity's sake. Reference links go to the Pluralpedia page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 10 March 2023. Man, I forgot I made this whole page.

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a dissociative disorder appearing by that name only in the DSM-III (1980 to 1994) and some editions of the ICD, including the ICD-10 but not the ICD-11. MPD replaced a Hysterical Neurosis diagnosis and was replaced with Dissociative Identity Disorder.^[1] The main characteristic of MPD is the existence of two or more personalities in one body that were dominant at different times. Each personality is a "complete" individual, with unique memories and behaviors. Switching is typically sudden and stressful.^[2] "In classic cases, there are at least two fully developed personalities; in other cases, there may be only one distinct personality and one or more personality states."^[3]

The original (or host) is usually unaware of the other personalities, but if there are more than two personalities within the body, the others are aware of each other to some extent. While only one personality can speak at a time, others can "listen in" at times. All personalities are aware of the loss of time, but they may not acknowledge it unless asked. Personalities tend to present as opposites, and there is usually a dominant personality.^[2]

Other personalities can sometimes have mental disorders that the original does not. They may be of a different sex or gender, a different race, or be from a different family. They will behave as the age they say they are, which is typically younger than the body's age. Personalities might report having heard voices or interacted with other personalities, both of which are differentiable from hallucinations and delusions. When occurring in groups, as is common, sometimes a personality will be a protector for another personality. Most personalities have their own names, sometimes including a different last name from the body's name, but occasionally they will be unnamed or share the original's name.^[2]

Diagnostic Historyedit edit source

Multiple Personality Disorder appeared only in two published editions of the DSM, those being the original publication of the DSM-III in 1980 and the DSM-III-R in 1987. The next edition was the DSM-IV in 1994, at which point the diagnosis was formally changed to Dissociative Identity Disorder. It was classified under the category of "Dissociative Disorders (or Hysterical Neuroses, Dissociative Type)" with the code of 300.14. It was rarely diagnosed until adolescence and most recipients were female.^[4]

In the 1987 revision, it was stated that recent studies showed that MPD was less rare than commonly thought to be, almost always predisposed by abuse (often sexual) or other severe emotional trauma in childhood, and three to nine times more likely to be diagnosed in females than in males.^[3] A group responsible for reviewing the changes to dissociative disorders explained that while the diagnosis was controversial, they needed to provide the most recent findings to provide more basis for opinion. They described the changes and reasonings in great detail in an issue of Dissociation.^[5] Since 90% of psychiatrists used the DSM-III-R by the second year of its publication, it's safe to assume that diagnoses made between 1988 and 1994 were almost always determined by the revised criteria.^[6]

When the DSM-III was published in 1980, it referenced MPD as falling under the ICD category "Neurotic Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Other Nonpsychotic Mental Disorders."^[4] A 1998 version of the ICD-10 listed MPD in an "others" category, F44.80.^[7] By 2018, Dissociative Identity Disorder had the code of F44.81.^[8]

A 1990 issue of the medical journal Dissociation expressed concern about the potential removal of MPD as a unique diagnosis in the ICD-10, instead classifying it under an "Other" diagnosis, which was theorized to be due to psychiatric disbelief in Europe. The doctor responsible proposed a diagnosis of "Multiple (Dissociated) Personality Disorder," falling under the category of Dissociative Disorders, so it could "reflect the worldwide occurrence separate from the nonpathological trance/possession states."^[9]

Criteriaedit edit source

The DSM-III diagnostic criteria for MPD is defined as such:

A. The existence within the individual of two or more distinct personalities, each of which is dominant at a particular time.

B. The personality that is dominant at any particular time determines the individual's behavior.

C Each individual personality is complex and integrated with its own unique behavior patterns and social relationships.^[2]

The DSM-III-R criteria for MPD:

A. The existence within the person of two or more distinct personalities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self).

B. At least two of these personalities or personality states recurrently take full control of the person's behavior.^[3]

The ICD-10 criteria for MPD:

A. The existence of two or more distinct personalities within the the individual, only one being evident at a time.

B. Each personality has its own memories, preferences and behaviour patterns, and at some time (and recurrently) takes full control of the individuals behaviour.

C. Inability to recall important personal information, too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.

D. Not due to organic mental disorders (e.g. in epileptic disorders) or psychoactive substance-related disorders (e.g. intoxication or withdrawal).^[10]

Personality vs. Identityedit edit source

Multiple Personality Disorder was changed to Dissociative Identity Disorder for a few reasons. The first is that MPD had an emphasis on the idea of systems having many personalities, rather than being the lack of a single, cohesive personality, as plurality is believed to be by many in the medical field.^[11] The second is the meaning of "personality" in the field of psychology, being "characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, moods and behaviors of the whole individual,"^[11] without accounting for identity aspects or the fact that a system is not considered a "whole" individual. The DSM-IV also claimed that personalities did not have their own objective existences and were simply named and identified by the patient.^[11]

Despite these reasons, DID is considered by many to be a more sensitive term, as "identity" is more respectful to alters' unique existences than "personality," which is seen as implying that they are nothing more than a different state of the original. MPD should not be used as an identifier for systems without their consent.

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Snitch/Skittery

2023-03-08T18:53:34Z

This is a copy of the fandom section of the live Fanlore page for the ship Snitch/Skittery. Reference links go to the Fanlore page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 8 March 2023.

