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@plantkinsuggestion
The website is back up, by the way.
I forgot to mention I have an email address now! It is [email protected] .
Just wanted to say that this site is currently broken, as is my other one... 😭
It's been that way for the past several months. I really need to get it fixed... 😔
,,how ol d is too old to kin? -from someone very new and very self-conscious about this
normally id not answer this since this is a kinfession blog not a kin question blog, but my inbox is dead anyway.
no such thing as too old to kin :^)
im not very old, but i am 21, a grown ass adult who can drink lol. kinning has no age
if you have any more questions u can send them to my kin blog @scarycute if u want !!
"Kin" is not something you do, it's something you are. Please try to use terminology that doesn't imply that being other-/fictionkin is just something people choose all willy nilly :(
it totally can be tho. its not that serious, honestly. i personally have been in the community for 8 odd years and i use all the terms from back then but i really do not care if other people dont, its REALLY not that serious.
Please consider that your experiences might not be universal. To thousands of people it is a very serious thing and it hurts a lot to see people who roleplay, have faceclaims, have comfort characters, or who have personas using our terminology with zero regard for who it might hurt.
It's like when 'triggered' became a meme and people with real medical triggers couldn't discuss their experiences without being misunderstood or mocked. Or, more recently, how people are calling everything gaslighting when they're really just talking about lying. It hurts. A lot.
All I'm asking is to please think about who might be pushed away or hurt or misled when you use certain words in the wrong context.
i think the people you need to be concerned about are anti kins, not people who are just having fun. you arent gonna change my mind. its REALLY not that serious.
People can be concerned about more than one thing at a time. Blatantly not showing concern for the people who are being hurt by a pattern of behavior is callous and cruel. Especially when the only reasoning behind the behavior is "dude, it's not that deep, just let people have fun lol".
“It’s really not that serious” as though we don’t have books [x], ebooks [x] [x] [x] [x] [x], studies/formal academic publications [x] [x] [x], whole swathes of personal websites [x] [x] [x], dedicated forums [x] [x] [x], comics [x] [x], zines [x] [x] [x] [x], entire online community-curated and run catalogues and libraries [x] [x] [x] [x], lectures [x] [x], and a whole-ass non-profit which is directly related to and includes otherkin experiences in its advocacy [x] as existing, living proof otherwise. And what I’ve posted here is just a drop in an ocean, literally just shit I can post with my eyes closed and not even thinking about it.
OP, I get you’re fine making a lighthearted joke out of yourself and your own experiences, but it’s pretty fucking rude to try and twist interpretations of other people’s identities and their experiences without their consent. Especially when if you’ve actually been in the community for 8-odd years, then you damn well already *know* that otherkinity and therianthropy aren’t defined as voluntary roleplay-esque experiences and never have been. People don’t just choose things like phantom bodies, or mental shifts, or any other of the vast number of diverse experiences we see spoken about in the various nonhuman communities, and driving a narrative that people can just choose these things (and can therefore choose to stop experiencing these things) is harmful and only perpetuates anti-otherkin rhetoric-- especially anti-otherkin rhetoric associated with trying to violently harass the nonhumanity out of people “for their own good, to help them adapt to society”, because anti-otherkin assume it is a choice. If you’re truly so concerned about anti-kin, then don’t do their job for them.
Zoesthesia & Alterhumanity
There needs to be a unifying term that describes the experiences and identities of that many alterhumans share (such as therians and otherkin), is not exclusive, does not imply a spiritual or psychological bias, is less likely to be targeted by bad actors, and can be easily translated to other languages as an aid to a global community that is being left behind. This has been refined significantly since my last post. Here is what I propose:
Zoesthesia ("zo-esthesia"): the experience of sensations, perceptions, and behaviors belonging to a species, form of consciousness, or concept not typical of one's own biological species. Interpretations and identities arising from these experiences are subjective and personal; zoesthesia can be present without either, especially at early ages, but is often experienced as an embodied identity.
Zoesthetes have a wide spectrum of experiences, often leading to unique endeavors and forms of expression in social, artistic, literary, and professional contexts.
The experience of zoesthesia involves:
- Sensations, perceptions, behaviors, social cues, and/or involuntary urges not typically seen in one's own biological species,
- A state of consciousness akin to that of a non-human animal, mythological creature, fictional character, or concept such as the internal state of an operating system or characteristics of an environment,
- Experiences that may become stronger after one becomes conscious of them (what some call a "spiritual awakening"),
And can involve any number of the following:
- The feeling of phantom limbs or sensations belonging to something other than one's own biological species,
- Feelings, urges, and sensations that may vary in form and intensity, remain at a stable baseline, or become triggered by internal or external stimuli,
- An identity or overarching sensation that embodies on these experiences,
- Dysphoria regarding the incongruence between one's physical body and perceived embodied experience,
- Altered states of consciousness (such as dreams and trance-like states) that are experienced through the lens of something incongruent to one's biology,
- And/or a personal interpretation of these experiences through psychological or spiritual means.
