People Who Have Gone Through RAMCOA Have Asked You To Stop Using That Flag Because Of Its Connections

oh im so sorry fireworks suck :((

my country doesn't celebrate 4th july, but we do celebrate diwali, so for around four days people will let off fireworks c o n s t a n t l y. and i have a dog too so it's just terrible all around. in general india is just not the place for people with auditory hypersensitivity. makes me very glad to have noise cancelling headphones.

Thanks, hearing fireworks just makes me want to just give everyone who hates them a hug (or an air-hug or something if they don't like hugs), animals included.

We have cats, and one of our cats has what I think may be the cat equivalent of panic attacks (she hides and starts shaking) when she hears fireworks. May your dog and all the other animals who don't understand why everyone is loud find something that helps them through the chaos.

I don't own any noise cancelling headphones myself, but I hear they are quite helpful. Life is definitely better when you're not on sensory overload.

- Kelly

Happy Disability Pride Month! Sorry for being five months late. We promise we started it on time and planned to release it on time. There has been a LOT going on, but I’m happy to report that it’s mostly been good. We haven’t had the spoons to finish this comic, but now it’s finally done! As always, we hope you all enjoy this one! Image description at the bottom.

[Image Description:

Panel 1: The words “HAPPY DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH” are written over the disability pride flag.

Panel 2: The top of the panel says, “Whether affected by other disabilities or acting on its own, DID is a strange disability.” There are three boxes. In the first, a person with light skin and reddish almost-shoulder-length hair is standing with eir hands over eir face. The words “Please don’t let me split an introject of them” are written several times. In the second box, a guy with light skin and short light brown curls is standing with a thought bubble above his head. The bubble says, “*Thoughts that I can’t put into words*” He is saying, “I have dissociative identity disorder. I’m not Ao. My name is Holden, and I use he/him pronouns.” The third box is made to look like a screen. There are three smaller boxes inside of it. They read, “My Simply Plural”/“Is so complex”/“And I organize it for fun.”

Panel 3: In the top left corner, there is a shape resembling a dark gray cloud. Inside of it, at the top, the text reads, “So much splitting…” Beneath it, there are six different messy outlines of a person’s head and shoulders. Beneath that are the words, “And we latch onto media, so… introjects.” In the top right corner, there is a black rhombus with white cracks. There is a box toward the top that reads, “And, of course…” At the bottom of the rhombus, there is another box, which reads, “…things happened that made me this way. And DID isn’t the only disability I got from those things.” At the bottom of the panel, a person with medium brown skin, brown eyes, black hair, and black glasses stares slightly downward. The words above them read, “Try interacting with your source IRL. Makes us feel guilty, even if we get along with them.” There is a thought bubble next to them that reads, “He doesn’t know who I am, or even that I have this disorder.” A box next to them shows an arrow pointing to him that reads “Leon (they/he).”

Panel 4: In the top left corner, there is a a round shape with a double helix outline. Inside, there is a somewhat unclear gray outline of a person’s head and shoulders with the words, “WHO AM I???” written at the top. In the top right corner, there is a pair of blue eyes, a nose, and an expressionless mouth. It is duplicated many times in the surrounding area, overlapping it. The duplications are all somewhat transparent. Above that, the text reads, “(Hopefully, I’ll make a full comic about dissociation someday- that’s what this represents)”. At the bottom are a pair of light hands. The outline of the hands is not properly connected to the fill color. On the hands are the words, “My hands… …are so weird.”

Panel 5: There are two boxes. In the top one, the words, “The guilt…” are written at the top. Under that, there is a person with light skin, brown eyes, and dark brown hair with one hand over her face, covering their eye. She is saying, “WHY was I like that back in middle school???” Next to them, there is text with an arrow that reads, “Elizabeth, she/they (not exactly what she goes by… it’s complicated).” In the second box, there is text at the top that reads, “The realizations…” Under that, Elizabeth is there, with both hands over her eyes, saying, “Wait… my source *was* involved in all that messed up stuff back in middle school. Why couldn’t I accept that she hurt me?” On the right side of the panels, written in big letters and running vertically, are the words, “AND SO MUCH MORE”.

Panel 6: The outline of this panel is a double helix on each side, each a different color of the system flag (dark gray, light blue, light green, yellow). The panel reads, “I know we don’t usually talk about the bad stuff on here, but since this is for disability pride month, we wanted to talk about the disabling aspects of DID. This isn’t everything, of course. Perhaps I’ll talk about more of it in the future. I didn’t go into a lot of detail. Perhaps I will in the future. We hope everyone had a good disability pride month, and we apologize again for being so late.”

