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What's This Blog?
Hey all! Just your local dream dragon here. I've decide to make a side blog dedicated to specifically host/hoard (tumblr specific) alterhuman information.
You can find my more personal blog here @that-dreaming-dragon
I will be posting/rebloging important information as I find them.
Blog is open to submission (I'm not sure how that works however, so bear with me)
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eBook: Inbox Zero+
We've just finished compiling 167 pages(!) of plurality-related asks into an ebook.
Featuring questions like:
Am I plural?
Am I really plural?
Is this experience normal?
Is this experience possible?
How do I figure out who's in my system?
How do I talk to my system?
How do I learn how to switch voluntarily?
How can we deal with system members that want to hurt us?
How do you handle bedtime when people won't stop talking?
How do you handle knowledge differences between system members?
How do you cope with confusion and dissociation making it hard to get things done?
How do we come out to people as plural?
And more!
You can get the ebook in PDF and EPUB formats for free (donations are welcome, though)!
guide to making your system a nicer/more functional place
(disclaimer: this is what works for us, but everyone is different and as such may have different needs)
⭐️ Punishments, isolation, and jailing do not work. Do not use them.
⭐️ Try to understand why your headmates do the things they do. Research where that behavior comes from, try to note triggers.
⭐️ Be conscientious of each others' triggers (front triggers and other triggers). Try to learn what they are. Never share them with outsiders.
⭐️ Don't try to internalize singlet-style relationship types. You will not fit neatly into boxes of siblings, friends, partners, coworkers, roommates, or lovers. You are headmates.
⭐️ Have individual headspaces AND a collective headspace if you can. You can have houses, doorways, statues, fucking trees, whatever, in a circle in your collective headspace representing your individual headspaces. This way you are all connected, but have your own spaces. Have a collective meeting space in the middle.
⭐️ Try to make sure everyone has a name. Even if it's just "The Blue One". Unless a headmate specifically requests not to have a name, of course.
⭐️ Headmates can communicate in all sorts of ways. Not just words, but images, emotions, internal and external body language. Be open to listen.
⭐️ When looking for a headmate's "age", you are really looking for: emotional maturity, ability to understand complex topics, ability to consent to sex, ability to cope with an adult life, food preferences, communication style, and headspace appearance. It is most often not a literal age.
⭐️ If roles aren't natural, don't seek them.
⭐️ Put clear, honest communication + understanding above rules and everything else.
❤️ Regarding romance: It is a societal construct. Highly likely not to fit your collective needs. Take from it what you want. If it doesn't serve you, let it go.
[This list is likely to be edited for updates]
collection of plural resources:
beginning:
What is plurality? (link)
Am I plural? (link)
New/Questioning system (link)
Plurality hub (link)
Plurality resource (link)
guides:
Multiplicity links (link)
Healthymultiplicity (link)
DIS-SOS (link)
First person plural (link)
The plurality playbook (link)
Multiplicity database systemology (link)
A system's guide (link)
New alter (link)
Unblur (link)
specifics:
System sources (link)
Resources for faceclaims (link)
System communication and journaling (link)
System internet safety (link)
Powertotheplurals (link)
System Comfort's plural resources (link)
Plurality resources (link)
Discussing dissociation (link)
Exploration into endogenic & non-disordered plurality (link)
Endogenic systems (link)
Endogenic systems new carrd (link)
Endogenic hub (link)
Tulpas and mental health (link)
The tulpamancy guide I wish I had (link)
Tulpanomicon (link)
Tulpia.io (link)
The chimera's library (link)
information:
The plural dictionary (link)
Plural terms (link)
Quick'n'dirty plural history (link)
Pluralpedia (link)
Multiplicity and plurality wiki (link)
Kinhost.org (link)
Tulpa.info (link)
Soulbonding info (link)
Soulbonding links (link)
other collections:
DID resources (link)
OSDD resources (link)
services:
Simply Plural - alter logging & chatting (app & site)
Anytype - journaling (app)
Twinote - chatting (app)
Ifake - chatting (app)
Antar - chatting (app)
Fortelling - system logging (app)
Notion - system logging, journaling, chatting (app & site)
Pronouns.cc - system logging (site)
Lighthouse - system logging & journaling (site)
Pluralkit - social bot (discord)
Tupperbox - social bot (discord)
Octocon - social bot (discord)
Firefox Multiacc Extension - multiaccounts (extension)
Feedbro - multiaccounts (extension)
feel free to reblog with more resources, will update as new resources are found! last updated: Mar. 14, 2025
Periodic reminder that alterhuman means a lot of things, and is not exclusively identifying-as-nonhuman. Likewise, fictionfolk is not exclusively fictionkin and fictive. Below are a whole bunch of posts by various folks.
