A Brief List of Everything in the Catalog

[lb_lee]

Organized alphabetically by creator last name; links are to full catalog entries. Quality not guaranteed, but starred works are ones LB especially thinks are worth it. Works with multiple creator names are listed by all, so may appear more than once.

(Note to selves: List of stuff to-do here.)

Quick Alphabetical Index:
A ~ B ~ C ~ D ~ E ~ F ~ G ~ H ~ I ~ J ~ K ~ L ~ M ~ N ~ O ~ P ~ Q ~ R ~ S ~ T ~ U ~ V ~ W ~ X ~ Y ~ Z

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Adams, Fionna. We Could Be Something More. (2022). "an interactive story about how one person discovers they're far more than one. also about trauma, online community, and godfeels."

Adams, Margie. "Best Friend (The Unicorn Song)." (1974). A sweet song about being friends with a unicorn, the northern star, and someone who lives inside of you.

AKWAEKE. Stop Dying, You Were Very Expensive! (2024). Akwaeke Emezi's debut EP, with the declared premise of, "I'm here, I'm a god, now shake your ass ;)"

Alicorn, AKA Hannah Blume. Exaltation. (2018). Fantasy prose. A young system goes on a magical quest.

Alicorn, AKA Hannah Blume. Hubward. (2014). Fantasy prose. In a society where humans can't safely sleep, everyone upon adulthood joins bodies with other people, becoming systems of two so that someone is mentally awake at all times and dumping their physical fatigue into mice and other animals. But Book, Holly, and Crystal were born multiple, and Book's gender dysphoria is getting the better of him. He finds a new cohabiter, and the two systems go on an adventure that goes wrong.

Amini, Uzuri. "The Cosmic Eye." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

* Anonymous. First Principles of Queer Goetia. (2018). "A small, powerful set of mythopoetic instructions for working with the queer dead, composed after the overlapping underground worlds of the Bay Area lost thirty-six of their people in the Ghost Ship Fire."

Anthony, Piers and Julie Brady. Dream A Little Dream. (1999). Fantasy prose. A suicidal young lucid dreamer joins forces with her dream man, two winged telepathic unicorns, and another lucid dreamer to save the Earth's dreamworld from destruction. Based on Julie Brady's own long-running lucid dreams.

* AJJ. Small Red Boy. (2016). A five minute song (or 12 page comic) about giving birth to your inner demon, loving it, and being transformed by it.

the Arachnixe Entity. The Tulpa. (2022). A tulpa gets into a fight with the sorcerer who made her.

the Arachnixe Entity. To Know You Is To Love You. (2022). A human pilot decides to get to know its mech better, and undergoes surgery to meet it halfway.

Arsenal System. Synchronicity. (2022). A doll and its beloved owner watch reality unravel together.

Arsenal System. Pair-Bonded. (2022). A microfic that describes the special, identity-altering relationship between bonded witches and dolls.

Arsenal System. Broken Pieces. (2023). A broken doll and a broken witch keep moving forward together after trauma.

Ayreon. The Human Equation. A man lies comatose in hospital after a terrible car accident. The accident was bizarre: it happened in broad daylight with no other cars in sight. The man’s wife and his best friend are keeping a bedside vigil, trying to understand how the accident happened, and hoping for any sign of recovery. Unable to communicate with the outside world, the man finds himself trapped in a strange realm where his emotions — most of which he’s repressed for a long time — have come to life to confront him with all the choices he has made in his life — and their consequences.

Ayokunle, Iyalora. "License to Forgive." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

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B and Z of beeyolk. Bee and Moth. (2022?) Hypertext/Twine game. Short vignettes about being plural and nonhuman. Bee and Moth make food, gifts, and cuddle. Moth is nervous around people, and Bee encourages him to come out of his shell. LOST MEDIA.

Bailey, Lily. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought. (2015). By the age of thirteen, Lily Bailey was convinced she was bad. She had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series of secret routines could she make up for what she’d done. But no matter how intricate or repetitive, no act of penance was ever enough.

* Baldwin, Louis. Oneselves. Brief thumbnail life stories of overwhelmingly-American multiples from 1811 to 1981, including trance states, fugue folks, Spiritualist mediums, and the start of the MPD surge.

Barker, Meg-John. ChalkBoard Comic. (2018). A young child is trapped in a room, crunching equations. Headmates swoop in to help out.

Barnes, Jey. Benefits of Having an Imaginary Friend. (2019). A small, personal zine with captioned drawings on the benefits of having imaginary friends. Kinda abstract.

Barrette, Elizabeth. The Arc of Joan. (2012). Serial steampunk poetry. In an alternate universe, Joan of Arc is called by the saints to fight for the English.

"B.C.A."/Bean, Nellie Parsons. My Life as a Dissociated Personality. (1909). Autobio prose. An account of the various phases of dissociated personality, written by the patient, after recovery and restoration of memory for all the different phases. Such an account could only be given by a person who has had the experience, and who has the introspective and literary capacity to describe them.

beeyolk. Bee and Moth. (2022?) Hypertext/Twine game. Short vignettes about being plural and nonhuman. Bee and Moth make food, gifts, and cuddle. Moth is nervous around people, and Bee encourages him to come out of his shell. LOST MEDIA

beeyolk. We're yours and you're ours. (2023). Hypertext. A butterfly, a boy, and a robot dog try to figure out what their relationship is to each other. LOST MEDIA

* Bedek, Fern V. Back Flow. (2022). Sci-fi light novel. In a Canada where aliens have joined Earthling society, Jacob Zhang tries to use alien VR to enter his favorite manga, only to accidentally bring a character back with him. He hadn't planned on having a kappa (female!) headmate, but surely he wants to make his new headmate comfortable, right? But changing his body to make her more comfortable leads him to making some realizations about himself... and his alien lesbian roommate.

Max Bemis, Jacen Burro, Paul Davidson. Moon Knight: Legacy #188-200. (2017). Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Bendis, Brian Michael; Maleev, Alex. Moon Knight, vol. 6. (2011) Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Black Tabby Games. Slay the Princess. (2023). Visual novel horror game. You're on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.

Blume, Hannah "Alicorn." Exaltation. (2018). Fantasy prose. A young system goes on a magical quest.

Blume, Hannah "Alicorn." Hubward. (2014). Fantasy prose. In a society where humans can't safely sleep, everyone upon adulthood joins bodies with other people, becoming systems of two so that someone is mentally awake at all times and dumping their physical fatigue into mice and other animals. But Book, Holly, and Crystal were born multiple, and Book's gender dysphoria is getting the better of him. He finds a new cohabiter, and the two systems go on an adventure that goes wrong.

bobapearlcomics. Princess & The System. (unknown). Sci-fi comic. It's about a cyborg with DID, also cool armor and magic powers from a deal with the Fae that they warn everyone else not to imitate, trying to become queen of the pirates. First step: rescue a future-Twitch celebrity who just livestreamed herself fighting cops by turning into a dragon. LOST MEDIA.

bobple. Triiffic-Soul: Can I Be In Control? (fantasy serial fiction, 2023-) It began with an accident, or maybe a miracle is a better term. Three souls dying by different strokes. One died in glory and blood; One died, betrayed but glad it was over; One died poor and alone. Then on the child’s fifth birthday, the three sleeping souls awakened. Three souls, one body, two desires, and containing all the powers each had in their last life. Were they destined for greatness? No. But when the past comes to haunt them, their home taken away, they have to make a decision… May it be as simple as a majority vote.

Brady, Julie and Piers Anthony. Dream A Little Dream. (1999). Fantasy prose. A suicidal young lucid dreamer joins forces with her dream man, two winged telepathic unicorns, and another lucid dreamer to save the Earth's dreamworld from destruction. Based on Julie Brady's own long-running lucid dreams.

Brennan, Ozy. Her Voice is a Backwards Record. (2024). Novelette. Ana’s parents, who hadn’t heard that it wasn’t game-theoretically optimal to punish her for dropping LSD, packed her away to a troubled teen camp. During the day, Ana faces the harsh Utah desert, near-starvation, and torture in the name of “therapy.” At night, she seeks desperate comfort in the arms of her alternate-universe girlfriend, Yuya, one of three hundred wives in the harem of the Emperor of Every World. But as their respective prisons wear away at their very selves, both girls face a choice: to become the monsters those in authority want them to be, or to die trying to escape.

Brewer, Gene. K-PAX. (1995). Sci-fi prose. In 1990, a psychiatrist at a mental hospital in Manhattan ends up overseeing the case of prot, a man who insists he's an alien from the planet K-PAX. When the shrink discovers that prot is the headmate of a man in bad shape and also will be returning home to K-PAX soon, the race is on to figure out what happened. In the process, anarchist prot ends up changing the lives of patients, doctors, and others alike. First book in a series, but stands alone. (Also a movie version from 2001.)

