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kissing you on the forehead

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Minecraft really brings out my inner Tripitaka, with  the constant  need to be saved from demons mods, journeying to the west, coming back with scriptures enchanted books and "losing" my first horse every time.

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🗡️🗡️🗡️

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Yeah! I am actually quite few Digimon: Garurumon, Sanzomon, Pajiramon and Kyubimon, just to name a few. I also see the Digital World as my hearthome

UNIQUE THERIANS/ALTERHUMANS CALL OUT POST !!!!!

Reblog/Comment with whatever your unique/niche theriotype or kintype is !!!

I wanna meet some new critters !!!

My unique one(s) are:

Slugcats + 2000's Webcore conceptkin !!!

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The word you are looking for is “selfish.” Not narcissist, not sociopath, selfish.

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I am Scolipede, is that close enough? /lh

Fellow bugkin wya, specifically where the FUCK are the fellow centipedes im dying out here in this ecosystem 💔🙏

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Tang Sanzang from Journey to the West (novel) is probably the most unique kintype I have, I would say pfft. There's also WereGarurumon (Digimon), Lady Bone Demon and Smoke Monster (Lego Monkie Kid).

From theriotypes that role goes to my giant anteater identity.

I am also "everything/nothingness" conceptkin which also affects my gender :000

UNIQUE THERIANS/ALTERHUMANS CALL OUT POST !!!!!

Reblog/Comment with whatever your unique/niche theriotype or kintype is !!!

I wanna meet some new critters !!!

My unique one(s) are:

Slugcats + 2000's Webcore conceptkin !!!

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Humans wanting to be humans and not anything non-human/fictional and being genuinely happy that way has always been so confusing for me, as I can't understand how someone can be satisfied as just a human?

I don’t think I have ever wanted to be a human and I still don’t view myself as a (non-fictional) human in any way. 

This is no hate towards otherkin/-links who still identify as humans in some way nor towards those who aren't otherkin/-links btw, I just find this interesting

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Do you think that there is any connection between your gender and alterhumanity or are they fully separate for you?

in need of some more community at the moment so please ask me anything alterhuman related!! comments, reblogs, asks, anything ^_^ /nf

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I honestly love saying “canonically”  when describing the body or a experience most/many of us share. It makes everything so much more fun to me for some reason.

“We are canonically queer”

Would that make alter specific things headcanons? /j

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What do you mean I am a Buddhist monk from a classic Chinese novel that came out during 16th century? (No, eating me is not going to give you immortality)

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Pleasure ≠ Sexual attraction

tw for sexual topics (just putting this here, if someone needs it)

Some people don’t seem to understand that there is difference between feeling pleasure from sexual acts and feeling sexual attraction. Like you all do realize that you can still feel pleasure even if you’re not attracted to the person or the thing giving you the pleasure, right?

I promise you that most people who use sex toys probably aren’t objectophiles and that people who use their own hand aren’t autosexuals or have hand fetishism.

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Getting the guy who didn't like musicals flashbacks

Sign at my local movie theater that feels like a desperate warning

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Recruit a Bastard to your Party.

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Question for polyminds

Okay so, I am aware that OSDID and polymind are different things. One is about distinct personality states caused by childhood trauma etc. you all hopefully know what OSDID is so I hopefully don’t have to explain it in more detail..and if you don’t, idk man google it. And polymindness means being able to distinguish subpersonalities? 

But here’s my question, how does polymindness differ from Internal Family System (IFS)?

IFS is a psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities within each person.  These subpersonalities are called family so that’s where there word family comes from in IFS btw, I am pretty sure

don't make this into sys discourse, idc. I'm DID system not IFS or polyminded, but this post isn't about OSDID

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Alterhuman is an umbrella term, not a synonym!

Nowadays, I see a lot of folks using alterhuman as a catch-all for not being human. While nonhumanity certainly falls within alterhumanity, alterhumanity does not exclusively refer to species nor is it synonymous with nonhuman identities (ex: therianthropy).