Listing of alterhuman identities that ARE NOT nonhumanity or fictionkinity
with some accidental mix-in of identify-as labels
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Alterhuman is an umbrella term, not a synonym!
A couple of alterhuman terms that are not exclusively nonhuman.
💬 2 🔁 124 ❤️ 177 · Alterhuman is an umbrella term, not a synonym! · Nowadays, I see a lot of folks using alterhuman as a catch-all for not
Periodic reminder that "alterhuman" means a lot more than "nonhuman", "therian", "otherkin", "fictionkin" and all of those combined.
💬 3 🔁 36 ❤️ 95 · Periodic reminder that "alterhuman" means a lot more than "nonhuman", "therian", "otherkin", "fictionkin" and all of thos
An ask for Rani on expanding dris thoughts about alterhumanity not being the same as non humanity.
💬 0 🔁 33 ❤️ 39 · hi hi!!! I was wondering if you can expand on your thoughts about alterhumanity not being the same as non humanity? if no
Masterpost about the meaning and origin of the word alterhuman
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A list of some alterhuman identities and groups (uncut version)
This article is a five-minute read. It gives definitions and sources about (in alphabetical order) alterhumans, constelics, daemons, dragons, endels, furries, fictionfolk, nonhumans, otherkin, plural systems, therianthropes, tulpas, and vampires.
💬 0 🔁 39 ❤️ 53 · A list of some alterhuman identities and groups (uncut version) · About this article This article is a five-minute read.
Breaking Away, Unbound, and Be Beyond
Talking about typical stereotyping and generalization with various alterhuman identities.
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I am once again fucking begging the community to stop writing everything other than identify-as identities out of the word alterhuman and now fictionfolk too
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Quick guide to fictionfolk terminology
Fictionfolk: Any person/being/individual whose identity has a fictional component Fictomere: The object of ones fictional identity Fictionki
Visualization of Alterhuman Identities
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Art credit: MrFroggy on Artfight
Welcome to our hoard of Alterhuman Zines
Welcome to Alterhuman Zines! We're working to archive the wonderful creativity of the alterhuman and nonhuman communities - zines in particular!
We do this by hosting a library of all of the zines we've managed to get our claws on that:
Were made by an alterhuman or nonhuman
Are about alterhumanity or nonhumanity
Our entries are categorized alphabetically by author on our browse page.
We encourage you to download your own pdf copies from our archive!
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Created Knowledge
Being psychological* otherkin, the concept of having a specific type of dragon that I am doesn’t always make sense for me. While I know that I’m a dragon, and a lot of my general features I’ve figured out from noemata (even if they sometimes conflict with each other), there are certain aspects of my draconity which I don’t know in that way. This includes details of physical features, along with some species-related instincts or behaviors. In many cases I don’t think these are things I have yet to figure out - I just don’t think that inherent knowledge exists.
Because of that, I’ve occasionally instead created parts of my draconity and what I consider to be my dragon species (in a sense, filling in the blanks). As an example, I write fiction with dragon characters, and sometimes don’t have an intuitive sense of what the correct body language for a situation should be. In these cases, I’ve often taken inspiration from canine, feline, or even human body language for my writing. Interestingly, because I write using my own dragon species as inspiration, this ends up changing my own species. What wasn’t there before becomes created knowledge that affects my own behaviors or appearance.
