#ALTERHUMANITY

[vixdesl]

we love our "cringe" pronouns

we love our "weird" identities

I love our "awkward" behavior

we love our "unnecessary" disability aids

I love our "crazy" style

and the "annoying" stims we do

we love us and no one can change that no matter what they think is "weird" or "wrong" with us

Stop apologizing for who you are

and start celebrating it!! 🎊

[not-really-all-that-human]

You know actually I think the worst thing about being nonhuman is that people just don't take it seriously. If I were to tell someone about my non-human identity they just think I'm joking or would think I'm crazy and that fucking sucks that something so important to my identity has to be ignored for me to be taken seriously

[cityan1mal]

Saw some young Therians at a furry event today. Masks and all. I have my old man complaints about how the youth treat the community but man was it nice to see others exist. Even if they're twelve And I am a taxpayer.

[wolfislost]

Life as a Disabled Alterhuman

Let's talk about being alterhuman without being able bodied.

If you've never met me before, i'm a werewolf. I use the label of psychological otherkin, but nowdays I mostly just say alterhuman.

A lot of individuals in the community can relate to wanting to spend time in their natural ecosystem or habitat. Some of them don't live in a country where that habitat even exists.

Conceptually, I'm lucky. I'm surrounded by nature reserves that are an hour away at most. Some are much closer.

Every part of me wants to be out there, in the trees and bushes and soil, every week. I'm sure some of us ARE out there every week based on some of the responses I've gotten on my posts.

I can't be.

I'm chronically ill. Partly from birth, partly acquired later in life. My mobility is limited by my threshold for suffering. The more I move, the more i'll have to pay for it later. And those debts don't have an upper limit.

I would love to prioritise letting my animal out more, being in nature more, travelling more. Hell- even running. But not only would doing that wreck me over and over again, it would make it impossible for me to meet the demands and responsibilities of my human life.

As a werewolf, there's an internal pull towards more feral behaviour and imagery. But my chronic illness requires constant upkeep, constant maintenance. My wellbeing depends on frequent visits to professionals.

I've always dreamed of running off to a cabin in the woods. I'm sure many of you have. But it's patently impossible for someone like me, who relies so heavily on human healthcare to survive.

The truth is I wouldn't be able to function without humans to look after me. And I have responsibilities that come before my desires for freedom.

None of this stuff makes me any less of an alterhuman. Makes me any less of a werewolf. All of these smaller restrictions do add up to a certain kind of distance from the "ideal alterhuman" perhaps. But my identity has always been, and will always be, an internal thing for me.

I'm not a werewolf IN SPITE of being disabled.

I'm a werewolf who IS ALSO disabled.

[thecovenofcrows]

notes challenge

25: we’ll write a new chapter of our fic as soon as we get home

75: we’ll move out the cedar chest from our room

150: we’ll post more

165: we’ll post about alterhumanity more

190: well post about plurality more.

235: we'll come out to our friends from our old school about our plurality (they already know abt the alterhumanity)

256: we use discord more

340: we’ll research more for Ves’s alter space

400: we'll find a new place for Ves's hoard.

495: we’ll work on the alter space

548: we'll read more physical books

670: we work on actually befriending other plurals

700: We'll work on our sleep schedule

730: We'll begin working out every day.

777: We'll make an intro post

808: We'll change the number on this post to ones that make sense.\

860: We'll sew something new! (well Ves and Nikki will)

900: I'll learn how to bake again! - Nikki

945: we'll clean up our room.

980: we'll each coin a gender!

1000: we'll each make a userbox!

1080: we'll each make userboxes for the genders.

1160: we'll rollerblade more.

1200: we'll ask for help when we don't understand something.

1350: we'll link our ao3 acc so y'all can read our fics.

1476: we'll try to make online friends who know we're plural.

1600: we'll try to make irl friends who know we're plural.

1700: Ves will tell our friends from our old school abt their delusions.

1780: We'll work on labeling our genders.

1920: We'll start a notebook-only story (written only on a ntbk)

2010: We'll change the amount of reqs available at a time too 15 (3/10 slots filled)

2300: We'll research proper diet

2400: We'll try to start to eat icky-texture foods (for context that includes most things that’d be considered healthy)

2600: We'll try to do insys group therapy (idc what you say Nikki- just bc you were a child soldier at 17 doesn't make you not a child soldier, same for you Luka!)

2750: We'll make a list of the activities we want to do and make a schedule for them!

(No more than 10 notes per person, no you can't just letter off number in the comments/reblogs, you have to actually write smth)

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Green Text = Notes reached, complete.

Blue Text = notes not reached, complete due to stressful circumstance.

Purple Text = notes not reached, complete due to non-stressful circumstance.

[rareblackcat]

I think identifying as nonhuman or alterhuman because you're feral or animalistic is valid. Not everything needs to be about being another thing. Sometimes you're just a feral wild being.

[therian-and-nonhuman-polls]

do you/would you eat your kintype?

[wildcardsystem]

I hath been well behaved today and did not think about biting the mean customers even once

I should get a treat, like a bag of delicious garlic bread

[stones-enjoyer]

Saw yall at the store today

[alterhumanblog]

Hihihihi! I really hope this isn't rude, or insensitive, but what is the difference between therian and alterhuman?

A therian is someone who is or identifies as an animal on any level (spiritual, psychological, physical, ect), & alterhuman is (usually) an umbrella term for just anyone who doesn't identify as a human (either fully, or partially)!

And don't worry Abt being rudee, I'm always happy to answer questions! :D

[not-really-all-that-human]

Why are you nonhuman? wrong answers only.

[shiftingwithmars]

Tbh I think I get therians now. I don’t wanna identify with humans either💀

[poplarbark]

domestic passivity

[rareblackcat]

Fuck it

I put my gear in my bookbag and put it on when I got out my first music class. Walked around the city and nothing bad happened. I put my stuff in my back and put it on after my first music class. Walked around the city during my breaks. Noticed barley any looks.

[raventhewolf9]

Something that I really really want in life:

A partner (romantic or platonic) who accepts me as a cat and pets me when I want to be petted

Like.... getting petted feels so good but nobody will pet me and I'm scared to ask them to because even if they know I'm a cat they might think it's weird :(

Is this a normal alter/nonhuman thing or am I an outlier here

[therian-and-nonhuman-polls]

Do you consider yourself to be an obscure thing ((like an obscure media, rare animal, ect))