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:33 < NEPETA KiNSONA ! ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)

I haven't drawn and rendered properly in a while but i'm very proud nonetheless (╥ ω ╥)

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11, 15, and 40 :3 hi kk <3

hi dave <3 <3 <3

11. Do you experience any shifts (mental, phantom, dream, etc) of your fictional identity? Share a bit about those and how they feel!

i experience mental shifts and phantom shifts! oftentimes i will start to process information the same way as my fictotype, which causes me to act more like them in response. being karkat, i will often get more irritable. my phantom shifts as of recent have been my horns. they really feel like theyre there and i often reach up to grab onto them. its very weird.

15. Do you have a favourite piece of fanart/fanfic/etc that ties into your identity? Share it (with credit)!

umm i think i do but i cant remember it !! i'll try to remember it tomorrow and share it with everyone :) i do often enjoy fanworks though that portray the shit my fictional counterpart went through, as its very similar to what i went through and often times he gets depicted as the guy comforting everyone else rather than his own pain being properly acknowledged and cared for by fandom.

40. Is there anything you'd like to share toward fictionfolk who may just be starting to look into the community?

(fictionkin-specific answer, as i believe i can provide the best advice in that regard.) research is really beautiful and true. learn about the history of the community and look around and see what other people are doing. many people are willing to help you out. you might be wrong at first and thats okay, the first character i ever kinfirmed i ended up dropping later because i realized i was wrong, but i obviously wasnt wrong about being fictionkind.

also, learn how to have a healthy balance with your relationship with being fictionkind. obviously being fictionkind can be a hard and miserable thing, but if its getting too terrible for you you need to reconsider your relationship with your identity. there are htings that are out of our control and our response to what is out of our control is important. its hard to explain, but yeah. i want the people in this community to live happy lives. im not saying "never feel sad" because. lol no. i just mean like, you really *can* have unhealthy relationship with your own identity. its important you can recognize it. you can still be fictionkind and be your fictotype while having a healthier relationship with how you engage in the subject. you can still have negative emotions about your past, things you remember, being sad you aren't similar, etc. but at a certain point it can get destructive. take care of yourself.

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haaaaaai i saw u rb an ask game so !! questions 2 4 27 37 41 for that :Dc - @demonictragedy

thank you for asking !! ^_^

2. If you have multiple [fictotypes], do you have one you're closer to than the others, or is more important to your identity overall?

Absolutely! It's always been this way for me. Fresh (UTMV) was the most important to my identity overall for a long time, and was very important as i developed as a kid, but the past few years my existence as Karkat has become more and more important. It was very weird recently for me to realize that Fresh was no longer a "top fictotype" of mine recently.

But, yeah, I'd say Karkat is the one I am currently closest to, fictotype wise. It will probably remain this way for a very, very long time.

4. What's your favourite part about being fictionfolk?

On an individual level? I suppose the support being Fictionfolk gave me growing up. I was able to lean on these fictotypes and their fictional portrayals growing up and having a really hard time with my identity and being a person. Now, though, I've been in the space where I can actually properly carve out my own identity. I'm very serious about being otherkind, but it's also nice not to center my own identity around my other lives sometimes. What about this life?

27. Do you have any fictional hearthomes? What are your favourite things about them?

I've never really considered this until you asked!! I suppose the only thing I can think of is the Townhouse Dave & I live in in our parallel life on Earth C, but I don't remember too many specifics. It just feels nice. I love snowball fights in the front yard and the crows that constantly surround our house.

37. Does your identity intersect with your gender in any way? Share a bit about that!

Being fictionkin did allow me to safely experiment with using he/him pronouns for the first time. On an identity level though, for a long time I didnt percieve my gender through a human lense but rather the lense of a parasite, as Fresh is a parasite. As of recently though, I don't specify it as such. I suppose to call my gender human though feels wrong, but it isnt inherently nonhuman too. I reblogged a post recently that talked about being Speciesqueer, so I suppose I view my gender through a speciesqueer lense. I wouldn't credit my identity as being Androgyne to my kintypes, though, just my understanding of it.

41. Free space! Share anything about your identity/ies that you'd like to!

I love being myself (:B

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Fictionfolk Experiences Ask Game

Yeah, you. Fictionkin, fictive, fictionhearted, fictionlinker, fictionflicker--whatever else you may be in the tags. I wanna get some potentially positivity and experience sharing going because there's some Stuff that isn't great in the tags right now but ALSO I think fictionfolk as a whole (and not just identify-as fictionfolk but yes those too) deserve a nice little platform to share their experiences. So, use this ask game. Or just reblog and answer the questions. Or post the answers yourself. Be free.

1. What's your fictional identity (hearttype, kintype, etc)?

2. If you have multiple, do you have one you're closer to than the others, or is more important to your identity overall?

