I only call myself human when it helps me win an argument

When someone calls you by your real name: … hi..

When someone calls you by your username: OMG EEK YAY HII!!

When someone calls you by your fictionkin name: OMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHMJSBKJAOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHOMFGGDHJKSHSKBJKJSHKJGWJHGSJHGJSHUKHDKUGJYGSJHBWKHJBDJHBJHDBHJDBJHBDJHMJSBKJA

you dont have to be palatable to others (cough cough normies) to be valid as an alterhuman or nonhuman or whatever term you prefer

heck, my kintype is a murderer who got trapped in a mechanical rabbit suit but that doesnt make me invalid. i didnt choose this, it formed due to stuff going on around me i cant help

even if your kintype gives you intrusive thoughts or impulses that seem immoral to others, you cannot help feeling those instincts and urges.

listen up, 2024 is our year of going feral and being less palatable to puritans and sanitisers.

any other alterhuman/nonhuman ever accidentally phantom shifted a fursona?

help please i have somehow accidentally phantom shifted parts of a new fursona recently made called Zero Zero whose tail, ears, teeth and sometimes eyes i have completely involuntarily phantom shifted.

I have never had any prior connection to them and they are an original species inspired by an album. i am completely stumped, as usually any cameo shifts i get only last an hour maximum but ive been shifting Zero on and off for 3 days now.

they are in no way an earthen looking creature so its not like disovering a kintype through a fursona, they are red and blue with a skull face.

please any other alterhuman with experience in this area let me know what you think or if anyone has any knowledge of this kind of occurrence id love to hear it

under cut: details of the fursona + reference image, cw for bright contrasting colours

they have red and blue fur and a cat skull for a face which makes things even better but i have phantom shifted the exact tail i drew in their reference and i dont know what to do. here's a reference picture i drew for their blog

I’m seeing a strange amount of alterhumans who are both therians and fictionkin but having two separate blogs for each identity (myself included) and I wanted to see why that is

The reason I dropped all fictionkin mentions on this blog was because in the past, I wasn’t really seen as the character I was, on the same level as the animal species I was. But this whole thing was my experience and I wanted to ask for the stories of others to see if this is a reoccurring thing or not?

Those who don’t mention their fictionkinity at all, what’s your reason?

And those who do share all of their identity on their ‘main’ blog, what has the response been?

And anything else in between, give me your answers!

Vent ish?

Don’t you hate it when you wanna share your experiences and / or memories from alternate / past lives and such, and no one seems interested?

No one asks questions out of the blue, no one seems curious of what you were like or what events happened or who you knew. I ask others questions all the time. Do they ask me things back? No. Not even to be nice. Or when they do ask just to be nice, they only say “that’s cool”, and that’s flippin it. Is it that much to ask for someone to actually be curious and genuinely interested about me and my experiences / memories? I’m not narcissistic, I just wanna be believed / heard / understood.

I’m tired of trying to talk to people about our identities, and they don’t show an ounce of curiosity. Why do I even post anymore? There’s no point to it if no one even cares, right? But I do anyway cuz I just hope that someone who does care will come along magically one day.

Or is it because people don’t know what to ask? Are my identities too complicated to even try to understand? Are they not “normal” enough to be interesting? Shouldn’t they be more interesting *because* they’re more unique? Do I have too many? Do I talk too much about them already on my own that people don’t feel the need to ask any questions? Are people just antisocial? I don’t even know anymore man.

I’m tired, I’m so done rn. Talk to y’all later, for those who do care 🙃

Ps. This isn’t meant to be directed at anyone or to be rude. Just getting this off my chest is all.

For me, being fictionkin (OCkin technically) is basically a reverse iseakai

I was the daughter of the most feared supervillain in the whole city but then I got hit by a car and now I'm in the real world and have to figure out how the normal world operates because I'm so used to the criminal villainous underworld I forgot how to act like a normal person

For some reason I have this feeling the outlines that I have made aren't really.. Good? All I have done is bats and one of a hyena but I can't help but feel like they aren't good. I've been thinking doing fictionkin lineart too but I'm super demotivated at the moment and not sure if anyone would be interested in that.

UK Alterhuman Discord Server

Welcome to Alterhuman UK! Are you alterhuman and in the UK, and want to meet other alterhumans locally? Then look no further!

We have:

-Numerous channels for on-topic and off-topic discussion, including channels for intersections of the community (eg. LGBTQ+) -Accepting of all identities, including endogenic systems and factkin -a short cw list to keep the community safer -a channel for organising IRL meetups -an NSFW section for 18+ folks

Come join us!

Just a reminder that if your pfp is a character or some kind of animal, That is now my mental image of you

I have to confess something, I think…..

OKAY BUT FR ME AND THIS SILLY GUY ARE JUST WAYYYY TOO RELATABLE

IF YOU CARE TO KNOW WHY (which you probably don’t but ig it’s fine) THEN UHH JUST TELL ME X33

RAGGHH BEING FICTION KIN IS SO FUNN!! YALL SHOULD TRY TO FIND YOUR KINS!!!/nf

ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIKE RESEARCHING!!