Jacen Burro, Max Bemis, Paul Davidson. Moon Knight: Legacy #188-200. (2017). Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)
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Cairns, Jon. Untitled SF: Chapter 3, wstyd. (2012) Sci-fi comic. Jarek Łaniewski has an amazing desync potential and a real bad attitude. After a strange dive in an Algal computer leads to him getting his face pounded in by a coworker and then getting fired, he sets out to do a deep dive by himself... and gets more than he bargained for.

Cannon, Melissa. "From the Tower." (1981). A poem about a woman's intense, erotic love for her Lilith angel, who comes for her in dreams.

Alessandro Cappuccio, Jed MacKay, Federico Sabbatini. Moon Knight vol. 9. (2021) Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Carlson, Nathan D. "Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo)." (2011). A scholarly history of the life story of Catherine Auger, a Métis woman in Alberta, Canada who in 1896 watched her husband lose himself to a wîhtikôw, which compelled him to devour his own children. She protected both them and herself, and witnessed his murder by the local medicine man.

Case, Richard, Grant Morrison, et al. Doom Patrol. (1989-1993). Superhero comics. Shunned as freaks and outcasts, tempered by loss and insanity, this superheroic band of disabled misfits faces threats so mystifying in nature and so corrupted in motive that reality itself threatens to fall apart around them--but it's all in a day's work for the Doom Patrol.

Casey, Joan Frances. The Flock. (1991). The Flock's autobio, mixed with their therapist's notes, about discovering they're multiple, cooperating, and integrating.

Castelli, Judy. The Multiple Journals. (1994-1996). Art and text taken from the journals of a multiple, right as she got diagnosed and decided that she would get to know herselves and love herselves unconditionally.

Castelli, Judy. Out of Chaos. (1995). A stained glass work and tiny story about being the love you needed as a child.

Castelli, Judy. The Wonder of It All. (1999). A stained glass work of the inner people of an MPD/DID multiple reaching towards the sun.

Charbonnet, Gabrielle, and James Patterson. Sunday's At Tiffany's. (2008). Romance prose. What if your imaginary friend from childhood was your one true love? Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl with an overbearing mother and only one friend: Michael, who's imaginary. After he leaves her when she's nine years old, she never forgets him, until she runs into him again in her thirties.

Chase, Truddi. See: The Troops for Truddi Chase.

* Cho, Zen. Black Water Sister. (2021). Fantasy prose. When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, it isn't even hers, but the ghost of her estranged grandmother, a deceased spirit medium for the god called Black Water Sister. As Jess gets sucked into a complicated world of lies, attempted murder, spirits, and fights for territory, she'll need to regain control of her body and destiny, before the weight of family secrets kills her.

Cibowo, Jes and Cin. John Constantine and the Golden Boy Remix. (2024). Burned-out sorcerer John Constantine had a twin who died in the womb. In the world on the other side of the mirror, it was the twin who survived, and John who died. And one day, that twin comes out to make him an offer to solve everything...

Clarke, Rabia. "Soul's Desire." (1987). A religious poem about loving someone not physically visible.

Clarke, Susannah. Piranesi. (2020). Fantasy prose. A series of journal entries by a man living in an apparently-infinite House full of Statues, oceans, and clouds, as he comes to learn more about the nature of his world and realize certain truths which were hidden from him.

Clell, Madison. Cuckoo. (1996-2002). Autobiographical true comics of being a multiple. Sometimes serious, sometimes goofy.

coalescentwitch. Natalie. (2023). A trans girl comes to talk to her headmate one last time... and it doesn't go the way she planned.

Cold Symmetry. Mortal Shell. (2020). You play as a body-hopping Foundling, borrowing bodies of the dead, finding out who they were when alive, and fighting your way through a corrupted doomscape. Each "shell" has different skills and playstyle, from Eredrim the long-suffering king with all health and no stamina, to Tiel who runs up stairs for fun and chugs poison like candy.

Connolly, John. The Book of Lost Things. (2006). After the tragic death of his mother, his father's remarriage, and the birth of a baby brother, troubled boy David finds himself sucked into a fantasy world that seems cobbled together from the various books in his room. But those books and stories don't all belong to him, and some of them are very grim...

Contreras, Gab, Goode, Kendall, and Sebela, Christopher. Dirtbag Rapture. (2022). After a near-death experience, all Kat wants is to get high and shut up the ghosts in her head. But after she ends up in the middle of a cosmic war between angels and demons, she has to pick a side.

Cott, Jonathan. The Search for Omm Sety. (1987). A biography of Dorothy Eady/Omm Sety, an Englishwoman who moved to Egypt, got citizenship, and resumed her reincarnated temple duties (via working for the local Egyptologists) and romantic relationship with the pharaoh Sety I.

Cotugno, Sage; Elliott, Julia; Xue, Lucy; Purin, Tiina. The Glass Scientists. (2015-) Fantasy comic. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, only more queer and crossing over with other classic horror. Jekyll runs a society for mad scientists like himself who push the boundaries, hoping to become more accepted by wider society. Of course, considering it's the Victorian era, this is easier said than done. Especially when there's Hyde, who has his own agenda...

Coville, Bruce. Aliens Stole My Body. (1998). Last book in a four book children's series where the human boy protagonist spends 90% of the story as the headmate of a six-legged, one-eyed, no-mouth-or-hands alien named Seymour, and having very little fronting power. There's also a movie version from 2020 that toned down the multi stuff.

Coville, Bruce. "Saying No to Nick." (2006). Short story. Jeremy has never been able to say no to his best friend Nick, but after dying in a tragic accident, he has to.

Crumpler, Dylan. Petals of a Rose. (2023). Short film. A cute, sweet story about a system getting one of their members through her Valentine's Day date, and ultimately coming out as having DID to a confused-but-supportive partner.
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* Daniels, Owen. Infinity Train, seasons 1-3? (2019-2021). Sci-fi cartoon. Characters find themselves on a surreal, forever-extending train with ever-changing numbers printed on their hands. Each one has to deal with that in a different way.

Paul Davidson, Jacen Burro, Max Bemis. Moon Knight: Legacy #188-200. (2017). Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Dawkins, Jack of Plures. Loud and Clear: a plural trans MANifesto. (2023). A personal zine about how Jack sees himself, society, and the world.

Denis, Michelle, Krenne-Genovene, Laeretta and St. Bride's. Silverwolf. (1983-1992). Mostly-lost serial prose and complete computer game. "Modern English schoolgirl Petra Stone is a reincarnation of the matriarchal warrior princess Mayanna. The Princess and the schoolgirl exist as two independent personalities. She has been taken back into ancient matriarchal Britain by an Amazon group: Rahiyana, the leader; Thunder, a seven-foot powerhouse; Whirlwind, the teen tornado and a shape-shifting imp named Uisce. But the evil patriarchal Lord Fear is determined to kill Petra and has sent a powerful and mysterious band known only as the Swarm..." PARTIALLY LOST MEDIA.

* Deren, Maya. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. (1947-1951, 1981). Documentary avante-garde film. A journey into the Voudoun religion of Haiti, filmed by Maya Deren during 1947-1951 and edited posthumously by Teiji and Cherel Ito in 1981, focused primarily on religious song, dance, and possession.

Desired Constellation. Dyscalculia: the social math of multiplicity. (2010). A personal experience zine of various members of the Desired Constellation grappling with ableism and stigma, and describing their coming to selves-awareness in 2008.

* Desired Constellation, Ronin Ellis and One Fox Faraday of. The Book of Autonomancy. (2019). Horror prose. Practicing the art of autonomancy, a multiple works as a pseudo-exorcist, ousting noncorporeal entities masquerading as ghosts. The story dips back and forth between their coming to selves-awareness and magic in the past, and their present-day battle of wills with a "ghost," who is pulling out all the stops and maybe more than they bargained for...

Diaz, Jamie. various comics. (2016-2021). Jamie makes comics about the queer angels and devils she created and befriended, life as a trans woman in prison, her religious faith, and her hopes of liberation.

Dicks, Matthew. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. (2012). Prose. Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.

Dillon, Rax. Tower of the Wizard King. (2022). Personal zine, experimental in format, about "plurality, differential consciousness, and a board game from 1993 that has been literally living in my head for almost thirty years."

Divya, S. B. Machinehood. (2021). Long sci-fi novel. It's 2095 and humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. All that changes when the Machinehood, a new and mysterious terrorist group whose operatives seem to be part human, part machine, simultaneously attacks several major pill funders. They issue an ultimatum: stop all pill production in one week. Global panic ensues, and Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is pulled back into intelligence work by the government that once betrayed her. But who are the Machinehood and what do they really want?

Donny. The Unicorn, the Oyster, & the Angel. (2023). "An experimental zine about Identity fracturing & Trauma."

