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we're not kids anymore.
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Anton Seder. Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe /The Plant in Art and Industry. vol.2. ca. 1887-89.
A garden snail, a hare, a lizard, a moth, and a small songbird each find their place among the voluptuous, almost fantastical foliage of some kohlrabis. Have the leaves of a root vegetable ever been this lush?
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Red deer By: Spectrum Colour Library From: The Mating Game 1976
Coyote By: Unknown photographer From: Walt Disney's Vanishing Prairie 1955
Not gonna lie as an older (not by much, but grew up with forums) therian it's kind of exhausting to look at the tumblr state of the community. The forums had their own stupidity, but at least we were all kind of in the same grab bag of weird animality, and vague words meant people had to explain themselves, which meant you usually then understood what they were actually saying. Now that people reinvent lukewarm water every two weeks by coining a new words for concepts that were always under therianthrope the whole community feels fractured and bizarre. It just frustrates me that people think they are doing a good thing by coining a new word to "make a spot for a specific type of nonhumans" in a way that just ends up making them seem like a new thing and reinterprets long history of it existing in forums under the general therian label.
Kinda feels like when in the queer community people make up a new "better" definition of an old term that ends up excluding a bunch of people who were using it who are now expected to use the new shiny term.
It's especially frustrating when i feel like the word it ends up as makes less sense than originally. I keep seeing people describe the common experience of phantom shifts that feel like physically having a limb but are not visible, which is... to me the old definition of a phantom shift as physical experiences. No ? A physical experience... would be when you physically change. I can get it for people who see themselves change or have no genuine difference between "real life mythical shapeshifting" and whatever they're experiencing, but... really? are we starting to claim feeling a good ol' phantom shift is shapeshifting? because it feels real? are we just re writing what physical means now. Ugh. I feel like we're losing so much of the nuance of therianthropic experience over pointless renaming for things to feel more validating and real. a phantom limb is not less important bc it's not physical as in physically touchable and visible to you. if any brainfeel is physical therianthropy bc it pertains to your body / you feel it in your body, then... literally all therianthropy is physical. congratulation now physical therianthropy means nothing.
signed, a rambling frustrated big cat who doesn't know what words are supposed to mean anymore
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I think we should eat more things with our hands honestly. Doesnāt even matter what it is, eating food with your fingers instantly makes it 50% more creature. Also it helps get past executive dysfunction! (At least for me.) green beans is finger food and cultures that never bothered inventing eating utensils are right actually. i will not be taking arguments at this time
Constelic / āID hoarderā: An alterhuman term for someone who collects identities of animals, fictional characters, mythological beings, and otherwise. It is often done by choice, though it doesnāt necessarily need to be, and constelic identities can be dropped, hoarded, and have priority over others. Constelic identities are often casual, āin the backgroundā, or not very intensive, though this may not always be the case. Furthermore, there may be specific tiers of how much someone relates to said identities.
These identities in question may be called constels (ex: āI have a deer constel.ā) or they may just be called an ID. You can also put an identity along with the suffix ā-stelicā (ex: I am deerstelic). Someone who is constelic may range from only having one ID, to having a very large number of them, or anything in between.
Reasons for why someone is constelic may vary. Popular reasons may be because of hyperfixation, projection onto characters, a need to āhoardā things (possibly due to things like OCD), or simply for fun. The term comes from the word āconstellationā, and the symbol is meant to represent a star that branches out into their own identities.
While I coined this as an alternative to KFF, this does not mean itās okay to force this label onto others, or try to force them to use the term, symbol, etc.. Basically, donāt use this term to be a jerk, or to throw people under the bus.
Symbol below the cut! You can use the flag, symbol, term, etc. on their own if you want to. You donāt have to use the flag or symbol in order to be constelic.
[ID: A small banner with the plural flag in the background, with bordered white text saying āNo discourse interaction, please!ā in the center. End ID]
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"my kintype is due to trauma!" "my kintype is spiritual!" cool cool cool mines just here. No idea why or how. Just is. I am just draogn :]
I know I'm made of clay that's worn / blinded by imperfect form (creature - halfā¢alive)
a drawing i did a few days ago that im extremely proud of. its about nonhumanity of course, about how a person is not their body, but how they see themselves. it represents my three kintypes: dragon, enderman and unicorn, and how phantom shifts can make them overlap sometimes over my physical body.
edit - i based my drawing on this one by @mossymenagerieart! go look at his art its really cool
This single scene carrying the entire bird therian community on its fucking shoulders.
