First Comic!

First Comic!

Title: “Hosts”

Uh yeah so we’re the hosts. Nice to meet everyone. :D

[Image Description:

Top half of first picture:

Enby with reddish hair past chin length in a hoodie saying, “Hey y’all! I’m Ao, and I’m one of the hosts. I’m also the one who identifies with the body! I use ey/eir pronouns. Used like: “I saw eir today. Ey was smiling at that cat of eirs.”

Butch girl with short dark hair saying, “Hey! I’m Ruby! I’m the other host, and Ao is my twin sibling. I don’t identify with the body, but I grew up in it along with Ao. Both of us age with the body. I use she/her pronouns.”

Bottom half of that picture:

Ruby: “Now we’re going to talk about our labels. If you don’t know what any of these mean, feel free to ask.”

Ao: “I’m kind of a microlabel enthusiast, sooooo this one applies more to me than to her.”

There is a white box that says “Label Lists” and two pieces of paper with scribbles below them.

Top half of second picture is a close-up of these lists.

List 1: Ao’s labels:

Omnisexual, demiromantic, aceflux, nebulasexual, nebularomantic, alexigender, aurorian, autigender.

List 2: Ruby’s labels:

Lesbian, ambiamorous, graysexual, demisexual.

Bottom half of that picture:

Ao: “We hope you enjoyed this comic! Expect more soon! Thanks for reading and please take care of yourselves!”

Ruby: “See y’all later!”

End image description]

Delay

Hey y'all, We have family visiting, so it will likely take us a while to post our next comic. Fear not, it has been started, but the subject matter alone means it will take a while. So yeah. Expect that eventually. - Ao

New comic! This is a collaboration with the wonderful @sketchbook-stars!

Our story is on the left, and theirs is on the right.

Some notable people on my side of the comic include:

@milady-mothman - the best friend in the first panel!

@gagtodeath - the cousin in the third panel!

@andrewjacksondestroyer - our very close friend from the fourth panel!

We’ve been trying to publish more of these, but we keep wanting to start new comics instead of finishing old ones (yes, we have ADHD, lol).

Uhhh so anyway, hope you enjoy!

[Image ID: Note: There are two stories told simultaneously in this comic. The story on the left will be described first, and then the story on the right.

Begin ID: Panel 1: The background is sea foam green. There is some text near the top that reads, “Coming out to our best friend as a system was a huge deal for us. They’re super supportive and we love them very much (platonically). Underneath that, there is a gray text message bubble coming from the left that reads, “who am I speaking to?” Beneath that, there is a blue text message bubble that reads, “Ao and Ruby, thanks for asking.”

Panel 2: The background is sea foam green. There is one block of text near the top that reads, “We came out to another friend using memes and a comic we made on Super Storyboarder.” Beneath that, there is another block of text that reads, “She thought the memes were funny and seemed to really appreciate them.”

Panel 3: The background is sea foam green. There is a block of text at the top of the page that reads, “Coming out to our cousin was a pretty big deal. We came out to her after the concert of an artist we both love. We had brought up DID before, but we would always talk about our ‘friends,’ who were a system (hint: it was us). She’s always been super understanding and even follows us on Simply Plural now.” Beneath that is a drawing of two people on a dock across from some land with trees and houses. The water around the dock is reflecting an orange color, like the sunset. The person on the right has short black hair, peach skin, and is wearing a white shirt with long sleeves and white pants. There is a white box next to them that says, “Coltun (they/them), one of two alters who has a super deep voice while fronting (the only one of the two that we knew about at the time). They are saying, “Did you hear the change in my voice before?” The person on the left has long red hair, peach skin, a black shirt with long sleeves, and blue pants. She is saying, “Yeah, I was wondering if that was you.”

Panel 4: The background is sea foam green. There are two blocks of text at the top. The first one says, “One of our biggest system coming outs was the first time we ever told anyone. Ao knew of 8 alters at the time (including eirself), but thought ey was imagining them (spoiler alert: ey wasn’t). The block of text beneath it says, “We had heard of DID before, but knew almost nothing about it.” Beneath that, there are two people sitting on a gray ledge with their feet on a sidewalk. The one on the right has long brown hair, peach skin, a neutral facial expression, light brown eyes, thick black square glasses, a red flannel jacket with long sleeves, blue pants, and red shoes. There is some text next to him that says, “Corey (he/him), co-host of our friend’s system at the time.” He is saying, “I’m a system, which means I am many people in one body.” The person on the left, Ao, has peach skin, reddish-brown hair, a shocked facial expression, blue eyes, a gray hoodie with a darker gray pocket and hood, black shorts and black shoes. Ey is saying, “That sounds like what I’ve been experiencing!”

