it/ghost/they || alterhuman ghostkin/deadkin (not undead) haunting a physically nonhuman (but humanoid) creaturekin body || shapeshifter (empathy shifts + generally unstable form) || cryptidkin and a thing of some sort || caused by autism, trauma and ptsd || side blog || my main is @silkravensssssss
I was just gone for multiple months and now I’m back and this is scary. Knowing others haven been living your life is scary. I feel so many things. It’s not like they’re making decisions I wouldn’t make or that our life is so much different now, it’s just that I wasn’t there to witness it. I wasn’t here!
It's finally time! Run by Hex (@sweetsanguinekitty) and myself, The Dearly Deceased is a 13+, SFW server meant for all manner of dead and undead, as well as those who wish to just hang out and be friends!
A gathering place for those that identify as dead/undead and their friends. | 5 members
Starting a silly little picrew chain for my monsterkins and cryptidkins!
Erm the only two moots that I think may wanna do this are @alexplainlaterrrr and maybeee @shapeshifting-entity (idk how much of a monster/cryptid you are)
It's hard sometimes feeling left out of the community when you're human-adjacent or humanoid, so I would like to take the time to mention those of us that are.
To the zombies, the ghosts, the elves, the humanoid aliens, the fictionkind, and anyone else who lives in the quieter, more unseen parts of the community, I see you. You're not alone. You belong here, too.
I was talking to my bf about how I love other ghosts on Tumblr and she said "do they put the super in supernatural" and I will be saying this to every ghost I interact with from now on.
🪡 - are there specific un/dead ‘stereotypes’ u feel connected? stitches, stapled joints, ooze, brightly colored veins etc?
🍖 - do u experience phantom feelings? like limbs or pains?
🪞 - did u come back wrong, or did u come back urself (or maybe, did u come back better)?
🪡 - I don't know if this counts, but I feel like light reacts weirdly to me, creating an eerie atmosphere everywhere I go.
🍖 - I do! I often feel my nonphysical body overlaying my physical body. They are mostly the same shape, but they move slightly offset from each other. I regularly feel my ghost hands and arms. Sometimes my nonphysical body changes shape, triggered by my surroundings and feelings. I often get empathy shifts too. But it always goes back to normal after a short period of time, like memory foam. I also get shifts that feel very physical, but they are more connected to my creature/cryptid kintype.
🪞 - Both in a way. I am still me, but I'm also a dead being in a living body. This was not meant to happen, and it turned my body into something wrong and twisted. I am working hard on embracing this wrongness, but the relationship between me and my body is deeply complicated. This body is mine, but it's changed. It often doesn't feel mine. My body is less human than I am. I feel a connection to my past human nature, but I don't see any humanness in the mirror.
Ouuhh I desire to be the town cryptid. To have stories about me told around campfires. For locals to warn people passing through about. To have my blurry photo posted about on forums. Ahh the dream~
I was one of those kids that watched Elfenlied way too young. I was obsessed with it, and especially with Lucy and her powers. I remember pretending to have vectors all the time.
I don't know if this is why, but my most frequent phantom shifts look a lot like Lucys vectors, just overlaying my physical arms and hands closer. Somewhat like this:
I can’t really disconnect from my body more than a few inches, but sometimes it feels like I should be able to.
This zine will be focused on anecdotes about day-to-day life as an otherkin being, alterhuman, nonhuman and/or therian, because I don't see enough beings talk about the everyday nature of it. I want this to be a love letter to the mundanity of being other. The good and the bad. Tell me what a normal day looks like for you in relation to your identity.
Just like last time, I'm going to collect your entries until we have enough to make a zine out of it that can be downloaded and passed around for free.
How it works:
You send me an ask:
“This is an example.”
I will post your ask (I'll use the queue to space the posts out a bit) and put it down on the zine as:
“This is an example.” - Anonymous
If you don’t want to be cited as anonymous, you need to tell me. Like this, for example:
“This is an example. - Blue”
You can add as much information as you want. An example:
“This is an example. - Blue, ghostkin, they/them, 21”
That would look like this in the zine:
“This is an example.” - Blue, ghostkin, they/them, 21
I will cite the asks exactly how I receive them, including things that I think are typos. I don’t want to accidentally change something that was done on purpose. If you want to correct a mistake you’ve made, just comment under the respective post. I can’t allow this for anons because I need a way to know the request comes from the being that made the original ask.
Informational posts and basically anything about the zine, my process and eventual questions I may have -> #other info
The first zine:
A zine to make the voices of otherkin beings, alterhumans, nonhumans and therians louder.
hey. shoutout to the undead who aren’t slim and beautiful and white. shoutout to black and poc zombies and vampires and ghosts who get erased in favour of lily white death. shoutout to the fat undead that people try to pretend don’t exist, or use solely for dark humour. all of you. all of us. you are wonderful and haunting and you should be welcomed into the mausoleum with open arms. i love you