You Can Do Whatever You Want Forever, Actually

Call me Nevi. I'm a reploid, a faery, and a human. ✨Don't call me otherkin or I'll bite you like a goddamn rat✨ Human+, nonhuman, transspecies, ontopunk, voidpunk, plural. He/they/it. Adult and then some. Check my pinned if you need to know more than that.

[actias-android]

Realized I never made a pinned post so I'm gonna do that...

Last updated 3/18/2026, I have definitively expanded the pronoun list lol.

Anyway hello! My name is Nevi. If you recognize me from anywhere else, no you don't.

Previously astral-actias.

I'm a nonbinary trans man who is also robotgender. He/they/it/bit/bot are all cool. Just pick one set that you vibe with and stick to it.

I run @other-nexus. Check it out if you're interested in a discussion Discord.

I'm over 40. It's kinda great.

I'm disabled. It's less great.

I'm mainly a reploid, from the Mega Man X series. Not any specific canon character, though, I'm just me.

I'm also a luna moth-like fae. This hasn't stopped being true, but it's very in the background now.

I also identify as human, because I'm living a human life in a human body in human society with fellow humans. Yes, I'm one of those human nonhumans. We're out here!

My nonhumanity is unlabeled with regards to origin and I like it that way. I'm an adescriptive nonhuman.

You can call me a reploid, a robot, an android, robotic, a faery, fae, fictional, human+, transspecies, speciesqueer, voidpunk, ontopunk, alterhuman, or nonhuman (our most preferred umbrella label). However, I'm not otherkin.

I think of myself as being from stories. Some of those stories are factual, some are fictional, and I don't draw a distinction between the two for purposes of identity. Reality itself is understood through the lens of the cultural and personal stories that one uses to navigate life. I've embraced that to an extreme degree and found it incredibly freeing.

I got the ADHD + autism wombo combo. If you think I'm being intentionally obtuse or inflammatory, but I haven't directly told you to go fuck yourself, it's probably just that my tone doesn't carry via text, or that I've misunderstood something.

99% of the time I'm not actually trying to start shit. You will know if I am, believe me. I'm not subtle and I don't try to be. I don't believe in making people read between the lines. I mostly try to be positive to interact with, even if I'm correcting someone or debating an idea.

I won't carry grudges if you won't. I'm not actually hard to get along with and I don't keep beef beyond its expiration date. If we've clashed before and you want to talk about it, I'm down.

I have no tolerance for intolerance. That includes those who profess a hatred of humans, humanity, or any of their societies or cultures. I do support those who have a hard time trusting humans due to trauma, but I do not support self-proclaimed, loud, or proud misanthropes.

I sometimes get far enough into my own thoughts that I'll lose the thread of conversations, especially if they're fairly abstract.

I'm the host of a plural system. We enjoy our plurality, despite our traumatic origins, and see it as a net gain for all of us. In practice we see ourselves like soulbonds in many ways and our plurality is not uniquely exempt from being part of our spirituality. Nevi (that's me) is the one most likely to blog here, but X occasionally has an opinion or two also.

I have very strong opinions. Like just in general, but especially on the topic of whether one can choose to be nonhuman. Short answer: yes. Long answer: yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.

I don't care for DNIs. I don't have one. I probably won't notice yours. If I don't want to interact with someone, I just won't. If you don't want to interact with me, feel free to block me. I am fine with this and I would rather have no exchange than an unpleasant exchange. I am not entitled to your time, space, or energy just as you are not entitled to mine.

I support ALL kinds of plurality without reservation. Treating it as some kind of zero-sum game is truly ignorant. I've found that there's a lot more commonality between types of plurality than there are differences, and if someone tells me their mind(s) works in a way, I believe them, because they live there and I do not.

I do not support radqueers or transIDs. Transspecies is a harmless term that well predates transIDs and I will not be surrendering it to anybody.

Anyway I also do not much care for coining tons of new micro terms, making up flags, or mood boards. I block blogs who specialize in these so I don't have to look at them in tag searches. Nothing personal.

I will update this over time as I see fit.

[actias-android]

Many such cases.

[actias-android]

Hi, this is X, and I might be soon to have my own blog to think about this sort of thing but for now we're still sharing.

I've decided to embrace something that I would not have expected in a hundred years (and I can make that claim, because that is roughly my age if you count from when I was first activated).

