In general, feel free to call me Scraps :3 although I'll love any/all 'type names.
It/its would be preferable. I do like to 'collect' xenopronouns to feel more connected to myself [I'll make an image list eventually]
This blog focuses on alterhumanity and my experiences being one
I will not be responding to any discourse I receive anywhere
Questions and chatting in my askbox are always welcome !
Posts of mine I'd like to link here
- Machinekin ask game answers
- Intense Impala car shift experience
- Impala self-portrait
- Thoughts on source episode from my perspective
TAGS
- scraps-drive = original posts
- wip = logs [mostly day-to-day] from my journal
- home = something relating to a home connected to my alterhuman identity
- me = images that are very me
- orb-posting = orb.
- scraps watches source / scraps plays source = posts about my thoughts and feelings while reliving the past
Strongest identities today... [last upt 3/1]
- 1967 Chevrolet Impala
- Darkwalker
- Night fury
Full identity list below [wip]
Long warning - I have an extremely impressionable mind for a multitude of reasons [mostly due to neurodivergence lmao] that has cursed me [/light hearted] with. MANY things
I commonly refer to the creatures I am as '[creature] type' and the identity as 'it' . This is for simplicity sake to try and detangle my brain, because I am so many things, when talking about them I need to separate them.
Names are either one from past lives or canon, or simply ones i gave myself to make myself feel more comfortable with these identities
My gender varies
- THERIOTYPES -
-NORTH AMERICAN COUGAR
Spiritual and psychological kin - physical - past life.
I had no name account of being wild. I lived and was born among the cliffs of Crater Lake. My mother raised me and my sister to adulthood, then i had three cubs - two of which survived. I was killed by poachers while I was hunting.
I believe it started as a cameoshift, but while that cameo was still running its course I visited Crater Lake, and awakened memories of a past life. The cameo soon turned into a theriotype.
-WOLFDOG [alaskan malamute x northwestern wolf]
Spiritual and psychological - physical - imprinting and past life
My name was Fifi. I was female. I lived in the great north - either Alaskan or Canadian wilderness. My owner lived off the land and grew a sled dog team to make it around. We were treated very good. We never really raced, only for some extra money when we needed it. There were five other dogs in my team, one of which was a german shepherd i was close to.
I died when we encountered a bear on the trail when I was about 6.
I believe it started from imprinting from childhood media and the wolfdog I grew up with - I discovered memories as well a couple of years ago.
I was a mare living out on the Oregon plains many decades ago, running wild with my herd. Soon, humans who didn't belong here came. My herd weren't going to let them take our home without a fight.
I have lots of fake memories that are near and dear to me, imprinted from horse media I grew up with - which is also how the theriotype formed.
-CANADIAN MARBLE FOX
Spiritual - physical - past life
I was a domestic fox who traveled the country on the road with my owners.
This theriotype just. appeared a couple years ago.
-SNOW LEOPARD
unknown.
This is a very recently discovered theriotype I don't know much about yet. Bear with me here.
-Canis Lupus Occidentalis [Northwestern/Mackenzie Valley wolf]
-Canis Lupus Orion [Greenland wolf]
-Canis Lupus Pambasileus [Interior Alaskan wolf]
-Canis Lupus Tundrarum [Alaskan Tundra wolf]
-Canis Rufus Floridanus [Florida black wolf]
- CLADE -
LYNX
-EURASIAN LYNX
Psychological - physical - imprinting + past life
This identity is heavily influenced by the game Shelter 2, so much so I'd partially consider it a fictotype. I have memories living within the Shelter 2 world.
-IBERIAN LYNX
Psychological - non-physical - imprinting
-CANADIAN LYNX
Psychological - non-physical - imprinting
-BOBCAT
Psychological - non-physical - imprinting
- KINTYPES -
-VOLCANO
Psychological - fluctuates - imprinting
Imprinted from an extreme volcano fixation that started a few years ago. I'm not a specific volcano, but I consider myself a cascadian volcano, and view the cascade range volcanoes my family.