Fandom[edit | edit source]

The Snitch/Skittery pairing was invented by a girl from Arizona who wrote under the pen name Lute and was our fandom’s Stephen King, in terms of sheer output and popularity; to write a Snitch/Skittery story without crediting her somewhere was simply Not Done.
Sarah Marshall^[1]

The first Snitch/Skittery fanfic available on Fanfiction.net in the present day is from February 2003.^[2] Lute's works are no longer available on FFN, but they may be archived somewhere on the Wayback Machine, under the username Thumbsucker Snitch.^[3]^[4] A few of her mature works for Snittery are available at Seize The Night and were crossposted on The Refuge. "Someone Out There" in 2005 received over 300 reviews.^[5] The pairing's first available mention on LiveJournal is from September 2003.^[6]

At some point in early 2003, a "Snitch Week" event occurred, probably dedicated to Lute, and included many Snittery fics.^[7] One week in March 2004 found 69 drabbles posted to newsies100 for SnitchSkitt, making it the second most popular ship that week.^[8]

References[edit | edit source]

^ The Afterlife of Newsies (2018)
^ Sometimes Love Just Isn't Enough by Bottles on Fanfiction.net (2003)
^ Review by Thumbsucker Snitch on infinitas referring to herself as the "snitch goddess" (2003)
^ My first ever post! by misato_kou on newsies100 on LiveJournal (2004)
^ Thumbsucker Snitch user profile on Fanfiction.net, via Wayback Machine (2005)
^ Q: How did you get into Newsies? by ginnyjake on the newsies_fan community on LiveJournal (2003)
^ infinitas by Shimmerwings on Fanfiction.net (2003)
^ Ah, blessed calculator. by cycnus on newsies100 on LiveJournal (2004)

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Tumbler / Spitshake / Tumble-Boy

2023-03-08T15:36:32Z

This is a copy of the fandom section of the live Fanlore page for the character Tumbler. Reference links go to the Fanlore page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 8 March 2023.

Fandom[edit | edit source]

The modern Newsies fandom is aware of Tumbler's fanon origins.^[2] He was originally named Spitshake by fans Pixie and Smiley, as he is identifiable through a scene where he and fellow newsie Skittery hug and spit-shake, and was also nicknamed The Littlest Newsie, but the name Tumbler is most popular in current fandom.^[3] He is frequently pictured in a shot from the outro, where he dances in a "tumbling" way, his namesake.^[4] Fanfiction was written about him as early as 2002.^[5]

References[edit | edit source]

^ Full Cast & Crew for Newsies (1992) on IMDB
^ Who’s Who-sies in Newsies by letter-from-the-refuge on Tumblr (2021)
^ Our Tribute to Some Unnamed Newsies at The Happy Newsie Minivan, via Wayback Machine (2001)
^ A small guide to the Newsies of 1992 by kingracetrack on Tumblr (2017)
^ Devastation by Hart at The Trolley, via Wayback Machine (2002)

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Spot Conlon Fanon

2023-03-08T15:32:55Z

This is a copy of the fandom section of the live Fanlore page for the character Spot Conlon. Reference links go to the Fanlore page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 8 March 2023.

Fandom[edit | edit source]

Name[edit | edit source]

Like Racetrack Higgins, Spot is now typically given the name Sean, but this has not been nearly as universal as Race as Anthony. Everything You've Done Wrong is the primary source of the name, but it appeared in 2001 on Kendall's Newsies Page.^[1] Spot has been called Thomas,^[2] Michael,^[3] Seamus^[4] and Liam,^[5] among many others. One fan theorized that the name Sean comes from Shawn Hunter from Boy Meets World.^[6]

Patrick[edit | edit source]

Patrick is a character who appears only by name in the 1999 Newsies film, during the song "Carrying the Banner," where his mother sings to the Manhattan newsboys. A popular fan theory argues that Spot is Patrick,^[7] often on the basis of the fact that he is not a Manhattan newsboy, and thus would not hear her.^[8] This theory appeared as early as 1998, in Jennifer Cardinali's "Paramour Prisoner."^[9] Another fanwork featuring the theory appeared on Fanfiction.net in 2002.^[10]

References[edit | edit source]

^ My Strength by Gank, via Wayback Machine (2001)
^ Another Chance by Portman at Portman's Place, via Wayback Machine (1999)
^ Living His Life by Spacey Cliffton at Spaced Out (2000)
^ Spot profile at Carnegie Hill Lodging House (2001)
^ The Duane Street Wives by Coin on Fanfiction.Net (2004)
^ https://www.tumblr.com/newmsies/702356494869479424/we-need-to-get-something-right-specifically-spot by newmsies on Tumblr (2022)
^ Patrick annotation by randomestfandoms for "Carrying the Banner" on Genius (2017, "6 years ago")
^ Erika's Theory at Who Is Patrick??? on Rip's VERY New Page, via Wayback Machine (1999)
^ Chapter 2 of Paramour Prisoner by Jennifer Cardinali at Jen's Christian Bale/Newsies Place, via Wayback Machine, copyright 1998
^ Patrick's Mother by Mondie at Fanfiction.net (2002)

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stumbled on an old plural site

2023-03-07T19:20:25Z

i came across the old online sandman fandom while wandering around newsies sites, and i found a plural site in my exploring. there's no archives of the original page from '99, but most of their xoom page is saved and it's got a lot. always interesting to see fictives especially and how they talked about themselves before we had the terms we know today. "Who, you ask me and all the cute little people in your head, is this strange and weird little person who has deluded herself into thinking she is Delirium, a figment of the imagination of a person she has never met? Well, I answer, or at least one of the people in my head answer, its because I am Delirium," (source)

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Racetrack Higgins Fanon

2023-02-23T15:41:17Z

This is a copy of the fandom section of the live Fanlore page for the character Racetrack Higgins. Reference links go to the Fanlore page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 2 March 2023.

Fandom[edit | edit source]

Race has been a fan favorite for a long time, outranked only by Spot Conlon.^[5]

In 2017, a popular newsboys history Tumblr blog, newsboys-of-1899, made a post commenting on the possibility that Racetrack Higgins and Spot Conlon were the same person, which started a popular rumor that this was fact, despite its unlikelihood.^[6]

Name[edit | edit source]

Like many Newsies characters, Racetrack does not have a canon first name. Despite this, he is almost universally called Anthony, Antonio, Antony, or Tony in fanfiction.^[7] This trend traces back to the early presence of the online Newsies fandom.