This isn’t noemata, which is inherent knowledge about one’s kintype and isn’t chosen. Discussing a bit on the Otherconnect discord, this doesn’t seem to be an experience that’s specific to me. As far as I could tell, there wasn’t any terminology for it, and I think that it might be useful to create some (with ideas below). The idea behind this is to have a word that represents “knowledge about one’s type”, but that could be of voluntarily created origin, or possibly quoilintary or mixed-voluntary. Here I specifically used the word “type” because I don’t think this experience (nor noema) is limited to just otherkin, and that it can apply to otherhearted or otherlinkers.
Just listing out a few of the ideas for a word to describe it that were discussed:
-Aspect could be used to be any sort of knowledge about one’s type, with whether it’s involuntary or voluntary being a modified. For example, “an involuntary/inherent aspect” would mean the same thing as a noema.
-Linkstory or linkcanon could be used for specifically voluntary knowledge.
-Insight could be used to mean any sort of knowledge about one’s type, with kinsight and linksight being the (in)voluntary versions.
*Although I have things that I’m considering could be memories, I still consider myself psychological in nature. Even if my draconity was caused by a previous life, I see my identity as the dragon I am in my current life, which might differ from a previous species or have been formed by aspects of this life.
I didn’t *intend* to reblog this with commentary, but with digging more into the meaning “noema/noemata” I discovered some related terms:
noesis (countable and uncountable, plural noeses)
(psychology) Cognition, the functioning of intellect.
(Greek philosophy) The exercise of reason.
(metaphysics) The consciousness component of noetics, which concerns the duality of noesis and noema.
noeîn, “to intend”, “to perceive”, “to see”, “to understand” (one of the words from which “noesis” is derived)
What stands out to me is that noesis is defined as a) an action, or b) a counterpart to noema.
You’re also right on the dot that noemata and created knowledge aren’t exclusive to ‘kin experiences, and can be applicable to any alterhuman identity.
You Could Be Median!
We've seen some posts lately where people are saying they feel too plural to be a singlet and too singlet to be plural, or that they feel certain plural-ish ways about their kintypes... And, well, we have news for you--there's (possibly) a word for that!
See, while a lot of people see "multiple system" and "plural system" as interchangable, they actually have nuance to their meanings. And there's a third term, "median system", that might actually apply to you!
Some descriptions of the terms, for reference!
This won't be the only term list in this post, but to avoid dumping a ton of terms at the start without context, they'll show up where relevant. For now, though, here's a few.
Singlet:
The state of being one singular person/identity in one body. Synonym for non-plural.
Plural:
More than one entity, self, identity or consciousness in a single body. Simply, being more-than-one in some way. This is more of an umbrella term for multiple and median.
Multiple:
Having more than one distinct identities or people within a body.
Median:
The state of being somewhere between "singlet" and "multiple" on the plural spectrum.
Now, that's pretty vague, especially if this is a new concept to you! What does "inbetween" of multiple and singlet even really look like? The answer is, well... Anything, almost! But that's also vague and unhelpful. So...
Some examples of what being a median system could feel like...
You're like a metaphorical hydra--all part of one dragon, but there's different heads. You might feel parts of yourself arguing or thinking different thoughts, and some might be more in charge at times than others, but in the end, you're all a part of one unit anyway.
You're like a metaphorical coin--you're all one single thing, but there's different faces. Depending on what angle someone looks at you from, they could see something completely different.
You're like a gemstone cut for a ring--all one stone, but there's facets of you that reflect light just a little differently.
You speak to your subconscious, but because that subconscious is you, you feel like you're an inbetween of being just one person and two people. (This can also include things like daemonism!)
You feel like your identity itself is a shapeshifter (not in a kintype way--your identity as a whole).
You're otherkin/fictionkin/etc, and your kintypes have juuuust a little too much separation from you to feel like they're still you, but they're you enough that they're not separate people. They're not entirely distinct from you, but they're also not entirely wholly you, either. (More on this one later!)
You feel too much like a singlet to be plural, but too much like a system to be a singlet.
