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Hello!

I'm [use a 'types name or Sunchild]. Adult. He/it (Genderfaun). Autistic (prof dx, pro-self dx).

An adescriptive Pseudohuman from NW Yorkshire, UK. I also just call myself alterhuman for ease lol

Follows & likes from @kevin--of-desert-bluffs (Cw: blood, unreality and body/face horror).

I do not mind answering genuinely curious questions about my identity.

Not transID/transX or radqueer positive, DNI.

I coin terms sometimes I guess?

Theriform: @vadosevougha helped me to create this word when I was attempting to label my definition, so credit is due its way too. See the link for a full FAQ.

AUman: when you are a human from a different universe which is not currently depicted in a fictional setting in this one therefore not fictionkin, but also not factkin as your identity is unique to your setting. I understand there is significant overlap with Otherhuman and only use this personally, but others may use it too.

Chronoplace: when your hearthome is/you have an intense connection to a time period/specific date including fictional/stereotyped/idolised depictions of time periods. Alt: chronotype (this can also be used if you ARE a time period or date).

This can be related to another identity but might be less superfluous a term when isolated or when the feeling of longing for that time is more impactful outside of simply wishing to be somewhere familiar due to being X.

#theriform #chronoplace #AUman #alterhuman #nonhuman #Pseudohuman

a-dragons-journal

hi, asking, because I can't find many resources on this: What's with starseed community? I've heard that it is problematic and I also saw that some state it is a Nazi thing. Do you have any info (and resources) on what is going on with this community and why is this problematic?

Boy, I admit I don't have much in the way of resources onhand for that specifically; it's a bit out of my scope. I probably can't tell you anything Google can't. It sums up to, starseeds are a New Age concept proposing that certain people are extraterrestrial souls sent to Earth to guide humanity to some kind of ascension. It purports that certain people are born inherently "higher" while others are more "primitive" spiritually speaking, which is already a pretty yikes concept even before you get into the history of this movement and ones like it being deeply steeped in racism and eugenics. Suspiciously, whenever you see physical descriptions of these "higher races," the ones who aren't just bog-standard "greys" always seem to be pale-skinned and often blonde, at least from what I've seen (Pleiadians, one of the most well-known and "highest" races, are literally described as "Nordic aliens" or "indistinguishable from Nordic people").

It's also heavily linked to the idea of aliens "seeding" earth in the past, which is itself a concept steeped in racism and the ideas that a) different peoples are literally different species (some of which are of course "higher" than others) and b) historical people of color of course couldn't actually accomplish anything impressive or significant, it must have been aliens. It's also linked to the idea that Someday Soon™ there will be a great purge, I mean ascension, where the enlightened and spiritual starseeds will rise to a New Earth and everyone else will be left behind (which doesn't sound like the Rapture or like every dream of the Grand Revolution which conveniently doesn't care how many people it leaves behind or kills in the process of creating its new dream).

So. yeah. There's more to it, but that's about all I know off the top of my head and with minimal research (all of which comes up in the first few links of google results for various starseed-related searches). I don't really have any spectacular resources that have all this information in one place, but it's not hard to turn up with a little searching.

Tl;dr, the big difference between starseeds and otherkin and the reason one is kind of problematic and the other isn't is that otherkin aren't generally claiming to be "Nordic aliens" sent to "guide humanity to ascension".

lighthouseharbor

it reminds me of Indigo Children which was a similar, if not related, concept from back in the 90's

roguevexvoid

Both the Stareseed and Indigo/Crystal/Rainbow/whatever Child movements were also ways for a particular type of middle class suburban parent to lable their very clearly autistic child. It was like the Changeling myth, almost, but in a more "benevolent" new age way.

