Finally making an overview of my alterhumanity! Think of this like a nonhumanity-specific addendum to my pinned post.
I am alterhuman on every level I exist - physically, mentally, literally and metaphorically. The core of my alterhumanity (and self) is what I am physically, and I don’t have any succinct labels to describe it. In short: I am an ascomycete fungus living in, integrated into, and controlling a human nervous system. Although I do also identify quite strongly with the human body I inhabit. :3
I am not an existing species of fungus (the closest I can get is the class sordariomycetes), but a physical/biological manifestation of the concept of rot & decay - and I mean ALL forms of decay. From radioactive decay and entropy to death and organic decomposition, and whatever else you can think of that fits the definition. Everything you can remotely consider decay or rot.
I am also, by virtue of this, everything that has died. This is where my therianthropy comes from; I consider myself “omnitherian by proxy” (although I am all non-animal organisms, too. There’s just not a word for that). Some species I am significantly more connected to than others, for a number of reasons. These I would call my primary kintypes. I won’t list these here - perhaps in a future post - but if I had to pick one species to represent myself right now, it would either be the black-backed jackal or the desert prickly pear.
Other alterhuman labels I fall under include otherkin, fictionkin, objectkin, musickin, conceptkin, divinekin, archetrope, otherheart, placekin, holokin/holothere and overhuman/humanmore. I may talk more about these at some point in the future!! & of course, I am always open to questions :].
I am fine being referred to as a human/person! Humans are my favorite animal; I am happy to be one! But I also appreciate being acknowledged as really anything nonhuman. Especially the fact that I am an ascomycete, but, genuinely, ANY species or vivterm you can think of works.
Extremely nervous to post this!! Auggghhdgfchhshxhchdx I am scared of sharing something so personal to me online, but I also want to find other alterhumans & let those of us with weird or uncommon identities know: you are not alone, and we love you. :]
