28/ageless, no pronouns. Genderwisp, omniromantic xenoasexual. Incarnate polymorph, mixed-cause cat contherian, past life as a techno-organic/enhanced synth. I have multiple other barely understood lives that I reference at times. I donât like misleading and by extension harmful terminology like âkinnie,â âkinning,â âI kin,â âmy kins,â ect., as it fosters misinformation.
There is no sickness of spirit like homesickness
When what you are sick for
                      has never been seen or heard
In this world, or even remembered
                           except as a smear of bleached light
Opening, closing beyond any alphabetâs
Recall
âCharles Wright, from âA Journal of English Days,â in Zone Journals
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Decided to go ahead and create an interest form to see if this project is even possible. Please reblog, especially if you are interested
What is the project? It is an idea to create a published book anthology of alterhuman short stories, poetry, etc. I will also be looking for artists for page illustrations and covers
This is not a guarantee you will get in or that the project is currently launching, it is simply to gather interest to see if the project ca
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(I originally posted this on bluesky, but I'm expanding on it where higher word counts are easier)
As different facets of alterhumanity gain more of the public eye with each passing year, the more I ask "Ok so, what are we going to Do sociopolitically. When are we going to organize and start advocating for ourselves". Because eventually that will be necessary, and "let's bury our heads in the sand and hope we become obscure again" isn't realistic in any way. We've gotta start organizing and teaming up with our allies (queer groups, neurodivergent groups, mad pride, etc.) that we are heavily intermixed with.
Therianthropy for example, for the longest time has relying on the niche nature of the concept while hoping that they'll always be forgotten about by the public eventually. They keep popping up though, and visibility has been a rising line on a graph, it's never once returned to the obscurity that it had in the 90s-early 00s. By now, a majority of information that (for lack of a better term) "normies" have about therians is all bullshit.
There was an attempt at alterhumans organizing one time in the form of AltH, but they're already defunct and have left nothing behind except "AltH" as a convenient acronym for "alterhuman". Outreach and advocacy just kind of died in the water before getting anywhere.
I've seen the argument "alterhumanity faces no issues on its own, so advocate for other things instead and it'll help us by proxy". On one hand, yes, their fight is our fight. At the exact same time, alterhumanity is its own thing, it doesn't only exist as the sum of other groups. Using nonhuman identity as an example, there are people calling therianthropy a psyop and also trans people believing that nonhuman identity is made up by transphobes and not real. "Let's go along with it and wait for this to blow over" isn't an acceptable conclusion, we need to go "yes we are real, no will not be weaponized".
Our voices are important. Our identities deserve to be respected. Neither of the two will just fall into our laps, we have to work for it.
This may or may not be why we have such hard lines on how we specifically use -genic terms and use -orma as a headmate specific term, and ALSO why when we say "disordered system" we usually mean CDD systems.
Because many many plural communities are online, and we gave yet to see anyone besides ourselves be open and loud about their plurality in an offline space.
Of course there is more nuance, dipped shit (general, not OP&), but singlets don't have that nuanced and assume "plural = traumagenic = CDD" with no exceptions whatsoever.
So. Like. We understand. But also. We're sorry to say it, but when speaking with ignorant majority "normie" crowds and interfacing with the external offline world, you do in fact need to get down to their level, at least a tad.
LIKE WE MEAN. WE AGREE WITH OP BUT WE FEEL THE NEED TO ADD THIS.
We can't get what OP wants unless we start taking baby steps to get that respect. The online discourse would break most peoples' brains we feel like.
It's like how most non-queer people have their definitions of lesbian just be "women like women" and in the queer community there's like "men can identify as lesbians for many reasons including plurality, being multigender, or having that previous community connection" like. One of these is for advocacy and one of these is for internal discussion.
No yeah I agree there, I don't think drowning normies in community jargon and discourse would do much of anything but confuse. My main issue is that even the surface-level understanding is wrong a lot of the time. Like "therian = ppl who run around in animal masks and/or Furry: The Sequel", "kinning = you vibe with a character and/or think they're hot", "hearted = oh you just think [thing] is kinda neat", and the list goes on. Doesn't have to be "two philosophers meme" levels of info, but they should at least be able to distinguish that it is different from other things. Like with nonhuman identity, that's going to break their brains a little bit because it's new to them, but that's also something that can't really be made simpler because it's foundational to the concept. "Therians identify as nonhuman animals" is the baseline, while anything further like "here's all the shifting terminology, different microlabels, discourse, etc." is advanced level and not really what they need to understand it.
