if you're otherhearted, do you experience euphoria/dysphoria related specifically to your hearttype(s)?
i experience euphoria
i experience dysphoria
i experience both but mostly euphoria
i experience both but mostly dysphoria
i experience both equally
i experience euphoria related to some of my hearttypes, but not others
i experience dysphoria related to some of my hearttypes, but not others
i experience mostly* euphoria related to some of my hearttypes, but not others
i experience mostly* dysphoria related to some of my hearttypes, but not others
i experience both (equally) related to some of my hearttypes, but not others
i experience exclusively** euphoria for one type, and dysphoria for another
i am otherhearted but do not experience hearttype related euphoria/dysphoria
Voting ended onDec 13, 2025
this poll is specifically related to otherheartedness and euphoria/dysphoria. please only choose the option relevant to your hearttype(s), even if you experience euphoria/dysphoria related to other 'types
*mostly but NOT exclusively. ie you experience both, but mostly the one listed
**exclusively OR mostly - i couldn't fit 'mostly' in the poll </3
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thinking that i could as easily call my lab experiment identity an archetrope and a hearttale and it wouldnt change a thing about how i perceive it. thats the beauty of identities, theyre subjective and ever-changing; two beings could have the exact same experience and use completely different labels for it, and none of them would be wrong. i use archetrope because its the label that conveys more clearly my experiences as a lab experiment, but theres also a talehearted aspect to it that i could acknowledge if i wanted to.
I’m so excited for The Ghost in the Shell (2026). I was introduced to it through Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004), and those films resonated with me as an alterhuman. As did these films’ interpretation of Motoko Kusanagi. Her journey with her identity is like my own, although I’m personally not a cyborg. Whenever I had the time, I’d re-watch both films. When a work fiction or multiple works of fiction really click with you, I think the best part is revisiting everything and finding details you might’ve missed the first time!
I also wanted to check out other versions of Motoko’s story, starting with GITS’s source material. I wasn’t all that surprised when I learned every prior adaptation for GITS exists as its own continuity apart from the original 1989-1990 run of The Ghost in the Shell (I take it as a TMNT or Transformers type of situation); I caught the visual differences between 89!Motoko, 95!Motoko, and SAC!Motoko pretty early on. I figured there had to be some sort of explanation behind that.
Both Shirow Masamune’s manga and Mamoru Oshii’s films are major hearttales of mine. I can’t wait to see the original manga get a faithful adaptation, especially when it’s been thirty-seven years since its serialization. Its lighthearted moments are really appreciated. I feel a little closer to Motoko that way, like I’m getting to know her and not The Major.
In any case, I look forward to this summer. This isn’t exactly a niche thing to have strong feelings towards (Exhibit A: Oshii’s 1995 film inspired The Matrix by the Wachowski sisters), but Motoko and her story mean the world to me nonetheless. Both being captured in their rawest form is a win in my book!
Stuff I'm on-and-off questioning because fuck it, I literally made this blog to openly talk about the parts of my alterhumanity I don't feel comfortable bringing up on main
Lucifer as a fictotype instead of a flicker
Hearthome of (or some other connection to) abandoned buildings
Hearthome of the Superstar Daycare, or the Pizzaplex in general?
Hearthome of Xadia (or TDP as a hearttale?)
Some kinda connection to music, possibly copinglink (music is an emotional outlet that helps me deal with stress/anxiety/overload, among other things)
An individual who has a strong connection to a story whether it is fictional or real in an integral level. Those who are Talehearted might feel a sense of belonging, familiar or otherwise deep bond to the story, it's characters and/or messages. As if they are supposed to be part of this story and/or it's world, or the story parallels their own life in one way or the other, either through the messages of the story, plot beats and more.
It is a term inside the umbrella of otherhearness. It might also fall in line with fictionheartness and/or hearthomes.
Heart-tale
The story who the Talehearted individual has a strong connection with. As said before, it can be either a fictional, real or otherwise based on reality; it can be a singular event/arc of a story, or different versions of that story.
How its used:
"I am Talehearted, my hearttale is ____."
Who can use it?
Whoever that feels that this describes their experiences! Otherkin or not, anyone can is free to use it. But, I would prefer that those who fall under my DNI didn't interact directly with this post.
Thank you so much for reading this, I do wanna come up with a symbol for it (which is the reason this took me so long) but if anyone else would like to do a flag, symbol or anything of the likes, feel absolutely free to and also to tag me in it!
I might edit or add more to this in the future!
And also I hope that this is a term that people can relate to and use! ^^
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i experience each of my hearttypes in such different ways
domestic cats feel like family. i've always lived with cats/had one or more cats live as part of my family, so it makes sense. i care so deeply for them. i have quite a few feline behaviours too, to the point i've questioned feline kintypes on various occasions.
ash fox (fantastic mr fox) - it feels like i should be him, i want to be him, i identify with him, i relate to him on so many levels. but i'm not him.
life is strange: before the storm feels like part of me. it almost feels like it is me, or i am it. but not quite. every aspect of it makes me feel something i'm not sure how to describe. it's almost like a sense of longing? i wish i was living in that universe and it makes me quite unhappy that i'm not, and never will. certain things i do/say/experience/etc make me feel a sort of euphoria, or validation i guess? especially when they're things i've always done or said even before playing the game.
interesting how each of these different aspects of my identity can be explained by the same label. shoutout to the term 'otherhearted'
'What do you identify as and how did you come to that conclusion? Describe your kintype(s) in detail.'
