#alterbeing community

[theverynothumankai]

i’ve been watching a lot of nonhuman shorts on youtube lately, and i feel the need to say that i’m quite sad (and then pissed off cuz of that) about how many of them are just skinny, in-shape young kids (around my age or a few years younger than me).

i wanna see my fellow chubby out of shape teens who don’t do quads that often, because of how out of shape and chubby they are, even if they love quads.

i wanna see my fellow out of shape teens who pull a muscle when doing quads, or are out of breath right away, or are completely sore afterwards for days.

i wanna see my fellow chubby teens who’s quads are clumsy and not graceful because we have all that extra weight on us.

i wanna see my fellow queer chubby teens who bind and who don’t do quads that often cuz their chest doesn’t stay in place right or stay flat and it makes them feel gender dysphoria.

i wanna see my fellow chubby, out of shape teens doing this stuff. or not even teens! anyone of any age! that isn’t skinny as hell and that isn’t in shape!

i just would like to see some more nonhumans like me please.

yeah, that’s about all. *goes to lay down in my little den again*

[malakaitheyappingwolf]

drew on my hand last night, little therian symbol

[deidad-de-garras-y-colmillos]

Nonhuvalper

a term for those who feel like they can't be perceived as anything but nonhuman; or need to be perceived as nonhuman to feel valid.

xvalper term system by @puriette

[unetherian]

I think I found a way of thinking that could greatly help some nonphysicals alter/nonhumans and alterbeings with dysphoria.

If you wander around artist communities, you've probably seen concepts like "I'll draw myself if I were a man!" or "I'll draw myself if I were a duck!", some even create ocs like that.

What if you tried to create an oc of yourself (the you that you feel, the you that you really are)as a human?

What I mean is that maybe to accept our body which will surely never satisfy our nonhuman needs maybe we should rewrite our physique, so that it fits us but in a humanoid way, if that's understandable. It could be the style of clothing, the makeup if you wear it, the haircut, the hairstyle, etc. so that when you look in the mirror you say to yourself "it's me, but humain" instead of moaning "it's not me...".

Of course feel yourself with your human body doesn't mean you feel human, it's just a way to better support your appearance, and maybe love it. Who knows?

I don't know if I explained well because my English is not perfect, sorry.

Lots of courage to all those who have dysphoria, you are strong, we are together <3

[sirius-the-lonely-angel]

i wish i could feel my wings again, and that i could stretch them, even though they were so frustrating and isolating to have, i now feel so not myself without them

they were unwanted, but i had them, and now i miss them for that, cuz i now know i was always meant to have them

[transspeciesculture]

We keep mentioning how transspecies as a term has existed long before the radqueer & transID communities formed, and started claiming it as part of those communities despite it's actual usage within nonhuman/fictional/unusual human species identifying spaces and objections from said spaces.

As a sort of quick thing to back this up, here are some examples before the year of 2020 (estimated beginnings of the radqueer/transID community)!

All of this excludes troll posting/mockery, and is focused on NH/FICT community's discussions. Some additional content warnings are provided for some of the e-mails, however.

This is not extensive, feel free to show us any other finds (excluding alt.horror.werewolves e-mails, we've already scoured trough everything. There is actually more mentions via that, but all from the same person).

Mentions of term:

01 - "Gender-bender" e-mail, 1999. Included in this section due to the unclearness of if the original author of the e-mail identifies as otherkin or transspecies personally.

[Link] [Link 2] [Archive] [Archive 2]

02 - "On cosmic surgery and personal identity" e-mail, 2005

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

03 - "Da Jakkal's work revisited" e-mail, 1999. Warning: has some outdated terminology/beliefs.

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

04 - "Re: Introduction" e-mail, 2002

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05 - "Re: Shifters: in need of Help." e-mail, 1999. Warning: thread has mentions of an un-nameable native American creature.

