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loser-pet · 1 year ago

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unhinged 30 days of otherkin challenge except I do it all in one day lol (link to questions here)

day one: (dog) probably something with lots of bugs and rich soil! dig dig dig!!

day two: (dragon) cold ocean for sure! even though I’m a sea/rain hybrid—which would make you think I’d like tropical oceans—cold oceans are the best! warm ones are cool too when you see all the fish

day three: (cat) wet cat food (probably chicken or some land meat flavour, fish is nasty), mouse meat, and blueberries!

day four: (alien) the endless storm and oceans of neptune. the wind would whip through my antennae, and rain would splatter my slick skin

day five: (dog) sticks are amazing! I love it when my family throws sticks in the lake for me to swim and catch!

day six: (deer) mmm, leaves are delicious! plus, they make for great cover, and they’re so beautiful too

day seven: (deer) well, as a caribou, some of my brethren migrate, but I’m perfectly cozy where I am now. I have no need to migrate; I have all the food and shelter I need

day eight: (owl) sleepy!! even when it’s nighttime, I get pretty sleepy. makes flying kinda hard lol

day nine: (dragon) waaaay bigger than a breadbox! I would probably crush a breadbox lol, human stuff is so tiny

day ten: (deer) long grasses and peaty soil, with the occasional bug skittering across the ground

day eleven: (alien) definitely my mandibles and antennae! it was so weird at first, because most of my kintypes are mammals or something similar to that, but this was completely different. I’m used to it now, and I love swiveling my antennae around

day twelve: (water) hmmm… I can’t really think of anything. maybe spotify, because there is a wide variety of music that reflects the constant flow of water, and how some of it is calming and slow, and other ones are hardcore and fast

day thirteen: (cat) mmm, pretty good. feeling kinda lazy today because of the weather, but still good overall. currently listening to music while doing this challenge, and my companion alley is snoozing beside me.

day fourteen: (water) I’d probably end up breaking it, y’know, since water and electronics don’t mix well. unfortunate, but that’s nature

day fifteen: (dog) I like having lots of soft things like plushies and warm blankets and plenty of pillows! when I’m regressed as a puppy, they make me feel so cozy and happy! i also like piling my blankets into something shaped somewhat like a dog bed and flopping on it

day sixteen: (deer) hmmm, that’s kinda tricky. yarn is alright, but it’s gotta be that kind that isn’t scratchy. fleece is good too, but I overheat too much, so it can be uncomfortable when I get too hot

day seventeen: (dog) no no, I’m a good dog! I only like biting my toys, I would never bite a human! at least, unless they deserved it…

day eighteen: (owl) chia seeds huh, I’ve never tried them. not too much of a seed owl myself, I much prefer meat, like a good mouse or bird!

day nineteen: (dragon) nah, I could never knit. too clumsy, and my big claws would probably keep snagging the yarn. too bad, knitted stuff is so pretty!

day twenty: (alien) it’s kinda slimey, but not something like a frog or eel. maybe like a shark, but when you rub it head to tail, not the other way. it’s kinda scaley too, but you can’t immediately tell that there are scales, because they’re so small.

day twenty-one: (water) glossy for sure! it makes anything look shiny and beautiful, just like the surface of the water

day twenty-two: (owl) my favourite kind of music is ones with a lot of different instruments. it’s so fun trying to pick out all the different sounds and identifying which ones are which. love songs with a good bass or echoey effect too

day twenty-three (my favourite number): (cat) my fur immediately bushes up, and my tail starts to lash in anticipation. you never know what it might be, so it’s better to be careful!

day twenty-four: (deer) my hearing, for sure. I can pick up the quietest sounds, and it lets me stay alert no matter where I am. sucks when I have to be in a noisy place though, ow…

day twenty-five: (dog) I’m sure I could last for quite a while! I got a good nose, so I could probably find food and water pretty fast (depending where I am), and I can always run if something scary finds me.

day twenty-six: (alien) something with a very appealing texture, like fresh peas or carrots. I would have a muted taste, but it wouldn’t be something super bland either.

day twenty-seven: (dragon) I would much rather be asleep than stay awake, but I might go for a night fly around the jungle.

day twenty-eight: (owl) uhh, fingers? I don’t got no fingers! just wings and talons, no need for fingers here! although it would be nice to have an opposable digit on my talons…

day twenty-nine: (dog) anything smells good! cooked meat smells good, veggies smell good, fruits smell good, everything! love candles too, they’re my favourite!!

day thirty: kinda! it made me reflect more on my kintypes, and it was fun writing these responses in my different kintypes. would definitely recommend doing this, and I’d for sure do something like this again :D

#alterhuman #nonhuman #therian #otherkin #otherkin challenge #writing challenge #daily prompt #kin stuff

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panthera-dei · 2 years ago

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OK, I have *got* to do this!!!!

unhinged 30 days of otherkin challenge

Saw someone mention doing this ages ago and I wrote up my own for fun, but then forgot about it. So, here, uhhhh have this

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rules:

- go feral

- if you're polykin, pick whatever kintype is most pertinent for each question, or the kintype you'd like to answer for

- anyone is welcome to do this, despite this being labeled for otherkin

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1. what type of dirt would your kintype eat?

2. warm or cold ocean water

3. describe a pie made from three ingredients your kintype would eat, crust included, go

4. if your kintype suddenly opened their eyes, what would they be looking at?

5. do you like sticks

5. 5 again. do you like leaves

7. does your kintype migrate

8. sleepy or awakey

9. are you smaller or larger than a breadbox

10. describe the vegetation around your kintype's feet

11. what's the most specific or unusual shift (if you experience them) you've experienced

12. what website is your kintype most like

13. hey, how's it going

14. if given a cellphone, what would your kintype do with it

15. how do you make your room/home/surroundings more suited to your kintype

16. tell me about your favorite kind of fabric…like, just in general, unrelated to your kintype(s)

17. are you bitey

18. how does your kintype feel about chia seeds

19. can your kintype knit? if not, could your kintype knit if given instructions

20. describe your kintype's skin texture in great detail

21. glossy or matte

22. wildcard, I'm getting tired of writing these

23. you hear a scratching noise around the corner, what does your kintype do

24. what's your kintype's most acute sense

25. alone in a forest with no provisions, how long does your kintype survive

26. describe your kintype as a canned vegetable

27. it's getting dark out, does your kintype sleep, wake up, or PANIC

28. how many fingers do you have and why

29. what's a really nice smell

30. has 30 days of this unhinged you further?

