Nichegroup: A newly coined and mostly likely niche dynamic between a group of acquaintances that differs from social norms, but is consensual and aware of potential risks. It may come with specific predefined roles and tasks, or be casual. It's a sister term to nichelink.
compared to nichelink, this term is slightly more relaxed, because i want it to be accessible to both casual "haha our friend group is kind of like a cat colony" and to people like myself who crave a semi-organized specific dynamic where one person is dominant over others in their group. it still uses the age rating system that nichelink does, but i personally picture that most of the terms coined for this will end up with lower age ratings because of the room for relaxed and casual identification.
examples of nichegroups could be:
a cat colony
a pokemon team and their trainer
the programs on a computer
a warrior cats clan
other things which are specifically meant to be applied to a group of people/your group of friends if you took "our friend group is like [thing]" seriously
nichegroups can be serious like i just said, but they can also be more relaxed. it can be a whole Thing that your group agrees to, such as you deciding which person will have what role and having a discussion of what they can and cannot ask the others to do, or it may be more casual. either way, i suggest having a formal discussion, creating a contract, or having some other kind of guidance when you bring up to your group that you want to do this, so that everyone involved knows what it's going to entail, even if it only ends up being a simple "can we x?" "yeah sure" and that's it. nichegroups should not be done with implied consent.
some reasons people may use this term:
attraction types like drift attraction, pack, considatore, peculic, forms of social or platonic attraction, etc
lightheartedly deciding you'll treat your group like [insert thing]
desire for companionship with people who understand your [insert any identity that relates to being alterhuman, having atypical dysphoria, etc]
anything dysfirming, really.
grammar:
nichegrouping: the state of being in this kind of relationship with someone else. “we’re nichegrouping” “we might start nichegrouping since we're all dogkin”
nichegroup: 1) the specific terms themself. “i coined a nichegroup,” “definition: an all-ages nichegroup where…” 2) the relationship itself. “our nichegroup scheduled a party tomorrow,” “his last nichegroup broke up”
nichegrouper: someone who participates in nichegroupings or wishes to.
nichegroupies: the people in your nichegroup (general term, you can also just call them your groupies, friends, partners, or whatever word is used in the definition of a term, such as calling them "gems" in the definition later in this post)
nichegroups are titled as [thing] Nichegroup, but you can drop "nichegroup" when you're talking about it outside of the official title because this can make sentences really fucking long. here's an example:
Diamond Court Nichegroup: a 16+ relationship dynamic agreed upon in a group of people where one (or more) person(s) are the "diamond", and the others are the "gems" of their "court," akin to the relationship between a diamond and the gems in their court in Steven Universe.
this may include, but isn't limited to:
finding Diamond+Pearl nichelink appealing but choosing to do it in a group, and/or one member of the group also being in a Diamond+Pearl nichelink
the diamond "assigning" a specific gem type to the members of their court
tertiary or alteraffectis attraction terms like performer, bonding, evoic, oric, aish, loben, preisen, etc
people in the group using the gem presentation system, being gemhede, crysgema, etc
following diamonds devoted
the diamond dressing up the gems, shaping them, having the gems perform menial tasks for them, or having them entertain them when bored
the gems being recovering r*dqueers and/or f*lt members and the diamond giving them a safer outlet to express their desire to be influenced/changed/owned/etc
the gems wanting to be "owned" and "used" for any reason, really
the diamond making decrees of how the gems should behave, within reason
everyone can coin nichegroups, some nuance/info and post templates are under the cut:
