#kinformation

[nova-dracomon]

Adding a wayback machine link for second-to-last link which appears to have been removed.

Masterpost about the meaning and origin of the word alterhuman

Folks have been getting confused about the meaning and purpose of the umbrella term and identity label "alterhuman." Often, people wrongly claim it doesn't include groups that it was originally created to let in. Another common wrong idea is that folks think they're personally being opted into it against their will (which is contrary to the word's design). I've even seen the word's coinage attributed to several surprised people who say they didn't invent it! This masterpost will stop this misinformation by linking to primary sources with dates and attribution. These links explain a lot about its meaning, so I recommend that you open and read each of them.

The word "alterhuman" was coined by Lio (it/its). At the time, it was writing under the name Malchior (username Phasmovore), which you'll still see on the original post. Lio is a member of the Crossroads System (XRDS or X-RDS). This is a link to the post where Lio originally coined the word on September 26, 2014, explaining about how the word does and doesn't relate to furries and plural systems. If you read no other link in this post, read that one!

Here are a couple more posts where the coiner of "alterhuman" explains the meaning of the word.

In this post from February 19, 2023, Lio explains about the intracommunity tensions that brought about the need to unite under this umbrella term.

In this post from May 27, 2023, Lio explains that the word does not equal nonhuman.

The group that popularized the word the most was Alt+H, an organization for alterhuman advocacy that was active from 2016 to 2023. Alt+H wrote this post on September 21, 2017, in which they explain about how "alterhuman" does not equal "nonhuman," and that it includes voluntary identities.

One of the former writers for Alt+H was Aster, the Flock of Changes. In this post from October 21, 2020, Aster explains that alterhuman is not simply another word for "otherkin," but instead is an umbrella term that includes many more sorts of identities and experiences than otherkin.

To make sure that we don't forget our history, so we quit getting confused about where the word came from, and so we have an occasion to celebrate being our authentic alterhuman selves in whatever creative ways we can, and solidarity with others who do too, I suggest that we start celebrating the date it was coined-- September 26, 2014-- as Alterhuman Day. This one coming up in 2023 will mark the ninth anniversary since Lio coined it. In 2024, the word will be a decade old!

- This masterpost is by Orion Scribner on September 3, 2023.

[hazyaltcare]

Drawing for a Vriska Serket fictive (who dresses as her pre-godtier self with the prosthetic arm and eye patch, 8ut appears to 8e in her 20s) who is matesprits with a noncanon Aquapio fictive/kinform (Homestuck), and who feels like she's ready to say I love you for the first time.

Mod Vintage (Ac)

[multiplicity-positivity]

Kin Terminology Question!

Hiya and good timezones everypony! We’ve got a question that we’re going to throw out here - it’s something we’re having trouble finding out online and it’s for a positivity post!

For all y’all who are kin out there! >w<

What’s the difference between kin, otherkin, kinform, kintype, and kinshift? Are those first 4 the same thing and kinshift means your kintype causes you to experience shifts, like a werewolf?

Many members in our system have kintypes, but we’re woefully uneducated about the kin community and kinning terminology! But we’re writing a positivity post for kinplural systems, and we want to be as accurate as we can in the words we use to celebrate these folks! :3

Thanks so very much in advance! So sorry if this comes off as ignorant or offensive… we want to be thoughtful and respectful when writing our posts, and Google hasn’t been much help for answering these kin questions! >_<

Edit: Thanks a bunch to @whatever-you-can-give-me and @fruityenderman for your responses! Y’all made sense of this for us and answered our questions! Pluralpedia has our back for the kinform definition! Again, thanks a lot! Now we can confidently write our post :33

[angel-of-pro-endos]

SHOUTOUT SYSTEMZ W/ COLLECTIVE KINS !!! SHOUTOUT SYSKINS !!! we r collectively kin of the wolverine , partly bc we believe we were bodily reincarnated from him , partly bc we all have some degree of connection 2 some universe ver. of him !!

shoutout systems who r kingenic <3

shoutout systems w/ kinforms <3

shoutout median kin systems <3

SHOUTOUT ALL KIN & ALTERHUMAN SYSTEMS <3

systems who stel <3 systems who r physically nonhuman <3 ur all awesome , love u all !