-TORNADO
Psychological - fluctuates - imprinting
Imprinted from an extreme tornado fixation that started up a few years ago. Not any sort of specific tornado.
-VOLKSWAGON VANAGON 1984
Unknown
Awakened about a year ago, still figuring it out!
-1967 CHEVROLET IMPALA STATION WAGON
TBA
Very most likely a kintype formed as a mesh between my station wagon and 4-door '67 Impala bodies/forms.
- OTHERLIFE -
-VIKING [HTTYD]
Spiritual - physical - otherlife
I'm an average viking with red hair. When i was in my teens, I became a rider. I have at least 28 years of well conditioned memories from my life.
Similar to my darkwalker past life, I believe HTTYD and SoD was a gateway to connecting with this life rather than a creation of it.
- FICTOTYPES -
-NON CANON-
-NIGHT FURY
Psychological - physical - imprinting
I'm a night fury with a genetic condition [most likely leucism] that made it so some of my scales were white upon birth.
Imprinted from growing up obsessed with httyd my whole life, and especially watching the first movie when it first came out when I was still rather young.
I have a named attached to this identity; Skydiver.
-DARKWALKER
Spiritual - physical - past life
I once lived as a darkwalker, living among my family group and hunting prey on the frozen world. I fell from the stars soon before the Glyph Maker woke up in our world. Many years later, I was banished by prey on a hunt and ended up in this body.
I do consider this identity somewhat psychological, given it's basis in TLD and appearance after I started playing Escape the Darkwalker. I believe imprinting from this media connected me to my Darkwalker self, rather than created the identity.
-CHIMERAGON
Psychological - physical - imprinting
I'm a rather average chimeragon - white, brown and tan scales. Little bit smaller than usual.
Imprinted from SoD when I was going through an abnormally tough time.
-NA'VI
Psychological - non-physical - imprinting
tba - imprinted from growing up with the franchise
The goal of this survey is to gather information of on incidences of species-based misgendering within the Alterhuman community.
Please do
Introducing a survey on Species-Based Misgendering, hosted by Duranos of The River System.
Species-Based Misgendering: the assumption of one's gender and/or pronouns based on the expectations of one's species, stemming from biases, when the expected gender does not match the individual's gender.
Gendered Expectation: the expectation set for a species' gender, whether this bias comes from a cultural or folkoric background, establishment in a media, a linguistic framework, etc.
The survey is open both to the identities underneath the alterhuman umbrella, as well as nonhuman/human+ folks within plural conglomerates.
While this survey is primarily looking for responses from those who have been misgendered based on their species, those who have not experienced species-based misgendering are welcome to complete the survey as well. Interpretation of what counts as species-based misgendering is open to interpretation by each individual, and there are long-form fillable responses throughout the survey to accommodate this.
The survey is set to close on July 31st, 2026.
I welcome folks to share the link to the survey wherever you are active in the alterhuman community.
childhood emotion of wanting a dragon that is your friend so bad that it feels like there is a vacuum in your soul that only a dragon who is your friend can fill
childhood emotion of waking up from a dream where you can fly and experiencing an ache in your soul bc you have had a taste of the impossible and know your mortal body traps you on the earth and feel like you’ve lost something
I feel like the online alterhuman community is not immune to rose-colored nostalgia glasses about the state of things in the Good Old Days when alterhumans were Serious and Philosophical. "Nobody takes it seriously anymore" surely has been the case since like 2005 at least
Also people were complaining about Kids Having Fun back in 2005, and it made for joyless spaces back then too. And racist ones, since a knock-on effect was that people who didn't use "correct English" couldn't participate.
I'm not eager to go back to the old days. Neocities is there if you need it, and with much better tagging and search functions than we had back then. You can do what you like in your own spaces! But the community is larger than that now, and a small group of tastemakers no longer own it.
If I were to be uncharitable, I'd say that's what some people are missing.
