#kitoposting

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this is what happens when you put me on google docs with speciesfeels & no filter to bad poetry btw

note: 'man' is gender neutral here + this is meant to be read either side on its own or together

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Top 10 tips to being plural: Don't

(To be genuine, I do think the stupidity of it snapped me out of it a little, among other things. I do find it funny how this guy can't even do his actual system role though.)

First plural comic anyways, reblogs appreciated!

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"What gender is that cat?"

// pt: what gender is that cat? //

a personal zine about gender, nonhumanity and a little bit of liomoqai (it's all linked, anyway)

Finally getting comfortable with my identity as a genderless yet also xenogender nonhuman; my gender and nonhumanity are inextricably linked.

Tagging @radiomogai because I think it also archives experience posts, and @alterhuman-art as I'd like this to be reblogged there.

Thank you so much @soporine for making a term I identify with so deeply.

[Transcript/ID:

A zine with 9 pages, all off-white with black text, typically in a monospace font with a white background, but sometimes in quotations, larger with a serif font and also with a white background

i've spent a lot of time trying to figure out my gender.

(in doodled thought bubbles) am i a boy? am i a girl?

(next to doodled symbols) nonbinary, genderfluid, transmasc, demigirl

all words i've used to describe myself at some point in my life.

i got myself in a rut about it

introspecting, introspecting, introspecting.

i started looking into the core of it

(circled) "But what is gender, anyway?"

i didn't know the answer.

(next to handwritten and crossed out she/her, he/him, they/them) "Gender is the pronouns you use"

but gender doesn't equal pronouns. but pronoun non-conforming people exist.

"Gender is the way you present yourself to others"

but gender non-conforming people exist. but closeted trans people are still trans.

"Gender is what you want your body to look like"

but what about trans people that don't medically transition?

but what about nonbinary and genderqueer identities that don't have a base for the gendered body?

(cut off) but what about-

so gender doesn't mean anything?

"Guess you'll have to define gender for yourself the way it is for you"

(handwritten and crossed out who am i, anyway? drawing of anthro cat facing away)

(cut off) "Let's start with some questions, then-

"What pronouns do you want to use?"

(next to handwritten and crossed out there are more pronouns than just he, she and they?) i don't really know, nothing feels quite right.

"How do you want to present, to be percieved by others?"

i don't really care, people percieve me as whatever they want regardless of what i think, anyway

i don't put effort into presenting myself in any particular way.

"What would you want your ideal body to look like?"

i mean, i guess, i guess

does it have to be (underlined) human?

i think i'd want to be a cat.

does that count? does that count as 'gender'?

i've been identifying with 'xenogenders' as metaphors, ideas

just describing feelings i'm not sure are gendered feelings at all

does this count? this feels more certain than a metaphor

i mean if we're talking about animals,

they don't have gender, this human (repeated, underlined) social construct

(next to drawing of cat facing away, tail overlapping text) they're just flesh and blood and instincts and biology

can i be that too? nonhuman? all the way down to gender?

(handwritten and crossed out 'it/its is dehumanising!' isn't that the point?)

i got deeper into the liomoqai community, the alterhuman community, too

i found terms, genderNH, kingender, acreaturic

(acreaturic is circled, the arrow leads to the text) "a label for when you are just a creature/being, perhaps with no concept of gender, and simply pretending to be a certain gender for fun."

that makes sense. gender is so meaningless to me.

i don't think cats are a fan of gender, really

i think i'm using gender to describe other things in my identity!

i can do that!

i can do that :)

(drawing of cat, finally facing forwards, eyes closed in a pleased manner)

End transcript/ID.]

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'your foot is wiggling' WELL SORRY I DON'T HAVE A TAIL

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Alterhumans, which general alterhuman flag design do you prefer/use/identify with most?

1 (beyond-mogai-pride-flags)

2. (kin-flags)

3. (kin-flags)

4. (gh0stspxce)

5. (vesiamor + misguided-mystery)

6. (misguided-mystery)

7. (synanthropic) — Nonhuman Unity Flag

8. (io-makes-flags)

9. (blankmogai)

Another flag not featured

Multiple of these/Equal

Not an alterhuman/Results

Voting ended onMar 10

1 / 2 / 3

4 / 5 / 6

7 / 8 / 9

More info under cut. Please reblog for reach!

Nonhuman unity flag included as it's used frequently to represent alterhumanity in general. If you prefer a version without the symbol (ex. for vesiamor's flag) just vote for that flag anyway.

If you voted multiple and you don't like them equally, please mention in notes!

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Person in my class today: 'it's good to have a connection to animals. but not in a weird way, like therians'

Me, the opposite side of the table: 👀

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I love how tumblr is so over the top compared to other platforms, in everything else alterhumanity feels so watered down.

In other platforms, I see otherlinks constantly being shat on, nonhuman traits that aren't just vocals being considered a bad thing, physical therians being erased or any discussion regarding them becoming a forest fire , and the only alterhuman content around just ends up being quads and masks with a dash of 'remember, therians know they're physically human and many/most therians only partially identify as an animal, not fully'

Tumblr?? I see people making long text posts about how everything is valid! Physical therians run wild! People are proud to bite, scare people, and be fully nonhuman! You see the terms transspecies , holothere ,nonhuman thrown around without much argument against it!! There are multigenic nonhuman collectives all over the place!! You can post about whatever the heck you want, you can be fully nonhuman, your alterhumanity can be a kink, your alterhumanity can be related to pet regression, your alterhumanity can be whatever the heck you want!! You're a creature!!

I dunno. I love tumblr it's the only place I've really managed to be nonhuman properly.

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I'm so kitty I don't think they know how kitty I am