You age or pet regress, and feel like your regressed self is a different version of you. Sure, they're still you! But they're just different enough that they fall in a grey area of being "you" vs "not you".
You feel like "you" are, in whole, a person wearing a lot of different masks. The masks might make you act a little different, or look a little to-the-left of your normal appearance. All the masks are a part of you, as much as you're a part of them.
You feel like you sometimes have a different "filter" put over you, like a photo being digitally edited. You're still the same base thing, but sometimes there's an extra layer on top that makes you a little different.
You don't feel singlet or multiple, but feel like a secret third thing that's in any way inbetween.
You feel like you're almost a system.
Now, that's nowhere near an exhaustive list, but it's a bunch of stuff we've experienced and/or heard from others in the community. That gemstone comparison is actually common enough for the median version of the term "headmate" to be a sort of reference to how it feels!
Headmate (also alter, system member):
An entity/person that is a part of a system.
Facet:
A type of headmate that is a part of a median system.
There's also a term for identities that blur the line between "fictive" and "fictionkin", because the experience of being median while having identities that feel like fictives and fictotypes simultaneously is so common! (There's now a factbased identity term for the experience too!)
Fableing:
A type of facet in a median system that shares experiences of both fictionkin and fictives, making them an inbetween, adjacent to both experiences, or both at the same time.
Factling:
A type of facet in a median system that shares experiences of both factkin and factives, making them an inbetween, adjacent to both experiences, or both at the same time.
Otherkinity and Median Systems
In particular though, we see a lot of otherkin who say a lot of very plural-y things about their kintypes. While not everyone who says these things is 100% plural and maybe just one or two of these points to nothing plurality related at all... These are things we think are pretty good indicators you should at least consider looking into median systems, even if you've looked into being multiple before.
Your kintypes can speak or communicate to you, disagree with you or each other, or interact with things separate from you. This doesn't need to include written or spoken language, either! Sometimes internal instincts clashing can feel a lot like median facets disagreeing.
Shifting causes you to experience memory loss, amnesia, or anything similar.
Shifting causes a complete gender change, even if previously and after the shift you disagree.
Shifting causes you to act "out of character" compared to your usual self.
Shifting causes a complete sexuality change, even if previously and after the shift you disagree.
Shifting causes you to want to change your name, even if previously and after the shift you disagree.
You don't feel like you're yourself while shifted.
You get thoughts that you don't feel belong to you, and feel like they belong more to your kintype.
You don't feel too much like you are your kintype, unless you're in a shift. (Also check out fictionflickering/otherflickering!)
Your kintypes do things that you're unaware of while you're shifted.
You commonly dissociate during or before shifting.
Your kintypes change your likes and dislikes (for example, while shifted you might hate apples while when not in a shift you love them).
You'd call your kintypes headmates or you feel like they'd be classified as headmates if you had DID/OSDD (spoiler alert, you don't need those to be a system!)
Your shifts cause a full or very strong personality change--especially if other people notice.
You feel disconnected from your body or lose control of your body while shifting.
You come out of a shift and are confused, distressed, or surprised at how you acted during it.
Like I said, not all of these point toward being median if there's just one or two--but, if you have the time to look into it, I'd recommend giving it some thought!
Misc FAQs
Do I have to call myself a median system if I fit a lot of/all of this?
Nope! Your identity is yours to label, and this post isn't meant to shove people into boxes. This is simply meant to inform people of what a median system is, and let people come to informed decisions themselves.
Can you be both multiple and median?
Absolutely! There's plenty of ways this can be a thing, too. Some examples:
Multiple system with median subsystems.
Median system with multiple subsystems.
A system that fluctuates between median and multiple.
A system with a bunch of headmates who are median or multiple (regardless of subsystems).
You could be both at once, which we've seen called "mediple"!
Can you have a CDD (like DID and OSDD) and be median?
Yep! It's commonly believed that most (not all!) OSDD systems often fall under the median umbrella, even! A system of any structure or origin can also have median members within it, regardless of other parts of how it functions.
Can you choose to be median?