Dropout. Mentopolis. (2023). Murder mystery set in the mind of Elias Hodge, scientist. A fun combination of Prohibition-era noir and Disney's Inside Out.

* Dunbar, Olivia Howard. "The Dream Baby." (1904). Supernatural prose. Miss Emily and Miss Agatha, two middle-aged teachers who share a flat and their summer vacations, have their lives disrupted by a baby that exists only in Miss Agatha's dreams.

Dunlop, Andrea. Nobody Should Believe Me: Season 4. (2024). When Andrea Dunlop's sister was investigated for medical child abuse (popularly known as "Munchausen by Proxy") more than a decade ago, it tore her family apart. This catastrophic series of events sent Andrea on a journey to understand a form of abuse that many people don't want to believe exists, speaking with experts, the occasional perpetrator, and a lot of survivors. Season 4 follows the story of Jordyn Hope, a survivor Andrea became friends with while making earlier seasons, as they unravel the secrets of their childhood.

Dutton, Talia. M is for Monster. (2022). Maura and Francine are mad scientist sisters, but after Maura dies in a scientific accident, Francine tries to resurrect her... only to get someone completely different instead. How do you manage a life that isn't your own?

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Eady, Dorothy (AKA Omm Sety). A Dream of the Past. (1949). A green Egyptologist, upon falling asleep in Ti's tomb, gets taken on an educational journey of ancient Egyptian life, accompanied by (the somewhat pompous) Ti, along with illustrated carvings on the tomb depicting the events described.

Elliott, Julia; Cotugno, Sage; Xue, Lucy; Purin, Tiina. The Glass Scientists. (2015-) Fantasy comic. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, only more queer and crossing over with other classic horror. Jekyll runs a society for mad scientists like himself who push the boundaries, hoping to become more accepted by wider society. Of course, considering it's the Victorian era, this is easier said than done. Especially when there's Hyde, who has his own agenda...

* Ellis, Ronin and One Fox Faraday of the Desired Constellation. The Book of Autonomancy. (2019). Horror prose. Practicing the art of autonomancy, a multiple works as a pseudo-exorcist, ousting noncorporeal entities masquerading as ghosts. The story dips back and forth between their coming to selves-awareness and magic in the past, and their present-day battle of wills with a "ghost," who is pulling out all the stops and maybe more than they bargained for...

* Emezi, Akwaeke. Freshwater. (2018). Nigerian body-sharing from an Igbo ọgbanje perspective, fictionalized autobiography prose. Abuse content.

Emezi, Akwaeke. Dear Senthuran. (2021). Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal.

* Emezi, Akwaeke, [AKWAEKE]. Stop Dying, You Were Very Expensive! (2024). Akwaeke Emezi's debut EP, with the declared premise of, "I'm here, I'm a god, now shake your ass ;)"

Emmengard. The Blobbies. (2019-present). A webcomic about the DID experience. Textually transcribed.

Ende, Michael. The Neverending Story. (1979). A strange book draws a lonely boy named Bastian into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place--by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic--and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart.

Enix, Quintet, Zéque. Planet Laika. (1999). PS1 game. A small crew of astronauts is on a mission to investigate Mars, where rumor has it a strange energy called 'Evil Mind' is stirring up delusions. One of these crew members is protagonist(s) Laika, a rookie radio engineer who is also plural. Like most instances of Mars in fiction, things quickly go south. Between solving mysteries, interacting with Mars' varied inhabitants, and hopefully putting a stop to the impending 'Judgement,' Laika and their bodymates - Ernest, Spacer, and Yolanda - confront their joint past and find who they all truly are. Also, everyone has a dog face, and yes, it is plot important.

the Equinoxian Systems. Plural Joy! vol. 0. (2023). "A light introduction to plurality with some interviews with the author systems' members."

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* Faraday, One Fox and Ronin Ellis of the Desired Constellation. The Book of Autonomancy. (2019). Horror prose. Practicing the art of autonomancy, a multiple works as a pseudo-exorcist, ousting noncorporeal entities masquerading as ghosts. The story dips back and forth between their coming to selves-awareness and magic in the past, and their present-day battle of wills with a "ghost," who is pulling out all the stops and maybe more than they bargained for...

Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre Affair. (2001) In an alternate-history England where the Crimean war has been going for 150 years and pet dodo birds are all the rage, Special Operative Thursday Next has to protect Jane Eyre from the kidnapping of its protagonist. First in a series.

Fforde, Jasper. Lost In A Good Book. (2002). When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday Next must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction - the police force inside the BookWorld. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.

Fforde, Jasper. The Well of Lost Plots. (2003). Thursday Next takes refuge in the Book World to lick her wounds and be pregnant in peace. Unfortunately, she's a disaster magnet, so she ends up uncovering a Jurisfiction conspiracy, helping two Generics become well-rounded characters, and fighting an introject mindworm in her psyche who's determined to destroy all her happiest memories.

Fish, Leslie. "The Undeparted." (1983). Star Trek slash fanfiction. After Spock's tragic death at the end of the Wrath of Khan, Bones and Kirk are left picking up the pieces... only to discover that their friend may not be truly gone.

Fleischer, Ruben. Venom. (2018). Film. After a disastrous interview with a shady company ruins his life, journalist Eddie Brock accidentally winds up host to an alien symbiote that has invaded earth through said company. The alien takes a liking to earth and decides to protect it.

Foglio, Phil. Net Dreams. (1998?) Sci-fi porn comic. After the death of their fellow Cyber Warrior in the Info Wars, Rudy and Nik can't stop dreaming about her. It turns out all their cyberpunk hardware is having an unusual side effect...

* Folie, gray. Soft-Pedaled. (2022). A short comic about two multiples trying to process being unable to stop abuse at their respective workplaces.

Folie, gray. Plain or Simple. (2018). A short comic about a plural painting a portrait of their girlfriend and discussing the purpose of art.

Foor, Daniel. "Remembrance: Sarangerel Odigan." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

Forster, Marc. Stranger Than Fiction. (2006). Movie. IRS auditor Harold Crick starts hearing a woman's voice narrating his every action, discovers he's a fictional character being written to die tragically, and sets himself to trying to save himself.

Friedman, C.S. This Alien Shore. (1998). Sci-fi prose. Multiple fleeing for her life in space amidst a space opera backdrop that includes a society built around being as disability- and weird-friendly as possible (while still being just as full of intrigue and bad behavior as anywhere else).

* Frost, Sean and Wendi Strang-Frost. Johnny Public. (2001-2005) Comic, unfinished but complete first arc. One of William Denn's headmates calls a full system meeting, which requires a full headspace manhunt, and Denn's headspace is not a place to wander unsupervised. Psychodrama ensues.

Fukimoto, Tatsuki. Chainsaw Man, part 2. (2022). Asa Mitaka is an introverted high school student attending Fourth East High School, who has trouble finding her place in society following her mother's death to the Typhoon Devil. One day, after accidentally killing her class' pet devil Bucky, she is confronted by a student who has made a contract with the Justice Devil. The student attempts to kill Asa, but Yoru the War Devil appears and makes a contract with Asa, inhabiting her body and making her a living Fiend host, under the condition that she kills Chainsaw Man. After dispatching her killer, Asa seeks to find Chainsaw Man, though she and Yoru have differing goals: Asa wants Yoru to leave her body, while Yoru wants to reclaim the Nuclear Weapons Devil which was consumed by Pochita.

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GalaxySystem. Today. (2015-2020). Our daily adventures as a DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) system. " A diary comic from the system's life in 2013."

Garfinkle, Gwynne. "The Imaginary Friend." (2022). Contemporary prose. A fictive imaginary friend discovers the truth about his existence as his human grows up.

* Georges, Rene and Houlberg, Marilyn. "My Double Mystic Marriages to Two Goddesses of Love: an Interview." (1993). From Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. An interview with a Haitian man about his marriages to two lwa, Ezili Danto and Ezili Freya.

Ghost Mice. Disconnected. (2015). A three-minute song about losing a friend to mental illness and ableism.

Ghostwriter of Rhymers. Birthday Surprise--or Happy Headmates in Love. (2020). Cam and Eli plan the most amazing birthday surprise for their newest relationship partner, Kora. What happens when common memory fouls things up?

Gilkey, Laura. The Trinity. (2002). Prose. Three teenaged soulbonders get snatched by a military program, intending to use their powers for evil, but the bonders don't play along...

Gilkey, Laura. Who I Am. (2002?) A poem about the subjective sensation of soulbonding.

Gladden, Ronnie. White Girl Within. (2023). Two identities struggle to coexist in Ronnie Gladden's body, brain, and soul. On the outside, they are Black and male. Inside, a repressed White female identity begs for release and is ready to break the status quo. Grappling with double-binary thinking, an abusive father, and childhood trauma, they imprison their inner self to stay safe from the world.