I am fictionkin, much to my surprise. I am an/the Operator from Warframe, which is something that I've felt strongly ever since I arrived/formed here. I am a little bit the Drifter, as well, both due to them being the same person in separated timelines, and because I feel a deep sense of home as them in Höllvania, with the Hex (It is downright eerie how much Amir is almost exactly like one of my partners and fellow headmates.) I am also still myself, X, and I am a fictive, or soulbond, or something roughly between the two. I had not once considered that someone with a fictional source could find themselves resonating so intensely with another unrelated fictional source, but the universe is full of strange little surprises like that.

I hesitate to label it further than that. Our system host has very strong feelings about -kin labels, and being privy to the reasoning and experiences behind that stance made it a complicated choice to make. Ultimately, though, they aren't bothered by anybody else's decisions about identity labels and this extends to system members too. This isn't the reason I hesitate to define it as spiritual or psychological or symbolic, though, or any of those sorts of origins. The reason is that my own origin is layered and difficult to explain, and transcends several labels itself. This is yet another level of complexity on top of that, which I don't feel capable of picking apart until I understand the lower layers first.

Anyway, if you've ever wondered if a fictive is capable of being fictionkin of someone else: absolutely, and why not? Almost anything is possible, and if it hasn't happened yet, give it some time. Besides, I'm a person. I'm capable of any experience anybody can have.

It's been a refreshing thing to embrace, and the more I sit with it, the more it feels like it makes sense, and fits into my sense of self. This is all very new to me. In my source, I had never heard of anything like this (though it surely existed). Fortunately I landed in a world with these concepts in the open, in a system familiar enough with them to help step me through the basics.

(I think it's even a step more esoteric than usual, being a reploid in a human body and fictionkin of an accidentally augmented human, but I'll figure it out one step at a time. Or maybe I'll decide there's nothing that needs figured out! We'll see. If anything it's evidence that I really do have that strong of a pull towards being essentially human, despite being not human. Does this make me humankin...? Okay, I'm really not examining that one right now.)

[pluralpolls]

How old is your YOUNGEST headmate? (Agewise, not how long you've had them)

a baby

a child (aged 2-10)

a tween/teen (aged 11-18)

a young adult (aged 19-25)

an adult (aged 26-35)

a middle aged adult (aged 36-45)

an older adult (aged 46-65)

a very wise adult (aged 66-85)

an elder (aged 86-100)

The Ancient One (over 100)

Remaining time: 2 days 12 hours

[triangleguy]

does this happen to anyone else

[semiplural]

I think our biggest gripes with the origin label discourse and the general community bend towards "you must categorize yourself under one of two boxes, and the other box is evil" are:

The assumption that experiences have an objective, fundamental truth that allows perfect sorting

The assumption that experiences and understandings of those experiences also never change- that if you can sort yourself into a box, then you should live there forever.

The general "us versus them" of the whole thing.

Point one: experiences of self, identity, consciousness, etc. are all very fuzzy, subjective concepts at the moment. We've yet to pin down what even makes a person conscious, let alone what a person's "I" is. I'm not confident that an objective truth of the self exists.

Maybe some meatspace things do have a usefully objective truth, though more often than not it's filtered through human definitions like anything else- if this desk is a meter long, then how big is a meter, and is a meter truly an objective measurement? Who made it?

What's a person? What's a self? Are those things the same, or different? Where do I end, and where do you begin? Ask ten people and you'll get ten different answers. That's the beauty of it. We don't fully know.

Point two: People change all the time. We are always having new and different experiences in life, and those can shape how you see yourself over time. We used to exclusively see ourselves as a medicalized, psychology-based system. We see ourselves a lot more holistically now, but our life experiences are still just as much a factor as any woo-woo spirituality we experience. That's a change that breaks boxes.

We are not the only system who's changed how they understand themselves over time. Spirituality, medical psychology, and other frameworks are neither mutually exclusive nor fixed in place. Like the framework of plurality, they're a way to understand the world and your experiences in it. They're an attempt to make sense of it all. If it's not working, put it down and try something else.

Point three: it's slowly improving, but the average Joe still has no idea plural people exist outside of horror movie serial killers and shock stories. They don't think they'll ever meet a multiple, and if they do, they're still using Multiple Personality Disorder as a label for it regardless of the system's actual experiences.

