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This post is about fictionkin, fictives, and other types of fictionfolk and experiences of fictionality. In it I recommend some readings and other resources for definitions, primers, etiquette, history, questioning, databases, and community. I have also shared this list as a Bluesky thread. Updated Dec. 26, 2025.

Definitions

A quick guide to fictionfolk terminology by @aestherians

A fictionfolk glossary by the Dragonheart Collective

Introductions

Fictionkind FAQ, by the Dragonheart Collective

Fictives: A Short Intro, by Ryn^Aristocrats

Soulbonding info carrd, by fairy tea

Changing beliefs & behavior through experience-taking, an academic article by Kaufman & Libby

Etiquette

By the Quicksilver System

By Sprites

By Espeon & Synanthrope

By the Dragonheart Collective (script)

History

A Timeline of the Fictionkin Community, by @houseofchimeras

Pluralpedia on where the word fictive came from, researched largely by LB Lee & sobqjmv

Are you fictionfolk?

Questioning guide for fictionkin, by DoctorCorby

The Big List Of Fictionkind Experiences, by 375-6

Living as fictionfolk

Living as a Fictive: How to Find, Create, and Broaden Your Identity, With and Without Canon, a lecture by Goratrix bani Tremere

Living with a “Problematic” Fictional Identity (And Where to Go from Here), a lecture by Goratrix bani Tremere

What to do when your source upsets you, a booklet by the Dragonheart Collective

Databases

100+ writings in the fictionfolk category in the Alterhuman Archive

17 games, zines, & other creations on itch.io by various

Community

Web ring, maintained by @nova-dracomon

Dreamwidth community, moderated by @tanadin and sun_dragon

Safety in Alterhuman Spaces, by Dragonheart Collective

Dallas - front row

Austin - front row

Houston - up to Beautiful War

St. Louis - part 1 / part 2

Atlanta - front row part 1 / part 2 | few rows back full show

Nashville - none :( but good front row vids of most songs here

Washington - part 1 / part 2 / part 3 / part 4

New York night 1 - bad quality full show | balcony full show

New York night 2 - few rows back | start to Walls | balcony part 1 / part 2

Pittsburgh - part 1 / part 2

Philadelphia - full show | front row start WMI+DMD+DLIBYH / fearless and habit / end OTB+TTD+KMM | balcony but good zoom after a min Walls to end

Boston - the lives were a mess. There's a compilation up to Walls here.

Cincinnati - part 1 / part 2

Detroit - front row start of show | balcony from DMD to end part 1 / part 2, good vids of some songs here.

Indianapolis - front row | few rows back | balcony | most of show few rows back, good vids of most songs here and here.

Chicago - few rows back full show | front row Fearless/Habit/COAC / OTB to end

Minneapolis - 2nd row | few rows back

Kansas City - part 1 / part 2

Denver - front row | front row left side | way back

Orem - first 20mins | first hour

Seattle - full show | front row bits here

Portland 1 - part 1 / part 2 / part 3

Vancouver - front row

Portland 2 - part 1 / part 2

Oakland - full show

LA 1 - part 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

LA 2 - most of the show here

I'll keep updating this list as tour goes on. There are accounts on youtube reposting these videos here, here, here. If links are dead you can probably still find them there.

Looking to teach yourself linguistics? Mutual Intelligibility was a year-long project to help curate free linguistics resources online for people who are trying to teach or learn linguistics, and now all of its posts are collected here for you. 

Crash Course Linguistics

A structured introduction to linguistics. Each post contains a 10-12 minute video from Crash Course Linguistics, plus supporting resources on the same topic including exercises with answer keys. 

Week 0 - Preview

Week 1 - Introduction

Week 2 - Morphology

Week 3 - Morphosyntax

Week 4 - Syntax

Week 5 - Semantics

Week 6 - Pragmatics

Week 7 - Sociolinguistics

Week 8 - Phonetics, Consonants

Week 9 - Phonetics, Vowels

Week 10 - Phonology

Week 11 - Psycholinguistics

Week 12 - Language acquisition

Week 13 - Historical linguistics and language change

Week 14 - Languages around the world

Week 15 - Computational linguistics

Week 16 - Writing systems

Resource Guides

Longer, more comprehensive guides to a few common intro linguistics topics. 

Introduction to IPA Consonants - Resource Guide 1

Introduction to IPA Vowels - Resource Guide 2

Introduction to Morphology - Resource Guide 3

Introduction to Constituency - Resource Guide 4

Introduction to World Englishes - Resource Guide 5

Introduction to Languages around the World - Resource Guide 6

3 Links Posts

Quick highlights of three relevant links about a specific topic, with a short description for each. 

3 Links about Linguistics Teaching

3 Links for Second Year Syntax Videos

3 Links for Second Year Phonology

3 Links for Natural Language Processing

3 Links for Semantics and Pragmatics

3 Links for Sociolinguistics

3 Links for Second Year Psycholinguistics

3 Links for Field Methods

3 Links for Articulatory Phonetics

3 Links for Writing Systems

3 Links for Gesture Studies

3 Links for Linguistics Communication (lingcomm)

3 Links for Evidentiality

3 Links for Linguistic Discrimination

3 Links for Linguistics Careers Outside Academia

3 Links for Schwa

3 Links for the Linguistics of Emoji

3 Links for Proto-Indo-European

3 Links for Second Language Acquisition

3 Links for Zero Morphemes

3 Links for Internet Linguistics

3 Links for Language Revitalization

I’ve been collecting (archiving) If/Then official pictures as many as possible, for 5-6 years. Initially I was going to pick highest quality ones, sort them by production (Broadway, Tour, etc), and upload on Flickr. But it takes hella time and I feel like I will never finish, so I decided to upload all of them here.

The image files are mostly sorted by source website. There are a lot of same photos in different qualities.

Title: Sealing the Deal Chapter Title: The Dinner Rating: Explicit (rating changed from Mature) Category: M/M Fandom: Naruto Relationships: Deidara/Uchiha Obito or Deidara/Tobi (Naruto) Story Summary:

To ensure the Yamanaka Clan is further protected, they strike a deal with the daimyo clan of the Uchiha. Ino is chosen to marry one of the Uchiha, but she elopes with her lover the night before she is supposed to be wedded. Inoichi decides against calling off the deal to save face and demands Deidara, her twin brother, to take her place.

Read on AO3 and/or FFN.

Chapter Excerpt:

Obito leans back when Sakura gives him a look. He clears his throat and stares up at the ceiling, his arms crossed against his chest. Deidara rubs temples with his fingers.

Soothing crab 

Pride rats 

Zooweemama puddle

Without crying beforehand

Friendship

Rating fish

Insanity

Pinking pie >:(

Dainty hamster

Cat an coos

A Crumb Of Seratonin

Doo Di Doo Di Doo Di Doo Di Doo Di Doo Di

Mrrrrrr

Fuck Up Pigeon

Rabbits

“Pidge and Lance try to prank their friends. It goes better than expected.”

Main Story

Part One: The Beginninging

Part Two: Establishing Backstory

Part Three: Slow Changes

Part Four: System/PickupLines.exe

Part Five: Second First Date

Bonus Content