#copinglinking

[otherlink-memes]

[infinite-curses]

More people should really at least consider otherlinking to be a thing they themselves can do. The community is quiet and the tags tend to be overrun with crossposting, but I think it'd be a lot louder if people actually considered it as a genuine possibility a little more often. 'Linking is usually seen as an afterthought you tack onto the end of a list of alterhuman terms and not usually discussed too much more than that from what we can see. Which is sad because it really can be beneficial and it absolutely has a place in the broader alterhuman community.

You really want to be an animal, or your favourite character, but you know you're not? You can do that--you can just.. become them.

You have a hearttype but it feels kinda weird and it feels like you should have been that thing, but you're not? You could always 'link it if you're dysphoric about not being that thing.

You have something that was--or you thought was--a kintype, but now it's not, and you miss it? Just link it back into yourself.

You think [thing] is really cool and it'd be cool to be one? You can!

You want to incorporate an aesthetic of [thing] into your identity and it'd work best if you just became that thing? That's absolutely a thing you can do.

You think it'd be fun to identify as something other than what your body is? You can make that happen.

Being [thing] would help with something in your life? Go ahead, you can do that.

You can mold your own sense of self an identity however you see fit, and that's really cool. Honestly it comes across as a power move. You get to make your own self, no matter what came before it.

[deltoradecay]

Happy aromantic spectrum awareness week to any and all arospec alterhumans!

💚🤍🩶🖤

Shoutout to all:

Arospec plural systems and headmates.

Arospec tulpas, daemons/daemians, soulbonds, thoughtforms, walk-ins and other headmate (-adjacent) beings.

Arospec otherkin, therians and fictionkin.

Arospec alterhumans with factbased identities.

Arospec archetropers.

Arospec otherhearteds or otherkith.

Arospec otherlinkers or copinglinkers.

Arospec godshards.

Arospec furries and furry lifestylers.

Arospec alterhumans whose alterhumanity comes from a disorder/disability.

Any and all arospec alterhumans!

If your arospec identity intersects with your alterhuman identity, that's cool as hell. If your arospec identity doesn't intersect with your alterhuman identity and you just so happen to be both, that's also cool. Have a wonderful week!

You're cool as fuck, keep on being you.

[alterhumanity-positivity]

Otherlinks are as valid and real as any other alterhuman identity. It's okay to choose to identify as something. Consciously choosing an identity doesn't make it any less real or valid.

[interstellarsystem]

I swear we've seen a poll like this before (maybe we've even made one before) but I'm making it again now anyway! We've been seeing not much rep for human-identifying alterhumans so we wanted to throw out a little poll to see how many are out there.

Alterhumans, which of these applies most to you personally?

I'm alterhuman and fully human.

I'm alterhuman and partially human, partially something else.

I'm alterhuman and fully nonhuman.

I'm alterhuman and neither nonhuman nor human. (Aspecies, etc)

I'm alterhuman and it depends on the day whether I'm a human or not!

I'm alterhuman and a system/plural, and we can't pick just one of the above.

I'm just alterhuman, I don't think more in-depth about it.

I'm alterhuman but (nuance/other).

Voting ended onMay 27, 2025

No orthohuman/non-alterhuman option to not skew the results.

Also, "fully nonhuman" means whatever you'd define it as--it can include physical nonhuman identity, or it can include simply fully identifying as a nonhuman in a human body. Up to you!

[kaboom--bitch]

Reminder for the tags that your identity (alterhuman or otherwise) is your own. No one can tell you what's going on in your mind or what you're feeling. No one can prove you right or wrong when it's a matter of your own personal identity. Only you can decide who and what you are, and only you can label that. It's okay to be wrong, to change labels, to decide that you were confused and to try on other labels for size. Questioning and taking your time with yourself isn't wrong by any means. What matters at its core is that your identity is yours and yours alone--no one can take that from you or decide who you are for you.

[otherlink--culture--is]

Otherlink + willomancy culture is... am I 'linking or willowing right now?