#sysboxes faq

[sysboxes]

Sysboxes FAQ

Responses to some questions we frequently get! This post is long, so full responses are under the cut, but here are the main questions this post addresses, in order:

What are userboxes and how do I use them?

How do you make your userboxes?

What styles/customization can I request?

Do you have a box for X?

When can I send in a request/When will the askbox reopen?

How many requests can I send in per ask or per user?

Is there any particular media you absolutely won’t make boxes for?

Why hasn’t a box been made for my request yet?

What does X term mean?

What is your syscourse stance/Why can’t pro/endos interact?

Who can reblog/use these boxes?

What are userboxes and how do I use them?

Userboxes are rectangular images, often with an image on the left and information about a person on the right. They were originally meant to appear on a Wikipedian’s user page to convey something about a person. To use our boxes, you can reblog them to your tumblr page and/or right click to save the image for later use.

We have seen people put userboxes in their intro posts, in a certain tag on their tumblr, in Discord and PluralKit profiles, on their SimplyPlural (this post explains how), or in exchanges with friends. We generally request that you credit sysboxes when using our userboxes.

How do you make your userboxes?

Different mods use different methods, like Canva and MS Paint, but our main method of making boxes is using yerich.net/userbox. In the box that says “Left Box (ID) Text”, enter the code “src=“yourpicturelinkhere” height=“45px” width=“45px”>”, replacing yourpicturelinkhere with your image URL. Customize your userbox using the rest of the options on the site. You can screenshot your box here, or you can go to htmleditor.com and paste the “Raw HTML” code from yerich. Then you can use HTML coding to mess around with size, font, and color before screenshotting your finished box.

What styles/customization can I request?

This post details a lot of the customization options you can request, like boxes vs. banners, different fonts, colors, and images, including hand-drawn art by mods. You can also request a specific mod do your box. Most mods are adults, but if you feel uncomfortable with a minor making your request, you are free to add that in your ask. Note that if you are requesting an image that contains someone else’s art, we must get permission from the artist to use the image for a userbox.

This being said, we are not infallible to making mistakes on the origins of an image. We do try to reverse image search when provided with an image in an ask, but if you notice your art in a userbox without having been asked permission for its use, please let us know so we can remedy the situation.

Do you have a box for X?

Please search our blog using a keyword for the box you’re looking for and possible variants on it. For example, if you’re looking for a box about food, try food, foods, eat, eats, and eating as keywords. If you’re looking for a box whose keyword is a common tag on our blog, try checking #hard to find tag on our blog for boxes. If you cannot find a box with these steps, we likely have not made one yet or whatever we do have is unlikely to fit your request idea.

When can I send in a request/When will the askbox reopen?

We let people know whether requests are open or closed in three ways: the box in our intro post, the title of the askbox itself, and a post when requests first open or close with the tag #sysboxes status update. When our requests are closed, please do not send any in for “when requests are open”; it will be deleted.

At any given time, we have hundreds of requests in our askbox. We try to keep requests open as long as we can, but even with a large number of mods, there is only so much we can do. We run this blog in our free time, while dealing with work, school, and mental and physical health issues. We do accept questions/appreciation while our requests are closed, but sometimes we save them to respond to when we clear the askbox, to look forward to later.

How many requests can I send in per ask or per user?

We don’t limit how many asks a single user can send in, but if possible, we prefer you send in multiple asks if you have multiple requests. We’ll still do multiple requests in one ask, but one request per ask allows us to more easily sort and number requests. It also lets us respond to when requests will be posted individually instead of waiting until every one is queued or posted to respond to a non-anonymous ask.

Is there any particular media you absolutely won’t make boxes for?

We are okay with requests pertaining to fictives from most media, as we understand they cannot control what source they introjected from. We will not make requests that express support for harmful media. As for media we won’t do requests for introjects from, we have decided not to make boxes pertaining to true crime or nazi introjects, for our and others comfortability. This is not a complete list, as different mods have different boundaries, but we try to honor requests whenever possible.

Why hasn’t a box been made for my request yet?