Goode, Kendall, Contreras, Gab, and Sebela, Christopher. Dirtbag Rapture. (2022). After a near-death experience, all Kat wants is to get high and shut up the ghosts in her head. But after she ends up in the middle of a cosmic war between angels and demons, she has to pick a side.

* Gondry, Michel. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. (2004). After a painful breakup, Clementine undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend. When he finds out, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins to forget the woman that he loved, only to discover that this may not be a good idea. A flight through mindscape ensues, trying to dodge the memory-erasure.

Grove, Emma. The Third Person. (2022). 800-page comics memoir about a messed-up therapy relationship and being gatekept out of transitioning due to DID.

GZE/Silvermoon Team. Pack of Weirdos. (2024-) An autobiographical comic about alterhumanity, trauma, and memes.

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H., Ann. Various poems. (1985-1986). Eight short poems by a multiple, dealing with topics ranging from death, despair, and denial, to longing for connection and friendship.

halfbakeddozen. Insert Title Here. (2022). Comic. A new being has arrived! It does not remember how it got here, and maybe that is okay.

halfbakeddozen. Insert Title Here #2. (2022). Comic. The new being watches. What does it see?

halfbakeddozen. Insert Title Here #3. (2022). Comic. What will the new being find? (A bad day. It finds a very bad day.)

halfbakeddozen. Insert Title Here #4. (2022). Comic. The new being is helped through a challenging experience.

Hardinge, Frances. A Skinful of Shadows. (2017). Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes looking for somewhere to hide. Some people have space within them, perfect for hiding. Makepeace is one of the latter.

Hiiro, Reiichi. Romantic Illusions (or, in Japanese, 脳内恋愛のススメ/Nōnai Renai no Susume). (2008). A very VERY boys love manga about the sexual and romantic misadventures of a small system of three that start as boyfriends, then get their own corporeal boyfriends over time. Literary cheeze whiz.

Hirsh, Ananth and Yuko Ota. Barbarous, Chapter 5. (2016-) Webcomic. After losing her magic and washing out of wizard school, overachiever Percy Mori becomes a superintendent of an apartment building with Leeds, a rogue familiar who senses what others want from him and feels compelled to obey... not a good character trait in a super. In Chapter 5, a burglar(?) sends them to the abstracted realm, which is built on Percy and Leeds's psyches... and they both have baggage. Percy has to join forces with her past self to get them out... or does she?

Hotta, Yumi, and Takeshi Obata. Hikaru no Go (or, in Japanese, ヒカルの碁) . (1998-2003). Comic. When average 6th grader Shindō Hikaru finds an old Go board in his grandfather's warehouse, he is possessed by the spirit of Fujiwara no Sai, a master Go player who lived about a thousand years ago, and from that moment his life changed forever.

* Houlberg, Marilyn and Georges, Rene. "My Double Mystic Marriages to Two Goddesses of Love: an Interview." (1993). From Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. An interview with a Haitian man about his marriages to two lwa, Ezili Danto and Ezili Freya.

Howard, Abby and Howard-Arias, Tony, AKA Black Tabby Games. Slay the Princess. (2023). Visual novel horror game. You're on a path in the woods, and at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a Princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.

H.S., Alexi, AKA Utilitymonstergirl. Solipschism. (2023). After spending centuries dead, Markus awakens in a world that doesn't care to explain much, least of all itself. And he can spin off other selves to discuss the matter...

Human Entertainment. Clock Tower Ghost Head AKA Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within. (1998). Teenager Alyssa Hale is trying to start over in a new city after a horrific incident at her previous school. She is haunted by someone named Bates who has been taking control of her body against her will. Things go from bad to worse upon reaching her uncle's house and finding a dead body shortly after. The reason why Bates exists will be revealed, but she must learn to accept him in order to find that truth and, most importantly, survive the night.

Hungry Ghosts. Various poems. (2019?) A series of short prose poems on various aspects of the plural experience.

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the Inmara Ktletaccete Fenumera. System's Out! (2022). "A story about plurality, consciousness, the fight to overcome physical dysphoria, and self advocacy in a world without assigned gender. Also, some good old fashioned wish fulfillment."

the Insubordinate Pen. Meanwhile at the Withershins Hotel. (2019). Fantasy novel. What happens when you mix one drunk fairy godmother with a multitude of blue cocktails, add a stubborn barmaid with a unique taste in adventures, and filter it all through a sarcastic narrator who can't seem to keep themselves out of the story? Elaine is on a quest to rescue a dragon egg, through a world of "every fairy tale is real, but not quite the way you were told..."

ISLA NARANJA DEL VIAJE. EDIBLE AND INEDIBLE. (2023). Comic. A personal reflection on vulnerability and nonhuman identity, in stark black, white, red, and yellow.

ISLA NARANJA DEL VIAJE. OPEN CANVAS SEEKING FLAME. (2024). Comic. A poetic reflection on escaping a poisonous relationship, ambiguously described, and having to refind yourself and your art afterward, shown through a conversation between two headmates.

Iwaaki, Hitoshi. Parasyte. (1998-1995). Horror manga. Brain-snatching, shapeshifting parasites start taking over people's bodies and eating humans, but when one goes after high schooler Shinichi, it goes wrong and ends up in his arm instead. Fed by Shinichi's circulatory system, Migi (his parasite) feels no desire to eat humans, and the two must work together to survive, avoid detection, and possibly protect humanity.

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Joel, Billy. The Stranger. (1977). Five minute song about the sides of ourselves we hide from others, and being surprised by a loved one's own "stranger."

Jorgensen, Austin. Lisa: The First. (2012). Computer game. An abused young woman tries to escape through her imagination and fails.

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K., Meredith and Co. Me & My Tail. (2024). Kittylove's tail comes to life and makes it happy.

K+CO’s system/zakeno/Sjursen-Lien, Kiernan. Secondhand Soup. (2018-) Webcomic. “The adventures of three young adult animals just trying to get by in the big city!”

Keith, Sam, and Messner-Loebs, William. The Maxx. (1993-1998.) Superhero comic/cartoon. In our world, the Maxx is a homeless man who sleeps in a box with a hopelessly enmeshed relationship with his social worker, Julie, but in the primordial Outback, he's a superhero fighting for his Jungle Queen! But it turns out the Maxx, Julie, and the Outback are all hopelessly psychologically intertwined, and a killer named Mr. Gone seems to know way more about all of them than he should...

* Kendall, Laurel. The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: of Tales and the Telling of Tales. (1988). The anecdotes and life stories told by Yongsun's Mother, a mansin who lives outside Seoul.

Kikiyama. Yume Nikki. (2004-2008). A young woman who cannot leave her room explores the strange world of her dreams instead, in this mysterious, open-ended, beloved cult game.

King, Don Roy. Jekyll & Hyde: the Musical. (2001). David freakin' Hasslehoff plays the virtuous Dr. Jekyll and his murderous headmate Mr. Hyde. Watch him devour scenery, wear enormous fur coats, and have a full-on conniption on stage as the two headmates battle for dominance.

Kingsley, Nikolai. Cache. (1994). A short sci-fi story about a multiple and two singlets going treasure hunting in space.

* Kon, Satoshi, dir. Paprika. (2006). Japanese animated movie about a group of therapists working on an experimental device that allows people to enter each other's dreams. When the device is stolen, reality starts unraveling like a cheap sock. The title character is a therapist's headmate, who does the dreamwork.

Kon, Satoshi, dir. Paranoia Agent. (2004). Japanese animated TV show. When despair overwhelms certain people in Tokyo, they find themselves whacked upside the head by a middle-school boy with a golden bat and rollerblades. Cops start investigating the case, only to discover that "Lil Slugger" isn't what he seems...

Konigsburg, E. L. (george). (1970). Kids' prose. A precocious young boy's headmate notices something amiss with his friend at school, and tries to get to the bottom of it.

kouri. Ib and Ib Remake. (2012, 2022). Horror game. You play a nine-year-old girl named Ib who, upon visiting an art exhibit with her parents, gets sucked into a world spawned from the imagination and creations of the deceased artist being exhibited. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that imagination DOES NOT LIKE YOU.

Krenne-Genovene, Laeretta; Denis, Michelle; and St. Bride's. Silverwolf. (1983-1992). Mostly-lost serial prose and complete computer game. "Modern English schoolgirl Petra Stone is a reincarnation of the matriarchal warrior princess Mayanna. The Princess and the schoolgirl exist as two independent personalities. She has been taken back into ancient matriarchal Britain by an Amazon group: Rahiyana, the leader; Thunder, a seven-foot powerhouse; Whirlwind, the teen tornado and a shape-shifting imp named Uisce. But the evil patriarchal Lord Fear is determined to kill Petra and has sent a powerful and mysterious band known only as the Swarm..."

