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Sir you and I would do numbers on AO3

The curse of being a character that doesn't exist at all in the source material but was best buds with the protagonist is knowing that, if you had been canon, there would be so much goddamn fanfiction about you falling in love in cafes.

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And for us it would've been 99% scalie x furry freak shit so I seriously missed out. It's criminal.

The curse of being a character that doesn't exist at all in the source material but was best buds with the protagonist is knowing that, if you had been canon, there would be so much goddamn fanfiction about you falling in love in cafes.

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The curse of being a character that doesn't exist at all in the source material but was best buds with the protagonist is knowing that, if you had been canon, there would be so much goddamn fanfiction about you falling in love in cafes.

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Had a very mundane nap dream about an alternate reality me, who had an alter of a king cheetah with a red mohawk (awesome actually, I hope they're real and living deliciously).

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Natural double-terminated Peridot crystal from Mansehra, Pakistan.

Photo: Star_minerals_collection

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Robert Gruszecki

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The funny thing about being a fictive of something "cringe" is that people only really seem to care online. And then they act like you being open online means you're only ever open online because you're actually secretly totally embarrassed by it and would never share it with anyone IRL.

We've seen people be told "you'd never tell your family about this lol cringe", "you'd never say this shit IRL"... but like... We did? It's fine? It wouldn't be safe for everyone and being out IRL should never be an indication of if you're real or not, but we're. Literally doing the things antis say never happens. Being plural and fictionfolk isn't just an online phenomenon.

IRL, our physical sister knows. All our friends know. Several previous friends know. They see me come to front and they go "it's the damn Bakugo, hi Shrapnel" because they know my voice and my mannerisms enough to tell me apart from the rest. It's normal. It's not something we gawk at or something extravagant. It's just another fact of our life the same as us being queer or using a walking stick. It's not a huge focal point because it's just who we are and who I am. So why wouldn't we share that with those we love? It's an integral part of my identity but it's not something to be held like a terrible secret.

And we know other fictionfolk IRL too! Ones we didn't even meet online first, we just come across each other because if I'm open about my identity, others who are less open will have a reason to talk about their identity. Somewhere they know they'll be safe and someone they know will back them up if issues arise. There's alterhumanity everywhere around you, alterhumans just tend to not share or be open unless someone else does it first or they know it's safe. That's why you "don't see this shit IRL". But it's very much an IRL thing that affects people's whole lives while also being as normal and casual as any other part of someones identity that they don't need to parade around all the time. You don't know if people you pass on the street are any type of alterhuman, fictionfolk or plural the same way you don't know if they're queer. And you won't ever know who is alterhuman in your area if you're not safe for those people to be out around.

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M57: The Ring Nebula

Credits: HubbleHeritage Team, STScI, AURA, NASA

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i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

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May not work for you, but I find the better answer is that there is no point. You have the freedom to make your own point. You decide what matters to you. It's normal to want an answer, but the reality is that no one and nothing is going to hand you one. Anyone who tries to is selling you something.

The world is anything but mundane, but it is filled with mundane moments. Every morning I wash my face, every evening I wash laundry by hand, I have to buy toilet paper and eat meals, and I have to clean dust off the counter even though I just cleaned it last week! What the heck! But all of that stuff is just the framework. You fill the rest of the time with what matters to you. When I'm cleaning I can listen to podcasts about literally whatever I want and learn forever, and having to eat meals every day means I can share them with my friend sometimes. Also big agree, artists are great, so part of why I work a full time job is so I can buy art from them and support their work. The boring stuff has a purpose, it can just be hard to see from so close. You gotta zoom out a little.

And you might just need some enrichment. If you have the means, go somewhere different. Doesn't even have to be a big trip, just walking in an unfamiliar part of town can be stimulating. If you're dealing with depression, it's scarily easy for it to convince you that everything is just a worthless haze.

Feel like im faking/pretending but ive already ignored the kin side of myself and i think it just made me worse off. Why am i here? Whats the point? Why does the world move so slowly

what is the point really? Just to experience? To be a dandelion in the sterile world? The world really cant be this mundane, i must be missing something.

the world isnt that bad i guess. The people here are nice and funny, and the artists are great.

Why isnt what i have enough? I dont want to want anything anymore.

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This random ass picture made me think about Ichigo and his Inuyasha part - idk what else to call it; kintype? subsystem person? damn almost like he made a whole word for that lol - and how purposefully he leans away from any canine aesthetics or affinity. It just ain't there! He has nothing against dogs, but it's so overdone online I think he's developed a hipster aversion to it. \o/ But more sincerely, I wonder if it just doesn't mesh well with being a big cat. Is anyone else both things? Kinda curious now.

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KFF are so good at being wrong in so many ways, I think we should give them an award?

Here's a new one: I saw someone who uses "otherkin" as the broader term for therian, otherkin, otherhearted, otherlink, and similar identities. That's not so bad but they claim they've created a "non-therian otherkin server" and said that they use otherkin to mean "anyone who kins anything."

I don't even know how to start deconstructing this one.

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Many tropical islands to pick from, but I'd only move to one that has AC. Sweat glands are my nemesis.

do you live in or want to move to a place (country, province, etc) where your kintype lives? yes, i live in a place where my kintype lives yes, i do not live in but want to move to a place where my kintype lives no, i do not live in a place where my kintype lives and do not want to move to such places

do you live where your kintype lives ?

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It happens. It doesn't help that these communities are more accurately collections of friend groups who happen to share labels, some being pretty insular. I end up blocking a lot of the people I see in these tags because they're just... not my kind of people, I know we wouldn't get along or have anything meaningful to exchange, they straight up irritate me, whatever really.

Tumblr and social media in general really did a number on all of us, and I still kind of regret it. It changed things that maybe shouldn't have been, at the same time allowing us to meet people we wouldn't have otherwise. You just gotta find the people you click with and not worry too much about what the rest are doing.

Are any other adult (especially like, 28-30+ year old) nonhumans/alterhumans really starting to feel like they don't have a space in, don't belong in, or don't want to be in therian spaces anymore? It just seems like its something else entirely now, focused on different things, caring about different things.

Therian was the first term I discovered back when I got on the internet as a kid and realized others were like me, and I've used the label for decades; but lately I've really started to drift away from it. I do think some of that is internal identity shifts, but... its also definitely that when I look at therian spaces, I feel like a complete outsider and borderline intruder anymore.

This isn't a complaining post, and I'm aware of the adage "post more of what you want to see"; I'm just asking if anyone else feels this way, not attempting a call to action or somesuch

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Tree lovers check it out! It's a bazillion degrees and this one gives no fucks.

The biggest tree we saw. Funny how life figures it out.

The roots on this guy must be ridiculous.

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Me and the bro arrived at this motel, and it's so fucken cute.