#Fictionfolk

[alterhuman-art]

[Image description: Santa's entire sleigh team posing for a photo with Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer front and center sporting a huge smile. End description.]

the sleigh team!!!

[themicahverse]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY SINSMAS

HAPPY HEARTHS WARMING

MERRY YULE

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

HAPPY XMAS

— FROM MICAH / TWILIGHT / BLITZØ

[leviafin]

It's so easy, and fun!

[nyctohyloph0bia]

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!

[alterhuman-art]

[Image description: Two drawings of Beastpup playing in a snowy forest clearing. In the first, he is staring up at falling snowflakes with his tongue peeking out. In the second image he is rearing up on his hind legs. The force of the action causes a wave of snow to fly into the air. End description.]

[Snowy]

Took a break from commissions for a few days since it was burning me out, but I drew myself in the snow in the meantime! (For those waiting on art from me, I plan to start working again tomorrow so expect some updates soon!)

[a-dragons-journal]

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”.

EDIT: boy I wish someone had told me I accidentally used the same link twice before this hit triple digit notes LMAO. Here’s the actual fictionfolk link

[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.

[the-fifteen-horsemen]

guys I found the fictionkin shirt of all time

[the-crystal-femmes]

I think fictionfolk should get free reign to mischaracterize who they are because it's literally them. I don't want to hear a fandom goer getting all mad when I post things "out of character" about Draculaura when, motherfucker, I'm literally her and I know myself well thank you very much. And I think my headmate should be aloud to adamantly claim that Pearl has autism because she's Pearl and definitely has autism

[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.

[alterhuman-art]

[Image description: A chibi Rudolph the red nosed reindeer wearing a collar full of bells while he trots along with a smile. End description.]

🎄

[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.

[leviafin]

Exotrauma

Having exotrauma from a "cringe" or "silly" source sucks. It feels like you're taken infinitely less seriously than those who have trauma from grittier, adult-geared and/or "acceptable" sources. Which in and of itself just isolates you and makes it worse.

I'm not just a silly little thing from your silly little Roblox game that could never show signs of trauma because it's 'just a kids game'--and I'm not your blorbo either. It feels like there's 2 common options for how people treat fictionkind with exotrauma:

Oh my poor little scrunkly, my little cardboard box meow meow.... Going to hold you because I love babying you and treating you like you're not even a person because I see you only as my favourite character. (Mind you, this is distinctly SEPARATE from actual friendly support, you can tell the difference.)

You're not a fictional character, get over it lmao. Yeah I know you are them but like you didn't ACTUALLY live through that, stop claiming it, it's disrespectful. Why are you upset at my memes about your death lol. Get a life.

So like... Maybe fictionkind are people. Maybe I don't want to think about the worse parts of my source. Maybe I don't want my trauma shoved in my face as a little funny joke, even if the context is changed. Maybe, just maybe... Leave alterhumans with fictional sources alone. Even if their source is lighthearted, even if it's for kids, even if it's the most "cringe" media you can think of.

Sonic the Hedgehog might've seemed fine in-source but maybe he's fucked up from all that he's been through. That warrior cat alterhuman isn't just being edgy, maybe they're suffering from the memories of fighting to survive day in and day out. Bluey is allowed to be not okay, and their source shouldn't dictate their experiences. Do you ever think that some Pokemon or trainers don't have amazing, adventurous lives travelling around with their best friends? Mario might have nightmares and flashbacks from his source. Mickey Mouse is allowed to be hurt, and allowed to express that. That MLP alterhuman isn't always going to be just a happy colourful magic pony with no issues whatsoever.

We are PEOPLE, and our sources being "happy", "for kids", "light-hearted", "fun" or anything of the sort should NOT dictate how we are treated here, what our experiences are "allowed" to be, or how we are expected to act. Treat fictionkind--of all sorts--like PEOPLE.

[ducki3xd]

Can we as creatures focus more on not destroying our planet? We are the ones dying from this shit, and we're not helping at all.

Some therians with past lives died from hunting or human polution.

Some paleotherians are paleotherians because humans decided to wipe their species out.

So many creatures are watching their own families and homes be destroyed right in front of their eyes.

We're sitting here, arguing about "oh but therians know they're humans" and "you're not valid if you don't have gear!" instead of helping fix the planet we all live on.

Human, nonhuman alterhuman, alterfolk, otherkin, therian, fictionkin,otherhearted, copinglink, otherpaw, objectkin, animalhearted, we're all sitting here on this god forsaken planet fighting with each other instead of trying to do something about this horrific place.

[interstellarsystem]

Fictives are so fucking funny. Like, we'd been in a period of burnout for months, going downhill, falling behind on all the things we cared about and needed to do. Hell, we'd ended up being so fatigued we didn't want to get out of bed and that process alone took hours.

So one morning we wake up with a new headmate--as you do in periods of high-stress--and the new guy is god damn Bakugo from MHA and he does more self-care and general life shit than anyone in the past three months combined. Straight-up fixing our life.

How am I doing this? I have no fucking idea but I'm being productive about it and it's hilarious if you think about it for more than a few seconds. The brain was struggling so it was like "Yeah, didn't wanna do this but we gotta bring out the big one. Get The Anime Boy." Like what.