The first known work to use Anthony was first archived in January 1999, "Race's Secret," hosted at The Printing Press.^[8] In September 1999, "The Birth of the Gambler" was published to Fanfiction.net, making it the oldest to use the name on the site. The name continued to be used on both FFN and personal sites, as well as some popular fandom archives.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16] "Barely Even Friends," a work from circa 1999 in a series focusing on Race, features an Italian restaurant named Antonio's.^[17] Most of the early uses of Tony may have been in 2001,^[18]^[19] but it appeared occasionally in 1999.^[20]^[16]^[21]^[22] In 2003, the highly-praised work "Everything You've Done Wrong" called Race "Tony"^[23] and is cited by some fans as the origin of both Anthony/Antonio/Antony and the name Sean for Spot Conlon.^[24] A LiveJournal user made a list of "real names" for newsies and listed Racetrack's as Anthony Higgins in 2004^[25] and popular fic writer queenitsy also used the name.^[26]^[27]^[28] The earliest known usage of Antonio was in 2005^[29] and Antony was introduced in 2006.^[30] The extremely popular "How I Spent My Summer Vacation," posted starting in 2006, used the name Anthony for Race, as listed on the character page^[31] and introduced in the seventh chapter,^[32] as well as the nickname Tony beginning in chapter nineteen.^[33]

Ethnicity[edit | edit source]

Racetrack is commonly written as Italian, primarily due to his film actor, Max Casella, being Italian on his mother's side^[34] and stage actor Ben Cook is also thought to be Italian.^[35] While less known, the early film draft known as Hard Promises describes Racetrack as a "tall, skinny, gambling Italian beanpole."^[36] "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" introduces Race as an "Italian kid."^[37] Race's surname, Higgins, is a point of contention in regards to his Italian background.

References[edit | edit source]

^ Newsiepedia
^ The legal name of Race Track Higgins appears to have been Ed Higgins. by newsboys-of-1899 on Tumblr (2018)
^ Newsies Wiki
^ Who was Race Track Higgins? by newsboys-of-1899 on Tumblr (2017)
^ Your Favorite Newsie poll on The Newsies Inferno (2004)
^ On Spot Conlon and Race Track Higgins by newsboys-of-1899 on Tumblr (2017)
^ Racetrack Higgins tag on AO3, with synonyms including Anthony "Racetrack" Higgins, Anthony Higgins, and Antionio Higgins
^ Race's Secret by Dragon at The Printing Press, from an archive when the site was last updated in January 1999
^ To Peek Behind the Headlines by Grace at Grace's "Newsies" Fan Fiction Page! (1999)
^ The Birth of the Gambler by Sassy on Fanfiction.net (1999)
^ Story List including The Birth of the Gambler on Brooklyn Lodging House, archived 2002
^ Transcendence by Kendall (archived 2001)
^ Double or Nothing by Spitfire at So Ya Wanna Be A Newsie, Huh? (1999)
^ Play Me a Song by Gank on Kendall's Newsies Page (2001)
^ Racetrack roleplay bio at Central Park Lodging House (archived 2002)
^ ^{Jump up to:a} ^b Racetrack's Story by Skittery and Samantha at The Newsie Fan Fiction Collection (1999)
^ Barely Even Friends by Christy, hosted at Bottle Alley: Newsies Fan Fiction, 1999, archived 2014
^ Life's A Bet by Kendall at Kendall's Newsies Page (archived 2001)
^ LightFooted by Firecat at Kendall's Newsies Page (2001)
^ Race's Brother by Racetrack and RiffNTommy at The Newsie Fan Fiction Collection (1999)
^ Not Like Us by Christy at Bottle Alley: Newsies Fan Fiction (1999)
^ Just Beneath the Surface by Annie aka Bluey at Racetrack's Newsie Page (2001)
^ Everything You've Done Wrong by sloanne on Fanfiction.net (2003)
^ Okay, where did “Race is Italian” come from? by so0tings on Tumblr, reblogs by timetogoslumming and letter-from-the-refuge (2021)
^ Newsies Names by sharps on LiveJournal (2005)
^ Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? Racetrack: Denial by queenitsy (2004)
^ Newsies: Now And Forever by RosieRed on FFN (2004) is another example that I found on a rec list
^ In Every Generation by kerrypolka was posted on the newsies100 LiveJournal community in 2004 and got two comments
^ Allergy Season on The Refuge, via Wayback Machine, unknown author, I can't remember where I found that year but it was before the site went down
^ Freedom by Marauding Newsies on Fanfiction.net (2006)
^ Character List
^ Chapter Seven: Sibling Rivalry
^ Chapter Nineteen: At The Hop
^ Okay, where did "Race is Italian" come from? by so0tings, reblog by timetogoslumming (2021)
^ Okay, where did "Race is Italian" come from? by so0tings, reblog by dontloseurheadbestie (2021)
^ Newsies Original Script, hosted on Geocities
^ Chapter Two: The Rest Of the Day, and Some Of the Night

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Origins of Alex Rider/Artemis Fowl II

2023-02-22T15:49:15Z

This is a copy of the history section of the live Fanlore page for the ship Alex Rider/Artemis Fowl II. Reference links go to the Fanlore page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 22 February 2023. I guess this is my life now.

History[edit | edit source]

The popularity of the ship and related crossovers is owed in part to a Twitter interaction between Anthony Horowitz, author of Alex Rider, and Eoin Colfer, author of Artemis Fowl, in February 2021. While the tweets themselves received little interaction, they have been shared around both fandoms in screenshots.