#otherkin challenge #30 day challenge #otherkin #therianthropy #therian

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talon-dragonbeast · 8 months ago

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Anglocentrism in alterhuman communities: ramblings of a Spanish-speaking dragon and a cat

[original in spanish here, though i have no doubt that this version will be disseminated more widely] • [original en español aquí, aunque tengo la certeza de que esta versión se difundirá más ampliamente]

this post was originally written as part of The Sol System's Alterhuman Writing Challenge. written by @talon-dragonbeast, with the help of my sibling @watcherwingedcat. we hope you like it!

word count: 2422

This writing, which is more of a rant with myself than a proper essay, is one I've been meaning to write for a long time; ever since I first joined an online community, to be more precise. Anglocentrism, according to Wikipedia (and yes, the irony of the article not being available in Spanish is not lost to me), is "the practice of viewing the world primarily through the lens of English or Anglo-American culture, language, and values, often marginalizing or disparaging non-English-speaking or non-Anglo perspectives."

If you are monolingual and your native language is English, chances are you have never stopped to think about the advantage this gives you over those of us who are not so fortunate as to be born with the lingua franca on our lips. Yes, you may have had to study some Spanish in school, but let's be honest, very few people remember what they learn in elementary school. As an English speaker, the whole world is built for you, and it's the rest of us who have to fit your mold. Culture, scientific articles, movies, books, video games, the internet, online communities, technical language, educational videos: even in the most international spaces, everything revolves around English. Which brings me to the subject of this writing: The Alterhuman community.

My name (as I am known on the internet, at least) is Talon. I've been a member of the alterhuman community, and more specifically, the otherkin community, for a little over a year now. Otherkin (a word that comes from other, in Spanish otros; and kin, shortened form of kind, in Spanish tipo) are people who identify as nonhuman in some way. For example, I identify as a dragon (among other things), and that's what I am, even if I look human on the outside and am perceived as such. There are many reasons why someone might believe they are not human, but I'm not here to discuss that, so let's get back to the topic at hand.

Since I've been in this community, I haven't written a single post in Spanish. And not for lack of desire, nor because I am intimidated to share something as personal as my mother tongue. No, the reason is simple: The community does not exist in any language other than English. By this I don't mean that there are no non-humans outside of England or the United States, because of course there are (even if they are on other platforms like TikTok or Instagram), and I'll talk about those later. But simply put, the reason you don't see many alterhuman communities in other languages is because all the resources, the introductions, the chronologies of the (English) alterhuman community, the definitions of the terms, the terms themselves, everything is in English.

I have always been bilingual. Well, trilingual actually, although my third language is not too relevant in my day to day life and I only use it in classes or when someone starts a conversation in the language. It's hard to explain how your brain works when you speak multiple languages fluently, but basically it's like running two parallel systems at the same time, but with thoughts. I don't usually think with words, but when I do it usually happens that some of my thoughts are in Spanish, and others in English, roughly in a 50/50 ratio. Or it can also happen that I start the thought in one language, but finish it in another. Or I may try to use a specific word in English that does not have an exact translation into Spanish, so that when translated literally the sentence does not make sense. Basically, everything I write or say out loud I have to run it through several filters first, one to remove the words from the other language, one to find the words to replace them with, and one to make the sentence make sense. Sounds exhausting, doesn't it? It is. Now imagine if in order to express yourself as you really are, in order to participate in a community with beings who understand and accept you like no other, you had to basically suppress half of who you are, all the time.

The problem is not only not being able to use my native language to express myself. As I have demonstrated in the last year and a half that I have been in this community, I am fluent enough in English not only to be understood when I speak, but also to express such complicated concepts as the self, human nature, the psychology of being, and all that comes with existing as nonhuman. The real problem comes when I try to express relatively common alterhuman concepts in my native language. I'm not just talking about labels like otherkin or therianthrope, which can be adapted to Spanish with relative ease. It's the little things, the simplest things.

For example, the term shift. The word itself is already difficult to translate; during my searches, I found a glossary of terms on the Otherkin Hispano website in which they call them "desplazamientos", which... is an accurate translation, I guess, but impossible to use comfortably in everyday life. There are also terms whose definitions use expressions that simply cannot be translated into other languages. For example, otherkin and otherhearted. In English, the difference between these two terms is that otherkin means "[to] identify as" while otherhearted is "[to] identify with". But this is a purely English expression. In other languages, the distinction does not exist, or it makes no sense to use it; therefore, these terms are totally inaccessible to any international user. Or compound words like "catkin", which are difficult to express in other languages. According to Otherkin Hispano, in Spanish it would be said as is without translation, Soy catkin. But that... is not grammatically correct, since it would be mixing two languages in the same sentence. The most appropriate would be to say Soy gatokin, which sounds wrong and doesn't make sense anyway, because kin is still an English word. Or "hearttype", which in Spanish could be roughly translated as "tipo del corazón" (kind of [the] heart). When saying that you have a specific hearttype, for example "corvidhearted", one way of expressing it could be a simple Soy corvidhearted, which carries the same problems as catkin. Or you could, as Wikipedia advises, say Soy corazón de córvido ("I am heart of corvid"). I don't dislike it, to be honest, but some might find it too metaphorical or poetic.

Finally, and before reaching the conclusion, I want to dedicate a few paragraphs to talk about the alterhuman community that exists in other languages. I mentioned before these communities; that although they do exist, they are very scattered through platforms such as TikTok or Instagram, with which I am not so familiar. But since I can't talk about Anglocentrism without at least talking about the Spanish-speaking alterhuman community, I asked my sibling Watcher @watcherwingedcat what it thought about the topic. This is what they wrote:

Hi guys, I'm Watcher, and I'm here to talk a bit about the Spanish-speaking therian community, which I think is the pristine example of the hate we receive both from people outside the community and from those inside, both Spanish and South American. While this post focused more on the language barriers, I want to focus on the real consequences of this barrier, how it divides us in the way we interact with each other: The social part of this whole thing (as I already said some other time or another and some of my followers know, I am studying Social Education, so from my point of view the social part is very relevant for everything we do). As my sister already said (hi Talon!), the English community is the majority in alterhuman spaces, but, what is the Spanish-speaking community really like?

Not very large, is the answer. The term itself is not very widespread, and the community is quite small. However, after a while of searching, I found it in a little corner of the internet. When I found a community in my own language, I was excited, but my curiosity and joy were soon extinguished... When I saw the reactions to their videos and posts on tiktok mainly. They were packed with hate messages. Packed. If you think hate in the English community is bad, you are not prepared for the hate received in other communities, especially the Spanish one. This is more a matter of culture, a little bit also due to the closed mindedness in countries like Spain, Argentina, or Colombia.

