Third Person and plural archive round-ups

 Sneak: plural linkdump!

• First, Emma Grove has published a DID graphic memoir through Fantagraphics: The Third Person. It is huge, about 800 pages, and seems to focus mainly on a messed-up therapeutic relationship as Groves tried to transition, only to keep getting denied for DID reasons. (This happens often! Rogan often says he cheated and lied his way through our transition with no regrets.)
• The Dragonheart collective has done some more awesome work lately namely, How Do I Know I'm Plural? and Should I Tell My Friend/Doctor/Parents About Being Plural?
• Plural webrings no longer seem to exist (not that I can find anyway, and I am soooo not interested in founding/maintaining one) but some folks have compiled big lists of plural umbrella sites that would surely be of interest to folks here! Dragonheart Collective have one here, and Dervish has a soulbonding archive list here!
• Neocities has a plurality tag! Have fun trawling!
• EDIT FROM MORI: late to the party, but in more bummer plural news, ex-football star and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Herschel Walker is running for Senate in Georgia. He published a DID memoir, Breaking Free, in 2008, and has a string of horrifying DV charges against him (which he blamed on the DID). Can't believe the first plural I know of running for office is this jerk.

A Quick'n'Dirty History of "System" as Plural Slang

"System" in the plural slang sense is used as a stand-alone noun (or, less often in my circles, in the specific phrasing, "a multiple system" or "plural system"). People will ask us, "are you a system?" or "have you heard about systems?" In this context, a "system" roughly describes the gestalt entity that is formed by the mix of a plural's vessel, internal populace, headspace, and other internal forces at work.

So far, here is my timeline for the use of "system" in a plural context.

( EDIT AND UPDATE: Plurals have been using it since 1990, and even the most parsimonious estimate shows it was used by non-MPD plurals by 1992. )