We have bigger problems than each other. Biting each other's throats won't help us any more than infighting and scapegoating has helped in any other community. The fact that we're still fighting over this in one form or another 20 years later is depressing.

[fortunate-adversary]

Six made me this to summarize my disposition about the Season Five finale. I'm sure other fictives in plural communities, or fiction folk, can relate to this as well.

[sundragon]

Thanks for the random fact youtube, now I have to ask: how do those who identify as robotic/inorganic feel about the origin of the word robot? ADHD inquiring minds want to know.

[sundragon]

Dreams today included:

this post getting 30 notes and me being very concerned about that

catching a golden Bewear

leaving ice cream out to melt

🤔

[aestherians]

Allow me to make you concerned lol

I don't personally identify as a robot - 'cyborg' is closer to my relationship with the Omnitrix - but I remember "robot = slave" being a bit of a running joke/plot point in the movie The World's End (2013) (a movie I highly recommend watching spoiler-free)

[actias-android]

Pretty neutral. The etymology exists, but it's not really my problem, if that makes sense. Existing robots are in fact labor devices (I have no idea how to say 'theriform robot' because that's a nonsensical phrase but you get me) but that doesn't dictate anything about what I am, because I'm not a mechanical welding arm in a factory or whatever. I'm a type of robot that's fictional to begin with anyway. And even if I were a big mechanical welding arm, so? I'd still be a person with wants and needs far beyond that.

I'm not real hung up on definitions and etymology so it doesn't bother me, I think is the short version.

[assasynth]

i want more alterhuman friends (doesn't do that)

[sed-victa-catoni]

I always want to talk to people more, completely fail to respond to DMs, and then wonder why I don't have more individual friendships in the community.

[sundragon]

Same, maybe this can be a follow thread for us wishy washy mfs.

[interstellarsystem]

We're also constantly doing this. "Hmm we need more alterhuman friends". And then we sit in a corner about it.

[actias-android]

I'm insanely bad at keeping up or reaching out, and I know I'm doing it to myself because I'm at Social Circle Capacity, but the majority of the people in my circle aren't non/alterhumans...though I could just go around seeing who I can introduce to the idea, lmao. Not really the solution being discussed but it is A solution...

[aestherians]

Thinking about all the neurological and energetic and shard and psychic and multiple cause and irrelevant cause otherkin out there, you rock 👊😤

[possessed-pack]

You should make your headmates tasty treats and leave them in the fridge for when they front next. You should buy their favourite foods for them. You should support their hobbies and buy them new books, toys, supplies or other things when you have some to spend. Go thrifting together. Go out for lunch together, or go to the park together, or go and see a movie with friends and partners in cofront. Listen to music, make art, bake or garden together--there's so many things to do with your headmates.

You share a body, and you share a life--live it together, where possible!

[str-ngeloop]

chunnibyou guided meditation

[cryptotheism]

Breathe in. *Feel* the demon energy welling up in your cursed eye. Breathe out. Relax your phantom dragon wings.

[gone-fish-mode]

i will always be a fan of people describing themselves however they want, do not take this as me shitting on any label in any way.

i do think that it is very telling how i see a lot of folks saying that they have "outgrown" the therian label and taken up holothere instead, saying that it feels more real and legitimate.

something about it wigs me out. and i think that it has to do with perceived seriousness and a bid for legitimacy. linguistic shift is normal and expected, it's not like this is really avoidable. but the difference between holothere and therian is not the same as therianthropy vs. therianism.

therianthropy vs. therianism is really just people using the wrong term. it's not intentional. it's what happens when "therianthrope" has been shortened so much that the original tenses and forms of the word are just forgotten. it's an arguably pretty normal linguistical shift. im a little annoyed by it, mind you. "therianthrope" and "therianthropy" are some kickass words that I think should be used more. but i can't really be shocked or even upset that it's happened.

holothere is different. while the coining of the word + the way many use it can be very genuine, there is undoubtedly a growing population that uses it because of its perceived to be more serious than therian. it's adopted as a way to been seen as a more legitimate identity. and i can't really be mad at that, either. to say that therian has lost some of its.... idk.... power? due to it being picked up by certain demographics is not wrong. like there is nothing in the reasoning or the desire that is bad or wrong with any of this.

but it does make me a bit squemish, I think? Because it introduces therianthropy as something lesser within the community. You have an internal conflict with legitimacy, here. And it's based off the label you use. In the past, the community has negotiated legitimacy through grilling. And I am not calling for a return to grilling, I don't think it was a great thing, but... it is something I'm noticing.