(Woah tumblr really killed my artblock, I started using ibis again!!)

gripping my sink repeating i dont have to always shift for my kintype to be valid i dont have to always shift for my kintype to be valid i dont-

FICTIONKIN EUPHORIA IS PUTTING ON AN OUTFIT AND REALIZING YOU HAD WORN THE SAME/A SIMILAR OUTFIT IN SOURCE AT SOME POINT !!!!!!

How a hearttype gave birth to a parallel life of a paratype - A view on the connection between spiritual and psychological roots for otherkinity

[Before I start, I want to point out that the following will be my own experience I simply wanted to write down for a while. Neither of what will be written here is there to dictate other peoples experiences or ways of feeling non/alterhuman.]

The one great discussion within our community is usually the differences between spiritual and psychological reasons for one's identity: Which is more real? Which is more valid? Questions like these are talked about a lot and both sides don’t really want to listen to the other point of view. 

This is ridiculous as it is on it’s own, but I feel like many people forget that spiritual and psychological explanations can often be intertwined. There is the obvious: Identity is caused by ones psychologically. 

Yes, the kintype itself may or may not be there because of a past life, but still identify as that being is a psychological process. This is something I do see people talk about sometimes. The root may be a spiritual one, but at the end of the day the process of identification is still a psychological matter. 

What I don’t see people talk about though is the other way around. I don’t know how long it took me to figure out the basic of this one identity I have, because it’s nothing that ever came to my mind. 

It seems to be such an odd concept that I ignored it for so long. A spiritual connection that came to be because of a psychological phenomena. 

It only dawned on me when I thought a bit more about one of my hearttypes: Kuja from the game Final Fantasy IX. 

I still remember, when I first played the game almost 20 years ago it had a huge impact on me. Long story short: Kuja was created for one purpose alone, to wage war. In the end he does something to redeem himself and even though he dies before he is able to actually walk the road of redemption, the other characters in the game see his sacrifice as a source of hope. 

Seeing the man who tried to kill the heroes multiple times to save them in the end because he realized his wrong doings formed a lot of my personal morality. If someone makes the effort to better themselves they deserve a second chance.  As sad as it is, this usually isn‘t the case in real life. 

I consider Kuja a hearttype because his story and character shaped a really important part of my core identity: Pacifism and second chances. But when I grew older and saw more of the world I realized that this isn‘t how our world is made. There are a lot of people who don’t make an effort to become better, and there are a lot of people who do but aren‘t given a chance and somewhere along the line of seeing the world for what it is, a part of my soul, at least that’s what I believe, found another world where the core idea of my morality is the law. 

I had a different parallel life once, one that is now a past life. Through a lot of meditation or introspection the explanation I found for the cause of my old parallel life was some form of split soul, a tiny part of my soul that got separated for some reason long time ago living somewhere else, but all life end one day, even if it’s after 5000 of years and this tiny part of my soul came back not knowing if it even belonged in this world I am now. But shortly after it found a new world, the world I mentioned above. 

My parallel life is a spiritual thing. A piece of my soul inhabited another body in another world but the reason for this to happen was a psychological one, the desire to life in a world where the core of my identity would fit into, a core that formed almost two decades ago. And it’s also not a world that is in any way similar to the source of my hearttype. It’s not that I came up with a world that would fit my needs or desires, it’s not that I started to think what my ideal world would be like. It’s so different from anything I would’ve come up with on my own. Because at first I thought: What if it’s just something I created myself subconsciously? But given how different it is from everything I’ve ever created, and how it just came to be so suddenly after my old parallel life ended I can’t see how it’s something my psyche made up. It was just that I had a desire and a piece of my soul sought out a way to make a spiritual connection to something that may could fulfil that desire. 

A paratype, with a parallel life, of a hearttype.

Expressing your identity in day-to-day life doesn't have to be bombastic, it doesn't have to be with merch, it doesn't have to be identifiable as what it is by anyone but you.

I do buy merch, there's nothing wrong with doing so. Two of my most prized posessions are a Followers flag I got off Etsy and a Nuka-Cola ammo container that currently holds my mail.

The things that have made me feel more comfortable in my interactions with the outside world, however, haven't been stuff that's inherently Fallout-related. I love wearing baseball caps and trucker hats, so I got a Las Vegas baseball cap and a Nevada trucker hat. I wear athletic shoes and loose clothes with pockets so I feel like I wouldn't be out of place in the desert. I have something around my neck that's important to me but I don't want to show to other people... so I wear a bandana around my neck now and you couldn't look at me and be able to tell it's not there.

People in my life who don't know what fictionkinity and having a hearthome are accept those things as a part of who I am. People have told me that they were told how to find me by "look for the Nevada hat guy", or "he's the one in cargo shorts/pants". They're shocked when I show up not wearing these things. That means they see me as myself, even if only a little bit. I've found it did a lot more for me than things that are obvious.

U know, I think if I ever made an essay about my otherkinity, the subject would probably be about how I experience all of them through the filter of Current Me Now