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LadyLibido and Shadderstag. Joy Ride. (2021). Porn prose. Ketna gets a request from Ghar for a 'fight and fuck'. Not an unusual request and one she's keen on, but as the friendly skirmish goes on it gets a bit more overwhelming than she initially expected, but not necessarily in a bad way.

LadyLibido and Shadderstag. Cuddles. (2022). Sci-fi prose. Ketna approaches HartLee for something that usually comes after sex, but they're not opposed to doing things out of order.

Lam, George. "San Ren Xing" 三人行 [Three People Walk]." (1984). A sweet song about being friends with a flying elephant, the moon and stars, and someone who lives inside of you.

Lee, LB. Cultiples. (2017-2019). Prose. Three nonfiction histories of three plural cult leaders, who ran abusive, mindbreaking authoritarian groups.

Left at London. "6 Feet." (2019). Song. From the artists twitter: "A lot of people think 6 Feet is metaphorically about the “call of the void”. It is not. It is, very literally, about living with OSDD-1b. I did not know I had it when I wrote the song. Writing it & talking about the song with my therapist lead me to get officially diagnosed."

Left at London. "My Friends are Kinda Strange." (2020). Song. A song explicitly about being friends with your headmates.

Le Guin, Ursula. "Dreams Must Explain Themselves." (1973). An essay by the late, great speculative fiction writer about her discovering of Earthsea over the course of a decade and its independent autonomy.

Lemire, Jeff; Smallwood, Greg. Moon Knight, vol. 8 #1-14. (2016). Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Lewis, Sharon. Brown Girl Begins. (2018). A sci-fi/fantasy movie where a reluctant priestess must resurrect Caribbean spirits and survive the possession ritual that killed her mother or her people will die. Inspired by Nalo Hopkinson's novel, Brown Girl In The Ring.

Lucassen, Arjen Anthony. The Human Equation. A man lies comatose in hospital after a terrible car accident. The accident was bizarre: it happened in broad daylight with no other cars in sight. The man’s wife and his best friend are keeping a bedside vigil, trying to understand how the accident happened, and hoping for any sign of recovery. Unable to communicate with the outside world, the man finds himself trapped in a strange realm where his emotions — most of which he’s repressed for a long time — have come to life to confront him with all the choices he has made in his life — and their consequences.

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Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio, Federico Sabbatini. Moon Knight vol. 9. (2021) Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

magdaliny. quiet americans. (2017-2018). A series of Captain America and the Winter Soldier fanfics exploring the Soldier’s time in HYDRA, his escape, and his recovery, as he slowly decides who he is and who he wants to be. Only the second CatWS fic ever to be nominated to this comm!

Makiburo & Shiraume Nazuna. The One Within the Villainess/悪役令嬢の中の人. (2021-) Neglected by her family, Remilia is destined to become the villainess of her world, but when a young woman from our world, Emi, is suddenly reincarnated into her body, suddenly Remilia is cherished and sheltered for the first time. For 11 years, Emi builds a life for Remilia's happiness, but when the treacherous court turns on softhearted Emi, it's Remilia's turn to build a life for her... and make all those jerks sorry!

* Makiya, Sara and Sara Paige. my heart beats in seismic waves. (2018). A meditative poetry zine about the fluid, celestial nature of the self, its ebb and flow and ambiguity.

Maleev, Alex; Bendis, Brian Michael. Moon Knight, vol. 6. (2011) Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Martin, Kael Knoxton. When I was younger I used to think I was Angel... (2024) A short personal zine about fictionkin identity and having a dissociative disorder.

* Martinsson, Natalia and Isaak. Fran Bow. (2015). Horror game. After finding her parents horrifically murdered, Fran Bow is shipped off to an oppressive insane asylum for children, where she starts having gruesome visions and decides to escape to reunite with her beloved kitty.

Marvel Studios. Moon Knight. (2022). TV miniseries. Steven Grant is an ordinary London retail worker, with an interest in Egyptology and a problem with sleepwalking. Marc Spector is a mercenary-turned-superhero, fighting evil as the Avatar of the god Khonshu, on one last mission to stop a divine genocide. And they were headmates (oh my god, they were headmates).

McGee, American. American McGee's Alice. (2000). A very Hot Topic computer game where Alice of Wonderland fame goes into a trauma coma and hacks and slashes her way out of a very hostile headspace.

McGee, American. Alice: Madness Returns. (2011). Alice's Wonderland is decaying and being tampered with by outside forces. Time to pick up the Vorpal blade and hack and slash through some more inner demons!

McMillen, Edmund. The Binding of Isaac. (2011-present) A computer game following an abused child and his possible-headmates fighting through randomly generated dungeons filled with poop, trauma, and abortions. Offense guaranteed.

* McNeil, Carla Speed. Finder: Dream Sequence. (Later omnibused into The Finder Library, vol. 2) (2003). Comic. Magri White hosts a massive MMO game inside his head, until one day, his mind rebels, and his inner demon starts attacking players. Paracosm exploration and psychodrama ensues. Also headmate smooching.

* Medlock, Sam. War Zone. (2021). Supernatural comic. A Native teenager attempts suicide and reality starts to melt. Bad spirits are involved.

Messner-Loebs, William and Keith, Sam. The Maxx. (1993-1998.) Superhero comic/cartoon. In our world, the Maxx is a homeless man who sleeps in a box with a hopelessly enmeshed relationship with his social worker, Julie, but in the primordial Outback, he's a superhero fighting for his Jungle Queen! But it turns out the Maxx, Julie, and the Outback are all hopelessly psychologically intertwined, and a killer named Mr. Gone seems to know way more about all of them than he should...

Metzger, Lois. "Mara." (1981). Short prose. A heroine finds another world and a friend who helps her survive this one. What is sanity anyway?

M'kali-Hashiki. "Erasing the Line." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

Moench, Doug; Bill Sienkiewicz. Moon Knight (vol. 1). (1980). After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Morrison, Grant, Richard Case, et al. Doom Patrol. (1989-1993). Superhero comics. Shunned as freaks and outcasts, tempered by loss and insanity, this superheroic band of disabled misfits faces threats so mystifying in nature and so corrupted in motive that reality itself threatens to fall apart around them--but it's all in a day's work for the Doom Patrol.

Muir, Tamsyn. Harrow the Ninth. (2020). The sequel to Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth follows Harrowhark Nonageismus, who has failed to become a true Lyctor--a necromancer who has absorbed the soul of her cavalier. She is being both haunted by both visions and ghosts as she attempts to survive her time aboard the Mithraeum as one of God's chosen saints.

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Nazuna, Shiraume and Makiburo. The One Within the Villainess/悪役令嬢の中の人. (2021-) Neglected by her family, Remilia is destined to become the villainess of her world, but when a young woman from our world, Emi, is suddenly reincarnated into her body, suddenly Remilia is cherished and sheltered for the first time. For 11 years, Emi builds a life for Remilia's happiness, but when the treacherous court turns on softhearted Emi, it's Remilia's turn to build a life for her... and make all those jerks sorry!

Neon Crypt System. Dining Alone Together. (2022). Slice of life comic made to describe the creators' experience of being many, depicted alongside the process of making a meal together.

Neon Crypt System. Helping Hands. (2025). A short eight-page comic about two headmates cooking a meal together.

Neon Crypt System. Lost & Found Again. (2023). A slice of life comic about playing hide and seek with a younger headmate across inner worlds.

Nguyen, Xuan. "Divination, Art Creation, and Schizophrenia." (2021). A personal essay on divination, being a poet-prose writer, and consensus reality with schizophrenia, DID, and physical disability caused by medication.

Nimoy, Leonard. I Am Spock. (1995). Leonard Nimoy's memoir about playing Spock on Star Trek, hearing his voice in his head and talking to it, and their relationship through Nimoy's acting, directing, and theatrical career over the decades.

Nolan, Christopher. Inception. (2010). Movie. A washed-up old dream thief pulls together a heist crew to pull off one last perfect crime: to break into a man's subconscious and, instead of stealing something, leave an idea behind. But what heist ever goes perfectly? And the thief in charge has his own inner demons...

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Obata, Takeshi and Yumi Hotta. Hikaru no Go (or, in Japanese, ヒカルの碁) . (1998-2003). Comic. When average 6th grader Shindō Hikaru finds an old Go board in his grandfather's warehouse, he is possessed by the spirit of Fujiwara no Sai, a master Go player who lived about a thousand years ago, and from that moment his life changed forever.

Okabe, Keisuke. Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. (2021). RPG metroidvania. A young girl wakes to a land blighted by an unceasing rain that steals the sanity and mortality of everyone it touches. Unable to fight as herself, she relies on the spirits of bosses and enemies that she befriends to protect her, fight for her, and help her explore and traverse the environment, so she can lay the dead to rest and end the cycle of horror.

