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.

Describing myself is difficult because well its complicated (i got issues). Scroll further to read about our plural identity. My persisting traits that I have been told noted from people IRL (which I do feel are accurate to our system) are: I have youngest child energy and I care too much about the wrong things.

Some things I like to mention: I can't read sarcasm and most of my ability to hold conversation requries mention of Pokemon or PBS Kid cartoons. I geneuinely view myself as my alterhuman ids however I am learning to be more confident speaking about my experience being them. I'm diagnosed with various letters of the alpahebt and my digestive and nervous system are in shambles 💯

I've been drawing for a long time now and I think I'm considered the first gen of tablet babies in terms of unlimited access to the internet(laptop). My first drawing tablet was the UDraw for Wii - the DSi and 3DS predated the UDraw though. I was a Flipnote Hatena and DeviantART kid. I used to partake in multi-animator projects on Youtube for OCs and Warrior Cats and used to make animation memes in the 201Xs.

I feel strongly about being able to call myself an artist. My ability to create grounds me in a way that it grounds me to connecting to humanity, which as someone whose alterhuman is a nice feeling because what I think of when I say "human" is not about just 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 are usually heavily censored or spark intense discussion. 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. I am very agaisnt minors consuming my work even if the themes aren't mature because I don't want to be a bad influence lol

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. Don't use art for evil.

We are the Sunflowers! We are a tramuagenic polyfragmented system of a couple of...God knows how many. It's so many of us. We have at least five distinguishable alters, well whom is willing to make a profile and can document & recall things coherently. 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. Its super cool but its something we feel best left untouched past what we've discovered to limit further distress.

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. Our series is just playing with toys and having a fucking blast while doing so.

Some transparency: We do not have a formal dissociative disorder diagnosis due to lack of confidence that the formal diagnosis will help us get aid or do any good for our quality of life. Our current diagnoses have complicated attempts at further treatment, impacted how we are treated & have not been alleviated through medication.

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 and an extension of our neglect of self. Having recognized this, we are on a path of acceptance of being "insane", unsettling and breaking rules and norms that we've followed in attempt to "be good".

This being said, our plural experiences and discussion should not be viewed as something applicable to other systems. This is just our experience with plurality given the circumstances leading to it and how we make sense of what is wrong with us given how much it impacts our functioning and world navigation. We call ourselves plural because well, we are not just one mind within this body and our experience is complicated and we barely understand whats happening most times ourselves, tbh. 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 whatever is going on in my mind or not. This is our life and what we're living and I would like to just roll with it with love instead of return to a destructive place of trying to "fix" myself to make myself function and think the way most people do.