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Something neat spotted on Twitter today. Emmengard, a plural system, finished up a mural on plurality: https://twitter.com/Emmengard1/status/1300806470422810625

There is a kind of visual short-hand of shattered glass or a broken mirror, which people use when talking about multiple personalities [DID & plurality generally] We have never liked that. We are not glass. We are living beings.

When injured we do not shatter, we heal, we grow, we keep going, not only plurals, all of us do. We are not broken. To be broken would imply there is only one way for a tree to grow and that those trees that fail to grow that one way are defunct and bad trees.

No one is broken. But, many are hurting, because growing is not easy. Whoever you are, we wish you all the best on your journey.

We hope you enjoy our mural. We will have a plaque on the wall next to it that says all the things we just said about plurality.

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lb_lee

Holy shit this is so cool! (And actually jives with some of the imagery we were considering for the zine we're working on.) Do they say where this mural is located or the circumstances of its creation? So cool!

--Sneak/Rogan

From:

hungryghosts

It really is! I love the imagery of the multiple branches sprouting from the person's head, like a small forest.

I'm not sure, but I can ask!

- Phosphor

From:

hungryghosts

Looks like it's for an apartment lobby! https://twitter.com/Emmengard1/status/1301195729205997568

From:

lb_lee

That's so cool! Congrats to Emmengard, they seem like good eggs!

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hungryghosts

They make SO much neat stuff. They were making a plural webcomic called The Blobbies, although it's been on hold for a while now: https://emmengard.com/the-blobbies/

They also made their own version of the psychological distress scale after they lost a friend to suicide: https://emmengard.com/2019/05/07/suicide-scale/ Apparently it got shared around the non-plural parts of Reddit, made it big, and helped a lot of people.