In general, the non-humans of the Spanish-speaking community mostly post about quadrobics and masks. At least, I haven't seen much beyond that, and the community is mostly in tiktok. And the reception of their expression of way of being? Disgusting. To give an example of how bad the hate is, in one of the videos I found (I think it was a therian making a mask or something), humans and non-humans were insulting the therian posting the video, discussions about how we are crazy and sick in the head and should be in mental institutions... It was horrible. The worst were the death threats, even, wishing the therian to die, or hang themselves, or worse (I've even seen rape threats). Comments that said things like, "If my sister told me she was a dog I would take her clothes off and force her to sleep outside and eat animal food, if she wants to be a dog I will treat her like one." Threats of abuse, both physical and sexual... Absolutely disgusting. And the worst thing is that the tiktok platform did not remove these hate accounts, the copy and paste messages of insults, the threats....

I am proud of the Hispanic community for being so open about their identity, don't get me wrong, but there are times when it is safer to just not share that part of who we are with others, especially if you are a minor and vulnerable. That's another issue that concerns me, as I've seen people coming out to parents, siblings, friends, and them just belittling them. That, coupled with misinformation, is a recipe for disaster.

I couldn't help but notice the deep root of misinformation in the non-human community itself. They confuse definitions, the different terms, which leads them to spread even more misinformation. This I don't think is entirely their fault, or that they are so young for the most part, as I have not seen Hispanic therians over the age of 18. I think this is largely due (as Talon already mentioned) to the language difference, and the lack of translation of certain terms. In general, when talking to friends with whom I am open about my non-humanity, I use English terms. It is a little weird to use those words in English while speaking in Spanish, but I am bilingual and for now there is no solution to that. I think the Spanish community would benefit from spreading correct information, and having a platform to express themselves with their own, like tumblr is for the English community. Something my sister expands on in dreir post. As for me here I finish my little comment, I'll leave you with Talon now. Watcher out.

As a conclusion, I would like to talk about the consequences that Anglocentrism might have on non-English speaking alterhumans, and then propose some ideas on how we might begin to address (or at least mitigate) it as a community.

First of all it is the obvious; the vast majority of non-English speaking alterhumans simply never realize that they are alterhumans in the first place, on account of the language barrier. All of the resources for beings who are questioning their humanity or lack thereof are in English, so they are not accessible to people who don't understand the language; therefore, a non-English speaker would have a much harder time accessing them. Another consequence is not being able to express your alterhumanity fully, both internally and externally. Remember when I mentioned that my thoughts are evenly distributed between English and Spanish, always keeping a 50/50 ratio? Well, recently, I have noticed that when reflecting on my identity as a dragon, all my thoughts are automatically generated in English. I find this deeply shocking, as I feel that a fundamental part of my identity is being eroded. It is devastating to feel that you can only express half of who you are, suppressing what could otherwise be a complex and multifaceted identity. Not being able to express myself in my other language limits my ability to explore that part of myself.

Anglocentrism is a cycle that never ends; since all the resources are in English, no members in other languages can join, and since there are no members in other languages, all the resources that are created are in English. And while I wish I could say that I have a solution to end this Anglocentrism once and for all, unfortunately, I do not. I am only one person (dragon), and this is a problem that I alone cannot solve. True, there have been some commendable attempts by the international community (translations of writings, alterhuman blogs in languages other than English, the Eurokin server on Discord are some examples); however, these initiatives often don't often get very far because of the very nature of the community. As I have already said, most of the alterhumans are North American or English, therefore any attempt to globalize the community would be restricted by the fact that there are not many members who would be interested in this in the first place. So what can we do to change this? The answer lies in you, reader. If you have a second language, encourage yourself to create writings in it from time to time. If you come from a culture other than the mainstream, talk about how that affects your identity. If you have traditions specific to your country that you believe are alterhuman in nature, share them. And if you are part of the English-speaking majority, I invite you to contribute in a positive way through simple actions, such as listening to us when we express ourselves in other languages, recognizing that we do not all share the same culture, and keeping an open mind when discussing topics that may be unfamiliar to you. Our strength as a community lies in the diversity of our members; let's embrace it.

#whispers of the dragon #otherkin #nonhuman #therian #alterhuman #alterhuman community #community writings #anglocentrism #ahpi writing challenge #Sol System's Alterhuman Writing Challenge 2024 #my writings

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reigning-kingof-ithaca · 7 months ago

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Ximena Natzel's The Challenge animatic had me yelling, "SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!" the entire time 😭

Penelope, the woman you are <3

#penelope of ithaca #penelope of sparta #my wife <3 #odysseus #epicthemusical #odysseus epic the musical #odysseus of ithaca #fictionkin #alterhuman #fictionkinity #fictkin #otherkin #The Challenge #the ithaca saga #epic animatic #ximena natzel #art #not my art

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who-is-page · 9 months ago

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Greener Grasses and Fossilized Paw Prints: Where (and Why) the Greymuzzles Go

Author: Page Type: Essay Words: 1,229 Summary: Page's personal experience as an adult canine psychopomp, and how it applies to the dearth of older otherkin in general alterhuman community spaces. Answering the question of: where are all the older otherkin? And why do people always seem to eventually leave? Author's Note: The term "greymuzzle" is used within the scope of this essay's title to reference older otherkin who have been active in alterhuman spaces for extended periods of time (a nod to the word's original definition within furry spaces), and is not referring to greymuzzle's most frequent definition in alterhuman groups as a community-given term denoting an individual with noteworthy activity and contribution.

[Part of the Sol System’s Alterhuman Writing Project for 2024. If you don’t want to see these posts, block the tag #inkedclaws]

When I was a young otherkin, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, I found it difficult to conceptualize why there was such a dearth of older community members, especially those 30 and above. I could understand the theoretics behind the disparity, of course— social media platforms, as we all know, tend to skew towards younger audiences due to generational differences in technological proficiency/preference. Established adults with working lives and families don’t necessarily have the same amount of free-time that young adults or teenagers do, either. But even with all that taken into account, it seemed like the number of otherkin aged 13-21 in comparison to the number of otherkin aged 30+ was less a gradual decline and more an unfathomable chasm of difference. The community had been around for decades at that point, with plenty of ghost town groups and abandoned forums to demonstrate that fact… and unless the Veil was secretly age-restricted, those people hadn’t up and disappeared into thin air. So where were people going? And, more importantly, why?

It was a question I’d never been able to answer in a way that felt satisfactory as a teenager and later as a young adult. But now, feeling the call of the void myself, I finally do have an answer and an understanding that I never could have achieved five or ten years ago: why the fuck would I be online when I could be playing video games or having sex with my hot partners instead?

