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idk if anyone can relate but this is me when i'm stressed. no i dont want to be fronting right now. NO i won't leave front.

❗💖endos, tulpas, mixed systems are welcomed and loved 💖❗

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Hi all,

I am Gillman ( @gone-fish-mode ), the creator and current head editor of Nonhuman Notions. I wanted to address the current concerns regarding a member of our team who had an anti-endogenic stance.

I'd like to apologize for everything that's gone on within the past 24 hours or so. This response is a bit late because we had to first handle things internally and then wait on the input from every staff member, many of which are in different time zones.

The individual is no longer apart of the project. He has been removed from the website and all social medias. All current and former staff members have agreed that this was the best course forward.

I'd like to emphasize that they were the only one with an anti-endogenic stance on the team. The staff is made up of endogenic systems, endo-positive traumagenic systems, and endo-positive singlets. Nonhuman Notions has and will continue to be safe for endogenic systems. I am going to work to make this more apparent on our website and with who I allow onto the team in the future. The staff application form and website will be updated as soon as possible and I will share these changes when they occur.

When I opened staff applications to find members to help me out with the newsletter, I didn't ask for social media accounts or where they stood on any topics. This issue was my fault- I did not do my due diligence in assuring that those I allowed on staff would be the best for cultivating the environment and culture I wanted for Nonhuman Notions. Let it be known that I was only made aware of their stance when we received the initial ask- I was not trying to create a community that felt unsafe to so many. When I spoke to them about how to answer the ask, they assured me that they would not let their stance impact or interfere with any endogenic systems who submitted to or were on the staff team for the newsletter. This statement from them led to my reply to the ask. Pushback from both within our team and outside of it led to him being removed. Do not let this incident sour the way you view any other individual on the Nonhuman Notions team, seeing that they had little to no knowledge or impact on what was written in that post.

We ask that no hatred be targeted towards the former team member.

I understand if some do not want to interact with the newsletter after this event, and I hold no ill will to anyone for that decision. The form to remove yourself from our mailing list can be found here.

Because this was, in full, my fault, I am willing to answer questions and have conversations with anyone about the topic. Please reach out to me at @gone-fish-mode. My DMs and anon asks are open.

Best,

Gillman

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the zine that i announced and then have barely put into one thing has been weighing on my heart. there's a large chance i'll swallow my pride and the hard pill, and cancel it months after its deadline. there's no good excuse, my mentality hasn't been the best and i thought i could push through it but .. i did not!

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i am still begging a question :: do people understand that some opinions mean you are looking at someone in the eye and telling them they don't exist, and their experiences are not real? is this understood? at least say it with confidence.

i am my worst bully, so i've been able to push myself into a distress by disbelieving my experiences and existence. do people understand it is distressful to be told that, or to know people believe that?

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Since one of the staff is anti-endo/anti-endo-supporters, are pro-endo/origin-neutral/by-endo submissions going to be allowed in the newsletter? The rules on the website didn't specify. Would those submissions just need to be clearly marked so as to respect that staff member's DNI, so they could avoid them?

Hi there! Thank you for the ask.

While understand that there is a large overlap between the two communities, Nonhuman Notions is primarily focused on the nonhuman community and not the plural/system community. We do expect that talk on plurality and/or systems will show up, but we do not anticipate for said topics to take up a significant section of the newsletter, and therefore have no regulations on who can or cannot submit work based off of plural/system discourse stances.

Submissions have the option to be anonymous, and any links to profiles and/or names will not be shared during the review process. If it provides comfort to disclose your stance on the topic, you're welcome to do so, but it's not something that we deem relevant enough to include in our rules or standards.

We have staff members with a diverse stance on the topic, and we have all agreed to remain civil and friendly while working on the newsletter together! No individual's opinion is going to influence who or what is allowed to submit or be submitted to the newsletter.

We hope this answers your question!

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Inky Paws #3 is out and available for download! 🖋️🐾

Inky Paws #3 is a collaborative fiction anthology written by nonhumans and alterhumans on nonhumanity, alterhumanity, and similar, related themes. It contains 20 different stories, poems, songs, and comics by various alterhuman authors, with genres ranging from fantasy, to sci-fi, to horror. It is 81 pages long and was inspired by Tsu Swanblood's The Forest Voice zine. For past issues, click here: Inky Paws #1; Inky Paws #2.

Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and to our friends and family who cheered us on while we worked on the zine. We sincerely hope you enjoy!

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Three Heads One Brain Cell

We've been working on something special for the new year. We're challenging ourselves to make weekly(ish) comic strips to improve our art and story-telling! They'll all be about our lives as an alterhuman system.

We're gotten a few of them finished already. We hope they make sense to others, if nothing else, we love them!

View our website, learn more about us.

Start - Next

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I wonder if there are otherkin communities like ours throughout Asia and Africa. I'm a firm believer that otherkinity is a global phenomenon, but what kind of communities do Chinese or Nigerian or Pakistani or Tanzanian or Thai otherkin have? There's so little crossover between our various corners of the web, it's actually stressing me out. What search terms would I even use to find the Japanese otherkin community? How similar would the Lebanese otherkin community be to the Anglocentric otherkin community? We barely have crossover with the Russian otherkin community, and that's considered a partially "western" country.

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Don't bash me in for saying this..but I don't consider anyone 14 or under who especially has tiktok to really be a therian.

They're more than likley gonna grow out of it. I'm not hating them for saying they are a therian but most people that young don't even know the meaning and seriousness of the identity.

