Gemini and Becoming Median, by Zyfron (slice-of-life comic, 2010-2013, 2018)

[lb_lee]

Z: Ooooooh! A dramatic intro!
Bernie: Get down from there! You're ruining the dramatic tension!

Blurb: "The life of the Zyfron System: Cartoonified!" Slice-of-life strips about being multiple. Went on hiatus for many years, then culminated with "Becoming Median," a zine about integration, becoming median, and dealing with trauma.

Why is it worth your time?: Zyfron discuss the complications of life after integration, which is often depicted as a simple, "hooray, you're cured!" You get to see the arc of their lives from multiple, to singlet, to median, and how that is a complicated, confusing process. Gemini may not have a story, per se, but it describes an experience that is lacking in plural stories, so I am choosing to boost it. Plus I am utterly biased because Zyfron are my friend and they let me squat on healthymultiplicity.com. :p

Plural Tags: switching, integration, median

Content Warnings: Very little. Mention of trauma in "Becoming Median."

Accessibility Notes: Free, textually transcribed. Alas, a good chunk of the archive is missing, due to file deletion without back-ups.

Read Gemini here! And here is Becoming Median. (Back-up link for Becoming Median-- Gemini needs doing)

Comments

[acorn_squash]

Wow, read the whole webcomic (plus Becoming Median) in one sitting! Awesome story. It has its own content warnings on the about page, by the way.

[lb_lee]

Oh good! Yeah, a bunch of these works do, but for cataloging purposes, it's convenient to have it there, especially since some of these works are available in many places and might not all have the content warnings.

[(Anonymous)]

True!

[quailfence]

Hey, the link for Gemini isn't working - all I get is "Fatal Error" and a mess of code. Link for Becoming Median seems to be working fine

Error Message I got, if necessary

Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo for loonyzyfron.fatcowmysql.com failed: Name does not resolve in /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-includes/wp-db.php:1533 Stack trace: #0 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-includes/wp-db.php(1533): mysqli_real_connect(Object(mysqli), 'loonyzyfron.fat...', 'zyfron', Object(SensitiveParameterValue), NULL, NULL, NULL, 0) #1 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-includes/wp-db.php(592): wpdb->db_connect() #2 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-includes/load.php(409): wpdb->__construct('zyfron', 'Zzwulhufzwud219...', 'gemini', 'loonyzyfron.fat...') #3 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-settings.php(106): require_wp_db() #4 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-config.php(76): require_once('/home/public/Zy...') #5 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-load.php(37): require_once('/home/public/Zy...') #6 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-blog-header.php(13): require_once('/home/public/Zy...') #7 /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/index.php(17): require('/home/public/Zy...') #8 {main} thrown in /home/public/Zyfron/Gemini/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1533

[lb_lee]

Yeaaaaah, that's sadly been true for a while, probably involves Wordpress updating or something. I told Zy a good while ago, and it seems to have slipped her mind. I've been meaning to do a grunt list of all the comics and transcripts manually here on this post and just... haven't gotten to it yet. Consider this me sticking a pin in it, sorry.

[lb_lee]

Yeaaaaah, that's sadly been true for a while, probably involves Wordpress updating or something. I told Zy a good while ago, and it seems to have slipped her mind. I've been meaning to do a grunt list of all the comics and transcripts manually here on this post and just... haven't gotten to it yet. Consider this me sticking a pin in it, sorry.

For now, the Wayback Machine has an archive starting here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150921000758/http://healthymultiplicity.com/Zyfron/Gemini/?webcomic1=gemini-1 There's a big gap in the middle of the archive, but that's true in the live site as well.