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- Mar 7, 2016
So I figured I would make my first foray into making my own thread and after some advice, was told it would likely be best suited to this place here, Deep Thoughts.
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I was actually drawn to the Farms when I read about Vade and her headmates, and this got me thinking about what seems to be, upon the surface, a rather odd quirk of some of the tumblr crowd, with the possibility of multiple personas “fronting” and taking control.
What I have observed so far is that those with these headmates have some level of creativity, from what I have seen so far is art-wise allowing for these multiple beings to “come to life” somewhat and when they try and allow them to front a lot of these alternatives are rather poor and obviously someone just trying to deflect from issues at hand.
Now as I have mentioned over in the introduction thread I like writing. It’s mostly a hobby but if the opportunity rose to publish or do something awesome I will probably take it. While thinking on Vade and the other unusual eccentrics I’ve found here I realised something;
Myself, my friends and even published authors have had something similar to Headmates.
Note, I do say similar but not the same. What do I mean about this?
Well, back last year on the BBC there was an author who had released another book of a detective/gum-shoe series of novels.
He noted with some incredulity that his creation had become so well rounded that he would find himself writing scenes and his creation, the character, would actually argue with him over how he behaved or even what he said, and if the author has to force through a change that the character felt stupid he had to strike deals with him such as an additional love scene or something suitably heroic to balance it out.
I’ve had similar happen when I’ve been writing characters for a while, if I start to try and make them do something “they” push back and will offer alternatives to how they would behave in a given situation and at other times I’d simply do whatever they ‘told’ me to do.
Which sounds scarily similar to “fronting”.
Friends of mine, complete non-tumblr, grounded people also report doing similar if they’ve wrote a character for long enough. They will discuss, or consider what the character has to say and will frequently defer to them, or find a compromise. Often discarding previous ideas that may have been disastrous to their story because it would have been out of character.
So again, sounds a little familiar on paper, doesn’t it? The huge difference is myself and my friends all know they’re just figments of our imagination, they’re not real, they don’t control us and they sure as hell don’t “share our headspace.”
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This makes me wonder if the headmates thing is thus some form of proto-creativity. They typically attach to pre-existing concepts and characters, ones that are already well rounded but try and give them that “independance” that others who create do. The problem is this is very poorly executed and they begin to ascribe new “headcannon” to the characters, which breaks their established characters.
It makes me wonder if they are themselves unable to properly understand that such creations remain acts of fiction, and because they “talk back” they must therefore be real and thus sharing the same head space.
Just my thoughts on this matter anyways, figured I’d share and see what others think beyond “lol headmates are retarded” we all know they are, I just found these weird parallels interesting.
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I was actually drawn to the Farms when I read about Vade and her headmates, and this got me thinking about what seems to be, upon the surface, a rather odd quirk of some of the tumblr crowd, with the possibility of multiple personas “fronting” and taking control.
What I have observed so far is that those with these headmates have some level of creativity, from what I have seen so far is art-wise allowing for these multiple beings to “come to life” somewhat and when they try and allow them to front a lot of these alternatives are rather poor and obviously someone just trying to deflect from issues at hand.
Now as I have mentioned over in the introduction thread I like writing. It’s mostly a hobby but if the opportunity rose to publish or do something awesome I will probably take it. While thinking on Vade and the other unusual eccentrics I’ve found here I realised something;
Myself, my friends and even published authors have had something similar to Headmates.
Note, I do say similar but not the same. What do I mean about this?
Well, back last year on the BBC there was an author who had released another book of a detective/gum-shoe series of novels.
He noted with some incredulity that his creation had become so well rounded that he would find himself writing scenes and his creation, the character, would actually argue with him over how he behaved or even what he said, and if the author has to force through a change that the character felt stupid he had to strike deals with him such as an additional love scene or something suitably heroic to balance it out.
I’ve had similar happen when I’ve been writing characters for a while, if I start to try and make them do something “they” push back and will offer alternatives to how they would behave in a given situation and at other times I’d simply do whatever they ‘told’ me to do.
Which sounds scarily similar to “fronting”.
Friends of mine, complete non-tumblr, grounded people also report doing similar if they’ve wrote a character for long enough. They will discuss, or consider what the character has to say and will frequently defer to them, or find a compromise. Often discarding previous ideas that may have been disastrous to their story because it would have been out of character.
So again, sounds a little familiar on paper, doesn’t it? The huge difference is myself and my friends all know they’re just figments of our imagination, they’re not real, they don’t control us and they sure as hell don’t “share our headspace.”
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This makes me wonder if the headmates thing is thus some form of proto-creativity. They typically attach to pre-existing concepts and characters, ones that are already well rounded but try and give them that “independance” that others who create do. The problem is this is very poorly executed and they begin to ascribe new “headcannon” to the characters, which breaks their established characters.
It makes me wonder if they are themselves unable to properly understand that such creations remain acts of fiction, and because they “talk back” they must therefore be real and thus sharing the same head space.
Just my thoughts on this matter anyways, figured I’d share and see what others think beyond “lol headmates are retarded” we all know they are, I just found these weird parallels interesting.
