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WCDT: 2226-2230 (9-13 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread (SDCC Edition 1)
LTK:
--- Quote from: Jynto on 14 Jul 2012, 14:54 ---The tumblr comic made me curious enought to google fictive headmate. I'm quite glad I did. I've found out some interesting stuff about headmates and multiplicity.
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Link? I'm as curious as you are, and the first few Google results are not helpful.
Jynto:
--- Quote from: LTK on 14 Jul 2012, 15:24 ---
--- Quote from: Jynto on 14 Jul 2012, 14:54 ---The tumblr comic made me curious enought to google fictive headmate. I'm quite glad I did. I've found out some interesting stuff about headmates and multiplicity.
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Link? I'm as curious as you are, and the first few Google results are not helpful.
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This is helpful. So is this and this. Oh, and this too.
For anyone else wondering, a headmate is a term for a person who shares your body. Although the term seems to be limited mostly to tumblr, the idea of multiplicity dates back at least as far as 2002. A fictive headmate (or more commonly just 'fictive') is one that is based on a fictional character.
If like me you googled 'fictive headmate' and then just 'headmate' you'll have found a load of tumblr posts with the headmate tag, which isn't very helpful because none of them explained the context. But some of these mentioned multiplicity and multiple systems. So in the end I found out that 'multiple system -atrophy multiplicity' is a much better search term (without the quotes, but you knew that).
Edit: this one too, but it's a google cache and the link will probably break soon.
jwhouk:
Ah, "Mults".
It's called MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) when one of the personalities happens to be self-harming or harming of others.
Of course, some psychologists suggest we all have some form of MPD, where we play various "roles" in our everyday life.
And I won't go further, since this is the WCDT - though said week has ended.
"We need another comic to restore sense to this thread." - Paul Hodges
TinPenguin:
This is irrelevant to recent comics, but I didn't think it warranted its own thread. I just noticed something trivial:
Faye has sex with Sven, she asks "Are you always this smug after you ravish a lady?"
Faye has sex with Angus, she asks "Are you always this hyperactive after sex?"
Clearly, Faye possesses a scientific interest in the post-coital activities of the human male.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Jynto on 14 Jul 2012, 18:12 ---This is helpful. So is this and this. Oh, and this too.
For anyone else wondering, a headmate is a term for a person who shares your body. Although the term seems to be limited mostly to tumblr, the idea of multiplicity dates back at least as far as 2002. A fictive headmate (or more commonly just 'fictive') is one that is based on a fictional character.
If like me you googled 'fictive headmate' and then just 'headmate' you'll have found a load of tumblr posts with the headmate tag, which isn't very helpful because none of them explained the context. But some of these mentioned multiplicity and multiple systems. So in the end I found out that 'multiple system -atrophy multiplicity' is a much better search term (without the quotes, but you knew that).
Edit: this one too, but it's a google cache and the link will probably break soon.
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Hmmmmm. I'll be honest, from Spike's guest comic and the Tumblr.txt twitter I felt like their dismissive attitude to these aspects of tumblr may have some merit. The glossary on astraeasweb reeks of layman psychologist wank as well, or in the worst case, outright self-perpetuating delusions. But the bits about people experience multiple personalities in a non-pathological way is actually really interesting, because unlike the claims of being a different age, of a different species, or in a different world than you actually are (those are all supposed attributes of multiple personalities), it's entirely possible that a person's self-perception is a fluid thing and can play the role of different personalities. After all, your self-perception is entirely in your head, so how you feel as being is unquestionably real.
I once said to someone that every one of us is an actor who only knows how to play one role. Maybe a good enough actor can convince themselves that they can, in fact, play more than one role as their own self.
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