Submitted with the kind assistance of rax!

"that review forced me to face a tangential fact, but one no less important: the knowledge that I am — that we are — not alone."

Blurb: (from creator description) "ally is 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."

Why is it worth your time?: "a fictionalized memoir in which Scott-Clary grapples with issues of mental health, sexual and asexual identity, what it means to have a self, how abuse and trauma affect those things, and how being a hopelessly nerdy furry specifically inflects all of that in really interesting directions. It's a typographical adventure (the whole thing is produced in LaTeX), with the inclusion of sheet music, threaded stories, interlocking footnotes, and subtle but crucial uses of color. I think it's my favorite plural memoir."

Plural Tags: cofronting, nonswitching, community

Content Warnings: Several sections focus on suicide, self-harm, rape, sexual content, and poor mental health.

Access Notes: Read online for free at https://ally.id/ Text is screenreadable, but the images unfortunately are not alt-texted.

Misc Notes: See Rax's post about ally here! You can also buy it at https://makyo.itch.io/ally (ebook) or https://ally.id/book?pk_campaign=itch (paperback)

“that bit of blindness remained no matter how short my hair got. I couldn't see certain things about myself. I couldn't see myself as "smart" enough to enjoy working with technology. I couldn't see myself as talented enough to make art. I couldn't see how much I wanted to be a woman.
But most of all...
It made me think I was human...”

Blurb: a semi-autobiographical narrative about a freshly cracked trans woman struggling with multiple discoveries she makes about herself one right after another. Done in Twine as a sort of interactive fiction/video game.

Why is it worth your time?: It is adorable and cute and heartwarming about two dog headmates in queer love with each other. It is the most joyful depiction of coming to selves-awareness I have ever seen. It also shows them in a community, interacting with other plurals in joyful, heartwarming ways.

Plural Tags: nonhuman [dogs, dog people], in-head romance, plural community

Content Warnings: None.

Accessibility Notes: Free, short, and screen-readable.

Play it here!