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i did something dumb i probably won't use it my domain is too good

a screenshot of NameCheap reading: Domain Registration meanenbies.online

Zari (they/she)

my mom would always use cutsie words like “SO” and “lover” for my wife because acknowledging that i was in a queer relationship would make her spontaneously combust.

can’t believe i accepted that disrespect. well i can, i let her misgender and deadname me for 7 years, lmao

Zari (they/she)

always fun to be honest in response to “hey, how have you been?” and then see someone get quiet because they don’t know how to interact with someone suffering lmao

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

getting real tired of the people who are obviously just too weak to step up and transition and assert themselves making it everyone else’s fucking problem.

every single one of us has the same concerns and we FUCKING DID IT ANYWAY.

like inject the hormones, wear the clothes, or shut up damn


like, did it cost us our relationship with our entire family? yes.

have we spent time homeless couch surfing to survive? yes.

are we so much fucking happier than we would’ve be been otherwise? GOD YES

turns out not hating yourself every day makes most things easier to handle.

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

so we had an appointment with our psychiatrist yesterday, in which we were quite vulnerable about how poorly we've been doing lately and the severe dissociative episode we had sunday night, and she felt (and we agree) that things are serious enough we need intensive care.


so next tuesday, we're going to a 3 week outpatient program in nashville. group therapy, individual therapy, and psychiatry appointments from 9am - 4pm monday - friday for most of the month of august.

we're... pretty fucking scared? a bit excited? really embarrassed it's come to this?

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

apple revive the 12 inch macbook with apple silicon you fucking cowards

Zari (they/she)

remembering the time that an elementary school teacher told us "you really need to move to california, san francisco is the place for you"

...you really could've just called me a slur honestly? lol

if your phone isn’t orientation locked to portrait like 99% of the time just know i see you and i’m judging you

envious of trains having a track, just moving forward

a train, in the center of the frame is a car with orange and silver metal, with graffiti along the bottom. in the background is a deep orange sunset shining through clouds, and there are power lines i

Zari (they/she)

shout out the therapist that blocked me after replying to my message and shoutout to the telehealth platform for emailing me pressuring me to book with the therapist that blocked me

it's actually so cool that my brain is so fucked up no one wants to help me

Zari (they/she)

after last night it’s just been me in front and headspace is completely empty no matter how much i call out for anyone else i am very worried about what is going on

Zari (they/she)

went to look for an insurance document from last year and yeeeesh 🥴

a screenshot of a medical insurance portal reading: Medical Claims Totals 60 claim(s) for prior year Billed: $709,252.04 Patient Responsibility: $2,265.85

fuck my dumb plural life tbh

my dumb ass: i’m doing so good mentally also my dumb ass: wakes up a half mile from my house walking barefoot in pajamas at 4am

a slightly blurry photo of a super boring suburban neighborhood at night


i’m home my feet hurt i don’t know who i am

sobriety is so good for you but it’s so fucking boring i have to fill my time with real activities now what the fuck do you meannn

“traumagenic plurality” is a meaningless and redundant term invented by tumblr people — if your plurality is caused by trauma it’s DID, OSDD, or DDNOS.

If it isn’t caused by trauma we have fundamentally different experiences and you can invent your own language idc really


i just think some framing absolves people of the work you need to do — whether that’s therapy and system work to increase communication and functioning or working toward fusion or integration.

staying in a place with extreme dissociation and amnesia isn’t good for you.

i think it may be time to start thinking about fusion


i’ve always thought about it in terms of losing parts of me — but think about what i’d gain?

increased functioning, emotional awareness and control, a clearer sense of identity, less sexuality and body image conflict.

starting to see what a post-dissociation skylar could look like and wanting it

Zari (they/she)

wearing glasses is so normalized that people forget that they're literally assistive devices for a disability and so many of us literally cannot function without them


this was brought up by watching an episode of "Couple's Therapy" where this man is upset with his wife for getting her annual eye exam and new glasses and called it "superfluous" 🙃

switching headaches suck i am in so much pain ugh

Zari (they/she)

i guess i’m not taking PrEP anymore because my doctor won’t refill it without it labs despite me not having had sex in ages and i can’t make myself drive an hour and a half to his office because the last time i went he erroneously sent me to the ER because he misread an EKG and i’m traumatized

Zari (they/she)

every time i look at sky’s journals lately she’s just really sad and feeling rejected and i feel so fucking bad that i couldn’t protect her from that she used to be so happy and innocent and joyful and she learned to care more about what other people think. it sucks.

