harmonyfriends | like a figure out of a dream… (Reply)

NOTE: Originally posted December 11, 2023.

Recently we had a weird dream where a random fictional character we had no attachment to was our headmate. This would be no big deal, except when we woke up he was still there, which is the perfect balance between being absolutely existentially terrifying and really fucking funny.

But sure enough, he's someone that deserves love and to get a chance in the sun! I'm proud of him.

The borderland between dreams and reality is a strange minefield for plurality. I still don't entirely understand how it works, but when strange things happen to our sense of selves there we just roll with them and it's worked so far.

Yesterday we did a headcount of Harmony Friends for the first time in a while. The number is so big that I'm afraid to share it, but I want to say we're trying to be proud of it, because each +1 represents a piece of this collective being we've rescued from the self-hatred swamp.

There is still so, so much work left to do, but we have also come so, so far. My hope is just that one day the number can stop going up, and we can go forth with our life on that far shore of self-love with confidence that we're leaving none of us behind.