If I could explain it, if someone theoretically made a pamphlet meant to be handed out pride events, schools/colleges, seminars, etc. it would contain as little community jargon as possible and focus on explaining the experience itself. How it feels, how it's expressed, how to accommodate, common misconceptions (surface, not advanced), things like that. Educational stuff without having to get into "community politics" so to speak.
I was just talking about this with my roommates, actually. I don't want to bash on anyone on the community, but the recent view that outsiders have of the community is... not great. In part because, well, we are already a minority, we're all going to be seen as "weird" and "unusual" no matter what we do. And right now, if you talk about therianthropy to anyone, the first thing they are gonna view us as "people with masks that do quads" because that's the popularized version of the community that's been spread from tiktok, a big part of the community.
Right now, that's how we're seen by outsiders, we like it our not. And yeah, we can keep to ourselves, but the floodgate has already been opened. We are already well-known by people. The least we can try to do is control where the stream goes from this point forward. And that's the beautiful thing about it, isn't it? We have the opportunity (and duty, we like it or not) of making ourselves known by correcting misinformation, educating where we can, advocating for ourselves. We are already known, and we couldn't control the reaction it had on people outside of the community then, but we can take our chance now and use it to stop living in hiding. To show what alterhumanity, otherkinity, theriantrophy, etc means. It's gonna take time, and it's not that realistic to say we will succeed, but we can do it, little by little.
We are real, here, and not going anywhere. The community as a whole should work together (as I said, not really realistic since we're spread between various social media platforms, and the community from tumblr is very different from thr community from tiktok, for example) to minimize the hate this may bring us, and advocating for our right to be ourselves. We should be respected no matter who we are.
I whole heartedly agree that we need to "take control of the stream" and start to advocate for ourselves.
But I want to ask
What exactly are we advocating for?
With Gay liberation its the right to legally and openly love eachother
With Black liberation its freedom
With Gender its about equality
These are all extremely simplified, but you get the point.
What would our movement be about?
While yes, we are verbally abused and slandered by normie humans, I cant particularly think of any cases where an Alterhuman is being systemically and uniquely targeted for being Alterhuman. I dont know anyone who's been fired or evicted for being Alterhuman. And I certainly havent heard of anyone being killed for being Alterhuman specifically. Not to say it definitely doesnt happen, just that I havent heard of it. If it is happening, we just arent talking about it.
And all this isnt to say we shouldnt have a movement, or advocate for ourselves.
Its just to get people thinking- What is our message? What do we want?
In addition to the food for thought, I think a good way it would theoretically be tackled is for each to organize depending on their needs. Alterhumanity as a whole is extremely vague, so if someone wanted to create an outreach group or something then it would be more practical to have a focus (otherkin for example). They can all still work together in an alterhuman "network" of sorts, but dividing it makes it more comprehendable as individual concepts.
I also would frankly argue that we absolutely are discriminated against when being openly alterhuman, particularly nonhuman, fictional, or plural - the only reason we donât see examples of that is because the vast majority of us arenât open about it, because we know what will happen. Itâs because the vast majority of us stay closeted, and thus the vast majority of people donât know we exist, that we donât see it happen. (Which is why this mindset of âjust keep our heads downâ has been so prevalent - but Dinoâs right that it wonât work for much longer, and arguably already isnât working.)
Like - what do you think would actually happen to a doctor or lawyer who openly identified as a dragon or angel or dog, statistically? How likely would most employers be to hire someone they knew âthinks theyâre a cartoon characterâ? How quickly do you think Iâd get fired for âinappropriate, unprofessional behaviorâ for the crime of wearing scale makeup and horns to express my draconity, hypothetically? (Because I can say with confidence that itâd be pretty fucking fast.) Never mind if we stopped presenting as a singlet. They barely know we exist and donât really understand that weâre not just furries, and already theyâre trying to pass laws banning nonhuman self-expression in schools and the like. It absolutely is out there, unfortunately.
So: defenses for freedom of expression would be a pretty good start for preventing that - preventing people from discriminating based on either nonhuman/fictional identity or self-expression (barring safety concerns, of course; you canât wear a tail in an environment where it could get caught in machinery, for example). Plurality requires a whole suite of advocacy for acceptance that I honestly donât even know how to approach. Beyond that⌠I donât honestly know. A lot of it is covered by other advocacy movements; what isnât isnât occurring to me right now.
