#heartlink

• Quadrobics pov: Explore mountains/hills with me ! :3 part 1/2

We were driving back from an excursion to an abandoned factory, and I asked my dad to stop near that mountains. The sea was near, so it was a very beautiful place and no one was here so I could explore it on all fours and record videos!!

Dropping this on tumblr for others purposes. Unedited.

I think in a way, I'm defining the distance.

I say "no, I want this to be something held dear, but it will not come closer to become a linked kintype". Like slaming a mental barrier that the connection cannot cross? If I'm making sense.

I set the perimeter I want in my head using the feelings I had with my preexisting hearttype, and aim for that instead.

It may or may not help that I'm using two paratype as foundation of the heartlink.

The vaguetype link does have hearted component too, but we did intentionally link that to be vague. I think that's a big part of it--to link is to want, so if you want your link to be a certain way, you need to change your mindset and intent for it to be that way too.

We aren't sure how much there needs to be understanding of the intended identity type you want to make linktype of, but we think it helps

So like, to link a hearttype, you might want to understand more intimately what a hearttype feels like, so you can aim for that instead of a kintype link. Or, you need to define where you want the connection to stop at, and maintain that instead of just maintaining the linktype itself, a added self-conditioning. At the base it all, is a perception shift, and mentality shift.

Ok so lionblaze is very alterhuman for me right now :3 (I'm still reading the warrior cats books though so idk his full plot agsjs)

He's really silly and kind of relatable, pluuuus he leaves a lot of space for me to project onto him >:3 (compared to like ivypool for example who's emotions on a similar plot thing are shown more in depth)

I've just decided to try using constellic terms, but also he in particular feels more identify-with than identify-as to me, and I'm too lazy to research how that would fit in with him being a constel (and the term is even more niche than otherlink TT^TT)

If i did some linking (actually putting in effort to make myself identify as him) with him i could easily identify AS him I'm pretty sure, buuut I'm enjoying the identify-with identity with him :3

A while back i REALLY hyperfocused on him, and while that's now gone, (ughh christmas break is over can't watch the same 3 pmvs over and over while copy and pasting every one of his scenes into my notepad), i still feel the connection.

I could call him a hearttype, but also likeee i want to keep it more casual. Same with calling him a heartlink, plus the fact that I didn't do any conscious linking, and that's important for me personally when calling something a linktype.

I am also aware that this is something normal (/neu) humans could experience with characters buuut i think viewing him through an alterhuman lens is just better

Oh and also another possible term would be copinglink, because of the nature of my projection. Lol "copingheartlink" would be accurate XDD

Three-Tailed Enfield, my para-heartlink

Personal alterhuman art, do not repost. Do not use.

Sometimes I like to refer to my linktype shorthanded. Sometimes as either just heartlink, vaguelink, or if I really want, para-linked hearttype, and collectively linked vaguetype.

I like the extra denotation, because near everyone else is talking about linking as if only identify-as. The community does generally put more focus on identify-as identities.

Both our linktypes are important for different reasons. One is to bridge the different paratype feelings, and the other is for bonds with friends (and for general shenanigan).

How we go about linking the two are slightly different because of that.

by Yumemoto, Ryuu ~ 480 words, estimated 4 minutes read.

Prior to knowing the alterhuman community and all the terms under its umbrella, I had a strong interest in all things birds. Now, with more knowledge of various forms of alterhumanity, I’m never sure if that is because of paratype feelings or perhaps familial, as my sort of caretaker growing up was my younger sibling, who has something going on that I would categorize as alterhumanity with phoenix.

Maybe I could call birds a special interest. But I don’t actually know what counts as an autism brand of spin. I really need help with that, masked as much and as long as I have.

Now, onto the paratype feeling.

Appearance-wise, the only bird part of me is my feathers, sometimes wings, sometimes quill. But I have a lot of birdness in me like there are catness or fishiness or any sort of animal components in other dragons. I connect certain behaviors and instincts to birdness. The desire to build nests high up on some cliff face, perhaps overlooking the ocean. "Preening" as a word that feels right. Chirping and screeching, though those arguably can just as easily be considered purely draconic behavior. I don't migrate according to the season, my sibling does though, lending more my feeling on them being somewhat alterhuman.

And I took that paratype and put it into the enfield heartlink.

An enfield is “a mythological creature made up of body parts of other animals. They are known to generally have the head of a fox, the body and forelegs of an eagle and the hind and rear legs of a wolf (some variations also add lion and greyhound parts into the mix).” -> quoted from An Irish Mythical Creature – The Enfield.