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Tips for systems who have alters with those sources

Listen, we've all interacted systems who have alters from those sources at least once. Y'know the ones; sources that aren't so kind.

This can be a struggle for those in said system as it can distress the system and other's due to the alter's source being upsetting. This post is for those system who have said alters and, more specifically, some tips to help or encourage the alter to disconnect from the source. Tips below cut!

1. Discussion ‧₊˚⊹‧₊˚⊹

First, talk with them. Tell them what makes their source problematic/distressing. Make sure they know that their source and their identity is an upsetting topic and why it's best that they change how they view the source and that they should disconnect from the source and develop a new, separate identity that isn't their previous one.

It's best to think this over beforehand and possibly write/type it down and finalize it before actually saying it. Don't be too aggressive and try to keep the tone neutral as to not make the alter feel pressured or like they need to defend themselves.

2. Support ‧₊˚⊹‧₊˚⊹

Changing their identity can be very difficult as they are essentially abandoning everything about themselves which can be distressing and upsetting. It's best to make sure that they know that they have a 24/7 support system and that they can ask questions if they need help or are stuck on how to shift into an entirely different person.

3. Identity ‧₊˚⊹‧₊˚⊹

Help them look at terms for genders, orientations, etc to help them figure out what to identify as while turning into this new and improved version of themself. Use their interests and features to find neopronouns that they could possibly use. Browse multiple communities beyond gender and orientation; such as the nonhuman community.

4. Avoiding ‧₊˚⊹‧₊˚⊹

Help them avoid things that relate to their source such as others from that same source, content from that source, etc. Specify publicly that people should avoid certain topics and that it could harm their recovery progress. If people insist on interacting with you and bringing up the source, immediately block them; If they can't acknowledge boundaries then they won't be acknowledged at all.

Hope this helps!!! If anybody needs any specific tips, I'm more than happy to help as your Tumblr big brother(s)!!!!!!! My inbox and messages are open 24/7 <3

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Following separation guides that aren't from tulpamancers (or use tulpa-specific terminology/worldview) has been very helpful in strengthening ties from the internal to external. Even if the guides are inspired by tulpa techniques, I associate tulpamancy with host-tulpa power imbalance and the tulpamancer's plight of constantly needing to 'force' one's tulpa to be 'sentient'.

(This has been my personal issue, not one that is worldwide nor factual.)

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it's almost funny to me that the guy in my head who has collected the most likes / interests is the cat - the very, very silly cat. As opposed to anyone else, he is the one who has somehow, for some reason, has been very frequent in the front of the mind and has easily collected things about himself. He also took my OC as his own (joint custody ... we're sharing), and I realized the OC does in fact have the traits of what he likes in characters, which somehow surprised me.

The style of his 'fronting'(?) has been a sort of blending. Sometimes it feels like I'm a mask that has to be worn, sometimes it feels like we're mixing like slime or clay dough.

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I am once again fucking begging the community to stop writing everything other than identify-as identities out of the word alterhuman and now fictionfolk too

Alterhuman does not mean everyone who identifies as nonhuman on some level (oh and maybe otherhearted people too). Please for the love of all that is good and holy stop saying that. It means anyone whose identity falls outside of society’s idea of “normal human” - anyone with an identity alternative to humanity or that’s an alternative form of humanity. It includes nonhumanity, yes, but also otherheartedness, hearthomes, archetropy, plurality, daemonism, furry lifestylers, othervague folks, constelics, and so much more. Here’s the coiner’s words to prove it.

Fictionfolk does not mean anyone who identifies as a fictional character. It means anyone with an alterhuman connection to fiction of any kind. It includes fictionkin and fictives and such, yes, but also fictional hearthomes, fictionheartedness, soulbonders, fictional vaguetypes, fictional constelics, and much more. Here’s the coiner’s words to prove it.

To collapse these words down to basically be synonymous with otherkin and fictionkin is to utterly defeat their purpose. Please stop defining us out of our own communities. Please stop erasing the existence of everyone outside of “identifies as nonhuman and/or fictional”.

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I don’t think fictionfolk should be expected to renounce their source or rebuke themselves for what they’ve done in source unless those are actions they personally want to take.

Yes, even if they’re from that one “problematic” work of fiction you don’t like.

Yes, even if what they did is reprehensible to your standards.

We don’t exist to appease you. We don’t exist for your judgment based on who we are and where we come from.

We are members of this community just as you are. All of us should be recognized, not only a “valid” few because they fall within your standards.

Nothing in particular made this statement come up, but it is something that I feel should be said regarding etiquette towards fictionfolk in the alterhuman community.

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if you are a fableing, can you tell me what it is like?

i’m curious if my experiences to the plural/fictionkin mixture is similar to the median experience.

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origin, system experiences, and the need for separate spaces

hello! i want to collect some information about systems of various origins and how different system experiences are fundamentally. this questionnaire is going to be done in two parts, one part collecting answers for 9 questions and another having people read responses to them to try to determine which origin a response is from.

my goal is to see how different actual experiences are between different system origins in 3 major areas of life- daily life, leisure, and stress management. each section contains 3 questions each for a total of 9 questions to be answered.

my personal theory is that most system experiences are going to be indistinguishable by origin when made anonymous, however i'll need help to test that theory!

this questionnaire is open to all origins, syscourse stances, and ages, however i do need to ask that you keep all responses fully anonymous! thank you so much for checking this out, all tags are for reach. feel free to reblog for reach but please do not bring syscourse debates onto this post!