There is no sickness of spirit like homesickness
When what you are sick for
                      has never been seen or heard
In this world, or even remembered
                           except as a smear of bleached light
Opening, closing beyond any alphabetâs
Recall
âCharles Wright, from âA Journal of English Days,â in Zone Journals
Raffaello DâAndrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future | TED Talks, February 2016
âThis last demonstration is an exploration of synthetic swarms. The large number of autonomous, coordinated entities offers a new palette for aesthetic expression. Weâve taken commercially available micro quadcopters, each weighing less than a slice of bread, by the way, and outfitted them with our localization technology and custom algorithms. Because each unit knows where it is in space and is self-controlled, there is really no limit to their number.â
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yall ever just yearn? ever get filled with the most profound sense of longing for something you cant understand? yall ever crave? ever have an unexplainable ache?
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Itâs so odd to think about my younger self (in this life), when I had no idea what I was, or what my resurfacing memories meant.
My awareness in this life began shortly prior to incarnating here, or so I knew then. I lived that. Being sent into this body; so small, so fragile.
But my existence had started before then. Iâd just forgotten. So, I didnât understand what it was Iâd âinvoluntarily daydream,â abruptly, or why it made me completely forget my current awareness; absorbing all my attention. I didnât remember what I wasâalthough I knew it was not humanâbetween all incarnations; before anything else. Being âbornâ ânot in a âhuman body,â or any other kind, but the moment of my creation. Itâs strange to go back to memories of my child-self. I lived that loneliness, confusion and devastation, too. Feeling, soul-deep, lost.
But now, so much is clearerâŚ
And the final piece of my truth came back on an ordinary day, in an ordinary moment.
One time I slipped into another version of myself. I wasnât trying; I think it was the first time it happened, actually. Anyway, I hardly ever saw my mother, so the version of her in that reality was. completely and utterly not anything I couldâve imagined. She was veryâŚprofessional. And pretty strict. Which is not even a little bit like her, in this reality. I have no idea if sheâs ever had a job (not an insult; just noting it). She also canât be strict with her kids to save her life. Sheâs not serious at all, either.
It was so bizarre. I could also feel how my other selfâs mind was affecting me. That brain was so used to being annoyed by lectures, but I wasnâtâmy responses were mostly automatic, but my thoughts and emotions were bewildered.
I faded back into this reality, into this body, at the kitchen table during a meal, and that was it. But it wasnât the last time something like it happenedâit also wasnât the first instance of me leaving my body in some way. I later told my little brother and cousins about it, and it was decided Iâd try to will myself into taking them along next time. A few days passed, and we simultaneously fell into a group nap suddenly, when playing in the living room.
For everyone else, it was about four hours or so. But for us, it was closer to 20, Iâd say. One of the most magical moments of my current lifeâŚand it didnât even happen to this me, lol.
We all woke up, on the floor among our toysâI believe I was 9, my brother 8, my cousins 11 & also 9, or nearly thereâand, stunned, jumped into rambling about it having really happened.
They were so amazed Iâd really done it, taken them with meâŚ
Finishing each otherâs sentences about details and times, phrases that were said, etc. It was so validating for me, âcause theyâd had their doubts ofc, before. The adults laughed at our bizarre behavior, and, telling us to not talk so loud, asked what we were so excited about.
And we answered all the questions, showing we remembered the same âdream.â Which they just saw us wake up from. They thought it was like a prank, but they were also unsettled. As soon as the fact it was âmy doingâ came out, everything made sense to them. Weird shit is always my fault, ha⌠That both made some believe it more, others more angry that it was not a funny joke, and to stop, right now.
In the end, the other kids said that, although it was really amazingâweâd never seen the sea, before, and now we had. The star-filled sky, as well, and the view from a rented lighthouse - we had never had a vacation at all, and my little brother & I hadnât ever expected to go some place with our mother ever, either; she would pop in once or twice a year, but that was itâthey didnât want me to take them along again.
I didnât know how I did it, but seeing how the unsettled reactions from the adults had given them fear, I didnât say that. I wanted them to feel better, even if I felt terribly alone. Again.
So I just agreed I wouldnât. And it never did happen with them again. But for years, weâd still talk about that unbelievable trip. Not for the fact it was another reality, although weâd touch on that, butâŚit was unattainable for us, in thisâŚtorturous one. An overnight stay in a random, unused lighthouse, was a true gift. I often felt guilty for stealing it from my other self, and hoped maybe they felt they lived it, instead. Or that their life was at leastâŚbetter.
And when I was 14, I wished to leave this life behind so badly, I found myself in another world. But it was not one with another me. It was my soul there. I lived there for three years, every day resigned to ending up back here, yet hating and dreading it. Those three years were everything. AndâŚthe memories didnât face. I tried to return again every day for years afterâto learn some control over this. But I couldnât.