Omm Sety (AKA Eady, Dorothy). A Dream of the Past. (1949). A green Egyptologist, upon falling asleep in Ti's tomb, gets taken on an educational journey of ancient Egyptian life, accompanied by (the somewhat pompous) Ti, along with illustrated carvings on the tomb depicting the events described.

OrchardWrites. Metastasis. Two headmates get it on! Yeehaw!

Ota, Yuko and Ananth Hirsh. Barbarous, Chapter 5. (2016-) Webcomic. After losing her magic and washing out of wizard school, overachiever Percy Mori becomes a superintendent of an apartment building with Leeds, a rogue familiar who senses what others want from him and feels compelled to obey... not a good character trait in a super. In Chapter 5, a burglar(?) sends them to the abstracted realm, which is built on Percy and Leeds's psyches... and they both have baggage. Percy has to join forces with her past self to get them out... or does she?

owlet. Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail. (2014-2018) Superhero fanfiction. Following on from the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), brainwashed assassin James Buchanan Barnes, his mission imperative, and his mission briefing try to protect Steve Rogers while dealing with assassins, criminals, trauma, memory issues, and becoming a part of a community again.

Oyasainoni 9. ねこのティーチくん/Teach the Cat. (2019-2022) A thriller dressed up as a very incompetent edutainment show. Your host, a cat named Teach (joined by his headmates Sam and Kobayashi), tries to give you entertaining life lessons from the white void he calls home, even as he is beset by unpleasant, horrific, and inexplicable events.

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* Packbat. Driftself. (2021?) A kinetic essay, a venting of complicated feelings about race springing from being both black and white.

Paige, Sara and Sara Makiya. my heart beats in seismic waves. (2018). A meditative poetry zine about the fluid, celestial nature of the self, its ebb and flow and ambiguity.

Patterson, James, and Gabrielle Charbonnet. Sunday's At Tiffany's. (2008). Romance prose. What if your imaginary friend from childhood was your one true love? Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl with an overbearing mother and only one friend: Michael, who's imaginary. After he leaves her when she's nine years old, she never forgets him, until she runs into him again in her thirties.

Peter, Paul and Mary; Robinson, Spider. Puff the Magic Dragon. (1963; 1981). Fantasy song. A children's song about a young boy and his imaginary dragon friend. Tragic or happy ending, depending which version you prefer.

Peterson, Lisa. Ernest Shackleton Loves Me. (2017). Musical theatre. After the father of her baby leaves her to tour with a Journey tribute band, plus 36 hours without sleep, a video game music composer and single mother Kat starts having visions of famous explorer Ernest Shackleton, who encourages her to get her life together as he tries to survive his disastrous expedition to the Antarctic. Romance ensues... sorta!

Phillips, Jane. The Magic Daughter. (1995) A memoir about living with MPD, dealing with concerns like learning linear time, gender issues, trust, integration, and multiplicity caused by things OTHER than sexual abuse

Pierce, Onjé Keon. Prison Worship: Orishas, Vodoun, and Mpungos. (2020) A Risographed art zine, done entirely in shades of blue and black, of religious art and practice by a then-imprisoned artist.

Plures House, Jack Dawkins of. Loud and Clear: a plural trans MANifesto. (2023). A personal zine about how Jack sees himself, society, and the world.

Plures House. Only Meteors Are Impactful. (2023). Audio comedy. The Shattered Souls System are the latest guests on Dysfunction Junction, where Hess and Zip support struggling systems in becoming more functional by connecting them with systems who have their sh*t together. Unfortunately, Ellen Barbara, this episode’s advice-giver, has her own ideas of what “functional” means—and the business-jargon-addicted James isn’t helping much, either. It’s a workplace satire! It mocks ableism and two-dimensional views of multiplicity! In short, it’s a Plures House production.

Polk, C. L. Even Though I Knew the End. (2022). Fantasy prose. A disgraced warlock and her angel-possessed girlfriend get pulled into a serial killing mystery in Chicago, only to discover things are not what they appear.

the Poppet Sisters. My Friends, Evelyn. (2021). A brief documentary by the Poppet Sisters about the birth and coming out of their headmate Evelyn.

Porter, S. E. Projections. (2024). Gus is a sorcerer so obsessed with Catherine that he murders her, and her ghost is stuck haunting him forevermore. Unable to accept that Catherine doesn't love him, Gus then becomes obsessed with finding other girls that remind him of Catherine and making THEM love him... only to kill them when the inevitably don't. He creates magical duplicates of himself to do that dirty work, forever recycling them into new copies, using Catherine's ghost to create them. But over the decades, that means a piece of Catherine is embedded in those pieces of Gus. And she still wants her revenge...

Pullman, Phillip. Northern Lights or The Golden Compass. (1995). Fantasy prose. In Lyra's world, all people have daemons: a shapeshifting animal who settles into one form as an adult. Now Lyra and her daemon, Pan, are rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal - including Lyra's friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, a champion.

Pun, Ava. Academy 118: Carbon Copies. (2022-) At a boarding school based off the periodic table, all the elements are students or teachers! Now, due to scheduling mix-ups and a lack of communication, Graphite, Diamond, Grapheme, and their headmates have to last-minute figure out what to do about their school talent show!

Purin, Tiina; Elliott, Julia; Cotugno, Sage; Xue, Lucy. The Glass Scientists. (2015-) Fantasy comic. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, only more queer and crossing over with other classic horror. Jekyll runs a society for mad scientists like himself who push the boundaries, hoping to become more accepted by wider society. Of course, considering it's the Victorian era, this is easier said than done. Especially when there's Hyde, who has his own agenda...

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Quintet, Zéque, Enix. Planet Laika. (1999). PS1 game. A small crew of astronauts is on a mission to investigate Mars, where rumor has it a strange energy called 'Evil Mind' is stirring up delusions. One of these crew members is protagonist(s) Laika, a rookie radio engineer who is also plural. Like most instances of Mars in fiction, things quickly go south. Between solving mysteries, interacting with Mars' varied inhabitants, and hopefully putting a stop to the impending 'Judgement,' Laika and their bodymates - Ernest, Spacer, and Yolanda - confront their joint past and find who they all truly are. Also, everyone has a dog face, and yes, it is plot important.
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Rashid, Ian Iqbal. Touch of Pink. (2004). Alim seems to have it all: a great career, a handsome boyfriend, and a personal guide in the spirit of Cary Grant. And living thousands of miles away from his mother, Nuru, and his family in Toronto, he can keep his lifestyle hidden. But when his mom pays an impromptu visit, Alim needs to reconcile these different sides of himself.

Readers of Many Voices. Mending Ourselves: Expressions of healing & self-integration. (1993). Prose. A collection of essays, poetry, and art shared by over fifty readers of Many Voices, an international newsletter for people healing from trauma-related dissociative disorders, mostly focused on personal experiences of the recovery progress and integration.

Regurgitator. My Ego. (2004). A ridiculous farce of a song about having a terrible dysfunctional relationship with your own ego, breaking up, and continuing to have sex.

Rhymers, Ghostwriter of. Birthday Surprise--or Happy Headmates in Love. (2020). Cam and Eli plan the most amazing birthday surprise for their newest relationship partner, Kora. What happens when common memory fouls things up?

Rhymershouse. Intersections. (2020). A poem about the intersections between plurality and blindness.

Robinson, Spider; Peter, Paul and Mary. Puff the Magic Dragon. (1963; 1981). Fantasy song. A children's song about a young boy and his imaginary dragon friend. Tragic or happy ending, depending which version you prefer.

Robinson, Spider. "Two Heads Are Better Than One." (1975). A crew of free-rolling barflies assist a young telepathic man in trying to contact his comatose brother in the mental ward.

Robinson, Spider. "Post Toast." (1996). Spider Robinson, the writer, writes himself into a story where he interacts with his fictional characters, tells them about the Usenet fandom that has formed around them, and they celebrate... and then real-world-Robinson posts said story on real-world-Usenet.

R.O.S.C.O.E. Ouroboros: A Plural Zine about why being plural has made it hard to make a plural zine etc. A discussion of how the very nature of plurality can make selves-recognition and discussing that plurality is difficult.

* Rose, Megan. Spirit Marriage: Intimate Relationships with Otherworldly Beings. (2022). "Megan Rose, Ph.D., examines the practice and purpose of spirit marriage around the world, presenting transcultural evidence of this form of sacred union. [...] She shares her in-depth interviews with ten contemporary practitioners of spirit marriage, including a Faery Seer, a Shakta Tantric, a West African Shrine Keeper, a New Orleans Voodoo Mambo, Haitian Vodou practitioners, and a ceremonial magician," along with her own spirit marriage.

Ruff, Matt. Set This House in Order. (2003). Prose. Andy's system has everything stabilized and figured out... until they meet another multiple who hasn't realized they are yet. Shenanigans ensue and Andy realizes his system is keeping a secret from him.

