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Otherhearted culture is solidarity with otherlinkers

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ok seriously can we stop treating alterhuman and nonhuman as synonyms. this is a rectangles and squares thing, not a squares and squares thing or a rectangles and rectangles thing.

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People have been talking about the need to discuss non-kin alterhuman experiences so here's a quick ramble about my otherheartedness and the peculiar dysphoria that's been difficult to treat that accompanies it for me.

Otherheartedness for me is... interesting. It's far more of an emotional experience than being otherkin, honestly. In both good ways and bad.

It's peace and wonder because they are something that is real, whether as a flesh-and-blood creature or as a well-loved concept often honored in art and writing. It's being able to look at them (or even bask in thier presence if they're Earthen) for hours on end without being bored. It's feeling as though your love for them forms a core part of your identity and you wouldn't be You without it.)

It's feeling a hole within because no matter what efforts you make to claim thier beauty as your own you will never truly Become, never be able to see yourself as one in a way that feels natural and effortless (I still claim them as link types but the dissonance is probably always going to be there and it Hurts). It's surrounding yourself with thier shape in the form of figurines, art, jewelry, even clothing (good old Mountain T Shirts before thier quality fell off a cliff...) to feel a bit of thier power and presence and hope that in some way, somehow, some of it will finally rub off on you and calm that yearning itch in your mind.

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cathearted culture is meowing a lot when youre happy because it just feels like you :3

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Other hearted culture is laughing like your hearttype.

My laugh sounds like a hyena, or a common rural bird!

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Otherhearteds/otherkith, otherlinks, and other kinds of alterhumans that aren’t otherkin or therian, do you experience species dysphoria?

I’m asking because I thought I was otherhearted and copinglink, but I might experience species dysphoria. I’m wondering if non-otherkin experience that too, or if that means I’m otherkin

Otherkin/therians, please do not vote. I am not polling you. I am looking for information on an underrepresented part of the alterhuman community.

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hey hey, i scrolled through this blog a bit recently and got a bit confused because i'm not sure about the difference between synpath and otherhearted .

some say there isn't really a difference and others say there is.

so this isn't a question for you specifically but i thought it would reach more people to ask it here. hope you don't mind.

(also i'd like to learn more about others experiences because for some reason it's hard to find more information on synpath/otherhearted.)

I know that synpath refers exclusively to the thing identified with and not the holder of the identity, so it's more like "hearttype" than it is "otherhearted". But yeah from what I can tell, there is no consensus about whether or not having synpaths is the same as being otherhearted. I have heard some say they are the same and I have heard others say that one only need identify with one particular part/aspect of their synpath, or that synpaths are less intense.

If you have synpaths, please share your thoughts! (And anyone else who is familiar with how both terms are used in practice is welcome to chime in as well, of course.)

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(Adding the tags as well ^)

Thank you for this very thoughtful addition! I have had a lot of time to think about this whole discussion since it initially happened (and I have thought about it, quite a bit). I agree with everything you've said here. The otherhearted community overwhelmingly agrees that the distinction is important and that we do not want to see it be lost, so it should (and hopefully will) remain distinct. Terms serve the communities that use them, not the other way around.

It is concerning how often folks offer up otherhearted/otherkith as an alternative to "kin" for KFFs without qualifying that recommendation with anything.

There is an extremely broad range to what KFFs call "kin". A KFF person might be otherhearted, but they could also be a whole bunch of other things instead/in addition. Otherheartedness is not the same as just liking/relating to a character, it's not the same as faceclaiming, it's not the same as RP'ing, it's not the same as 'linking or flickering or being constelic...

If someone asks for alternative phrasing to phrasing that can mean any of those things, with no way of immediately distinguishing which meaning any one person is using, just naming one of them without any sort of elaboration is a bad answer no matter how you slice it.

I worry that the same thing that has happened to "kin" may eventually happen to "otherhearted" as well as a result of that carelessness. Hell, I have already seen someone say otherhearted means the same thing as simply relating to a character.

I know giving properly nuanced answers takes more effort. I know it can be exhausting if you find yourself having to do it over and over, and god knows having to answer the same questions ad infinitum is pretty much a fundamental alterhuman experience. But giving a misleading answer isn't the solution.

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hey hey, i scrolled through this blog a bit recently and got a bit confused because i'm not sure about the difference between synpath and otherhearted .

some say there isn't really a difference and others say there is.

so this isn't a question for you specifically but i thought it would reach more people to ask it here. hope you don't mind.

(also i'd like to learn more about others experiences because for some reason it's hard to find more information on synpath/otherhearted.)

I know that synpath refers exclusively to the thing identified with and not the holder of the identity, so it's more like "hearttype" than it is "otherhearted". But yeah from what I can tell, there is no consensus about whether or not having synpaths is the same as being otherhearted. I have heard some say they are the same and I have heard others say that one only need identify with one particular part/aspect of their synpath, or that synpaths are less intense.