I wouldn't dream of getting into a fight with @EoinColfer so hope Alex and Artemis would be pals!
Anthony Horowitz

Agreed. Pals. Most likely having faced certain death together.
Eoin Colfer

Despite this conversation happening in 2021, fans have been writing crossovers between the two books since as early as 2004,^[1] with some reviewers at the time proposing they be written as a couple.^[2] Later in 2004, a fic was posted to Fanfiction.Net featuring the ship, with the author crediting another writer for coming up with the ship and writing the first fic.^[3]

The credited first work appears to be "Double Act," first published April 9, 2004, under the username Ever1, then everworld2662, and finally somethinguntraceable, before being deleted some time between 2015 and 2023.^[4] The author also wrote a second work based in the same universe^[5] and hosts a community for the ship that once had five works.^[6]

References[edit | edit source]

^ Artemis Fowl 4: Entrapped Illusions, Deluded Minds by midnightprowler on Fanfiction.Net (2004)
^ Reviews
^ Dynasty by Painted Smile on Fanfiction.Net (2004)
^ Double Act on Fanfiction.Net, via Wayback Machine
^ Alone In The White Room
^ Double Act (community)

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history of the term fictive

2023-01-10T17:03:54Z

This is a copy of the history section of the live Pluralpedia page for the term fictive. It has the same formatting for simplicity's sake; this is pretty much just to make me feel like my account is less empty. Reference links go to the Pluralpedia page, unfortunately. Copy last updated 25 August 2025 to fix references.

History

Origin

Fictive was previously thought to have been coined in the soulbonding community some time during or before 2004 as a less spiritual way of referring to soulbonds.^[2]^[3]^[4] Recent discoveries have led to a much more complicated history.

In 1988, Jay Martin published Who Am I This Time?: Uncovering The Fictive Personality, a book unpacking how some of the greatest artists "[take] on aspects of fictional characters to compensate for deficiencies in themselves."^[5] While likely not directly related to the creation of the plural term, it is worth mentioning. Martin's theory of the fictive personality was later explained as "[p]ropos[ing] that the fictive personality is a personality disturbance in which, in the relative absence or weakness of both normal narcissism and object love, the self strives toward total identification with characters in literary, historical, or mass-media fiction."^[6]

A Pluralpedia editor found a usage of fictive on a fanfiction site. The work in question was first archived in 1999.^[7] On the Fanlore page for fictive, there is a non-plural definition from 2009,^[8] and from there one can be led to the Subreality Café.

Subreality Café

The first archive of the writing site Subreality Café, made in 1999, defines fictive in its FAQ as "characters from the stories for whom the Cafe was created."^[9] The concept existed before the website existed, as early as 1997.^[10]

"If you watched "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," you might get an idea of what fictives are like "off duty." They're like cartoon characters; they can't really die, it only looks that way in stories, but it can sure tick them off! The only thing a fictive truly fears is his/her writer and readers giving up on their story, thus letting them fade away into non-existence again."^[9]

In this original definition, fictives are presented as ideas that grow to the point of near sentience. By late 2000, Subreality Café (then Subreality Central) had been redesigned twice, and the writing page now included sections for "Fictives Only," "Fictive/Writer Interactions," and "Fictives About Writers."^[11]^[12] With these changes, it solidified the idea that fictives could act independently of their writers, but these stories were still generally portrayed as pure fiction.

A work on Fanfiction.net from September 2000 stands out for its portrayal of fictives meeting in a room in the writer's head.^[13] Some former Subreality members made Livejournal posts about their fictives as sentient independently from their Subreality fics.^[14]^[15] A fic called "My Dinner With Jesse" was online by 2001, the last in a series about how author Jesse Willey/Maxwell Larkin "struggles to deal with his personality fragments." "We had merged back into the one person that we were always meant to be. As I took my seat in his head, the table for two still had one person sitting there, and yet it was full."^[16]

"Walking in the Rain" has an introduction to the Subreality Café that is indispensable to understanding the origins of fictivity. "Muses are the source of a Writer's Inspiration. The Muse may be a good friend of the Writer, or a long-time enemy; either way, Muses are indispensible [sic] to the Writing community. Some Muses are specifically assigned to Writers, while others are simply imaginary friends that the Writer failed to outgrow."^[17]

LiveJournal

Subreality has an LJ community and has had it since 2001, which may explain the transition of terminology, especially after Subreality founder Kielle's death in 2005.^[18] The first mention of fictives in the community appears to have been in May, with it misspelled as "ficitive," in a post which has a comment referring to "how your ficitives get personalities and lifes of their own."^[19] User Beverly McIntyre made a separate journal for her fictional character Dakota in early 2001, referencing SC in the post, and tagged it as fictives.^[20] An earlier post of hers referenced a "fictive [fictional character]" being mad at her.^[21] Subreality has been referenced a few times in soulbonding spaces on other sites, including Blurty^[22] and SoulBond Sanctuary,^[23] in these cases with nearly direct links to the extended multiple community. SoulBond Sanctuary also saw fictive being used as an adjective when describing soulbonds, with the creation of "fictive characters."^[24]

In 2001, plural Sethrenn posted on their LiveJournal about soulbonding and tagged it with "fictivity," though that may have been added later. "There's a limit, I think. Even in fan culture. You can only talk about SBs and characters in your head so far, only take it so seriously, before other people start to back off and write you off as a raving loony. [...] It's interesting how, on a much smaller scale, the backlash in the fan community against SBing in a way mirrors the psych backlash against multiplicity, doesn't it?"^[25] Fictive was occasionally shortened to "fic."^[26]

In May 2002, DeadJournal user dende listed their interests as including "fanfiction, fictives," and "plushies named after fictives."^[27] The LiveJournal muse community wildfictives was created in October 2002 and is titled "The Fictional Characters in CK's Head." Individual characters had their own blogs and the description states that they are "all fictional" but "each have our own distinct personalities."^[28] They would have long discussions, seemingly between the fictives, about their organization and leadership.^[29] One post reads, "Y'know, I'm aware I'm fictional. All the things I've known and done and thought are just a dream someone's dreamt, no more tangible than a few pieces of paper, and some binary data... but I still retain memory."^[30] This community may be one of the first existing usages of the term fictive in a plural sense, but there's no way of knowing how much of the content was simply roleplay.