Tags read: “#we gotta be real squad the silliness we see now just feels more prevelant because of 1) microblogging platforms #and 2) we're more well known as a community-- which means more kids inevitably in our spaces by default. #and 3) a lot of joins from the furry community (which is a fandom space and has a much sillier culture overall #causing a bit of a culture shift towards art and play. but not in a bad way!! #anyways let ppl have fun it's fine the philosophical spaces are still out there. or turn ur blog into one. follow ur heart #sorry I'm so high but I hope this made sense”
You've still got your inner world — a world that's more real. That's why you're different from the rest of us: you have your secret garden; to which you can retire and lock the gate behind you.
T.S. Eliot, from "The Confidential Clerk" in The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
you know the more i've interacted with therian online the less i actually care about. the actual label. draconic communities had it right its like. a fucking spectrum from guy who is very into their fursona to actively trying to find a way to species transition and i think making false walls between them reduces the richness of being speciesweird
you'll feel like a total dipshit train wreck and no matter what some girl is gonna see you and think "role model". you can't kill yourself you have to go be clocky in the gas station so a 14 year old can have the trajectory of her life altered forever
as annoying as it is to work fast food, at my previous job one time a kid recognized the theta delta pin on my hat and was so fucking excited because i was the first other therian they had ever encountered offline.
"hey....are you a therian?" "yeah!" "what kind of animal?" "eh, some kinda dog" "😲😀 im like a wolf coyote hybrid" "that's fuckin awesome"
what really drives me nuts is that like. this happens an average of x times per year as a visibly weird person, but we only get made aware of it a small fraction of the time. you can't kill yourself you have to be clocky in the gas station.
Being clocky when i was working as a barista was one of my big joys. Being clocky when i was teaching high schoolers how to play the marimba was my reason for being for half a decade. It sucks how scared I am to leave the house I live in now. But I still need to try and be clocky at the grocery store. I wish i had a job to be clocky at. Being visibly me is one of the most radical acts I'm capable of, and I hope that one day we live in a world where it isn't radical at all.
Your own feelings about humans are valid. But if you have an undue amount of animosity towards all humans ever then that's something you should work on and grow from. (especially because op is right it's lowkey ecofascist).
Also more critters and beings need to recognize that not all alterhumans or otherkin are nonhuman. Many of us are human and just because we are also alterhuman doesn't necessarily make us less human.
And if you go online saying "all humans are evil and terrible and I hate every single one of them" then you are being cruel and an asshole.
Misanthropy is just another form of black and white thinking. I can understand how people might arrive there, but if you don't know how to reel back the part of your brain that wants to put everything you know into neat little boxes, you're gonna have a bad time.
As someone who has had misanthropic "friends," I'm just now realizing that - if we use the logic of a misanthrope - trying to get into the good graces of a misanthrope is kind of pointless. If they hate all humans, they will hate you too, no matter what you say or do. Obviously, this is not possible - even misanthropes have friends. And if they don't hate you, then they don't hate ALL humans, and should probably find out where their hatred comes from. And maybe not identify with misanthropy.
Just reminiscing a bit. TL;DR: I love you modern teenage therians & otherkin, and also if anyone was on Chicken Smoothie circa 2008-2012 please say hi!
When I first stumbled upon therianthropy back in 2006, I quickly realized that there wasn't a place for me in the communities whose essays and information I was excitedly reading. It had been so freeing and exhilarating to know that I wasn't alone in how I am, but all the therian forums were for adults, and I was a teenager. I probably could have joined the "adult" forums and talked to grown-up animals instead of just lurking, but I didn't feel comfortable talking to strange adults (this was back when we actually taught kids to not disclose personal info online!), and the people on therian forums didn't feel like my peers anyway. So many of their conversations just sounded like dry philosophy, or referenced "adult" things I didn't relate to. I resigned myself to just reading what people wrote, and being a lonely teenager with nobody to talk to.