It’s a crude and simplistic way to put it, but just hear me out. As an established adult, I have access to funds, stability, and freedom that I never had as a teenager or even as a young adult who still felt at the mercy of an uncaring universe’s slightest whims. My support systems in high school and college suffered from the same sort of financial and social precariousness that come with the territory of navigating the world as a young adult, but my support systems now are made up of other established adults; while I’ll never say that everything is always perfect for all of us, it’s much easier to get on your feet and stay on your feet when your arms are linked with people who are more firmly rooted in one way or another. I have access to a type of freedom that I could never have imagined as a teenager, because it was literally outside of the range of what was possible for me and my peers.

And more than just that freedom is the fact that I, as an adult, have a family! “Having a family” has, in my experience, some shitty, heteronormative connotations. As a teen, I always took it at face value as juggling bills, kids, white picket fence, other boring responsibilities that eat up your time, etc. But as an adult, now I know that having a family can be anything you make of it, and I make it extremely, obnoxiously queer. In my case, it’s living with people who understand me on a deep, foundational level, and who love me not in spite of who I am but because of who (and what) I am. It’s not passively being around those people; it’s actively, enthusiastically spending time with them because it’s fun and because I love them too and because they’re my people and I picked them and they picked me. As a kid, I’d never consciously recognized the difference between people you’re passively around because you have to be versus people you intentionally choose to be around and who intentionally choose you right back. In part, this is because as a kid you often don’t get the option to make that choice, while as an adult you have more control over your environment. Too often online environments feel like the former, rather than the latter, even if being within them is, technically, a choice. But here, now, I have people in my household who will go out of their way to intersect their daily lives with mine and ask, “You wanna walk to the park?” “You wanna grab a coffee?” or “You HAVE to see this YouTube essay I’m watching and no I don’t care that it’s 4 hours long on a topic you know nothing about, just trust me!!!!!” and that’s such a radically different and wonderful experience.

As an adult, I live with a group of people who make being alive more fun than I could have ever imagined. I have the ability to make my own fun in ways I couldn’t as a kid, for a variety of reasons. I don’t have to feel like an anxious purse chihuahua 24/7, agonizing over my existence and every possible thing that is liable to go wrong if I frivolously spend money on so much of the thought of a hot coffee. And I finally, finally understand why older otherkin disappear off the face of the Earth. It’s because being an adult nonhuman-identifying person is amazing in a way almost no one ever talks about: the euphoric experience of being known and loved, and of knowing and loving yourself.

There are so many exciting and wonderful things I could be doing in the meatspace with people I have actively chosen to spend my life with, and who fully accept and understand me as someone who’s queer, plural, and nonhuman. There’s so many enriching ways I could be engaging with my hobbies, the environment around me, and my local community. With this all in mind, why the fuck would I ever be in public online spaces where people try to argue with me about whether or not I exist, or if my experiences are real, or if I’m using the right and latest lingo to describe my experiences? Why would I subject myself to that when I could just roll my eyes, close the laptop, and go be a beloved canine psychopomp in the comfort of my werehouse instead?

That’s the crux of it. As adults with families and support networks, we have the option to not subject ourselves to the morifying ordeal of being known by asshole strangers online if we don’t want to. We can stick to just our families and our friend groups, and we will still have people around us who understand and who acknowledge and interact with our alterhumanity. The alterhuman community isn’t the only or even most important place for being our authentic selves; rather, it takes a backseat in the day-to-day life. It’s still something that’s fulfilling and worthwhile to engage with, but only on our own terms (terms that are quickly becoming incompatible with the ways Internet culture is evolving). But more often than not, there’s just more fun things to do.

In some ways, it’s kind of a relief to have had this epiphany. People haven’t vanished from alterhuman community spaces because they collectively ‘grew out of it’ like some anti-otherkin insist, or because the various generations of otherkin are so extraordinarily different from one another as to be oil-and-water. People vanish from online alterhuman spaces because offline life as an adult alterhuman is awesome. As an archivist it’s frustrating, but as a nonhuman, I find it a specific type of happiness that’s worth celebrating in its existence and prevalence. It’s an assurance that life only gets better as you get older: isn’t that grand?

#inkedclaws #alterhuman #ahpi writing challenge #otherkin

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mxmorbidmidnight · 9 months ago

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⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹

𝑇𝐻𝐸

𝑆𝐻𝐴𝑃𝐸𝑆𝐻𝐼𝐹𝑇𝐸𝑅

ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚱ ᚲ ᚷ ᚹ ᚺ ᚾ ᛁ ᛃ ᛇ ᛈ ᛉ ᛋ ᛗ ᛏ ᛜ ᛚ

I greet thee dear, welcome to my blog. I am The Shapeshifter, The Wizard Goose, Plague upon John of England *menacing honking*. I am a Witch and a feral beast. I spend these days in which I suspend casting runes, spitting tricksome prophecies and harassing the English monarchy. How I have come here I know not, but joyous I am to converse with thee. I hope thou may find a thing of sorts here, whether it be comfort, whimsy, disturbance or perhaps the cup of dice.

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I am called many names. Shapeshifter. Versipellis, Gestaltwandler, ilcruthach, Vormveranderaar. All words meaning Shapeshifter. As well as Werewolverine, Lovecat, Dracaena, She-wolf and Jackalope Hare. These names I did snatch into my claws while doing historical, mythological, folkloric and etymological research. If you wish to know the etymology and history of these names look upon this post

🕸️What art thou to call me? however you please. Choose one in the previous list or assign me thine own title. As long as it is done with respect I shalt answer. To be given a name is a great honour. 🕸️

⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹⛧𓋹⛧⛧𓋹

I fall under the definition of nonhuman, I take many forms. Most notably a goose. Much of the posting thou may see upon here is I, The Mighty Goose, Plague upon John of England violently honking or screeching in Shakespearean. I often find myself taking forms such as that of a siren, Dracaena, Wolverine, Harpy, Jaguar, Bin Chicken, Hyena and jackrabbit. The forms in which I might take are boundless as the ways of water across this sphere. For I am whatever I please.

ᛐᛜᚢᚦ

☾ I bear connection to mythological and folkloric shapeshifters, as to be they are ballads of myself or perhaps a close friend ☽

My gender is fluid. The pronouns I do favour art he/she/it, preferably alternating between the three as I cannot be confined by one singular. I am polyamorous and queer. OOooOooOh hOnK hOnK

As of now I am writing The Shapeshifter. A ballad describing my identity. Here you may find what of it has been released. For the past four years I have been crafting a novel series. It is influenced by folklore and mythology, containing queer, nonhuman and disabled characters.

