Mind if I Start Oozing Slime .. . ?

Phagomimicry is a defensive behaviour of sea hares, in which the animal ejects a mixture of chemicals, which mimic food, and overwhelm the senses of their predator, giving the sea hare a chance to escape.

[phagomimicry]

Hi. Hello. There are at least 20 users running this account, but only a chosen 8 will speak. Our singletsona goes by Edel or Aedis. As a plural, call us mimicryOS.

Our links: [WIP] Neocities/Nekoweb [NEW] Introduction Carrd [NEW] Your Own Patron mimicryOS Sysmate Carrd

On this blog, we will aim to post our: Alth+ Thoughts | Plural Thoughts | Coining | Flags | Essays | Art | +more We would like to reblog about: Alterhuman Community (Nonhuman Community, Otherfolk Community, Plural Community, and Fictionfolk Community specifically) | Others' Cool Art / Cool Essays / Cool Edits | Soulbonding | (Fannish / Source) Media | +more

Our interests include collecting trinkets, writing, drawing, soulbonding ('course), oneironautics, psychonautics, (anti-)psych/MAD Pride, lucid dreaming, spiritual/metaphysical discussions of alterhumanity, and gaming. Mostly indie games, really. Oh, and cooking's a recent passion. We're a beginner but ! Recipes. Fun. All that jazz.

This is a sideblog — our main blog is mostly a secret (u*****s*, if you can ever figure it out), but we'd like to share it one day.

Xtra: — We consider most of ourselves soulbonds. — We consider most of our personal alterhuman experiences spiritual. — We're bodily above age of majority in our region (also known as "legally adult" colloquially), but a lot of us in-sys aren't. Thus, a lot of us don't wanna be.

[phagomimicry]

Once again, we have been busy mentally and physically since having last posted on this blog! Apologies.

We're still submerged in various alterhumanity* experiences and would like to talk about them somewhere. It's the self-perpetuating pressure of consistency that gets us to sweat nervously... not as feasible with our current state.

One day.

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*Well, we've always considered our plural experiences to be under the umbrella of AltH, but apart from that too!

[interstellarchaosss]

Sometimes things can be pretty isolating, even in your own community. I wouldn't wish my own suffering upon any other fictionfolk but man, it feels weird when mostly everyone seems to be focused on one thing that doesn't apply to you.

I didn't get as deep into it as I wanted to for this page, but the fictionfolk community at large seems to have a specific way about treating people from lighthearted sources if they also happen to have dark exomemories. It feels like it's always assumed that if you're from children's media or a happy source, you can't possibly have any memories that include suffering! Which isn't true, and I think even though these subjects need to be navigated carefully… Being pushed aside for it or having those feelings kept hush hush doesn't sit right with me. Maybe it's just the places I've been around, but it's a thing I wanted to write about.

[coyotebrained]

as close as I can get

[ursidae-arctoidea]

Im really happy that bioterms are catching on.

Here is a more official bioterms post.

Bioterms relay how someone wants their body to be referred to.

Ex: Someone with wolf bioterms may want their hands and feet referred to as their paws, their haired referred to as their fur, their mouth and nose to be referred to as their snout, their clothes referred to as their pelt, etc.

Bioterms can be put in bios like pronouns.

Ex: Toby he/they (raven bioterms)

[chicken-mc-nuggets]

rabbit filling out a captcha

[phagomimicry]

so. what happened here is that we got side-tracked with source material happenings and then with life. ^^

our goals for when we get back to here:

isolate and upload the fake stamps because our carpal is better

re-write the introduction carrd (the one who wrote it didn't quite play along with our collective persona)

get ready to link our github site, because we went with that instead of neko/neo

get ready to link our dreamwidth, because the alth places on there were great from when we first explored

that's all. goodnight internet.

