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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?

@tmaynt Challenge: Day 7 - Best Turtle Gadget

Can't go wrong with Metalhead. Wish we saw more of him

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.

Day 4 of @tmaynt , baby turtles:

Listen, I only had an hour and a half to do this so it's a bit rushed, and I'm still learning how to do more of a painted style to my digital art so you get ONE baby turtle

It can be whichever 12 tot you want!

Also, this is based on something that happened to me as a baby (my sister put a bucket on my head and I just kinda sat there with it)

Lovely bird prince

.. I'd like to be a lovely bird prince now

screenshot to see ur nickname!