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

how fast do y'all type? ;3 this is on our MacBook keyboard lol

a screenshot of monkeytype results, showing 128 words per minute with 97% accuracy

Zari (they/she)

we're not hyperfixating you're hyperfixating

a screenshot of Apple Books on Zari's iPad, showing their Psychology collection with a myriad of books about Dissociative Identity Disorder. From left to right: "The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sou

Zari (they/she)

i’m so sorry to speak this into the universe but like… they’re going to send the IRS after queer-focused 501(c)3s right? Like retroactively stripping nonprofit status? I’ve reached out to some ED friends to see if they’re planning for this… and they’re not??

Zari (they/she)

we’re almost certainly privileged enough for it not to matter but that executive order hitting as our mental health is the worst it’s been in a long time, and right as we’re about to meet with our psychiatrist to add DID to our chart (we have reasons) is scary!! genuinely frightening.

Zari (they/she)

we need a new therapist so badly she is not at all versed in DID and keeps trying to use IFS concepts with us and it's so counterproductive honestly, but we're moving so soon and no one will respond to us ugh

Zari (they/she)

we grabbed a copy of Emma Grove's "The Third Person" today and read it in a marathon 3 hour session, holy fuck was it good. Now to spiral a little and process some things lol

🌀 Flux (it/its)

exceptionally bad brain day bweh

Zari (they/she)

today's fit is this adorable new cluey shirt i got 🥰

a selfie of zari, wearing a black shirt with a "Cluey" design, the text is white, and in the shape and font of the Bluey logo, but has light blue spots like Blue from Blue's Clues, and a slightly deep

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

"are you a puppy girl because you have arf arf ARFID?" - our wife 🤦🏼‍♀️

Zari (they/she)

the ever-lovely @olivia.ky got us this gorgeous hoodie and BINGO EARS today 🥰 i feel so freaking cute aaaa

a mirror selfie of zari, wearing a hoodie that has pink and orange wavy lines of fabric at the bottom, then a blue wave, a sun coming out of that, and white, pink, and yellow stripes coming out of the

Zari (they/she)

just remembering the time last year that i got drugged at a bar by a creep, and then the next morning went to the ER after making it home safely because I was very unwell – they told me i just drank too much and when there was THC in my blood put "Marijuana Abuse" on my chart and did nothing 🙃

Zari (they/she)

cut most of our hair off today, love it soooo much 🥰

a selfie of zari, with their new hair which is platinum blonde with a middle part, cut short on the sides above the ears, and long in the back just above shoulder length. they're wearing a purple tank

Zari (they/she)

why is cigna sending me a push notification every 15 minutes this morning saying “you’re due for a healthcare visit” what do they know that i don’t

Zari (they/she)

so lazy today, but managed to do a little makeup for the first time in a while and felt cute 🥰

a photo of zari, sitting at their desk, wearing a purple tank top. they have short-ish blonde hair with noticeable roots, and large pink plastic glasses.

Zari (they/she)

thinking about how my mom told me i wasn’t autistic when i talked to her about wanting to get diagnosed

“mom, i was nonverbal until i was like 6” “yeah but that has nothing to do with autism!”

🥴

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

good morning other mentally ill people in my phone

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

we enabled (privacy friendly, server-side) analytics on https://system.gay and uhhhhhh that's a lot more people than we expected to be reading about us lol

A screenshot of Netlify Analytics, reading: Project Analytics spanning 30 days (dropdown arrow) Data from June 14 to July 14 Total pageviews: 1,925 Total unique visitors: 896 Total bandwidth used: 84M

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

sobbing because we came out as plural to a discord full of friends and they're all reading our website and encouraging us to discern who's fronting in conversation and showing curiosity and it's so fucking nice 🥺😭

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

who else looks forward to their afternoon buspirone dose every day i love feeling happy again

a vase, shattered early in creation shards too complex to coalesce

a perpetual unknown

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Zari (they/she)

y’all know who you are?

