#otherflicker

[unetherian]

If you are an alter/nonhuman, reblog and answer these questions!

(don't be afraid to write a lot, do what you want ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

1/ Which category of alterhumanity do you belong to?

2/ What/who is/are your type(s)? (if you have any)

3/ Do you experience shifts? If so, can you tell us your most common shifts and your strangest cameo shift (if you've ever had a cameo shift)?

4/ How do you experience your alterhumanity in everyday life?

5/ What do you think of the community?

6/ What are the things that make you most comfortable and euphoric in your alterhumanity?

7/ Are you experiencing species dysphoria?

8/ What advice would you like to say to a young alterhuman who has just awakened?

9/ Do you have/want to have gears?

10/ Do you know/have any theories about the origin of your alterhumanity? If so, tell us! (all beliefs are legitimate)

11/ Tag someone/a creature to answer these questions!ㅤᵕ̈

[theverynothumankai]

i’ve been watching a lot of nonhuman shorts on youtube lately, and i feel the need to say that i’m quite sad (and then pissed off cuz of that) about how many of them are just skinny, in-shape young kids (around my age or a few years younger than me).

i wanna see my fellow chubby out of shape teens who don’t do quads that often, because of how out of shape and chubby they are, even if they love quads.

i wanna see my fellow out of shape teens who pull a muscle when doing quads, or are out of breath right away, or are completely sore afterwards for days.

i wanna see my fellow chubby teens who’s quads are clumsy and not graceful because we have all that extra weight on us.

i wanna see my fellow queer chubby teens who bind and who don’t do quads that often cuz their chest doesn’t stay in place right or stay flat and it makes them feel gender dysphoria.

i wanna see my fellow chubby, out of shape teens doing this stuff. or not even teens! anyone of any age! that isn’t skinny as hell and that isn’t in shape!

i just would like to see some more nonhumans like me please.

yeah, that’s about all. *goes to lay down in my little den again*

[bizarreaizen]

the whole debate on why alterhumans are not valid is so odd so i'm gonna debunk their "points"

"you're just mentally ill!" [or something that mentions mental illness] someone's identity can be caused by a mental illness but is that affecting you in any way? is that hurting you? no it isn't so mind your own business

"it doesn't make any sense! it's confusing! i don't understand it!" then learn, google is free

"they're still human!" to you, they're "human" but physically, spiritually, psychologically or any other reason, they're not human and humans are technically a species of animals, especially if you believe in evolution

"this is all just a phase!" so? what would happen if it was a phase? is that gonna change anything? it doesn't matter if it's a phase or not, let people be who they are, we're living on a floating rock

"you can't identify as nonhuman!" says who? is that a crime? are they hurting anyone? are they hurting YOU?

"if they're gonna identify as an animal then i'll treat them like an animal" by your logic, they can also act like an animal towards you, catkins can scratch you, caninekins can bite you, bearkins can maul you, etc.

"but they're putting litter boxes in schools for nonhumans !!" those are for service animals.

"a therian bit me." no they didn't and if they did, it's probably for a good reason

"therians are attracted to animals!" no we're not, that's called a zoophile and don't generalize a group of individuals like what you do with furries.

"this is all just new gen stuff" no it's not, there's a lot of older alterhumans

"isn't that just being a furry?" no, furries dress up in fursuits, draw anthropomorphic creatures, and/or have fursonas, yes, there's alterhumans who are also furries [i'm one of them] but they're completely different

our identities are personal so it doesn't affect anyone badly at all, sure, you may think it's "weird" but there's really nothing wrong with it :D /gen

[your-local-narc71]

I love disabled alter/nonhumans

I love physical alter/nonhumans.

I love alter/nonhumans who are people of colour.

I love alter/nonhumans who are LGBTQIA2S+.

I love alter/nonhumans who are alter/nonhuman for spiritual reasons.

I love alter/nonhumans who are alter/nonhuman for psychological reasons.

I love alter/nonhumans who are alter/nonhuman for other reasons.

I love alter/nonhumans with a bajillion different labels.

I love alter/nonhumans with few or no labels.

I love alter/nonhumans with common 'types.

I love alter/nonhumans with uncommon 'types.

I love alter/nonhumans with voluntary identities.

I love alter/nonhumans who use gear.

I love alter/nonhumans who don't use gear.

I love alter/nonhumans. You're all so cool and clever and kind.

[dhddmods]

hey there! we adore your blog, our host hyperfixated on it last night and learned so much about intersex people, variants, and traits!

i know this isn’t exactly what you were asking for, but i’m curious as to your opinion(s) on radqueers / transid ? i’d love to see a big ramble about it!!!