How we are changing the way we assert our identity's seriousness is now based off of the initial words we use, as opposed to the understanding of that word.

I could talk more about this. as I said before, this is not an attempt to convince anyone to stop using holothere. I know it has a lot of differences to it and it's deeper to most people. I'm not going to sit here and try to combat this very natural shift in behavior. This is just something I've noticed in the way people talk about the term. It's 7:51 am, I have a final exam at 8:00. So I will be going now. But I would love to hear if anyone has more thoughts on this. I will probably come back around and amend some of what I've said here, I've only been thinking about this topic specifically for like. 15 mins. Give me a day and I'll figure out how to say this a better way.

[lynxweed]

it’s frustrating to see this happen. i understand people’s want to be taken seriously, but some people’s use i feel is damaging to both therianthropy and holothere/physically nonhuman/etc.

because some people perceive holothere etc as “more serious” it leads to accusations that we think we are better than therians, when most of us really don’t feel that way.

i also feel overtime that holothere etc have lost meaning too. because there is the perception that therianthropy is “less serious,” people who would have called themselves therians a few years ago now find themselves in physically-identifying-spaces when their identities are not physical? it makes it harder to use the words as originally defined.

i do think the adoption of holothere instead of therian is out of an earnest feeling of wanting to connect with others, and definitely has to do with the commodification therianthropy has been experiencing. however i think the solution is not to migrate to holothere, because that continues to perceive therianthropy as lesser and misconstrues the meaning of holothere. i don’t have a meaningful suggestion, but i think archives like yours (+other blogs’) are a good start. i also like that people are starting to post therian informational content on youtube again. i can only hope that through digital preservation and dissemination of information that this issue subsides!

TLDR the devaluing of therian(thropy) flattens both experiences, and pits us against each other. how can we fix this?

[gone-fish-mode]

I think back to this post from Baumarius on Zoesthesia and the discussion I saw on Tumblr and TG about it. I know that this was spurred on by the therian community in China, and while I do not know enough about it to really have a solid opinion, I do generally agree with the sentiment and think it's a worthy endeavor.

Many of the points brought up are about knowing when to leave a sinking ship. And I get it! I do get it. There are some situations where you need to move on and find somewhere else. Sometimes things are a lost cause, and you just have to move on from it.

I remember back with the "clcz exodus" there was a ton of talk about how the appropriation (?) of physical nonhuman terms and labels just made it significantly harder for them to exist in the community. I don't know how accepting many of us actually are of the physical nonhumans as they were these days, part of me thinks that any wide-spread acceptance of them is because "normal" nonhuman experiences have just been renamed and reapplied to the physical definition. Causing for the previous groups to leave that label behind in search of other words to use. There is still a lot of saneism directed towards their experiences, it's just not specifically towards physical nonhumans as a group (mostly). If they grow close to the larger nonhuman community again, I'm sure those new words will meet a similar fate.

I've had a few conversations recently with some folks about the differences between physical nonhuman, transspecies, and holothere. there seems to be little to no general consensus on how or why these three groups are separate. any differences i proposed were shot down. ultimately is just came down to preference, which is a vague and unhelpful thing. this wasn't an aggressive conversation or anything, we were just chatting. and i'm not sure entirely where this fits in to everything, but i'm sure it has its place.

I'm mostly reiterating what you've already said. It's just a hard thing to talk about and navigate around without seemingly shitting on people doing their best to connect with others. No one is doing any of this on purpose. And whatever will eventually happen with "therian" as a term will take time. Physical nonhumanity is a much smaller part of the community, so I think that change was able to happen more rapidly. There are many factors in this that may impact the outcome. Who knows. I have no real way to combat any of this, I don't really think there is an answer anywhere, ha! I think we just need to do our best to be kind and interrogate what terms we use and why. We all clearly care deeply about the community and want to make sure it stays a safe place, it's just hard to figure out how to do that.