No of *course* my child isn't autistic, they are a special new form of humanity meant to lead us to a higher state of being ect ect ect

And the two communities, while perhaps starting separate (I don't actually know) did at least definitely become intertwined.

abyssalmaw

also a lot of overlap with “earth angels” (distinct from angelkin).

and yeah it’s very frequently both white supremecist and ableist. Physical “signs” of bei g a starseed/indigo child/earth angel are often being blonde, having blue eyes, being pale, being very empathetic, being very passive, facing persistent cruelty, and being able to easily “read rooms/intentions”. You might notice that these might also raise red flags for a kid being abused.

often comes with a lore background of being an alien or future being or spirit inhabiting a human body for the purpose of protecting/saving/educating/guiding humanity. They’re seen as paragons of kindness, gentility, and virtue. This often leads adults around them who believe this shit to outsource morality and decision making, use kids to vent to, and punish them for failing at these things.

adults who believe theyre one of these archetypes often have a savior/superiority complex around it and see themselves as above those around them.

i fucking hate these concepts/communities with a passion. I dont think theres any healthy way to engage with them.

encyclope-dae-a

One thing I think is important for understanding the daemian community – especially if you're coming from an alterhuman perspective – is that daemonism is not a word for a shared experience, nor a shared identity.

Daemonism is a practice. The concept of it can be used by anyone: alterhuman or not, plural or not. It can be pure playfulness. It can be imaginary, and that's okay! That's a beautiful experience in its own respect!

There's no universal daemian experience because we accept and embrace that our minds, and our experiences, are ours alone.

The community isn't built on a shared experience – just a shared idea which we all create unique versions of.

Some people stick closer to the basic idea we started with. Some just take what they like from it and throw out the rest. Some only take vague inspiration from it. Some people adapt it more than others, sometimes due to being neurodivergent, plural, and/or alterhuman.

It's still daemonism because daemonism isn't defined by us all "doing the same thing" or "having the same experience".

Daemonism is, for the most part, defined by a person deciding that they want to call what they are doing or experiencing daemonism.

And a large part of that is often in connection to the community, whether directly or in a peripheral way, by taking inspiration from the practice, making use of the community's writings, and so on.

This is why I think daemonism is often misunderstood in an alterhuman context. Daemonism is not an experience, it's not an identity – it's just an idea we each take and make our own. And that's what it should be. That's the beauty of it!

Anyone could be a daemian if they want to. There's no requirements. A lot of people get started with daemonism purely because it sounds fun! A lot of people start with only their imagination, and many people remain so.

For others, it might become something else in time, or they might discover there was something underlying their imaginings all along. It's no more or less a practice of daemonism, either way.

A lot of alterhuman concepts don't apply to daemonism because of this. Fact is, there's plenty of daemians who are orthohumans too, and plenty of people who specifically see their daemonism as an orthohuman practice.

I see it get included under the alterhuman umbrella a lot, and I feel like it gives the wrong first impression to come at it from that angle by default.

Really, it's more comparable with being a furry. For some people, it is a deep, impactful, life-altering experience, and the people who feel that way are a vital part of the community. But equally, for some it is an exercise in whimsy, playfulness, or creativity – and those people are no less members of the community for it.

We're not united by being plural, or having thoughtforms, or being alterhuman. We're united by being a bunch of people who were inspired by some books (or a film or TV show) to play around with the idea of daemons, and ended up sticking with it for one reason or another.

While the individual experience can be very deep indeed, that isn't what makes daemonism what it is.

#yeah we technically got into daemonism because of our interest in HDM we just started to imagine we had a daemon and incidentally said #daemon ended up splitting and becoming an alter but he's still out daemon ya know #and that's just my experience!

I enjoyed the sneak peek at the new anniversary cards and I'm happy I'll be featuring again but...I do not like that art it's kinda...ick and why is it so many of my cards have fairly weak or highly strategic abilities/attacks which are not nearly as useful as other EX's including Mewtwo's? Maybe I'm just bad at the game and a little bitter lol but I feel people forget how powerful I can be.

