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Looking for Adventure? Become a panelist at HowlCon!

Hello campers! Looking for a way to engage more with the alterhuman and nonhuman community?

Why not host a panel at HowlCon?

It's a great way to get a bunch of other critters together to do something fun - or learn something new! Make friends, share your ideas and put yourself out there.

Here's some ideas of things we'd love to see:

Meet-ups (chatting in discord VC, VR chat)

Games (jack box, cards against humanity)

Story-time (tell us about your experiences and journey)

Interactive (AMA, discussions)

Educational (lectures, info dumps)

Something we forgot to list? Surprise us!

The deadline to submit has been extended to one month before the con - August 20th. So you got plenty of time to enjoy OtherCon without conflicting with prep for HowlCon.

HowlCon will be hosted September 19-21 virtually on Discord.

We accept pre-recorded, live and text-based panels.

Sign Up Now

Or, learn more about HowlCon on our website.

[nonhumananomaly]

Being fictionfolk is so ridiculous sometimes like. Yeah I can think about this series of horrific events in detail so long as I approach it "intellectually" as nothing but a story to engage with. But the second I think about my own identity and how I went through that shit my brain starts screaming Do Not Touch The Hot Stove at me, and so it becomes very hard to think about any of it. But if I wanna write fanfics about my fictotype that's totally fine so long as I don't think too hard about how that's me on the page. What the fuck.

[nonhumananomaly]

accidentally deleted that, ill rewrite the whole thing later

[nonhumananomaly]

Being fictionfolk and seeing "your-fav-is-[insert thing here]" posts about your source is so fucking funny. Like when did I say that. Who told you this.

[nonhumananomaly]

Been meaning to say this for a while, but here's a not so gentle reminder that you don't have to be skinny, white and able bodied to be part of the nonhuman community.

Racism and ableism is sadly rampant in this community and I want this blog to be safe for the beings that feel excluded! If you want to, you can interact with this post if you are or your blog is safe for: fat, POC and disabled nonhumans. I wanna show some support, even if it's just a follow or a reblog here and there.

[nonhumananomaly]

Theriform [Official Coining Post]

Theriform Adjective (can applied as a noun in certain phrasing, see examples)

From θηρίον (thēríon) [diminutive of θήρ thḗr, “wild beast”] and μορφή (morphe) ["shape"/"figure"/"look"].

Definition:

A theriform animal is one which was born into a body that is typical/expected of it's species and observable as such by everyone, with species-typical levels of sapience/intelligence and whose behaviour is unaltered by being born into a human body/raised in a form perceived as human.

It is not the 'opposite' of therian despite similar etymology but is instead to be viewed as a complimentary term to therian, nonhuman, alterhuman, otherkin etc as it exists to specify certain details of a species whilst not invalidating the identities of those who are not theriform. It is made to replace potentially invalidating phrases like 'bio(logical) animal' or 'real animal'.

It is not an identity label and therefore has no flag or symbol and does not need one. Do not create these things please, or use the term to describe yourself on a personal level.

Alternative versions for non-animals could include: floraform, nat(ur)form, techform, fictoform, feyform, voidform, starform, divineform etc

Examples:

"Lol it's so funny being a cat and having a theriform cat as a pet we're both just kitties vibing but with different body shapes."

"Just because they're the same species are you does not mean you are able to take care of wild theriforms."

"The fact that there aren't that many theriforms of my species is so saddening."

"I wanna do quads alongside a pack of theriform wolves so bad!"

"I am transspecies, here is what I do/what I want to do to look more theriform."

"I wonder if theriforms get species dysphoria?"

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the beauty of online anonymity in the alterhuman community is that i don't know what any of you look like irl, so when i read your posts and picture you speaking them aloud, i imagine that a wolf, or a crow, or a dragon, or whatever creature you may be, is the one speaking

[nonhumananomaly]

anyone have any suggestions for subtle fictionkin/alterhuman signaling?? I desperately want to make it known to other alterhumans in my area that I’M ONE OF Y’ALL without making it obvious to non-alterhumans.

[nonhumananomaly]

We all know that the “kin for fun” trend is bad. 

Recently, however, the question of “why is it bad?” has risen in prominence, and thus I’d like to give my two cents on the matter. I initially wanted to give a rehash of the whole “this is a community which has been around for decades, please don’t appropriate its terms because you don’t know what you’re talking about” spiel.. though I know that’s been repeated endlessly to no avail. 

