#synpath

I love you otherhearted

I love you otherlinks

I love you Paleotherians

I love you Copinglinks

I love you Fictionkins

I love you synpaths

I love you constelics

I love you plurals

I love you plantkins

I love you conceptkins

(for @skylargoesbark alterhuman new years posts!)

i know a lot of folks tend to think of otherhearted as “just having a connection”, or like the lesser version of kin, and it will never not get on my nerves when i see someone (trying to correct someone else) say “therian/kin isn’t a connection!! if you just have a connection, that’s just otherhearted!!” or something similar.

it’s the word ‘just’ that always gets me. it’s just a connection. it’s not kin; it’s just otherhearted.

it feels reductive. it feels like dumbing down what it truly means to be otherhearted.

personally my hearttypes aren’t just anything. they’re a whole slew of complexities and emotions that are integral to who i am as a being. they make me who i am, and i wouldn’t be the same without them.

and i know people tend to think it’s not a big deal, and even if i were to say “imagine if someone said ‘it’s just a kintype’ about one of your kintypes”, many of you probably wouldn’t care. but my issue is that to otherhearted creatures, specifically, it happens over and over and over again. and if i ever point it out, suggest a correction, i sometimes get dogpiled on as if im the bad guy; op didnt mean it that way, dogbite, don’t be so sensitive. you’re overreacting.

but i suppose that’s the problem, isn’t it? that they didn’t mean to. that reducing our identity in such a way is so common, so familiar that people don’t even think about it when they do it. that in their subconscious, otherheart will only ever be “just a connection”, and nothing more. even if they don’t mean it that way. it still stings a little even if it wasn’t intentional.

Fictionkin, I see you

Otherkin, I see you

Otherlinks, I see you

Constelics, I see you

Otherkith, I see you

Paleotherians, I see you

Synpaths, I see you

Plantkin, I see you

Fictionkith, I see you

Conceptkin, I see you

Copinglinks, I see you

Choicekin, I see you

Polymorph, I see you

Theriofluid, I see you

Bugs, fish, birds, I see you

Characters, colors, songs, I see you

Aliens, I see you

Fictionfolk flag - a flag for anyone with any fictional identity, or anyone who falls under the fictionfolk umbrella.

This can include but is not limited to:

Fictionkin folks

Fictionflickers

Other fictionfolk identities

Synpaths/otherhearted folks

And fictives.

The symbol was made to look like a loop/repeating, that there's no one way to define everyone's identity, and that there can be many different ways someone experiences it. The inside is supposed to look like an open book, representing the fictional aspect of the individual's identity.

Symbol and flag with titles beneath the cut.

[Flag ID: A flag with five stripes with colors from the top down being dark purple, purple, a dark peach color, orange, and dark orange.]