𝑃𝑂𝐸𝑇𝑅𝑌 𝑆𝐴𝑀𝑃𝐿𝐸𝑆

The Shapeshifter's lament (part of the Shapeshifter)

The Shapeshifter

Vivamus Moriendium Est

Fight Dog

The Verdict

𝑀𝑌 𝑁𝑂𝑉𝐸𝐿

Lore

Character intro

I am disabled and neurodiverse. I have FND, tourettes and POTs and I am a cane user (in need of a wheelchair but unable to access). I have OCD, ADHD, sensory processing and likely autism. I will often post about disability advocacy on this blog. I am apart of the goth subculture (my favourite bands art The Cure, Inkubus Sukkubus, Sisters of mercy, Bauhaus, Scary Bitches, Coctaeu twins). I am interested in classical literature, History, Folklore, Paganism, vulture culture, Etymology, Shakespeare and gothic horror. I will on occasion post images of my goth makeup upon this platform. I art a minor, be freaky and thou shalt be CURSED I say! grime of a chicken hearted mutt upon thee for thou art liver bellied and foul as a cattle foot in a yew stump.

ReQUESTS (honk)

The Challenge of the goose, tis a challenge where I the tricksome goose shalt grant thee a riddle. Simply request for one in mine ask box or say "I call upon the challenge of the goose". I will trial thee with a riddle I have written, if thou does succeed I shalt grant thee an honorary goose title.

In addition if thou art curious about my writing, identity as a shapeshifter or wish to ask me any questions, do so. Tis no reason for shame, inquiry and curiosity about what we do not understand is a wonderful thing.

Goth resources

Boundaries:

I AM A MINOR!!!! I will not private message with adults, adults can interact with my blog but private messaging is off the table. DNI: perverts and bigots. I don’t mind images of dead animals as long as it isn’t a dead goose. Please don’t send me pictures of dead, injured or cooked geese.

Tags:

#the shapeshifter's riddles : my poems

#morbid lore : to do with my ongoing ye olde goose feud with the entirety of Britland.

#challenge of the goose: answering riddle requests

#morbid memes: memes I have made myself (as seen below, mostly to do with geese)

#morbid's gaggle : interactions with moots

#morbid midnight : I tend to tag all my posts under this tag.

#morbid Reblogs

And now I must return to unionising the cows under lesbianism against John of England. Upon thee I wish plentiful fruit, soft sun upon thine cheek, much bounty and many adventures to seek. May the skin of your palms be coarse to the Strike of a bramble. So says The Shapeshifter

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wizardsfang · 5 months ago

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Niche Kin Appreciation Challenge

A 30 prompt challenge by @wizardsfang

1. Introduce your kin

2. Make a playlist for your kin

3. Share 5 fun facts about your kin

4. Do a photo dump for your kin

5. Assign colors to your kin

6. Share about your kin’s hearthome

7. Share your favorite aspects of your kin

8. Write a poem or drabble

9. Create a moodboard

10. Share a piece of media that relates to/reminds you of your kin

11. Share how you discovered this kin

12. Badly make a minimalist drawing of your kin

13. Assign your kin a food, hobby or genre

14. Create a Userbox or PFP set for your kin

15. Assign your kin an aesthetic & rant about why

16. Write affirmations for this kin

17. Create a club for your kin (or those close) and describe the objective of the club

18. Design a prototype, create, or otherwise share gear suggestions for your kin

19. Talk about how you express this kin

20. Make gifs & do a gif dump for your kin

21. Create a Stimboard

22. Create a “beginners guide” to your kin

23. Make a silly meme or trend for your kin

24. Share memories, shifts, quirks, or feelings this kin may bring

25. Start a silly/lighthearted rumor about this kin

26. Draw or Write your kin in a past or present drawing/writing trend & put sincere effort into it

27. Share your tougher experiences you have with your kin & you how persevere

28. Assign your kin a cutie mark, pokemon type, httyd class, WC clan or any other means or special identification from media & share why

29. Create a watchlist or gaming list for your kin

30. Create anything else you wish you’d seen for this kin

Anyone with any kind of type or kin can use this however, this challenge is especially geared towards niche & lesser acknowledged kins

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 :]!!

- Image Version for Challenge Here

- Kin Drawing Challenge Here (coming soon)

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

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panthera-dei · 2 years ago

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Day 4 of the Otherkin Challenge: if your kintype opened their eyes, what would they be looking at?

Both: The dark. I'm in a dark room. And I like it like that. All of me does. 😂

#otherkin challenge #otherkin #jotunn kin #therian #therianthropy #feline therian

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henryisabigfatbitch · 4 months ago

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Niche Kin Appreciation Challenge

1. Introduce your kin

My niche Kin would be a Moth (Cecropia, and White Ermine)

Cecropia moth:

White Ermine moth

#niche kin appreciation #niche kin #kin challenge #therian challenge #alterhuman #otherkin #therian #nonhuman #therianthropy #kintype #moth #moth tw #tw moths

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nyctohyloph0bia · 1 year ago

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On Voluntary Nonhumanity 2: Electric Bogaloo.

My previous posts about voluntary nonhumaness made a discussion spring up around 'Linking, and sadly due to my own mistakes to getting my point across clearly, everyone thought it was about 'Linking, despite not mentioning it once.

So, here's what I'm gonna say:

Nonhuman 'Linking = Voluntary Nonhumans.

Voluntary Nonhumans ≠ 'Linking.

'Linking is a practice and it's whole new thing, it's not just Therian, Otherkin or Fictionkin "but voluntary" or "lite". Again, as a otherlinker, this can be a relation you consciously maintain or something you actively towards to maintain and shape around to what fits your need. Here's a good post talking more about this.

Voluntary nonumanness isn't always 'Linking. It can be something like Voidpunk and Altervexo.

I am that scary, impossible voluntary therianthrope, I explained why this is in my reblog of the post, but I will reiterate:

I don't have a wolf linktype, this is no case of "I feel less valid if I don't label myself as a Therian :(". If I wanted it to be a linktype, it would've been a linktype.

I became a wolf therian, I can't drop it, I can't unbecome a wolf as you can a linktype (which, does NOT make it any less valid). This is who I am, deep, deep inside who I am now.

I cannot explain it in any better way than being "bitten voluntarily by a werewolf to become one". I didn't have to work towards it, more than my own inner conflict "is it right or wrong that I did this?".

And guess what? This isn't exclusive to nonhumaness. You can become Fictionkin too. You can become whoever the hell you want, however you want, because guess what? Not everyone is psychological because of trauma. Not everyone is born with a nonhuman or fictional soul. Not everyone has parallel lives. Or was born bound to another universe. Not everyone is born nonhuman.

Some are magic, some are headspace-made, some are other spiritual and metaphysical means, some don't know if it's voluntary or involuntary, some are just deciding to be one through a cathartic voluntary experience.