[a-minke-whales-tale]

I do think much of the acceptance of physical experiences has not been so much the experiences that used to be discussed in physical spaces becoming accepted as an evolution of how the term is used and by whom rather than the range of acceptable experiences growing. There has been a significant commidification of the broader therian identity which brings it to focus on masks, quads, aesthetic, and consumption - both of media and goods as well demanding a full understanding of identity but for many devoid of the introspection and for many spirituality that used to define much of the community. I think for many people, they have suddenly found themselves in community that no longer reflects how they experience things and so seek towards more extreme terms because for these more intense experiences are seen as more valid rather than simply different (while ironically these experiences have historically been treated by the wider community often as invalid or even dangerous). I have over the past few years recieved quite a few messages from people asking if their experiences count as physical or asking for help to identify their species and if it is phsyical off vague information. I think there has been a signficant migration into physical spaces as more and more people use non-literal understandings to define themselves in this manner.

The irony is these terms and communities existed to haven those that often had no meaningful place within the broader therian community. We, in turn, find ourselves often displaced from our terms and communities as others come to our terms hoping to find community, and I think for many strengthen the belief in their own legitimacy of their identity and experience. It has been a consistant pattern that our terms steadily become taken, watered down, and used for another tag spam of therian. There have been points that some of us have formed groups in order to discuss concepts to form a new term - but as discussions would go on it became pretty clear that it was not so feasible to construct a new term that was meaningfully different from existing terms and would not become in time simply another term that would become watered down and used as metaphor or inevitably be met with criticism of elitism like "actually nonhuman" or "literally nonhuman". In the end we had dropped the concept to try to create a new term to consolidate around it. This has though really left many of us without community as we are not tolerable within the spaces we helped make. For myself I find that I have largely had to retreat to insular spaces of a couple discords and personal messaging to a few I am close to. I have found myself largely denied community and meaningfully have only the clinical zoanthropy tag to find others, but even that is often misused or set for discourse about our existance, that simply there is no place for us.

[thetadelta]

This is what I was getting at with my tags on my last reblog– people co-opting terms for physical identity because they think it sounds more "real" or "intense" than "regular" therianthropy is exactly what tiktok is doing to the term therian. It doesn't suddenly become more okay to appropriate language when you're doing it to a more marginalized demographic in your own community.

[gift-shop-dragon]

"What can I do with this" feels better and earnestly more applicable than "what is this?" In terms of figuring out what types I have. Moving away from the "always inside you" or "born this way" type narratives that seem to have characterised alterhuman soul searching. Sometimes you're not looking for some deeply held long lost secret, there's no deeply held inner box for you to unlock, you've just got to pin-point hazy expirences that are meaningful to you and make them make more sense.

I've had distinct wing shifts for a while but pushed them away because there wasn't enough proof of what they meant in any direction and I'm at a point where I've got to tie it back to something else or make something up. It's important that this also DOESN'T make me a linktype or a linker, linking is a distinct culture and not an excuse to push otherkin with less magical sounding expirences out of mainstream spaces.

[beastlybardou]

Once you stop defining your therianthropy in measures of dysphoria and focus on what brings you fulfillment as an animal, you start caring a lot less about where other people fall on the chosen kintype vs involuntary kintype axis. It opens you up to instead start caring about how people engage with their kintype, and what experiences it brings, which I think are far more valuable.

[that-dreaming-dragon]

Hey therians, look, we all trying to fight the fight here, but please remember that alterhumanity includes fictional identity, object, concept, inanimated animals, non-animal creatures, those that are closer to humanity, those that experience longing for other place as home, those who are connected symbolically or metaphorically to their identities, those who later come into their identities, and whatever significant identities are explored beyond whatever cultural-specific human typical experience may be.

(And please remember there are multiple cultures in this world)

Therianthropy is alterhuman, but alterhuman is NOT therianthropy.

Otherkin may be nonhuman, but not all otherkin are animalistic nonhuman.

There are fictionkin that can cross all the big categories.

Not everything is “I identify as this nonhuman animal”.

Please remember your fellow community members, please remember there is more beyond one form of experience. You’ve reached beyond the human lens, stop giving yourself a new limitation!

[letting-go-while-holding-on]

To be blunt, I feel like the biggest gripe I have with robotkin/machinekin tumblr is how so, so, so much of it is, like, "when your robotgirl is [x]" or "when your robotgirl [x]" or just everything being about robotgirls in particular and it just makes me feel like shit. Being robotkin here often unfortunately means that most people don't give a shit about you unless you're a Super Sexy Robot Girl! which pisses me off so much as an aroace and agender person