HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!

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.

Here is the sweet little in-between comic we said we would make! Hope y’all enjoy!

Title: “Kids & Old Comfort Media”

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).

Tried to doodle your profile picture

Ahhhh oh my goodness I love it so much! Thank you! <3

[Image description: a very cute sketch of a cat with the DID/OSDD colors (dark grey, light blue, light green, and yellow). It has a pink nose, sea foam green eyes, white whiskers, and little teeth. End description]

In-System Relationships

Sorry this took so long. We’ve been really excited about this one. Next comic will be about signs that were missed. Bonus points if you can guess the sources of any of our fictives (I think one is pretty obvious if you know the source).

Unrelated to DID: My Very Good Friend @petticoatedmouse made a Discord server for people who like sewing. No particular level of experience required.

Here is the link:

[Image description:

Note: Their identities are listed because they are holding their flags in the comic.

First image, panel 1: A grey background with two people, Jenny (she/her), a fictive, who is demisexual and pansexual, and Omara (ze/zir), who isn’t an introject, but based parts of their appearance on a video game character. Omara is sapphic and has an unlabeled gender. The caption reads “In-system relationships… …quite a complex phenomenon.”

Panel 2: A pink background with the outline of a red heart and the captions, “So complex, in fact, that we can even feel the attraction on the outside. But only if the alter experiencing attraction is fronting or co-conscious.”

Panel 3: A grey background showing Worlds (she/they), a lesbian introject (who is also a vampire), and Kelly (she/her), a bisexual factive, holding hands. The caption says, “Sometimes, there are very much like out-of-system relationships.”

Panel 4: Worlds, whose bat wings are now visible, is flying through space with Kelly on their back. The captions are in white boxes and they read, “Other times, not so much” and “Yeah, I don’t think singlets typically fly through space (our innerworld is in space) on their partner’s back.”

Second image, panel 1: A sea foam green background with the words, “Of course, not every headmate wants this. We just have a lot of in-system relationships.”

Panel 2: A stage with a keyboard, microphone, and part of a drum set visible with a grey background is shown. Two alters are standing on it, Bay (she/her), a fictive who is ambiamorous and omnisexual, is standing by the piano looking at Sodium, and Sodium (she/her), an ambiamorous lesbian, is standing by the mic looking at Bay. The caption says: “They can be just as complex as out of system relationships… (yes, we have a stage in headspace where we perform whatever we’re listening to IRL).”

Panel 3: Captions say, “…and just as full of love.” and “While we have several polyamorous and ambiamorous headmatss, we don’t have any throuples or other with more than two partners. Systems that do have these are absolutely valid though.” Sodium is shown sitting on a grey bench on a grey background with another factive, Radium (she/her), who is demiromantic, demisexual, and trixensexual.

Panel 4: A sea foam green background with the caption, “They are very important in our system. When partners spend time together, it improves our overall mental health.”

Third image, panel 1: A sea foam green background with the caption, “This gets more complicated with introjects. Sodium and Radium are factives from the same source, but they aren’t dating IRL, which is a bit awkward. And yes, it’s valid to have factives who are dating IRL. We just don’t have any.”

Panel 2: Caption: “With fictives, it’s a little different. You may be fan favorites or even canon. Or you may be an unpopular ship or not canon (valid as long as there are no problematic elements) (no, they’re not getting married, this is how they dress in source).” It shows Jules (he/they), a bi demiboy, and Alicia (she/they), a pan girl (both fictives) on a grey background, looking at each other.

Panel 3: Caption: “And yes, it’s also valid to have fictives who aren’t dating their source-partner. Whether that’s because you don’t have an introject of them…” Cristina (she/they), who is pan, is shown on a grey background, saying, “If we had an introject of him, and he asked me out, I’d say yes.”

Panel 4: Caption: “…or because they’re simply not attracted to them (although in this case, we don’t have an introject of him either- thank goodness).” Eugenia (she/any), who is pan, and Mercedes (she/they/he), who is non-binary and straight (we chose to include that because they aren’t cis), are shown on a gray background saying, “Ewwwwww!”

Fourth image, panel 1: A sea foam green background with the caption: “Of course, in-system relationships aren’t for everyone.”

Panel 2: Rhombus (they/them), who is gendervoid, agender, and aroace, is shown on a grey background, with a caption and arrow next to them that reads, “Not interested in any kind of relationship.”

Panel 3: Three alters, Inflexible (they/them) (introject), who is lesbian, oriented aroace, and bellusaroace, Grey (they/he) (introject), who is non-binary and aroace, and Jayde (they/them), who is oriented aroace, pomosexual, and liagender, are shown on a grey background. Caption: “All three are interested in QPRs, and all three have experienced tertiary attraction towards people in the outerworld, but they are not interested in each other.”

Panel 4: A sea foam green background with the caption, “Especially when what you want is on the outside.”

Panel 5: The hosts, Ao (ey/eir) and Ruby (she/her) (captions say to check our first comic for their labels because there are a lot of them)!are shown on a grey background. The caption next to Ao has an arrow and says, “Has feelings for a singlet.” The caption next to Ruby has an arrow and says, “Has feelings for a different singlet.”

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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

New comic! This is a collaboration with the wonderful @sketchbook-stars!

Our story is on the left, and theirs is on the right.

Some notable people on my side of the comic include:

@milady-mothman - the best friend in the first panel!

@gagtodeath - the cousin in the third panel!

@andrewjacksondestroyer - our very close friend from the fourth panel!

We’ve been trying to publish more of these, but we keep wanting to start new comics instead of finishing old ones (yes, we have ADHD, lol).

Uhhh so anyway, hope you enjoy!