Begin second story ID:

First panel: The background is a warm shade of pink. There is a block of text near the middle that says, “we never planned to come out to any of our friends initially, being afraid of being judged or misunderstood. yet it turned out to not be so bad.” Beneath that, there is a smiling person who is the same color as the background with shoulder-length messy hair.

Second panel: The background is a warm shade of pink. At the top of the panel, there is some text that says, “Yet after a while, one of our hosts was tired of hiding it all, and told some of our friends.” A block of text below that on the right side of the panel reads, “They were extremely accepting.” There are two people in the panel. Both are the same color as the background. The first has completely black eyes, shoulder-length somewhat messy hair, two antlers, a smile, a bit of sweat on their face, a pointy tail, a turtleneck sweater under an open jacket with cuffed sleeves, and pants. “Lucid” is written above their head. There is a tiny speech bubble next to them with an ampersand in it. The person on the right has short hair with bangs that cover their eyes, a slightly open mouth, lines next to their face indicating emotion, and a hoodie with long drawstrings. Next to them is a small speech bubble with a check mark and an exclamation point.

Panel 3: The background is a warm shade of pink. At the top of the panel, there is a block of text that says, “and on the inverse, we helped our partner realize that they were also a system.” Beneath that, there is more text that says, “it warmed our hearts to know that they trusted us with this concept and we helped them come to terms and realize it.” There are two people below that. Both are the same color as the background. The one on the left is looking at the one on the right. They are winking. They have shoulder-length hair, a smile, a braided band in their hair, and two pairs of wings- one on their head and one on their back. The word above their head is Civ. There is some text above their head that says, “y’know, how did you NOT realize??” The person on the right is looking at the person on the left. Their mouth is open. They have chin-length hair, a hoodie, horns, and a pointy tail. The word above their head is Colix. There is some text above them that says, “..IM A LITTLE STUPID-“

Panel 4: The background is a warm shade of pink. The text at the top says, “We don’t regret being open about our system one bit.” The text beneath it says, “It might have caused us some pain, but we have made so many more good memories since that day.” Beneath that, there are two people holding hands. They are sitting on green grass and the background behind them (underneath the text) is crimson. The person on the left has peach skin, shoulder-length dark crimson hair, black eyes, a smile with a fang in it, a red shirt with long sleeves and a white collar and cuff, crimson pants, a dark crimson bat wing on the left side, black shoes, and a red rose on the right side of their hair. There are three small speech bubbles on the left side of them. The top one has a red heart, the middle one has an orange flower, and the bottom one has a yellow star. The person on the right is looking at them. They have thin black square glasses, light blue-green skin, light blue-green hair that sticks out more and is a little longer than the hair of the other person, a smile, a darker blue-green shirt with a frill on the front under a darker blue-green jacket buttoned at the bottom with a collar, darker blue green pants, and a furry tail the same color as their skin. On the right side of their face is a dark blue-green patch. They do not have an eye there.

End ID]

Tried to doodle your profile picture

Ahhhh oh my goodness I love it so much! Thank you! <3

[Image description: a very cute sketch of a cat with the DID/OSDD colors (dark grey, light blue, light green, and yellow). It has a pink nose, sea foam green eyes, white whiskers, and little teeth. End description]

Gotta love those jelly filled donuts

Jelly donuts are great. I’ve had this idea in my mind for a while about a PB&J with Reese’s peanut butter and jelly from a Dunkin’ Donuts jelly donut. Maybe with vanilla cake as bread. If anyone makes this, PLEASE tell me if it’s any good.

BTW, don’t worry, anon later clarified that they meant literal jelly donuts.

If anyone else has any cool confectionary ideas involving jelly donuts, let me know in the comments. :)

- Michaela

oh im so sorry fireworks suck :((

my country doesn't celebrate 4th july, but we do celebrate diwali, so for around four days people will let off fireworks c o n s t a n t l y. and i have a dog too so it's just terrible all around. in general india is just not the place for people with auditory hypersensitivity. makes me very glad to have noise cancelling headphones.

Thanks, hearing fireworks just makes me want to just give everyone who hates them a hug (or an air-hug or something if they don't like hugs), animals included.

We have cats, and one of our cats has what I think may be the cat equivalent of panic attacks (she hides and starts shaking) when she hears fireworks. May your dog and all the other animals who don't understand why everyone is loud find something that helps them through the chaos.

I don't own any noise cancelling headphones myself, but I hear they are quite helpful. Life is definitely better when you're not on sensory overload.

- Kelly