End image description.]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!

Image descriptions at the bottom of the post.

We decided to make something for pride month featuring the alters featured in previous comics

The alters in the first image, from left to right:

Ao, Ruby, Bay, Natalie*, Raina**, Inflexible, Grey, Jayde.

The alter at the top of the second image is Rhombus. The one flying on the left side is Omara, and the one in zir arms is Jenny. The one flying on the right side is Worlds, and the one on their back is Kelly. The ones on the bottom of the image, from left to right are Cristina, Jules, Alicia, Eugenia, and Mercedes.

*Natalie once went by Sodium on this blog, but she recently changed her name, so she and her source no longer share a name. Therefore, she longer has to use a pseudonym.

**Raina once went by Radium on this blog, but she recently changed her name, so she and her source no longer share a name. Therefore, she no longer has to use a pseudonym.

And yes, all five at the bottom are from the same source. It was not fully intentional.

Happy Pride Month, everyone! Figured my timing was okay as long as I finished it at some point this month.

Some of these are based off of real shirts/jokes, but some are not. I WISH I could actually buy some of these.

I do have other comics that I’m working on, but IDK how much progress I’m going to make on them in the near future, because ADHD keeps making me start new ones instead of finishing the ones I’ve already started.

So yeah. We hope you enjoy!

[Begin image description:

For both images: Both are drawings and aren’t super realistic. There are people in both. All are facing forward. All are smiling. All mentioned pins worn by them are round. All writing on the pins is in black.

Image 1: The background is sea foam green. Several people are standing in the lower half of the image.“HAPPY PRIDE!!” is written above them. Each letter is a different stripe of the intersex inclusive progress flag, starting with the intersex flag and ending with the color purple. All letters are outlined in black.

Description of people from left to right:

Ao has light skin, blue eyes, and reddish almost shoulder length hair. Ey is wearing a white pin that says ey/eir, a black shirt that says “QUEER,” with each letter being a different stripe of the trans flag, and a trans flag around their neck.

Ruby has light skin, short dark brown hair, and brown eyes. She has a black shirt with a white Greek letter alpha, the symbol for ambiamory, a red unbuttoned flannel, a small butch flag (specifically the orange one) coming up from behind her. On the flag’s stick is a white she/her pin.

Bay has light skin, short black hair, gray eyes, and black glasses. She is wearing a gray short-sleeved shirt, a necklace with a clock on it, black pants, and blue and silver triangle earrings. On her necklace, she has two pins. One is a white she/her pin, and the other is the omnisexual flag. She is blushing. She is holding Natalie’s hand.

Natalie has light skin, shoulder-length brown hair, and greenish gray eyes. She is wearing black pants, a short-sleeved black shirt with the words, “CAN’T EVEN THINK STRAIGHT” written in periwinkle, and a white she/her pin. She is blushing. Besides holding Bay’s hand, she is also holding Raina’s hand.

Raina has light skin, blonde hair that is past shoulder length with all hair beyond shoulder length tucked behind her shoulders, and green eyes. She is wearing black pants, a white she/her pin, and a short-sleeved shirt that is a combination of the demisexual and demiromantic flags (shown horizontally). The purple stripe is on top of the green stripe. Additionally, the left (from the perspective of the viewer) sleeve is purple, and the right sleeve is green. She is blushing.

Inflexible is nonhuman. They have dark blue skin with small, lighter wavy lines/swirls and short medium green hair with thin lighter green lines, and green eyes. They are holding a white flag with black text that says “They/Them.” They are wearing medium blue jeans and a black long-sleeved shirt with a drawing of the close-up Megamind meme on it. The shirt also says, “NO GENDER?” in white letters above the Megamind drawing.

Grey is nonhuman. Their entire appearance is grey. Their clothes, hair, and skin are the same color, making them indistinguishable. Their eyes appear closed, but aren’t. He has messy shoulder-length hair. He is wearing a white they/he pin and an aroace flag pin with a drawing of garlic bread on it.

Jayde is nonhuman. They have bright red skin, bright green eyes, and bright purple hair with thin darker purple lines forming a part. They are holding a white flag that reads, “They/Them” in black text. They are wearing a light gray long-sleeved shirt with a big oriented aroace flag shaped like a heart on it.

