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the journal of being zine’s submission deadline has past, though it’ll probably be December or so when I begin working on it. Semester’s been eating me alive; my sense of priorities has been all wacky.

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Hello all!

The Hall of Creators is an online convention that aims to showcase creations from Alterhuman, Nonhuman, Otherkin, Therian, and other non traditionally human individuals!

Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of their relationship with their human body, this convention is not only for the wider community to find creators within the community but for outsiders to see and appreciate what we have to offer. This convention is for all ages but is hosted on Discord so only people who are 13 years or older may join the convention server as per Discord TOS. We only accept applications for panels and con tables from adults! Only members from our wider community may hold a panel and have a table at this event.

As this event is being created, this account will grow and get more and more full. At this time, details are sparse but questions are still welcomed! We plan on hosting this convention bi-yearly during spring and fall to give creators a chance to network and find their follower base as years go on.

The Hall of Creators is for any form of creation. Whether it be visual arts, physical craftsmanship, game making, guided meditation or even streaming and making let’s play videos! We focus on the creativity that comes from creation.

Thank you for dropping by, please follow to keep an eye on us! we are very excited to keep working on this event and host our first Hall of Creators!

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Two things, since I saw some people talking about it and I want it to be easy to understand. I went back and tagged things now so this sort of stuff should be easier to reference in the future.

Fictionfolk is a complete word. The -folk isn't really a suffix to be tacked onto other words. Fictionfolk is an umbrella that encompasses all beings with fictional origin. Fictionkind, fictives, people with fictional hearthomes, fictionhearted people, other fictional headmates, fictherians, hosts of fictional systems, etc. It came about on the Dreamwidth community because I needed a quick and easy way to address everyone there. There are so many fictional entities and connected people that it's ridiculous to try and list them out all the time. It is also an option for people who know they're fictional in some way, but either don't know in what way they are (kin? soulbonder? fictionflicker? idk man I'm just here?), or they don't want to disclose the details for privacy reasons.

In hand with fictionfolk was Fictomere, which also came about on Dreamwidth. Again, for ease of use- I needed a way to talk about the subject of one's fictionality without being too wordy. When I ask a question meant for everyone, I need a single word to denote their kintype/headmate/source/world/etc. Fictomere is the subject. This also allows for privacy and vagueness, since you don't have to explain the nature of what the subject is. Don't want to admit to being fictionkind just yet? Cool, just call the character your fictomere and all the audience knows is that you have a connection to them, done and done.

The revival of -kind works more like suffix. It's the earlier version of otherkin, before the -d was quietly dropped. It serves two purposes, the first being exclusive to the Tumblr environment of the time. 1) Differentiates you from KFF who don't know the history involved, and giving an alternative to "kin" which, thanks to kinnies, some people have come to dislike. 2) It is more broad. It takes the focus away from the origin of your identity. You can nitpick about being 'kin or 'hearted or involuntary vs voluntary/spiritual vs psychological all day if you want, or you can just say that you are "of that kind". Maybe you don't know, or you don't want other people to know - and maybe your identity is too complicated and multi-faceted to put neatly in any box - saying that you are dragonkind, birdkind, horsekind, whatever, makes the connection clear and dependent on your explanations rather than assumptions.

I can't take full credit for the last one because it was already a word, I just dragged it back out and put it in people's faces for long enough that they realized they liked it. The climate of this social media platform gave it more relevance and necessitated an expanded meaning.

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I’ve not really felt like my kintype in awhile. I think i only feel connected as the “i miss my wife, tails” shark only in certain situations.

full on strange identity separation, the ship of theseus has been remade but this time no one feels like it’s the same ship he previously owned — too modern, the design isn’t the same anymore.

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Did a template for you to put your fictotype in a nutshell! I encourage to edit to fit your own needs! Go crazy with it!

Below are the transparent vers!

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If you have multiple sources, either pick one or choose which you tend to be!

