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This account has grown so quickly and I'll be honest, I've gotten the urge to delete it a few times. Not because I don't want to do this, but because this isn't my priority -- my animated series is -- and I'm so worried about letting followers down because I'm putting my own passion project over something objectively more important.

But that's the thing; I'm using my series for paraphile education and advocacy too! Where research and academia tend to fail, creative media has an advantage in making a personal connection with viewers and opening their minds to further education.

Aside from answering asks, I will try to keep this blog somewhat active by reblogging information and posting submitted information. But I do apologize for setting unrealistic expectations about how much I will be providing, and I will be editing my pinned post soon.

Instead of making videos and posts -- which I'm already spending a lot of time and energy doing for my series -- I've considered switching to a very casual podcast where I can still share and discuss information about paraphilias and, hopefully, invite some guests on as well!

I've included an interest poll below to see if people wouldn't mind that as an alternative, so please consider reblogging to help me expand my survey size.

This account has grown so quickly and I'll be honest, I've gotten the urge to delete it a few times. Not because I don't want to do this, but because this isn't my priority -- my animated series is -- and I'm so worried about letting followers down because I'm putting my own passion project over something objectively more important.

But that's the thing; I'm using my series for paraphile education and advocacy too! Where research and academia tend to fail, creative media has an advantage in making a personal connection with viewers and opening their minds to further education.

Aside from answering asks, I will try to keep this blog somewhat active by reblogging information and posting submitted information. But I do apologize for setting unrealistic expectations about how much I will be providing, and I will be editing my pinned post soon.

Instead of making videos and posts -- which I'm already spending a lot of time and energy doing for my series -- I've considered switching to a very casual podcast where I can still share and discuss information about paraphilias and, hopefully, invite some guests on as well!

I've included an interest poll below to see if people wouldn't mind that as an alternative, so please consider reblogging to help me expand my survey size.

We DO NOT want

❌To demedicalize DID/OSDD. Both need to stay in the DSM and ICD and be taken seriously and treated properly.

But we DO want:

✅Plurality to remain demedicalized and be properly seen and supported as such. Plurality as in, the state of having more than one mind in your head. It’s not inherently pathological and shouldn’t be seen as such by anyone. 

We DO NOT want:

❌ To be in DID/OSDD-only spaces

But we DO want:

✅ To be allowed spaces of our own without being harassed just for existing

✅ To be allowed shared spaces, separate from DID-only ones, with those who *want* to be in a shared space, without being harassed just for sharing space

We DO NOT want:

❌ To use terms that don’t belong to us

But we DO want:

✅ To be able to continue to use the term “system” the way we have for literally decades because it is not and never has been an exclusively DID term. It has always been for all people who experience having others in their head, and was originally used as a substitute for “person with MPD/DID” because not everyone in the community back then had, needed, wanted, or fit the criteria for a diagnosis - but all were plural systems regardless.

We DO want:

✅ To be treated with decency and respect

And we DO NOT want:

❌ To be accused of faking just for experiencing plurality differently, or harassed in other ways

We DO NOT want:

❌ People thinking that every system works the same or that advice that works for one will work or be good for all

But we DO want: 

✅  To be able to share spaces where that advice and help can be freely shared among different kinds of systems because while it might not be good for everyone, it’s always good for some, regardless of system origin or diagnostic status

We DO NOT want:

❌ People assuming that endogenic = never had any trauma. 

And we DO NOT want: 

❌ People thinking that just because we have trauma, we must be traumagenic. That’s for us to determine for ourselves.

And we DO want:

give that woman facial hair. give her a deep voice give that man breasts. give him a feminine voice

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION