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Heyo! This is Ryuu Yumemoto. Whenever I saw questions about getting alterhuman feels or shifts, people 9/10 times talks about meditation if spiritual, quadrobics and masks if therian, and I dislike how those are always the default answers. It leaves so very little else, when they just don’t always work for everyone. So have a list to try out.
Updated May 04, 2026
- added links for conceptual alterhumanity, found under ‘Type Specific subsection, under “Conceptfolk”
This is gathered with the collective input and observation from the various alterhuman discord servers and other socmed spaces I’m in.
And it seems like this sort of question gets asked a lot, so I decide to drop this on tumblr and my personal site/blog
Remember that any tools and guides can be applicable for any other alterhuman identity discovery!
research articles/scientific journals/books on your 'type
roleplaying
surround yourself with the environment relates to your ‘type
activities (e.g. riding bikes feels like flying, etc)
Media & Entertainment
documentaries/source material on 'type
alterhuman playlist/music
Games that features your ‘types
Films and medias that showcase your ‘types
Others
journaling
doing Q&A/AMA/hot or cold with others, assisted self discovery
food
freewrite/draw
fashion/gear/fursuits/cosplay/costuming (a list starting by @maybe-a-cynic)
Im making a big ass thing on notion
Basically, it is a giant catalog of therian and otherkin gear.
From ears and tails, to collars, to win
engage in your 'type's behavior with people who are accepting and close to you
engage in ‘type behavior in general, including vocalization or voice training
quadrobics if quad ‘type
body mods such as tattoo (a little bit more permanent)/makeup
read upon other folks’ experiences
*meditation frustrated me on how to categorize it. It definitely span across the psych, the spirit, and just metaphysics at times.
Guides by others
If interested in the specifics and details of some of these methods, Hemlock has written this guide in the Alterhuman Community.
Another detailed listing of various ways of getting kin euphoria by Tigris (@transfelid) Kinrichment — Expressing Nonhumanity and Indulging in Kintype-like Behaviours
Otherkin: : Identifying Your Otherkin Species :
How would one get started in questioning their otherkin or such??? I think I have questions but I honestly don't where to even start or what
Links to Dragon Character Builders (Made by Other People)
Collected and published on March 9th, 2025 by the creator of Monster Brain Soup Dragon Builder, Lukas Stormskull
Plurality
The Dragonheart Collectives has made some amazing resources, but I cannot list them all. Fortunately they are all here in a single page. If you have question about your plurality, learning about it, just discovering it, definitely give these a read! (Bonus with other nonhuman and fictional identity educational writing near the bottom half of the page)
Dragon's Roost
For further finding out more of your new headmate, Roger de Camden of the Draconic Wizard Workshop has wrote a very helpful essay on it, do give this a read!
Is That a New Guy or Am I Losing My Mind; or, A Beginner's Guide to Finding Headmates
'Type Specific
*These are tools that can be useful for anyone but provide potentially the most benefit for the related species or 'type.
Conceptfolk
This is not a dragon: exploring conceptual alterhumanity
Exploring Conceptual Alterhumanity, 2nd ed. (Or: the revised and edited conceptfolk essay)
Otherhearted
💬 0 🔁 147 ❤️ 302 · A Short Guide for Questioning a Hearttype · [It is important to keep in mind that while some shorten "identify with" to
Draconic
Flight Rising’s Predict Morphology
> More detailed explanation on FR morphology predictor by Solomon (@majoramasc) tip-for-all-dragonkin
Monster Brain Soup Dragon Builder
A dragon maker made by a dragonkin!
> A bit of introduction here.
Dragonita's Dragon Builder (3D)
For the draconic type. Tools that are similar to piccrew or make-a-creature type of tools provide you with a set of parameters that you can mix and match to get the desired result.
These are not necessary quick and snappy “how to get shift or figure out identity” tools, but rather more reading from resources, especially community essays—to help you understand alterhumanity further. Resonance from here can be just as beneficial in figuring out your own identity or gaining a shift second-handedly.
Massive Alterhuman Resource by @the-otherspace
💬 6 🔁 93 ❤️ 173 · Want to know what I've been working on and why I keep asking for resources?
Check out this enormous list (Google Docs)
General Alterhuman Resources What is alterhuman? (phasmovore) A Timeline of the Alterhuman Community by House of Chimeras Masterpost on the
Alterhumanity Framework by @monsterqueers / Dragonheart Collective
Dragon's Roost
Fictionkind Experience by Arcade Gannon
Fictionkind List
Please do reply with anything additional if you have suggestions!
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Actually Anti-Misinformation: "System Hopping Was a RAMCOA term Appropriated and Bastardized From RAMCOA survivors."
What is system hopping?
System hopping or system travel typically refers to travel between systems. There are two different definitions. One being travel between completely different bodies, and one being travel between subsystems or sidesystems. The former is the much more commonly used.
The Claim:
A rumor has been circulating for a while claiming that the second definition of system hopping was the original and that the term was stolen from RAMCOA survivors.
Examples:
(Those last two are from r/systemscringe, if you're curious.)
Where did this start?
The apparent originator of this rumor is a Tweet made April 10 2021.
There is no record of system hopping ever being used in relation to RAMCOA before this date. Some individuals simply jumped on this as a chance to smear the endogenic community, claiming that they appropriated/stole/bastardized the RAMCOA term.
The user who made the Tweet later deleted it after seeing how it was being misused.
They've also confirmed that, to their knowledge, this term wasn't used in relation to RAMCOA systems before them in the RAMCOA world.
Searches have confirmed this the same. This was not a RAMCOA term before 2021.
How Old is "System Hopping?"
The earliest use of system hopping we're aware of dates back to 2005 on Livejournal.
This was a full 16 years before the RAMCOA association was ever made.
@thelunastusco has reported anecdotally seeing this term frequently in soulbonding and fictionkin communities as early as 2007.
The entire claim is a complete lie that has been parroted in order to smear system hoppers and endogenic systems as a whole.
Bonus: Traveling is Older
Since one of the tweets mentioned that RAMCOA survivors could use system travel instead (which to be clear, they can, because I don't believe in gatekeeping terms), I thought I should address this one too, while also addressing another claim... that system travel is a reinvention of system hopping:
As far as we can tell, system travel existed first as the name for this phenomenon. In 2001, Dark Personalities included a header for "intersystem travel."
LiveJournal had a "traveling & visiting" tag back in 2002.
And a post where this was discussed as traveling has been found in 2003.
Conclusion:
System hopping and travel are both terms originating in the early 2000s in reference to moving between differently-bodied systems.
The rumor that there was any association between system hopping and RAMCOA didn't start until 2021. The lies that were spread as a result ultimately led to the author of the Tweets deleting them.
There is zero merit to any of the claims that system hopping is an appropriated RAMCOA term.
For more on system hopping and what it is, check out this post from @thelunastusco.
So, we’ve seen a fair amount of crap leveled against system hopping.
As approaching old-farts-status within the online plural community, and
"i wish i was around for the old community" "the older community just has that feel to it" MOTHER FUCKER YOU ARE GOING TO BE THE OLD COMMUNITY!! stop romanticizing and past and ROMANTICIZE THE PRESENT!! 10 YEARS IS GOING TO PASS NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!! USE YOUR TIME TO CULTIVATE SOMETHING!!!
Additionally, the old community had huge problems with ableism and exclusionism. I cannot stress enough that y’all cannot let wishful thinking distract you from the full picture. We can respect those who’ve come before us, all the discussions they held and the spaces they created without romanticizing them. Regardless of what you think about the community’s current state, it is arguably better than its past.
If the community was anything like it was maybe twenty-ish years ago, I would’ve left. There’s far too many aspects of my alterhumanity that would’ve had me grilled, disrespected and harassed to hell and back. I’ve heard enough accounts from fictionkind who either saw this firsthand or shortly thereafter. Honestly, you don’t even need to go as far as twenty years ago when cases like Tirea Na’vi’s happened in 2010. Don’t even get me started on the community’s history with linking and the concept of choice-based experiences in general.
You can do the things that you see from our communities’ past. The current state of your community has never impeded you from doing that. I may not post my essays on Tumblr as much as I used to, but I still write them and post them to Dreamwidth!
You want forums? Join the Nonhuman National Park! You want to see more discussion and commentary on people’s experiences? Participate in conventions! Be it as staff, as a panelist or an attendee— make connections! Look into ways to safely organize in-person meet-ups and clubs! You want to see more art or other creative works from alterhumans? Boost artists in our community! Download our peers’ zines and games on Itch.io! Read our peers’ writings, whether it’s poetry, essays, short stories or ramblings! I know it feels nonexistent, but our community IS thriving and full of culture!
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I would like to explain how I understand my own identity. I identify as dragonkin, and within my beliefs and experiences, my soul is draconic. However, unlike many otherkin who believe they have lived multiple past lives, I don't believe I have.
This is my first life.
At the same time, I have access to memories that don't belong to this lifetime, yet they don't feel like my memories. Instead, they belong to someone else: A dragon spirit, an ancestor named Aeris.
But with her, this is all a paradox.
Aeris is.. technically me, but also not.
Artwork by Libertades
I can access her memories from when she lived as a dragon. They don't feel like my own memories though, because this is my first life. She truly lived before me, experienced an entire lifetime as a dragon, and eventually died. After her death, she became an ancestor, a spirit watching over the living dragons.
Then something changed.
At some point, Syrinax, my mate, tried to prevent her death. Instead of saving her, whatever he did unraveled her entire existence. Rather than bringing her back, it was as if her life as a dragon had never happened at all.
Her soul was rewritten. It was reshaped into a completely new beginning. And that new beginning is.. me.
From my perspective, this is my first life because it genuinely is. Aeris isn't my past life in the traditional sense. Her existence was erased from history, and my soul is what remained after it was remade. In a way, I inherited fragments of who she was, which is why I can still experience her memories, even though they don't truly belong to me. No one remembers Aeris anymore, except Syr
The closest comparison I can think of is "Back to the Future". Imagine someone traveling into the past to save another person's life, but instead accidentally changing events so drastically that the person was never born in the first place. Everyone else's memories adjust to the new timeline as if that person never existed. Except the time traveler still remembers.
That's essentially Syrinax's situation. He remembers Aeris because he was the one who altered the timeline. To everyone else (including history itself) she never existed. My existence is the result of that paradox.
But there's still one thing that remains unanswered: If Aeris was truly erased from existence, then why does her spirit still exist at all? And why can I interact with her?
Aeris's existence was taken from history, and yet traces of her still remain. Those traces are what connect us today, creating a paradox where I exist as someone entirely new while still carrying echoes of someone who, by all accounts, should never have existed.
Ever since I got started on the new meds, I've had more days as an alive dhole (and as a ???wolf??? Wolf-esque species?) than as a canine psychopomp. My phantom shifts are fully integrated and happen 24/7, so it's been interesting to see (and feel). That used to only happen when I got high, but Orion wonders if my medical marijuana turned me into an 'alive dog' not as a side effect of specifically and uniquely weed, but because it was taking down some of the inflammation and I was using it to combat pain from the worst flare-ups. Which 'types are most commonly represented through shifts changing based on chronic pain isn't something I think I've ever read about, but it certainly seems to be the case here. I wonder if it's an individual quirk of our nonhumanity much in the same way our animal bodies have grown, matured, and aged alongside our physical one? My canine psychopomp kintype had a very specific and numinous Awakening moment, so I know it certainly wasn't outright caused by the chronic pain. But it does seem to be intertwined with it now, almost exactly 10 years after I had that discovery.
Oz: Perhaps being without pain is impacting the way in which your energetic system expresses itself? To the extent of you might skew more towards channels that your existence (be it spiritual or psychological) would gloss as 'alive' due to being unburdened by inflammation. Cyril experiences situational aspect bleed through contingent upon physical conditions as well.
DID or OSDD are independent of origins and can also happen at literally any point in time much later in life (yes this includes systems formed from trauma not being synonymous with having a dissociative disorder. Dissociative disorders aren't "having people in your head" disease)
A lot of skills may be learned and are not definitively set in stone (communication, visualization, etc.)
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"when you feel hurt by something, the question is less "am I right to be hurt by this or was this person justified in hurting me" and more "is it safe for me to communicate the hurt that I'm feeling and will this person care about that?" "
wow ty. can i just say i currently feel this rewiring my brain! i have so much difficulty internally arbitrating if im right to feel smth or hurt /enough/ for it to matter but this breaks tht loop so neatly and practically
ahh yw, I'm glad it's helpful! i think that, at least something I struggled with with this stuff, we can get really caught up in "that hurt, therefore this person has An Obligation towards me somehow," whether that is an apology or whatever, sometimes it felt very imperative for me to use the hurt I was feeling to leverage control over the behavior of the person who hurt me. i think that's pretty normal when you are used to having your hurt ignored and used to having the people who hurt you dismiss you. but learning to see "that hurt" as information that I can choose to share without pressuring the other person to DO anything about it has been SO helpful in my interpersonal relationships. that lack of pressure and blame really makes a difference when talking this stuff out with others in my experience. and ideally the other person finds "that hurt me" to be information that matters, and will be invested in talking about why that is and whether there is something either of you can do going forward to prevent or limit that kind of thing in future interactions, without feeling like you're On Opposing Sides of a fight.
I never really wanted to get into this on here but I want to talk about it now so nobody can stop me.
honestly one of the worst things is that I knew. a lot of people talk about not knowing they were trans until xyz event where they realized and went through whatever hardships and then transitioned. people talk about repression and discovery and all these things. and those are all powerful and important experiences I don't see myself as above them in any way. but I knew.
I was never an egg, I was never in denial. when I was 3 years old I dreamed I was a princess. I know this because my family retells it as a funny story. I tried to wear my sister's clothes regularly, I asked people why there wasn't a word for the reverse of a tomboy, I put on makeup, I used she/her pronouns online since I first learned to read and write.
I don't bring this up to do this "I've always been a woman deep down, so you should listen to me as super valid Mr psychologist gatekeeper". my point is that it didn't matter.
I knew, and it didn't matter. it wasn't an issue of having to figure out who I was and then realizing that. it's that who I am was intentionally killed and locked away at every turn. it's not that I didn't realize I was a girl, it's that I wasn't allowed to be one. I was hurt and punished and sent to conversion therapy repeatedly. I can't "go back in time and tell my younger self to save her years of struggle". it wouldn't matter. it wouldn't change anything at all. the issue wasn't a lack of information. it's a lack of power. kids and trans kids especially are subject to so much abuse and we have no power to do anything about it. it is such a great tragedy beyond words. knowing what you want to do and wear and say and be, that you want this name and these pronouns and that cute dress, and being powerless to do anything about it anyway. forced to wear clothes picked out for you by a guardian, only able to use pre-approved nicknames online. only allowed to engage in these specific hobbies and have these specific friends. all of whom treat you like garbage. but it doesn't matter. it doesn't even matter if you know it's unjust, there's no way to do anything about it. it is perhaps the most powerless position anyone can be in. there is no level of knowledge or personal strength that will get you out of it. you just have to shut off until enough time passes for the law to deem you as worthy of being a person.
I think that's a big part of why I'm like this now, once you see that powerlessness, when you experience the depths of hopelessness and disenfranchisement, you can never unsee it. it does something to you
it's easier to think that I did something wrong. that if I were smarter or stronger or cleverer I could've figured it out. and that when I did get out of that place, that it was due to my strength. but the reality is it wasn't. none of it was my fault, and that's almost harder to handle. there's no amount of trial or belief or hope or self knowledge that can magically warp the world to be kind to you. when I got away it's because I was a legal adult. that's it, that's all that changed. the only thing holding me back that entire time
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fictionfolk acceptance, even within the alterhuman community itself, is so conditional. it's okay to identify as a fictional character - as long as you don't take it too seriously, as long as you can separate yourself from your source to some degree, as long as it doesn't impact your mental health (or even sometimes an outright "as long as you know you aren't actually the character"). it's all dressed up language to soften the underlying sentiment of "don't be mentally ill about it." you can only be fictionfolk if you're doing it in a "normal" and "moderate" way, if you sand yourself down and never step over the line, otherwise you're delusional, you're in psychosis, you need to see a therapist, you're making our community look bad, something is wrong with you and you need to be fixed. whether that's what you mean to say or not, that is what you're saying, and we can tell.
I feel like tumblr's alterhuman community is usually very good about fictionfolk acceptance? But maybe I've just been lucky. But yeah, this is the sentiment I've seen in other branches of the community - both those that skew younger and older than tumblr.