Image 2: The background is sea foam green. At the top of the image, Rhombus is shown upside down from the shoulders up. They have white skin with a vertical black rhombus in the center that reaches from their forehead to their chin. Their facial expression is not a human one, as their facial features are shaped slightly different from that of a human. They are not technically smiling. They also do not have eyebrows. They have black hair that goes past their shoulders. On one side, the hair is swept to the front. Their hair does not behave as if Rhombus were upside down. A black arrow pointing to them with “They/Them” written in black sits on their right side. Beneath them, the “HAPPY PRIDE!!” from the first image is below them. However, it is much smaller than in the first image.

On the left side of the canvas, Omara is suspended in midair. Omara is nonhuman. Ze has black skin, orange eyes with white waves in them, black curly hair that does not reach zir shoulders, and black wings that resemble angel wings. Zir hair has a very thin orange band in the middle. Ze is wearing off-white shoes that somewhat resemble ballet slippers, and an off-white dress with thick straps. On each strap, there is a pin. The one on the left is the sapphic flag, and the one on the right is a white ze/zir pin. Ze is blushing, but the blush looks pale orange. Ze is holding Jenny horizontally.

Jenny has light skin, light blue eyes, light blonde hair in a ponytail that reaches past her shoulders, and round black glasses. She is wearing white shoes with purple laces, pants that are the colors of Gilbert Baker’s 9-stripe flag (it’s the original 8-stripe pride flag with a lavender stripe on top), and a long-sleeved shirt with the colors of the demisexual flag (shown vertically). On the shirt is a white she/her pin. She is blushing.

On the right side of the canvas, Worlds is flying horizontally in the corner. Worlds is a vampire. She has light gray skin, black sunglasses with dark red lenses and a strong glare in the top right corner of the glasses, light brown hair that ends in a curl and goes just past her shoulders, and large black bat wings with the bones outlined in white. They are wearing a lighter gray shirt with an unbuttoned tan jacket with four pockets over it, two with flaps over the pocket. Sticking out of one pocket is a dark red flag with black text that reads, “GAY VAMPIRE.” On the stick of the flag is a white she/they pin. They are blushing. Kelly is on their back, with one hand on their side under their arm and one hand on their other shoulder.

Kelly has brown skin, brown eyes, and black hair. She is wearing a hoodie that is the colors of the bisexual flag with black drawstrings. On the hoodie is a white she/her pin. She is blushing.

Underneath all this are five people. From left to right:

Cristina has light skin, dark green eyes, and dark brown hair that goes past her shoulders and is tucked behind their shoulders. They are wearing black pants and a black short-sleeved shirt with a small pansexual flag on a stick on it. On the shirt is a white she/they pin.

Jules has light skin, short brown hair, and dark brown eyes. He is wearing white pants and a black short-sleeved shirt with a semicircle shaped demiboy LGBallT character (which is just a semicircle covered in the demiboy flag with white eyes outlined in black). On the shirt, in a position that makes it look like the LGBallT character is wearing it, is a white he/they pin. He is blushing. He is holding Alicia’s hand.

Alicia has light skin, green eyes, and blonde hair pulled into an early 1900s madonna coiffure (not 100% sure this is correct- it’s not drawn well, and I got the name from the Internet). She is wearing black pants and a white short-sleeved shirt. The top of the shirt reads “PAN” on the top, and “CAKES” on the bottom, both in black. In between the words is a stack of pancakes in pansexual colors. The bottom pancake is light blue, the middle one is yellow, and the top one is pink. They are stacked on a plain white plate with a black outline. On the top pancake is a pool of syrup with a square of butter in the middle. On the shirt is a white she/they pin. They are blushing.

Eugenia has light skin, brown eyes, and dark brown hair pulled into a style resembling an early 1900s everyday pompadour (again, not drawn well, and getting this from the Internet, so could be wrong). She is wearing a white long-sleeved shirt with a drawing of a pansexual-colored cat on it. The cat is pink with blue patches, and has yellow whiskers, a yellow mouth and nose, and yellow eyes with blue pupils. On the shirt, above the car is a white she/any pin. They are holding a white sign with black text by a brown stick. The sign reads, “Proud Big Sis Of A Non-Binary Sib.”