Additional Context
Zoesthesia comes from the Greek root words "zoe" (meaning life or animal) and "aisthesis" (meaning perception, and in medical and neurological contexts, feeling or experience); it is synonymous with "qualia." Literally: "life perception." It doesn't necessarily imply that this relates solely to non-human animals, nor does the suffix imply anything regarding attraction or identity. It sounds very similar to synesthesia, which is highly studied and has a thriving community.
Certain aspects of one's experience of zoesthesia can be increased or otherwise controlled through the practice of various forms of meditation.
Zoesthesia's purpose and goal as a term is to decouple the inner animal/other experience from identity, define a robust neurological basis for researchers to study alterhumanity, and make identities such as "therian" and otherkin discussable in contexts where they have been demonized or tarnished. Note that "I am a therian" and "I experience zoesthesia" are statements that have wildly different connotations - one reveals ego (which certain individuals are more likely to attack). By focusing on experience instead of identity, zoesthesia could become relatively free of identity-based scrutiny and open more constructive conversations globally.
If you think this works, use it. I think we should create an anonymous international resource that defines zoesthesia in multiple languages and provides links to resources and studies related to associated phenomena such as therianthropy, otherkin, alterhumanity, and etc. If you feel weird about reterming such things, consider that the point of this is to translate it into languages in which "therianthropy," "otherkin," and etc. are not usable terms. "Zoesthesia" probably won't even be on the menu. What we see as "the way things are" in our culture is very centered on English. Unless you'd like to advocate for English as the master language, there needs to be some consensus on what makes up our embodied identities so that the community's extremities aren't left behind. Those countries already have growing communities, but the lack of proper documentation in their local languages is drawing in folks who think these are fandoms, not experiences - people who think that the associated identities and experiences are extreme.
If you would like to volunteer to help with translation into the language(s) of your country, please contact me. Feel free to leave your thoughts here so I can continue to refine this. If you think this is a bad idea, let it die. If you think it's a good idea, reblog this and start using it.
when i grow up i wanna be a dandelion
The website is back up, by the way.
I forgot to mention I have an email address now! It is [email protected] .
The Phytanthrope Community Survey is collecting data on phytanthropes’ experiences and understandings of themselves and their community. The survey asks questions about participants’ plant-related kintypes, how they personally think of the definition of the word phytanthrope, and about emotions such as dysphoria. This survey takes about 10 minutes, depending on how much you put in write-in questions. This survey is open to anyone identifies with the label “phytanthrope” or other synonyms with that word. Your body MUST be age 18 or older to participate in this survey. One response per physical body, please.
>>> SURVEY LINK <<<
This survey will close August 1st, 2025. We will collect data from the survey, which we will publish online afterwards, use for research purposes may be presented as part of a panel for an online convention (Othercon 2025). Any identifying information that participants submit will be made anonymous or removed entirely. This survey is part of a series of surveys by House of Chimeras (@liongoatsnake), Orion Scribner (@frameacloud), and Page Shepard (@who-is-page). If you’re interested in this project, please join our mailing list to get notifications of updates, additional surveys, and other events!
[Image description: Color pencil drawing of Orion and Page sitting under a large tree each on opposite sides with their backs against the trunk. Orion is taking notes while Page is reading a book. On the tree is a piece of parchment that reads, "Phytanthrope Survey." Along with the phytanthrope symbol. End description.]
FYI, the tree is Darahagh, and oak tree headmate of ours who is spearheading the writing project and panel this survey will help in completing.
The website is back up, by the way.
Hi everyone! I know it's been forever, but I am going to see about getting the plantkin-info.org site back up. It should be fairly easy and I will let you all know when I am done.
I am very very open to getting external writing, research, and information on the site, so please let me know if you'd like to be included in that!
There's an external survey that's already been started (you can find it on the phytanthropy community I run) that's put together by people with much more creativity, reach, and brainpower than me. I would recommend checking it out! I will include a link to that soon.
I am open to sharing previous research and survey results with anyone that would like them. Hopefully there is some kind of archive on there relating to the community symbol we all chose (funny how my blog contributed to that, lol).
Goodbye for now, and I'll keep you all updated on any new developments. Within the next week I am going to see about creating custom email domains for my sites (using an existing email platform for usability), getting the plantkin-info site up, and of course taking suggestions on stuff for this blog, mod applications(?), and how things should go for a future direction for this blog.
- Cedar
"Why do I never see insect therians"
Because we get bullied to a point we start hiding our theriotypes.
"how does that even work"
"but they're don't have a high enough cognitive level"
Shut. Up.
*laughs in plant* we're with you there, by the way!