#mew.pkm #mewkin #pokemonkin #pokekin #fictionkin #[plain text mode]

aestherians

This should be mandatory reading for therians. Please read it and reflect on how your theriotype fits into it

https://bookmarks.reviews/how-i-fell-in-love-with-a-unicorn-that-was-really-a-goat/

#I feel lucky to have her experiences in nature with real animals tbh #as much as I've loved and adored fictional ones I saw enough reality to know the difference #and I've seen the affect of ignorance on humans #a rescued 'pet' monkey who was only fed bananas and his owners didn't know he had specific needs which could only be provided by exposure t #certain light and environmental conditions #but why would they think of that when they had no idea where he came from or how different he was from Curious George?#maybe that's why films like Mighty Joe Young captured me it shows how an animal can be changed by human interaction and how unnatural #and unhappy they will be taken away from their natural world #I will never get to see my species in the wild we are endangered I can only read and watch clips of captivity or catered in documentaries #spend as much time as I can thinking about my species body how it looks how it moves how it feels #the muscles within and the skeleton beyond that #I imagine my troop I imagine is hungry and what we would do to feed and I imagine us sleepy and where we should go to be safe #Because I remind myself every day to think about theriforms as living things #then I can indulge in fantasy knowing that Peter is not a rabbit he is a creature in the form of one #and why? because theriforms are admired and deified for their differences to the human body as much as they can be looked down on #maybe this is why I dislike misanthropic therians who endlessly praise the humanised ideas of their species #whilst looking down on humans not knowing their attitudes towards nonhumans are painfully anthropomorphised #your average theriform is not kinder and better to nature that just Are they just Exist it's not a mythical nature spirit it's a real thing #(and yes I'm sure this gets complex with fictional theriotypes but that's it's own talk i feel)#last note it's also why I detest cat owners not a single one I've met hasn't talked about their cat as if it were a small human child #and given most of it's worth to how amusing or cuddly it is #do you even see it as a cat? or just a living toy?#*have had not have her

fruitpigeons

POKÉ-MAY Day 27-Mew

#mew.pkm

keldornfirecam-archive

#rapture.bd #ah the little ones

>Had a dream of being bitten so intense I woke up with phantom pains of it_

>I've always been unsure on how I was turned and I'm not sure a dream can be trusted but the phantom pain is new_

#fullmoon.ww #werewolfkin #otherkin

starkovingsmoved-blog

“We must find a method of conditioning them against abandonment of the Little Sisters. Something physical… possibly even lethal. The lab aides are starting to call them ‘Big Daddies.’ Perhaps there’s some genius to that. Bonded pairs, connected by a love that kills.”

#rapture.bd #bioshockkin #bigdaddykin

kendyonline

it'll get better , don't you trust me ?

#machine.ad

Another noemata I want to share...

tw child abuse

#[plain text mode]#bioshockkin #bigdaddykin #fictionkin #rapture.bd

The weirdest things will cause a shift to happen sometimes.

I was carrying a rug from the supermarket to my home today and it instantly felt as if I had my suit on again and I could feel how it pulled where it was fused to me.

It was just so similar to how I would carry materials to fix the outside of Rapture's walls. As a Rosie-Type I did that a lot when I wasn't needed with a little one. The upper crust disliked seeing me do it because it spoiled their idea of a perfect flawless utopia and those they looked down upon as working class disliked that I did it because it was viewed as me 'taking jobs from real people'.

I had been a person once, because I was a Protector, just another Metal Daddy without a face or identity - I heard these comments from people I was sure I'd known as a person (long term ADAM abuse really messes with your memories though). They didn't view me as a human any more and ya know at that point I really wasn't. Nothing new there then.

#[plain text mode]#bioshockkin #fictionkin #bigdaddykin

theplant-system

I'm not a therian but pls reblog or something if youre an adult therian. I need to find more nonhuman blogs, a lot of people on here who identify as animals are children.