If you want to know exactly when your userbox will come out, send in your request off anon, and when we queue it, we will privately respond to your ask letting you know when to expect your box. Note our queue is very long.

We do not always do requests in the order we receive them. Some requests we must discuss or reword (for length, misinfo, etc.) before making. We do not make requests that incite hate/harassment, include misinformation (and can’t be reworded), include (specific) details that may endanger the user, or put us in the middle of heavy discourse we do not want to be roped into.

What does X term mean?

This is a userbox blog, and as such, we prefer you do not direct your questions about DID here. We are not professionals (and cannot diagnose anyone), and we recommend looking for credible resources. If you cannot find anything for your question or would like resources, some of the mods are ok with asks about things relating to DID on their system blogs. Mod blogs ok with these questions include @fromthewondersystem and @thecircularsystem.

What is your syscourse stance/Why can’t pro/endos interact?

Individual mods fall across the syscourse spectrum, but this blog is overall anti-endo. In truth, we do not know nor much care whether it is possible to have a non-traumagenic system. We feel our system experiences are deeply informed by our trauma, and this is very different from endos’ experiences.

Additionally, mods of this blog have faced much harassment and harm from the pro-endo community, including being set back in recovery, misinformation, cultural appropriation, abuse, death threats, and doxxing. We are aware these issues extend beyond just the pro-endo community, but this is where we have most commonly found them. For these reasons, we do not want endos or pro-endos interacting with our blog or using our userboxes. There are plenty of pro-endo userbox blogs already.

Who can reblog/use these boxes?

First and foremost, these boxes are for people with (traumagenic) CDDs. The main people who can’t use the boxes we make are those who fall under our DNI.

We do allow syscourse-neutral/unaligned people to use our boxes - we are not here to force you to pick a side. This also includes people with alters who fall across the syscourse spectrum. People who are not pro-endo but allow pro-endos to interact with them may use our boxes, but we recommend noting that we are an anti-endo blog.

As for singlets, we ask them not to use boxes that specify they are for systems or use system-specific terms. We have decided they may use our other boxes. They may also reblog system-specific boxes for system friends. We do request that singlets do not make userbox requests, as other non-system-specific userbox blogs are out there to make requests for them, and we already receive so many.

[antiendovents]

Followed sysboxes for years now. It never once said that in their faq. No clue what that user is on about but that’s definitely smth to fact check and not spread rumors about. /info /not mean

i am not spreading rumours. In the post I made it quite clear I wasn't sure if it was true or not and I asked for a source. Even if it wasn't on their FAQ one of their mods definitely made a post saying that, which is included in the screenshots found in the call out. So either way at least one of them thinks that

Also I literally cannot fact check it. I'm blocked and I'm not gonna try evade that.

[the-multiversal-headspace]

Howdy! I'm Cheeto the host of the system(and is currently the only one who has the courage to introduce ourselves jdndnd😭)

Credit to @sysboxes and @sysgraphics the boxes please read their rules and FAQ to see how to use them correctly thanks!!

Please note I am not one for conflict please don't fight with me it's a trigger response thank you...

We post system related stuff here-!

We are looking for information from others to at least give us some insight on things, we're still new to this...so if we get something confused sorry we're trying so please be patient with us <:]

Some casual fronters are:

Raine(she/they) 🌈

Sleet(he/they/it) 🖤🔥

Shamaru(she/they)🔥

We hope we can be good friends and get along and if not that's okay hope you have a good day at least(thanks for at least looking)

[sysboxes]

Sorry if this is an obvious question, I’m not very active in the online system community but what does CDD stand for? Thanks ahead of time ^^”

CDD stands for Complex Dissociative Disorder. Different sources put different dissociative disorders under this umbrella, but us Sysboxes mods use CDD as shorthand to represent traumatic, lifelong dissociative disorders such as DID, OSDD-1, P-DID, etc.

We have a section in our FAQ (link) about term definitions, so in the future we won’t answer asks like this.