[pt] shoutout to systems with collective kins! shoutout syskins! we are collectively kin of the wolverine, partly because we believe we were bodily reincarnated from him, partly because we all have some degree of connection to some universe version of him!

shoutout systems who are kingenic <3

shoutout systems with kinforms <3

shoutout median kin systems <3

shoutout all kin and alterhuman systems <3

systems who stel <3 systems who are physically nonhuman <3 you're all awesome, love you all! [end pt]

[nova-dracomon]

Looks like the links changed in a recent website move--These ones work! Phytanthropy essay: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_jiXpfY2m_uxigDU1V2yxPT4gqeFkA7L/view

Updated website link: https://houseofchimeras.neocities.org/

Extensive Essay About Phytanthropy

Darahagh (the person who coined the term phytanthrope), just finished overhauling his personal essay detailing his experiences as a southern live oak phytanthrope. The personal essay is 27 pages long and goes over the meaning of the term phytanthrope, the term’s history, Darahagh’s experiences in the community over the past decade, various experiences he has in relation to his phytanthropy, and how being a phytanthrope influences his spirituality and more.

Darahagh’s personal essay: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qojvg3pEFadXKihYzghqLcHE5hsMwd18/view?usp=sharing

Direct link to our website: https://houseofchimeras.weebly.com

[moonpool-system]

hmmm gonna be a little bitey here but, plural community acknowledge that systems & system members can also be otherkin challenge. Lots of systems end up masking with kin shifts, but the narrative always seems to surround those that realize all their otherkin identities were actually other members. And there's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it gets to the point where people invalidate otherkin systems with that concept??? And they don't seem to realize how much variation there is. What about the systems that realized only some are kintypes and some are other members? What about systems that realized their kintypes actually belong to different individual members of the system? What about kinforms where the person they came from is still otherkin afterword? What about past life forms, whether they ID as kinforms or not? Exotraumagenic members? What about members that discovered their own kintypes after they arrived/formed/split? Medians that feel like they're both? We can't just brush this sort of thing aside. All alterhumans deserve to have a voice about our experiences. Otherkinity is deeply personal and can be intertwined with plurality in so many ways, and the prevailing narrative doesn't account for that.

[theraven-void]

!!MINOR!!

New intro post :3

formerly the-riverlands-collective-system

We are a multigenic system, being endogenic and stressgenic

General Info:

Name(s): Avian, Ave

Pronouns: Changes, currently She/They/It

Orientation: Lesbian, Demiromantic, Queerplatonic

Gender: Fluid

Kinformation

Theriotype(s): Wolfdog, German Shepard, Cat Clado, Crow

Linktype(s): Dwarf Lantern Shark

Kintype(s): Sea Serpent, Void Conceptkin

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I might eventually just turn this blog back and change this into a sideblog, but for now

DNI/DNR-

None. Just don’t be an asshole and don’t have really weird kinks.

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Hey @thelab-experiment

Stealing ur font heheh

be gay besties✨

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BOOOOOKSSSSS:

Shades of Black

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Tags:

Posts:

#\>>theravenspeaks<</

Rbs that I add to:

#\>>oursnotyours<</

Rbs that I don’t add to: #\>>collector’strinkets<</

Moots:

#\>>kinito<</

Answering Asks:

#\>>👉👈forcrow?<</

System Member Tags: (Will add separate intro posts)

Avian: #IDidItAnyways [Host, Frontlocked]

Taven: #SleptThroughTheWholeThing

Aj: #SillyGoobers4LIFEE [Cohost, Sub-Frontlocked]

(Aj’s URL is bugging, look here👇 )

(So is Taven’s, look down👇 !)

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FAV MOOTS (Ver Impornt)

@thelab-experiment @fell-thru-the-cracks @asqadia-banthen @miko-derp i will constantly bother u, u are all realer friends than most I have ever had irl

[f1re-p1t]

🔥 Welcome to the Fire Pit! 🔥

❤️ Hello! My name is Beau, I also go by Fi, Charlie, or any of my kin names. I use He/They/It pronouns normally, but some of my kinsonas use different ones!