#30+ here and I know I've seen moots who are my age

cosmicstrays

being physically nonhuman and/or having a body like a theriform doesn’t automatically unlearn you of racist and anthrocentric propaganda and ideals. matter of fact being any level of nonhuman or alterhuman doesn’t automatically unlearn you of it either. changing what names you put on yourself doesn’t change the fact that you are still living a lifestyle supported by a habitat that is shaped by systemic racism and human supremacy and sustained by willful ignorance of the everyday evidence of those facts.

this goes beyond the physical nonhumanity misunderstanders in the community too. i’m sick of white alterhumans posting endless lists of labels and microlabels as proof they’re “woke” when being anti-racist and woke isn’t in your fucking identity and self-talk, it’s in your actual actions towards others or by yourself, ESPECIALLY in your reactions to getting criticized for doing something that goes against what you “identify as” standing for.

mechanical-sunchild

This is what I was saying about why you shouldn't use mutt casually even for yourself especially when those affected by it as a slur have told you it's a slur.

If you were theriform there wouldn't be an issue, but nobody capable of reading this is in any way theriform (no not even if you're physically nonhuman that's not what theriform means) - which means you're part of the society which weaponises certain words against POC and if you continue to act entitled to use those words for yourself or appropriate terms you can't use from closed cultures then you are part of the worlds racism issue. You are the problem and you're using your species as an excuse whilst still being part of the problem.

mechanical-sunchild

I recently fulfilled my dreams of turning a BJD into a Little Sister... waiting for her to get here from the faceup artist is hard...I know she won't be really alive but she's small and I'll be able to protect her... sometimes having a little bit of source is just like that I guess

mechanical-sunchild

Here she is...my darling girl...the one I'd die and kill for a hundred times...

[I might get her a different wig at some point]

#[plain text mode]#bioshockkin #bigdaddykin #rapture.bd #fictionkin

vagabond-beast

Am I a Therian? [A Greymuzzle's Insight]

"Am I a Therian?" you ask with a quizzical expression.

"I like bathing in the sun. I hate taking baths. I'm highly active at 3am," you explain, and so you conclude, "I must be a cat therian!"

Why?

Don't humans also like sitting in warm sunlight? Don't some humans hate the sensation of baths? Aren't some humans more active at night than at day?

Aren't those normal human behaviors?

"I like to howl, bark, and growl! I like to dig in the dirt and play tug-a-war!" you shout excitedly, and so you conclude, "I must be a dog therian!"

Why?

Don't humans also like to be vocal; shouting, hollering, and yelping? Don't some humans love digging in the dirt to see what's beneath? Do you not see the kids playing tug-a-war? Aren't those normal human behaviors?

"But..." you pause and you think. You finally state, "I feel a call to Nature. I feel at home among the trees, when my bare feet touch the Earth. I feel a pain in my heart when looking at my body, like it doesn't feel right. Surely that means I'm a Therian."

Why?

Aren't there humans who feel a call to Nature? Who live by themselves in the woods? Aren't there humans who also feel like something is missing with themselves?

Aren't those normal human behaviors?

"Then how do I know if I'm a Therian?"

Why... are you asking me?

You clearly know yourself better than I do. You have already given so many reasons as to why you must be a Therian, right? So why ask me what you are?

"Cause you're a Therian, too, aren't you?" you ask.

"I am," comes the answer.

"So then tell me," you urge with impatience. "Am I a Therian?"

"I can not tell you," comes another answer. "Because I do not know. I do not know your identity. I do not know what bristles beneath your skin or echoes in your heart."

There are no set rules to define someone who is a Therian. There is no checklist to go through to determine who is a Therian. There are no guidelines to follow under to know who is a Therian.

"Are you an animal?" comes the question. "Are you, in any sense or form, an animal?"

You pause. And you think.

You already know the answer.

"I am an animal."

Then congratulations.

You're a Therian.