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

06 - "Re: Musing of the Week" e-mail, 1999

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06 - "Re: define were" e-mail, 1997. Warning: thread has mentions of an un-nameable native American creature. (This is the second time we've have to issue this CW. Sucks.)

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

07 - "Re: Fun with Faith" e-mail, 1997. Same warning as above, unfourtunately.

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

08 - "Re: Questions on Were's/Shifting/etc" e-mail 1997. Same warning, a lot of early instances of the word being used seem to all be from this one being, sorry.

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

09 - "Re: Slithering into AHWW" e-mail, 1997

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

10 - "Re: Odd Dreams" e-mail, 1998

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11 - "Shifters: WereBreeds" e-mail, 1999. Warning: has some outdated terminology.

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12 - "On the appropriation of trans narratives by therianthropes" article, 2013. Contrary to the title, it is supportive. It does mention the native creature again due to excerpting an AHWW member's ramblings, so thread with caution.

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13 - "An Introduction to Animality" article, 2009

[Link] [Archive] [Archive 2]

Usage of term for clear self identification (flags and symbols are included):

01 - "Re: A question to everyone out there" e-mail, 1997. Warning once again for mentions of an un-nameable native American creature, and questionable identity that may or may not be considered cultural appropriation (we have no place to say as we are not native). Still, it is an clear account of identification with the label and experiences that'd come to be associated with it.

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02 - "Chewing and biting (and intro)" e-mail, 1999. The poster at the time of posting already specifies that they do not identify with the label anymore, but used to.

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03 - "Transspecies Pride stamp" flag/pride graphic, 2017.

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04 - "Transspecies Flag" flag, 2018

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05 - "Why I call myself Transspecies" personal article, 2018

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06 - "Gender: Furry II (Now With More Scales)

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07 - "Real Dragons: Transspeciesism" article, 2001

[Archive]

[starfallsystemblog2]

Here's a playlist you can add therian/alterhuman songs /coded songs to it's a public playlist and ill be adding songs that you recommend to me for it if you don't wanna join the collab!!

Join to add videos: alterhuman coded

(↓ buzz words for reach ↓)

Adaptkin / Adkingender / Ahuman / Alienkin / Alterhuman experiences / Alterhumangender / Animalkin / Antihuman / Astral Limbs / Astral Shift / Aura Shift / Autokin / Awakening / Aware Self Shifting / Aware Spirit / Beforan / Berserker Shift / Cameo Shift / Choicekin / Choicekingender / Colinkgender / Conceptkin / Connectus / Constel / Constelic / Constelicgender / Constels / Copinglink / Demihuman / Demikin / Desapizing / Divinekin / Dream Shift / Exhumic / Exo- / Exolimbs / Exomemories / Exopain l Exopowers / Exotrauma / Factkin / Factuagender / Factualkin / Faekin / Faunasex / Ficfligender / Fictionflickers / Fictionkin / Fictkingender / Fictotype / Flicktype / Folkel / Folken / Foodkin / Forsoulgender / Forwardsoul / Forwardstill / Futuresame / Futuresoul / Futurestill / GenderNH / Genderkin / Halfkin / Heartedgender / Hearttype / Hukingender / Humukin / Identity Anarchy / Kin / Kingender / Kingenderfluid / Kingenderflux / Kinnie / Kinning / Kinshifting / Kinshiftsexual / Kintype / Librahuman / Livinty / Mediakin / Medusan / Mirroran / Mirrorangender / Morphen / Musickin / Mythkin / ND Alterhuman / ND-Inhuman / Nonhumansexual / OCkin / Objectkin / Oheartgender / Olinkgender / Ospingender / Otherfix / Otherhearted / Otherkin / Otherkind / Otherkith / Otherlink / Otherspin / Parahuman / Phantom Limbs / Plantkin / Polykin / Polytherian / RPkin / Robotkin / Rolekin / Roleplaykin / Sapi / Self Shifting / Sensory Shift / Shadow Shift / Soul Collecting / Soul Collector / Soul Collectors / Species Regression / Synpath / Tangles / Theriagender / Therian / Theriotype / Trauma Nonhuman / Unbornkin / Uncreated Fictionkin / Unknownkin

[otherkyn]

I don't exactly know my gender or my sexual orientation, possibly because I am nonhuman. It's way too complex.