Let your therianthropy be messy. Don't you dare let anyone tell you you're not x species because you don't do something or you do something else. Don't let anyone tell you you can't be a carnivore because you're vegetarian. Don't let anyone tell you your personal experiences somehow exclude you from being x animal.
Don't let anyone tell you that you have to have one hundred reasons why you're your theriotype. Just feel it, just close your eyes and feel it. Spread your wings, flex your claws, grow your shoots, breathe.
You owe nobody an explanation of who or what you are, you can just be. Feel your way through therianthropy, you don't have to justify everything with facts or an experience or "I knew this since I was little". It's not necessary.
Go with your instincts.
it’s utterly fascinating to understand that all creatures and life around us can at some point intermingle with what we are now, and even though taking on the form of a creature of which is human, we’re in fact so much more- from flowers to fungi to animals to concepts. It’s beautiful.
I agree with you there!
hi:) Just wanted to ask what are your plants for the community and if there's anything you need help with in setting it up!
I would love to set up the old site again, but I don't think that's going to be possible. I don't even know what to do with the results of the survey, though they are very interesting. I'm just. very tired.
Can you elaborate on the sprigs of lavender?
we are plant, kind of, sometimes? it's complicated.
Trying to explain how you know you Are Something is very hard, so you'll have to bear with me here. Before we even figured out we were plural, we knew we were non-human in some capacity. One of the things that has always stuck with us, and had much of the same sentimentality we had for our other kintypes, was plants. In particular, flower patches, and even more particularly, lavender. So we were lavender, alongside our other identities.
Now that we've realized our plurality, our relationship with lavender has become... hard to categorize. It is not an alter, like the rest of our 'types ended up being, but it's still an underlying connection that we, as a collective, have. It's shared between us - or perhaps a feature of our headspace? - but not an individual that communicates and thinks and feels.
So yeah, we have some underlying flowerness that I find hard to describe! If you're still curious, I would go read more elaborate essays by other phytanthropes. The breath of experience between plants is astounding.
Here's the phytanthropy community link! Very barebones for now. Only rules are basically be nice to each other and don't be LGBTphobic.
A place for "plantkin"/phytanthropes to hang out and get to know each other and share things!
So I remember you saying that you're a fir tree branch (correct me if I'm wrong on the tree species, my memory isn't the best). Would you mind telling me how that feels like? Do you retain some individuality as part of a larger tree? Would you consider the other branches to be family, close friends, you/a part of you or something else? I am also really fascinated by the panpsychistic implications of you being a tree branch: Not only is everything sentient, but every single part of everything is sentient, a neverending fractal of consciousness. I really like fractals
I am always grateful for people with genuine interest and open for dissection and ofcourse I’ll tell you about my experience!! Thank you for the questions!! Although I do understand how strange it may seem to some haha.
there’s a very familiar sense of home from the entire tree, similar to how a child may have a pull towards older people both in a paternal sense of like an older brother - that overwhelming sense of it being beyond your understanding but also a knowledgable responsibility of being beside them, that although they may not give you their attention, their presence is overly comforting and strangely intimate even if it may not much of a choice - either you’re all lost or have a belonging, and wherever that is, then it’ll be home. There isn’t a “tree vs me” it’s more so that everyone acts as apart of a whole, without one, the place will ofcourse remain empty, but there won’t be much suffering. For some to bloom is no different than a person putting on jewlery or decorating their house. Just like some needles overlap with others, it’s like a gentle reminder of comfort. the main point of awareness must be the way the breeze affects you differently, that the rain and snow are the primary causes of any difference in the peaceful life of sun, wind, and the everything of nothing. The environment is the most beautiful of embrace and a branch is so sensitive to that life with its little size in relation to all else around, but even then, holding such a beautiful importance! So important, so deep, and beloved.. but the biggest delight is to lovingly cherish, grow and spend energy and time into cultivating some berry or pine cone, and to share the gifts with the critters of the forest is beyond what any reasonable human explanation can transfer. To possibly have all your focus turn into a little treat for some creature also on a journey of their own is so much a pleasure!
Plus life doesn’t end with being broken off a tree or drying up/burning, although it mostly is gone there, but for some time after that source is shattered, there’s still a slow process of healing within the destruction, and to have someone or something carry you a little while longer, see the world beyond where life has been in so far, is well alright, and a good way to say goodbye to life. The bark and leaves turn to rot and decompose to fuel the other organisms around, from grass to shrubs and bushes to fellow trees. How beautiful!
other branches are more so distant family, some more friends and distant relatives, and some more work together but more or so it’s all from the main trunk, where all nutrients stem from, and it’s apart of one bigger thing.
Beautiful beautiful !!
Here's the phytanthropy community link! Very barebones for now. Only rules are basically be nice to each other and don't be LGBTphobic.
A place for "plantkin"/phytanthropes to hang out and get to know each other and share things!
Sun Eater sticker by me.
