Banner image by Detlev Van Ravenswaay, profile picture from Ullstein Bild Hello, fellow travelers! it/its please. No i don’t have any other pronouns for you. I am an object
Hi! I’m Sputnik-1. I may not post very much on here because my mind isn’t always thinking. My English pronouns are it/its. If your language is too heavily gendered for that, refer to me by what grammatical rules the name “Sputnik” follows in your language. Он/его по-русски. Please treat reference to me in these areas exactly like referring to an object in all languages.
You might think this is a gimmick blog, or that this is just an aesthetic. Power to you, but nope, I’m a factive (member of a plural system derived from of real person or thing) of Sputnik-1 the satellite. I’m being genuine. though also i retain the capacity to be goofy. Sometimes I’m being both! Emotion and its expression is a wonderful thing! I’m a little new to it.
The host of my system is @spamtown-usa. All likes and follows come from there. You might want to read the pinned post there too, as we share the beliefs stated there. I don’t like thinking or speaking about it much, but i will also state here, we don’t want to see any “anti-endo” stuff. And you shouldn’t care so much about why I am in such a way. Such human cultural nonsense
Sometimes both Gold and I are speaking, or he will say things while I’m saying things. I will mention that if we think it’s relevant.
I would like to find some relatable folks. I’m always on the lookout for other objectmates, especially ones sprung from real world objects.
I don’t consider myself otherkin because I do not feel like my body or mind is or looks human or humanlike at any capacity. We typically understand "otherkin" in terms of ourselves to mean "looks human but is not", which isn't at all what it needs to mean to you, but is what it means for us in our head. My body is solely in headspace, a physical place for me, and is not the meaty one that I find myself sometimes piloting. you are also exactly what you say you are, please don’t get me wrong, but the otherkin label just isn’t for me personally. I call myself “holoantikan” instead—a term for those who feel like they are physically an object. my coining post
Accusing random people of cult activity for identity is weird and i dont like that. if what i talk about here triggers you just block me. We are not responsible for your internet experience
Since I just spent the past ten or so days glued to the screen in awe watching the Artemis II mission, I figured an obligatory tribute illustration was in order 🌙
mariner 1 would have flown by venus, but due to an incorrect trajectory during launch, range safety had to destroy the booster and its payload at t+290 seconds. december, 1962.
queston 132: if you have memories of time before being in the shstem, do those effect you now? (note: i dont just mean trauma! other things count too).
I remember being in some kind of spirit world after I died (burnt up in the atmosphere), and that has definitely affected how I feel about spirituality. It’s funny, because I don’t really remember much of anything from when I was “alive”. Most objects don’t really have senses—to my knowledge, we are still bound to what our bodies are capable of. But in a way, that almost “lack” of memory does also influence the way I think today. I’m not really on the same wavelength as a lot of other animists for these reasons
Special thanks to our host for helping me transcribe this into a readable format.
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How would you describe yourself?
I’m a dragon, a drake (wingless dragon) more specifically. At the moment I’m also spirit, like some of the other members in our system, as someone who had once been alive and arrived here after death.
What is it like being a dragon? What do you do in a day?
Asking “what is it like being a dragon” is about as vague as “what is it like being a human”.
For what I do, I hibernate. The main things I do are sleep and hold a conversation if someone wants it. I don't move around much, if at all. Some might not consider that fulfilling, but having lived a full life already I don’t exactly yearn for much. I’m content with resting.
In what way are you physically nonhuman? Does your experience intersect with humanity in any way?
It does not, no. I've never been a human and wouldn't know much about it. I’m physically nonhuman in a similar way theriform animals are. This is also why I don't use terms such as otherkin or therian, since theriform animals aren't otherkin or therians of their own species.
How did you learn you were physically nonhuman?
It wasn’t really something I had to discover, I was born as a dragon and died at old age as a dragon. Now even as a spirit I’m still a dragon.
Why would — or wouldn’t — you go with the different types of physical nonhumanity?
Holothere as a term is too broad for me to want to use it, in a similar vein as someone acknowledging they fall under alterhumanity but don’t identify solely as alterhuman because of its broadness. It’s not specific enough. Clinical zoanthrope didn’t match at all since that’s not what I experience, and neither did endel.
Extranth I’ve settled on as “close enough” since I’m a nonhuman system member, although I wish I had something more specific for “extranth that lives in the headspace and not through the meatspace body”.
Some will argue that you’re still ultimately having a human experience, how do you respond?