(we are not rq or transid)

Hi! Very glad that your host enjoyed reading our content! We are excited to be putting more intersex content out into the world soon!

And we are open to being asked our opinions about anything! It's just that nobody was sending us asks about our own life or thoughts when we posted that people could ask us anything, so we gave up on that lol.

As for our stance on radqueers and transids? Honestly it REALLY depends. We generally identify as radqueer critical.

Some identities are genuinely harmless xenogenders or pocket identities. However, we believe that a lot of radqueer identities ARE harmful, and that people should be held accountable for these.

At the same time, we also think a lot of radqueers are misled vulnerable people. Often, they are people in systems or people with other forms or neurodivergence.

The usage of "trans" and "cis" in these communities is very concerning, because it implies a person can transition into something that they simply cannot.

The TLDR is that Exo-, pseudo-, or source- prefixes could be very useful for these scenarios, and people really should take advantage of them more when trying to explain their experiences. Same for systems with the dyspar-/par- prefixes.

Also, desiridae and dissomei are terms that exist and can be used as well.

"Transharmed/Cisharmed" is a very concerning case, as having a kink for harm or exomemories/pseudomemories for harm shouldn't be treated like some sort of transitionary identity. You cannot "transition" into experiencing trauma, and it's very odd that people label it as such! There are so many other terms people could use that don't treat it as a transition (ie; the name of the specific paraphilias, exo-PTSD for alterhumans and systems with source trauma, etc)

We hate how terms like "transracial" have been stolen as well. Transracial/transethnic, as far as we've read, used to be an identity for adoptive children or otherwise children of a different race than their family, who were raised within the culture of their family. And then radqueers took it and turned it into an identity for people who want to be a different race, alterhumans who have an identity of a different race, or people who have sysmates of a different race. If a system has a sysmate of a different race, they can use the term disparethnic/parethnic or (if their exomemories are of a different race) exoethnic! And we don't know of any terms for singlet alterhumans who have similar experiences, but we'd personally use pseudoethnic or sourcethnic, or something along those lines.

Using transracial to mean you are "changing your race" or have racial dysphoria is just really twisting the usage of the trans/cis terminology.

Our next nitpick of the trans-cis usage is the "transabled/cisabled" terms. These terms are very clearly being used by people with somatoform disorders (ie; factitious disorder, body integrity dysphoria, conversion disorder, etc), which is not good! People with somatoform disorders deserve compassion and help, but treating disability as a state of transition further influences these desires or urges they have, and actively promotes self harm. If a person who is mentally ill is told that they can "transition" into disability, then they will seek to do that rather than get help, because it's easier to self harm then to get psychological help.

Similarly, when systems and alterhumans use these terms, they are spreading the misuse of the trans-cis prefixes. Systems can use parabled, pardivergent, etc. And surely, alterhumans have terms they can use for this too somewhere, we just haven't looked into it, but exo-, pseudo-, and source- could be used in theory (ie; sourceabled)

"Transspecies" isn't necessarily a bad thing for alterhumans to use, but it was stolen by radqueers as well. Radqueers who stole it often use it to imply you can change your biological species, which is not true, and perpetuates delusional disorders and pro-contact zoophiles to take it a bit too seriously. Alterhumans can transition through body modifications, but the idea that they can change their biological species is incorrect. They can change their species presentation, and change their body to reflect it, but that's not how radqueers often treat this term.

"Transage" has the same issue as the (radqueer usage of) transspecies, treating age as something a person can transition into, opening the door for pro-contact pedophiles or hebephiles to take it too seriously. It's better to use terms like age regressor, age dreamer, age dysphoric, or (for systems) the countless other age related terms. And again, pseudo- and source- terms could be used by alterhumans.

The term atypical dysphoria (or atypical incongruence, when used as an umbrella term include atypical dysphoria, atypical euphoria, atypical disconnect, and atypical fluiphoria) exists for people who experience detachment/attachment towards traits like race, disability, species, age, etc. Which is a good way to explain the discomfort without perpetuating the idea that it's something a person can transition into.

Desiridae and dissomei also exist and can be used in such a way.

[hintze-of-bird]

I’ve had otherflickers in the past, and I must admit, I never realise they are ‘flickers until hindsight. I don’t think I have ever used the label to describe a current identity; I’ve only used it to explain present connections to a past kintype.

[alterhuman-resources]

ⓘ

↰ go back to the main master post

☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆

• What's "alterhuman"?

◯⃤Alterhuman is an umbrella term including any identity that derives from the standard human experience. Yes! this includes human identities!