As with plurality in general--yes, probably! We haven't seen any guides to specifically form a median system, but we're sure it's possible. Daemonism, for example, is usually counted as a nonplural experience by their community, as daemons are "you" in another font--for lack of better phrasing. But a lot of people do consider this to be a type of median plurality in their own experiences!
Is this an endo system thing?
No. Endogenic and traumagenic systems alike can both experience median plurality, and can also be disordered or nondisordered. The term didn't even originate in endogenic-specific spaces, nor did it originate recently either. "Midcontinuum" was presented as a term in around 1996-1997, and "median" was created in 2002. Some early plural communtiy mentions of the terms:
What is a median? Neither multiple nor singlet.
Us and Being Median:
This was co-written by a median subsystem (Dagger of Decay) and one of said subsystem’s QPPs in-system (Shrapnel). While we don’t reflect the entirety of our experience of having median plurality within our system, we can share what we personally know of our own life in the hopes that it resonates with others in a helpful way.
Being a median subsystem to me (Dagger of Decay), feels like I’m separate sides of the same metaphorical coin. (At least, that was an accurate descriptor until I discovered more facets than just the two.) You look at this coin, and one side might have a picture of one thing on it, while the other has something completely different–but you’d be wrong if you said that this was two separate coins just because it’s different depending on how you see it or how you hold it. You’d also be wrong in saying that the coin only had one uniform side–I mean, it clearly has different pictures on each side, they’re clearly different!
The faces of the coin are the fableings that make up me as a person. If I really wanted to, I could probably label myself as one person with very strong kintype shifts, but that doesn’t feel like it covers the full scope of my identity. I can’t talk to my facets, I also can hardly ever disagree with them because we’re so close to the singlet end of the spectrum. But even still, when I’m Tomura Shigaraki, I’m not really the other facets of myself anymore–it’s like you’ve spun that coin around and they’re the ones who are face down, hidden from sight for that moment. The same is true for when any other one is in control. The coin just sort of flips itself occasionally and oops! I’m the same base guy, but in a different font. A little bit to the left maybe.
The amount of separatedness between us fluctuates–sometimes I say “I” to refer to all of me, other times we say “we”. That’s one of the more noticeable fluctuations between my facets, but there’s plenty of other things that shift and change too–how distinct we feel, how much we can disagree with each other, how much we feel connected to other identities we hold… But in the end, we’re solidly sat in the grey area between “one singular guy with no extras” and “multiple guys in one head”--and it took our system a while to get a hold of what that can mean and feel like, so I hope some people who are questioning or struggling with their identity can get a little bit of something out of this post.
For further reading:
The Dragonheart Collective's "Am I plural" guide.
Allium House's "what is the self?" essay.
Endogenic Hub's "Medians" page.
Otherkin Wiki's Plurality page (section on median plurality included).
Beepbird's "Median is More than People With Parts".
Beepbird's "For Medians: Fronting and Switching Control".
Beepbird's entire median plurality links section, honestly.
Sharing a Likeness
A couple years ago, I talked about a concept called Likeness, or -like as a suffix. I feel like it's still an experience that applies heavily to me and matters a lot to my overall alterhumanity, so I want to talk about what it is, and what it’s like to share a likeness with something.
Likeness refers to being… well, like something. The term “share a likeness with x” is very common in casual conversation, so I’m going off of that. It could be based on how you think, your behavior, your instinctual feelings, your mannerisms, etc. being like something. So for instance, if I was catlike, I might share behavioral qualities with cats. I might have catlike instincts or inclinations, or think like a cat. I think the best way to describe likeness is to say that it’s “when you share a likeness with something on an integral level."
Some stuff I’ve experienced: (Don’t take this as a list of requirements, this is just how I personally experience sharing a likeness with something.)
I feel very symbolically tied to what I share a likeness with. I feel like it could represent me.
I feel instincts, urges, and thoughts tied to what I share a likeness with.
I feel as though I “think like an x,” without actually being it.
I feel as though I understand, or even mimic, what I share a likeness with more than most people do.
I want to look xlike, or have xlike qualities, but not necessarily be one entirely.
