#aspecies

✦ ASPECIES ALT.

pt: aspecies alt. end pt.

a flag for those who do not identify with any species for any reason, or not labelling yourself to any specific species.

coined by transid-duo.

requested by @stickerhearts

@vndead-pvppy @rwuffles @isurvivedtheinfinity @radiomogai

I drew my own ballsona!!

Horns and the dark circle between them: aspecies or speciesvoid flag (don't remember which and I can't find any info: I am aspecies though)

Infinity symbol for autism

Left hand: heteroflexible flag

Main body: trans flag

Stickers on cheek: polyamorous flag, and a pronoun tag

Right hand: aromantic flag

Cane: disability flag

I haven't been able to find an aspecies flag, so I decided to make one myself. I found this ahuman flag, so I thought I'd base the aspecies flag off of it.

I came up with this:

PT: aspecies-spike. END PT.

:: for those who are not normally aspecies, but sometimes experience rare and sudden bursts of aspecies for a period of time that can range from a day to a couple of months before stopping.

Addition:

{🐛}... English is not my native language, I apologize if there are any mistakes.

{🪲} invented and created by me.

{🪲} If this has been coined previously, please consider this as an alt.

{🪲} You can place my terms/flags on other sites or anywhere else, just don't forget to mention me as the author !

There's something so special, so calming, about archival work. Something so exciting about finding the history of terms (for example, did you know the earliest record I can find of speciesless is from 2011? Aspecies as a term from 2020), that get so buried and lost. Knowing that no matter how much time has past, those experiences remain.

The alterhuman community doesn't get the same rich background as a lot of other communities do. We don't have poems about wanting to be a bird flying gracefully in the wind dating back to the 1600s. We don't have diary entries of those who saw themselves in the character from Shakespeare's play, in more than a metaphorical sense. Most of our early recorded history, as it stands today, is the late 1900s. The earliest date for *anything* I can find is *potentially* the late 1960s, and confirmed somewhere between 1972 and 1974 (that being the The Elf Queen’s Daughters (EQD), the early part of the otherkin community). Therianthropy's history starts in 1992, though the term didn't come around until 1994 at the latest point. Transspecies dates back to 1994 as well. And that's most of our early history. That's as far back as we can trace most of it, to my knowledge anyways (I could totally be unaware of things).

Still, there's something special about being able to discover where a term started. Making sure a piece of history for a community that lacks so much isn't lost to time. And maybe we don't risk the lost of the history of things like therianthropy and otherkin. But what about aspecies/speciesless? Altervexo/Altervex/Alterspite? Hell even such a wide use term like Endel doesn't have the original coining post saved anywhere from our research (again, it *might* exist somewhere still, but we sure as hell can't find it). These are things that describe folks existence, their experience. In a way that's been put to words to try and describe in the most basic form something that is often near impossible to fully explain the depth of.

I do plan on making the document available to the public at some point. It's still in very early stages so I'm not comfortable sharing it anywhere beyond close friends currently. But my point is, archival is important. We don't get to choose what terms were made. And whether we agree with them or not, they matter. They describe something someone somewhere experiences. And in communities that so often have so much of their history looked over, lost, *erased*. We should strive to save as much of it as we can.

Terms I mentioned, and the origin I referenced. All links have been archived on the wayback machine as of June 2nd, 2025 or earlier, should they break in the future.

Therianthropy, and its history dating back to 1992 is taken from this pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jDmjl78hQ2BiQtzQMTV3yRQkrIgB9eUZ/view

Otherkin, The Elf Queen’s Daughters (EQD), and its history dating back to potentially the late 1960s is from this pdf: https://frameacloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Scribner_Timeline2p0.pdf

Alterhuman's coining post can be found here: https://phasmovore.tumblr.com/post/98482696958/this-will-probably-be-my-last-post-on-semantics

Otherchain's history, and recoining on tumblr can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20241210230712/https://www.tumblr.com/shadowbandshub/763884852524302336/idk-if-ive-ever-made-a-coining-post-with and here: https://alterhumanity.fandom.com/wiki/Otherchain

Circukin's original coining post appears to have been deleted, as the coiner wishes to be removed from the community. However a reupload of what was on the coining post, as well as history on the original coining post can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/nyctohyloph0bia/755458471273627648/circukin?source=share

Fractic's coining post can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/empyrangel/704274200484003840/fractic

The first use of copinglink can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/who-is-page/127897905604/demonicprinceofsin-no-idea-what-term-id-use?source=share while it's official coining can be found here: https://who-is-page.tumblr.com/post/139871297049/clinkers-and-copinglink

The first recorded usage of speciesless I can find dating back to 2011 can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/solipsistful/11133858784/speciesless, while aspecies I can only find records dating back to 2020 found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/otherkin/comments/ent6pk/aspeciesspeciesless/

The original coining post of Altervexo/Altervex/Alterspite appears to have been deleted and lost, however there is an archive of the first page of the carrd found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220606042844/https://altervexo.carrd.co/ and the full definition along with record of original coining date and coiner found here: https://alterhuman.miraheze.org/wiki/Altervexo#cite_note-:0-1

Aspecies Userboxes!! request by anon :D