#thedevaaffliction

[blueringart]

Heyyo! Your arts pretty, are you comfortable sharing your art fight? I might wanna come take a look at it / follow at the very least

My art fight is bluering8! It's linked in my blog bio I think, and I'm going to make a link post with it when the teams drop and I decide which one I'm fighting for this year.

[thedevaaffliction]

Pokemon AU Project - Michael "Aiden" Russo

Aiden, going by his middle name rather than his first, started his Pokemon journey with a partner Deino as he collected a team of Pokemon that he felt a connection with. Aiden doesn't seek to achieve anything in particular and travels the world enjoying the company of his friends and team.

Additional Fun Note: Salazzle more so decided to join his team and follow them around more than the other way around.

[rhydart]

Sun dog

An attack on Feathery-Creations’ character, The Red Headed Horseman

[system-of-a-feather]

Hello everyone, Ill probably only be using this account on my phone for the next month while I focus on @thedevaaffliction for Art Fight 2025! Hope to see yall there!

[thedevaaffliction]

Do you like personality quizzes?

Do you want help finding characters to attack for Art Fight 2024?

Well I made a personality quiz of my characters - 50 different results; 40 questions

I'd love to see the results people get ^^

[system-of-a-feather]

New Pinned Post

I'm no longer in need of back up money, so commissions aren't needed, but if you ever want to commission me, I'm usually open. I also occasionally put some of my art on redbubble.

Please read Boundaries before sending an ask.

Anyways, hello everyone, I am too lazy to find my old crack DID pride flag (it'll come up some day and I'll link it here), and I figured I should slowly update some of my intro stuff for this blog after not touching it for a fucking minute.

You can call me Feathers - we're a 21+ year old Buddhist mixed-AAPI intersex nonbinary system (they/them) that is fully fused. There's a lot of oddities going on with our system so here is a bit of an explanation of our system situation here. "So what's up with the Feathers anyways?"

OUT OF DATE (5/15/2014); Keeping for it being an interesting post. For the most recent discussion on Buddhism, Full Integration, Final Fusion, and Functional Multiplicity written by our fully fused self before our recent decision to swap back to Functional Mulitiplicity, feel free to read here; it's long but a pretty cohesive understanding of our current experiences with our DID and shit. (End of OUT OF DATE note)

We're diagnosed with DID, C-PTSD, autism, trichotillomania, OCD, and honestly a number of things cause complex-trauma life. We have some physical disabilities but nothing that typically causes too much obstruction in our day to day.

As a result of our state of recovery, we really don't have a set headcount, however we were / are polyfragmented.

Some fun things about us and things you'll see on this blog:

Due to the fact that DID is no longer really that much of an interesting topic / impactful part of our life, we only occasionally post about DID and our experiences with it. While it was the original purpose of this blog, as a depiction of our healing journey and what healing with DID can look like, we decided we would rather just post about whatever sparks joy in our life. As a result, rather than much content on DID, you will likely see things relating to the topics below. PLEASE feel free to send asks about ANY of the topics below. We love to talk about things.

We are Buddhist (primarily non-theistic; mostly non-denominational, largely Zen) and we really enjoy it. We particularly like the philosophy and do practice it. Admittedly, we identify as being god awful Buddhists, but thats okay cause its part of the process.

We love research and plan to go into it when our ducks are better aligned. We particularly love research and literature around developmental psychopathology, trauma, dissociation, animal behavior, and the more abstract neuroscience topics (particularly consciousness research). We likely won't post much on it as overtly here because I don't enjoy talking science on tumblr much because most people (in my experience) don't actually want to talk about research as much as they want to prove their point.

We are avid bird watchers and regularly document / photograph the birds we see and upload them to ebird. We really enjoy it as an activity and social engagement and really love sharing that joy and knowledge with people. We actually have a minor in Avian Science and have been tested on North American ID skills. We also know more than we need to about chicken biology as a result of said degree. If you want to send anything about birds, bird watching, or asking for a bird ID (even non North American), they are ALWAYS welcome and you are ALWAYS allowed to tag us in any bird related content.

We do a lot of creative work and have dedicated ourselves (without writing partner) to a large story world project that we've been writing for over a decade now. We actually specifically started grinding our art skills in 2020 specifically just to help build that world up. Art is one of our largest self soothing coping mechanisms. We are going to turn that story world into a comic and a TTRPG system so please check out @thedevaaffliction.

Overall, we really just like thinking about a lot of topics and things as part of both our interest in research, philosophy, and as part of our Buddhist practice. We don't really find an interest in arguing discourse / syscourse because we really dislike and see very little benefit in debate. That said, we love to discuss experiences, thoughts, feelings and perspectives on complex topics and as long as the intent is to discuss and share rather than to "win" or "prove", we really enjoy that sort of enrichment in our life so we do welcome it. That said, we withhold the right to deem any conversation as more debate than discussion and to abandon it.

Additionally, related to the fifth point, we believe in being fully transparent about our past and admission that we were wrong as we think it is very important to be able to re-evaluate your beliefs and opinions and grow. In our mid teens we actually were pretty far into the alt-right pipeline and until about a year or so ago, we were staunch anti-endos. These days we are basically commies and very pro-endo. If anyone has any interest on how we pivoted so hard in our opinions on those topics, we are more than open to talk and discuss it as well as any insights we pulled from the experience.

Also we love martial arts - I forgot that cause I'm not particularly XIV brained rn but we REALLY enjoy martial arts.

We suck at being labeled and having labels. We're just very very queer.

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DNI:

People who put on their socks/shoes in the order of Sock-Shoe-Sock-Shoe

That's about it. We liberally block, so we don't really worry about DNIs. If we don't like your content for any reason, we will remove it from our dash. Whether or not you want to interact with us is up to you past that point. Generally, we welcome anyone to follow as it can make for good conversation.

[system-of-a-feather]

I saw that you guys are doing artfight prep! We're planning on participating in artfight as well and we love your blog content, we'd love to know your artfight username/profile if you're comfy sharing!

Oh absolutely XD Ill DM you and you can even message us on Discord, we love having Art Fight buddies.

Unironically like, for the past few years, Art Fight has been kind of just an essential coping tool / mechanisms throughout our healing journey because 1) it really helped ground us in time when dissociation and executive functioning becomes an issue and 2) we have what we call a "bird brain" due to how we grew up identifying as and with birds, and so having an annual thing to passively prepare for gives our brain a very nice "migration" itch

So we are basically always passively doing Art Fight prep all year save for ACTUAL Art Fight, because then I'm doing Art Fight. I usually just ramp up around like March-June for more direct prep.

Anyways, our user is Feathery-Creations. I'm always considering switching it to something similar to the story as 98% of my art boils down to that, but I probably wont be changing it this year (if at all)

(also extra self promo, the story blog for our art in general is @thedevaaffliction )

I will promise you, based on the trends, whatever team I join this year will loose XD (has a consistent lose, win, lose, win pattern)

[system-of-a-feather]

For those following, I'll probably be posting my AF stuff that I want to share on @thedevaaffliction

The desire to draw VS the desire to update my character profile information; a chronic war during May and June