I feel as though I could be categorized in a similar place to what I share a likeness with. Similar souls, similar thinking, similar instincts or behavior, similar species, something like that.
I am behaviorally similar to what I share a likeness with in many ways.
The term is meant to be really broad, straight-forward, and simple. What you see is what you get, no funny business or over-complicating it. There will be overlap between this and other things, but I feel as though it’s something that really works for me. I don't think it fits into the framework of "identifying as" or "identifying with" at all, and I don't think you need to have those experiences to share a likeness with something.
In terms of how to use it in conversation, the main way I do it is just using “likeness,” “I share a likeness with x,” or “I’m xlike.” There’s a lot of ways you could word it in a sentence! But, I also made something a bit more differentiated from casual conversation when necessary to do so, which is to use -liken instead of -like. For instance, instead of saying you’re catlike, you could say you’re catliken!
So, any of these would work:
I’m catlike.
I’m catliken.
I share a likeness with cats.
In terms of the official “name” for this experience, I considered otherliken, but to distinguish it further, especially from very similar words like otherlink, I think ostalike and ostaliken is better, more unique, and more distinct from other terms. The prefix, osta, comes from ostali, a word meaning other or different in Serbo-Croatian and Bosnian.
And that’s about it! I might start talking about this more on my blog using the #ostaliken tag, just to use the most unique tag possible. Here is where I originally talked about sharing a likeness with something, though I think I covered all the original stuff in this post. Archiving the OG is still good.
If this is confusing at all or have questions, let me know! This is a really personal experience to me, and I’d be happy to over-explain my experiences because it’s really fun. Bye!
Pararchetrope -> Exemplar
So in my archetropy essays I've been using "patatrope" (from paratype) to mean "similar trope/archetype/motif" and "pararchetrope" to mean "character that feels like a paratype due to fitting an archetype".
But I'll be the first to admit "pararchetrope" is an awkward mouthful to pronounce, and I was hoping I or someone else might stumble onto something better.
How about the word "exemplar"? Even in it's completely mundane current meaning, it fits the bill. Something serving as an example or model of a particular concept.
To me, Pearl, Gawain and both Sir Carrots are exemplars of the paladin archetype, and thus activate archetrope feelings.
Pencorpus
(pen-COR-pus)
From Latin paene ("almost") and corpus ("body"). Literally meaning "almost a body".
Inspired by the word "penumbra", which is defined as "a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light" or "a surrounding or adjoining region in which something exists in a lesser degree". x
Pencorpus: A term to describe a nonhuman identity that is not experienced in full or otherwise feels hollow, disjointed, fractured, or void of emotion [when compared to an individuals other nonhuman identities].
A group of regularly occurring nonhuman experiences that are not linked to an already known kintype, theriotype, or other personal nonhuman identity; not categorized wholly as a cameo shift or otherwise made up of too many moving parts to be easily described as a cameo shift; not inherently connected, but often times experienced within close proximity of each other; important to someone's experience. A pencorpus is considered an identity or state of being purely because the body or mind is experiencing itself as that thing, not because of a spiritual or emotional connection.
A pencorpus is not a singular experience, but rather a way to describe multiple shifts or experiences without having to explicitly describe each one. A pencorpus may be made up of different cameo shifts, residual shifts from anteatypes, or any other combination of experiences. It is is a labeled bag to throw things into so that you can talk about them more easily.
Examples and usage:
"I used to be a bird and sometimes still have phantom wings. Sometimes I have an equine cameo shift that overlaps with my wings. When this happens, I like to say I have a pegasus pencorpus."
"I have a rabbit paratype and a deer paratype. They have different sources and I don't consider them to be connected, but sometimes I feel them both at the same time. Its easier to call them a jackalope pencorpus when I talk about it."
"I have cameo shifts all the time, and sometimes I will have four or five different shifts in one day. When this happens, I call it my chimera pencorpus."
Permissions:
The pencorpus label is for alterhuman/nonhuman use only, and is not connected to radqueer identities. This label is inherently harmless and was made to better articulate a pre-existing phenomena within a specific community.
