Valley of The ✦ Eternal Night

Hi, we're the PALS! We're a 22 y/o system who finally decided to make a little blog. Here's some general info you probably should know.

The Rundown

🌒 Polyfragmented DID. Guy count: many

🌀 Mostly nonhuman (read: dragons)

🍎 bi/trans. he/him preferred, xe/xim and they/them (plural) also OK

💎 Artist, programmer and ultimate autistic nerd.

More Nonsense About Us

We like to draw ourselves and we view ourselves as OCs in some way, do treat us like people though or get the boot <3

Most of us are just variations of the same guy! This also applies to our three co-hosts, Jake, Radian and Dew.

This blog is mostly for us to rant about whatever. And reblog stuff. And to collect dust. We don't use tumblr too much.

Might contain NSFW shitposts but we'll try to tag them

That's it for the actual important info! Some more discourse-y info under the cut.

Almost every single plural app dev has either needed to shut down their services or take a significant step back from the public. All of them because of mental health concerns, most of them because of harassment. I've seen people I thought were above this spread blatant lies and misinformation about the tools that people put hundreds if not thousands of hours of work into, not for profit, but because they genuinely believed that they could provide to the community. I've seen some devs be called slurs and suibaited over this.

And I just have to ask why? Genuinely, what are you trying to achieve from this. What purpose is this serving? Why do you need to put down the very people that are making accessibility tools that require a lot of time and money to keep up? Why bite at the hand that feeds you?

There's several specific things I would like to address if I could ensure the same thing wouldn't happen to me and the rest of the PK devs. Unfortunately I can't ensure this.

I'm... Man. I can't say I'm surprised amaryllis and atlas stepped back. If anything I commend their respect to their own mental health and safety.

With the people coming in from that first post I do want to make it clear that we don't really pay attention to anyone's stance on sys//course. So if you decide to follow keep in mind we interact with people on both sides of the whole thing freely.

We're friends with people who have either opinion/experience, but do get along more with people who keep an open mind to other people's experiences and don't instantly start a flamewar over someone saying they experience/believe x y or z. This goes both ways.

We used to hang out in endo inclusive spaces a lot, fwiw. You'll never see us outright dismissing someone. We did end up mostly leaving system/plural spaces altogether, save for the couple we actually enjoyed hanging out in. Because MAN a lot of them sucked. Ironically the spaces we stayed in also tend to be more nuanced/mixed, even if they're heavily leaning one way or the other!

I wonder if that's just a side effect of getting older? I know a lot of my friends also had the experience of feeling very heavily one way or another as a (younger) teenager, then becoming less and less interested in that.

Idk lol, I guess you could call us an endo supporter but we really don't feel like the discourse applies to us at all anymore. We judge people individually based on how they treat us and others. Not based on where they fall on some argument that's been going in circles for years. Both sides have some points we agree with and some that we don't.