(He/They collectively) Adult (20+) || & || 🖋️ || Alterhuman sideblog, likes/follows from @ProgrammedBeasts! Two slugcats, Palkia, and a wyvern run this blog. (The blog title is silly, humans are always welcome here.) [PFP ID: A blue slugcat with an orange bandana drawn in MS paint in front of a poorly-drawn Nonhuman Unity Flag. ./End ID] [Banner ID: A draw-over meme of Alto replacing Patrick from Spongebob. They are in front of a bench with a nail and board on their head. ./End ID]
Hi! We're The Cassette Crew. (He/They collectively) We are a plural system of 4 nonhuman members! Tee, No Saviour, Alto and The Watcher! You can collectively call us Cass or Program! You can refer to us as people, beings, or creatures!
This is our semi-hidden alterhuman sideblog where we can talk about our otherkin, otherhearted, and nonhuman experiences in a safe zone. We do not maintag very often due to anxiety.
No DNI. We're pro-endo. We love good faith identities, and block people as we please. Decide for yourself if you want to interact with us.
If you'd like to know more about us individually, see below the cut!
PFP credit: Faytouched!
Main: @programmedbeasts
Asks: Open, anon always off.
System member bios:
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Tee 🐾: (He/They/It) You may also call me Giegue or Giygas! System host! Probably the one you'll talk to the most. I'm an easily overwhelmed little creature who's trying my best! Please be patient with me, I'm often scatterbrained.
Kintypes: White Slugcat (Rain World), Black western dragon, battle mech, Giegue/Giygas (Mother), unknown anymic shapeshifter... Gas... Thing.
Kinsidering Jax from TADC...
Heartypes: Caninehearted
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No Saviour 🌌: (He/Him) Hi, I'm No Saviour or NS for short! I don't front very often, but I'm always energetic. I'm a canon divergent Palkia who also identifies as the concept of space! I'm also Pokémon-hearted!
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Alto 🐉: (They/It) The logical one who can't figure out their gender, still. I'm a wyvern that loves to chat with other beings!
The Watcher 🌑: (She/They) Hi I'm The Watcher, or just Watcher for short! I like to lurk around in co-con. I'm a little shy and don't talk much right now, but feel free to say hi!
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Hey everyone, I just want to say that we do not support The Plural Association. Not only has the organisation been poorly managed, the founder system has been banning Black systems from their Discord server and thus making it unsafe for their other Black members and members of colour as a whole. This is being discussed in the Discord server and Plural Community chat, but since those spaces are members-only, not much is getting out to the wider public. We have never been a member so we are hearing about this secondhand. I would suggest not financially supporting TPA from this moment onwards.
I wish you people would understand that “silly wolp :3” stuff has no place in conservation and if your rebuttal to somebody villainizing a wolf for killing animals or livestock is “wolves don’t kill livestock.” Or “wolves are good guys look how cute and friendly this wolfDOG in a video is look” you are actually actively perpetuating wolf villainization. If we judge the wolf, or any wild animal, but especially something that kills other animals off of human morals, we have no choice but to conclude that the wolf is a villain. Wolves DO kill livestock. Wolves kill each other. Wolves kill wild animals. Wolves aren’t good guys. They aren’t bad guys either. We have to judge the wolf based on its ecological role and its necessity to a healthy environment as well as inherent traits about the animal like their social intelligence, endurance, persistence, etc. we cannot fight fire with cutesy sort of nicer fire. It’s still fire. When you judge an animal that is not a human on human morality, it will ALWAYS lead to demonizing.
This whole fucking issue would end so much faster if people would stop responding to people judging the morality of wolves with more morality judgement on the positive side instead of negative. This will never stop until people start popping back with actual evidence and explain that wolves are necessary because they belong in the wild and the ecosystem evolved in tandem with them for millions of years and that killing and slaughtering animals because they are doing what they evolved to do is cruel.
“Wolves don’t kill livestock. Wolves are good and sweet and friendly.” Can be refuted with real actual evidence in a couple of seconds. You’re literally validating these people by playing their game.
Dragons are not "like" anything. Dragons are unique and singular in their splendour. Other things are instead Dragonlike, attempting to replicate our majesty.
I did have a nightmare where I lost my headmates, and I have to say that one deeply affected me. There's a lot I can tolerate, but not having my crew with me is genuinely horrifying. I don't know how I'd make it.
Out of everyone else in the system, I think I struggle with my identity the most.
The others feel fairly comfortable and confident in who they are. They're naturally able to know themselves and express that. Those same feelings for me are like static.
Maybe it's because I have so many kintypes. Maybe it's because I'm just a weird fucking person. Maybe it's because I'm scared to sit and think about it.
But I always feel like I'm roleplaying as someone I'm not. This isn't even in a plural way, because it's only me. Like I can't take off this strange façade that I don't even know if it's a façade.
All of this does kind of scream "CPTSD symptom" typing it out... But I actually don't really know. Any input is accepted and highly appreciated if you have the energy.
