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If you experience any changes in body control (switching, possession, etc.), then establish some form of consistent, asynchronous external communication with your system. External communication has a major benefit: you can still talk to each other across switches (asynchronously) even if the inside of your mind is a mess.

You might set up a journal, whiteboard, calendar, a "single user, multi-account" app like Mytter or Antar, sticky notes, etc. Anything goes as long as your system knows to check it occasionally (or at the least, in an emergency).

We recommend choosing an analog method for your fallback communication method if possible, as a power outage could take out a lot of digital methods. A spur-of-the-moment piece of paper left on a table is better than nothing, but it's less likely to work than a pocket notebook or bulletin board that every system member knows to use for communication if needed. You can always add an app or program once everyone knows where to go for your analog fallback.

Discuss how you want to treat each other. Keep it loose and informal for now- don't make any absolute Laws just yet. Think of it more like the quick agreements that roommates make with each other for practical reasons: "I'll do the dishes if you do the laundry".

A few classics: "try not to die, don't kill anyone else, don't get any tattoos as an impulse decision, and don't throw out things that don't belong to you."

Don't force agreements on anyone. If someone disagrees, then stop and discuss their concerns to find a better agreement. See: Consensus Decision Making.

Map your system, if it feels right. This can help you learn about each other, but it can also be soothing to feel like you have some understanding of who's in your head when you're being flooded with new system members.

Again, keep it simple. What do you actually need to know? What would help you in a practical sense? Start there, then branch out if you'd like to get to know each other better.

Consider making a simple guide to your life. If someone had to handle a day in your life with little to no prior knowledge of it, then what would they need to know?

Where should they check to see if you have any appointments? Are they responsible for feeding any pets? Where can they find money if they need it, and how do they know how much to spend? Do you have a job, and do they need to work it? Etc.

Hopefully you never need this guide, but it's a lifesaver for any unexpectedly amnesiac system members.

Nowadays, I see a lot of folks using alterhuman as a catch-all for not being human. While nonhumanity certainly falls within alterhumanity, alterhumanity does not exclusively refer to species nor is it synonymous with nonhuman identities (ex: otherkin, therian).

Alterhumanity includes but is not limited to:

Fictionfolk: An umbrella term that encompasses all individuals of fictional origin or hold a personal connection to fiction. This includes fictionkind, fictives, fictionhearted individuals, folks with fictional hearthomes, imagithropes, etc.

Factfolk: An umbrella term that encompasses all individuals who originate from this world as a past or present public figure or hold a personal connection with people, places, things, etc. within this world. This includes factkind, factives, faitkind, faitives, facthearted individuals, etc.

Otherlinkers: Individuals who choose and create, or “link”, various altertypes to incorporate into their personal identity. Some otherlinkers aim to become the subject of their linking, whereas others may choose a specific framework they want the subject to fall under (such as linking it as a hearttype, a hearthome, a paratype, etc). The term otherlink gets its roots from the term copinglink(er), which refers to individuals who choose kintypes, theriotypes or some other altertype(s) to cope with a specific experience or behavior. Two more forms of otherlinking include funlinking (linking for fun) and aeslinking (linking based on aesthetics or appearances).

Otherhumans: Individuals whose species is human but not in context to humanity as we see it in its current state. Some examples include human fictionkind, early humans (ex: Homo habilis, Homo floresiensis, neanderthals, etc), and humans from alternate Earths.

Imagithropes: Individuals whose identity/ies are created and/or formed, wholly or partially, through some form of imaginative play. This can include fantasy play, roleplay (tabletop, text, live action, etc), fanfiction, writing, art, and more.

Heartedness: A broad experience in which an individual may not identify as someone or something, but has a deep, personal connection with that person, place, or thing. This includes folk who are otherhearted/otherkith/synpaths, talehearted folk, and folk who have hearthomes (fictional or not).

Archetropy: An identity in which one heavily identifies with or generally experiences an archetype, trope, or pre-established character model in a way that is central to their identity.

Plurality: The state of more than one person within a body. That said, not all who are plural may relate their plurality to alterhumanity. Whether or not this framework applies depends on an individual basis.

Dæmonism: The practice of communicating with one's internal dæmon, a thoughtform stemming from one's subconscious. A dæmon is also given a sentient form, typically a nonhuman animal of sorts. Can be considered as a form of plurality but depends on the individual and their relationship to their dæmon(s).

Soulbonding: A practice in which an individual forms a personal bond or connection to a fictional character and communicates with them from their headspace or soulscape. Can be considered as a form of plurality but depends on the individual and their relationship to their soulbond(s).

Furry Lifestylers: A subset of the furry community whose position in the subculture carries into their daily life. Some members have described it as "furry as a way of life", in which being a furry is inseparable and intrinsic to oneself.

