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fromfiction · 2 days
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One of the strangest experiences is realizing in hindsight that the weird memories you were having were related to a source material canon that hadn't been created yet at the time you were remembering details of your life from it.
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interstellarsystem · 3 days
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Nonhumanity Induced Gender Euphoria
Having nonhuman features as a trans person can be so gender affirming, even if complicated in my case. I might be in an AFAB human body, but I'm clearly a male cardinal because my feathers are bright red in headspace. This might not apply to all trans nonhumans of course, but I'm talking about personal experience here.
See, I'm a multifictive of two characters. One is an (arguably non)human-esque guy (Hunter), another is a little red cardinal (Flapjack). I'm in a way, a fusion of both, while having memories of being both separately as well. Not canon to my source, but we became one in our memories.
From my memories of me being Hunter, I was transmasc. I wasn't born as a guy, so I did my best to transition. Complications of circumstances aside, I presented as masculine and overall it was okay. Dysphoria was a bitch but I was managing as best I could with all the other stressors going on in my life.
As Flapjack, I was male and cis. While I was just a bird, I was a magic bird, and one with a different level of thinking and capabilities. I didn't question my gender at all, I was comfortable. I don't think I paid much mind to Hunter's either, if I even knew back then that he/I was not cis.
After we became one person in source... Well, I kept my humanoid form but grew red feathers all over my body, as well as claws, a tail and wings too. My humanoid gender features that I had already didn't change, but I gained the distinctive red feathers of a male cardinal. While that might have made my biological gender more complex, it made me as a whole feel euphoria anyway.
I still feel it here too. Even if I have the same body in headspace and even if my physical body is AFAB again, I still have my red feathers inside. I don't identify wholly as a man and am more xenogender than anything, but I enjoy feeling more masculine and being able to present that way.
I'm not the only one who feels gender euphoria from their kintypes/other nonhuman identities though. It's not the most common thing within our system but it's something we experience enough that it does impact us and how we feel.
A lot of people who have antlers feel validated in their masculine identity, for one big example. Obviously antlers meaning a thing is male depends on the species but for the purpose of feeling euphoria, it doesn't matter too much if you're not sure if you even fit any earthen species.
Some of us feel more validated by being spikier or fluffier or having certain colours or patterns. Things that aren't really applicable to human concepts of gender. Being nonhuman for some people means that they have many more ways to express their gender, and I think that's wonderful.
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bizarreaizen · 3 months
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i honestly love otherkins so much ^-^, like you're hatsune miku? that's literally so cool >w<, oh you're a cat angel fox hybrid? that's so cool :0, you're a glittery pen? that's awesome *(^o^)/*
i genuinely love our community, express yourself, be who you are, be free, be cringe, have fun, life is short so enjoy it how you want (*^^*)//
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cutthroat-crimson · 9 months
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Just a reminder that if your pfp is a character or some kind of animal, That is now my mental image of you
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karak9 · 11 months
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screw therian gatekeepers I’m proud to be a silly little dog who dresses weird and has too many kintypes and barks to communicate with my partner. haters can stay mad I experience joy and wonder and love my identity and don’t feel the need to prove my experiences are real in a 10 paragraph long essay about why I consider myself nonhuman. I’m so happy there are kids on tiktok who feel comfortable enough to post videos of them running around on all fours to share with their friends or make friends with other young therians. I’m happy I see the theta delta in twitter bios so often and that more people are unapologetically their weird selves and have a community where they feel comfortable actually being themselves and expressing that without any internalized self hatred or strictness about how you’re allowed to identify or how you’re allowed to treat your identity. I’m glad everyone is different and some people can enjoy writing essays about their alterhumanity without looking down on the people who don’t. I’m glad there are nonhumans who aren’t comfortable wearing kin gear but don’t put down the people who dress obviously kin on the daily and it affects every aspect of them as people. I’m glad we’re growing out of elitism and that bitchy gatekeepers are leaving the community because “”therianthropy isn’t what it used to be””. fuck you, we didn’t want your grumpy boomer ass here anyway. we don’t have space for toxicity and self hatred anymore.