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Federico Sabbatini, Jed MacKay, Alessandro Cappuccio. Moon Knight vol. 9. (2021) Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Saint John of the Cross/San Juan de la Cruz. "En Una Noche Obscura/On a Dark Night". (1577-1579). A mystical Catholic poem about meeting God in ecstatic, holy, erotic darkness.

the Salt Institute. Tales of the Raven King. (2020). Prose. The Salt Institute goes on a journey throughout the multiverse by interacting with weird trees and encounter various places with Mysterious Vibes as well as a couple(-ish) interesting folks.

Sanderson, Brandon. Legion. (2011). Stephen Leeds, AKA 'Legion,' is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. As the story begins, Leeds and his aspects are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society.

SangheiliosThel, AKA Thien Valdram. Skyfall. (2025). Dr. Who fanfic. After sacrificing themselves to save the Doctor from an elder god, Yanistriterquyzhonosorkyquiana barely manages to escape, at the cost of their fifth incarnation's life. Crashing onto Cretaceous Era Earth, they regenerate into a form best fit for survival, a Velociraptor. Five months later, Yanis VI, aka Skyfallen, has become closely connected with a local pack of Velociraptors who have helped her to survive in her new form. However, when the Doctor returns for her help, they uncover a conspiracy that could shake Gallifrey to its core.

San Juan de la Cruz/Saint John of the Cross. "En Una Noche Obscura/On a Dark Night". (1577-1579). A mystical Catholic poem about meeting God in ecstatic, holy, erotic darkness.

Saph. Loony [c]. (2023). A one-page furry transformation comic where two bodysharers decide to play!

* Schmidt, Leigh Eric. Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr and Madwoman. (2010). Historical biography of a sex educator who married a spirit in the 1890s and who was hounded to death by Anthony Comstock for it.

Scott-Clary, Madison. ally. (2019-2020). Hypertext. "an ergodic, arborescent, semiautobiographical work about identity, mental health, spirituality, and the mutability of the past. A lot of the information contained within is real, some of it isn’t. Each page is structured as a conversation between myself and my ally, a mirror reflection of myself."

Sebela, Christopher, Goode, Kendall, and Contreras, Gab. Dirtbag Rapture. (2022). After a near-death experience, all Kat wants is to get high and shut up the ghosts in her head. But after she ends up in the middle of a cosmic war between angels and demons, she has to pick a side.

Shadderstag and LadyLibido. Joy Ride. (2021). Porn prose. Ketna gets a request from a friend for a 'fight and fuck'. Not an unusual request and one she's keen on, but as the friendly skirmish goes on it gets a bit more overwhelming than she initially expected, but not necessarily in a bad way.

Shadderstag and LadyLibido. Cuddles. (2022). Sci-fi prose. Ketna approaches HartLee for something that usually comes after sex, but they're not opposed to doing things out of order.

Shandy, Trismegistus. Listening to Jekyllase. (2019, 2023-2024) In 1970, a young college student is introduced by his roommate to jekyllase. Based on the recently rediscovered formula created and then thought lost by Dr. Henry Jekyll a century earlier, it's all the rage on campuses now: it will show you your inner, repressed self. What will that look like for Scott and his friends?

Shakespeare, William. "Sonnet 27." (1609). A poem about traveling to one's companion in dreams.

Shawl, Nisi. "The Rainses'." (1995). Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

Short, Emily. Counterfeit Monkey. (2012). Interactive fiction game. The rebel Andra and her partner-in-crime Alex live in a world where words are reality. There are tools that can change the names of things to transform the things themselves. These even work on people — Alex and Andra have disguised themselves from the police of the oppressive island nation Anglophone Atlantis by portmanteauing themselves into a single being named Alexandra. Now, armed with only a letter-remover, they must escape from Atlantis before the day is over.

Bill Sienkiewicz; Moench, Doug. Moon Knight (vol. 1). (1980). After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Silverberg, Robert. Multiples. (1983) Prose. A singlet with a kink for multiples goes trawling the multi bars in San Francisco, trying to pick one up.

Silverberg, Robert. The Secret-Sharer. (1987). Deep space captain Adam is on his first trip through deep space when a free-floating "matrix" personality escapes containment and takes residence in his body. She seems nice enough, but the rest of the ship is deeply afraid; how can they hide her?

Silvermoon Team/GZE. Pack of Weirdos. (2024-) An autobiographical comic about alterhumanity, trauma, and memes.

Sjursen-Lien, Kiernan/zakeno/K+CO’s system. Secondhand Soup. (2018-) Webcomic. “The adventures of three young adult animals just trying to get by in the big city!”

Slater, Jeremy. Moon Knight. (2022). TV miniseries. Steven Grant is an ordinary London retail worker, with an interest in Egyptology and a problem with sleepwalking. Marc Spector is a mercenary-turned-superhero, fighting evil as the Avatar of the god Khonshu, on one last mission to stop a divine genocide. And they were headmates (oh my god, they were headmates).

Smallwood, Greg; Lemire, Jeff. Moon Knight, vol. 8 #1-14. (2016). Superhero comic. After dying and being resurrected (for the first time, but not the last) by the Egyptian god of the moon, mercenary Marc Spector sets out to atone for the harm he caused…by becoming a moon-themed superhero. That’s on top of being Steven Grant, rich CEO/investor in unspecified businesses. And being Jake Lockley, who ranges from “friendly, easygoing, regular guy” to “comedically murderous sociopath” depending on who’s writing this run. (The current series is striking a middle ground of “avuncular scoundrel with a heart of gold”.)

Smith, J. Phoenix. "Responding to the Call of the Ancestors: Transforming Vinegar into Honey." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

* SoftAnnaLee. I am Dog(s). (2021). Hypertext/Twine game. I am Dog(s) is a semi-autobiographical narrative about a freshly cracked trans woman struggling with multiple discoveries she makes about herself one right after another.

SoftAnnaLee. The Alyxcule. (2021). Prose. A transformation story about being assimilated by the Borg, if the Borg was a queer otherkin polycule of cuddle.

Solomon, Rivers. Sorrowland. (2021). Everybody in Cainland is used to hauntings - visions and night terrors supposedly caused by withdrawal from white people's toxins. But in Cainland, everything is connected and nothing is what it seems. After fleeing the Cainland cult compound pregnant with twins, an exoskeleton develops on Vern's disabled, teenage body, a passenger that saps her energy but connects her to something greater than herself. Meanwhile, she learns to communicate with her hauntings and develops loving relationships with some of them.

Some Kind Of Infernal Machine. Devil On Your Shoulder. (2021). A song about making friends with one of your nightmares to ward off the others. What could possibly go wrong?

St. Bride's; Denis, Michellel; and Krenne-Genovene, Laeretta. Silverwolf. (1983-1992). Mostly-lost serial prose and complete computer game. "Modern English schoolgirl Petra Stone is a reincarnation of the matriarchal warrior princess Mayanna. The Princess and the schoolgirl exist as two independent personalities. She has been taken back into ancient matriarchal Britain by an Amazon group: Rahiyana, the leader; Thunder, a seven-foot powerhouse; Whirlwind, the teen tornado and a shape-shifting imp named Uisce. But the evil patriarchal Lord Fear is determined to kill Petra and has sent a powerful and mysterious band known only as the Swarm..."

Stevenson, ND. outcasts always mourn. (2024). Short comic about how ND Stevenson pretended to show Oscar Wilde around Vegas as a way of coping with overstimulation on his trip there, which then turns into a reflection on Wilde's legacy and how the world has changed for gay people since his time

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Unseen Playmate. (1913). A short poem about imaginary playmates from a century ago.

Stink Animal and the Bad Smells. All Of Us Love All Of You. (2024). A plural love song by an all plural therian band.

Stormgail. Shadow's Song. (2022). A short poem about the sacredness of the shadow self.

* Strang-Frost, Wendi and Sean Frost. Johnny Public. (2001-2005) Comic, unfinished but complete first arc. One of William Denn's headmates calls a full system meeting, which requires a full headspace manhunt, and Denn's headspace is not a place to wander unsupervised. Psychodrama ensues.

SUDO51. Killer7. (2005). Game. You play as the Killer7, a one-vessel assassin team who shoots and murders their way through a suicide-bomber death cult, organ traffickers, a superhero team, and their own creation, accompanied by the ghosts of their victims along the way. Each headmate plays in a different way and has different skills, and waking them up over the course of a level is a key gameplay mechanic. All are needed to switch in at one time or another, from Con the blind speedy punk, to Kevin the spidery silent knife-thrower, to Garcian, the black man you never, EVER want to die.

Sugar, Rebecca. Steven Universe. (2013-2020). Steven Universe, a half-human, half-alien Crystal Gem boy, lives with three Crystal Gems on a tropical island, protecting the earth from evil and learning about his origins, Gem culture, and the relationship his now-deceased mother had with his father, Greg.

