#nonhuman headmate

[deltoradecay]

Insect alterhumans I am putting a nice little beverage/snack of your choice in your hand. And your other hand. And your other hand. And your other hand. And your

[shittyflagz]

SPECiES FLAGS

dog

for all dogs to use! can be holothere, transspecies, therian, nonhuman alters or just anyone who is a dog in any way!

[loser-pet]

Feralmate

A feralmate is a headmate who acts animalistically.

These behaviours may be verbal (growling, hissing, barking, meowing, chirping, etc.), behavioural (alerting, tasting the air, grooming, stalking, chasing, performing mating rituals, etc.), or any other kinds of action that can be described as animal-like.

This is intended for non-human headmates, but anyone who experiences this can use this term.

[maximilliansblog]

hi explaining a thing? what would this be? dragonphobia? dragonmisia? western dragon normativity? lol words

basically even in accepting alterhuman spaces, there is this expectation of how a dragon should be. beings will often assume:

* your species originates in folklore from this earth (eastern vs western)

* you are a western dragon by default

* you have a hoard

* you are big and scary

* relation to the whole dragon slayer vs. dragon who steals princesses thing

* you are carnivorous

* you have batlike wings and are able to fly

* you breathe fire (or have any DND-style "breath power")

* you have scales

And of course a lot of dragons are like this, but a large amount are... not?

I love shiny objects as much as the next guy, but the concept of having a "hoard" is unnatural to me. I tried really hard as a newly discovered dragon to have one despite this. I don't breathe fire or anything except air like most animals. On that note I'm not really magical, I'm just an animal.

[I live in the water (ocean preferred) and eat fish. Sometimes I go on land and eat meat.] <- these are related to how I live in our collective's inner world. Sometimes I front to eat a shrimp (or post on tumblr) but I generally dislike to front bc body dysphoria.

I don't consider myself "scary", I'm just living here. Though some of my headmates are surprised when they see me for the first time, because I am much bigger than them. And furthermore, my species is not from this earth. I am a species of dragon that only exists in our collective's inner world. We have a variety of shapes and sizes. And I don't care about princesses or really human activities at all. I have a partner, she is a house.

That went on longer than intended. What I'm trying to say is: Don't assume anything about a dragon you meet. It's not quite the same as meeting, say, a wolf, because their species originates on this earth and typically varies in coat color and habitat, rather than the wide range of diversity in dragon species. Don't make general statements about dragons without considering all dragons. It sucks to see "shoutout to dragons/dragonkin! you are so big and scary and breathe so much fire and steal so many princesses!" as a creature who does not fit that (frankly western) idea of what a dragon should be. There is nothing wrong with being this kind of dragon, and certainly not anything wrong with supporting their existence. But do not assume that all dragons are this way, or let that view of what a dragon should be lead your interactions with dragons.

[poliwhirl-plurplexed]

Reminder that nonhuman/alterhuman(?) headmates can be anything. We have one who is a house.

[thisis-intersexism]

Would one of my headmates reclaiming the h slur be intersexism? We are bodily intersex and they are a nonhuman creature- and feels comfortable with it but doesnt want to overstep

Not at all! Anyone who is bodily intersex and feels connected to the term is allowed to reclaim the term!

[weird-plurality-is]

weird plurality is that each of us sees the body as a different species / flavour of nonhuman. and yea we argue about it sometimes giggle

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[the-harvest-system]

Hanging out with my in-system friends