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aestherians · 4 months
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Something very powerful about deciding that your identity is psychological in origin. No gods, no masters, I decide why I am the way I am, I am the author of my own narrative. I am my own creator.
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alterhuman-culture-is · 3 months
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fictionkin culture is :
born to refer to yourself as yourself
forced to refer to yourself in 3rd person
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counterfictional · 2 months
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Journal of Being: an alterhuman zine CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
An upcoming zine with a focus on sharing alterhuman experiences through personal essays. It is open to all nonhuman, otherkin, therian, fictionkin, etc. If you're wondering if your experiences count, the answer is yes and we'd love to hear them!
While submissions are expected to be personal essays, you do not have to worry about following specific essay presentation. This is not an English class.
The submission deadline is October 1st, 2024, while the zine is slated to be published around January 1st, 2025. The completed zine will be uploaded to itch.io for free.
Essay Guidelines
Submissions cannot be NSFW/R-18.
Font must be New Times Roman or similar. Font size must be 16pt, and essay must be double spaced.
Minimum word count is 500. Maximum is 8,000.
You may send up to 3 essays per individual; system members are counted as individuals and can sent up to 3 each.
Please upload your essays as .docx file.
Submission Guidelines
Send your completed essay to [email protected] with the following in the body of the email:
Name of author
Personal website or social media to be linked with the author's name when listing off contributors (optional)
Title of essay
Word count
Any content warning
Anything else you'd like added
If you see any mistakes or anything you think should be added, please feel free to tell me! This is my first time organizing anything :-)
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dinocanid · 6 months
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If you have multiple 'types, it's not always a requirement to experience all of them equally. It took me a while to unpack that I wasn't quote-unquote ""abandoning"" any types by not putting the same amount of attention into them as the other ones.
I'm still my other kintypes, but being Beastpup gives me the most species euphoria so ofc I embrace that the most as much as I can.
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:33 < gonna be honest and straight up. yall need to tag your gore.
B33 < ive seen therians post really gorey photos or photos with blood and NO trigger warning and its genuinely not ok. alterhumans, we need to gore and blood.
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fromfiction · 4 months
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If you, my fictionkin and otherkin and therian etc, friends, are ever sitting around, fretting and worrying that maybe everyone secretly feels like you do--
--that everyone's dissatisfied with being human. That it's perfectly normal to feel like your body should look like something else that it does.
I give you evidence that no. No that's not the case. Not everybody feels like that.
Most people do not chose to have horns, weird colored skin, or be a dragon.
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interstellarsystem · 12 hours
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Prompted by common themes we see with nonhumisia and alterhumisia.
(Alterhumans who are alterhuman because of their psychosis are NOT less real, this is about our experience, do not be ableist on this post.)
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espeonkin · 9 months
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fictionkin culture is thinking "hmm am i being impacted by this piece of media a normal amount or do we have a problem on our hands"
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bizarreaizen · 1 month
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it's so bizarre seeing people say that a fictional character is so them but when someone says that they're that fictional character suddenly it's so wrong.
like when people say they "kin" a character but when we are talking about otherKIN suddenly it's weird.
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cutthroat-crimson · 4 months
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Sometimes I feel like fictionkind are like a completely different community from the more well known otherkin and therians that are often viewed as more serious
I’m a dumb silly guy but my identity shouldn’t be painted in the same way. It’s like I have to act all stoic and contribute something to the group if I want my fictionhood to be taken seriously
My identity is alterhuman and I hate that I have to fight tooth and nail for that to be seen by the community
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actuallyfallen · 9 months
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> Looking for fictionfolk space
> Ask the admin if their group is for actual fictionfolk or KFF
> They don’t understand
> Pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is fictionfolk and what is KFF
> They laugh and say “it’s a good community space, sir”
> Join the community
> It’s KFF
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