#cw discussion #alterhuman #therian #otherkin #fictionkin #community #therianthropy #therian community #otherkin community #fictionkin community #alterhuman community #kitty cat rambles #people be open minded challenge difficulty: impossible.#info

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that-dreaming-dragon · 9 months ago

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Media Representation and (a rant on) Draconity

I think it's natural to want to find something within the media that represent and reflects yourself. As a dragon, the option might seem like quite a few within various sources of media, but the realities are that I and my various alterhuman identities are not the typical or commonly seen dragons.

As myself, I'm orange, furred, white feathered wings, yellow horns, and the vibrant red belly. Those are not things you find common in animals, even amongst birds, that's some colors that don't exactly flow together. People drawn inspiration from around their world to create, people are also creature of comfort and habit--with the idea of dragon being "fire breathing, bat winged, scaly lizard" or "scale with mane, elemental control and sometimes deity, serpentine wyrm", and then variations based off of that, perhaps scaled beast with feathery wings, or great furred wyrm with webbed wings and fire breathing. Seriously what is with the fire breathing? Have I mention that I'm a shapeshifting sort of dragon? While that is often tied to the eastern sort of draconic beings, my exact combination of dragons are far and few in between. Even the dutch angel dragon within the furry community has certain limitation and character traits that don't align with me. If I hadn't got turned off by the idea of looking anywhere or being misidentify as a horse, I might have find myself drawn to the dutch angel dragon as a sort of maybe paratype, or just friendly dragons that I share similar traits with. But alas.

Every single piece of media or fictional source that has a representation I can find brings me joy. Games centered on collecting dragons like Flight Rising or Dragon Cave does a great job of acknowledging that diversity. I get especially grumpy when dragon maker only has webbed wings and scaly body. At one point I really did not want to put the 3D dragon maker by Dragonita on my Alterhuman Shifts and Self Discovery Tools guide (ohh, guess I finally got a name). You can call me petty however you want, but I was not very happy of something that denies my existence. I'm a strong advocate for draconic diversity, because I am not alone in being "unusual" sort of dragons. Nobody should feel like this, unseen. Dealing with the constant "he or she" as someone nonbinary is more than enough, thank you very much. I feel like as alterhuman, hell, even just within the confine of draconic community or even smaller the dragonkind community, there should be a sort of basic understanding that "dragon" is a abstract term. Like "what is human", "what is dragon" should be a default and nobody gets to decide who is or isn't dragon. To touch back onto what I wrote on Day 1 of this challenge, alterhumanity is a experience, it is a feeling, it is vague and abstract, it is something you know within your essence, or one day you will awaken to it. A dragon is all of that. I did end up finally putting the 3d builder on my guide. I will still prefer Lukas Sotrmskull's Dragon builder though.

Before I let my thought get away from me, lets talk about my other alterhuman identities.

The other side of the spectrum, when you have a almost exact match in sources that are well known, you end up keep getting mistaken as it. My kardiatype looks very alike to Haku from Spirited Away. It gets frustrating when I bring up my kardiatype, and people immediately go "oh, Haku!" It's the same problem with people seeing my self protrait and call that a horse or a goat. Seriously, is like people don't recognize a basic dragon head shape if it isn't scaled and spiked. Horses are neat, goat is fine, and Haku is a very cool dragon. But my kardiatype was not Haku. I'd argue that he was just your generic Japanese storm dragon that may or may not be local deity. Wild thought huh. I like that I get to see glimpse of that dragon through Haku, but I would really rather not deal with yet another case of misidentification in the form of "close enough". My human english name got enough of that treatment.

Amongst my other draconic identities, I have a vague-flicker of Flammie from the mana series. The vaguetype feeling has components of paratype within, precisely due to myself being the sort of dragon I am. Belly plate aside, Flammie looks very close to me. And with my discovery of how suggestive my wing count may be (currently in shifts of at least 4), Flammie is definitely a big contender for media representation of myself.

When it comes to intensionally created identity, me and Akumu, my headmate/mirror self, collectively linked a vaguetype of Aurelion Sol. Now, Aurelion Sol has nothing alike to me, maybe the color is more align with Akumu's, but generally, the eastern noodle form is my least favorite to partake in. It feels like a responsibility, and things are just heavier in a way when I'm in that form. It doesn't have to make much sense. Perhaps I will delve into this one day. One can argue we formed the link due to our kardiatype. But really, it happened because that's the one dragon we were really drawn to (and attempted to main) while playing League, and well, there were two others who were shyvana and smolder respectively, and we wanted to complete the draconic of LoL set for shits and giggles. There not much need to find a representation, because we are the exact representation from the source. But wait, we identify with the concept stage where people dub "unbound form" of Sol. Whelp, guess we gotta look elsewhere again.

It feels like I'm trying to start a topic and well, rant on draconity got me all over the place.

Sometimes it really is a exercise in patience. The more unique you are, the harder it is to find representation. Wouldn't change myself for the world though, I love my uniqueness, and I appreciate how crazily varied dragons can be. Or any other sort of creatures or identities or experiences. Life is wonderful like that.

#alterhuman #Sol System's Alterhuman Writing Challenge 2024 #ahpi writing challenge #ramble #dream dragon rant #otherkin #dragonkind #draconity #othervague #vaguetype #flicker #fictionflicker #fictomere #fictionfolk #kardiatype #otherlink #linktype #day 2

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talon-dragonbeast · 8 months ago

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El anglocentrismo en las comunidades alterhumanas: divagaciones de una dragona y un gato hispanohablantes

[para mayor claridad y divulgación de este escrito, he proporcionado una traducción al inglés en una publicación aparte. puedes encontrarla aquí] • [for further convenience and outreach of this piece, I have provided an english translation in a separate post. you can find it here]

este post fue escrito originalmente como parte del Desafío de Escritura Alterhumano del Sistema Sol. escrito por @talon-dragonbeast, con la ayuda de mi hermano @watcherwingedcat. esperamos que os guste!

recuento de palabras: 2418

Este escrito, que es más una diatriba conmigo misma que una redacción propiamente dicha, es uno que llevo mucho tiempo queriendo escribir; desde que me uní por primera vez a una comunidad online, para ser más exactos. El anglocentrismo, según Wikipedia (y sí, soy consciente de la ironía de que el artículo no esté disponible en Español), es "la práctica de ver el mundo principalmente a través de la lente de la cultura, la lengua y los valores ingleses o angloamericanos, a menudo marginando o despreciando las perspectivas no angloparlantes o no anglosajonas".