I have female maned wolf blood, but also, male maned wolf blood. I'm also a female hoary bat, but I am not female myself. If that makes sense? And my otherkin identities, buildingkin and machinekin, are both masculine in nature at the very least, but it seems to be primarily male. But I'm not exclusively male.

I'm non-binary, but I just have too complex of an experience to pinpoint it in one term, I guess.

Anyone other nonhumans relate to that? Especially poly-nonhumans/therians/kins?

[theverynothumankai]

i’m kind of tired of having to restate things as “my theriotype” “my ‘types” and stuff like that, cuz like NOOOOO, those aren’t MY anything, it is ME, i am speaking about ME, i want to refer to myself as MYSELF, i don’t wanna have to say MY anything 😒

*howls in annoyance*

[malakaitheyappingwolf]

*starts ferociously biting your ruff* how is your day going ? :3

[ketchupandaxe]

Any kintips for just a random dissasembly drone?

*Kin tips for a disassembly drone!

-Drink cocoa cola or pepsi to feel like your drinking oil.

-Make paper claws.

-Make or buy fake fangs.

-Watch/re-watch murder drones.

-Collect murder drones merch.

*I hope these help you!

[raventhewolf9]

Got Questions About Alterhumanity, Therianthropy, and/or Nonhumanity?

I've been in this community for a while and consider myself to be very well-educated. If you have any questions about alterhumanity, nonhumanity, therianthropy, otherkinity, etc, feel free to drop an ask in my inbox and I'll answer it to the best of my ability!

If I answer any question incorrectly, please let me know what I got wrong and what the correct answer would be. My goal is to be as educated on this community as possible.

By the way, please don't ask me if I think any specific identities are valid or not. You can ask me my opinions on other things, but please just don't ask me that. I don't really want to publicly debate the validity of identities.

Thanks!! I hope I can be of help :3

[deidad-de-garras-y-colmillos]

Auctoalternates

A verse that is not based/originating from behaviours of alternates, but the dynamics of the beings within the verse are affected by them being alternates.

@omegarchive @miscearchival

[unetherian]

Species Euphoria

Unfortunately, often, I feel very dysphoric. However, something quite different happened earlier, but it was not unpleasant, I think I recognized this feeling... it's species euphoria.

I was walking around the city with my friends (something I'm not used to doing because my parents are strict and I don't really feel comfortable with people who don't know that I am alterhuman), the sun was beginning to go down in the sky, which lengthened the shadows of my small town, we went to a park with lots of trees and bushes. It made me very shifty, because my theriotype lives in the forest and is crepuscular. My best friend started climbing a tree, I couldn't help but do the same, because I really love doing that (maybe because I'm a feline).

We then went to the store where we saw beautiful stuffed animals of tigers, panthers, etc. and one of the people I was with said "oh it looks like [my real name]! Cute on the outside, wild and strong inside" I felt so good at that moment! She can't know how much her words are how I feel! (besides almost everyone I know compares me to a feline without knowing that I am therian, while I hide my shifts and I take care to appear a minimum "normal", I find that funny). Then we bought some chips and Monster (I had never tasted this drink because my parents... you know. Well, I like it) I felt free, for the first time in a long time. I saw the world differently, finally, human life is not always a cage, finally, life has a taste, finally, life can be worth living, and I decided that it would be the case for mine. Finally, dysphoria is not invincible. Now I look at life with envy, with excitement, and no longer with fear.

We tend to forget it, with this dysphoria, this feeling of euphoria.

Life is beautiful, even if it can have bad sides.