my zine, "dog symptoms", about growing up and showing very clear signs of being an animal (with alt text)
The Nonhuman National Park is a new forum moderated by myself and @liongoatsnake aimed towards nonhumans, alterhumans, and plural systems. While most forums pride themselves on building fences, this forum focuses on building gates: participating here is not contingent on whether you're nonhuman, alterhuman, or plural in some way, but on wanting to discuss and interact with nonhuman, alterhuman, and plural people and discussions. This forum is open to everyone, regardless of where you come from or what you identify as, because we want to make information and conversation surrounding nonhuman, alterhuman, and plural existences accessible and inclusive for everyone. The Park is hoping to establish itself as a community hub and resource center focused on strengthening bridges between various communities and individuals, helping tear down faction-based mindsets, and promoting new growth and ideas. If this sounds like something that appeals to you, become a member on the forums today at https://nonhumannationalpark.boards.net/!
For alterhumans looking for a place to go, I highly recommend Nonhuman National Park!!!
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ah fUck shit sorry gimme a sec.... almost got it......
Excuse me please can I squeeze through
Don't mind me just here for shoes and snacks.
Just- just let me get my steak!
Iām - gasp!Ā Finally changing my avatar to something updated, after almost four years of the scales close-up (which, fun fact, was only a thing originally because I didnāt have a good idea of what my head looked like at the time!). I will feel at least as weird about this change as any of yāall, I promise sdkfjsdkgj
(Reblogs welcome, though please donāt tag as kin/ID/etc! Repost and Iāll crush all the noodles in your house into crumble thatāll only cook down into an unappealing mush.)
a moodboard for this fun yote! @yote-yaps
Iāve only heard the word kin when referring to what anime character you relate to. For example, I kin Emma because she has self confidence issues like me. Or, Iām an emma kinnie because we are so similar!
Apologies for the late response - my work schedule has been hell on me these past few days.
As for your ask - no, that is not the correct definition ofĀ ākinā. To be kin - otherkin, or fictionkin, or whatever else you might call it - you must identify as that character, in some nonphysical form or another. It is not relating to that character, or being similar to that character. If that were the case, and beingĀ ākin was just something we did because we found a character relatable... then Iād have a lot more kintypes on my already-too-long list!
Fictional characters are meant to be relatable in some way. Even villains can be relatable, provided theyāre being written well. If you relate to a character, that is a writer doing their job! We are meant to sympathize and feel for fictional characters, because our current human species has spent its entire history telling stories. Itās ingrained in our blood to seek out connections with others, be they animal, or human, or fictional, or whatever. Itās completely natural to relate to a fictional character.Ā So seeing a character with self confidence issues and sayingĀ āOh, me too! I kin them!ā is both fundamentally and grammatically incorrect. Itās more than just relating to them. Itās always been that way, and it always will be.Ā
To be fair, relating to a character absolutely can be a part of being kin with them, but thatās not the true nature of the concept at all. For example, I have unapologetically evil villain kintypes, but itās not because I relate to them. My god. I can hardly see the person I am now reflected in those characters. But, on some level inside myself, I still recognize them as me.
To identify as kin is to identify as that character or animal or what have you. And perhaps more than that, it is an identity that you do not choose. Yes, fictional characters are relatable. Theyāre meant to be. That doesnāt mean you can pick your favorite, or the one you relate to the most, and be kin with them. Thatās just not how it works.
I know itās been somewhat popular (especially on Twitter, it seems...) in lots of fandom spaces lately, and bastardization of the wordĀ ākinā has been running rampant, but please know thatās not what itās supposed to mean. We have had a documented history since at least the early 70ā²s, weāre not just some fad terminology teens use to get clout or whatever in their favorite fandoms.Ā
(Not to mention - itās not just anime characters. Itās all fictional characters, even fictional species.)
Apologies if I sound harsh, Iāve been thinking about this ask since I got it and Iām still not sure Iāve explained it well enough. If you need clarification on anything, go ahead and ask - it might be another day or two between responses, but... Iām anĀ āessential workerā, so, you know. Patience is a virtue.
I've found myself in a twitter community that is not otherkin related but a lot of the members of the community are "kinnies". It seems that everyone I've seen in this community say they are kin because they either really like that character, relate to that character, or they are their comfort characters (there's also rampant use of kin as a verb but that's a whole other post to get into). Honestly, I don't even tell anyone on their that I'm a therian because I feel like I'm going to get "cancelled" for not agreeing with their definition of kin. There's so much misinformation about what being otherkin/fictionkin/therian is on Twitter, or at least in this specific community.
