TEA ; House of Memories Et al. [H.O.M.E.] System

P-DID Pride Flag

Made by @troyshka on Tumblr

I conceptualised this flag since I and a few system friends of ours realised that none of the current P-DID flags truly represented us. I tried from my side to recognize all P-DID systems in general while designing this :)

The Stripes

Red — Disruption & Strength

Representing the fracturing and interference that defines P-DID — the intrusions, the discontinuities, the complexity of a self that is not singular. It acknowledges the difficulty of this experience without diminishing it.

Yellow — The Front

Mirroring the central sun, this stripe honours the dominant alter who carries daily life, the one holding visibility and the responsibility of functioning in the world.

White — The Space Between

The neutral centre represents co-consciousness itself: the shared space where alters exist simultaneously without one fully taking executive control. Neither absence nor presence, but coexistence.

Green — Resilience & Continuity

Representing the capacity to persist, learn, grow, and continue functioning. It symbolizes life moving forward & the system enduring and existing across time.

Blue — Depth & The Unseen

Honouring the non-dominant alters who are present and influential — yet operating beneath the surface of daily life. Blue sees what is not always visible to the outside world.

The Symbol

The central image is a hybrid of a solar system and an atom. The sun at the centre represents the fronting alter: the one most present and visible, keeping the system in orbit. The electrons/planets on their orbits represent non-dominant alters in co-consciousness — distinct and individual with each outlined in different colours to reflect their uniqueness. The orbital paths themselves carry meaning too: the vertical orbit sits at a different distance than the diagonal ones, reflecting how co-consciousness is never uniform, some alters are closer, some further, and that distance shifts depending on the system and the moment. This hybrid framing grounds it in scale and legitimacy, because a system is not a small thing, it is its own universe.

Opposition

In my youth

I was opposed to school.

And now, again,

I’m opposed to work.

Above all it is health

And righteousness that I hate the most.

Theres nothing so cruel to man

As health and honesty.

Of course I’m opposed to the Japanese spirit

And duty and human feeling make me vomit.

I’m against any government anywhere

And show my bum to authors and artists circles.

When I’m asked for what I was born,

Without scruple, I’ll reply, To oppose.

When I’m in the east

I want to go to the west.

I fasten my coat at the left, my shoes right and left.

My hakama I wear back to front and I ride a horse facing its buttocks.

What everyone else hates I like

And my greatest hate of all is people feeling the same.

This I believe: to oppose

Is the only fine thing in life.

To oppose is to live.

To oppose is to get a grip on the very self.

Kaneko Mitsuharu

Movie: Le Rempart des Béguines

Maya Plisetskaya as Odette-Odile in Swan Lake 🩰.

Picture 1: Bunny Yeager, 'Countdown to Kitschmas'.

Picture 2: Paris Hilton, Instagram reel (2024).