- prompt by @/everchangingmimic
i am: a coyote, a barn owl, chloe price (sort of), shadow hare conceptkin, a dog (sometimes), felinehearted, life is strange: before the storm-hearted, american rust junkyard-hearthic, subalpine region of the rockies in colorado-hearthic, forest kingdom of tyto-hearthic, and arche-2000s older brother.
coyote:
i originally thought i was a grey wolf, but that never really sat right with me. it felt like i was putting on a costume, and just pretending to be a wolf. whilst i related to a lot of the canine behaviours of wolves, it still never felt right saying i was a wolf. i eventually dropped that kintype, but still felt a canine-shaped hole in my identity.
i kept coming back to a researching coyotes, but each time i would dismiss them. i have no idea why i didn't want to be a coyote. i very briefly kinsidered being a grey fox, before returning once again to coyote. the nail in the coffin was me trying on a coyote tail i bought, and feeling instant species euphoria - more so than when i wore other tails. that was what my tail was supposed to look like. shortly after that i accepted that i'm a yote :)
barn owl:
this one was significantly easier to kinfirm. i was sitting on the couch, listening to 'as time flies - ty's music', and had this insanely vivid daydream about flying, and realised that i knew exactly how it feels to fly. not in a plane, but with my own wings. that song sounds like what flying feels like to me.
i realised immediately that i was a barn owl, but forced myself to research other owls because i've loved barn owls all my life, and assumed i was just biased lol. didn't take long at all to kinfirm barn owls - specifically tyto alba based on appearance and habitat, but honestly t. furcata and t. javanica are close enough appearance-wise.
i've also kinsidered t. multipunctata, and am still lowkey kinsidering it, but the owl portion of my identity is obviously already occupied, so figuring out whether or not i'm another creature that acts incredibly similar is pretty difficult.
chloe price:
i consider this a vaguetype, because it's a pretty complicated identity. i am her, she is me, we are the same, but we are individuals. not different, just individual. like you took a lump of clay and divided it into two, and now you have a chloe-shaped lump of clay, and a me-shaped lump of clay - but those two lumps are still made of the same clay.
i actually discovered this identity months before i confirmed it, but brushed it off because as a nonhuman i felt weird about identifying as/with a human. i now know that that was silly, and doesn't make me any less nonhuman.
i feel like i've always been living a life adjacent to chloe's, and have always had certain habits and mannerisms that are very chloe. i don't believe in alternate universes or past lives or anything like that, so both me and my life being so similar is genuinely just a coincidence that i'm not sure how to explain.
felinehearted:
once i learnt what 'otherhearted' meant, it was sort of obvious that i was felinehearted. this hearttype technically only extends to domestic cats, but 'felinehearted' is simpler and close enough that i don't really feel the need to get specific with it.
my felinehearted identity is 100% caused by imprinting. there's been only two periods in my life (only around a year in total) where i haven't lived with at least one cat, so i really do see them as family.
this identity has also caused me to question feline kintypes on multiple occasions, but each time i realised that my behaviours were caused solely by the hearttype, and not an undiscovered kintype.
life is strange: before the storm-hearted:
this one is obviously related to my chloe fictomere. i confirmed this one before i confirmed chloe, and found it a lot easier because of the whole "not wanting to identify as/with a human" thing.
when i say lis:bts is a hearttype, i mean the whole game, down to the soundtrack, locations, characters, storyline. everything.
the reason this is a hearttype boils down to it feeling incredibly important to, and inextricable from me and my identity. it's not like with cats, where i feel like they're family. it's just important in some unknown way.
american rust junkyard-hearthic:
again, related to chloe and lis:bts. self explanatory, the 'american rust' salvage yard from lis1 and lis:bts is my hearthome. i confirmed this one quite a while before the other two lis:bts related identities.
subalpine region of the rockies in colorado-hearthic:
another hearthome, again pretty self explanatory. this one is related to me being a coyote. it's 100% what my natural habitat should be.
arche-2000s older brother:
an archetrope. i am a 2000s older brother - just not literally of course, i was only born mid 2000s. it would be more accurate to describe myself as being the trope of 2000s older brother - hence of course, 'archetrope'.
Sorry for the random message, but could I ask what hearttale/talehearted is? :o I tried to just look it up, but all the search results were about The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, aha
2 months late but here you go! the original coining post for talehearted and the updated coining post
Talehearted: An individual who has a strong integral connection to a story whether it is fictional, real or based on real story.
Those who are Talehearted might feel a sense of belonging, familiarity or otherwise deep bond to the story, it's characters and/or messages. They might also feel as if they are supposed to be part of the story and/or it's world; the story parallels their own life in one way or the other, either through the messages of the story, plot beats and more.
Hearttale: The story who the Talehearted individual has a strong connection with.
A Talehearted individual's heart-tale could be a fictional, real or otherwise based on reality story; a singular event/arc of a story, or different versions of that story; any story in a genre and/or that hold specific theme(s).
