#Fictionfolk

[wrath-of-the-termite-king]

if your first response to meeting an eridan is to accuse them of being classist or racist or a bigot in any capacity, i do not like you

[fromfiction]

Stricken with the weight of lifetimes' old grief, and nothing I can do with it. All I can do is see it over and over again. In my memories. In the story.

[lamitails]

This is the best way I can describe my species dysphoria

(it doesn't help that I used to, and still somewhat do look like Hector irl 😔)

[funeral--pyre]

Gonna ramble here for a second. 'Bout being a fictive and I guess... Talking to people close to you about source without them knowing you're literally right there next to em.

So like. Our body's got a little sister. Well, two and a little brother actually but I'm only focusing on one of em for this post. This one's like... 10 or so, hard to remember through dissociation and shit. But.. She likes my source, likes drawing, and doesn't know we're a system, for context for this.

She sat down next to me the other day, and was complaining about how hard it is to draw hands. I feel like I'm one of the least sociable guys in this head but I don't actually mind our siblings in this family so I decide to chat. I agreed, they're tricky and annoying and weirdly shaped. She then handed me her sketchbook and asked me to show her how I draw hands. I was like... I'm a shit teacher but alright. I can do that. So I broke a hand down into basic shapes, then showed her the process of fleshing it out. She was confused but she seemed happy enough to have it as a reference to look at.

She got me to draw a few things after that. She wanted an eye, but the eye I drew was "too detailed" so she wanted me to draw another. So I did. She wanted an angry facial expression, she wanted a cat, she wanted me to show her how to draw a leg. Just random things, I guess. But eventually she takes the book back and starts drawing on her own.

Thinking she's done talking for now, I pull out my phone and open the art program because well now she's gotten me in the mood for drawing. She sees me click the program though and goes "let me see some of your art!!!". So I'm like yeah, it's been a while since she asked, she can look at some new stuff. Why not. It'll keep her happy.

We're going through things we've drawn, unknown to her that a good 90% of them are system members--and she stops me and goes "do you have any MHA art?". Random question but the kid has internet access, the ability to get into Netflix, and is clearly autistic about MHA in general. So maybe not so random. But we don't have non-system art of MHA, it's all fictives.

So I think for a second and I realise I don't really want to explain to her why Bakugo is holding hands with some random other guy not even from MHA, and also holding hands with Kirishima in like 90% of the images we have of them. 'Cause that's awkward and not my shit to explain or come up with something about. Those guys can handle that if they want.

I then realise, yeah, I've got art of me just kinda sitting next to Shigaraki. Nothing that could be taken as noncanon or weird to this kid. Just sitting there can't be weird. I could show her that. And potentially deal with some weird out-of-left-field comment from her about Dabi the same way she randomly said "Shigaraki is a gay bitch" while he was (unknowingly) sitting right next to her a month or so back. But that's fine, I decide I can handle a kid saying weird shit.

So I show her. She only says one thing.

"Why did you pick the white hair?"

Yeah I could ask myself the same question actually. Should've stayed with black or changed it up some other way again. But I tell her that it's just what we picked for the picture.

"He looks so stupid with white hair. It needs to be black. Like his soul! At least I think he has a soul..?"

Okay. Wow. God damn, kid. Giving me something to think about there. What lead you to even think that in the first place? But anyway I respond with some form of "yeah, sometimes shit just happens though and boom, your hair is white even if your soul isn't" which she thought was funny.

That's about it for the interaction but yeah. Silly. Funny. And god damn kids love to speak their mind. Not entirely sure what the point of posting this is anymore, but I wanted to anyway. Just a weird little anecdote. Piece of the life I'm somehow living now. It's weird in a way. The family life is still fucking shit, fucking yay, but the siblings are okay. I don't mind em.

[kaboom--bitch]

Bakugo Katsuki... Sitting here knitting a scarf for his QPP..... What the fuck has happened to me since getting into this system. I went from blowing shit up to making plush dragons and knitting. Fucking okay.

[deltoradecay]

If there's one thing I wish that didn't carry over from my Shigaraki lifetime, it's the itching. Tell me WHY I still end up being itchy as fuck. HELLO? STOP. THIS BODY HAS LITERALLY 0 REASON.

[skylargoesbark]

adding:

It's okay to be conceptkin!

It's okay to have past life/source memories!

It's okay to not have past life/source memories!

It's okay to be alterhuman due to delusions/mental illnesses!

It's okay to be a physical therian!

It's okay to be a non physical therian!

It's okay to be completely nonhuman!

It's okay to have a human side! It's okay to appreciate that human side!

It's okay to be a "weird" therian!

It's okay to use or not use whatever labels you please!

Alterhumanity is different for every being!! There is no right or wrong way!!

[deadsea-dreadnaught]

the process of confirming a kin happens in two parts, ‘hey look at this little guy’ and ‘oh no’

[leviafin]

It's so easy, and fun!

[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

[alterhuman-art]

[Image description: Two versions of the same drawing of Gaster Blaster Sans sitting with legs crossed on the edge of a ledge. It is wearing a shredded black shirt and a black studded collar. The background is of the night sky with a full moon overhead.

In the first image, there is a blue tint to the background and Sans' tongue and iris too. The second image has a magenta coloring instead plus magenta links attaching from its collar to under its arms. End description.]

ITS MEEEEEEEEEE HEHEHEHEHE

Also bonus toxic chain version cause why the heck not lol!

[2healing2]

Fictives and fictionkind deserve to be treated like normal people.

Fictives and fictionkind deserve understanding.

Fictives and fictionkind deserve to not just be reduced to their source if they don't want to.

Fictives and fictionkind deserve to have their feelings taken seriously.

[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!

[stellar-foxheart]

I've seen a lot of people saying that alterhumans that are alterhuman bc of trauma aren't valid :<

So to anyone whose alterhumanity was caused by trauma!! You're super valid and don't let anyone else tell you otherwise!!!

You can be therian because of trauma! You can be otherkin because of trauma! You can be fictionkin because of trauma!

Alterhumanity caused by trauma isn't automatically copinglink or pet regression or whatever else!! We're therian, otherkin, and fictionkin, all because of TRAUMA!!! These aren't copinglinks or regression!! We very much see ourselves as our theriotypes/kins!! The fact that we do because of trauma doesn't mean we're any less alterhuman than someone who isn't!!

Respect kins and therians who are alterhuman because of trauma! We are alterhumans too!!

[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.