Past lives, parallel lives and/or future lives also apply as alterhuman experiences and may intersect with previously listed experiences.

I have alterhuman terms of my own to take into account as well:

Archaeosapiens: Individuals whose alterhuman identity is intrinsically rooted in prehistory, antiquity or mythic accounts of history. Although I don’t use it for myself anymore, I can say as the person who coined it that species is not central to archaeosapience; it is the distinct connection to one’s time that’s central. Anyone of any species can be archaeosapient. Note: Archaeosapiens are similar to the Paleofolk community and may also overlap with it, depending on the individual and their relationship with time displacement.

Ontoplanarity: In referral to ontoplanar, which describes individuals who originate from planes and realities outside of this Earth. While one could relate this term to alienkind and spacekind, ontoplanar focuses one’s own point of origin rather than one’s species. In that regard, anyone of any species can be ontoplanar.

There’s also human alterhumans who aren’t specifically otherhumans. The idea that humankind as we know it is completely alienated from alterhumanity is a misconception, likely tying into the assumption that “alterhumanity = nonhumanity”.

I originally discussed this in the Alterhuman (Tumblr) Community but I felt as though I should make this information publicly available, especially with how the term has been sifting around lately. I’m not the first to bring this up, far from it even. If anyone who’s learned something from this wants to know more, here’s some posts to check out:

The finalized coining of the term Alterhuman/AHPI (x)

Aster’s discussion on alterhuman as an umbrella term, particularly its conflation with otherkin (x)

Rani’s discussion on umbrella terms in the community, addressing erasure in folks’ usage of both alterhuman and fictionfolk (x)

Rani’s explanation on the difference between nonhuman and alterhuman as terms (x)

A thread of terms and experiences that tie into the alterhuman community (x)

I understand being excited to find a community that speaks to you. We’ve all been there!

That said, inclusive language is important. Even more so when the terms we use were already inclusive to begin with.

I think the best example I’ve seen to address this phenomenon is Aster’s example referring to queer and its usage. Queerness is vast. It is not synonymous with one specific experience in the LGBTQ+ community. That much is understood online.

The DIY Headspace guide is finally done! This is a neat little guide for designing your own space. Here is the Pinterest board I am maintaining, if you are having trouble typing in the link yourself.

So recently we started identifying as a mediple system along with being median (we like both terms) and I've come to the realisation that there isn't really a flag for mediple systems? At least, none that took off, nor any that I particularly like.

So I made one! The colours don't really mean anything, but I colour picked from these flags:

Plural flag and median flag respectively. But yeah. If you're a mediple system, feel free to use these flags!

[ PT: Mediple System Flag /End PT ]

[ ID 1: Four images of a flag with five stripes, in the following colors: indigo, light indigo, off-white, light purple and purple. The first and third images have horizontal stripes, while the second and fourth have vertical stripes.

The first and second images are plain, while the third and fourth images have a light orange symbol in the center, a small circle with lines coming out of it with curly tips, with a circle around that, like a flower. /End ID ]

[ ID 2: A flag with five horizontal stripes, in the following colors: dark purple, purple, light indigo, green and off-white. /End ID ]

[ ID 3: A flag with five horizontal stripes, in the following colors: indigo, lilac, warm yellow, off-white and darker green. /End ID ]

The Hemospectrum

A friend was wondering about the hemospectrum recently. I decided to neglect sleep in favour of a series of infographics that might have been useful several years ago when most of this information was current.

This is, more or less, an illustrated/structured summary of the corresponding Wiki page. I hope it’s useful (either for understanding the story, or for a quick reference when you’re writing fic, or as a window into the whole homestuck thing), and enjoyable to read!

content warnings: as with the comic, slavery, torture and genocide.

Transcript of all text copied below the cut, plus a couple of notes on sources.

ID by @cookiejarids

marimonstrum: a gender related to sea monsters. can also be used as an umbrella term for genders related to specific sea monsters.

based on the twenty-eighth cointober prompt, ‘monster’! ‘mari’ is from ‘marine’ and ‘monstrum’ is the latin origin of the word ‘monster’.

flag id: a flag with 4 stripes. in order, they are light teal, dull green, dark turquoise, and very dark blue. end id.

Seabeastthing!!

A gender related to being a beast in the sea and also a thing. Can also be related to other things like leviathans, the different zones of the sea, sea weed, etc. anything sea related really

Darkwelestic (dark - wel - est - ic)

Definition:

A gender that feels like a dark forest that feels very spooky and unsettling first, but once you get to know it and the creatures living inside, it turns out to be very welcoming and nice

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♡︎Requested by anon♡︎

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.