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

having feelings, wrote about it

a screenshot of a poem reading: emotional intelligence is a curse "wise beyond my years" weighed down by other's emotions no oxygen left for my own never learned how to take up space paralyzed in a ga

forever immune from trans community discourse because thanks to being plural i am a nonbinary person, binary transsexual woman, and trans man all in one so you cannot be mad at me sorry those are the rules

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

holy shit got my first binders (went with light compression to test it out) and cried from the gender euphoria i feel so fucking good right now 😭🥰🏳️‍⚧️

Ethan, sitting in his desk chair, wearing just a white binder tank top and a black leather martingale collar with silver chain and rainbow hardware. his breasts are noticeably compressed. he has pink

Zari (they/she)

i don't think it says anything good about my relationship to my body that i can look in the mirror and guess my weight within a half pound accurately tbh, but it is a fun party trick

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

oh man the libs are going to be poasting today they’re eating that whack ass contrapoints statement uppppp


Zari (they/she)

we watched one video of hers back in the day, went "wow she is so full of herself" and immediately turned it off and have never engaged and i have not once regretted that decision.

Zari (they/she)

just in case no one noticed, today's horrendously self-loathing transphobic main character also hates plural folks.

"dissociative DID bullshit" like it's not a real fucking disorder i'm diagnosed with or anything (also i corrected her spelling of "dissassociative" lol)

a screenshot of a bluesky post reading "And the nonsensical dissassociative DID bullshit that brings you attention that you can't have with just being YOU. It's embarassing. It's a disgusting reflecti

🌟 Aimee (she/her)

how to heal your parts when they're not allowed to exist send skeet

Zari (they/she)

setting timers with siri is going great in iOS 26 Beta 3 i just wanted to make my bagel bites 😭

An iPhone screenshot, with Siri open - the list of links at the top reads "6 Minute Timer - Youtube", "6 Minute Timer - YouTube", "6 minute Timer - Online Timer - Countdown - Alarm Clock" and below th

An iPad screenshot with Siri open, showing a response at the top of the screen that reads: "To set a six-minute timer on your Apple Watch: 1. Open the Timers app. 2. Tap the "+" button. 3. Turn the Di

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

we want to make a browser extension that fetches the bio of anyone who opens a post with an emoji, then puts that headmate's name on the post like a label, i think it would be very useful

Zari (they/she)

think very carefully before letting a headmate that rarely fronts claim an emoji you use in conversation normally bc now i can't and she's never around anyway and that shit sucks lmfao

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

it’s 4:13am and i’m stuck awake searching the entire internet because i CANNOT find that gif of the girl holding up a phone in a club that says “POPPERS??? FAG” scrolling and it’s driving me wild

Zari (they/she)

my kingdom for a scrap of body temperature regulation PLEASE i am sweating one second and freezing the next 😭

Zari (they/she)

girl breakfast

a bottle of ensure clear mixed fruit flavor sitting to the left of a can of original red bull on a desk, on a black mousepad. there’s a keyboard behind them and a mouse to the right. an artificial yel

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

hey we know zari talks about plurality a lot bc she’s a nerd, but i just want to say to other systems that you should not spend all your energy and effort on system discovery and learning, even if it’s fun.

i’ve asked zari to slow things down a couple times now, and it’s been very beneficial.

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

sometimes neutrality is just abandonment wrapped up in a fancy box

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

quit thc products on thursday and have had no appetite still, so thankful for ensure clear for literally keeping me alive at this point fuck i feel like shit

Zari (they/she)

does anyone even know how Discord manages to break text replacements in macOS? because like,,, they work in literally every other text field? and it's just electron right??

we can't use our shortcuts for headmate emoji and it's driving us wild!!!

Zari (they/she)

blocked for saying "please don't call me that" in response to this 🙄 fucking ew

a screenshot of an incoming grindr message that reads "Such a good eager sissy!!"


⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

okay it got so much worse holy fuck never say this to anyone under any circumstances holy fuck immediately uninstalling that god forsaken app

a screenshot of an incoming grindr message reading: “To be completely honest the way it looks now after bottom surgery isn't doing it for me I'm so sorry”

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

inhabiting a body that’s transitioned in ways you wouldn’t have chosen is a uniquely unpleasant dysphoria, don’t like it.

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

being a singlet? in this (political) economy??

⚫️ Ethan (he/him)

wrote a thing earlier (cw: self-harm)

an image of a poem reading: masking the closet dissociation it's all the same really not allowed to be, to exist as is my nature conceal, compartmentalize, conform too many possibilities for one perso

Zari (they/she)

we get really invested in what people online think about plurality at times and try to remember:

  • "plurality" describes a wide variety of experiences
  • you decide what healing/moving forward looks like
  • clinicians provide support, not validation
  • we just share portions of our lives online
Zari (they/she)

one of my least important but most strongly-held opinions is that Chicago-style citations are the best by FAR


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