3. How many fictional identities do you have?

4. What's your favourite part about being fictionfolk?

5. What's a positivie interaction that's happened as a result of your fictional identity?

6. Have you told any people in your offline life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction?

7. Have you told any people in your online life about your fictional identity and gotten a positive reaction?

8. Is there anyone you've met as a result of your interactions in the community who's very important to you now?

9. What's your favourite thing about the fictionfolk community?

10. Tell us about a time you've experienced species/identity euphoria as a result of one of your fictional identities.

11. Do you experience any shifts (mental, phantom, dream, etc) of your fictional identity? Share a bit about those and how they feel!

12. Do you have any canonmates (if applicable)?

13. Do you have any sourcemates (if applicable)?

14. Do you wish to seek out canonmates/sourcemates? Why/why not?

15. Do you have a favourite piece of fanart/fanfic/etc that ties into your identity? Share it (with credit)!

16. Do you have any art/fic/etc specifically made for you as a fictionfolk of your specific identity (made by yourself or someone else)? Share it!

17. Does your fictional identity differ from source in any way/is it canon divergent? Explain a bit about that!

18. Are there aspects of your fictional identity that you previously questioned, decided weren't a part of your identity, but you still look fondly upon? (Past 'types, etc).

19. Do you have any spiritual identities? Explain a bit about that!

20. Do you have any psychological identies? Explain a bit about that!

21. How old were you when you discovered/chose your first fictional identity?

22. Did you ever take a break from the community, but came back later? What made you come back?

23. Have you ever considered fictionlinking? If you already have, what made you decide to do it?

24. If you decided to 'link a fictional character, who would it be and why?

25. If you decided to 'link a fictional species, what would it be and why?

26. Have you ever questioned being fictionhearted? If you already are, what started your questioning into that connection?

27. Do you have any fictional hearthomes? What are your favourite things about them?

28. Have you ever questioned being a fictionbased archetrope? If you already are, what's your archetropal identity?

29. Have you ever questioned being fictionkin? If you already are, what started your discovery of that connection?

30. Have you ever had a fictotype turn out to be a fictionflicker or vice versa? What was that like?

31. Do you have any fictionflickers? What are they, and how do they make you feel?

32. If you're a system, do you have any collective fictional identities?

33. If you're a system, how many fictional identities do you have across all of your headmates?

34. Do you have any soulbonds from a fictional source? Share a bit about that!

35. Do you have any memories/noemata around your fictional identity? Share some if you'd like!

36. If you do have memories/noemata, what's your favourite?

37. Does your identity intersect with your gender in any way? Share a bit about that!

38. Does your identity intersect with your sexuality in any way? Share a bit about that!

39. Is there anything you'd have loved to hear back when you were first questioning your identity?

40. Is there anything you'd like to share toward fictionfolk who may just be starting to look into the community?

41. Free space! Share anything about your identity/ies that you'd like to!

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at this point i wish people would just be openly anti-fictionkin rather than dumbing it down for their own comfort and happiness. dont call yourself a "kinnie" then turn around and think im psychotic or imaginative because i have memories and i miss people and i have a canonmate. lmfao.

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are there any other angels (or, really, anyone with something to remember can respond to this post) who don't care to remember what it was like for them before?

i remember many things about my time in heaven, and frankly it does me no good to dwell on it. i used to try to remember all i could about my time up there, but it unironically made my mental state worse and worse. i eventually decided to distance myself from my time up there, as clearly its not something that i gain any benefit from remembering other than the pleasure of having knowledge. its traumatic, to say the least, and has very little impact on the life i lead now. hell, i can't even remember my old name, but i really don't care. i was given a new name 18 years ago and im quite fond of it.

often times i see posts from others with memories about wishing for more and more, and i feel that with another one of my kintypes, but as for my existence as an angel i will be happy if i never remember anything else about it ever.

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Speciesqueer: A Consideration.

Speciesqueer as a term first appears in a 2011 thesis paper, The Werewolf Pride Movement: A Step Back from Queer Medieval Tradition by Caitlin B. Giacopasi, It surfaces in reference to the werewolf body – “not man or wolf, but both and neither”. It also subtly functions in it’s paralleling of speciesqueer and genderqueer to mark the werewolf body as a trans body. Taking it from its academic origins, speciesqueer can be expanded to apply to any alterhuman/nonhuman body as simultaneously both and neither. When alterhumanity/nonhumanity experiences tie in explicitly to the perception of the self as an animal like any other, speciesqueer becomes a wonderfully varied and expressive term.

It can function as a way to affirm a human is an animal and not an Animal at the same time - depending on where people draw the line. For the speciesqueer therian, the body is as much of an animal and creature as a wolf in the woods. The human animal / nonhuman animal distinction as a blurry one is a subject that could have a piece all of its own, but nonetheless speciesqueer can seek to blur those lines further and serve as affirmation for the alterhuman/nonhuman. Not the right kind of animal body – but an animal body regardless.

