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Essay: Inner Mythos 101
Dec. 30th, 2019 08:38 pmInner Mythos 101
Series: Essay
Word Count: 3000
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a girl who fell in love with a Story.
Notes: This was the winner of this month’s Patreon poll! Special thanks go to vladdraculea, whose initial posts on the subject inspired all of this. We hope that more plurals share their experiences with mythos in general, and inner mythos in particular, because there’s so much to say and so much we don’t know. Clearly our experience is only one of many, and there’s a whole range of things (like shared mythos) that we know nothing about!
When we were kids, we had a Story.
We’d been making up stories since kindergarten, but the capital-S Story was different. For solid years, we worked, dreamed, and breathed it. Other projects died away—finished or dropped—but the Story remained. We still write and sell much-changed forms of it under the title of Infinity Smashed, but we won’t be using that title here. Infinity Smashed is the fiction project. The Story is the mythos.
We know other plurals with Stories too, quite a few—especially in soulbonding, which sees plurality through media, imagination, and creativity. But medical multis rarely talk about them. Madison Clell is one of the exceptions, and when we emailed her about it, she said, “Ahh, so I’m not the only one?! That’s hilarious.”
So Stories don’t seem to be uncommon in plurality, just undiscussed. But why do we have them? What are they? And what do they do?
We can’t fully answer those questions on our own. But maybe we can get the ball rolling.
( This was surprisingly challenging to write! )
Series: Essay
Word Count: 3000
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a girl who fell in love with a Story.
Notes: This was the winner of this month’s Patreon poll! Special thanks go to vladdraculea, whose initial posts on the subject inspired all of this. We hope that more plurals share their experiences with mythos in general, and inner mythos in particular, because there’s so much to say and so much we don’t know. Clearly our experience is only one of many, and there’s a whole range of things (like shared mythos) that we know nothing about!
When we were kids, we had a Story.
We’d been making up stories since kindergarten, but the capital-S Story was different. For solid years, we worked, dreamed, and breathed it. Other projects died away—finished or dropped—but the Story remained. We still write and sell much-changed forms of it under the title of Infinity Smashed, but we won’t be using that title here. Infinity Smashed is the fiction project. The Story is the mythos.
We know other plurals with Stories too, quite a few—especially in soulbonding, which sees plurality through media, imagination, and creativity. But medical multis rarely talk about them. Madison Clell is one of the exceptions, and when we emailed her about it, she said, “Ahh, so I’m not the only one?! That’s hilarious.”
So Stories don’t seem to be uncommon in plurality, just undiscussed. But why do we have them? What are they? And what do they do?
We can’t fully answer those questions on our own. But maybe we can get the ball rolling.
( This was surprisingly challenging to write! )