◯⃤Not all alterhuman people identify as non human, some alterhuman people are human.

◯⃤The alterhuman symbol is the alt key : ⎇

◯⃤The original coining can be found here

☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆

☾⋆⁺₊✧ " Alterhuman is a term that refers to someone who does not fit the traditional standard of what is considered human, and/or does not identify as human. " ☾⋆⁺₊✧

[by lgbtqia.wiki, 28/12/23, sourced from alt-h.net]

☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆

• Identities & other terms

A few identities under the alterhuman umbrella are, but are not limited to :

Constellic || Daemians & Daemons || Dragons || Endels || Furries || Fictionfolk || Nonhumans || Otherkin || Otherhearted || Otherlink || Otherflick || Phytanthrope || Synpath || Therians

Links to each term will be added progressively

Note that :

The term alterhuman is opt-in, many people can identify with one or more of these identities but chose to not associate themselves with the term alterhuman or any other umbrella term their chosen label can be found under]

These identities, even if some are etymologically similar to others, refer to groups and communities sourced/anchored/found in this(these) reality(universes).

☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆

Some great alterhuman related blogs to check out : @frameacloud @who-is-page @liongoatsnake

☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆

& Plurality is also often considered to be under the Alterhuman umbrella, although not all systems might identify as alterhuman solely because of their plurality, or identify as alterhuman at all. But due to the complexity of plurality, terms, analyses, and other resources concerning that community and identities, any further information will be sorted, stored and can be found in our partner blog : @plurality-resources &

☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆━━━━━━☆

⚠ if reblogging please remember to refer to the original post, as very often these might be updated with new information

posted the 28/12/23

update log : [29/12/23; fixing terms; added link; added blogs; fixing wording; added plurality info] [30/12/23; added terms] [06/01/24; applied noting system; added bottom indented reblogging note; displaced links]

[redacted-coiner]

This post is ANTI RADQUEER

More Alterhuman flags with the symbols being I am annoying myself that I didn’t do that >:(

DNI is listed within my pinned post. Please go read it before interacting with any part of my content. Ask to tag.

More Seen Here

[inky-fictives]

And the final one for now, For those who are from BATIM/BATDR

Otherkin, Fictive, Otherkin

Otherhearted, Synpath, Otherlink/Copinglink

IRL/Delusional Attachment, Otherflicker, Endel

Please read our intro before interacting!

[selves-indulgent-coining]

Agar Agar Cookie Alterhuman Flags

[pt: Agar Agar Cookie Alterhuman Flags end pt]

we're alive :) motivation has just been hard to come by (sorry)

base flag [alt text: a rectangular flag with 6 equal horizontal stripes; the colors are, top to bottom: light-ish cyan, light cyan, light-ish pink-red, light pink-red, ruby red, light-ish cyan; in the middle, there is a circle with a pastel blue-magenta to dark-ish blurple gradient and a red outline with a coral decoration end alt text]

All of the other flags are identical to the base flag, except for the symbols, which are all black and (mostly) centered in the middle of the flags.

The colors were picked from official Agar Agar Cookie assets. The circle is a modified version of official art of Agar Agar Cookie's mirror.

alterhuman | nonhuman 1 | nonhuman 2

[alt text: left symbol: a symbol similar to a fork in a path where the straight continuation is broken—the right end of the unbroken path is replaced by a triangle

middle symbol: a four-pointed star with four equal lines (two vertical and two horizontal) inside

right symbol: a dot inside a circle inside of a square inside of a circle end alt text]

physical alterhuman | holothere | therian

[alt text: left symbol: a solid four-pointed star with a circle around the center

middle symbol: an anchor with a triangle outline at the top end

right symbol: a triangle interlocking with a circle with a horizontal line in the center end alt text]

otherkin | otherchain | otherlink

[alt text: left symbol: a seven-pointed star

middle symbol: a pair of vertical chain links

right symbol: two linked chains on a diagonal end alt text]

copinglink | othervague | otherflicker, fictionflicker

[alt text: left symbol: two linked chains on a diagonal inside of a rhombus

middle symbol: a symbol similar to a fork in a path where the straight continuation is broken

right symbol: a flame on a curly wick end alt text]

constelic | otherfix, otherspin | otherhearted

[alt text: left symbol: five equally-spaced lines connected at the center of the flag; the ends of the lines curl in and out in a spiral

middle symbol: an infinity symbol

right symbol: heart interlocking with a circle with a rhombus in the center end alt text]

Did we miss your identity? Feel free to add its symbol to base flag (or ask us or someone else if you can't).

