#hearted

gm_peakhouse

We've seen a lot of 30 day alterhuman challenges around, which is awesome! I wanted to make my own, specifically to cater to alterhumans with connections to Pokemon! Feel free to change questions a little to suit your identity better, or other such stuff. The point of this isn't to strictly adhere to the challenge, it's moreso to get more works by pokemon fictionfolk out there!

Text below cut. Pokemon 'kin symbol here (used in absence of a Pokemon alterhuman symbol).

SPARKLEFUR THERIAN / KIN / HEARTED / LINK FLAGS !!

[pt: sparklefur therian / kin / hearted / link flags !!]

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tagging ; @radiomogai

do you have a definition of otherhearted? or a lived experience with it?

thank you for taking the time to read that. kudos :]

- @starlight-chickens

From the otherkin wiki:

Otherhearted describes a person who has a strong fundamental connection to a species or character which impacts their core sense of self. This is most commonly described in terms of identifying with a being as opposed to identifying as one, although this is not always the case.

Now.. This is pretty vague! That's a large part of the term in all honesty. It's meant to be broad, because things can be important and integral to your identity in many, many ways. We've written on heartedness before with some examples of what that can mean, here's a link to that post.

I'll copy a part of it to this post though. These are some examples of what could be an otherhearted experience!

You feel like you “should have” been it, but you aren’t. You feel like you “could have” been it, but you aren’t. It is a part of you even if it’s not entirely “you”. You feel like you will be it in a future life. You believe that in another life, you are/have been it, but right now you’re not. Your sense of self wouldn’t be the same without it as a part of your life. It’s your ideal self, or a representation of it. You feel at home around it or imagining being around it. It’s the form of your daemon. You believe it’s a parallel life of yours, but you’re not it right now. It influences your identity in some way. It’s a special interest or hyperfixation that feels tied to your sense of self. You feel like it is a part of the same family as you. You feel like it is, in a way, kind of almost you, but a little “to the left”--too distinct to be you in a literal sense. You feel like you belong with it, but you’re not literally one of them. It is a part of your identity in some way other than you being literally them.

Are these the only ways to be 'hearted? No. Are these experiences always something someone would describe as an otherhearted identity? Also no. What counts or doesn't count is ultimately up to you, as long as the potential hearttype is important to your own identity, it can count.

Our collective system is otherhearted. Some stuff we experience due to that:

We're birdhearted, because birds are our main special interest and we form a lot of our identity and sense of self around them. We're also a corvid therian, and that extends to birds of all kind having a sort of "this is just like me" feeling to them on top of that.

We're planthearted, because we feel that plants are intertwined with our daily life and very being to a point where we see them as family or something close. This actually might have started years ago (or have been made more strong feeling) by our psychologist recommending that we get plants for our room so we'd have to open the curtains in the morning to help it grow. She recommended this to us during a really dark time in our life and we feel like we owe us even getting out of that situation at least in part, to the plants that we had motivation to look after when we couldn't care for ourselves.

I, Del, personally am snakehearted and dragonhearted. These identities go hand in hand in a way? Snakes feel like my cousins, symbolically. They're often seen as slippery, sly guys out to con and scheme and take foes down with venom--but they're also in truth, just animals doing what their nature drives them to do. On a deeper level due to my fictive identity, I feel so intertwined with the narrative around snakes here that they're a core part of who I am and how I feel about myself. Dragons, on the other hand, feel like an extension of the snakehearted identity, with added cultural significance from my home world.

Aside from our own personal experiences, we can recommend @otherhearted-culture-is as a good blog to learn about 'heartedness from. They've got good stuff over there!

a self-applied term for a person who uses multiple labels which do mean or technically could mean (in one interpretation) the exact same thing but are part of different term umbrellas, specifically in a way similar to the "holy shit, two cakes" comic's ideals (shown below);

someone who uses overlapping/duplicated labels and is excited/grateful the options exist and don't consider any of them better, or more fitting than one another.

examples:

someone who is -kin, -hearted, copinglink, -coded, aldernic, -roleic, and even more labels of the same thing

this is not limited to alterhumanity, so this can also be used by someone who hoards/collects/is many genders that are defined nearly the same way, are recoins of each other, etc

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