My first time really talking to other nonhumans, not just lurking, was on the forum for a digital pet website called Chicken Smoothie. It was barely even a browser game at the time, just a cozy little forum with a pet adoption feature, and the users were a few hundred teens and preteens chatting and making art. But, in probably late 2008 or early 2009, someone started an otherkin thread and I finally found my peers. We spent hours a day swapping information we'd read, figuring out what people were, and just having fun. There was no gatekeeping or unfriendly grilling or essay-writing, and no sanctimonious adults to tell us we weren't being "serious" enough about nonhumanity. We were serious, but in the way kids are serious, before society makes them afraid to be authentic and silly. Conversations about spirituality and phantom shifts were interspersed with people roleplaying and making animal sounds, and we enjoyed both just as much. It was a space for all of us to act openly nonhuman around other people for the first time, and we did it like teenagers. We chatted through text and made art for each other because that's all the Internet really was at the time, but if had been possible (and socially acceptable) to take and share photos and videos of us acting like ourselves we would absolutely have been doing that, too. I can't even begin to imagine how much fun we'd have had with access to modern social media, when just talking to each other about who we were was already so fulfilling.
I don't know how many of the people I was friends with still call themselves therians, otherkin, or vampires. It's likely some of them were just roleplaying and left those things in the past. But I'm still here 15 years later, so I know I was far from the only one genuinely expressing who I was. It doesn't matter to me whether those people I was a nonhuman kid with "grew out of it" or not, because that sense of joy and community was real. There wasn't a space for nonhuman teens online, so we carved one out ourselves.
Modern teens don't have to search so hard to find their community. When I look at the therian and otherkin tags on tumblr today, and when I see videos of teens on tiktok wearing homemade masks and running in the grass, what I see is a bunch of young people doing the exact same things I was doing on a forum in 2009. The infrastructure of the internet has made it hard to find and share accurate information the way we used to so there's a lot more misinformation, but the joy of teenagers learning they're not alone is still the same. There are so many high schoolers out there talking about shifts and posting silly animal sounds the same way I did, and that makes me really happy.
Maybe some of them are roleplaying and will stop calling themselves therians or otherkin in a few years, but that doesn't actually matter. There are people out there exploring nonhumanity for the very first time, and the joy is real.
I hate when people downplay animal death so fucking much.
can we NOT brag about killing birds with your car??? can we NOT play around with the specimens in a practical exam???
maybe its just me but animals need to be respected so much more than humans give them credit for.
this is one of the reasons im so misanthropic. you're telling me you have NO respect for the dead? at all? I get that accidents happen but when I see people making fun of anything dead I get pissed the fuck off.
when you hit something with your giant human death machine, you SHOULD feel bad. idgaf if it was "just a bird".
when you say a frog "deserved to die" because it was "disgusting", you need to get a grip on reality.
you're not better than a frog or a bird, you're the same if not worse. we are ALL animals. I hate that some humans think they are better than the creatures around them.
nature is a connecting and driving force that is not to be underestimated or assulted, its beauty is to be appreciated.
human impatience not being able to stop for two seconds to let an animal cross the road is baffling. the same with human INCOMPETENCE not understanding the simple rules of being respectful of the dead.
I agree that downplaying animal death and believing some animals deserve to die is horrific and is a mindset that is horrible for the world, but I think lumping it together as "human incompetence and impatience" rather than incompetence and impatience in general isn't very efficient.
There are tons and TONS humans that cherish every life from mammals to reptiles to bugs and birds and plants. And there are some nonhumans and alterhumans who carry the same incompetence and disrespect for animal life you're talking about here I've met personally.
If we want to call out this disrespect for life to have a small helping push in a change for the better, we can't target it to only humans. We can't say this is "human incompetence."
Having no respect of the dead, believing animals [or animals that are not considered 'traditionally cute'] are lesser, and not caring about accidentally or purposefully hitting an animal with a car is not a humanity in general thing.