The term was later adopted by other plural groups, but it is unknown when exactly. It is now widely used beyond its original coinage. Some members of the multiplicity LiveJournal community discussed terms describing fictive and adjacent experiences in 2004, describing "fictives" as "oh, media people in your head."^[31] One soulbonder using the tag "fictive" in 2005, and a few followed after,^[32]^[33] and if it can be counted, "fictivity" was used in a comment in 2006.^[34] There are records of similar concerns about "faking" fictivity in LiveJournal communities as have been prevalent recently.^[35]^[36]^[37] A multiple on LJ in 2006 said that "there were places online where people didn't talk about multiplicity strictly in terms of trauma," but "other worlds, walk-ins, fictives and the like were rarely discussed at all."^[38] In 2009, an introduction in the pagan_multiples community identified many members of a system as fictives, clarifying that they "started as soulbonds."^[39] It was added to Fanlore's soulbonding page in October 2010, stating that it was used because soulbond "devolved from its original meaning into something casual and flippant."^[40]

Empowered Multiplicity

The website Pavilion added fictive under their definition of soulbond in mid-2008, which was mirrored on Astraea's Web.^[41] At the same time, Astraea's Web altered their page on controversies to include the term fictive, which was defined as "a serious connection to a real presence with a fictional source" and pitted against soulbond.^[42] The first archive of the Ex Uno Plures's glossary (2009) redirects fictive to soulbond.^[43] An essay archived from 2008 lists terms related to soulbonds, naming, "Soulbonds, Fictives, guests, non-humans, Furries, Otakukin, Otherkin, Therians, imaginary friends, archetypes, in-sourced, out-sourced, characters, role-playing, muses, and whatever else," but notes that fictive is reminiscent of "a fake person."^[44] Kasiya's personal site listed it in a 2008 archive as a recent synonym of soulbond that "we personally feel [...] is even worse."^[45] It was listed separately on Pavilion by 2009, based on Astraea's mirror,^[46] where it was defined as a "person from fictional sources, who is adopted into the mindspace of another person."^[47]

Tumblr

Dreamwidth user Tidepools said in 2010 that they were a multiple system with soulbonds/fictives.^[48] "Non-fictive" was being used alongside thoughtform on LJ in 2011.^[49] Tumblr user solipsistful identified their system as having fictives in (c.) 2012.^[50] Fictive was used in an October 2011 fanfic on Archive Of Our Own, which was also tagged with plurality and multiplicity.^[51] A 2012 article about Draven (infamous in some fandom spaces) defined fictive as "like an otherkin where the true, internal identity is a fictional character," with Draven identifying as a "fictive singlet."^[52] A Tumblr conversation about soulbonder terminology considered "fictive" to be from the multiplicity community and showed preference for terms like outsourced and insourced, which they said were used by soulbonders.^[53] Uses on Twitter existed but were primarily mocking and insulting.^[54]^[55]^[56]^[57] The Tumblr tags fictive and fictives were seeing usage by multiples and fictionkin in 2011.^[58]^[59] One early usage of the word on the PsychForums occured in 2012, in a list of terms taken from a glossary page of a DID site, used the term "fictive alter,"^[60] but its first appearance seems to have been as a noun in December 2011.^[61]^[62] It seems to have been introduced to the (unrelated) CwDID forum in 2015^[63] and it was appearing on Quora by 2016.^[64]

A multiplicity glossary on Tumblr in 2011 defined fictive as, "A member of a system who originates from a work of fiction. This is a controversial term, and some find it offensive and prefer the term 'soulbond.'"^[65] The LivingPlural Tumblr account had a "fictive directory" in 2012^[66] and had defined it as "a headmate based on a fictional character" by 2015.^[67] Also in 2012, a Tumblr user referred to fictives as being "common among multiples."^[68] The Magneton System defined fictives as "just what they sound like: headmates who originated elsewhere and moved in here"^[69] or "a headmate based on a fictional character."^[70] The blog Fictive Talk, to which fictives could submit messages reaching out to each other, was probably created in 2012.^[71] One Tumblr blog, which had a daily DID term definition, explained that, "a fictive is an alter that’s based on a fictional character. during trauma the mind will cling onto all possible positives and it isnt uncommon for fictional characters to jump to mind and influence the creation of an alter."^[72]

The Amorpha System on Tumblr made a few posts looking back on the perspectives on fictives, then called other things, in the early 2000s.^[73]^[74]^[75] "Actually, we had some longrunning debates in email in 2000, when we were still in the closet and trying to hide ourselves in the soulbonding community, about whether fictives (though they weren’t called fictives then) could be parts of 'real' plural systems."^[76] Some plurals expressed concern that plurality was being equated with fictivity and being otherkin.^[77] Fictive ask blogs existed in 2013, leading to critiques about stereotypes around fictive roleplaying.^[78] Some Tumblr users criticized fictives as "roleplaying extremely hard" and being "uncreative at best."^[79] Fictionkin and by association fictive identity has been accused of being based on theft.^[80] A 2013 kin manifesto was noted as being for "Otherkin, Fictionkin, Otakukin, Fictives, and all and sundry."^[81] A short essay was posted to Dreamwidth titled "are therians, otherkin, and fictives real?"^[82]

