hi hii, we go by Rea as a collective both online and in real life. We're in our 20s, Black American, and really love Pokémon and cartoons.

I feel strongly about being able to call myself an artist. My ability to create grounds me in a way that it connects me to being human, which as someone whose alterhuman is a nice feeling because what I think of when I say "human" is not about physical likeness - its more about what we're capable of and the varied experiences each person has. We create things in our image as the way we were created in someone's image, whether its at a parental level or higher being. I find myself looking through this lens of creator/creation in everything. Unfortunately, I struggle to put ideas in words so maybe I'll expand on what I try to say here another time!

I like to explore heavy themes and topics that would be censored. It's hard for me to not write about the human experience, both the beautiful and nauseating parts. I hate to water things down or filter it out for it to be seen as the ideal. Because of this, I create with adults as an audience in mind.

My go to saying with my stance on art censorship is: fiction is a realm you can explore the horrors of humanity. How someone goes about it isn't my business. As long as it isn't endangering folks or encouraging harm IRL, I don't care. Draw/write whatever. Keep it tagged so people can curate their spaces and dont use fiction for antisocial bullshit.

We are the Sunflowers! We are a tramuagenic polyfragmented system of a couple of...God knows how many. We have at least five distinguishable alters, well whom is willing to make a profile. We all have alters ourselves, who some of which have alters too. Our internal structure is incredibly webbed/node-like. It gets weird when we try to figure out the vastness because then it goes from something metaphysical to physical in a sense that is horrifying. Super cool but maybe best left untouched past what presents itself.

We chose the name Sunflower what we call ourselves because of the song Sunflower by Post Malone & Swae Lee and because we just like sunflowers as an icon. yayyy for yellow! :3 like pikachu

We refer to each other as like a family often times. This is done both in sfw and nsfw ways. This vessel (our human body) is a haunted house, car, something/whatever and we're doing our best to live together in it. We fuck it up sometimes but we're learning to appreciate it and stand up for it.

We work on the site and our creative projects as a collective.

Some transparency: We do not have a formal DID or OSDD dx due to distrust of medical system and lack of confidence that the formal diagnosis will help us. Our current diagnoses complicate attempts at treatment due to our struggle with self-advocacy as a black AFAB with dogshit insurance. We are acknowledged to have mood issues, OCD, personality disorders, psychotic features and complex trauma which haven't responded favorably to medication, leaving us to conclude and manage ourselves as a system.

We used to have a eagerness for treatment and having a clear picture of whats wrong with us for a couple of reasons we can now identify as having been detrimental. Having recognized this, we are on a path of acceptance of being "insane" and unsettling.

This being said, our plural experience should not be viewed as something applicable to other systems. This is just our experience with plurality given the circumstances leading to it. We call ourselves plural because well, we are not just one mind within this body. Do your own research, come to your own conclusions, speak to other systems who are diagnosed or those who arent. I truly dont give a fuck because it doesnt make a difference to me if you care or believe it or not. This is our life and what we're living and I would like to just roll with it instead of return to a destructive place of trying to "fix" myself so I am worthy of life.