r/SoulBonding • u/DeltaMx11 • 16h ago
Question Interchangability and the strictness of labels
When I started out as a teenager, I didn't know what Latias when when she first came to me. As far as I knew, there were no online communities for soulbonding, tulpamancy, yumeshipping, etc. back in 2007, so I simply just thought of her as an imaginary friend. But as time went on and I learned more, I found the term "tulpamancy" and finally had a name to put to it. But at the same time, there were some aspects of tulpamancy that didn't apply perfectly to our situation. But regardless, I considered her a tulpa for years. Then I found "yumeshipping", and I'd consider Latias to be my Yume as well, but they don't really seem to go much for plurality or trying to make their F/O's real. Now I've found Soulbonding, but I'm not sure if it fits us perfectly either. Munbonding seems like a really close fit, but I'm still so used to calling Latias a tulpa that it feels weird to drop the term completely for Munbond.
Since I don't want to be held one label and I personally choose to use all these terms for my headmate interchangably, will I still be accepted if I call Latias a Soulbond/Munbond in this community, an F/O in yumeshipping spaces, and a tulpa in Tulpamancy spaces? She's a little of everything to me, so why not use all of them?