[toskarin]

also, critically, minor disagreements about What Sucks among your friends and people you respect, on things with zero stakes, give you a good space to build a tolerance to that kind of thing. like yeah, mate has fucking horrendous taste in detective fiction to the point where I'd never touch any of it that he recommends, but I respect his opinion on gothic horror maybe than anyone else alive. so we just don't talk to each other about the former when we get a sense that it wouldn't be productive and it's fine

[phagomimicry]

Mayhaps joining the plural blog and fictionhood blog together .. . It's practically intertwined with us.

After eating a very yummy nutritious meal ! [voice of someone who has not eaten today]

[phagomimicry]

Wish you were here!

So, Howlcon. Our first ever Alterhuman virtual convention.

Honestly quite exciting. We've always dreamt of participating in Alth spaces. Those essays, those flags, those chats, those cons. Dreamt it all the way back to 2014, when we first realised our identities (shout-out to FromFiction). Our hesitance to jump in was admittedly because we've been lacking energy. That 'Wish you were here' quote? It's partly a postcard reference and partly us talking to ourselves!

But. No matter what, we want to carve our own corner on the internet. It's possible our passion will pull us through. We're ready to at least try.

Anyway, I'm glad there's someone out there clicking on our little art-ramble. No matter who you are and what you are, have a good one.

[phagomimicry]

[ID: A digital drawing of a creature holding binoculars and wearing a disproportionately big camping backpack. It has sea bunny traits, such as (known as 'sea bunny ears'), feathery gills (known as 'sea bunny tails'), no visible eyes, and dark circular markings. Its skin is drawn in a glossy, jelly-like texture. Unlike a sea bunny, however, it wears two appendages near its face that look similar in shape to floppy dog ears. In the right corner, there are several fake stamps that have alterhuman, kin, and therian symbols on them alongside a personalized stamp with the creature's face. In the left corner, cursive text reads: "See you at Howlcon!" End ID.]

Under Readmore:

[ID: A digital drawing of the same creature with a photorealistic thumbs up. It is a simplified doodle. Text reads: "To reader: Certificate of Greatness. Thank you for reading my thing." End ID.]

@alterhuman-art

[lamezine]

great thing about me starting to accept my fictionkinity about a year ago or something is that now I can fully embrace the "fake" or less respected parts of my identity.

oh i know this identity is probably temporary? who cares. i ID as XYZkin just as much as my non temporary idenitities and i deserve to talk about them.

i think back to when i was too scared to mention i was fictionkin and realize how far i've come in my own self acceptence and it makes me happy. so, i will continue to unapologetically be myself. to not censor any part of my identity because its lesser liked/known, cuz somewhere out there there's someone who was just like me. Someone who is scared to share about themselves, someone who doesn't know people like them exist, someone who is scared to share their experience because what if it isn't "alterhuman enough? and that soneone needs to see that rep and support in the community. much love to everyone who came before me to pave the way for me to be able to be writing this post now, fully embracing who i am.

[parkchanwoohoo]

A lot of people think they want to be strong, cute, funny, etc when deep down what they're really thinking is "I don't want anyone to think I'm weak," "I don't want to feel undesirable" "I don't want to be disliked" etc. and the difference is with the latter ones you're not really building up your self-esteem so much as outsourcing it to a general audience. I think there's value in occasionally asking yourself whether the traits you want to embody are the result of pursuing something or fleeing something

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

Avian Expectations

A small essay about the difference between the pop culture Bird and being a bird.

Being a bird is probably one of the most romanced identity. Being a bird means nothing, behavior wise, scientifically. Yet, being a bird portrays something very specific into people's mind.

Being a bird is freedom. It's effortless flight, belonging to the realm of air and never wanting to touch ground again. Being a bird is adventure, migration. A good half of movies about birds are about overcoming the thrilling dangers of going over entire continents in one year, the reward of seeing an exotic haven far from the cold. Sometimes, being a bird is being a strange endearing critter, voice mimicry, stealing shiny things, cuddling up and preening one's flock. Other times, being a bird is a sharp beak and sharper claws and being the Predator from Above, undefeated in the heights.