🧡 I've been in the Otherkin/Therian community since 2015

💛 I have a currently inactive request blog @/otherkinthings

🔥 BYF and kin/therian list below (includes tags!) 🔥

❤️ BYF ❤️

No TERFs/Radfems, A-Spec exclusionists, LGBTQ+-phobia in general, Truscum/Transmeds, or ableism allowed here

🧡 Kin/Therian list 🧡

Alicornkin (CinnamonSwirl, It/He/They) - 🦄

Alienkin (Feya, They/It) - 👽

Androidkin (Allie or Ellie, It/Its) - 🤖

Cat therian - 🐈

Demonkin (Viridis, She/They/It) - 🔥

Dog therian - 🐕

Draconequuskin - 🌀

Dragonkin (Citrine, She/They) - 🐉

Fairykin (Dahlia, She/Her) - 💥

Tiger therian - 🐅

💛 Links 💛

Memories (has more detailed kinformation)

Playlists (updated infrequently)

[nova-dracomon]

[Image description: The more you know Reading Rainbow gif. End description.]

An Important Spelling Note

because I keep seeing people say one of these when they clearly mean a different one:

Physical: having to do with the body. Physical nonhumanity is a classification of experiences and philosophies of nonhumanity, and includes things like clinical zoanthropy and the philosophical stance of "I am nonhuman, this is my body, therefore this is a nonhuman body."

Physiological: having to do with how the body functions. Could be used as a synonym for physical nonhumanity, but it makes more sense to just say physical; as far as I know physiological nonhumanity separate of that is not a thing.

Psychological: having to do with the mind and how it works. Psychological nonhumanity is a classification of explanations for nonhumanity, and includes things like believing one's nonhumanity stems from unconscious imprinting, coping mechanisms, or psychological quirks.

Psychic: having to do with abilities or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance. "Psychical" is not a word, and as far as I know psychic nonhumanity is not a thing and I'm not sure what it would mean. (Perhaps someone who became nonhuman because a psychic made them that way somehow?)

Phycological: having to do with the study of algae. Phycological nonhumanity is not a thing, unless I suppose you happen to be an algae yourself, but this one did make me laugh, so thank you for that.

This is not me trying to be mean; all of these words look very similar and it's easy to get them mixed up! But they mean very different things and it's good to know which one you mean. These are all mix-ups I've seen happen in the tag; please add more if you can think of any!

EDIT I'M A FUCKING IDIOT PHYCOLOGY IS ALGAE NOT MUSHROOMS

[minus-four]

new intro (cuz i accidentally deleted the og one!)

i’m Evan[+ tons of kin names] ( he/they/it + neos)

i’m also 20 and i have adhd!

i like object shows , horror media , and a ton of other stuff!!

DNI: factkin, anti-kin, endo sys , anti-system / anti-did, racists, homophobes/transphobes, anti-xenogender/anti-neopronouns, MAPs/ZOOs , proshippers/comshippers,

Other information down below!!

i use “irl” as a kin term so if that bothers you sorry ig!

‘doubles’ feel free to interact in your own comfort range B]!!

Art/Kin Art Blog: @thereforeiamiam

Own Kin Help Blog: @oddballkins

Hs Kin Blog: @artificialterminator

Shared Kin Help Blog: @kinformative (i’m mod trist there)

[pronoun.cc link]

[twelve-nights]

doing one of these since they seem fun :}

*we use host to describe a member type in our sys specifically but use whatever definition you want :3

[hazyaltcare]

a red, black, violet, and cerulean moodboard for a Vriska Serket (Homestuck) fictive who is casually dating (red quadrant) a noncanon Aquapio kinform/fictive with themes of sea treasure and affection and being bitches (in a positive way) together.

Mod Vintage (461)

[nova-dracomon]

That is such a great idea! Thanks OP! :P Have a dump of the designs we picked for all of us

Tip for all Dragonkin!

There is a website called Flight Rising that is normally used to raise dragons and the like, BUT did you know that they have a generator on their site that is free to use that could help you depict what you look like (as a dragon)?

Here’s how to do it: Go to https://www1.flightrising.com/ and go down to where you see the Library section. What you want to do is select “Scrying Workshop”.

Once you click on Scrying Workshop, go to Predict Morphology.

This will take you to the generator. This was the easy part, now let’s get into specifics.

When it comes to the Morphology generator, it is typically on the site for users to depict what their future dragons will look like. However, you can just as easily use it to help you with figuring out what you look like (at least in specifics, that is).

The page for the Morphology generator should look something like this for you:

OPTIONAL: I recommend looking into some of the races of Flight Rising’s dragons as well as their behavior and feeding habits before selecting what may visually apply the most to you. As a former user of the site, I was already familiar with a few but I wanted to look into newer species to see if they reflected what I specifically felt with one of my kintypes.