[sysboxes]

are you alright with syscourse neutrals using these? we don't have enough information from either side to dictate where we are on that stance.. we are traumagenic, however!

“We do allow syscourse-neutral/unaligned people to use our boxes - we are not here to force you to pick a side. People who are not pro-endo but allow pro-endos to interact with them may use our boxes, but we recommend noting that we are an anti-endo blog.” -sysboxes faq

Yep ^^

[sysboxes]

what do you use to make your sysboxes? what app? or do you have pngs of each base part of the sysbox?

Hey! This question is answered briefly in our FAQ if you want a link to the main resource we use! All of us do slightly different methods. For instance, I know Mod Wonder uses Canva for some boxes, whereas I use pngs for the base of each part of the box. It varies from mod to mod!

[sysboxes]

Welcome to @sysboxes! 🥐

We make userboxes for CDD systems! We'll be making a variety of different boxes in different colors and styles. Requests are also available. Thanks for stopping by!

FAQ & More

This (linked) post contains our current FAQ. Take a look before asking a question! Also note that DMing is not possible with group blogs. Estimated number of requests left to do: 31 (last updated 6/12/25).

Blog Rules

Anything requested must be SFW (as in not detailedly-explicit).

We do more than just system-related boxes! We also make boxes for your interests, boundaries, etc.

We queue posts, and our queue is usually quite long.

If someone on our DNI is using our boxes, please let us know.

We do not condone harassment/sending hate, to anyone. If you are found to be harassing or sending hate to anyone, you will be blocked.

Rude people get their userbox privileges revoked. We use the block button liberally.

We don’t owe you anything <3. We love y’all and we love this blog and that people have been helped by it, but this being a big blog does not mean it’s a community/public one. We are a group of friends who enjoy making userboxes. Please check your parasociality (link for more info) before sending in an ask about what you think we’re obligated to do.

DNI at bottom of post

[Text: Our askbox is currently closed!]

Get to Know the Mods!

The Wonder System

We’re the Wonder System! We have 21+ alters, and our collective pronouns are they/them. We wanted to help make sysboxes you don’t usually see.

our system blog is @fromthewondersystem

mod wonder ❄️

The Plush Collection

hi!! :3 we are the plush collection! we use the name plush and the pronouns they/them for all ~22 of us, collectively. we’re here to make some silly sysboxes and choose to be kind, even when it's the difficult option!

our system blog is @theplushcollection!

mod plush 🌻

Morpho

Hey I’m Morpho and I use he/him. I’m here because I like making boxes and want to do something to help uplift the community! (also bc my friends are here :3 )

mod morpho 🦋 (aka Mod [REDACTED] 😔 if tumblr is acting up)

Avon

I'm Avon! Nice to meet you. We use they/them collectively. I'm here because I really love userboxes and my friends, and this blog has both!

My main blog is @avonsdrabbles

mod avon 📖

The Weeping System

Hi! We’re Mod Weeping, a DID system. You can use they/them and Weeping when referring to us! We love userboxes and wanted to help make some!

Our main is @delightfulweepingwillows

mod weeping ❤️

BUGZ / Bugz

HELLO! I formerly went by The Bugz on this blog, but the whole system has joined in on the userbox fun! I am a C-DID system, and we use they/he/she pronouns. My whole system here for making userboxes and trying to add some positivity to the CDD community!

mod bugz 🐛

The Luxray Pride

Howdy!! were the Luxray pride, our system has several names thought, collectively using he/they/it! we're mixed Romani and Mexican, with some irish, but are cultural connected to us being mexican, we used to be known as mod 404!

Our most active system-based blog is @luxraysyscourse

Mod luxray 🐈‍⬛️⚡️

The forgotten Collective

Hello! we are the forgotten collective (or the music note system) we are a polyfrag system and collectively use they/it/fae! We write image descriptions for the blog!

Mod starry 🌌

DNI

endos/non-traumagenics + supporters ☕ map/nomap/pears ☕ radqueers (transID/supporters) ☕️ terfs/radfems ☕️ racists and antisemites ☕️ other basic dni criteria