Don't Stop Talking About Them. We Need To Be Their Voice.

Don't stop talking about them. We need to be their voice.

Inspired by the amazing poem by dana

one of the most important things about dissociative identity disorder and generally being a system that i wish people would understand is that it truly isn’t as cut and dry as it may seem for member count.

you’ll see people who say they have “six alters” and then immediately assume it’s six fully fleshed out equal individuals with no confusion or fuzziness regarding identity. that’s simply not true in a majority of cases, as i have seen.

most systems still VERY much deal with confusion regarding potential splits, go through dissociative episodes where they’re unsure of who they are, sometimes feel no attachment towards any identities, feel like they might have split and then suddenly that person is gone, unsure if alters they haven’t heard from often have gone dormant, not sure how to react when alters do come out of dormancy, etc.

it’s not a fun feeling and it’s genuinely unfair in certain situations to force systems to list every single alter to you with full certainty, as if it will never change. because it will. for so many different reasons, systems will grow, they will shrink, they will fuse, they will develop. you can’t expect the person with the dissociative disorder and lack of core identity to be able to keep up a perfected list of forever, it’s simply impossible. you may have alters who stick with you, but that doesn’t mean changes won’t happen.

and systems who may be reading this — please don’t feel bad. you are not a hassle, you are not a headache, and you are not an inconvenience for simply coping with something like this. it’s out of your control and the only thing you can do is continue to cope to find ways to help yourself retrain from these reactions. please don’t allow yourself to be harmed by others who don’t understand what you are going through. there are people who will accept and love you for who you are, all of you.

past, present, and future.

How long do you typically spend on each TMayNT drawing? Of the ones you've done so far, which one took the longest? Which one was the quickest?

That's a good question!

I have 2 different styles that I go with and both take different amounts of time! (Lined and lineless)

I would say lineless is the one that takes me the longest, as I am both learning to do it and it requires me to build up colors like a painting. As for how long it takes, could be an hour or I could spend well over a day on the piece!

My longest drawing so far is the unfinished comic cover for "My Name is Venus", mostly due to the various characters and need for backgrounds.

As for the quickest, it's this short comic I made because someone in a discord server im in said Leo's rebellious phase would be putting ice in his tea. I spent MAYBE 10 minutes on it haha

(This is a good excuse to post this)

Thank you for the question!

Edit: I misread the thing lol, answers are pretty much the same regardless! For TMayNT the longest was bebop and rock stead and the shortest was the turtle tot! Sorry about that lol

Your colors are so pretty

I wanna eat it

yet another screenshot redraw 💥

process below :)) 👇🏾

Day 5 of @tmaynt , favorite leo:

2012 ofc, wanted to capture the soft smile he has with his family (aka moments before disaster)

This one's not as rushed as yesterday's but I still think I could have done a bit better. All part of the learning curve yknow?

Day 6 of @tmaynt , favorite mutant ally:

Leatherhead!

I'm pretty happy with this one, once again I haven't drawn him much. This is the first I've done not a side profile of leatherhead

I am slowly starting to run out of steam, so if quality goes down a bit that's why. This is I think the longest I've drawn in forever, and I'm determined to finish this month