Out of everyone else in the system, I think I struggle with my identity the most.
The others feel fairly comfortable and confident in who they are. They're naturally able to know themselves and express that. Those same feelings for me are like static.
Maybe it's because I have so many kintypes. Maybe it's because I'm just a weird fucking person. Maybe it's because I'm scared to sit and think about it.
But I always feel like I'm roleplaying as someone I'm not. This isn't even in a plural way, because it's only me. Like I can't take off this strange façade that I don't even know if it's a façade.
All of this does kind of scream "CPTSD symptom" typing it out... But I actually don't really know. Any input is accepted and highly appreciated if you have the energy.
Btw you cannot claim to support the alterhuman community while being misanthropic.
As someone who is fully and completely nonhuman on every level, you have to care about alterhumans who are still human to some extent.
And attributing the things terrible people have done to innate flaws of humanity itself is to absolve them of responsibility. It is not "human nature," it's not anything about humanity whatsoever, it's choices those people made that hurt the world.
Plus self identified "misanthropic alterhumans" have a tendency to ignore their own role in perpetuating systemic biases. You think because you're not a human you're above humanity, that you can't possibly be a bigoted shithead. News flash: misanthropy is bigotry.
It's bigotry because it pins the blame for the world's ills on some nebulous human nature instead of the people who actually perpetuate this shit. You are blaming the oppressed for their oppression.
Stop using your trauma as an excuse to be bigoted.
I know what’s like to feel the pain and frustration of seeing humans hurt your kind, both as a human and a nonhuman myself. To reiterate: when are you going to stop and think about the SYSTEMIC issues tied to that pain instead of taking the easy way out by blaming and hating an entire species for existing?
I am Black. I have my own track record of trauma involving white humans. I spent all my whole life in the Southeast U.S. where this is no shortage of white republicans, itching to peddle their racist rhetoric. I was made a target of racism by a white human boy in the first grade. Yet, I’m also aware that it had nothing to do with his species. It has everything to do with the privileges many white people have been allotted in my country and the constructs they’ve either been taught or have adopted into their world view against marginalized communities like mine. I recognize that they alone aren’t the only arbiters of racism, let alone antiblack racism. Racism is systemic.
Day in and day out, I’m sick at the thought of human farmers and agriculturalists poisoning my species (vultures) because they deem us as “pests” when we have just as much of a right to live as they do. Not to mention these poisonings have led to many of my kind’s endangerment and potential extinction. Yet, I also know that there’s plenty of human conservationists busting their asses to save us, reverse the damage that has been done against our populations and educate rural communities on the ecological effects of these poisonings. Abuses against wildlife is systemic.
And before I’m hit with the “These problems wouldn’t exist in this first place if it weren’t for humans!” card, remember that the root of your frustration are societal infrastructures, not the existence of a species. Nobody is exempt of bigotry, not even the most marginalized person you can think of. It’s called having bias, and that bias can always be weaponized against someone or isolate you from the world around you. Some of you KNOWINGLY exude privilege over some demographics of humans while feigning your “right” to be misanthropic. Humans are still your peers— your communities— at the end of the day. We all share this fucking planet, and it’s going to take anything but hate to heal it.
It’s already frustrating that so many nonhumans treat alterhumanity as synonymous with nonhumanity and center that experience over others when addressing the community collectively. I have no tolerance for nonhumans who expect to be given a slap on the wrist for their behavior because whatever history they have, meanwhile alterhumans like myself and fully human alterhumans as well are expected to quietly accept LET ALONE SYMPATHIZE with this behavior. If not that, we’re forgotten completely, so folks act as if their behavior affects no one.
Your trauma holds weight. I get that.
At the same time:
I exist. We exist. You don’t get a pass to be misanthropic in alterhuman spaces simply because you are nonhuman, in community with a lot of nonhumans and/or have a bad history with humans.
Humans exist in this community too, and even if they didn’t, it’s not acceptable to dismiss an entire species as ontologically evil or harmful.
If you can understand why it’s a problem for someone to be bigoted against fictionkind, otherlinkers, physical nonhumans, etc. as a whole in this community, then you can understand why it’s a fucking issue to be misanthropic in and outside of this community.
I love being a “stubborn” fictionkin that corrects people when they refer to me in the 3rd person when I’m right there. I love treating my memories like events that shaped me as a person because they are exactly that. I love telling other alterhumans I really am a character and seeing their reactions. I love being “too deep” and “annoying” about the aspect of myself I take seriously :) I love being me
[Image description: Digital drawing of a red-haired human figure relaxing on the edge of a cliff overlooking a pine forest. Overlaying them is the semi-transparent figure of a wolf howling. Text reads: Never forget who you are~ just-another-therian.tumblr.com ~2015. End description.]
When someone asks me how I hold things perfectly with wyvern wings, the answer is I just don't think about it. Just accept that I have an invisible thumb and don't worry about it.
