#polymorph kin

[theros]

when i'm a coyote, it's just me. feels natural, feels very much like myself.

coyote isn't quite a theriotype, i think. i may change my opinion on this in the coming years but in the last couple i've been fairly sure it's not a theriotype. but the feeling is incredibly similar in shifts, and was part of the driving force behind me mostly abandoning 'type differentiations (kintype vs. paratype, etc) and adopting more shapeshifter/polymorph-centric labels for myself.

the point is, in that form i am a coyote. the same way i am a kestrel or a bobcat whether shifted or not.

but i also have a wolf form. and that shift feels... i don't want to say unnatural, but certainly not typical to me. i know a lot of wolves. a lot of wolves. i've grown up with and around them, was raised by one, my partner is one, and many of my best friends are wolves. many of the people i follow or am mutuals with here in the tumblr alterhuman community are wolves. a lot of the people i know are or have been wolves at some point.

my best friend has made jokes about me being the sole fox/coyote in a big pack of wolves before, and he's right.

in fact, it feels like wolf was a form i adopted specifically to blend in with my wolf friends and family. it's a form i can take, and with practice it's become second nature to me. but in the beginning, it felt very much like i was trying to fit into a coat (or bodysuit?) that was entirely too big for me. it was a similar form to what i knew, sure, but it wasn't quite the same and the difference was hard to put a paw on.

in time it got easier and now wolf is as natural a form as coyote or kestrel. but even though i am whatever form i take, wolf still feels slightly different, in a much greater way than the coyote is slightly different. wolf feels more like a mask i sometimes put on to better fit in with the people around me. sure, i'm a wolf when wearing it, but only on the outside. as soon as the mask is off, the wolf is gone.

[shape-shiifter]

Personal moodboard for my shapeshifter revelations

[Credit to Clockbirds for top right image]

[angelicpawz]

Hiya! I was wondering if you could do a polymorphkin moodboard? Thank you!!! <33

[sirenium]

Imagine a massive dog approaches you and just fucking goes 'miaw :3'

[creature-of-the-forest]

picrew !

new shadow form(s?) just dropped

[mintmutationx3]

i don’t mind being called human like it doesn’t bother me but also. i’m not lol. idk WHAT i am probably never will but human aint it

[foggyfeathers]

What if... I started posting my alt-h themed art here... Is that something people are interested in?

Anyways woof woof

[littlebluegator]

I wish shapeshifters/polymorphs were more prevalent on social media or we formed more of a community. Most alterhumans, even those with multiple types, seem to have this core identity that I can only partly understand and empathize with. The plight of not having any 'common' kintypes, I guess ...

[two-facedgod]

quick note: having multiple forms is complex. it can be liberating. it can also be frustrating, maddening even. you just want to be "you" and that is always changing. sometimes the different pieces seem to directly oppose each other and it makes you crazy. i don't have any answers here. no advice. just tell yourself "i don't know everything about myself yet, and that's okay."

that's all i've got.

[onlyhalfdemon]

you don't actually need to know your kintype and what you look like down to the sliver of green in your left eye

it's nice to know. we all want to know ourselves and we want to know why we feel the way we do but

if you don't know

that's okay, too. i don't know. i've thought i was a thousand things. i have been angels and comic book villains and wolves and coyotes and antiheroes and vampires. i move on. i shed my skin.

i finally realized i don't know. and i'm trying not to let it claw at my flesh anymore.

[bizarreaizen]

as a shapeshifter/polymorph the way that i would transform is definitely like one of those magical girl transformations :3

[polymorphkin]

Anyone else feel like this, too?

Excuse whatever grammar form I’m going to use in this post for I am higher than a kite rn but I had an Experience(TM) and I needed to share while the memory was still fresh. So, imagine this:

Imagine you’re some kind of anthropologist out in the field researching a new civilization (for the purposes of this imagery, imagine a civilization much like our 2023 modern civilization, for this today and now). As part of this research, you are able to interact fully with this civilization as if you are apart of it. You can make any relationships you want, make decisions you want to make, generally just live a life among these people as if you were one of these people. However, despite how integrated you are in this life-- no matter how much or how little you want to be this life, how close or how distant your attachment is to this life, to these people around you-- you never feel as if you are truly a member of this civilization simply because they are not like you. You share every physical similarity, you share the same society, you live day in and day out as a member of this civilization, you know that you are not like them on a fundamental level. You are an anthropologist, a member of a different people, an outside element, so no matter how much you are like them, no matter how much you want to be like them, you are not them. 

That’s how I’ve felt my entire life. Let it be my alterhuman-ness or my autism or my trans-ness who knows, but I feel like this is an experience others might be feeling, too. 

[our-otherkin-experience]

It's interesting there was a recent ask about polykins vs. polymorphs vs. shapeshifters- I realized a little over week ago that I'm probably a polymorph, and I've been debating making a sideblog to share my reflections on it and be able to test it out more as an identity. I'm just kind of hesitant because even though I've questioned if I were some kind of otherkin for at least a year (if not my whole life), I... also know it might be a good idea to give myself a little more time to question and be sure it feels right before I start talking about it too much. that being said, I've done a lot of research on it this past week, so maybe I can help out the person who asked about definitions? "Polykin" just means having more than one kintype. The generally-used differences between "polymorph" and "shapeshifter" are a lot hazier, but the core is that shapeshifters usually have base forms and a finite number of shapes, while polymorphs don't really have set base forms (except maybe like energy or goop) and don't have much limit on what they turn into. I've also seen the idea that shapeshifters tend to have more control of their forms than polymorphs. So for example a fairy that can turn into various woodland critters might be more of a shapeshifter, while a shadow-being that takes on whatever shape best fits its surroundings is likely more of a polymorph. Honestly I suspect there are a lot more shapeshifting/polymorphing experiences than those, and a lot of grey area between (which is where I think I fall), but I've not seen much writing exploring that idea unfortunately

Fascinating!! Man I love learning ^~^

[sirenium]

I know which kin is strongest when I get a bout of species dysphoria surrounding that kin

The polymorphism has retaken the wheel, y'all

[auntbibby]

[nightwingemerald]

Intro Post

Hello there. I've made posts on here before, I just decided to delete them and wanted to make a fresh start for myself. So uh.. hi, I'm Emerald, or Soren. To put it simply, I'm a polymorph with a lot of kintypes (most of which are tied to my intersts) and also a median system. I have a lot of identities that I personally take very seriously, and I change quite often. My interests involve birds (especially owls), music, Pokemon, Sonic, Wings of Fire, and rhythm games like Rock Band and Clone Hero. Not sure what else to say here. Maybe someday someone will stick around and listen to my story. It's an odd one and still in development, but it might be worth sharing.