A conversation about a "Tumblr nutcase" referenced "crazy tumblr otherkins and 'fictives'," specifically a definition more accurately labeled as fictionkin,^[83] ^[84] although other conversations had more accurate definitions,^[85] and at one point fictive and factive were called "new words for otakukin."^[86] ^[87] Members of the otherkin community in 2012 and 2013 referred to the term fictive as a "new way" to refer to soulbonds,^[88] ^[89] as did some FFA members.^[90] A Tumblr blog called "fictives against fictives" accused other fictives of being illegitimate.^[91] Tumblr users associated fictives with "DID faking" as early as 2014.^[92]^[93]^[94]^[95]^[96]^[97]^[98] The term was criticized for its association with the natural multiplicity (from which it was identified to have originated) and otherkin communities and for creating a distinction between fictional introjects and other kinds of introjects.^[99]^[100]^[101]^[102]^[103] Also in 2015, a Tumblr user made a rather infamous post in which they argued that any white person who had nonwhite fictives or kintypes was inherently racist.^[104]

A draft version of an article published on Andrew Blake included a number of mentions of fictives, including the following explanation: "Channeling other souls is actually downright common in the nether-subcultures of the Internet. People who live as fictional characters are called fictives; people who live as other real people are called factives. Further along the spectrum of identity are Otherkin who believe that their truest identity may not even be human, that they may instead be the soul of an animal or a mythical creature, an anthropomorph, or even an inanimate object."^[105]

It's on the first Plurality Resource glossary archive in 2014 as "a headmate who identifies with or believes they are, spiritually or psychologically, a person, creature, or race from fiction,"^[106] and it's been on the r/Plural glossary since its inception in late 2014, defined as "a system member who arrives in the system with the form, personality, and possibly psychological backstory."^[107] A definition on Tumblr blog did-confessions said that fictives are "a type of alter that are influenced or taken from fictional works or places."^[108]

Also in 2014, claims were made that fictive was a fictionkin term for someone who was kin with a specific character, as opposed to a species in general, seemingly based on earlier Tumblr definitions that they perceived as being replaced by a plural definition.^[109]^[110]^[111] These can potentially be traced back to 2012, when fictive was sometimes identified as a subset of fictionkin.^[112]

A survey on Tumblr that began in May 2014 and was taken by 82 systems found that 51% of responders had fictives in their system.^[113]^[114] An archive of a glossary from 2015 includes a definition of fictive, "A headmate who identifies with or believes they are, spiritually or psychologically, a person, creature, or race from fiction,"^[115] and the first glossary archive from WikiPlural in 2016 defines a fictive as "a systemmate who believes that they are, in some way, from a work of fiction."^[116] An anonymous user with DID in a FailFandomAnon AMA in 2016 provided the following explanation of fictives: "fictional introjects (alters that appear as specific characters from pop culture and may or may not act like them) -- can happen, but a system can never be made up of all fictives. Furthermore, most fictives are earlier splits because a child is more fantasy prone. Splits that happen later tend not to produce fictives because the mind, however split it may be, has a grasp between the difference of reality and fantasy."^[117]

The term had a small presence in tulpamancy spaces. Discussion about Tumblr communities included a comment that "you can hardly find a multiple who doesn't also have a soulbond(or 'fictive')"^[118] A few forum users referred to their tulpas as being fictives^[119]^[120] and a conversation in 2014 about soulbonding included a comment that "a lot of tulpas are also fictives,"^[121] but a member of the r/tulpa subreddit claimed they never saw fictive when they lurked in Tulpa spaces in 2013 and 2014,^[122] so it was likely not a common term. Some tulpamancers on Tumblr used the term,^[123] though, with it being applied to tulpas a few times,^[124] which some members of the multiple community disliked.^[125] Tulpa.io's glossary referenced fictives under their definition of walk-in in 2015.^[126] It didn't seem to appear on Reddit until 2015 and 2016.^[127]^[128] This is also around when it began appearing on mockery sites like lolcow and Kiwi Farms.^[129]^[130]^[131]

Modern

A September 2013 work showed that the usage of fictive as a type of muse was still surviving.^[132] "Outspacer" was coined as a synonym for the plural term by Lightrayes in 2014.^[133] By late 2014, the bastardized term "fictivekin" could be found on Tumblr,^[134] as could claims that fictive was coined by the early 2000s multiple community.^[135]^[136] An attempt to make a distinction between fictives and fictionkin stated that, "Fictives are walk-ins. Fictives appear in an already living body in this world fully aware and conscious of their identity as a certain character."^[137] In 2017, concerns arose around claims that "non-traumagenic systems aren’t allowed to use 'fictive'."^[138] Now, fictive has even entered the medical sphere.^[139]