[Image ID: Note: There are two stories told simultaneously in this comic. The story on the left will be described first, and then the story on the right.

Begin ID: Panel 1: The background is sea foam green. There is some text near the top that reads, “Coming out to our best friend as a system was a huge deal for us. They’re super supportive and we love them very much (platonically). Underneath that, there is a gray text message bubble coming from the left that reads, “who am I speaking to?” Beneath that, there is a blue text message bubble that reads, “Ao and Ruby, thanks for asking.”

Panel 2: The background is sea foam green. There is one block of text near the top that reads, “We came out to another friend using memes and a comic we made on Super Storyboarder.” Beneath that, there is another block of text that reads, “She thought the memes were funny and seemed to really appreciate them.”

Panel 3: The background is sea foam green. There is a block of text at the top of the page that reads, “Coming out to our cousin was a pretty big deal. We came out to her after the concert of an artist we both love. We had brought up DID before, but we would always talk about our ‘friends,’ who were a system (hint: it was us). She’s always been super understanding and even follows us on Simply Plural now.” Beneath that is a drawing of two people on a dock across from some land with trees and houses. The water around the dock is reflecting an orange color, like the sunset. The person on the right has short black hair, peach skin, and is wearing a white shirt with long sleeves and white pants. There is a white box next to them that says, “Coltun (they/them), one of two alters who has a super deep voice while fronting (the only one of the two that we knew about at the time). They are saying, “Did you hear the change in my voice before?” The person on the left has long red hair, peach skin, a black shirt with long sleeves, and blue pants. She is saying, “Yeah, I was wondering if that was you.”

Panel 4: The background is sea foam green. There are two blocks of text at the top. The first one says, “One of our biggest system coming outs was the first time we ever told anyone. Ao knew of 8 alters at the time (including eirself), but thought ey was imagining them (spoiler alert: ey wasn’t). The block of text beneath it says, “We had heard of DID before, but knew almost nothing about it.” Beneath that, there are two people sitting on a gray ledge with their feet on a sidewalk. The one on the right has long brown hair, peach skin, a neutral facial expression, light brown eyes, thick black square glasses, a red flannel jacket with long sleeves, blue pants, and red shoes. There is some text next to him that says, “Corey (he/him), co-host of our friend’s system at the time.” He is saying, “I’m a system, which means I am many people in one body.” The person on the left, Ao, has peach skin, reddish-brown hair, a shocked facial expression, blue eyes, a gray hoodie with a darker gray pocket and hood, black shorts and black shoes. Ey is saying, “That sounds like what I’ve been experiencing!”

Begin second story ID:

First panel: The background is a warm shade of pink. There is a block of text near the middle that says, “we never planned to come out to any of our friends initially, being afraid of being judged or misunderstood. yet it turned out to not be so bad.” Beneath that, there is a smiling person who is the same color as the background with shoulder-length messy hair.

Second panel: The background is a warm shade of pink. At the top of the panel, there is some text that says, “Yet after a while, one of our hosts was tired of hiding it all, and told some of our friends.” A block of text below that on the right side of the panel reads, “They were extremely accepting.” There are two people in the panel. Both are the same color as the background. The first has completely black eyes, shoulder-length somewhat messy hair, two antlers, a smile, a bit of sweat on their face, a pointy tail, a turtleneck sweater under an open jacket with cuffed sleeves, and pants. “Lucid” is written above their head. There is a tiny speech bubble next to them with an ampersand in it. The person on the right has short hair with bangs that cover their eyes, a slightly open mouth, lines next to their face indicating emotion, and a hoodie with long drawstrings. Next to them is a small speech bubble with a check mark and an exclamation point.

Panel 3: The background is a warm shade of pink. At the top of the panel, there is a block of text that says, “and on the inverse, we helped our partner realize that they were also a system.” Beneath that, there is more text that says, “it warmed our hearts to know that they trusted us with this concept and we helped them come to terms and realize it.” There are two people below that. Both are the same color as the background. The one on the left is looking at the one on the right. They are winking. They have shoulder-length hair, a smile, a braided band in their hair, and two pairs of wings- one on their head and one on their back. The word above their head is Civ. There is some text above their head that says, “y’know, how did you NOT realize??” The person on the right is looking at the person on the left. Their mouth is open. They have chin-length hair, a hoodie, horns, and a pointy tail. The word above their head is Colix. There is some text above them that says, “..IM A LITTLE STUPID-“

Panel 4: The background is a warm shade of pink. The text at the top says, “We don’t regret being open about our system one bit.” The text beneath it says, “It might have caused us some pain, but we have made so many more good memories since that day.” Beneath that, there are two people holding hands. They are sitting on green grass and the background behind them (underneath the text) is crimson. The person on the left has peach skin, shoulder-length dark crimson hair, black eyes, a smile with a fang in it, a red shirt with long sleeves and a white collar and cuff, crimson pants, a dark crimson bat wing on the left side, black shoes, and a red rose on the right side of their hair. There are three small speech bubbles on the left side of them. The top one has a red heart, the middle one has an orange flower, and the bottom one has a yellow star. The person on the right is looking at them. They have thin black square glasses, light blue-green skin, light blue-green hair that sticks out more and is a little longer than the hair of the other person, a smile, a darker blue-green shirt with a frill on the front under a darker blue-green jacket buttoned at the bottom with a collar, darker blue green pants, and a furry tail the same color as their skin. On the right side of their face is a dark blue-green patch. They do not have an eye there.

End ID]

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.]

trick or treat! :))

TREAT!

(Image description: A black cat’s paw with black toe beans. The cat’s claws are out and holding a lollipop with a white stick and a purple wrapper with darker purple creases. The background is a light sea foam green. End ID).

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.