But it is thanks to these bad sides that we realize how fantastic the rest is.

I know very well that it is difficult, even impossible to believe it, with this dysphoria that hides your view. But it is real, even if you think you feel too bad to have this felling.

I really wish you to experience this wonderful thing, it is truly this thing that gives meaning to my life, and surely to others.

Take a moment for yourself, treat yourself, go out with friends if you want, or just go out in nature, in short, treat yourself, it's important. You are important, and you deserve to feel good.

𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊𖡼𖤣𖥧𖡼𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼

[sirius-the-lonely-angel]

⁑⁑⁑⁑⁑✩ 🌞 Welcome 🌞 ✩⁑⁑⁑⁑⁑

🪽 Names >>> Sirius, Star, Angel, Anything You Want.

🪽 Age >>> Ageless And Immortal [As Far As I’m Aware].

🪽 Species >>> Angel.

🪽 Pronouns, Gender, And Sexuality >>> He/It/They/Angel/Wing/Eye/🪽/🌞 + more along those themes. Bigender, Demiboy and Agender. AroAce.

🪽 Terms For Me >>> Nonhuman, Alterbeing. NO Human or Alterhuman please.

🪽 Purpose >>> To bring comfort to those who are lost or feel lost, whether in life or the afterlife.

🪽 Beliefs >>> I have no clue if there is a higher power, and there is no place like Heaven or Hell, at least not for me. There is a good place, but I don’t think there is a bad place. I think the ones that are bad in life either are allowed into the good place and become good in the afterlife automatically, or do not enter into the afterlife at all. They simply die. There are no other Angels, nor are there Demons, not that I can see or hear or sense. Although, I would be happy to know if there are any else.

🪽 [Mild] Description >>> I have three eyes, one at the center of my head above the pair of eyes that are placed “normally” on humans or creatures. I have small white wings right behind my ears, and two pairs of white wings on my back. I am Shape-Shifting, appearing to each and every being differently, based on what is most comfortable to them, although I always have three eyes and all my wings in every form I take [I do not control this; sometimes I wish I could].

🪽 More About >>> Technically, I am Otherkin, and I am quite nonhuman in other ways as well (I have quite a lot of nonhuman ‘types). I am physically nonhuman, transspecies, humanfluid, voidpunk, sunnonhuman, and pseudohuman. Yes, I believe I was an Angel in a Past Life, and all of my nonhumanity is due to Past Lives.

🪽 Piggy-Backing Off The Last Thing I Wrote >>> Do I believe in Past Lives as an Angel? I’m not quite sure. I have very limited beliefs as an Angel, more that there are a lot of good things, people, and creatures, and that everyone deserves good things. I do not think much about spiritual things, about anything other than what I can see or sense.

🪽 Other >>> I am incredibly lonely, and often think too much. I would love having companions, whether nonhuman or human, or anything in between.

🪽 Things Of Importance >>> I am technically a minor (16). I am taken by an amazing and sweet mate (@sawyeryaps @theremixedcreature). I am very queer, very neurodivergent, and disabled. Please use tone tags with me. Please do not flirt with me. And please do not spread hate here. I do not tolerate bigots, fights, discourse, or anything else that makes me uncomfortable. If you are unsure if you are allowed here, please send in an ask with the description for why you feel that way, and I will let you know. Please feel very free to send in asks about whatever, whenever. Remember you are loved and seen.

🪽 Credit To Those Who Made The Dividers >>> @/enchanthings and @/xurengu0

[transspeciesculture]

Questioning Transspecies culture is genuinely believing you could 100% be Transspecies, and thinking about all of the ways it’d uplift your life, but being a bit nervous to use the term due to how most of society views it.

(slowly but surely learning to accept who I am though!)

existing as you are anyways is always the best, good luck! -Virtual (he/they), from The Hounds (it/they)

[Radqueer/transID do not interact/follow]