Si eres monolingüe y tu idioma materno es el inglés, es probable que nunca te hayas parado a pensar en la ventaja que esto te aporta sobre los que no somos tan afortunados como para nacer con la lingua franca en nuestros labios. Sí, es posible que hayas tenido que estudir algo de español en el colegio, pero seamos honestos, muy pocos recuerdan lo que aprenden en la escuela primaria. Como angloparlante, todo el mundo está construido para ti, y somos los demás los que tenemos que adaptarnos a vuestro molde. La cultura, los artículos científicos, las películas, los libros, los videojuegos, el internet, las comunidades online, el lenguaje técnico, los vídeos educativos: incluso en los espacios más internacionales, todo gira alrededor del inglés. Lo que me lleva al tema de este escrito: La comunidad Alterhumana.

Mi nombre (como se me conoce en internet, al menos) es Talon. Soy miembro de la comunidad alterhumana, y más específicamente, la comunidad otherkin, desde hace poco más de un año. Los otherkin (palabra que viene de other, en español otros; y kin, forma acortada de kind, en español tipo) son personas que se identifican como no humanos de alguna manera. Por ejemplo, yo me identifico como dragona (entre otras cosas), y eso es lo que soy; aunque por fuera parezca humana y me confundan como tal. Hay muchas razones por las que alguien puede creer que no es humano, pero no estoy aquí para discutir eso, así que volvamos al tema que nos ocupa.

Desde que estoy en esta comunidad, no he escrito ni una sola publicación en español. Y no por falta de ganas, ni porque me intimide compartir algo tan personal como mi lengua materna. No, la razón es simple: La comunidad no existe en otro idioma que no sea el inglés. Con esto no quiero decir que no existan no-humanos fuera de Inglaterra o los Estados Unidos, porque por supuesto que los hay (aunque se encuentren en otras plataformas como TikTok o Instagram), y hablaré de estas más adelante. Pero sencillamente, la razón por la que no se ven muchas comunidades de alterhumanos en otros idiomas es porque todos los recursos, las introducciones, las cronologías de la comunidad (inglesa) alterhumana, las definiciones de los términos, los términos mismos, todo está en inglés.

Siempre he sido bilingüe. Bueno, trilingüe en realidad, aunque mi tercer idioma no es demasiado relevante en mi día a día y solo lo uso en clase o cuando alguien comienza una conversación en ese idioma. Es difícil explicar cómo funciona tu cerebro cuando hablas varios idiomas con fluidez, pero básicamente es como ejecutar dos sistemas paralelos al mismo tiempo, pero con pensamientos. No suelo pensar con palabras, pero cuando lo hago me suele pasar que algunos de mis pensamientos están en español, y otros en inglés, más o menos en una proporción 50/50. O también puede pasar que empiece el pensamiento en un idioma, pero lo termine en otro. O que intente usar una palabra específica en inglés que no tiene una traducción exacta al español, por lo que al traducirla literalmente la frase no tiene sentido. Básicamente, todo lo que escribo o digo en voz alta tengo que pasarlo primero por varios filtros, uno para eliminar las palabras del otro idioma, otro para encontrar las palabras con las que reemplazarlas y otro para hacer que la frase tenga sentido. Suena agotador, ¿verdad? Lo es. Ahora imagina que para poder expresarte a ti mismo como realmente eres, para poder participar en una comunidad con seres que te entienden y te aceptan como ningún otro, tuvieras que suprimir básicamente la mitad de lo que eres, todo el tiempo.

El problema no es sólo no poder utilizar mi lengua materna para expresarme. Como he demostrado en el último año y medio que llevo en esta comunidad, domino el inglés lo suficiente no sólo para que me entiendan cuando hablo, sino también para expresar conceptos tan complicados como el yo, la naturaleza humana, la psicología del ser y todo lo que conlleva existir como ser no humano. El verdadero problema viene cuando intento expresar conceptos alterhumanos relativamente comunes en mi lengua materna. No estoy hablando solo de etiquetas como otherkin o theriántropo, que se pueden adaptar al español con relativa facilidad (como acabo de hacer ahora). Son las cosas pequeñas, las más simples.

Por ejemplo, el término shift. La palabra en sí ya es de difícil traducción; durante mis búsquedas, encontré un glosario de términos en la web Otherkin Hispano en la que los llaman "desplazamientos", la cual... es una traducción exacta, supongo, pero imposible de usar cómodamente en el día a día. También hay términos cuyas definiciones utilizan expresiones que simplemente no es posible traducir a otros idiomas. Por ejemplo, otherkin y otherhearted. En inglés, la diferencia entre estos dos términos radica que otherkin significa "[to] identify as" (identificarse como) mientras que otherhearted es "[to] identify with" (identificarse con). Pero ésta es una expresión puramente inglesa. En otros idiomas, la distinción no existe, o no tiene sentido utilizarla; por lo tanto, estos términos son totalmente inaccesibles para cualquier usuario internacional. O palabras compuestas como "catkin", que son difíciles de expresar en otros idiomas. Según Otherkin Hispano, en español se diría tal cual sin traducir, Soy catkin. Pero eso... no es gramaticalmente correcto, ya que estaría mezclando dos idiomas en una misma frase. Lo más adecuado sería decir Soy gatokin, que suena incorrecto y tampoco tiene sentido de todas formas, porque kin sigue siendo una palabra inglesa. O "hearttype", que en español podría traducirse aproximadamente como "tipo del corazón". Al decir que tienes un hearttype específico, por ejemplo "corvidhearted", una forma de expresarlo podría ser un simple Soy corvidhearted, que conlleva los mismos problemas que catkin. O podrías, como aconseja Wikipedia, decir Soy corazón de córvido. A mí no me disgusta, para ser honestos, pero para algunos podría resultar demasiado metafórico o poético.

Finalmente, y antes de llegar a la conclusión, quiero dedicar algunos párrafos para hablar sobre la comunidad alterhumana que existe en otros idiomas. Mencioné antes estas comunidades; que aunque existen, se encuentran muy diseminados por plataformas como TikTok o Instagram, con las que no estoy familiarizada. Pero como no puedo hablar sobre el anglocentrismo sin hablar al menos de la comunidad hispanohablante alterhumana, así que le pregunté a mi hermano Watcher @watcherwingedcat qué opinaba del tema. Esto es lo que escribió:

Hola gente, soy Watcher, y vine a hablar un poco sobre la comunidad therian hispanohablante, la cual me parece el ejemplo prístino del hate que recibimos tanto por parte de gente de fuera de la comunidad como por la gente de dentro, tanto española como de América del sur. Si bien esta publicación se centraba más en las barreras del idioma, yo quiero mostrar cuáles son las verdaderas consecuencias de esta barrera, cómo esto nos divide en la forma en la que interactuamos unos con los otros: La parte social de todo este asunto (como dije ya alguna que otra vez y algunos de mis seguidores saben, estoy estudiando Educación Social, por lo que desde mi punto de vista la parte social es muy relevante para todo lo que hacemos). Como ya dijo mi hermana (hola Talon!), la comunidad inglesa es mayoritaria en los espacios alterhumanos, pero, cómo es realmente la comunidad hispanohablante?