References

Fictives on the Fictionkin Wiki, via Wayback Machine, 2021
The history of the term fictive by LB Lee on Tumblr, reblog by the-truth-is-outthere, c. 2017
A History of the Fictionkin Community by House of Chimeras on Weebly, via Wayback Machine, 2018
MPD/DID Glossary on Astraea's Web, accessed 2022
‘Fictive Personalities’ : Author Looks for the Character in All of Us by Mike Wyma, about author Jay Martin, in the LA Times, 1988
Clinical contributions to the theory of the fictive personality. by Jay Martin, listed on APA PsycNet, published 1984-1985
When Fictives Attack by Mercutio on the Wolverine and Jubilee Page, via Wayback Machine, published 1999 and accessed 2022
Fictive on Fanlore, accessed 2022
Subreality Central via Wayback Machine, 1999
Subreality Setup Part 1/? by Kielle, in alt.comics.fan-fiction mailing list, 1997
Subreality Central via Wayback Machine, 2000
Subreality Central via Wayback Machine, 2000
A Pause, Before by kerithwyn on Fanfiction.net, 2000
Dear Fictives by dragonbat2006 on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, 2015
Do anybody else's fictives channel Gloria Swanson? by dragonbat2006 on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, 2006
My Dinner With Jesse by Maxwell Larkin (aka Jesse Willey) at Subreality Café (2001)
Walking In The Rain by D^Knight on Subreality Cafe, via Wayback Machine, 2006
Subreality fanfic group on LiveJournal, created 2001
Ever want to tell a ficitive to go get laid? by Nisie in the Subreality community on LiveJournal, 2001
Oh, what a beautiful mooorning. Oh, what a beautiful daayyyy. Something something sooooomething... by beverly-mcintyr on LiveJournal, 2001
Hmm. Random thought. by beverly-mcintyr on LiveJournal, 2001
[1] user profile on Blurty, via Wayback Machine, with tags "multiplicity," "soulbonding," and "subreality," 2005
Page 2 of Soulbond Sanctuary forum in the Sword and Serpent Tavern, a message board with many ties to the multiple community and which features a number of comparisons and connections between the concepts, via Wayback Machine, 2003
Re: Where does one start?, comment by Mousse9, in SoulBond Sanctuary on the Sword and Serpent Tavern forum, via Wayback Machine, 2001
...There's a limit, I think. by sethrenn on LiveJournal, 2001
The Long Road by wanderlustlover on Archive Of Our Own, 2009
dende's profile on DeadJournal, accessed 2022
wildfictives community profile on LiveJournal, accessed 2022
Right, then. Consensus time. by burntfeathers on the wildfictives LiveJournal, 2004
I almost feel like throwing a tantrum today. by the5thwheel on the wildfictives LiveJournal, 2004
Random question from an apparent "oldbie"... by eclectic on the multiplicity LiveJournal, via Wayback Machine, 2004
On Names, Identities, and Soulbonding by our_haven on the multiplicity LiveJournal, 2005
Fictives tag on the multiplicity LiveJournal, accessed 2022
The problems with being fiction-sourced... comment by sethrenn on the multiplicity LiveJournal, 2006
I dunno, maybe if we join this, it'll get people off the idea that we're biased against fictives in some way? by sethrenn on LiveJournal, 2006
lots of things by dreamwriteremmy on LiveJournal, 2011
101714 by thebrokenarrows on LiveJournal, 2014
FYI, the question about Javascript by sethrenn on LiveJournal, 2006
Persona System introduction by thegathered on the pagan-multiples LiveJournal, 2009
Soulbond (Trope) edit history 3 October 2010 by KTJ on Fanlore
A Suggested Glossary on Pavilion, via Wayback Machine, 2008
Controversial Issues in Multiplicity on Astraea's Web, via Wayback Machine, 2009
Soulbonds, alters, headmates, people, colleagues, where does it end? And which ones should I use? by Hess on Ex Uno Plures, via Wayback Machine, 2009
Essays - Conflicts with the word "Soulbonds" by LeAnne of the Silhouettes on Weebly, via Wayback Machine, written 2008, 2015
Glossary on Kasiya, via Wayback Machine, 2008
Multiple Personality Glossary on Astraea's Web, via Wayback Machine, 2009
A Suggested Glossary on Pavilion, via Wayback Machine, 2012
Nothing to see by tidepools on Dreamwidth, 2010
our terminology by solipsistful on LiveJournal, 2011
Continuing from yesterdaaay. by collective solipsism on Tumblr, "11 years ago" (2012)
The Liberty by TheColorBlue (user-locked) on Archive Of Our Own, 2011
From Otherkin to Transethnicity: Your Field Guide to the Weird World of Tumblr Identity Politics by Max Read on Gawker, 2012
Terminology re-visisted. (Lee) by darkstarsystem, reblog by okamp-blog on Tumblr (2012)
okay i had enough of soulbonding fictive mutltiple otherkin today by Pink_Poodle on Twitter (2012)
seriously though the multiple/otherkin/fictive communities are toxic as fuck by thalassarche on Twitter (2012)
dear tumblr by vhbonesy Twitter (2013)
I am a fictive Chiss Sithlord otherkin temporarily slumming it in Corporate IT. by f0rf0r on Twitter (2013)
Fictives tag on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2011
Fictive on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2011
Re: Question adressed to The Hawk by tomboy24 on the PsychForums forum for Dissociative Identity (2012), citing Terms for Dissociative Identity Disorder, first archive (2013)
Re: Alters, when did you start naming them? by SinnyBaby on PsychForums, Dissociative Identity forum (2011)
Re: Can alters come from media images?? by Caecandy on PsychForums, Dissociative Identity forum (2012)
My name is Lily by Tea on the Coping with Dissociative Identity Disorder forum, hosted by tapatalk (2015)
Is this a place where my alters can vent and talk, too?, reply by Alice Vanish on Quora, "7 years ago" (2016)
glossary on Multiplicity 101 on Tumblr, first archived 2012, accessed 2022
LivingPlural on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2012
We all use different terms. Here’s a guide to them! by LivingPlural on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2015
LivingPlural on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2012
About Us by wearemagneton on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2012
FAQ by wearemagneton on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2012
Fictive Talk on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine (2012)
Daily DID Glossary: Fictive by abbys-castle, reblog by underconstruction-did (2013)
More thoughts on fictivity, inspired by the last entry by amorpha-system (probably sethrenn) on Tumblr, 2012
We actually got accused of being "anti-fictive" by amorpha-system on Tumblr, 2013