Dozens of times I’ve tried to explain that, though I’ve often been faced with the “words change” or “it’s just a game, it harms no one” argument.

So I’m taking a more personal approach.

I don’t know if my anecdotes will change anyone’s mind, but if anyone in the “kin for fun” community sees this and actually reads through it, I implore you to try to listen to genuine otherkin, do some research, and find other terms that better suit you.

Beware, long rambling anecdote under the cut.

Keep reading

[nonhumananomaly]

i have a mineral/gem/metal collection with fossils included too. ive been to multiple national parks. i like my marshmallows burnt. im very good at reading text backwards. ive been asked to make tshirts and photobooks for people before.

tagging, no pressure on responding

@digidrakncreature @archivekin @tanix-dragon

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

[nonhumananomaly]

sorry for referring to my fictionkintypes as me it will happen again and again forever and ever

[nonhumananomaly]

the fundamental fictionkind experience of being spoken about like you're not there in a direct one on one conversation

[nonhumananomaly]

CONVENTION INVITATIONS HAVE BEEN EMAILED!

If you registered for the Centaurus Festival, check your inbox! Your Discord invite should be ready!

[nonhumananomaly]

Niche Kin Appreciation Challenge

A 30 prompt challenge by @Wizardsfang

Anyone with any kind of type or kin can use this! HOWEVER!! This is especially geared at the appreciation of nicher & lesser acknowledged creatures!

From big to small, nonfiction to high fantasy, this challenge was designed to help give a few small fun things for folk to do to help fill the gaps in content for the things attached to their identity

I encourage folk to use #Niche Kin Appreciation or #Kin Appreciation along with other relevant alterhuman tags to help showcase what they create :]!!

< Text Only Version Here > (coming soon)

< Kin Drawing Challenge Here > (coming soon)

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Note: not all kinfolk will be able to fulfill every prompt due to various degrees of representation; users are encouraged to get creative in their means to fulfill the gap WITHOUT using AI to generate or alter works

[nonhumananomaly]

Hey, wanna know the ultimate trick to help you explain alterhumanity?

Saying that you "identify" as something can be really, REALLY hard to grasp for a ton of people, so just use a different phrasing with the same meaning!

For example, if you're in a situation were you have to explain your identity to someone who's a bit less open minded, instead of saying

"I identify as a fox"

just say

"I see myself as a fox" or "I feel more like a fox instead of a human"

That has the exact same meaning, but is much easier to understand!

"Yeah, I just kinda see myself as a fox. When I see images of them I kinda go 'hey! That's me!', and doing things a fox would do makes me happy"

Boom. Your chances of being understood just went up by like 80

[nonhumananomaly]

I AM one of the horrors at this point. And horrors persist. 💕

[nonhumananomaly]

Hi, an “endogenic” refresher course, right here!

1. We introduced the term “endogenic” into the community August 2014, along with some other terms! It was in response to exclusionists (wrongly) complaining about “systems without DID” using “their words”. It was an attempt at creating nonmedicalized terms that any plural system could use. 

2. It was also a way to do away with terms that had fallen into disfavor— specifically “natural systems”, a term that had been in use possibly as early as 1994. It was disliked because people felt it implied that trauma-caused systems were unnatural. “Endogenic” fixed that. 

3. The word “endogenic” was lovingly created to help systems put their experience into words. All it means is “a system not formed by trauma”; it doesn’t imply any other cause, set of beliefs, or experiences. It doesn’t imply the system is nondisordered or doesn’t have trauma. It doesn’t mean any other system’s origins in trauma or dx status is “invalid” or whatever.

4. Though the terms were eventually posted to tumblr, the idea didn’t start there. Tumblr was created in 2007; the concept of systems not caused by trauma has, again, been online since the 90s. Nor was the term created by singlets! We’re a trauma-caused system with DID. 

5. “Endogenic” wasn’t created as an insult or to exclude anyone. We have loved ones who are endogenic. Many of the terms in use now were created by endogenics. They have helped preserve plural history, and defended the community. They are good people, and real systems. The hate they get is completely senseless.

Thanks for coming to our talk. Please stop insulting endogenic systems, and educate yourselves instead, thanks. (Unless it’s just pure malice at this point in which case, fuck off I guess.)

https://endogenichub.weebly.com/ is a decent site to learn more.