No muy grande, es la respuesta. El término de por sí no está muy extendido, y la comunidad es bastante pequeña. Sin embargo, después de un tiempo de búsqueda, la encontré en un pequeño rinconcito de internet. Al encontrar una comunidad en mi propio idioma, estaba entusiasmado, pero mi curiosidad y alegría se extinguieron pronto… Al ver las reacciones de sus vídeos y publicaciones en tiktok principalmente. Estaban repletos de mensajes de odio. Repletos. Si pensáis que el odio en la comunidad inglesa es malo, no estáis preparados para el odio que se recibe en otras comunidades, especialmente la española. Esto se debe más a una cuestión de cultura, un poco también debido a la mente cerrada que se tiene en países como España, Argentina, o Colombia.

En general, los no humanos de la comunidad hispanohablantes publican sobre quadrobics y máscaras. Al menos, yo no he visto mucho más allá de eso, y la comunidad está en su mayoría en tiktok. Y el recibimiento de su expresión de forma de ser? Repugnante. Para poner un ejemplo de cuan malo es el hate, en uno de los vídeos que encontré (creo que era un therian haciendo una máscara o algo así), humanos y no humanos estaban insultando al therian que publicaba el vídeo, discusiones sobre cómo estamos locos y mal de la cabeza y deberíamos estar en instituciones mentales… Era horrible. Lo peor eran las amenazas de muerte, incluso, que deseaban que los therian murieran, o se colgaran, o cosas peores (he visto incluso amenazas de violación). Comentarios que decían cosas como: “Si mi hermana me dijera que es un perro le quitaría la ropa y le obligaría a dormir fuera y comer comida de animales, si quiere ser un perro le trataré como tal”. Amenazas de abuso, tanto físico como sexual… Absolutamente repugnante. Y lo peor es que la plataforma de tiktok no eliminaba estas cuentas de odio, los mensajes copia y pega de insultos, las amenazas…

Estoy orgulloso de la comunidad hispana por ser tan abiertos sobre su identidad, no me malinterpretes, pero hay veces que es más seguro simplemente no compartir esa parte de quienes somos con otros, especialmente si uno es menor y vulnerable. Esa es otra cuestión que me preocupa, ya que he visto gente saliendo del armario con padres, hermanos, amigos, y ellos simplemente menospreciándoles. Eso, juntándolo con la desinformación, es una receta para el desastre.

No pude evitar notar la profunda raíz de desinformación en la propia comunidad no humana. Confunden las definiciones, los diferentes términos, lo que les lleva a extender aún más desinformación. Esto no creo que sea culpa suya del todo, o de ser tan jóvenes en su gran mayoría, ya que no he visto therians hispanos mayores de 18 años. Creo que esto se debe, en gran parte (como ya mencionó Talon), a la diferencia del idioma, y a la falta de traducción de ciertos términos. En general, yo al hablar con amigos con los que soy abierto de mi no humanidad, uso términos ingleses. Es un poco raro usar esas palabras en inglés mientras hablo en español, pero yo soy bilingüe y por ahora no hay solución a eso. Creo que la comunidad española se beneficiaría de extender información correcta, y de tener una plataforma en la que expresarse con los suyos, como es tumblr para la comunidad inglesa. Algo en lo que mi hermana expande en su post. Por mi parte aquí termino con mi pequeño comentario, os dejo con Talon ahora. Watcher fuera.

Como conclusión, me gustaría hablar de las consecuencias que el anglocentrismo podría tener en alterhumanos que no hablan inglés, y después proponer algunas ideas sobre cómo podríamos empezar a resolverlo (o al menos paliarlo) como comunidad.

En primer lugar está lo evidente; la inmensa mayoría de alterhumanos no angloparlantes simplemente nunca se dan cuenta de que son alterhumanos en primer lugar, por culpa de la barrera del idioma. Todos los recursos para seres que cuestionan su humanidad o falta de ella están en inglés, por lo que no son accesibles para personas que no entiendan el idioma; por tanto, una persona que no angloparlante tendría muchas más dificultades para acceder a ellos. Otra consecuencia es no poder expresar tu alterhumanidad al completo, tanto interna como externamente. ¿Recuerdas cuando mencioné que mis pensamientos se distribuyen equitativamente entre el inglés y el español, manteniéndose siempre en una proporción 50/50? Bueno, recientemente, he observado que al reflexionar sobre mi identidad como dragona, todos mis pensamientos se generan automáticamente en inglés. Considero esto profundamente impactante, ya que siento que se está desdibujando una parte fundamental de mi identidad. Es devastador sentir que sólo puedes expresar la mitad de lo que eres, suprimiendo lo que de otra forma podría ser una identidad compleja y multifacética. No poder expresarme en mi otro idioma limita mi capacidad de explorar esa parte de mí misma.

El anglocentrismo es un ciclo que nunca termina; como todos los recursos están en inglés, no se pueden unir miembros en otros idiomas, y como no hay miembros en otros idiomas, todos los recursos que se crean están en inglés. Y aunque me gustaría poder decir que tengo una solución para terminar este anglocentrismo de una vez por todas, desgraciadamente, no la tengo. Solo soy una persona (dragón), y este es un problema que yo sola no puedo resolver. Es cierto que ha habido algunos intentos dignos de elogio por parte de la comunidad internacional (traducciones de escritos, blogs de alterhumanos en idiomas distintos del inglés, el servidor Eurokin en Discord); sin embargo, estas iniciativas a menudo no suelen llegar muy lejos por culpa de la propia naturaleza de la comunidad. Como ya he dicho, la mayoría de los alterhumanos son norteamericanos o ingleses, por lo que cualquier intento de internacionalizar la comunidad se vería restringido por el hecho de que no hay muchos miembros a los que esto pueda interesarles en primer lugar. Entonces, ¿qué podemos hacer para cambiar esto? La respuesta está en ti, lector. Si tienes un segundo idioma, anímate a crear escritos en él de vez en cuando. Si provienes de una cultura distinta de la dominante, habla de cómo eso afecta a tu identidad. Si tienes tradiciones específicas de tu país que crees que son alterhumanas por naturaleza, compártelas. Y si formas parte de la mayoría angloparlante, te invito a contribuir de manera positiva mediante acciones sencillas, como escucharnos cuando nos expresamos en otros idiomas, reconocer que no todos compartimos la misma cultura, y mantener una mente abierta al discutir temas que pueden no ser familiares para ti. Nuestra fuerza como comunidad radica en la diversidad de nuestros miembros; aprovechémosla.

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