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something about the terms monoconscious and polyconscious bugs me. to me it just sounds like "newly discovered system" and "system who has known about their plurality for at least 5 years" but reframed in a way that tells newly discovered systems that their lack of experience is actually innate and unchangeable and they are just an outlier

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My Impromptu Prompt List for the Alterhuman Writing Challenge

Disclaimer: The following material is UNOFFICIAL. This list of prompts is personally geared towards my own being and will be used for my writings during the Sol System’s Alterhuman Writing Challenge. I’m just posting it here to keep track of things.

These writings will be published on Tumblr. Towards the end of my run, I will crosspost them to other platforms: my Neocities and LiveJournal websites, specifically.

Folks are free to use this prompt list if they so choose. That said, not everyone may find this list to be applicable to their experiences.

Please proceed with discretion.

Day 1: Exomemories

Day 2: Diet / Appetite

Day 3: Instincts

Day 4: Ritual(s)

Day 5: Origin(s)

Day 6: Form(s)

Day 7: Folklore / Mythology

Day 8: Fictionhood

Day 9: Concepthood

Day 10: Objecthood

Day 11: Draconity

Day 12: Animality

Day 13: Multiplicity

Day 14: Linking

Day 15: Heartedness

Day 16: Lifestyle(s)

Day 17: Symbol(s)

Day 18: Belief(s)

Day 19: Dreams

Day 20: Nature

Day 21: Euphoria

Day 22: Representation

Day 23: Challenges

Day 24: Achievements

Day 25: Overlapping Experiences

Day 26: Self-Discovery/Exploration

Day 27: Community

Day 28: Reflections

Day 29: Celebration

Day 30: Free Choice

If you’d rather read than participate, all of my entries will be under a specific tag: #ahpi writing challenge. I’m really looking forward to this!

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The Sol System's Alterhuman Writing Challenge

In November 2021, we challenged ourselves to write an alterhuman-oriented piece every day until the end of November, ideally building up to 50,000 words written overall. We wanted to take this challenge up for several reasons—to help strengthen our writing habits, to set up routines during a time we normally struggle to do anything due to our seasonal depression, to finally learn to put our first drafts out there fearlessly instead of being ornery perfectionists, and to just generally get better at handling mixed reviews with our rejection sensitive dysphoria.

All in all, it was a huge success and a ton of fun-- we wrote about topics we might not have otherwise touched on, made a TTRPG, and just had a grand time overall with all the responses we got from the community. And because of that, we want to offer it to any of y'all folks who might be interested in tackling the challenge yourselves (even if it's a few days late, but who's counting?)

Here are the rules we bound ourselves by:

You must finish and publish at least one piece of writing a day, on your platform of choice—DreamWidth, Tumblr, Mastodon, PillowFort, DeviantArt, Twitter, Discord, Neocities, anywhere. It has to be publicly accessible and (if possible) tagged appropriately.

That piece of writing must either be about or in connection to alterhumanity (in general or your own), the alterhuman community, a community typically classified underneath the alterhuman umbrella, an experience related to or connected to alterhumanity, or otherwise be something inspired by alterhumanity/alterhumans/alterhuman experiences/etc. This category is meant to be as broad as possible, while still sticking to theme. Use prompts or go off the cuff, whichever works best.

Other than that, go nuts! Fiction, nonfiction, games, NSFW, do whatever you want. There is literally no limit on what type of thing you write, just that you write. You can also start a piece at any given time—for a couple of our pieces, we started them one day, after we’d already published something, and then finished them and posted them a day later. I also personally recommend dedicating one unique tag to it on your blog to help keep track, but it's your writing and your rules all the way down other than what I've listed out here.

And if you do decide to take up the challenge, consider tagging us in it! We'd love to see whatever you write!

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*If you had any "innate" abilities (eg. superpowers), you'll get them back but you'll need to relearn how to use them

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*You may choose which one, but only one

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Man being a fictive from a source people know is fucked. People greet you like they know you and you just have to sit there. "Hi Bakugo!!!!!" who are you. What do you want. Why are you in my house.

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honestly have no idea if this is blending with my freak cat or i’m just having a ball. but many of my thoughts aside my own (does that. make sense) have been giddy and festive for halloween.