I’ve found that not only do Obelisk Dragons feel the closest to me aesthetically, everything about them checks out for me minus their diets (I don’t particularly care for seafood, and I am very grossed out by most bugs). Thus, here we are:

If you don’t particularly care to do that when depicting yourself, then that’s fine too! Do what makes you most comfortable, just be sure to give credit to FR when using these depictions of your dragon kintype!

Hope this helps for some!

[multiplicity-positivity]

Here’s some positivity for kinplural systems!

For many systems, their plurality is defined by their kins, kinforms, kintypes, and kinshifts! These individuals definitely are still plural, and are a shining, integral part of the plural community! This post aims to celebrate and uplift kinplural systems of all sorts!

🐉 Shoutout to systems whose kintypes developed into headmates later in life!

🦡 Shoutout to systems who mistook their headmates for kintypes at first!

🐙 Shoutout to those who struggle to determine if their kintypes are kins or actually separate headmates!

🦅 Shoutout to systems who consciously chose to develop their kintypes into kinforms, or headmates based on kintypes!

🦈 Shoutout to systems who question whether their experiences align more with kinshifts, cofronting with a headmate that has their own kintype, or something else!

🐅 Shoutout to systems who are made up entirely of otherkin members!

🐊 Shoutout to systems who share a collective kintype!

🐏 Shoutout to systems whose members may have multiple kintypes!

🦚 Shoutout to those who used to be plural, and whose headmates’ kintypes remained after the system had fused!

🐕 Shoutout to systems whose plurality is inherently connected to their kin identities!

🦝 Shoutout to headmates who are confused about whether they’re otherkin, copinglink, otherhearted, or simply nonhuman!

We hope that every kinplural system out there can have pride in their identities as kin and as plural! Remember that as long as the plural framework works or you, you will always be wanted and cherished as members of the plural community, and we are honored to share this space with you!

Please treat yourself and your system with kindness today! We care about you, we believe in you, and we’re rooting for you in all that you do. Thanks so much for reading, and take care!

(Image ID:) A pale orange userbox with a cluster of multicolored flowers for the userbox image. The border and text are both dark orange, and the text reads “all plurals can interact with this post!” (End ID.)

[kinformative]

Welcome to Kinformative!! We’re a kin help blog, here to help your kin-hood/alterhuman needs!

Mods: 2 | Requests: Open | Anon List |

🌌 mod trist intro | 🚀 mod dave intro

(fandoms we do/dont below as well as a dni)

Before you send a request please be descriptive with the stuff you want [colors? aesthetics? stuff? - whatever you want just let us know we prefer you telling us than nothing :D!!]

Do: Icons/Pride Icons, Doodles/Art (mems of you or others), Sprite Edits, Panel Edits, moodboards , stimboards, Coin Flips, Pokemon Teams, Titles/Names/Pronouns, kin flags and xenogenders/ kingenders, stamps, kinassigns, userboxes , shufflemancies, positivity messages, canon calls/kinfessions, kinsona making, qnas bout the mods or kins, kin mem help

Whitelist: Tankmen, Madness Combat, Hlvrai, Pico’s School, Eddsworld, Spooky Month, Fnf(+Mods), Roblox, Kinitopet, Homestuck, BBIEAL(+Mods),Slenderverse (MH,EMH) , Creepypasta, Pokemon, Kindergarten, Rick and Morty, mcyt , minecraft, sonic, mario, ockin, songkin, object shows ( ii, bfc, hfjone, bfdi, and more )

If a fandom isn’t here ask us we’ll reply

Blacklist: genshin impact , countryhumans, 18+ fandoms , dsmp, Hamilton , alfred’s playhouse , the coffin of andy and leyley

Dni: Anti-Kin/Anti-Therian, anti-xenogender/anti-neopronouns, Factkin, Proship/Comship/Anti-Anti, Homophobes/Transphobes, Racists, N4z1s,Z00s/M4Ps, Anti-System/Anti-DID, Endo-Systems, Vivziepop stans/heavy supporters, nsfw blogs , justin roiland supporters (n’ ppl who support weird stuff in rick and morty) ,

[nova-dracomon]

The Alterhuman Archive has a whole tag for pieces about awakenings! We recommend checking it out ^v^ https://www.zotero.org/groups/4956615/altarchive/tags/Awakening/library

Literally begging on my knees, sobbing, anguishing for people to share their awakening stories in the community.

My critterness yearns for lore.