The Prismatic Collective

A comic of our experience with DID and how it effects us.

[prismaticcollective5]

Welcome to our little nook in the chaos that is this site, we hope you stay for a bit.

We're the Prismatic Collective, a polyfragmented DID system of 100+. We go by Prism as a whole or if you do not know who is speaking.

We are various other flavors of neurodivergent, and are incredibly fictive heavy (A large majority of our alters are fictives).

You are alright to use They/Them pronouns for everyone, as keeping track of the correct pronouns can be.. difficult (We understand don't worry)

This blog will contain our system comics, which may be posted somewhat inconsistantly.

We do take asks on both this blog and @prismaticcollectivealt, whichever you feel more comfortable asking on.

SUBSYSTEM INTROS:

The Storychasers (Current Main subsystem)

SysAdmin (Support alters, able to travel between subsystems)

THIS BLOG IS A SYSCOURSE FREE ZONE, and would like to be a safe space for systems of all orgins

This blog has no DNI, please follow your own DNI when interacting.

Our general side blog for non-comic chatter & posts: @prismaticcollectivealt

Our fandom side blog for any fandom related posts: @prismaticcollectivefandom

[prismaticcollective5]

Tw: extreme depersonalization Comic by 🕳️, a new fragment

by 🕳️, no pronouns just refer to me as my name (or emoji ig)

[prismaticcollective5]

... We're gonna need to make full designs and an intro for his subsystem soon if they keep lurking. Also he has gotta stop torturing me with his playlist. - Sebastian Solace (He/it), who has a much better music taste, about Wemmbu (He/they)

[prismaticcollective5]

SUBSYSTEM INTRO:

Sysadmin

Alters in this subsystem can travel between subsystems, and tend to be able to influence, or help protect other subsystems, and keep the system running as it should. Comprised of gatekeepers, jailers, comforters, archivists, and Vivid.

Member Count: 9

Left to Right

Gatekeeper (Black) Prns: They/He/It Gender: Gendervoid Role: Primary Gatekeeper, Jailor

E (Grey) Prns: She/It Gender: Unknown Role: Comforter & Caretaker

Jester (Purple) Prns: He/They Gender: Demiboy Role: Jester & Caretaker (For Gatekeeper) Extra notes: Gatekeeper, E, and Jester are polyamorous

X (Blue) Prns: He/It/Eye/Star/Moon Gender: Unknown Role: Secondary Archivist Extra: Z's sibling, Eldritch Polycule's child Z (Dark Blue) Prns: They/It Gender: Agender Role: Gatekeeper (Only when extremely urgent), Jailor (Oversees jailed alters) Extra: X's sibling, Eldritch Polycule's child Pandora (Brown) Prns: She/They/It Gender: Agender Role: Memory Handler (Specifically for school topics) Spectator (Light Green) Prns: They/Them Gender: Catgender Role: Primary Archivist Vivid LED Lucid Neon (Vivid) (Black + Rainbow) Prns: It/Any Gender: Pangender Role: Joy Seeker / Holder Extra note: It insisted we break the art style to draw it like that. We... honestly do not know, it just appears and causes chaos (generally /pos) Zero (Dark Desaturated Purple) Prns: They/She Gender: Agender Role: Secondary Gatekeeper

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SUBSYSTEM INTRO:

The Story-Chasers Current Main Subsystem Member Count: 11 (The photo had to be split in two otherwise Tumblr image suppression would've eaten our pixels even more then it is already)

From Left to Right:

Len (Orange) Source: Ego Renegade Boy / Vocaloid Prns: He/Fire/Blaze/They Gender: Transmasc Role: Subsystem Cohost

