#Fictionfolk

[thecrispydemon]

Same, but it’s becauseI’m a slasher villain.

t-rex arms arent cause im autistic its cause im an animal on my hind legs.

[sollareclipse]

THERIANS!!!! FICTIONKIN!!!!!! OTHERKIN!!!!!! BEINGS OF ANY KIND!!!!!

For those of us that live in the United States, you know how distressing of a time this is. Things look bleak. But you’re not helpless.

Your existence is now an act of resistance. Absolutely do not hide and cower. That’s what bigots want - for us to disappear and die. Take your time to grieve, process, feel your emotions, but once they’re all out, feel that rage.

I know it’s there.

That burning, seething rage. For yourself, for your friends, your family, your community. Let it run, let it burn, feel it. Don’t shy away from it. I know many of us in this community have been socialized so that our rage is a bad thing, it makes you undesirable, emotional, irrational, but that’s because your rage is your power. Your emotion is your power, and the conservatives in power don’t like that.

Unleash it. Give those that try to hurt us hell. Give those that try to hurt your loved ones and your communities hell. Go down clawing and biting, burning things to the ground, using every last scrap of your power, like the beings you are. Remember not just yourself, but those around you. Those who fought before you and those who will fight after you. They’d all be so proud. We can’t just roll over and die.

Remember the being that you are and the power you hold. Make them bleed.

Fight.

[the-crystal-femmes]

Let NO ONE make you feel ashamed for having so many fictional identities. It's none of their business how many you have. Don't make them feel like you have to stick to just one, either!

I have so many fictotypes and a linktype and it's nothing anyone can make me ashamed of. I am unabashedly me, and it doesn't matter how many 'types I have. All of them are equally valid and I don't have to stick to one. I may identify with one the most one day, and switch it up the other!

I've been going through rapid feelings lately. First Yellow, and then Blue, and now a bit of Spinel. And you know what? That's perfectly fine! Don't let others tell you that ain't.

- Yellow Pearl

[that-dreaming-dragon]

Media Representation and (a rant on) Draconity

I think it's natural to want to find something within the media that represent and reflects yourself. As a dragon, the option might seem like quite a few within various sources of media, but the realities are that I and my various alterhuman identities are not the typical or commonly seen dragons.

As myself, I'm orange, furred, white feathered wings, yellow horns, and the vibrant red belly. Those are not things you find common in animals, even amongst birds, that's some colors that don't exactly flow together. People drawn inspiration from around their world to create, people are also creature of comfort and habit--with the idea of dragon being "fire breathing, bat winged, scaly lizard" or "scale with mane, elemental control and sometimes deity, serpentine wyrm", and then variations based off of that, perhaps scaled beast with feathery wings, or great furred wyrm with webbed wings and fire breathing. Seriously what is with the fire breathing? Have I mention that I'm a shapeshifting sort of dragon? While that is often tied to the eastern sort of draconic beings, my exact combination of dragons are far and few in between. Even the dutch angel dragon within the furry community has certain limitation and character traits that don't align with me. If I hadn't got turned off by the idea of looking anywhere or being misidentify as a horse, I might have find myself drawn to the dutch angel dragon as a sort of maybe paratype, or just friendly dragons that I share similar traits with. But alas.

Every single piece of media or fictional source that has a representation I can find brings me joy. Games centered on collecting dragons like Flight Rising or Dragon Cave does a great job of acknowledging that diversity. I get especially grumpy when dragon maker only has webbed wings and scaly body. At one point I really did not want to put the 3D dragon maker by Dragonita on my Alterhuman Shifts and Self Discovery Tools guide (ohh, guess I finally got a name). You can call me petty however you want, but I was not very happy of something that denies my existence. I'm a strong advocate for draconic diversity, because I am not alone in being "unusual" sort of dragons. Nobody should feel like this, unseen. Dealing with the constant "he or she" as someone nonbinary is more than enough, thank you very much. I feel like as alterhuman, hell, even just within the confine of draconic community or even smaller the dragonkind community, there should be a sort of basic understanding that "dragon" is a abstract term. Like "what is human", "what is dragon" should be a default and nobody gets to decide who is or isn't dragon. To touch back onto what I wrote on Day 1 of this challenge, alterhumanity is a experience, it is a feeling, it is vague and abstract, it is something you know within your essence, or one day you will awaken to it. A dragon is all of that. I did end up finally putting the 3d builder on my guide. I will still prefer Lukas Sotrmskull's Dragon builder though.

Before I let my thought get away from me, lets talk about my other alterhuman identities.

The other side of the spectrum, when you have a almost exact match in sources that are well known, you end up keep getting mistaken as it. My kardiatype looks very alike to Haku from Spirited Away. It gets frustrating when I bring up my kardiatype, and people immediately go "oh, Haku!" It's the same problem with people seeing my self protrait and call that a horse or a goat. Seriously, is like people don't recognize a basic dragon head shape if it isn't scaled and spiked. Horses are neat, goat is fine, and Haku is a very cool dragon. But my kardiatype was not Haku. I'd argue that he was just your generic Japanese storm dragon that may or may not be local deity. Wild thought huh. I like that I get to see glimpse of that dragon through Haku, but I would really rather not deal with yet another case of misidentification in the form of "close enough". My human english name got enough of that treatment.