I've seen a lot of people question birds with that idea of a bird in mind. And, clearly, it can be true. One bird I know is migratory to her very core, the pull of Africa leading her to travel, irresistible. Another deeply intertwined with the drop of gravity as it's ultimate strength, entire biology built to master it.

But I cannot relate to people who go into questioning bird from the perspective of the Pop Culture Bird Homonculus, of this chimera of all the Cool Bird Traits. It seems like a fictional character to me, without all the little details that make being a bird real. Perhaps it is because I break all of these core traits.

I do not fly well, I glide when I must, and more often I run. I much prefer the ground. I am not migratory, and one part of being a roadrunner to me is Territory, and Surviving winter. I've never had the luxury of fleeing the cold, as much as i dislike it. I do not mimic all that much, I am solitary, I hunt by running along the grass. Barely bird, in the eye of the Being a Bird rules.

Rules say, then, i should not relate to being a bird. perhaps being a roadrunner for me would be akin to coyotes. Perhaps it would be akin to cats. But no, i do in fact relate to birds.

As it turns out, there is still a strong difference, for me, between the Being A Bird non-birds imagine and the actual one. I don't fly, i glide, i struggle to get to heights. A heavy sea eagle responded, saying how they felt flight as tool, from perch to perch, to scan for prey, too costly to waste in play.

I say that i hunt on foot, that i do not relate to the dive of the kestrel or the flight of the swift. A burrowing owl answer; saying they too prefer hunting grasshoppers from their height, sometimes perching but often just lurking around the grass.

I say i am alone, i do not have a flock, and a heron responds, why should you ? You are fine on your own.

I have met flightless cormorants, I have met penguins. On the contrary, I have met falcons, I have met corvids. The shapes of birdhood shift and change, but in the end, I tend to find someone for each things, be it bird like or not. Bird is a wide ground. Bird is a simplification, so that others can understand a flawed but easy view.

I am not A Bird, by pop culture definition. Yet i am very much a bird who relates to beings extremely far from me, behaviorally. honestly there's a point of no explanation. I share phantom feathers with them and beaks, but i couldn't be further from a hummingbird. It's a strange conundrum. So close yet so far, every species that talks about it. always slivers of Me-Truth, always things i just gloss over. a bird is not an animal, its a concept. i wish people would take that in account more before diving in it.

[phagomimicry]

I've finally finished one of our planned carrds. Now, onto the next andor Neo/Neko.

Or, uhh. Sleep? After not having slept for a day. Yeah, maybe that.

[phagomimicry]

I was wondering why my post hadn't shown up in the tags yet. Turns out, we had this blog excluded from searches. テヘペロ.

[phagomimicry]

I've finally finished one of our planned carrds. Now, onto the next andor Neo/Neko.

Or, uhh. Sleep? After not having slept for a day. Yeah, maybe that.

[phagomimicry]

Mm, yeah, I'll make that fiction-based blog once we wake up. I've missed discussing our specific soulbondy mechanics, our fictionfolk experiences waaay outweigh our non-fictionfolk ones. I fear it is in our blood... . .

[phagomimicry]

Wish you were here!

So, Howlcon. Our first ever Alterhuman virtual convention.

Honestly quite exciting. We've always dreamt of participating in Alth spaces. Those essays, those flags, those chats, those cons. Dreamt it all the way back to 2014, when we first realised our identities (shout-out to FromFiction). Our hesitance to jump in was admittedly because we've been lacking energy. That 'Wish you were here' quote? It's partly a postcard reference and partly us talking to ourselves!

But. No matter what, we want to carve our own corner on the internet. It's possible our passion will pull us through. We're ready to at least try.

Anyway, I'm glad there's someone out there clicking on our little art-ramble. No matter who you are and what you are, have a good one.