Hiya!! I'm Mitzy, and this is my blog for any Alter-/Non-human thoughts and experiences! (I'm not very active on this account, unfortunately, because I forget! T^T)
☆ Confirmed: golden tabby cat, coastal wolf, merfolk (x2), turkish van cat, Watcher, sea serpent (x2), raccoon, husky mix,
◇ Questioning: Avian (humanoid), fae, storm/sea dragon, shrike, deer creature, german shepherd/belgian malinois mix, blacktip reef shark, vampire, unicorn (from the movie Deah of a Unicorn) (These may fluctuate, since my nohumanity isn't solid, but I am always nonhuman!)
☆ I am aro/ace, I use any pronouns (she/they/he/it), as well as sometimes using: star/stars, fin/fins, wing/wings, bug/bugs, and fyrn/fyrns neopronouns!
This is a safe space for Alter/Non-humans, systems, LGBTQIA+, etc! I will not have anyone bringing hate or discourse into my blog, thanks. Everyone is welcome here, as long as you settle your disagreements peacefully. I have no set DNI list, but I do block freely. I will also reblog suggestive/NSFW posts, so please keep that in mind.
While I may not be super active, I'm always excited to interact! Don't be afraid to send me an ask :3 I love love love answering them!
My typing style is irregular, since this is a side blog, and I change how I type for my own privacy. I might switch between casual language and more formal language! If it seems like I'm being hostile, please let me know!
I love to give mutuals nicknames!! If this bothers you at all, please tell me! (I'm always looking for more mutuals lol)
More userboxes under the cut, profile picture from this picrew, screenreader friendly intro here!
(Userbox credits in order of appearance go to @/stranger-from-beyond, @/pithon-asks, @/faggy-thing, @/therianuserboxes, @/oxceen, @/timberbark, @/kthecritter @/chronicallyleggless, @/theriankelp)
Hihihi!! Oh, it's been a while. I wanted to let everyone know that I'm still here! Between mental health, distance from alterhumanuty, and, well... life, it's been hard to really engage here as much.
But, that said! I think I'm going to overhaul... basically my entire blog, haha. I made it intentionally different from the way I usually am because I didn't want it connected in any way to my main. But I think that's made it hard for me to really connect with it, and I'm working on not masking myself as much.
That said, it means I might be returning after it's all done! I will be changing a lot (honestly, I'm considering using this as an archive blog and making a new one entirely...) but I want to come back to the community here. And myself, actually.
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.
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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)
Alterhuman joy is of feeling the cold up in the mountains and being reminded, even if just for a second, of home, of the place in your heart that you call home.
Does anyone else yearn for a way to communicate that they can’t quite pin down? Human words fail me, so does the limited human body language. I need to tilt wings and ears that aren’t there, make sounds I’ve forgotten the meaning of, those subtle animal movements that mean everything to them but humans can’t pick up on. I yearn to express myself that way, and have things to say that way— but I just can’t, because I don’t know how to anymore.
going for a dive in the creek near my house, having all the right textures around me. drying myself on one of those huge boulders, the sun almost painfully hot.
reaching the natural clay source and caking my scales with it, doing spirals in the deeper pools of the creek and dragging my tail against the rocks on the shallow parts.
I love that creek. I shift every single time and it fees divine.
I wish therianthropy wasn’t SUCH an online based thing nowadays. I mean socially, it almost has to be since it’s kinda rare to find others irl. But I wish we embraced offline life a bit more, being animals and all. Unplug, get outdoors if even just a little bit; and with the younger therians I feel like there’s this pressure to record and post *everything* and that’s pretty unfortunate (I would know, having been in this mindset in the past). Not every outing has to go online guys, even if you’re in gear, do it for yourself.
it sucks how some beings forget that the only "rule" to theriotypes, kintypes, fictotypes, all the other alterhuman types is that you identify as said creature, being, or character in some way no matter how vague or strong the feeling of identification is. It could just be physically, it can be both physically and mentally, it can just be mentally, or it can be all levels, etc. Agree or disagree with me here but I always have to remember this when thinking / questioning about other possible types.
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