Alterhumanity includes but is not limited to:

Fictionfolk: An umbrella term that encompasses all individuals of fictional origin or hold a personal connection to fiction. This includes fictionkind, fictives, fictionhearted individuals, folks with fictional hearthomes, imagithropes, etc.

Otherhumans: Individuals whose species is human but not in context to humanity as we see it in its current state. Some examples include human fictionkind and archaeosapient early humans or neanderthals.

Heartedness: A broad experience in which an individual may not identify as someone or something, but has a deep, personal connection with that person, place, or thing. This includes folk who are otherhearted/otherkith/synpaths, talehearted folk, and folk who have hearthomes (fictional or not).

Archetropy: An identity in which one heavily identifies with or generally experiences an archetype, trope, or pre-established character model in a way that is central to their identity.

Plurality: The state of more than one person within a body. That said, not all who are plural may relate their plurality to alterhumanity.

Dæmonism: The practice of communicating with one's internal dæmon, a thoughtform stemming from one's subconscious. A dæmon is also given a sentient form, typically a nonhuman animal of sorts. Can be considered as a form of plurality but depends on the individual and their relationship to their dæmon(s).

Soulbonding: A practice in which an individual forms a personal bond or connection to a fictional character and communicates with them from their headspace or soulscape. Can be considered as a form of plurality but depends on the individual and their relationship to their soulbond(s).

Furry Lifestylers: A subset of the furry community whose position in the subculture carries into their daily life. Some members have described it as "furry as a way of life", in which being a furry is inseparable and intrinsic to oneself.

I have alterhuman terms of my own to take into account as well:

Archaeosapiens: Individuals whose alterhuman identity is intrinsically rooted in prehistory, antiquity or mythic accounts of history. Although I don’t use it for myself anymore, I can say as the person who coined it that species is not central to archaeosapience; it is the distinct connection to one’s time that’s central. Anyone of any species can be archaeosapient.

Ontoplanarity: In referral to ontoplanar, which describes individuals who originate from planes and realities outside of this Earth. While one could relate this term to alienkind and spacekind, ontoplanar focuses one’s own point of origin rather than one’s species. In that regard, anyone of any species can be ontoplanar.

There’s also human alterhumans who aren’t specifically otherhumans. The idea that humankind as we know it is completely alienated from alterhumanity is a misconception, likely tying into the assumption that “alterhumanity = nonhumanity”.

I originally discussed this in the Alterhuman (Tumblr) Community but I felt as though I should make this information publicly available, especially with how the term has been sifting around lately. I’m not the first to bring this up, far from it even. If anyone who’s learned something from this wants to know more, here’s some posts to check out:

The finalized coining of the term Alterhuman/AHPI (x)

Aster’s discussion on alterhuman as an umbrella, particularly its conflation with otherkin (x)

Rani’s discussion on umbrella terms in the community, addressing erasure in folks’ usage of both alterhuman and fictionfolk (x)

Rani’s explanation on the difference between nonhuman and alterhuman as terms (x)

A thread of terms and experiences that tie into the alterhuman community (x)

I understand being excited to find a community that speaks to you. We’ve all been there!

That said, inclusive language is important. Even more so when the terms we use were already inclusive to begin with.

I think the best example I’ve seen to address this phenomenon is Aster’s example referring to queer and its usage. Queerness is vast. It is not synonymous with one specific experience in the LGBTQ+ community. That much is understood online.

In the same vein, alterhumanity is just as vast. It is not synonymous with nonhumanity, be it therianthropy or otherwise. It can be alienating for your peers to see it centralized as that experience alone. Alterhumanity is an ocean of possibilities and perspectives that should be recognized alongside nonhumanity. I encourage folks to look at it in full, if not use terms that specifically highlight what you experience instead of framing alterhumanity as only that experience.