I think one of the weird things about the internet (I want to say this is tumblr specific, but I think it just happens faster on tumblr) is how people forget history of communities. by queerjoys, reblog with comment by amorpha-system on Tumblr, 2014
Yelling at books brings back memories. [Riel] by amorpha-system on Tumblr, 2012
UUUUURGH by plures-blog (possibly Ex Uno Plures) on Tumblr (2012)
Hi there! My name’s Jack. by ask-fictive-frost, reblog with comment by somehealthyskepticism, on Tumblr, 2013
I’d like to take a moment to point out the absolute uselessness of fictives on Tumblr. by shutthefuckupotherkin on Tumblr, 2013
sorry but you can’t defend fictionkin/fictives. by barkura, reblog by okamp-blog on Tumblr (2012)
Kin Manifesto For 2013 And Beyond by general-jinjur on Tumblr, via Archive Today, 2013
are therians, otherkin, and fictives real by jewelfox on Dreamwidth, via Wayback Machine, 2013
very surreal when a tumblr nutcase is someone you know... on the sock_gryphon_group mailing list, regarding FailFandomAnon on LiveJournal, 2012
very surreal when a tumblr nutcase is someone you know... from Fail-FandomAnon on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth mirror (2012)
Re: ITT: Ships you ship on the sock_gryphon_group mailing list, regarding FailFandomAnon on LiveJournal, 2012
Re: factive/fictive? comment on Were Velociraptors on the FailFandomAnon LiveJournal, 2012
Re: Tumblr Gold from Fail-FandomAnon LiveJournal, Dreamwidth mirror (2014)
crossposted from my tumblr by overlord-mordax on LiveJournal, 2012
Soul Bonds comment by Mordax-sama (probably overlord-mordax) on the More Than Fiction forum on proboards, 2013
Re: Soulbonder House--Real or Hoax? from Fail-FandomAnon on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth mirror (2012)
Fictives against fictives from Fail-FandomAnon on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth mirror (2013)
Do not accuse people of faking DID. by aboutdid, reference in reblog by aboutdid, reblog by this-sure-is-a-blog on Tumblr (2014)
I'm really against fictives... by did-confessions, reblog by this-sure-is-a-blog on Tumblr (2014)
A subject I try not to talk about much, if I can help it. by stellarvisionary on Tumblr (2014)
do more people with DiD and MPD have "fictives" than not? by this-is-not-dissociative, reblog by this-sure-is-a-blog on Tumblr (2015)
The DID-tag by mikako-manko on Tumblr (2015)
Why do people even doubt fictives and non-human alters? by unabashedkinslayer, reblog by this-sure-is-a-blog on Tumblr (2015)
How can you tell if someone is faking? by this-sure-is-a-blog on Tumblr (2015)
this explanation is all well and good, but it doesn’t explain why there are “systems” on tumblr with several fictives from popular fandoms that only recently started. by if-we-were-to-tell-the-truth, reblog with comment by this-sure-is-a-blog on Tumblr (2015)
Why do people use the term Headmates, and why is it so darn annoying. by this-is-not-dissociative on Tumblr (2015)
In response to the Alter Types Master Post by this-is-not-dissociative on Tumblr, "3 years ago" in 2018 archive (2015)
Fictives by mikako-manko on Tumblr (2015)
What's a fictive alter? by if-we-were-to-tell-the-truth on Tumblr (2016)
i think that the fictive and fictionkin community needs to have a good discussion about racism and cultural appropriation. by demixirl on Tumblr (2015)
Re: Wank Me Up Before You Go-Go - First Draft part 2, posted by anonymous on Fail-FandomAnon (2015)
Glossary on Plurality Resource, via Wayback Machine, 2014
Glossary edit by Four-Point-Quandary on the r/Plural subreddit, "8 years ago" in Jan 2023
I saw this word here: fictives. by did-confessions on Tumblr (2014)
No no no. Fictive is specific character. Fictionkin is fictional species. Omg. on From Fiction, via Wayback Machine, 2014
No no no. Fictive is specific character. Fictionkin is fictional species. Omg. on From Fiction Archive, 2014
a note about a recent misunderstanding by okamp-blog on Tumblr, notable for referring to fictive as a headmate term as having "been like that from the start" (2014)
Categories of Otherkind by Otherk.ind on Tumblr (2012)
Multiple Systems Survey Results! by collective solipsism on Tumblr, "8 years ago" (2015)
multiple systems survey (Responses) spreadsheet from collective colipsism
Glossary on the Monokrom System's site, via Wayback Machine (2015)
Glossary on WikiPlural, via Wayback Machine (2016)
Re: AMA (ask me anything) from Fail-FandomAnon on LiveJournal, Dreamwidth mirror (2016)
I've seen tulpas mentioned on the tumblr, livingplural by Ned Bigby on Tulpa.info (2012)
It would be something to worry about if all those were accidental, but, the newbies this time around were intentional. by Sock on Tulpa.info (2013)
Welcome to the Mistgod-Melian Megathread! by Mistgod on Tulpa.info (2015)
The Difference Between Tulpas and Soulbonds? on Tulpa.info, comment by FallFamily, 2014
When did the 'tulpa' community (namely, this one) start overlapping a bunch with other 'plural' communities? by u/FriendlyScarecrow on the r/Tulpa subreddit, 2016
Excerpts from a conversation I had with another tulpamancer on an ongoing discussion regarding terminology by visionsofgray on Tumblr (2014)
Are tulpas of fictional characters fictives? by visionsofgray on Tumblr (2015)
why would u list like 100 tulpas n tag it w/ “headmates” n “fictives” n shit like pls don’t by dreamingsystem on Tumblr, reblog by visionsofgray (2015)
Terminologies on Tulpa.io, via Wayback Machine (2015)
The relationship between author and character isn't quite so cut-and-dried. by Jas of jsheaforrest on the r/Tulpa subreddit (2015)
Philosophy Friday #1: What is a Tulpa? by u/Falunel on the r/Tulpa subreddit (2016)
"multiple system" tumblrinas thread on lolcow, 2016
Autumn Asphodel thread on lolcow, 2015
Tumblr thread on lolcow, 2015
Girl of my Dreams by Tracey_Claybon on Archive Of Our Own, 2013
101514 by thebrokenarrows on LiveJournal, 2014
headmates don't real on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2015
headmates don't real on Tumblr, via Wayback Machine, 2015
if someone says they’re fictive and don’t like to use the term fictionkin for themselves, respect that. reblog with comment by bitcheshavebirthdays on Tumblr, 2014
Fictionkin vs Fictives by FromFiction on Tumblr, 2015
Apparently, the newest thing going around is that “fictive” is the same as “fictional introject” by multiplicity-is-a-spectrum on Tumblr, 2017
Fictive Alters in Dissociative Identity Disorder by Crystalie Matulewicz on HealthyPlace, 2018

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