If you have synpaths, please share your thoughts! (And anyone else who is familiar with how both terms are used in practice is welcome to chime in as well, of course.)

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Otherhearted culture is feeling more like your hearttype when your tired

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otherhearted culture is feeling this warm feeling inside when you watch stuff with your hearttype in it

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Liminal space hearted culture is Loving liminal spaces in media because it feels like home

(and unreality to some extent)

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i’ve been thinking about non-otherkin/non-therian alterhuman identities recently and i realized i haven’t really explored that yet in myself. i have a fairly good grasp on my kintypes (for now at least), but i’ve been ignoring or even in denial about some of my other alterhuman identities.

it started yesterday evening (march 26), when i began to officially question whether maned wolves are a kithtype or kintype of mine. i still don’t know, but today, as i was researching about what hearttypes feel like vs what kintypes feel like, i realized that i’ve felt non-kin alterhuman things before now.

first my mind went to cecil palmer from welcome to night vale. i hyperfixated hard on that podcast when i first listened to it last year. i still get unreasonably excited about it, especially about cecil.

i once briefly considered being fictionkin to cecil, but brushed it off immediately — one, because i don’t feel like i am him (which is a pretty tell-tale sign i’m not), and two, because our personalities aren’t similar except for a few surface-level things. i dismissed it as extreme gender envy and tried to ignore it.

but i still felt (and continue to feel) an intense connection to him.

i’ve related very strongly to characters before, and to characters much more similar to me than cecil is. yet even the character i’ve had an intense spinterest on for several years can’t compete with this flavor of feeling. it goes deeper than gender envy (although it does include that). i want to be him. i’m not distressed that i’m not, but i do thoroughly want to, if just for a few hours. that’s not the full feeling, but it’s the facet i can articulate best.

i denied the possibility of being alterhuman in any way about cecil for so long because i was worried that if i decided to call myself fictionkin, i might lose myself in trying to adopt the personality of someone so different from me. (for a long time i didn’t know how widely acknowledged it is that fictionkin don’t have to match the personalities of the canon version of the character.) i didn’t want to consider fictionhearted either, as i was worried taking that first step would be crossing some line.

i think — well, i know, i just like to allow room for uncertainties — that cecil is a hearttype. (kithtype? fictionkith??)

there’s nothing else he could be to me, honestly. hearttype is the closest i can succinctly come to describing this feeling, and by “closest” i mean pretty darn precise.

and now my other revelation: hearthomes.

although i’ve got cecil as a hearttype, i don’t think i’d describe night vale as my hearthome. i’m fond of it, yes, but my chest doesn’t ache with the longing to live there. no, that honor goes to the world of tangled.

i don’t want to get too detailed, as this post is long enough already, so i’ll keep it short:

i’ve wanted to live in the world of tangled/tangled the series since i first watched the show. i don’t have any hearttypes or kintypes from there, not even an oc-kin. but it feels like home.

i’ve been asked what fictional world i’d live in if i had to choose one. i always immediately answer the tangled universe. for all the plot holes and underdeveloped lore, i absolutely love it, and if a portal opened up in my room right now to take me there i’d hardly hesitate. my favorite spot in disney world is that small tangled-themed section, even if it is just relegated to the bathroom area. it’s the closest i’ll ever get to actually being there. it felt bittersweet when i visited. my heart swelled looking at it all, and i think i’ve cried about it, but i don’t have any concrete memories of the latter.

sooo… yeah. i’m ‘hearted to cecil palmer and the tangledverse is my hearthome.

i’ll add these to my intro post soon. i don’t feel like i need a questioning period for these like i do for the maned wolf. they’ve been boiling in the back of my mind for so long that i already just… kinda know.

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Otherhearted culture is thinking you were a therian/otherkin fir a while before figuring out your identity-

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having a crush on the character you fictionheart culture is that one question "do i wanna date you or do i wanna be you" but its BOTH APPARENTLY

I want to look like you I want to have your name I want your family to be my family I want to have your friends I want to be you. I also want to kiss you on the mouth right now please oh my god why are you hot

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I just found this acc and uh! I just wanna know if anyone makes otherhearted flags? :3 If they do please respond to this! Also if anyone has tips on finding my exact heart type in terms of specific breeds!

I have seen some various hearttype flags floating around, though I do not remember the urls of those who made them. If you take requests for hearttype flags, please reblog/reply!

As for your second question: a lot of the same techniques that therians use to figure out their breed should be applicable. Look through a lot of pictures, read up on the behavioral attributes of different breeds, see what you feel the most connected to.

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Has this been done yet? Probably.

Tried to use language that's inclusive of alterhumans who are still human.