Current Pronouns: she/her/lo (or 🇨🇫/🇨🇫self if you're cool with that)
Intro Post!
Hi! I'm Sage/Star, but you can also call me Astro, Stolace, or C.A.R. I'm also fine with any nicknames you can come up with, as long as they're spinoffs of my other names!
• I'm an Alterhuman, and that's what this blog will be mainly focused on!
• My default pronouns are she/her, but can change depending on what kintype(s) I’m shifted as or connected to most. I’m intersex and transfem, specifically hyperfem!
• I'm 18 years old — my birthday is August 21st
• I’m Autistic and attribute this as the main source of my alterhumanity. I also have BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) and traits of other PDs. Our mental health sideblog is @borderline-dalm !
• I am a therian, placekin, fictionkin, and alterhuman in general. I have a large hoard of identities which I'll list down below.
• I am the head of a plurality, but you’ll mostly just see me around. Collectively, we use they/them pronouns. We are mixed-origin and pro-endo, but we aren't really concerned about our own origin or if we are disordered or not.
[ Kinlist, Identities, Tags, and BYF under the cut. ]
#carstuff🇨🇫: Posts about my placekin experience as the Central African Republic.
#placekin questions: Answering questions about Placekin topics and my experience with it
#aWannabe: Posts about my favorite music artist, aWannabe.
Before You Follow (BYF) :
• I am 18 now, but I’m fine to interact with anyone. I will read any profile I interact with to ensure they’re comfortable first, but interaction is up to your discretion !
• I don't mind if 18+ blogs interact in a SFW manner, as long as your blog isn't entirely/mostly NSFW
• I am against gatekeeping and exclusion. This includes policing others’ labels and identities. Everyone has their own right to the way they define themselves!
I support every type of alterhuman identity. This includes holotheres, physical therians, lycan/zoanthropes, choicekin, factkin, factives, placekin, and the list goes on!
• I welcome and support every kind of system, plurality, and multiplicity, including endos. I am part of a mixed-origin plurality myself.
I support people with all mental health disorders, including personality disorders. I do not believe in “(x)pd abuse”.
• I do not usually post or repost anything political on this blog, unless it would be in reference to relevant placekin topics. I do reblog things associated with human rights and environmental concerns.
• I don't participate in proship or radqueer discourse on this blog. I’m neither of these, but I am transCanadian, if that matters to you.
• I have no DNI! I can’t stop anyone from making their first interaction with me. If I strongly disagree with your views or you make me uncomfortable, I’ll just use the block button :P
One of my favorite things to do as a placekin is go onto google earth and look at the satellite images of myself.
If any of you enjoy GeoGuessr like I do, you’ll know that google maps streetview is also a great option for many places if you want a first person perspective. Sadly, there is no google streetview coverage for myself, so panoramas and satellite images are the next best thing!
Been wondering if we should re-come out to our family as plural :^
Back in around 2020 or so, we first discovered our systemhood and came out to our parents about it. They were somewhat supportive, but I think they had the wrong idea. My dad told me, “our (as in both of my parents) goal for you is to help your alters merge back together with you.” I can’t remember what he said verbatim, but that was the just of it. We weren’t very happy about this, as you can imagine, but thats a story for another day.
But it makes me hesitant to try again. Maybe a year or so after we came out as plural, all the fakeclaiming and stigma online got to us. We figured we weren’t a real, valid system, so we declared ourselves no longer plural, and some headmates stopped showing up for the next few years.
I don’t think my family ever forgot about this, but I just stopped bringing it up and told them it “wasn’t a thing anymore” if they asked me about it. Even my sister kinda knew, so recently when I was explaining DID one day after my psych class, she said, “didn’t you used to have something like that?”
Now that we’ve grown past the online bullying and reclaimed our plural identity, we’ve been a lot happier. But we’ve also realized how many tough or confusing situations we get into that could be fixed if my family just knew what was going on. They would know why Cougar is always stand-offish and doesn’t speak to anyone, why Histri suddenly starts being loud and dramatic sometimes when we’re in public, why some days Femme is obsessed with pink and femenine clothing and the next day we aren’t really feeling it, why Fawn randomly freezes up and loses the ability to speak in seemingly normal situations.
I want what's best for us. I certainly don’t want someone else stepping in to try and “cure” us of our systemhood, since we don’t really see it like that. But I also think we’re at a point where it would be okay to open up a bit. Sure, we can certainly defend ourselves if things took a wrong turn, but honestly I think we’ll be okay.
Does anyone have experience with being ecosystem-kin? I'm kin-questioning the ecosystem of a fish tank.
As in I am the tank itself, the filtration, the lights, the CO2 moderation system, the substrate, I'm the non living parts of the tank and somewhat the living parts of it? I have ideas as to what species are in the tank specifically, and its like how bacteria lives inside your gut and it's you, but you don't consider it when you think about yourself.
I haven't had a chance to properly formulate the thought. It actually might not be a true kin at all but closer to a longing for a hearthome, my lake.
I am like a month late to this post lol, but this is super cool!! :D
I’m placekin, and I actually relate to most things you said a ton. I’m a country — I’m the land and the rivers and the skies. The plants are a part of me, kind of like the equivalent of hair. It’s still part of my body, but its only one of many parts that come together to make a whole. I relate to the bacteria thing too, with my people and animals and anything else living and moving. They’re a part of you, but you’re also more like a sanctuary to them than being them.
When I was first questioning myself as a placekin, I thought I was a lot of other places as well. Turns out they were more like heart-types or heart homes to me than an identity as them. I only ended up being kin of one place, which is the Central African Republic. Its funny looking at this through a placekin lens, because hearthomes vs kins can actually be tricky to differentiate.
Anywho, I guess I’m trying to say that ecosystems and places have a lot of complex parts to them, meaning there’s a ton of ways your identity can take form. There’s no right or wrong answer. Maybe something like abiotickin (kin of all the nonliving parts of an ecosystem) might be a worth a look into?
Saw the live action Moana today and was really charmed by the animism (e.g. land and water being living entities) they portrayed there C: Being placekin makes me appreciate indigenous culture even more ^w^/
A lot of things are starting to make a tonnn more sense ever since we found out about our subsystem
I owe it all to the plural comic makers on this website that helped us realize switching isn’t always a concrete thing (e.g. A is here -> A is gone, B is here).
For us, it’s more like feeling like somebody else with a different personality and sense of self, but the transition can be much smoother than how a lot of sources depict it!
These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.
Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.
After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.
For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.
Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.
Um, I just had one of my friends (no one on here) really hurt my feelings to the point I was crying. The main thing was that they were calling me something derogatory directly related to my source trauma, even after I asked them to stop.
You never know if one of your friends may be fictionkin, have a comfort character, or whatever else. So please, please don’t call them derogatory things based of a character they play in a game without asking first. You never know how it might affect them, even if you meant it as a joke.
When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.
pop health science is so annoying bc it'll be like "did you know? eating strawberries will give you mega cancer" and you're like pfft whatever begone influencer. but sometimes then you'll see a reasonably credible article like "Study Shows Possible Link Between Strawberries and Mega Cancer" and you're not usually the type to follow that kind of thing religiously but idk maybe you should consider not eating strawberries? but then there's another article saying "Strawberry/Mega Cancer Study Debunked" and it turns out the original study had a sample size of 3 and was funded by Big Blueberry, and strawberries may have a small connection to mega cancer but only if you are genetically predisposed to mega cancer and eat 50 strawberries every day. so you return to your strawberry eating life. but whenever you eat strawberries in public someone tells you about the mega cancer.
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