Vee / Eevee (Brown) Source: Pokemon Prns: She/They/It/Fur/Paw Gender: Demigirl, Fluffgender, Eevic Role: Syskid, Wanderer, Curiosity Holder Nico Di Angelo (Dark Blue) Source: Percy Jackson Prns: He/Him Gender: Cis Male Role: Dislikes Role Terminology Phainon / Khaslana (Light Blue) Source: Honkai Star Rail Prns: He/It Gender: I dunno. Uh. Unlabelled ig? Role: Subsystem Main Host Tribbie (Red) Source: Honkai Star Rail Prns: She/They Gender: Demigirl Role: Comforter & Caretaker Mr Eye (Black) Source: dreamcore (In general) Prns: it/they/dream/eye/toy Gender: Gender is a lie. Role: Derealization Holder Castorice (Pink/Purple) Source: Honkai Star Rail: Prns: She/Her Gender: Unknown Role: Unknown

From left to right: Klein (Grey) Source: Lord of the Mysteries Prns: He/him Gender: Cis Man Role: Unknown Null (Green glitchy) Source: Computer Viruses Prns: It/Its Gender: Gender.ZIP Role: Prosecutor & Anger Holder Cale (Darker Red) Source: Trash/Lout of the Count's Family Prns: He/They Gender: Demiboy Role: Protector Cyrene (Pink) Source: Honkai Star Rail Prns: She/Her Gender: Agender Role: Memory Holder, Subsystem Cohost, Caretaker Sebastian Solace (Blueish Grey) Source: Pressure Pronouns: He/It Gender: Doesn't care for labels Role: Once again, doesnt care for labels

[prismaticcollective5]

Rebrand? Rebrand.

Hello whoever might see this! Wanted to let everyone know of two things: 1, we now have two side blogs since our system Archivists got mad about things intermingling. We now have @prismcollectivealt for general chatter, and @prismcollectivefandom for any sort of fandom related posts. The reason for this is

2, we're gonna start a system diary comic on this main blog, and we didnt want things to mix too much. So, this blog will be centered on Comics, Alt will be for general chatter along with chaotic reblogs, and Fandom will be so we can finally post some of our fandom stuff without it being it all mixed up!

Hope this is alright with everyone. Still getting all the accounts set up with their intro posts, but wanted to say this now!

[headoomfs]

did anybody else do this

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Weird things about being a system pt4:

One of our headmates is doing the night mail dance (The dancing spinning one from animations) in the back of front and I just can hear them singing 'this is the night mail crossing the border' and so on over and over again- Len (He/fire/blaze/they)

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Update they are now doing it louder and closer to front to annoy me, makes it hard to focus on literally anything else </3 /lh - Len (He/fire/blaze/they) Excuse you, let me whimsy-max in peace - Anon alter

[prismaticcollective5]

Weird things about being a system pt4:

One of our headmates is doing the night mail dance (The dancing spinning one from animations) in the back of front and I just can hear them singing 'this is the night mail crossing the border' and so on over and over again- Len (He/fire/blaze/they)

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[respiratory--system]

this system is a prison dude that does NOT add up to a hundred

[positivitygenic]

your in-system relationships are real relationships, and are more than worthy of being celebrated in every way a relationship can be celebrated.

[pro-willo-jack-bright]

"Introjects need to source separate"

"Introjects need to look at and examine their source to figure out why they formed."

"Introjects need to be exactly like their source."

"Introjects need to be a little different from their source."

"Problematic Introjects should never acknowledge that aspect of themselves."

"Problematic introjects need to be aware of what they did and apologize for it every time they want to speak."

Actually, Introjects need to have a warm blanket and drink and their favorite snack of choice.

[prowilloeevee]

You’re still plural, even if your headmates haven’t talked in a while

You’re still plural, even if you have to mask it a lot

You’re still plural, even if having someone else front takes concentration and/or energy

You’re still plural, even if you’re frontstuck

You’re still plural :]

[silence-is-underrated]

No actually they're loud as fuck

[prismaticcollective5]

Weird things about being a system part 3 (damn this is becoming an actual series wtf): None of our sleep alters are active. So. We just cannot sleep. It's very fun /sarc