[unetherian]

In my country... CREATURES HAVE DECIDED TO CREATE AN NATIONAL ALTERHUMAN MONTHLY NEWSPAPER!!!!!!

(I live in France so I'm sorry for those who aren't here, but it's still a good project idea for a motivated creature!)

For French speakers (and others who know how to use subtitles), see the video on YouTube channel "la terre des kins" for more information. [no forcing]

Drink water(it is important) and see you next time!

[theverynothumankai]

I n T r O d U c T i O n P o S t

I’m Kai, also called Malakai. This is my blog for all things Nonhuman. Come join my little side of tumblr. <3

I’m a Polytherian, Polykin, Polylink, Otherfix, Otherhearted, and Fictionflicker/Otherflicker.

Theriotypes: Vancouver Coastal Sea Wolf (also known as Coastal Wolf and Vancouver Island Wolf); Canada Lynx; Red Fox; Nurse Shark; Snow Leopard; Maned Wolf; Norwegian Forest Cat; Coyote; Side-Striped Jackal; Dhole. Kintypes: Dragon (SeaWing/SilkWing Hybrid); Dragon (Night-Light Fury Hybrid); Dark Fey (Forest Type, from Maleficent); Avian (winged humans with tails); Raccoon (gold winged and gold horned); Silver Fox (with big crow-like/themed wings); Angel (shape-shifting, three pairs of wings, comforter of those who are lost). Hearttypes: Whale Shark. Flickertypes: Hylian (from TOTK/BOTW); Orphinki (OC species); Sable; Owl (all). Questioning: Ocelot Theriotype; Manta Ray Theriotype; Orca Whale Theriotype; Maine Coon Cat Theriotype; Jumping Spider Theriotype or Hearttype; Pallas Cat Theriotype; Manta Ray Kintype; Siren Kintype; Dragon Kintype (feathered wings); Mosasaur Theriotype; Blue Whale Theriotype; (Baby) Bongo Theriotype; Kirk’s Dik Dik Theriotype.

More Info On My ‘Types Here.

I’m a PseudoHuman, which means I may appear to be human, but am not.

I’m SunNonhuman, which means my nonhumanity is integrated into my baseline personality. It does not prevent me from having minor fluctuations of mood that feel slightly more animal or slightly less animal. I do not experience mental shifts to my nonhuman types.  I’m Transspecies (more specifically Humanfluid) and Voidpunk, which means I identify as another species (and more specifically have a fluctuating connection to my humanity), and that I’m reclaiming the dehumanization and demonization that I face in the marginalized minorities I’m in, basically I’m reclaiming dehumanization and fully embracing inhumanity/nonhumanity.

I’m Physical Nonhuman, in the way that since I am my ‘types, so is my body (although, I am aware that my body is technically human/human-presenting).

I’m a CladoNonhuman, specifically with my Owl Flickertype. I am all owls, not just one or a few, although I am more so connected to a couple specific species rather than equally to all. My Owl Flickertype comes and goes, it’s been gone for a while but it’s coming back again, and I have no doubt that that will happen again.

My Otherfix identity influences my nonhuman identity overall, by the way! So, a lot of my theriotypes and kintypes are due to hyperfixations (although, remember, they are involuntary and permanent for me!), and then a lot of my flickertypes have been due to hyperfixations (once again, involuntary and the flickertypes come and go).

The reasons/origins of my Nonhumanity is due to a combination of Past Lives, Fate, and Neurodivergency. I believe I was all my ‘types in past lives, and that I only found out about being these things in this life due to my neurodivergency.

I fluctuate between Nonhuman and Human, although am always on some level both, just other times are stronger for one and the other not so much, but overall I mostly refer to myself as just Nonhuman. My soul is a combination of all my ‘types, plus the intruding human soul of this life.

Please only refer to me as Nonhuman and Alterbeing, NOT as Human or Alterhuman.

I do not experience phantom shifts or any sort of shifts, but when I have in the past, it has only been once, very short (a few seconds), and partial. I experience loads of species dysphoria, envy, and sometimes euphoria, though.

I only have very poor gear, two homemade tails, and one mask, and am also currently working on wings. I’m hoping to get more materials to make better masks and tails for myself soon, though.

I do very poor quadrobics, but I adore doing them, especially when I can in public.

Fellow Physical Nonhumans/Alterbeings/Alterhumans, Non-Spiritual Nonhumans/Alterbeings/Alterhumans, and etc. are very welcome here.

I’m very queer. My gender is way too complex, but just imagine it as masculine, genderless, and animalistic, with lots of different aesthetics.