SunsetAgain. Byzantine Generals. (2018-2023). Sci-fi fancomic of Detroit: Become Human. An android, subject to horrific experiments, finds himself part of a network of clones. He fights to set them free along with the other victims of experimentation, and succeeds--at the cost of his life. Those 7 clones find new life together with their human partner, but the threats to their existence are far from over...
 

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Takahashi, Tatsuya. Xenogears. (1998). Video game. A cult-classic extremely plotty JRPG about a amnesiac guy named Fei Fong Wong, who journeys across the world with some other folks to overthrow the fascist government, and in the process uncovers the secrets of their world and things about his past. Also there are giant robots.

Talbot, Bryan. The Tale of One Bad Rat. (1994). Comic book. An abused teenager with a synchronistic link to Beatrix Potter, runs away from her London home, accompanied by her pet rat, who later becomes an imaginary friend who stays with her the entire book. With the help of her rat, her art, the works of Beatrix Potter, she does her best to survive and find a better life for herself.

Tanaka, Ai. King in Limbo. (2017). SF manga. A disabled veteran and the burnt-out King of Limbo are recruited to wade into the traumatic memories and dreams of patients with a sleeping disease, hoping to find its cause and cure. But something isn't right...

Teya & Salena. Who The Hell is Edgar? (2023) Our narrator finds herself body-sharing with Edgar Allen Poe, decides to let him write as much as he wants, while she and her friend/business partner handle the marketing.

Thien Valdram, AKA SangheiliosThel. Skyfall. (2025). Dr. Who fanfic. After sacrificing themselves to save the Doctor from an elder god, Yanistriterquyzhonosorkyquiana barely manages to escape, at the cost of their fifth incarnation's life. Crashing onto Cretaceous Era Earth, they regenerate into a form best fit for survival, a Velociraptor. Five months later, Yanis VI, aka Skyfallen, has become closely connected with a local pack of Velociraptors who have helped her to survive in her new form. However, when the Doctor returns for her help, they uncover a conspiracy that could shake Gallifrey to its core.

* Thorson, Maddy. Celeste. (2018). A video game platformer. A depressed girl decides to climb a mountain, only to discover that the place brings your mind to life. And the girl's mind really, REALLY doesn't like her. The mountain and her own mind seems to fight her every step of the way, leading her to wonder: why is she doing this?

Tillery, M. Gardens. (2019). Autobio/personal comic. “A story about feelings, told in the language of dreams.”

* Trippe, Mayday (under the name Dean Trippe). Something Terrible. (2013). An autobiographical comic of being rescued from childhood trauma with Batman... and then coming to return the favor.

The Troops for Truddi Chase. When Rabbit Howls. (1987). Prose. The Troops' autobio about their trauma history, their system function, and trying to get their act together and go public to help fight abuse.

Trower, Romi. What if it Works? (2017). Romantic-comedy film. Adrian is a chirpy tech nerd on mental-health leave for his severe OCD. Grace is a shy street artist with PTSD and multiple personalities (we also meet G, Little, and Spike). After a meet-cute at their shared therapist's office, they strike up a friendship, which turns romantic as they work through some of their fears together.

Trujillo, Olga. The Sum of my Parts: a survivor's tale of dissociative identity disorder. (2011). Prose. A lesbian DID memoir, pretty good and not as well known. Has the level of violence and horror your would expect from a DID memoir.

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Utilitymonstergirl, AKA Alexi H.S. (2023). Solipschism. After spending centuries dead, Markus awakens in a world that doesn't care to explain much, least of all itself. And he can spin off other selves to discuss the matter...


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Vachss, Andrew. Sacrifice. (1991). Prose. Burke, a merc/PI living on the seamiest side of New York City, gets involved in a case involving an abused nine-year-old multiple who has murdered two of his baby foster brothers. Burke has to negotiate a truce between the cops and child welfare groups coming to blows over him... and also get revenge for the multiple's sake.

Valdez, Xochipalpa Maes. "The Breaking." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

VC, Crow&. "Dissociation is a bitch / Untitled Poem." (2024). Personal poem. "a poem/maybe future lyrics about dissociation--specifically, the moody sort of dissociation where you can't ground and are only able to feel the frustration/irritation around that."
 
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Weise, Jillian. Future Biometrics. (2015). A poem about cyborg death.

Weise, Jillian. My Brain is Already Cyborg. (2021). Personal essay. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a disabled cyborg reflects on her cyborg mind and how her concept of self changes and multiplies when she gets a new leg that DOES NOT LIKE HER.

Who-is-Page. Shenani-kins. (2021). An internet comic strip about the wonderful weirdness of nonhuman shenanigans in a human world. Made with otherkin, therian, and alterhuman experiences in mind, Shenani-kins hopes to put forward awareness and familiarity of nonhuman communities in a more lighthearted, fun way.

Williams, Gail. "Turning to Face the Ancestors: A learning journey recovering heart and memory." Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives. (2010). a group of writers "share short stories, poems, prayers, and personal accounts of Ancestor reverence--intimate glimpses of our experiences with the Ancestors, those descended from our bloodlines and some not related to us by blood, but whose lives continue to inspire us."

Wintergreen. Later. (2022). A slime monster and the ghost of a cleric adventurer join forces (and body parts) to finish the cleric's quest and escape a dingy dungeon.

WNYC Studios. RadioLab: "What's Up, Doc?" (2012). Podcast. "Mel Blanc was known as 'the man of 1,000 voices,' but the actual number may have been closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Barney Rubble -- all Mel. And in 1961, when a car crash left him in a coma, these characters may have saved him. Sean [the host], Noel [Blanc, Mel's son], Dr. Conway [Mel's neurosurgeon at the time] and NYU brain scientist Orrin Devinsky weigh over what it might mean to be rescued by a figment of your own imagination, and whether one self can win out over another in a moment of crisis."

Woodstock, Tuck. "Episode 162: Checking in with Salimatu Amabebe." (2024). Podcast interview. A Nigerian-American trans artist and chef discusses his work, feelings about top surgery, and experiencing his body as a house for multiple beings.

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XeniaNuminous. A Myth of the Doe. (2023). "A short story about trans gender feels, spirituality, and a deer getting eaten alive."

Xue, Lucy; Purin, Tiina; Elliott, Julia; Cotugno, Sage. The Glass Scientists. (2015-) Fantasy comic. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, only more queer and crossing over with other classic horror. Jekyll runs a society for mad scientists like himself who push the boundaries, hoping to become more accepted by wider society. Of course, considering it's the Victorian era, this is easier said than done. Especially when there's Hyde, who has his own agenda...
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Yayanos, Meredith. "The Harpy." (2018). A personal essay on trauma therapy, memory work, and grief as ritual, and on "the daily reality of living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and as-of-yet indeterminate dissociative issues". The Harpy is "that ecstatically furious part of myself," one of those "beastly parts of me that exist solely to protect me at all costs, even if means tearing apart someone who inadvertently trips my reflexive internal alarm system."

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zakeno/Sjursen-Lien, Kiernan/K+CO’s system. Secondhand Soup. (2018-) Webcomic. “The adventures of three young adult animals just trying to get by in the big city!”

ZA/UM. Disco Elysium. (2019). You are a police detective visiting Martinaise, harbor district of the city of Revachol, jewel of the Insulindian Isola, in the year '51 of the current century. Perhaps most importantly, you were sent here three days ago to deal with a lynched corpse, but instead went on a deranged bender of drug and alcohol abuse. Now, you must resume the investigation with the aid of Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, a fellow detective from a rival precinct. But of course, it won't be as simple as it seems — you're no titan of mental stability, what with the two dozen voices in your head vying for your attention...

Zéque, Enix, Quintet. Planet Laika. (1999). PS1 game. A small crew of astronauts is on a mission to investigate Mars, where rumor has it a strange energy called 'Evil Mind' is stirring up delusions. One of these crew members is protagonist(s) Laika, a rookie radio engineer who is also plural. Like most instances of Mars in fiction, things quickly go south. Between solving mysteries, interacting with Mars' varied inhabitants, and hopefully putting a stop to the impending 'Judgement,' Laika and their bodymates - Ernest, Spacer, and Yolanda - confront their joint past and find who they all truly are. Also, everyone has a dog face, and yes, it is plot important.

Zhang, Kat. What's Left of Me. (2012). YA prose. Eva and Addie are two souls born into the same body. Everyone is born like this, but it's expected that one soul will fade away and the other will take over. Eva never faded away.

Zyfron. Gemini: The Webcomic About Living Plural. (2010-2013). Slice-of-life comic strips. PARTIALLY LOST MEDIA.

Zyfron. Becoming Median. (2018). A zine about life after integration, being median, and dealing with trauma.