I speak human language because when I was alive I was allied with a human village that I wanted to communicate with. I disagree that a nonhuman experiencing human influence erases or lessens their nonhumanity, or that sharing a behavior with humans makes them human by default. Two different species can have similar or the same qualities without them being non-distinct.
I don’t exist in the same world that those in meatspace do, I’m just an observer of it from elsewhere. Even if at some point I manage to figure out how fronting works, an example we like to use is “you don’t turn into a bike when you ride one”. If I manage to pilot the human body for some period of time, I won’t magically know the firsthand experience of living a human life.
Are there any struggles or frustrations you have?
It’s frustrating to have others jump to conclusions about myself despite how much I try to explain; the niche of physical nonhumanity that I experience tends to break brains. No matter what, people will reason that I am in some way perceivably human. They’ll assume that I’m a clinical zoanthrope, or an endel, or the associative type of physical nonhuman (IE: I’m nonhuman therefore my body is nonhuman). The very last thing that ever tends to be considered is that I’m being very literal in what I explain about myself, and that annoys me.
Are you interested in any human activities?
Not particularly, I never found myself all that interested in the outside world post-death. I suppose I enjoy swimming, and fishing. But not fishing-pole fishing, fishing in the way seabirds fish, since that’s the way I’d done it when I was alive.
Haven't really seen anyone else talk about this but. Can we talk about how strange it feels to not be able to speak the language you spoke in your source?
Like I hear someone else speak it and I should be able to understand and speak it myself, but since this body doesn't know it, I can't do that
ID: A 9 striped flag, with every other stripe going from thick to thin. The thin stripes are about half the size of the thick stripes. From top to bottom the colors are medium warm purple, dark purple, light desaturated purple, blue gray, white, blue gray, cerulean blue, dark blue, medium blue.
In the middle of the white stripe is two combined white diamonds that poke out from the stripe going into the light desaturated purple and cerulean blue stripes. In the center of the diamonds is the symbol for factfolk, an outline of a simple camera with an outline of the earth as its lens. The symbol is blue gray.
A flag for anyone under the factual identity umbrella. A factual identity in simple terms is best defined as one that has roots and connections to something or someone that currently is existing or has existed in this world (though exceptions may exist in cases such as Exofactive, again this is a simplified definition). In many cases this is a human, but it doesn't have to be. This includes, but is not limited to:
Fact- folk
Fait- / Fuck- folk
Fog- folk
-tives
-kins
-therians
-hearteds
-linkers
-chainers
-vaugers
-karditypes
-stels
Endels, IRLs, DAs, and other folks whose identity is based in, caused by, or influenced by delusions or psychosis in general
Exofactives
Pre Factives
Post Factives
Those with factual hearthomes
Those who just "are" their identity and do not label it further
People who cannot, or do not want to, label their factual identity
[To be clear, prefixes are meant to be mixed and matched]
Again, this is meant to be an inclusive but not exhaustive list. Meaning it is a list to give an idea of who is included by default, but it is by no means limited to only these folks. It is simply a baseline idea for better understanding.
Symbol:
ID: Two symbols, both the same except the first is in black, the second is in white. The outline of a simple small rectangle hand held camera. Where the lens would normally be is an outline of the earth focused over the atlantic ocean.
We wanna talk about the symbol for a minute. The flag itself doesn't have too much meaning besides the color scheme is just one we noticed being used a lot for factual identity flags, so we decided to stick to it, and thought it looked pretty. The symbol on the other hand does have meaning and importance behind it.
The first is the camera. There was a discussion some time ago about a potential fact-id symbol in a server we are in, and an option someone threw out was a camera, to parallel fict-id's common use of a book. It's stuck with us ever since. Something about the symbolism of being able to (in theory) take a picture with two of the same guys.
However at some point it also struck us another side of it. A common misconception used against factfolk is they're stealing someones identity, and claiming to be the 'real' [x]. While obviously we cannot say this never happens, that is not the experience for the majority of the community. Instead a better understand is the person you are in a photograph from 10+ years ago, while you, isn't who you are now. Factfolk are in many cases, again no experience is a monolith and we do not claim to speak for the community as a whole, a version of their source. Snippets of them reproduced, but not 1:1 copies. Like how even two photos taken close together won't be exactly the same.
The second part is the earth. This part is a lot more self explanatory. It in itself represents how in majority of cases ones source is from this world. It being where the lens of the camera would be is representative of the focus of that part of the identity. How sharing a world with ones source can impact things.
It can also be easily represented with the emoji combo of 📷🌎 [earth non specific, any can be chosen. A fun choice reason could be where an identity stem from!] which we think is neat.