Another term that surfaced in alterhuman/nonhuman spaces is trans species. Both speciesqueer & trans species signify a departure from categorising the body as solely human, though speciesqueer appears to leave a lot more ambiguity and openness to negotiate what that means, especially in terms of timelines and experience with alter/nonhumanity. Transspecies appears to be more fixed, more akin to a transition from a to b, with a specific ‘type at one end and you on the other moving towards it, though in looking for posts on the subject there are more posts on discourses than not. Speciesqueer expects no specific, fixed ‘type on the other end, or indeed an other end at all. 

Is speciesqueer a choice or an inherent identity? I veer towards a choice: alterhumanity/nonhumanity is regularly inherent, speciesqueer is an additional experience and a statement of intent: to blur lines and find solace in a body in the lurch. My therian body is permanently in between, forever both and neither. Seeking fulfilment and wholeness, and already fulfilled and whole. A little piece I wrote back in 2022, never posted, and reworked recently.

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miss sollux so fucking much T_T

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I really wish the therian and otherkin communities would stop doing the thing where every time somebody mentions they enjoy petplay, they have to surround it with the caveat that "But I don't do it for sexual reasons! It's not sexual, it is because it is species affirming! I promise I am not one of those gross, people who like sexual petplay!"

If you are an adult who engages in petplay, and you want to talk about petplay, just say you enjoy it without trying to cover your ass and clarify that "it's not sexual though!" - While I don't think it is intentional, doing this implies that sexual petplay is gross or morally wrong, that enjoying sex and engaging with sexual things that involve our nonhumanity is somehow not acceptable. It creates a divide between "petplay that is nonsexual and acceptable" and "petplay that is sexual and sinful." This does nothing but create further bias and prejudice against sexual petplayers within the community.

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very interested in knowing if any other folks formed a psychological theriotype due to ocd. i absolutely believe my canine theriotype is atleast partially due to unrecognized ocd throughout most of my life.

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hskci grabbing your (phantom) horns out of frustration while at work

homestuck kin culture is!

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i wanna fold clothes for youuuuuuu

hey man

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curling up next to ya

hi kitty

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while i do appreciate non-'kin and non-therian trying to make positive posts about/that include us, it rubs me such the wrong way when it ends up just being a "its okay to do this childish thing" like. from posts that are like "let teenagers be teenagers" to "its okay if you're an adult but do this."

and like, im not confusing posts that are trying to say "this is not something that is childish even though it is sometimes viewed as such, keep doing your thing." i mean that there are posts out there trying to be positive posts and end up further adding to the idea/concept that our identity is a weird, childish thing. i understand the point is to say these things are okay, and i do seriously appreciate people outside of our communities trying to support us, but i wish people would be a little more mindful about how they go about it. like, yes, do encourage people to do what they want, including things that are often seen as childish behavior, but dont try to continue to add to the idea that theriantrophy, otherkindity, fictionkinity, etc. is "childish but okay." its not childish, period.

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june egbert stimboard with themes of storms, piano, sailing, & the ocean.

we miss you june. no clue what the hell was up with your gender but you certainly weren't cis so i'll just default to june in public. rather be safe than sorry.

this was also a test in editing gifs! think i'll try to use colorings more often in my future endeavors when i have the patience.

feel free to tag as kin/me/id i suppose. if this feels super familiar feel free to reach out.

psd. x | x | x x | x | x x | x | x

~ mod kk | discord server

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tldr: stop infantilizing us. theres fictionkin paying mortgages and therians with children. we aren't just people playing pretend. the term "otherkind" first appeared in 1990. the origins of the otherkind community goes back to 1975 with The Silver Elves, a group of elvenkind. Therianthropy, as in the way the modern community uses it, was first coined in 1994. this isnt just some modern internet trend. there are many places out there where you can learn about our history. stop seeing us as just some hardcore roleplayers or furries or whatever. thanks.

while i do appreciate non-'kin and non-therian trying to make positive posts about/that include us, it rubs me such the wrong way when it ends up just being a "its okay to do this childish thing" like. from posts that are like "let teenagers be teenagers" to "its okay if you're an adult but do this."

and like, im not confusing posts that are trying to say "this is not something that is childish even though it is sometimes viewed as such, keep doing your thing." i mean that there are posts out there trying to be positive posts and end up further adding to the idea/concept that our identity is a weird, childish thing. i understand the point is to say these things are okay, and i do seriously appreciate people outside of our communities trying to support us, but i wish people would be a little more mindful about how they go about it. like, yes, do encourage people to do what they want, including things that are often seen as childish behavior, but dont try to continue to add to the idea that theriantrophy, otherkindity, fictionkinity, etc. is "childish but okay." its not childish, period.

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shoutout to the canine a long time ago who made a post about how much more euphoric it is to grow out your natural nails as claws instead of relying on acrylic nails. it made me so dysphoric to sand down my natural nails for acrylics and the realization like, i can just have the claws i want naturally it just takes time and effort and patience, has been great for me and my nail care.