Amongst my other draconic identities, I have a vague-flicker of Flammie from the mana series. The vaguetype feeling has components of paratype within, precisely due to myself being the sort of dragon I am. Belly plate aside, Flammie looks very close to me. And with my discovery of how suggestive my wing count may be (currently in shifts of at least 4), Flammie is definitely a big contender for media representation of myself.

When it comes to intensionally created identity, me and Akumu, my headmate/mirror self, collectively linked a vaguetype of Aurelion Sol. Now, Aurelion Sol has nothing alike to me, maybe the color is more align with Akumu's, but generally, the eastern noodle form is my least favorite to partake in. It feels like a responsibility, and things are just heavier in a way when I'm in that form. It doesn't have to make much sense. Perhaps I will delve into this one day. One can argue we formed the link due to our kardiatype. But really, it happened because that's the one dragon we were really drawn to (and attempted to main) while playing League, and well, there were two others who were shyvana and smolder respectively, and we wanted to complete the draconic of LoL set for shits and giggles. There not much need to find a representation, because we are the exact representation from the source. But wait, we identify with the concept stage where people dub "unbound form" of Sol. Whelp, guess we gotta look elsewhere again.

It feels like I'm trying to start a topic and well, rant on draconity got me all over the place.

Sometimes it really is a exercise in patience. The more unique you are, the harder it is to find representation. Wouldn't change myself for the world though, I love my uniqueness, and I appreciate how crazily varied dragons can be. Or any other sort of creatures or identities or experiences. Life is wonderful like that.

[severalfoxesinatrenchcoat]

This. It's about time we defend ourselves like we were intended to against these hateful fucks in the government.

To all the alterhumans / nonhumans who dont know what to do: now is the time for you to start putting your money where your mouth is.

If youre an animal, it's time for you to be a goddamn animal. Be feral, Be aggressive, fight for your life.

If you're a dragon, then be a terror to Kings, and start burning down the halls of power like the dragons of yore.

If you're a mythical creature, have no concern for the social constructs of man. Stand proudly outside what people even believe is possible.

If you're plural, know you're never alone. Fight against individualism that seeks to divide each body into deterministic boxes.

If you're a fictional character who saved the world, believe that you can save any world. Don't back down now.

Now is the time to really believe that you are what you say you are. People in power are going to try to take that away from you. Don't fall for it.

It's time shed any preconceptions you have about what you're capable of. If you're an animal it's time to fight like one. A dragon that uses gasoline and matches is still a dragon.

All bets are off. If they want to treat us like dogs in a cage then im gonna start ripping fascists' throats out like one. And I'd better see y'all there with me, on G-d.

[leviafin]

It's so easy, and fun!

[insectoidvoid]

if you're fictionkin, there is a very, very high chance you have a little metaphorical devil on your shoulder that constantly yells at you to downplay and minimize your identity for everyone else. and I am here to tell you that you must grab that little devil and dropkick it into an industrial shredder.

[eyeoftheb3h0ld3r]

guys I found the fictionkin shirt of all time

[zoeynovie]

BE NORMAL ABOUT FICTIONFOLK

fictionfolk who are their source in every way are VALID.

fictionfolk who are uncomfortable with doubles are VALID.

fictionfolk who have dysphoria are VALID.

fictionfolk are VALID and there's nothing you can say to convince me otherwise.

[b3ndy]

You will never always be cool. Or aesthetic, or pleasing.

No matter what you are, be it a majestic dragon, a powerful wolf, the void itself, a bunny, or even a song, a concept or object. Anything.

We almost all are organisms or living, one way or another, and organisms do strange and gross things. A wolf still needs the bathroom, a "cutesy" bunny may still need sexual things or things that aren't "innocent", sometimes even a God or holy figure may want to mess around and play with their hands like puppets. An eldrich being may make a childish sound to stim.

Everyone is gross or weird or uncool sometimes. It's just our nature as individuals. Let yourself need and want these things, and accept the weirdness being individual brings.

[kaboom--bitch]

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.

[your-rutherfurr]

Just so you know, you do NOT have to be the exact same and totally identical to your fictionself! We are our own being now, we've changed a little from last time, and that's okay!

[aromanticsuzuya]

hey fictionfolk, whats something you want others to know about you?

something fandom usually gets wrong. something fans dont think about. something source didnt get quite right. just a random fun fact. anything goes!!!

[sollareclipse]

Being fictionkin is so funny like. what do you mean Sol Warrior Cats is learning to drive.

[the-crystal-femmes]

Trying out a different watermark for redraws. Anywho, here's my fictotypes together! I wish there was one with them and Volley as well, but alas, no luck.

[ watermark reads: @/the-crystal-femmes ]