Mercedes has light skin, dark brown eyes, and dark brown hair styled similarly to an early 1900s everyday pompadour, but with no bun (again, not drawn well, from the Internet, could be wrong). They are wearing a dark gray shirt with “QUEERHET” written vertically. The first four letters are the colors of the non-binary flag, and the last four are the colors of the heterosexual flag. On his shirt is a she/they/he pin with the colors of the non-binary flag as the background of the pin.

END ID]

We can't decide yet- curious what you all want to see. Thanks folks.

~ Mathi

Tie-Breaker

And the winner was... actually a tie...

Yeah, now we're going to do a run off. Though we will probably do the runner-up after this one.

So...

About Us

Hey y'all! We're HeadOfSeaFoam, and we have DID! As we mentioned in our bio, we are going to be making comics about our experiences as a system and posting them here. We're also going to be posting some general DID/OSDD stuff. Here's some stuff about us and our page:

Asks: - If you have any questions about our comics or DID/OSDD in general, feel free to ask! We actually enjoy answering questions about this stuff. - Please remember that we cannot diagnose anyone and we are not medical professionals, though we have read the DID section of the DSM-V and have had to do... too much research on this to get people to listen to us. So we do know what we’re talking about, but we are still not comfortable diagnosing anyone. - The only DID/OSDD related stuff we are not okay with being messaged about are trauma stuff, unless we specifically say we're okay with talking about a particular part of our trauma (this is for obvious reasons), and syscourse (because it is everywhere and we are so tired of hearing about it- we are not okay with being messaged about any discourse in general). We do have a syscourse stance, we just don’t want to talk about it.

Other Stuff: - We might have the name of a random piece of media as a tag in a post. If we do, it's probably the source of the person who made the post or someone mentioned in the post. - We do have factives, some of whom have the same name as their sources. Unless said factive is a deceased historical figure, has a super common first name (in that case, we just won't say the source/last name), or something like that, we will not be using their name if it is the same as their source's. We will likely use a periodic table element that is somewhat connected to them. Example: if we had an introject of someone named Theophania Indigo (just a random super uncommon name), we could go with Thorium (Th), Titanium (Ti), or Indium (In).

-Singlets (people who are not systems) can absolutely interact/follow.

Some things about us collectively:

Secular Jew.

Physically disabled.

Rollator user.

Queer.

Intersex.

Transmasculine & transfeminine (see previous bullet).

Probably something else I meant to put here that I am now forgetting.

We hope you enjoy our comics! :D

Hey everyone! We’re doing a project about mental illness terminology being misused online.

The terms we will be discussing are

1. Psychopath and sociopath

2. Narcissist

3. Intrusive thoughts

4. Delusions/“delulu.”

If you see any posts misusing these words, feel free to send them to us.

Also, mutuals, if you have/experience any of these, and you’d like your words/experiences to be used in our project, DM us. We personally don’t have all four of these, so anything y’all want to talk about involving them will be appreciated. It’s not going online, just being presented in a format similar to a Ted Talk to some people at our school.

Thanks everyone.

Edit: Definitely should have mentioned this earlier, but the project is done. It went pretty well. Thank you to everyone who told me about their experiences. We really appreciate it.

Poll Update: Inflexible actually said something that gave us the idea for our next comic. So the poll will be used to decide the comic after that.

~ Matthew (still me, just decided I'd rather use this name on here)

Update: After mentally planning everything over the course of several hours, they decided that they'd rather not do that comic (it's a little too personal for them). Fear not, we are going to be putting out a new comic before the poll one, and it will be very sweet.

Kind of a rant about probably my least favorite holiday:

Unhappy 4th of July to the people that set off bird killers and flashback initiators.

Hate fireworks. I live in an area that’s obsessed with them though. We’re autistic and have PTSD, so they’re a big no for us. Our PTSD isn’t even from combat, but they’re still causing negative stuff in our brain as we type this out. I hope the birds nesting in our area (and all the other people and critters) are okay, but I know they aren’t.

Also, WHY do they set them off in the week or so leading up to tonight too?

I swear my neighbors are playing some kind of July 4th playlist (so far “Firework” and “Party In The USA” have played). Like okay, we’re losing our rights and you’re celebrating this oppressive place by shooting things into the sky. Add “American Healthcare” by Penelope Scott. It’s much more accurate.

- Gia (she/her).

Trick or treat!!

-🦝

TREAT!

(Image description: A very messy grey raccoon paw holding a candy in an orange wrapper. The candy is wrapped like a Tootsie Roll, but square. The background is a light sea foam green. End ID).