I use He/It/Rot/Void/Mutt/Pup/Teeth/Woof/Bone/Claw/Plant/🐾/🐺/🦝/🌿 pronouns + many more with those themes.

I’m AroAce, Aromantic and Myrsexual (Neuroasexual, Nebulasexual, Merosexual, Placiosexual, Dreadsexual, Acorsexual, Apothisexual, Bellussexual, Rosesexual, Requisexual, and Falsaesthsexual).

I’m Homoalterous (Gay/MLM), Omniqueerplatonic (preference for non-men), Panexteramo, Pansensual, and Panaesthetic.

I’m Ambiamorous with no preference. I’m heavy T4T-leaning. I’m also a Lesboy.

I’m undiagnosed/self-diagnosed (with research)(in the process of getting this all diagnosed) AuDHD, Pure O OCD, APD, SPD, RSD, BDD, ARFID, SAD, PTSD, Trichotillomania, Misophonia, and Dermatillomania.

I’m diagnosed MDD and GAD.

I’m undiagnosed (and in the process of getting it diagnosed as well) PMDD and/or PME.

SH and SI survivor, and in recovery.

I struggle with severe violent and ugly intrusive thoughts (due to my OCD), and have for years. Not as bad as it used to be, but still have some at least once a day.

I consider myself disabled due to my severe executive dysfunction that I’ve had for years, as well as for other reasons.

I also have severe imposter syndrome that I deal with 24/7.

I have special interests (Wings Of Fire, Harry Potter (I really love the marauders), Dragons, and Neurodivergency + Disabilities + Disorders), hyperfixations (current ones are nonhumanity and nonhuman gear), verbal shutdowns, shutdowns and meltdowns, am often in burnout, and mask quite a lot.

I’m in therapy, go every week, and love my therapist so much. /gen

Please use tone tags/indicators when talking to me. They are greatly helpful and appreciated. Thank you!

I’m taken by my lovely long distance mate, @itssiryapsalot @theremixedcreature.

I’m a minor (16-years-old).

I’m Agnostic, spiritual, and do not follow any God or Gods. I believe in past lives, fate, soulmates, twin flames, manifestation, the multiverse, the paranormal, witchcraft, and much more.

I’m a Reality Shifter and have shifted twice to parallel realities. (I’m a safe places for permashifters, respawners, and those who shift to realities where they’re a different race.)

I have one sibling (She/Her), @belles17 @fuckthisclubup. I love her loads, and yes, she is aware that I’m Nonhuman (and is totally chill with it).

My other Nonhuman accounts are: @sirius-the-lonely-angel and @malakaitheyappingwolf.

My Nonhuman Pinterest account is here.

More about me here.

I don’t feel like making a DNI, but my block button is my best friend, so get ready. Obviously, no anti-alterhumans, anti-furries, queerphobes, radqueers and radfems, TERFs, SWERFs, offending MAPs & Paraphiles & etc., sexists, racists, ableists (including those believe in “narcissistic abuse”), and etc. are allowed here. Also, those who are endo/non-traumagenic/etc. systems are safe here, so those against them can leave please.

Full credit to the original creators/owners of the dividers!!!

[bizarreaizen]

i honestly love otherkins so much ^-^ like you're hatsune miku? that's literally so cool >w<, oh you're a cat angel fox hybrid? that's so cool :0 you're a glittery pen? that's awesome *(^o^)/*

i genuinely love our community, express yourself, be who you are, be free, be cringe, have fun, life is short so enjoy it how you want (*＾＾*)// /gen

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

Shout out to all my fellow fictionfolk who are angry at their authors (for any reason)

[primermoss]

I have gotten so many flicker shifts that I'm not sure whether they are actual kintypes of mine or just a passing identity. Such as boreray sheep, belgian tervuren, buck eye butterfly, vampire, and some concept flickers.

I have them written down just in case I do get another kinshift although it feels unlikely. Could I call these cameoshifts too? Oh well, don't mind if my kinlist in my intro ever changes from time to time. Identity is fluid and always tested.

Also questioning mink and snake species. A little wary though. Oog

[redacted-coiner]

Sanguine vampire(link), Both types vampire(link), Psychic vampire(link)

Otherspirit(link), Allamorine(link), Dreamin(link)

Altervexo(link), Casshuman/Cassbeing(link), Otherflicker(link)

DNI is listed within my pinned post. Please go read it before interacting with any part of my content. Ask to tag!

@gender-mailman , @mogai-sunflowers , @kinnie-thots-flags , @vesicelestial