Reason for coining:
This term, much like satellotype, was created for my personal use. Anyone is free to use it (I would be happy to know that I've helped others articulate themselves), but do note that this is me looking at myself, as opposed to me looking at the community.
I have a lot of cameo shifts. I am the type of beast who can call upon any phantom sensation at will. I have been since I was 7 or 8. Many times, I default to a gillman. Not always, though, and when I'm not a gillman, I have a variety of cameo shifts. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes its only one, sometimes I experience them all in a day one at a time. If you take all of my regular cameo shifts and shove them together, I'll look something like a jersey devil. Sometimes the specifics change, but this has been happening regularly for over a year, with some of the cameo shifts that make it up having always existed in me.
Like cameo shifts, I experience being a jersey devil without identifying as a jersey devil. But this is not a jersey devil cameo shift, it is a collection of unrelated, regularly occurring cameo shifts that resemble a jersey devil. I could, if I wanted, just call it a jersey devil 'type and move on. And many others would likely do just that, instead of coining a new term. But I have no emotional attachment to jersey devils. They mean little to nothing to me in the context of being nonhuman. It's void of all the meaning that many of my other 'types hold. It's an experience I want to talk about without attributing it more significance than it has.
There is also the question of "why not call it a cameotype?" And it makes sense, since we often talk about cameo shifts, but a cameotype is an earlier name of the paratype. And a pencorpus is, in my opinion, the spiritual opposite of a paratype. It's something you experience that is a bit disconnected from yourself, that holds little importance despite it being a state of being, as opposed to the emotionally or spiritually significant paratype.
Pencorpus is a bit vauge. It's very clear in my mind, but hard to pin down in a concrete way. I did my best to explain it, but if anyone is confused or has any questions, feel free to ask!
Dragonmarrowed
A coining post for people who have a dragon marrowtype, or who feel somewhere between dragonhearted and dragonkin. Some possible reasons for this (taken from linked coining post and dragon-ified) include:
• Having had a past life as a dragon, but not feeling as connected to it in this life
• Rejecting humanity so much that one feels more draconic
• Experiencing notable shifts such as phantom tails, claws, scales, eyes, or other draconic features or behaviors
• Being so connected with dragonhood that the line between identifying "with" and identifying "as" is blurry
• Not understanding the difference between dragonhearted and dragonkin, thus feeling unable to align with either label
The flag colors I chose were green for nature & any land- or mountain-dwelling dragons, blue for water-dwelling or sky-dwelling dragons, white for unity of all draconic folks and feeling like a dragon in one's bones, purple for the mystery surrounding many dragons and for dream/fairy/spirit-related dragons, and gold for empowerment, diversity in the community, and radiance.
Tagging: @rotten-replica @radiomogai
(I've never coined anything before please don't be mean to me 😭)
I thought of a silly alternative for alterhuman
Anthrodivergent.
Rambles about my dragonite heartlink up ahead
*heartlink - pseudo term I made for myself, basically a linked hearttype
I don’t really feel the desire to continue linking dragonite. I’m a bit sad about it, but there’s not enough compelling factors for me to want the link.
accidentally mistyped something but on second glance it seem like a good funky word to use identitype
So, having some more use for this pseudo-term, I should think on pseudo-definition more as well?
Identitype
A word to describe the totality of identities and alterhuman ‘types one may have. Essentially a word splice together from identity and ‘type.
A word to be use either as a all-encompassing word for your alterhuman/alterbeing identities and ‘types, or just a general descriptor for any number of your ‘type within a conversation.
Finally! I created naturesoul's symbol, I'm sooo happy. :)
I want to introduce you the official symbol of naturesoul (or naturanimae), alterhuman term I creates for those who identify as souls. You can read more about it here.
EDIT: Here you can find all info about naturesoul, definition, symbols and flags. :)
Name of this symbol is harmonia mundi, which means harmony of the world in latin language. Here you have explanation of this symbol:
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Dot in the central part represents Mother Earth and the energy of life and creation, everything has that energy.
Pentagram represents the elements and nature.