Art by William O'Connor

My version of enfield so far contains the paratype feeling of birds from me, and the paratype feeling of a three-tailed kitsune from my fictohearttype. As for the wolfness that may or may not be there in my enfield 'type, well, my partner is a wolf.

It all kind of strengthened my connection towards birdness, however sideways it is.

My partner also joked about me being, or at least hearted with, a rupicola rupicola, aka the Guianan cock-of-the-rock.

Image from Flickr, by Johannes Pfleiderer

Very pretty, also Very Orange ("and very derpy!"). Kinda why they thought of me. While it didn’t evoke much strong feeling in an alterhuman sense, it is still something that I held some importance with, because of this connection and memories. It is being drawn onto my alterhuman/queer identity heraldry.

A couple of days ago, I had my first experience of the phantom shift from my enfield heartlink. A faint outline on the limbs, the three fluffy tails, the wings on the elbow, and two too-long ears (which I suspect have influence from Kurama from Naruto).

It was a crowded experience, but novel nonetheless. I was rather excited and had a boost of perhaps endorphin. I don't get new alterhuman shifts much, my own dragon body is a constant that often overpower everything else.

Having the enfield shift tells me that it was a successful link. That is a cause for celebration.

There is something intriguing about having the distinct feeling that differs between two sets of limbs--ones where it's more vivid, stronger, persistent, and mine; versus the other which is faint, lighter in mass and as if fainted as I visualized in my minds eye, a lot floatier than my weighty draconic set, and very much not me.

I end up with a day of chaotic energy bursting within me from the exhilaration.

Image Description: a dragon with fur and feathered wings standing on their hind legs, with the faint outlines of long triangular ears on top of their head, feathery wings jutting out of their elbows, and three fluffy fox tails right above the base of their tail.

Personal alterhuman art, do not repost. Do not use.

I have a couple paratype that branched out from several of my preestablished identitype.

As I'd written before on my relationship with birds, I think there is some sort of paratype feeling with birds in general due to me being a bird like sort of dragon, and probably compounded by the vague-flicker as well. Thought it's hard to tell if Flammie came first or the birdness, probably the birdness. Does that make Flammie a paratype of the paratype? Likely. A lot of my alterhuman identitype are intertwined. I feel like a broken record to keep repeating the same thing a thousand time and I don't remember or just keep rambling about the same thing. It's hard to keep track of myself at times. Anyways, since I already talk about the bird paratype feeling, I might as well talk about the kitsune feeling from Naruto hearttype.

Like mentioned "last day", my Naruto has gotten a lot more kitsune in him, probably more than canon does. He's definite AU version. I pondered upon my relationship with foxes for a while, there was something funny going on there. It sort of pinged my conscious, like a "ah-ha!" moment, when I encounter a three-tailed kitsune, and why I attribute that perhaps there is some significance of the three-tailed fox with my Naruto. You could say I kind of hand waved it away by combining the paratype of bird with this likely paratype of three-tailed kitsune, but I feel like I'm still discovering new things as I go. The base "ingredients" of what made up of my para-heartlink (paratype connection of linked hearttype) of the three-tailed enfield are still there, and obviously I'm still discovering things separated. They are part of the enfield, just like they are all part of me. It's like making kinsona doesn't make your various kintype disappeared, you just have a easier time to talk wholesale about your various kintype as a polykind.

Did I essentially created a.... alterhuman sona? Doesn't really roll of the tongue, but the idea is probably there. I'm not sure. I do like calling it a heartlink though, there is just something heartwarming and unique about it, both in experience and in the whole concept idea.

I do wonder why it stopped at three. Perhaps that life of that Naruto stopped at the third tail. Whatever that might mean.

I'd asked around to see if people with multiple tail still gains them (in this life), it was quite a long while ago, I can't really recall the detail or know what keyword to use to search for those conversation. I do recall that there were answers that is positive, yes, they do still grow the number of tails. It makes sense, the skill and experience you honed is still yours and present, if tail on a magic fox signifies age or experience, that requirement should transfer over regardless the body you are inhibiting.

I think my enfield, or specifically, my paratype of kitsune stopped growing tail and is a static number is because it's a sort of captured moment, a screenshot if you will. I am alive to live it, but it is not alive. It's a bit confusing. It's like me as the dream dragon is a living being, and I am living my experience, growing and learning my draconity, and my ability (of shapeshifting) grew with me. But the kitsune? That which is again, likely solely tied to my Naruto hearttype, is like a extra degree of separation, it doesn't grow with me.