We're a polyfrag system originally from southeast Norway, currently living in western Canada. We're various shades of trans, lesbian, autistic, therian, a-spec and a slew of other Fun! terms I don't think you should get to know about us just like that. We have a ton of diverse interests, like:
We came out as trans in 2021 and plural in 2024. Ever since, it's been quite a rocky few years full of personal revelations. Learning about yourself is hard work!
Since we're polyfrag, it's hard to give an exact number for how many of us there are, but we know there's hundreds, and so far we've identified and named about 60. About 40 of those are what we call fronters to distinguish them from keepers, what others might call "fragments". Fronters have more broadly defined identities and front in the "traditional" sense, while keepers have very narrow life experiences, often holding onto very specific memories, routines, senses, emotions, and so on. Keepers don't front themselves, but will accentuate whoever is fronting. One simple example is Scrue, who is a sense keeper and likes the original flavor Monster Energy while the rest of us kind of don't, but if Scrue comes to the surface we might feel compelled to get one to satisfy that taste. It's a fascinating experience to simultaneously enjoy and dislike something you're putting in your mouth.
Keepers don't really have a sense of self on their own, but it's possible for them to find it. Fulgura, for example, could've been called an interest keeper if she hadn't found a sense of identity through self-advocacy. She is infatuated with lightning, storms, and other grand weather phenomena, to the point that she now fronts and takes control in order to enjoy these things more, and not be pulled away from them by whoever is fronting. She did this before we had established the term "keeper", but we're hoping that other keepers may find an avenue for self-determination through this definition instead of the dehumanizing essentialism of terms like "fragment", "facet", "part", and so on. Maybe our keepers won't ever have opinions on this, but the rest of us care and will advocate for them however we can.
Simply because untangling exactly who is involved in writing, programming, and designing a given part of the website is a lot of work, and oftentimes there are several of us involved at once anyway. This website is a collaborative effort meant for everyone, so unless a headmate writes something herself that only relates to her, we write as generally as possible for all of us.