Small drops coming from arms of the pentagram represents that everything has the same beginning and is created from the same energy.
Long drops represents souls, like a circle in a pentacle, they represent the harmony of nature, they are connected with it and are part of it.
The whole harmonia mundi symbol represents world's structure and roots of souls, from dot to drop. Also represents close and spiritual connection with nature and being part of it.
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And here you have both flags with harmonia mundi, original flag which I created as first and second alternative flag:
What do you think about this symbol? Let me know! :)
Naturesoul - new alterhuman term for all souls.
Since I can remember, I see myself as soul in human body, soul created by Mother Earth from part of her own soul. I see Mother Earth as thinking and feeling living being, she's not immortal, she was born and will die, like every living being. Soul is that real living being, souls can live free between incarnations, so soul can live without physical body, but body can't live without soul. I would call it soul, not spirit, because it's not only that energy of life, it's living being with personality and memories. All souls are connected to each other and to Mother Earth, it's something what humans call sixth sense when other animals feels things they can't explain, it's that connection, for humans it remained only in form of empathy. This is how I see world since I can remember, sometimes I can see free souls (without physical body), sometimes I can feel them, unfortunately human body is very limited...
I know not everyone will see world like I see, so there can be different beliefs and perspectives for every soul, but I want to create that one term where every soul can fits.
Most souls in physical incarnations feels connection with body and are not aware of who they really are (souls), but some souls can't feel that connection, like me. I'm sure there is more souls like me, living on this world with disconnection with physical body and aware of who they are.
Being soul in human body makes me part of alterhuman, but I can't really fits to any term... I joined some communities and beings there never met someone like me, they said I'm otherkin and soulkin, but I don't like that soulkin... So maybe there are so few souls nowadays that it's hard to meet one, or other souls don't want to be associated with current otherkin, I don't know... To be honest, I don't feel like I can fits there, don't get me wrong, identity is very important end personal thing, everyone can be who they want to be and how they feel, and they should be! But... being that primordial/basic part of nature and being classified in the same term that animals, dragons, video game characters etc feels like I really can't fits there... It feels like... I'm too boring as being to fits current otherkin where are so many different and amazing beings... :( So that's why I created new term, only for souls, it will be new term for otherkin origins, for all souls on this world who are disconnected with their current physical incarnation.
Naturesoul or naturanimae (from latin: naturae = nature + animae = soul, can be translated as "natural soul") is new term (label) for all souls who can't feel connection with their physical bodies. Naturesoul identify as souls in human bodies, not humans, they feel disconnection with current physical incarnation and can see it as "clothes" for soul. Can also feel spiritual connection between them and nature, their beliefs can be connected to nature and feels as part of nature. In the same time they can partially identify with any creature's characteristics from their previous incarnations in which they felt good, for example as soul they can feel connection with cats (similar to otherhearted), they also can miss qualities they had in previous incarnations such as flying (bird incarnation). So they can feel some connection in different ways with their previous incarnation.
Contrary to popular belief that soul has no gender, naturesoul can identify with any gender identities (because of previous incarnations or experiences), but agender and gender neutral can be frequent, can use any pronouns. They can experiencing dysphoria because of disconnection with human body or any gender identities they feel, also can be genitalfluid/sexfluid which can be related with seeying their body just as "clothes". Naturesoul can be any sexuality and romantic orientation.
Flag:
White represents soul and primordial/basic living being.
Blue, green and brown represents colors of nature, sky, plants and soil.
Black represents human body/physical incarnation and humans' distance from nature.
Distance between white and black stripes represents disconnection between soul and human body/physical incarnation.
Pentacle (in second version) represents close and spiritual connection with nature and being part of nature, it's also symbol of nature.
I hope this new term will help those who can't really identify with all these terms that already exist. Tell me what you think about it. If you're soul and reading this post, please chat me, I want to meet more beings like me. :) If you read this and you know any other souls, please share it with them.
EDIT: In that post you can find alternative versions of flag and there is official naturesoul's symbol which were created later that this post. And also post with all informations about naturesoul, definition, flag and symbol. :)