#I like this I like it's poetry and because it touches on something I've been trying to express lately #You can't solve therianthropy there's no one certain way to tell that one is a therian #'animal instincts' could be normal human instincts #'animal coded hobbies and interests' could be completely average for a human #even wanting to be an animal and wishing for it deeply is something many humans do #so where the line gets crossed is up to you #you must decide that it's gone beyond making yourself fit the mould of a certain species based on human stereotypes of them etc #and into the territory of feeling like your real and natural self #there's so many things about me that are 'dog or cat coded' according to human perceptions #but can I say without it sounding like pretend that I am a dog or cat? no #I'm a golden lion tamarin #I'm a glt because that's how my body craves to be and the world of a glt feels like home #therian

headmate-packages

Can you alterhumans stop using the word mutt you have people thinking the harassment of being a therian is more important than the harassment of being the racial fucking minority the slur is against

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If this gets enough reblogs and enough people are educated, I will come back to this account and go back to posting. Share this with accurate words and into the accurate communities

mechanical-sunchild

>Hope you don't mind if I summarise for others_

>In these screenshots user {Honour} informs user {Psychwolf} that they are using a racial slur as a pronoun {mutt} and should not be regardless of their nonhuman identity because it is a slur which they do not have the power to reclaim and also it should not be normalised as an {ok} word even if they do_

>User {Honour} is someone personally affected by said slur_

>{Psychwolf} counter argues that they are allowed to use that slur because it represents their species identity and is common in therian spaces because of its relationship to mixed breed animals_

>They also attempt to deflect responsibility for their microaggression by acting like a worse or equivalent issue is {Honour} potentially indicating that {Psychwolf} is human or human bodied which {Honour} is not even doing_

>{Honour} restates the facts of their position as well as pointing out that multiple alternative terms exist including within said communities they also ask {Psychwolf} to explain why they think using a slur as a pronoun is appropriate to which {Psychwolf} has no response but to insist it's fine because they aren't human and identify as not being human-bodied either_

>Honestly reminds me of those who think they can use the h-slur for similar reasons - when will people learn that slurs are still slurs no matter what?_

watcherwingedcat

but if they are using that word for themselves then it's fine, isn't it? what right has anyone to say that someone can't use 'mutt' as pronoun? as long as it doesn't have the racist connotation, it should be fine, right?

I'm not really understanding. If they use "mutt" for themselves to mean a mixed breed dog because they're a dog therian/alterhuman... I don't really see the problem? I'm not really sure if it's an english thing, but are slurs illegal to use or something? I thought that slurs were used like insults? Like, it's the same as insults but sometimes have racial or homophobic connotations or something?

Is it illegal to use slurs? Is it not the same as insulting someone? (obv that's bad too but... not that serious)

until now, I was absolutely not aware that mutt was used as a slur because English is not my native language. I don't know which words English speakers consider as slurs. Maybe they didn't know mutt was a slur. this is all /gen btw. I'm just confused. If they're using that word as a pronoun for themselves, what's the problem? What right has the other person to have a say in it? /genq

mechanical-sunchild

>I don't know how to explain that if there is any kind of word that one should absolutely not apply to oneself it's a slur you can't reclaim_

>The argument about species is invalid because the individual using it is not theriform_

>So all others see is someone who appears to be human casually using the word {mutt} for themselves_

>Which further spreads the idea that it is just an ordinary word with no racist connotations which is it not_

>Nobody is entitled to using a slur they can't reclaim as a pronoun or otherwise and if those affected by the slur are uncomfortable it is generally expected that you reflect on the fact that you are using an offensive word and stop_

>Especially when it could be replaced with other words which are not slurs but mean similar things_

>The alterhuman community has a massive issue with racism exactly because so many refuse to listen to [POC] and similar on matters such as this_

>It's not about {illegal} it's about {don't use racial slurs this way even if you mean it in a different way that's not how many see it} and {you are not entitled to every word and term out there}_

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